"The authenticity of the tape could not be independently confirmed. But the voice resembled that of bin Laden."
-"In New Tape, Bin Laden Discusses Iraq and Israel," Associated press via the New York Times, Dec. 29, 2007, 19:11 hours Pacific time. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Bin-Laden-Tape.html?hp
This disclaimer did not appear until the twenty-first paragraph, in a report that was twenty-four paragraphs long. Here below are statements that appeared in the twenty paragraphs that preceded the almost buried disclaimer, giving the first impression that these were indeed the words of bin Laden in a "new tape." Nowhere is the statement "allegedly issued by bin Laden" attached to the quotes attributed to him. Rather, until the twenty-first paragraph, the AP and the New York Times repeatedly report that "bin Laden said":
Osama bin Laden warned Iraq's Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaida and vowed to expand the terror group's holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening ''blood for blood, destruction for destruction.''
...Bin Laden's comments offered an unusually direct attack on Israel, stepping up al-Qaida's attempts to use the Israeli-Arab conflict to rally supporters. Israel has warned of growing al-Qaida activity in Palestinian territory...''We will not recognize even one inch for Jews in the land of Palestine as other Muslim leaders have,'' bin Laden said.
...Bin Laden said Sunni Arabs who have joined the Awakening Councils ''have betrayed the nation and brought disgrace and shame to their people. They will suffer in life and in the afterlife.''
...Several hours before the tape was issued, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, said al-Qaida was becoming increasingly fearful of losing the support of Sunni Arabs...
bin Laden denounced Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the former leader of the Anbar Awakening Council, who was killed in a September bombing claimed by al-Qaida. ''The most evil of the traitors are those who trade away their religion for the sake of their mortal life,'' bin Laden said. Bin Laden said U.S. and Iraqi officials are seeking to set up a ''national unity government'' joining the country's Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
...Bin Laden said Sunnis should pledge their allegiance to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the little known ''emir'' or leader of the Islamic State of Iraq...''Failure to give allegiance to the emir after he has been endorsed leads to great evils,'' bin Laden warned.
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Osama bin Laden's ghost has an uncanny knack for issuing blood-curdling, taped declarations just when the Israeli Zionists and the US government wish to underscore a new point about the implacable evil of their foes. And of course the US media act as the unquestioning mouthpiece for this deceitful exercise in ventriloquism.
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Bhutto's Murder and the Mouthpiece Media's 'First Impression'
by Michael A. Hoffman II
Copyright ©2007. All Rights Reserved
First impressions are all-important in the reporting of spectacular crimes and the American media's tendency to immediately mouth and repeat the official propaganda of whatever government they favor, results in public acceptance of outrageous lies and cover-ups.
The first impression conveyed almost unanimously by the American media in the aftermath of the assassination of Pakistani presidential candidate Benazir Bhutto was that the government of Pakistan was not guilty of her murder and that "al-Qaida" was responsible.
The US media mouthed this drivel first, without any skepticism or dissent, in spite of being well aware of the fact that after the attack on her in Karachi, Benazir Bhutto herself had accused elements in the ruling pro-Musharraf party of plotting to kill her.
Yet President Pervez Musharraf's cronies blamed Bhutto's killing on "al-Qaida." They released a piece of paper on Dec. 28 which supposedly contains quotes from an alleged conversation between Baitullah Mehsud and another terrorist, purportedly discussing the assassination: ''It was a spectacular job. They were very brave boys who killed her.''
But a spokesman for Mehsud, Maulana Mohammed Umer, denied that the terrorist was involved in the attack and dismissed the allegations as ''government propaganda.''
''The fact is that we are only against America, and we don't consider political leaders of Pakistan our enemy,'' Umer said in a telephone call he made to The Associated Press from the tribal region of South Waziristan, adding that he was speaking on instructions from Mehsud.
Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party accused the government of trying to frame Mehsud, saying the militant -- through emissaries -- had previously told Bhutto he was not involved in the Karachi bombing.
''The story that al-Qaida or Baitullah Mehsud did it appears to us to be a planted story, an incorrect story, because they want to divert the attention,'' said Farhatullah Babar, a spokesman for Bhutto's party.
A planted story was immediately reported as gospel fact by the American media. The powerful first impression it conveyed is the one that will shape all further impressions of Bhutto's assassination in the minds of the American people.
This is how the US media will initially report another spectacular terror attack on US soil -- if it occurs -- a terror attack likely to be orchestrated by the US government itself, as were the Sept. 11 attacks, using Arab patsies.
Without exhibiting the least skepticism, I predict that in the event of another major terror attack on US territory, the American media will immediately act as the mouthpiece of officialdom and broadcast federal propaganda infallibly pronouncing that "Muslim terrorists" are solely to blame, exactly as the government of Pakistan has done in the case of the terror attack on Benazir Bhutto and her entourage. Then days, weeks or months later, anomalous facts will be leaked that will undercut the official story, but it will be too late, the "first impression" will have done the necessary damage to the truth, helping to shield the perpetrators from exposure, arrest and prosecution.
