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If you take a look at www.alexa.com you will see the world’s most popular web sites (not necessarily in this order) are google, youtube, ebay, facebook, msn, etc.

Then look at individual country statistics. Each country (Eastern, Western and in-between) seems to be quite similar — except for Mainland China.

Instead of Google, China has Baidu.
Instead of Youtube, China has Youku (and Tudou and 56)
Instead of eBay, China has Taobao
Instead of Facebook, China has Xiaonei
Instead of MSN, China has QQ.

All of these are almost exact copies.

The reason isn’t "language difference" — after all, each of those American-invented web sites has a Chinese version.

The reason isn’t "cultural difference" — we all like to read news, buy/sell things, chat, watch videos and social network.

So what’s the (economic or otherwise) reason China copies these and doesn’t innovate?

I have been in China for 2 years and I think I have it figured out — but I want to hear what you all have to say.

Thanks.

a curse.

US citizens, why don’t you start by cleaning your own house first?
Before you start criticizing other countries for their terrorism or human rights records, shouldn’t the US government clean their own house first?
For example, over the past 50 years, the United States government:

1-Supported and actively organized coups d’etat against numerous third world countries, just to defend US bussiness interests and selfish geopolitical aims.
This includes many democratically-elected governments.
Some examples are Guatemala 1954, Chile 1973, Argentina 1976, Iran (Persia) 1953, Haiti 1957, Brazil 1964, Zaire (congo) 1965, S.Korea 1979, Grenada 1983, Venezuela 2002 (failed attempt), and many more.
In my country, Argentina, ‘black lists’ with dissidents to be killed were actually written and given to our local death squads by the CIA, during the 1976-83 dictatorship.

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2- Is known to practice ‘low-intensity warfare’, a set of war strategies that are actually very similar to terrorism itself in practice. This can be seen in the recent 1990′s Sudan bombings, in recent bombings of civilian populations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the support you gave to the Nicaraguan Contras to fight the gov. of said country, during the late 1980′s. The ‘contras’ were an illegal guerrilla group, and were properly qualified as "terrorist" by the International Court of Justice.

3- Engaged in unfair economic blockades against countries that didn’t bow to US bussiness interests. (example: Iraq, Cuba)
The excuse for doing this was ‘dictatorship’, but it’s an hypocritical excuse, since other dictatorships enjoyed active US support during the same time frame.

4- Still supports numerous dictatorships around the world, specially if they are free-market and let themselves be puppeted by US policy.
Thsi includes S. Arabia, Pakistan, Qatar, Ethiopia, among others.

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5- Mantains illegal "black prisions" with no right to trial and mild forms of torture, in many places in Europe and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

6- Has engaged in active industrial espionage over the past years, thanks to the Cold-war era Echelon network.

7- Has, as a country, poor democratic credentials itself, with only two parties that look very similar and a media that’s comprised of mostly large corporations that usually don’t dare to damage the interest of their partners.

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My country, of course, is not perfect either… but we are not trying to be world policemen.
We are all in this together, we should try to change things to make them more fair. I’m criticizing the US gov. simply because it’s the world’s only superpower, and with that comes a large responsability.
Other countries have their crimes too (The UK, France, China and Russia come to mind), and we should not forget about those either.

It just sickens me to my stomatch when I hear the US president talk about "democracy" and "promoting human rights", when they haven’t even apologized for what they have done and are still doing, and people like Kissinger are allowed to walk the streets freely when they should be on trial for crimes against humanity.

You need no answer. Your question is a smart and informative statement. I’m a US citizen and I want much more for my country than this mess. I also want more for the world even if it means a few million dollars less to a few Americans who don’t even speak for us. They are supposed to be our servants, but we’re the ones going to work and paying half our money without any say as to what global atrocities are done with it. It’s a shame b/c this was and still can be the greatest country of all time. If we take care of the US and not just the interest of a few people, there would be peace on earth and we’ll have less domestic problems to boot. I’m actually uncomfortable typing these words in the land of the free. That makes me want to CRY!

