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[Traditional Jewish ideology says this: Don't be a sucker. Beat the system, i.e, the goyim system. Transposed to Israel, where fellow Jews are overwhelmingly the ones to be exploited, cheated, and hustled, nothing really changes. Overall, here's yet another instance where the Jewish state heralds itself as a pariah nation. Jewish "oligarchs" from Russia, here. The Jewish "Russian" mafia, here and here. Vladimir Gusinski is the former head of the Russian Jewish Congress and a fugitive from Russian justice.]
24 arrested in massive money-laundering probe at Hapoalim,
By Jonathan Lis and Shlomy Golovinski, Haaretz (Israel), March 7, 2005
"Twenty-four employees, past and present, of Bank Hapoalim's Hayarkon Street branch in Tel Aviv were arrested Sunday in what officials called the biggest money-laundering case in the history of the state, thought to involve hundreds of millions of dollars in the past year. The Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court Sunday remanded for five days the branch's former manager, Motti Cohen, on suspicion of involvement in massive illegal money-laundering schemes, which included leading "oligarchs" from Russia who also had business interests in Israel. The head of customer relations in the branch, Yaakov Sverdelik, and the head of the Commonwealth of Independent States desk, Alik Leder, were also remanded for five days. The court also remanded, for three days each, Dalia Kaiserman, head of the branch's French desk, and David Abutbul, who was responsible for French customers in the bank. Investigators from the International Crimes Unit said that hundreds of millions of dollars were illegally laundered through the bank over the past year. Police sources said they have evidence that senior officials in the bank knew about the laundering and chose not to report it. Police are now investigating whether senior executives at the national level
of the bank were aware of the money-laundering. Sunday, police froze 180 accounts held by 18 customers at the branch, accounts that police suspect were used as conduits for the flow of money from outside the country into those accounts and then, via "back-to-back" standing orders, sending the money out of the country. At least 45 customers will be summoned in coming days by the police to answer questions about signs of laundering in their accounts. But all the customers of the bank - about 200 businesspeople - will be questioned, as police try to determine just how extensive the laundering was in the branch. Among those likely to be questioned are Maariv owner Vladimir Gusinski, whose Tel Aviv offices were raided Sunday, and Israeli ambassador to London Zvi Hefetz, who was Gusinski's point man in Israel. The case was only made possible by the promulgation of an anti-money laundering law that went into effect two years ago. Many of the bank's employees, including the manager and other senior officials, took part in the laundering on behalf of their customers, police said. The branch, which only handles foreign customers, had effectively become a money-laundering
station for hundreds of businesses worldwide, said police sources ... Police described several of the laundering methods they say were used at the bank. In some cases, large sums of money would flow into an account and immediately flow out, in smaller amounts, to shell companies around the world, in an effort to hide the original source of the funds. A second way was to break up large sums of money into smaller amounts deposited in separate accounts in the bank, thus enabling businessmen to avoid the rule requiring the bank to report cash transfers of more than NIS 1 million if it involves money from overseas or NIS 50,000 if it is money from inside Israel. A third method was for the businessman to deposit a large sum, take a loan of the same amount from the bank and then send the borrowed money overseas, with the loan covered by the sum that remained in the account."

Ex-Hapoalim CEO questioned in money-laundering probe,
by Jonathan Lis, Yossi Melman, and Shlomy Golovinski, Haaretz (Israel), March 7, 2005
"Police questioned former Bank Hapoalim CEO Eli Yones on Monday in connection with what officials have called the biggest money-laundering case in the history of the state, thought to involve hundreds of millions of dollars in the past year. Earlier Monday, police arrested the head of the French desk at the bank's Hayarkon branch in Tel Aviv, Keren Lalum, bringing the total number of current and former employees under arrest to 13. The Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court extended her remand by four days. Police also began questioning the bank's clients Monday and arrested one of them ... Additionally, police are investigating the possibility that the bank's branch in France interfered with the investigation. The French branch is in business contact with the Hayarkon branch ... Other names that have arisen in the police investigation include those of Leonid Nevzlin, who like Gusinsky left Russia to seek further fortunes elsewhere, and Arkady Gaidmak, a billionaire who moved back to Moscow after a brief stint living in Caesarea. Gaidmak is said to be one of the 50 richest people in the world ... Israel Radio reported Monday that two senior bank officers may have recently sold Hapoalim shares valued at $900 million. One of the two mentioned was Shari Arison, billionaire heiress to the Carnival cruise line fortune. Monday's arrests came a day after 24 people were detained, all of them past and present employees of the bank's Hayarkon Street branch."

["Elvis-like, [Anne Frank] haunts American Culture." Except Elvis only had Colonel Parker to get the ball rolling. Anne Frank has the entire Jewish self-promotion apparatus, cross-cutting the mass media, academia, government, and entire nations.]
Professors Explore Holocaust Imagery,
by Samira Chandwani, Cornell Daily Sun, March 7, 2005
"'Visualizing the Holocaust: Taboos and Potentialities," a conference held to discuss how to understand and interpret visual representations of the Holocaust, was held at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts last Thursday and Friday. Seventeen scholars from a variety of colleges attended the conference. Many of the papers discussed at this conference were based on work done at the German Academic Exchange Service (DADD) summer seminar held at Cornell in 2003, according to David Bathrick, J.G. Schurman Professor of Theatre Film and Dance and professor of German studies. Visual representations of the Holocaust have been ingrained in American culture. Movies such as Schindler's List and Life is Beautiful, both of which dealt with the Holocaust, have enjoyed long box office runs and have gone on to win Academy Awards. Similarly, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened to the public in 1993, and traveling exhibitions are held across the country. All of these representations are designed to make sure that the atrocity of the Holocaust will never be forgotten and to serve as tribute to those who lost their lives, as well as those who survived. Prof. Lisa J. Nicoletti, art, Centenary College of Louisiana, spoke of the cultural significance of Anne Frank. "Elvis-like, [Anne Frank] haunts American Culture," Nicoletti said. "Americans regularly celebrate her birthday. Her favorite thirteenth birthday gift [her diary] first led to our relationship with her." Nicoletti theorized that representations of Anne Frank, whether through her book or through the many museum exhibits around the world, resonate with Americans because they bring to the fore some of our worst fears and anxieties, especially the fear of a missing, kidnapped child. Nicoletti also mentioned several artists who have created their own representations of Frank. Rachel Schreiber's 1999 series Anne in New York consisted of a series of photographs depicting photographs of Frank stenciled onto buildings and vehicles in contemporary New York City. According to Nicoletti, "Schreiber was interested in exposing the 'cult of Anne Frank' and questioning how she has come to symbolize the suffering of millions of people" ... Other themes explored at the conference included the use of photographs and narratives as ways of representing the Holocaust."

[Another poor billionaire Jewish "victim." Here we have a network of Jews, obsessive decadence, dirty politics, enormous sums of money, hideous arrogance, and, of course, Israel. Even the omnipresent Holocaust is tossed like greasy poker chips or pimp spare change in front of the judge to scam some leniency. It's all here in this one. Yo! In the hands of a pervert, tons of money can go a long, long ways towards spreading the very highest standards of personal decadence. The real tragedy is that these are the kind of people that run America.]
Billionaire gets two years for fraud, sex tape,
by Pete McAleer, New Jersey News, March 5, 2005
"Charles Kushner built a billion-dollar real estate company and used the money to contribute millions to political candidates and charitable organizations. Yet the real estate mogul's political influence and philanthropy could not save him Friday from a maximum two-year federal prison sentence for tax fraud, campaign finance violations and an obstruction plot that involved hiring a prostitute to seduce his sister's husband. Kushner, 50, of Livingston, pleaded guilty Aug. 18. He admitted he had videotaped his brother-in-law having sex with a prostitute and, four months later, sent the tape to his sister. The sister, Esther Schulder, had been cooperating in a federal investigation against him. Standing before U.S. District Court Judge Jose L. Linares, Kushner said friends asked him how he could do something so unthinkable. "My poor judgment was really rooted in a very sad, very tragic family dispute that just spiraled out of control," Kushner said. Linares ordered Kushner to serve two years in prison and two years probation and pay $40,000 in fines. The billionaire remains free on $5 million bail and must report to federal prison in Montgomery, Ala., by May 9. Kushner's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, called his client a victim, driven to desperation by a jealous older brother bent on sabotage. He said Kushner's older brother, Murray, hired someone to steal files in an attempt to extort Kushner and destroy his company. Arguing for the minimum sentence of 18 months, Brafman said Kushner's countless acts of extraordinary kindness - detailed in more than 700 letters to the judge - merited leniency. Federal prosecutors said Kushner coolly carried out an evil, horrific plot driven by greed, power and revenge. "This was a complex scheme to put together and bankroll," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Resnik. "It required the corruption of a police officer, a private investigator and two prostitutes. But for the morality of a corrupt police officer, the defendant, Charles Kushner, was willing to send the videotape to his own nieces and nephews." Prosecutors said they are concerned that copies of the videotapes still exist. Linares shared the prosecution's concerns and asked to question Kushner, so he could "look him in the eye." Kushner told the judge he had destroyed all copies in his possession. Kushner, who addressed the judge for eight minutes, said he was not as saintly or as evil as the opposing attorneys made out. "On balance, Your Honor, I am still proud of my life," Kushner said. Kushner headed the $1 billion real estate conglomerate Kushner Cos. He donated more than $1 million to New Jersey Democrats and was the lead benefactor for Gov. James E. McGreevey's 2001 campaign. Kushner also sponsored the work visa that allowed Golan Cipel to come to the United States. He gave Cipel a $30,000-a-year public relations job at one of his companies. McGreevey resigned in August, revealing he had an affair with a man his advisers identified as Cipel. Kushner also partnered with U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., to submit an unsuccessful offer to buy the New Jersey Nets. Appointed to chair the New York New Jersey Port Authority in 2003, Kushner stepped down from the post after state Sen. Bill Gormley, R-Atlantic, sought to bring the developer before the state Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions about his ownership of a Livingston Bank. Weeks after his indictment in August, Kushner pleaded guilty to 16 counts of filing false tax returns for partnerships affiliated with his company to avoid $325,000 in taxes. He also admitted to making campaign contributions in the names of other members of his company without their knowledge. It's the tape he sent to his sister, however, that made Kushner a national story. The son of Holocaust survivors, Kushner told the judge he visited the grave of his parents to seek forgiveness. "I'm grateful my parents are not alive to be here today to witness the malicious fighting amongst all their children," Kusher said. "My parents are crying from heaven." Kushner's older brother, Murray, left the company in 1999 after a bitter dispute. The brothers filed lawsuits against each other soon after. Outside the federal courthouse after the sentencing, Brafman told reporters his client had been pushed too far by a sister and older brother who joined forces to destroy him. "Sending Charlie Kushner to jail is not a good thing for this country," Brafman said. "Charlie Kushner will emerge from prison with his reputation intact. The people who brought him to this point will wallow in their own grief and shame." U.S. Attorney Chris Christie said the sentencing sent a message that no one avoids the law, no matter how rich or powerful. He said he was "personally sickened" by Brafman's insistence that Kushner was a victim. "That went beyond the pale of advocacy for a client," Christie said. "It indicates there is not a full appreciation for his crimes. I don't think he (Kushner) understands he's not above the law. I don't think he'll understand until he sets foot in prison."

