Iran Unveils Machine For Amputating Thieves’ Fingers

FYI.


Iran unveils machine for amputating thieves’ fingers (France 24, Jan 25, 2013):

One of Iran’s official press agencies published photos showing the public amputation of a thief’s fingers on Wednesday. These show a man getting his finger chopped off with a machine resembling a rotary saw.

WARNING: These images may shock viewers.

We contacted many of our Observers in Iran to ask them about this machine. Some of them had heard about it before, but many discovered its existence through these morbid photographs, which were reportedly taken on Thursday. According to the INSA press agency, the man shown getting his finger cut off was charged with robbery and adultery by a court in the southwestern city of Shiraz. He was also accused of being at the head of a criminal organisation. On top of losing one of his fingers, he was sentenced to three years in prison and 99 whip lashes.

Read moreIran Unveils Machine For Amputating Thieves’ Fingers

American Islam, Under Attack (Veterans Today)

FYI.


American Islam, under attack

Press TV: American Islam, under attack (Veterans Today, Oct 18, 2012):

It is quite something else to know, with all that is absolute, that a malevolent government in Washington, controlled by gangsters, criminals, mass murders, hears your thoughts, tracks your movements, knows what you buy, where you drive or walk, what you eat, believes it understands what you feel, does all of these things, not out of love but out of fear and malice.”
Today, President Obama appointed Salam Al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, as his representative on the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Almost immediately, the Israeli/American media, including many violent and extremist publications, went on the attack.  Below are the words of Salam Al-Marayti from December 2011, as he describes the attack American Muslims have been under, an attack of ever increasing intensity in the last 10 months:

Read moreAmerican Islam, Under Attack (Veterans Today)

Israeli Rabbis Greet Iran’s President Ahmadinejahd In NYC On Yom Kippur (Veterans Today – Video)


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Israeli Rabbis Greet Iran’s President Ahmadinejahd in NYC on Yom Kippur (Veterans Today, Sep 28, 2012):

In a video you won’t see on CNN or ABC, Israeli Sephardic Rabbis Greeted Ahmadinejahd in New York City on Yom Kippur.

Iran’s President was visibly moved by the emotional prayers for peace and friendship spoken by the Israeli Rabbis.  The Sephardic Rabbis praised Iran’s leaders for 1,000 years of peaceful relations with 50,000 Jewish families in Tehran.

This extraordinary event might account for Ahmedinejahd’s  subdued criticism of Israel in his speech on the floor of the United Nations later that day. Major media have observed that Iran’s President only briefly mentioned Israel once.  Nobody asked why he might have softened his tone.

Let’s make this video go viral, people! There’s great hope for peace, if we can follow these Rabbis’ superb example and treat each other with respect.

Message sent to me with youtube link. If after watching this you do not begin to understand how people are being deceived then you are in a coma.   And we all deserve to suffer the consequences of our ignorance.

Read moreIsraeli Rabbis Greet Iran’s President Ahmadinejahd In NYC On Yom Kippur (Veterans Today – Video)

‘As The War Drums Beat’ (Veterans Today)

From the article:

“I was surprised to discover that the Islamic faith actually honors Jesus and Christianity.”

This is not surprising because Jesus is called a great prophet in the Koran itself.



Merlin Miller with President Ahmadinejad

“As The War Drums Beat” (Veterans Today, Sep 19, 2012):

I contemplate my recent trip to the Islamic Republic of Iran and ask myself who wants war between America and Iran. I quickly surmise that it is not the American people, nor the Iranian people, but globalists (international bankers and their multinational beneficiaries). They control Israel, the American media and most of our politicians…and by extension our foreign policy.

My journey to this exotic and little understood land began with an invitation to “New Horizon – The First International Independent Filmmakers Festival”. It was a conference and festival held in Tehran from September 2nd through September 7th. Filmmakers and intellectuals from around the world attended. It was one of the most stimulating experiences that I have ever had and an effective bridge between diverse cultures and perspectives – with the purpose of promoting truth, justice, liberty, and peace.

This initiative was undertaken, not by America or other world leaders, but by a country unfairly besieged with sanctions and threats of war. My observations were in stark contrast to the perceptions of most Americans. What I experienced was a devout country with a love of God, family, and nation – and an uncompromising respect for the noblest of human endeavors.

