Max Blumenthal On Alison Weir

Gilad Atzmon: On June 30th 2015, I attended a book signing and talk by Max Blumenthal presenting his newest book  

The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza   I arrived about halfway through his talk, being familiar with what Max has said in the past, I didn’t feel the need for a lecture, but I was up for the Q and A.  His lecture and the questions that followed really hammered home how barbaric and racist Israeli “Jewish” culture has become.  
Max did not seem to pull any punches; in the Q and A he emphasized how in control of the politicians the Jewish/Zionist money had become of both Republicans and Democrats.  He talked about the renewed efforts to smear and defame Palestinian Solidarity Activists especially on campuses, and how big money has been brought into this fight and how the risks of being called an anti-Semite and defamed had increased. 
 One questioner asked why Israel had let him back in the country especially after he had written Goliath.  His response was that it was probably because he was Jewish.  Most of the questions were fairly soft ball and no rabid Zionist was in the audience.
I am aware of the smear campaign being launched by Jewish Voices for Peace against Alison Weir.  Knowing her work well, as well as personally knowing her, I found this attack beyond outrageous.  While Max was signing books I approached various activists I knew in the audience talking up Alison Weir and denouncing the attacks against her.  
Finally the last book was signed, the line was through.  I approached Max and said I had perhaps a controversial question.

MGTOW: Lame-Stream Media Finally Reporting On Double Standards And Sexism Towards Men!

During the England/Japan match yesterday, Laura Bassett tried to intercept a pass but ended up scoring in her own goal, causing England to lose the match in the final seconds. How does the media's reaction to this compare to the mistakes of male players? Raging Golden Eagle

I Wanted To Fuck Lauren Southern ~ The Libertarian Party Beat Me To It

"There is no rape culture in the west!" Freedom Alternative

LEAKED: How The Biggest Banks Are Conspiring To Rip Up Financial Regulations Around The World

By Don Quijones: It’s almost impossible to keep anything secret these days – not even the core text of a hyper-secret trade deal, the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), which has spent the last two years taking shape behind the hermetically sealed doors of highly secure locations around the world.
According to the agreement’s provisional text, the document is supposed to remain confidential and concealed from public view for at least five years after being signed! But now, thanks to WikiLeaks, it has seeped to the surface.
The Really, Really Good Friends of Services
TiSA is arguably the most important – yet least well-known – of the new generation of global trade agreements. According to WikiLeaks, it “is the largest component of the United States’ strategic ‘trade’ treaty triumvirate,” which also includes the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP).
“Together, the three treaties form not only a new legal order shaped for transnational corporations, but a new economic ‘grand enclosure,’ which excludes China and all other BRICS countries” declared WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in a press statement. If allowed to take universal effect, this new enclosure system will impose on all our governments a rigid framework of international corporate law designed to exclusively protect the interests of corporations, relieving them of financial risk, and social and environmental responsibility.

Coming Soon To America: Greek Pensioners Left With … Nothing!

So far, in Greece, the hardest hit have been pensioners.

By Jeff Berwick: As Bloomberg reports, “On the third day of capital controls, a few dozen pensioners lined up by 7 a.m. at a central Athens branch of the National Bank of Greece, an hour before opening time. They were to receive a maximum of 120 euros (£85), compared with the average monthly payment of about 600 euros. Many left with nothing after the manager said only those with last names starting with the letters A through K would get paid.”

Another customer, a retired mariner who asked not to be named, told AFP he had no cash to buy crucial medicine for his sick wife.

“I worked for 50 years on the sea and now I am the beggar for 120 euros,” he said.
Such a sad, heart-wrenching, scenario… but not unexpected!
Unfortunately, many of these seniors lived in a time before the internet. Their only source of information was from government controlled or regulated television, radio and newspapers. These were owned by the people who control the government itself. It was not in their interest to tell the truth. And they didn’t.

Finally, A Call To Impose Economic And Political Sanctions On Israel

Please sign this petition

We call on the President of the UN Security Council to pass a resolution urging all members to impose economic and political sanctions on Israel until it lifts the siege.

Palestine Action Network Little River, SC

We, the Undersigned, call on the United Nations to demand that the State of Israel end its crippling blockade of Gaza or face sanctions.

Smaller than Dublin, Ireland, Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth. 80% of its nearly 2 million residents are refugees from other parts of Israel-Palestine who were expelled from their homes in 1948 and 1967, making it the world's largest refugee camp.
The eight-year siege has sealed Gaza off from the world by land, air and sea, forbidding entry of desperately needed medical supplies, reconstruction materials, and such other goods as toys, crayons, books, candles, matches, fishing rods, baby formula, chocolate, pasta, coffee, shampoo, sheets, donkeys and cows. 90% of the water is undrinkable and water is expected to run out entirely by 2020

Christians Reacting To Feminist Rabbi Alissa Wise

By Gilad Atzmon: Following the publication of my deconstruction of Rabbi Alissa Wise's appalling  speech at Sabeel, I was approached by many outraged humanists, some of then Christians. People out there are starting to show some clear signs of fatigue of the Jewish Left spin...
 

