renegadetribune--2020-02-07--Just A Little Sloppy Record-Keeping? The Pentagon’s $35 Trillion ‘Accounting Black Hole’

( ZH ) Over the past two weeks of coronavirus headlines and heightened global anxiety , along with impeachment coverage and after over the Super Bowl weekend Americans huddled in living rooms in blissful oblivion , a story which in more normal times would be front and center has gone largely unnoticed .
To be sure , the Pentagon couldn ’ t be happier that this bombshell has taken a back burner in global headlines : The Pentagon made $ 35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone — a total that ’ s larger than the entire U.S. economy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continuing difficulty in balancing its books .
The latest estimate is up from $ 30.7 trillion in 2018 and $ 29 trillion in 2017 , the first year adjustments were tracked in a concerted way , according to Pentagon figures and a lawmaker who ’ s pursued the accounting morass .
It sounds more appropriately news out of The Onion or Babylon Bee given this is *Trillions* and not just billions — though that itself would have been remarkable enough .
Naturally , the first and only question we should start with is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ After all , $ 35 trillion is about one-and-a-half times the size of the entire US economy .
Not to mention that the figure easily dwarfs the GDP of the entire combined nations of the European continent .
Consider too that the current actual US budge for defense-related funding is $ 738 billion .
“ Within that $ 30 trillion is a lot of double , triple , and quadruple counting of the same money as it got moved between accounts , ” Todd Harrison , a Pentagon budget expert with the Center @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bloomberg in a recent report .
But are we really to believe that mere “ combined errors , shorthand , and sloppy record-keeping by DoD accountants ” — as another analyst was quoted as saying — can explain a $ 35 Trillion accounting black hole ?
According to the DoD , there ’ s nothing to see here… With tax season now fast approaching , it ’ s not too comforting to know the Pentagon enjoys over half of all discretionary domestic spending for its global war machine in maintenance of Empire .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it further in explaining , “ The military services make adjustments , some automatic and some manual , on a monthly and quarterly basis , and those actions are consolidated by the Pentagon ’ s primary finance and accounting service and submitted to the Treasury.
” “ There were 546,433 adjustments in fiscal 2017 and 562,568 in 2018 , according to figures provided by Representative Jackie Speier , who asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate , ” the report added .
Spokeswoman for the Pentagon ’ s inspector general , Dwrena Allen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sound like the makings of an explosive scandal .
“ In layman ’ s terms , this means that the DoD made adjustments to accounting records without having documentation to support the need or amount for the adjustment , ” she said .
And for further perspective on the DoD ’ s “ defense ” of the beggars belief figure : “ It means money that DoD moved from one part of the budget to another , ” Clark explained to Task & Purpose .
“ So , like in your household budget @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from checking , to savings , to your 401K , to your credit card , and then back.
” However , $ 35 trillion is close to 50-times the size of the Pentagon ’ s 2019 budget , so that means every dollar the Defense Department received from Congress was moved up to 50 times before it was actually spent , Clark said .
“ Trillions ” explained away by a little benign neglect of simple documentation ?
Of course , in the real world outside the halls of government and of largely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be enough send people to jail .
Here we ’ re talking $ 30+ trillion and it appears this gaping accounting black hole bigger that most of the world ’ s past and future economies will itself be memory holed and explained away as being but the minor errors of some DoD pencil-pushers , apparently .
This article originally appeared on Zero Hedge .

(ZH) Over the past two weeks of coronavirus headlines and heightened global anxiety, along with impeachment coverage and after over the Super Bowl weekend Americans huddled in living rooms in blissful oblivion, a story which in more normal times would be front and center has gone largely unnoticed. To be sure, the Pentagon couldn’t be happier that this bombshell has taken a back burner in global headlines:
The Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone — a total that’s larger than the entire U.S. economy and underscores the Defense Department’s continuing difficulty in balancing its books. The latest estimate is up from $30.7 trillion in 2018 and $29 trillion in 2017, the first year adjustments were tracked in a concerted way, according to Pentagon figures and a lawmaker who’s pursued the accounting morass.
It sounds more appropriately news out of The Onion or Babylon Bee given this is *Trillions* and not just billions — though that itself would have been remarkable enough. Naturally, the first and only question we should start with is: how is this even possible?
After all, $35 trillion is about one-and-a-half times the size of the entire US economy. Not to mention that the figure easily dwarfs the GDP of the entire combined nations of the European continent. Consider too that the current actual US budge for defense-related funding is $738 billion.
“Within that $30 trillion is a lot of double, triple, and quadruple counting of the same money as it got moved between accounts,” Todd Harrison, a Pentagon budget expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Bloomberg in a recent report.
But are we really to believe that mere “combined errors, shorthand, and sloppy record-keeping by DoD accountants” — as another analyst was quoted as saying — can explain a $35 Trillion accounting black hole?
According to the DoD, there’s nothing to see here…
The Defense Department acknowledged that it failed its first-ever audit in 2018 and then again last year, when it reviewed $2.7 trillion in assets and $2.6 trillion in liabilities. While auditors found no evidence of fraud in the review of finances that Congress required, they flagged a laundry list of problems, including accounting adjustments.
With tax season now fast approaching, it’s not too comforting to know the Pentagon enjoys over half of all discretionary domestic spending for its global war machine in maintenance of our humble Republic Empire .
Bloomberg attempted to get a handle on it further in explaining, “The military services make adjustments, some automatic and some manual, on a monthly and quarterly basis, and those actions are consolidated by the Pentagon’s primary finance and accounting service and submitted to the Treasury.”
“There were 546,433 adjustments in fiscal 2017 and 562,568 in 2018, according to figures provided by Representative Jackie Speier, who asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate,” the report added.
Spokeswoman for the Pentagon’s inspector general, Dwrena Allen, downplayed what to most Americans will sound like the makings of an explosive scandal. “In layman’s terms, this means that the DoD made adjustments to accounting records without having documentation to support the need or amount for the adjustment,” she said.
And for further perspective on the DoD’s “defense” of the beggars belief figure:
“It means money that DoD moved from one part of the budget to another,” Clark explained to Task & Purpose. “So, like in your household budget: It would be like moving money from checking, to savings, to your 401K, to your credit card, and then back.” However, $35 trillion is close to 50-times the size of the Pentagon’s 2019 budget, so that means every dollar the Defense Department received from Congress was moved up to 50 times before it was actually spent, Clark said.
“Trillions” explained away by a little benign neglect of simple documentation?
Of course, in the real world outside the halls of government and of largely unchecked power, a mere single trillion would be enough send people to jail. Here we’re talking $30+ trillion and it appears this gaping accounting black hole bigger that most of the world’s past and future economies will itself be memory holed and explained away as being but the minor errors of some DoD pencil-pushers, apparently.
This article originally appeared on Zero Hedge.
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renegadetribune--2020-02-07--Dr. Francis Boyle: Wuhan Coronavirus is an Offensive Biological Warfare Weapon

Dr. Francis Boyle , a law professor who drafted the the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act , recently shared his thoughts @ @ @ @ @ appears that the Coronavirus that we are dealing with here is an offensive biological warfare @ @ @ @ @ not saying it was done deliberately…I ’ m afraid that ’ s what we are @ @ @ @

Dr. Francis Boyle, a law professor who drafted the the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act, recently shared his thoughts about the Coronavirus.
It appears that the Coronavirus that we are dealing with here is an offensive biological warfare weapon that leaked…I’m not saying it was done deliberately…I’m afraid that’s what we are dealing with today.


renegadetribune--2020-02-06--Stunning Paintings by Peder Severin Krøyer

One of the foremost Impressionist painters from Denmark , the artist Peder Severin Kroyer was born in Norway , but @ @ @ @ @ he studied at the Royal Academy .
Initially a keen student of Velazquez , he @ @ @ @ @ the Skagen artist colony , a group known as the ‘ painters of light ’ @ @ @ @ @ included Holger Drachmann and Carl Locher , was strongly influenced by French Impressionism .
In @ @ @ @ @ study and capture the effects of light at different times of the day .
Kroyer @ @ @ @ @ are lively and naturalistic , and were executed en plein air .
( Bio from @ @ @ @

One of the foremost Impressionist painters from Denmark, the artist Peder Severin Kroyer was born in Norway, but brought up in Copenhagen where he studied at the Royal Academy. Initially a keen student of Velazquez, he became the leading member of the Skagen artist colony, a group known as the ‘painters of light’. This group, which included Holger Drachmann and Carl Locher, was strongly influenced by French Impressionism. In particular, they sought to study and capture the effects of light at different times of the day. Kroyer’s paintings from Skagen are lively and naturalistic, and were executed en plein air. (Bio from Visual Arts Cork)
Ektachrome foto fra ribe Kunstmuseum
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renegadetribune--2020-02-09--Singapore Hospital Designed To Accommodate Nature Is The Future!

The Khoo Teck Puat Hospital ( KTPH ) in Singapore has been called a “ biophilic hospital ” because the entire architecture of the building is designed to complement nature , instead of erasing it .
The architects began with a few ideas in mind .
They wanted to have visual access to greenery and water , as well as the sound of falling water and the smell of plants .
Also , a diversity of plants , birds and butterflies , in a community-oriented space .
The hospital opened in 2010 , and the public spaces have been open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Some of these spaces are even used for community events like dancing , tai chi , and Zumba .
In 2016 , roughly 200 people were surveyed by researchers from the National University of Singapore .
The respondents consisted of a mixture of patients , staff , visitors , and most of them reported an overall better sense of well-being at this hospital as opposed to others .
KTPH reportedly out-performs all other hospitals in Singapore in the annual Ministry of Health public satisfaction survey nearly every year .
Khoo Teck Puat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ care hospital , serving more than 550,000 people living in the north of Singapore .
According to the hospital ’ s website : KTPH combines medical expertise with high standards of personalised care , set within a healing environment , to provide care that is good enough for our own loved ones .
From intuitive wayfinding to logical clustering of services , KTPH ’ s design is focused on providing a hassle-free experience for patients .
The hospital has been designed with patients ’ comfort in mind .
Since its opening , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ green and energy efficient design .
Patients can enjoy comfortable accommodation in different categories of wards with views of greenery and naturally cool air from improved ventilation .
KTPH also provides a wide range of outpatient specialist services .
John Vibes is an author and journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture , and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems .
He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast .

