Media beginning to soften up the public on child porn

Techniques for the alchemical transformation of humanity

By Michael Hoffman

www.revisionisthistory.org

July 17, 2014 • Spokesman-Review

As a former reporter for the Establishment media (Associated Press) I am particularly sensitive to indications that the media are using their power to subtly change minds and overcome traditional objections to forms of moral depravity. This usually begins with subtle changes and cues that emanate from executive editors at high levels of the corporate media.

Examine the clipping above. It was published in this morning’s (July 17, 2014) Spokesman-Review newspaper (Spokane, Washington), p. A3. The article concerns the arrest of child pornography supporters (“pedophiles”) including “doctors, lawyers” and ex-police officers.

The subtle processing is found in the second paragraph: “...sensational stories of the sexual abuse of minors regularly headline the tabloids, which some critics accuse of whipping up public hysteria over the issue.” 

Notice the article doesn't say child pornography is harmless; only that it has been “sensationalized” by disreputable “tabloids,” which “whip up public hysteria over the issue.”

Observe that the viewing of child pornography is described as an “issue,” not a crime. The article never refers to it as a crime. Apparently, viewing child pornography is not a sensational transgression in itself. It has been “sensationalized” by disreputable “tabloids.” Too much concern about child pornography is indicative of “hysteria.” 

This article would seem to be the first step in a measured campaign to soften up the American people so that we will approve of the decriminalization of child pornography, just as we were softened up for the decriminalization of sodomy and the legal marriage of sodomites.

This processing is almost always gradual and understated, so as not to frighten the targets of the brainwashing into the realization that they are in fact being conditioned to abandon their traditional morality and “keep up with the times.”

How likely is it that our “free and impartial” media would add to an ADL report on a putative “anti-semitic crime wave," a statement about how “sensational tales of anti-semitism are regularly issued by Zionist organizations which some critics accuse of whipping up public hysteria over the issue.” Imagine the outcry from the Israeli lobby and the thought cops. 

Will there be a preemptive outcry from We the People against what the media are starting to initiate with regard to the international cult of child molestation? You can be sure that within that cult are many extremely powerful people who would be delighted to see enforcement relaxed, as a first step in a  systematic journey toward the social acceptance of child pornography in an increasingly bestial American society.

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Israelis slaughter four young Palestinian boys playing on Gaza Beach

Mohammed Baker (aged 9), Ahed Baker (aged 10), Zakaria Baker (aged 10), and Mohammed Baker (aged 11), all from the same extended family. The victims were scrawny fishermen’s kids, running around on the beach, playing in the waves.

Four Young Boys Killed Playing on Gaza Beach

By Anne Barnard And Tyler Hicks 

New York Times | July 16, 2014

GAZA CITY — Four young Palestinian boys were killed Wednesday when two explosions hit a jetty and beach where they were playing at the fishing port of Gaza City, an area that had been considered relatively safe from the intense Israeli bombing campaign of the past nine days.

The Israel Defense Forces acknowledged that it had struck the area. “Based on preliminary results, the target of this strike was Hamas terrorist operatives,” the I.D.F. said in a statement. “The reported civilian casualties from this strike are a tragic outcome.”

The four boys were cousins in an extended family of fishermen who kept their boats at the port.

The Israeli military has been hitting Gaza with bombs and missiles for more than a week, aiming to stop Hamas, the group that controls the territory, and other militants from firing rockets and other munitions into Israel. The first explosion left a small shack burning on the jetty. Several boys could be seen fleeing along the beach. About 30 seconds later came the second blast, and when the dust cleared, three figures lay motionless on the sand. One had most of a leg blown off, his body charred; a few yards away lay a smaller one with curly hair. The two explosions were about 30 seconds apart.

Men came running and scooped up three bodies. A fourth was found in the charred ruins of the shack on the jetty. A grown man, wounded, called for help from inside an outdoor beach cafe, and he too was carried away.

Israel’s military says it has taken extensive precautions to avoid killing civilians. But it has acknowledged, according to Israel Radio, that about half the people in Gaza killed so far were “not involved in terrorism.” Human Rights Watch issued a statement on Wednesday decrying the civilian casualties and demanding that Israel “end unlawful attacks that do not target military objectives.”

A running count kept by United Nations officials shows that of the more than 200 Palestinians who have been killed so far, about 75 percent have been civilians, including more than three dozen children. One Israeli has been killed.

Hamas and other militant groups have fired more than 1,000 rockets into Israel since simmering hostilities erupted into military confrontation on July 8. Most of the Gaza rockets have fallen in open ground in Israel or were destroyed by Israel’s Iron Dome interception system. For its part, Israel has struck houses, offices and farmland in the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, missiles fired from Apache helicopters and shelling from naval gunboats.

The mother of one of the four boys murdered by the Israeli military

An Israeli military spokesman, Motti Almoz, told Israel’s Channel 10 that Israeli forces had fired at “a target near the sea” on Wednesday and that the details were still under review. Alon Ben-David, a senior military affairs journalist with extensive Israeli military sources, said information he had seen indicated that the military had identified the beach shack as belonging to Hamas and fired at it.

Mr. Ben-David speculated that the second blast had been aimed at the children running away, who might have been mistaken for militants. But he added that given the military’s technologically advanced surveillance equipment, “it is a little hard for me to understand this, because the images show that the figures are children.”

The boys were part of the Bakr family, according to relatives who gathered outside the family’s apartment building, wailing and crying. One woman cursed both Israel and Hamas, and another quietly noted that Hamas had killed 10 members of the family in factional infighting.

...Like many Gaza children from large families, the cousins were inseparable and traveled in a pack, playing nearly every day on the beach in normal times, relatives said. But they had been cooped up during nine days of bombardment, said Nasreen al-Bakr, an aunt of Ahed, whose father had beaten him the day before for defying parents’ orders to stay off the beach.

Israeli gunboats patrol just offshore and have periodically fired shells landward. Still, the area near the port has generally been safe, with a row of hotels that are packed with foreign journalists. Some of the journalists gave first aid to another wounded child on the terrace of the Deira Hotel, where the bodies were initially brought.

“What was the fault of these children?” a woman wailed at the family home. “Are they terrorists?”

