Twelfth Bough

As a Catholic, I am accustomed to Catholic bashing. If you can't stand a little Catholic bashing, you might as well not be a Catholic. It comes with the territory. None of which is to get into the myriad reasons for Catholic bashing, many of which are legitimate. But, you know, when people bash the Catholic Church--and Catholics do it all the time--I don't usually take it personally. But one cannot help notice that Catholic bashing is quite popular. One wrong move and....WHACK! Jewish leaders condemn Pope over Holocaust bishop Leading members of Britain's Jewish community have joined in condemnation of the Pope's decision to lift the excommunication on a bishop who denies the Holocaust at the same time as the nation commemorates the six million Jews murdered in the Nazi death camps. Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday, in the middle of the Jewish Sabbath, lifted the excommunications on four bishops of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X, including the English Old Wyke

The equation has changed, sayeth Israel. You people had better watch out. Now they're taking the gloves off. Meanwhile, in a bid to regain her plummeting popularity ahead of the elections, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told a gathering of the New York-based World Jewish Congress in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday that Israel would no longer show restraint against Palestinian attacks from the Gaza Strip. "Israel is going to act according to a new equation. We are not going to show restraint anymore ," Livni said. "We need to change the rules of the game until they learn that the rules have changed and the equation has changed ." All that WP, targeting civilians, shooting people waving white flags, collective punishment, preventing humanitarian aid, rounding people up and bombing them inside their houses, killing over 1,300 people, 90% of them civilians....that was Israel showing "restraint." But an Israeli soldier was killed on Tuesday, so

If Netanyahu wins the 2/10 Israeli elections, as seems likely, we can expect him to aggressively push forward the current (psychopathic) Israeli strategy of putting Iran in the crosshairs while systematically murdering the Palestinians and stealing more and more of their land. Now the question is: Will that work? A very good interview here with a "former" CIA operative, Robert Baer, indicates that an attack on Iran is not possible. IPS: Is the possibility of a limited attack on Iran's nuclear facilities by Israel also out of question? Especially given what we learned in a recent New York Times article that last year, Israeli leaders asked President Bush to carry out such an attack, though the president did not accept. RB: Totally out of the question. Even Bush understood this. The New York Times is right when it says that Bush vetoed an Israeli attack, simply because there is a balance of power in the Middle East between the U.S. and Iran, and it's a fairly even bala

The BBC is ruing the day it caved into Israeli pressure on the Gaza aid appeal. If you haven't, scroll through the stories at WhatReallyHappened to get a feel for how much flack the BBC is getting. They have gone so far as to threaten to fire journalists who go off the reservation, and 'widespread disgust' has taken over the BBC newsrooms. The world is paying attention to Israel's behavior, and the world doesn't like it. Unofficially, the Gaza offensive has backfired spectacularly on Israel. The psychopathic personality, having no conscience, cannot imagine how normal people will react to the carnage he envisaged, the means he used to justify his end. So Israel remains frustrated that the world does not understand why it "had" to do these things. But of course, most of the world are not psychopaths, so there you have the disconnect. Of course, officially it's still all Hamas' fault. A person without imagination, like Barak (his election slogan:

We have the smoking gun from Russell Tice, and the mushroom cloud of iniquity begins to blossom on the horizon. I hope that Americans finally realize how they have been raked over the coals by traitorous people. Let us begin with the Fourth Amendment. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Thanks to the atmosphere of fear and hysteria, the War of Terror, conjured up by the false flag attacks on 9/11, an attack executed with the deep involvement of Israeli Mossad and corrupt elements of our own intelligence agencies, and for the ultimate benefit of Israel, by dragging the United States into wars of choice against Muslim countries, which have drained our blood and treasure, and with grave and unforg

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Israelis will probably elect Netanyahu on 2/10. Polls show that the conservative opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party have opened up a bigger lead, based on a public concern that the offensive left the Hamas regime intact while failing to free an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, imprisoned in Gaza for 2-1/2 years. That's funny. I thought the goal of this offensive was to "stop the rockets." Gilad Shalit's name only came up this week -- an afterthought. Of course Israel didn't crush Hamas. Israel needs Hamas in the same way bush needed bin Laden: to justify their insatiable thirst for blood. Hamas is the whipping boy. Thus, Israel failed to achieve it's fake goals, though it has achieved the real goal: to create a humanitarian crisis to crush the Palestinians, to ensure the whipping boy lives to fight another day, and to embroil the international community physically in Gaza, thereby greasing the skid

Communism. Nazism. Zionism. These movements are all just different facets of the same evil impulse to enslave humanity under totalitarianism. The Illuminati dangle baits, hoping to lure people into traps. They want people to fight each other. When the people oblige, expend their blood and treasure, and finally demand a solution, the Illuminati miraculously pull exactly the right cyanide-laced casserole pre-cooked out of the freezer. Just pop it in the media oven for an hour, and you're good to go. Just like the Patriot Act. Maybe people are finally learning. It is becoming apparent that the frenzied Israeli attack on the people of the Gaza Strip was designed specifically to inflame Hezbollah and provoke them into a war with Israel; a war that would quickly escalate to involve Iran and the US for the purpose of ultimately bringing about regime change in Iran. Furthermore, this was all supposed to happen before Bush left office when it was hoped that war with Iran would be unavoidabl

That red line is drawn around the (imaginary) territory called "Greater Israel's Borders." Let's see: half of Iraq, all of Lebanon and Jordan, most of Syria, a big giant chunk of Saudi Arabia, and a generous hunk of Egypt. Maybe a little Turkey, too. Yeah. I'm sure nobody has a problem with that. Seems reasonable...if you're a megalomaniacal psychopathic excuse for a human being. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/israel/greater-israel-maps.htm See kids, that (CIA-asset and AQ head terrorist, aka Tim Osman) Osama bin Laden, got it all wrong in 2003. He is such a propagandist, that Osama. And a terrorist. So you should not listen to anything the (dead) man said. Obviously, he put forth these vicious ideas to slander the Jewish State, which is peace loving, by making these disparaging and silly claims: In February 2003 an audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden called President Bush "stupid" and claimed American war plans against Ir