By John Vibes, Truth Theory
The Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) in Singapore has been called a “biophilic hospital” because the entire architecture of the building is designed to complement nature, instead of erasing it.
The architects began with a few ideas in mind. They wanted to have visual access to greenery and water, as well as the sound of falling water and the smell of plants. Also, a diversity of plants, birds and butterflies, in a community-oriented space.
The hospital opened in 2010, and the public spaces have been open to patients as well as nearby residents. Some of these spaces are even used for community events like dancing, tai chi, and Zumba. In 2016, roughly 200 people were surveyed by researchers from the National University of Singapore. The respondents consisted of a mixture of patients, staff, visitors, and most of them reported an overall better sense of well-being at this hospital as opposed to others.
KTPH reportedly out-performs all other hospitals in Singapore in the annual Ministry of Health public satisfaction survey nearly every year. Khoo Teck Puat Hospital is a 761-bed general and acute care hospital, serving more than 550,000 people living in the north of Singapore.
According to the hospital’s website:
KTPH combines medical expertise with high standards of personalised care, set within a healing environment, to provide care that is good enough for our own loved ones. From intuitive wayfinding to logical clustering of services, KTPH’s design is focused on providing a hassle-free experience for patients. The hospital has been designed with patients’ comfort in mind. Since its opening, the building has garnered numerous awards for its green and energy efficient design. Patients can enjoy comfortable accommodation in different categories of wards with views of greenery and naturally cool air from improved ventilation. KTPH also provides a wide range of outpatient specialist services.
John Vibes is an author and journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture, and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems. He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast.
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renegadetribune--2020-02-09--The Hidden, Awkward Origins Of World War II

