Friday, 21 December 2018

The Drug Laws Need Rethinking

The Drug Laws Need Rethinking

By Dark Politricks

With the recent changing of Marijuana back up to a class B drug in the UK and the sacking of its head drug advisor due to public comments about smoking and drinking being more harmful than most drugs its worth looking at our crazy drug laws and wondering whether any governing party will ever have the balls to actually try and tackle the problem properly.

The fact is that our stupid drug laws in the west have not led to less drug users but more users, more deaths, more addicts and more money for the people at the top who control the trade. I am of the belief that all drugs should be made legal so that they can be controlled correctly and safely.

Certain drugs like Marijuana should be allowed to be home grown for personal consumption anyway and the more problematic drugs like heroin and crack cocaine should be regulated for the good of society as the current legal framework definitely does not lead to anything good for society just lots of people in jail, high crime rates, millions of addicts and deaths due to the lack of quality assurance that comes with an underground illegal trade.
The biggest problem is with Heroin, a drug that if taken in its pure form addicts can lead normal healthy lives but because of its illegality means that people die regularly.
Not only is overdose an issue because strength cannot be gauged by sight alone and there is no helpful packaging to let the user know how strong it is but because of impurities added to smack, the latest being Anthrax spores from a type of mud mixed in because it looks like the powder, addicts regularly die of other causes.
If the drug was controlled like it was before the 1973 misuse of drugs Act came into action in the UK then addicts could receive their dose from a doctor and lead normal lives with the offer of help to come off it when they are ready.
With a clean, free or cheap supply of the drug then the black market trade would surely decrease if not stop due to their being no money to be made. The only potential customers would be the "new" addict in waiting, the school kid or experimenter as anyone already hooked would be receiving their dose through regulated channels. Why risk banging up brick dust or Anthrax spores when you can get a pure shot from your GP?
As for the crime rate, insurance premiums, prison population size and taxes they would all come down.
Heroin and Crack addicts rob to pay the hugely inflated prices for their dose. An acre of poppy field can be bought in India or Afghanistan for less than a hundred pounds but a gram in the UK can cost up to £50. Therefore the markup on this product is immense and considering that a purity percentage of 30-50% is considered pretty good there is ample scope for dealers to cut the product to bump up their profits.
Most burglaries, robberies and theft is committed by addicts looking for money to pay for their fix.
Prisons are full of addicts and we all know that there is not enough rehabilitation occurring inside due to the high cost of actually trying to solve a problem as complex as an individuals life. However this is very short sighted as the cost of trying to wean an addict off drugs and help them rebuild their life is far outweighed by the costs of policing, insurance claims, court costs and the cost of holding someone in prison and feeding them.
Someone convicted of a theft related crime related to their drug addiction should not be given a criminal record and sent to prison but instead should be sent to special new detox centers which should be built on mass in this country.
Prisons should be kept for those convicted of violent offences or bankers who fraudulently steal billions but an addict who is forced to steal for their habit should be treated not punished. These centers would be locked down unlike open prisons and after detoxing there should be rehabilitation and life training, and before leaving the user should be provided with a Naltrexone implant to give them a clean next 6 months.
The cost of such an approach maybe high in the short term but in the long term it would pay huge dividends. The problem is that no governing party in the UK has ever been able to promote such an approach even if they had wanted to due to the moral outrage that such a policy would erupt inside Daily Mail readers who would think that this was "being soft on drugs".
There were signs that our government was starting to see the light when it moved Cannabis to class C down from Class B.
However with the recent re-classification of it back up to a Class B most people do not realise that this shift has actually meant that the punishments for Class C drugs are now more harsh than ever. 
This is because when Cannabis was moved down a class the penalties for all Class C drugs which included non-prescribed Benzo's, Barbs and so on went up. So what we are actually left with is actually a more harsher drugs regime than if the Labour government had just kept Weed as Class B in the first place.
Unfortunately the government is very two faced when it comes to drugs as one side says "Just say no" whilst the other darker side actively supports drug smuggling and uses the money for "off the book" operations that they don't want to have to pass through Government for approval. Governments have always been involved in drugs even before they were made illegal and the UK even went to war with China over their refusal to allow us to sell Opium to their citizens.
The CIA has been a well known drug smuggler since the days of their predecessor the OSS, Air America during Vietnam, the original Russian Afghanistan war, The Iran Contra scandal and now the new rise in Afghan poppy production that Blair and co promised to eradicate. I
n fact the biggest drug dealer of the 80's, a Burmese war lord named Khun Sa claimed that the CIA were one of his best customers!
by 1986 he was refining 80 percent of the opium harvest in the Golden Triangle. The king of opium trade, Khun Sa had risen to become the world's largest single heroin trafficker by controlling 60 percent of the world's illicit opium supply.
In 1986, Bo Gritz went to Burma with White House approval to meet with Khun Sa who supposedly had information on American MIAs. Khun Sa said that he wanted to end the opium and heroin traffic in his territory and to expose American officials involved in the drug smuggling.
Gritz claimed that he took this message to the United States government and was told by Tom Harvey of the National Security Council that "there is no interest here" in the Khun Sa overture. Gritz had in his possession 40 hours of video tape of Khun Sa who "charged American officials, both past and present, with being the chief buyers of drugs produced in that part of the world." He also claimed that he wanted to stop drug trafficking, but that the United States government would not let him.
Khun Sa said that the CIA were some of his best customers. He offered support to the DEA to alert them of drug movements, but this was rejected at the headquarters level.
For more information about the CIA's involvement in drug smuggling please read the following articles:
Also more recently we have been at war in Afghanistan for almost 20 years and it is intrinsically linked to the rise in Opium production which the Taliban banned in 2001. Also the current Western puppet rulers of the country, President Karzai and his brothers are supposedly the biggest Opium dealers in the country that supplies over 92% of all Heroin/Opium used in the world today.
With all these powerful vested interests that are involved in the continuing black economy of illegal drug smuggling it is no wonder that there is no serious move by any western government to come up with a sensible drug policy.
Just by being illegal, the price of drugs is pushed up beyond any other commodity and the drug industry is worth billions of pounds a year which is a pretty powerful incentive by those making money out of it to carry on with the status quo.
People worry about drugs being legal thinking that this would drive demand up but many studies have shown this not to be the case and in fact there is a certain kudos involved with the substance being illegal which actually stimulates demand especially in young people.
We all know the types of children that if you told them they couldn't do something they would go out and do the opposite purely because its a "forbidden fruit". We already have a huge demand for illicit drugs in this country as well as the rest of the world so any increase would surely be negligible and by legalising or even de-crimilising and regulating the market we would save billions of pounds and hundreds of lives a year.
Maybe the New Year will bring along a politician with the balls to create a proper public debate about this matter and not be scared by the "moral majority" on the right which like to shout loud about other peoples indiscretions whilst keeping their own kinky fetishes, perversions and misdeeds locked behind closed doors.
If the good of the country matters anything to anybody then the hypocrisy must stop. 
Talking tough on drugs and sacking advisers who give rational scientific advice whilst allowing the sale of cigarettes and alcohol to continue even though they kill hundreds of thousands a year makes no sense. 
If the government wants to pay off our national debt quickly then maybe the legalisation of drugs could be the answer. Just imagine all that tax revenue that would be brought in by the millions who smoke weed every day and pop E's each weekend.
I have never understood the hypocrisy that says that if a doctor prescribes me a Valium for anxiety its perfectly fine but if I take an non-prescribed one for pleasure or to help with a plane flight its considered morally wrong.
This dubious moral line is one which is illogical and should be scrapped straight away. Millions of people every day and night in clubs, pubs and homes across the country are sticking two fingers up and saying "Fuck You" to the stupid drug laws. We just need someone to listen.
The politicians need to realise that any war on drugs just like any war on terror cannot be won as its an illogical concept in the first place.
There will always be drugs and always people willing to take them.
Maybe if the country wasn't such a shit and depressing place where people could see a future that they could control and take a part in forming then taking drugs wouldn't be such a good escape. So maybe if the government wants to continue with its current policy and avoid legalisation like the plague it should concentrate on making the country a better place to live.
Just a thought for the New Year!

Terrorism is not an excuse for the loss of our liberties

Terrorism is not an excuse for the loss of our liberties

By Dark Politricks

The war on terror has been used by the UK government as a battering ram to the rights of the citizens of this country. New laws have been passed including 2 new terrorism acts (2000 and 2006) which have restricted free speech, the rights of demonstrators to protest and have given the police new powers of stop and search and lets not forget the 28 days detention and control orders.