As I watched the inauguration, my heart was overcome with relief to be rid of George W. Bush. In some ways, I can scarcely believe we survived his administration. How much has been lost these past eight years, not only for us but for the whole entire world? Who can say. We only know that the price is incalculable, though we somehow survived to the threshold of life after bush. Many times I didn't think we would, and yet we did. The time has arrived for people to be arrested and dragged before courts of law, and I'm not talking about the little people. I want to see big names in handcuffs. I want to see their hair disheveled and their lips muttering, and their beady eyes darting around like cornered rodents. I want to see 3" headlines across every front page announcing stunning revelations of corruption at the highest levels of government, banking, media, think tanks, and corporations. I want to see people glued to their teevee sets with their jaws hanging to their knees as

Just one family destroyed, one among thousands. Every human being who listens to this should be pierced through the heart with regret. This is the reality of Israel's "self-defense." And here is the story of another family who lost 48 people. They [the IOF] left behind their own unique detritus: bullet casings, roasted peanuts in tins with Hebrew script, a plastic bag containing a "High Quality Body Warmer", dozens of olive-green waste disposal bags, some empty, some stinking full - the troops' portable toilets. But most disturbing of all was the graffiti they daubed on the walls of the ground floor. Some was in Hebrew, but much was naively written in English: "Arabs need 2 die", "Die you all", "Make war not peace", "1 is down, 999,999 to go", and scrawled on an image of a gravestone the words: "Arabs 1948-2009". Such behavior certainly gives lie to the pious statements of Tsipi Livni defending the IOF, does

that things must get much worse before they ever get better. It pains me to say it, but I'm afraid it's true. I will explain. A scotoma is a blind spot surrounded by a field of normal or relatively unimpaired vision. People can go through their whole lives never noticing certain things. I will give you an example. You might not notice how much writers use the verb to be, for instance. You have probably never been bothered by the verb to be. We use it all the time. "This is that..." or "They are like this..." or "We were like that..." This verb is everywhere, and it is annoying. See what I mean? Do you realize how many other verbs we have to choose from in English? But even I will admit, using the verb to be takes less effort than figuring out what verb actually describes the action in a sentence, and structuring the sentence accordingly. Now that I told you this, you may notice the verb to be everywhere. That is what happens when you clea

Excerpted bits from an article in the Jewish Daily Forward on Thursday, January 15, 2009, regarding the little kerfuffle with dear Condi: “I have no problem with what Olmert did ,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. “I think the mistake was to talk about it in public." [Ding!] “This is what friendships are about. [Wince.] He was not interfering in political issues. [??? Alternate universe? I dunno. Looks like that is exactly what he was doing to me.] You have a relationship, and if you don’t like what is being done, then you go to the boss and tell him.” [Meaning, you go to the guy playing "boss" for the American people, aaaand...boss him around. Because he is so not the boss. Are you %$&& kidding me?] [snip] Israel and Jewish groups, including Aipac, the ADL and the American Jewish Committee, opposed the draft’s language, which they saw as one-sided. [Meaning, not one-sided enough.] They also felt that the draft stoo

The little incident with Condi and George and Ehud says so much. Here we are, literally in the last week of eight years of the Bush Administration. Over 1000 Palestinians, including hundreds of children, have been killed by the IOF in the last three weeks. Israel stands in grievous, blatant violation of numerous international laws and UN resolutions, such as inflicting collective punishment, intentionally targeting civilians, UN buildings, hospitals, journalists, and of course, using banned weapons such as white phosphorous and DIME. But as you have surely heard, when Ehud Olmert got wind that Condi might vote yes to a UN cease-fire resolution, he got right on the phone with George and bossed him all over the Oval Office clear from Tel Aviv. No hands. And then George told Condi to abstain. And She Did. What would Condi have lost by voting for the resolution that she herself helped to draft? Would it be too much to ask that she take a morally courageous stand for less than one week, kn

We now know that Israeli planning (coordinated with the US) for this Gaza operation has been underway for many months. The timing may be due to Israeli elections, but even that argument fits into broader plans, because why does it matter so much who wins the Israeli elections? They're all nucking futs. But apparently it does matter to some people, so that just tells us that more plans remain to be executed down the road, and it's exciting stuff, and so they're fighting over who gets a turn at the World Domination Super Spectacular. The NWO wants to bring more and more countries under international (meaning NWO) influence, and then rule them all. One way to do that is by making big messes in strategic areas, especially resource-rich strategic areas such as in the Middle East and Africa, thereby requiring international forces to come into play. This may be the "solution" offered for Israel to deal with the Palestinians. The international community will come to the

Oh, America. You are always the last to know. Did you know a genocide is taking place? Right now. Today. It's true. I mean, there have been many, but this one is extra special because we pay for it, and this is top of the line stuff. Well, that's not the only reason, but it will do for now. Our "best friend," Israel, the Bonnie to our Clyde, runs the gruesome genocide show. And it's covered in lies like flies on shit. Now, theoretically, Americans could make a big stink about this, but first they'd have to know what was going on. As luck would have it, we're pretty easily hoodwinked. The media has been instructed not to tell you the truth. Still, you can poke your head up and find out real easy on the internet. If you just made the effort, that is. You would have to set aside a block of time, of course, to learn about what is happening. But everything you need to know can be found on the internet. Horrible, horrible truths. It will surely ruin your day. Wa