The unexpected views of four key diplomats who were close to events .
Just consider the following : Joseph P. Kennedy , U.S .
Ambassador to Britain during the years immediately preceding WW2 was the father of the famous American Kennedy dynasty .
James Forrestal the first US Secretary of Defence ( 1947-1949 ) quotes him as saying „ Chamberlain ( the British Prime Minister ) stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war “ .
( The Forrestal Diaries ed .
Millis , Cassell 1952 p.129 ) .
Count Jerzy Potocki , the Polish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Polish Foreign Office in January 1939 , is quoted approvingly by the highly respected British military historian Major-General JFC Fuller .
Concerning public opinion in America he says „ Above all , propaganda here is entirely in Jewish hands when bearing public ignorance in mind , their propaganda is so effective that people have no real knowledge of the true state of affairs in Europe It is interesting to observe that in this carefully thought-out campaign no reference at all is made to Soviet Russia .
If that country is mentioned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ friendly manner and people are given the impression that Soviet Russia is part of the democratic group of countries Jewry was able not only to establish a dangerous centre in the New World for the dissemination of hatred and enmity , but it also succeeded in dividing the world into two warlike camps President Roosevelt has been given the power… to create huge reserves in armaments for a future war which the Jews are deliberately heading for.
“ ( Fuller , JFC : The Decisive Battles of the Western World vol .
3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the American Ambassador in Berlin until 1938 , the year before the war broke out , found anti-Semitism in Germany ‘ understandable ’ .
This was because before the advent of the Nazis , „ the stage , the press , medicine and law [ were ] crowded with Jews among the few with money to splurge , a high proportion [ were ] Jews the leaders of the Bolshevist movement in Russia , a movement desperately feared in Germany , were Jews .
One could feel the spreading resentment and hatred.
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wars , Longmans 1941 , quoted in Leonard Mosley , Lindbergh , Hodder 1976 ) .
Sir Neville Henderson , British Ambassador in Berlin ‘ said further that the hostile attitude in Great Britain was the work of Jews and enemies of the Nazis , which was what Hitler thought himself ’ ( Taylor , AJP : The Origins of the Second World War Penguin 1965 , 1987 etc .
p 324 ) .
Is all of this merely attributable to terrible ‘ anti-Semitism ’ ?
The economic background to the war is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ casting judgement on the originators of these viewpoints .
At the end of the First World War , Germany was essentially tricked [ see Paul Johnson A History of the Modern World ( 1983 ) p24 and H. Nicholson Peace making 1919 ( 1933 ) pp13-16 ] into paying massive reparations to France and other economic competitors and former belligerent countries in terms of the so-called Treaty of Versailles , thanks to the liberal American President Woodrow Wilson .
Germany was declared to be solely responsible for the war , in spite of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plot a European war , did not want one , and made genuine efforts , though too belated , to avert one.
’ ( Professor Sydney B Fay The Origins of the World War ( vol .
2 p 552 ) ) .
As a result of these massive enforced financial reparations , by 1923 the situation in Germany became desperate and inflation on an astronomical scale became the only way out for the government .
Printing presses were engaged to print money around the clock .
In 1921 the exchange rate was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1924 this had become about 5 trillion marks to the dollar .
This virtually destroyed the German middle class ( Koestler The God that Failed p 28 ) , reducing any bank savings to a virtual zero .
According to Sir Arthur Bryant the British historian ( Unfinished Victory ( 1940 pp .
136-144 ) : ‘ It was the Jews with their international affiliations and their hereditary flair for finance who were best able to seize such opportunities… They did so with such effect that , even in November 1938 , after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they still owned , according to the Times correspondent in Berlin , something like a third of the real property in the Reich .
Most of it came into their hands during the inflation..
But to those who had lost their all this bewildering transfer seemed a monstrous injustice .
After prolonged sufferings they had now been deprived of their last possessions .
They saw them pass into the hands of strangers , many of whom had not shared their sacrifices and who cared little or nothing for their national standards and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ascendancy in politics , business and the learned professions ( in spite of constituting ) less than one percent of the population .
The banks , including the Reichsbank and the big private banks , were practically controlled by them .
So were the publishing trade , the cinema , the theatres and a large part of the press  all the normal means , in fact , by which public opinion in a civilized country is formed..
The largest newspaper combine in the country with a daily circulation of four millions was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harder and harder for a gentile to gain or keep a foothold in any privileged occupation.. At this time it was not the ‘ Aryans ’ who exercised racial discrimination .
It was a discrimination that operated without violence .
It was exercised by a minority against a majority .
There was no persecution , only elimination..
It was the contrast between the wealth enjoyed  and lavishly displayed  by aliens of cosmopolitan tastes , and the poverty and misery of native Germans , that has made anti-Semitism so dangerous and ugly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beggars on horseback are seldom popular , least of all with those whom they have just thrown out of the saddle.
“ Goodness gracious , Sir Arthur !
What made you get out of the wrong side of the bed ?
Strangely enough , a book unexpectedly published by Princeton University Press in 1984 , Sarah Gordon ( Hitler , Germans and the „ Jewish Question “ ) essentially confirms what Bryant says .
According to her , ‘ Jews were never a large percentage of the total German population ; at no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the population during the years 1871-1933.
’ But she adds ‘ Jews were over-represented in business , commerce , and public and private service..
They were especially visible in private banking in Berlin , which in 1923 had 150 private Jewish banks , as opposed to only 11 private non-Jewish banks..
They owned 41 % of iron and scrap iron firms and 57 % of other metal businesses.. Jews were very active in the stock market , particularly in Berlin , where in 1928 they comprised 80 % of the leading members of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when the Nazis began eliminating Jews from prominent positions , 85 % of the brokers on the Berlin Stock exchange were dismissed because of their „ race “ .. At least a quarter of full professors and instructors ( at German universities ) had Jewish origins..
In 1905-6 Jewish students comprised 25 % of the law and medical students..
In 1931 , 50 % of the 234 theatre directors in Germany were Jewish , and in Berlin the number was 80 % ..
In 1929 it was estimated that the per capita income @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of other Berlin residents.. ’ etc etc .
Arthur Koestler confirms the Jewish over-involvement in German publishing .
‘ Ullstein ’ s was a kind of super-trust ; the largest organization of its kind in Europe , and probably In the world .
They published four daily papers in Berlin alone , among these the venerable Vossische Zeitung , founded in the eighteenth century , and the B.Z .
am Mittag , an evening paper.. Apart from these , Ullstein ’ s published more than a dozen weekly and monthly periodicals , ran @ @ @ @ @ @ @ travel agency , etc.
, and were one of the leading book publishers .
The firm was owned by the brothers Ullstein – they were five , like the original Rothschild brothers , and like them also , they were Jews.
’ ( The God that Failed ( 1950 ) ed .
RHS Crossman , p 31 ) .
Edgar Mowrer , Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Daily News , wrote an anti-German tract called Germany Puts the Clock Back ( published as a Penguin Special and reprinted five times between December 1937 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ notes ‘ In the all-important administration of Prussia , any number of strategic positions came into the hands of Hebrews.. A telephone conversation between three Jews in Ministerial offices could result in the suspension of any periodical or newspaper in the state..
The Jews came in Germany to play in politics and administration that same considerable part that they had previously won by open competition in business , trade , banking , the Press , the arts , the sciences and the intellectual and cultural life of the country .
And thereby the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country with a mission of its own , had fallen into the hands of foreigners.
’ Mowrer says ‘ No one who lived through the period from 1919 to 1926 is likely to forget the sexual promiscuity that prevailed..
Throughout a town like Berlin , hotels and pensions made vast fortunes by letting rooms by the hour or day to baggageless , unregistered guests .
Hundreds of cabarets , pleasure resorts and the like served for purposes of getting acquainted and acquiring the proper mood.. ’ ( pp .
153-4 ) .
Bryant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doors of the great Berlin hotels and restaurants .
He adds ‘ Most of them ( the night clubs and vice-resorts ) were owned and managed by Jews .
And it was the Jews.. among the promoters of this trade who were remembered in after years.
’ ( pp .
144-5 ) .
Douglas Reed , Chief Central European correspondent before WWII for the London Times , was profoundly anti-German and anti-Hitler .
But nevertheless he reported : ‘ I watched the Brown Shirts going from shop to shop with paint pots and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ „ Jew “ , in dripping red letters .
The Kurfürstendamm was to me a revelation .
I knew that Jews were prominent in business life , but I did not know that they almost monopolized important branches of it .
Germany had one Jew to one hundred gentiles , said the statistics ; but the fashionable Kurfürstendamm , according to the dripping red legends , had about one gentile shop to ninety-nine Jewish ones.
’ ( Reed Insanity Fair ( 1938 ) p. 152-3 ) .
In Reed ’ s book Disgrace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ In the Berlin ( of pre-Hitler years ) most of the theatres were Jewish-owned or Jewish-leased , most of the leading film and stage actors were Jews , the plays performed were often by German , Austrian or Hungarian Jews and were staged by Jewish film producers , applauded by Jewish dramatic critics in Jewish newspapers..
The Jews are not cleverer than the Gentiles , if by clever you mean good at their jobs .
They ruthlessly exploit the common feeling of Jews , first to get a foothold in a particular @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the non-Jews out of it..
It is not true that Jews are better journalists than Gentiles .
They held all the posts on those Berlin papers because the proprietors and editors were Jewish ’ ( pp238-9 ) .
The Jewish writer Edwin Black notes ‘ For example , in Berlin alone , about 75 % of the attorneys and nearly as many of the doctors were Jewish.
’ ( Black , The Transfer Agreement ( 1984 ) p58 .
To cap it all , Jews were perceived as dangerous enemies of Germany after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ World Jewish Economic Federation , declared war on Germany on August 6 1933 .
( Edwin Black The Transfer Agreement : the Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Palestine ( 1984 ) pp272-277 ) According to Black , ‘ The one man who most embodied the potential death blow to Germany was Samuel Untermeyer.
’ ( p 369 ) .
This was the culmination of a worldwide boycott of German goods led by international Jewish organizations .
The London Daily Express on March 24 , 1933 carried the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The boycott was particularly motivated by the German imposition of the Nuremberg Laws , which ironically were similar in intent and content to the Jewish cultural exclusivism practiced so visibly in present-day Israel ( Hannah Arendt , Eichmann in Jerusalem p 7 ) .
Hitler saw the tremendous danger posed to Germany by Communism .
He appreciated the desperate need to eliminate this threat , a fact that earned him the immense hatred and animosity of the Jewish organisations and the media and politicians of the west which they could influence .
After @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chaim Bermant , although Jews formed less than five percent of Russia ’ s population , they formed more than fifty percent of its revolutionaries .
According to the Jewish writer Chaim Bermant in his book The Jews ( 1977 , chapter 8 ) : ‘ It must be added that most of the leading revolutionaries who convulsed Europe in the final decades of the last century and the first decades of this one , stemmed from prosperous Jewish families..
They were perhaps typified by the father of revolution , Karl Marx..
Thus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ War I , revolutions broke out all over Europe , Jews were everywhere at the helm ; Trotsky , Sverdlov , Kamenev and Zinoviev in Russia , Bela Kun in Hungary , Kurt Eisner in Bavaria , and , most improbable of all , Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin .
‘ To many outside observers , the Russian revolution looked like a Jewish conspiracy , especially when it was followed by Jewish-led revolutionary outbreaks in much of central Europe .
The leadership of the Bolshevik Party had a preponderance of Jews.. Of the seven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cabinet of the country , four , Trotsky ( Bronstein ) , Zinoviev ( Radomsky ) , Kamenev ( Rosenfeld ) and Sverdlov , were Jews.
’ Other authors agree with this : „ There has been a tendency to circumvent or simply ignore the significant role of Jewish intellectuals in the German Communist Party , and thereby seriously neglect one of the genuine and objective reasons for increased anti-Semitism during and after World War 1..
The prominence of Jews in the revolution and early Weimar Republic is indisputable , and this was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anti-Semitism in post-war years..
It is clear then that the stereotype of Jews as socialists and communists… led many Germans to distrust the Jewish minority as a whole and to brand Jews as enemies of the German nation.
“ ( Sarah Gordon Hitler , Germans and the ‘ Jewish Question ’ Princeton University Press ( 1984 ) p 23 ) .
„ The second paroxysm of strong anti-Semitism came after the critical role of Jews in International Communism and the Russian Revolution and during the economic crises of the 1920s and 30s Anti-Semitism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the perceived and actual centrality of Jews in the Russian Revolution..
Such feelings were not restricted to Germany , or to vulgar extremists like the Nazis .
All over Northern Europe and North America , anti-Semitism became the norm in ‘ nice society ’ , and ‘ nice society ’ included the universities.
“ ( Martin Bernal , Black Athenavol .
1 pp .
367 , 387 ) .
„ The major role Jewish leaders played in the November ( Russian ) revolution was probably more important than any other factor in confirming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ ( J & S Pool , Who Financed Hitler , p.164 ) .
Hitler came to power in Germany with two main aims , the rectification of the unjust provisions of the Versailles Treaty , and the destruction of the Soviet/ Communist threat to Germany .
Strangely enough , contrary to the mythology created by those who had an opposing ethnic agenda , he had no plans or desire for a larger war of conquest .
Professor AJP Taylor showed this in his book The Origins of the Second World War , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political establishment .
Taylor says , „ The state of German armament in 1939 gives the decisive proof that Hitler was not contemplating general war , and probably not intending war at all “ ( p.267 ) , and „ Even in 1939 the German army was not equipped for a prolonged war ; and in 1940 the German land forces were inferior to the French in everything except leadership “ ( p104-5 ) .
What occurred in Europe in 1939-41 was the result of unforeseen weaknesses and a tipping of the balance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opportunist ‘ who took advantages whenever they offered themselves ’ ( Taylor ) .
Britain and France declared war on Germany , not the other way around .
Hitler wanted peace with Britain , as the German generals admitted ( Basil Liddell Hart , The Other Side of the Hill 1948 , Pan Books 1983 ) with regard to the so-called Halt Order at Dunkirk , where Hitler had the opportunity to capture the entire British Army , but chose not to .
Liddell Hart , one of Britain ’ s most respected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ von Blumentritt with regard to this Halt Order : „ He ( Hitler ) then astonished us by speaking with admiration of the British Empire , of the necessity for its existence , and of the civilisation that Britain had brought into the world .
He remarked , with a shrug of the shoulders , that the creation of its Empire had been achieved by means that were often harsh , but ‘ where there is planning , there are shavings flying ’ .
He compared the British Empire with the Catholic Church @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of stability in the world .
He said that all he wanted from Britain was that she should acknowledge Germany ’ s position on the Continent .
The return of Germany ’ s colonies would be desirable but not essential , and he would even offer to support Britain with troops if she should be involved in difficulties anywhere.. “ ( p 200 ) .
According to Liddell Hart , „ At the time we believed that the repulse of the Luftwaffe in the ‘ Battle over Britain ’ had saved her .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the last part of it .
The original cause , which goes much deeper , is that Hitler did not want to conquer England .
He took little interest in the invasion preparations , and for weeks did nothing to spur them on ; then , after a brief impulse to invade , he veered around again and suspended the preparations .
He was preparing , instead , to invade Russia “ ( p140 ) .
David Irving in the foreword to his book The Warpath ( 1978 ) refers to „ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this man ( Hitler ) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.
“ This gives a completely different complexion , not only to the war , but to the successful suppression of this information during the war and afterwards .
Historians today know only too well where the boundaries lie within which they can paint their pictures of the war and its aftermath , and the consequences of venturing beyond those boundaries , irrespective of the evidence .
Unfortunately , only too few of them have been prepared to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this dreadful straitjacket of official and unofficial censorship .