As I write this, a giant, beautiful book, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, lies next to me. Khayyam’s wonderful poems have survived the test of time and are a testament to the normally peaceful spirit of the Persian people. This treasure was given to me by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Inside its back cover, he inscribed the following for me (transcribed from Farsi):

Read more‘As The War Drums Beat’ (Veterans Today)

Webster Tarpley: Depression, Dictatorship & WW3 (Video)

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YouTube Added: 17.09.2012

See also:

Former Assistant Deputy Secretary Of State Dr. Steve Pieczenik Drops Bombshell: Israel To Start WW III On Sept. 25 (‘Yom Kippur’) – (Video)

Max Keiser: Total Global Collapse By April 2013! (Video)

Gerald Celente: Criminal Banksters Launching World War III (Video)

Flashback:

The Truth About The Woman Who Stopped The 2007 Invasion Of Iran (Veterans Today)

Gerald Celente: Criminal Banksters Launching World War III (Video)


YouTube Added: 17.09.2012

If Nostradamus were alive today, he’d have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente.
– New York Post

When CNN wants to know about the Top Trends, we ask Gerald Celente.
– CNN Headline News

There’s not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what he’s talking about.
– CNBC

Those who take their predictions seriously … consider the Trends Research Institute.
– The Wall Street Journal

A network of 25 experts whose range of specialties would rival many university faculties.
– The Economist

‘Innocence Of Muslims’ Filmmaker Was A Federal Informant

‘Innocence of Muslims’ filmmaker was a federal informant (RT, Sep 17, 2012):

Much remains unanswered about the US-made film that sparked riots across the Arab World, but more is unraveling by the day regarding the movie’s producer. Now it’s reported that the man behind ‘Innocence of Muslims’ was once a federal informant.

In the wake of a serious of violent outbursts that have targeted American facilities abroad and left at least 40 dead including one US ambassador, authorities and media outlets in the United States continue to comb through information about the film that’s considered the catalyst in the attacks, an anti-Islam flick branded overseas under the name ‘Innocence of Muslims.’ Less than a week after four Americans were killed at a US consulate in Benghazi, it’s now being revealed that the film’s producer, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, worked for the feds.

A court transcript obtained by the Smoking Gun shows that, as recently as 2010, Mr. Nakoula was identified as a federal informant, a title that his attorneys hoped would help in his case when he went before sentencing that year over an earlier conviction for check fraud.

Read more‘Innocence Of Muslims’ Filmmaker Was A Federal Informant

‘Muslims’ Movie Producer Was Arrested for PCP, Snitched for Feds

See also:

‘Guardian: Anti-Islam Film Never Existed’ (Veterans Today)

US-Backed Al-Qaeda Terrorists Attack Embassies

Embassy Killings In Libya, The Stench Of CIA/Mossad ‘False Flag (Veterans Today)

Who Really Killed Ambassador Stevens? It’s The Zionists, Stupid! (Veterans Today)

Israeli Filmmaker Triggers A Bloody 9/11 in Benghazi & Cairo (Veterans Today)

‘GLADIO, THE LIVING PROOF THERE IS NO AL-QAEDA, NO WAR ON TERROR’ – ‘GLADIO Is AL-QAEDA’ (Veterans Today)

Special Ops Con, Imaginary Warfare And Non-Existent Enemies (Veterans Today)



A screenshot from “The Innocence of Muslims.” Photo: YouTube

‘Muslims’ Movie Producer Was Arrested for PCP, Snitched for Feds (Wired, Sep 14, 2012):

Before he was involved in the making of a noxious video that provided an excuse for anti-American riots in the Middle East, and before he was convicted of federal bank fraud, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was arrested on charges relating to the making of angel dust.

Court records reviewed by Danger Room show that Nakoula and a co-defendant were brought before the Los Angeles County Superior Courthouse in Downey, California on April 15, 1997. They were charged with possessing the narcotic’s chemical precursors with “the intent to manufacture phencyclidine,” otherwise known as angel dust or PCP.

