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Apr 16, 2010

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By Heidi Blake
Published: 8:36AM GMT 24 Mar 2010

Breast implants packed with explosives could be used to blow up an airliner, experts are said to have warned
Breast implants packed with explosives could be used to blow up an airliner, experts are said to have warned Photo: CORBIS

Radical Islamist plastic surgeons could be carrying out the implant operations in lawless areas of Pakistan, security sources are said to warned.

Explosives experts have reportedly said just five ounces of Pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate packed into a breast implant would be enough to blow a "considerable" hole in the side of a jumbo jet.

 It would be virtually impossible for airport security scanners to detect the explosive if hidden inside a breast, medics have said.

Joseph Farah, a terrorism expert, told The Sun: "Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaeda are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery."

Plastic surgeons may also have inserted the chemical into the buttocks of would-be suicide bombers.

The discovery was reportedly made after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a London-educated Nigerian, attempted to blow up an airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas day with explosives packed into his underpants.

Hours after his attack failed, British intelligence services reportedly picked up "chatter" from Pakistan and Yemen that alerted them to the bizarre new method.

One plastic surgeon told The Sun: "Properly inserted the implant would be virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport scanning machines.

"You would need to subject a suspect to a sophisticated X-ray. Given that the explosive would be inserted in a sealed plastic sachet, and would be a small amount, would make it all the more impossible to spot it with the usual body scanner."





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"Hitler In Perspective" by Brave Heart [1 Attachment]

 
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From: braveheart <billguru1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:07 PM

          HITLER IN PERSPECTIVE

 

Today the standard view is that Adolf Hitler was the embodiment of all evil. But this is Jewish caricature, not objective history. No one before the war saw Hitler in these terms. To a very large extent, and not just by his fellow Germans, Hitler was seen as a force for good. Germany was in sad shape before Hitler. The economy was a shambles, unemployment, prostitution and misery were everywhere. The birth rate was below replacement level. The Germans were separated from the Mother Country everywhere by the hated treaties of Versailles, Trianon and Saint Germain. The English and the French had made no effort whatever to redress the post-war grievances. Germany, when Hitler came to power was a land of despair. Hitler by 1936, in just three years, had overcome much of this. Although he resorted to Keynesian deficit financing methods, much employment had been overcome, great roads and autobahns were everywhere being built and a sense of national pride and regeneration had replaced the despair and misery of previous days. The birth rate had been greatly increased by the Nazi system of family loans; patriotism was everywhere and the ingathering of the Germans in the Rhineland, the Sudetenland, Austria and later Poland had begun. Germany was rising again. 

This national rejuvenation made a great impression on foreign statesmen and dignitaries. Sir John Simon, the 1934 British Foreign Minister, referred to Adolf Hitler as an "Austrian Joan of Arc with a mustache". David Lloyd George, England's war time Prime Minister, called Hitler "the George Washington of Germany". He described Hitler as a "truly great man" and "the Germans as the happiest of peoples". Anthony Ludovici, the famous English writer and anti-feminist, asserted that under Hitler Germany "had come alive with an almost religious fervor". Winston Churchill described Hitler's "indomitable will and the patriotic fervor he inspired among his followers". He asserted that one might "dislike Hitler's system but admire his patriotic achievement". Churchill went on to say that "were England defeated he would look to someone like Hitler to restore England's place among the nations". Charles Lindbergh, although deploring Nazi brutality, asserted that Germany was rising again and that there was no holding her back. Hitler, then, was seen by many as kind of savior. What happened to change that assessment? 

