From irimland@zundelsite.org Fri Jan 24 04:33:18 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:33:18 -0500 Subject: ZGram - 1/20/2003 - "Now the Wiesenthalers advertise for snitches" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030123233318.015e2c78@getmail.lemire.com> ZGRAM - Where truth is destiny Jaunary 20, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Have you ever seen anything so pathetic? [START] BBC News, Saturday, 18 January, 2003, 00:46 GMT Nazi hunters advertise in Latvia A Latvian newspaper has published advertisements offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the trial and conviction of Nazi war criminals. The advertisements are part of a campaign called "Operation Last Chance" launched by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, which hunts Nazi criminals. About 80,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis and local collaborators in Latvia between 1941 and 1944. Thousands of Jews from other European countries were also sent to Latvia for execution. But Latvia has not prosecuted any Nazi suspects since it regained independence in 1991. The ads, showing a grainy photo of Jews being led to their execution, say "those who are responsible... must be punished". They give phone numbers for the Latvian chief prosecutor's office and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Prosecutors in the former Soviet republic say gathering evidence against the few surviving suspects has been difficult. "If anyone comes forward with information we are ready to investigate," said Dzintra Subrovska, a spokeswoman for the Latvian Prosecutor General's Office. Similar ads were published in neighbouring Lithuania late last year and others will be run in Estonian newspapers later this month. Of Latvia's 95,000 pre-war Jewish population, barely 4,000 survived the Holocaust. [end] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2670791.stm From irimland@zundelsite.org Fri Jan 24 04:35:29 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:35:29 -0500 Subject: ZGram - 1/21/2003 "The Press and the Protests" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030123233529.015e2c78@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny January 21, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: [START] RENSE.COM How The Press Downplayed The Protests Deceptions and Illusions By Wayne Madsen CounterPunch.org 1-20-3 A large banner hanging on the side of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art could not have been more appropriate for the January 18 anti-war protest on the Mall in Washington, DC. Promoting an art display inside the museum, the banner read: "Deceptions and Illusions." It could have easily applied to the deception foisted on the public by the Washington Metropolitan Police Department and the corporate news media. The Park Police cleverly fenced off a large portion of the Mall closest to the Washington Monument, forcing large numbers of protestors on to Jefferson and Madison Drives. If one were to count the numbers solely on the grassy area of the Mall it would appear that 30,000 or, as the news media is now reporting, "tens of thousands," were present. However, if the count were to include those forced on to the periphery of the Mall, the number was well over 100,000. The police, now armed with a phalanx of surveillance cameras on the Mall, claim the panning electronic eyes are used for crowd control. They are correct. When crowds begin to swell in a vast area like the Mall, the police can block streets, cordon off areas, and force people out of camera range. This is exactly what occurred on January 18. The New York Times has become the chief perpetrator of low balling anti-Bush protestor numbers. A photo caption on its web site stated, "thousands of protestors" took part in the January 18 protest. A similar anti-war protest held in Washington last October 26 was estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000. It was the largest anti-war protest since the Vietnam War, but the Times reported the number of protestors as being in the "thousands." However, an April 15, 2002 pro-Israel rally at the US Capitol, was reported by the Times to be 100,000. In reality, the numbers were merely in the low thousands. The "Old Grey Lady" later admitted it had erroneously reported the inflated number due to a "coordination" problem with one of its desks. Five days later, a pro-Palestinian rally was held on the White House Ellipse. Organizers claim the crowd was 100,000 but Washington police chief Charles Ramsey put the numbers at between 35,000 and 50,000. Once again, the Times reported the numbers to be in the "tens of thousands." This is not just shoddy journalism but willful disinformation being perpetrated by corporate newspapers that want to curry favor with the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon. In fact, the January 18 protest was larger than those held in October and April last year. That would obviously put the January 18 numbers well over 100,000. But the failure to accurately report the numbers is not entirely the fault of the news media. In the past, the media was permitted to use their news and traffic helicopters to more accurately gauge crowd numbers. But in the wake of September 11, the only helicopters now permitted over Washington are those belonging to the police. They count the numbers, divide and subtract, and then feed the phony figures to a sycophantic media. The media, police, and the Bush administration want to marginalize the protestors who came to Washington. In fact, a sign displayed by a GOP office along the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route said it all: "Hippies Go Home!" Even though the Republican Party is reintroducing the terms "segregation," "cross burning," and "abortion ban" to the American body politic, using "hippies" to describe the protestors goes far beyond the use of an antiquated term. The GOP wants to convince everyone that the January 18 protestors were cut from the same mold as the anti-globalization protestors and their myriad causes. That canard was echoed on the shameful Fox News Sunday program by Tony Snow, who labeled the protestors "socialists." The other corporate media broadcasters featured Bush administration senior officials pushing their war agenda. Protest leaders and featured speakers were ignored. Joseph Goebbels could not have asked for greater cooperation from his own media. When crowds of people streaming from Union Station began to swell on to the grounds of the Capitol, the Capitol Hill police, showing their usual harassing behavior, sent speeding police cars into the crowd. They did not seem to care that the streets were icy. One police car began to dangerously fishtail near a group of protestors that included young children. Capitol Hill Police Chief Terence Gainer, whose history as Washington, DC deputy police chief, Illinois State Police director, Chicago cop, and Republican loyalist highlights a checkered career of police misconduct, arrived on the scene like a Brown Shirt block commander. One protestor was