Happy Jew Year 2010!!

2010: U.S. To Wage Jewish Wars Throughout The World

Terrorists Create Terrorists

By Karl Schwarz, via rense

If you are paying attention to this Christmas Day wannabee bomber on the Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, make sure you really pay close attention. There is a lesson to be learned in this unraveling story.

The alleged ringleaders behind this person were formerly prisoners at GITMO! Damn, why am I not surprised?

Now, how does a PEACEFUL, CHRISTIAN NATION like the US make so many enemies?

By lying, by illegally detaining people for no just cause or reason, robbing them of years of their lives, torturing them, demeaning and defiling them, and then arrogantly pretend 'no harm, no foul' because of the wanton arrogance of the United States of America under current management. That is how.

I have stated it very clearly many times in the past five years, there is NO Global War on Terror. The Department of Homeland Security is protecting American thugs from the wrath of the American people. That GWOT fable is a DC lie to cover up their true agenda. The RNC was planning this crap back in 1994-1996 after they took the House and Senate from Clinton and I walked out on them. They were insane then and they are insane now with this constant pretense of bantering between the DNC and RNC as to 'who is best at defending America'.

Come to grips with it: The leadership of our nation is creating the terrorists. These are not just wars; they are wars of imperialism and wanton greed and initiated on lies.

By preaching human rights, while being the biggest violator nation of human rights on the face of this planet. That is how.

DC words make a mockery of verbal veracity.

By painting them as enemies when they are not and having brain-damaged mercenary cretins like Blackwater USA wrongfully kill them. That is how.

By fabricating wars with lies to attack other nations, just so some rich bastards could line their pockets with billions, hundreds of billions or trillions in ill-gotten oil gain. That is how.

It is completely fitting that they cannot and will not have what they coveted and lied about for the past 30 years. They have completely and totally perverted and prostituted US policy to line their pathetic sorry-assed pockets. Just about every nation on Earth has trumped these foaming at the mouth greedy bastards and they will continue to trump them at every turn.

By massacring hundreds of thousands, millions of innocents in Afghanistan and Iraq. That is how.

By being WAR CRIMINALS and lying every time they open their despicable mouths, just so they do not have to stand in front of a camera, jury or firing squad and ADMIT THE TRUTH of their evil deeds and how sleazy they are as a human being. That is how.

By aiding and abetting the slaughter of the Palestinians by the Zionist Jew thugs in Tel Aviv. That is how.

Are you aware that the Pentagon has a group of officers designated as "Off World Officers", as in, NOT PLANET EARTH military? As if these 3-brain cell idiot military planners think they have the right to project such hatred, hostility, aggression and arrogance beyond this planet?

Did you ever see the original version of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'?

Klaatu when speaking just before he departed Earth and had just been revived from being shot dead by friendly Earthlings in America:

"I came here to give you the facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet -- but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder."

That is what is coming at Earth and there is not a damned thing we can do to stop it.

History is very clear on this subject: Cross God and you die.

If you do nothing else this holiday season, go watch the movie 'Avatar'. There is a very powerful message in that movie, so see it and pay very close attention. In these current times, this might be one of the most remarkable movies that Hollywood has ever dared to produce.

When you get that foul taste in your mouth that tastes like pig crap, remember well that what you are watching is the US military-industrial complex in action, waging a resource war against another world and beings, and its total wanton disregard for the lives and rights of others. Just as on Earth, they think they have the preemptive and absolute right to do anything to anyone and not be held accountable.

Just think of the inhabitants of Pandora as being Iraqi, or Afghani, or others that these idiots are already planning to attack, or assassinate.

Then, prepare yourself mentally and physically to go to the polls November 2010 and send all of these lying bunch of despicable, worthless lumps of pig shit out of office.

Then in 2012, get rid of this big talking, do nothing sack of pig shit named Barack Obama. He is an aberration in American history.

Wow, Barky wants a full report on his desk as to what went wrong and they failed to detect the wannabee bomber. Idiot, anyone can figure out what went wrong. The problem is AMERICA and these worthless things in Washington DC and what they have done to other humans.

There is no mystery, the sins of our lies and the sins of Gitmo will hit us back. It is called blowback, action, reaction.

Simple picture folks - the terrorists in DC are who has to fear the terrorists they created.