Now you may say "well you have nothing to fear unless you have something to hide" which is a bend over attitude that leads to fascism. I am not a terrorist but nor are most people who have been affected by this new age of fighting terrorism.

Its the thin edge of the wedge which has taken advantage of peoples justifiable fears about terrorist attacks to introduce laws that if only applied to real terrorists would be fine however who can forget the 82 year old Walter Wolfgang who was dragged out of the Labour conference for heckling Jack Straw under the terrorism act in 2005. Or what about Gordon Brown invoking the terrorism act to freeze Iceland's bank accounts during 2008?

Just these two acts alone prove how our government intends to use these new powers for reasons other than fighting terrorism.

Once the public has been forced into a mindset that demands protection from unseen shadowy terrorists and that they must be dealt with severely it then allows the government to widen the scope of what actually constitutes terrorism.

One day you are a protester exercising your legal right of protest the next you are a terrorist trying to overthrow the state with subversive acts. Take a look over the pond to see how the US government is trying to class gun owners, ex servicemen and Ron Paul supporters as domestic terrorists.

It seems that the US constitution is slowly being eroded bit by bit. I never used to understand the Americans fascination with their right to bear guns however the more I have read up about Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers and their desire to protect the people against the tyranny of government it makes perfect sense. I especially love the following two quotes that Jefferson made:
"No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not .warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
I have come to have a renewed respect for the founding fathers of America and the contemporary patriots who want the US government to return to the constitution. The world would be a quieter and probably safer place if it did.

Even though Jefferson and Washington kicked their British rulers out during the war of Independence us Brits must never forget that the father of the revolution was Thomas Paine an Englishman whose books the Age of Reasonand the Rights of Man had enormous influence on the Age of Enlightenment and the revolutions of France and America.

Two new republics were born that decreed that man had inalienable rights that could not be taken away by government. Therefore when people see their government treating their constitution as "just a piece of paper"as George Bush famously called it and trampling over their rights including the right to bear arms as if their inalienable rights were just an outdated idea that had no place in this century then I can see why they get so upset over the 2nd amendment.

Here in the UK its too late as we are currently a disarmed nation since the massacres of Dunblane and Hungerford took our guns away but then unlike the Americans we never had an inalienable right to bare arms anyway.

In fact although the UK passed the first ever bill of rights in 1689 it was never thought necessary for us to have a written constitution like the French and Americans.

I personally think it would be in our own best interests to draw up our own document as soon as possible. Yes we have the Human Rights act of 1998 which the right wing media decries and complains about almost every other day as something that has been imposed on us from Europe. However ridiculous the examples the Daily Mail and Express use to denigrate this act seem we should never feel that getting rid of that act would be in our best interest.

Civil rights have been hard fought and won through years of battle between state and its populace and any document that tries to enshrine our rights for future prosperity should be cherished and held in high esteem. We should also remember that it was British lawyers that drew up the Europen Convention on human rights in 1950, that the act is based on, after the horrors of the second world war. So we should view this act as yet another example of us Brits bringing civil rights to the world rather than Europe imposing some alien concept on us.

From the Magna Carta in 1215, through to John Lockes and Thomas Hobbes social contract between man and the state through to the first Bill of Rights and then the Human Rights act we Brits have been at the forefront of civil rights and we should not let the fear of terrorism allow any of these hard won rights to be taken away as once gone they will probably not come back unless a Liberal Democrat government gets in power which seems most unlikely.

We are slowly walking down the path to a place that I don't want to call home. When George Orwells 1984 starts to become a commentary on modern times then we must all stop and ask ourselves what the hell is going on.

By Dark Politricks

What's the difference between a Cult and Organised Religion

What's the difference between a Cult and Organised Religion

By Dark Politricks

Watching The Big Questions this morning there was only one question which was "What's the difference between a Cult and Organised Religion"

On one side were the standard old age religionis, Christians, Catholics, Rabbis and Muslims and on the other side we had members of existing "new" religions such as Raelians, Moonies - or as they are called now members of the "Unification Church", an ex member of the Branch Davidians which if you remember was the target of the ATF and FBI ended up in a state sanctioned massacre of 82 religious people.

The audience was also filled with ex members of cults, psychologists who have studied the "brainwashing" techniques used by such called groups and other affected by these groups in one way of another.

In my mind it is quite simple but lets look at a definition of a Cult
  • a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
  • an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.
  • the object of such devotion.
  • a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
  • Sociology . a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
Lets look at the definition of a Religion
  • a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
  • a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion.
  • the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices: a world council of religions.
  • the life or state of a monk, nun, etc. to enter religion.
  • the practice of religious beliefs - ritual observance of faith.
In mine and many in the audiences (apart from those belonging to organised religions) not much difference.

Jesus was supposedly a characteristic person who had followers - apparently a key sign of a cult. 

The same could be said about Mohammed, Buddha, Hari Krishna and many other "old religions".

The disagreement seems to be as one person said one of size. The Catholic Chuch is a huge and rich organisation whereas some of the organisations called cults such as the Raelians who believe we were created (just as scientists on this planet are now starting to do with DNA) by human beings from another planet in the universe.

A case of aliens geo-engineering the earth and it's inhabitants. When compared to some of the stories that the "official" religions believe in such as virgin births, coming back to life after dying and performing miracles not too bizare a belief.

What got my interest though was that one of the audience members said to an ex member of the Branch Davidians asked whether the leader David Koresh sexually abused children at the branch.

The member denied this but others of the "scientific" community said that one of the signs of a cult as compared to a religion was the sexual abuse that was endemic within cults which had such charismatic leaders that the followers did whatever he said due to brain washing techniques as well as the cult of personality.

Well doesn't that mean the Catholic Church has a very big cult, with a long history of sexual abuse of children as well as a personality cult revolving around their leader, the Pope?

This seemed to be a big difference between living your life by a set of defined values (as Christians, Jews and Muslims supposedly do) whilst cult members didn't.

There wasn't any mention of the numerous cases of sexual abuses, pedophilia, cover ups and criminal cases over the years that have been ingrained in "old religons" since their conception.

We have just experience a major Catholic cover up over its treatment of pedophile priests which led all the way up to the ex Nazi Youth Pope.

Court case after case in Ireland has shown the Catholic Church to be one of the biggest organised pedophole rings in the world - and one of the most well funded and protected.

The same sort of sexual abuse has been endemic in Christian history for a long time.

Why a man of breeding age would willingly chose abstinence and the company of little boys over a normal life seems obvious to me but in these times where psychology would give more than one answer it seems like an old excuse to hide ones sexual activities from the community at large.

Islam has always had its critics from those who called the original "cult leader" Mohammed certain terms due to the age of some of his wives.

However in some states of America where the age in some states it's 18 you might call the Spannish strange for having an age of consent of only 13 and other European countries from 13, 14 up to 18.

Even in some places in Africa and Asia is not uncommon for child weddings where an old man takes a 12 year old as a wife.

From Wikipedia:
Traditionally, across the world, the age of consent for a sexual union was a matter for the family to decide, or a tribal custom. In most cases, this coincided with signs of puberty, menstruation for a woman and pubic hair for a man.

In Ancient Rome, it was very common for girls to marry and have children shortly after the onset of puberty.
The first recorded age-of-consent law dates back 800 years: In 1275, in England, as part of the rape law, a statute, Westminster 1, made it a misdemeanor to "ravish" a "maiden within age," whether with or without her consent. The phrase "within age" was interpreted by jurist Sir Edward Coke as meaning the age of marriage, which at the time was 12 years of age.

In the 12th century Gratian, the influential founder of Canon law in medieval Europe, accepted age of puberty for marriage to be between 12 and 14 but acknowledged consent to be meaningful if the children were older than 7. There were authorities that said that consent could take place earlier. Marriage would then be valid as long as neither of the two parties annulled the marital agreement before reaching puberty, or if they had already consummated the marriage. It should be noted that Judges honored marriages based on mutual consent at ages younger than 7, in spite of what Gratian had said; there are recorded marriages of 2 and 3 year olds.
And then there is the Jewish Talmud, the book of laws made by Rabbis that is full of teachings that allow Rabbis to have sex with girls of extremley young ages or not consider rape illegal if the man was a Rabbi. These Talmudic laws have been known for a long time but are not unique for an age in which rape wasn't even considered a crime.

Even in England raping your wife wasn't considered a crime until back in 1990.

So sexual behaviour cannot be considered a sign of cultish behaviour.