1) Indo-Europeans and Semites were people who were defined by their:

a. racial characteristics
b. religious beliefs
c. linguistic origins
d. warlike characteristics

2) The significance of classical Greek civilization for the modern world is primarily that:

a. they introduced a monotheistic and ethical religion for the first time.
b. they established a universal law code which helped them to unify and rule over a great empire.
c. they were the first society to introduce agriculture.
d. at the height of the classical period, they were explaining the world in natural and philosophical ways.

3) The significance of the Hebrew civilization for the modern world is primarily that:

a. they introduced a monotheistic and ethical religion for the first time.
b. they established a universal law code which helped them to unify and rule over a great empire.
c. they were the first society to introduce agriculture.
d. at the height of the classical period, they were explaining the world in natural and philosophical ways.

4) The most impressive achievement of Hellenistic civilization in the economic realm was:

a. an industrial revolution.
b. a switch to a sophisticated consumer society.
c. blocking the overland trade with India and Arabia.
d. the creation of a broad commercial network extending from the Iranian plateau to the Atlantic Ocean.

5) Which of the following statements about farm and village life during the turmoil of the third century A.D. is true?

a. Crime decreased
b. Corruption and lawlessness increased
c. The villas (large, self-sufficient estates) disintegrated.
d. Small landholdings increased.

Can someone help me with this?

1. C
2. D
3. A
4. D?
5. No idea

International Herald Tribune
APEC unlikely to accept binding gas targets in climate change fight: Australian minister

The Associated Press
Friday, August 17, 2007

CANBERRA, Australia: APEC member nations will not accept greenhouse gas emission targets to fight global climate change and creating energy-efficient economies is the way forward, Australia’s environment minister said Saturday.

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will focus on improving energy efficiency instead of setting specific gas emission reduction targets as the 1997 Kyoto Protocol did, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

"Most of the fast-growing industrializing economies, China being the classic case … are not going to agree to binding targets on the basis of the Kyoto model," Turnbull said.

The comments came a day after the environmental group Greenpeace said it obtained a proposed draft declaration circulated by Australia among APEC member states ahead of September’s annual meeting in Sydney.

The draft, viewed by The Associated Press on Friday, said Asia-Pacific governments have been asked to improve energy efficiency and increase forest cover throughout the region to stop climate change.

However, no mention was made of mandatory targets to cut the amount of heat-trapping gasses released by human activity into the atmosphere.

Greenpeace criticized the plan saying without binding limits, climate change will continue unchecked.

"Business needs certainty and setting targets that mean people generally need to do better just aren’t going to happen," Greenpeace energy campaigner Ben Pearson said Saturday.

Turnbull said focusing on energy efficiency — such as redesigning buildings so they are less reliant on electric lighting and air conditioning — was the way forward.

"The battle against global warming occurs on many fronts," he said. "If you use 25 percent less energy to get the same amount of economic product, then you’ve naturally … made a very significant decrease in the amount of CO2."

According to the draft, APEC would agree to "work toward the goal" of reducing energy intensity — the amount of energy used to create a gross domestic product — by 25 percent by 2030.

It also described an "aspirational goal" of expanding forest cover across the APEC region by 20 million hectares by 2020.

Pearson described the energy efficiency plan as "business as usual," saying improved efficiency is inevitable in a growing economy.

In May, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the U.N. network of more than 2,000 scientists — released its fourth report, warning that global warming would increase the number of extreme weather events and cause more natural disasters that will hit the poor hardest.

Global surface temperatures in January were the highest since records began, according to data compiled by the World Meteorological Organization.

