PRESS RELEASE: NEW BOOK VOTERS SHOULD READ

Title: Truth Counts: DON’T COUNT ON GETTING IT
ID: 9024844
Category: Mystery & Crime
Description: Our Occupied Government: Our government has the audacity to DESTROY the hopes and dreams of Americans while supporting the atrocities of Israel. We have full knowledge of the involvement of Israel in the decisions to ATTACK Iraq by presenting false intelligence. We see the money accepted by our officials from a foreign interest lobby. We see the amount of our sons & daughters killed in wars fought for all the wrong reasons. We see our financial system, and media controlled by the Zionist political movement. What we do not witness from our government officials from either political party. A) Moral values. B) Ethics. C) Integrity. D) Accountability. E) Oversight. F) Commitment to American TAX-PAYERS. G) Fiscal responsibility.
The Israel/Palestine conflict, the lobby crime bosses, Are all finding out that the Truth counts? We look for The day when there is Peace 4 All. Ronald L. Waldron
Publisher:
Author: Ronald L. Waldron
Copyright Year: © 2010
Language: English
Country:
Keywords: United States

Peace 4 All, Truth Counts: Crime bosses, Israel/Palestine

The AIPAC National Summit is reserved exclusively for those who contribute a minimum of $3,600 annually to AIPAC. It takes large contributions to maintain Israeli policies.

National Summit is AIPAC’s premier foreign policy retreat. This exclusive annual gathering offers AIPAC members unique access to members of Congress, American and Israeli policy makers, and leading Middle East expert members that AIPAC has the largest influence over.

The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa provides all the luxury amenities a resort has to offer: an infinity pool, spa treatments, tennis courts, a golf course and a serene beach on the Atlantic Ocean. Located just 10 minutes from the Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport and 30 minutes from Miami International Airport, the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa is a perfect home for AIPAC National Summit 2010. It takes the most exclusive facility to attract congress members & leaders.

Direct U.S. Aid to Israel (millions of dollars) Year Total Military Grant Economic Grant Immigrant ASHA All Other 1949-1996 68,030.9 29,014.9 23,122.4 868.9 121.4 14,903.3 1997 3,132.1 1,800.0 1,200.0 80.0 2.1 50.0 1998 3,080.0 1,800.0 1,200.0 80.0 ? ? 1999 3,010.0 1,860.0 1,080.0 70.0 ? ? 2000 4,131.85 3,120.0 949.1 60.0 2.75 ? 2001 2,876.05 1,975.6 838.2 60.0 2.25 ? 2002 2,850.65 2,040.0 720.0 60.0 2.65 28.0 2003 3,745.15 3,086.4 596.1 59.6 3.05 ? 2004 2,687.25 2,147.3 477.2 49.7 3.15 9.9 2005 2,612.15 2,202.2 357.0 50.0 2.95 ? 2006 2,534.53 2,257.0 237.0 40.0 ? .53 2007 2,500.24 2,340.0 120.0 40.0 ? .24 2008 2,423.8 2,380.6 0.0 39.7 3.0 .5 Total 103,614.67 56,024.0 30,897.0 1,557.9 143.3 14,992.47 Notes: FY 2000 military grants include $1.2 billion for the Wye agreement and $1.92 billion in annual military aid. FY 2003 military aid included $1 billion from the supplemental appropriations bill. The economic grant was earmarked for $960 million for FY 2000 but was reduced to meet the 0.38% rescission. Final amounts for FY 2003 are reduced by 0.65% mandated rescission, the amounts for FY 2004 are reduced by 0.59%, and the amounts for FY 2008 are reduced by .81%. Sources: CRS Report RL33222: U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel, updated Jan. 2, 2008, plus the FY ’08 omnibus appropriations bill, H.R. 2764.

This estimate of total U.S. direct aid to Israel updates the estimate given in the July 2006 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. It is an estimate because arriving at an exact figure is not possible, since parts of U.S. aid to Israel are a) buried in the budgets of various U.S. agencies, mostly that of the Defense Department (DOD), or b) in a form not easily quantifiable, such as the early disbursement of aid, giving Israel a direct benefit in interest income and the U.S. Treasury a corresponding loss. Given these caveats, our current estimate of cumulative total direct aid to Israel is $113.8554 billion.

