A NATIONWIDE FINANICIAL DISASTER, like the iceberg that sank the Titanic, is sneaking up on Americans.

At more than $1T, it threatens to be as devastating as the foreclosure crisis. Older Americans, who worked hard all of their lives in the hope of a carefree retirement, could find themselves homeless, their savings confiscated, all because they wanted their children to benefit from a college education.

It’s all part of the ever-growing “Boomerang Generation.” Three in 10 young adults ages 25 to 34, 29%, now live with their parents—statistics last seen in the Great Depression.

INTEREST MUSHROOMED

The vast majority are not slackers. They and their parents took out student loans in good faith, hoping the investment would pay off when they hit the job market. This is shown by the huge numbers who paid the original loan — plus interest many times over — only to find they still owe hundreds of thousands — or even millions — for a student loan of a few thousand.

Alan Collinge borrowed $38K for three degrees in aerospace engineering. Interest mushroomed all the time he was in school, so he owed $50K when he graduated in 1998. He was faithfully paying.

SLAVING TO PAY OFF THOUSANDS

However, when he was unable to come up with the whole amount of his monthly loan payment one time, his lender, Sallie Mae, hit him with a fee. They told him the fee was a one-time charge — but even though

he continued to make his payments regularly — he was charged that “one time” fee — month after month — endlessly.

The loan devoured more than 20% of his $35K-a-year pay. After Sept. 11, 2001, he was out of a job. His unemployment should have granted him forbearance, but Sallie Mae threw his loans into default. His debt soon rose to $60K. He was relentlessly hounded by collectors.

For years Collinge worked 90 hours a week and more to pay off a debt that was swelling from the original $38K to $103K. His lenders refused to negotiate. Outraged, he discovered his case was not unique, because “respectable” loan sharks could get away with anything.

OBSCENE RACKET

His research revealed that millions of other Americans were trapped even worse than him, including doctors with millions of dollars of debt that forces them to charge exorbitant fees, because of a scheme by the government, the schools and the lenders that sucked in far more money from defaulted loans.

This obscene racket is made “legal” because “the best Congress money can buy” gave the loan sharks carte blanche to squeeze the last drop of blood from their victims. Lenders are exempt from “truth in lending” requirements, statutes of limitations, refinancing rights and even state usury laws. Congress has given collection agencies unthinkable powers to garnish wages, tax refunds, Social Security benefits—even disability income.

TRAPPED, SOME CONTEMPLATE SUICIDE 

In despair, some ex-students have contemplated suicide—only to learn that their parents would be tormented and sucked dry by the lenders for the rest of their lives.

Ralph Forbes is a freelance writer and member of the Southern Bureau of the American Free Press, based in Arkansas. This article appeared in the May 14, 2012, issue of this independent weekly newspaper, published in Washington, D.C.

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Nikolaos Mihaloliakos, whose Golden Dawn party became potential kingmakers after an inconclusive election on May 6, also challenged the view that six million Jews were killed in World War II.

'THERE WERE NO OVENS, GAS CHAMBERS'

"There were no ovens, this is a lie ... there were no gas chambers either," Mihaloliakos said on Sunday in an interview on the private Mega television station.

Golden Dawn, whose members give [so-called] Nazi-style salutes, took nearly 7 percent of the vote in a surge for fringe parties opposed to austerity policies under Greece's international bailout deal.

Mihaloliakos said the number of six million Jewish victims was an "exaggeration" and that "many people from different nations" died in German concentration camps, just like many Japanese died in US camps.

"I most categorically condemn such views, which distort history and offend the memory of millions of Holocaust® victims," said government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis.

"The election of Nazi nostalgics is a heavy blow for Greek democracy. It is an insult to the history of Greece," said a statement from the council of Jews in Greece, who today number about 5,500.

Denying the Holocaust® is not a punishable crime in Greece, as it is in other European countries such as Germany and France.

RIGA — Recently released video* of two men in Waffen-SS uniform conducting a lesson at a Latvian kindergarten has brought on a wave of anger and debate in Latvia and abroad.  

