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Subject: Can USA pay for its wars? The dollar vulnerability, by William Engdahl
(1) Can USA pay for its wars? The dollar vulnerability, by William
Engdahl
(2) Australian Economic Trends to June 2004 [ERAInf]
(3) Expenditure Tax; make Foreign Investors pay Tax
(4) From Judeo-Nazi to Zionist-lite!
(1) Can USA pay for its wars? The dollar vulnerability, by William
Engdahl
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:30:27 +0200 From: engdahl@t-online.de
(William
Engdahl)
Can USA pay for its wars? The dollar vulnerability
From William Engdahl 9 September, 2004
The greatest threat to world peace and stability today comes from the
US
dollar, which remains the foundation of the global economic and
financial system. The danger from the dollar goes hand in hand with the
problem of world oil. Both threaten a period ahead of financial and
economic troubles unlike any since 1945.
Why do I say this when by most cited indications, including statements
by Alan Greenspan and the Government, the US economy is said to be in a
major growth period? Jobs are being created. The stock market has
recovered, and the US housing market is in the middle of the greatest
boom in history. The problem is that this edifice is built solely on
debt, and on record low, "emergency" levels of US interest rates--I
won't even take up the issue of deliberate US Government manipulation
of
jobs and growth data in recent months--It also takes place at a time
world oil prices, in dollar terms, are rising faster than anytime since
1980, up in dollars so far this year by some 62%.
The world is rapidly running out of abundant, cheap oil.
The US debt bubble
The problem is that this rise in energy costs takes place during the
greatest expansion of dollar debt - private and public - in world
history. Total debt in the US economy is now higher than during the
1930's Great Depression. Today, according to official Fed statistics,
total US debt is above $34 trillions. US GDP is $11 trillion. That
means
debt is 3 times GDP, 300% more. In 1933 US debt was 2.5 times GDP. This
debt in per capita terms is today $125,000 for every man, woman and
child in America.
Personal consumer debt, excluding home mortgages, has doubled since
1994
to $9.4 trillion. A record. That is about $37,000 for each child, woman
and man in America. Corporate debt is $5 trillion, a record. Federal
Government debt is $7 trillion, a record. And at record low interest
rates that debt has been growing at hyperbolic rates the last 3 years.
Since 1971 when Nixon took the dollar off the Gold Standard, and put
the
US on a pure paper money, dollars have been created in staggering
amounts - the real source of global inflation of the past 30 years.
During the gold standard period, between 1950 and 1970, total dollars
printed grew by 55%, a mild rise. From 1971 to 2000 dollars expanded by
more than 2,000%!
In the past four years dollar debts have grown exponentially. The Bush
Administration has opened the floodgates to deficit spending, partly to
create government jobs to get him reelected. Never in US history has
the
Federal deficit been so big. This year it will break $500 billions, a
new record. Next year more than $512 billion is expected. The
Government
must borrow to finance this gap.
"Now, how do they pay for that deficit? They have to go borrow money.
Most of it they borrow from the Chinese and the Japanese government.
Sure, these countries are competing with us for good jobs, but how can
we enforce our trade laws against our bankers? I mean, come on..."
-Bill
Clinton at the 2004 Democratic National Convention
This quote by former President Clinton was perhaps his most important
quote in several years, yet the media didn't give it much attention.
The Trade deficit is also breaking records as the US imports record
amounts of clothes, furniture, electronics and cars from China, Japan
and elsewhere, including Germany. This is the secret of the dollar
standard. In buying the products of China, Japan, Germany and the rest
of the world, the US pays for them in paper dollars. Since 1971, those
paper dollars are just that, paper. No gold stands behind it. What does
China, do with its annual $100 billion US dollar trade surplus? The
Chinese central bank, Bank of China, takes the paper dollars and buys
interest-earning, "safe" dollar assets, like any investor. The safest
bet is to give it back to the US Treasury, by buying US Government
bonds.
Since 1971 the USA has run chronic annual trade deficits. Today the
trade deficit is more than 5% US GDP, some $500 billion! These are
levels where Argentina or Thailand would face a panic selloff by
foreign
investors. But the USA has the world reserve currency and happens to be
the world's only military Superpower since 1990. China and Japan think
long and hard before doing anything to irritate that giant, especially
since the Iraq war.