By Jason Collett
The unexpected views of four key diplomats who were close to events. Just consider the following:
Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to Britain during the years immediately preceding WW2 was the father of the famous American Kennedy dynasty. James Forrestal the first US Secretary of Defence (1947-1949) quotes him as saying „Chamberlain (the British Prime Minister) stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war“. (The Forrestal Diaries ed. Millis, Cassell 1952 p.129).
Count Jerzy Potocki, the Polish Ambassador in Washington, in a report to the Polish Foreign Office in January 1939, is quoted approvingly by the highly respected British military historian Major-General JFC Fuller. Concerning public opinion in America he says „Above all, propaganda here is entirely in Jewish hands when bearing public ignorance in mind, their propaganda is so effective that people have no real knowledge of the true state of affairs in Europe It is interesting to observe that in this carefully thought-out campaign no reference at all is made to Soviet Russia. If that country is mentioned, it is referred to in a friendly manner and people are given the impression that Soviet Russia is part of the democratic group of countries Jewry was able not only to establish a dangerous centre in the New World for the dissemination of hatred and enmity, but it also succeeded in dividing the world into two warlike camps President Roosevelt has been given the power… to create huge reserves in armaments for a future war which the Jews are deliberately heading for.“ (Fuller, JFC: The Decisive Battles of the Western World vol. 3 pp 372-374.)
Hugh Wilson, the American Ambassador in Berlin until 1938, the year before the war broke out, found anti-Semitism in Germany ‘understandable’. This was because before the advent of the Nazis, „the stage, the press, medicine and law [were] crowded with Jews among the few with money to splurge, a high proportion [were] Jews the leaders of the Bolshevist movement in Russia, a movement desperately feared in Germany, were Jews. One could feel the spreading resentment and hatred.“ (Hugh Wilson: Diplomat between the Wars, Longmans 1941, quoted in Leonard Mosley, Lindbergh, Hodder 1976).
Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador in Berlin ‘said further that the hostile attitude in Great Britain was the work of Jews and enemies of the Nazis, which was what Hitler thought himself’ (Taylor, AJP: The Origins of the Second World War Penguin 1965, 1987 etc. p 324).
Is all of this merely attributable to terrible ‘anti-Semitism’?
The economic background to the war is necessary for a fuller understanding, before casting judgement on the originators of these viewpoints.
At the end of the First World War, Germany was essentially tricked [see Paul Johnson A History of the Modern World (1983) p24 and H. Nicholson Peace making 1919 (1933) pp13-16] into paying massive reparations to France and other economic competitors and former belligerent countries in terms of the so-called Treaty of Versailles, thanks to the liberal American President Woodrow Wilson. Germany was declared to be solely responsible for the war, in spite of the fact that ‘Germany did not plot a European war, did not want one, and made genuine efforts, though too belated, to avert one.’ (Professor Sydney B Fay The Origins of the World War (vol. 2 p 552)).
As a result of these massive enforced financial reparations, by 1923 the situation in Germany became desperate and inflation on an astronomical scale became the only way out for the government. Printing presses were engaged to print money around the clock. In 1921 the exchange rate was 75 marks to the dollar. By 1924 this had become about 5 trillion marks to the dollar. This virtually destroyed the German middle class (Koestler The God that Failed p 28), reducing any bank savings to a virtual zero.
According to Sir Arthur Bryant the British historian (Unfinished Victory (1940 pp. 136-144):
‘It was the Jews with their international affiliations and their hereditary flair for finance who were best able to seize such opportunities… They did so with such effect that, even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich. Most of it came into their hands during the inflation.. But to those who had lost their all this bewildering transfer seemed a monstrous injustice. After prolonged sufferings they had now been deprived of their last possessions. They saw them pass into the hands of strangers, many of whom had not shared their sacrifices and who cared little or nothing for their national standards and traditions. The Jews obtained a wonderful ascendancy in politics, business and the learned professions (in spite of constituting) less than one percent of the population.
The banks, including the Reichsbank and the big private banks, were practically controlled by them. So were the publishing trade, the cinema, the theatres and a large part of the press  all the normal means, in fact, by which public opinion in a civilized country is formed.. The largest newspaper combine in the country with a daily circulation of four millions was a Jewish monopoly.. Every year it became harder and harder for a gentile to gain or keep a foothold in any privileged occupation.. At this time it was not the ‘Aryans’ who exercised racial discrimination. It was a discrimination that operated without violence. It was exercised by a minority against a majority. There was no persecution, only elimination.. It was the contrast between the wealth enjoyed  and lavishly displayed  by aliens of cosmopolitan tastes, and the poverty and misery of native Germans, that has made anti-Semitism so dangerous and ugly a force in the new Europe. Beggars on horseback are seldom popular, least of all with those whom they have just thrown out of the saddle.“
Goodness gracious, Sir Arthur! What made you get out of the wrong side of the bed?
Strangely enough, a book unexpectedly published by Princeton University Press in 1984, Sarah Gordon (Hitler, Germans and the „Jewish Question“) essentially confirms what Bryant says. According to her, ‘Jews were never a large percentage of the total German population; at no time did they exceed 1% of the population during the years 1871-1933.’ But she adds ‘Jews were over-represented in business, commerce, and public and private service.. They were especially visible in private banking in Berlin, which in 1923 had 150 private Jewish banks, as opposed to only 11 private non-Jewish banks.. They owned 41% of iron and scrap iron firms and 57% of other metal businesses.. Jews were very active in the stock market, particularly in Berlin, where in 1928 they comprised 80% of the leading members of the stock exchange. By 1933, when the Nazis began eliminating Jews from prominent positions, 85% of the brokers on the Berlin Stock exchange were dismissed because of their „race“.. At least a quarter of full professors and instructors (at German universities) had Jewish origins.. In 1905-6 Jewish students comprised 25% of the law and medical students.. In 1931, 50% of the 234 theatre directors in Germany were Jewish, and in Berlin the number was 80%.. In 1929 it was estimated that the per capita income of Jews in Berlin was twice that of other Berlin residents..’ etc etc.
Arthur Koestler confirms the Jewish over-involvement in German publishing. ‘Ullstein’s was a kind of super-trust; the largest organization of its kind in Europe, and probably In the world. They published four daily papers in Berlin alone, among these the venerable Vossische Zeitung, founded in the eighteenth century, and the B.Z. am Mittag, an evening paper.. Apart from these, Ullstein’s published more than a dozen weekly and monthly periodicals, ran their own news service, their own travel agency, etc., and were one of the leading book publishers. The firm was owned by the brothers Ullstein – they were five, like the original Rothschild brothers, and like them also, they were Jews.’ (The God that Failed (1950) ed. RHS Crossman, p 31).
Edgar Mowrer, Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, wrote an anti-German tract called Germany Puts the Clock Back (published as a Penguin Special and reprinted five times between December 1937 and April 1938). He nevertheless notes ‘In the all-important administration of Prussia, any number of strategic positions came into the hands of Hebrews.. A telephone conversation between three Jews in Ministerial offices could result in the suspension of any periodical or newspaper in the state.. The Jews came in Germany to play in politics and administration that same considerable part that they had previously won by open competition in business, trade, banking, the Press, the arts, the sciences and the intellectual and cultural life of the country. And thereby the impression was strengthened that Germany, a country with a mission of its own, had fallen into the hands of foreigners.’
Mowrer says ‘No one who lived through the period from 1919 to 1926 is likely to forget the sexual promiscuity that prevailed.. Throughout a town like Berlin, hotels and pensions made vast fortunes by letting rooms by the hour or day to baggageless, unregistered guests. Hundreds of cabarets, pleasure resorts and the like served for purposes of getting acquainted and acquiring the proper mood..’ (pp. 153-4). Bryant describes throngs of child prostitutes outside the doors of the great Berlin hotels and restaurants. He adds ‘Most of them (the night clubs and vice-resorts) were owned and managed by Jews. And it was the Jews.. among the promoters of this trade who were remembered in after years.’ (pp. 144-5).
Douglas Reed, Chief Central European correspondent before WWII for the London Times, was profoundly anti-German and anti-Hitler. But nevertheless he reported: ‘I watched the Brown Shirts going from shop to shop with paint pots and daubing on the window panes the word „Jew“, in dripping red letters. The Kurfürstendamm was to me a revelation. I knew that Jews were prominent in business life, but I did not know that they almost monopolized important branches of it. Germany had one Jew to one hundred gentiles, said the statistics; but the fashionable Kurfürstendamm, according to the dripping red legends, had about one gentile shop to ninety-nine Jewish ones.’ (Reed Insanity Fair (1938) p. 152-3). In Reed’s book Disgrace Abounding of the following year he notes ‘In the Berlin (of pre-Hitler years) most of the theatres were Jewish-owned or Jewish-leased, most of the leading film and stage actors were Jews, the plays performed were often by German, Austrian or Hungarian Jews and were staged by Jewish film producers, applauded by Jewish dramatic critics in Jewish newspapers.. The Jews are not cleverer than the Gentiles, if by clever you mean good at their jobs. They ruthlessly exploit the common feeling of Jews, first to get a foothold in a particular trade or calling, then to squeeze the non-Jews out of it.. It is not true that Jews are better journalists than Gentiles. They held all the posts on those Berlin papers because the proprietors and editors were Jewish’ (pp238-9).
The Jewish writer Edwin Black notes ‘For example, in Berlin alone, about 75% of the attorneys and nearly as many of the doctors were Jewish.’ (Black,The Transfer Agreement (1984) p58.
To cap it all, Jews were perceived as dangerous enemies of Germany after Samuel Untermeyer, the leader of the World Jewish Economic Federation, declared war on Germany on August 6 1933. (Edwin Black The Transfer Agreement: the Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Palestine (1984) pp272-277) According to Black, ‘The one man who most embodied the potential death blow to Germany was Samuel Untermeyer.’ (p 369). This was the culmination of a worldwide boycott of German goods led by international Jewish organizations. The London Daily Express on March 24, 1933 carried the headline Judea Declares War on Germany. The boycott was particularly motivated by the German imposition of the Nuremberg Laws, which ironically were similar in intent and content to the Jewish cultural exclusivism practiced so visibly in present-day Israel (Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem p 7).
Hitler saw the tremendous danger posed to Germany by Communism. He appreciated the desperate need to eliminate this threat, a fact that earned him the immense hatred and animosity of the Jewish organisations and the media and politicians of the west which they could influence. After all, according to the Jewish writer Chaim Bermant, although Jews formed less than five percent of Russia’s population, they formed more than fifty percent of its revolutionaries. According to the Jewish writer Chaim Bermant in his book The Jews (1977, chapter 8):
‘It must be added that most of the leading revolutionaries who convulsed Europe in the final decades of the last century and the first decades of this one, stemmed from prosperous Jewish families.. They were perhaps typified by the father of revolution, Karl Marx.. Thus when, after the chaos of World War I, revolutions broke out all over Europe, Jews were everywhere at the helm; Trotsky, Sverdlov, Kamenev and Zinoviev in Russia, Bela Kun in Hungary, Kurt Eisner in Bavaria, and, most improbable of all, Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin.
‘To many outside observers, the Russian revolution looked like a Jewish conspiracy, especially when it was followed by Jewish-led revolutionary outbreaks in much of central Europe. The leadership of the Bolshevik Party had a preponderance of Jews.. Of the seven members of the Politburo, the inner cabinet of the country, four, Trotsky (Bronstein), Zinoviev (Radomsky), Kamenev (Rosenfeld) and Sverdlov, were Jews.’ Other authors agree with this:
„There has been a tendency to circumvent or simply ignore the significant role of Jewish intellectuals in the German Communist Party, and thereby seriously neglect one of the genuine and objective reasons for increased anti-Semitism during and after World War 1.. The prominence of Jews in the revolution and early Weimar Republic is indisputable, and this was a very serious contributing cause for increased anti-Semitism in post-war years.. It is clear then that the stereotype of Jews as socialists and communists… led many Germans to distrust the Jewish minority as a whole and to brand Jews as enemies of the German nation.“ (Sarah Gordon Hitler, Germans and the ‘Jewish Question’ Princeton University Press (1984) p 23).
„The second paroxysm of strong anti-Semitism came after the critical role of Jews in International Communism and the Russian Revolution and during the economic crises of the 1920s and 30s Anti-Semitism intensified throughout Europe and North America following the perceived and actual centrality of Jews in the Russian Revolution.. Such feelings were not restricted to Germany, or to vulgar extremists like the Nazis. All over Northern Europe and North America, anti-Semitism became the norm in ‘nice society’, and ‘nice society’ included the universities.“ (Martin Bernal, Black Athenavol. 1 pp. 367, 387).
„The major role Jewish leaders played in the November (Russian) revolution was probably more important than any other factor in confirming (Hitler’s) anti-Semitic beliefs.“ (J&S Pool, Who Financed Hitler, p.164).
Hitler came to power in Germany with two main aims, the rectification of the unjust provisions of the Versailles Treaty, and the destruction of the Soviet/ Communist threat to Germany. Strangely enough, contrary to the mythology created by those who had an opposing ethnic agenda, he had no plans or desire for a larger war of conquest. Professor AJP Taylor showed this in his book The Origins of the Second World War, to the disappointment of the professional western political establishment. Taylor says, „The state of German armament in 1939 gives the decisive proof that Hitler was not contemplating general war, and probably not intending war at all“ (p.267), and „Even in 1939 the German army was not equipped for a prolonged war; and in 1940 the German land forces were inferior to the French in everything except leadership“ (p104-5). What occurred in Europe in 1939-41 was the result of unforeseen weaknesses and a tipping of the balance of power, and Hitler was an opportunist ‘who took advantages whenever they offered themselves’ (Taylor). Britain and France declared war on Germany, not the other way around. Hitler wanted peace with Britain, as the German generals admitted (Basil Liddell Hart, The Other Side of the Hill 1948, Pan Books 1983) with regard to the so-called Halt Order at Dunkirk, where Hitler had the opportunity to capture the entire British Army, but chose not to. Liddell Hart, one of Britain’s most respected military historians, quotes the German General von Blumentritt with regard to this Halt Order:
„He (Hitler) then astonished us by speaking with admiration of the British Empire, of the necessity for its existence, and of the civilisation that Britain had brought into the world. He remarked, with a shrug of the shoulders, that the creation of its Empire had been achieved by means that were often harsh, but ‘where there is planning, there are shavings flying’. He compared the British Empire with the Catholic Church  saying they were both essential elements of stability in the world. He said that all he wanted from Britain was that she should acknowledge Germany’s position on the Continent. The return of Germany’s colonies would be desirable but not essential, and he would even offer to support Britain with troops if she should be involved in difficulties anywhere..“ (p 200).
According to Liddell Hart, „At the time we believed that the repulse of the Luftwaffe in the ‘Battle over Britain’ had saved her. That is only part of the explanation, the last part of it. The original cause, which goes much deeper, is that Hitler did not want to conquer England. He took little interest in the invasion preparations, and for weeks did nothing to spur them on; then, after a brief impulse to invade, he veered around again and suspended the preparations. He was preparing, instead, to invade Russia“ (p140).
David Irving in the foreword to his book The Warpath (1978) refers to „the discovery… that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.“
This gives a completely different complexion, not only to the war, but to the successful suppression of this information during the war and afterwards. Historians today know only too well where the boundaries lie within which they can paint their pictures of the war and its aftermath, and the consequences of venturing beyond those boundaries, irrespective of the evidence. Unfortunately, only too few of them have been prepared to have the courage to break out of this dreadful straitjacket of official and unofficial censorship.
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renegadetribune--2020-02-09--Lord Sacks, Former British Chief Rabbi: “Anti-Zionism Is The New Anti-Semtism!”