arrested for allegedly shoving a cop. Gainer has his own history of shoving and head clubbing. He was rookie cop at the 1968 Democratic Convention, an event that earned the Chicago police the moniker of "thugs" by CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite. In addition, a number of the forced confession cases that influenced Illinois Governor George Ryan's decision to commute to life imprisonment the sentences of his state's death row inmates, occurred on Gainer's watch. The 1-18 protestors who came from all parts of the country represented a cross section of America. There were church, synagogue, mosque, and Buddhist temple groups. Grandmothers and grandfathers gathered with their sons, daughters, and grandchildren. There were veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Gulf War I. College, high school, and grade school students participated. And although the protestors were white, African American, Hispanics, Asian American, and Arab American, the dirty little secret that the Bush administration, the Congress, and the media want to keep from the American people is that the vast majority of protestors were white middle class suburbanites. And in another close presidential election, 100,000 politically active voting Americans could make the difference. But the vast numbers of protestors can have a more immediate effect on their shameful members of Congress, who, save for Representative John Conyers and former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, failed to show up at the protest in the very shadow of the Capitol dome. Even the progressive caucus was absent. The protestors, who drove in their cars, busses, and vans from Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, should remember that their members of Congress were AWOL on January 18. It is obvious that the limousine liberals preferred sitting by their warm and cozy fireplaces as their constituents stood and marched in 25-degree weather. Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist. He wrote the introduction to Forbidden Truth. Madsen can be reached at: WMadsen777@aol.com [END] ( Source: http://www.rense.com/general33/downplay.htm ) http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen01182003.html From irimland@zundelsite.org Fri Jan 24 04:36:29 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:36:29 -0500 Subject: Zgram 1/22/2003 "More Problems with our Server" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030123233629.015e2c78@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny January 22, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I think my server is giving me trouble - AGAIN! Is it intentional? This is the third day where I can't get my ZGrams on the air! At any rate, I am tring again, shipping you some serious food for thought: [START] ISRAEL'S NEW POLICY OF TERRORISM ON AMERICAN SOIL By: Joe Sansone A recent UPI report outlined Israel's new policy of assassinating suspected terrorists on American soil. In other words, Israel is now going to officially carry out terrorism on U.S. soil. Isn't that what murder is? As an American citizen you cannot murder, why should agents of a foreign government have any such right in your country? The UPI report read, "Israel is embarking upon a more aggressive approach to the war on terror that will include staging targeted killings in the United States and other friendly countries, former Israeli intelligence officials told United Press International." UPI claims to have verified this information with a dozen informants. The report goes on to say that Israel will go forward with this policy, "even if it risks complications to Israel's bilateral relations." Such a policy by Israel that has no regard for the national sovereignty of the United States requires a reevaluation of an existing allied relationship. It is a callous disregard for not only the laws of the United States, but also the security, safety, and rights of its citizens. What Israel terms as targeted assassinations is really the commencement of a low-grade war against its enemies. By carrying out acts of war on American soil, Israel will be committing acts of war against the United States. Bringing its war to America, Israel is endangering the lives of Americans, including American Jews. Surely, as Israel's campaign of terror is carried out against its enemies, there will be retaliatory action in the United States by Islamic militants. Are synagogues and Jewish schools immune from such horror? They will likely be the first targets. While less than three percent of Americans are Jews, and respectively three percent are Muslims, do we want them battling it out in our streets? By proclaiming its license to kill on American soil, Israel places itself on the list of rogue nations diametrically opposed to the United States. Terrorism may be acceptable in the third world. It is not acceptable in the United States. This policy by definition is state sponsored terrorism. Maybe there should be weapons inspectors taking a look at Israel's nuclear program next? How exactly do we determine the innocence of the murdered victims? Since Israel now has no regard for the nation where it murders perceived terrorists, it is safe to say that they would also have no regard for the nationality of the alleged terrorist. What if some of them are American citizens? Are we going to allow a foreign nation to murder U.S. citizens too? The UPI report also says, "Israeli hit teams, which consist of units or squadrons of the Kidon, a sub-unit for Mossad's highly secret Metsada department, would stage the operations". If Israeli hit teams are in place in the United States, what will prevent them from targeting U.S. officials that aren't willing to send billions of dollars in foreign aid to Israel? Far fetched? Not really when we're talking about a nation that is openly planning terrorism in the United States. Yes, openly, because a story this sensitive would have never leaked unless it was meant to be leaked. If Israel is going to have a policy of terrorism on U.S. soil then it is not only plausible that it will kill American citizens that it considers to be enemies, but it is also likely that they will attack American targets and try to blame it on the enemies of Israel. It's bad enough that according to a PBS Transcript Senator Graham of the Select Committee On Intelligence said that classified evidence reveals that foreign governments were involved in the September 11th attacks. Now another nation is threatening to expand its terrorism to America. No ally of the United States can commit act on war on its soil. Theoretically Israeli hit teams could already be here. Remember the DEA report last year about hundreds of Israeli spies posing as art students and stalking federal agents that were deported by the U.S. government. If Islamic terrorist cells may already be here it is entirely possible that Israeli hit squads are in place. The U.S. should immediately pull all foreign aid, both monetary and military assistance from Israel. (Slightly shortened) ( http://www.etherzone.com/2003/sans012103.shtml )