Climate change will top the agenda at the annual APEC leaders’ forum in Sydney in September.

it doesn’t surprise me

I have thousands of paintings, like some of which miracleworx and I have published already, having effect on Computers inner world as a solution accelerator. Applicable anywhere we want, for everybody, but IBM’s hesitation to make me an offer lresulted in an attempt, to phish me out through the Microsoft Network. Because , I prefer to put my Synergy, in El Salvador, Venezuela, Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan as recipients and Economic boost, because The European Western World, is a very Criminal Professional World. …
Lenovo in El Salvador, who are interested have ordered IBM to handle affairs, but all they do is try to steal my stuff.
For the Centrino chip, they build, I suggest to add a collection of the paintings, that act as an accelerator, but also have a capacity, to recallibrate Windows sytem and driver, as I have noticed. Internet Explorer loves to open up in Paint. A new hobby, because browing and exchanging, has given my buddy Explorer trust in me, in mr. Miracleworx ..
Miracleworx alias Wonderllbe, Artists and my teacher in the beginning.Phototshop 6 says he’s the best friend a female feeling Program can have and as far as Gender is concerned, Programs Installed in a configuration, that is used, to let The World benefit, of Whatever we can make, also has its value, to inspire Computer Industry on the specific Level where Co-opereation with Humans, busts the bubble Time and Time again, causing unjust revolutions, because the countries Poverty, is being abused by a few Ziljonairs Weapon producers, who have lost one of their most precious Chaos Networks participants in a Victor Bout ho’s being held in Tayland, and hopes his impunity will carry him out of jail again, even though he might have been caught in the Only place where he was not allowed to go…Buying services from little children without enough weight to raise their voice
In addition, think people…. Think Hard and harder…. This Stalemate also involves my own Corrupt Dutch Government, who’s Leader Balkenende prefers my untimely demise as if it will help him stay in power with a Computer Systems Network, that has no wishes to obey such a Government anymore, and Netherlands Network is on the Blink. My provider needs my computer Infinity to keep their link up with the Web going…
At The Core of Dutch Society, Providership and Telecom, have been locked out, and they keep themselves in Charge, by deliberately abusing Computers and their Networks Connections.

If you are painting you better get a copyright on them or its free game for anyone.

1. Which of the following technological advances in the 1990s was most influential in popularizing cellular phones?
A. Large-scale cellular networks
B. Satellite technology
C. Wireless digital technology
D. Microprocessors

2. What technological advance had a significant affect on consumer products in the 1990s, often allowing products to connect to each other and to computers?
A. Digital technology
B. Internet technology
C. Wireless technology
D. Cable technology

3. What technological advance in the 1990s made the Internet accessible to the public at large?
A. E-mail
B. The World Wide Web
C. Blogs
D. Laptop computers

4. What technological advances made telecommuting possible in the 1990s?
A. The integrated circuit and cellular phones
B. Microprocessors and satellite dishes
C. Home computers and e-mail
D. The World Wide Web and blogs

5. The worldwide network of computers connected by phone lines, cable lines, and wireless communications widely used by the general public since the 1990s is called
A. ARPANET.
B. the Internet.
C. Local Area Network.
D. Large Area Network.

6. What was created in the 1990s as a result of the increasing popularity of the World Wide Web?
A. A slump in traditional store sales
B. A digital revolution
C. Highly interactive personal video game devices
D. A dot-com economy

7. What technological advance made smaller home computers, like the Apple II, possible?
A. Microprocessors
B. Digital cables
C. Transistor
D. Satellite dishes

8. What was developed in the 1990s that is used on the World Wide Web to access different Web sites and pages on the Internet?
A. MS-DOS
B. Hypertext
C. ARPANET
D. Operating system

9. What foreign policy event took place in Ohio during President Clinton’s first term in office?
A. Negotiations to stop the fighting in Kosovo, known as the NATO Alliance Treaty
B. Peace talks to end the war in Bosnia, which became a plan called the Dayton Accords
C. Meetings to discuss unresolved issues between Israel and Palestine, called the Cleveland Summit
D. Discussions to bring a democratic government back to power in Haiti, known as the Fight for Democracy

10. In his first term in office, Clinton’s economic policy included raising taxes because
A. Republicans in Congress convinced him it was necessary for balancing the budget.
B. he needed to pay for his new national health care plan.
C. he had promised to raise taxes during the 1992 campaign.
D. he did not want to cut entitlement programs.