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renegadetribune--2020-02-09--The Slippery Slope of the US Drone War

The Slippery Slope of the US Drone War

Just over a decade ago , US President Barack Obama went to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize .
While accepting the award , he made a moving speech about war and peace .
Noting the absurdity of receiving the prize while still “ the commander-in-chief of a nation in the midst of two wars , ” he laid out his ideas on how to build a just and lasting peace in the world .
At the same time , he defended his continued use of military force in the Middle East , arguing that “ the instruments of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in preserving the peace , ” even if we “ must also think clearly about how we fight [ wars ] .
” Looking back , there ’ s no doubt about the eloquence of his words ; unfortunately , though — for him , for me and for the world — he didn ’ t take his own advice .
Instead of preserving the peace , he quickly embraced the latest instruments of war , such as unmanned aerial vehicles — known to us all as drones — and so helped usher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as Obama ’ s successor Donald Trump ’ s actions abroad make clear , is likely to haunt us for decades to come .
On 23 January , 2009 , for instance , just three days after Obama ’ s inauguration , a CIA drone strike in Pakistan ripped through a house filled with friends and family sitting down to dinner .
Nine civilians were killed .
As Faheem Qureshi , a teenager who barely survived the attack , told the Guardian , “ I am the living example of what drones @ @ @ @ @ @ @ district of Pakistan where he lived ] as they have affected my personal life .
I had all the hopes and potential and now I am doing nothing.
” More than a decade later , Faheem has still not been given an explanation for what happened to his family , even though the president was told almost immediately that a mistake had been made and innocent civilians had been killed .
Six months after that attack , a US drone strike took out a mid-ranking Taliban commander in Pakistan .
At his funeral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drone fired missiles into the crowd in an attempt to kill Baitullah Mehsud , the founder of the Pakistani wing of the Taliban .
Forty-five civilians would die , but not Mehsud ; he was targeted seven times before eventually being killed on 5 August , 2009 .
The drone pursuit of him would leave at least 164 people dead , including eight-year-old Noor Syed who was playing in a house near one of Mehsud ’ s suspected hideouts when a piece of shrapnel hit him .
According to outside monitoring groups , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in office , Obama had authorised 528 drone strikes with a death toll of between 380 and 801 civilians in Libya , Pakistan , Somalia and Yemen alone .
And that ’ s believed to be a conservative estimate .
Soon after Trump took office , his administration began to quietly dismantle the safeguards Obama had just created around the US drone programme .
His administration would subsequently expand the battlefields on which drones would be used ; ease combat rules in Somalia intended to protect civilians ; rescind most aspects of Obama @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publishing civilian casualty data entirely , while telling the public even less about the programme .
Not surprisingly , therefore , the numbers that we do have access to are extremely alarming .
By the middle of his first year , a Daily Beast investigation showed that Trump ’ s air war had already killed more than 2,000 civilians in Iraq and Syria .
The Coalition ’ s own confirmed casualty numbers — while much lower than other estimates — also showed the same trend .
Forty per cent of the 603 civilians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alliance died in just the first four months of Trump ’ s presidency .
None of this was exactly shocking from a commander-in-chief who had once asked a CIA official why he didn ’ t kill a terrorist target ’ s family during a drone strike .
In the first half of last year , US and Afghan air and drone strikes killed more civilians than the Taliban for the first time ever .
Those strikes hit wedding parties , farmers , pregnant women and small children .
In Somalia , drone strikes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lives , but crops , homes and livelihoods .
And as the new decade began , President Trump not only carried out a drone strike so drastic and rare that many experts believed it was a straightforward declaration of war , but also threatened to bomb non-military targets ( “ cultural ” sites ) in Iran , a move which is generally considered a war crime under international law .
“ The United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed a number one terrorist anywhere in the world , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani on 3 January .
The false notion that drones are precise — and therefore effective — gained traction in the Obama era , and has continued to pick up speed under Trump .
After analysing documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act related to drones , previously unpublished court documents , dozens of engineering and technical studies , and contract data , CorpWatch ’ s Pratap Chatterjee and Christian Stork came to a conclusion : “ Planning for drone operations was handicapped by a fog of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology marketed by contractors , the military and the intelligence agencies.
” Last year , the Wall Street Journal reported that the US government developed a specially designed , secret missile for pinpoint air strikes that kill terrorist leaders with no explosion , drastically reducing damage and minimising the chances of civilian casualties .
If that sounds too good to be true , that ’ s because it is .
Discussing the so-called “ knife missile ” , drone researcher Arthur Holland Michel warned that , “ We should take care not to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ precision .
After all , it ’ s still a missile .
One official likened it to ‘ a speeding anvil ’ falling from above.
” So , why do we still consider these weapons precise ?
Because the companies making them want us to .
Looking at the website of Raytheon , the manufacturer of this secret missile , the first thing they advertise under precision weapons is : “ Avoiding casualties .
Reducing risk .
Minimising collateral damage .
In a new era of warfare , our precision weapons are meeting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing else.
” By describing weapons systems like this , they present the claim as true and beyond dispute , transforming them into agents of good and making people feel that they are an effective tool to keep us , and civilians near the target , safe .
A recent Chicago Council on Global Affairs poll even found that Americans are “ now more likely to say that drone strikes against suspected terrorists are a very effective way to achieve US foreign policy , ” with 35 per cent saying that drones are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cent in 2015 .
Drone strikes now rank ahead of international agreements , sanctions and military interventions as effective ways to achieve foreign policy objectives .
When political scientists Micah Zenko and Amelia Wolf did a careful analysis of the “ precision ” claim back in 2016 , they found that : “ The White House is deeply misleading about the precision of drone strikes .
They are , in fact , roughly thirty times more likely to result in a civilian fatality than an air strike by a manned aircraft.
” There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effective , in part because congressional oversight has mainly been limited to specific strikes , instead of questioning the overall utility .
“ We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend , ” said Obama in his Nobel Prize speech .
“ And we honour those ideals by upholding them not just when it is easy , but when it is hard.
” In its recklessness and brutality , Trump ’ s escalating drone war should remind us all of just how dangerous it is when a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in secret just because he can .