1. An email from Janice (pseudonym). For the obvious reason Janice asked to hide her name. Once again, the fear of Jewish terror i must assume.  
Subject: Rabbi Alissa Wise at Friends of Sabeel
I was at the Sabeel conference in Vancouver, and I agree with every word you say. The truth is, however, that I was too scared to stand up and say what I was thinking: "We're here to talk about the Palestinians and BDS, and you've just given us a lecture on anti-semitism!" I did start to say it to the people sitting near me (who I mistakenly thought were murmuring about it). One of them turned out to be Jewish - so I ended up backpedalling (out of cowardice). I sent an email on this issue to the organizers, but never heard back. Rabbi Wise highjacked the evening conference, and we all just sat there and took it.
Janice 
2. An email from Renne Kumba:
I think rabbiness Alissa Wise could say what she really wants
a bit more directly and straightforwardly. For example:

My not-so-dear lemmings, o.k. Christian sheeple,

The Trap Of The Hero

"You are a hero and that's why you're screwed! ...Don't let your name on the mortgage [aka death pledge] confuse you, that's her house. ...You have been conned! ...to be superman is to be a slave" johntheother

Sunday’s Vote Will Determine Liberty Or Serfdom

By Paul Craig Roberts: According to history books, democracy originated in Greece. Of course, historians could be mistaken, but this is the prevailing view among Western populations with enough awareness to be interested to know.
What we are witnessing today, July 2, 2015, is that after 2,500 years in the Western World only the current Greek government is interested in democracy. The Greek government, to the surprise and consternation of every other European government, has called a referendum for the Greek people to decide the fate of Greece. For resorting to democracy, the Greek government has been universally denounced in the Western World.
So much for Western democracy.
The greatest and most successful propaganda scam in history is the one that convinces the world that they are nobody if they are not part of The West, the indispensable peoples, the exceptional peoples. If you are not part of The West you are nobody, nonexistent, a nothing.
This prevailing propaganda might prevail in Greece on Sunday, in which case a fearful and intimidated Greek population might vote against the only government that, instead of accepting a payoff from Greece’s enemies, fought for the welfare of the Greek people.
If the Greeks vote for their oppressors and against their own government, democracy in the EU will cease to exist.
2,500 years ago Greeks saved their independence from the Persian Empire. Sunday’s vote will tell us whether Greeks have again served liberty or whether they have succumbed to Washington’s Empire.