Ramzi, 8, Mohammad’s brother, said he had tried to tag along when the boys went to catch crabs and check on the family’s boats. But Mohammad apparently considered that the risk of going to the beach, while acceptable for himself, was too much for his little brother.

“He made me go back to the house,” Ramzi said softly. “He was always worried for me.” (End quote from The New York Times)

Relatives of the four Palestinian boys killed by Israelis while playing on the beach in Gaza

"To the best of my understanding, it is not possible to ensure summer vacation, a normal summer for our (Israeli) kids without a ground operation in Gaza.” 

--Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli foreign minister

Whether gallows humor, condescending sarcasm, or moral depravity, Lieberman's statement summarizes Israeli callousness and cynicism: wipe out a people; exterminate.

The idea of forcing a mass evacuation from their homes on threat of death is revisiting the mindset of Naziism.

As a Jew I ask, what has happened to my people, my religion, its ethical teachings, its history of engagement in progressive causes, whether civil rights, labor unionism, antiwar, the nuts-and-bolts of American democracy in action which, absent Jewish participation, is no longer the same, and for the American Jewish community has become a transmogrification of original, indeed primal, humaneness into mass population removal, wholesale bombing of defenseless populations, and now, a center for the disabled?

Lieberman, Netanyahu, etc., what summer vacations do you think Palestinian children look forward to, what "normal summer" when they, their mothers, their fathers are facing death, destruction, loss of home, inadequate medical supplies, blockade?

Except in America, Israel will be known in the world as a Society of Butchers, steeped so deeply in militarism as no longer even able to envision, much less act on, moral choice.

Mass evacuation, so their homes can be destroyed, equals ethnic cleansing.

— Norman Pollack
East Lansing, Michigan

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Human Rights Watch Issues Interim Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

By Michael Hoffman

www.revisionisthistory.org

July 16, 2014 -- A Human Rights Watch report released today cites United Nations data showing that, as of July 14, more than three-quarters of the Palestinians killed by Israeli bombs and tank shells in Gaza have been civilians. The Israelis have killed at least 36 children. Approximately 7,500 Palestinians have been displaced. The Israelis have bombed 1,255 homes in Gaza, destroying most of them.

The Human Rights Watch report investigated four Israeli terror bombings – on the Fun Time Beach Cafe in the southern city of Khan Younis; on a car carrying municipal workers in the Bureij refugee camp; and on two homes where victims included a pregnant woman and small children.

“Israel’s rhetoric is all about precision attacks, but attacks with no military target and many civilian deaths can hardly be considered precise,” Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East director of Human Rights Watch, said in the report.

“Recent documented cases in Gaza sadly fit Israel’s long record of unlawful airstrikes with high civilian casualties.”

The report also criticized Israel’s tactic of warning residents to evacuate, saying it “does not make an otherwise unlawful attack lawful” (end quote).

Of course, no Judaic population on earth could be treated in the manner in which the people of Gaza have suffered, without immediate military intervention by the USA, a constant outcry from the western media with daily updates and graphic photos and video of the carnage, and crippling sanctions against the government that perpetrated the bombings.

Why isn't this happening in the case of "Israel"? Because the West is ruled by a Talmudic standard. According to Talmudic Judaism "Jews" have a higher soul, the Neshama HaElyonah. This is a type of soul that goyim, including Palestinians, do not have.

The front page headline in this morning's Wall Street Journal amply reveals this less than fully human status:

"Palestinians Told to Clear Out."

The sub-heading reads:

"Israel Warns Thousands to Leave Northern Gaza as Army Readies Broader Offensive."

This is a population transfer for which Stalin and Hitler have been condemned in no uncertain terms. Now it is a source of pride that the "humane" Israeli military is warning up to 100,000 Palestinian civilians to flee for their lives so the Israelis can flatten their homes to rubble without being accused of war crimes.

Imagine the uproar if the Wall Street Journal headline read, "Jews Told to Clear Out."


The reaction would be in terms of Pogrom! Holocaust!! Bigotry!!! Nazism!!!!

Academics would haunt guilt-ridden goyim with the specter of “a repetition of the antisemitic expulsions which Jew-haters have committed throughout European history."

But to order the Palestinian population out is a Talmudically kosher move undeserving of alarm. The West shrugs its shoulders, mutters a few token criticisms, grumbles about Israeli "intransigence" and otherwise is okay with it. Business as usual.

Human Rights Watch asks us to recall, "...Israel’s long record of unlawful airstrikes with high civilian casualties.” But since there are no museums and not many books or films commemorating those “airstrikes,” few outside the Muslim and Arab world  remember or care about it. Just as one Judaic soul is worth more than a non-Judaic soul, one holocaust is worth more than another. The “Holocaust” motto, “Never Again!” clearly does not apply to Arabs, who the Israelis holocaust time and again to applause from news executives and elite opinion-makers in Britain and the U.S., including its Arab-hating Congress.

Beginning with the carpet-bombing of Beirut in the summer of 1982, the Israelis have killed tens of thousands of Arab civilians in Lebanon and Palestine without sanctions or consequences of any kind. After the Israeli massacre in Jenin, when a U.N. investigation seemed imminent, Israeli leader Shimon Peres blocked it, declaring, “No one judges Israel!”

As long as the Judaic-supremacist spirit of the Talmud rules the West, the terror bombing and the massacres by counterfeit "Israel" will continue unpunished and unrestricted.

If you’re a Palestinian man, woman or child your life isn’t worth a plug nickel.

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“The Jews eliminated an entire family"

...Palestinians expressed anger over the previous day’s Israeli strikes on a center for people with disabilities and on a home in an attack that killed 17 members of one extended family....the funeral on Sunday (July 13) for the 17 relatives who died in a bombing late Saturday (July 12) when Israel tried to kill Gen. Tayseer al-Batsh, the Hamas police chief. General Batsh, who was seriously wounded, was visiting his aunt’s house, which was reduced to rubble, neighbors said, by bombs that sent body parts at least 100 yards.

...Local officials and relatives searched Sunday for more bodies before burying the family, including seven children, and a neighbor, in 18 graves dug in the same compound. Mahmoud al-Batsh, 48, a relative, said it was too dangerous now to bury them in the cemetery, which is near the border with Israel in northeast Gaza. “The Jews don’t differentiate between the police commander and ordinary citizens,” he said.

