veteranstoday--2020-07-23--New York: Making a Quarantine Wall

New York: Making a Quarantine Wall

Health Editor ’ s Note : The U.S. is banned from traveling to countless countries due to our raging rates of sickness and deaths from coronavirus .
If you actually were willing to chance COVID-19 by being confined to an airplane , you are not given that chance to tempt viral fate .
Now , we have states that ban other states from entering unless residents from those states maintain a 14 day quarantine upon entering New York .
New Jersey and Connecticut have similar bans for travelers from other states .
Not sure how a trip to New York @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pleasure will work out when the first two weeks must be spent in quarantine .
Better to not go at all , but then again maybe that is what the ban is all about…..stay away !
We do not want more coronavirus , but I do not see how this required quarantine can be monitored.Ask Trump , building a wall would be a better choice .
🙁 …Carol More Than 1/2 of America Is Now on NY Quarantine List ; 10 New States Added Tuesday What to Know • The entire state of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the final step of Gov .
Andrew Cuomo ’ s reopening ; New York City has taken a modified approach to the last two phases as it relates to indoor activities • Both Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have opted cautiously to protect hard-earned progress ; at the same time , both are concerned slipping compliance locally may compound the problem of out-of-state travel • 31 states are now on the tri-state quarantine list ; people coming to the region from those states , which are in the midst of viral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ More than half of America is now on the tri-state quarantine list , Gov .
Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday , as COVID continues to surge virtually unabated across the country .
A total of 31 states are now on the list , with 10 added and one removed .
The newcomers are Alaska , Delaware , Indiana , Maryland , Missouri , Montana , North Dakota , Nebraska , Virginia , and Washington .
Minnesota came off the list this week , no longer meeting the hotspot threshold .
It could return just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a week off the list before its numbers rose again .
Cuomo , New Jersey Gov .
Phil Murphy and Connecticut Gov .
Ned Lamont jointly implemented ….read more :

Health Editor’s Note: The U.S. is banned from traveling to countless countries due to our raging rates of sickness and deaths from coronavirus. If you actually were willing to chance COVID-19 by being confined to an airplane, you are not given that chance to tempt viral fate.
Now, we have states that ban other states from entering unless residents from those states maintain a 14 day quarantine upon entering New York. New Jersey and Connecticut have similar bans for travelers from other states. Not sure how a trip to New York, say for business or maybe even pleasure will work out when the first two weeks must be spent in quarantine. Better to not go at all, but then again maybe that is what the ban is all about…..stay away! We do not want more coronavirus, but I do not see how this required quarantine can be monitored.Ask Trump, building a wall would be a better choice. 🙁 …Carol
More Than 1/2 of America Is Now on NY Quarantine List; 10 New States Added Tuesday
by Jennifer Millman/nbcnewyork.com
What to Know The entire state of New York is now in Phase IV, the final step of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s reopening; New York City has taken a modified approach to the last two phases as it relates to indoor activities
Both Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have opted cautiously to protect hard-earned progress; at the same time, both are concerned slipping compliance locally may compound the problem of out-of-state travel
31 states are now on the tri-state quarantine list; people coming to the region from those states, which are in the midst of viral outbreaks, must self-isolate for 14 days More than half of America is now on the tri-state quarantine list, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday, as COVID continues to surge virtually unabated across the country. A total of 31 states are now on the list, with 10 added and one removed. The newcomers are Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Virginia, and Washington. Minnesota came off the list this week, no longer meeting the hotspot threshold. It could return just as easily though; Delaware only spent a week off the list before its numbers rose again. Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont jointly implemented ….read more:
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator. She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues. Carol’s Archives 2009-2013


veteranstoday--2020-07-23--Study: US Ranked Worst Country to Raise a Family

The US is one of the worst countries in the world to raise a family , while Britain also scores badly , according to new research .
America was ranked 34 out of 35 in a comparison of the world ’ s biggest economies , scoring three ‘ F ’ grades for safety , cost of living and work-life balance , a ‘ D minus ’ for health , and a ‘ C+ ’ for happiness and education .
Overall , it was given an ‘ F ’ grade for raising a family , with only Mexico coming out worse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ was compiled from 30 studies of countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development ( OECD ) which are advanced democracies with wealthy economies .
It scored average for health ( C ) and education ( C+ ) but better for happiness ( A ) and safety ( B ) .
Iceland came out top of the table and Scandanavia did well with Norway , Sweden and Finland in the top 5 and all scoring A+ .
Mexico finished bottom with a clean sweep of ‘ F ’ in every category @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were the other countries in the bottom five .
The list was compiled by travel and family experts ‘ Asher and Lyric ’ who said of America ’ s bottom position for the cost of bringing up a family : ‘ Parents with average household income have to spend 31.79 % of their income on childcare costs alone .
‘ Compare that to Scandanavian countries where households only have to spend 4 % to 10 % of income to raise a well rounded child .

America is ranked one of the worst countries in the world to raise a family, with Britain also scoring badly... while Iceland and Norway are deemed the best
The US is one of the worst countries in the world to raise a family, while Britain also scores badly, according to new research.
America was ranked 34 out of 35 in a comparison of the world’s biggest economies, scoring three ‘F’ grades for safety, cost of living and work-life balance, a ‘D minus’ for health, and a ‘C+’ for happiness and education.
Overall, it was given an ‘F’ grade for raising a family, with only Mexico coming out worse.
The ‘Raising a Family Index’ was compiled from 30 studies of countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) which are advanced democracies with wealthy economies.
Britain, meanwhile, was given a ‘B minus’ rating, ranking it 23rd, with scores including a ‘D minus’ for work-life balance and an ‘F’ for cost of living. It scored average for health (C) and education (C+) but better for happiness (A) and safety (B). Iceland came out top of the table and Scandanavia did well with Norway, Sweden and Finland in the top 5 and all scoring A+. Mexico finished bottom with a clean sweep of ‘F’ in every category, and Chile, Turkey and Bulgaria were the other countries in the bottom five. The list was compiled by travel and family experts ‘Asher and Lyric’ who said of America’s bottom position for the cost of bringing up a family: ‘Parents with average household income have to spend 31.79% of their income on childcare costs alone. ‘Compare that to Scandanavian countries where households only have to spend 4% to 10% of income to raise a well rounded child. read more.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8551791/America-ranked-one-worst-countries-world-raise-family.html


veteranstoday--2020-07-23--California Now Holds First Place in Number of U.S. COVID-19 Cases

California has most COVID-19 cases in U.S. , surpassing New York , as spike continues California now has the most confirmed coronavirus infections of any state , surpassing New York , as an ongoing statewide spike in the number of infections has pushed its overall case count past 413,000 .
As of Wednesday morning , data from Johns Hopkins University showed California had reported about 1,100 more cumulative COVID-19 cases than New York — which was besieged by the virus in the early spring but has since seen the numbers of newly confirmed infections , deaths and hospitalizations drop dramatically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the opposite direction .
Shortly after noon Wednesday , Gov .
Gavin Newsom said that 12,807 new coronavirus infections had been reported in the past 24 hours — a record high — bringing the state ’ s total to 413,576 .
“ It ’ s just another reminder … of the magnitude of impact that this virus continues to have , ” he said .
Despite the higher case count , California has not experienced nearly as many fatalities as New York has .
The Empire State has recorded more than 25,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as California .
Officials also were quick to point out that California ’ s population , by far the highest of any state , also plays a major role in its number of infections .
The state ’ s population of nearly 40 million is more than double that of New York .

California has most COVID-19 cases in U.S., surpassing New York, as spike continues
by Luke Money/LA times
California now has the most confirmed coronavirus infections of any state, surpassing New York, as an ongoing statewide spike in the number of infections has pushed its overall case count past 413,000.
As of Wednesday morning, data from Johns Hopkins University showed California had reported about 1,100 more cumulative COVID-19 cases than New York — which was besieged by the virus in the early spring but has since seen the numbers of newly confirmed infections, deaths and hospitalizations drop dramatically.
California, however, is trending in the opposite direction. Shortly after noon Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said that 12,807 new coronavirus infections had been reported in the past 24 hours — a record high — bringing the state’s total to 413,576. “It’s just another reminder … of the magnitude of impact that this virus continues to have,” he said. Despite the higher case count, California has not experienced nearly as many fatalities as New York has. The Empire State has recorded more than 25,000 COVID-19 deaths, three times as many as California. Officials also were quick to point out that California’s population, by far the highest of any state, also plays a major role in its number of infections. The state’s population of nearly 40 million is more than double that of New York. Read More:
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator. She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues. Carol’s Archives 2009-2013


veteranstoday--2020-07-23--CMS: $5 Billion to Medicare-Certified Long Term Care Facilities For Protection Against COVID-19