Predictions For 2010 By Karl Schwarz In keeping with what is now a five-year tradition, I provide the following predictions for 2010. Only those in hibernation, or oblivious to reality due to drugs, alcohol or SSRI drugs, or have fewer than 3 simultaneously functioning brain cells think that 2010 is going to be any better than 2009. There are multiple warning signs that 2010 will be far worse. You see, the problem with 'accumulative effects' is they do just that, accumulate until the dam breaks, the pipe blows up, the roof caves in, the economy stumbles and falls flat on its face. The Big Salary, Big Bonus financial fraudsters of Wall Street will have to come back to the public till in 2010 for more Ben Dollars. Our 'Man of the Year' will take on the aura of 'Dumbass of the Decade'. Of course, Prez Barky will be seen correctly for a change as a do-nothing talker with dog crap on his shoes. Most reputable financial forecasters and economists are clearly signaling that 2010 is going to 'suck' worse than 2009 has already. In fact, the most profitable ways to trade now is in taking contrarian anti-dollar positions and getting away from the risks these morons in the Federal Reserve and DC have exposed all Americans to. Americans will reject the notion of 'too big to fail' as they clearly watch the US fail. California will probably have to declare it is bankrupt, but there are about 20 other states in the same condition. DC has bankrupted America chasing their pipeline dreams and oil wars based on their lies and manipulation of facts and truth. One does not realize how truly weak the dollar is until they are outside of the US and have to bear the brunt of it. I recently converted some dollars to Euros and the USD was 34% less valuable than the Euro, or .66 to the Euro. That is very weak and will not get better any time soon thanks to Helicopter Ben printing trillions of unsecured dollars to bail out the Wall Street thugs, liars, crooks and criminals. Many Americans will finally 'get it' that there is no such thing as a 'jobless recovery'. Structural unemployment will continue to increase in spite of the lies, manipulation and profiteering on Wall Street that appears to be robust growth. Hog-trough greed mentality and robust growth are not synonymous terms. China will continue to grow and come to dominate much of the non-US world, especially Central Asia and Africa. Evil Dick Cheney will be talking about wars and more wars in Africa, but the chessboard is already decided on that continent and the US lost again. See Dick run, to Africa! Both China and Russia are sitting back and letting America and the UK sink into the morass they alone made. China recently announced a pipeline from Gwadar, Baluchistan Province Pakistan to China. They will get that built long before the US gets their TAP (Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline) from Turkmenistan to Gwadar Pakistan. The American leadership does not want too many Americans waking up and grasping that the coveted TAP pipeline was to have gone to Gwadar Pakistan but China now controls that port. You see, the US does not want to admit that China trumped them again and is about to do so yet again. China recently announced that it is joining the IPI Pipeline (Iran - Pakistan - India Pipeline) and that negates any ability of the US to change the course of history unless they intend to take on war with China, maybe even Pakistan and India. Yes, they are that punch-drunk and stupid in DC. The EU gets at least 25% of its energy needs from Russia. Austria gets 25% of its energy needs from Iran. That is why the US program of endless wars and endless lies is not selling well in Europe. Most people in the EU know that Bush and Blair promised much, delivered nothing but lies and mayhem and nation-killing levels of needless debt. Russia just announced this week and opened an oil port terminal at Kozmino Siberia to direct huge amounts of oil to Asia. MOSCOW (AFP) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched Russia's long-awaited Siberian oil export route Monday, giving energy-hungry Asia a new supply source from the world's largest crude exporter seeking to diversify its client base away from Europe. Earlier this year, Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft completed the construction of the first 2,694-kilometre (1,600-mile) section of the oil pipeline known by the acronym ESPO (Eastern Siberian Pacific Ocean) linking Taishet in eastern Siberia with Skovorodino in the Amur region. Pens and contracts have completely defeated US lies and Shock & Awe. The entire US-UK plan of dominating world energy supplies through lies and resource wars has completely failed. Their lust, coveting and greed have also set the stage for the failure of America. Many Americans will start to wake up to that reality in 2010 as the rest of the world moves on and the US continues to sink. Many Americans will come to truly appreciate the phrases 'failure of leadership' and 'unfit to lead'. That is what is killing America. I would be the first to find comfort if we had some chess masters in DC but the truth of the matter is they cannot play a 6-year-old in checkers without screwing it up. They cannot get Iraq or Afghanistan under control and already they are planning more resource wars to line just the right pockets. Russia will continue to exert its inexorable dominance in oil and natural gas production, while DC continues to rack up debt and continue to sink. China will continue to control its energy destiny, regardless of what the City of London, Wall Street or DC think about that. There might be another brief war in Georgia as Soros and the US pitch a temper tantrum about losing Ukraine back to Russia. It is assured that the US - Soros puppet Viktor Yuschenko is on his way out very soon as the leader of Ukraine. Last time I checked his approval ratings were below 3%. Their "Orange Revolution" has turned into a sack of pig crap. The last Russia - Georgia hockey game was Russia 50, Georgia 0. The next one will be worse, on Georgia. This time Russia may slam the door shut on any US-UK pipelines coming across Georgia to the Black Sea. Most Americans do not know that when Russia and Ukraine split, the latter was so poor that Russia has continued to pay the pensions to retired workers there since 1991. The US and Soros have offered nothing to replace that. It is also a fact that about 34% of those living in the Ukraine are in fact Russian citizens. The people in the Ukraine frankly do not care about the precious Soros "White Stream Pipeline" from Georgia through Ukraine to the EU, and frankly could not care less what Soros or the US want or think. My 'stuff-detector' is telling me that Hillary Clinton is going to resign and put herself forth as the DNC Messiah for 2012. She is just as big a fraud as Barky, so don't fall for it. Barky has no plan; Hillary has less of a plan. The Barky Messiah bailouts will start to come unraveled and some Americans will finally figure out that what they saw was a bank robbery, not a bailout in sight. Helicopter Ben Bernanke's "Man of the Year" award will start to stink like three day old dead fish. Time magazine will probably not have the guts to do it, but MAD magazine will probably run the "Dumbass of the Decade" issue. Barky's Nobel Peace Prize award will start to stink even more. I used to consider the Nobel prize as being important, but not since they awarded it to two con artists, Al Gore and Barack Obama. Ah yes, Al Qaeda tried to blow up an Amsterdam to Detroit flight on Christmas Day and now there is all sorts of DC handwringing going on that the entire system has to be upgraded. Don't fall for it! It is yet more attempts by DC to control your life more and more each day. There will probably be more acts of terrorism but not against Americans. It will be directed towards evil governments, their accomplices in London, and their Zionist thug buddies in Tel Aviv. I would hate to see that happen but terrorism is a strategy to affect change. True change is desperately needed in DC, London and Tel Aviv and people have had enough. World opinion against the US, UK and Israel will continue to decline in 2010. Most people are watching the examples being set by Russia and China and heading in the same direction. I predict that by the November elections Barky is going to look like he is wearing his balls as earrings. Come November 2010 he is going to be the same lame-assed lame duck Clinton was after the 1994 elections took the House and Senate away from him. We can all hope that this time Americans do not keep Barky around after 2012 and we get another 6 years of crap like we did from Clinton. At least one sports reporter came out with the news that Tiger Woods had to have plastic surgery after Elin Nordegren used a 9-iron on his face and head. I predict she will take Tiger to the cleaners in the most expensive divorce in history. Many Americans are starting to figure out that there is something fundamentally wrong with the American idolatry culture we have allowed to happen and grow like cancer in our society. Al Gore will continue to play the role of Climategate Snake Oil salesman, but more and more people across the globe will see him as the fraud he is as they freeze their butts off this winter. Even as Gordon Brown pontificates about the perils of Global Warming, the UK is bracing for up to a foot of snow and blizzard conditions over the New Year's holiday and the current temperature is -18 Celsius, or 0 F. That is pretty damned cold. The Tony Blair - Gordon Brown Fiasco Show is headed to defeat in the next elections, too. Barky's Afghanistan Surge will be met with a counter surge and many US citizens will finally figure out that Afghanistan is all about a pipeline, has nothing to do with Al Qaeda or 9-11. That was just the excuse to start a war based on lies. Hell, according the MSM and the Talking Heads of DC, Al CIAduh Central is now in Yemen, not Afghanistan. That false information is yet another failed plan to stem the tide of China taking over Africa by being more diplomatic and businesslike than DC. You know what they say, money talks and DC bullshit walks. Over 180,000 US troops and mercenary contractors in Afghanistan, while intelligence sources say there are less than 1,000 Al Qaeda at large in that nation. The US should send Elmer 'which way did they go?' Fudd and bring the troops home. Home mortgages will continue to go into default, foreclosures will continue throughout 2010 and probably into 2011 and 2012. The US fraud that started this mess has yet to be revealed to its full extent. The illusory US stock market is being out performed by Asian markets, Brazil and other places. Messiah Barky will see numbers as low as Bush, maybe lower, as Americans figure out they elected a big talking con artist that could not lead a Boy Scout troop. The news on MSM will take on a very strange aura in 2010. Many Americans will not know if they are watching a lousy soap or a horror story unfolding. It will actually be both. It is a good thing that many are flocking to see the new movie 'Avatar', and coming away with the clear notion that wars of imperialism even off this planet are not a good thing. Congress may well be facing the biggest purge since 1994 in November, and that would be a good thing. Send most of them home to join the unemployment lines. Americans would be doing America a favor to get rid of pinheads like Nancy Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, Feinstein, et al. This midterm election year of 2010 is a great chance to flush the toilet in DC. Barky Care, the bogus health care bill, will prove to be so tedious that it cannot be implemented. There will be a rush for breast implants since Barky, Reid and Pelosi really do stand for shallow and the American right to bigger boobs were provided for in this bogus health care overhaul. I am glad everything I have is now in Euros and other things rather than the US dollar. I think 2010 is going to be a very rough year for the US and we all have one place to point the finger of blame, squarely at Washington DC. Buckle up and stay alert. Your financial future depends on it.

Target Earth

The Second Coming?

The 'Flying Terrorist' heading our way - Flashback July 2008

Updated below

Astronomers are battling to work out the trajectory of an asteroid that will cause havoc if it hits the Earth in 2036. Called Apophis, the giant meteor is hurtling through space at 10km per second. Scientists are warning that an impact would be far more devastating than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of WW2.

At the Zvenigorod Observatory near Moscow, space researchers keep watch on cosmic bodies and study known meteorites to understand their size and inner structure. They are tracking the path of the asteroid Apophis as well. They aim to determine how real the danger is but that will only be clear in a decade's time.

Astronomer Sergey Barabanov explains the predicted course of events: “The critical moment will be in 2029, when Apophis passes so close to Earth that it will be visible to the naked eye. The consequence of this fly-by will tell us whether it will come back again and collide with us in 2036,” he said.