...The attack left scores wounded by shattered glass and explosive compression. There was no warning, residents said; Israeli officials have said they do not warn prime targets whom they are trying to kill.

Munzer al-Batsh, the police commander’s brother and a gardener, said at the scene: “The Jews eliminated an entire family — grandfather, father, mother, even the children, who were sleeping in the homes. They were civilians.”

He said he had heard the bombs but could not see through the smoke and dust. When the air cleared, he said, “there was a three-story house wiped out. I couldn’t remember at first that there was a house there,” he added.

The (Israeli terror bombing) campaign’s death toll among Palestinians was 158, more than half of them noncombatants, and more than 1,100 people have been hurt, the Health Ministry said.

Source: "Palestinians Flee Northern Gaza as a Cease-Fire Appears Elusive"

By Steven Erlanger And Isabel Kershner • NY Times • July 13, 2014

[In its Monday, July 14 edition (it does not publish on Sunday), The Wall Street Journal devoted a single paragraph to the massacre of this Palestinian family. The skimpy paragraph was buried inside an article on another topic. No photos of the massacre victims, of course. This is a clear indication of the Talmudic standard of American “journalism." A Palestinian massacre of 17 members of an Israeli family would be front page news accompanied by graphic photos of the victims. The Talmud rules that Palestinians are sub-human and American-Zionist media like The Wall Street Journal treat them as such].

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Israelis bomb a clinic for disabled Palestinians, killing two and burning three

Gaza, July 12: Palestinian women mourn for those killed by Israeli terror bombs

Gaza Strip, July 12 —...Israel bombed a mosque, which its aerial photos indicated was harboring a weapons cache, and a center for the disabled, killing two residents and wounding three, as well as a caretaker....The Israeli bombing of the center for the disabled, the Mabaret Palestine Society here in northern Gaza, occurred just before dawn, when a missile crashed through the roof and exploded. Because it was the weekend, only five of the 19 severely disabled residents were at the center...said Jamila Elaiwa...

She spoke at Al Shifa hospital’s burn unit, while she was visiting the wounded, including Mai Hamada, 30, and Salwa Abu al-Qomssan, 53, the caretaker, both of them with severe burns, while two more residents were in intensive care. The dead were identified as Ula Wisha, 31, and Suha Abusada, 39, whose family said she had been born severely disabled and unable to speak...

Ms. Elaiwa, 59, said that her center was well-known in the neighborhood and that it had been in the same building for almost a decade. She said she had no idea why it would be bombed. “No one lived there except us,” she said. “There was no one else in the building.”

At the site, neighbors picked through the rubble of modest medical equipment and scattered children’s books, from the small neighborhood children’s library Ms. Elaiwa ran. There was a seared copy of “Jane Eyre,” condensed, in English with Arabic translation, and an English-language copy of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.”

Neighbors like Yasir Abu Shoodq, 32, stared up at the sky through the holes the missile cut through the roof and each floor before making a crater in the ground. Children picked up the chunks of sharp steel from the crater and made off with them.

Mr. Abu Shoodq said, and Ms. Elaiwa confirmed, that there had first been a warning rocket, “a knock on the roof,” a few minutes before the missile hit. “But no one understood what it meant,” she said. “No one could imagine the center would be a target for anyone.” In any case, she said, the severity of the residents’ disabilities would have prevented them from fleeing on their own.

...The number of dead in Gaza since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge is 120, according to the Palestinian health ministry; just over half of the dead are considered to have been noncombatants by the United Nations.

Source: "As Israel Hits Mosque and Clinic, Air Campaign’s Risks Come Home"

By Steven Erlanger • NY Times, July 12, 2014

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Also see: Israelis wildly exaggerate “injuries” from Palestinian rockets

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Israelis wildly exaggerate “injuries” from rockets

The usual Zionist fraud and wild exaggeration: 

Israelis say 123 Israelis have been "injured" by Arab rockets — 

but 100 of the injuries consist of "anxiety" or "shock"! 

Israeli bomb explodes in Gaza, July 11, 2014 

Imagine the outcry, sanctions and immediate US intervention if an Arab nation was doing this to Jerusalem?

As of July 11, some 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombs, many of them women and children.

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Michael Hoffman is the author of The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians

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Palestinian "war crimes"?

"The group Human Rights Watch on Wednesday declared that because the Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel are both indiscriminate and target civilian population centers, they amount to war crimes."

-- Washington Post, July 9, 2014

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Does this human rights standard apply to British and American bombings of  Nazi Germany that were both "indiscriminate" and "targeted civilian population centers"?

If the Palestinians are copying Allied military doctrine from WWII, how is it that they are accused of war crimes by Human Rights Watch, when the Allies were (and are) celebrated as heroes and liberators? Are there two human rights standards, one for Israeli civilians and another for Germans?

--Michael Hoffman

www.revisionisthistory.org

The Israelis commenced their attacks on Gaza July 8, 2014, in the latest chapter in their ongoing war on the Palestinian people, this one named “Operation Protective Edge."

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No US sanctions against Sunni Bahrain or Saudis for crushing democracy

“In Bahrain, the United States effectively assented as the Saudi military helped crush the largely peaceful uprising by the Shiite majority.”

New York Times, July 6, 2014, p. 7.

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Wall Street Journal’s racist reaction to the kidnapping of Israeli youths

By Michael Hoffman

www.revisionisthistory.org

The Talmudic mentality suffuses the Wall Street Journal where there is one standard for The Holy People and another for Palestinians. Columnist Bret Stephens (July 1, p. A11) decrees that the Palestinian people are part of "a culture that celebrates murder" and "is not fit for statehood."

Can anyone imagine the Wall Street Journal declaring this about the Israelis, who celebrate most types of violence against Palestinians, and Arabs in Lebanon? Any negative stereotype about Israelis is instantly denounced with a litany of antisemitism tropes, but negative stereotypes of the Palestinian people proliferate in the American media with little outcry.

Thousands of Palestinians have been abducted by the Israeli army and imprisoned without trial for years. More than five hundred Palestinians have been arrested and detained without trial since the kidnapping of the Israeli youths. The status of Palestinians is so far below that of a human being that their mass abduction under color of law does not register among Israelis or the American media.