Trump Administration Announces New Resources to Protect Nursing Home Residents Against COVID-19 As part of the unprecedented efforts taken by the Trump Administration , President Trump today announced several new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( CMS ) initiatives designed to protect nursing home residents from coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ) .
“ From the moment the threat of this virus materialized , the Trump Administration has placed a priority on protecting nursing home residents , ” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma .
“ Today ’ s multi-pronged intervention represents the latest efforts in fulfilling that unwavering commitment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ areas around the country , it has never been more important that nursing homes have what they need to maintain a sturdy defense against the virus .
These measures will help them do exactly that.
” The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) will devote $ 5 billion of the Provider Relief Fund authorized by the Coronavirus Aid , Relief , and Economic Security ( CARES ) Act to Medicare-certified long term care facilities and state veterans ’ homes ( “ nursing homes ” ) , to build nursing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ response to COVID-19 , including enhanced infection control .
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Trump Administration Announces New Resources to Protect Nursing Home Residents Against COVID-19
CMS.gov Press Release
As part of the unprecedented efforts taken by the Trump Administration, President Trump today announced several new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiatives designed to protect nursing home residents from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
“From the moment the threat of this virus materialized, the Trump Administration has placed a priority on protecting nursing home residents,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. “Today’s multi-pronged intervention represents the latest efforts in fulfilling that unwavering commitment. As caseloads continue to increase in areas around the country, it has never been more important that nursing homes have what they need to maintain a sturdy defense against the virus. These measures will help them do exactly that.”
New Funding
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will devote $5 billion of the Provider Relief Fund authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to Medicare-certified long term care facilities and state veterans’ homes (“nursing homes”), to build nursing home skills and enhance nursing homes’ response to COVID-19, including enhanced infection control. This funding could be used to address critical needs in nursing homes including hiring additional staff, implementing infection control “mentorship” programs with subject matter experts, increasing testing, and providing additional services, …read more:


veteranstoday--2020-07-24--Trump Calls for Social Distancing, Calls Anti-Vaxxers ‘Nuts” (praises the ‘common sense of the Ameri

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veteranstoday--2020-07-24--Atzmon: The Last Zionist

Atzmon: The Last Zionist

In his book Memories , the first Israeli PM and pragmatic early Zionist , David Ben Gurion writes about his early years in Płońsk , Poland .
Ben Gurion is very explicit when describing the balance of power between Jews and Poles in his town in the early days of the 20th century .
“ Far from being afraid of them , they were rather afraid of us ( the Jews ) .
” Jews were indeed very powerful in Poland in the first years of the 20th century .
The Jewish socialist party , the Bund , was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ particularly in the Polish areas of the Russian empire .
In the early stages of that Revolution , the Bund ’ s military wing was the strongest revolutionary force in Western Russia .
The Vow , the Bund ’ s anthem didn ’ t leave much room for imagination , it declared war and practically sentenced to death those who didn ’ t fit with their political agenda : The Bund was extremely confident of its power .
In the autumn of 1933 it issued a call to the Polish public to boycott @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the NSDAP .
In December 1938 and January 1939 , in the last Polish municipal elections before the start of WWII , the Bund received the largest segment of the Jewish vote .
In 89 towns , one-third elected Bund majorities .
In Warsaw , the Bund won 61.7 % of the votes cast for Jewish parties , taking 17 of the 20 municipal council seats won by Jewish parties .
In Łódź the Bund won 57.4 % ( 11 of 17 seats won by Jewish parties ) .
We now know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ended shortly after these elections .
The East European and Polish Jewish communities suffered greatly during WWII .
The Bund was completely wiped out during the war .
For one reason or another and , as problematic as it may be for some , at least in the early stages of the war , some Poles , Ukrainians and other East European nationalists saw the Nazis as their ‘ liberators.
’ They apparently weren ’ t blind to the reality that was depicted by Ben Gurion .
This sense of Jewish political and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gurion ’ s Memories and in the story of the Bund created a problematic pattern , as it clearly led to some tragic consequences .
In his conclusive work on the Holocaust , Jewish historian David Cesarani delved briefly into the work of the CV , ( Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens – the central association of German citizens of the Jewish faith ) .
It would be a crude act of denial to fail to see the overwhelming similarity between the CV that was formed in 1893 and the likes of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BOD and the CAA .
Cesarani writes about the CV that it was formed “ to combat the lies propagated by anti-Semites and oppose them when they stood for election.
” Clearly , Jeremy Corbyn , Bernie Sanders and Cynthia McKinney weren ’ t the first politicians to be targeted by dedicated Jewish pressure groups .
The CV was using the same tactics over a century ago .
Cesarani continues : “ over the next two decades , the CV proved quite effective : suing rabble rousers for defamation , funding candidates pledged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of educational material about Judaism and Jewish life , and coordinating the activity of sympathetic non-Jews ashamed of prejudice within their communities.
” ( Final Solution : The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 , David Cesarani pg.10 ) Like the ADL and AIPAC in the USA , and the CAA in Britain , the CV saw its popularity amongst Jews grow rapidly .
By 1926 more than 60.000 German Jews were amongst its members , however , there is a good reason to believe that the more popular the CV was amongst Jews @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politics were to Germans .
We can observe that the ADL and CAA are not marching in virgin territory , there is historical documentation that points out that abrasive Jewish pressure politics have , in the past , helped lead to catastrophic consequences .
The Jewish Virtual Library produces a fascinating glimpse into the CV ’ s activity .
In 1934 when the Nazi Party was already in power , the Party made no attempt to conceal its anti Jewish sentiments , yet , the CV , apparently in a state of complete @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Germany and continued to pursue its pressure politics .
Following is a report by the CV from 26 April 1934 : This type of a letter is familiar in its format and content from both ADL and CAApress releases targeting popular artists , musicians and politicians .
The point I am trying to make should be obvious .
Harassing , terrorising and abusing one ’ s host nation into submission may produce some results in the short term , however , in the long run , it may not be the best way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jewish history in general and the holocaust in particular prove , it may be the most dangerous path Jews can take .
‘ History , ’ we are told , ‘ never repeats itself.
’ Yet , for one reason or another , we are all expected to draw the right lessons from Jewish history .
We are to vow ‘ never again.
’ We are to pledge to fight racism and discrimination .
Most surprising then , that the Jews , at large , never learn from their own past .
One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ADL , AIPAC , BOD , Crif , CAA and other Jewish organisations that set them on a political path that has proven to be catastrophic ?
One possible answer is collective ignorance .
It is reasonable to assume that many Jews do not know or understand their own history and instead concentrate , if at all , on Jewish suffering ( the holocaust , the inquisition , rise in Antisemitism , pogroms , etc . )
rather than attempting to grasp the chain of events that led to such unfortunate consequences .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ see the connection between bad behaviour and antisemitism .
This may imply that if things , God forbid , turn sour for American Jewry tomorrow , Jews in the future will not examine the multiple disastrous headlines associated with some prominent American Jews and leading Jewish institutions .
Accordingly , they will not see the negative impact of the bad behaviour of such characters as Jeffrey Epstein , Ghislaine Maxwell , Ehud Barak , Les Wexner , Harvey Weinstein or George Soros .
They will not see the need to examine , let @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jews on NYC ’ s slumlord list or in America ’ s worst Ponzi schemes .
Jews won ’ t look into the negative impact of the ADL or the SPLC .
Nor will they dare dig into the disastrous impact of Israel and AIPAC on American Foreign Policy .
Jews won ’ t look into these for the same reasons that Jews work hard to prevent everyone , Jews included , from understanding the role of Jews and Jewish institutions in contributing to antisemitism in the Weimar republic or in 19th century @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Jewish political institutions are very sophisticated and far more strategic than we are willing to admit .
Perhaps The ADL , the CAA , AIPAC and other Jewish pressure groups actually fully understand Jewish history .
They do understand the possible dangerous implications of their actions .
However they genuinely believe that constant tension between Jews and their host nations is actually ‘ good for the Jews.
’ How could it be good for the Jews ?
It prevents assimilation and unnecessary intermingling .
It enforces Jewish identification , it evidently reinforces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigration to and support for the Jewish State .
Another possible answer is more fatalistic .
In this Jews do not follow a ‘ strategic plan ’ , nor they are ‘ blind to their past.
’ They simply can ’ t do much about their destiny as they are shaped individually and collectively by a unique and persistent tribal cultural-spiritual paradigm .
It is this tribal precept that sustains their clannish and exclusionist behavioural mode and also their affinity to biological determinist views .
I guess that it is this last answer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thought in the late 19th century .
Zionism accepted that Jewish diaspora culture and attitude was deeply unhealthy .
Early Zionists agreed amongst themselves that it is Jews and their cultural code , rather than the so-called ‘ antisemites ’ who bring disasters on the Jews .
Zionism vowed to ‘ civilise ’ the Jews by means of a ‘ homecoming ’ .
It promised to make them “ people like all other people.
” Theodor Herzl ( 1860 –1904 ) the author of political Zionism who is regarded by Jews and Israelis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t pull his punches in his attitude to Diaspora Jewry .
“ The wealthy Jews ” Herzl wrote , “ control the world , in their hands lies the fate of governments and nations .
They set governments one against the other .
When the wealthy Jews play , the nations and the rulers dance .
One way or the other , they get rich.
” Theodor Herzl , Deutsche Zeitung 4 min ’ 47 sec ’ in the following Hebrew video :