By Allegra Harpootlian
Just over a decade ago, US President Barack Obama went to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. While accepting the award, he made a moving speech about war and peace. Noting the absurdity of receiving the prize while still “the commander-in-chief of a nation in the midst of two wars,” he laid out his ideas on how to build a just and lasting peace in the world. At the same time, he defended his continued use of military force in the Middle East, arguing that “the instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace,” even if we “must also think clearly about how we fight [wars].”
Looking back, there’s no doubt about the eloquence of his words; unfortunately, though — for him, for me and for the world — he didn’t take his own advice. Instead of preserving the peace, he quickly embraced the latest instruments of war, such as unmanned aerial vehicles — known to us all as drones — and so helped usher in a new era of warfare that, as Obama’s successor Donald Trump’s actions abroad make clear, is likely to haunt us for decades to come.
On 23 January, 2009, for instance, just three days after Obama’s inauguration, a CIA drone strike in Pakistan ripped through a house filled with friends and family sitting down to dinner. Nine civilians were killed. As Faheem Qureshi, a teenager who barely survived the attack, told the Guardian, “I am the living example of what drones are… They have affected Waziristan [the district of Pakistan where he lived] as they have affected my personal life. I had all the hopes and potential and now I am doing nothing.” More than a decade later, Faheem has still not been given an explanation for what happened to his family, even though the president was told almost immediately that a mistake had been made and innocent civilians had been killed.
Six months after that attack, a US drone strike took out a mid-ranking Taliban commander in Pakistan. At his funeral, attended by 5,000 people, another drone fired missiles into the crowd in an attempt to kill Baitullah Mehsud, the founder of the Pakistani wing of the Taliban. Forty-five civilians would die, but not Mehsud; he was targeted seven times before eventually being killed on 5 August, 2009. The drone pursuit of him would leave at least 164 people dead, including eight-year-old Noor Syed who was playing in a house near one of Mehsud’s suspected hideouts when a piece of shrapnel hit him.
According to outside monitoring groups, by the end of his second term in office, Obama had authorised 528 drone strikes with a death toll of between 380 and 801 civilians in Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen alone. And that’s believed to be a conservative estimate.
Soon after Trump took office, his administration began to quietly dismantle the safeguards Obama had just created around the US drone programme. His administration would subsequently expand the battlefields on which drones would be used; ease combat rules in Somalia intended to protect civilians; rescind most aspects of Obama’s executive orders; and stop publishing civilian casualty data entirely, while telling the public even less about the programme.
Not surprisingly, therefore, the numbers that we do have access to are extremely alarming. By the middle of his first year, a Daily Beast investigation showed that Trump’s air war had already killed more than 2,000 civilians in Iraq and Syria. The Coalition’s own confirmed casualty numbers — while much lower than other estimates — also showed the same trend. Forty per cent of the 603 civilians admitted to have been killed by the alliance died in just the first four months of Trump’s presidency.
None of this was exactly shocking from a commander-in-chief who had once asked a CIA official why he didn’t kill a terrorist target’s family during a drone strike. In the first half of last year, US and Afghan air and drone strikes killed more civilians than the Taliban for the first time ever. Those strikes hit wedding parties, farmers, pregnant women and small children. In Somalia, drone strikes decimated entire communities, destroying not only lives, but crops, homes and livelihoods. And as the new decade began, President Trump not only carried out a drone strike so drastic and rare that many experts believed it was a straightforward declaration of war, but also threatened to bomb non-military targets (“cultural” sites) in Iran, a move which is generally considered a war crime under international law.
“The United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed a number one terrorist anywhere in the world,” Trump told reporters concerning the strike that killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani on 3 January. The false notion that drones are precise — and therefore effective — gained traction in the Obama era, and has continued to pick up speed under Trump.
After analysing documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act related to drones, previously unpublished court documents, dozens of engineering and technical studies, and contract data, CorpWatch’s Pratap Chatterjee and Christian Stork came to a conclusion: “Planning for drone operations was handicapped by a fog of numbers and raw data derived from flawed technology marketed by contractors, the military and the intelligence agencies.”
Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US government developed a specially designed, secret missile for pinpoint air strikes that kill terrorist leaders with no explosion, drastically reducing damage and minimising the chances of civilian casualties. If that sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is.
Discussing the so-called “knife missile”, drone researcher Arthur Holland Michel warned that, “We should take care not to be over-sold on the technology’s precision. After all, it’s still a missile. One official likened it to ‘a speeding anvil’ falling from above.”
So, why do we still consider these weapons precise? Because the companies making them want us to. Looking at the website of Raytheon, the manufacturer of this secret missile, the first thing they advertise under precision weapons is: “Avoiding casualties. Reducing risk. Minimising collateral damage. In a new era of warfare, our precision weapons are meeting the mission — hitting the target and nothing else.” By describing weapons systems like this, they present the claim as true and beyond dispute, transforming them into agents of good and making people feel that they are an effective tool to keep us, and civilians near the target, safe.
A recent Chicago Council on Global Affairs poll even found that Americans are “now more likely to say that drone strikes against suspected terrorists are a very effective way to achieve US foreign policy,” with 35 per cent saying that drones are effective; that figure was 23 per cent in 2015. Drone strikes now rank ahead of international agreements, sanctions and military interventions as effective ways to achieve foreign policy objectives.
When political scientists Micah Zenko and Amelia Wolf did a careful analysis of the “precision” claim back in 2016, they found that: “The White House is deeply misleading about the precision of drone strikes. They are, in fact, roughly thirty times more likely to result in a civilian fatality than an air strike by a manned aircraft.” There is also little evidence that they are effective, in part because congressional oversight has mainly been limited to specific strikes, instead of questioning the overall utility.
“We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend,” said Obama in his Nobel Prize speech. “And we honour those ideals by upholding them not just when it is easy, but when it is hard.” In its recklessness and brutality, Trump’s escalating drone war should remind us all of just how dangerous it is when a president claims the legal authority to kill in secret just because he can.
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renegadetribune--2020-02-09--Hosts Joe Rogan, Alex Jones and Bill Maher Pathologize the Noticing of jewish Behaviour

jews and popular hosts are collectively starting to refer to antisemitism as a “ virus ” .
Jewish comedian Moshe @ @ @ @ @ “ I can see if you ’ re an antisemite , you ’ re going @ @ @ @ @ is the closest I come to believing in magic because they just never stop being @ @ @ @ @ antisemitism is “ crazy ” and a “ virus ” .
Jewish writer and New @ @ @ @ @ refers to the American left and right “ lunatic fringe ” for taking issue with @ @ @ @ @ towards white people and Israel ’ s war crimes .
She acknowledges that antisemitism thrives @ @ @ @ @ to Western society , but fails to correlate that it ’ s because it ’ @ @ @ @ @ that it ’ s the Jews who are destroying their society .
She concludes that @ @ @ @ @ virus ” .

jews and popular hosts are collectively starting to refer to antisemitism as a “virus”. Jewish comedian Moshe Kasher says to Joe Rogan “I can see if you’re an antisemite, you’re going the evil of the Jews is the closest I come to believing in magic because they just never stop being evil.” He says that antisemitism is “crazy” and a “virus”. Jewish writer and New York Times editor Bari Weiss refers to the American left and right “lunatic fringe” for taking issue with Jewish subversion, Jewish racism towards white people and Israel’s war crimes. She acknowledges that antisemitism thrives in dying societies, referring to Western society, but fails to correlate that it’s because it’s apparent to the gentiles that it’s the Jews who are destroying their society. She concludes that antisemitism is a “thought virus”.
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renegadetribune--2020-02-08--The Overdiagnosis of Cancer