The result is that China and Japan and other trade partners continue to
reinvest their surplus paper dollars in US Government bonds. That in
effect finances the US deficit, things like the war in Iraq, with
foreign money, an elegant system! Chinese workers or Germans, in
effect,
invest their labor skills in building computers or BMWs that American
consumers buy. Toyota or BMW make a better car than General Motors or
Ford. Detroit Big 3 carmakers now sell fewer cars than in the recession
year 1990. Their profits come from their financial divisions,
speculating in derivatives and currencies, even in Japanese or Korean
stocks. Americans borrow to buy the imports, and pay in paper dollars.
Each year the US Government and the Fed, create more paper dollars. No
one can stop them. They control the so-called printing presses. Last
year a Fed Governor boasted of the fact:
"The US government has a technology, called a printing press, that
allows
it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes, at essentially no
cost…under a
paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher
spending and hence positive inflation". --- Ben S. Bernanke
Because the dollar has no gold standard to restrain it, the only limit
on printing dollars is political. The role of the USA as sole military
superpower is today's "gold" behind the dollar.
In June the US trade deficit hit a new alltime record of $56 billion,
an
annual rate of $670 billion. Normally a nation must finance a trade
deficit by savings. But Americans are not saving. They are spending--
to
consume is patriotic, Bush says. So to finance or balance the trade
deficit without seeing a dollar crash, the US must attract billions
from
foreign investors. Asians invest $1 million each minute to keep the
dollar debt system going. Net foreign purchases of U.S. debt, bonds,
totalled $411.6 billion year-to-date through May 31, 2004, 40.3 percent
higher than the first five months of last year.
Today foreign central banks are buying US bonds and other assets at a
record pace, partly to protect their dollar export trade. This is the
only reason we have not seen a dollar crisis so far, though a year ago
it was close to one. The US is dependent on foreign central banks,
above
all Japan and China central banks. Last year Japan bought a record sum
of US Government bonds and debt. Thank you Japan.
China also has bought tens of billions in US debt. Though this year,
China has turned from buying US paper debt or bonds, and is buying more
hard, real commodities - oil, steel, grain, copper, iron ore - to build
its economy. China fears the US might cut off its raw materials. That
leaves Japan as the main prop of the world's dominant economy, USA.
The US is a net debtor to foreign creditors. That started in 1989.
Before, America had been a net creditor. Today, the US owes the world
almost $3. trillions. Foreign central banks, mainly China and Japan
today own 42% of US Government debt, about $1.5 trillion of it. They
bought $750 billion, or half of that debt in just the last 2 years.
Never in history has a country had such trade deficits or external
debts.
Greenspan in a debt trap
The problem for Alan Greenspan and Washington is that this debt-based
credit inferno must create ever-larger volumes of debt (credit), to
prevent a financial implosion or collapse. Each time the Fed has tried
to slow the bubble growth, the collapse of financial markets has
threatened to blow sky high, and the Fed is forced to turn on the money
spigot even higher. This was so in 2001 with the dot.com crash. To
prevent a worse economic depression, the Fed cut interest rates and
printed record volumes of dollars, which created the current housing
boom, creating a cushion for the economy and creating a worldwide
speculative economic bubble today. The entire world growth since 2003
depends on the record Fed money supply and low US interest rates. It is
all based on US record low interest rates, easy money. China's export
boom is America's import deficit.
This has now taken on an exponential or hyperbolic growth rate since
2001. Such rates of growth, 25-30% a year and more, can last only so
long. US interest rates also cannot remain at 1.5% forever. Today's
debt
can only be paid at those emergency low rates however.