However when a science fiction writer claims that "the best way to make a million dollars is to start a religion" and then goes on to do exactly that. Charging people thousands of dollars for learning it's many steps up to the big reveal, the "ultimate secret" one that wouldn't be out of place in any science fiction book:
Scientologists believe that 75 million years ago an evil galactic ruler, named Xenu, solved overpopulation by bringing trillions of people to Earth in DC-8 space planes, stacking them around volcanoes and nuking them. Then the souls of these dead space aliens were captured and boxed up and taken to cinemas where they were shown films of what life should be like, false ideas containing God, the devil and Christ and told to get ill.

After that they supposedly clustered together and now inhabit our bodies. Scientologists believe that if they rid themselves of these body Thetans then they will be healthier and will gain special powers like mind-over-matter.
People who try to leave are harassed, treated as traitors and have even had to face legal cases over their revelations of the "big secret" that people like Tom Cruise and John Travolata pay up to $500,000 for this top secret information. No wonder the Church of Scientology wants to keeps it's big secret secret!

So there seems to be clear cases of made up religions that can be called cults, in which the aim of the organisation is to extract money from the member instead of a pay if you want to bag of donations passed around a Church on a Sunday morning. However it seems that if one were to go back to the start of each off shoot of the Abrahamic faith with today's knowledge and science each new religion could easily fail into the class of a cult.

In my mind it is up to you what you want to believe but mocking another persons belief using claims that could easily fit your own brand of spiritual belief is stretching rationality at least a little.

When the definition of what is a religion and a cult are so indistinguishable from each other then maybe members of either grouping should stop to consider their beliefs before slagging off their opponents.

I'm right because my religious book says so therefore you must all be wrong - is not a logical argument that stands up too long at all.

By Dark Politricks

CIA and its links to the Opium trade in Afghanistan

The CIA and its links to the Afghanistan's President's brother, Hamid Karzai and his role in the Opium trade

By Dark Politricks

Another signal that the war on terror and the war on drugs in Afghanistan maybe more about controlling the very lucrative opium trade was the following article printed in the New York Times. The article details how the brother of Hamid Karzai a Ahmed Wali Karzai, who is regarded to be the biggest Opium dealer in the country, is also on the payroll of the CIA.

Now I won't even pretend to be shocked as we all know that the CIA is the biggest drug smuggler in the world and has been for some time. However for those people who are still under the illusion that our troops are dying out in the Stan for some noble cause it should be another sign that things are not always what our benevolent leaders tell us they are.

According to various sources including journalists and Russian government ministers the USA is definitely involved in the lucrative Opium trade which is severely affecting Russia with its ever increasing population of addicts. Russian journalist Arkadi Dubnov quotes Afghan sources as saying that “85 per cent of all drugs produced in southern and south-eastern provinces are shipped abroad by US aviation.”

A source in Afghanistan’s security services told Dubnov that the American military buy drugs from local Afghan officials who deal with field commanders overseeing eradication of drug production. Dubnov claimed in Vesti Novostei that the administration of President Hamid Karzai, including his two brothers, Kajum Karzai and Akhmed Vali Karzai, are involved in the narcotics trade.

We should only have to look at a simple graph that shows the levels of Opium production in Afghanistan over the years to see that when the CIA has been involved crop production has spiked. Remember it was actually a flat-line at zero up until the war with Russia and then the CIA had the brilliant idea of getting the Mujahedeen resistance fighters to grow Opium as a way of financing the guerrilla war as well as demoralising the Russian conscript army by getting them hooked to the drug.




The Opium crop only went up and up until the Taliban took over the country and then banned the growing of the poppy plant seeing it as Un-Islamic in 2001. They were actually successful at this eradication process and areas of the country controlled by the Taliban in 2001 grew next to nothing according to a UN report.


Should we be surprised that Afghanistan was then invaded later that year by the CIA and the Northern Alliance rebels it sponsored or was it just a lucky coincidence. The war was started supposedly to catch the master mind villain behind the 9.11 attacks a Mr Usama-bin-Laden who denied all knowledge or involvement in the attacks in an interview taken just afterwards.

However the invasion went forward and once rooted in the country the invading forces seemed to ignore the chase for bin-Laden and put their full attention to destroying the Taliban instead and unsurprisingly the opium crop started rising with record levels of the drug being produced year by year. Therefore when Blair and Bush were telling us that not only were in Afghanistan to catch al-Qaeda masterminds but also to help eradicate the Opium crop were they lying on only one front or both?

The following article was taken from the New York Times website and I have re-published it in full. The original link is at the bottom of the article.

Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll

By DEXTER FILKINS, MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN
Published: October 27, 2009

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.

The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home.

The financial ties and close working relationship between the intelligence agency and Mr. Karzai raise significant questions about America’s war strategy, which is currently under review at the White House.

The ties to Mr. Karzai have created deep divisions within the Obama administration. The critics say the ties complicate America’s increasingly tense relationship with President Hamid Karzai, who has struggled to build sustained popularity among Afghans and has long been portrayed by the Taliban as an American puppet. The CIA.’s practices also suggest that the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade, a major source of revenue for the Taliban.

More broadly, some American officials argue that the reliance on Ahmed Wali Karzai, the most powerful figure in a large area of southern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgency is strongest, undermines the American push to develop an effective central government that can maintain law and order and eventually allow the United States to withdraw.

“If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves,” said Maj. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the senior American military intelligence official in Afghanistan.

Ahmed Wali Karzai said in an interview that he cooperated with American civilian and military officials, but did not engage in the drug trade and did not receive payments from the C.I.A.

The relationship between Mr. Karzai and the C.I.A. is wide ranging, several American officials said. He helps the C.I.A. operate a paramilitary group, the Kandahar Strike Force, that is used for raids against suspected insurgents and terrorists. On at least one occasion, the strike force has been accused of mounting an unauthorized operation against an official of the Afghan government, the officials said.

Mr. Karzai is also paid for allowing the C.I.A. and American Special Operations troops to rent a large compound outside the city — the former home of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban’s founder. The same compound is also the base of the Kandahar Strike Force. “He’s our landlord,” a senior American official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Mr. Karzai also helps the C.I.A. communicate with and sometimes meet with Afghans loyal to the Taliban. Mr. Karzai’s role as a go-between between the Americans and the Taliban is now regarded as valuable by those who support working with Mr. Karzai, as the Obama administration is placing a greater focus on encouraging Taliban leaders to change sides.

A C.I.A. spokesman declined to comment for this article.

“No intelligence organization worth the name would ever entertain these kind of allegations,” said Paul Gimigliano, the spokesman.

Some American officials said that the allegations of Mr. Karzai’s role in the drug trade were not conclusive.

“There’s no proof of Ahmed Wali Karzai’s involvement in drug trafficking, certainly nothing that would stand up in court,” said one American official familiar with the intelligence. “And you can’t ignore what the Afghan government has done for American counter-terrorism efforts.”

At the start of the Afghan war, just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, American officials paid warlords with questionable backgrounds to help topple the Taliban and maintain order with relatively few American troops committed to fight in the country. But as the Taliban has become resurgent and the war has intensified, Americans have increasingly viewed a strong and credible central government as crucial to turning back the Taliban’s advances.

Now, with more American lives on the line, the relationship with Mr. Karzai is setting off anger and frustration among American military officers and other officials in the Obama administration. They say that Mr. Karzai’s suspected role in the drug trade, as well as what they describe as the Mafia like way that he lords over southern Afghanistan, makes him a malevolent force.

These military and political officials say the evidence, though largely circumstantial, suggests strongly that Mr. Karzai has enriched himself by helping the illegal trade in poppy and opium to flourish. The assessment of these military and senior officials in the Obama administration dovetails with that of senior officials in the Bush administration.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money are flowing through the southern region, and nothing happens in southern Afghanistan without the regional leadership knowing about it,” a senior American military officer in Kabul said. Like most of the officials in this article, he spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the information.
“If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck,” the American officer said of Mr. Karzai. “Our assumption is that he’s benefiting from the drug trade.”
American officials say that Afghanistan’s opium trade, the largest in the world, directly threatens the stability of the Afghan state, by providing a large percentage of the money the Taliban needs for its operations, and also by corrupting Afghan public officials to help the trade flourish.

The Obama administration has repeatedly vowed to crack down on the drug lords who are believed to permeate the highest levels of President Karzai’s administration. They have pressed him to move his brother out of southern Afghanistan, but he has so far refused to do so.

Other Western officials pointed to evidence that Ahmed Wali Karzai orchestrated the manufacture of hundreds of thousands of phony ballots for his brother’s re-election effort in August. He is also believed to have been responsible for setting up dozens of so-called ghost polling stations — existing only on paper — that were used to manufacture tens of thousands of phony ballots.