It must be emphasized that this analysis is a conservative, defensible accounting of U.S. direct aid to Israel, NOT of Israel’s cost to the U.S. or the American taxpayer, nor of the benefits to Israel of U.S. aid. The distinction is important, because the indirect or consequential costs suffered by the U.S. as a result of its blind support for Israel exceed by many times the substantial amount of direct aid to Israel. (See, for example, the late Thomas R. Stauffer’s article in the June 2003 Washington Report, “The Costs to American Taxpayers of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: $3 Trillion.”)

Especially, this computation does not include the costs resulting from the invasion and occupation of Iraq—hundreds of billions of dollars, 4,000-plus U.S. and allied fatalities, untold tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, and many thousands of other U.S., allied, and Iraqi casualties—which is almost universally believed in the Arab world to have been undertaken for the benefit of Israel. Among other “indirect or consequential” costs would be the costs of U.S. unilateral economic sanctions on Iran, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the costs to U.S. manufacturers of the Arab boycott, and the costs to U.S. companies and consumers of the 1973 Arab oil embargo and consequent and subsequent soaring oil prices partially as a result of U.S. support for Israel.

Among the real benefits to Israel that are not direct costs to the U.S. taxpayer are the early cash transfer of economic and military aid, in-country spending of a portion of military aid, and loan guarantees. The U.S. gives Israel all of its economic and military aid directly in cash during the first month of the fiscal year, with no accounting required of how the funds are used. Also, in contrast with other countries receiving military aid, who must purchase through the DOD, Israel deals directly with the U.S. companies, with no DOD review. Furthermore, Israel is allowed to spend 26.3 percent of each year’s military aid in Israel (no other recipient of U.S. military aid gets this benefit), which has resulted in an increasingly sophisticated Israeli defense industry. As a result, Israel has become a major world arms exporter; the Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports that in 2006 Israel was the world’s ninth leading supplier of arms worldwide, earning $4.4 billion from defense sales.

Another benefit to Israel are U.S. government loan guarantees. The major loan guarantees have been $600 million for housing between 1972 and 1990; $9.2 billion for Soviet Jewish resettlement between 1992 and 1997; about $5 billion for refinancing military loans commercially; and $9 billion in loan guarantees authorized in FY ’03 and extended to FY ’10. Of that $9 billion, CRS reports that Israel has drawn $4.1 billion through FY ’07. These loans have not—yet—cost the U.S. any money; they are listed on the Treasury Department’s books as “contingent liabilities,” which would be liabilities to the U.S. should Israel default. However, they have been of substantial, tangible benefit to Israel, because they enable Israel to borrow commercially at special terms and favorable interest rates.

Components of Israel Aid Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. aid since World War II (not counting the huge sums being spent in Iraq). The $3 billion or so per year that Israel receives from the U.S. amounts to about $500 per Israeli. Most of this money is earmarked in the annual Foreign Operations (foreign aid) appropriations bills, with the three major items being military grants (Foreign Military Financing, or FMF), economic grants (Economic Support Funds, or ESF), and “migration and refugee assistance.” (Refugee assistance originally was intended to help Israel absorb Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union, but this was expanded in 1985 to include all refugees resettling in Israel. In fact, Israel doesn’t differentiate between refugees and other immigrants, so this money is used for all immigrants to Israel.)

Not earmarked but also included in congresssional appropriations bills is Israel’s portion of grants for American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) and monies buried in the appropriations for other departments or agencies. These are mostly for so-called “U.S.-Israeli cooperative programs” in defense, agriculture, science, and hi-tech industries.

Before 1998, Israel received annually $1.8 billion in military grants and $1.2 billion in economic grants. Then, beginning in FY ‘99, the two countries agreed to reduce economic grants to Israel by $120 million and increase military grants by $60 million annually over 10 years. FY ’08 is the last year of that agreement, with military grants reaching $2.4 billion (reduced by an across-the-board rescission), and zero economic grants. Then, in August 2007, U.S. and Israeli officials signed a memorandum of understanding for a new 10-year, $30 billion aid package whereby FMF will gradually increase, beginning with $2.55 billion in FY ’09, and average $3 billion per year over the 10-year period.