The first was Hitler's program of territorial expansion. Although at first Hitler's moves were seen as legitimate redresses of the injustices at Versailles, as he proceeded they came increasingly to be seen as aggressive conquests aiming at empire. Hitler's second offense was his Jewish persecution program. This program generated a huge international uproar against him. However, it is important to note that many less influential people around the world than the Jews rather sympathized with Hitler's anti-Jewish actions. It was well known that Germany had real grievances against the Jews. When the post-world war inflation devastated Germany following defeat in 1918, hordes of cash rich foreign Jews moved into Germany to buy up German assets at a small fraction of their real value. This was particularly true of commercial real estate. Germany became "Jewmany" at bargain basement prices. The Communist revolutionaries post 1918 in Germany had mainly been Jews. Kurt Eisner, Hugo Haas, Ernest Toller, Rosa Luxemberg, Leo Jogisches, Paul Levi and Karl Liebnechkt were a few of the names. It was Zionist Jews in England and America who had made that famous "contract with Jewry" to get the U.S. into the war against Germany as the price of a Jewish "national home" in Palestine. Many Germans, and not just Adolf Hitler, felt that Germany had been betrayed by the Jews. In particular, Hitler was seen as a bulwark against Communism, a movement which virtually everyone in western society at the time saw as a Jewish movement. The evidence for that belief was indeed substantial. When Communist revolution was raging in Germany in 1919, Bela Kun's Communist dictatorship in Hungary, March-August 1919, consisted of 200 commissars, 160 of whom were Jewish. The American State Department, in that same year of 1919, was overflowing with reports describing Communism as a Jewish controlled movement. Winston Churchill wrote flaming denunciations of Communism as a Judeo-Bolshevik movement. The American ambassador to Poland, Hugh Gibson, supported Polish anti-Jewish measures as a necessary defense against Jewish Communist subversion. In short,  many knew that Hitler's measures against the Jews were not entirely unjustified. 

Today, all this has largely been forgotten. The horror of the war and the legend of six million Jews killed in "gas chambers" has buried the pre-war record. Even the nature of the Nazi camp system has been distorted. Pre-war the total number of prisoners in the system never exceeded 20,000. Of that number, a large percentage were common criminals. The percentage of Jews was never more than 15% of the total, or 3000 maximum. The vast majority of the prisoners were members of the Social Democrats, the German National Party, the Catholic Center Party and other political opponents of Hitler. Adolf Hitler was neither the Devil incarnate of his opponents nor the Son of God of his admirers. He was an astute man who, intentionally or unintentionally, bit off more than he could chew. That fact has marred his reputation in the history books. But it is time to put Hitler in perspective. He aimed at a German empire in the east, not the conquest of the world. He did not exterminate six million Jews as claimed but rather sought to deport the Jews from Germany, exactly like the Catholic monarchs of the Middle Ages. His rebuilding of Germany was the base of his popularity. His attitudes on things Jewish were of his times and were in no sense unique to National Socialism. That is Adolf Hitler in perspective – and the perspective is long overdue.     



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“DOES THE HOLOCAUST PROVE THE CHRISTIAN GOD IS DEAD?”

 

From: Jim Dean <jimwdean@aol.com>

Date: Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:35 PM
Subject: Gordon Duff sets the barn on fire with another one

Dear Folks, I met Gordon Duff of Veterans Today on line last fall...and what a treasure trove of material he has been. It's not often you find someone with an extensive military background and security consultant moonlighting as a senior editor of a Vet org website...and as one of it's most prolific writers. A lot of veterans tend to shy away from 'controversial' issues. No so with the Duffmeister :-)
 
We have some overlap, and disagree on other issues. Such is life. But there is fire in the belly and his moral compass is working.
I think your readers will enjoy.
 
Leadership is emerging from the Net...very talented people with lots of real life experience. We will eventually be able to flank the road blocks with the truth backed up with sheer numbers.
 
Jim Dean
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"DOES THE HOLOCAUST PROVE THE CHRISTIAN GOD IS DEAD?"

ISRAEL' POSTITION ISN'T WITHOUT MERIT
ARE THEY ON THE SAME PATH?