If Apophis passes through a particular point in space called a keyhole the Earth's gravity may change its course for the worst.

In ancient Egypt, Apophis was the spirit of evil and destruction, a snakelike demon determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness. A fitting name, then, for a menace that could potentially cause devastating global damage.

Nasa estimates the blast caused by Apophis would be a 100,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of WW2.

It would also be more destructive than Siberia's Tunguska event of 100 years ago. That is thought to have been caused by a small space rock explosion and this impact is the largest in Earth's recent history. It wreaked havoc on a vast area, wiping out 80 million trees.

Ideas on how to deflect an asteroid range from blowing it up to sending a spacecraft to nudge it off its path.

Anatoly Zaitsev from the Moscow-based Planetary Defence Centre says we need to develop “a planetary protection system.”

“There's no point in discovering these objects if we don't protect ourselves from them. But we also need better observation techniques. As it's difficult to track objects from the ground, I think a space observation platform would be the best option,” Zaitsev said.

Meanwhile, Russia has offered to launch a space probe to plant a radio transmitter on Apophis so its orbit can be more accurately tracked.



Asteroid heading our way - Update

Scientists gather to avert danger of approaching asteroid

Russia's Space Agency is preparing to face the threat of a distant asteroid called Apophis. At more than 300 meters across, it may be capable of causing wide spread destruction on Earth.

The head of the Russian Space agency said that peoples’ lives are at stake and announced that Russia is preparing a mission to deal with Apophis and will invite Americans and Chinese into a ‘dream team’ to take part in the mission, too.

Author and space expert Jeff Manber told RT that Apophis is certainly one of the asteroids astronomer around the world are closely watching, and even though it has been labeled as posing a minor threat, anything could happen to change its trajectory and direct it to Earth.

He shared his opinion that exploding an asteroid of the Apophis size, about 270 meters in diameter, in Hollywood-style is not necessary; it is enough to use a satellite to push it a little bit and change its trajectory.

“We need some sort of international action. People have wondered ‘what do we do with asteroids?’ Jeff Manber said.

“Right now, NASA is not working with China so this would be very interesting to see if, first of all, Russia takes the lead on this, does move forward with the asteroid rescue mission and finally, for the Americans and the Chinese agree to go along. It’s going to be very interesting to watch,” he added.



A Must Watch - I think

See if SCIENCE can stop this:

It sounds like the script of a Hollywood blockbuster, but Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to knock an asteroid off its path and stop a collision with Earth. The head of the country's space agency, Anatoly Perminov, said a mission was being discussed, and other agencies would be invited to join the project. Nasa says there is no chance of the 270m (885ft) asteroid Apophis smashing into Earth in its first flyby in 2029, and only a 1-in-250,000 chance of a collision in 2036. End of the world this century? Nonsense says Nasa, but the Russia Space Agency isn't so sure... But Mr Perminov insists the asteroid is a potential menace. He was vague about the evidence of a possible hit but said he had heard from a scientists that the asteroid is getting closer. 'I don't remember exactly, but it seems to me it could hit the Earth by 2032,' he said. Be prepared: Russia's Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov thinks a spacecraft may be needed to knock a large asteroid off its path 'People's lives are at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow us to prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people,' Perminov said. Scientists have long theorised about asteroid deflection strategies. Some have proposed sending a probe to circle around a dangerous asteroid to gradually change its trajectory. Others suggested sending a spacecraft to collide with the asteroid and alter its momentum, or using nuclear weapons to hit it. Mr Perminov wouldn't disclose any details of the project, saying they still need to be worked out. But he said the mission wouldn't require any nuclear explosions. Hollywood action films Deep Impact and Armageddon, have featured space missions scrambling to avoid catastrophic collisions. In both movies space crews use nuclear bombs in an attempt to prevent collisions. 'Calculations show that it's possible to create a special purpose spacecraft within the time we have, which would help avoid the collision without destroying it (the asteroid) and without detonating any nuclear charges,' Mr Perminov said. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1239424/Russia-send-spaceship-knock-asteroid-Earth-threatening-path.html

Putin calls for more weapons to stop the Evil Empire

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Russia needs more weapons to punch through America’s new missile defence shield, Vladimir Putin said yesterday in blunt remarks that will complicate efforts to cut the nuclear arsenals of the former Cold War rivals.

The Russian Prime Minister, reasserting himself as the country’s real ruler, said that Moscow should press ahead with a new generation of weapons to stop the Americans doing “whatever they want”.

“To preserve the balance we must develop offensive weapons systems, not missile defence systems as the United States is doing,” he said during a visit to the naval port of Vladivostok on the Pacific coast.

Until now, it had seemed that Washington and Moscow were edging towards a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), despite failing to meet the original target of December 5.

Asked why the talks had failed to reach agreement on a new deal, Mr Putin said: “What is the problem? The problem is that our American partners are building an anti-missile shield and we are not building one.”

The Prime Minister was believed to be voicing the deeply held views of hardliners in the Russian military machine, but his forthright statement may also be linked to growing signs that he is preparing to announce his intention to seek a new presidential term in 2012.

International arms treaties are the remit of the president. Mr Putin, in staking out his position, was wading into the domain of Dmitri Medvedev, his chosen successor in the Kremlin after he stood down last year.

It has always been widely believed that Mr Putin was allowing President Medvedev merely to keep his seat warm while he was taking a break, as laid down by the Constitution. His return to the presidential office would signal a harder line.

President Obama’s reversal in July of plans to station the American missile defence shield close to Russia’s borders in Central Europe — and his vow to reset relations with Moscow — were warmly welcomed by Mr Medvedev. The thaw was expected to pave the way for an agreement on a new nuclear arms reduction package.

Now Mr Putin suggests that the American concessions are not enough. “If we are not developing an anti- missile shield then there is a danger that our partners, by creating such an umbrella, will feel completely secure and thus can allow themselves to do what they want, disrupting the balance, and aggressiveness will rise immediately,” Mr Putin said.

He made it clear that Washington should share its missile defence plans — based on sea and land-based interceptors in Europe — with Moscow if it wanted to ease Russian concerns. “Let the Americans hand over all their information on missile defence and we are ready to hand over all the information on offensive weapons,” he said.

Mr Putin’s intervention was seen by observers as an attempt to extract more American concessions on the defence shield while also allowing him to demonstrate that he remains the paramount voice in Russian politics.

“This is not his sphere but Putin is showing he is not weaker than Medvedev,” the defence analyst Aleksandr Konovalov said. Some will see it as the latest issue on which differences are emerging between the two players in the leadership of Russia.

Mr Putin continues to steal the limelight, as illustrated by his high-profile tour around the Far East of Russia at a time when most of the country is winding down for 11 days of holiday at the start of the new year and Orthodox Christmas. Recently he was filmed flooring members of the Russian national judo team.

The Start treaty was signed shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union 18 years ago. It led to significant cuts in Russian and American arsenals but expired on December 5. Both countries agreed to extend it while talks on a replacement treaty continue.

Evil Empire

Despite his well-branded image as a man of change, Barack Obama is in reality a Bush follower

”He has been escalating US involvement in Afghanistan from the moment he stepped into office last January. So the facts are, there has been no change in this policy, as in many others, domestic and foreign, but particularly it’s pronounced in foreign policy,”

U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged

By Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (IPS) -

U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.

Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say that the United States had nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication, however.

The Times of London story published Dec. 14 did not identify the source of the document. But it quoted "an Asian intelligence source" - a term some news media have used for Israeli intelligence officials - as confirming that his government believes Iran was working on a neutron initiator as recently as 2007.