“The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone,” General Flynn said.

In the interview in which he denied a role in the drug trade or taking money from the C.I.A., Ahmed Wali Karzai said he received regular payments from his brother, the president, for “expenses,” but said he did not know where the money came from. He has, among other things, introduced Americans to insurgents considering changing sides. And he has given the Americans intelligence, he said. But he said he was not compensated for that assistance.

“I don’t know anyone under the name of the C.I.A.,” Mr. Karzai said. “I have never received any money from any organization. I help, definitely. I help other Americans wherever I can. This is my duty as an Afghan.”

Mr. Karzai acknowledged that the C.I.A. and Special Operations troops stayed at Mullah Omar’s old compound. And he acknowledged that the Kandahar Strike Force was based there. But he said he had no involvement with them.

A former C.I.A. officer with experience in Afghanistan said the agency relied heavily on Ahmed Wali Karzai, and often based covert operatives at compounds he owned. Any connections Mr. Karzai might have had to the drug trade mattered little to C.I.A. officers focused on counterterrorism missions, the officer said.

Virtually every significant Afghan figure has had brushes with the drug trade,” he said. “If you are looking for Mother Teresa, she doesn’t live in Afghanistan.”

The debate over Ahmed Wali Karzai, which began when President Obama took office in January, intensified in June, when the C.I.A.’s local paramilitary group, the Kandahar Strike Force, shot and killed Kandahar’s provincial police chief, Matiullah Qati, in a still-unexplained shootout at the office of a local prosecutor.

The circumstances surrounding Mr. Qati’s death remain shrouded in mystery. It is unclear, for instance, if any agency operatives were present — but officials say the firefight broke out when Mr. Qati tried to block the strike force from freeing the brother of a task force member who was being held in custody.

“Matiullah was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Mr. Karzai said in the interview.

Counter-narcotics officials have repeatedly expressed frustration over the unwillingness of senior policy makers in Washington to take action against Mr. Karzai — or even begin a serious investigation of the allegations against him. In fact, they say that while other Afghans accused of drug involvement are investigated and singled out for raids or even rendition to the United States, Mr. Karzai has seemed immune from similar scrutiny.

For years, first the Bush administration and then the Obama administration have said that the Taliban benefits from the drug trade, and the United States military has recently expanded its target list to include drug traffickers with ties to the insurgency. The military has generated a list of 50 top drug traffickers tied to the Taliban who can now be killed or captured.

Senior Afghan investigators say they know plenty about Mr. Karzai’s involvement in the drug business. In an interview in Kabul this year, a top former Afghan Interior Ministry official familiar with Afghan counter-narcotics operations said that a major source of Mr. Karzai’s influence over the drug trade was his control over key bridges crossing the Helmand River on the route between the opium growing regions of Helmand Province and Kandahar.

The former Interior Ministry official said that Mr. Karzai was able to charge huge fees to drug traffickers to allow their drug-laden trucks to cross the bridges.

But the former officials said it was impossible for Afghan counter-narcotics officials to investigate Mr. Karzai. “This government has become a factory for the production of Opium because of corruption and injustice,” the former official said.

Some American counter-narcotics officials have said they believe that Mr. Karzai has expanded his influence over the drug trade, thanks in part to American efforts to single out other drug lords.

In debriefing notes from Drug Enforcement Administration interviews in 2006 of Afghan informants obtained by The New York Times, one key informant said that Ahmed Wali Karzai had benefited from the American operation that lured Hajji Bashir Noorzai, a major Afghan drug lord during the time that the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, to New York in 2005. Mr. Noorzai was convicted on drug and conspiracy charges in New York in 2008, and was sentenced to life in prison this year.

Habibullah Jan, a local military commander and later a member of Parliament from Kandahar, told the D.E.A. in 2006 that Mr. Karzai had teamed with Haji Juma Khan to take over a portion of the Noorzai drug business after Mr. Noorzai’s arrest.

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9.11 cannot be forgotten, the trolls are out smearing people, and the man who uncovered the whole plot

9.11 cannot be forgotten, the trolls are out smearing people, and the man who uncovered the whole plot

By Dark Politricks

I have a much larger article with a comment debate with a "top debunker" who ended up running off with his tail between his legs.You can read that article here and the comments page starts here (2 parts), part 1 and part 2.

I have just had to break the comments and the debate I had with a "debunker" into 2 posts as it was too long to post!

However the debate is worth reading but only after the thought experiment article that is my own imaginary debate with a person who would never believe their own government could kill it's own people for the purpose of money and oil, endless war and the Military Industrial Complex plus of course Israel who has a stranglehold over the US and it's foreign policy. 

American soldiers dying in far away lands for a country who won't even send it's troops to fight on the front line with them. They only go as far as bombing from a high distance, hiding behind Russian planes who get shot down and giving no warning beforehand. Sneaky is one word you could call that.



Some quick reasons or information for those people not interested in real truth or knowledge.

1. We have the declassified 28/29 pages from the 9.11 commission released now.

It was a big thing across US news before it actually happened but afterwards it was hardly mentioned. They reveal Saudi Arabia was paying, helping and training terrorists in the US for the attack. It also proves Iraq had nothing to do with it and with everyone knowing the Bush and bin-Ladens close ties and friendship it seems odd that they had the power to have these pages removed from an AMERICAN document on the worst terrorist tragedy in memory.

2. We read the PNAC document which said a "New Pearl Harbour" was needed to ramp up US military budgets and take over the Middle East. We can actually see this unfolding before our very eyes. The LIKUD party (or party created from REAL terrorists - ones who blew up the King David Hotel etc) - and dual citizens were both in power at the time of the attack.

Israel wanted the US to come in on it's racist side and make all Muslims terrorists and give them more weapons, clean out the Middle East and let them expand.

3. More Israelis were arrested after the attack than any other national group of people. It was only through a dual citizen high in power that you should know, that they were released without charge.

They were found "Documenting the Event" before a plane had even hit the tower e.g they were across the river with a camera set on the First WTC attack, and when the plane hit the building they were cheering and clapping. A resident was very wary and called the police. When they arrived the Israelis tried saying things like "we are all on one side now", "we fight the Muslims together" etc. However if Israel was NOT involved how did they know to "document the event." as they claimed on Israeli TV?

Were they told to "Document The Event" by their Mossad bosses?



4. We have recently just had a death bed confession from a demolition expert who claimed to have worked on WTC7, they were busy congratulating themselves when they realised they had done too good a job and it looked exactly like a controlled demolition, which it was.



5. We have Osama bin-Laden's interview which a CNN reporter just found his hideout and so did this Pakistani press piece whilst the CIA was supposedly scouring the earth for him as the most wanted man alive. His denial of attacks can be read here > https://darkpolitricks.blogspot.com/p/an-interview-with-usama-bin-laden-from.html

6. We have had numerous whistle-blowers either killed in suspicious circumstances or silenced by the government due to their wanting to release information on the CIA's still close ties with bin-Laden and more.

Don't let anyone tell you "well if it was a conspiracy surely someone would have come out and said so by now". They have, lots of them.

It's just the humdrum mainstream news you are dumbing yourself down with that doesn't discuss these items. You need to research it yourself. Sibel Edmomds was once called "the most silenced witness" in US history due to her knowledge of CIA/bin-Laden ties. You can read more about it here >  https://darkpolitricks.blogspot.com/p/sibel-edmond-usa-osama-had-close-ties.html

7. Anti 9.11 Truth trolls exposed. After 9.11 there was talk by Obama's people of creating false narratives and using BOTS to disseminate them around the web to counter pro 911Truth groups, Tweets and so on. This video discusses the use of Hasbara, where Israeli students pay for college by clicking "Like" buttons on pro Zionist tweets, or writing a comment that goes against some argument in a group.

This video discusses the progression of comment fights, to fake profiles and BOTS that are used to attack people with an inquiring mind, who don't believe a skyscraper can fall at free-fall (as NIST admitted), without being hit by a plane or having major damage synchronously. They claimed one beam weakened starting off the collapse sequence but that wouldn't cause the simultaneous sinking of all four corners of the building at free-fall speeds into its own footpath.

NIST still refuses to give out it's computer model code that "proves" the collapse.

As a coder I say "put shit code in - get shit results out". So anything could be tweaked in their program to prove a metal beamed steel framed high building collapse by fire for the first time in history.