Whether they are busy sending Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul down the memory hole in the primaries, or acting as a mouthpiece for tyrants who use deceit and subterfuge as part of their arsenal of weapons, the American corporate media can be counted on to serve as the compliant arm of the Cryptocracy, in conveying the all-important first impression which our hidden masters desire to impose on public perception.
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Copyright ©2007. All Rights Reserved
First impressions are all-important in the reporting of spectacular crimes and the American media's tendency to immediately mouth and repeat the official propaganda of whatever government they favor, results in public acceptance of outrageous lies and cover-ups.
The first impression conveyed almost unanimously by the American media in the aftermath of the assassination of Pakistani presidential candidate Benazir Bhutto was that the government of Pakistan was not guilty of her murder and that "al-Qaida" was responsible.
The US media mouthed this drivel first, without any skepticism or dissent, in spite of being well aware of the fact that after the attack on her in Karachi, Benazir Bhutto herself had accused elements in the ruling pro-Musharraf party of plotting to kill her.
Yet President Pervez Musharraf's cronies blamed Bhutto's killing on "al-Qaida." They released a piece of paper on Dec. 28 which supposedly contains quotes from an alleged conversation between Baitullah Mehsud and another terrorist, purportedly discussing the assassination: ''It was a spectacular job. They were very brave boys who killed her.''
But a spokesman for Mehsud, Maulana Mohammed Umer, denied that the terrorist was involved in the attack and dismissed the allegations as ''government propaganda.''
''The fact is that we are only against America, and we don't consider political leaders of Pakistan our enemy,'' Umer said in a telephone call he made to The Associated Press from the tribal region of South Waziristan, adding that he was speaking on instructions from Mehsud.
Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party accused the government of trying to frame Mehsud, saying the militant -- through emissaries -- had previously told Bhutto he was not involved in the Karachi bombing.
''The story that al-Qaida or Baitullah Mehsud did it appears to us to be a planted story, an incorrect story, because they want to divert the attention,'' said Farhatullah Babar, a spokesman for Bhutto's party.
A planted story was immediately reported as gospel fact by the American media. The powerful first impression it conveyed is the one that will shape all further impressions of Bhutto's assassination in the minds of the American people.
This is how the US media will initially report another spectacular terror attack on US soil -- if it occurs -- a terror attack likely to be orchestrated by the US government itself, as were the Sept. 11 attacks, using Arab patsies.
Without exhibiting the least skepticism, I predict that in the event of another major terror attack on US territory, the American media will immediately act as the mouthpiece of officialdom and broadcast federal propaganda infallibly pronouncing that "Muslim terrorists" are solely to blame, exactly as the government of Pakistan has done in the case of the terror attack on Benazir Bhutto and her entourage. Then days, weeks or months later, anomalous facts will be leaked that will undercut the official story, but it will be too late, the "first impression" will have done the necessary damage to the truth, helping to shield the perpetrators from exposure, arrest and prosecution.
Whether they are busy sending Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul down the memory hole in the primaries, or acting as a mouthpiece for tyrants who use deceit and subterfuge as part of their arsenal of weapons, the American corporate media can be counted on to serve as the compliant arm of the Cryptocracy, in conveying the all-important first impression which our hidden masters desire to impose on public perception.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Backers of Kabbalah Scholar in deal with Buffett
Editor's Note: Daniel Matt's definitive translation of the Zohar is funded by the Pritzker family. It is called the "Pritzker Edition." Four volumes have been published thus far. Matt has no financial worries of any kind thanks to the generosity of the Pritzker family, who are dedicated to ensuring the survival of rabbinic occult texts.
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Buffett Strikes a Deal With the Pritzker Family
Vikas Bajaj| New York Times | December 26, 2007
Berkshire Hathaway, the firm controlled by Warren E. Buffett, said Tuesday that it would pay $4.5 billion for a controlling stake in Marmon Holdings, an industrial conglomerate owned by the Pritzker family, the prominent Chicago business dynasty.
The deal would go a long way toward unwinding the business interests of the Pritzkers, a process the family began in 2001. For Mr. Buffett, the deal represents his largest acquisition outside the insurance industry and suggests that he is acting on his stated desire to make more deals with the tens of billions in cash that Berkshire has been husbanding for years.
According to a statement, Berkshire will acquire 60 percent of Marmon now and the remaining 40 percent over the next five or six years at a price that will be based on the future earnings of the company. In 2006, Marmon posted revenue of nearly $7 billion and profit of more than $1 billion from a wide array of operations, including wire and cable, railroad tank cars and water treatment systems.
The deal was apparently struck quickly and with minimal involvement of outside advisers. Earlier this month, Mr. Buffett met with two executives from Marmon, John D. Nichols and Frank Ptak, and sensed that the business was the right fit for his company. Berkshire Hathaway owns such diverse businesses as Geico insurance, Benjamin Moore paints, Borsheim’s jewelry and the NetJets fractional ownership company.
Mr. Ptak will remain the chief executive of Marmon under Berkshire ownership. Mr. Nichols was chief executive until 2006, and it is not clear what if any role he will play at the company.