Read more‘Muslims’ Movie Producer Was Arrested for PCP, Snitched for Feds

‘Guardian: Anti-Islam Film Never Existed’ (Veterans Today)

See also:

US-Backed Al-Qaeda Terrorists Attack Embassies

Embassy Killings In Libya, The Stench Of CIA/Mossad ‘False Flag (Veterans Today)

Who Really Killed Ambassador Stevens? It’s The Zionists, Stupid! (Veterans Today)

Israeli Filmmaker Triggers A Bloody 9/11 in Benghazi & Cairo (Veterans Today)

‘GLADIO, THE LIVING PROOF THERE IS NO AL-QAEDA, NO WAR ON TERROR’ – ‘GLADIO Is AL-QAEDA’ (Veterans Today)

Special Ops Con, Imaginary Warfare And Non-Existent Enemies (Veterans Today)


Guardian: Anti-Islam Film Never Existed (Veterans Today, Sep 15, 2012):

Mystery deepens over US film linked to Benghazi protests

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Cast say they were misled as evidence suggests film was post- dubbed and questions arise over funding and identity of director

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(Photo and video not Guardian whose article is deceptive and contradictory, Editor)

The anti-Islamic video that inflamed mayhem in Egypt and Libya and triggered a diplomatic crisis is at the centre of a growing mystery over whether it is a real film – or was ever intended to be.

Initial reports about The Innocence of Muslims being a $5m production made by an Israeli-American director named Sam Bacile unravelled on Wednesday as ruins of the US consulate in Benghazi continued to smoulder.

Bacile – originally described as a California-based Jewish real estate developer – appeared to be a fake identity, and Hollywood could find no trace of his supposed feature-length attack on the prophet Muhammad. The blasphemous, 13-minute “trailer” posted online – a ramshackle compilation of scenes which depicted Muhammad as an illegitimate, murderous paedophile – was real, but there was growing doubt that a film existed.

Read more‘Guardian: Anti-Islam Film Never Existed’ (Veterans Today)

Background To Mossad Try At Egypt Civil War Over ‘Coptic’ Film (Archival) – (Veterans Today)

Background to Mossad Try at Egypt Civil War over “Coptic” Film (Archival) (Veterans Today, Sep 13, 2012):

The similarity the Alexandria church operation showed to “Lavon Affair” the Israeli false flag operation in 1954 is not easy to overlook.

Top U.S. Military Officer Martin Dempsey: Stop This ‘Total War’ on Islam Talk

Top U.S. Officer: Stop This ‘Total War’ on Islam Talk (Wired, May 10, 2012):

America’s top military officer condemned in the strongest possible terms a Defense Department course that taught troops to prep for a “total war” on Islam using “Hiroshima”-style tactics.

“It was totally objectionable, against our values and it wasn’t academically sound,” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a Pentagon press conference on Thursday. The instructor responsible for the course, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, is “no longer in a teaching status,” Dempsey added — but he is still employed at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va.

Read moreTop U.S. Military Officer Martin Dempsey: Stop This ‘Total War’ on Islam Talk

U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ On Islam

Flashback:

Seymour Hersh: Many Within Joint Special Operations Command ‘Are All Members Of, Or At Least Supporters Of, Knights Of Malta’, ‘Many Of Them Are Members of Opus Dei’ … ‘It’s A Crusade, Literally’

Pulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh And The Men Who Want Him Committed

– On record: Interview With US General Wesley Clark (Ret.): US Government Planned To ‘Take Out 7 Countries In 5 Years’: ‘Starting With Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan And Finishing Off Iran’ (Video)



Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley’s Joint Staff Forces College presentation on “A Counter-Jihad Op Design Model” (.pdf) calls for violent measures in a war against Islam.

U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam (Wired, May 10, 2012):

The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the “civilian population wherever necessary.”

The course, first reported by Danger Room last month and held at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College, has since been canceled by the Pentagon brass. It’s only now, however, that the details of the class have come to light. Danger Room received hundreds of pages of course material and reference documents from a source familiar with the contents of the class.

Read moreU.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ On Islam

Meet The Real Muammar Gaddafi or Why The Elitists (NWO) Needed To Destroy Libya

Think you have been told the truth about Libya?

“The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.”
– Albert Einstein

“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar weekly salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
– John Swinton, former New York Times Chief of Staff

“We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
– David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.

Rep. Ron Paul on CNN: Libyan War Is ‘About Commercial Business!’

