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A tale of two Gilads (10/18/11...) by Jay Knott
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has just been released from custody by Hamas after five years. In return, 1,027 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel. So that makes 1,028 prisoners released. But we only know the name of one...
Gilad Atzmon versus the fake anti-Zionists (05/05/11...) by Jay Knott
Gilad Atzmon is the Israeli writer who blew the complacent Jewish-dominated left apart with his withering critique of how Jewish ethnic interests are covertly defended within Palestine solidarity groups. He's on his way to...




Article in 'the Guardian' criticizing Atzmon by Jay Knott:  The article repeats the time-worn mantra about how the Palestine solidarity movement needs to be concerned about 'anti-semitism'. This article is a perfect example of crypto-Zionism, and concisely expresses the attitudes which...




Israel finds another friend on the left by Jay Knott:  CORRECTION: This post originally began "Britain's Socialist Workers Party doesn't actually support Israel". That's a snidy remark, conveying a false impression. Just 'coz they do it, doesn't mean I should. What I should have...




The 'Atzmon wars' by Jay Knott:  Gilad Atzmon's new book, 'The Wandering Who?', has generated tremendous criticism, especially from people who haven't read itThe best starting point for following the storm, which has guaranteed massive sales for the book, is at...

We will never forget (09/11/11) by Jay Knott
But that doesn't mean we have to agree with the war pigs: `"Americans are reluctant to talk about radical Islam." He says the Bush administration "didn't do a good job" because it was "too sensitive" and "tongue-tied" in...


Would the Iranian govt. really risk everything in an terrorist attack on Saudi Arabia and the USA? by Jay Knott:  Just when I thought I don't believe in conspiracy theories... http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-iran-tied-terror-plot-washington-dc-disrupted/story?id=14711933 It's possible that Iran planned to murder the Saudi...

Walk like an Egyptian (09/10/11) by Jay Knott
It gets better. Mubarak overthrown. Israeli embassy sacked. US journalists attacked. Best of all is the journalists who had to run from the mob were from liberal stations CNN and PBR, though perhaps their opponents didn't know...




It doesn't all get better by Jay Knott: 

There have been more sectarian riots in Egypt since the revolution than there used to be
London's burning again (08/07/11...) by Jay Knott
The British police have 'lost it' again. This is good news. I remember the riots of the eighties - they were mostly liberatory experiences which fought back against police violence and Margaret Thatcher's economic policies,...


Race and riots by Jay Knott:  The media make too much of the connection between race and riots. The left concentrates on race when it suits its agenda, the right likewise. In the Los Angeles riots of 1992, much of the media dishonestly focused on incidents...







Warsaw Uprising Anniversary (08/01/11) by Reginald

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-CgJy9pRoo&feature=related 
Reactions to terrorism from left and right (07/23/11...) by Jay Knott
A lunatic has killed nearly one hundred people in Norway. Bombs exploded in Oslo killing several people near the government, and shortly afterwards a gunman killed dozens of young people at a summer camp for children of members of...


An orgy of anti-fascist self-congratulation by Jay Knott:  It's worse than I thought. The liberal media is engaging in an orgy of self-congratulation, effectively saying "told you so", because a Norwegian serial killer 'had links to' football hooligans and neo-conservatives. It's Oklahoma...


'No reason to believe Anders Breivik is insane' says judge by Jay Knott:  "There is no reason to believe that Norway mass murder suspect Anders Behring Breivik is insane, District Court Judge Torkjel Nesheim said Monday." http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/14/world/europe/norway-terror-suspect Apart...


It turns out I was right - Breivik is insane by Jay Knott:  The Norwegian criminal justice system seems to think so, anyway: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/anders-behring-breivik-legally-insane_n_1118194.html ...


The court has decided Breivik is not insane after all by Jay Knott: 

His decision to murder dozens of Norwegian teenagers in order to prevent the 'Islamisation of Europe' was apparently the workings of a rational mind

I wonder what it takes to be classified as a nutter in Norway
Slavoj Žižek, Israel Shamir, Vladimir Lenin and me (07/18/11) by Jay Knott
The left-liberal website Lenin's Tomb barred me from commenting because I concurred with something philosopher Slavoj Žižek said about gypsies. The author of the site was a fan of Žižek until the latter made comments ...


Žižek comments on the Norwegian tragedy by Jay Knott:  He is one of the commentators who feel vindicated that Breivik's writings appear to support both Zionism and white nationalism. But it's better than most of the ones I've seen so far: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...

White guilt on CNN (07/09/11) by Jay Knott
"Yes, it was white privilege that blinded me to the fact I might be the bottom of the barrel on someone else's race card." Here is an American describing the fact that her Korean boyfriend's parents didn't want him to marry a...


