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Satellite Image Confirms Iranian Missile Base Was Destroyed

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Today's curious news report posted by Iran's semi-official news agency Fars, which was promptly muted, only to be republished by Israel's Haaretz, of a major explosion near the Iranian city of Isfahan, has left many scratching their heads. As Haaretz reports: "Speaking with Fars news agency, Isfahan’s deputy mayor confirmed the reports and said the authorities are investigating the matter. However, after the incident was reported in Israel, the report was taken off the Fars website." Which led many to wonder: is this a real event or merely a provocation designed to make Iranians believe they were attacked? Further complicating matters is the just released news from Washington Post which shows satellite images of the aftermath of another explosion in Iran, this time from two weeks ago at an Iranian missile base. "The image of the compound, near the city of Malard, doesn’t provide any clues as to what caused the Nov. 12 explosion, which Iranian authorities described as an “accident” involving the transport of ammunition. But it does make clear that the facility has been effectively destroyed. Paul Brannan, a senior analyst for the Institute for Science and International Security, which specializes in the study of nuclear weapons programs, said it’s impossible to tell from the image whether the blast was caused by sabotage, as has has been speculated in this explosion and others at transport facilities, oil refineries and military bases in Iran. Brannan said ISIS had recently learned from “knowledgable officials” that the blast had occurred just as Iran had achieved a milestone in the development of a new missile and may have been performing a “volatile procedure involving a missile engine at the site.” So the question stands: is Iran being systematically attacked with the news being covered up for fear that it can not retaliate and thus seem week; is it being sabbotaged on a weekly basis, or is everything just one big media disinformation campaign designed to provoke Iran to lash out? We will probably know very soon, today's "oversold" and now completely disconnected from reality rally notwithstanding.

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Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:41 | 1922563 ironsky
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The 12th Imam's hands were a little shaky after all that time in the well. He's probably in good enough shape to stone some random woman in that untouched soccer stadium.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:41 | 1922567 Absalon
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The Americans the Russians and the Germans all had early rockets blow up.  In fact we still have the occasional catestrophic failure.   Do you think that the Iranian safety protocols are even as good as the ones the Russians used?

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:05 | 1922340 dbTX
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Can't we all just get along?

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:07 | 1922353 Lord Welligton
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Apparently not.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:37 | 1922531 Sudden Debt
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SHUT UP BITCH!

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:05 | 1922343 DogSlime
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Really weird stuff.

What the hell is going on here?

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:55 | 1922654 Randall Cabot
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posturing.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:06 | 1922346 Lord Welligton
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OT ....

Celente going ballistic on Jones.

Who in the USA can possible trust the concept of "segregated client monies"?

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:08 | 1922352 Caviar Emptor
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Or could it be a double-false-flag?

Where the real attackers are enemies trying to make it appear that it's actually the country's own security agencies attacking their own facility? That would turn the population against it's own government and accomplish the original goal of destabilizing. Genius...

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:07 | 1922360 astartes09
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Say what you want about the israelis, but when they want something destroyed they get it done quickfast.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 23:00 | 1922755 DaveyJones
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and when they want to piss off an overwhelming majority of countries and people surrounding them, they're pretty fast on that one too

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:09 | 1922369 JPM Hater001
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Are we even done using Achmedenijad yet?  I mean Uncle Sam usually requires a good revolution under way before we will kill any countries leader.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:10 | 1922378 Dick Darlington
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11-28 14:27: US/EU statement: 'deep concern' on Iran's nuclear...

 

There u have it, no need to dig further.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:50 | 1922608 Money 4 Nothing
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It should read, US/EU statement: 'deep concern' on Iran's new oil bourge effectively kicking the Petro Dollar to the curb. Sadam tried and he died, full story at 11:00.

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:16 | 1922768 DaveyJones
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Iran will be the biggest homework assignment we've taken on lately. Might be in for some surprises 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:10 | 1922381 Stu
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Obama declares entire Iranian banking system a "threat", sanctions Iran oil

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/28/news/international/iran_oil_sanctions/index.htm

 

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:18 | 1922422 Smartie37
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This move sounds strangely familiar -  same action with oil taken against Japan in 1940s --

"Remember the Provoked Action!"

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:43 | 1922582 ironsky
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How did all those severed heads in Nanking provoke them?

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:18 | 1922428 Lord Welligton
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Going to steal the money.

Stop the import of food.

Try to create an internal revolution.

 

Where have we seen that before?