­The two men from the Latvian Soldier group came to Riga’s Pucite ["Owlet"] kindergarten to give what they called a “patriotic upbringing” lesson.

HANDS-ON DEMONSTRATION

The footage shows the men telling children about the heroic role of Waffen-SS soldiers in the Second World War.

The two, however, did not limit themselves to stories only, but brought handouts for the little listeners.

The video shows the three- and four-year-olds playing with pistols, machine-guns and grenades from the WWII era.

Latvia`s Minister of Education Rober Kilis has condemned the incident, urging an investigation into the circumstances of the lesson, Latvian media report.

“Weapons, people in military uniform and such activity in a kindergarten are absolutely unacceptable — this is my personal point of view,” he was quoted by Delfi.lv website.

The lesson is believed to have happened on March 16 — a day of commemoration of Latvian troops that joined Waffen-SS forces in the fight against the Soviet Union.

THOUSANDS SERVED IN WAFFEN-SS

On that day, hundreds of Latvian Waffen-SS veterans marched through the capital Riga. Moscow has repeatedly expressed outrage over such ceremonies celebrating the [National Socialist] past. The EU has also expressed concern.

The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multinational military force of the Third Reich.

Around 150,000 Latvians served in the Waffen-SS, [which included] non-German regiments, during World War II.

*SEE VIDEO (45 sec.): http://rt.com/news/nazi-patriotic-lesson-kindergarten-latvia-012/

ON MAY DAY 1944, the people of Lithuania take time out from the horrors of war to celebrate in the traditional way.

In a moving ceremony in Kaunas, the capital, German and Lithuanian officials honor soldiers who gave their lives fighting for freedom. A German official addresses a meeting that underscores Lithuanian-German solidarity.

At a festive outdoor gathering, Lithuanians celebrate beneath a tall May pole, as well as Lithuanian and German flags. Russian-language narration. (Runtime: 2:18 minutes.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDXdMwhdgU4

An Appeal for Patience and Kindness Toward One's Aging Mother
 

WHEN YOUR MOTHER has grown older,
And you have grown older,
When what was once easy and effortless
Now becomes a burden;

When her dear, faithful eyes
No longer see life as they once did,
When her feet, grown tired,
No longer want to carry her as she walks —

Then give her your arm for support;
Accompany her with gladness and joy.
The hour will come when, weeping
You will accompany her on her final walk.

And if she asks for something, then answer her.
And if she asks again, then speak. 

And if she asks yet again, respond to her,
Not stormily, but with gentle calm. 

And if she cannot understand you well,
Explain everything to her joyfully.
The hour will come, the bitter hour,
When her mouth will ask for nothing more. 

Wenn deine Mutter alt geworden
Und älter du geworden bist,
Wenn ihr, was früher leicht und mühelos,
Nunmehr zur Last geworden ist,

Wenn ihre lieben, treuen Augen
Nicht mehr, wie einst, in’s Leben seh'n,
Wenn ihre müd' geword’nen Füsse
Sie nicht mehr tragen woll'n beim Geh'n —

Dann reiche ihr den Arm zur Stütze
Geleite sie mit froher Lust —
Die Stunde kommt, da du sie weinend
Zum letzten Gang begleiten mußt!

Und fragt sie dich, so gib ihr Antwort,
Und fragt sie wieder, sprich auch du!
Und fragt sie nochmals, steh' ihr Rede,
Nicht ungestüm, in sanfter Ruhe!

Und kann sie dich nicht recht verstehen
Erklär' ihr alles frohbewegt;
Die Stunde kommt, die bitt’re Stunde,
Da dich ihr Mund nach nichts mehr fragt!
 
— ADOLF HITLER

* "Denk' es!", published in the Sonntag-Morgenpost, München, 14. Mai 1933 (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Captured German Documents, Box 791)

“Marriage cannot be an end in itself, but must serve the one higher goal, the increase and preservation of the species and the race. This alone is its meaning and its task.”—ADOLF HITLER, Nunciate of Nature's Laws (His Book, I:10/252 HM)

 

WHOM WILL YOU FOLLOW: a Pharisee impostor, or One who came into the world for Aryan salvation?