The story of the purported Iranian document prompted a new round of expressions of U.S. and European support for tougher sanctions against Iran and reminders of Israel's threats to attack Iranian nuclear programme targets if diplomacy fails.

U.S. news media reporting has left the impression that U.S. intelligence analysts have not made up their mind about the document's authenticity, although it has been widely reported that they have now had a full year to assess the issue.

Giraldi's intelligence sources did not reveal all the reasons that led analysts to conclude that the purported Iran document had been fabricated by a foreign intelligence agency. But their suspicions of fraud were prompted in part by the source of the story, according to Giraldi.

"The Rupert Murdoch chain has been used extensively to publish false intelligence from the Israelis and occasionally from the British government," Giraldi said.

The Times is part of a Murdoch publishing empire that includes the Sunday Times, Fox News and the New York Post. All Murdoch-owned news media report on Iran with an aggressively pro-Israeli slant.

The document itself also had a number of red flags suggesting possible or likely fraud.

The subject of the two-page document which the Times published in English translation would be highly classified under any state's security system. Yet there is no confidentiality marking on the document, as can be seen from the photograph of the Farsi-language original published by the Times.

The absence of security markings has been cited by the Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, as evidence that the "alleged studies" documents, which were supposedly purloined from an alleged Iranian nuclear weapons-related programme early in this decade, are forgeries.

The document also lacks any information identifying either the issuing office or the intended recipients. The document refers cryptically to "the Centre", "the Institute", "the Committee", and the "neutron group".

The document's extreme vagueness about the institutions does not appear to match the concreteness of the plans, which call for hiring eight individuals for different tasks for very specific numbers of hours for a four-year time frame.

Including security markings and such identifying information in a document increases the likelihood of errors that would give the fraud away.

The absence of any date on the document also conflicts with the specificity of much of the information. The Times reported that unidentified "foreign intelligence agencies" had dated the document to early 2007, but gave no reason for that judgment.

An obvious motive for suggesting the early 2007 date is that it would discredit the U.S. intelligence community's November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Iran had discontinued unidentified work on nuclear weapons and had not resumed it as of the time of the estimate.

Discrediting the NIE has been a major objective of the Israeli government for the past two years, and the British and French governments have supported the Israeli effort.

The biggest reason for suspecting that the document is a fraud is its obvious effort to suggest past Iranian experiments related to a neutron initiator. After proposing experiments on detecting pulsed neutrons, the document refers to "locations where such experiments used to be conducted".

That reference plays to the widespread assumption, which has been embraced by the International Atomic Energy Agency, that Iran had carried out experiments with Polonium-210 in the late 1980s, indicating an interest in neutron initiators. The IAEA referred in reports from 2004 through 2007 to its belief that the experiment with Polonium-210 had potential relevance to making "a neutron initiator in some designs of nuclear weapons".

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the political arm of the terrorist organisation Mujahedeen-e Khalq, claimed in February 2005 that Iran's research with Polonium-210 was continuing and that it was now close to producing a neutron initiator for a nuclear weapon.

Sanger and Broad were so convinced that the Polonium-210 experiments proved Iran's interest in a neutron initiator that they referred in their story on the leaked document to both the IAEA reports on the experiments in the late 1980s and the claim by NCRI of continuing Iranian work on such a nuclear trigger.

What Sanger and Broad failed to report, however, is that the IAEA has acknowledged that it was mistaken in its earlier assessment that the Polonium-210 experiments were related to a neutron initiator.

After seeing the complete documentation on the original project, including complete copies of the reactor logbook for the entire period, the IAEA concluded in its Feb. 22, 2008 report that Iran's explanations that the Polonium-210 project was fundamental research with the eventual aim of possible application to radio isotope batteries was "consistent with the Agency's findings and with other information available to it".

The IAEA report said the issue of Polonium-210 – and thus the earlier suspicion of an Iranian interest in using it as a neutron initiator for a nuclear weapon - was now considered "no longer outstanding".

New York Times reporters David Sanger and William J. Broad reported U.S. intelligence officials as saying the intelligence analysts "have yet to authenticate the document". Sanger and Broad explained the failure to do so, however, as a result of excessive caution left over from the CIA's having failed to brand as a fabrication the document purporting to show an Iraqi effort to buy uranium in Niger.

The Washington Post's Joby Warrick dismissed the possibility that the document might be found to be fraudulent. "There is no way to establish the authenticity or original source of the document...," wrote Warrick.

But the line that the intelligence community had authenticated it evidently reflected the Barack Obama administration's desire to avoid undercutting a story that supports its efforts to get Russian and Chinese support for tougher sanctions against Iran.

This is not the first time that Giraldi has been tipped off by his intelligence sources on forged documents. Giraldi identified the individual or office responsible for creating the two most notorious forged documents in recent U.S. intelligence history.

In 2005, Giraldi identified Michael Ledeen, the extreme right-wing former consultant to the National Security Council and the Pentagon, as an author of the fabricated letter purporting to show Iraqi interest in purchasing uranium from Niger. That letter was used by the George W. Bush administration to bolster its false case that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons programme.

Giraldi also identified officials in the "Office of Special Plans" who worked under Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith as having forged a letter purportedly written by Hussein's intelligence director, Tahir Jalail Habbush al-Tikriti, to Hussein himself referring to an Iraqi intelligence operation to arrange for an unidentified shipment from Niger.

*Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest book, "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam", was published in 2006.

Ahmadinejad: 'Iran Is Solid and United'

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America's New Crusade: Imperial U.S. vs Political Islam

by Rodrigue Tremblay, Globalresearch

"I am as intolerant of imperialistic designs on the part of other nations as I was of such designs on the part of Germany. The choice is between two ideals; on the one hand, the ideal of democracy, which represents the rights of free peoples everywhere to govern themselves, and, the ideal of imperialism which seeks to dominate by force and unjust power, an ideal which is by no means dead and which is earnestly [sought] in many quarters still." U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, July 1919

"Fight and kill the aggressors wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war." The Qur'an (9:5), Islam's holy book

"We are fighting them (the terrorists) over there so that we won't have to fight them here at home." Former U.S. President George W. Bush's political slogan

“I, like any head of state, reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation.” U.S. President Barack Obama, December 10, 2009

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war.” Plato, ancient Greek philosopher (428/427-348/347 B.C.)

In the political movie “Charlie Wilson's War” about the Soviet-Afghanistan war, the hero states “America does not fight religious wars.” Is this possibly wrong, dead wrong?

In fact, is it not possible that since September 11, 2001, a new type of “holy war” may have begun? This time, the new crusade with strong religious overtones pits fundamentalist Christian America and its allies, against political Islam and the Islamist al Qaeda terrorist organization. On September 16, 2001, then President George W. Bush set the tone when he said: “This crusade, this war on terrorism, is gonna take awhile.”

On December 1, 2009 Nobel “Peace” laureate Barack Obama, president of the United States since January 20, 2009, decided to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, President George W. Bush. He announced a policy of stepping up the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan-Pashtunistan. He announced an escalation in the military occupation of Afghanistan by sending extra American troops in that Muslim country, putting the number of American soldiers in Afghanistan at more than 100,000. Not satisfied in using the same vocabulary as George W. Bush, Barack Obama pushed the symbolism by adopting Bush's practice of announcing policies surrounded by more than 4,000 students dressed as soldiers at the West Point Academy. This was all too reminiscent of President Lyndon B. Johnson's fatal decision in 1965 to acquiesce to the request from U.S. commanders to enlarge the Vietnam war by sending scores of additional U.S. soldiers to that Asiatic country.

