EU, U.S. shocked by assassination of Turkish journalist
By David Duke

The United States and the EU have expressed shock at the murder of the Armenian Turkish journalist Hrant Dink.

I am surprised that they are shocked. The fact is that major EU member states such as France and Germany support intolerance of intellectually dissident viewpoints, a climate of intolerance that can lead to the imprisonment and even murder of free speech advocates.

Political Leaders in the United States and in the E.U. have supported the idea that freedom of speech should not be allowed for what they call “offensive speech.” In reality, the “offensive speech” they refer to is not speech related to obscenity or advocacy of violence, but simply dissident speech of an intellectual manner against the establishment point of view. In Turkey, “hate speech” is saying a Holocaust did happen (the Armenian genocide). In Europe it is saying that a Holocaust didn’t (being a quote “Holocaust denier” is defined as simply questioning any part of the officially sanctioned Second World War “Holocaust” story”).

Recently, a member of the European Parliament from France, Dr. Bruno Gollnisch, was sentenced to three months in prison (suspended), not for arguing against any part of the Holocaust story, but for simply saying that he believes that historians should debate and decide the matter. He was also fined 5000 Euros and will made to pay an additional 60,000 Euros to publicize his conviction. (more…)

The Israel Lobby Trips and Tilts

By Alexander Cockburn
January 20th, 2006

Suppose the movers and shakers in the Israel lobby here — Abe Foxman, Alan Dershowitz and the rest of the crew — had simply decided to leave Jimmy Carter’s Palestine Peace Not Apartheid alone. How long before the book would have been gathering dust on the remainder shelves? Suppose even that Dershowitz had rounded up his unacknowledged co-authors in all their tens of thousands and sallied forth to buy up every copy of Carter’s book and toss each one into the Charles River, would not that have been a more successful suppressor than the blitzkrieg strategy they did adopt?

Of course it would. For weeks now the lobby has hurled its legions into battle against Carter. He has been stigmatized as an anti-Semite, a Holocaust denier, a patron of former concentration camp killers, a Christian madman, a pawn of the Arabs who “flatly condones mass murder” of Israeli Jews. (This last was from Murdoch’s New York Post editorial, relayed to its mailing list by the Zionist Organization of America.)

Any day now I expect some janitors at the Carter Center to resign, declaring that they can no longer in all conscience mop bathrooms that might have been used by the former President, their letter of protest duly front-paged by the New York Times, just like the famous fourteen members of the Carter Center’s Board of Councilors. Actually there were, at the time of resignations, 224 people on this board, where membership is mostly a thank you for a financial donation to the center. So the headlines could be saying, “Nearly 95 per cent of Carter Center Board Members Back Former President.”…..

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War in Iraq for Israel will cost US Tax Payers 8 Billion a Month

As you’re sitting there playing your Nintendo or whatever videogame is popular this year, bear in mind that those kids you fathered will be paying for your lethargy the rest of their natural lives.
 

Pentagon Sees US War Cost in Iraq Rising

By Richard Cowan
January 19th, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The steadily rising Iraq war price tag will reach about $8.4 billion a month this year, Pentagon spokesmen said on Thursday, as heavy replacement costs for lost, destroyed and aging equipment mount.

The Pentagon has been estimating last year’s costs for the increasingly unpopular war at about $8 billion a month, having increased from a monthly “burn rate” of around $4.4 billion during the first year of fighting in fiscal 2003.

During testimony at a House Budget Committee hearing, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said that nearly four years into the war, the Pentagon’s war costs were rising because it was having to replace big-ticket items such as helicopters, airplanes and armored vehicles that are wearing out or were lost in combat. (….Full Article Here)

 
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