Rep. Ron Paul: War On Libya Totally Unconstitutional

Illuminati Banksters Raping And Pillaging Libya – Goldman Sachs And Muammar Gaddafi

Libya: John Perkins: It’s Not About Oil, It’s About Currency and Loans – Rothschilds Finish Off Gaddafi – ‘The Price of Freedom’, Highest Standard of Living in Africa

Think again.



YouTube Added: 02.07.2011

More on Libya:

Qaddafi Was Captured Alive – Who Killed Him? (The Atlantic) – Rebels accused of executing former Libyan leader and son Mutassim (Telegraph)

Libya: Muammar Gaddafi’s ‘Regime’ Exposed – The Truth You Are Not Supposed To Know (Video)

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Dr. Steve Pieczenik Absolut Sure MUAMMAR GADDAFI Is ALIVE – ‘Obama Is An Obsessional Pathological Liar!’ (Video) (!!!)

Read moreMeet The Real Muammar Gaddafi or Why The Elitists (NWO) Needed To Destroy Libya

Christian, Jewish and Muslim Leaders OK U.N. Agenda 21 For Sustainable Development?

Holy Land clerics launch interfaith Earth forum (AFP, July 25, 2011):

Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders in the Holy Land joined forces Monday to launch a multi-faith environmental campaign, citing religious injunctions to protect the Earth across their three faiths.

Among their plans are the convening of an international conference of religious leaders in New York ahead of the 2012 UN General Assembly, a North America public relations campaign and training future clerics on the importance of environmental issues, one of the organisers said.

At the Jerusalem launch of the Interfaith Centre for Sustainable Development, rabbi David Rosen noted that the obligation upon humans to care for their surroundings comes near the very beginning of the Bible.

“That is the original charge in the first chapters of Genesis, given to the first man and woman, not purely to develop, to till the land, but also to protect it… to conserve it,” he said, to nods of agreement from a Roman Catholic bishop and the Palestinian deputy minister of religious affairs.

“The main religions should really study the ecological crisis together, because our destiny is common,” bishop William Shomali said. “If Earth is polluted it is polluted for Muslims, Christian and Jews.”

Laying out the centre’s plan of action, rabbi Yonatan Neril said that the campaign was not limited to monotheistic faiths.

“(One) project is to have a speaking tour of North America of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish religious teachers, as well as Hindu and Buddhist teachers, to raise awareness about environmental sustainability from a faith perspective, he said.

Read moreChristian, Jewish and Muslim Leaders OK U.N. Agenda 21 For Sustainable Development?

Israeli PM’s Son Yair Netanyahu Insults Muslims On Facebook: ‘Terror Has A Religion And It Is Islam’

And again:

Former Head of Mossad Meir Dagan: Israel Government ‘Reckless And Irresponsible’ – ‘I Decided To Speak Because When I Was In Office, Diskin, Ashkenazi And I Could Block Any Dangerous Adventure. NOW I AM AFRAID THAT THERE IS NO ONE TO STOP BIBI AND BARAK’ (Guardian)

Meet the NAZIS:

On record: Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘America is something that can easily be moved.’ ‘The world won’t say a thing.’ ‘The world will say we’re defending.’

Influential Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Non-Jews Are Donkeys, Created To Serve Jews (Jerusalem Post)

Israel: Influential Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Calls For Palestinians To ‘Perish From The World’ (Daily Mail)


Israeli PM’s son insults Muslims on Facebook (Independent, June 25, 2011):

The Israeli Prime Minister’s 19-year-old son posted disparaging comments about Arabs and Muslims on his Facebook page, an Israeli paper reported yesterday.

Earlier this year, Yair Netanyahu posted that Muslims “celebrate hate and death,” the Haaretz daily said. After Palestinian assailants entered a West Bank settlement and stabbed five members of an Israeli family to death, he wrote that “terror has a religion and it is Islam”.

Yair Netanyahu, the eldest of Benjamin Netanyahu’s two sons, is currently a soldier in the Israeli military’s media liaison unit. A lawyer for the Netanyahu family, David Shimron, said the comments were those of a “teenager” and were “taken out of context in an attempt to defame the Prime Minister and his family”.

The Prime Minister’s son also ran a Facebook group that called for a boycott of Arab businesses, and used obscenities to describe Arabs. Haaretz said the comments were removed within hours of the paper’s request for a response from the Prime Minister’s representatives.

