Peaceful Buddhist Terrorist Navy Yard Shooter Aaron Alexis What We Don’t Know?
Peaceful Buddhist Navy Yard Shooter Aaron Alexis What We Don’t Know?
Just Thirteen are dead at the Washington Navy Yard after a gunman opened fire Monday morning. But who was Aaron Alexis? From his Buddhism to his Navy career, Nina Strochlic on what we know so far.
It’s now being called one of the top 12 deadliest shooting sprees in America. But before Aaron Alexis opened fire at Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning, killing 12 before being shot to death by law enforcement, he was a peaceful Buddhist, friends say. Clues to his motives are sparse, but Nina Strochlic runs down six things we know about him so far.
This handout photo provided by the FBI shows Aaron Alexis. Alexis launched an attacked Monday morning inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard, spraying gunfire on office workers in the cafeteria and in hallways, authorities said. At least 13 people were killed, including Alexis. (AP; Getty)
(1) He was a New York City native living in Washington, D.C.
Alexis spent four years in the Navy, mostly based at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve in Ft. Worth, Texas, before being discharged in January 2011. During that time, he rose to a petty officer third class as an aviation electrician’s mate and received the National Defense Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, which apparently are commonly awarded to military personnel. The reasons behind his discharge are unclear, but a former landlord says Alexis told him he quit because “somebody doesn’t like me.” A Navy official told ABC Alexis’s departure was due to a number of misconduct problems.
(3) He had an arrest record.
A year prior to leaving the Navy, Alexis was arrested for allegedly discharging a firearm within the city limits of Ft. Worth, which is considered a Class A misdemeanor. According to the police report, a neighbor called 911 after a shot was fired into her apartment. “June told me that she is terrified of Aaron and feels that this was done intentionally,” the responding officer wrote. Alexis said he was cleaning the gun when it accidentally discharged into the ceiling, and he was taken into custody for questioning. It appears charges were never filed, but his landlords began an eviction process against him shortly after.
In 2004 Alexis was arrested in Seattle for allegedly shooting out a man’s car tires in what police say he called “an anger-fueled ‘blackout’” and claimed not to remember. A detective wrote in the police report that in speaking with Alexis’s father, he learned that Alexis “was an active participant in rescue attempts of September 11th, 2001.” The father also said his son had anger-management problems that were thought to stem from PTSD.
Before authorities identified Alexis as the shooter, media outlets like NBC and CBS made crucial mistakes reporting on the breaking story.
(4) He had a history of mental health issues.
The Veterans Administration had been treating Alexis for mental problems since August. He reportedly suffered from paranoia along with a sleep disorder, and had been hearing voices in his head. The host of ailments didn’t affect his security clearance, which would have been recalled if the Navy declared him mentally unfit.
(5) He was working for a Hewlett-Packard private contractor.
According to Alexis’s father, Algernon, his son was studying and working in a computer job for a private firm in Washington, D.C. On Monday evening Hewlett-Packard said he was employed by a subcontractor called the Experts, which “refreshes equipment used on the Navy Marine Corps Intranet networks.” Though it originally appeared that Alexis wouldn’t have had access to the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command, the secure building where the shooting occurred, the company confirmed that Alexis had security clearance, which had been updated in July. “Discharge from the military does not automatically disqualify a person from getting a job as a military contractor or a security clearance. It depends on what the circumstances are,” said CEO Thomas Hoshko.
(6) He was a hard-drinking Buddhist.
According to Alexis’s landlord, friends, and a former roommate, Alexis was a practicing Buddhist who frequented a temple in Ft. Worth to meditate and help out. He had begun learning Thai and recently returned from a trip to Thailand. The owner of a restaurant where he once worked expressed disbelief, calling Alexis “a 13-year-old stuck in a 34-year-old body” and telling a reporter that Alexis was a heavy drinker who played videogames and always carried a gun. (He also had a concealed-weapons permit.) His friends also appeared incredulous that Alexis could be involved in the violence. One told reporters Alexis “could not be the shooter.” An aunt who says the family hasn’t seen him for a few years said she’d “be shocked if it was him.”
(7) He was a student.
Alexis was earning his bachelor’s degree in aeronautics online at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The school has a branch that caters to military personnel and others seeking “flexible learning” opportunities. He is believed to have taken classes solely online, but the details of his enrollment haven’t been released.
Peaceful Buddhist Navy Yard Shooter Aaron Alexis What We Don’t Know?