“Our transaction was done just the way Jay would have liked it to be done — no consultants or studies,” Mr. Buffett said in a statement, referring to Jay A. Pritzker, a scion of the family who died in 1999.
For the Pritzker family, which founded and still controls the Hyatt hotel chain, the deal will help advance a secretive and tumultuous process begun in 2001 to liquidate its holdings, which were estimated to be worth $15 billion last year. Proceeds from the sales are to be distributed among 11 cousins.
“Berkshire Hathaway’s decision recognizes the fine work of our management team over this period, and the transaction is being done in the context of the previously reported restructuring of our family business interests,” said Thomas Pritzker, who is the chairman of Marmon and the son of Jay Pritzker.
But the effort has been marred by legal battles among cousins. In 2005, the family reached a $900 million settlement between Liesel and Matthew Pritzker and their father, Robert Pritzker, whom they had accused of draining their trust funds.
For Berkshire, the deal will make only a small dent in its $47 billion in cash. Mr. Buffett has wanted to use the money for some time but has lamented the paucity of good and well-priced acquisition targets. At the company’s shareholder meeting in May, he said he would consider an acquisition as large as $40 billion to $60 billion.
So far this year, among his biggest acquisitions are stakes in three railroad companies — Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern — and an undisclosed stake in Kraft Foods.
Michael J. de la Merced contributed reporting.
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Buffett Strikes a Deal With the Pritzker Family
Vikas Bajaj| New York Times | December 26, 2007
Berkshire Hathaway, the firm controlled by Warren E. Buffett, said Tuesday that it would pay $4.5 billion for a controlling stake in Marmon Holdings, an industrial conglomerate owned by the Pritzker family, the prominent Chicago business dynasty.
The deal would go a long way toward unwinding the business interests of the Pritzkers, a process the family began in 2001. For Mr. Buffett, the deal represents his largest acquisition outside the insurance industry and suggests that he is acting on his stated desire to make more deals with the tens of billions in cash that Berkshire has been husbanding for years.
According to a statement, Berkshire will acquire 60 percent of Marmon now and the remaining 40 percent over the next five or six years at a price that will be based on the future earnings of the company. In 2006, Marmon posted revenue of nearly $7 billion and profit of more than $1 billion from a wide array of operations, including wire and cable, railroad tank cars and water treatment systems.
The deal was apparently struck quickly and with minimal involvement of outside advisers. Earlier this month, Mr. Buffett met with two executives from Marmon, John D. Nichols and Frank Ptak, and sensed that the business was the right fit for his company. Berkshire Hathaway owns such diverse businesses as Geico insurance, Benjamin Moore paints, Borsheim’s jewelry and the NetJets fractional ownership company.
Mr. Ptak will remain the chief executive of Marmon under Berkshire ownership. Mr. Nichols was chief executive until 2006, and it is not clear what if any role he will play at the company.
“Our transaction was done just the way Jay would have liked it to be done — no consultants or studies,” Mr. Buffett said in a statement, referring to Jay A. Pritzker, a scion of the family who died in 1999.
For the Pritzker family, which founded and still controls the Hyatt hotel chain, the deal will help advance a secretive and tumultuous process begun in 2001 to liquidate its holdings, which were estimated to be worth $15 billion last year. Proceeds from the sales are to be distributed among 11 cousins.
“Berkshire Hathaway’s decision recognizes the fine work of our management team over this period, and the transaction is being done in the context of the previously reported restructuring of our family business interests,” said Thomas Pritzker, who is the chairman of Marmon and the son of Jay Pritzker.
But the effort has been marred by legal battles among cousins. In 2005, the family reached a $900 million settlement between Liesel and Matthew Pritzker and their father, Robert Pritzker, whom they had accused of draining their trust funds.
For Berkshire, the deal will make only a small dent in its $47 billion in cash. Mr. Buffett has wanted to use the money for some time but has lamented the paucity of good and well-priced acquisition targets. At the company’s shareholder meeting in May, he said he would consider an acquisition as large as $40 billion to $60 billion.
So far this year, among his biggest acquisitions are stakes in three railroad companies — Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern — and an undisclosed stake in Kraft Foods.
Michael J. de la Merced contributed reporting.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Greek Historian Sentenced to Prison for 'Holocaust Denial'
The New York Times and the western media in general, go on and on about Putin's alleged curtailment of democracy in Russia, but do not protest the continuing prosecution of writers in Europe like Costas Plevris, sentenced to prison for writing a book that blasphemes against Holocaustianity. Obviously the New York Times favors an inquisition against intellectuals who offend their Talmudic sensibilities, as for example in Greece, but are outraged by any action against Zionist activists in Russia, such as Gary Kasparov. This double standard reflects the demented supremacist immunity which is regarded as a prerogative by the rabbinic mentality: Zionist activists must be immune from prosecution while those who are skeptical of dogma sacred to Judaism are to be jailed.