More on Israel:

Read moreIsraeli PM’s Son Yair Netanyahu Insults Muslims On Facebook: ‘Terror Has A Religion And It Is Islam’

Obama on 60 Minutes: ‘We Could Not Say Definitively That Bin Laden Was There’

More White House BS we can take a bath in!




President says intelligence was 55/45, man inside compound could have been “prince from Dubai”; Abbottabad resident tells BBC man seen watching television in video released by White House was his neighbor, not Osama

During his 60 Minutes interview with CBS News last night, Barack Obama admitted that US intelligence was only 55/45 confident that Bin Laden was even in the compound raided last Sunday night, fearing that the occupant could actually have been a “prince from Dubai,” a skepticism shared by residents of Abbottabad, one of whom told the BBC that the man seen watching television in the tapes released by the White House Saturday was in fact his neighbor, not Bin Laden.



The relevant comments are made after the 10 minute mark.

“Obviously, we’re going into the sovereign territory of another country and landing helicopters and conducting a military operation. And so if it turns out that it’s a wealthy, you know, prince from Dubai who’s in this compound, and, you know, we’ve spent Special Forces in — we’ve got problems,” Obama told 60 Minutes host Steve Kroft.

“At the end of the day, this was still a 55/45 situation. I mean, we could not say definitively that bin Laden was there. Had he not been there, then there would have been significant consequences,” the president added.

Read moreObama on 60 Minutes: ‘We Could Not Say Definitively That Bin Laden Was There’

Two Muslim Leaders Asked To Leave US Flight

Two Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial plane in Memphis and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard.


The two men had been on the way to a conference on Islamophobia on Friday.

Masudur Rahman, a professor of Arabic at the University of Memphis, and Mohamed Zaghloul, Imam at the Islamic Association of Greater Memphis, were asked to deplane Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight 5452 from Memphis to Charlotte. Mr Rahman said they were subjected to additional security checks after the plane had left the gate.

After additional screening, the two men were cleared by Delta representatives to reboard the plane, but were then told the pilot would not take them.

Read moreTwo Muslim Leaders Asked To Leave US Flight

Prof. Ramadan of Oxford University: Changing Osama Stories ‘Bizarre’ – Dropping Osama’s Body Into The Sea Is AGAINST All Islamic Rituals

They burned the compound down, …

Burning The Evidence: New Footage Of Osama Bin Laden’s Compound On Fire (VIDEO)

… buried Osama as soon as possible at sea, …

Officials: Osama Bin Laden Body To Be ‘Buried At Sea’ (No Autopsy, No DNA Tests, No Forensics?):

After bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition.

… we will see no death photos, …

President Obama Will Not Release Osama Bin Laden Death Photos

… and there was a complete blackout during the raid:

It’s Getting Better: CIA Director Panetta Admits Complete Video Blackout During The Raid On ‘Bin Laden’ Compound

Sure!



Added: 05.05.2011

Related info:

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik: Osama Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 A False Flag (Video)

It’s Getting Better: CIA Director Panetta Admits Complete Video Blackout During The Raid On ‘Bin Laden’ Compound

Burning The Evidence: New Footage Of Osama Bin Laden’s Compound On Fire (VIDEO)

President Obama Will Not Release Osama Bin Laden Death Photos

Read moreProf. Ramadan of Oxford University: Changing Osama Stories ‘Bizarre’ – Dropping Osama’s Body Into The Sea Is AGAINST All Islamic Rituals

German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich Insists Islam ‘Does Not Belong In Germany’

“To say that Islam belongs in Germany is not a fact supported by history”, Mr Friedrich said.

Let’s make up some other dumb statements:

That women should have equal rights is not supported by history and religion either!

That Christianity belongs in Europe has been certainly not a fact supported by history in 33 A.D.!



Hans-Peter Friedrich: insisted that immigrants ought to be aware of their host country’s “Western Christian origins” and learn German “first and foremost”.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s newly appointed Interior Minister has reignited an already-heated immigration debate by insisting that Islam “does not belong” in Germany – a country with a resident population of four million Muslims.

Hans-Peter Friedrich took office only last week in a cabinet reshuffle, but his outspoken views have provoked instant condemnation from opposition MPs and a vitriolic response from Islamic groups which have branded them a “slap in the face for all Muslims”.