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor   April 16, 2010

 
Today, in Germany, Bishop Williamson of the city of Regensburg, was convicted of saying that Jews were not killed in gas chambers.  He was fined 10,000 euros for this crime of politically unpopular speech.  Dow chemical, on its website, says that Agent Orange was "made to exacting government specifications" and has not been proven to have been harmful.  The families of thousands of dead Vietnam veterans will feel this like a hammer blow.  Today, Israeli reporters are in hiding, hunted down by the Mossad, because they have evidence of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, a process deeply parallel to Nazi activities against Jews.  Other reporters are told to quietly turn in their materials or they will be killed.  Journalists around the world know this but you are only reading it here.  We live in a world of cheats, liars and hypocrites.
 
Bishop Williamson felt he was defending the Catholic Church.  Williamson, a church conservative, believes that accepting the Hollywood version of the holocaust is an open admission that Christianity itself died with the holocaust.  The failure in his position isn't whether there were gas chambers or not or whether 6 million died or 200,000 as he says but rather something much simpler.  If only 100,000 people die of typhus or only 300,000 are murdered with machineguns and thrown into ditches, who do we give an award to?  Is this an improvement?  What is Williamson's point?
 
When the 6 million number, one simply pulled out of a hat decades ago, was chosen as the benchmark for murder, did we decide that anything less is simply petty crime?  If so, then the number itself is being used to justify killing on a massive scale.  Kill a million, it is "unpleasantness."  Kill 3 million and its ethnic cleansing.  Kill 6 million and you have a holocaust and get to take a special place in history.  When the Stalin picked the 6 million number, it was meant to shock a world that thought nothing of 20 million Russian dead.  That Stalin, himself, may have killed that many alone, was , as he saw it, a private thing.  Stalin was branding the Christian west as murderers for having looked aside.  He also was pointing a finger because much of the killing during the war could never have been done were it not for his alliance with Hitler in 1939. 
 
Was Bishop Williamson right and the German government is guilty of persecution or is he a crazed Nazi sympathizer?  Why is asking the question, in Canada or nearly anywhere in Europe against the law?  50 million people died in that war, most of them Russians, some killed by Germany but, in truth, even more by Stalin.  Soon after the war, over 10 million were killed in China during the communist takeover and uncounted numbers died when Britain pulled out of India and the country split between Muslim and Hindu. 
 
When the Turks slaughtered the Armenians, nothing was done.  When the Shah of Iran and Saddam were American allies, their crimes were done in our name, "good crimes."  Saddam later paid with his life for crimes, many of which were done with complicit approval of the United States, including the slaughter of the Kurds with chemical weapons, done during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, who stood aside, silently.  The Turks let America use bases there to attack Iraq.  Our payback was to stand aside when Saddam brutally massacred the Kurds, our loyal allies, allies but a threat to both Turkey and Iraq.  Kurds value freedom and freedom isn't all that important when we are in the habit of  betrayal.  Looking aside at a little "ethnic cleansing" done privately and quietly hardly raised an eyebrow back in Washington.
 
I can name two dozen incidents where a thousand or a million died, sometimes with only an occasional news story or not even that.  Who can even find Rwanda or Darfur?  What is that country they used to call Burma?  How many millions in the world live in slavery making our clothing, catching fish or imprisoned in brothels? 
 
With endless millions, even tens of millions dead, 99% of the dead we hear about are Jews in the holocaust.  The reason is obvious.  They are the only victims who are actively doing the same things themselves and need cover.  Is Bishop Williamson insane or has genuine history debunked some of the myth about the holocaust?  You aren't going to see me touch this one.  Want to know why the risk of even talking is so high?  Islam sends out killers to hunt down those who insult Mohammed.  Israel unleashes their "pet governments" on anyone who questions their version of the holocaust.  In Ireland alone, 50,000 people have been subjected to sexual abuse by the Catholic Church, maybe even twice that number.  Until recently, reporting such abuse could land you in prison.

For well over a thousand years, a pope could wake up on the wrong side of the bed, have an odd thought and half the people in Europe could be branded heretics and burned alive.  This actually happened more than a dozen times.
 