By Gilad Atzmon
In his book Memories, the first Israeli PM and pragmatic early Zionist, David Ben Gurion writes about his early years in Płońsk, Poland.
“For many of us, anti-Semitic feeling had little to do with our (Zionist) dedication. I personally never suffered anti-Semitic persecution. Płońsk was remarkably free of it… There were three main communities: Russians, Jews and Poles. … The number of Jews and Poles in the city were roughly equal, about five thousand each. The Jews, however, formed a compact, centralized group occupying the innermost districts whilst the Poles were more scattered, living in outlying areas and shading off into the peasantry.
“Consequently, when a gang of Jewish boys met a Polish gang the latter would almost inevitably represent a single suburb and thus be poorer in fighting potential than the Jews who even if their numbers were initially fewer could quickly call on reinforcements from the entire quarter. Far from being afraid of them (the goyim), they were rather afraid of us (the Jews). In general, however, relations were amicable, though distant.” (Memoirs: David Ben-Gurion (1970), p. 36)
Ben Gurion is very explicit when describing the balance of power between Jews and Poles in his town in the early days of the 20th century. “Far from being afraid of them, they were rather afraid of us (the Jews).”
Jews were indeed very powerful in Poland in the first years of the 20th century. The Jewish socialist party, the Bund, was a leading political force in the 1905 Revolution particularly in the Polish areas of the Russian empire. In the early stages of that Revolution, the Bund’s military wing was the strongest revolutionary force in Western Russia.
The Vow, the Bund’s anthem didn’t leave much room for imagination, it declared war and practically sentenced to death those who didn’t fit with their political agenda:
“We swear our stalwart hate persists,
Of those who rob and kill the poor:
The Tsar, the masters, capitalists.
Our vengeance will be swift and sure.
So swear together to live or die!”
“To wage the holy war we vow,
Until right triumphs over wrong.
No Midas, master, noble now –
The humble equal to the strong.
So swear together to live or die!”
The Bund was extremely confident of its power. In the autumn of 1933 it issued a call to the Polish public to boycott goods from Germany in protest of Hitler and the NSDAP. In December 1938 and January 1939, in the last Polish municipal elections before the start of WWII, the Bund received the largest segment of the Jewish vote. In 89 towns, one-third elected Bund majorities. In Warsaw, the Bund won 61.7% of the votes cast for Jewish parties, taking 17 of the 20 municipal council seats won by Jewish parties. In Łódź the Bund won 57.4% (11 of 17 seats won by Jewish parties).
We now know that this sense of victorious Jewish empowerment ended shortly after these elections. The East European and Polish Jewish communities suffered greatly during WWII. The Bund was completely wiped out during the war. For one reason or another and, as problematic as it may be for some, at least in the early stages of the war, some Poles, Ukrainians and other East European nationalists saw the Nazis as their ‘liberators.’ They apparently weren’t blind to the reality that was depicted by Ben Gurion.
This sense of Jewish political and social empowerment that is portrayed in Ben Gurion’s Memories and in the story of the Bund created a problematic pattern, as it clearly led to some tragic consequences.
In his conclusive work on the Holocaust, Jewish historian David Cesarani delved briefly into the work of the CV, (Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens – the central association of German citizens of the Jewish faith).
It would be a crude act of denial to fail to see the overwhelming similarity between the CV that was formed in 1893 and the likes of the ADL, SPLC, CRIF, the BOD and the CAA. Cesarani writes about the CV that it was formed “to combat the lies propagated by anti-Semites and oppose them when they stood for election.” Clearly, Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders and Cynthia McKinney weren’t the first politicians to be targeted by dedicated Jewish pressure groups. The CV was using the same tactics over a century ago.
Cesarani continues: “over the next two decades, the CV proved quite effective: suing rabble rousers for defamation, funding candidates pledged to contest anti-Semitism, producing voluminous amounts of educational material about Judaism and Jewish life, and coordinating the activity of sympathetic non-Jews ashamed of prejudice within their communities.” (Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949, David Cesarani pg.10)
Like the ADL and AIPAC in the USA, and the CAA in Britain, the CV saw its popularity amongst Jews grow rapidly. By 1926 more than 60.000 German Jews were amongst its members, however, there is a good reason to believe that the more popular the CV was amongst Jews, the less popular Jews and their politics were to Germans. We can observe that the ADL and CAA are not marching in virgin territory, there is historical documentation that points out that abrasive Jewish pressure politics have, in the past, helped lead to catastrophic consequences.
The Jewish Virtual Library produces a fascinating glimpse into the CV’s activity. In 1934 when the Nazi Party was already in power, the Party made no attempt to conceal its anti Jewish sentiments, yet, the CV, apparently in a state of complete denial, ignored the political shift in Germany and continued to pursue its pressure politics.
Following is a report by the CV from 26 April 1934:
“To the Regional branches:
Central Germany
Rheinland—Westfalia
Northern Germany
Hessen
Eastern Westfalia
Friends from small and middle sized towns have recently complain that songs with coarse anti-Jewish texts are being sung brazenly and provocatively. We intend to officially approach the Reich Ministry and report all these incidents and to address a letter of the board to the SA Chief and Reich Minister Roehm and to the Prussian Secret State Police. A representative of the CV will also raise this matter with the Propaganda Ministry. We therefore ask to report as soon as possible: In what localities such songs are being sung. What songs are being sung. Who is doing the singing.
(signed) Rubenstein.”
This type of a letter is familiar in its format and content from both ADL and CAA press releases targeting popular artists, musicians and politicians.
The point I am trying to make should be obvious. Harassing, terrorising and abusing one’s host nation into submission may produce some results in the short term, however, in the long run, it may not be the best way to fight anti Jewish sentiments. As Jewish history in general and the holocaust in particular prove, it may be the most dangerous path Jews can take.
‘History,’ we are told, ‘never repeats itself.’ Yet, for one reason or another, we are all expected to draw the right lessons from Jewish history. We are to vow ‘never again.’ We are to pledge to fight racism and discrimination.
Most surprising then, that the Jews, at large, never learn from their own past. One wonders, what is it about the ADL, AIPAC, BOD, Crif, CAA and other Jewish organisations that set them on a political path that has proven to be catastrophic?
One possible answer is collective ignorance. It is reasonable to assume that many Jews do not know or understand their own history and instead concentrate, if at all, on Jewish suffering (the holocaust, the inquisition, rise in Antisemitism, pogroms, etc.) rather than attempting to grasp the chain of events that led to such unfortunate consequences. In other words, they fail to see the connection between bad behaviour and antisemitism.
This may imply that if things, God forbid, turn sour for American Jewry tomorrow, Jews in the future will not examine the multiple disastrous headlines associated with some prominent American Jews and leading Jewish institutions. Accordingly, they will not see the negative impact of the bad behaviour of such characters as Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Ehud Barak, Les Wexner, Harvey Weinstein or George Soros.
They will not see the need to examine, let alone explain, the vast over-representation of Jews on NYC’s slumlord list or in America’s worst Ponzi schemes. Jews won’t look into the negative impact of the ADL or the SPLC. Nor will they dare dig into the disastrous impact of Israel and AIPAC on American Foreign Policy.
Jews won’t look into these for the same reasons that Jews work hard to prevent everyone, Jews included, from understanding the role of Jews and Jewish institutions in contributing to antisemitism in the Weimar republic or in 19th century Eastern Europe.
Another possible answer is that Jewish political institutions are very sophisticated and far more strategic than we are willing to admit. Perhaps The ADL, the CAA, AIPAC and other Jewish pressure groups actually fully understand Jewish history. They do understand the possible dangerous implications of their actions.
However they genuinely believe that constant tension between Jews and their host nations is actually ‘good for the Jews.’ How could it be good for the Jews? It prevents assimilation and unnecessary intermingling. It enforces Jewish identification, it evidently reinforces the importance of Israel and promotes Jewish immigration to and support for the Jewish State.
Another possible answer is more fatalistic. In this Jews do not follow a ‘strategic plan’, nor they are ‘blind to their past.’ They simply can’t do much about their destiny as they are shaped individually and collectively by a unique and persistent tribal cultural-spiritual paradigm. It is this tribal precept that sustains their clannish and exclusionist behavioural mode and also their affinity to biological determinist views.
I guess that it is this last answer that led to the birth of Zionist thought in the late 19th century. Zionism accepted that Jewish diaspora culture and attitude was deeply unhealthy. Early Zionists agreed amongst themselves that it is Jews and their cultural code, rather than the so-called ‘antisemites’ who bring disasters on the Jews. Zionism vowed to ‘civilise’ the Jews by means of a ‘homecoming’. It promised to make them “people like all other people.”
Theodor Herzl (1860 –1904) the author of political Zionism who is regarded by Jews and Israelis as Zionism’s forefather, didn’t pull his punches in his attitude to Diaspora Jewry. “The wealthy Jews” Herzl wrote, “control the world, in their hands lies the fate of governments and nations. They set governments one against the other. When the wealthy Jews play, the nations and the rulers dance. One way or the other, they get rich.” Theodor Herzl, Deutsche Zeitung 4 min’ 47 sec’ in the following Hebrew video:
Herzl didn’t refer to AIPAC, ADL, Soros or the CAA. He didn’t know about Corbyn, Dershowitz, Sanders or Epstein and his Lolita Express’ long list of passengers. Yet Herzl managed to identify a very problematic Jewish identitarian pattern which he pledged to alter by means of a ‘Zionist metamorphosis.’
A prime Labour Zionist ideologist, A.D. Gordon (1856 –1922) referred to his brethren as ‘a parasitic people’ who have “no roots in the soil.” Like Herzl, Gordon also believed that Jews could be re-invented and become proletarians.
Dov Ber Borochov (1881-1917), the leading theoretical Jewish Marxist ideologist who inspired Labour Zionism, was also disgusted by Jewish Diaspora parasitic tendencies. “The enterprising spirit of the Jew is irrepressible. He refuses to remain a proletarian. He will grab at the first opportunity to advance to a higher rung in the social ladder.” (The Economic Development of the Jewish People, Ber Borochov, 1916).
Maybe it is time to admit that early Zionism was a unique and profound instant in Jewish history. It was the only moment in time when Jews were brave enough to look in the mirror and to admit that they were repulsed by what they saw. A similar sense of self-loathing can be detected in sermons of the Biblical prophets, but early Zionism evolved into a powerful Jewish movement.
By means of self-loathing, it managed to achieve its objectives. It fulfilled its promise to establish a Jewish National homeland in Palestine, even if It did so at the expense of the Palestinian people whose land it plundered. On the face of it, Zionism made the Jews people like all other people, failing to see that all other people weren’t trying to be like all other people but were like themselves.
The first Israelis bought into the ideas of Herzl, Gordon and Borochov. They believed in the possibility of Jewish metamorphosis. But it didn’t take long before the Zionists realised that for Jewishness to survive, Goyim are needed. Why? Because Jewishness is basically different manifestations of choseness, and choseness cannot operate in a vacuum for the same reason that progressives need ‘reactionaries,’ and supremacists need people to look down upon.
It didn’t take long for the early Zionists to make the Palestinians and Arabs their new Goyim. It didn’t take more than a few decades for Israeli Jews to give up completely on the dream of a new Hebraic civilisation. By the 1990s Benjamin Netanyahu realised that it was Jewishness that united the Israelis. Israel under his leadership drifted rapidly from the Zionist dream. It morphed safely into a ‘Jewish State.’
On a personal note I admit that, like many of my peers, in my early years I bought into the Zionist ethos. I fell in love with the idea of a Jewish nationalist rebirth. It was pretty convenient to see the Biblical kings and prophets as my ‘ancestors.’
My understanding of the Zionist revolutionary impetus was reinforced when I toured around the world as a young musician playing Jewish music in diaspora communities. I realised that I shared very little or nothing at all with those Diaspora Jews and their cultural/political ethos. I guess that I took the Zionist dream very seriously, I vowed to become a nice, ethical human being. By the time my project was more or less accomplished, I gathered that I, as a nice adult, was basically an ordinary goy like all other goyim, I was a Jew no more.
The absurdity here is that together with just a few others including: Uri Avnery, Gideon Levy, Israel Shamir, Israel Shachak, Shlomo Sand, I am probably amongst the last of the Zionists. I guess that we are the few who managed to unshackle themselves, to break out of the ghetto walls and to cross the rough sea between Jerusalem and Athens.