Just Thirteen are dead at the Washington Navy Yard after a gunman opened fire Monday morning. But who was Aaron Alexis? From his Buddhism to his Navy career, Nina Strochlic on what we know so far.
It’s now being called one of the top 12 deadliest shooting sprees in America. But before Aaron Alexis opened fire at Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning, killing 12 before being shot to death by law enforcement, he was a peaceful Buddhist, friends say. Clues to his motives are sparse, but Nina Strochlic runs down six things we know about him so far.
This handout photo provided by the FBI shows Aaron Alexis. Alexis launched an attacked Monday morning inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard, spraying gunfire on office workers in the cafeteria and in hallways, authorities said. At…
A Lot Of People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss America Pageant, Now you guys should suck Indian Dicks….. lmfao
Sunday night Nina Davuluri, Miss New York wascrowned the winner the 2014 Miss America Pageant. She is the first contestant of Indian descent to be crowned Miss America
When her win was announced, Twitter immediately exploded with hateful tweets, with people calling her Arab. Can’t believe immigrant themselves calling another immigrant. I don’t what the fuck is that but surely it is the nation of rednecks or perhaps racists.
The Native Americans were the real American the rest just invaded their land.
These were some of the most ignorant responses I’ve ever seen.
-If shes Indian, shes probably Hindu, not Muslim, though whatever her religion is, I don’t see where that makes her a terrorist.
– The president IS American (but the definition of America is a melting pot of cultures. I guess people forget that)
-its an* not a idiot.
– I agree with you completely.
Okay now I’m confused. People say that you can achieve anything you want in this country if you work hard enough. And NOW folks are getting angry at an American who actually did it?
No, you see. Black, brown, yellow, red, and all in-between do not work hard. They get handouts and entitlements. White Americans only work hard. /sarcasm. It’s a bunch of ignorance all around.
Latanya Ivey – exactly but hating black, brown, yellow, red people will only make these second-class citizens more powerful and determined to sweep away everything from those racists…so pathetic to see how some white folks moan!!!
There will always be ignorant people and unfortunately we can’t change them or their outlook. We just have to raise our children to be tolerant individuals and hope that is spreads to eliminate this kind of crass behavior. #Riseabove
Been calling ‘em out, myself. I RARELY use my Twitter account but this was a great reason for me to use it tonight. What morons! these people should be assaulted with porcupines. Mostly because I believe that would hurt like hell.
It’s just, these people are so sheleted that they think that just because somebody doesn’t look like them or talk like them, and because they are american, that the other person must therefore be “un-american”. But that’s not how it works. “American” doesn’t = white. It doesn’t = christian. It doesn’t = tattooed. It doesn’t = you.
OMG! Have all the Americans forgotten that America consists of immigrants from Europe? So, actually a white native Americans doesn’t excist! Native Americans are the ones who lived in America before the Europeans came there. Please, do your history homework. Isn’t America a melting pot? This is so pathetic! Give the winner a break. She won fairly! Oh, and should I mention that India is not an Arab country?
Nina was born in Syracuse, New York, therefore, she is an American. Do your research. This country is full of morons. And with all due respect to the military, I’m quite sick of all the hype surrounding Miss Kansas. She used her military status, tattoos, and archery skills as petty gimmicks, and that’s the only reason people like her. She did not stand out otherwise. Her talent was horrible, and I can attest to that as a classically-trained opera singer, and as an experienced pageant contestant. She picked up that aria as a last resort and I find that very insulting. All I got from her was “Hey, look at me, I’m in the military and have tattoos so I should be Miss America!” They gave her the most publicity, so that’s why people are brainwashed by her. No. Just no. There’s so much more involved in the pageant than what you see on TV.
Look, these are assholes. But there’s only 19 of them (not counting the dude who just seems like a fan of Vail)- they don’t matter. They are nothing. I am genuinely concerned that the energy people put into “calling out” trolls on the internet is sapping our ability to affect real change. This racism is a mosquito bite. The new voter id laws, stop-and-frisk, Arizona’s anti-immigrant laws: these are knife wounds. Get pissed off about that. Talk about that, not this piddly-ass troll shit.
1) Yes, some Americans could learn better spelling in what they call English.
2) Glad to learn that the beautiful and the jerks aren’t geographical hallmarks of any one nation.
3) The American whites themselves do not belong to the U.S.A, most of their ancestors landed there as immigrants, labourers, social rejects and aspirants from the other side of the Atlantic. More from other ethnicities are following suit, centuries later. Period.