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Denver Shooter was affiliated with OTO occult group
Gunman Matthew Murray, who attacked churches in Colorado, had attended gatherings of the OTO occult organization:
Scroll down to the section headlined, "Asked to leave group," at this link:
http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_7696043
Read Craig Heimbichner's history of the OTO:
Blood on the Altar: The Secret History of the World's Most Dangerous Secret Society
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Scroll down to the section headlined, "Asked to leave group," at this link:
http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_7696043
Read Craig Heimbichner's history of the OTO:
Blood on the Altar: The Secret History of the World's Most Dangerous Secret Society
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Charles D. Provan has died
I am at a loss for words. I only wish at this juncture to notify the Christian and revisionist communities, that Charles D. Provan of Monongahela, Pennsylvania has passed away from natural causes. He was approximately 52 years of age. He leaves behind his widow, Carol and nine children, some of them quite young. He was predeceased by his eldest son, Matthias.
The loss to this writer is incalculable. Chuck was one of my best and closest friends and one of the finest Christan men it has ever been my privilege to know. He had a great love for and obedience to God.
His knowledge of the Old and New Testaments was vast and he was one of the best and most learned modern critics of the Talmud, having published a great deal of material on that subject in the pages of Rev. Herman Otten's "Christian News" newspaper. More recently he has been writing columns for "Christian News" on Old Testament exegesis.
He was the author of two books, "The Bible and Birth Control" and "The Church is Israel Now."
Chuck assisted me in my research but to say that is an understatement, since he was a pillar upon whom I depended. He was a tremendous influence on my views.
His kidneys failed a few years ago and his sister donated one of her kidneys to him. The transplant surgery was a success. I believe it took place about three years ago. He was on anti-rejection drugs however, and recently they seemed to play havoc with his immune system. He developed a severe case of shingles last month. He recovered almost completely from the shingles about two weeks ago and then over this past weekend he came down with what appeared to be the flu. He went to bed fatigued last night and died peacefully in his sleep.
I ask you to do two things: take the time to be grateful for and appreciative of your closest friend and don't assume that he or she will be around forever, because God only gives us this day.
Second, please if you can, send a check or money order however large or small, to: Mrs. Carol Provan, 410 W. Main Street, Monongahela, PA 15063. And please pray for her and the surviving Provan children.
I will tell you more about this fine man and non-pareil scholar in the future. For now suffice it to say that the loss to me is more than words can express, but I submit to God's will.
Michael A. Hoffman II
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The loss to this writer is incalculable. Chuck was one of my best and closest friends and one of the finest Christan men it has ever been my privilege to know. He had a great love for and obedience to God.
His knowledge of the Old and New Testaments was vast and he was one of the best and most learned modern critics of the Talmud, having published a great deal of material on that subject in the pages of Rev. Herman Otten's "Christian News" newspaper. More recently he has been writing columns for "Christian News" on Old Testament exegesis.
He was the author of two books, "The Bible and Birth Control" and "The Church is Israel Now."
Chuck assisted me in my research but to say that is an understatement, since he was a pillar upon whom I depended. He was a tremendous influence on my views.
His kidneys failed a few years ago and his sister donated one of her kidneys to him. The transplant surgery was a success. I believe it took place about three years ago. He was on anti-rejection drugs however, and recently they seemed to play havoc with his immune system. He developed a severe case of shingles last month. He recovered almost completely from the shingles about two weeks ago and then over this past weekend he came down with what appeared to be the flu. He went to bed fatigued last night and died peacefully in his sleep.
I ask you to do two things: take the time to be grateful for and appreciative of your closest friend and don't assume that he or she will be around forever, because God only gives us this day.
Second, please if you can, send a check or money order however large or small, to: Mrs. Carol Provan, 410 W. Main Street, Monongahela, PA 15063. And please pray for her and the surviving Provan children.
I will tell you more about this fine man and non-pareil scholar in the future. For now suffice it to say that the loss to me is more than words can express, but I submit to God's will.
Michael A. Hoffman II
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Sunday, December 09, 2007
Was Colorado Shooter Wearing a Kippah?
On Dec 9, 2007, at 13:13, Vee wrote:
Mr. Hoffman,
Check out the MSNBC news story entitled, "2 dead, 2 hurt in Colorado Christian dorm shooting."
I am 40 years old, and this is the first time I have ever seen an American murder suspect described as "wearing a skull cap."
Is this a meaningful event, or just a random one? I'm puzzled.
--Vee
DEAR VEE
If they mean the shooter was wearing a kippah, then it's of course quite significant.
Or are they simply pulling our chain, by ambiguously hinting at a possible Judaic assailant when he was nothing of the sort?
Sincerely,
Michael A. Hoffman II
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Mr. Hoffman,
Check out the MSNBC news story entitled, "2 dead, 2 hurt in Colorado Christian dorm shooting."
I am 40 years old, and this is the first time I have ever seen an American murder suspect described as "wearing a skull cap."
Is this a meaningful event, or just a random one? I'm puzzled.
--Vee
DEAR VEE
If they mean the shooter was wearing a kippah, then it's of course quite significant.
Or are they simply pulling our chain, by ambiguously hinting at a possible Judaic assailant when he was nothing of the sort?
