RT: Iran Threatens 150,000 missile Response to Israeli Jerichos!

Saber-rattling rhetoric in the Middle East is reaching new heights. Israel is reportedly deploying its long-range Jericho missiles around Jerusalem, while the Iranian defense minister threatened massive missile retaliation against Israel. The threat to launch "150,000 or more" missiles was voiced by Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi on Sunday, as he was delivering a speech before army volunteers. Earlier, Iranian officials threatened massive missile retaliation against Israel. The threat to launch "150,000 or more" missiles was voiced by Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi on Sunday, as he was delivering a speech before army volunteers. Earlier, Iranian officials threatened retaliation against both Israel and NATO, should an attack on Iran be carried out. Meanwhile, Israel is reportedly deploying its own missiles around Jerusalem and in the West Bank. The missiles, carried into position by military tracks, resemble the Jericho missiles, says Aaron Klein, head of the Jerusalem bureau for WorldNetDaily, citing several eyewitness accounts. The reporter speculates that this may be a military drill, possibly linked to the earlier rocket test fire. The missile launched from the Palmachim test center was reportedly meant to test a new engine for the Jericho III design.

Saeed Kamali Dehghan: Iranian Police Rescue British Embassy Workers!

Iranian police have secured the release of six British embassy employees taken hostage at a compound in northern Tehran, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. "Police freed the six people working for the British embassy in Qolhac garden," Fars said. No further details of the hostage-taking were forthcoming. Earlier, dozens of Iranian protesters forced their way into the British embassy at a separate location in Tehran, tearing down the union flag and throwing documents from windows. The attack came two days after the Iranian parliament voted to expel the British ambassador, Dominick Chilcott, in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed by the west over the country's disputed nuclear program. The Foreign Office sad it was "outraged" at the events, which it described as "utterly unacceptable". Fars reported that a small group of students chanting "Death to England!" had replaced the British flag with the Iranian flag. British and Israeli flags were also reported to have been burned during the protests. Ilna, another semi-official news agency, said the protesters had "conquered" the embassy. The events were shown live on state-run Press TV. There was no immediate word on casualties.

Peter Van Buren: No Free Speech at Jefferson's Library!

No free speech at Mr. Jefferson's Library: George Orwell, Philip K Dick, and Ray Bradbury would have recognized Morris Davis's problem. According to the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government to redress of grievances." Those beautiful words, almost haiku -like, are the sparse poetry of the American democratic experiment. The Founders purposely wrote the First Amendment to read broadly, and not like a snipped of tax code, in order to emphasize that it should encompass everything from shouted religious rantings to eloquent political criticism. Go ahead, reread it aloud at this moment, when the government seems to be carving out an exception to it large enough to drive a tank through. When I arrived at Zuccotti Prison one afternoon last week, the "park" was in its now-usual lock-down mode. No more tents, no library. No kitchen. No medical area. Just 30 leftover protesters and perhaps 100 of New York's finest as well as private security types in neon-green vests in and around a dead space enclosed by more movable police fencing than you can imagine. To the once open plaza, there were now only two small entrances in the fencing on the side streets, and to pass through either, you had to run the gauntlet of police and private security types.

Sayeed Kamali Dehghan: Iranian Police Rescue British Embassy Workers.

Iranian police have secured the release of six British embassy employees taken hostage at a compound in northern Tehran, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. "Police freed six people working for the British embassy in Qolhak garden," Fars said. No further details of the hostage-taking were forthcoming. Earlier, dozens of Iranian protesters forced their way into the British embassy at a separate location in Tehran, tearing down the union flag and throwing documents from windows. The attack came two days after the Iranian parliament voted to expel the British ambassador, Dominick Chilcott, in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed by the west over the country's disputed nuclear program. The foreign office said it was outraged at the events, which it described as "utterly unacceptable". Fars reported that a small group of students chanting "Death to England!" had replaced the British flag with the Iranian flag. British and Israeli flags were also have been burned during the protests. Ilna, another semi-official news agency, said the protesters had "conquered" the embassy. The events were shown live on state-run Press TV. There was no immediate word on casualties, or on how many employees were inside the embassy at the time of the assault.

Jim Marrs: Did Hitler Save Europe from Communism?