4) As an Indian, I’m only glad that Columbus landed in America. It’s divine providence that this gene pool didn’t colonise my nation twice over. We’re managing to do well with homegrown idiots. Thank you.
5) Would I be absolved for making blanket observations about the general awareness of an average American? I’m more or less convinced! (Re-posting for my FB wall)
It’s not surprising that racist people are often willfully ignorant about other cultures and the various ethnic groups that live in America. If they really want a “pure” American to be Miss America, then they should support Native American contestants (or at least contestants who can verify that their families immigrated here a sufficiently long time ago. A hundred years? Two hundred years?). Most people in the U.S. are descended from immigrants. But sadly, I suspect that in most of these people’s minds, “American” means “white.” She could be second-generation German or Swedish, and most of those people probably wouldn’t care.
I don’t know what’s worse… the Miss America pageant itself or those horrible responses. However, not surprising that a large group of ignorant people would be watching that show. The only thing the Miss America pageant teaches people is that you have to be physically perfect to be worth something. And now we’re going to say outright you must be white too? So sad.
I do recall that once upon a time, America was called the “Melting Pot.” What happened to acceptance of others? Give your tired, your weak, your huddled masses? That beautiful woman had nothing to do with 9/11! These women each win for different reasons. Grats Miss America. Still not going to watch in the future though. The pageants bore me to tears.
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I don’t know what’s worse… the Miss America pageant itself or those horrible responses. However, not surprising that a large group of ignorant people would be watching that show. The only thing the Miss America pageant teaches people is that you have to be physically perfect to be worth something. And now we’re going to say outright you must be white too? So sad.
I do recall that once upon a time, America was called the “Melting Pot.” What happened to acceptance of others? Give your tired, your weak, your huddled masses? That beautiful woman had nothing to do with 9/11! These women each win for different reasons. Grats Miss America. Still not going to watch in the future though. The pageants bore me to tears.
After reading all this I almost have the urge to compete in a state competition and try to become the first plus size Miss America. I bet people would go ape-shit crazy that a fat girl won Miss America. I’d love to get my viewpoints out there. Of course I’d probably be the most unorthodox Miss America ever as my talent would probably be something incredibly bizarre or different because I can’t sing, dance, or play an instrument so I’d probably have to settle on something much different.
The ignorance (or just plain intolerance) of some Americans is astounding. Wish people would obtain a heart and a brain before opening their mouths. Good for her though!
With all DO respect, these people need AN lesson in grammar. Also, just because you preface your ignorant statement with, “I’m not racist” does not give you a free pass to be blatantly and disgustingly racist.
“With *DO* respect!” 1) Yes, some Americans could learn better spelling in what they call English.
2) Glad to learn that the beautiful and the jerks aren’t geographical hallmarks of any one nation.
3) The American whites themselves do not belong to the U.S.A, most of their ancestors landed there as immigrants, labourers, social rejects and aspirants from the other side of atlantic. More from other ethnicities are following suit, centuries later. Period.
4) As an Indian, I’m only glad that Columbus landed in America. It’s divine providence that this gene pool didn’t colonise my nation twice over. We’re managing to do well with homegrown idiots already. Thank you.
5) Would I be absolved for making blanket observations about the general awareness of the average American? I’m more or less convinced!
Well said, except:
#3: All non-Native Americans came over as illegal immigrants (i.e. not having permission to settle from the natives).
#4: Columbus never set foot on mainland America. 🙂
I stand corrected, Sohail! Guess they were illegal immigrants because they were social rejects- or of little use to their own society. As for #4, good he didn’t set foot anywhere close to the purported Indian mainland.
People are a bunch of dip shits. America is a melting pot of all different races, cultures, and religions. To say that she is Arab and a terrorist and works at 7-11, and the woman who is a soldier with tattoos and hunts should have won because “that’s the definition of America” needs to reevaluate their dismal lives and their perspective of America. Why do people waste so much energy on hating someone that does not look like they do? I don’t get it. Life is too short to be a bigot.
I’d say Twitter should put an IQ requirement in order for people to activate an account. Maybe even per tweet (think IQ puzzle style CAPTCHA) but this is way too damn entertaining!
Miss North Carolina is a Lumbee, a Native American. She is brown, too. Can’t get much more American than her! So how do y’all “whites only” Americans like THEM crabapples!