11. What event occurred as a result of the 1995 standoff over the new federal budget between Clinton and congressional Republicans?
A. Clinton backed down and allowed Republicans to pass their budget.
B. The federal government shut down for lack of funds.
C. The president lost the support of many Americans.
D. Republicans created the Contract with America to fund social programs.

12. Which of the following successful legislative initiatives during Clinton’s administration most helped parents?
A. Brady Bill
B. Housing Relief Bill
C. Family Medical Leave Act
D. Welfare Reform Act

13. As President Clinton’s popularity declined near the 1994 midterm elections, what did Republicans in Congress do?
A. They proposed the Balanced Budget proposal.
B. They created the Contract with America.
C. They established the AmeriCorps program.
D. They ratified the Alliance for Progress.

14. Which major policy proposal during Clinton’s first term as president was opposed by many groups, and was never voted on by Congress?
A. Gun control reform
B. Welfare reform
C. Health care reform
D. Tax reform

15. Choose the statement below that most accurately describes the result of Clinton’s impeachment trials, a significant event in his second administration.
A. Clinton was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
B. Clinton was impeached and removed from office.
C. Clinton was not impeached, but chose to resign from office because of negative public opinion.
D. Clinton was not impeached, but was only charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.

16. A significant foreign policy event occurred during President Clinton’s administration in 1993 when Israeli and Palestinian leaders met in Washington D.C. to sign
A. the Gaza Truce, which brought an end to fighting in the Gaza Strip.
B. the Wye Agreement, which established new borders between Israel and Syria.
C. the Camp David Accords, creating peace between Israel and Egypt.
D. the Declaration of Principles, to create a Palestinian government.

17. Which of the following legislative acts caused a great increase in immigration to the United States?
A. The McCarran-Walter Act
B. The Immigration Act of 1965
C. The Open Door Act
D. The Migration

i deff. dunnoo how to answer these ?’s but u can try typing them in a google search and see what happens from there……… most teachers dont want to work so they find some ?’s online and stick em onto their tests, etc.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – France on Wednesday led a walkout of a dozen delegations, including the United States, to protest a fiery speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN General Assembly.

"It is disappointing that Mr Ahmadinejad has once again chosen to espouse hateful, offensive and anti-Semitic rhetoric," Mark Kornblau, spokesman to the US mission to the United Nations, said in a statement.

Delegations from Argentina, Australia, Britain, Costa Rica, Denmark, France Germany, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand and the United States left the room as Ahmadinejad began to rail against Israel, a European source said.

Israel had already called for a boycott of the speech, and was not present when the Iranian leader began his address. Canada had already said it would heed the boycott call.

In his address, Ahmadinejad again took aim at Israel without mentioning the country or Jews by name, referring only to the "Zionist regime."

The firebrand leader, re-elected in disputed June elections, accused Israel of "inhumane policies in Palestine."

"How can the crimes of the occupiers against defenseless women and children… be supported unconditionally by certain governments," Ahmadinejad asked.

"And at the same time, the oppressed men and women be subject to genocide and heaviest economic blockade being denied their basic needs, food, water and medicine?"

A French diplomat told AFP the Iranian leader’s speech was "unacceptable," adding that European delegations had co-ordinated their action in advance if they found parts of the address unpalatable.

Suggesting there was a Jewish conspiracy, Ahmadinejad added: "It is no longer acceptable that a small minority would dominate the politics, economy and culture of major parts of the world by its complicated networks."

And he accused Jews of seeking to "establish a new form of slavery, and harm the reputation of other nations, even European nations and the US, to attain its racist ambitions."

May God help us survive from this fierce dwarf dictator!