Low interest rates in the US are stimulating record US consumption, and
especially home buying. But the main benefit is consumption of Chinese
or Japanese goods, not US made products. China furniture export to the
USA is up 41% this year. US companies are investing in new production,
but in China, not in Ohio. American jobs are being wiped out by this
globalization of dollar debt. Today 90% of filings for personal
bankruptcy in the USA come from middle-class families. American workers
can't compete with Chinese or Indians on wages. Job losses, far higher
that official US data admit, mean stagnant US income growth. Household
debt is at record highs. Record oil prices are adding a huge tax of
costs to the economy. That is pushing yet more jobs overseas to cheaper
sites. The number of US manufacturing jobs today is the level of 1961,
for a far larger population.
Oil prices are creating major inflation problems even if the US
statistics ignore energy prices. If the Fed does not raise interest
rates to control inflation, bondholders will sell US bonds, driving the
dollar down, and US interest rates up. That will set off a vicious
cycle
of panic selling. That is why the Fed raised rates so cautiously this
summer. Greenspan is forced to feed the myth of a US recovery or risk a
panic selloff of the dollar before the election. But the higher rates
will threaten the debt economy, especially private household debt, and
home mortgage debt. Some 70% of all home mortgages in recent months are
written at floating rate debt. Now rates are low and costs too.
The ultra-low rates have created the biggest home buying rush in US
history in the past 3 years. The National Association of Realtors says
the biggest surprise this year has been the performance of interest
rates… 'The momentum of existing-home sales this year is
unprecedented,'
New-home sales have been at or near-record levels each month in 2004.'
They predict the strongest level of housing construction since 1978.
Sales of existing homes hit the highest pace on record in the second
quarter, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales rose
by double-digit rates in 34 states compared to the same quarter in
2003,
and no state recorded a decline… The strongest year-to-year increase
was
in Nevada, where the second quarter resale pace rose 32.5 percent. Next
came Idaho, which rose 31.0 percent from a year ago. Arizona posted the
third highest increase, up 25.1 percent from last year.
Home prices are exploding, up 9.1% nationally year on year. Las Vegas
homes are 52% higher, Southern California up 39% in price in a year,
and
Miami up 25%. Nationally, more regions saw price rises above 10% than
ever in history. This is a bubble built on emergency low Fed interest
rates and $500 billion a year in foreign investment in US debt.
As US interest rates begin to rise, millions of over-indebted American
families will suddenly be forced to give up their homes, unable to pay
higher interest costs. That will hit the banks just as in the 1930's.
What is likely now? In fact, the Fed cannot raise interest rates to
normal levels, despite the pain that means for pension funds, insurance
companies and others of fixed income. Greenspan is bluffing markets. He
must expand credit, and do it at ever faster rates or the world
economic
system will implode. To do that, the US must depend on ever more trade
deficits and more Japanese or foreign buying of US debt. But by
definition, that debt becomes more and more worthless in real
purchasing
terms. What foreign investor wants to buy debt that will become worth
less? Yet that is the only way the US can keep the system afloat -
devalue the dollar and repay its debts in cheaper currency.
After US elections, a major effort to slow the dollar debt is likely.
That will threaten a major collapse.
How long will China or Japan continue to support this dollar system? No
one knows. Japan, China, South Korea and other countries have started
to
reassess their appetite for US Treasuries. Some Asian finance ministers
have spoken out openly about diversifying out of dollars and plowing
reserves into alternatives such as gold, oil or commodities and euros.
How much more personal debt can Americans add before they cannot pay?
No
one knows, but the limits are visible. It has major implications for
the
world.
So long as China is the locomotive of world growth, she destroys jobs
in
the Europe, US and rest of the world. If China stops being the factory
of the industrial world, the debt pyramid of the USA implodes. Never in
history has the world economy been so interdependent on such an
unstable
basis. The US debt markets and dollar are in a trap. If rates rise, the
debt collapses in a global depression. To avoid that, the Fed must
print
money and risk exporting hyper-inflation to the world.
(2) Australian Economic Trends to June 2004 [ERAInf]
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:39:27 +0930 From: ERA
<hermann@picknowl.com.au>Date: Saturday, 18 September, 2004 From: David
Keane <keane@nw.com.au> Subject: Australian Economic Trends to June
2004
Australian Economic Trends to June 2004
Dear friends,
To the attached copy of Australian Economic Trends I provide a subtitle
of the "Double Alarm Bells Edition". The past year's increase in Total
Australian Credit of 25.2% of GDP in a year when overseas factors are
so
favorable to controlling debt, gives me concern that the repercussions
of this massive imbalance will devastate our national economy within a
year. ...