veteranstoday--2020-07-24--MIKE HARRIS SHOW: Number 3 in the series of interviews with the talented Mr. Steinbart

Mike Harris is the Veteran ’ s Today Financial Editor and podcast radio show host of Short End of the Stick .
Mr. Harris has enjoyed 30+ yrs in the manufacturing , financial , and technology sectors .
He ’ s been core to numerous domestic and international start-ups , acquisitions and mergers , skyrocketing profit margins through a highly co-operative/collaborative team approach .
His sharp intellect and a fluid intuition were a significant boon during his 2005/6 run for the Governor of Arizona where he emphasized the need to initiate immediate , practical , working solutions to the issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mr. Harris served as a technical advisor to the Committee on Science and Technology of the US Congress , as well as sitting as Chairman of various boards over the years .
With an MBA in finance , from a foundation of Applied Physics and Economics , he has proven an exceptional ability to function well-above and beyond “ the box ” .
Dubbed “ Iron Mike ” through his many years as a martial artist , Mr. Harris has clearly demonstrated the resiliency to take blows and to come back fighting .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ his ultimate Vision for a free , abundant , and prosperous society .

Editor’s note: As much as we love Mike Harris, a longtime personal friend, our look at Mr. Steinbart and his alleged assertions indicate he is a serial fabricatrionist. Enjoy:
This is Number 3 in the series of interviews with the talented Mr. Steinbart. In this episode, he demonstrates he is more than a compelling story and a handsome face, he illustrated he has a functional grasp of realpolitik issues of the day. There are those who remain skeptical, but others who have become convinced of his veracity and genuineness. I am merely the interviewer, but I find his story and presentation compelling enough to take a deeper look.
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Mike Harris is the Veteran’s Today Financial Editor and podcast radio show host of Short End of the Stick. Mr. Harris has enjoyed 30+ yrs in the manufacturing, financial, and technology sectors. He’s been core to numerous domestic and international start-ups, acquisitions, and mergers, skyrocketing profit margins through a highly cooperative/collaborative team approach. His sharp intellect and fluid intuition were a significant boon during his 2005/6 run for the Governor of Arizona where he emphasized the need to initiate immediate, practical, working solutions to the issues at hand. From 1995 to 2000 Mr. Harris served as a technical advisor to the Committee on Science and Technology of the US Congress, as well as sitting as Chairman of various boards over the years. With an MBA in finance, from a foundation in Applied Physics and Economics, he has proven an exceptional ability to function well above and beyond “the box”. Dubbed “Iron Mike” through his many years as a martial artist, Mr. Harris has clearly demonstrated the resiliency to take blows and to come back fighting. This extraordinary skill-set he now brings to his ultimate Vision for a free, abundant, and prosperous society.


veteranstoday--2020-07-24--Thousand Erdogan’s ISIS Jihadists in Italy from Libya. Haftar Spokesman’s Warning on Turkish Migrant

Thousand Erdogan’s ISIS Jihadists in Italy from Libya. Haftar Spokesman’s Warning on Turkish Migrant’s Traffic. Interpol on Alert

« There are about a thousand Syrians who fled via Zuwara and Sabratha towards Europe last week , using boats provided by a European country in support of the coast guard under al-Sarraj government , but they are now being exploited in illegal immigration » .
The Libyan National Army spokesman , Major General Ahmed al-Mismari , has revealed « Turkey ’ s involvement in smuggling Syrian mercenaries from Libya towards Europe , specifically Italy » .
What he does not specify is that most of the extremist Islamic factions enlisted by Ankara are not only made up of anti-Assad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In a press conference held yesterday , Thursday 23 July , in Benghazi and reported with prominence by The Libyan Address Journal , Al-Mismari explained that « this route runs from the areas of Tripoli , Sabratha , and Zuwara , under militias of the Fayez al-Sarraj government allied to Turkey » .
In Europe the news was reported with emphasis only by InsideOver , the online geopolitical insert of Il Giornale di Milano , in a broad report by colleague Giovanni Giacalone .
« A thousand mercenaries and jihad cutthroats transferred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the militias of Fayez al-Serraj would have infiltrated Europe and especially in Italy , sailing from the ports of Tripoli , Sabratha and Zuwara , all areas controlled by the GNA » writes InsideOver .
« According to Al Mismari ’ s statement , 483 “ Syrians ” fled to the Italian coast only on Tuesday , adding that the illegal immigrants would even have used the boats supplied to the GNA to control the coast .
Europe thus risks finding hundreds of cutthroats with experience on the battlefield on its own territory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Brussels to the executive of al-Serraj “ .
« Un migliaio di mercenari e tagliagole del jihad trasferiti dai turchi in Libia per sostenere le milizie di Fayez al-Serraj si sarebbero infiltrati in Europa e in particolar modo in Italia , salpando dai porti di Tripoli , Sabratha e Zuwara , tutte zone controllate dal Gna » scrive InsideOver .
The revelations would have attracted the attention of Interpol officials in the Mediterranean area who , already in September 2019 , thanks to the NETTUNO II operation , had identified suspected muslim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In that case , however , the investigation was conducted mainly on scheduled ferries .
The words of the senior officer in the army of Marshal General Khalifa Haftar , commander of the troops who control Benghazi and Cyrenaica ( Eastern Libya ) in agreement with the government of Tobruk must be taken very seriously for multiple reasons .
They are credible although they are obviously oriented to denigrate the opposing front in the Libyan civil war , that is , President Al Serraj , at the helm of the Government of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only by the Turkish sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan but also by the Emir of Qatar , occult Ankara ’ s financier in the enterprise by virtue of the common adhesion to the political-religious organization of the Muslim Brotherhood , and from their main ally in Europe : namely Italy .
A few weeks ago it was in fact the Italian ambassador in Tripoli , Giuseppe Buccino Grimaldi , former adviser to President Giorgio Napolitano at the time of the elimination of Muhammar Gaddafi and long diplomat in Qatar , to admit to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Turks played a role important » on behalf of NATO .
The latter , we explain , was in fact unable to officially intervene in a foreign country without a UN Security Council resolution that could never have passed due to the veto of Russia , Haftar ’ s ally .
From December 2019 , the sending of the TNSA ( Turkish Natioanl Siryan Army ) mercenaries employed by Erdogan in the Rojava of North Eastern Syria against the Kurds and to defend the occupied territories such as Afrin , the Syrian Observatory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ network of information based in Coventry , England , has begun to signal the departures on the boats bound for Italy of militants of the various Sunni extremist groups ( such as the Turkish-Qatari Muslim Brotherhood and therefore antagonists of the Shiites supporters of the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad ) .
About forty were reported in the first weeks , then 200 in March ( despite the emergency from the Covid-19 pandemic ) as reported by Gospa News , and finally another 400 on 29 June as reported by AskaNews .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ killed under the bombs of the legitimate Syrian government of Assad and its Russian allies , all the mainstream media reported with abundance the bulletins released thanks to the presence on the field of the White Helmets , the Syrian Civil Defense reported to the UN for terrorism from Moscow because believed to be an accomplice to the terrorists of Al Nusra , the rib of Al Qaeda in Syria , in turn implicated even in the false-flag chemical attack ( of misdirection to accuse Assad ) of Douma where some children were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tied … After the Syrian rebels passed en masse under the aegis of Turkey through the Peace Spring operation of October 2019 with the invasion of Rojava and after the November 11th the commander of the White Helmets , James Le Mesurier , a former British military official and MI6 counterintelligence agent , the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights from Coventry began to openly denounce the jihadist maneuvers that have become increasingly complex and structured thanks to the direction of MIT , the National Intelligence Organization of Ankara .
But the mainstream media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Thanks to multiple international media focused on Syria and Libya , Gospa News has revealed in multiple plots of Erdogan ’ s 007 : from the release of ISIS terrorists from Turkish prisons to recruit them in the various rebel factions to the movement of the surviving leaders of the Islamic State and Al Qaeda within the TNSA militias .
Saudi Arabia was the first to test the strategy of enlisting those sentenced to death for having guerrillas ready for anything , as revealed by top secret documents published on our site .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ agency Hawar News ( ANHA ) reported the names , surnames and photos of some of the 229 terrorists wanted worldwide brought from Turkey to fight in Libya alongside Al Sarraj ’ s GNA and against Haftar ’ s LNA .
The feared MIT counterintelligence had already been impeached by Hawar News with the publication of some documents concerning « the transfer of mercenaries from Syria to many European countries through Turkey » .
The role of the 007 of Ankara , moreover , was precious to Italian intelligence for the release of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Kenya by the Somali extremist terrorists of Al Shabaab and returned to Italy converted to Islam after a lavish ransom paid by Rome to this formation affiliated with Al Qaeda .
In light of all these reminders , the revelations of General Al Mismari take on considerable importance and his warning takes on prophetic connotations .
Indeed , Haftar ’ s right-hand man , as reported by Libyan Address Journal , has warned Europe against the escalation of illegal immigration across the Mediterranean , indicating that this migration may not be innocent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among them that cause unrest in the European continent .
The maxi-seizure of a load of amphetamines , the drug par excellence of the ISIS suicide bombers , which took place in the port of Salerno in recent days has also attracted particular attention among the intelligence experts of the American site Veterans Today for which I am honored to collaborate .
Was it just a huge business or was it also a supply for dormant cells in Europe ?
Al-Mismari added that « this file will remain open in light of chaos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invader , who wants the crisis to continue » .
As is actually happening after the arrival of 2,500 ISIS militants from Tunisia in Libya and the go-ahead of the Egyptian parliament to President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi for an armed intervention by Egypt , an enemy of the Muslim Brotherhood considered a terrorist organization , in response to the appeal of the Government of Tobruk , in solidarity with General Haftar after various fruitless attempts at peace with Tripoli ’ s opponents .
Come sta effettivamente avvenendo dopo l ’ arrivo di @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e il via libera del parlamento egiziano al presidente Abdel Fattah Al Sisi per un intervento armato dell ’ Egitto , nemico dei Fratelli Musulmani considerati organizzazione terrorista , in risposta all ’ appello del Governo di Tobruk , solidale con il generale Haftar dopo vari inutili tentativi di pace con gli avversari di Tripoli .
« The presence of mercenaries and jihadists transferred by air from the Turkish MIT to the Tripoli and Misrata area has already been widely documented and should not be surprising .
Indeed , Erdogan has every interest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the country ’ s energy industry , as he is already doing .
It is no coincidence that the GNA has now gone from an UN-supported executive to a puppet regime in Ankara and in the hands of militias of Islamists and traffickers » Giacalone wrote on InsideOver , echoing several of our previous articles .
« In relation to this , the recent visit of the Minister of the Interior , Luciana Lamorgese , to Tripoli to meet al-Serraj can not fail to be discussed , especially following the press release @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in which it is stated that » discussed the latest developments in Libya and a series of common issues , the most important of which is the security cooperation dossier , which in turn includes capacity building , the fight against illegal migration , trafficking in human beings human and smuggling ” » .
« Is it possible to discuss security with those who open their country ’ s doors to jihad cutthroats to work alongside militias armed with Islamists , warlords and traffickers who control the GNA ?
Hard to believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illegal immigration from the southern route , the facts speak for themselves and in Lampedusa in about 48 hours approximately 800 irregular immigrants arrived » wrote the Italian reporter .
Impossible to believe it .
We would like to add that , within the “ Lobby Armi 4 ” dossier , we have analyzed the business connections between Turkey , Qatar , Italy and the United Kingdom .
But above all , we have already collected the documents indicating an interconnection of this shameful business between the Muslim Brotherhood , Western and Zionist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ various countries in the NATO area .
An attempt to stop the wave of migrants was made in 2017 by the then minister Marco Minnisti ( Gentiloni government always supported by the Democratic Party which has been running in Italy since 2012 ) .
The Italian Republic paid 5 million euros to one of Sabrata ’ s local military rais dedicated to human trafficking to stop its activity .
Rome trusted Fitouri Al Dabbashi despite his relatives being arrested for infiltrating ISIS cells from Libya from Tunisia .
The landings slowed down but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later killed while fighting in Tripoli for the GNA in September 2019 .
Two months later Erdogan ’ s jihadists arrived and Italy bowed the mute head…