GET THE FUCK OVER IT. All of you politically correct lunatics are just disgusting. so, people called her names. Does it directly affect you? NO. The problem with this country is we are so afraid of offending anyone that you PC lunatics want to still apologize for slavery. GET OVER IT. She’s pretty/she won. Let the naysayers bitch all they want. But shut the fuck up. Liberals.
The naysayers have every right to be blithering racist morons, and everybody else with an IQ north of 85 has a right to tell them how utterly stupid they are. Free speech.
The PI lunatics need to stop acting like they are victims of some liberal plot to overthrow their Red, WHITE, and blue nation. Imagine the little AMERICAN girl whose skin is brown and whose parents speak Hindi or some regional Indian dialect and go to Temple. She is seeing and hearing people tell someone who looks just like her that she is not a real American. These types of things are called out by the “PC Liberals”, not because of political correctness, but because these statements are inhuman. This whole “Political Correctness is ruining our country” is a total myth, drummed up by FoxNews and other conservative sources to get their consumers to beat their chests and blindly buy their shitty camouflage products and McDonald’s Chicken Nuggets. This post was not about calling someone an “Indian-American” or “American-Indian”, or “American of Indian Descent.” It was about racist attitudes, WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE TOLERATED IN ANY FORM in this nation founded and shaped by immigrants and their children.
So it’s more disgusting to call people out for blatant, racist, xenophobic attitudes than it is to spew those attitudes like verbal diarrhea? These people are a lot more than ‘naysayers.’
I live in freaking europe and even I know native americans are the “real” americans. they are not blond bimbos who love to shoot bambi’s mother for their entertainment.
Yeah, pick Miss Kansas… the Aryan ideal for Miss America. Way to show you’re not racist, you fucking pigs. Hope the next President is Indian, just to see your twisted little porcine faces on racist Vines, decrying the loss of hegemony your shrinking little universe has.
Idiots! Every single last one of them. And they left proof of their stupidity by publicly announcing how ignorant and backwards they are to the world by posting it on Twitter. It’s people like these, that make the rest of the world think we’re morons.
Get over it, she is the essence of what America is. The beauty of our society, is that it’s so diverse, and doesn’t have a “face”. She is Miss America, she is beautiful, and won rightfully so. It’s awesome that she won, because it couldn’t have happened 25-30 years ago. America is awesome, and she is proof of that statement!
TEHRAN, May 28 (MNA) – Despite the fact that Saudi Arabia is among world’s wealthiest countries; poverty is an undeniable phenomenon in Saudi society.
While Saudi Arabia has wealthiest families, reports show 20 per cent of the population are under poverty line. Few hundred yards beyond the luxurious shopping malls and recreation centers of Riyadh, the beggars are searching for food, and a few miles farther, residents in slum houses in poor neighborhoods of southern Riyadh grapple with poverty to live.
Although Saudi government admits that poverty was a giant to fight with, the realities of the kingdom and problems face poor Saudi citizens had gone unnoticed by many. Exploring these terrains has proved difficult for foreign reporters, and that would be impossible except for the influence of famous individuals, who threaten their lives by walking on the same terrain.
Saudi Arabian government well knows the plights of the poor, but it has done little in providing help to assuage the effect of poverty. Much of the helps provided have been by third party private charity organizations.
Meanwhile, Saudi princes such as Walid bin Talal, one of the wealthiest and greatest investors, live a life of luxury.
Walid bin Talal, a famous Saudi prince and investor, has purchased an Airbus A380 jumbo jet for Saudi Rials 2b ($ 500m).
File photo shows the blurred face of an Israelirabbi charged with repeated sexual assaults of his girl students.
A prominent Israeli rabbi has been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting his three teenage daughters for more than 10 years.
An indictment filed with the al-Quds (Jerusalem) District Court said the suspect began molesting the victims, ages 12 -14, more than 10 years ago.”
The rabbi, who has not yet been publicly named, is reportedly being charged with multiple accounts of sexual assault and invasion of privacy, Israel’s Ynet news website reported on Wednesday.
He was arrested 10 days ago but has been remanded in custody for an additional two days.
An indictment filed with the al-Quds (Jerusalem) District Court said the suspect began molesting the victims, ages 12 -14, more than 10 years ago.
The document said the rabbi sexually abused one of the elder daughters for two years, despite her pleas.
He told the girl they could sleep naked together and also placed a video camera in her room and watched her as she undressed and showered.
The suspect’s daughters are expected to testify against him in court.