[We wonder: what if the people Kushner screwed weren't his own relatives: fellow Jews?Would he have gotten away with it? What if his enemies weren't Jewish? What if they couldn't compete with his billions of dollars? What is they couldn't compete with "700" Ku$hner $upporter$ (see below). Would Kushner have played the "anti-Semite" card and wormed out of everything, completely clean? First commandment in modern legal America: It takes a Jew to nail a Jew. Anything else is decreed to be "anti-Semitism."]
Developer Kushner sentenced to 2 years. Judge: Crimes "incomprehensible",
By LILO H. STAINTON, Asbury Park Press, March 5, 2005
"A federal judge sentenced multimillionaire developer and Democratic Party political donor Charles B. Kushner to two years in prison Friday, declaring Kushner's wealth, power and widespread charity don't trump criminal acts that included tax fraud, campaign-finance violations and witness retaliation. Prosecutors argued before U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares that regardless of his stature, Kushner should serve the maximum time in prison outlined in an August plea deal for crimes they labeled "vile and outrageous." The top political donor for former Gov. James E. McGreevey and a top contributor in national Democratic circles, Kushner was charged last July with 18 criminal counts, including a scheme that involved hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and mailing a video of the tryst to his sister to discourage her testimony against him. But Kushner's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, insisted his client was also a victim in what he termed a "family squabble gone awry." Brafman urged Linares to examine all aspects of Kushner's life and later said he was angry and disappointed that the judge failed to acknowledge some 700 letters from Kushner supporters calling for leniency ... U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie praised Linares' decision and underscored that federal investigators are continuing their probe of Democratic fund-raising. Christie's office has charged or convicted 76 public officials — including 11 arrested in Monmouth County last week — in the past three years. "The message today is no matter how rich or how powerful you are in this state, if you decide to break the law, . . . you will be dealt with firmly," Christie said after the sentencing, adding that Kushner's crimes "cast a pall" on his charity ... Kushner, who has given more than $5 million to Democratic campaign committees in New Jersey during the past decade, was ordered this month to pay at least $12.5 million in fines for violating federal banking laws. He also paid $508,900 in 2004 — the fourth largest fine of its kind — to federal regulators for campaign-finance violations."

Uruguay's president involves Jews in government,
Jerusalem Post, March 6, 2005
"When Dr. Tabare Ramon Vazquez was sworn in last week as the first leftist president in Uruguayan history, the country's 23,000-strong Jewish minority pondered the age-old question: Is this good for the Jews? The short answer, according to community leaders interviewed by phone from Sao Paulo, is yes. They say Uruguay's Jewish community has nothing to fear from Vazquez – despite his admiration for Cuba's Fidel Castro, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and other left-leaning, pro-Arab heads of state. "We're waiting to see what will happen," said Marcelo Cynovich, director of Hillel Uruguay and an activist in Zionist causes. "It seems like everyone is betting on this change. So far, it has not been like Venezuela, where right away Chavez cut off all contact with the Jewish community." "We have very good relations with many people in the new government, including ministers, deputies and senators," said Israel Buszkaniec, president of the Comite Central Israelita del Uruguay, an umbrella group of Jewish organizations, "In Venezuela, the Jewish community was against Chavez even before he took office, and it also supported the attempted coup against him" in 2002, he said. "Vazquez is nothing like Chavez." Indeed, Vazquez has named at least half a dozen Jews to government posts ... "Our original concern has always been the left-wing position with respect to Israel. But there is no material proof that the position of the new government will be different than the last government," said Miguel Brechner, who has been named by Vazquez to head Laboratorio Tecnologico del Uruguay, a state-owned scientific institute. "Its policy in general will probably focus more on human rights and respect for minorities." Until last month, Brechner was the Comite's general secretary, but he was required to step down from that post upon taking a government position. He said that Uruguay historically has enjoyed close relations with Israel, and there is no reason to think those relations would be endangered by Vazquez."

[Ernst Zundel's web site, here. This is right out of (Jewish author) Kafka's classic novel, The Trial. You see how it works. First they came for the 65-year old guy who questioned the Holocaust but they never told him what his crime exactly was. Then they came for the guy who had the courage to publicly resist Jewish racism and favoritism in the West. Then they came to drag off the guy who dared to publicly criticize Israel. Then they came for the guy who criticized Israel, but only privately to his neighbor. Then they came to take away a guy who forgot to bow when a Jew passed. And then they came to drag off you for watching from a window.]
Imagine you're Ernst Zundel,
by Peter Lindsay & Chi-Kun Shi, counsel to Ernst Zundel, Globe and Mail (also at Focal Point Publications), March 5, 2005
"Imagine that you're 65 years old and you're in jail. In solitary confinement. You are strip-searched whenever you see your lawyer. Once before. Once after. For two years. Imagine that you're there because two politicians signed a piece of paper ("security certificate") saying that you are a security risk. You are not charged with a crime. You don't have a criminal record. You have lived in Canada for 42 years. Imagine that those two politicians don't have to be right, so long as a judge thinks that they are "reasonable". So long as they are "reasonable", they can deport you to a country where you go to jail for saying something that you have the right to say in Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada had promised you that right. Imagine that the prosecutor and the judge get to meet secretly without you and your lawyer and you never find out what they did in secret, what they read, who they saw. Again and again. Imagine that your lawyer thought he was at a critical point in your trial. He thought the lunch break was longer then usual. Turns out the judge and the prosecutor were having a secret session again while you had lunch. They refuse to tell you or your lawyer what happened. Imagine that you are accused of causing violence so bad that you are a danger to Canadian national security. When you ask when and where, they say: can't tell you. You ask why not, they say: national security. Imagine that the judge is making so many mistakes that it took more than 100 pages of transcripts to show them all. Imagine the judge making the same mistakes again and again. And always to your detriment. Imagine this judge having the power to deport you and you have no right of appeal. Imagine that a prominent civil libertarian tells you this process is wrong and he will stand with you to say so, only to back out at the last minut. Imagine that he comes back as soon as you were deported, condemning this process as your plane left Canada. Imagine that a judge says she thinks this process is unfair to you and will say so in court, only to change her mind at the last minute. Imagine that a newspaper counts the number of security certificates and yours is never included. Imagine the moment you have been deported, everyone talks about how awful and illegal security certificates are. Imagine that the media is suddenly interested in you, as soon as they are sure that you will be deported. Your deportation and upcoming jail time is reported in meticulous detail. Imagine that this is Canada in 2005 and you've been named in a security certificate. Imagine that everyone says that security certificates are a disgrace to Canada but somehow it was fine to use one on you. Imagine that you may be Ernst Zundel, or you may be someone with an opinion disliked by many."

Germany Arrest Warrant for Ernst Zundel. Horst Mahler - Report 001. The Ernst Zündel Affair,
Zundelsite, March 4, 2005
"I have the arrest warrant before me. It is issued on 17 February 2003 at the Mannheim Landgericht - district court, file reference 10 gs 451/03. It was signed by Böttmann (?) a judge at the district court. The public prosecutor's office, Mannheim, lists the matter under 503 Js 4/96. The subject of the preliminary investigation is the form of behaviour, which the occupational forces refer to as incitement of the people [Volksverhetzung] (§ 130 StGB). Already the first sentences clearly state what this is all about. Ernst Zündel is presented "as the most active and/or prominent Revisionist”. From his home in the USA, up to January and February 2003, via the Internet http://www.zundelsite.org he is accused of offending against §130 StGB, as well as sending his “antisemitic Germania newsletters and other writings [Kampfschriften]. The arrest warrant contains 39 pages. In summary Ernst Zündel is accused of the following: "In his ‘messages’ and writings – often pointing to additional revisionist literature available on the Internet – in each case consciously contrary to historical truth and identifying with the Nazi perpetrated persecutions, in pseudoscientific manner, imbued with prejudices, to relieve National Socialism of the stigma of Jew-murder, heightening and intensifying the passions of the readers, while denying the planned extermination fate of the Jews under the National Socialist rule, denying the existence of gas chambers for mass killing of Jews, while defaming the survivors of this genocide and the memory of those Jews who were mass exterminated, asserting that this mass extermination is a fabrication of the Jews and serves to subjugate the German people, among other things, for example the following from: …”.