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy
Versione originale in Italiano
«There are about a thousand Syrians who fled via Zuwara and Sabratha towards Europe last week, using boats provided by a European country in support of the coast guard under al-Sarraj government, but they are now being exploited in illegal immigration».
The Libyan National Army spokesman, Major General Ahmed al-Mismari, has revealed «Turkey’s involvement in smuggling Syrian mercenaries from Libya towards Europe, specifically Italy». What he does not specify is that most of the extremist Islamic factions enlisted by Ankara are not only made up of anti-Assad rebels but above all of terrorist jihadists.
In a press conference held yesterday, Thursday 23 July, in Benghazi and reported with prominence by The Libyan Address Journal, Al-Mismari explained that «this route runs from the areas of Tripoli, Sabratha, and Zuwara, under militias of the Fayez al-Sarraj government allied to Turkey».
In Europe the news was reported with emphasis only by InsideOver, the online geopolitical insert of Il Giornale di Milano, in a broad report by colleague Giovanni Giacalone.
«A thousand mercenaries and jihad cutthroats transferred from the Turks to Libya to support the militias of Fayez al-Serraj would have infiltrated Europe and especially in Italy, sailing from the ports of Tripoli, Sabratha and Zuwara, all areas controlled by the GNA» writes InsideOver.
«According to Al Mismari’s statement, 483 “Syrians” fled to the Italian coast only on Tuesday, adding that the illegal immigrants would even have used the boats supplied to the GNA to control the coast. Europe thus risks finding hundreds of cutthroats with experience on the battlefield on its own territory, ferried with those same boats supplied by Brussels to the executive of al-Serraj “.
«Un migliaio di mercenari e tagliagole del jihad trasferiti dai turchi in Libia per sostenere le milizie di Fayez al-Serraj si sarebbero infiltrati in Europa e in particolar modo in Italia, salpando dai porti di Tripoli, Sabratha e Zuwara, tutte zone controllate dal Gna» scrive InsideOver.
The revelations would have attracted the attention of Interpol officials in the Mediterranean area who, already in September 2019, thanks to the NETTUNO II operation, had identified suspected muslim terrorists who arrived in Italy by sea. In that case, however, the investigation was conducted mainly on scheduled ferries.
The words of the senior officer in the army of Marshal General Khalifa Haftar, commander of the troops who control Benghazi and Cyrenaica (Eastern Libya) in agreement with the government of Tobruk must be taken very seriously for multiple reasons.
They are credible although they are obviously oriented to denigrate the opposing front in the Libyan civil war, that is, President Al Serraj, at the helm of the Government of National Accord (GNA) supported not only by the Turkish sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan but also by the Emir of Qatar, occult Ankara’s financier in the enterprise by virtue of the common adhesion to the political-religious organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, and from their main ally in Europe: namely Italy.
A few weeks ago it was in fact the Italian ambassador in Tripoli, Giuseppe Buccino Grimaldi, former adviser to President Giorgio Napolitano at the time of the elimination of Muhammar Gaddafi and long diplomat in Qatar, to admit to the microphones of italian Radio24 that «the Turks played a role important »on behalf of NATO.
The latter, we explain, was in fact unable to officially intervene in a foreign country without a UN Security Council resolution that could never have passed due to the veto of Russia, Haftar’s ally.
SYRIAN OBSERVATORY’S CONFIMATIONS
From December 2019, the sending of the TNSA (Turkish Natioanl Siryan Army) mercenaries employed by Erdogan in the Rojava of North Eastern Syria against the Kurds and to defend the occupied territories such as Afrin, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), network of information based in Coventry, England, has begun to signal the departures on the boats bound for Italy of militants of the various Sunni extremist groups (such as the Turkish-Qatari Muslim Brotherhood and therefore antagonists of the Shiites supporters of the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad) .
About forty were reported in the first weeks, then 200 in March (despite the emergency from the Covid-19 pandemic) as reported by Gospa News, and finally another 400 on 29 June as reported by AskaNews.
As long as SOHR reported the dead killed under the bombs of the legitimate Syrian government of Assad and its Russian allies, all the mainstream media reported with abundance the bulletins released thanks to the presence on the field of the White Helmets, the Syrian Civil Defense reported to the UN for terrorism from Moscow because believed to be an accomplice to the terrorists of Al Nusra, the rib of Al Qaeda in Syria, in turn implicated even in the false-flag chemical attack (of misdirection to accuse Assad) of Douma where some children were found killed by gas after being been tied …
After the Syrian rebels passed en masse under the aegis of Turkey through the Peace Spring operation of October 2019 with the invasion of Rojava and after the November 11th the commander of the White Helmets, James Le Mesurier, a former British military official and MI6 counterintelligence agent, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights from Coventry began to openly denounce the jihadist maneuvers that have become increasingly complex and structured thanks to the direction of MIT, the National Intelligence Organization of Ankara. But the mainstream media then began to ignore SOHR reports …
ISIS AND AL QAEDA CUTTERS MANAGED BY 007 TURKS
Thanks to multiple international media focused on Syria and Libya, Gospa News has revealed in multiple plots of Erdogan’s 007: from the release of ISIS terrorists from Turkish prisons to recruit them in the various rebel factions to the movement of the surviving leaders of the Islamic State and Al Qaeda within the TNSA militias. Saudi Arabia was the first to test the strategy of enlisting those sentenced to death for having guerrillas ready for anything, as revealed by top secret documents published on our site.
A dossier released by the Kurdish news agency Hawar News (ANHA) reported the names, surnames and photos of some of the 229 terrorists wanted worldwide brought from Turkey to fight in Libya alongside Al Sarraj’s GNA and against Haftar’s LNA.
The feared MIT counterintelligence had already been impeached by Hawar News with the publication of some documents concerning «the transfer of mercenaries from Syria to many European countries through Turkey».
The role of the 007 of Ankara, moreover, was precious to Italian intelligence for the release of the young cooperator Silvia Romano, kidnapped in Kenya by the Somali extremist terrorists of Al Shabaab and returned to Italy converted to Islam after a lavish ransom paid by Rome to this formation affiliated with Al Qaeda.
In light of all these reminders, the revelations of General Al Mismari take on considerable importance and his warning takes on prophetic connotations. Indeed, Haftar’s right-hand man, as reported by Libyan Address Journal, has warned Europe against the escalation of illegal immigration across the Mediterranean, indicating that this migration may not be innocent, as there may be terrorist elements among them that cause unrest in the European continent.
The maxi-seizure of a load of amphetamines, the drug par excellence of the ISIS suicide bombers, which took place in the port of Salerno in recent days has also attracted particular attention among the intelligence experts of the American site VT for which I am honored to collaborate. Was it just a huge business or was it also a supply for dormant cells in Europe?
Al-Mismari added that «this file will remain open in light of chaos and in the presence of the Turkish invader, who wants the crisis to continue».
As is actually happening after the arrival of 2,500 ISIS militants from Tunisia in Libya and the go-ahead of the Egyptian parliament to President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi for an armed intervention by Egypt, an enemy of the Muslim Brotherhood considered a terrorist organization, in response to the appeal of the Government of Tobruk, in solidarity with General Haftar after various fruitless attempts at peace with Tripoli’s opponents.
Come sta effettivamente avvenendo dopo l’arrivo di 2.500 miliziani ISIS dalla Tunisia in Libia e il via libera del parlamento egiziano al presidente Abdel Fattah Al Sisi per un intervento armato dell’Egitto, nemico dei Fratelli Musulmani considerati organizzazione terrorista, in risposta all’appello del Governo di Tobruk, solidale con il generale Haftar dopo vari inutili tentativi di pace con gli avversari di Tripoli.
LEAK SECURITY AND WEAPONS’ LOBBY
«The presence of mercenaries and jihadists transferred by air from the Turkish MIT to the Tripoli and Misrata area has already been widely documented and should not be surprising. Indeed, Erdogan has every interest in destabilizing Libya to get his hands on the country’s energy industry, as he is already doing. It is no coincidence that the GNA has now gone from an UN-supported executive to a puppet regime in Ankara and in the hands of militias of Islamists and traffickers» Giacalone wrote on InsideOver, echoing several of our previous articles.
«In relation to this, the recent visit of the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, to Tripoli to meet al-Serraj cannot fail to be discussed, especially following the press release issued by the GNA after the meeting, in which it is stated that» discussed the latest developments in Libya and a series of common issues, the most important of which is the security cooperation dossier, which in turn includes capacity building, the fight against illegal migration, trafficking in human beings human and smuggling”».
«Is it possible to discuss security with those who open their country’s doors to jihad cutthroats to work alongside militias armed with Islamists, warlords and traffickers who control the GNA? Hard to believe it. As for the fight against illegal immigration from the southern route, the facts speak for themselves and in Lampedusa in about 48 hours approximately 800 irregular immigrants arrived» wrote the Italian reporter.
Impossible to believe it. We would like to add that, within the “Lobby Armi 4” dossier, we have analyzed the business connections between Turkey, Qatar, Italy and the United Kingdom. But above all, we have already collected the documents indicating an interconnection of this shameful business between the Muslim Brotherhood, Western and Zionist Freemasonry, and the secret services of various countries in the NATO area.
An attempt to stop the wave of migrants was made in 2017 by the then minister Marco Minnisti (Gentiloni government always supported by the Democratic Party which has been running in Italy since 2012). The Italian Republic paid 5 million euros to one of Sabrata’s local military rais dedicated to human trafficking to stop its activity.
Rome trusted Fitouri Al Dabbashi despite his relatives being arrested for infiltrating ISIS cells from Libya from Tunisia. The landings slowed down but did not cease. Al Dabbashi was later killed while fighting in Tripoli for the GNA in September 2019. Two months later Erdogan’s jihadists arrived and Italy bowed the mute head…
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
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veteranstoday--2020-07-24--Vltchek: Racism in Chile