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 18:15 | 1923028 Money 4 Nothing
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Uumm. The CIA Feild traing manual of how to destabilize a country in 5 easy steps? Kinda like cooking with "Chef" from The Muppet Show.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfsABOGw3c&feature=related

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 18:53 | 1923108 Quicksilver
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It would force any country to chose between doing businesses with Iran and doing business with the United States

 

Seems an easy choice, and yet I bet a significant number of countries will still choose the United States

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 19:10 | 1923268 Cathartes Aura
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wow. . . that is so beyond absurd I feel we've just entered Terry Gilliam World. . .

how many bajillions in derivatives-debt are the western banks holding again?

surreal.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:12 | 1922393 JohnnyR2121
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Mr. Zerohedge. Can you please post another item on Groupon? It's down 9% and counting:) Good times. 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:20 | 1922441 Tsar Pointless
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Don't forget our old friend, BAC. It's nearly flat on a day when stocks are "soaring" on EU "hopes".

But, it is laughable, this Groupon business. Literally.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:19 | 1922416 JustObserving
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"US Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has called for a military strike against Iran's refineries" Another warmonger for president.  Spending $200 billion a year to kill a few Taliban ain't enough. More blood, please. VampiresRUS http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212631.html

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 19:13 | 1923275 Cathartes Aura
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at least he's a known unknown.

anyone even remotely serious about supporting Newt needs to be deployed, immediately.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:17 | 1922419 Taint Boil
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No need to worry.. They have some back-up launchers

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:21 | 1922431 Dr. Acula
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I feel sorry for the collateral damage that the Iranian people will face.

Iran is a shambles and isn't powerful enough to defend itself. It's just more grist for our hypertrophic murder-industrial complex.

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:00 | 1922685 Randall Cabot
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They have bio and chem weapons-who knows what they'll do if they're cornered.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:11 | 1922749 Dr. Acula
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With bio and chem weapons they'll accomplish nothing.

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:46 | 1922954 falak pema
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plastic cutters and suicide bombers...if I remember correctly.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:20 | 1922797 css1971
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The kids who spent 10 years fighting the iran/iraq war are now adults, Iran is a lot bigger than Iraq and is a proxy for Russia. Invasion won't be a walkover.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:20 | 1922439 The Ram
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I am not sure about this one, but we do apparently have some type of very effective beam weapons.  Do a search on Dr. Judy Wood.  She has a great book on how the towers were taking out with an energy weapon.

Yes, America CAN do this, but DID we do this or is this another propaganda sham like the Bin Laden 'raid.'  The rabbit hole grows deeper!

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:26 | 1922463 Dr. Acula
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>we do apparently have some type of very effective beam weapons

Orbital mind control lasers?

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:33 | 1922507 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Jesse Ventura has spoken on this subject, and he is just a Seal/Governer in a position of power.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:42 | 1922573 john39
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dmitri khaselov... nuclear demolition. 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:20 | 1922446 ziggy59
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Isn't Iran an OPEC supplier? I'm waiting for some more testosterone signs to show up in a day or two. Our troops and innocents will bare the brunt of whatever and whoever shows what they can do, IMO.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:23 | 1922456 Magnix
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Looks like Israel hacked their system and blew it up....again! And just like in Syria!

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:25 | 1922465 mynhair
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My TZA bid didn't fill and all you worry about is I-RAN?  Geez....

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:26 | 1922471 Hannibal
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Yet another mis/disinformation campaing, all for our own safety and protection of course.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:28 | 1922479 BlueDonkey
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Simple, laser satellite beam.  no mess, pinpoint accuracy

 

www.santoriniadvisor.com

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:31 | 1922493 mynhair
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Nah, Bwaney Fwank was on Al-Jazeera and thought it was MSLSD.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:28 | 1922481 r101958
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OMG! The schmidt must be about ready to hit the fan. Barney Frank has announced he will retire:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47789

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:31 | 1922495 firstdivision
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Welp that explains $101/bbl of WTI. 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:33 | 1922504 mynhair
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Loser Blythe can't even pound Ag into the barbarous relic that it is.

Today suks.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:33 | 1922505 Jalibb
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The effects of Operation "Preperation H." 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:38 | 1922516 JustObserving
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Is it  EMP weapons triggering explosions?  Too much of a coincidence for the explosions in Iran.  After the Stuxnet virus, expect more high-tech, unconventional attacks.  Maybe the Chinese will help the Iranians find out - after all they get a lot of oil from them.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:38 | 1922537 Mr_Wonderful
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Seems fairly minor stuff, if it´s real at all.