Militant Jews have gathered at the grave of Baruch Goldstein to celebrate the sixth anniversary of his massacre of Muslim worshippers in Hebron.The celebrants dressed up as the gunman, wearing army uniforms, doctor’s coats and fake beards.
Israeli settlers read prays at the grave
Goldstein, an immigrant from New York City, had been a physician in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba.Waving semi-automatic weapons in the air, the celebrants danced, sang and read prayers around his grave.”We decided to make a big party on the day he was murdered by Arabs,” said Baruch Marzel, one of about 40 celebrants.The tribute was a macabre twist on the Jewish festival of Purim, when it is a custom to dress in costume and celebrate.Massacre in mosque
In 1994 on Purim, Goldstein stormed a mosque and fired on praying Muslims in the West Bank city’s Tomb of the Patriarchs – a shrine sacred to both Muslims and Jews.
Twenty-nine people died in the attack, and the angry crowd lynched Goldstein in retaliation.
Israeli extremists continue to pay homage at his grave in the nearby Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, where a marble plaque reads: “To the holy Baruch Goldstein, who gave his life for the Jewish people, the Torah and the nation of Israel.”
About 10,000 people had visited the grave since the massacre, Mr Marzel said.
Obamas said he killed Osama to fight terrorism. In reality he has been funding Al Qaeda and now they are larger than ever and spreading around the world from country to country with members joining from many more countries including USA.
Obamas said he killed Osama to fight terrorism. In reality he has been funding Al Qaeda and now they are larger than ever and spreading around the world from country to country with members joining from many more countries including USA.
Since statistics relating to Jewish populations are not everywhere known in precise detail, and approximations for various countries differ widely, it is unknown exactly how many Jews were deported and interned at any one time between the years 1939 – 1945. In general, however, what reliable statistics there are, especially those relating to emigration, are sufficient to show that not a fraction of six million Jews could have been exterminated.
In the first place, this claim cannot remotely be upheld on examination of the European Jewish population figures. According the Chambers Enqclopaedia the total number of Jews living in Nazi Europe in 1959 was 6,500,000. Quite clearly, this would mean that almost the entire number was exterminated. But the Baseler Nachrichten, a neutral Swiss publication employing available Jewish statistical data, establishes that between 1933 and 1945 1,500,000 Jews emigrated to Britain, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Australia, China, India, Palestine and the United States. This is confirmed by the Jewish journalist Bruno Blau, who cites the same figure in the New York Jewish paper Aufbau, August 13, 1948. Of these emigrants, approximately 400,000 came from Germany before September 1939.
This is acknowledged by the World Jewish Congress in its publication Unity in Dispersion (p. 377) which states that: “The majority of the German Jews succeeded in leaving Germany before the war broke out.” In addition to the German Jews, 220,000 of the total 280,000 Austrian Jews had emigrated by September, 1939, while from March 1939 onwards the Institute for Jewish Emigration in Prague had secured the emigration of 260,000 Jews from former Czechoslovakia. In all, only 360,000 Jews remained in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia after September 1939. From Poland, an estimated 560,000 had emigrated prior to the outbreak of war. These figures mean that the number of Jewish emigrants from other European countries (France, the Netherlands, Italy, the counties of eastern Europe etc.) was approximately 120,000.
This exodus of Jews before and during hostilities, therefore, reduces the number of Jews in Europe to approximately 5,000,000. In addition to these emigrants, we must also include the number of Jews who fled to the Soviet Union after 1939, who were later evacuated beyond reach of the German invaders. It will be shown below that the majority of these, about 1,250,000, were migrants from Poland. But apart from Poland, Reitlinger admits that 300,000 other European Jews slipped into Soviet territory between 1939 and 1941. This brings the total of Jewish emigrants to the Soviet Union to about 1,550.000. In Colliers magazine, June 9, 1945, Feiling Foster, writing of the Jews in Russia, explained that “2,200,000 have migrated to the Soviet Union since 1939 to escape from the Nazis,” but our lower estimate is probably more accurate.
Jewish migration td the Soviet Union, therefore, reduces the number of Jews within the sphere` of German occupation to around 3 and 1/2 million, approximately 3,450,000. From these should be deducted those Jews living in neutral European countries who escaped the consequences of the war. According to the 1942 World Almanac (p. 594) the number of Jews living in Gibraltar, Britain, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland and Turkey was 413,128.