My college introduction to journalism class is about to our first interview, I have no idea what questions to ask, if anyone could give me some tips, id appreciate it. The interview will be of Kelli Arena of CNN. Heres the information i have so far on her:

"For more than 20 years, Emmy award winning correspondent Kelli Arena has reported on major news stories for the world’s leading television news network – CNN. From 9/11 to the Tokyo sarin gas attacks, the Soviet coup attempt in 1991 to the U-S election debacle of 2000, the market crash of 1987 to the economic downturn in 2008 – Arena has covered the most important stories of the last two decades.
Arena has lived in and reported from the centers of global power, Tokyo, New York, London and Washington D.C. – as well as the forgotten corners of the world. Her expertise is in terrorism, national security, justice, law enforecement and finance, but she has been called upon to report a wide variety of breaking and developing stories."

so based upon that information, what sort of questions can i ask??

remember

who
what
where
when
why

read thru the info and delete all extraneous info. so you have: kelli arena, emmy award winner, broadcast journalist, expert on terrorism, national security, justice, law enforcement and finance, reported on 9/11, sarin gas in tokyo etc.

where is she from, what interested her in journalism? where was she educated? how did she break into the business? where has she gained her expertise in those various fields?

now that you have the particulars you want meat on the bones and colour in the picture. zone in on some specifics. since it is one of those daysof which everyone will remember where they were, etc., ask her where she was on 9/11 – what were her thoughts, her feelings, etc. etc.
ask her how one can cover a calamity of such magnitude and remain reasonably calm, not break down – or did she break down? it would be perfectly understandable.

now see if she will speculate about the future of – pick one of the events she has covered and in which she has expertise.

lastly, ask her what advice she would give to young people contemplating a job such as hers.

and if she says something that is particularly quoteworthy, use it in your lead.

WHat is the usefulness of the Rostow model in understanding contemporary social and economic change with reference to A country’s role in the world economy, colonial transportation networks, cultural differences, local social and class structures

examples from : Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia

PLEASEEEE i really need help this is due tomorrow!

Download these PDF might be useful

http://www.grips.ac.jp/csids/report/report04.pdf

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/ROSTOW/rostow1.pdf

Rostow’s Model- the Stages of Economic Development

Stage 1 Traditional Society
The economy is dominated by subsistence activity where output is consumed by producers rather than traded. Any trade is carried out by barter where goods are exchanged directly for other goods. Agriculture is the most important industry and production is labour intensive using only limited quantities of capital. Resource allocation is determined very much by traditional methods of production.

Stage 2 Transitional Stage (the preconditions for takeoff)
Increased specialisation generates surpluses for trading. There is an emergence of a transport infrastructure to support trade. As incomes, savings and investment grow entrepreneurs emerge. External trade also occurs concentrating on primary products.

Stage 3 Take Off
Industrialisation increases, with workers switching from the agricultural sector to the manufacturing sector. Growth is concentrated in a few regions of the country and in one or two manufacturing industries. The level of investment reaches over 10% of GNP.

The economic transitions are accompanied by the evolution of new political and social institutions that support the industrialisation. The growth is self-sustaining as investment leads to increasing incomes in turn generating more savings to finance further investment.

Stage 4 Drive to Maturity
The economy is diversifying into new areas. Technological innovation is providing a diverse range of investment opportunities. The economy is producing a wide range of goods and services and there is less reliance on imports.

Stage 5 High Mass Consumption
The economy is geared towards mass consumption. The consumer durable industries flourish. The service sector becomes increasingly dominant.

According to Rostow development requires substantial investment in capital. For the economies of LDCs to grow the right conditions for such investment would have to be created. If aid is given or foreign direct investment occurs at stage 3 the economy needs to have reached stage 2. If the stage 2 has been reached then injections of investment may lead to rapid growth.

Limitations
Many development economists argue that Rostows’s model was developed with Western cultures in mind and not applicable to LDCs. It addition its generalised nature makes it somewhat limited. It does not set down the detailed nature of the pre-conditions for growth. In reality policy makers are unable to clearly identify stages as they merge together. Thus as a predictive model it is not very helpful. Perhaps its main use is to highlight the need for investment. Like many of the other models of economic developments it is essentially a growth model and does not address the issue of development in the wider context.

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Israeli Lobby In America:Corruption of The American Politician
"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture." — Michael Medved, well-known Jewish author and respected film critic.

For decades Israel has violated well established precepts of international law and defied numerous United Nations resolutions in its occupation of conquered lands, in extra-judicial killings, and in its repeated acts of military aggression.