America seems to be in a constant need of a foreign enemy. First, it was the British. Then it was the Indians. Then it was the Mexicans. Then it was the Spanish. Then it was the Filipinos. Then it was the Japanese. Then it was the Germans. Then it was the Italians. Then it was the Koreans. Then it was the Cubans. Then it was the Vietnamese. Then it was the Soviets. Then it was the Iraqis. Then it was the Islamists. Then it was the Talibans. And, once the current conflict in Pashtunistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan is over, it will possibly be the Iranians, the Chinese, the Russians...etc.!

The reason for such a permanent-war mentality is most likely related to the U.S. military-industrial complex, an enormous beast that must be fed regularly hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, to sustain itself.

In the months following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the high echelons at the Pentagon were busy designing a new post-cold-war strategy designed to keep the U.S. war machine humming. Paul Wolfowitz, then Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney in the George H. Bush administration, wrote a memorandum titled “The Defense Policy Guidance 1992-1994”, which was dated February 18, 1992. The new so-called Wolfowitz Doctrine was a blueprint to "set the nation’s [military] direction for the next century." This new neocon military doctrine called for the replacement of the policy of "containment" with one of military "preemption" and international "unilateralism", in effect, discarding the United Nations Charter that forbids such international behavior.

The Pentagon's overall goal was to establish, through military force, a “one-Superpower World”. The more immediate objectives of the new U.S. neocon doctrine was to "...preserve U.S. and Western access to the [Middle East and Southwest Asia] region's oil", and, as stated in an April 16, 1992 addendum, to contribute “to the security of Israel and to maintaining the qualitative edge that is critical to Israel's security”.

Because of some opposition within the U.S. Government, the new policy did not become immediately effective. But the objective remained.

For instance, in September 2000, under the auspices of “The Project for the New American Century”, a new strategic document was issued and was entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses, Strategy: Forces and Resources For a New Century". The same goals expressed in the 1992 document were reiterated.

The belief was expressed that the kind of military transformation the (neocon) planners were considering required "some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor”, to make it possible to sell the plan to the American public.

They were either very prescient or very lucky, because exactly one year later, they were served with the "New Pearl Harbor" they had been openly hoping for. Indeed, the Islamist terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, turned out to have been a bonanza for the American military-industrial complex. The military planners' wish for a "New Pearl Harbor", was fulfilled at the right time. It is important to remember that from 2001 to 2005, Paul Wolfowitz served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration, reporting to U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In this capacity, he was well positioned to implement his own Wolfowitz doctrine that later morphed into the George W. Bush Doctrine. For the time being, this is the “doctrine” that newly-elected President Barack Obama continues to implement in the Pashtunistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan corridor. As a politician, Barack Obama may be new at the job, but the policy he is being asked to implement was crafted long before he even set foot in Washington D.C.

Another possible reason why the United States is so often involved in foreign wars, besides its obvious aim of imposing a New American Empire on the world, may be due to the strong influence of religion in the United States. Just as for some aggressive Islamic countries, the U.S. is also the most religious of all first world countries. Researchers have found strong positive correlations between a nation's religious belief and high levels of domestic stress and anxiety, and other indicators of social dysfunction such as homicides, the proportion of people incarcerated, infant mortality, drug abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, teenage births and abortions, corruption, large income inequalities, economic and social insecurity...etc.

It is possible that wars serve as an emotional outlet that allows some Americans to forget about their nation's domestic problems. I suppose more research would be necessary on this issue. Indeed, is it possible that foreign wars, including wars of aggression, are a way for the American elites to deflect attention from domestic social problems and, as such, are a convenient pretext to direct tax money to defense expenditures rather than to social programs? The issue deserves at least to be raised. This could explain why U.S. foreign policy is so devoid of fundamental morality.

U. S. politicians who become president understand this American proclivity for war. They know that the best way to popularity is to be seen as a “war president”. A president who does not start a war abroad or who does not enlarge one already in progress is open to criticism and is likely to suffer politically. He must be seen less as a president than as “commander-in-chief”, in effect, as an emperor. How could this be, when the framers of the U.S. Constitution attempted precisely to avoid that?

Indeed, Article One (the War Powers Clause) of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress, and not the President, the authority to declare war.

Since World War II, however, this central article of the U.S. Constitution has been circumvented by having Congress give the President a blanket authorization to deploy troops abroad for euphemistically called "police actions", without an explicit or formal congressional declaration of war. The term was first used by President Harry S. Truman to describe the Korean War.

This artifice has done a lot to trivialize the act of war. It also contributed much in the transfer of the powers of war and peace from the legislative branch to the executive branch. In doing so, it has reinforced the role of the U.S. president as a commander-in-chief or as a de facto emperor. Only a formal constitutional amendment could restore, in practice, the framers' initial intent.

All said, it is easy to understand why when political faces change in Washington D.C., policies do not necessarily change. This push toward empire on the part of the United States can also explain why there is resentment and an anti-Americanism movement abroad.

Rodrigue Tremblay is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Montreal and can be reached at rodrigue.tremblay@yahoo.com.

He is the author of the coming book "The Code for Global Ethics" at: www.TheCodeForGlobalEthics.com/

The New American Century of Terror

The secret Plan for World Domination

This documentary, produced by Massimo Mazzucco, provides the missing link for the truth about 9/11. The missing link is MOTIVE. If you cannot imagine why anyone in government would want to cover up essential evidence, then wonder no more. Taken from the words of the plotters themselves, you will come to understand that a terrorist attack was exactly what they hoped for to justify a massive military incursion into the Middle East, all of which was planned long before 9/11. You will witness decades of maneuvering for the control of oil and gas resources and see, first hand, incredible war profits on a scale much greater than ever before in history. Even if you are familiar with some of these events, this is the first time all of them have been brought together in one place. http://www.realityzone.com/newamce.html

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I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had."~ Nat Hentoff

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'The US military is exhausted'

‘War on terrorism’ preparing to move to Yemen and the Horn of Africa

by M. A. Shaikh

The increasing activity of US military and intelligence officers in Somalia — and the need in general to justify the extension of the "war on terror" — led Washington to announce on March 18 that it had found incontrovertible evidence linking al-Qaeda to Islamic activists in Somalia.

Pentagon officials told reporters that American soldiers searching a cave in the Afghan mountains found a satellite-positioning device that had belonged to a US commando killed in Somalia in 1993. The Pentagon claimed that this discovery established beyond doubt the existence of such a link.

But the "smoking gun" has proven a damp squib, forcing embarrassed officials to retract their claims. The Pentagon has good reason to be embarrassed: this attempt to disinform comes only a month after the revelation that it had set up a covert unit to wage an information-war that could include feeding false information to foreign media. This time, however, the false material was also fed to the US media, and misled the American people.

Pentagon officials announced the "new evidence" only two days after the discovery of the global positioning system (GPS) device in a cave in east Afghanistan, abandoned there by al-Qaeda fighters. General John Rosa of the US Air Force, a Pentagon spokesman, announced the discovery to reporters at a briefing on March 20. He said: "We’ve said all along that we suspected al-Qaeda of being a worldwide network...this piece we currently think originated from Somalia will obviously tie — could obviously tie — al-Qaeda to Somalia."

The defence officials’ confidence rested simply on the fact that the device had the name "G. Gordon" inscribed on it. They said that the inscription showed that the GPS must have been issued at some time to Master Sergeant Gary I. Gordon, one of the 18 US marines killed in October 1993 during an attempt to abduct Muhammad Farah Aideed (a Somali warlord) in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The inscription by itself was too flimsy for the conclusion that the device had belonged to the dead marine and must somehow have travelled 2,700 miles from Mogadishu to northeastern Afghanistan. It did not take long for Peter Brumbaugh, a reporter for the Army Times newspaper, to take the model and serial number from the device and check them against records held by Garmin International, its manufacturer.