Vltchek: Racism in Chile

Recently , when a retired Chilean U.N. employee tried to enter ECLAC ( United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean , based in Santiago de Chile ) to claim her pension in a bank inside the compound , her car was stopped by a U.N. security officer .
She was asked to complete formalities .
To her taste , the process was taking too much time , and she began honking .
The head of security approached her , trying to explain the procedure , which had recently toughened up , due to the outbreak of COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an African-Brazilian .
She clearly did not like this fact , and she exploded : “ That spicy nigger ( ‘ el negro picante ’ ) is the security head ?
I ’ m going to send him to the United States so that they could kill him there !
I ’ m going to write to ‘ El Mercurio ’ newspaper !
Who would think that this nigger could be a boss ?
” Her horrid outburst was reported , and it quickly reached the ECLAC head who happens to be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who is a vocal admirer of AMLO , Hugo Chávez , Correa , and Lula .
Indignant , she took immediate action , barring the former employee ’ s entry to the compound and reporting the incident to the U.N. headquarters in New York .
This story could be dismissed as an ugly anecdote , as something sick and unusual .
Except , it is not unusual at all .
Chile is a dreadfully racist place , although , as many countries where racism thrives , it does not openly admit that it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Allende ’ s era , gone is solidarity with other Latin American nations .
It appears that only the Chilean Communist Party has at least some sympathy with the plight of Venezuelan people .
And no one here is demanding the return of the access to the sea to Bolivia : access which was literally stolen during the shameful “ War of the Pacific , ” during which Chile disgracefully joined forces with Great Britain against Bolivia and Peru .
“ We are English of Latin America.
” This is how Chileans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ openly despise those who are not as white as they are : Peruvians , Bolivians , Haitians .
Throughout the 20th Century , Chilean immigration policy was based on a determined effort to attract the whitest of whites , from Germans to Czechs , Croats , Swiss .
Even the Italians were not good enough for them .
A new wave of European migrants was mainly settling in the south , pushing indigenous , native Mapuche people to the margins , and into misery .
Chilean Left has very little to do with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Western-style left , much closer to defunct “ anarcho-syndicalism ” in the United States , then to Cuban , Venezuelan , or Bolivian pan-Latin American struggle .
The majority of Chilean ‘ revolutionaries ’ feel much more at home in Miami , Paris , or Rome than with their own oppressed people in such places as Puerto Saavedra or Temuco .
In Chile , race plays an extremely important role .
It opens and closes doors .
It determines who gets what jobs , and who ends up living in inescapable misery .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 ” , Chilean extreme right-wing government of Sebastian Piñera unleashed a new stage of the war against Mapuche people , a war that even some foreign mass media outlets could not ignore , anymore .
According to Thomas Reuters Foundation News report from 17 June 2020 : “ The Mapuche , which means “ Earth People ” in the Mapudungun tongue , make up about 10 % of Chile ’ s population of 19 million and mainly work as subsistence farmers in the Araucania region – one the poorest areas of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hunger strike , occupied and burned forestry and farming lands , and cut off highways to demand territories they say were stolen from them .
Mapuche leaders say that , like black Americans , they have lost a disproportionate number of their own young men to police violence .
One such case was Camilo Catrillanca , who was shot dead in 2018 during a police operation that sparked widespread fury among Chileans .
The 24-year-old became a symbol of police brutality , and his death triggered the resignation of the country ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is now even the “ Papuan Lives Matter ” movement , in far-away Indonesia , until this very moment , there is nothing resembling like “ Mapuche Lives Matter ” movement in Chile .
“ Still , the struggles of indigenous people remain unknown to many , according to Karina Riquelme , a Chilean lawyer .
“ Every day they ( the Mapuche ) live in fear that one of their members could end up dead , ” said Riquelme , who works with indigenous groups .
“ I don ’ t think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tanks , helicopters , and police installations in their communities.
” Holding those responsible to account and getting justice is rare , said opposition lawmaker Emilia Nuyado , Chile ’ s first Mapuche congresswoman elected in 2018.
” The plight of non-white migrants in Chile is horrific , particularly of those with non-white skin .
Even Venezuelans , those who were leaving their country mainly because of the economic difficulties which have risen due to illegal U.S. sanctions against their country , have to face discrimination and often even open hostility .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a result of the 2019 popular uprising , as well as mismanaged COVID-19 crisis , most of the Venezuelan migrants lost their jobs .
They ended up literally on the street , facing insults , ridicule , even attacks .
Hundreds gathered in front of their Embassy in Santiago , hoping to return home , but there were no flights .
The temperature was dropping as winter had arrived .
The Chilean state did nothing to help .
In the end , it was the Communist mayor of Recoletta , who took decisive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need in his neighborhood .
The Chilean government began preparing what is termed as ‘ voluntary repatriation ’ of both Haitian and Venezuelan citizens , demanding that they sign an affidavit with a clause that they can not re-enter the country for at least nine years .
Thoroughly unlawful and unconstitutional move , but here nobody cares .
In Chile , racism has many diverse forms , and some of them are truly monstrous .
Right after the Pinochet dictatorship officially ended , I went to Chile , to write about , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an evil German enclave , run by extreme right-wing ( some of them Nazis ) child molesters ( listen to my interview here ) .
This huge compound , in remote Maule Region , spreading towards the Andes and the border with Argentina , was , particularly during the dictatorship , notorious for torturing , raping , and disappearing people .
Its name was changed in 1991 to Villa Baviera , but even after that , for years it continued to function as a state inside the state , equipped with barbed wire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ searchlights , German shepherds , two airstrips , power plant , and the arsenal of weapons stored in the underground tunnels .
After returning to Chile , several months ago , I discovered that all major Chilean supermarket chains are stuffed with the Villa Baviera products , from German bread to sausages of all kinds .
This pinnacle of racism , bigotry , sexual abuse ( mainly pedophilia ) , and torture , the colony is now operating as some sort of “ tourist resort.
” This is clearly a spit in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of them kidnapped and ‘ adopted ’ Mapuche children , and to the Chilean democracy , which was broken to shards on 11 September 1973 , during the fascist , US-backed military coup .
Democracy , which was never restored , until this very moment .
Even in the United States , one statue after another is getting desecrated , painted with graffiti , or simply destroyed .
Crimes against humanity are being exposed .
With each of the statues , respect to US racist past has been vanishing .
In Chile , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been admired and revered .
During the last year ’ s uprising , however , several monuments were attacked , including those to the conqueror Pedro de Valdivia , in the cities of Concepcion , Valdivia , and Temuco .
History of the country has been closely tied to various brutal conquerors , butchers of the native population , and to the collaborators with the European and lately North American interests : Pedro de Valdivia , General Baquedano , and others .
In Santiago de Chile , a huge statue of General Baquedano @ @ @ @ @ @ @ served as a gathering place for the anti-government demonstrations at the end of 2019 .
However , under cover of the four months long COVID-19 lockdown , the government of Sebastian Piñera managed to stop most of the protests , and consequently repaint the Baquedano ’ s statue .
At one point , the president himself stopped his motorcade and took his own selfie in front of the monument to the butcher of Bolivia and Peru .
In Chile , there is no love for the Chinese or other Asians .
The country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S./European political and cultural propaganda .
I knew several Asian women who used to face intimidation and harassment in Santiago .
Here , to be white , to be of European stock , is worn like a coat of honor .
The highest honor .
Twenty years ago , when I lived here for over two years , Chileans were obsessed with different cultures .
People appeared to be thirsty for everything coming from Asia or the Middle East .
Now , it is back to the mainstream Western offerings : from U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of art cinemas shrank dramatically .
Santiago reduced itself to a provincial , culturally dull capital .
Unless one is interested in the second-rate Western offering , there is very little of interest here , now .
Little wonder .
Under the neo-liberal model , Chile ’ s upper and upper-middle classes adopted the Western/white complex of superiority fully .