Most of the world regards Israel’s policies, and especially its oppression of Palestinians, as outrageous and criminal. This international consensus is reflected, for example, in numerous UN resolutions condemning Israel, which have been approved with overwhelming majorities.

"The whole world," United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan recently said, "is demanding that Israel withdraw [from occupied Palestinian territories]. I don’t think the whole world … can be wrong." [note 1]

Only in the United States do politicians and the media still fervently support Israel and its policies. For decades the US has provided Israel with crucial military, diplomatic and financial backing, including more than $3 billion each year in aid.

Why is the U.S. the only remaining bastion of support for Israel?

Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, has candidly identified the reason: "The Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticize it is to be immediately dubbed anti-Semitic," he said. "People are scared in this country, to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful — very powerful." [note 2]

Bishop Tutu spoke the truth. Although Jews make up only about three percent of the US population, they wield immense power and influence — vastly more than any other ethnic or religious group.

As Jewish author and political science professor, Benjamin Ginsberg, has pointed out: [note 3]

"Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in American economic, cultural, intellectual and political life. Jews played a central role in American finance during the 1980s, and they were among the chief beneficiaries of that decade’s corporate mergers and reorganizations."

Today, though barely two percent of the nation’s population is Jewish, close to half its billionaires are Jews. The chief executive officers of the three major television networks and the four largest film studios are Jews, as are the owners of the nation’s largest newspaper chain and the most influential single newspaper, the New York Times … The role and influence of Jews in American politics is equally marked.

Jews are only two percent of the nation’s population yet comprise eleven percent of what this study defines as the nation’s elite. However, Jews constitute more than 25 percent of the elite journalists and publishers, more than 17 percent of the leaders of important voluntary and public interest organizations, and more than 15 percent of the top ranking civil servants.

Stephen Steinlight, former Director of National Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, similarly notes the "disproportionate political power" of Jews, which is "pound for pound the greatest of any ethnic/cultural group in America." He goes on to explain that "Jewish economic influence and power are disproportionately concentrated in Hollywood, television, and in the news industry." [note 4]

Two well-known Jewish writers, Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab, pointed out in their 1995 book, Jews and the New American Scene: [note 5]

"During the last three decades Jews [in the United States] have made up 50 percent of the top two hundred intellectuals … 20 percent of professors at the leading universities … 40 percent of partners in the leading law firms in New York and Washington … 59 percent of the directors, writers, and producers of the 50 top-grossing motion pictures from 1965 to 1982, and 58 percent of directors, writers, and producers in two or more primetime television series."

The influence of American Jewry in Washington, notes the Israeli daily Jerusalem Post, is "far disproportionate to the size of the community, Jewish leaders and U.S. official acknowledge. But so is the amount of money they contribute to [election] campaigns." One member of the influential Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations "estimated Jews alone had contributed 50 percent of the funds for [President Bill] Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign." [note 6]

"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture," acknowledges Michael Medved, a well-known Jewish author and film critic. "Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names." [note 7]

One person who has carefully studied this subject is Jonathan J. Goldberg, now editor of the influential Jewish community weekly ‘Forward.’ In his 1996 book, Jewish Power, he wrote: [note 8]

"In a few key sectors of the media, notably among Hollywood studio executives, Jews are so numerically dominant that calling these businesses Jewish-controlled is little more than a statistical observation … Hollywood at the end of the twentieth century is still an industry with a pronounced ethnic tinge. Virtually all the senior executives at the major studios are Jews. Writers, producers, and to a lesser degree directors are disproportionately Jewish — one recent study showed the figure as high as 59 percent among top-grossing films."

The combined weight of so many Jews in one of America’s most lucrative and important industries gives the Jews of Hollywood a great deal of political power. They are a major source of money for Democratic candidates.

Reflecting their role in the American media, Jews are routinely portrayed as high-minded, altruistic, trustworthy, compassionate, and deserving of sympathy and support. While millions of Americans readily accept such stereotyped imagery, not everyone is impressed.