Progressivism and Free Speech for All,
by Kim Peterson, Axis of Logic, March 5, 2005 "There is a concerted right-wing effort to clamp down on liberal academics in the US. The attacks on M. Shahid Alam and Ward Churchill serve distinct notice that free-speech rights may be constitutionally protected on paper, but those rights are fragile. The assault on free speech is not confined to the US. Canadian security bills enacted following 9-11 have severely curtailed freedoms enjoyed by Canadians. Several Muslim Canadians have been rounded up along with one infamous historical revisionist. Sixty-five-year-old graphic artist Ernst Zundel, clad in an orange jumpsuit, sits on a pile of documents (because he is not allowed a chair) and sends off his last missives written with pencil stubs from his prison cell. He has just passed his second year of incarceration without charge. This prisoner is deemed to be a national security risk to Canada although he has no criminal record and is avowedly a Christian pacifist. Zundel and his supporters have characterized his situation as a "political kidnapping disguised as a deportation, based entirely on drummed up charges." The situation was allegedly stacked against Zundel. Once two cabinet ministers signed the draconian national security certificate, Zundel was denied the right to cross-examine his accusers or to know all the evidence against him. The Crown needed only to convince Federal Court Justice Pierre Blais (a former Canadian Security Intelligence Service head) that it was not unreasonable for two cabinet ministers to think Zundel might be a terrorist. Now, Zundel has abandoned his fight to stay in Canada and is slated for early deportation to Germany, where he will be immediately arrested and tried for his controversial views on the World War II Holocaust. Zundel's lawyer Peter Lindsay said authorities had informed him there would be no wait for a Supreme Court of Canada review of his allegation of judicial bias or rule on the constitutionality of Canada's anti-terrorism laws. Lindsay condemned the legal process as "unfair." Said Lindsay, "We should care. But ... most of us don't give a damn." Blais ordered the expulsion of Zundel, having determined him to be a hate-monger and threat. "Zundel's activities are not only a threat to Canada's national security but also a threat to the international community of nations," opined Blais. Zundel's notoriety stems from his challenging the conventional history of the World War II Holocaust. He does not deny European Jews were persecuted: "The Jewish community has been victimized, no doubt in my mind - by National Socialist Germany; they were robbed of their human rights. - I say Germans should pay restitution, material restitution Š moral restitution to Jewish institutions." The German-born Zundel was at one point enjoying a comfortable, well-to-do life in Canada based on his success as a graphic artist. But he gave that up when he took it upon himself to correct what he saw as inaccuracies in World War II history. Said Zundel, "I owe it to myself, as a person, to humanity, to tell this truth as I found it, and as I know it-to submit it to people. I don't ask people to love me. I don't ask people to even agree with me. I don't ask people anything but to let me state my case and then for them to reflect on it." Zundel objects to the holocaust being portrayed as an exclusively Jewish holocaust. "That Second World War was a Holocaust for everyone in it. - If we are to draw lessons from the Second World War, we must find out what led to this monstrous event - We must find out as people, as a planet, as human beings what really happened. Because otherwise we might well overlook when real holocausts are planned in the future." "Holocausts come under the guise of laws, robbing people of their civil rights, their human rights, imprisoning them for ideas; that's how holocausts start," says Zundel. Since promulgating his views on the World War II Holocaust, Zundel has been threatened, a recipient of a mail bomb, physically attacked, and suffered an arson attack that destroyed his home. To compound his misfortune, he has been financially bogged down defending himself and his controversial views in Canada's so-called justice system. Canada does limit free speech rights when hatred is promoted against an identifiable group. Contrary to what is commonly thought, Zundel was never prosecuted under the "group hatred" act. He was charged under an old section of the Criminal Code pertaining to disinformation. This is incredulous, as Zundel obviously believes in the verisimilitude of what he is saying. At his 1988 trial, Zundel was tried and cleared in the Supreme Court for disseminating "false news" in the form of a reprinted 28-page revisionist booklet Did Six Million Really Die? by Richard Verrall (but penned under the name Richard Harwood). The False News Law was struck down. Zundel stated that all his alleged crimes are Internet-related, dealing with the "Auschwitz Holocaust problem" and his defense of the German people. Vituperation is directed at the Zundelsite, which is adorned with Nazi-style flags featuring a "Z" fashioned after the swastika. The site carries the transcripts of his previous court appearances. Zundel considers this his legacy to revisionists. The truth of his claims, however, was considered irrelevant. The Canadian Human Rights Commission, which is responsible for investigating "hate crimes," astonishingly concluded: "The truth in some absolute sense really plays no role. Rather, it is the social context in which the message is delivered and heard which will determine the effect that the communication will have on the listener. It is not the truth or falsity per se that will evoke the emotion but rather how it is understood by the recipient" ... A Marxist-Leninist friend was surprised that I would write about the ordeal of Zundel. He advised, "Forget about him. He's a fascist and a Nazi." But he relented to the degree that, harkening to the wisdom of Martin Niemoeller, if Canadians remain silent about the human rights of Zundel then who will be there to speak out for their rights if and when their turn comes. Zundel is not a sympathetic figure. He is an unabashed admirer of the Austrian-born and raised Hitler, who he lauds as "Germany's greatest son." It is unsure how this squares with his pacifist declaration. In the vein of Hitler, Zundel is also vehemently anti-Marxist. Marxism, according to Zundel, is a "psychopathic ideology." In addition, he adheres to a doctrine of white racial purity. Nonetheless, his incarceration and upcoming deportation are morally wrong. It is relatively easy for progressives to stand up in defense of progressives when their free-speech rights are imperiled. The real test for progressives, however, is to defend free-speech rights of those whose views are anathema to progressivism."

French professor suspended for doubting Holocaust,
Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2005
"A French university said Friday it decided to suspend a professor for five years after he made remarks that cast doubt on the Holocaust. Bruno Gollnisch, who is also a top official in the far-right National Front party of Jean-Marie Le Pen, questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers in the Holocaust and suggested that the number of Jews killed during World War II might have been exaggerated. His comments, made at a news conference in October, sparked uproar among Jewish and anti-racism groups. Gollnisch, who teaches law and Japanese at Jean Moulin University, also known as Lyon III, said he was the victim of a "witch hunt" and blamed the university for succumbing to outside pressure. The university said it would continue to pay Gollnisch half his salary during the suspension."

[When you criticize "Israel," you are criticising "Jews." Leave your politically correct crap at the door. There is no way around it.]
French youngsters considering Aliyah. About half of poll respondents say they experienced anti-Semitism in past five years; 75 percent say their future is not in France,
by Miri Chason, Yehdioth Aharonoth (Israel), March 4, 2005
"About 50 percent of French youngsters say they have experienced anti-Semitism in the past five years, and a third say they are interested in moving to Israel soon, according to a survey released Thursday. The poll, undertaken by Eric Cohen from Bar Ilan University, also shows 75 percent of French teenagers believe their future is not in France. About 125,000 French Jews visited Israel in 2004, the survey found. More than half of adult poll respondents, meanwhile, said their children attend Jewish schools. About 75 percent said they would want to be reborn as Israeli Jews, given the chance ... According to a sample of 2,000 tourists, half believe they would move to Israel in the next five years. About 28 percent estimated they would remain in France, but 70 percent said they wanted their children to study in Israel. About 2,400 French Jews moved to Israel in 2004, mostly because of anti-Semitism in France. The two biggest obstacles faced by French immigrants are the economic situation in Israel and family considerations. The survey also found that security considerations are not a determining factor in the decision to make Aliyah to Israel."

[So how do you reconcile this next article with the one above? Sure, France and America aren't the same country, but the common denominator is young Jews and Israel. Europe gets a lot more media criticism of Israel than in the United States, so how is it that European Jews leap into Israel's arms? There is something fishy going on here with these two articles. In deft hands, surveys and statistics are as manipulative as anything else can be. Is there a carefully-laid cross-continental shell game going on?]
Young American Jews are more ambivalent toward Israel, study shows,
by Amiram Barkat, Haaretz (Israel), March 6, 2005
"The attachment of American Jews to Israel has weakened measurably in the last two years," according to a study carried out by Prof. Steven Cohen of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a leading researcher of U.S. Jewry. The study was conducted using identical questionnaires circulated during 2002 and also 2004 among 1,448 Jewish families, and was funded by the Jewish-Zionist Education Department of the Jewish Agency. Cohen's findings, published late last week, reinforce findings suggesting that there is a drop in support for Israel among U.S. Jews, especially among youth and university students. Unlike many in the American Jewish community, Cohen does not believe that the declining support stems from opposition to Israeli policies in the territories but rather from the lull which has descended recently over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ... Forty-three percent of those asked agreed with the statement that "Israel feels to me more about my parents' and grand-parents' generation than to me and my generation." [JTR note: What exactly is this last statement supposed to measure? Issues about relative attachment to Israel, not attachment itself. And what about other 57% who don't disagree that attachment to Israel has generational influences?]

[Someone say "axis of evil?" Real Americans, do you want a subversive foreign Zionist influence "shaping American foreign policy?" Welcome to the Jewish Political Pimp-a-thon:]
AJC Hosts Policy Conference,
Yahoo! Finance, March 2, 2005
"The American Jewish Committee's Office of Government and International Affairs(OGIA) is hosting its biennial policy and advocacy conference today through Friday at the Phoenix Park Hotel on Capitol Hill. Securing our Future: Shaping American Policy in the 21st Century, addresses a wide range of issues, including religious liberty, immigration policy, education, terrorism, human rights, civil liberties and energy, as well as challenges in the Middle East. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) will receive AJC's Congressional Leadership Award during a reception at 6 p.m. today in Room SC-4 of the U.S. Capitol.Wednesday, March 2, 2005 [SPEAKERS:] Jason Isaacson Director, Government and International Affairs; MODERATOR: Dov Zakheim (Washington) Chair, AJC International Relations Commission; MEMBER of CONGRESS: Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.); REMARKS: Mara Rudman Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning, Center for American Progress ... MODERATOR: Dan Kohl (Milwaukee) Sholom Comay Fellow ... MEMBERS of CONGRESS: Rep. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.); REMARKS: K. Hollyn Hollman General Counsel, Baptist Joint Committee ... MODERATOR: Sherry Weinman (Los Angeles) Member, Board of Directors, Los Angeles Chapter; Nominee, National Board of Governors ... MEMBERS of CONGRESS: Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) ... REMARKS: Doris Meissner Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute; Former Commissioner, INS; ... Presentation of Congressional Leadership Award Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) ... MODERATOR: Steve Goodman (Washington) Member, Board of Directors, AJC Washington Chapter ... MEMBER of CONGRESS: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) ... REMARKS: Hilary Shelton Director, NAACP Washington Bureau ... MODERATOR: Dottie Bennett (Washington) Chair, Project Interchange; AJC National At-Large Officer ... MEMBERS of CONGRESS: Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.); REMARKS: Felice Gaer Director, AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights Vice Chair, US Commission on International Religious Freedom ... MODERATOR: Suzi Jaffee (New York) Member, AJC National Board of Governors .... MEMBERS of CONGRESS: Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) ... REMARKS: Dr. Philip Gordon Director, Center on United States and Europe; Senior Fellow, Foreign Studies, The Brookings Institution .... MODERATOR: Henry Dubinsky (St. Louis) Chair, AJC National Energy Committee ... MEMBERS of CONGRESS: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ark.) Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.); REMARKS: Dr. Ariel Cohen Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation ... MODERATOR: E. Robert Goodkind (Westchester) President, The American Jewish Committee; MEMBERS of CONGRESS: Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.); REMARKS: Jeffrey Rosen Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; INTRODUCTION: Amb. Peter Rosenblatt (Washington) President, AJC Washington Chapter; REMARKS: His Excellency Daniel Ayalon Ambassador of Israel ... MODERATOR: Richard T. Foltin AJC Legislative Director and Counsel; REMARKS: Reverend Dr. C. Welton Gaddy President, The Interfaith Alliance Kevin J. "Seamus" Hasson Founder and Chairman, The Becket Fund For Religious Liberty Melissa Rogers Visiting Professor of Religion and Public Policy, Wake Forest University Divinity School; Jewish Community Priorities in the 21st Century 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, The White House; MODERATOR: E. Robert Goodkind (Westchester) President, The American Jewish Committee; REMARKS: Robert Danin Director for the Levant, Israeli & Palestinian Affairs, National Security Council; Noam Neusner; White House Liaison to the Jewish Community; Associate Director for Strategic Planning and Communications, Office of Management and Budget Ben Powell Special Assistant to the President; Associate Counsel Jim Towey Assistant to the President; Director, Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives"

