When will Germany regain its moral and intellectual courage, and face its history without fear or shame? Vineyard selling 'Nazi' wine September 5, 2003 Agence France-Presse GEMANY has lodged a formal protest with Rome over an Italian company selling wine bottles with Nazi slogans and pictures of Adolf Hitler, a justice ministry spokeswoman said today. German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries said in a letter to her Italian counterpart, Roberto Castelli, that she found the use of Nazi symbols to sell wine "reprehensible and tasteless" and urged him to take action against the firm. ARD public television reported the bottles with portraits of Hitler and other top Nazis on the label were being produced at a rate of 30,000 per year by an Italian company from the Udine region on the Austrian border. The website of the family, the Lunardelli family, showed various versions of the bottles, many featuring Hitler doing the straight-armed Nazi salute and the words "One People, One Reich, One Fuehrer" - one of the Nazis' best-known slogans. Other labels were emblazoned with images of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Displaying Nazi symbols and slogans is illegal in Germany, but not in Italy. 6 September 2003   Deutsche Welle http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1441_A_961176_1_A,00.html Oil Baron Getty Revealed as Hitler Fan Newly released documents have revealed that oil billionaire and museum founder J. Paul Getty was a friend and admirer of Adolf Hitler and even lent his support to Nazi Germany in the early days of World War II. He was always a man of eccentric habits and he had an even more unusual resumé. Jean Paul Getty made his first million three years after graduating from college, married and divorced five times, collected art with a passion and was reputed to be the richest man in the world at his death. He was also an early fan of Adolf Hitler and supplied the Nazis with fuel at the outset of the war. The intelligence linking the billionaire oil man with the German dictator has come to light through the declassification of files from the British National Archives at Kew, in southern England. Getty and his war-time activities show up in a "suspect persons" dossier that was prepared by a New York-based security team that was part of Britain's Foreign Office for the Ministry of Economic Warfare. Spy nests and illegal oil Getty appears to have been at the center of a shadowy group of financiers that provided support to Nazi Germany in the early days of World War II. The dossier says Getty sold one million barrels of oil to Germany. The fuel had to be delivered via Russia, a German ally at the time, because a British blockade was in place. The deliveries of oil and fuel continued until Germany attacked Russia during June 1941. The declassified information also paints the luxurious Hotel Pierre, which Getty bought in 1938, in colors befitting a bad spy novel. The Manhattan hotel, which Getty reputedly bought because he wanted to fire a waiter there who had been rude to him, was filled with "doubtful and flashy" characters, many with Nazi connections, such as the Austrian baron, the German war veteran and the former U-boat captain who were the hotel's first new employees after Getty took control. The intelligence file reads: "Among residents at the Pierre --living in luxury suites on no visible income sources -- were a Countess Mohle who spent her time making herself attractive to U.S. Army officers and was in a perpetual state of wide-eyed curiosity about military matters." Another long-term guest and suspicious Getty associate was a Russian-born Briton who claimed to work for British secret services but whose sympathies appeared to lie with the Nazis. Reports say he was sighted meeting with German agents in Cuba as well as members of the American far right, including the Ku Klux Klan. My pal Adolf Before the outbreak of war, Getty had strong business and personal connections to Germany under Hitler. As a passionate art collector, he was interested in art collections that the Nazis had confiscated in Germany, the Netherlands and Austria and those that were broken up due to the "purifying" of their supposed "non-German" elements. It was also reported he showed interest in the furniture collection of the Rothschild banking family. In 1939, Getty returned from a trip to Europe talking jauntily about his "old friend" Hitler. Sudden patriot But the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 (photo) and America's subsequent entry into the war on the allied side seems to caused a change of heart. Getty became a patriotic American seemingly  overnight, even volunteering for naval service at the age of 49. Despite his age, Getty wrote on his application that he was "in the best of health," adding he considered himself a natural for service in the Navy. After all, he wrote, he owned three yachts. Although his views toward Germany might have changed as the war progressed, his questionable political views did not. In 29 diaries that he kept from 1938 until his death in 1976, Getty described Joseph Stalin as a "capable political leader." The diary entries also illustrate his sense for political prognostication was somewhat less honed than his nearly unmatched ability to make money. At one point he predicted that a Communist revolution would rock Germany in 1941 and the country would then join up with Russia. According to him, France, Spain and Italy would soon follow.