8. Then we have a full start to finish solution to the conspiracy by Christopher Bollyn the man who really put all the dots together from David Ray Griffin, Stephen Jones, 9.11 Pilots for Truth, 9.11 Architects and Engineers for 9.11 Truth and all the other parties who have been brave enough to stand against the tyranny that has come to America.

Remember after the event your "Commander In Chief", although I doubt he could command a Microwave to work, said "they hate us for our freedoms". However have you noticed how fewer freedoms you now have than before 9.11?

It was the elites that hated you for their freedoms so they took them away with a false flag attack and blamed it on Muslims and then introduced laws such as the ability for the Commander and Chief to commit troops to anywhere in the world al-Qaeda is - which is why it is always al-Qaeda that is the enemy somewhere even if it's not.

You have had the UN-PATRIOT ACT, written long before 9.11 and never read by most who voted for it. The NDAA, detention of prisoners against Geneva Conventions with no Habeas Corpus and Torture plus the killing of American citizens abroad without trial or presumption of guilt or innocence.

It seems the terrorists...who they are you decide....have won.

Your freedoms have gone - poof!





I thought I would get all these articles out before the Hasbara brigade label me an anti-Semite or self hating jew (I could be Jewish.....) but whatever happens you need to keep the thought of 9.11 in your minds as it has changed your way of life forever.


By Dark Politricks

© Dark Politricks

Does Anti-Zionism equate to Anti-Semitism

Does Anti-Zionism equate to Anti-Semitism

By Dark Politricks

With another round of attacks on civilians by the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza - Operation Pillar of Defense. I thought it was apt to re-print this article that I originally wrote back when Operation Cast Lead had just finished. 

This was the last major round of fighting between the fourth most powerfully equipped army in the world and a bunch of cornered in civilians with nothing to fight back with but stones and firework rockets.

These are rockets that get shot down almost as soon as they are launched and the house they are launched from immediately blown to bits by an Israeli drone or aircraft along with any children or women inside. People who may not have even wanted the rockets fired from their in the first place but had little choice in the matter.

It is not as if Hamas or the Al-Quds Brigade are going to stand in the open and wave a flag saying here I am shoot me now - not when Israel itself fires missiles from within Tel-Aviv a large city and comparable with what Hamas is doing from Gaza City.

However this article is not about the terrible war we are now witnessing (again) but whether we can de-link the name calling of the Israeli Hasbara brigade who label anyone who criticises Israeli actions as anti-semitic. Is it really fair to link criticism of a major military power bombarding women and children with a dislike of a whole religion?

Apparently since 9/11 and then again since Operation Cast Lead attacks classified as being anti-Semitic in the UK have doubled.

These attacks range from verbal and physical abuse, cemetery desecration and the burning down of synagogues. All of this is a shocking indictment of peoples behaviour in the modern world and I am against any form of abuse of a group of people for whatever reason.

However the term "Anti-Semitic" and the claim of being one is used too frequently when its not deserved, especially against those people who speak about Israels foreign policy in a negative light.

Even Jewish people themselves are regularly called anti-Semitic or a self hating Jew if they speak out against Israel. This cannot be right as no country should have its actions shielded from inspection and discussion by unfounded claims of racism.
Definition of Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is a term used to describe prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their religious/cultural/ethnic background.
Another way of inducing claims of being Anti-Semitic is by discussing Zionism in negative terms. For those people that don't know the difference Zionism is defined as this:
Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine. The area was the Jewish Biblical homeland, called the Land of Israel (Hebrew: Eretz Yisra'el).
  • Zionism is an ideology and a political movement.
  • Israel is a country,
  • and a Jew is someone who follows the Torah.
They are three separate entities and one can be a Jew who does not believe in Zionism or agree with Israels foreign policy.

You can also live in Israel and not be Jewish or you may be a Zionist, as many US Christian politicians claim to be, without being a Jew.

Therefore the three terms are not and should not be interchangeable and accusing opponents of Zionism of anti-semitism is a misnomer.

There are a lot of Jews who do not believe in Zionism mainly because it goes against the true teaching of the Torah and many believe the ideology of Zionism has tried to turn "being Jewish" from one who follows the religion of Judaism, one which anybody can convert to, into a nation or race and one that deserved a homeland.

The Jewish Diaspora believed that they had been expelled from the Holy land for disregarding God's will and that they would only ever return there when God had forgiven them and that their return would be mandated by God's will alone and without the aid of man.

Therefore Zionism was a political movement that tried to fulfil this ancient prophecy by their own means, a self-fulfilling prophecy so to speak and one which went against God's wish.

The great rabbis of the era were very concerned about the rise of Zionism and saw it as a threat to humanity non Jews and Jews alike due to its flagrant disregard to the true teachings of Judaism and disregard to the spiritual leaders of the religion.

Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, did not mince any words. Straight to the point he called Zionism "the work of Satan", "a sacrilege" and "a blasphemy". He forbade any participation with anything even remotely associated with Zionism and said that Zionism was bound to call the wrath of God upon His people.

Zionism really came to prominence during the first part of the 20th century with the Balfour declaration of 1917 being the start to mass immigration into Palestine and an act which many claim was a sign of treachery by German Jews. This was because it signified a payment by the British, who controlled Palestine at the time, to the Jews in return for them using their significant influence in American politics to bring the USA into World War I on their side and defeat the Germans.

This was something which probably contributed to Hitlers hatred of the Jews which festered until his rise to power when once again Zionism played a prominent role in the Jewish peoples fate, one which enabled Zionism to claim their prize of a homeland.

During the Second world war the Germans made numerous offers to the west which would have allowed many Jewish people safe passage out of occupied lands. However the Zionists who now had a strong foothold in Palestine and claimed authority over the Jewish people denied these requests because Palestine was ruled out as a destination.

Even when it was known that the Eastern European Jews were dying in their thousands at the hands of the Nazis the Zionists saw their political goal of a Jewish nation in Palestine as more important than the lives of their fellow man.

"when they asked me, "couldn't you give money out of the United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe", I said NO! and I say again, NO!...one should resist this wave which pushes the Zionist activities to secondary importance." - Yitzhak Greenbaum
"The most valuable part of the Jewish nation is already in Palestine, and those Jews living outside Palestine are not too important" - Chaim Weizman
"One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Europe" - Yitzhak Greenbaum


Therefore many Jewish people needlessly died due to the political desires of Zionism during this period and it seems to have paid off after the war, with a little help from Zionist terrorist gangs such as Haganah, the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang who killed many British soldiers and Palestinians in their drive for a Jewish state.

Is it hypocritical for Israel to denounce current Palestinian organisations such as Hamas as terrorists who should not be negotiated with when their own existence as a nation results from terrorist actions against the British and Palestinians? If logic were to decide then the answer would be yes.

In fact numerous Israeli prime ministers have their roots in these terrorist organisations including Menachim Begin who tool part in the King David Hotel bombing which killed 91 people.

Then we have Yitzhak Shamir, who was a leader of the Stern Gang, a terrorist group which was responsible for a string of political assassinations.

We also have a more recent example in Ariel Sharon who initiated the Sabra-Shatila massacre in which between 1000 and 3000 people people were killed.

Therefore claims of moral superiority cannot be made by the supporters of Israel as its very clear that we are dealing with a world full of moral relativism.

For some reason Israel seems to be able to conduct a policy of assassination of its enemies, shoot photographers and peace protesters and kill children and teenagers who can do nothing but throw stones at tanks who regularly bulldoze Palestinian houses without fear of international sanction and they seem to be right as they get away with it all the time. However they then try to claim the moral high ground when condemning the attacks carried out against them by Hamas or Hezbollah.

Yes the suicide bombings are awful and yes firing rockets indiscriminately into Israeli towns is not an action that can be condoned. However they are the acts of a tortured people thrashing out anyway they can in a David and Goliath story where they are the David and Israel is now Goliath. It takes a twisted sort of logic to not come to the conclusion that the terrorist attacks on the Israeli people are not linked to the treatment of the Palestinian people.

A recent example of this double standards is how Israel and the USA has re-acted to the recent UN report on the war crimes committed by both sides during the recent Gaza conflict. We know Hamas hides within the civilian population and indiscriminately fires rockets into Israeli towns. However Israel also used chemical weapons e.g firing air burst white phosphorus shells on civilian populations including a UN compound. The large majority of victims in the Gaza conflict were women and children including 437 children under the age of 16.

The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the UN report as a Kangaroo court and the US congress who could never be said to be in the pocket of Israel and its powerful AIPAC lobby recently voted down the UN report by a majority of 344 to 36.
Who were these courageous congressmen that voted with their conscience without fear of being labelled an anti-Semite?