Consequently a figure of around 3 million Jews in German occupied Europe is as accurate as the available emigration statistics will allow. Approximately the same number however can be deduced in another way if we examine statistics for the Jewish populations remaining in countries occupied by the Reich. More than half of those Jews who migrated to the Soviet Union after 1939 came from Poland.
It is frequently claimed that the war with Poland added some 3 million Jews to the German sphere of influence and that almost the whole of this Polish Jewish population was “exterminated”. This is a major factual error. The 1931 Jewish population census for Poland put the number of Jews at 2,732,600 (Reitlinger, Die Endlosung, p. 36). Reitlinger states that at least 1,170,000 of these were in the Russian zone occupied in the autumn of 1939, about a million of whom were evacuated to the Urals and south Siberia after the German invasion of June 1941 (ibid. p. 50). As described above, an estimated 500,000 Jews had emigrated from Poland prior to the war. Moreover the journalist Raymond Arthur Davies, who spent the war in the Soviet Union, observed that approximately 250,000 had already fled from German-occupied Poland to Russia behveen 1939 and 1941 and were to be encountered in every Soviet province (Odyssey through Hell, N.Y., 1946, p. 102). Subtracting these figures from the population of 2,732,600 therefore, and allowing for the normal population increase, no more than 1,100,000 Polish Jews could have been under German rule at the end of 1939 (Gutachen des Instituts fur Zeitgeschichte, Munich, 1956, p. 80).
To this number we may add the 360,000 Jews remaining in Germany, Austria and former Czechoslovakia (Bohemia-Moravia and Slovakia) after the extensive emigration from those countries prior to the war described above. Of the 320,000 French Jews, the Public Prosecutor representing that part of the indictment relating to France at the Nuremberg Trials, stated that 120,000 Jews were deported, though Reitlinger estimates only about 50,000.
Thus the total number of Jews under Nazi rule remains below two million. Deportations from the Scandinavian countries were few and from Bulgaria none at all. When the Jewish populations of Holland (140,000), Belgium (40,000), Italy (50,000), Yugoslavia (55,000), Hungary (380,000) and Romania (725,000) are included, the figure does not much exceed 3 million. This excess is due to the fact that the latter figures were prewar estimates unaffected by emigration, which from these countries accounted for about 120,000 (see above). This cross-checking therefore confirms the estimate of approximately 3 million European Jews under German occupation.
The precise figures concerning Russian Jews are unknown and have therefore been the subject of extreme exaggeration. The Jewish statistician Jacob Leszczynski states that in 1939 there were 2,100,000 Jews living in future German occupied Russia i.e. western Russia. In addition, some 260,000 lived in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. According to Loui Levine, President of the American Jewish Council for Russian Relief, who made a post-war tour of the Soviet Union and submitted a report on the status of Jews there, the majority of these number were evacuated east after the German armies launched their invasion.
In Chicago, on October 30, 1946, he declared that “At the outset of the war, Jews were amongst the first evacuated from the western regions threatened by the Hitlerite invaders – shipped to safety east of the Urals. Two million Jews were thus saved.” This high number is confirmed by the Jewish journalist David Bergelson, who wrote in the Moscow Yiddish paper Ainikeit December 5, 1942, that “Thanks to the evacuation, the majority (80%) of the Jews in the Ukraine, White Russia, Lithuania and Latvia before the arrival of the Germans were rescued.
Reitlinger agrees with the Jewish authority Joseph Schechtmann who admits that huge numbers were evacuated, though he estimates a slightly higher number of Russian and Baltic Jews left under German occupation, between 650,000 and 850,000 (Reitlinger, The Final Solution, p. 499). In respect of these Soviet Jews remaining in German territory, it will be proved later that in the war in Russia no more than one hundred thousand persons were killed by the German Action Groups as partisans and Bolshevik commissars, not all of whom were Jews. By contrast, the partisans themselves claimed to have murdered five times that number of German troops. ‘
SIX MILLION’ UNTRUE SAY NEUTRAL SWISS
It is clear therefore that the Germans could not possibly have gained control over, or exterminated, anything like six million Jews. Excluding the Soviet Union, the number of Jews in Nazi occupied Europe after emigration was scarcely more than three million, by no means all of whom were interned. To approach the extermination of even half of six million would have meant the liquidation of every Jew living in Europe. And yet it is known that large numbers of Jews were alive in Europe after 1945. Philip Friedmann in Their Brother’s Keepers (N.Y., 1957, p. 13) states that “at least a million Jews survived in the very crucible of the Nazi hell,” while the official figure of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is 1,559,600. Thus, even if one accepts the latter estimate, the number of possible wartime Jewish deaths could not possibly have exceeded a limit of one and a half million.