Obviously , individuals who spit at black people will not be seeking African art .
In a report published by Palabra Publica , some facts and analyses appear to be shocking : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Chile : A Study of Perception ’ s , published by the National Institute for Human rights ( NIHR ) in February of this year , indicates that 68.2 % of surveyed individuals declare that they agree with measures to limit the entrance of migrants into Chile .
In turn , a third of them consider themselves “ whiter than other people from Latin American countries ” and almost 25 % in the Metropolitan Region see immigrants as “ dirtier ” than Chileans .
Additionally , the National Institute for Human rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact that skin color and indigenous features are indicated as reasons for rejection denotes their use as indicators of social exclusion and , therefore , as an implicit expression of racism ( … ) the indicators of the responses show that over 30 % of the participants do not clearly reject the idea of stigmatizing them ” .
Black lives do matter , increasingly , even among the many progressive groups of people in the United States .
But not in Chile .
Despite gross discrimination , assaults and even killing of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ( one of the most ‘ famous ’ cases was that of a 27-year-old Haitian immigrant , Joanne Florvil , who got , in 2017 , arbitrarily detained , denied an interpreter and killed ) , there seems to be no organized , powerful movement in Chile , which would stand determinately against racism and continuous theft of what is left of the Mapuche lands , or for the return of access to the sea to Bolivia .
Now , during the draconical COVID-19 lockdown ( Chilean neoliberal government absolutely failed in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus – Chile presently having the highest number of infections in Latin America , per 1 million people ) , Haitian immigrants are abused more and more , openly and brutally .
Bizarrely , many Chileans believe that Haitians are ‘ dirty ’ and that they are responsible for spreading the virus .
Horrid conditions in which they have to live , as well as abuses they have to face , were recently depicted even by Al-Jazeera and otherwise staunch neo-liberal reporter Lucia Newman .
In a way , Chilean racism and racial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is happening in several countries of South America .
Here , the European descendants became what is called ‘ elites.
’ They control political , cultural , and economic life , and they control land , despising other ethnic groups .
Politically , they are controlling not only the right-wing , but also in some cases ( like Chile , Argentina , and Uruguay ) , a substantial part of the Left .
Here , much of the Left now has nothing to do with the Latin American Left , which is governing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As described above , in Chile , it is a defunct pseudo-left similar to the Western anarcho-syndicalism , which is alien to the mentality of the native , non-Western cultures .
It is all about ‘ rights ’ and individualism , and very little or none , about internationalism .
In Chile , during the big uprising which took place at the end of 2019 – an uprising which I photographed , filmed and covered – there were almost no voices supporting Venezuela or denouncing US-backed coup in Bolivia .
However , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chilean racism is deadly .
Here , European migrants ruined great native cultures , both in the south and north .
Alliance of Chile and the U.K. robbed Bolivia of its access to the sea and damaged Peru .
Chile spied on Argentina , on behalf of the U.K. , during the War of Malvinas .
The country was the essential participant in Operation Condor , with Colonia Dignidad being one of the main torture centers on the continent .
Until now , Santiago plays a crucial role in isolating and intimidating Venezuela @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
All this , because of desperate desire to be accepted , to be part of the Western club of predominately white nations .
“ The English of Latin America , ” Chile does not want to be a victim .
It prefers to be a victimizer .
And in many ways , it is .
Domestically and internationally .
But the word is quickly changing , and Chile may find itself on the very wrong side of history .
The Western regime , the Western empire , is rapidly collapsing .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very soon , become just that and nothing more – a color .
While the great original cultures of Latin America will , no doubt , return to both prominence and former glory .
[ Written for and first published by Orinoco Tribune in Venezuela ] dre Vltchek is a philosopher , novelist , filmmaker , and investigative journalist .
He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries .
Six of his latest books are “ New Capital of Indonesia ” , “ China Belt and Road Initiative , ” “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ B. Cobb , Jr. , “ Revolutionary Optimism , Western Nihilism , ” a revolutionary novel “ Aurora ” and a bestselling work of political non-fiction : “ Exposing Lies Of The Empire ” .
View his other books here .
Watch Rwanda Gambit , his groundbreaking documentary about Rwanda and DR Congo , and his film/dialogue with Noam Chomsky “ On Western Terrorism ” .
Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and Latin America and continues to work around the world .
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By: Andre Vltchek for VT
Recently, when a retired Chilean U.N. employee tried to enter ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Santiago de Chile) to claim her pension in a bank inside the compound, her car was stopped by a U.N. security officer. She was asked to complete formalities. To her taste, the process was taking too much time, and she began honking. The head of security approached her, trying to explain the procedure, which had recently toughened up, due to the outbreak of COVID-19. The security head happened to be an African-Brazilian.
She clearly did not like this fact, and she exploded:
“That spicy nigger (‘el negro picante’) is the security head? I’m going to send him to the United States so that they could kill him there! I’m going to write to ‘El Mercurio’ newspaper! Who would think that this nigger could be a boss?”
Her horrid outburst was reported, and it quickly reached the ECLAC head who happens to be a progressive Mexican scientist – Alicia Bárcena – who is a vocal admirer of AMLO, Hugo Chávez, Correa, and Lula. Indignant, she took immediate action, barring the former employee’s entry to the compound and reporting the incident to the U.N. headquarters in New York.
This story could be dismissed as an ugly anecdote, as something sick and unusual. Except, it is not unusual at all. Chile is a dreadfully racist place, although, as many countries where racism thrives, it does not openly admit that it is.
Gone are the internationalist ideals of Allende’s era, gone is solidarity with other Latin American nations. It appears that only the Chilean Communist Party has at least some sympathy with the plight of Venezuelan people. And no one here is demanding the return of the access to the sea to Bolivia: access which was literally stolen during the shameful “War of the Pacific,” during which Chile disgracefully joined forces with Great Britain against Bolivia and Peru.
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“We are English of Latin America.” This is how Chileans like to view themselves.
And they openly despise those who are not as white as they are: Peruvians, Bolivians, Haitians.
Throughout the 20th Century, Chilean immigration policy was based on a determined effort to attract the whitest of whites, from Germans to Czechs, Croats, Swiss. Even the Italians were not good enough for them. A new wave of European migrants was mainly settling in the south, pushing indigenous, native Mapuche people to the margins, and into misery.
Chilean Left has very little to do with the indigenous struggle. It is a Western-style left, much closer to defunct “anarcho-syndicalism” in the United States, then to Cuban, Venezuelan, or Bolivian pan-Latin American struggle. The majority of Chilean ‘revolutionaries’ feel much more at home in Miami, Paris, or Rome than with their own oppressed people in such places as Puerto Saavedra or Temuco.
In Chile, race plays an extremely important role. It opens and closes doors. It determines who gets what jobs, and who ends up living in inescapable misery.
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Under the cover of “fight against COVID-19”, Chilean extreme right-wing government of Sebastian Piñera unleashed a new stage of the war against Mapuche people, a war that even some foreign mass media outlets could not ignore, anymore.
According to Thomas Reuters Foundation News report from 17 June 2020:
“The Mapuche, which means “Earth People” in the Mapudungun tongue, make up about 10% of Chile’s population of 19 million and mainly work as subsistence farmers in the Araucania region – one the poorest areas of the country.
Mapuche activists have gone on hunger strike, occupied and burned forestry and farming lands, and cut off highways to demand territories they say were stolen from them.
Mapuche leaders say that, like black Americans, they have lost a disproportionate number of their own young men to police violence.
One such case was Camilo Catrillanca, who was shot dead in 2018 during a police operation that sparked widespread fury among Chileans.
The 24-year-old became a symbol of police brutality, and his death triggered the resignation of the country’s police chief.”
However, while there is now even the “Papuan Lives Matter” movement, in far-away Indonesia, until this very moment, there is nothing resembling like “Mapuche Lives Matter” movement in Chile.
The Reuters report continues:
“Still, the struggles of indigenous people remain unknown to many, according to Karina Riquelme, a Chilean lawyer.