THE CORRUPTION AND TREASON CONTINUES::

DIPLOMATS SUPPRESSED DOCUMENT : 2006

RONALD L. WALDRON says:
12/20/2006 at 1:57 pm
DIPLOMATS SUPPRESSED DOCUMENT :

It’s the equivalent of another Downing Street Memo… Huge news!, but I’ve found only ONE MSM news report of it in this country, ” Ex-British expert on Iraq says intel overstated “. And Google News returns ZERO matches for that one news report! Imagine that …..
Diplomat’s suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war
The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. A devastating attack on Mr Blair’s justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain’s key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act… ( more )

In the testimony revealed today Mr Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UN security resolutions on Iraq, makes it clear that Mr Blair must have known Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction. He said that during his posting to the UN, “at no time did HMG [Her Majesty's Government] assess that Iraq’s WMD (or any other capability) posed a threat to the UK or its interests.”

Mr Ross revealed it was a commonly held view among British officials dealing with Iraq that any threat by Saddam Hussein had been “effectively contained”.

He also reveals that British officials warned US diplomats that bringing down the Iraqi dictator would lead to the chaos the world has since witnessed. “I remember on several occasions the UK team stating this view in terms during our discussions with the US (who agreed),” he said.

“At the same time, we would frequently argue when the US raised the subject, that ‘regime change’ was inadvisable, primarily on the grounds that Iraq would collapse into chaos.”

He claims “inertia” in the Foreign Office and the “inattention of key ministers” combined to stop the UK carrying out any co-ordinated and sustained attempt to address sanction-busting by Iraq, an approach which could have provided an alternative to war.

Mr Ross delivered the evidence to the Butler inquiry which investigated intelligence blunders in the run-up to the conflict.

The Foreign Office had attempted to prevent the evidence being made public, but it has now been published by the Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs after MPs sought assurances from the Foreign Office that it would not breach the Official Secrets Act.

It shows Mr Ross told the inquiry, chaired by Lord Butler, “there was no intelligence evidence of significant holdings of CW [chemical warfare], BW [biological warfare] or nuclear material” held by the Iraqi dictator before the invasion. “There was, moreover, no intelligence or assessment during my time in the job that Iraq had any intention to launch an attack against its neighbours or the UK or the US,” he added.

Mr Ross’s evidence directly challenges the assertions by the Prime Minster that the war was legally justified because Saddam possessed WMDs which could be “activated” within 45 minutes and posed a threat to British interests. These claims were also made in two dossiers, subsequently discredited, in spite of the advice by Mr Ross.

His hitherto secret evidence threatens to reopen the row over the legality of the conflict, under which Mr Blair has sought to draw a line as the internecine bloodshed in Iraq has worsened.

Mr Ross says he questioned colleagues at the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence working on Iraq and none said that any new evidence had emerged to change their assessment.

“What had changed was the Government’s determination to present available evidence in a different light,” he added.

Mr Ross said in late 2002 that he “discussed this at some length with David Kelly”, the weapons expert who a year later committed suicide when he was named as the source of a BBC report saying Downing Street had “sexed up” the WMD claims in a dossier. The Butler inquiry cleared Mr Blair and Downing Street of “sexing up” the dossier, but the publication of the Carne Ross evidence will cast fresh doubts on its findings.

Mr Ross, 40, was a highly rated diplomat but he resigned because of his misgivings about the legality of the war. He still fears the threat of action under the Official Secrets Act.

“Mr Ross hasn’t had any approach to tell him that he is still not liable to be prosecuted,” said one ally. But he has told friends that he is “glad it is out in the open” and he told MPs it had been “on my conscience for years”.

One member of the Foreign Affairs committee said: “There was blood on the carpet over this. I think it’s pretty clear the Foreign Office used the Official Secrets Act to suppress this evidence, by hanging it like a Sword of Damacles over Mr Ross, but we have called their bluff.”

Yesterday, Jack Straw, the Leader of the Commons who was Foreign Secretary during the war – Mr Ross’s boss – announced the Commons will have a debate on the possible change of strategy heralded by the Iraqi Study Group report in the new year.

The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

By Colin Brown and Andy McSmith
Published: 15 December 2006
Be sure to snag a personal copy of the full transcript of evidence given to the Butler inquiry ….

WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, AND HOW ?

We certainly know now that Republicans in power cannot be trusted with the Constitution or the Budget.OR ANYTHING FOR THAT MATTER:
Twice now they just found it easier to go off and make wars rather than tackle the real reforms America needs. Don’t forget that Bush Father also caved in on taxes & spending, once he started his war, just as his son followed the same path. The warfare state always pays homage to the Welfare State.
Freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

A nonpartisan, international foundation advocating free press and speech rights for all people.Has been under attack for the last six years.

Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President.