The Overdiagnosis of Cancer

For years , GreenMedInfo has been reporting on the overdiagnosis of cancer .
Cancer overdiagnosis is one of the most serious and dangerous problems in medicine today .
The over diagnosed cancer poses no threat .
But the unnecessary chemotherapy and radiation , while offering no help , do pose the significant threat of stress , discomfort , illness and even possibly causing real cancers .
As that earlier reporting made clear , most studies indicate that cancer screening does not reduce the risk of dying from the cancer it is screening for ( 1 ) .
But it does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by screening , false positives and overdiagnosis .
Perhaps the most serious story of overdiagnosis is thyroid cancer .
For women , the risk of thyroid cancer overdiagnosis ranges from 50 % to as high as 70-80 % in the U.S. , France , Italy and Australia .
For men , the fear is not much lessened with overdiagnosis climbing to 45 % in the U.S. and as high as 70 % in some other countries ( 2 ) .
Breast cancer is an almost equally terrifying concern .
A systematic review of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overdiagnosis of breast cancer is an incredible 52 % ( 3 ) .
More recent research shows no improvement .
In fact , the picture is getting worse .
A 2014 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that ten years or more of regular mammograms leads to a false positive in over 60 % of women ( 4 ) .
Men face similar problems with prostate cancer .
Though PSA screening for prostate cancer provides no benefit , since it does not reduce the rate of death , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 12-13 % of men who undergo the test three to four times ( 5 ) .
And now , powerful new evidence adds to the weight and seriousness of the dangerous problem of cancer overdiagnosis .
The new evidence comes from an important new Australian study that looked at the risk of overdiagnosis in five cancers : prostate , breast , kidney , thyroid and melanoma .
The authors declared the results to be “ a substantial problem that urgently requires changes in public health policy.
” The new study defines overdiagnosis as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who would never have experienced symptoms or harm had the cancer remained undetected and untreated.
” For women , the new study found overdiagnosis risks for thyroid cancer in the same range as the earlier studies .
73 % of thyroid cancers were actually overdiagnosis .
Earlier research has shown that the problem with thyroid cancer comes from the twin problems of overdiagnosis and over definition .
One of the most common kinds of thyroid cancer turns out not to be cancer at all .
Encapsulated Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Cancer accounts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ diagnosed with thyroid cancer each year in the U.S .
But that common form of thyroid cancer is now known not to be a cancer at all .
So , all those people received unnecessary and harmful radiation because of overdiagnosis due to over definition ( 6 ) .
For breast cancer , the new study found an overdiagnosis rate of 22 % .
A shocking 58 % of all kidney cancers were actually overdiagnosis .
The rate of overdiagnosis for melanomas was an almost as bad 54 % .
Overall , 18 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were over diagnosed .
For men , the numbers are just as alarming .
Thyroid cancer , again , tops the list at a 73 % rate of overdiagnosis .
42 % of all prostate cancer diagnoses are actually overdiagnoses .
The number for kidney cancers is also 42 % .
And overdiagnosis of melanomas comes in at 58 % .
Overall for men , 24 % of all cancer diagnoses are overdiagnoses .
The overdiagnosis of cancer in people who never would have experienced symptoms or harm that leads to treatments that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the most serious problems in medicine today .
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1 .
Saquib N , Saquib J , Ioannidis JP .
Does screening for disease save lives in asymptomatic adults ?
Systematic review of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Epidemiol 2015 ; 44:264-77 .
2 .
Vaccarella S , Franceschi S , Bray F , et al .
Worldwide Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic ?
The Increasing Impact of Overdiagnosis .
NEJM 2016 ; 375:614-7 .
4 .
Pace LE , Keating NL .
A systematic assessment of benefits and risks to guide breast cancer screening decisions .
JAMA 2014 ; 311:1327-35 .
5 .
Chou R , Croswell JM , Dana T , et al .
Screening for prostate cancer : a review of the evidence for the US Preventive Services Task Force .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 6 .
Yuri E. Nikiforov , Raja R. Seethala , Giovanni Tallini , et al .
A Paradigm Shift to Reduce Overtreatment of Indolent Tumors .
JAMA Oncol 2016 ; 2 ( 8 ) :1023-1029 .

For years, GreenMedInfo has been reporting on the overdiagnosis of cancer. Cancer overdiagnosis is one of the most serious and dangerous problems in medicine today. The over diagnosed cancer poses no threat. But the unnecessary chemotherapy and radiation, while offering no help, do pose the significant threat of stress, discomfort, illness and even possibly causing real cancers.
Background
As that earlier reporting made clear, most studies indicate that cancer screening does not reduce the risk of dying from the cancer it is screening for (1). But it does introduce the risk of the harms caused by screening, false positives and overdiagnosis.
Perhaps the most serious story of overdiagnosis is thyroid cancer. For women, the risk of thyroid cancer overdiagnosis ranges from 50% to as high as 70-80% in the U.S., France, Italy and Australia. For men, the fear is not much lessened with overdiagnosis climbing to 45% in the U.S. and as high as 70% in some other countries (2).
Breast cancer is an almost equally terrifying concern. A systematic review of the research found that the risk of overdiagnosis of breast cancer is an incredible 52% (3). More recent research shows no improvement. In fact, the picture is getting worse. A 2014 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that ten years or more of regular mammograms leads to a false positive in over 60% of women (4).
Men face similar problems with prostate cancer. Though PSA screening for prostate cancer provides no benefit, since it does not reduce the rate of death, it does result in false positives in 12-13% of men who undergo the test three to four times (5).
The New Evidence
And now, powerful new evidence adds to the weight and seriousness of the dangerous problem of cancer overdiagnosis. The new evidence comes from an important new Australian study that looked at the risk of overdiagnosis in five cancers: prostate, breast, kidney, thyroid and melanoma. The authors declared the results to be “a substantial problem that urgently requires changes in public health policy.”
The new study defines overdiagnosis as “the diagnosis of cancer in people who would never have experienced symptoms or harm had the cancer remained undetected and untreated.”
For women, the new study found overdiagnosis risks for thyroid cancer in the same range as the earlier studies. 73% of thyroid cancers were actually overdiagnosis.
Earlier research has shown that the problem with thyroid cancer comes from the twin problems of overdiagnosis and over definition. One of the most common kinds of thyroid cancer turns out not to be cancer at all. Encapsulated Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Cancer accounts for about one in every 6.5 people diagnosed with thyroid cancer each year in the U.S. But that common form of thyroid cancer is now known not to be a cancer at all. So, all those people received unnecessary and harmful radiation because of overdiagnosis due to over definition (6).
For breast cancer, the new study found an overdiagnosis rate of 22%. A shocking 58% of all kidney cancers were actually overdiagnosis. The rate of overdiagnosis for melanomas was an almost as bad 54%. Overall, 18% of all cancer diagnoses for women were over diagnosed.
For men, the numbers are just as alarming. Thyroid cancer, again, tops the list at a 73% rate of overdiagnosis. 42% of all prostate cancer diagnoses are actually overdiagnoses. The number for kidney cancers is also 42%. And overdiagnosis of melanomas comes in at 58%. Overall for men, 24% of all cancer diagnoses are overdiagnoses.
The overdiagnosis of cancer in people who never would have experienced symptoms or harm that leads to treatments that do cause symptoms and harm is one of the most serious problems in medicine today.
If you found this article interesting, join Linda and Ted’s newsletter and get The Natural Path delivered to your in-box every month. The Natural Path is Your Guide to Good Health & Vitality: Cutting Edge Research Made Easy. Subscribe today, and get the latest research to keep you and your family healthy.
References
1. Saquib N, Saquib J, Ioannidis JP. Does screening for disease save lives in asymptomatic adults? Systematic review of meta-analyses and randomized trials. Int J Epidemiol 2015;44:264-77.
2. Vaccarella S, Franceschi S, Bray F, et al. Worldwide Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic? The Increasing Impact of Overdiagnosis. NEJM 2016;375:614-7.
3. Jørgensen KJ, Gøtzsche PC. Overdiagnosis in publicly organised mammography screening programmes: systematic review of incidence trends. BMJ 2009;339:b2587.
4. Pace LE, Keating NL. A systematic assessment of benefits and risks to guide breast cancer screening decisions. JAMA 2014;311:1327-35.
5. Chou R, Croswell JM, Dana T, et al. Screening for prostate cancer: a review of the evidence for the US Preventive Services Task Force. Ann Intern Med 2011;155:762-71.
6. Yuri E. Nikiforov, Raja R. Seethala, Giovanni Tallini, et al. A Paradigm Shift to Reduce Overtreatment of Indolent Tumors. JAMA Oncol 2016;2(8):1023-1029.