Yours in the One Work, David Keane
(3) Expenditure Tax; make Foreign Investors pay Tax
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:00:59 +0800 From: "Max" <Max@mailstar.net>
> (6) Expenditure Tax; make Foreign Investors pay Tax
>
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:54:47 +1000 From:
> news-report-owner@wiretapped.net
>
> The Digger's Legacy
> by John Rivett ? Federal President ? Great Australians
>
> Sydney Forum - 28 August 2004
>
> 2 Reform the tax system
Peter, I am disappointed about this half baked article. Have you
included this just because it is controversial and refers to Australia?
Mr Rivett seems another one of those economic experts, who think they
understand a national economy with its global dependencies and seek for
solutions that they seem to understand best, and thereby divert
attention from the real problems that impoverish the world.
There are many ways of designing a tax system - but at the end of the
day it's just redistributing the tax burden and any change is causing
additional overhead and strengthening the bureaucracy.
The original purpose of taxes is to meet the expenditure of our
governments as caused by services and investments made on behalf of
communal benefit. This total expenditure of the government is certainly
not going to be reduced, long as the outflow of national wealth is
greater than the inflow.
If Mr Rivett has not understood that there is a system in place, which
controls the global extraction of wealth from nations, and if he
concerns himself with the money and wealth creation as much as with
taxes he would understand, that money can only be created via debt of
government. Since the interest is never created along with the
principle, the debt is never complete repayable. Additional funds can
only be found abroad by selling to them our services, or are derived
out
of natural resources. Like this all countries are going deeper into
debt. In order to meet those debt, the per head capacita of money
supply
is permanently increased by the level of interest rate. Irrespective of
GDP, this leads to an inflation, which particularly effects those who
are no longer included in a working/earning process. See
http://www.ovaloffice.org/images/sec4fig1.gif
The system is designed to demand permanently new money from the Elite
and the inflation destroys along with the banking and accounting rules
the old money. Only this endless demand for new money, gives them the
power over the system, since nobody else can issue trillions over
trillions of paper tokens. Government officials are bribed to adopt
their rules and subscribe to their system, and if reluctant to
cooperate
they are replaced or declared undemocratic.
A reduction in taxes will not make product and services cheap enough to
be competitive with efficient third world countries like in Asia. It
would also imply that we extract wealth from abroad, rather then
changing our root cause problem - democracy - money creation - economic
and accounting rules.
Democracy enables popular speakers of mediocre professionalism in
deciding positions, to manipulate our communal life. They legalize and
create our money, under the directive of the Elite, who claims its our
money, subject we use it to their economic and accounting rules. They
dictate our internal and external wealth and exchange by their trade
rules and International laws - which are also under their control.
Since this 'democratic system' is in total opposition to the 'Natural
Law' it requires endless new rules and regulations to keep us all under
their control. Its called 'fine tuning' to keep us under their control
and is a permanent process that evolved the system over the last few
hundred years and which we call civilizing and democratizing our
societies. Power is exercised via money and their money rules, which
give national currencies an exchange value, are hegemonizing the world.
Buying and selling of national debt by the Elites conglomerate decides
on the value or our individual work. Examples are the rich South
American countries from the 60s and 70s are today totally impoverished
by this system.
Our government officials, political economists and newspaper columnists
appear intellectually content with the current arrangements, oblivious
to the depth of the crisis that economics presents to the world. They
still happily argue about the dangers of 'overheating' or needing to
'cool off ', as if an economy that functions along the lines of a
domestic boiler or kitchen toaster provides an acceptable basis for
coordinating human activity. They also appear perfectly satisfied to
continue with 'business as usual', without questioning the most
startling and contradictory statements issuing from the world of money
and economics.
The deluge of social and environmental problems brought on by
humanity's
endeavors to be 'economic' suggest that the economics teachings - based
on the philosophies of the Scottish/Jewish 'Wise Club' (Adam Smith,
David Hume, Thomas Reid, John Locke) are not just failing - its advice
is mind-bogglingly destructive. Yet nobody dares to act.