[Forgive me. Given the steady thrust of so many of these Jewish stories, I first misread the following as "T & A" (the media abbreviation for "tits and ass"). My apologies that the mass media has tempered me this way.]
Q & A with Sharon Waxman,
by Amy Klein, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, March 4, 2005
"If you loved movies like “Pulp Fiction,” “Fight Club,” “Traffic,” “Being John Malkovitch,” “Boogie Nights” and “Three Kings,” then you should probably read Sharon Waxman’s new book, “Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System” (HarperEntertainment 2005). Waxman has covered Hollywood for The New York Times for a year and for The Washington Post for eight, and in her eminently readable and well-researched book, she encapsulates the 1990s through the breakout films of six young directors: Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, David. O. Russell and Spike Jonze ... Waxman, 41, talks to The Journal about filmmaking, about being an observer to “this foreign country” of Hollywood and about the biggest taboo subject of all: Being Jewish in Hollywood ...
JJ: What do these filmmakers have in common?
SW: I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that [they] are all extremely driven, that they’re extremely individualistic, that they are wedded to their ideas, to what they want to create as filmmakers, and that they don’t want to budge from that. They’re egotistical — but I don’t think they’re more egotistical than anyone I come across in Hollywood, not more egotistical than the average Hollywood director (egotistical not in a bad sense) ...
JJ: Are any of them Jewish?
SW: No. Except David O. Russell is half Jewish. (His father was Bernard Markovski, the name of the main character in “I (Heart) Huckabees.”)
JJ: If you read histories of Hollywood or look at the old studio system and the people who were making movies, it really did seem as if the Jews were running the system. But none of your book’s main characters are Jewish.
SW: The directors aren’t Jewish, but the executives are still more often than not. There’s a very large Jewish presence in Hollywood. Maybe it’s a bit less than it was at the studios — I guess it’s no longer 100 percent. But there are a large number of Jewish people in powerful positions.
JJ: Yet, no one wants to talk about being Jewish in Hollywood...
SW: The Jewish question in Hollywood is the most taboo subject in Hollywood.
JJ: Why?
SW: There’s a reluctance to highlight the fact that there are a large number of Jews in Hollywood, because there’s a concern that people will take that to mean there’s some kind of Jewish influence or cabal, and people don’t want to feed into false negative stereotypes.
JJ: Does being Jewish have any value in Hollywood?
SW: I think that it’s just part of the culture of Hollywood. In “A Mighty Wind,” Christopher Guest plays this Swedish music producer who speaks in Yiddish the whole time, [saying] “he’s so meshuggene” — and it’s so hilarious, it’s a gentle satire that there is a Jewish character to Hollywood. Here’s a Swedish character who can throw in Yiddish [because that’s the] tone of the culture that he’s living in. That’s a reality.
JJ: Does it help to be Jewish in Hollywood?
SW: Just like if you are from Detroit, and you want to get a job in the auto industry, and you have relatives at the Ford Motor Co., so you have that connection; from that standpoint [if you’re Jewish in Hollywood] you might have that advantage going for you, if you grow up in a connected Jewish community then there might be someone in the system you could reach out to...
JJ: Is that a sensitive point for you?
SW: I think that it’s a sensitive question that deserves a sensitive answer, because I wouldn’t deny that there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood. I am not “The Jews of Hollywood,” I am just one person, I am a reporter. I think there’s a desire to not be lumped together and not be a target, but at the same time I would never deny that there’s a lot of Jews in Hollywood and there is a certain Jewish characteristic to the industry." [JTR note: Please! Ms. Waxman (who is of course Jewish), had no experience per (Jewish) Hollywood before she was sent out to cover it (as noted in an earlier article we posted about her). Her journalistic path snaked between the New York Times and the Washington Post. Both papers are owned by Jews (Sulzberger and Graham) and top-heavy with Jewish editors. She's part of the media clique, and this issue is "sensitive" because the "stereotype" about the Jewish media "cabal" is TRUE.]

[Judeocentrism is everywhere. It's like a toxic dust that pollutes your eyes, your ears, inside your socks ... It's like a dark smog that smothers entire cities. You are never given the option of whether you wish to breath the smog in or not. The decision has been made for you. Jewish neurosis INSISTS upon guiding your path. This is the propagandizing path of "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers" in America, who were not only veiled Jews but twin sisters .]
Absolutely fabulous to be a lifestyle guru,
Hampstead and Highate Express (UK) , March 4, 2005
"You don't have to be Jewish to be a self-help guru, of course, but it might help. So say the organisers of Jewish Book Week who have assembled three champions of self-help to find out whether being Jewish influenced their choice to become professional sorter-outers. Lynne Franks, Irma Kurtz and Carole Caplin will together discover what part, if any, their Jewish roots played in their work as inspirers, advisers and all round Ms Fixits at the Bloomsbury Theatre when they discuss Nice Jewish Gurus next Sunday (March 13). The writer and film-maker Naomi Gryn will chair the discussion. In the meantime, however, Lynne Franks invited me to her flat in Maida Vale for a sneak preview. Lynne Franks has it all and does it all. We know and love her as the inspiration for Jennifer Saunders' neurotic new-age PR diva Edina in Absolutely Fabulous and the comparison is, though she rolls her eyes at me at my predictable tiresomeness, irresistible - especially when she leaves me alone in her kitchen for 10 minutes ... Franks, who sold her eponymous PR empire in 1995 to find a more satisfying form of success, went to the fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing to find it. Ten years on from Beijing she has gone on to found a new empire, SEED, an enterprise programme designed to inspire and train women in "the feminine way to create business". She has been adopted by the Department of Trade and Industry, made entrepreneur in residence at Luton University's Business School, is about to go global with a new website, and plans to put her workshop training system on interactive television. Her new book, The SEED Handbook (Hay House, £10.99), will be launched in the House of Lords by Baroness Amos on Wednesday."

[Mayor Livingstone! You can't criticize Israel or resist the Jewish Lobby because, uh, then London will lose the Olympics! So roll over and play dead and let them all use your face for a sofa!]
Israeli envoy condemns London mayor's swipe at Sharon,
Yahoo! News, March 5, 2005
"Israel's ambassador to Britain, Zvi Heifetz, expressed outrage after London's outspoken mayor Ken Livingstone branded Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a war criminal. In a statement, the diplomat accused Livingstone of trying to divert attention from a furore over his refusal to apologise for comparing a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi German concentration camp guard. "It is obvious and unfortunate that the mayor is trying to manipulate public opinion and divert attention from the overwhelming criticism he has faced over the last few months," Heifetz said Saturday. "Israel has nothing to do with the issue at hand which remains the mayor's outrageous remark comparing a British journalist to a Nazi war criminal." "The mayor feels the need to emphasise that he's not an anti-Semite, but 'only' anti-Israeli. To support this distinction, he launched a virulent attack against Israel. We trust the public to know better and to see what stands behind his strategy." Writing in the Guardian newspaper, Livingstone -- a renegade within Prime Minister Tony Blair's governing Labour Party -- called Sharon "a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office". Livingstone also denounced "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians during the expansion of the Israeli state, Israeli settlements in the territories and the denial of Palestinians' right to return. Livingstone's article in The Guardian came as a response to criticism printed a day earlier in the same newspaper by the head of Board of Deputies of British Jews, Henry Grunwald. Grunwald said that the mayor had "let his office down" and should apologize for comments made to Oliver Finegold, a reporter for the Evening Standard, a paper which Livingstone considers hostile to him. The flap reached its height last month just as an International Olympic Committee (IOC) delegation was in London to size up the capital's bid to host the Olympic Games in 2012. Heifetz said: "The mayor denies the severity of anti-Semitism in Europe, although the alarming increase in UK incidents has been confirmed by Scotland Yard (London's Metropolitan Police). What will be his next denial?" "We live in a time of renewed world hope for peace in the Middle East, when Prime Minister Sharon is commended by all, including Arab leaders, for his courageous actions towards peace. The Mayor's defamatory views inflame prejudice and hatred between Israelis and Palestinians and serve only his private political agenda."