renegadetribune--2020-02-08--The Elves of Scandinavia

The Elves of Scandinavia

By Thomas Keightley From The Fairy Mythology : Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries [ 1870 ] THE Alfar still live in the memory and traditions of the peasantry of Scandinavia .
They also , to a certain extent , retain their distinction into White and Black .
The former , or the Good Elves , dwell in the air , dance on the grass , or sit in the leaves of trees ; the latter , or Evil Elves , are regarded as an underground people , who frequently inflict sickness or injury on mankind ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of doctors called Kloka män , [ a ] to be met with in all parts of the country .
The Elves are believed to have their kings , and to celebrate their weddings and banquets , just the same as the dwellers above ground .
There is an interesting intermediate class of them in popular tradition called the Hill-people ( Högfolk ) , who are believed to dwell in caves and small hills : when they show themselves they have a handsome human form .
The common people seem to connect with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as if bewailing a half-quenched hope of redemption .
[ b ] There are only a few old persons now who can tell any thing more about them than of the sweet singing that may occasionally on summer nights be beard out of their hills , when one stands still and listens , or , as it is expressed in the ballads , “ lays his ear to the Elve-hill ” ( lägger sit öra till Elfvehögg ) : but no one must be so cruel as , by the slightest word , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for then the spritely music will be turned into weeping and laanentation .
[ c ] The Norwegians call the Elves Huldrafolk , and their music Huldraslaat : it is in the minor key , and of a dull and mournful sound .
The mountaineers sometimes play it , and pretend they have learned it by listening to the underground people among the hills and rocks .
There is also a tune called the Elf-king ’ s tune , which several of the good fiddlers know right well , but never venture to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ begins both old and young , and even inanimate objects , are impelled to dance , and the player can not stop unless be can play the air backwards , or that some one comes behind him and cuts the strings of his fiddle .
[ d ] The little underground Elves , who are believed to dwell under the houses of mankind , are described as sportive and mischievous , and as imitating all the actions of men .
They are said to love cleanliness about the house and place , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and .
cleanly .
There was one time , it is said , a servant girl , who was for her cleanly , tidy habits , greatly beloved by the Elves , particularly as she was careful to carry away all dirt and foul water to a distance from the house , and they once invited her to a wedding .
Every thing was conducted in the greatest order , and they made her a present of some chips , which she took good-homouredly and put into her pocket .
But when the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unluckily lying in the way , the bridegroom got cleverly over it , but the poor bride fell on her face .
At the sight of this the girl could not restrain herself , but burst out a-laughing , and that instant the whole vanished from her sight .
Next day , to her utter amazement , she found that what she had taken to be nothing but chips , were so many pieces of pure gold .
[ e ] A dairy-maid at a place called Skibshuset ( the Ship-house ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A colony of Elves had taken up their abode under the floor of the cowhouse , or it is more likely , were there before it was made a cowhouse .
However , the dirt and filth that the cattle made annoyed them beyond measure , and they gave the dairy-maid to understand that if she did not remove the cows , she would have reason to repent it .
She gave little heed to their representations ; and it was not very long till they set her up on top of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cows .
It is said that they were seen on the same night removing in a great hurry from the cowhouse down to the meadow , and that they went in little coaches ; and their king was in the first coach , which was far more stately and magnificent than the rest .
They have ever since lived in the meadow .
[ f ] The Elves are extremely fond of dancing in the meadows , where they form those circles of a livelier green which from them are called Elf-dance ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see in the morning stripes along the dewy grass in the woods and meadows , they say the Elves have been dancing there .
If any one should at midnight get within their circle , they become visible to him , and they may then illude him .
It is not every one that can see the Elves ; and one person may see them dancing while another perceives nothing .
Sunday children , as they are called , i. e. those born on Sunday , are remarkable for possessing this property of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Elves , however , have the power to bestow this gift on whomsoever they please .
People also used to speak of Elf-books which they gave to those whom they loved , and which enabled them to foretell future events .
The Elves often sit in little stones that are of a circular form , and are called Elf-mills ( Elf-quärnor ) ; the sound of their voice is said to be sweet and soft like the air .
[ g ] The Danish peasantry give the following account of their EllefoIk or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Elle-moors .
The appearance of the man is that of an old man with a low-crowned hat on his head ; the Elle-woman is young and of a fair and attractive countenance , but behind she is hollow like a dough-trough .
Young men should be especially on their guard against her , for it is very difficult to resist her ; and she has , moreover , a stringed instrument , which , when she plays on it , quite ravishes their hearts .
The man may be often seen near the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but if any one comes too near him , he opens his mouth wide and breathes upon them , and his breath produces sickness and pestilence .
But the women are most frequently to be seen by moonshine ; then they dance their rounds in the high grass so lightly and so gracefully , that they seldom meet a denial when they offer their hand to a rash young man .
It is also necessary to watch cattle , that they may not graze in any place where the Elle-people have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a place where the Elle-people have spit , or done what is worse , it is attacked by some grievous disease which can only be cured by giving it to eat a handful of St. John ’ s wort , which had been pulled at twelve o ’ clock on St. John ’ s night .
It might also happen that they might sustain some injury by mixing with the Elle-people ’ s cattle , which are very large , and of a blue colour , and which may sometimes be seen in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on which they live .
But the farmer has an easy remedy against this evil ; for he has only to go to the Elle-hill when he is turning out his cattle and to say , “ Thou little Troll !
may I graze my cows on thy hill ?
” And if he is not prohibited , he may set his mind at rest .

By Thomas Keightley
From The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries [1870]
Säg, kännar du Elfvornas glada slägt?
De bygga ved fiodernas rand;
De spinna af månsken sin högtidsdrägt,
Med liljehvit spelande hand.
STAGNELIUS.
Say, knowest thou the Elves’ gay and joyous race?
The banks of streams are their home;
They spin of the moonshine their holiday-dress,
With their lily-white hands frolicsome.
THE Alfar still live in the memory and traditions of the peasantry of Scandinavia. They also, to a certain extent, retain their distinction into White and Black. The former, or the Good Elves, dwell in the air, dance on the grass, or sit in the leaves of trees; the latter, or Evil Elves, are regarded as an underground people, who frequently inflict sickness or injury on mankind; for which there is a particular kind of doctors called Kloka män, [a] to be met with in all parts of the country.
The Elves are believed to have their kings, and to celebrate their weddings and banquets, just the same as the dwellers above ground. There is an interesting intermediate class of them in popular tradition called the Hill-people (Högfolk), who are believed to dwell in caves and small hills: when they show themselves they have a handsome human form. The common people seem to connect with them a deep feeling of melancholy, as if bewailing a half-quenched hope of redemption. [b]
There are only a few old persons now who can tell any thing more about them than of the sweet singing that may occasionally on summer nights be beard out of their hills, when one stands still and listens, or, as it is expressed in the ballads, “lays his ear to the Elve-hill” (lägger sit öra till Elfvehögg): but no one must be so cruel as, by the slightest word, to destroy their hopes of salvation, for then the spritely music will be turned into weeping and laanentation. [c]
The Norwegians call the Elves Huldrafolk, and their music Huldraslaat: it is in the minor key, and of a dull and mournful sound. The mountaineers sometimes play it, and pretend they have learned it by listening to the underground people among the hills and rocks. There is also a tune called the Elf-king’s tune, which several of the good fiddlers know right well, but never venture to play, for as soon as it begins both old and young, and even inanimate objects, are impelled to dance, and the player cannot stop unless be can play the air backwards, or that some one comes behind him and cuts the strings of his fiddle. [d]
The little underground Elves, who are believed to dwell under the houses of mankind, are described as sportive and mischievous, and as imitating all the actions of men. They are said to love cleanliness about the house and place, and to reward such servants as are neat and. cleanly.
There was one time, it is said, a servant girl, who was for her cleanly, tidy habits, greatly beloved by the Elves, particularly as she was careful to carry away all dirt and foul water to a distance from the house, and they once invited her to a wedding. Every thing was conducted in the greatest order, and they made her a present of some chips, which she took good-homouredly and put into her pocket. But when the bride-pair was coming there was a straw unluckily lying in the way, the bridegroom got cleverly over it, but the poor bride fell on her face. At the sight of this the girl could not restrain herself, but burst out a-laughing, and that instant the whole vanished from her sight. Next day, to her utter amazement, she found that what she had taken to be nothing but chips, were so many pieces of pure gold. [e]
A dairy-maid at a place called Skibshuset (the Ship-house), in Odense, was not so fortunate. A colony of Elves had taken up their abode under the floor of the cowhouse, or it is more likely, were there before it was made a cowhouse. However, the dirt and filth that the cattle made annoyed them beyond measure, and they gave the dairy-maid to understand that if she did not remove the cows, she would have reason to repent it. She gave little heed to their representations; and it was not very long till they set her up on top of the hay-rick, and killed all the cows. It is said that they were seen on the same night removing in a great hurry from the cowhouse down to the meadow, and that they went in little coaches; and their king was in the first coach, which was far more stately and magnificent than the rest. They have ever since lived in the meadow. [f]
The Elves are extremely fond of dancing in the meadows, where they form those circles of a livelier green which from them are called Elf-dance (Elfdans). When the country people see in the morning stripes along the dewy grass in the woods and meadows, they say the Elves have been dancing there. If any one should at midnight get within their circle, they become visible to him, and they may then illude him. It is not every one that can see the Elves; and one person may see them dancing while another perceives nothing. Sunday children, as they are called, i. e. those born on Sunday, are remarkable for possessing this property of seeing Elves and similar beings. The Elves, however, have the power to bestow this gift on whomsoever they please. People also used to speak of Elf-books which they gave to those whom they loved, and which enabled them to foretell future events.
The Elves often sit in little stones that are of a circular form, and are called Elf-mills (Elf-quärnor); the sound of their voice is said to be sweet and soft like the air. [g]
The Danish peasantry give the following account of their EllefoIk or Elve-people.
The Elle-people live in the Elle-moors. The appearance of the man is that of an old man with a low-crowned hat on his head; the Elle-woman is young and of a fair and attractive countenance, but behind she is hollow like a dough-trough. Young men should be especially on their guard against her, for it is very difficult to resist her; and she has, moreover, a stringed instrument, which, when she plays on it, quite ravishes their hearts. The man may be often seen near the EIle-moors, bathing himself in the sunbeams, but if any one comes too near him, he opens his mouth wide and breathes upon them, and his breath produces sickness and pestilence. But the women are most frequently to be seen by moonshine; then they dance their rounds in the high grass so lightly and so gracefully, that they seldom meet a denial when they offer their hand to a rash young man. It is also necessary to watch cattle, that they may not graze in any place where the Elle-people have been; for if any animal come to a place where the Elle-people have spit, or done what is worse, it is attacked by some grievous disease which can only be cured by giving it to eat a handful of St. John’s wort, which had been pulled at twelve o’clock on St. John’s night. It might also happen that they might sustain some injury by mixing with the Elle-people’s cattle, which are very large, and of a blue colour, and which may sometimes be seen in the fields licking up the dew, on which they live. But the farmer has an easy remedy against this evil; for he has only to go to the Elle-hill when he is turning out his cattle and to say, “Thou little Troll! may I graze my cows on thy hill?” And if he is not prohibited, he may set his mind at rest.
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renegadetribune--2020-02-08--Dr. Dave Rich: Conspiracy Theories & Anti-Semitism

Dr. Dave Rich kvetches about the place conspiracy theories hold in the way antisemitism is expressed today .

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