“To say that Islam belongs in Germany is not a fact supported by history”, Mr Friedrich said. At the weekend, he underlined his position, insisting that immigrants ought to be aware of their host country’s “Western Christian origins” and learn German “first and foremost”.

Read moreGerman Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich Insists Islam ‘Does Not Belong In Germany’

France Outlaws Full-Face Veils, Niqab Ban To Start Next Month

Veils that cover the face to be illegal from next month, with President Sarkozy accused of trying to win far-right votes


A woman in a niqab walks with a child in the Tuileries, in Paris, France. Photograph: Horacio Villalobos/EPAFrom

Saudi tourists window-shopping on the Champs-Élysées to Muslim women in a departure lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport or the few young French converts on suburban estates, any woman who steps outside in France wearing a veil that covers her face will be breaking the law from next month.

France’s bitterly divisive debate on Muslim women’s clothing took a new turn when the legal details of the controversial “burqa ban” were published in a decree by the prime minister. From 11 April women will be banned from wearing the niqab – full-face Muslim veil – in any public place, including while walking down the street, taking a bus, at a bank, library or shop, or in a cinema or theatre. It will be illegal for a woman in niqab to visit the Louvre, or any other museum, take a train, visit a hospital or collect her child from school.

Face veils will be outlawed virtually anywhere outside women’s own homes, except when they are worshipping in a religious place or travelling as a passenger in a private car, although traffic police may stop them if they think they do not have a clear “field of vision” while driving. Women wearing niqab will be fined €150 (about £130) and be given a citizenship class to remind them of the republican values of secular France and gender equality. Any third party found to have coerced a woman into wearing the face covering, for example a husband or family member, risks a €30,000 fine and a year in prison.

Read moreFrance Outlaws Full-Face Veils, Niqab Ban To Start Next Month

Pulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh And The Men Who Want Him Committed

See also:

Seymour Hersh: Many Within Joint Special Operations Command ‘Are All Members Of, Or At Least Supporters Of, Knights Of Malta’, ‘Many Of Them Are Members of Opus Dei’ … ‘It’s A Crusade, Literally’



(from left to right) Tom Ricks of Foreign Policy magazine and The Washington Post, along with fellow FP editors Joshua Keating and Blake Hounshell all rushed to discredit Hersh and the contents of his January 17th, 2011 speech.

It seems unusual for a staid, respected publication (one that has received three National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) to start treating a celebrated journalist (who himself has won two National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) as if he were nothing more than a paranoid crank.

It seems unusual, but it’s exactly what the staff of Foreign Policy has done to Seymour Hersh, following a lecture the venerated reporter gave at Georgetown University’s campus in Doha, Qatar. You may know Hersh as the dogged investigator who exposed the My Lai Massacre during Vietnam. You may know him as the staff writer for The New Yorker who published some of the earliest pieces on Abu Ghraib in May 2004. You might even know him as the man derided and then vindicated for claiming that Dick Cheney was running a secret assassination squad right out of the Vice President’s office. (In truth, the squad was and is a bipartisan affair, initiated under Clinton and still operative under Obama.)

Yet, given the Foreign Policy staff’s derisive commentary on Seymour’s January 17th talk, you would think he was some credulous rube midway through his first Dan Brown novel.

Hersh “delivered a rambling, conspiracy-laden diatribe here Monday,” Blake Hounshell reported on the magazine’s Passport blog. His delusional fantasia: The existence of ties between the U.S. Military’s Joint Special Operations Command and a secretive Catholic order called the Knights of Malta. As Hounshell elaborates:

Read morePulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh And The Men Who Want Him Committed

Censored Ron Paul’s 20/20 ABC News Interview With John Stossel (MUST-SEE!!!)

The videos are a flashback and a must-see.

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Rep. Ron Paul of Texas Wins CPAC Presidential Straw Poll Again

Rep. Ron Paul: Next US Crash Will Be Comparable To That Of Soviet Union, QE2 Is A ‘Total Failure’ And The Fed Is A ‘Central Planning Cartel’

Ron Paul 2012 – Can you Hear us Now?

Ron Paul: ‘Is the Gold Really There? Who Owns It?’


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