[JTR contributor note: "The threat of his future prosecution for his thought crime is clearly implied." Our comment: Someone criticizes a Jew for being a jerk? "Racial incident." Someone criticizes Israel? "Racial incident." Jews bitch about the anti-Semitic rain? "Racial incident." Clearly, London mayor Ken Livingstone should be thrown in jail for a "hate crime." This will sufficiently agitate people to get the masses thinking to the next level: what has gone so terribly wrong with the (Judeocentric) West? It has become a totalitarian, censorial appendage of world Zionism.]
Mayor row logged as racial incident,
by Hugh Muir, Guardian (UK), March 5, 2005
"The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has been referred to Scotland Yard following a complaint about comments he made to a Jewish reporter which have been recorded as a racial incident. Though initially categorised as a "non crime" event, it will nevertheless form part of the statistics for racial incidents in London when they are collated at the end of the year. Scotland Yard yesterday told the Guardian it was seeking guidance about what should happen next and has referred the matter to its lawyers. A spokesman said: "It will be looked at in line with current Met police hate crime policy." There is scope for the matter to escalate if it is judged that Mr Livingstone's behaviour could be construed as criminal and is worthy of a full-blown investigation. Alternatively, the Met could choose to give the mayor "words of advice". The mayor has responsibility for setting the Met's budget and has spearheaded its initiative to develop neighbourhood policing in London. He has made law and order a central theme over the past five years of his mayoralty. The Met has confirmed that it became involved in the controversy on February 28 when a "third party" made a formal complaint about Mr Livingstone's clash with Oliver Finegold, an Evening Standard reporter, two weeks previously. On hearing that Mr Finegold was Jewish, the mayor likened him to a Nazi concentration camp guard. Mr Livingstone has already been referred to the Standards Board for England, the local government watchdog, by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. The police are obliged to classify a complaint as a racial incident if the complainant or a credible third party believes it to be so. A spokesman for Mr Livingstone said: "The Met has received a complaint, logged it and concluded they will take a view once the Standards Board investigation is complete. The mayor regards the complaint as a clear case of wasting police time."

[A very, very rich American Jew dies. What is he best known for? Israel.]
'He is everything to us,' Metro Detroit Jews say. Advocate helped smooth Israeli-U.S. relations, nurtured future leaders,
by Ron French, Detroit News, March 4, 2005
"A trip to Israel in 1954 turned Max Fisher into an advocate for the young Jewish state. During the next two decades, he formed or led every leading Jewish organization in the U. S., including the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Born into a family that changed its name to sound less Jewish, Max Fisher grew up to become the voice of American Jewry, influencing U.S-Israeli relations for decades and forging the nation's most powerful Jewish organizations. "What's the movie they show every Christmas? 'It's a Wonderful Life'? The Jewish community without Max Fisher would be like that town without Jimmy Stewart," said Bob Aronson, director of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. "He is everything to us." Fisher's impact on the Jewish community, locally, nationally and internationally, is hard to overstate. He was the biggest donor, greatest fund-raiser and leading organizer of numerous causes for decades. He smoothed the frayed relations between the United States and Israel in the 1970s and eased the immigration of Russian Jews to America in the 1980s. Most importantly, Fisher helped nurture a new generation of Jewish leaders who are carrying on his vision ... In 1932, as a young businessman, Fisher donated $5 to a Jewish charitable organization, and never stopped giving. Longtime friend Bill Berman said it's hard to say how many millions Fisher donated over the years to various Jewish causes, and he helped raise tens of millions from his wealthy friends. A trip to Israel in 1954 turned Fisher into an advocate for the young Jewish state. Over the next two decades, he formed or led every leading Jewish organization in the United States. He served as president and national chairman of United Jewish Appeal (1965-67), president of the Council of Jewish Federations (1969-72), chairman of United Israel Appeal (1968-71), president of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (1959-64) and founding chairman of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel (1971-83). Berman flew with Fisher on Fisher's private airplane to Israel at least 12 times from the 1960s to 1980s, as Fisher used his position as confidant of U.S. presidents and Israeli prime ministers to keep relations between the nations warm."

[JTR contributor's note: "This Reminds Me Of The Recent Death Of Edmund Safra."]
Murdered banker was 'wearing a latex suit',
By John Lichfield, The Independent (UK), March 5, 2005
"The investigation into the murder of the French banker Edouard Stern took a bizarre twist yesterday with a report that he was shot while wearing a latex bodysuit. The report, by the Geneva newspaper Le Temps - a report neither confirmed nor denied by investigators - appeared to point to a personal motive for the killing. Investigators were, however, said to be keeping an open mind. M. Stern, 50, a keen poker player, was known to frequent risqué night-clubs in Geneva. Police believe that he may have been murdered by someone with whom he was having a sado-masochistic relationship. Swiss newspapers said that the police were also investigating the possibility that the rubber suit might be an attempt to throw them off the scent of a contract killing. M. Stern, a member of an ancient French-Jewish banking family, lost money in investments in Eastern Europe or Russia. He is rumoured in Geneva to have told friends that he felt under threat. The investigating magistrate, Michel Graber, said on Thursday night that M. Stern had been shot dead in the bedroom of his fifth-floor penthouse in a wealthy district near the Old Town of Geneva. There was no sign of a forced entry or struggle, he said, suggesting that M. Stern knew his assailant or assailants and had opened the door to them. He was last seen on Monday night, and his body was found by two business associates on Tuesday afternoon. The magistrate declined to give further details of the killing. The newspaper La Tribune de Genève reported yesterday that M. Stern had been shot three times, including two bullets in the head. Le Temps - without citing any sources - said that his body had been discovered dressed head to foot in a latex suit. Police and judicial sources in Geneva would not comment on these reports. The investment banker, formerly the son-in-law of Michel David-Weill, owner of Lazard, the French merchant bank, ran his own investment and consultancy company said to be worth €500m (£340m). From the age of 24, when he took over the family bank, ejecting his father, M. Stern had pursued a brilliant, if controversial, career in high finance. He sold the family firm and built another business, which he also sold. He married Béatrice David-Weill, daughter of the owner of Lazard, and seemed destined to take over as head of one of the few European banks to be a force on Wall Street. But in 1997 he split acrimoniously with his father-in-law and started his own investment company, which conducted a series of high-profile
deals - but was also said to have used off-shore tax havens to invest in Russia and Eastern Europe."

[Sado-masochism as an agent of the (increasingly Zionized) American government, increasingly dehumanized and fascistic? How do moral human beings cope with vast conglomerate, military bureaucracies that have gone completely mad? And "scientists," with them. In the vast range of war and chaos throughout the world, who is the rightful enemy not just of the American people, but of humanity itself? Or, phrased a different way, beyond limiters of ethnicity, are the creatures who create these horrible things in any way human?]
Maximum pain is aim of new weapon,
by David Hambling, New Scientist, March 5, 2005
"The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be used for torture. "I am deeply concerned about the ethical aspects of this research," says Andrew Rice, a consultant in pain medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. "Even if the use of temporary severe pain can be justified as a restraining measure, which I do not believe it can, the long-term physical and psychological effects are unknown." The research came to light in documents unearthed by the Sunshine Project, an organisation based in Texas and in Hamburg, Germany, that exposes biological weapons research. The papers were released under the US's Freedom of Information Act. One document, a research contract between the Office of Naval Research and the University of Florida in Gainsville, is entitled "Sensory consequences of electromagnetic pulses emitted by laser induced plasmas". It concerns so-called Pulsed Energy Projectiles (PEPs), which fire a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something solid, like a person (New Scientist, 12 October 2002, p 42). The weapon, destined for use in 2007, could literally knock rioters off their feet. According to a 2003 review of non-lethal weapons by the US Naval Studies Board, which advises the navy and marine corps, PEPs produced "pain and temporary paralysis" in tests on animals. This appears to be the result of an electromagnetic pulse produced by the expanding plasma which triggers impulses in nerve cells. The new study, which runs until July and will be carried out with researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, aims to optimise this effect. The idea is to work out how to generate a pulse which triggers pain neurons without damaging tissue ... The contract, heavily censored before release, asks researchers to look for "optimal pulse parameters to evoke peak nociceptor activation" - in other words, cause the maximum pain possible. Studies on cells grown in the lab will identify how much pain can be inflicted on someone before causing injury or death. New Scientist contacted two researchers working on the project. Martin Richardson, a laser expert at the University of Central Florida, refused to comment. Brian Cooper, an expert in dental pain at the University of Florida, distanced himself from the work, saying "I don't have anything interesting to convey. I was just providing some background for the group." His name appears on a public list of the university's research projects next to the $500,000-plus grant. John Wood of University College London, an expert in how the brain perceives pain, says the researchers involved in the project should face censure. "It could be used for torture," he says, "the [researchers] must be aware of this." Amanda Williams, a clinical psychologist at University College London, fears that victims risk long-term harm. "Persistent pain can result from a range of supposedly non-destructive stimuli which nevertheless change the functioning of the nervous system," she says. She is concerned that studies of cultured cells will fall short of demonstrating a safe level for a plasma burst. "They cannot tell us about the pain and psychological consequences of such a painful experience."

[The "I'm a Jew and the prosecution is anti-Semitic" defense wins again. Note how the Holocaust (Jews wearing "gold stars," etc.) gets dragged in as a useful tool to defend those who were accused of laundering cocaine money.]
Jury clears Miami jeweler of money laundering,
by Ann. W. O'Neill, Sun-Sentinel, March 4, 2005
"A federal jury took four hours to clear a Miami jewelry supplier and his sales manager of charges they laundered more than $8 million in cocaine profits for Colombian drug lords. After Thursday's verdicts, jurors emerged from the Miami courthouse to find defendant Raphael Adouth, his family and members of his Bal Harbour synagogue rejoicing and dancing on the courthouse steps. They joined in with warm embraces.It was sweet," said defense attorney Howard Srebnick. Adouth and Lourdes Challiol were accused in an indictment last year of meeting with two dozen cocaine traffickers who exchanged drug money for gold, exporting it to Colombia. Adouth took over Rosenthal Jewelers Supply Corp. after the 1987 death of his grandfather, a Jewish watchmaker who emigrated from Hungary to Havana to Miami. The jewelry supply business, one of the nation's largest, also was acquitted of money laundering charges. The acquittals capped a three-week trial featuring some of Miami's top criminal defense attorneys, who vigorously attacked the motives and veracity of an undercover Internal Revenue Service operative. The defense alleged that anti-Semitism drove the investigation, telling jurors Adouth was referred to on surveillance tapes as "the Jew." The investigation itself was dubbed "Operation Goldstar," which defense attorneys said rekindled memories of how the Nazis forced Jews to wear gold stars."