Brumbaugh’s efforts soon showed that the device could not have been issued before 1997, four years after the marines died in Mogadishu, and that in fact it had been sold to the army base at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on December 21, 1998. His research also led him to a soldier nicknamed G. Gordon because he looked like G. Gordon Liddy, the Watergate burglar. This soldier, who had taken part in Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, told him that the recovered device was in fact his.

The Pentagon was forced to retract its announcement only hours after making it. But it was in no mood to apologise or promise not to resort to such tactics in the future, as the terse statement it issued on the same day (March 20) showed. "Subsequent research regarding the origin of this particular GPS unit now indicates that the unit belonged to a US pilot who recently served in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom," the statement said. "The service member transferred possession of his GPS unit to another US pilot before leaving Afghanistan. This second pilot lost possession of the GPS unit in a firefight during Operation Anaconda."

Interestingly, on the very day the GPS device was ‘discovered’, General Tommy Franks, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, was closing a visit to the Horn of Africa and Yemen. Franks, who visited Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea and Yemen, ended his journey at Djibouti, where there is a French military base and German forces have been deployed to back up the planned ‘war against terrorism’ in the region. Franks said that he visited these countries to exchange intelligence information on terrorism and to discuss plans to train their security forces to fight it. And although he confirmed that Washington had ample information to show the existence of terrorist organisations in Somalia, he stopped short of saying that it was the second country on the war list.

A large number of American officers and diplomats have already carried out exhaustive consultations and collected information during a series of visits to different districts and to Mogadishu itself, where the UN-backed transitional government of President Abdul Qassim Salat Hassan is based. The Americans and their European allies back the warlords and other Somali groups opposed to the transitional government, saying that it is allied to the al-Ittihad, which president George W. Bush declared a "terrorist organisation" last September. President Hassan denies that he has any links with al-Ittihad and that there are any terrorists or al-Qaeda fighters in Somalia. He has invited the Americans to visit Somalia and see for themselves, but they have refused. Any open and honest search would lead to the conclusion that there are no ‘Islamic terrorists’ or al-Qaeda fighters in Somalia, and that al-Ittihad is not a terrorist organisation.

Al-Ittihad’s activities were severely affected by a strong attack in 1997 by invading Ethiopian forces, and by US-assisted raids by Somali warlords and their Ethiopian allies since September 11 last year. Its activities are now primarily charitable and educational in nature, but it still suffers from efforts by the US and its allies to brand it a terrorist organisation. The success of these efforts will provide sufficient justification, in the eyes of western voters, for the costly and prolonged ‘war on terrorism’, and for its extension to the Middle East and the Horn.

The visit of General Tommy Franks to the region has convinced many of its inhabitants that the war is about to be extended to Somalia and Yemen. General Franks did not, after all, need to leave Afghanistan merely to compare notes with local and foreign forces on terrorism. This conviction has been reinforced by the arrival in neighbouring Kenya of additional British aircraft and servicemen in Somalia. On March 22 two RAF Canberra reconnaissance aircraft with sophisticated photographic equipment arrived at the airport of Mombasa (capital of Kenya). On the same day a Russian transport aircraft hired by the RAF carried military equipment and 140 personnel to Moi international airport (also in Mombasa). The additional forces are certainly not needed for surveillance; there are enough British, US, German and French aircraft and ships scanning Somali territories and coasts for that.

British officials said on March 22 that the additional forces were not sent because of the discovery of new evidence, and called on the Americans to be ‘more cooperative’ and come and look themselves. But the American officials evidently thought so little of this suggestion that they did not even grace it with a reply. Who, after all, are the British to advise the great and mighty Americans, if they see fit to destroy the Islamic roots of a country in order to secure their own interests (which are by definition those of ‘civilisation’) and make it safe for ‘Christian’ Ethiopia and Israel, its ally?

Source: http://www.mediamonitors.net/mashaikh8.html

by courtesy & © 2002 Crescent International & M. A. Shaikh

Muhummed the Greatest

"Say: He is God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; and there is none like unto Him." (Holy Qur'an, 112:1-4)

"'Behold'! the angels said: 'O Mary! God hath chosen thee and purified thee, and chosen thee above the women of all nations" (Holy Qur'an, 3:42)

"We will show them Our Signs on the horizon and within themselves until it is clear to them that it is the truth", (Quran, 53)

To every Muslim on this planet, irrespective of cultural, geographical and political differences, Muhummed (PBUH), is Allah's greatest creation and was sent as a mercy for all mankind. A thousand and a half million Muslims however, do not require any surveys, lists or research to arrive at this conclusion. It is a non-negotiable article of faith that Muhummed (PBUH) is the greatest.

BUT WHAT OF THE NON-MUSLIMS?

"The lies which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammed) are disgraceful to ourselves only." -- Thomas Carlyle

Surprisingly over the centuries many an eminent non-Muslim - Judeo-fascists destroyers of religions apart- has rated Muhummed (PBUH) most highly and given due recognition to his greatness. A selection of their quotations appear below.

Michael H. Hart, a Christian American, astronomer, mathematician, lawyer, chessmaster and scientist, after extensive research, published an incisive biography of the 100 most influential people of all time. The biographical rankings with explanations describes the careers of religious and political leaders, inventors, writers, philosophers, scientists and artists.

From this research, which included illustrious personalities such as Jesus Christ, Moses, Caesar, the Wright brothers, Napoleon, Shakespeare, Columbus and Michelangelo; Michael Hart rated Muhummed (PBUH), as number one. He concluded the biography with the words:

"It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhummed to be considered the most influential single figure in human history."

By special arrangement, we are privileged to present to you the entire chapter on Muhummed (PBUH) from Michael Hart's "The 100". We have also included a summary of the Holy Prophet's (PBUH) farewell sermon delivered at Mount Arafat in the 10th year after Hijra (632 CE).

In an era when the world was awash in rivers of blind prejudices and nonsensical ignorances, the Prophets (PBUH) divine message and glorious teachings became the purging torrents of spiritual enlightenment. The farewell sermon is an embodiment of the dynamics of Islam.

May Allah Muhummed (PBUH), his family, his companions and all the believers. Insha-Allah!

N0 1 MUHAMMAD

b570-d632

From the 100, a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

by Michael H. Hart

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels.

Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, fourteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive.

The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centers of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations. Muhammad, however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, in southern Arabia, at that time a backward area of the world, far from the centers of trade, art, and learning. Orphaned at age six, he was reared in modest surroundings. Islamic tradition tells us that he was illiterate. His economic position improved when, at age twenty-five, he married a wealthy widow. Nevertheless, as he approached forty, there was little outward indication that he was a remarkable person.

Most Arabs at that time were pagans, who believed in many gods. There were, however, in Mecca, a small number of Jews and Christians; it was from them no doubt that Muhammad first learned of a single, omnipotent God who ruled the entire universe. When he was forty years old, Muhammad became convinced that this one true God (Allah) was speaking to him, and had chosen him to spread the true faith.

For three years, Muhammad preached only to close friends and associates. Then, about 613, he began preaching in public. As he slowly gained converts, the Meccan authorities came to consider him a dangerous nuisance. In 622, fearing for his safety, Muhammad fled to Medina (a city some 200 miles north of Mecca), where he had been offered a position of considerable political power.