They determine and control who is or what is 'intellectual' and what
ever their proponents declare 'fact' is becoming the lesson on the
schools. Anybody who wants their money has to work by their rules and
work for their system.
The power for world control is established via democracy - accounting
and monetary rules. Remove them and we have natural peace and wealth.
Democracy is suppose to help us to our individual rights - but only
destroys groups and family with endless new laws, which weakens the
structure of the family that served for thousands of years as safe
heaven in times of distress.
Accounting and monetary rules legalize interest and collateral - and
specify that national debt may not exceed the GDP. However their
paper-token controlled economy is permanently violating those rules
without suffering the predicted consequences according to their
teachings.
The EU countries who live by the 'GDP rule +3%' are suffering badly,
while the US ignores the rule and prints endless money and issues bonds
and as a result are flooded with money (in the wrong hands) without
suffering consequences. Many essays in your newsletters are concerned
with the fear of value destruction of savings by the system without
ever
mentioning that this destruction is designed and controlled by the
Elite
to destroy over-issued money-supply and create demand for new money.
The
Elite only lives of interest. i.e. the relative gain and not the
absolute value of money. We have been brainwashed on all their
universities and have adopted their immoral value system. We live a
materialistic lifestyle on behalf of the fast majority of people, which
is forced to a life in poverty - and who don't even know the meaning of
a tax-system.
Wealth today is not extracted via tax but via interest and speculation.
Long as this root cause is not changed, no change in taxes will ever be
sufficient to cover the need or make a difference to the steady
impoverishing of the world.
For example, every country in the world suffers from a massive and
constantly increasing national debt. Since the poorer nations are
crippled by their indebtedness to international lending institutions
and
foreign banks, the overall picture is of a world suffering acute and
ever worsening insolvency which cannot be corrected by a change in
taxation.
(4) From Judeo-Nazi to Zionist-lite!
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:32:43 +0900 From: "Patrick McNally"
<tkuh50@tku.ac.jp>
From Judeo-Nazi to Zionist-lite!
The word "Judeo-Nazi" was coined and used by Israeli survivors of the
European Judeocide. Their idea was that Israel was doing to
Palestinians
what the Nazis did to Jews. Not exactly the same, but the two
ideologies
and practices were similar enough. Of course, Judeo-Nazi crimes
continue, so it is impossible to compare the complete records of the
two.
Meir Kahane's "They [Arabs] Must Go" is one of many invaluable books
that show the very close parallels between Germano- and Judeo-Naziism.
The good rabies does not complain about his enemies' behavior. He does
not argue that Palestinians are BEING dangerous, but rather that the
very BEING of the Palestinians is dangerous, i.e. nothing that the
Palestinians do is the problem, but they themselves are the problem and
"must go," be ethnically cleansed, or murdered if necessary. Kahane is
a
genuine modern Joshua wannabe, a throwback to the reptile-brain stage
of
biological development. The SHIT-list Jews show that Kahane's psychotic
pseudo-religious ideas are alive and well.
Obnoxious as Kahane is, his open rejection of all Western European
Enlightenment values is refreshing compared to the mealy-mouthed
hand-wringing of those Zionists who want to hide behind Western values
and even claim to be defending them. Kahane respected Palestinians for
resisting Israel aggression and criticized Israel for not smashing and
exterminating them faster.
If all Israel's apologists were as open and honest as the good rabbi,
there would not be such a serious problem. But surrounding -as it were-
the Judeo-Nazi core is a whole series of ideologically protective onion
rings. One obvious onion ring is the major American print and
electronic
media which cover up the Kahanesque factor in Israeli life. Good
insight
into this devious propaganda is found in Israel Shahak's "Jewish
Fundamentalism in Israel." In particular, he gives a detailed analysis
of the Jewish American coverup of Baruch Goldstein's massacre of 29
Muslims while at prayer. The USA media pooh-poohed the whole incident
with a lot of hand-wringing. Shahak shows how the incident involved an
integral part of the highest level of Israel's religious establishment
and its influence upon the secular parts of the Israeli establishment.