[Context for the above:]
Miami jewelry supplier charged with laundering $7 million
by CATHERINE WILSON, Associated Press (posted here at the Colombian Embassy in Washington DC's web page, June 8, 2004)
"A Miami jewelry supplier laundered more than $7 million in drugs profits through his business in meetings with more than 20 Colombian drug dealers as federal agents worked undercover to take advantage of the same services, federal prosecutors charged Monday. Raphael Adouth, owner of Rosenthal Jewelers Supply Corp., and office manager Lourdes Meulener Challiol face 30 years to life in prison if convicted of money laundering, filing false tax forms and conspiracy. Bond was set at $1 million for him and $100,000 for her, all of which was pledged before they left their first court hearing. Relatives, friends and supporters from Adouth's Bal Harbour synagogue, which received donations and a $300,000 loan from him, filled all four spectator rows of the courtroom, where men and women wiped away tears. Challiol cried softly as she leaned on a rail for support before she was allowed to sit down."\

[Campus Watch is of course the censorial baby of Jewish Zionist Daniel Pipes, as is his Middle East Forum. FrontPage mag and DiscoverTheNetwork are smear inventions of Jewish Zionist David Horowitz.]
DiscoverTheNetwork,
SourceWatch (Center for Media and Democracy)
"DiscoverTheNetwork is a database/search website meant to track "the left". It was launched on February 15, 2005, but [David] Horowitz claims it was two-years under development. The About Us section explains, DTN: is a "Guide to the Political Left." It identifies the individuals and organizations that make up the left and also the institutions that fund and sustain it; it maps the paths through which the left exerts its influence on the larger body politic ... The movement to protest the war in Iraq reconfigured the presidential campaign of 2004 and has affected American policy not only in Iraq but in the War on Terror generally. It has changed the face of the Democratic Party and of American politics in general. What is the nature of this “anti-war” movement, who are its leaders, and what are its agendas? .... DTN copies the Campus-Watch formula, but is applied to the broader political movement, as the About Us section explains: .... A cry of such distress has already greeted a perfectly reasonable database called Campus Watch, provided by the Middle East Forum. This site records and analyzes the views of leftwing academics concerning terrorism in the Islamic world, views that can fairly be described as apologetic and even sympathetic to the radical Islamist cause. Critics of Campus Watch, many of them with views identical to those reviewed on the site, have claimed that the very enterprise of posting such critical reviews is “McCarthyism” and an Internet “witch-hunt.” ... Overall, DTN is a Smear Portal on academics, journalists, and activists on the left. It is a website where all the smears and red baiting that can be found in FrontPageMag, Campus-Watch, and similar-ilk-organizations are put under one roof for "research".... Just like Campus-Watch, DTN has a strong pro-Likud zionist bias. Several of the individuals it targets have been critical of Israel. The Issues section of the website lists The Middle East, and it ports much of the material available on Campus-Watch and Middle East Forum."

PHOTO CALL: Philip J. Smith, a Titan of Broadway, Is Honored by Jewish Group,
by Morgan Allen, Playbill, March 5 , 2005
"Philip J. Smith, president of the omnipresent Shubert Organization, was on the receiving end of many accolades as the UJA-Federation [United Jewish Appeal] honored him for his life's work on Feb. 28. The Shubert Organization is a major force on Broadway, among other activities, the company produces productions, provides grants and owns 16 Broadway theatres. The UJA-Federation is the world’s largest local philanthropy community and helps sustain the activities of more than 100 health, human-service, educational, and community agencies, according to the group's website."

["Too many public and private resources have been invested in memorializing the Nazi genocide. Most of the output is worthless, a tribute not to Jewish suffering but to Jewish aggrandizement." -- Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry, Verso Press, 2000, p. 8]
Remembering Ann Frank. Regina students hope play leads to tolerance,
by Rob Daniel, Iowa City Press Citizen, March 4, 2005
"Sarah McCue stood in her tan uniform in the middle of the classroom.
"As part of the play, "And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank," eighth-grader McCue, 14, launched into a monologue in her character's role as a member of the Hitler Youth in 1930s Germany. "Rats are the lowest form of animals, and Jews are the lowest form of man," she said. "That's what the Fuhrer says. Heil Hitler!" The hate-filled language exemplifies the stark nature of the Regina Junior High production that looks at the lives of friends of Holocaust victim Anne Frank ... "And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank," a play by James Still, tells the story of Nazi repression of the Jewish people through the eyes of Eva Geiringer -- whose mother, Mutti, later married Anne Frank's father, Otto, and Ed Silverberg -- who was Anne's first boyfriend. The play continually switches between video interviews with Ed and Eva, who survived the Holocaust and are living today, and staged reenactments of moments of their lives during the Holocaust ... The students said they got into the play as a way of learning the history of the Holocaust and to help others remember what happened."

[Quite amazing. A band of Libyan Jews who live in Israel on stolen Palestinian land have enough backing from World Zionist Central that runs American foreign policy to bend Libya to their will.]
Israeli delegation visits Libya to discuss compensations for Jews,
Arabic News, March 4, 2005
"The Israeli daily Jerusalem Post said on Thursday that the official in the World Organization for Libyan Jews, Ramy Kahloun, will visit Libya within the two coming months on top of a delegation including between 15 to 20 Israelis of Libyan origin so that it is for the first time Israelis get into Libya. The paper said that Kahloun tried in 2004 to get an invitation to visit Tripoli in order to discuss the question of compensating for the Jews over their "properties" in Libya.The paper quoted one Israeli official of Libyan origin that one Libyan official visited Israel in secret in order to prepare for a certain diplomatic matter. The paper indicated that it seemed that the visit pertinent for preparation to the visit of the Israeli delegation to Tripoli. It said that more than 30,000 Jews left Libya for Israel."

[More Judeocentric myth and propaganda from the world Jewish media network. This time Jews trash "anti-Semitic" Serbians. The essence of this article says this: Jews are scapegoats for Serbian problems. Twist it around: How many Jews have you ever heard who admit that "the accusation of anti-Semitism" is likewise a scapegoat for JEWISH problems, distancing the origin of the problem from its logical source? What people on earth are NOT accused by Jews of being "anti-Semitic?" Christians? Muslims? Arabs? Malaysians? Poles? Russians? Europeans, generally? Latinos? Spaniards? African-Americans? WHO? In Jewish ideology, Jews are sacred and whoever in history has ever been a Jewish neighbor is decreed to be an irrational bigot.]
Anti-Semitism Raises its Head in Serbia. Though very small in number, Serbia’s Jewish community is being increasingly targeted by an array of ultra-nationalist groups,
By Dragana Nikolic-Solomon and Ljubisa Ivanovic, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, March 5, 2005
"The slogans hint at a future settling of accounts. "Juden Raus", "Achtung Juden", "Jews out of Serbia" and "Death to Jews and Gipsies", they proclaim, the words providing a chilling echo of the Holocaust that decimated European Jewry more than half a century ago. But few Jews actually see these slogans in Serbia today. Providing ample proof of the claim that anti-Semitism doesn't need Jews to flourish, the latest wave of anti-Semitism in Serbia has broken over a community that is a shadow of its former self. The community is now down to a tiny 3,000 or so among Serbia’s total population of around eight million, and in the 2002 census only about 1,200 people declared themselves Jewish. Most Serbs have never even met a Jew. Even before the Second World War, the community was small, making up 0.45 per cent of the population. After the Holocaust and the migration of most survivors to Israel, the figure has dwindled further to 0.3 per cent. But while few Jews remain, anti-Semitism is flourishing. Many bookstores stock copies of the infamous Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, the early 20th-century book from Russia that fraudulently claimed to reveal a Jewish conspiracy against the world's non-Jewish, and especially Christian, population. More disturbingly, a list of prominent Serbian Jews was recently posted on the website of a neo-Nazi organisation, alongside messages posted by site visitors calling for them to be killed. Although Stormfront is a German group, most Serbian commentators conclude that they could only have obtained this list with the help of Serbian colleagues. The list includes prominent activists and artists, such as the head of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Sonja Licht, actor Predrag Ejdus, singer Djordje David, marketing expert Srdjan Saper and the head of the Union of Jewish Communities, Aca Singer. A catalogue of anti-Semitic literature in Serbian, which it says "every National Socialist and racially aware nationalist should read" is contained on the site on a page named "Serbian National Socialist Library". Among the recommended texts is an article entitled “Jews – the Enemies of the Balkan Peoples.” Professor Ratko Bozovic, a sociologist at Belgrade University, told IWPR, “These incidents are not isolated. They are part of a growing phenomenon.” Other experts agree that Serbia is becoming a hotbed of extreme racist ideologies - partly a consequence of a decade of warfare under Slobodan Milosevic, when the media painted Croats, Muslims and Albanians as the demonic enemies of innocent Serbs. At the beginning of the wars in Yugoslavia, the regime initially tried to link Serbs and Jews as joint victims of fascism during the Second World War, promoting the activities of front organisations such as the Serbian-Jewish Friendship Society. But when this initiative failed to achieve the desired result internationally, anti-Jewish propaganda began to circulate, including claims that Serbs were falling victim to a Jewish lobby in Washington. This propaganda reached a climax during the 1999 NATO air strikes over Kosovo, when Jews in President Bill Clinton’s administration were accused of being behind a master-plan to bomb Serbia. Bozo Prelevic, a Belgrade lawyer, says belief in an anti-Serb conspiracy among the Jews is a legacy of the Milosevic era, when the regime media began to list Jews and Freemasons among all the other schemers plotting Serbia’s misfortunes. Even after democratic parties took power in October 2000, Serbian society continued to blame others for its problems, Professor Bozovic says - regardless of whether these others are Roma, Jews, Albanians, Americans, the Hague tribunal or rich investors, whom many see as economic colonisers. A casual surf of right-wing web sites in Serbia reveals an abundance of anti-Semitic literature and propaganda. The site of the Serbian Defence League, an organisation which says its mission is to document the Zionist "genocide against the Serbs", features the claim that "research has uncovered that Jews in position of power were conspiring to break up Yugoslavia into states friendly with Israel, because it needed their votes in the UN Security Council". The organisation claims Jews were directly responsible for NATO's bombing of Serbia in the late Nineties. "The Jews introduced resolutions [to the UN] to bomb the Serbs and make them pay for what Israel is doing to Moslems," it says. The Serbian Defence League says Jews have "stolen the Serbian holocaust" because "the biggest genocide in World War II was committed against the Serbs in Nazi Croatia, and not against the Jews in Germany". Aca Singer, veteran leader of the diminished Jewish community in Serbia, says the wave of hostile graffiti, as well as the threatening messages on various websites, are a cause for concern. The community has now filed six criminal-law cases against the perpetrators but there is little hope that anything will be done. The websites are located abroad, so neither the police nor the courts can take action and there is no law penalising the propagation of hatred on the internet. Singer says it is significant that anti-Semitic incidents have increased since the fall of the Milosevic regime in October 2000. He believes this may be because the advent of democracy has released feelings about Jews that were previously well concealed. "In the past five years over a hundred anti-Semitic books have been published in Serbia," said Singer. "Some of the latest are ‘The Serbs In The Claws Of The Jew’ and ‘Jewish Ritual Murder’ ... Anti-Semitism in Serbia is not limited to discussions on foreign-registered websites and slogans painted anonymously on walls, however. It reaches young people through organisations such as Obraz, which target students and other young people with their hardline nationalist message. Obraz, which means “Honour” is a right-wing movement preaching allegiance to the Serbian Orthodox Church and to Serbdom in general and encouraging passionate hostility to a list of what it calls enemies of the nation and the church .... Obradovic was more nuanced in describing Obraz’s stance on Jews to IWPR. “Because we are Christians, we cannot and do not want to hide the truth that many Euro-Atlantic powerful people of Jewish origin have revealed themselves as open enemies of the Serbian people,” he said. “Differentiating between enemies and friends cannot be called anti-Semitism,” he added. According to Obradovic, the only people in danger in Serbia today were the Serbs themselves. How far such views reach down to ordinary people is open to question. According to a survey in 2003 by the Belgrade Centre for Studying Alternatives, a think-tank specialising in tracking public opinion, anti-Semitism was more widespread than many once thought. Nine per cent of respondents openly declared themselves as anti-Semites, while another 31 per cent said they were undecided, the survey said. Many people on the street seem confused in their understanding of history and ready to blame Jews for their country’s recent setbacks. ... Aca Singer says the current legal penalties against the dissemination of hate-filled views are too weak. "The penal code should include a provision on anti-Semitism as a criminal offence," he said. Serbia’s poor economic situation is one factor behind the upsurge of anti-Semitism, he added. "Jews have been suspected by many nations throughout history. Particularly so if you take into account the deeply-rooted belief that the Jews control global financial and political developments."