Well two of them were Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul who both vote consistently without fear or favour. However for voting for the UN report Dennis was rewarded by being kicked off a Florida fund-raiser he was supposed to be headlining after the AIPAC lobby protested against his voting record.

Therefore it seems that Israel will most likely ignore the wishes of the international community just like it has done on the numerous other occasions that the UN has passed resolutions against it.

We must also remember that the UN actually passed a resolution in 1975 that equated Zionism with Racism. This was also denounced by the Israeli prime minister at his recent speech in the UN and it seems that Israel only respects the wishes of the international community when it suits them and decries as anti-Semitism anything that tries to hold their illegal actions to account.

I will most likely be labelled unfairly as being an Anti-Semite just for posting this article but hopefully those of you that have the ability to think for themselves with see that logically there is no way to equate Zionism with Judaism and to criticise Zionism or the actions of the Israeli state is in no way an attack on the Jewish religion.

I personally believe that all religion is hocus pocus and that the world will be a better off place without it.

Hopefully the rest of the world will catch up with this form of thinking as soon as possible as I think the only way that the Israelis and the Palestinians can live together peacefully is if religion was taken out the equation and secular nation state comprising of Palestine and Israel is created where peoples of all faith, colours and creed can live together in a democratic state.



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  1. 790 says
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    Great article,
    The more I read up on Israel and the history of deciet they are involved with it really makes me sick.
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      Creating the state of Israel is like moving back into a house that passed out of your families hands generations ago. The Palestinians would argue that the Jews moved out after the Jewish rebellion of AD 66-70 and destruction of the temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. The word Zionism is derived from the name of Queen Alexandra Slom-Zion whose Hasmonean dynasty ruled Palestine for only about 100 years after defeating the Greek Seleucids that is celebrated at Hannukah. The plan is to re-build a third temple in Jerusalem by 2066. The role of the Redeemer in Jewish culture was played out by the Rothschilds who bought tracts of land in Palestine and persuaded the British to concede a mandate for a Jewish Homeland. Some sources claim that the pogroms in Eastern Europe and Germany against the Jews was to create a refugee population to populate the new state of Israel. One rumour claims Hitler was Jewish and the illegitimate son of Salomon Rothschild by his maid in Vienna who married her uncle named Hisler. Nasi means Prince, and the head of the Zionist snake that is encircling Europe and America through economic means is willing to sacrifice the common herd for the greater goal of world domination through international Jewry. Wake up and smell the coffee!
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        What do you actually mean by “Wake up and smell what coffee?”
        What is your actual point apart from a series of random “facts” or rumors and conspiracy theories about international Jewry?
        Do you not realise you could become a Jew if you wanted to.
        All you would have to do is convert to their religion or be born to a mother who is already Jewish. Remember it is a religion not a race which is why you can be against Israeli foreign policy and Zionism without being against Jews. This is the articles point – the 3 are not the same – Jew, Zionist and Israeli.
        I could bore everyone about the Talmud, the history of the Jewish rebellion, the Church of Jerusalem which supposedly Jesus brother James the Just took over after his death and how the word messiah means anything but the “son of God”.
        How the Christian religion like most others is also a bag of shite and based upon one mans belief of what he “wanted” Jesus to be – i.e Saul/Paul. A man who killed Christians before converting and even though he wasn’t around at the time or knew anybody who was created a religion out of his own ego, dreams and maybe insanity.
        What about the 3 wise men who could be the Messiah who walk the planet at any one time – which many Jews believe in (are they all sons of God as well?) or did the Jews get the meaning of the word Messiah wrong when they created it and it was only then corrected once Saul/Paul decided it’s true meaning or how the Bible was a mash-up of books lying around at the time and anyone who disagreed was then declared a heretic.
        But they are just all unrelated points like your comment.
        So what is it you want to say?
        Are you against Jews?
        Are you Against Israeli foreign policy and it’s apartheid like laws, breaches of international law and continual spying on the USA as well as it’s targeted assassinations and killing of US citizens on the high seas in the Mavi Marmara and the USS Liberty?
        Or are you against Zionism and it’s use of the Jewish religion to produce a climate of fear in it’s citizens so that they think the whole world is always out to exterminate them and therefore there must always be a place they can take refuge i.e Israel?
        Or maybe you feel they have a racist ideology that makes a group of people believe they are “chosen” and above other Goyim / people though the use of ancient myths that are tajken as literal rather than allegorical? The same myths the Christian and Islamic religion base their religion on i.e the Torah?
        Or are you just racist and believe white Christians should rule the world not Jews, blacks or Hispanics?
        Or do you believe Israel is the rightful homeland of the Jews and that all Palestinians should be expelled?
        What I am asking is … what is your actual point?
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    Being anti-Semitic means being against Semites. The term “anti-Semitic” has been abused into a false meaning by those who are perhaps pro-Israeli and / or perhaps those who are somewhat ignorant. Here is the true definition (found in many dictionaries) of a Semite: Semite [ˈsiːmaɪt] less commonly, Shemiten
    1. (Social Science / Peoples) a member of the group of Caucasoid peoples who speak a Semitic language, including the Jews and Arabs as well as the ancient Babylonians, Assyrians, and Phoenicians
    So if one is really “anti-Semitic” then you are also against all Arabs and others. It would help to stop abusing this term and stop referring to this as uniquely a Jewish definition. Call a spade a spade and a Semite a Semite.
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    I agree with Jacques…a Semite is a resident of the Middle East. And, actually, if you remember that a HUGE percentage of Israelis are European and Slavic (Russian) origin, the only Semites in Israel are the PALESTINIANS!
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    Kaman folx. In ancient times, including Jesus’ time, the Arabian peninsula was considered part of what we now call Africa, not “the Near East” or “the Middle East”.
    Abraham did not worship the God El the Moon God that is a Semitic Myth. Abraham was and his father and family were Sumerian priest who worhip Bel the Sun God called The god Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed” (Black et al. 17) in caanan it Baal and Asteroth or Isthar or Belita or Belit or Belili or Lilith the female version the Sun God Bel.Jews were originally black face Sumerians black Caucasians who loath by white Arab Semitic. At some point Jews were force to worship Moons Gods like El they did it willing and even the Semitic people appointed them in High positions in Moon worshipping priesthood like Enheduanna daughter of Jewish Sumerian Queen Tashlutum and Tashlutum mean being just lime Tishritu or Tistritum. Ashur is the Assyrian the the Sun God and started by Sargon Jewish wife Tashlutum from Ur Sumeria where Akitu started Sargon called the month Tashritum as his Jewish Sumerian wife Tashlutum a descend of Lilith or Belita in Ur. The Babylonians made Marduk the Moon god of Ur when the Semitic or Babylonians conquer Ur
    Thus, in Babylonia, it started on the new moon closest to the spring equinox to honor the sky god Marduk; the Akitu nearest the fall equinox in Assyria honored the high god Ashur; and Akitus were held on both dates each Ben Shamesh (Hebrew, Jewish). The children or the “Sons of the Sun”. The term belongs to the period when the Jews were divided into moon and sun worshippers – Elites and Belites. (See “Bela- Shemesh”.)
    “In Old Testament times, Nabonidus (555-539 BC), the last king of Babylon, built Tayma, Arabia as a center of Moon-god worship. Segall stated, “South Arabia’s stellar religion has always been dominated by the Moon-god in various variations.” Many scholars have also noticed that the Moon-god’s name “Sin” is a part of such Arabic words as “Sinai,” the “wilderness of Sin,” etc. When the popularity of the Moon-god waned elsewhere, the Arabs remained true to their conviction that the Moon-god was the greatest of all gods. While they worshipped 360 gods at the Kabah in Mecca, the Moon-god was the chief deity. Mecca was in fact built as a shrine for the Moon-god.