“Every day they (the Mapuche) live in fear that one of their members could end up dead,” said Riquelme, who works with indigenous groups.
“I don’t think people can imagine, but there are tanks, helicopters, and police installations in their communities.”
Holding those responsible to account and getting justice is rare, said opposition lawmaker Emilia Nuyado, Chile’s first Mapuche congresswoman elected in 2018.”
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The plight of non-white migrants in Chile is horrific, particularly of those with non-white skin.
Haitians are taking the worst part.
Even Venezuelans, those who were leaving their country mainly because of the economic difficulties which have risen due to illegal U.S. sanctions against their country, have to face discrimination and often even open hostility.
When the Chilean neoliberal economy began collapsing as a result of the 2019 popular uprising, as well as mismanaged COVID-19 crisis, most of the Venezuelan migrants lost their jobs. They ended up literally on the street, facing insults, ridicule, even attacks. Hundreds gathered in front of their Embassy in Santiago, hoping to return home, but there were no flights. The temperature was dropping as winter had arrived. The Chilean state did nothing to help. In the end, it was the Communist mayor of Recoletta, who took decisive action and housed all Venezuelan people in need in his neighborhood.
The Chilean government began preparing what is termed as ‘voluntary repatriation’ of both Haitian and Venezuelan citizens, demanding that they sign an affidavit with a clause that they cannot re-enter the country for at least nine years. Thoroughly unlawful and unconstitutional move, but here nobody cares.
*
In Chile, racism has many diverse forms, and some of them are truly monstrous.
Right after the Pinochet dictatorship officially ended, I went to Chile, to write about, and to expose “Colonia Dignidad,” an evil German enclave, run by extreme right-wing (some of them Nazis) child molesters (listen to my interview here). This huge compound, in remote Maule Region, spreading towards the Andes and the border with Argentina, was, particularly during the dictatorship, notorious for torturing, raping, and disappearing people. Its name was changed in 1991 to Villa Baviera, but even after that, for years it continued to function as a state inside the state, equipped with barbed wire at its perimeter, as well as searchlights, German shepherds, two airstrips, power plant, and the arsenal of weapons stored in the underground tunnels.
After returning to Chile, several months ago, I discovered that all major Chilean supermarket chains are stuffed with the Villa Baviera products, from German bread to sausages of all kinds.
This pinnacle of racism, bigotry, sexual abuse (mainly pedophilia), and torture, the colony is now operating as some sort of “tourist resort.” This is clearly a spit in the face to its countless victims, many of them kidnapped and ‘adopted’ Mapuche children, and to the Chilean democracy, which was broken to shards on 11 September 1973, during the fascist, US-backed military coup. Democracy, which was never restored, until this very moment.
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Even in the United States, one statue after another is getting desecrated, painted with graffiti, or simply destroyed. Crimes against humanity are being exposed. With each of the statues, respect to US racist past has been vanishing.
In Chile, racist, white pro-imperialist figures have always been admired and revered. During the last year’s uprising, however, several monuments were attacked, including those to the conqueror Pedro de Valdivia, in the cities of Concepcion, Valdivia, and Temuco.
History of the country has been closely tied to various brutal conquerors, butchers of the native population, and to the collaborators with the European and lately North American interests: Pedro de Valdivia, General Baquedano, and others.
In Santiago de Chile, a huge statue of General Baquedano was painted over with graffiti. It served as a gathering place for the anti-government demonstrations at the end of 2019.
However, under cover of the four months long COVID-19 lockdown, the government of Sebastian Piñera managed to stop most of the protests, and consequently repaint the Baquedano’s statue. At one point, the president himself stopped his motorcade and took his own selfie in front of the monument to the butcher of Bolivia and Peru.
*
In Chile, there is no love for the Chinese or other Asians. The country fell under the total influence of the U.S./European political and cultural propaganda.
I knew several Asian women who used to face intimidation and harassment in Santiago.
Here, to be white, to be of European stock, is worn like a coat of honor. The highest honor.
Twenty years ago, when I lived here for over two years, Chileans were obsessed with different cultures. People appeared to be thirsty for everything coming from Asia or the Middle East. Now, it is back to the mainstream Western offerings: from U.S. pop music to Hollywood junk. The number of art cinemas shrank dramatically. Santiago reduced itself to a provincial, culturally dull capital. Unless one is interested in the second-rate Western offering, there is very little of interest here, now.
Little wonder. Under the neo-liberal model, Chile’s upper and upper-middle classes adopted the Western/white complex of superiority fully.
Obviously, individuals who spit at black people will not be seeking African art.
In a report published by Palabra Publica, some facts and analyses appear to be shocking:
The report ‘Manifestations of Racial Discrimination in Chile: A Study of Perception’s, published by the National Institute for Human rights (NIHR) in February of this year, indicates that 68.2% of surveyed individuals declare that they agree with measures to limit the entrance of migrants into Chile. In turn, a third of them consider themselves “whiter than other people from Latin American countries” and almost 25% in the Metropolitan Region see immigrants as “dirtier” than Chileans. Additionally, the National Institute for Human rights indicates in their report that “the fact that skin color and indigenous features are indicated as reasons for rejection denotes their use as indicators of social exclusion and, therefore, as an implicit expression of racism (…) the indicators of the responses show that over 30% of the participants do not clearly reject the idea of stigmatizing them”.
Black lives do matter, increasingly, even among the many progressive groups of people in the United States. But not in Chile. Despite gross discrimination, assaults and even killing of the people with a different color of skin, (one of the most ‘famous’ cases was that of a 27-year-old Haitian immigrant, Joanne Florvil, who got, in 2017, arbitrarily detained, denied an interpreter and killed), there seems to be no organized, powerful movement in Chile, which would stand determinately against racism and continuous theft of what is left of the Mapuche lands, or for the return of access to the sea to Bolivia.
Now, during the draconical COVID-19 lockdown (Chilean neoliberal government absolutely failed in its ‘battle’ with the novel coronavirus – Chile presently having the highest number of infections in Latin America, per 1 million people), Haitian immigrants are abused more and more, openly and brutally. Bizarrely, many Chileans believe that Haitians are ‘dirty’ and that they are responsible for spreading the virus. Horrid conditions in which they have to live, as well as abuses they have to face, were recently depicted even by Al-Jazeera and otherwise staunch neo-liberal reporter Lucia Newman.
*
In a way, Chilean racism and racial divisions are an extreme version of what is happening in several countries of South America. Here, the European descendants became what is called ‘elites.’ They control political, cultural, and economic life, and they control land, despising other ethnic groups.
Politically, they are controlling not only the right-wing, but also in some cases (like Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay), a substantial part of the Left. Here, much of the Left now has nothing to do with the Latin American Left, which is governing in countries like Cuba and Venezuela. As described above, in Chile, it is a defunct pseudo-left similar to the Western anarcho-syndicalism, which is alien to the mentality of the native, non-Western cultures. It is all about ‘rights’ and individualism, and very little or none, about internationalism. In Chile, during the big uprising which took place at the end of 2019 – an uprising which I photographed, filmed and covered – there were almost no voices supporting Venezuela or denouncing US-backed coup in Bolivia. However, there were many demands for free abortion.
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Chilean racism is deadly. Here, European migrants ruined great native cultures, both in the south and north. Alliance of Chile and the U.K. robbed Bolivia of its access to the sea and damaged Peru. Chile spied on Argentina, on behalf of the U.K., during the War of Malvinas. The country was the essential participant in Operation Condor, with Colonia Dignidad being one of the main torture centers on the continent. Until now, Santiago plays a crucial role in isolating and intimidating Venezuela and other left-wing countries in Latin America.
All this, because of desperate desire to be accepted, to be part of the Western club of predominately white nations.
“The English of Latin America,” Chile does not want to be a victim. It prefers to be a victimizer. And in many ways, it is. Domestically and internationally.
But the word is quickly changing, and Chile may find itself on the very wrong side of history. The Western regime, the Western empire, is rapidly collapsing. And the white color could and should, very soon, become just that and nothing more – a color.
While the great original cultures of Latin America will, no doubt, return to both prominence and former glory.
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[Written for and first published by Orinoco Tribune in Venezuela]