Unfortunately, there are even more subtle protective layers than the
brazen racism of the New York Times and the anti-Arab bigotry of
Hollywood films. For example, there is an anti-war group, A.N.S.W.E.R.
[Act Now Stop War End Racism]. They should have said, "End Racism
except
in Israel." No speakers or signs at their demonstrations can make any
sustained criticism of Israel's Judeo-Nazi race laws. Of course, they
can criticize the person Sharon. They can criticize the occupation but
not the occupier and its racism which causes the occupation. In the
1940s Jews did not argue that it was sufficient for the Nazis to
withdraw to their 1937 borders. No! The whole Nazi racist social
structure had to be abolished. Some vicious Soviet Jews went further
and
argued that the whole German people had to be abolished, but the more
humane and humanitarian Stalin reprimanded them and defended the
Germans' right to exist as a people.
The purpose of these more subtle forms of Zionist-lite is to limit
serious critical discussion of "der Judenstaat" [Herzl's term for "the
state of Jews, by Jews, and for Jews"]. This is found mostly in
universities. Of course, there is also a lot of grossly outrageous
racism among professors, e.g. Bernard Lewis, but I am referring to
professors widely respected for their anti-war, anti-establishment
views
and not usually regarded as Zionists.
The following are suggested as features typical of a Zionist-lite
apology for the Judeo-Nazi state:
Feature #1. Zionist-liters often appeal to past Jewish suffering [both
real and imagined] as a factor mitigating or distracting attention away
from on-going Jewish crimes. The Holocaust is mostly frequently used.
Norman Finkelstein had good reason to refer to it as "Israel's prize
alibi." But discussions about European and Muslim anti-Semitism are
often raised. It is interesting how Christians and Muslims get lured
into these discussions and encouraged to confess their own historical
sins and to attack the other religion for its persecution of the Jews.
"Persecution of the Jews" is an interesting phrase. Using categories
from Latin grammar, the "of" can be either an objective genitive or a
subjective genitive. Objective genitive means that someone persecutes
Jews. Subjective genitive means that Jews persecute someone. In
politically correct discussions, it is forbidden to talk about the
subjective genitive in this matter. For example, In American
undergraduate classes one would never talk about how Jews persecuted
Christians. The victim-talk is always one way. It is almost as if Jews
always and only suffered. Notate bene: "almost as if." No Zionist
apologist is foolish enough to come right out and say "Jews have always
and only been persecuted." But the Jewish persecution and betrayal of
Christians never gets talked about. The racist Daniel Goldhagen,
Harvard's professor of Holocaust studies, is a good example of this
"Jews only and always victims" exaggeration.
Probably the most ridiculous ploy in this victim-playing is the harping
and bitching about Palestinian pizza-parlor terrorism. All serious
Palestinians, e.g. Edward Said, condemn the suicide bombers. Such
bombings serve the immediate purpose of strengthening Adolph Sharon's
hand. The Israeli elite needs the terror to keep its own electorate in
a
state of psychotic hysteria and denial. Just like in 1938, the Nazis
needed the murder of a German diplomat by Herschel Grynszpan as an
excuse to start the Night of the Broken Glass.
However, in the intermediate and long term, the Samson-like bombers
right off the pages of the Old Testament do have major destructive
effects on Israel. Many Jews are running away from Israel and few want
to come. Israel even has to bring in whole villages of South American
Indians and transmogrify these unfortunate dupes into pseudo-Jews to
serve as cannon fodder for the redemption of the land in the
chronically
invaded territories.
If the past suffering of Jews had been caused by Palestinians, this
Jews-as-victims argument might make sense. However, Arnold Toynbee
argued long ago that the European Judeocide cannot be used to justify
Jewish crimes against a totally different people. In particular,
Zionist
crimes committed before the Holocaust could not by any stretch of the
imagination be justified by the Holocaust.
Let us just forget past Jewish suffering and focus on present Jewish
crimes! Jews do not need to be rescued from their past sufferings or
any
hypothetical future sufferings but from the consequences of their own
misleaders' on-going crimes.