Sincerely,
Michael A. Hoffman II
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Washington Post: Terrorists Protected by US Military
"...in 1981, [Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] lost the use of his right arm during an assassination attempt by terrorists from Mujaheddin-e Khalq, an Iranian opposition group now under U.S. military protection in Iraq."
SOURCE: Vali Nasr, "Meet 'The Decider' of Tehran. It's Not the Hothead You Expect," WashingtonPost, December 9, 2007; Page B01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120701614.html
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So much for Mr. Bush's "war on terror."
Or do we accept the Bedlam proposition that to fight terror one must use terror? In which case, who is the evil terrorist and who is the "good terrorist," Mujaheddin-e Khalq?
Imagine if Mr. Bush had been wounded by would-be assassins. We would never hear the end of it.
How many in the West know that Iran's supreme leader was partially crippled in an attack by terrorists, who are now under US military protection?
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SOURCE: Vali Nasr, "Meet 'The Decider' of Tehran. It's Not the Hothead You Expect," WashingtonPost, December 9, 2007; Page B01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120701614.html
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So much for Mr. Bush's "war on terror."
Or do we accept the Bedlam proposition that to fight terror one must use terror? In which case, who is the evil terrorist and who is the "good terrorist," Mujaheddin-e Khalq?
Imagine if Mr. Bush had been wounded by would-be assassins. We would never hear the end of it.
How many in the West know that Iran's supreme leader was partially crippled in an attack by terrorists, who are now under US military protection?
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Saturday, December 08, 2007
Nativity Scene Committee of Chicago's Court Victory
Mr. Hoffman,
As one of your email subscribers to The Hoffman Wire, I thank you for this report re: yet another Judaic complaint about a privately owned nativity scene displayed on public property.
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2007/12/town-defies-judaic-demand-to-ban.html
However, as chairman of the Nativity Scene Committee of Chicago, I find such stories personally frustrating.
Since defeating the American Jewish Congress over the identical issue in U.S. District Court in 1989, we have erected a beautiful, life-size nativity scene in downtown Chicago's Daley Center Plaza each year during the Christmas season. The late U.S. District Judge James Parsons clearly ruled the 1st Amendment protects the right of private persons and/or groups to express religious beliefs on public property. Therefore, annual Judaic complaints that such displays violate the "establishment clause" are erroneous based upon our precedent alone.
Please refer anyone encountering opposition from any source on such matters to our case, number 87C10746, Grutzmacher v. Public Building Commission, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. They may safely cite our case as precedent to secure their 1st Amendment right to express religious belief in the public square, including erecting a seasonal religious display.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Terrance J. Hodges
Chairman
Nativity Scene Committee of Chicago
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As one of your email subscribers to The Hoffman Wire, I thank you for this report re: yet another Judaic complaint about a privately owned nativity scene displayed on public property.
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2007/12/town-defies-judaic-demand-to-ban.html
However, as chairman of the Nativity Scene Committee of Chicago, I find such stories personally frustrating.
Since defeating the American Jewish Congress over the identical issue in U.S. District Court in 1989, we have erected a beautiful, life-size nativity scene in downtown Chicago's Daley Center Plaza each year during the Christmas season. The late U.S. District Judge James Parsons clearly ruled the 1st Amendment protects the right of private persons and/or groups to express religious beliefs on public property. Therefore, annual Judaic complaints that such displays violate the "establishment clause" are erroneous based upon our precedent alone.
Please refer anyone encountering opposition from any source on such matters to our case, number 87C10746, Grutzmacher v. Public Building Commission, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. They may safely cite our case as precedent to secure their 1st Amendment right to express religious belief in the public square, including erecting a seasonal religious display.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Terrance J. Hodges
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Town defies Judaic demand to ban Christ's Nativity
GOOD NEWS!
Town defies " Jewish Federation" demand to ban Christian Nativity scene
They want their Hanukkah menorahs on public property while they try to keep Christ out
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Jewish Federation rescinds request, apologizes
Hyde Park will leave Nativity scene
This is the Nativity scene that the "Jewish Federation" of New York sought to have removed
By John Davis
Poughkeepsie Journal | December 6, 2007
HYDE PARK, NEW YORK – A manger scene will remain on the lawn of town hall.
A day after asking the town to remove the nativity scene, Bonnie Meadow, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County, has withdrawn her request.
The public outcry following her request was more than Meadow expected, she said in a letter today to Hyde Park Supervisor Pompey Delafield. She had asked the town to remove the manger scene, claiming it offended some non-Christians in Hyde Park and that it violated federal law.
“I never dreamt that my request to remove the nativity scene at the offices of the Town of Hyde Park would upset so many people so much,” Meadow said in the letter. “It was never my intent to hurt anyone or to spoil their holidays. In view of the public outcry, I hereby rescind my request to you.
“I apologize for whatever difficulty this may have caused and I wish you and your community a very Merry Christmas and happy holidays,” she said.