Crude oil isn´t buying it.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:15 | 1922543 CitizenPete
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Don't mess with the Petrodollar or the FED bitchez...  The US Military (a.k.a. Ziiionist army of the Elite Banksters) will take out millions of innocents (just like Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc. etc.) to make certain that all deals for oil will continue going down using FED paper and credit.  Long live  (and hail!) the Federal Reserve Note and Government Sachs the leaders (read: Owners) of all sheep on the planet.  

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:22 | 1922809 DaveyJones
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Funny thing, it's a stupid game plan for the peak problem. Costs more oil than it gets back. Makes no room (or resource) for the new systems that must be built and creates a lot of expensive enemies who can fight you with their economies.  

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:39 | 1922547 earleflorida
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"Senate Moves to Allow Military to Intern Americans Without Trial"__ [11/26/2011]

Ref: http://www.prisonplanet.com/senate-moves-to-allow-military-to-intern-ame...

now isn't this 'special',...

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:42 | 1922578 Ag1761
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Could be Russia, think if the price of oil and gas shoots as Iran is provoked thinking it's US/Israel and they sit back while US gets into a wider middle east mess. Russia doesn't need to fight, just sells its oil at ridiculous prices as middle east supply chain is fucked form the war.

Financially, no debt, inflated oil profits = more gold buying = strong position in new currency we all know will come.

The smart Bear will sit this one out and resist being drawn in.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:43 | 1922586 undercover brother
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my guess is it was truly accidental and not caused by outside military action.  if it was, you'd see Iran's propoganda minister in the press immediately blaming israel and the us and declaring this a declaration of war and yet another jihad will be called for.   yup, iran blew themselves up and they have nothing to say about it. 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:49 | 1922616 Ag1761
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Probably the most sensible explanation, but the game is rigged now, too much at stake and there is no sense left in this world any more except to buy PM's IMO.

They may be too scared to report "other" similar incidents......hmmmm the next couple of weeks will tell.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:45 | 1922595 sockcutter moto...
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well i guess stuxnet wasnt enough. real cool virus though

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:50 | 1922622 Mr_Wonderful
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Oh no, all that pump and BAC is at 5.17 up 0.00.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:50 | 1922625 ebworthen
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A ruse, the real stuff is underground or somewhere else.

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:51 | 1922633 RingToneDeaf
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Gee, no one has mentioned the possibility that this incompetent nucular (sp intentional Bushism) power has shot itself in the foot and thigh?

Putzes

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:54 | 1922648 Clowns to the l...
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At least our troops will be home for Christmas.

 

...Long enough to be redeployed before the new year.

 

But hey, the markets are happy as a pig in shit so rally on! If 9/11 had happened this year, we would probably see that mythical Dow 30,000. Up is down, left is right, good is good, bad is good.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 19:23 | 1923305 Cathartes Aura
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"Our troops" coming "home" might not be the holiday cheer you're expecting. . . give it a week or two, news incoming. . .

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 16:58 | 1922674 css1971
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Special forces softening up the defences pre-invasion. If you think about why certain facilities get hit.

If they are still hitting weapon production facilities rather than stockpiles then there's a bit of time yet.

As it gets closer to zero hour, they'll target energy production, communication and transport links.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:17 | 1922779 BandGap
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Wow, really?

This isn't a place they would hit first, this was to stop any thought of a pre-emptive strike.  Iran cannot play this card.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:01 | 1922691 yogibear
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Watch  out for the Chinese to test some of the those supersonic carrier destroying missles via the Iranians.

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:04 | 1922696 Monedas
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As unofficial spokehole for the Jewish people I am not at liberty to comment on the mysterious Iranian explosions ! However, on a personal level I am ROTFLMAO ! Monedeas 2011 Comedy Jihad Fighting Terror With Scary Humour !

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:06 | 1922712 Scalaris
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Published November 25th in Washington Post:  - "Mysterious explosions pose dilemma for Iranian leaders"

Suspicions that covert action might already be underway were raised when four key gas pipelines exploded simultaneously in different locations in Qom Province in April. Lawmaker Parviz Sorouri told the semiofficial Mehr News Agency that the blasts were the work of “terrorists” and were “organized by the enemies of the Islamic Republic.”

 

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:47 | 1922962 Money 4 Nothing
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Here, let's just ask Achmed..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEI5js4RCpc

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:51 | 1922982 falak pema
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europe moving to corps eltist 6 member fellowship of the ring; Mordor is the market. War will then be declared. They still haven't found an Aragorn to lead them against Sauron.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:57 | 1923000 Sizzurp
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Smells like sabotage.  Wonder what happens next.