Feature #2. Zionist-liters often portray Israel as an instrument of USA
Middle East policy, as its cop-on-the-beat, and as its only reliable
ally in the area. This neatly serves to transfer blame for Israel's
crimes onto the USA. According to this view, Israel bombs Palestinian
villages with American-made F-16s to somehow carry out American policy.
Israel would really like to withdraw from Palestine, but the continued
invasion somehow serves the interests of America's elite. Israel would
really like to get rid of its hyper-apart-hate system, but that system
somehow serves USA strategic interests. For some mysterious reason, the
American elite wanted to get rid of apart-hate in Mississippi but keep
it in Israel. The new cage of walls being erected serves supposedly USA
elite interests by making it harder for terrorists to penetrate the
West's new Cement Curtain and possibly pollute our precious bodily
fluids, ala General Jack D. Ripper out of "Dr. Strangelove."
Poor little Israel! It would so much like to live in peace and harmony
with its neighbors, but it has to serve the USA elite by smashing the
crap out of a basically defenseless and helpless civilian population.
Does not all of this seem an excuse, a Freudian projection, a false
flag, a malarkey, a bullshit?
Before Israel we had lots of friends and few enemies in the Middle
East,
but now only many enemies and one false friend. In fact, Izzie is a
catastrophic liability, the albatross sinking the American economy and
now dragging us down into the fascist nightmare of a domestic police
state. The two oil embargoes [1973 and 1979] were body blows to USA
industry and a direct result of our suicidal subservience to Israel.
Izzie is a huge financial vacuum cleaner that sucks billions of US$ out
of our economic system into a black hole. Izzie is the unruly elephant
that we have to clean up after. It is a gigantic blowback-cesspool and
a
sort of continuous diplomatic embarrassment in the United Nations.
Israel Shamir writes, "Hesitating American Jews are in the position of
the elder sister in Raymond Chandler's "Big Sleep," who covers up the
crimes of her wild kid sister....As the cover-up continues, the younger
sister comes to believe she has immunity and keeps up her killing
spree.
Eventually her crimes endanger the seemingly secure position of the
elder sister." ["Flowers of Galilee," pp. 115-116]
By no means does this mean that the USA has been a benign and innocent
state first dragged into evil by Israel. Howard Zinn's "A People's
History of the USA" shows the dark side of US history. Most US crimes
througholut history and the world have had absolutely nothing to do
with
Israel, but Israeli influence mediated by its fifth column constitutes
an additional and highly destructive source of evil. The two together
constitute the contemporary world's real axis of evil. And it is bad
for
Israel because it is destructive to the national interests of the host
which the parasite feeds off of.
Feature #3. Zionist-liters argue that Christian fundamentalists run the
USA's Middle East policy and push Israel into the unfortunate "clash of
civilizations" and the anti-Islamic religious war. Without these
Christian fundies, Israel's search for peace would be successful.
But perhaps Christian fundamentalism is only a useful public relations
distraction from Jewish fundamentalism. Even a troglodyte like Pat
Robotson seems like a Voltaire compared to Israel's head Sephardi
rabbi,
Ovadia Joseph. The good rabbi is a crackpot but has some veeery
interesting ideas. Ideas? Perhap neural twitches would be a better
word!
He argues that the Holocaust was a just punishment visited by God on
Ashenazi Jews. He also suggests that Israel should go slow with the
destruction of all the Christian and Muslim holy places because the
Judeo-Nazi state is not yet able to get away with the 100% destruction.
Of course, like all good Talmudists he believes all Christian-Islamic
holy places must be obliterated in order to fully redemn the land.
America's Bible Belt hick preachers do seem to have a lot of power, but
perhaps these pseudo-Christians indirectly owe all their media and
political power to Israel? Perhaps they are paradiegoyim for the
Judeo-Nazis. The fund raising cycle between a given preacher and Israel
works like this. Pastor Jim Bob Sheepshole goes to Israel and sucks up
to Rabbi Joshua Genocider, gets introduced to the Israeli minister for
racial purity, and invites these reptiles to come and speak to his
sheep. Norman Podoretz picks it up and explains to all sceptical,
secular Jews that it is a wonderful arrangement because it is good for
Israel. Somehow political money starts arriving in suitcases and Pastor
Sheepshole is in Fat City and becomes a major political player.