Eleven Palestinians including three Palestinian boys have been gunned down by Israelis since the three Judaic teens went missing. Two homes of the parents of alleged suspects have been demolished. The shooting of the eleven Palestinians in the past several days registers as not even a blip on the screen of moral indignation. The Talmud says they (and all gentiles) are less than human and voila, it is so.

Hundreds of Palestinian children have been murdered by the Israeli army in the 21st century. This fact is not mentioned as part of the "context" which the Israelis always demand for themselves and which reporters covering the kidnapping and death of the three Israeli youths do not bother to summon. Those hundreds of Palestinian children are less than human and therefore their deaths are down the memory hole.

Two "settler" rabbis have written a popular Israeli book, Torat Hamelech, which has been endorsed by leading rabbis. It advocates the murder of Palestinian children. If two Hamas clerics had written such a despicable book about Israeli children we would never hear the end of it. As the supposed moral supremacy of the Israelis is being contrasted to ill effect with the Palestinians who are rendered unfit to possess their own land, the Torat Hamelech volume by the rabbis is not mentioned. Perfidy of Palestinians is a brand, while the bloodthirsty reality of Talmudic-Israel is invisible.

We hear much about the "cycle of violence" in the Middle East, but the way the American media present it, violence begins with an act by Palestinians, against which the aggrieved Israelis only react defensively. The fact of the ongoing brutal occupation of Palestinian lands, the routine killings by the Israeli military, the theft of ever more land from Palestine —  these major causes of Arab rage and armed resistance to Israeli rule  —  are not allowed into the Mideast equation. Instead, we have Bret Stephens' stomach-churning generalization about Palestinian mothers, caricatured as irrational, contemptible, hate-filled women condoning atrocities against the high and noble civilization of the Talmud. “What kind of society produces such mothers?” he asks.

The co-author of Torat Hamelech, Rabbi Elitzur, wrote an article in a religious bulletin a month after the book's release saying that "the Jews will win with violence against the Arabs."

What kind of society produces such rabbis?

Rabbi Elitzur's viewpoint is not an aberration. He is fully representative of the Talmudic mentality which, according to the Wall Street fish wrapper, deserves to own Palestine lock, stock and barrel.

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Talmudic contempt for Palestinians results in collective punishment

The Spiritual Source of Israeli War Crimes and Collective Punishment of the Palestinian People:

 According to the Babylonian Talmud, and many post-Talmudic halachic authorities, no mercy is to be shown to subject nations

By Michael Hoffman

www.revisionisthistory.org

"If a non-Jew killed another non-Jew, or a non-Jew killed a Jew, the killer is liable for execution; if a Jew killed a non-Jew, he is exempt from punishment.” — Quoted from the Babylonian Talmud: Steinsaltz Edition. Sanhedrin 57A, 107.)

In his book Tanya, a text sacred to Chabad-Lubavitch Judaism, Rabbi Zalman teaches that Gentiles are "waste and refuse." In chapter one of Tanya, Rabbi Zalman imparts the teaching that non-Jewish souls, "emanate from the unclean kelipot which contain no good whatever.” — Quoted from the Lubavitch-authorized edition of Likutei Amarim Tanya by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Lyady, Bi-Lingual Hebrew-English edition [Brooklyn, New York, Kehot Publication Society, 1993].

"The Jew by his source and in his very essence is entirely good. The goy (non-Jew), by his source and in his very essence, is completely evil. This is not simply a matter of religious distinction, but rather of two completely different species ('shnei minim nifradim').” — Quoted from Rabbi Sadya Grama, Romemut Yisrael Ufarashat Hagalut. (Rabbi Grama is a graduate of Beth Medrash Govoha, a renowned Orthodox yeshiva in Lakewood, New Jersey)

"What he (Rabbi Grama) seems to be saying is that Jews have a 'ruchniyus' (spiritual) dimension that is part of their essential makeup and that renders them inherently distinct and superior.” — Quoted from Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, executive vice president for government and public affairs of Agudath Israel of America, describing the thesis of Rabbi Grama.

Two Israeli “settler” rabbis, have issued a religious guide for Israeli soldiers in their book Torat Hamelech: Dinei Nefashot Bein Yisrael Le'Amim ("The King's Torah: Laws of Life and Death between Jews and the Nations”). “The prohibition ‘Thou Shalt Not Murder' applies only 'to a Jew who kills a Jew,' write Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and Rabbi Yosef Elitzur of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar. Non-Jews are 'uncompassionate by nature' and attacks on them 'curb their evil inclination,' while babies and children of Israel’s enemies may be killed since 'it is clear that they will grow to harm us.”

 Many prominent rabbis including Dov Lior, Ya’acov Yosef and Yitzchak Ginsburg have endorsed Shapira and Elitzur’s genocidal  Torat Hamelech book, which has been distributed to Israeli leaders and army commanders and sold in Israeli bookshops.

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg is the founder and senior dean at the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in Yitzhar. Ginsburg wrote the book Barch HaGever in praise of Israeli mass murderer Baruch Goldstein, who slaughtered dozens of Arabs as they prayed in the Ibrahim Mosque in Hebron. Ginsburg is also the rabbi who decreed that it is acceptable to kill a non-Jew for his liver if a Jew needs a liver transplant. 

Don't be hoodwinked: the ideology that fuels Israeli oppression, dispossession and violence against Paletinians is the Israeli state religion of Orthodox Judaism. In the following article you will observe the attitude of contempt toward the Palestinians exhibited by the Israeli army as taught by Talmudic Judaism. Collective punishment of the Palestinian people is the result of this teaching. Palestinians are less than human in the eyes of the Orthodox rabbis of counterfeit "Israel," the Israeli army, and the executives of the American news media.

Hoffman is the author of Judaism’s Strange Gods; and Judaism Discovered. He is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press. Hoffman’s writing is funded by donations and the sale of his publications and speeches.