    This is what made it the most sacred site of Arabian paganism. In 1944, G. Caton Thompson revealed in her book, The Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidha, that she had uncovered a temple of the Moon-god in southern Arabia. The symbols of the crescent moon and no less than twenty-one inscriptions with the name Sin were found in this temple. An idol which may be the Moon-god himself was also discovered. This was later confirmed by other well-known archeologists.  The evidence reveals that the temple of the Moon-god was active even in the Christian era. Evidence gathered from both North and South Arabia demonstrate that Moon-god worship was clearly active even in Muhammad’s day and was still the dominant cult. According to numerous inscriptions, while the name of the Moon-god was Sin, his title was al- ilah, i.e. “the deity,” meaning that he was the chief or high god among the gods. As Coon pointed out, “The god Il or Ilah was originally a phase of the Moon God.” The Moon-god was called al- ilah, i.e. the god, which was shortened to Allah in pre-Islamic times. The pagan Arabs even used Allah in the names they gave to their children. For example, both Muhammad’s father and uncle had Allah as part of their names . . .” In Mekka is Kaaba and Black stone. Kaab + Allah is Kabalah. Kabalah is sufism.
    Abraham has 2 sons: Isaac -talmudism and Ishmael-islam. So in some point in the past semitic people, semitic is not nationality but linguistic group same as aryan linguitsic grop. Islam and judaism use Moon calendar based on phases ot the moon not the sun.
    The worship of Aten, for example, in Ancient Egypt approximately 3500 years ago, is regarded as one of the first monotheistic religions. It was short lived, and fizzled out, on account of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten’s obsession with demonstrative sacrifices of food, and insistance on having his people build a new city, resulting in starvation and ill health of his city. Whilst monotheistic, he elevated his and his wife’s status as near God-like, and the human representatives of Aten on earth. Having forced Eyptians to break with tradition and worship this particular deity, and caused huge suffering as part of his religious revolution, they tried to erase him from history after his death. It is claimed by some that Psalm 104: 20-30 is actually based on a poem by Akhenaten to Aten, a declaration of love for his God, but was appropriated by Christians and used in a Christian context. Wife of Akhenaten was Nefertiti. Their son was Tutankhamun. Akhenaten is connected with Moses and there is theory that it is the same person.
    So what religion was practiced in Roman empire in Jesus era? Mithraism, Mythraic mystery with center figure Mithra the Sun god. Symbol of Mithra was Wheel of Mithra which loox like circled svastika, also arms of swastika made by horse heads, and on the wheel was Mithra with hand in crucifixion position. Mithraism was brought from Persia by Teutonic Legion of Rome. And becasue it was official religion in Persia, greatest enemy of Rome they turned name Mithra to Jesus-Yeshua. Try: Pagan origins of christianity, or Mithra Jesus similarities. So who the was Jesus?
    He was a member of an Essene sect that was deeply into Gnostic philosophies. You know the Gnostics, they’re the guys the Inquisition was created to destroy. The Church created the word Heretic to define them. Gnostics believe every person is an extension of God, so Yeshua (You call him Jesus) calling himself the Son of God wasn’t unique among the crowd he associated with. That’s what Yeshua was into.
    Hebrew -Jewish religion as we know it today started AFTER the time of Jesus, so it would be incorrect to call Jesus a Jew. And the ancient Canaan/ Hebrew/Israelite religion is no longer practiced, so nobody could join it anyway. In any case, Jesus was highly critical of many of the key religious practices of his time.
    There was never any  such thing as Judaeo Christianity as all of the books of the bible are by Jewish authors only! The present bible was trimmed down by the Gentiles (Constantine the Great & Eusebuis) in a bid to Hijack Jesus (Yeshua) from Judaism as anti-Jesus teachings are paramount throughout Christianity! The early Christian movement in Rome became ant-Semitic and removed all Jewish elements from the early church. ” It is a word connected to Katha, and the Cathars [Kathas] relatives of the Nazarene-Essene communities of healers at the time of Jesus, banished by the Romans after the time of the crucifixion.”
    “There were Jewish Gnostics and Greek-Syrian Gnostics. The Pyrenean Cathars were related to the latter ones. They were Oriental Greeks and in its Indo-Greek nature, Catharism rejected Judaism, the Hebrew books, Moses’ violence, Jehovah’s thunder.”
    Vatican pressed Christianity by brutality since begining:The persecution of pagans by the Christian Roman Empire began late in the reign of Constantine the Great, when he ordered the pillaging and the torning down of some temples. The first anti-Pagan laws by the Christian state started with Constantine’s son Constantius II,which was an unwavering opponent of paganism; he ordered the closing of all pagan temples, forbade Pagan sacrifices under pain of death,and removed the traditional Altar of Victory from the Senate.[6] Under his reign ordinary Christians started vandalizing many of the ancient Pagan temples, tombs and monuments. This also goes for the later medieval Emperor Charlemagne, who in September, 774, decided that the Saxons (Westfali, Ostfali, and Angrarii) must be presented with the alternative of baptism or death.[90] and is also reported as having 4,500 pagan Saxons beheaded in the Massacre of Verden. According to the historian Ramsay MacMullen a council of bishops at Toledo in 681 called on civil authorities to seize and behead all those guilty of non-Christian practices of whatever sort.
    To understand past and present world political events, we need to understand this history. The kingdom of the Khazars may have vanished from the maps of today, but their affect and influence are still acutely felt. In thefist millennia A.D. a warlike, pagan tribe of people were driven westward, probably after series of defeats, from Central Asia (see Ancient Russia, by George Vernadsky).They settled in an area of what is now Southern Russia between the Black and Caspian Seas. This was an area just beyond the boundaries of both the Roman and Byzantine Empires. These people were called Khazars_ (or Chazars) r1a.org Throughout the centuries, this warring tribe became the most powerful in Asia. As early as 3 A.D. they were indentifiable in constant warfare in Persia and Armenia. They fought alongside Attila the Hun around 5 A.D. They were at the peak of power between the seventh and tenth centuries A.D.
    The Khazars were strategically situated at the mouth of the Volga River, surrounded by the Caucasus mountains to the south, the Black Sea to the west, and the Khazar Sea (now Caspian Sea) to the east.Today rich on oil. They occupied a strategic key position in the vital gateway between the Seas where the great eastern powers of the period confronted each others.
    Khazars were not only expert warriors, but aggressive merchants. At the peak of their power, they exacted a “tribute” (tax, extortion) of 10 percent from all traders, silk road, who had to pass through their dominion. This made them a wealthy, but despised nation. By the eighth century, their kingdom extended as far north as Kiev, Russia. At its peak, it encompassed one million square miles. for three of four centuries it was an untouchable empire. How many of you have ever heard of the Khazarian Empire?
    In the eighth century (740 A.D.) something of _historic profoundness_ occurred in this kingdom. the Khazarian king (Kagan/Khan, Khakan or Chagan), having no religion for the kingdom beyond pagan phallic/idolatry worship, was getting pressure from the surrounding Christian Byzantine and Moslem empires to convert. According to the _Universal Jewish Encyclopedia_, the Khazar chieftain Bulan, “called representatives of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedism to expound their doctrines before him”. Not wanting to associate himself with either side, so as not to incur the wrath (hence, a potential alliance of war) against them, King Bulan _chose as the nations religion, Talmudism_, now known as JUDAISM (and formally known as Pharisaism).
    Originally, the Khazars practiced traditional Turkic shamanism, focused on the sky god Tengri, but were heavily influenced by Confucian ideas imported from China, notably that of the Mandate of Heaven. The Ashina clan were considered to be the chosen of Tengri and the kaghan was the incarnation of the favor the sky-god bestowed on the Turks.
    Worship of Tengri is sometimes referred to as Tengriism. The core beings in Tengriism are Sky-Father (Tengri/Tenger Etseg) and Mother Earth (Eje/Gazar Eej). It involved shamanism, animism, totemism and ancestor worship.
    After the mass conversion of the King and his empire, none other than a so called or self styled Jew ,could occupy the Khazarian throne. The empire became a virtual theocracy with the religious leaders being the civil administrators as well. During this time the Talmud was added to or altered to protect their state religion from any other outside religious influence and to prevent a return to previous vile worship styles.
    The ideologies of the Talmud became the axis of political, cultural, economic and social attitudes and activities throughout the Khazarian kingdom. The Talmud provided civil and religious law.
    When the Khazars in the first century B.C. invaded eastern Europe their mother-tongue was an Asiatic language, referred to in the Jewish Encyclopedia as the “Khazar languages”. they were primitive Asiatic dialects without any written alphabet or any written form. When King Bulan was converted in the 7th century he decreed that the Hebrew characters that he saw in the Talmud and other Hebrew documents was thereupon to become the alphabet for the Khazar language. the Hebrew characters were adopted to the phonics of the spoken Khazar language. The Khazars adopted the characters in order to provide a means for a written record of their speech.
    The present day language of the Khazars is known as “Yiddish”. The Khazars adapted words to their requirements from the German, the Baltic and Slavonic languages.