Precisely this conclusion was reached by the reputable journal Baseler Nachrichten of neutral Switzerland. In an article entitled “We hoch ist die Zahl der jiidischen Opfer?” (“How high is the number of Jewish victims?”, June 13, 1946), it explained that purely on the basis of the population and emigration figures described above, a maximum of only one and a half million Jews could be numbered as casualties. Later on however it will be demonstrated that the number was actually far less, for the Baseler Nachrichten accepted the Joint Distribution Committee’s figure of 1,559,600 survivors after the war, but we shall show that the number of claims for compensation by Jewish survivors is more than double that figure. This information was not available to the Swiss in 1946.
IMPOSSIBLE BIRTH RATE
Indisputable evidence is also provided by the post-war world Jewish population statistics. The World Almanac of 1938 gives the number of Jews in the world as 16,588,259. But after the war the New York Times, Febuary 22, 1948, placed the number of Jews in the world at a minimum of 15,000,000 and a maximum of 18,000,000. Quite obviously, these figures make it impossible for the number of Jewish war-time casualties to be measured in anything but thousands. Fifteen and a half million in 1938 minus the alleged six million leaves nine million; the New York Times figures would mean, therefore, that the world’s Jews produced seven million births, almost doubling their numbers, in the space of ten years. This is patently ridiculous.
It would appear therefore that the great majority of the missing “six million” were in fact emigrants – emigrants to European countries, to the Soviet Union and the United States before, during and after the war. And emigrants also, in vast numbers to Palestine during and especially at the end of the war. After 1945 boat-loads of Jewish survivors entered Palestine illegally from Europe, causing considerable embarrassment to the British Government of the time; indeed, so great were the numbers that H.M. Stationery Office publication No. 190 (November 5, 1946) described them as “almost.amounting to a second Exodus.” It was these emigrants to all parts of the world who had swollen the world Jewish population to between 15 and 18 millions by 1948, and probably the greatest part of them were emigrants to the United States who entered in violation of the quota laws.
On August 16, 1963 David Ben Gurion, President of Israel, stated that although the official Jewish population of America was said to be 5,600,000, “the total number would not be estimated too high at 9,000,000” (Deutsche Wochenzeitung, Novemher 23, 1963). The reason for this high figure is underlined by Albert Maisal in his article “Our Newest Americans” (Readers Digest, January, 1957) for he reveals that “Soon after World War II, by Presidential decree, 90 per cent of all quota visas for central and eastern Europe were issued to the uprooted.” Reproduced on the prior page is just one extract from hundreds that regularly appear in the obituary columns of Aufbau, the Jewish American weekly published in New York (June 16, 1972). It shows how Jewish emigrants to the United States subsequently changed their names; their former names when in Europe appear in brackets. For example, as shown: Arthur Kingsley (formerly Dr. Konigsberger of Frankfurt). Could it be that some or all of these people whose names are ‘deceased’ were included in the missing six million of Europe?
Iceland could become the first Western country to censor online pornography with the introduction of radical internet filters that would block online content. Critics of the plan fear censorship, citing concerns over who will choose what to filter.
Proponents of the ban claim that pornography has damaging effects on children and women. Icelandic Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson, the author of the proposed ban, said he believes it will help stop youth from viewing Internet pornography.
“We have to be able to discuss a ban on violent pornography, which we all agree has a very harmful effects on young people and can have a clear link to incidences of violent crime,” Interior Minister Jonasson said.
The ban would block access to pornographic websites in Iceland, and make it impossible to use Icelandic credit cards on X-rated sites. Iceland has already passed a law that forbids the printing and distribution of pornography; the law excludes the Internet, however.
Experts have argued that there is domestic support for such a ban: “We have many experts from educationalists to the police and those who work with children behind this, that this has become much broader than party politics,” political adviser Halla Gunnarsdottir told the Daily Mail.
“At the moment, we are looking at the best technical ways to achieve this,” Gunnarsdottir said. “But surely if we can send a man to the Moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the Internet.”
At such a scale and magnitude, Iceland’s online pornography censorship scheme would be the first of its kind for any European nation, Professor Gail Dines told the Telegraph: “It is looking at pornography from a new position – from the perspective of the harm it does to the women who appear in it and as a violation of their civil rights.”