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Wall Street Journal reports that 250,000 Palestinians “will suffer” for the kidnapping of three Talmudic youths:

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Hebron Bears the Brunt of Israeli Manhunt

Dozens of Palestinians Detained in Nighttime Raids by Soldiers Searching for 3 Teenagers Who Disappeared a Week Ago

By Nicholas Casey • The Wall Street Journal

June 21, 2014 • Page A8

HEBRON, West Bank—Israeli soldiers came after dark to the house of Akram Qawasmi, a 50-year-old Palestinian construction worker who lives in the hills overlooking this city. He says they used explosives to knock down his door, blindfolded him and his family and took one of his sons away.

The nighttime raid was just one of many conducted on homes and businesses in and around Hebron since three Israeli teenagers disappeared last week while hitchhiking nearby.

Dozens of Palestinians have been detained in a crackdown that has raised fears that the city, long a tinderbox in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, could reignite. On Friday, clashes erupted between Palestinian youths throwing rocks and the Israeli military, resulting in the killing of a teenage boy by soldiers in the Hebron village of Dura.

Over the past week, Palestinian security forces have mostly withdrawn from the streets they guarded for years, giving way to convoys of the Israeli Defense Forces as they pass. No Hebron resident under the age of 50 is allowed to leave the region.

"If the escalation on the Israeli side is going to continue, my fear is this could have reactions from the Palestinian people and this is in no one's favor," said Dauod Zatari, Hebron's mayor. (This is one objective of the collective punishment of Hebron’s Palestinian population, to incite a violent response from the Palestinians which the American media would then exploit to reinforce the Palestinians-are-terrorists image, while omitting the context — Palestinian armed resistance being reprisal for Israeli collective punishment — Hoffman). 

A senior IDF commander said in an interview that the military believes measures aimed at the civilian population can be useful in rooting out Hamas, the Islamist group the military says was behind the June 13 disappearance of the teenagers. Hamas is based in Hebron.

"There is a dilemma of how much pressure to put on the terrorists themselves and how much to put on the population," the commander said.

"I think the Palestinians understand the situation: Someone did something outside the rules of the game." He added: "If there is kidnapping in Hebron, then they will suffer.”

Tradition holds Abraham was buried in Hebron in a holy site claimed by both Muslims and Jews. Following the Six-Day War, an early Jewish settlement was built and now 700 settlers live among 250,000 Palestinians.

That has created a city ripe for clashes, what many see as a microcosm for the overall conflict. Massacres here include a 1929 pogrom of Jews and the 1994 mass shooting by settler Baruch Goldstein, who killed 39 Muslims and injured 100 more at the Tomb of Abraham.

More recently, Palestinian snipers have gunned down Israeli soldiers and banners on the Jewish side bear slogans against Palestinian aspirations for a state.

"Every child learns the name 'Hebron' here, it's the cradle of history and religion," says Noam Arnon, a council member in the Jewish settlement. That means extremists on both sides "come to use this place as a stage.”

Hisham Sharabati, a researcher at Al-Haq, a Ramallah-based human-rights group that documents alleged abuses by both Israelis and Palestinians, said a crackdown this broad hasn't been seen in Hebron since 2002, when Israeli soldiers moved in after the second Palestinian uprising.

At that time, much of the population of Hebron was fighting the Israeli occupation, whereas he said the alleged kidnapping would have involved only a few individuals who have likely already fled town.

In Taffuh, a village of 1,800 residents on the north side of the city, Mr. Sharabati said Israeli soldiers have so far raided 80% of homes there. The military also searched two mosques, and converted a youth center and 10 houses as bases for soldiers, he said.

Mr. Qawasmi, the construction worker, said his home was first raided this past Sunday.

Two days later, Mr. Qawasmi said soldiers raided his home a second time and kept his family in the kitchen while they searched through his sofas. Thursday night his two brothers, age 47 and 42, were summoned for questioning by Israel's internal security service. "We haven't heard from them since," he said. [End Quote; emphasis supplied]

Read more at Wall Street Journal online

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It’s okay to believe Establishment-approved conspiracy theories

By Michael Hoffman

www.revisionisthistory.org

Richard Hofstadter's shopworn tome, The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) is dusted off whenever the Establishment wants to discredit a consiracy theory that comes too close for comfort concerning its own crimes and treachery.

George W. Bush's Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, recently used Mr. Hofstadter’s book to discredit Edward Snowden. One might gather from Mukasey’s disinformation and that of another penman in this field, Cass Sunstein, author of Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas (2014), that, to be consistent, these Establishment factotums would pour just as much derision on conspiracy theories when they are circulated about enemies of the Establishment.

(Mr. Sunstein's book seeks to discover why "perfectly rational people sometimes believe crazy conspiracy theories." The insinuation being that if you believe in conspiracies you're crazy).

Actually, it's this premise itself which is “crazy." Establishment-approved history is replete with thousands of claims of conspiracies, from the genuine one that killed Julius Caesar, to the dogmatic one that a bunch of Arabs from the caves of the Third World were solely responsible for destroying part of the Pentagon and three skyscrapers, while killing thousands of Americans on Sept. 11, 2001.

What Sunstein, Hofstadter, Mukasey and now Andrew Kramer of the New York Times are trying to assert are the prerogatives of royalty. These Establishment-anointed spokesmen are telling us, the peasants, not to believe conspiracy theories about the U.S. System, but that we should definitely believe conspiracy theories about the Russian government. Take the example at hand. Here below is Mr. Kramer, foreign correspondent for the NY Times, writing in the June 13 online edition:

Ukraine Claims Control of Port City

By Andrew E. Kramer 

June 13, 2014

"...Over the long term, Ukraine, with its far larger though badly equipped and poorly trained army, has more forces, and it is unclear how long the separatists can hold out without more support from Russia. That is something Moscow cannot offer openly without risking more severe Western sanctions. The result is misdirection and sleight of hand, and a conflict of endless puzzles and mind games.” (End quote)

Here is a copy of an e-mail which we sent to Kramer June 13:

Dear Mr. Kramer,

You wrote concerning alleged Russian government acts in Ukraine: “...The result is misdirection and sleight of hand, and a conflict of endless puzzles and mind games.”

This statement of yours would be denounced as conspiracy theory if written about the United States government's operations in Iran, Syria or Kiev. It’s interesting to observe how alert you are to alleged machinations by Moscow. I haven’t read anything similar from you about CIA actions in Ukraine. Perhaps “our side” is always above board and devoid of “mind games”?