“There is neither Jew nor Greek ... there is neither male nor female ... " —SAUL/PAUL of TARTUS, Denier of Nature's Laws & Father of Spiritual Bolshevism  (Galatians, 3:28 KJV)

NEW YORK — In his new book, "Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People," Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, claims that Jews are different, and the differences are not just skin deep.

Jews exhibit, he writes, a distinctive genetic signature. signature. Considering that the Nazis tried to exterminate Jews based on their supposed racial distinctiveness, such a conclusion might be a cause for concern. But Ostrer sees it as central to Jewish identity.

“Who is a Jew?” has been a poignant question for Jews throughout our history. It evokes a complex tapestry of Jewish identity made up of different strains of religious beliefs, cultural practices and blood ties to ancient Palestine and modern Israel. But the question, with its echoes of genetic determinism, also has a dark side.

JEWISH DISEASES

Geneticists have long been aware that certain diseases, from breast cancer to Tay-Sachs, disproportionately affect Jews. Ostrer, who is also director of genetic and genomic testing at Montefiore Medical Center, goes further, maintaining that Jews are a homogeneous group with all the scientific trappings of what we used to call a “race.”

For most of the 3,000-year history of the Jewish people, the notion of what came to be known as “Jewish exceptionalism” was hardly controversial. Because of our history of inmarriage and cultural isolation, imposed or self-selected, Jews were considered by gentiles (and usually referred to themselves) as a “race.” Scholars from Josephus to Disraeli proudly proclaimed their membership in “the tribe.”

BOOK DIVIDED INTO SIX CHAPTERS

Ostrer divides his book into six chapters representing the various aspects of Jewishness: Looking Jewish, Founders, Genealogies, Tribes, Traits and Identity. Each chapter features a prominent scientist or historical figure who dramatically advanced our understanding of Jewishness.

The snippets of biography lighten a dense forest of sometimes-obscure science. The narrative, which
consists of a lot of potboiler history, is a slog at times. But for the specialist and anyone touched by the enduring debate over Jewish identity, this book is indispensable.

BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF JEWISHNESS

Is Judaism a people or a religion? Or both? The belief that Jews may be psychologically or physically distinct remains a controversial fixture in the gentile and Jewish consciousness, and Ostrer places himself directly in the line of fire. Yes, he writes, the term “race” carries nefarious associations of
inferiority and ranking of people. Anything that marks Jews as essentially different runs the risk of stirring either anti- or philo-Semitism.

But that doesn’t mean we can ignore the factual reality of what he calls the “biological basis of Jewishness” and “Jewish genetics.” Acknowledging the distinctiveness of Jews is “fraught with peril,” but we must grapple with the hard evidence of “human differences” if we seek to understand the new age of genetics.

SOME UNDESIRABLE TRAITS

Although he readily acknowledges the formative role of culture and environment, Ostrer believes that Jewish identity has multiple threads, including DNA. He offers a cogent, scientifically based review of the evidence, which serves as a model of scientific restraint.

“On the one hand, the study of Jewish genetics might be viewed as an elitist effort, promoting a certain genetic view of Jewish superiority,” he writes. “On the other, it might provide fodder for anti-Semitism by providing evidence of a genetic basis for undesirable traits that are present among some Jews. These issues will newly challenge the liberal view that humans are created equal but
with genetic liabilities.”

DISTINCTIVE POPULATION GROUP

Jews, he notes, are one of the most distinctive population groups in the world because of our history of endogamy. Jews — Ashkenazim in particular — are relatively homogeneous despite the fact that they are spread throughout Europe and have since immigrated to the Americas and back to Israel. The Inquisition shattered Sephardi Jewry, leading to far more incidences of intermarriage and to a less distinctive DNA.

The concept of the “Jewish people” remains controversial. The Law of Return, which establishes the right of Jews to come to Israel, is a central tenet of Zionism and a founding legal principle of the State of Israel.