And that's not half the reaction they'd have gotten had she been Japanese by Reginald: 

And that's not half the reaction they'd have gotten had she been Japanese, I'd reckon;) 
Our Oregon and USA Constitutions: (07/02/11) by Reginald

http://www.leg.state.or.us/orcons/ http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html 
Red Terror on the Amber Coast: Lithuanian Resistance to Soviet Tyranny (07/02/11...) by Reginald
Available for viewing in its entirety on YouTube; Here is part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Q3Ps7Pc2I http://www.providence.edu/NR/rdonlyres/021F9479-503C-44E4-AADB-4034D6FDC93D/16374/gumbert2.jpg Red Terror on...
International Criminal Court issues war crimes warrant for Col Gaddafi (06/27/11) by Jay Knott
Just in case anyone still thought the ICC has any credibility as an independent legal body... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/27/muammar-gaddafi-arrest-war...
'Electronic Intifada' fails to see sign of Israel Lobby retreat (06/25/11...) by Jay Knott
Ali Abunimah of 'Electronic Intifada', an important pro-Palestinian rights website, unearths what he says are the devious tactics of "The David Project", a Zionist thinktank. Only a leftist could refer to the following points as...
Hackers target Arizona cops - for the wrong reason (06/24/11...) by Jay Knott
The Lulzsec hacker group have released a tranche of secret documents from the Arizona police, because they oppose Arizona's immigration policies. Yes, they think these policies are racist because they target Mexicans rather than...
Two held in US for alleged plot to attack recruiting centre in Seattle (06/24/11) by Jay Knott
They are charged with "conspiracy to murder". Federal prosecutor Jenny Durkan said: "The complaint alleges these men intended to carry out a deadly attack against our military where they should be most safe, here at home." ...
Yuri Bezmenov aka Tomas Schuman on subversion: (06/20/11) by Reginald

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov#Pro-American_lecturer.2C_writer.2C_advocate
Stephen Jay Gould's lies about 'racist' skull studies exposed (06/18/11) by Jay Knott

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/06/stephen-jay-gould-mismeasured-skulls-in-racial-records-dispute/1
A major article by Nahida criticizing 'Jewish Voice For Peace' (06/07/11...) by Jay Knott

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/nahida-the-exiled-palestinian-jewish-voice-for-peace-really.html




'Veterans Today' exposes anti-fascist provocateurs by Jay Knott:  'Veterans Today' is one of several sources which supports Palestinian rights as well as the American armed forces - they say, in effect, it's OK for the USA to murder people in foreign countries, as long as it's not being done for...




'Veterans Today' stands for freedom of speech on the Holocaust by Jay Knott:  'Veterans Today' has published several articles by Ingrid Zundel, defending her husband Ernst, a Holocaust revisionist whose views are so extreme they make David Irving look like Noam Chomsky. Whatever you think of their...

Stop FBI repression... and not just against Mexican activists (05/27/11...) by Jay Knott
I got an email from some Stalinist outfit about the continuing FBI raids against do-gooders and troublemakers around the country. The latest is an immigration activist named Carlos Montes. http://www....


Southern Poverty Law Center slanders libertarians as a 'hate group' by Jay Knott:  The $PLC is relentless in its determination to encourage hate against people it disagrees with by calling them 'hate groups'. The latest is on the libertarians of the Flathead Liberty Bell in Montana. Here is their take on the...

Strauss-Kahn - Trial by Media (05/19/11...) by Jay Knott
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was head of the International Monetary Fund. Then, on 14 May, a New York chambermaid accused him of raping her, he was arrested and subject to trial by media in the USA, and he had to resign from the IMF. In...


"I just wanted to be recognised as a victim" by Jay Knott:  Don't we all, dear? "I just wanted to be recognised as a victim. I wanted someone to say officially that I was not a liar. And here it was... I felt relieved, soothed, blessed. I would have liked them to believe that there had...


Cambridge University UK - as bigoted as Duke, NC by Jay Knott:  Students tried to prevent Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ex-head of the IMF, speaking at the Cambridge Union. Students protested - well that's what students do. But they weren't protesting about international banking. Nor about the fact...



Are Zionists corrupted by the influence of white racists? (05/11/11...) by Jay Knott
A common theme in the left is shock and horror at how Zionists associate with 'fascists'. - Lenni Brenner's 'Zionism in the age of the dictators' complains of how Zionist leaders co-operated with the Nazis, but not the other way...
Beyond vengeance (05/05/11) by Jay Knott
"I haven't let myself be consumed by hatred and bitterness for the Taliban or the person who killed him - if I did, then they'd take my life and my son's as well" - widow of Royal Marine killed in Afghanistan http:...