THE INQUISTION AGAINST IRAN 

Israel is advocating that the United States launch a peremptory nuclear attack on Iran, not restricted to "weapons sites," mind you, weapons sites that the CIA claims never existed, as they didn't exist in Iraq, an attack that could kill 6 million.  The rationale for the attack?  Israel wants us to kill 6 million Iranians without one shred of proof of anything, just cover stories planted in "mainstream media" same as with Iraq, because of "the holocaust." 
 
What did Iran really do?  They held a conference inviting scholars to discuss the holocaust.  Did Iran actually threaten Israel?  Well, to tell the truth, something almost never really done, no, not actually.  They did say Israel lies alot and steals land.  Actually, you could say that about anyone and not be far off base.  It seems to be Iran was playing it pretty safe with that one. 
 
Why do issues of holocaust denial, something we hear about every week with someone going to jail for "asking the wrong questions" matter so much now?   Elie Wiesel, perhaps the most famous and articulate holocaust survivor stated, "the sincere Christian knows what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity."  Of the dozens, or hundreds of holocausts, some far better documented than the death camps of WW2, is Wiesel's insistence that this holocaust, the one against the Jews, is the only one of importance or is it because it is an example of the utter debauchery and failure of the Christian god, said by Jews to have died in Auschwitz. 
 
ARE FORMER VICTIMS MORE LIKELY TODAY'S TYRANTS? 

Who needed to look further than the crusades or the Inquisition to have a suspicion or two about the direction Christianity was heading?  No holocaust was needed.  In fact, few races have anything resembling a clean record.  In 1572, as many as 30,000 French protestants were murdered in one day in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.  The current trading of barbs between Jews and Catholics over sexual abuses by priests v. the ethnic cleansing taking place in Gaza and elsewhere is simple childish finger pointing. 
 
What we are saying in putting one life above another is that race, religion or, in this case, control of popular culture makes a life or a death significant.  Truth is never an issue.  If Germany had won the war, the dead Gypsies, Russians, Communists and Jews would all have simply "moved away" almost as though they were Palestinians.  The difference between a thousand dead and a holocaust can be as simple as how good a movie is.  Compare Hotel Rwanda with Schindler's List.  The number of total deaths in each holocaust may very well have been the same but lack of violins, and a big name director and mountains of dead in Africa, butchered to death for no reason, means nothing and is forgotten before the blood has soaked into the ground.  This is the purest form of racism.
 
THE RELIGION GAME

Everybody knows everyone elses religion is pure bull.  Jews, if you check the Torah, say that Christ had it coming.  Christians used to say Jews killed Christ and need to be punished, perhaps a bit more.  Don't let anyone remotely consider an unpleasant comment about the Prophet, peace be on him.  We have seen how badly that works out.  Think Jihad.
 
It's no secret that the more religions tell us they support peace, the more people have to die before time for "peace" comes.  Israel has 20 different types of Jews, left to their own devices, would be fighting each other for a thousand years.  Islam is pretty much the same and Christians murdered each other by the millions for 2 thousand years. 
 
Every term that is part of religion, apostate, rapture, heretic, apocalypse, trinity, believer, chosen, Armageddon,every term is a license to kill.  Is religion an apelike behavior as described by Desmond Morris?  Is all belief primordial in nature, bringing out behaviors more justified by a disease vector than any sentient cordata?  To we proselytize or infect?  Was Marxism or the Age of Reason meant to be a form of vaccination from a the repeat of the dark ages that seems to have reappeared?  Did we erase Descartes?
 
PRIMORDIALISM

Can this be the new term for analysis based on belief without rationality, experimentation and natural law?  History is taking us down that path, inexorably it seems.  It a million Hutus kill a million Tutsis because "they smell funny" and the world looks away, is this "primordialism?"  When a dozen religions, all espousing peace and plenty, unleash hoardes of murderous thugs across the face of the earth, all inspired by divine texts unable to survive the most primitive, lest we use the term "primordial" scholarship, are we less than apes?





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WikiLeaks Unit Vet Speaks

 



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