By 1941, the international order had turned against Adolf Hitler. Germany's "Blitzkrieg" has shocked the ruling elite, as first Poland, then the rest of Europe came under Nazi control. Britain was helpless to stop Hitler, who was already making preparations for a preemptive attack on the Soviet Union. Hitler was getting out of hand. German inventiveness and efficiency as well as financial support from western financiers, had brought Hitler's Germany to the zenith of its power. Germany was preparing to strike Russia, and Hitler did not want a two-front war, the very situation which caused Germany's defeat i World War I. Actually, Hitler wanted England as an ally against communism. "With England alone as an ally, one's back being covered, could one begin the new German invasion of Russia," Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf. In other words, Hitler needed peace with Britain before beginning an attack on Russia. Securing peace on the Western Front may have become an urgent priority for Hitler. According to former Soviet military intelligence officer Vladimir Rezun, writing under his pen name Victor Suvorov, Hitler was forced to launch a pre-emptive assault against the Soviet Union in June 1941, to forestall an attack on Western Europe by Stalin in July. Though Suvorov's work has been published in 87 editions in 18 languages, he has received virtually no mention in the US corporate mass media, despite the fact that his assertions turn conventional history upside down. Most people have been taught that Stalin naively trusted Hitler, and was totally surprised by Hitler's attack.

Rev.Ted Pike: ADL Losing Hate Law Support in Europe!

Cooperation by European governments with the Anti-Defamation League's hate law agenda continues to plummet. Only four nations reported hate crimes statistics this year, out of ADL's 56-member hate crimes bureaucracy, the (OSCE)-Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ADL's 56-member hate-crimes bureaucracy, Abe Foxman laments: Seven years ago in Berlin, the OSCE countries pledged with great urgency to gather data on anti-Semitic crimes, yet only four of those governments have produced information on incidents for the OSCE annual report. Without this basic monitoring, how can any government demonstrate that they are serious about addressing it? When OSCE was created in 2004, Jewish supremacism was on a roll of hate law prosecutions (witchcraft), especially in Canada. It was aggressively laying the groundwork for extradition of "anti-Semites" and holocaust questioners. Revisionist historians Germar Rudolph and Ernst Zundel were both seized in America and sentenced to long prison terms in Germany for speech crimes. British historian David Irving was imprisoned in Austria. ADL/B'rith's goal was a hate law tidal wave that would flood the world's governments with Canadian-style restrictions on free speech, ultimately criminalizing "homophobic," "anti-Semitic" Christians and critics of Israel. Today the hate laws passed by ADL/B'nai B'rith in western nations still reverberate with the clank of prison bars in horrendous violations of free speech rights, yet the diminishing cooperation from the once mighty OSCE reveals a trend. Many governments are becoming disillusioned by the reality of hate laws. Major prosecutions of dissenters linger agonizingly, but Canada's indictments of "haters" have slowed significantly. The head of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal stunned Canadian Jewish leaders two years ago, by ruling Canada's internet hate laws are unconstitutional.

Ron Paul: The Folly of Sanctions!

Many people have the misconception that sanctions are an effective means to "encourage" a change of behavior in another country without war. However, imposing sanctions and blockades are not only an act of war according to international law, and are most often the first step toward a real war, starting with a bombing campaign. Sanctions were the first step in our wars against Iraq and Libya, and now more sanctions are planned against Syria and Iran are leading down the same destructive path. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) latest report, just out this month, there is no evidence that Iran has diverted enriched uranium from the peaceful and lawful generation of power toward the building of a nuclear weapon. According to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has every right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Unfortunately, US foreign policy has boxed Iran into a corner, where they may view development of a nuclear weapon as the only way to maintain sovereignty. They are surrounded by unfriendly nuclear powers, and history has shown that having a nuclear weapon is the best way to avoid being bombed or invaded. The unintended consequences of our confrontational policies toward Iran may actually encourage them to seek nuclear weapons capabilities. We should be using diplomacy rather than using threats and hostility. Fortunately, there is another way. Nothing promotes peace better than free trade. Countries that trade with each other generally do not make war on each other, as both countries gain economic benefits they do not want to jeopardize: China is a massive nuclear power, yet it does not seek confrontation with the United States.