Many committees in the House and Senate, without taking any energy away from ending the war, can finally conduct the investigations that have gone undone for 6 years, exposing evidence that could very well lead to criminal, civil, or political accountability, as well as pressure to end the war and precedent to help prevent the next war.

State-Watch encourages the publication of investigative journalism and critical research in the fields of the state, civil liberties and openness,regarding telecommunications surveillance initiatives. Statewatch is a non-profit volunteer group comprised of lawyers, academics, journalists, researchers and community activists. The Global Internet Liberty Campaign is dedicated to promoting fundamental rights in the information society and cyberspace; towards that end, it has campaigned heavily against various government data retention proposals.

We’re sorry, the page you’re looking for has
been moved or been deleted by order of your
government. It is coming if our first Amendment rights
are not protected.

Freedom of expression, speech, and press has been
deluted down to. Yor have such right as long as it is
Politically correct, does not offend the executive department,
and conforms to its way of thinking. You are on my side or
you will pay penalties for it.
Penalties such as 112 Journalist killed, press offices being
blown up. Shot at newly established check points, or fired
if your information is somewhat incorrect.
The rules coming from the executive, influenced by
lobbies foreign or corporate, with no regard for the
people.
I notice, which I hope you have, the Media seems
more willing to report , and under less restraint the
last couple of weeks. Like since the last election.
The caution now remains with the “ownership of”
and influence by outside lobbies, over mainstream
media.

AMERICANS must remain vigilant, in protecting
OUR Constitution. STAY INVOLVED…

Contact the Media About Impeachment Coverage

The Bush Administration has ignored the Constitution. Impeachable offenses need to be investigated. These are two statements that are true, yet are rarely heard via the mainstream American media. We have all seen what complacency in the media can bring. The Iraq War could not have been executed without it. Impeachment is being framed as a distraction or as revenge. It is time for the media to discuss the real evidence that supports Impeachment and leave the opining to the citizens of this country.

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is a metonymic adage coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton

By the sword and militarism you may be able to close many eyes, by the pen your aim is to open
millions of them.

PRESS RELEASE: NEW BOOK VOTERS SHOULD READ

Title: Truth Counts: DON’T COUNT ON GETTING IT
ID: 9024844
Category: Mystery & Crime
Description: Our Occupied Government: Our government has the audacity to DESTROY the hopes and dreams of Americans while supporting the atrocities of Israel. We have full knowledge of the involvement of Israel in the decisions to ATTACK Iraq by presenting false intelligence. We see the money accepted by our officials from a foreign interest lobby. We see the amount of our sons & daughters killed in wars fought for all the wrong reasons. We see our financial system, and media controlled by the Zionist political movement. What we do not witness from our government officials from either political party. A) Moral values. B) Ethics. C) Integrity. D) Accountability. E) Oversight. F) Commitment to American TAX-PAYERS. G) Fiscal responsibility.
The Israel/Palestine conflict, the lobby crime bosses, Are all finding out that the Truth counts? We look for The day when there is Peace 4 All. Ronald L. Waldron
Publisher:
Author: Ronald L. Waldron
Copyright Year: © 2010
Language: English
Country: United States

THE CORRUPTION AND TREASON CONTINUES:

TRUTH COUNTS DON’T COUNT ON GETTING IT

Ready to order? Come on by.
(http://www.lulu.com)

FINAL REPORT ; DECEPTION ; WHAT IF?; WATCH OUT, & THE HOUSE OF TREASON; by Ronald L. Waldron

To Order go to: http://highfive4all.com

The Sun is coming up in the East, a New Day is born, but yesterday will not be forgotten by its victims.

Ron Wal

Just say NO, that is HELL NO!!

Israeli PM calls for ‘credible military option’ led by US, against Iran 12 Jan 2011 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for “a credible military option against Iran” to force Tehran to end its nuclear energy program. On Tuesday, Netanyahu said that military action should be taken by the international community and headed by the United States. “You have to ratchet up the pressure and… I don’t think that this pressure will be sufficient to have this regime change course without a credible military option that is put before them by the international community led by the United States,” he stated.

Say YES to sanctions against Israel for sixty + years of human rights violations and atrocities committed by Israel . Boycott Israel, enough is enough.

Support for Israel is the downfall of America.