After researching the legality of the issue, Hyde Park Supervisor Pompey Delafield today said the manger will stay due to it being a longstanding tradition. He did not mention, however, that Meadow had withdrawn her request.
“The Hyde Park Knights of Columbus have provided and maintained a nativity scene as part of a 30-year-old holiday celebration,” Delafield said in a prepared statement this afternoon. “We have and will continue to honor that tradition again this year. This display is the property of the Knights of Columbus and we will continue to work with them to address any appropriate future tradition for the nativity scene after the holidays.”
Delafied also said the town will welcome the placement of other religious symbols on the town hall lawn. “The town honors all religions in this holiday season and would be open to a similar display of the menorah to honor the season of Chanukah, or any other appropriate season display as a part of this year’s holiday offering at town hall,” Delafield said in the statement.
The Hyde Park Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men's organization, have put up the manger scene on the town hall lawn every Christmas season for more than 30 years.
Dean Davis, a local Knight, said he was contacted by the town Wednesday about removing the manger scene. "They are taking Christmas from us," he said. "It's Christ's Mass. If they want to do that, it's going to ruin the whole country."
After receiving a request Wednesday from the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County to remove the nativity scene, the town officials said they were considering asking the Knights of Columbus to remove it. Meadow said in her original request the manger offended some non-Christians in Hyde Park and the display of religious symbols on government property was a violation of federal law.
After receiving that letter, Delafield said he would have the town attorney research the legality of the manger scene. "If the law says it has to come down, it will have to come down," Delafield said Wednesday.
The town supervisor said he never had a problem with the manger scene on the lawn, but if it became one for others, he would prefer seeing it removed.
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Town defies " Jewish Federation" demand to ban Christian Nativity scene
They want their Hanukkah menorahs on public property while they try to keep Christ out
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Jewish Federation rescinds request, apologizes
Hyde Park will leave Nativity scene
This is the Nativity scene that the "Jewish Federation" of New York sought to have removedBy John Davis
Poughkeepsie Journal | December 6, 2007
HYDE PARK, NEW YORK – A manger scene will remain on the lawn of town hall.
A day after asking the town to remove the nativity scene, Bonnie Meadow, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County, has withdrawn her request.
The public outcry following her request was more than Meadow expected, she said in a letter today to Hyde Park Supervisor Pompey Delafield. She had asked the town to remove the manger scene, claiming it offended some non-Christians in Hyde Park and that it violated federal law.
“I never dreamt that my request to remove the nativity scene at the offices of the Town of Hyde Park would upset so many people so much,” Meadow said in the letter. “It was never my intent to hurt anyone or to spoil their holidays. In view of the public outcry, I hereby rescind my request to you.
“I apologize for whatever difficulty this may have caused and I wish you and your community a very Merry Christmas and happy holidays,” she said.
After researching the legality of the issue, Hyde Park Supervisor Pompey Delafield today said the manger will stay due to it being a longstanding tradition. He did not mention, however, that Meadow had withdrawn her request.
“The Hyde Park Knights of Columbus have provided and maintained a nativity scene as part of a 30-year-old holiday celebration,” Delafield said in a prepared statement this afternoon. “We have and will continue to honor that tradition again this year. This display is the property of the Knights of Columbus and we will continue to work with them to address any appropriate future tradition for the nativity scene after the holidays.”
Delafied also said the town will welcome the placement of other religious symbols on the town hall lawn. “The town honors all religions in this holiday season and would be open to a similar display of the menorah to honor the season of Chanukah, or any other appropriate season display as a part of this year’s holiday offering at town hall,” Delafield said in the statement.
The Hyde Park Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men's organization, have put up the manger scene on the town hall lawn every Christmas season for more than 30 years.
Dean Davis, a local Knight, said he was contacted by the town Wednesday about removing the manger scene. "They are taking Christmas from us," he said. "It's Christ's Mass. If they want to do that, it's going to ruin the whole country."
After receiving a request Wednesday from the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County to remove the nativity scene, the town officials said they were considering asking the Knights of Columbus to remove it. Meadow said in her original request the manger offended some non-Christians in Hyde Park and the display of religious symbols on government property was a violation of federal law.
After receiving that letter, Delafield said he would have the town attorney research the legality of the manger scene. "If the law says it has to come down, it will have to come down," Delafield said Wednesday.
The town supervisor said he never had a problem with the manger scene on the lawn, but if it became one for others, he would prefer seeing it removed.
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Hanukkah Hoax: an excerpt from Hoffman's new book
I did not plan on issuing any part of my forthcoming book in advance of its publication, but in gratitude to the incredibly generous persons whose donations have made the writing of my book possible, I offer this snippet from the chapter on Judaism's holidays.
My book is about 95% complete, not including proof-reading and indexing. The problem is, every time I get ready to declare that it's finished and I start packing up twenty years worth of archives, I come across data that is so indispensable that I can't ignore it. For example, recently I discovered a rabbinic curse on Poland. This is almost completely unknown. It is only discussed in texts intended for Talmidim. It has never (to my knowledge) been published in a gentile book or periodical. I discovered that the rabbis take credit for the tripartite partition of Poland, beginning in 1795, which, save for a brief restitution under Napoleon, continued until 1918. The details will be in my book.