AN INVENTED PEOPLE?

The DNA that tightly links Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi, three prominent culturally and geographically distinct Jewish groups, could be used to support Zionist territorial claims — except, as Ostrer points out, some of the same markers can be found in Palestinians, our distant genetic cousins, as well. Palestinians, understandably, want their own right of return.

That disagreement over the meaning of DNA also pits Jewish traditionalists against a particular strain of secular Jewish liberals that has joined with Arabs and many non-Jews to argue for an end to Israel as a Jewish nation.

THE KHAZAR CONVERSION

Their hero is Shlomo Sand, an Austrian-born Israeli historian who reignited this complex controversy with the 2008 publication of “The Invention of the Jewish People.”

Sand contends that Zionists who claim an ancestral link to ancient Palestine are manipulating history. But he has taken his thesis from novelist Arthur Koestler’s 1976 book, “The Thirteenth Tribe,” which was part of an attempt by post-World War II Jewish liberals to reconfigure Jews not as a biological group, but as a religious ideology and ethnic identity.

The majority of the Ashkenazi Jewish population, as Koestler, and now Sand, writes, are not the children of Abraham but descendants of pagan Eastern Europeans and Eurasians, concentrated mostly in the ancient Kingdom of Khazaria in what is now Ukraine and Western Russia. The Khazarian nobility converted during the early Middle Ages, when European Jewry was forming.

DNA EVIDENCE

Although scholars challenged Koestler’s and now Sand’s selective manipulation of the facts — the conversion was almost certainly limited to the tiny ruling class and not to the vast pagan population — the historical record has been just fragmentary enough to titillate determined critics of Israel, who turned both Koestler’s and Sand’s books into roaring best-sellers.

Fortunately, re-creating history now depends not only on pottery shards, flaking manuscripts and faded coins, but on something far less ambiguous: DNA. Ostrer’s book is an impressive counterpoint to the dubious historical methodology of Sand and his admirers. And, as a co-founder of the Jewish HapMap — the study of haplotypes, or blocks of genetic markers, that are common to Jews around the world — he is well positioned to write the definitive response.

In accord with most geneticists, Ostrer firmly rejects the fashionable postmodernist dismissal of the concept of race as genetically naive, opting for a more nuanced perspective.

CRUCIAL .1%

When the human genome was first mapped a decade ago, Francis Collins, then head of the National Genome Human Research Institute, said: “Americans, regardless of ethnic group, are 99.9% genetically identical.” Added J. Craig Venter, who at the time was chief scientist at the private firm that helped sequenced the genome, Celera Genomics, “Race has no genetic or scientific basis.” Those declarations appeared to suggest that “race,” or the notion of distinct but overlapping genetic groups, is “meaningless.”

But ... DNA ensures that we differ not only as individuals, but also as groups. However slight the differences (and geneticists now believe that they are significantly greater than 0.1%), they are defining. That 0.1% contains some 3 million nucleotide pairs in the human genome, and these determine such things as skin or hair color and susceptibility to certain diseases. They contain the map of our family trees back to the first modern humans.

GENETIC BASIS OF DISORDERS

Both the human genome project and disease research rest on the premise of finding distinguishable differences between individuals and often among populations. Ostrer has devoted his career to investigating these extended family trees, which help explain the genetic basis of common and rare disorders.

Today, Jews remain identifiable in large measure by the 40 or so diseases we disproportionately carry, the inescapable consequence of inbreeding. He traces the fascinating history of numerous “Jewish diseases,” such as Tay-Sachs, Gaucher, Niemann-Pick, Mucolipidosis IV, as well as breast and ovarian cancer.

GENETIC ISOLATION

Like East Asians, the Amish, Icelanders, Aboriginals, the Basque people, African tribes and other groups, Jews have remained isolated for centuries because of geography, religion or cultural practices. It’s stamped on their DNA. 