"I am very angry with some of the Jews," complained actor Marlon Brando during a 1996 interview. "They know perfectly well what their responsibilities are … Hollywood is run by Jews. It’s owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering." [note 9]

A Well-Entrenched Factor

The intimidating power of the "Jewish lobby" is not a new phenomenon, but has long been an important factor in American life.

In 1941 Charles Lindbergh spoke about the danger of Jewish power in the media and government. The shy 39-year-old — known around the world for his epic 1927 New York to Paris flight, the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing — was addressing 7,000 people in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 11, 1941, about the dangers of US involvement in the war then raging in Europe. The three most important groups pressing America into war, he explained, were the British, the Jews, and the Roosevelt administration.

Of the Jews, he said: "Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government." Lindbergh went on:

"For reasons which are understandable from their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, [they] wish to involve us in the war. We cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own interests, but we must also look out for ours. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction."

In 1978, Jewish American scholar Alfred M. Lilienthal wrote in his detailed study, The Zionist Connection: [note 10]

"How has the Zionist will been imposed on the American people?… It is the Jewish connection, the tribal solidarity among themselves and the amazing pull on non-Jews, that has molded this unprecedented power … In the larger metropolitan areas, the Jewish-Zionist connection thoroughly pervades affluent financial, commercial, social, entertainment, and art circles."

As a result of the Jewish grip on the media, wrote Lilienthal, news coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict in American television, newspapers and magazines is relentlessly sympathetic to Israel. This is manifest, for example, in the misleading portrayal of Palestinian "terrorism." As Lilienthal put it: "One-sided reportage on terrorism, in which cause is never related to effect, was assured because the most effective component of the Jewish connection is probably that of media control."

One-Sided ‘Holocaust’ History

The Jewish hold on cultural and academic life has had a profound impact on how Americans look at the past. Nowhere is the well-entrenched Judeocentric view of history more obvious than in the "Holocaust" media campaign, which focuses on the fate of Jews in Europe during World War II.

Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer, a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has remarked: [note 11]

"Whether presented authentically or inauthentically, in accordance with the historical facts or in contradiction to them, with empathy and understanding or as monumental kitsch, the Holocaust has become a ruling symbol of our culture … Hardly a month goes by without a new TV production, a new film, a new drama, new books, prose or poetry, dealing with the subject, and the flood is increasing rather than abating."

Non-Jewish suffering simply does not merit comparable attention. Overshadowed in the focus on Jewish victimization are, for example, the tens of millions of victims of America’s World War II ally, Stalinist Russia, along with the tens of millions of victims of China’s Maoist regime, as well as the 12 to 14 million Germans, victims of the flight and expulsion of 1944-1949, of whom some two million lost their lives.

The well-financed Holocaust media and "educational" campaign is crucially important to the interests of Israel. Paula Hyman, a professor of modern Jewish history at Yale University, has observed: "With regard to Israel, the Holocaust may be used to forestall political criticism and suppress debate; it reinforces the sense of Jews as an eternally beleaguered people who can rely for their defense only upon themselves. The invocation of the suffering endured by the Jews under the Nazis often takes the place of rational argument, and is expected to convince doubters of the legitimacy of current Israeli government policy." [note 12]

Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish scholar who has taught political science at City University of New York (Hunter College), says in his book, ‘The Holocaust Industry,’ that "invoking The Holocaust" is "a ploy to delegitimize all criticism of Jews."[note 13] "By conferring total blamelessness on Jews, the Holocaust dogma immunizes Israel and American Jewry from legitimate censure. … Organized Jewry has exploited the Nazi holocaust to deflect criticism of Israel’s and its own morally indefensible policies." He writes of the brazen "shakedown" of Germany, Switzerland and other countries by Israel and organized Jewry "to extort billions of dollars." "The Holocaust," Finkelstein predicts, "may yet turn out to be the ‘greatest robbery in the history of mankind’."