4. Zionist-lite defenses of Judeo-Naziism are also involved in the way
in which certain Jews are ostracized and considered outside the pale of
acceptable discourse. Noam Chomsky is not ostracized, because he is the
darling of the Zionist-liters. The good MIT professor nevers singles
out
the Nazi-like race laws as something that has to be eliminated. He
never
argues for the Palestinian right of return. Michael Neumann has pointed
out that none of the anti-Israeli measures proposed by Chomsky are at
all serious. But, you might argue, Chomsky is at the top of the SHIT
list. Well, so what? Chomsky is certainly no Judeo-Nazi and maybe not
even any kind of a Zionist. Zionist-liters are left-gatekeepers, i.e.
they keep criticism and action within well accepted bounds. They are
house-liberals who fulfill an indispensable function of social and
political control. What?? you may say! THE Noam Chomsky who wrote the
two-volume work [The Political Economy of Human Rights] which exposed
the prestigious "New York Times" as simply a higher level "Pravda?"
Yes,
him! Chomsky is very close to Michael Moore in their basic ideas. They
are both great when it comes to anything other than Israel and
Judeo-Nazism. Neither will touch it with a barge pole. It is the third
rail of political correctness. Touch it! You're dead!
Norman Finkelstein is largely ostracized because he exposed Jewish
crimes against Jews. Not simply against Jews, but against the group
most
vulnerable and worthy of sympathy, i.e. elderly, poorer Holocaust
survivors. And horror of horrors! The criminals ripping off the
Holocaust survivors were the Jewish leaders themselves. Interestingly
enough, it was Chomsky who saved Finkelstein from complete ostracism.
There are cases of full ostacism. Mordechai Vanumu was imprisoned and
ostracized because he converted to Christianity. No ethnic Jew, who had
not converted to Christianity, would have sat out 18 years largely in
solitary confinement. The official excuse for the 18 years is that he
revealed state secrets about Israel's nuclear weapons. But that was as
much of a secret as Israel's geographical location. Of course, if he
had
been a Gentile, he would have been murdered.
Israel Shamir is ostracized because he became a Christian, advocated
the
Palestinian's right of return, and wittily and scholarly exposes the
darkest side of Judeo-Nazi hypocrisy and deceit. The French translator
of "Flowers of Galilee" was even put on trial and ran the risk of
imprisonment. France must be even more zionized than the USA because
the
book is available in the United States of Amnesia with no prison term
as
yet threatened.
N. Finkelstein, Mordechai Vanumu, and Israel Shamir are good names to
mention in a conversation to check out just how anti-Zionist an
anti-Zionist really is. My experience has been that most Jews will say
that they are not Zionists but then state and defend a basically
Zionist
position, e.g. deny the following three things:
1.) the Palestinian right of return, 2.) Israel's need to return to the
1948 borders, 3.) Israel's need to abolish its Nuremburg-style race
laws.
Interesting, but that is what Zionism is all about. Denial! Denial!
Denial! Ghetto! Ghetto! Ghetto! Wall! Wall! Wall!
Take a Jew and he will build a ghetto! You can take the Jew out of the
ghetto but not the ghetto out of the Jew.
Those are three good Jews and three good Palestinian human rights
issues. Try them out on Zionists, anti-Zionist, and non-Zionists!
Better
yet frame the three issues in terms of any people other than the
Palestinians and then present them a Zionist! Other peoples are even
included as sideshows in Holocaust museums. But not the Palestinians.
--
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An Israeli strike, and the wider war it might touch off, also could send oil prices skyrocketing and jeopardize the global economy, analysts say.
Jay Greer, an official at the State Department's political-military bureau, which oversees arms sales and transfers, said giving the weapons to Israel "will in our view enhance U.S. national security and foreign policy interests and help maintain Israel's qualitative military edge in the region."
Asked whether the transfer makes sense amid the growing confrontation over Iran's nuclear program, Greer said, "I can't talk about that."
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