[Sonja Licht, a Jew noted by Serbian "anti-Semites" above, was president of the Yugoslavia branch of American Jewish billionaire George Soros' "Open Society" world network, the one causing such political havoc today in Eastern Europe.]
U.S. President Meets with Champions of Freedom,
U.S. Embassy - Belgrade, February 28, 2005
"United States President George W. Bush met with 21 “Champions of Freedom” from 13 Central and Eastern European countries including Ukraine during his visit to Bratislava, Slovakia on February 24. The group included Sonja Licht, a long-time member of the Yugoslav democratic opposition who organized civic initiatives promoting responsible leadership in political and civil society in Serbia and Montenegro, and Ivan Marovic, one of the founders of the OTPOR movement that promoted popular protest and peaceful provocation in the lead-up to the September 2000 election that ousted the Milosevic regime ... Sonja Licht, Serbia and Montenegro: A long-time member of the Yugoslav democratic opposition, Ms. Licht was co-chair of the International Helsinki Citizens' Assembly, a broad coalition of civic movements, groups, and initiatives founded in Prague in 1990. During the late 1990s, Ms. Licht was the President of the Fund for an Open Society Yugoslavia, which played a crucial role in keeping a vibrant non-governmental sector alive in Serbia during the Milosevic regime. Ms. Licht helped organize civic initiatives, including get-out-the-vote and information campaigns, in the lead up to September 2000 elections that ousted Milosevic. Ms. Licht is now Director of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, a part of the Council of Europe's network for democracy program that works to build and promote a sustainable, new, responsible leadership in the political and civil society spheres in Serbia and Montenegro."

[The omnipresent Chabad Jew Klux Klan tries slithering into Tufts University. Chabad will scream "anti-Semitism" sooner or later and get whatever they want.]
Chabad recognition delayed,
by Jordana Timerman, The Tufts Daily, March 2, 2005
"Chabad at Tufts, a new Jewish group seeking official Tufts recognition, was surprised Monday night when the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ) announced that they would be unable to deliberate the issue until the Tufts Chaplaincy approved the group. At a last-minute meeting Monday afternoon, Dean of Students Bruce Reitman, Director of the Office of Student Activities Jodie Nealley and TCUJ Vice-Chair sophomore Jake Resnicow found that as a spiritual group, Chabad must receive clearance by the University Chaplaincy before it can meet with the TCUJ ... According to Beh, the postponement of a ruling on Chabad contradicts the understanding reached last fall in a meeting he had with Nealley, University Chaplain Father David O'Leary and Rabbi Jeff Summit, University Jewish chaplain and executive officer of the Hillel Foundation at Tufts. At a meeting held before Chabad had begun the recognition process, Beh said that O'Leary told him repeatedly "that approving Chabad would be setting a 'dangerous precedent.'" Chabad at Tufts is a new student group being proposed by Jewish students who were inspired by the activities and programming at the Chabad House, located a few blocks away from the Tufts campus. The students plan on working with the house, possibly with its director, Rabbi Tzvi Backman, acting as an advisor to the group ... Previous to the TCUJ decision on Monday, O'Leary was skeptical that the Chabad group could prove that they do not fit under the Hillel umbrella. "My office views it as duplication [with Hillel]," O'Leary said. "They would have to go a long way to show they are not duplicating." ... But Volchek said she feels that there is enough difference between Chabad which is based on the teachings of Jewish mysticism and Hillel that they should constitute a separate group. In a letter explaining these differences to the TCUJ, she highlighted that the group feels that "becoming a sub-group of Hillel would undermine its mission and prevent the organization from thriving and serving the Tufts community to its fullest potential." Beyond the problem of duplication, there is also the sensitive issue of off-campus organizations opening campus branches. Both Reitman and O'Leary expressed wariness at having student groups that answer to outside organizations. The guidelines for recognition of new groups require that groups' constitutions clarify "the extent to which members of the Tufts community who are not members of the organization may participate." O'Leary emphasized the need to keep off-campus organizations from getting on campus. "It is a very serious thing if outside religious groups start tapping into student funding," he said. "I'm not stopping anyone from going off-campus," he said. "They are free to work under Hillel and they are free to work off-campus." O'Leary was adamant, however, that off-campus organizations that are not Tufts-based cannot become student groups. According to Volchek, each Chabad house is a separate house, unaffiliated with each other." [JTR note: Outrageous lie!]

Thunder conflicts with Passover. Festival apologizes for scheduling slip,
by Peter Smith, The Courier-Journal, March 5, 2005
"When Thunder Over Louisville unleashes its nearly 60 tons of fireworks over the Ohio River next month, many Jewish families -- including the mayor's -- won't be there. They'll be at home instead, holding their ritual "Seder" meal for the first night of Passover, one of the most sacred days on the Jewish calendar. Kentucky Derby Festival officials said a scheduling oversight is to blame, and they have apologized to the Jewish community. They said they planned this year's event in 2000, using a calendar that showed Passover beginning on Sunday, April 24. But because Judaism reckons days as beginning at sundown, Passover actually begins the evening of April 23 -- Thunder Saturday. "The Derby Festival deeply regrets its oversight in not recognizing the correct day for the start of Passover in 2005," said a letter from festival president Michael Berry to local rabbis. He pledged not to let such a conflict occur again. Peter Anik, community relations director for the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville, said Jewish leaders are disappointed. "It's something we wish were not happening," he said. "The Jewish community looks forward to the fireworks display just like everyone else does." Mayor Jerry Abramson said the Derby Festival handled the situation as best as it could by quickly explaining the situation to Jewish community leaders ... Festival board member Louis Waterman, who is Jewish, said that although he knows Passover begins at sundown, he mistakenly thought the calendar indicated it was Sunday evening. "We made a mistake," he said. "It's a shame; I'm upset by it personally, but I can't change it."

US attack against Italians in Baghdad was deliberate: companion,
Turkish Press (AFP and Turkish Press), March 5, 2005
"The companion of freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena on Saturday leveled serious accusations at US troops who fired at her convoy as it was nearing Baghdad airport, saying the shooting had been deliberate. "The Americans and Italians knew about (her) car coming," Pier Scolari said on leaving Rome's Celio military hospital where Sgrena is to undergo surgery following her return home. "They were 700 meters (yards) from the airport, which means that they had passed all checkpoints." The shooting late Friday was witnessed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's office which was on the phone with one of the secret service agents, said Scolari. "Then the US military silenced the cellphones," he charged. "Giuliana had information, and the US military did not want her to survive," he added. When Sgrena was kidnapped on February 4 she was writing an article on refugees from Fallujah seeking shelter at a Baghdad mosque after US forces bombed the former Sunni rebel stronghold. Sgrena told RaiNews24 television Saturday a "hail of bullets" rained down on the car taking her to safety at Baghdad airport, along with three secret service agents, killing one of them. "I was speaking to (agent) Nicola Calipari (...) when he leant on me, probably to protect me, and then collapsed and I realized he was dead," said Sgrena, who was being questioned on Saturday by two Italian magistrates. "They continued shooting and the driver couldn't even explain that we were Italians. It was really horrible," she added ... The chief editor of Sgrena's left-wing newspaper Il Manifesto Gabriele Polo meanwhile branded Calipari's death a "murder". "He was hit in the head," he said. Calipari will be given a state funeral Monday."