Sincerely,
Michael Hoffman

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As of June 16 Mr. Kramer had not replied.

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For further research:

Revisionist History Newsletter no. 69: The Conspiracy to Assassinate President Kennedy

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Movie Advisory: "Edge of Tomorrow"

By Michael Hoffman
www.revisionisthistyory.org

While it’s not exactly a Rosetta Stone of the sub-rosa, nonetheless, the epistemology at the center of the movie "Edge of Tomorrow,” which is being officially released to American theatres by Warner Bros. on D-Day, 2014, is intriguing on a couple of levels.

At first glance it resembles another assembly line, CGI summer blockbuster, with Tom Cruise in the lead, yet in the midst of the pro forma mayhem and other visual appeals to adolescent boys, is an epistemology of conspiracy theory and a doctrine of eternal recurrence as manifested in a ubiquitous youthful pastime which I will not mention because it would be a spoiler.

There is about ten to fifteen seconds of sexual innuendo, and other than that, it's practically chaste. The violence is of the antiseptic kill-the-aliens variety, rather than beheadings and evisceration of humans.

I bought the cheapest ticket -- no 3D or Imax. I was there for the message, not the medium. There are some lessons here, at the surface as well as closer to the bottom of the waters where dwells the "Omega."

I recommend you do not consult reviews or anyone who has seen "Edge of Tomorrow." The less you know about this film going in the better in terms of the arcana being imparted, which appears beguilingly simple once the viewer gets the drift of the mystery.

As for what is being conveyed, I’ll leave that discernment to the viewer, who can revisit the subject again, and again, and...

"Edge of Tomorrow." Directed by Doug Liman; written by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, from the novel “All You Need Is Kill,” by Hiroshi Sakurazaka; director of photography, Dion Beebe; edited by James Herbert; music by Christophe Beck; production design by Oliver Scholl; costumes by Kate Hawley; visual effects supervisor, Nick Davis; produced by Erwin Stoff, Tom Lassally, Jeffrey Silver, Gregory Jacobs and Jason Hoffs; released D-Day, June 6, 2014 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 53 minutes.

WITH: Tom Cruise (Cage), Emily Blunt (Rita), Bill Paxton (Farell), Brendan Gleeson (Brigham), Jonas Armstrong (Skinner), Tony Way (Kimmel), Kick Gurry (Griff), Franz Drameh (Ford), Dragomir Mrsic (Kuntz) and Charlotte Riley (Nance).

Rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned).

Hoffman is the editor of Revisionist History newsletter and the author of Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare; a sequel is due in 2015.

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Masonic Scottish Rite New World Order Boast

By Charles Saunders

Here is something from the November/December 2013 issue of Scottish Rite (the magazine published by the Southern Jurisdiction Scottish Rite of Freemasonry and  formerly called The New Age). In its "Holiday Hints” section it promotes a Heavy Metal music album along with a selection of other books devoted to Masonic history.  The album is titled, "Dream Theater, Black Clouds and Silver Linings," by John Petrucci from Roadrunner Records (2009), available on the Internet for $16.63.(ASIN:B0026JSLHW).  Here are the lyrics from the song, “A Rite of Passage":

Since the New World Order
Played upon our Fears
Spreading accusations of radical ideas
...This is the New World Order
Plague upon our Peers
Spreading accusations of radical fears
The brotherhood of wisdom, Strength and dignity
Its rituals and secrets
Remain a mystery
Beneath an ever watchful eye
The angels of the Temple fly
Turn the key, Walk through the gates
The great ascent to reach a higher state
A rite of passage, the final stage, a sacred home
Unlock the door and lay upon a stone
A rite of passage
Men of wealth and power...Influence and fate,
Philosophers and leaders
Are members of the Trade
Bound by open honor
Like the Rose and the Cross
An enigmatic union
Of Esoteric thought
The seven stars,
The rising Sun
A perfect world, its new Life has begun
A rite of passage.

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Is the Scottish Rite bragging here, in esoteric language, that much of what is said about the New World Order is true? Here, no doubt, is a hint to the 32 and 33 degree about what their order is really about.   Maybe the lyrics should instead be called Childhood’s End after Arthur C. Clarke's Novel.

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Media Fraud Debunked: “Jesus had a wife” hoax

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Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2014, p. A-ll.  Read more at wsj.com

The "Jesus had a wife” hoax was timed to coincide with Lent

By Michael Hoffman

 The "Jesus had a wife” hoax was timed to coincide in 2014 with the Christian Lent, to detract from the holy season by reporting a blasphemous and sacrilegious fraud as if it were the truth.

Furthermore, “Conservatives” Bill O’Reilly and “Judge Napolitano” served similar functions in April with a book and a column minimizing (or in Napolitano’s case eliminating altogether) the Judaic role in the death of Christ [see pdf. file: "Bill O'Reilly's Midrash on Christ"  http://revisionisthistorystore.blogspot.com].

The Zionist-influenced US media despise the authentic Jesus Christ of the Gospels and the historic Church, and prefer to replace Him by foisting on the public the image of a false Christ, who was either married, or whose death was mainly or solely the fault of the Romans, contrary to what the Bible teaches.

Hence, almost every Lent the media mock or defame Jesus Christ by publicizing some spurious but “scientific"-sounding tall tale retailed by supposed “experts in the field.”

Almost every year during Lent the media mock or defame Jesus Christ by publicizing some spurious but “scientific"-sounding tall tale retailed by supposed “experts in the field." The Harvard Divinity School version, disseminated nationally by Laurie Goodstein and the New York Times, is the latest example.

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Donald Sterling’s racism and Judaism’s justification for the slave trade

Donald Sterling’s anti-Black racism in the context of 
Judaism’s justification for the African slave trade 

Featuring a speech by Tony Martin PhD. with an introduction by Michael Hoffman, author of Judaism’s Strange Gods, and Judaism Discovered.

Incident at Wellesley: 

Jewish Attack on Black Academics 

by Tony Martin 

In January 1993, I was minding my own business and teaching my Wellesley College survey course on African American History when a funny thing happened. The long arm of Jewish intolerance reached into my classroom. Unknown to me, three student officers of the Jewish Hillel organization (campus B’nai B’rith stablemates of the Anti-Defamation League), sat in on my class and remained for a single period only. Their purpose was to monitor my presentation. As one of them explained in a campus meeting later, Jewish students had noticed The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews among my offerings in the school bookstore. 