 

"I can't stand it, I know you planned it"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 18:14 | 1923063 Saxxon
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The photo is a doctored fake.  This will be demonstrated, and right soon.

The market is failing to appropriately price in the aftermath of something like this.  It's a fake.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 18:49 | 1923205 Stuck on Zero
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Don't overlook stealth cruise missile fired from submarines.  These little babies can fly several hundred miles without a RADAR signature and land within a few meters of the intended target.  They effectively burn up in the destruction so there's little to discover.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 19:07 | 1923253 Saxxon
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It's a clumsy attempt at Disinfo.  The White House / Mossad disinfo efforts have become increasingly ham-fisted in the last year or so (no pun).

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 19:01 | 1923242 JW n FL
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This is the worst kept secret in the World..

Have you ever wondered how the JEWs went from zero to hero in the span of one generation?

How the Robber Barron's Lost ALL! their offshore monies (and onshore in some cases) to the cheap esquires and accounts that handled their fortunes?

Here is how it's done!

 

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/28/9067033-a-400-million-...

By Bill Dedman
Investigative Reporter, msnbc.com

NEW YORK — There is a new surprise in the mysterious story of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark. It turns out that she signed two wills, the first one benefitting her family, the second one cutting out her family altogether. And she signed them one after another, within six weeks.

 

The Jewish Account and the Jewish Esquire get ALL the money (mysteriously) and the Family gets None!

 

That is how Washington DC was bought and paid for!

This is how the immigration laws of America were changed!

This is what funded the demise of the American Dream!

 

how about a refresher on the Teachings of the Talmud? that way you can understand what the Jews Worship! in their own words!

Erubin 21b. Whosoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and will be punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell.

Hitting a Jew is the same as hitting God

Sanhedrin 58b. If a heathen (gentile) hits a Jew, the gentile must be killed.

O.K. to Cheat Non-Jews

Sanhedrin 57a . A Jew need not pay a gentile ("Cuthean") the wages owed him for work.

Jews Have Superior Legal Status

Baba Kamma 37b. "If an ox of an Israelite gores an ox of a Canaanite there is no liability; but if an ox of a Canaanite gores an ox of an Israelite...the payment is to be in full."

Jews May Steal from Non-Jews

Baba Mezia 24a . If a Jew finds an object lost by a gentile ("heathen") it does not have to be returned. (Affirmed also in Baba Kamma 113b). Sanhedrin 76a. God will not spare a Jew who "marries his daughter to an old man or takes a wife for his infant son or returns a lost article to a Cuthean..."

Jews May Rob and Kill Non-Jews

Sanhedrin 57a . When a Jew murders a gentile ("Cuthean"), there will be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a gentile he may keep.

Baba Kamma 37b. The gentiles are outside the protection of the law and God has "exposed their money to Israel."

Jews May Lie to Non-Jews

Baba Kamma 113a. Jews may use lies ("subterfuges") to circumvent a Gentile.

Non-Jewish Children are Sub-Human

Yebamoth 98a. All gentile children are animals.

Abodah Zarah 36b. Gentile girls are in a state of niddah (filth) from birth.

Abodah Zarah 22a-22b . Gentiles prefer sex with cows.

 

and to anyone who would like to vilify me over what the Holiest of Jewish Teaching are I would say.. Spin away Spinsters! Spin Away!!

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 19:11 | 1923272 SunBlaster
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SPAM ALERT!

Huguette was born in 1906, you're about 3 centuries off. And that $400mil is pocket change.

Tue, 11/29/2011 - 01:50 | 1924271 James T. Kirk
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JW - I don't know if it matters to you or not, but you are really mixing apples and oranges here. 1. The actions of any handful of an ethnic group does not villify the whole group. 2. This is not the holiest of Jewish teachings, and certainly not representative of the vast majority of Jews that I both know and read about. The Torah is the holiest, and it contains NONE of this nonsense. As a Christian, I have read the Torah many times. And how many whacko Christian cults write and do weird stuff? There, I did not trash you. You are just wrong. Blaming any ethnic group is always a dead-end.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 19:13 | 1923279 SunBlaster
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So 14 building blow up at Iranian military base and they call it an accident? Guess Russian nukes order hasn't arrived yet.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 19:27 | 1923312 Korbin Dallas
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This is an extension of suicide-bombs, with nukes you don't even need to be near your target, just let the dust particulates settle over the infidels' babies.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 21:25 | 1923682 non_anon
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It's Bush's fault.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 23:33 | 1923971 Bartanist
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Looks like Israel has already started attacking Iran and the Iranian are a fraid to do anything.

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