My Judaism archive is an immense expanse and contains a major portion of the scholarly effort of my whole life's work. It is so extensive it could form the basis for a multi-volume encyclopedia on Judaism. Trying to decide what to include and what to exclude in one volume is probably my most difficult task, in addition to raising funds for a proper printing in hard cover with all pages intact.
If you have not yet contributed to this project and would like to help ensure that we can afford to publish the book with all pages intact as I have written it, with no information condensed or deleted, donation details are the end of the excerpt below. Thank you.
THE HANUKKAH HOAX
by Michael A. Hoffman II
Copyright ©2007. All Rights Reserved
Chabad-Lubavitch Menorah Lighting in Union Square, San Francisco
Hanukkah is a Talmudic holiday that is observed cursorily in the Israeli state and celebrated in the United States as competition for Christmas, and in order to symbolically assert the supremacy of "Klal Yisroel" (the Judaic people) over the rest of humanity.
During Christmas, 2006, this writer was in San Francisco visiting relatives. I walked to Union Square in downtown, searching for a uniquely Christian Christmas symbol on municipal property (a "Christmas" tree does not qualify, since it is also sacred to the pre-Christian peoples of Europe in the form of the yule tree). Specifically, I was looking for a nativity scene depicting the Holy Family: Jesus, Mary and Joseph. What I found instead was the obligatory illuminated tree of green, and an enormous menorah set up on Union Square by Chabad-Lubavitch, the rabbinic devil-worshipping sect who venerate the goddess Shekhinah.
The shoppers and pagans had their tree; the rabbis had their menorah, and the Holy Family had nothing. This in a "Christian" country ruled by a "Christian" president. What a hoax, like Hanukkah itself, which departs from the Biblical Apocrypha's Book of Maccabees with a ridiculous Talmudic fable of a lamp filled with oil that burns for eight days.
Okay, so it's ridiculous, so what. Plenty of Christian beliefs are equally ridiculous in the eyes of non-Christians. That may be true, but there is one crucial distinction: true Christians don't worship themselves, while the religion of Judaism is predicated upon self-worship.
The secret of Hanukkah was disclosed by Rabbi Levi Isaac ben Meir of Berdichev (known as "the Kedushat Levi" after his eponymous treatise), an important eighteenth century halachic authority, who revealed the fact that lighting the Hanukkah menorah does not commemorate the victory of the Biblical Maccabees. The arcane traditional doctrine of Chazal ("the [rabbinic] sages of blessed memory") concerning Hanukkah is that it actually signifies God’s "delight in the Jewish people" themselves, and their vainglorious celebrations. God provided eight days of oil not as a means of facilitating a victory or of guaranteeing the successful completion of a sacred duty, but rather as a sign (halacha osah mitzvah), of His continuing adoration of the Judaic people, which all the rest of us are supposed to emulate, as we in fact do, whenever we allow a menorah to be erected where a nativity scene is banned.
The Hanukkah menorah is the symbol of the supreme position which the Holy Judaic People occupy in God's eyes. It is not a symbol of a Biblical occurrence. Like all man-made Talmudic traditions intended for self-glorification, Hanukkah has evolved over the centuries into what it is today, another flagrant example of Judaism's complete departure from Biblical texts and verities. It represents the victory not of the Maccabees over the pagans, but of the selective memory of the rabbis over history. This mendacity is the essence of the Talmudic mentality.
Christmas is the story of the incarnation of the Savior of mankind, offering salvation and peace on earth to all men of good will. Hanukkah is an enduring commitment to the dark racial and religious conceit of the rabbinic and Zionist Judaics, disguised as holiday light and cheer for all; as such it is a kind of abbreviation for and summation of the high hoax that is the religion of Judaism itself.
The preceding has been excerpted from "Judaism Discovered" by Michael A. Hoffman II, to be published by Independent History and Research. Copyright ©2007. All Rights Reserved.
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My book is about 95% complete, not including proof-reading and indexing. The problem is, every time I get ready to declare that it's finished and I start packing up twenty years worth of archives, I come across data that is so indispensable that I can't ignore it. For example, recently I discovered a rabbinic curse on Poland. This is almost completely unknown. It is only discussed in texts intended for Talmidim. It has never (to my knowledge) been published in a gentile book or periodical. I discovered that the rabbis take credit for the tripartite partition of Poland, beginning in 1795, which, save for a brief restitution under Napoleon, continued until 1918. The details will be in my book.
My Judaism archive is an immense expanse and contains a major portion of the scholarly effort of my whole life's work. It is so extensive it could form the basis for a multi-volume encyclopedia on Judaism. Trying to decide what to include and what to exclude in one volume is probably my most difficult task, in addition to raising funds for a proper printing in hard cover with all pages intact.
If you have not yet contributed to this project and would like to help ensure that we can afford to publish the book with all pages intact as I have written it, with no information condensed or deleted, donation details are the end of the excerpt below. Thank you.