The book documents the considerable Jewish involvement in the transatlantic African slave trade, the dissemination of which knowledge they, as Jews, considered an “anti-Semitic” and most “hateful” act.  One hour and ten minutes undercover convinced these three young Jews that I was teaching this book as a legitimate historical work. They seemed to think that it belonged rather in the realm of “hate literature.” There appears to have been some prior collusion between the Hillel students and their adult counterpart, the Anti-Defamation League, for Hillel almost immediately began passing out ADL materials targeting the book. These included, inevitably, an ADL reprint of “Black Demagogues and Pseudo-Scholars” by Harvard University’s Henry Louis Gates, Jr., (New York Times, 20 July, 1992), African America’s most notorious Judaeophile. In the weeks and months to come, Gates would be quoted in nearly every attack on my use of the book, as proof that “all” respectable, distinguished and right thinking African American scholars condemned it.
The Jews unilaterally anointed Gates with the mantle of head African American scholar in charge of Black academia. He became, in their contrived and wishful thinking, the personification of the entire African American community.  The Hillel activists left my class and headed straight for the president, dean and associate dean of the college. They then went to the current chair of my own department, Africana Studies. Like their elders (for example in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, by whom Hillel operatives are formally trained in the art of deception and dirty tricks), they evinced a bulldog-like instinct for going after the jugular of their intended victims.

For the last three decades of Jewish assaults on Black progress, that jugular has usually meant the economic livelihood of Black people.  By the time that four of the Hillel executive and their rabbi director came to see me they had already mobilized those they perceived of as capable of doing me grievous economic harm. Their task was made considerably less arduous by the fact that the dean of the college, incoming acting president, outgoing chair of the board of trustees, incoming chair of the board of trustees, head and deputy head of the student government, most of the faculty holding endowed chairs and a goodly portion of the tenured faculty, not to mention sundry other persons in high positions, were all Jews….

Dr. Tony Martin resists Jewish attacks against Black progress 

The Final Call • February 2, 1994 (an excerpt)

When Dr. Tony Martin introduced The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews as a reference book for a one-day discussion in his African American Survey course, all hell broke loose. Martin, a professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College and noted for his scholarship on Marcus Garvey, came under attack by Jewish organizations and leaders for using the Nation of Islam published book and for the audacity to even suggest that Jews were involved in the slave trade. Despite the call for his resignation, Dr. Martin launched his own counter-attack and called on his Jewish detractors to address the issue instead of using a media smear campaign to avoid dialogue.

Final Call (FC): What is the Jewish “onslaught?” 

Dr. Tony Martin (TM): There are two Jewish onslaughts. There’s an onslaught against me personally, and I put that onslaught in the context of the wider Jewish attack against Black progress over the last several decades. I’ve even reached back into the origin of the Hamitic “myth” about 1,000 years before the slave trade started when Jewish Talmudic scholars invented one of the most offensive of al the racial myths concerning Africans – namely that Africans were supposedly cursed by God through Noah when He cursed the descendants of Ham in the book of Genesis.

In the Biblical story Noah cursed Ham’s children, but the Jewish Talmudic Rabbi’s, around about 3rd or 4th century AD, injected a racial and racist ingredient into that (Biblical reference) by identifying Ham as a Black person and by somehow taking that (Biblical reference) to mean that Africans were cursed forever. When the slave trade started, that Hamitic myth was revived as a pretext for enslaving Africans. I reach all the way back to that point to try to put my subjective situation in a historical framework.

FC: Why did Jewish scholars choose to make it a Black thing?

TM: I have been thoroughly confused as to their motivation because in the Old Testament of the Bible there are favorable references to Africans – the Queen of Sheba, the Garden of Eden was situated somewhere near Ethiopia, an Ethiopian saved the life of the Prophet Jeremiah, etc. This Hamitic myth comes up again in the 15th century AD and it becomes the major justification for our slave trade. My argument is that the Hamitic myth, by providing the intellectual and quasi-religious underpinning for the slave trade, actually killed more Africans than any other aspect of the slave trade.

FC: What’s behind the media cover-up of the ADL spying case?

TM: it relates to the great Jewish influence in the media. I quote Charles Silverman, a Jewish writer who in 1985 cited that all the editorial positions at THE NEW YORK TIMES were occupied by Jews. He talked about the great Jewish presence in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, the Jewish influence at the WASHINGTON POST. … 

FC: If you were to say what the Jewish writer said, you’d be branded anti-Semitic.

TM: The charge of anti-Semitism has become the Jewish way of stifling debate. Jews use their access to the press to simply smear whomever they disagree with. My strategy is to try to force them to deal with the issues. When they are forced to deal with the issues they are not very effective. Also, the anti-Semitism label links them to the holocaust and places them in a “victim,” situation where they can call upon the sympathy of everybody. That masks the fact that they are now, in fact, the richest ethnic group in America.

FC: You state in your book that there needs to be a ‘frank admission’ of Jewish involvement in the slave trade before there can be a real relationship between Blacks and Jews. Will that ever happen?

TM: I’ve seen an ever so slight shifting of the Jewish position. In the beginning, they were denying any involvement in the slave trade at all. After a few months they began to say they were involved but only marginally. Recently in the WASHINGTON POST, for the first time in the major media, an article finally appeared admitting totally that Jews were very involved and that all of those who denied their involvement did not know what they were talking about. Maybe that’s a sign they are inching their way to some kind of overall admission. (end of excerpt)

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The late Tony Martin, PhD. was Emeritus Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, where he taught from 1973 to 2007. He was a visiting professor at Brandeis University, Brown University, and the University of Minnesota. In 1965 he qualified as a Barrister in the English court system. He received his doctoral degree from Michigan State University.

Professor Martin has authored, compiled or edited 14 books. His most recent is Caribbean History: From Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present (2012) published by Pearson Education. Earlier works include Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1, Or, A Tale of Two Amies (2007), Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance (1983), and the classic study of the Garvey Movement: Race First: the Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1976).