As Ostrer explains in fascinating detail, threads of Jewish ancestry link the sizable Jewish communities of North America and Europe to Yemenite and other Middle Eastern Jews who have relocated to Israel, as well as to the black Lemba of southern Africa and to India’s Cochin Jews. But, in a twist, the links include neither the Bene Israel of India nor Ethiopian Jews. Genetic tests show
that both groups are converts, contradicting their founding myths.

WHY ARE JEWS DIFFERENT LOOKING? 

Why, then, are Jews so different looking, usually sharing the characteristics of the surrounding populations? Think of red-haired Jews, Jews with blue eyes or the black Jews of Africa. Like any cluster — a genetic term Ostrer uses in place of the more inflammatory “race” — Jews throughout history moved around and fooled around, although mixing occurred comparatively infrequently until recent decades.

Although there are identifiable gene variations that are common among Jews, we are not a “pure” race. The time machine of our genes may show that most Jews have a shared ancestry that traces back to ancient Palestine.

MIDDLE EAST ANCESTRY

About 80% of Jewish males and 50% of Jewish females trace their ancestry back to the Middle East. The rest entered the “Jewish gene pool” through conversion or intermarriage. Those who did intermarry often left the faith in a generation or two, in effect pruning the Jewish genetic tree.

But many converts became interwoven into the Jewish genealogical line. Reflect on the iconic convert, the biblical Ruth, who married Boaz and became the great-grandmother of King David. She began as an outsider, but you don’t get much more Jewish than the bloodline of King David! 

 TWO MORE SPECIMENS — On the left, William Felix Browder, grandson of former head of the Communist Party USA Earl Browder. As a corporate speculator and raider, he joined Jewish oligarchs in exploiting Russia's riches after the collapse of the Soviet Union. On the right, vicious, hateful WWII Soviet propagandist, who urged Red Army soldiers to slaughter as many Germans as they possibly could — men, women and children. It was Ehrenburg who concocted that famous Six Million canard, which millions of goyim swallowed and now dutifully recite.

FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE: http://forward.com/articles/155742/jews-are-a-race-genes-reveal/

ON MAY 10, 1941, in the early days of World War II, a man undertook a daring, solo flight to Scotland. He carried with him a simple message. It was an urgent plea for an end to hostilities between his country — Germany — and Great Britain. In an act of unprecedented heroism and at great personal risk, he sought to bring an end to the existing state of war between the two countries, in accordance with the wishes of the German Leader, Adolf Hitler.

For his valiant efforts, he was promptly seized and placed under arrest without even the courtesy of a hearing of his peace proposals! For the next forty-six years he would remain a prisoner under the most appalling and barbaric of conditions. 

The man was — RUDOLF HESS. 

Had he been successful, the world would not have been witness to the endless pain and suffering and the senseless slaughter of tens of millions as a result of Allied refusal to grant so much as a single hearing to the earnest proposals for peace from someone who, along with his Leader, had personally experienced the horrors of war.  

Ironically, after the war Hess was brought before a kangaroo court at Nuremberg and charged with — "crimes against peace"! In the show trial of the century he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.  

Nearly a half century later, at age 93, the sentence of this longest-serving prisoner of conscience in modern time would be terminated on August 17, 1987.  With his grisly murder inside Berlin's notorious Spandau Fortress prison by his British captors, acting in collusion with their American cohorts, Rudolf Hess would join those 11 other Martyrs of Nuremberg, who were strangled to death 41 years earlier.

THE WAR DECLARED BY WORLD JEWRY  against the German Reich on March 12, 1933, has never ended.

Since the armistice of 1945, no peace treaty has ever been signed, and to this day that country — as the emblem of the struggle for a New Order — remains occupied by tens of thousands of foreign troops.  

And so — despite all the hoopla and hype about the great Communist-Capitalist "victory" of 1945 — the war continues, with Aryans everywhere in the world under attack.

Today the fate of our race hangs in the balance. Future generations are counting on us.  Do your part to secure the Endsieg — FINAL victory. 

Enlist today in the struggle!

SURRENDER IS NOT AN OPTION!