THE HANUKKAH HOAX
by Michael A. Hoffman II
Copyright ©2007. All Rights Reserved
Chabad-Lubavitch Menorah Lighting in Union Square, San FranciscoHanukkah is a Talmudic holiday that is observed cursorily in the Israeli state and celebrated in the United States as competition for Christmas, and in order to symbolically assert the supremacy of "Klal Yisroel" (the Judaic people) over the rest of humanity.
During Christmas, 2006, this writer was in San Francisco visiting relatives. I walked to Union Square in downtown, searching for a uniquely Christian Christmas symbol on municipal property (a "Christmas" tree does not qualify, since it is also sacred to the pre-Christian peoples of Europe in the form of the yule tree). Specifically, I was looking for a nativity scene depicting the Holy Family: Jesus, Mary and Joseph. What I found instead was the obligatory illuminated tree of green, and an enormous menorah set up on Union Square by Chabad-Lubavitch, the rabbinic devil-worshipping sect who venerate the goddess Shekhinah.
The shoppers and pagans had their tree; the rabbis had their menorah, and the Holy Family had nothing. This in a "Christian" country ruled by a "Christian" president. What a hoax, like Hanukkah itself, which departs from the Biblical Apocrypha's Book of Maccabees with a ridiculous Talmudic fable of a lamp filled with oil that burns for eight days.
Okay, so it's ridiculous, so what. Plenty of Christian beliefs are equally ridiculous in the eyes of non-Christians. That may be true, but there is one crucial distinction: true Christians don't worship themselves, while the religion of Judaism is predicated upon self-worship.
The secret of Hanukkah was disclosed by Rabbi Levi Isaac ben Meir of Berdichev (known as "the Kedushat Levi" after his eponymous treatise), an important eighteenth century halachic authority, who revealed the fact that lighting the Hanukkah menorah does not commemorate the victory of the Biblical Maccabees. The arcane traditional doctrine of Chazal ("the [rabbinic] sages of blessed memory") concerning Hanukkah is that it actually signifies God’s "delight in the Jewish people" themselves, and their vainglorious celebrations. God provided eight days of oil not as a means of facilitating a victory or of guaranteeing the successful completion of a sacred duty, but rather as a sign (halacha osah mitzvah), of His continuing adoration of the Judaic people, which all the rest of us are supposed to emulate, as we in fact do, whenever we allow a menorah to be erected where a nativity scene is banned.
The Hanukkah menorah is the symbol of the supreme position which the Holy Judaic People occupy in God's eyes. It is not a symbol of a Biblical occurrence. Like all man-made Talmudic traditions intended for self-glorification, Hanukkah has evolved over the centuries into what it is today, another flagrant example of Judaism's complete departure from Biblical texts and verities. It represents the victory not of the Maccabees over the pagans, but of the selective memory of the rabbis over history. This mendacity is the essence of the Talmudic mentality.
Christmas is the story of the incarnation of the Savior of mankind, offering salvation and peace on earth to all men of good will. Hanukkah is an enduring commitment to the dark racial and religious conceit of the rabbinic and Zionist Judaics, disguised as holiday light and cheer for all; as such it is a kind of abbreviation for and summation of the high hoax that is the religion of Judaism itself.
The preceding has been excerpted from "Judaism Discovered" by Michael A. Hoffman II, to be published by Independent History and Research. Copyright ©2007. All Rights Reserved.
Download, print and distribute this "Hanukkah Hoax" column in a hard copy, one page flyer format
Three Donation Options in support of the printing of Hoffman's full-length manuscript. You can donate:
1. By check or money order: Independent History and Research, Box 849, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83816 USA
2. By Paypal, to: rarebooks14atmac.com (replace "at" with @ in the preceding address)
3. By VISA or Mastercard:
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?cart_id=7608452.21672*e_0J-6&product=Your_Donation
We are truly grateful to all donors as well as all those who pray for the success of this work.
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Ritually timed to coincide with the Hanukkah party!
The Talmudists are at it again
by Michael A. Hoffman II
New York Times pokes lots of fun at the expense of the Catholic religion's "indulgences":
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/papal-indulgences-two-ways-easy-and-hard/
--But without telling their ignorant readers that the rabbis of Orthodox Judaism receive big bucks to "daven" (pray), perform "miracles" and hand out "bracha" (a blessing).
Sarcasm and irreverence from the NY Times are reserved for the Catholic religion's "superstition," while the income stream to rabbis from superstitious Judaics that the goyim are not supposed to know about, continues unabated, without publicity or censure.
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by Michael A. Hoffman II
New York Times pokes lots of fun at the expense of the Catholic religion's "indulgences":
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/papal-indulgences-two-ways-easy-and-hard/
--But without telling their ignorant readers that the rabbis of Orthodox Judaism receive big bucks to "daven" (pray), perform "miracles" and hand out "bracha" (a blessing).
Sarcasm and irreverence from the NY Times are reserved for the Catholic religion's "superstition," while the income stream to rabbis from superstitious Judaics that the goyim are not supposed to know about, continues unabated, without publicity or censure.
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