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Heavenly songs from classical music's unlikely rock stars

"Ruhe und Freiheit sind die größten Güter”  — Beethoven

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In the pope’s backyard Italians are becoming extinct

Michael Hoffman’s Note: Neither “Saint” Pope John Paul II nor his current successor, Pope Francis, ever truly admonished married Italian men and women for their abominably selfish attitudes toward procreation. Yes, even John-Paul “the pro-life pope” gave the Italians a Humane Vitae “lite" approach, knowing full well that Catholic confessors in the West were exculpating married couples who practiced contraception. John Paulphiles can produce — if they can — contrary evidence in our comments section (below). We’d love to see it, but we predict that all they will be able to come up with is some token wrist-slapping from JP-II. This is one reason why, upon his death, Italians demanded immediate sainthood for Pope John Paul —  he did not raise the spectre of disaster and damnation toward those Italians who do not possess enough spark to reproduce themselves. Had the Italians "denied the Holocaust” however, then you can be certain he would have invoked the wrath of God upon them.

With Pope Francis, as a result of his notorious “Who am I to judge?” maxim, counseling against contraception is not a high priority. A recent pro-life march and meeting in Rome was dismally attended by a total of exactly one Catholic cardinal or bishop, Cardinal Burke. The pope and the rest of the hierarchy were absent. They have more important priorities that engage their passionate concerns, as for example, civil unions for sodomites, which is at the top of their list; being popular with the world and its media is also exceedingly important to them.

The hierarchy of the Church of Rome, starting with the current pope, cannot be said to be other than coffin riders sailing over the extinction of the Italian nation with a wink and a nod. No doubt they feel that North African immigrants will make better citizens of Italy than the Italians themselves. Perhaps they are right. North Africans do have enough children sufficient to reproduce themselves. Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal reports that Italy “already has around 150 over-65s for every 100 people under 14.”

Arrivederci Italia!

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Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2014, p. A11.

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Republican Idaho is Shylock's Utopia

Editor’s Note: Idaho, where we maintain our office and residence, has a well deserved reputation as one of the most Conservative-Republican and heavily-churched states in the Union. Many residents pride themselves on their alleged Biblical and family values and that’s a good thing, but their knowledge of the Scriptures is woefully inadequate.

With an interest rate on loans in Idaho pegged at an ungodly mafia-rate rate of predation of 582%, many Republican church-goers are either flagrant hypocrites or grossly ignorant of God’s law concerning loans of money. 

The Republican-dominated Idaho legislature recently passed a “reform” of the “Payday loan” laws - a “reform” which continues to permit greedhead buccaneer-capitalists no limit on interest rates. More than ever Christians and Conservatives need to learn what the Word of God has to say concerning these financial crimes against humanity that make a mockery of the teaching of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Greed-is-good Republicans are destroying families and the moral fabric of our nation.
Concern over the mortal sin of interest (renting money), cries to heaven for ministers and priests who will declare the Scriptural truth concerning it to their congregations and parishioners; teach it consistently as a catechism contra the supreme evil of money-love, and make usury a grounds for withholding communion and fellowship. In this writer’s six decades on earth however, I have encountered not a single church that fulfills all of the preceding requirements, even though they were the belief and practice of Jesus Christ’s Church from A.D. 33 to circa A.D. 1500.

Michael Hoffman

Author of Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not

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Idaho “Payday Loan” interest rates highest in the nation

Idaho’s payday lenders charge the highest interest rate in the nation - an average 582 percent, according to a study from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The trusts found that Idaho, Nevada and Utah had the nation’s highest interest rates for payday loans; the three states are among seven that put no limits on those rates. Click below for a full report from the Salt Lake Tribune via the Associated Press; the Tribune reported that 15 states either ban payday loans or cap interest rates at 36 percent.

The news comes after a payday loan reform bill that contains no caps on interest rates passed the Idaho Legislature this year amid much controversy; opponents said the bill, backed by major payday lenders, didn’t go far enough to reform the business in Idaho. SB 1314, which passed the House by just one vote, was signed into law by Gov. Butch Otter on March 26. The new law, which takes effect July 1, limits borrowers taking out payday loans to an amount not to exceed 25 percent of their gross income, with the borrower to provide the proof of that; and requires lenders to offer borrowers who can’t repay their loans on time a once-a-year option for an extended payment plan without additional fees.

Idaho, Nevada and Utah have among highest payday loan rates 

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Idaho, Nevada and Utah have among the nation’s highest interest rates for payday loans, according to a report.

The study, released this week by the Pew Charitable Trusts, found their rates are so high mainly because they’re among only seven states that impose no legal limits on them. 

Idaho payday lenders charge an average 582 percent annual interest on their loans to lead the nation, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. That’s followed by South Dakota and Wisconsin, both 574 percent; Nevada, 521 percent; Delaware, 517 percent; and Utah, 474 percent. 

Among states with storefront payday lenders, the lowest average interest charged is Colorado at 129 percent, which matches its legal limit. The next lowest are Oregon at 156 percent and Maine at 217 percent. 

Fifteen states either ban payday loans or cap interest rates at 36 percent. None of them has any storefront lenders. Without a limit on interest rates, competition among lenders does not tend to lower rates much, according to the research.

Representatives of the Alexandria, Va.,-based Community Financial Services Association of America did not immediately respond to requests for comment Sunday. 

The study also found the nation’s four largest payday loan companies charge similar rates to each other within any given state, usually at the maximum allowed by law. States with higher limits have more stores, but the rates remain higher and competition does not lower them much.

“This new research shows that payday loan markets are not competitive,” Nick Bourke, project director for Pew, told The Tribune.The study urges states to limit payments to “an affordable percentage of a borrower’s periodic income,” saying monthly payments above 5 percent of gross monthly income are unaffordable. On average, a payday loan takes 36 percent of a person’s pre-tax paycheck, Bourke said.

“Customers simply cannot afford to pay that back and still afford their other financial obligations,” he said. “This is why you see people ending up borrowing the loans over and over again.” 

Information from: 

The Spokesman Review: http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2014/apr/21/idaho-payday-loan-interest-rates-highest-nation/ 

The Salt Lake Tribune: http://bit.ly/1fcSc3d

Read Usury in Christendom

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