    The Khazars adopted a great number of words from the German language. The Germans had a much more advanced civilization than their neighbors the Khazars so the Khazars sent their children to German schools and higher learning institutions. The “Yiddish” is not a German dialect. Many are led to believe that “Yiddish” must be German since it shares so much with the German language. The Khazars must have spoken some language when they invaded Eastern Europe. What was the language that the Khazars spoke for over a thousand years? When did they discard it? How did an entire population discard one language for another all of a sudden?
    “Yiddish” must not be confused with “Hebrew” because they both use the same characters as their alphabets. There is not one word of “Yiddish” in ancient “Hebrew” nor is there one word of ancient “Hebrew” in “Yiddish”. It was now a state religion. (“Facts are Facts”, by Benjamin Freedman, Jewish author and historian in a letter to Dr. David Goldstein). By the tenth century the ruler of Christian Russia, Vladimir III had conquered the Khazarian empire. but this is not the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning. The Khazars took the Hebrew characters they say in the Babylonian Talmud and applied them to the phonetics of the German, Russian,Turkish and other dialects around them. This hybrid language was known as _Yiddish_. Even with the disbandment of the Khazars, their language of Yiddish survived and still today forms a common bond between the people. Actually there is no word of ancient hebrew in yiddish. As you can see, the Khazars were _NOT_ and are not the Biblica lHebrew Judaists, but _claimed_ to be so as time went on. In some point Khazarian aristocracy moved west, out of Pale Setlement to Spain, Hungary, Germany. From spain we have khazars: Loyola-jesuits, alumbrado-iluminati, del Banco-Warburg family. From Hungary: Soros, Sarkozy, Bela Kun who killed russian tsar in bolshevik revolution. In 18. century Khazar elite concentrated in Frankfurt, Germany. Frankfurt at the time was the headquarters of the Jesuit, Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminatti, as well as Rothschild Brothers’ financial empire. This is worth repeating: Frankfurt was the birthplace of both the Illuminatti and the Rothschild empire. When Jacob Frank entered the city, the alliance between the two had already begun. Weishaupt provided the conspiratorial resources of the Jesuit Order, while the Rothschilds contributed the money. What was missing was a means to spread the agenda of the Illuminatti and that the Frankists added with their network of agents throughout the Christian and Islamic worlds. Rothschild ( biblical Ruth’s Child) shared house with Warburg,Weishaupt-Iluminati formerly alumbrado, Jacob Frank, Jacob Schiff. They created strategy to make alliances and get back former territory between Caspian and Black sea. First come French Revolution. Jacobin Iunius Frey aka Moses Dobrushka was Jacob Frank’s follower. And then they send financed Napoleon on his trip to Russia.
    After they been expeled from Spain by inquisition and reconquista Khazars settled in Thessaloniki, Turkey and founded sect Donmeh.
    In 18. century khazars from west organized rebelions in Pale Setlement against russian ruller. They also extend WW1 by 3 years to feed German military thru Belgium relief found by Britain and USA until Bolshevik revolution was done by commando comming from USA , Trotsky and 300 others, with 20 milion in gold from Jacob Frank. And then started murder Russians. It was not communist ideology it was revenge. In 1901 Stalin worked for Rotschild at his refinery in Batumi. Jacob Schiff helped Japan with war with Russia in 1904 which follow revolution 1905 after which Stalin was send to Siberia. After Lenin’s death Trostky supposed to be in charge in Russia, but Stalin kicked him of. So they founded build up German military what leads to WW2. Strategy of NATO is encircled Russia, Afghanistan,Iraq, and so on and prepare for final fight between Gog and Magog. Khazaria versus Russia.
    And who are those biblical canaanite/hebrews? Palestinians. Israeli Historian: Palestinians Are Biological Descendants of Bible’s Jews: As for Palestine,
    Schlomo Sand suggests that the Palestinians are the people we call “the Jews”
    in the Bible: Apartfrom enslaved prisoners, the population of continued to live on their lands, even after the destruction of the second temple [in 70 AD]. Some converted to Christianity in the 4th century,while the majority embraced Islam during the 7th century Arab conquest.
    http://mondoweiss.net/2008/09/israeli-historian-palestinians-are-biological-descendants-of-bibles-jews.html
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    Antisemitism is mostly conected with nazi era in germany. Story is, again, little bit diferent. After WW1 Germans had been angry on aristocracy that pilled ’em into war. So they created rebelion: German revolution 1919, and also see Bavarian Soviet Republic. It ended 700 years bavarian aristocratic rullers but they also kill some members of Thule society and Teutonic Knights Rite. Symbol of Thule became swastika and The Black Sun, Schwarze Sonne. Thule society and Order of Teutonic Nights was created by aristocracy and high end class-rich. Main figures was baron Rudolf von Sebbotendorf and his associates met head of Templars from Italy in Vienna. There was Maria Orsic as well, she latter created Vril society. He told em something what lead Sebottendorf travel to Tibet. It is said, that there was original scroll from bible where Jesus mentioned Teutons as choosen nation. There is a story that son of Cleopatra and Iulius Ceasar- Caesarion went to India and that he was Jesus. Other story tells that Christianity was created as honor of Iulius Caesar since pope holds title: Pontius Maximus. Whatever it was, it created tibetian colony in germany. As I mention befor: In Mekka is Kaaba and Black Stone. Black stone in german is Schwarze Stein= SS. Inside SS was elite group called Schwarze Stein.
    Khodorovsky(Khazar) business name was Blackstone Enterprises.
    The Myths of Untersberg
    It is mysterious and legendary: The Untersberg – called “sleeping dragon” by the Dalai Lama.
    On a 1992 visit to Austria, the Dalai Lama specifically asked to see the Mountain, calling it “a sleeping Dragon” and “The Heartchakra of the World” (chakra refers to an energy center in eastern terminology).
    But this was not the first world-famous person to know of the mountain. Hitler was obsessed with it, hoping to gain access to supernatural beings and power to turn a war that he was loosing.
    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread384938/pg1
    The myths tell about time portals, lost persons and wondrous mountain dwellers like dwarfs. According to a legend, these dwarfs digged out the more than 400 caves in the Untersberg. But this is only one of many speculations about the mountain.
    It is rumored, that emperor Karl the Great (similar is claimed about Friedrich Barbarossa) sleeps in the mountain in a subterrainian throne room together with his truthful knights and dwarfs for more than a thousand years. He´ll awake to the last battle between Good an Evil, when his beard has grown around his marmor table 3 times and the ravens don´t fly around the mountain peaks anymore.
    Untersberg is in Bergtesgaden region wher Hitler has house with view on Untersberg.
    The greatest flourishing of the Celts, around the middle of the first millenium BC, is known as Hallstadt culture. While the mines and settlements of the Celts around Hallstatt are impressive, they do not really compare in size and scope with those of the Salzburg-Berchtesgaden area. It is interesting that a number of early proto-Celtic settlements, coming at the transition from the Stone Age to the Metal Age, seem to be oriented toward the Untersberg. So there is a suggestion that the Untersberg may have had religious importance as far back as the Neolithic Age. Such sites include the Rainberg, Hellbrunn, and Zill.
    http://www.untersberg.org
    Friedrich Barbarossa was famous Teutonic ruller. And WW2 aginst Russia was promoted as war between Good and Evil, Stalin or commies. Hitler was brought into power by Warburgs,Rotschilds,Schiffs end so on. See Sutton: Wall street and the rise of Hitler. There is a speculation, that Hitler was Rotschild’s offspring, since his mother worked for Rotschild ine Vienna and became pregnant.
    Were Germans prepared for biblical fight between Gog and Magog orchestrated by Khazars? “Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog,the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.” Ezekiel 38:2
    http://steveinvista.wordpress.com/gog-and-magog/
    Some expositors believe that the references to “Rosh, Meshech and Tubal” in Ezekiel 38 refers to Russia, Moscow and Tobolsk, two of Russia’s major cities.
    http://www.lasthour.com/GOG-MAGOG.htm
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    Julius Caesar claimed the two titles of Imperator and Pontifex Maximus that meant emperor and high priest that was a union of church and state authority in one person. These powers were later separated and the Church took the title of Pontifex Maximus for the Pope in Rome. Caesar was assassinated by Marcus Brutus who became Imperator in 44BC on Caesar’s death because Caesar intended to make Caesarion his heir while Brutus was another of his illegitimate sons. The idea that Caesarion survived and was the historical Jesus is unlikely, as Jesus claimed the title of Basileus Judaean or King of the Jews, a title that Caesarion was unlikely to claim when he was already Pharoah of Egypt and in succession to become Emperor and high priest of Rome while Judaea was to become a Roman Province after the fall of the Hasmonean dynasty, first governed by Antipater, the father of Herod the Great.
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    The answer is NO, let’s be reasonable now. Your article was quite well written