 

Remembering Königsberg University Ravel Bolero Deja Vu BY EDWARD MILLER The Coastal Post - August, 1996 A dangerous attitude pervasive in Washington is that acting as Israel's errand boy in the Mideast carries little or no risk. Experience suggests otherwise. During Israel's 1982 genocidal War in Lebanon, while she was butchering some 30,000 Palestinian refugees, destroying Beirut and forcing that city's half a million citizens to flee to the suburbs, Israel's Washington lobbyist talked President Reagan into joining the slaughter. Reagan obliged by ordering his battleship, the USS New Jersey, sitting off Lebanon's coast, to hurl shells into those towns around Beirut to which the refugees were fleeing. The Lebanese did not forget this little gesture and not long after, on October 23, 1983, 264 US Marines in our security force paid with their lives for Reagan's act when a car bomb exploded next to their barracks. In another little episode, just ten years go this month, long forgotten by Americans, but still alive in the minds of thousands of Mideast peoples, our CIA's William Casey, attempting to murder Sheik Muhammed Fedlallah (spiritual leader of Lebanese Shiites), which a truck bomb placed outside a Beirut mosque, killed 81 innocent bystanders and injured hundreds. The Sheik escaped. Bob Woodward in his carefully-researched 1987 book Veil reported Israeli agents had manufactured and set off that bomb for our CIA. The well-laundered funding for the disaster had been deposited in Casey's secret account by none other than the Saudi's Prince Bandar. (Spotlight, July 15) Now, in a repetition of the 1980s, 19 U.S. Marine have just been killed and another 30 injured by a bomb in their barracks in Dhahran. Washington is frantically pointing fingers in all the wrong directions. While we are still starving thousands of Iraqi children and Clinton with his friend Peres on the Whitehouse lawn has just celebrated Israel's recent slaughter of 208 Lebanese while driving 400,000 from their homes, has it occurred to Washington that someone in the Mideast might take offense? On March 26th, 1989, Ex-President Jimmie Carter, in an interview for The New York Times, said: "You have only to go to Lebanon, to Syria, to Jordan to witness first-hand the intense hatred among many peoples for the United States, because we bombed and shelled and unmercifully killed totally innocent villagers, women and children and farmers and housewives, in those villages around Beirut...as a result, we have become a kind of Satan in the minds of those who are deeply resentful. That is what precipitated the taking of hostages and that is what has precipitated some of the terrorist attacks." "International terrorism," a term carelessly bandied about in our Capital these days has always been in response to either our own or Israel's barbarism. Those U.S. Marines were killed, neither in Lebanon nor in Saudi Arabia but in Tel Aviv and Washington.

German democracy = US-imposed military occupation = voting for babies and children! The madness of it all from the US-Talmudistan: Millions of illegal aliens in United States - underground sleeper terror cells and government targets 82-year-old 'Nazi'   Board Rules To Deport Missouri Man Accused Of Being Nazi Guard 82-Year-Old Suspect's Attorney Plans Appeal ST. LOUIS -- The deportation of a St. Louis area man suspected of being a former Nazi concentration camp guard was upheld by the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals on Thursday. The appeals board upheld a decision by the U.S. Immigration Court in St. Louis to deport Michael Negele to his native Romania. Negele's attorney says he plans to appeal the decision. The 82-year-old Negele is accused of serving as a guard at a concentration camp near Berlin and a Jewish ghetto in the former Czechoslovakia. Negele, who now lives in St. Peters, immigrated to the United States in 1950 and became a citizen five years later. His citizenship was stripped in 1999 and he has been appealing his deportation since March 2001. New Iraq to recognise Israel "top of the agenda" !

 

Mental Illness The madness resulting from eternal victimhood, where personal responsibility and moral maturity can never develop. Victimhood mixed with a guilt-trip is a fatal mixture! Read on... The Assassination of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim Najaf car bombing: At least 80 killed, including supreme Shiite leader A massive car bomb exploded at the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf during Friday prayers, killing at least 80 people, including one of Iraq's most important Shiite clerics, a hospital official said. More than 140 people were wounded. Among the dead was Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, 64, who had just delivered a sermon calling for Iraqi unity at the shrine. Al Hakim served as the head of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Both the al-Hakim supporters and a prominent figure in the U.S.-backed government blamed Saddam Hussein's loyalists for the blast. The report of the bombing in Najaf came one week after a bomb exploded outside the house of one of Iraqi's most important Shiite clerics, killing three guards and injuring 10 others including family members. The top U.S. civilian official in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, condemned the attack, saying it demonstrated that "the enemies of the new Iraq will stop at nothing." "Again, they have killed innocent Iraqis. Again, they have violated one of Islam's most sacred places. Again, by their heinous action, they have shown the evil face of terrorism," Bremer said in a statement. 29 August 2003

Problems in Germany A country that calls itself 'democratic', yet is, like Japan, after 60 years of US military occupation, still not a free country.     [We superimposed the word Holocaust on the German text: Wirtschaftskrise/Steuerdesaster/Staatsversagen - economic crisis/taxation disaster/state failure. Then follows: 'The Hour of Truth In the Land of Lies'.]

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