Enough. It’s time for a boycott: Authored by Naomi Klein
The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa

It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa. In July 2005 a huge coalition of Palestinian groups laid out plans to do just that. They called on “people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era”. The campaign Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions was born.
Every day that Israel pounds Gaza brings more converts to the BDS cause – even among Israeli Jews. In the midst of the assault roughly 500 Israelis, dozens of them well-known artists and scholars, sent a letter to foreign ambassadors in Israel. It calls for “the adoption of immediate restrictive measures and sanctions” and draws a clear parallel with the anti-apartheid struggle. “The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves … This international backing must stop.”

Yet even in the face of these clear calls, many of us still can’t go there. The reasons are complex, emotional and understandable. But they simply aren’t good enough. Economic sanctions are the most effective tool in the non-violent arsenal: surrendering them verges on active complicity. Here are the top four objections to the BDS strategy, followed by counter-arguments.

Punitive measures will alienate rather than persuade Israelis.

The world has tried what used to be called “constructive engagement”. It has failed utterly. Since 2006 Israel has been steadily escalating its criminality: expanding settlements, launching an outrageous war against Lebanon, and imposing collective punishment on Gaza through the brutal blockade. Despite this escalation, Israel has not faced punitive measures – quite the opposite. The weapons and $3bn in annual aid the US sends Israel are only the beginning. Throughout this key period, Israel has enjoyed a dramatic improvement in its diplomatic, cultural and trade relations with a variety of other allies. For instance, in 2007 Israel became the first country outside Latin America to sign a free-trade deal with the Mercosur bloc. In the first nine months of 2008, Israeli exports to Canada went up 45%. A new deal with the EU is set to double Israel’s exports of processed food. And in December European ministers “upgraded” the EU-Israel association agreement, a reward long sought by Jerusalem.

It is in this context that Israeli leaders started their latest war: confident they would face no meaningful costs. It is remarkable that over seven days of wartime trading, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s flagship index actually went up 10.7%. When carrots don’t work, sticks are needed.

Israel is not South Africa.

Of course it isn’t. The relevance of the South African model is that it proves BDS tactics can be effective when weaker measures (protests, petitions, backroom lobbying) fail. And there are deeply distressing echoes of apartheid in the occupied territories: the colour-coded IDs and travel permits, the bulldozed homes and forced displacement, the settler-only roads. Ronnie Kasrils, a prominent South African politician, said the architecture of segregation he saw in the West Bank and Gaza was “infinitely worse than apartheid”. That was in 2007, before Israel began its full-scale war against the open-air prison that is Gaza.

Why single out Israel when the US, Britain and other western countries do the same things in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Boycott is not a dogma; it is a tactic. The reason the strategy should be tried is practical: in a country so small and trade-dependent, it could actually work.

Boycotts sever communication; we need more dialogue, not less.

This one I’ll answer with a personal story. For eight years, my books have been published in Israel by a commercial house called Babel. But when I published The Shock Doctrine, I wanted to respect the boycott. On the advice of BDS activists, including the wonderful writer John Berger, I contacted a small publisher called Andalus. Andalus is an activist press, deeply involved in the anti-occupation movement and the only Israeli publisher devoted exclusively to translating Arabic writing into Hebrew. We drafted a contract that guarantees that all proceeds go to Andalus’s work, and none to me. I am boycotting the Israeli economy but not Israelis.

Our modest publishing plan required dozens of phone calls, emails and instant messages, stretching between Tel Aviv, Ramallah, Paris, Toronto and Gaza City. My point is this: as soon as you start a boycott strategy, dialogue grows dramatically. The argument that boycotts will cut us off from one another is particularly specious given the array of cheap information technologies at our fingertips. We are drowning in ways to rant at each other across national boundaries. No boycott can stop us.

Just about now, many a proud Zionist is gearing up for major point-scoring: don’t I know that many of these very hi-tech toys come from Israeli research parks, world leaders in infotech? True enough, but not all of them. Several days into Israel’s Gaza assault, Richard Ramsey, managing director of a British telecom specialising in voice-over-internet services, sent an email to the Israeli tech firm MobileMax: “As a result of the Israeli government action in the last few days we will no longer be in a position to consider doing business with yourself or any other Israeli company.”

Ramsey says his decision wasn’t political; he just didn’t want to lose customers. “We can’t afford to lose any of our clients,” he explains, “so it was purely commercially defensive.”

It was this kind of cold business calculation that led many companies to pull out of South Africa two decades ago. And it’s precisely the kind of calculation that is our most realistic hope of bringing justice, so long denied, to Palestine.