This flight, called the Hegira, was the turning point of the Prophet's life. In Mecca, he had had few followers. In Medina, he had many more, and he soon acquired an influence that made him a virtual dictator. During the next few years, while Muhammad s following grew rapidly, a series of battles were fought between Medina and Mecca. This was ended in 630 with Muhammad's triumphant return to Mecca as conqueror. The remaining two and one-half years of his life witnessed the rapid conversion of the Arab tribes to the new religion. When Muhammad died, in 632, he was the effective ruler of all of southern Arabia.

The Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia had a reputation as fierce warriors. But their number was small; and plagued by disunity and internecine warfare, they had been no match for the larger armies of the kingdoms in the settled agricultural areas to the north. However, unified by Muhammad for the first time in history, and inspired by their fervent belief in the one true God, these small Arab armies now embarked upon one of the most astonishing series of conquests in human history. To the northeast of Arabia lay the large Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanids; to the northwest lay the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople. Numerically, the Arabs were no match for their opponents. On the field of battle, though, the inspired Arabs rapidly conquered all of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. By 642, Egypt had been wrested from the Byzantine Empire, while the Persian armies had been crushed at the key battles of Qadisiya in 637, and Nehavend in 642.

But even these enormous conquests-which were made under the leadership of Muhammad's close friends and immediate successors, Abu Bakr and 'Umar ibn al-Khattab -did not mark the end of the Arab advance. By 711, the Arab armies had swept completely across North Africa to the Atlantic Ocean There they turned north and, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, overwhelmed the Visigothic kingdom in Spain.

For a while, it must have seemed that the Moslems would overwhelm all of Christian Europe. However, in 732, at the famous Battle of Tours, a Moslem army, which had advanced into the center of France, was at last defeated by the Franks. Nevertheless, in a scant century of fighting, these Bedouin tribesmen, inspired by the word of the Prophet, had carved out an empire stretching from the borders of India to the Atlantic Ocean-the largest empire that the world had yet seen. And everywhere that the armies conquered, large-scale conversion to the new faith eventually followed.

Now, not all of these conquests proved permanent. The Persians, though they have remained faithful to the religion of the Prophet, have since regained their independence from the Arabs. And in Spain, more than seven centuries of warfare finally resulted in the Christians reconquering the entire peninsula. However, Mesopotamia and Egypt, the two cradles of ancient civilization, have remained Arab, as has the entire coast of North Africa. The new religion, of course, continued to spread, in the intervening centuries, far beyond the borders of the original Moslem conquests. Currently it has tens of millions of adherents in Africa and Central Asia and even more in Pakistan and northern India, and in Indonesia. In Indonesia, the new faith has been a unifying factor. In the Indian subcontinent, however, the conflict between Moslems and Hindus is still a major obstacle to unity.

How, then, is one to assess the overall impact of Muhammad on human history? Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book . Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus. There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament.

Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad's insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad's ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammed through the medium of the Koran has been enormous It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus.

Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time.

Of many important historical events, one might say that they were inevitable and would have occurred even without the particular political leader who guided them. For example, the South American colonies would probably have won their independence from Spain even if Simon Bolivar had never lived. But this cannot be said of the Arab conquests. Nothing similar had occurred before Muhammad, and there is no reason to believe that the conquests would have been achieved without him. The only comparable conquests in human history are those of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, which were primarily due to the influence of Genghis Khan. These conquests, however, though more extensive than those of the Arabs, did not prove permanent, and today the only areas occupied by the Mongols are those that they held prior to the time of Genghis Khan.

It is far different with the conquests of the Arabs. From Iraq to Morocco, there extends a whole chain of Arab nations united not merely by their faith in Islam, but also by their Arabic language, history, and culture. The centrality of the Koran in the Moslem religion and the fact that it is written in Arabic have probably prevented the Arab language from breaking up into mutually unintelligible dialects, which might otherwise have occurred in the intervening thirteen centuries. Differences and divisions between these Arab states exist, of course, and they are considerable, but the partial disunity should not blind us to the important elements of unity that have continued to exist. For instance, neither Iran nor Indonesia, both oil-producing states and both Islamic in religion, joined in the oil embargo of the winter of 1973-74. It is no coincidence that all of the Arab states, and only the Arab states, participated in the embargo.

We see, then, that the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history.

The non-Muslim verdict on Muhummed (PBUH)

"lf a man like Muhammed were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness." George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

"People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense. Jesus and Buddha belong in the third category alone. Perhaps the greatest leader of all times was Mohammed, who combined all three functions. To a lesser degree, Moses did the same."

Professor Jules Masserman

"Head of the State as well as the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in one, but, he was Pope without the Pope's pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar, without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a police force, without a fixed revenue. If ever a man had the right to say that he ruled by a right divine, it was Muhummed, for he had all the powers without their supports. He cared not tor the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life.""

Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith

"Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him."

Diwan Chand Sharma, The Prophets of the East, Calcutta 1935, p. 122.

"Four year after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . . "

John William Draper, M.D., L.L.D., A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875, Vol. 1, pp 329-330.

"In little more than a year he was actually the spiritual, nominal and temporal ruler of Medina, with his hands on the lever that was to shake the world."

John Austin, "Muhammad the Prophet of Allah," in T.P's and Cassel's Weekly for 24th September 1927.

"Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator. Warrior, Conqueror of ideas, Restorer of rational beliefs, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?"

Lamartine, Historic de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol. 11 pp. 276-2727.

"It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he live,. to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher."

Annie Besant, The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, Madras 1932, p.4

"Muhummed is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities."

Encyclopaedia Britannica

"I have studied him — the wonderful man — and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity."

George Bernard Shaw in "The Genuine Islam"

"By a fortune absolutely unique in history , Mohammed is a threefold founder of a nation, of an empire, and of a religion."

Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith in "Mohammed and Mohammedanism 1946."

No 3. JESUS CHRIST

c. 6 B.C. - c. 30 A.D.

The impact of Jesus on human history is so obvious and so enormous that few people would question his placement near the top of this list. Indeed, the more likely question is why Jesus, who is the inspiration for the most influential religion in history, has not been placed first.

There is no question that Christianity, over the course of time, has had far more adherents than any other religion. However, it is not the relative influence of different religions that is being estimated in this book, but rather the relative influence of individual men. Christianity, unlike Islam, was not founded by a single person but by two people—Jesus and St. Paul—and the principal credit for its development must therefore be apportioned between those two figures.

Jesus formulated the basic ethical ideas of Christianity, as well as its basic spiritual outlook and its main ideas concerning human conduct. Christian theology, however, was shaped principally by the work of St. Paul. Jesus presented a spiritual message; Paul added to that the worship of Christ. Furthermore, St. Paul was the author of a considerable portion of the New Testament, and was the main proselytizing force for Christianity during the first century.

Jesus was still fairly young when he died (unlike Buddha or Muhammad), and he left behind a limited number of disciples. At the time of Jesus' death, his followers simply formed a small Jewish sect. It was due in considerable measure to Paul's writings, and to his tireless proselytizing efforts, that this small sect was transformed into a dynamic and much greater movement, which reached non-Jews as well as Jews, and which eventually grew into one of the great religions of the world.

For these reasons, some people even contend that it is Paul, rather than Jesus, who should really be considered the founder of Christianity. Carried to its logical conclusion, that argument would lead one to place Paul higher on this list than Jesus! However, although it is not clear what Christianity would be like without the influence of St. Paul, it is quite apparent that without Jesus, Christianity would not exist at all.