[JTR contributor's note: "From zillionaire to S & M whore. Can you believe it?" Our comment: Yes.]
Assassinated Stern: the sadomasochistic track, [Original in French -- Stern assassiné : la piste sadomaso -- rough computer translation below],
Novelobs [France], March 4, 2005
"The Swiss press has advanced the assumption of a homicide related to "sadomasochistic practices" ... French banker Edouard Stern, was assassinated Tuesday at his Geneva residence, was vêtu of a latex combination when its body was found ... According to daily newspapers' The Time and the Platform of Geneva, the crime was committed Monday or Tuesday night. The victim was killed by at least three bullets, including two with the head. "The assumption of a homicide related to sadomasochistic practices comes to be added to the more traditional track of a payment of accounts on bottom the large one under", commented Time.
The examining magistrate Michel Graber, who has refused any comment on the circumstances of the murder, told Switzerland Television that the financier had probably opened the door to his attackers ... According to the Times, Edouard Stern was active at a "certain establishment" of Geneva and "its night life was agitated."

[Context for the above: Repost from yesterday.]
Leading French banker's death 'suspicious',
by Martin Arnold, Financial Times, March 3, 2005
"Edouard Stern, one of France's best-known bankers, has been found dead in his Geneva apartment, amid reports the Swiss police are treating his death as murder. Michel Graber, a Swiss investigating magistrate, is expected to make an announcement later today. Mr Stern, heir to one of France's biggest banking fortunes, had a high-profile and chequered career, which earned him a reputation as a highly ambitious and tenacious deal-maker who never backed down from a fight. The 50-year-old's body was found on Tuesday morning, according to AFP. Police are understood to be treating his death as suspicious. Mr Stern was once seen as the chosen successor to Michel David-Weill, chairman of the Lazard investment banking empire. Having married the eldest daughter of Mr David-Weill in 1983, Mr Stern joined Lazard. But his career at Lazard ended in acrimony and he quit in 1997 to set up his own $600m investment fund, with some financing from the Lazard investment vehicle Eurazeo ... Mr Stern hit the headlines recently at Rhodia, the French chemicals company. He spent a year on the company's board after investing heavily in it only to see the value of his investment collapse and he quit amid a financial crisis. After several years campaigning alongside other minority investors, he successfully ousted Jean-Pierre Tirouflet, Rhodia's former chief executive, who quit in 2003. The banker, who was a black-belt at judo and renowned as a poker player, was also understood to have been behind recent shareholder pressure by Knight Vinke of the US on Suez, the French utility, to split its power and water activities. Born into a wealthy Parisian family, Mr Stern was marked out from an early age for brilliance. But he dropped out after only a year at Science Politique, the training ground for the Parisian elite. He was known as a brilliant and charming man, but was criticised for arrogance. He ousted his father from the family bank at the age of only 22. He joined forces with other family members to take control of the bank, turned it around and eventually sold it to Libyan investors."

[Another apologetic for the hoardes of Jewish criminals who shaped American history. Massive Jewish crime in America is old news, but systematically hidden by the Jewish-dominated mass media from consciousness in popular America. This newspaper is an ethnic Jewish newspaper -- one produced for expressly Jewish audiences.]
Pickpockets, players, prostitutes ... Jews?,
by Jenna Weissman Joselit, [Jewish] Forward, March 4, 2005
"The recent news that a part of Sing Sing, the New York State penitentiary that was home for a spell to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, as well to as Murder, Inc., the Brooklyn-based gang of ruthless racketeers, is going to be transformed into a museum brings to mind an aspect of our past that many, undoubtedly, would prefer to forget. I'm referring, of course, to the sizable number of ne'er-do-wells (and worse) — those pickpockets, prostitutes, racketeers, thugs, gamblers and, yes, on occasion, even murderers — who, once upon a time, gave the chosen people a run for their money. Well into the late 19th century, it was widely believed almost as a matter of course that few black sheep could be found within the American Jewish community. "No other element is so orderly in character and so observant of the law," Philadelphia's Evening Telegram confirmed in 1872. "A Jew is seldom or never seen in our courts on a criminal charge." But that would soon change. By the 1890s, America's Jews, many of them recently arrived immigrants, increasingly ran afoul of the law. So much so, in fact, that municipal officials were often quick to associate the Jews with malfeasance. The Lower East Side, it was said by those in the know, was a veritable "nursery in crime," where narrow, dirt-encrusted streets produced an "army of pickpockets and altogether too many burglars." Even writer Hutchins Hapgood, whose reassuring tales of immigrant life did much to assuage America's anxieties about its newest citizens, couldn't help but associate Jews with wrongdoing. "In certain aspects of Yiddish New York," he wrote in 1903 in what must surely rank among the most stunning examples of the backhanded compliment, "the enormous vitality of the Jews carries them far in the direction of vice." Worse still, Jewish women figured among those tarred by the charge of criminality, especially when it came to prostitution. "If a women called out to you as you walked down Allen Street," Judge Jonah J. Goldstein declared, referring to one of the Lower East Side's major thoroughfares, "you knew she wasn't calling you to a minyan." At first, American Jewry's leaders were hard pressed to accept this new and sordid reality. Running against the grain of Jewish history, these "unpleasant revelations," as the Jewish Messenger delicately put it, were initially dismissed out of hand as nothing more than the product of overheated, antisemitic imaginations. But little by little, as Jewish names took up more and more space in the criminal docket, giving rise to what one observer poignantly called the "brutality of statistics," the community had little choice but to reckon with the altered circumstances of life in the New World. Much as we might prefer to "live in the memory of the past when the ties of home and religion were stronger and our young less beset by temptation," the Israelite Alliance Review acknowledged. American Jews had now had to confront the issue head-on ... There's no question that the marked decline in the number of Jewish criminals had to do with upward mobility and the increasing middle-class complexion of American Jewish life." [JTR note: Bullshit. Jewish corruption merely adjusted to function "within the system" of business/capitalist hustling/exploitation: buy cheap, sell high. Screw the goyim. Modern Jewish crime (highly sophisticated) is all over the place, from deposed billionaire Michael Milken to the Hollywood wheeler-dealer Jew Klux Klan to the modern JEWISH "Russian" mafia. The modern state of Israel, and Jewish obsessive love with it throughout the world, is an example of when the very concept of "crime" becomes nationalized.]

[More Jewish/Zionist racist mumbo-jumbo. This Jewish journal, the Forward, was founded as a far-left socialist/communist rag. Today, like below, it features fascist-religous crap about how Jews live in Israel by divine intervention and Jews are the navel of human existence. So much for the Jewish "Left." Jews! Want "redemption?" Go around to all the dirty goyim that you shit on every day, kiss their hands, and ask forgiveness for your arrogance and 24-7 hatreds.]
The Struggle to Reinvigorate the Zionist Ethos,
by Moshe Dann, [Jewish] Forward, March 5, 2005
"As the Israeli government moves to eliminate the Jewish presence in Gaza and in four settlements in northern Shomron, opponents of its plan would do well to keep things in perspective ... The attempt to destroy Jewish communities in Yesha has brought to the surface a power struggle within Israel over the meaning of Zionism, the future of Israeli democracy and the importance of Jewish identity. Though deeply painful, the struggle can provide opportunities for an educational process that might eventually transform Israeli society, allow true democracy to flourish and liberate us from our Holocaust-based frame of reference. That, in turn, will give birth to a more relevant and vigorous Jewish and Zionist ethos. Well before the inception of the State of Israel, Palestine was seen as a national homeland and as a refuge for persecuted Jews. The Holocaust taught us that Jews could be slaughtered genocidally and no one would help. This gave rise to "Never Again," the imperative to protect ourselves. "Never Again" was essential to winning Israel's acceptance by the world; it was, for many, our raison d'etre. Today, however, it is inadequate to justify Israel's existence. In order for something new to emerge, there must be a shift in how we see the structure itself. Only when sacred myths about the state, its institutions and political parties and their leaders are challenged and the rot at the core of system itself is exposed can change occur. Many Israelis now realize that our system has evolved into one in which no one is accountable to any constituency. When political and economic power is concentrated, without checks and balances, it allows the system to be manipulated by the ruling elite for their own interests, masked by a fake "democracy" ... "Settlements" in the Land of Israel are the defining characteristic of the state's existence. Settling the land is not merely a political statement, but a historical imperative and a divine obligation. Indeed, the only reason the Land of Israel has value is because Jews live in and value it ... The challenge that the left presents, therefore, is an important and necessary ingredient in creating a renewed Zionist consciousness — one that goes back not to Herzl or the Holocaust, but to our Patriarchs, to the giving of the Torah, and to conquering and settling the land during the time of Judges, Prophets and Kings. If the destiny of the Jewish people can only be worked out in the Land of Israel, as most Israelis and all Zionists believe, then our claim to the land is not only political and historical, but also existential. The true meaning of Israel is not as a refuge for persecuted Jews, but as the dynamic fulfillment of prophetic visions, the ingathering of Jews and the rebuilding of the Land of Israel; it is part of the process of redemption. Every Jew, secular as well as religious, is part of that transcendent vision, a historical process embodied in every act of aliya and settlement. These are not only acts of physical relocation, but also of a spiritual commitment. They are, quite literally, why we are here ... This struggle is our obligation and privilege anchored in covenant, ingathering and redemption. It has nothing to do with what Arabs demand, what the international community desires or what the government decides. It has to do with the duty and destiny of the Jewish people in their homeland."

[Sordid Jewish Zionist Paul Wolfowitz, influential Pentagon designer of U.S. fascist foreign policy in the Middle East for Israel, now positions himself to head the World Bank. It's almost like reading a cartoon of world Jewish Power. But it's real.]
Wolfowitz and Fiorina in race to head World Bank,
by Elizabeth Becker, International Herald Tribune (from New York Times), March 2, 2005
"Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, is under serious consideration to become the next president of the World Bank, according to a source in the administration of George W. Bush. Another new candidate to emerge is Carly Fiorina, who lost her job as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard two weeks ago, the official said on condition of anonymity. Robert Zoellick, until last week the U.S. trade representative, had been the White House's candidate to replace James Wolfensohn, the current bank president, who completes his second five-year term in May. But when Zoellick was tapped to become the new deputy secretary of state, the White House reopened the bidding ... The administration declined to comment on the Wolfowitz candidacy, which was first reported in The Financial Times. By tradition, the United States names the head of the bank, while Europe names the director of the International Monetary Fund ... As one of the chief architects of the Iraq war</