Don’t Cut Your Son

Congratulations! It's a BOY! And that means...      happy baby       He's got a penis! Which means... He's got a foreskin!           Now, it may happen that his father doesn't have a foreskin, but don't worry, your son's foreskin is not some kind of python that's going to rise up and strangle him. About 90% of the males in the world (about 3 billion men and boys) have them, and they're very trouble-free. In fact many men say they greatly enjoy having one and would not willingly part with it. There are several good reasons for this.  First, let's look at what his foreskin is. You've probably heard it called just "a flap of skin covering the end of the penis". Well, there's more wrong than right about that expression:      It is the end of his penis, an integral part, not some kind of optional extra,     It's not a flap, but a double-walled tube with, later on, a unique rolling action,     It's not just skin, but also nerves, sensitive nerve-endings, a thin layer of muscle, and on its inner side, the same kind of surface as the lining of your mouth     And it's remarkably big - especially when he's grown up, but even as a baby. Unfolded, an average man's foreskin is as big as a 3"x5" filecard.     So what does his foreskin do?  Some people say "Mankind used to need it when we ran around naked, but no more." Well, it still protects the surface of the head (glans) of his penis and keeps it soft. Clothing doesn't do that - on the contrary, clothing rubbing his glans hardens it, the way walking barefoot hardens your feet.  While he's a baby, it also protects his urine-tube (urethra) from bacteria entering, acting like a kind of flap valve; that's why a baby's is so long. Babies who don't have a foreskin are more likely to get ulcers around the opening in the head where the urine comes out, which causes it to close. Then they have to have surgery to fix that.  There is some suggestion that the cells of the inside of his foreskin are part of his immune system.  All those nerves, some 20,000 of them, will probably have a sexual function when he grows up: they're in the right place and they're of the right kind. If his father doesn't have a foreskin, what's the most sensitive part of his penis? The underside, just behind the head (the frenulum), right? Well, there is a ring of tissue, just as sensitive as that, running right around inside your son's foreskin. Sadly, for men without foreskins, the frenulum is all that is left of that.     Now here's a question for you: Whose foreskin is it, anyway?  Why, his of course! Who else? Why do you ask?  Because now, at last, it's time to use the "c" word -  Circumcision  Which is...?  Cutting off his foreskin. But you probably knew that.  You may not know, though, that when he is born, the inside of his foreskin is closely attached to the head of his penis. Before it can be cut off, the doctor has to run a blunt probe around between his foreskin and his glans to separate them. That hurts like hell, as you can imagine, and leaves the surface of his glans bloody and raw. There's a real risk that the raw edge of his cut foreskin will heal back on to the raw surface of his glans, forming a "skin bridge". These are not at all uncommon in circumcised men, and they can form little tunnels where it's very hard to clean - which defeats one of the purposes of circumcision.  In fact, damage of various kinds is not all that uncommon, it just often goes unreported. A surprising number of men have a scar across the head, a stray tag of skin hanging off their penis, or ugly lumps where the two kinds of skin healed together and where the veins had to find their own new routes.  The pain of circumcision is now known to be excruciating, and can only partly be deadened with drugs. Better not to give babies drugs anyway. The shock of circumcision makes breastfeeding harder to establish.  Worse things can go wrong with circumcision. You may have heard of the man in Winnipeg, Canada who was raised as a girl after his penis was accidentally burnt off or the boy in Washington state who's brain-damaged. Babies sometimes die from circumcision - very rarely, but that's small consolation to their parents.     So why does anyone do it?  Good question. Cutting off part of boys' genitals goes back to the dawn of time, probably to Africa, but it was invented independently in Polynesia and Australia. It seems to have arisen as some kind of magical attempt at taking control of sex. Maybe it was to make the penis look like an erect one all the time, giving magical potency. Or maybe the shedding of the baby's blood was a sacrifice, perhaps in imitation of women's shedding of blood that gave them the power of birth. In various parts of the world it's still a tribal rite. Once started, circumcision seems to be a habit that's hard to break.      Its modern secular practice began in the 19th century to "cure" masturbation. (It didn't work, of course.)     When that lost credibility, men came back from the First World War with sexually transmitted diseases and circumcision quickly attached itself to that. (Studies show any difference is marginal at best. One found only circumcised men had the commonest STD, chlamydia.)     Then Dr Abraham Wolbarst thought he had shown that circumcision protected men against penile cancer. (All he really found was that older men, born before circumcision was fashionable, are more likely to contract penile cancer. Penile cancer rates are much lower in some countries that do not circumcise {such as Denmark}, than in the US.)     During the Second World War, men were circumcised when they caught VD (maybe as punishment) but they told their families their foreskins had got infected, and many babies were circumcised to prevent that.     About this time, Dr Benjamin Spock recommended it, which really set the bandwagon rolling. (He later changed his mind.)     Then came cervical cancer (in the men's partners). (These studies compared populations with many other cultural differences as well as circumcision.)     Urinary Tract Infection. (Girls are more likely to get UTIs than any boys, and they of course are treated with medicine, not surgery. Boys born prematurely are more susceptible to UTI and are more often left intact. Some studies failed to correct for this.)     And now almost inevitably, HIV/AIDS. (The randomised trials in Africa are not as conclusive as is often claimed. Other African studies compared men of different cultures, and the virus is rampant there. The AIDS rate in Europe and Scandinavia, where hardly any men are circumcised, is much lower than in the US. Even if the studies are correct, circumcising would be a very ineffective way of preventing HIV in the developed world.) It would be very foolish for anyone to rely on his circumcision to protect him against HIV.  So it's reasonable to be skeptical of each new claim that circumcision protects against the disease of the day.  Circumcision used to be as fashionable in the rest of the English-speaking world as it is in the US, but it's virtually obsolete there now - and there have been no epidemics of foreskin-related diseases since it stopped.     But shouldn't a boy look like his father?  When the boy sees his father's penis, what he'll notice most is its hairyness and size. When he notices the other difference, his dad can explain in simple language what happened to him. Your son will almost certainly say, "Boy, I'm sure glad you didn't let them do that to me."     Circumcision never harmed me!  Perhaps it didn't, perhaps you were just lucky. A baby's penis is tiny, and how much and exactly what is removed is very much a matter of chance. Your son might not be as lucky as you.     Isn't it cleaner?  There's much less to clean with a boy than a girl. He just needs to wash the outside until it pulls back easily (probably not till he's talking) and then wash the inside as well, but only with very mild soap if any. (The very small amount of stuff inside is called "smegma" which is Greek for soap - it washes out easily) The best person to decide when he's ready to do that is him. It's very important not to force his foreskin back before it's ready. That can cause tearing and damage (which can almost always be fixed without circumcision, though).     Won't he worry about looking different?  Circumcision is no longer nearly universal anywhere in the US. He'll certainly find others like him, and may even be in the majority: it could be the circumcised boys who'll feel different, and they won't have the consolation that he has, that he's got something more than they have. If his brothers are circumcised, it need not be a big issue between them: just tell them, "They used to tell us it was a good thing to do, now they don't think so."     It's very important to our family/congregation/community that he be circumcised.  Again, whose penis is it? You'd fight to the death if some stranger tried to grab your baby and cut off part of his or her genitals. What difference does it make to him if this time it's people close to you?  Circumcision is a human rights issue. Where it's a religious matter, there are movements within those communities to end the practice. The great religions of the world celebrate kindness, compassion and the integrity of the individual. Why should the treatment of a baby's genitals be an exception?  Cutting of a girl's genitals for any reason at all except medical need is outlawed in the US and many Western countries. That includes even token cutting and pricking, far milder than male circumcision. Why should boys go unprotected?     It takes a brave man to admit that his sexuality might not be all that it could be.  It takes a strong man to grant his son something that was taken from him.     Congratulations on your baby!  He's wonderful.  All of him.

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