However, it does not seem reasonable to consider Jesus responsible for all the things which Christian churches or individual Christians later did in his name, particularly since he would obviously disapprove of many of those things. Some of them—for example the religious wars between various Christian sects, and the barbaric massacres and persecutions of the Jews-are in such obvious contradiction to the attitudes and teachings of Jesus that it seems entirely unreasonable to say that Jesus inspired them.

Similarly, even though modern science first arose in the Christian nations of western Europe, it seems inappropriate to think of Jesus as responsible for the rise of science. Certainly, none of the early Christians interpreted the teachings of Jesus as a call for scientific investigation of the physical world. Indeed, the conversion of the Roman world to Christianity was accompanied and followed by a drastic decline in both the general level of technology and the general degree of interest in science.

That science did eventually arise in Europe is indeed an indication that there was something in the European cultural heritage that was favourable to the scientific way of thinking. That something, however, was not the sayings of Jesus, but rather Greek rationalism, as typified by the works of Aristotle and Euclid. It is noteworthy that modern science developed, not during the heyday of church power and of Christian piety, but rather on the heels of the Renaissance, a period during which Europe experienced a renewal of interest in its pre-Christian heritage.

The story of Jesus' life, as it is related in the New Testament, is familiar to most readers and will not be repeated here. However, a few points are worth noting. In the first place, most of the information that we have about Jesus' life is uncertain. We are not even sure what his original name was. Most probably it was the common Jewish name, Yehoshua (Joshua in English). The year of his birth, too, is uncertain, although 6 B.C. is a likely date. Even the year of his death, which must have been well known to his followers, is not definitely known today. Jesus himself left no writings behind, and virtually all our information concerning his life comes from the accounts in the New Testament.

Unfortunately, the Gospels contradict each other on various points. For example, Matthew and Luke give completely different versions of Jesus' last words; both of these versions, incidentally, are direct quotations from the Old Testament.

It was no accident that Jesus was able to quote from the Old Testament; though the progenitor of Christianity, he was himself a devout Jew. It has been frequently pointed out that Jesus was in many ways very similar to the Hebrew prophets of the Old Testament, and was deeply influenced by them. Like the prophets, Jesus had an extraordinarily impressive personality, which made a deep and lasting impression on the people who met him. He was charismatic in the deepest and fullest sense of the word.

However, in sharp contrast to Muhammad, who exercised political as well as religious authority, Jesus had virtually no influence on political developments during his own lifetime, or during the succeeding century. (Both men, of course, have had in enormous indirect influence on long-term political developments.) Jesus made his influence felt entirely as an ethical and spiritual leader.

If it was primarily as an ethical leader that Jesus left his mark, it is surely pertinent to ask to what extent his ethical ideas have influenced the world. One of Jesus' central precepts, certainly, was the Golden Rule. Today, the Golden Rule is accepted by most people, Christians and non-Christians alike, as a reasonable guide to moral conduct. We may not always act in accordance with it, but we usually try to do so. If Jesus had actually originated that almost universally accepted principle, he would surely have been the first man on this list.

In fact, though, the Golden Rule was an accepted precept of Judaism long before Jesus was born. Rabbi Hillel, the leading Jewish rabbi of the first century B.C., explicitly enunciated the Golden Rule and pronounced it the foremost principle of Judaism. Nor was the notion known only to the Western world. The Chinese philosopher Confucius had proposed it in about 500 B.C.., and the saying also appears in the Mahabharata, an ancient Hindu poem. In fact, the philosophy behind the Golden Rule is accepted by almost every major religious group.

Does this mean that Jesus had no original ethical ideas? Not at all! A highly distinctive viewpoint is presented in Matthew 5:43-44:

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shall love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

And a few lines earlier: "...resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."

Now, these ideas—which were not a part of the Judaism of Jesus' day, nor of most other religions—are surely among the most remarkable and original ethical ideas ever presented. If they were widely followed, I would have had no hesitation in placing Jesus first in this book.

But the truth is that they are not widely followed. In fact, they are not even generally accepted. Most Christians consider the injunction to "Love your enemy" as—at most—an ideal which might be realized in some perfect world, but one which is not a reasonable guide to conduct in the actual world we live in. We do not normally practice it, do not expect others to practice it, and do not teach our children to practice it. Jesus' most distinctive teaching, therefore, remains an intriguing but basically untried suggestion.

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The Farewell Address of the holy Prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h.
~ The Islamic Charter of Humanity ~

"O People! lend me an attentive ear, for I know not whether after this year I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore, listen carefully to what I am saying and Take These Words to Those Who Could Not Be Present Here Today. O People! just as you regard this month, this day, this city as Sacred, so regard the life and property of every Muslim as a sacred trust. Return the goods entrusted to you to their rightful owners. Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you. Remember that you will indeed meet your LORD, and that he will indeed reckon your deeds. Allah has forbidden you to take usury (interest), therefore all interest obligations shall henceforth be waived. Your capital is yours to keep. You will neither inflict nor suffer any inequity. Allah has Judged that there shall be no interest and that all the interest due to Abbas ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib (Prophet's uncle) be waived. Every right arising out of homicide in pre-Islamic days is henceforth waived and the first such right that I waive is that arising from the murder of Rabiah ibn al-Harithiah. O Men! the unbelievers indulge in tampering with the calender in order to make permissible that which Allah forbade, and to prohibit which Allah has made permissible. With Allah the months are twelve in number. Four of them are holy, three of these are successive and one occurs singly between the months of Jumada and Shaban. Beware of Satan, for the safety of your religion. He has lost all hope of that he will be able to lead you astray in big things, so beware of following him in small things. O People! it is true that you have certain rights with regard to your women but they also have rights over you. Remember that you have taken them as your wives only under Allah's trust and with His permission. If they abide by your right then to them belongs the right to be fed and clothed in kindness. Do treat your women well and be kind to them for they are your partners and committed helpers. And it is your right that they do not make friends with anyone of whom you do not approve, as well as never to be unchaste. O People! listen to me in earnest, worship Allah, say your five daily prayers, fast during month of Ramadan, and give your wealth in Zakat (obligatory charity). Perform Hajj if you can afford to. All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not therefore do injustice to yourselves. Remember one day you will meet Allah and answer your deeds. So beware, do not astray from the path of righteousness after I am gone. O People! No Prophet or Apostle Will Come after Me and No New Faith Will Be Born. Reason well, therefore, O People! and understand words which I convey to you. I leave behind me two things, the QURAN and my SUNNAH (i.e., sayings, deeds, and approvals) and if you follow these you will never go astray. All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly. Be my witness O Allah, that I have conveyed your message to your people." As part of this sermon, the Prophet recited them a Revelation from Allah which he had just received and which completed the Quran, for it was the last passage to be revealed: This day the disbelievers despair of prevailing against your religion, so fear them not, but fear Me (Allah)! This day have I perfected for you your religion and fulfilled My favor unto you, and it hath been My good pleasure to choose Islam for you as your religion (Surah 5, Ayah 3). The sermon was repeated sentence by sentence by Safwan's brother Rabiah (RA), who had a powerful voice, at the request of the Prophet and he faithfully proclaimed to over ten thousand gathered on the occasion. Toward the end of his sermon, the Prophet asked O people, have I faithfully delivered unto you my message?" A powerful murmur of assent "O Allah, yes!", arose from thousands of pilgrims and the vibrant words "Oh God, Yes!" rolled like thunder throughout the valley. The Prophet raised his forefinger and said: "Be my witness O Allah, that I have conveyed your message to your people." and he expired The Prophet Muhammad's Last Sermon

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