However, opponents of the ban have argued that such censorship is unfeasible.
“When you have a group of people who have the job of monitoring the network traffic and deciding what would be allowed and what won’t be increases the risk of non-pornography sites to be added to the list and blocked off,”explained Prostur Jonasson of Iceland’s Association of Digital Freedom.
The UK is the only other European country that has tried to implement a similar ban. It proposed blocking access to all pornography websites this past December, but UK ministers rejected the idea over a lack of public support.
Iceland is known for its pro-women policies, which may credit to country’s openly lesbian Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir.
In 2010, the country implemented a highly controversial ban on all strip clubs, arguing that they are harmful to women. The Scandinavian country also launched a consultation process in 2010 to investigate the effects of Internet pornography on women and children.
The study concluded that viewing violent online pornography increased the intensity of sex attacks, and that if children were exposed to such content at an early age, they displayed similar signs of trauma as those who had actually been abused, the Daily Mail reported.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has ignored calls by Human Rights Watch for an inquiry into reports of violence committed by Canada’s federal police against aboriginal women and girls.
On Wednesday, the rights organization issued a report that documented numerous accounts of murder and disappearance of females in the province of British Columbia.
“The threat of domestic and random violence on one side, and mistreatment by RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officers on the other, leaves indigenous women in a constant state of insecurity,” said Meghan Rhoad, a researcher at Human Rights Watch.
The report also documented a number of disturbing allegations of rape and sexual assault at the hands of the federal police.
The Canadian prime minister said the government had no information about the allegations of abuse committed by the RCMP. However, Harper said a commission would pursue the claims.
“I have asked the Commissioner for Public Complaints against the RCMP to follow up on some allegations that have been made. In fact, I would encourage anyone with information that bears on these matters to pass it along to the appropriate authorities,” Harper said on Wednesday.
The report was the outcome of an investigation into the ‘Highway of Tears’ – a name used to describe an infamous 800-kilometer stretch of highway in central British Columbia where 18 women have disappeared over the past several decades.
Two researchers, one from Canada and one from the United States, spent five weeks last summer in the province’s north, interviewing 42 women and eight girls in ten communities along the highway that connects the cities of Prince George and Prince Rupert in the westernmost province of Canada.
The researchers noted that all of the victims in the report were frightened about possible retaliation within their communities or by police, and insisted on having their identities protected.
Indigenous communities in Canada, also known as the First Nations, say they are frustrated with the government’s failure to address the social and economic grievances facing many of the 1.2 million aborigines.
Many of Canada’s natives live in poor conditions with unsafe drinking water, inadequate housing, addiction, and high suicide rates.
On December 19, 2012, Amnesty International called on the Canadian government to address human rights abuses in the country, particularly with respect to the rights of indigenous peoples.
While Britain claims to be an advocate of human rights in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and many other countries around the world, British history itself is corroborating evidence that Britain, the greatest human rights preacher, has also been the most flagrant human rights breacher.
More than 500,000 German civilians and refugees, mostly women and children, were slaughtered by Britain’s saturation bombing in 1945, one of the worst massacres of all time.
Over 700,000 phosphorus bombs were dropped on 1.2 million defenseless inhabitants of German city Dresden under Britain’s then Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s order, which not only reduced one of the greatest centers of northern Europe to flaming ruins, but also led to one of the worst war crimes of the Second World War.
Dresden’s bombing in February, 13, 1945 was so relentless that some historians believe it was the height of Winston Churchill’s madness.
“I do not want suggestions as to how we can disable the economy and the machinery of war, what I want are suggestions as to how we can roast the German refugees on their escape from Breslau,” Churchill said once.
Toward the end of the war, Churchill’s desired firestorm was finally created. More than 260,000 bodies and residues of bodies were counted after British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) assaulted Dresden. However, those who perished in the centre of the city could not be traced, as the temperature in the area reached 1600 degree Centigrade.
Dresden’s citizens barely had time to reach their shelters and those who sought refuge underground often suffocated as oxygen was pulled from the air to feed the flames. Others perish in a blast of white heat, heat strong enough to melt human flesh.
When the bombing started, no one could imagine that in less than 24 hours all those innocent people could die screaming in Churchill’s firestorms.
If there was a war crime, certainly the Dresden tragedy would rank as one of the most sinister of all time. Sadly, however, Churchill, who ordered the slaughter of up to a half million innocent people in this horrifying tragedy, was knighted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
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