Jews in Israel feel free to act brutally against Arabs, writes Israeli journalist Ari Shavit, "believing with absolute certitude that now, with the White House, the Senate and much of the American media in our hands, the lives of others do not count as much as our own." [note 14]

Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has spoken with blunt exasperation about the Jewish-Israeli hold on the United States: [note 15]

"I’ve never seen a President — I don’t care who he is — stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn’t writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens certainly don’t have any idea what goes on."

Today, the danger is greater than ever. Israel and Jewish organizations, in collaboration with this country’s pro-Zionist Christian fundamentalist "amen corner," are prodding the United States — the world’s foremost military and economic power — into new wars against Israel’s enemies.

As the French ambassador in London recently acknowledged, Israel — which he called (a quote which shocked millions -ed) "that ****ty little country" — is a threat to world peace. "Why should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?," he said. [note 16]

In summation:

Jews wield immense power and influence in the United States.

The "Jewish lobby" is a decisive factor in US support for Israel.

Jewish-Zionist interests are not identical to American interests. In fact, they often conflict.

As long as the "very powerful" Jewish lobby remains entrenched, there will be no end to the systematic Jewish-Zionist distortion of current affairs and history, the Jewish-Zionist domination of the U.S. political system, Zionist oppression of Palestinians, the bloody conflict between Jews and non-Jews in the Middle East, and the Israeli threat to peace.

Notes

1. Quoted in Forward (New York City), April 19, 2002, p. 11. 2. D. Tutu, "Apartheid in the Holy Land," The Guardian (Britain), April 29, 2002. 3. Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State (University of Chicago, 1993), pp. 1, 103. 4. S. Steinlight, "The Jewish Stake in America’s Changing Demography: Reconsidering a Misguided Immigration Policy," Center for Immigration Studies , Nov. 2001. http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back130… 5. Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, Jews and the New American Scene (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995), pp. 26-27. 6. Janine Zacharia, "The Unofficial Ambassadors of the Jewish State," The Jerusalem Post (Israel), April 2, 2000. Reprinted in "Other Voices," June 2000, p. OV-4, a supplement to The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. 7. M. Medved, "Is Hollywood Too Jewish?," Moment, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1996), p. 37. 8. Jonathan Jeremy Goldberg, Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment (Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp. 280, 287-288. See also pp. 39-40, 290-291. 9. Interview with Larry King, CNN network, April 5, 1996. "Brando Remarks," Los Angeles Times, April 8, 1996, p. F4 (OC). A short time later, Brando was obliged to apologize for his remarks. 10. A. Lilienthal, The Zionist Connection (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978), pp. 206, 218, 219, 229. 11. From a 1992 lecture, published in: David Cesarani, ed., The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 305, 306. 12. Paula E. Hyman, "New Debate on the Holocaust," The New York Times Magazine , Sept. 14, 1980, p. 79. 13. Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry (London, New York: Verso, 2000), pp. 130, 138, 139, 149. 14. The New York Times, May 27, 1996. Shavit is identified as a columnist for Ha’aretz, a Hebrew-language Israeli daily newspaper, "from which this article is adapted." 15. Interview with Moorer, Aug. 24, 1983. Quoted in: Paul Findley, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby (Lawrence Hill, 1984 and 1985), p. 161. 16. D. Davis, "French Envoy to UK: Israel Threatens World Peace," Jerusalem Post, Dec. 20, 2001. The French ambassador is Daniel Bernard.6/02

About the author

Mark Weber is director of the Institute for Historical Review. He studied history at the University of Illinois (Chicago), the University of Munich, Portland State University and Indiana University (M.A., 1977). For nine years he served as editor of the IHR’s Journal of Historical Review. www.ihr.org

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strictly militant, exactly, are you a muslim brother
rz, being against the state of israel doesnt make one anti-jew, i can see the media has brainwashd you already
my point is not that israel is attacking the US militarily, but that why is it that israeli money is able to buy politicians votes and that takes precedence over the United States citizens

It’s right for Israel, and that’s all that matters.
As we speak, European/Russian Jews build luxury villas on occupied Palestinian land at the expense of the US tax payer.