Giuliani’s ‘Mafia family.’
Giuliani’s ‘Mafia family.’
The close relationship between Rudy Giuliani and his former police commissioner, the disgraced Bernard Kerik, “raises questions” about Giuliani’s “ability to pick leaders” and his propensity to value loyalty above all else. The New York Times describes a meeting between the two men shortly after Giuliani became mayor of New York City:
Mr. Kerik followed Mr. Giuliani downstairs to a dimly lighted room. There waited Mr. Giuliani’s boyhood chum Peter J. Powers, who was first deputy mayor, and other aides. One by one, they pulled Mr. Kerik close and kissed his cheek.
“I wonder if he noticed how much becoming part of his team resembled becoming part of a mafia family,” Mr. Kerik wrote. “I was being made.”
Former White House chief of staff Andrew Card also noted that Giuliani was a “champion” of Kerik to be Homeland Security chief: “It wasn’t an arm-twisting session. It was more of a character reference.”
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Former White House chief of staff Andrew Card also noted that Giuliani was a “champion†of Kerik to be Homeland Security chief: “It wasn’t an arm-twisting session. It was more of a character reference.â€
And what does this say about the Bush Administration, that they would take the recommendation alone of an ideologue and Bush worshipper, without doing their own vetting of either the recommender or the recommendee, of someone to head a Department charged with protecting our nation? (I prefer to think of it as “our nation” rather than “the homeland”.) Clearly Giulianui wasn’t the only one who valued loyalty above all else (such as qualifications, ethics, and suitability to do the job for which they are picked.)
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:14 pmIs this story true? This is flat-out creepy. Was T/Rudi wearing a dress?
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 pmHuh. A top Republican candidate for President who has a habit of picking really bad leaders, and tends to give lucrative jobs to loyal buddies instead of well-qualified candidates. Where have I heard of such a thing before…
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:02 pmSo we can expect the same competence level in cabinet and political appointees after Il Duce is selected President, as under Il Dunce. Oh Boy!
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:06 pmShould we now start referencing JulieAnnie as Cronyannie?
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:06 pmAlthough the media scrutinized Bernard Kerik, President George W. Bush’s first choice to head DHS, and uncovered embarrassing details about his mother, there was no discussion of Chertoff’s mother, who played a noteworthy role in the creation of the Zionist state in Palestine.
The omission of Chertoff’s mother’s Zionist past suggests that there is an effort by the media to conceal his ties to Israel and his status as a “de jure” Israeli national, by birth.
Under Israeli law, a child born to an Israeli citizen, including children born outside of Israel as first generation out of Israel, is considered an Israeli citizen. The child remains an Israeli national until he or she formally renounces their Israeli nationality.
Chertoff was born on November 28, 1953 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to the New York-born Rabbi Gershon Baruch Chertoff and Livia Eisen, the first hostess for El Al, Israel’s state-owned airlines, founded in 1948.
Secretary Chertoff was evasive when American Free Press asked about his mother’s nationality, which if Israeli, would make him an Israeli national.
A “national” is defined as a citizen of a particular nation, while formal citizenship status confers specific rights, duties, and privileges on the citizen.
Livia reportedly participated in Operation Magic Carpet, the top-secret airlift of some 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel from June 1949 to September 1950. Livia’s connection with El Al and the secret airlift operations run by Israeli intelligence, indicate she was involved with Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad.
Operation Magic Carpet was so secret it wasn’t even revealed to the press until months after the last of the 380 flights from Yemen had arrived in Israel in late 1950.
“My religious and spiritual beliefs are pretty much what I want them to be,” he said. Given his background, this suggests he is a Talmudic Jew.
The Talmud is the body of rabbinical law that most American and Israeli Jews follow. The Talmud, however, re-interprets and negates much of the Torah and contains some anti-Christian sentiments. [For a better understanding of the anti-Christian aspects of the Talmud, read Israel Shahak's "Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of 3,000 Years"]
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November 3rd, 2007 at 3:10 pmIn passing over Kerik in favor of Chertoff, they simply traded Mafia leaders:
The Israeli Mafia is called CONGRESS:
NO OPPOSITION
Unlike other Bush nominees, there was no opposition in the Senate to Chertoff heading DHS. The Senate voted 98-0 to approve Chertoff on February 15. Chertoff, 51, took the oath of office that night in “a private ceremony at the White House.”
DHS has a $32 billion budget, 180,000 employees, and jurisdiction over immigration, customs and transportation security, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The question of Chertoff’s dual-nationality doesn’t seem to have concerned a single U.S. senator.
“I applaud President Bush for this outstanding choice,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). “We are proud to have a man of his caliber and talent serving and protecting the American people.”
“Our country is very fortunate to have someone with the background, experience, the intellect, the qualifications and the integrity of Judge Chertoff,” Senator Susan Collins (R – Maine), chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said.
After six hours of debate, Collins urged the Senate to act quickly on Chertoff’s nomination.
During the period before and after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Chertoff headed the criminal division at the Department of Justice where he “helped trace the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the al-Qaida network.”
Chertoff became Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, by a vote of 95-1 on May 24, 2001. The dissenting vote came from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D – N.Y.).
In this position Chertoff was architect of some of the most controversial elements of the Bush administration’s domestic war on terrorism and played a central role in formulating the Bush administration’s “anti-terrorism policy.” He defended the administration’s decisions to hold military tribunals for non-U.S. suspect terrorists and to monitor phone conversations between attorneys and their clients.
Chertoff oversaw the detention of 762 foreign nationals for minor immigration violations, although none was charged with a terrorism-related crime. The detention of hundreds of people was necessary to detect “sleeper cells” of terrorists, he said.
“Chertoff headed the Justice Department’s criminal division when hundreds of foreigners were swept up on minor charges and held for an average of 80 days,” The Washington Post reported. “Some detainees were denied their right to see a lawyer, were not told of the charges against them, or were physically abused.”
At the same time, Chertoff allowed scores of suspected Israeli terrorists and spies to quietly return to Israel. In several cases, Israeli suspects working for phoney moving companies, such as Urban Moving Systems from Weehawken, N.J., were caught driving moving vans which tested positive for explosives. On September 14, Dominic Suter, the owner of the moving company, which was found to be a Mossad front company, fled to Israel after FBI agents requested a second interview.
One group of 5 Israelis was seen on the roof of Urban Moving Systems videotaping and celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center. These Israeli agents were returned to Israel on visa violations.
These Israeli suspects, and others, who had apparently transported explosives in the New York area, were allowed to return to Israel without being properly interrogated or their presence and activities in the United States having been vigorously investigated.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=66175
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:20 pmRudy, the little man in search of a balcony.
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:27 pmOne of Rudy’s girlfriends is on the cover of Shape magazine next month in Canada.
http://wonkette.com/politics/dept‘-of-the-person-of-the-year-is-you/rudy-myspace-shocker-is-this-his-new-gal-pal-264644.php
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:40 pmHillary and Guiliani are both Agents of the system. Mike Gravel is the only real candidate that stands with the people
WAKE UP!
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:45 pmLook we know Rotten Rudy is a creep big time.But how about an expose on the 2 so called Dem Senators (Schumer,Feinstein)who just yesterday pledged to set our country back to dark ages by supporting an AG nominee who thinks the Prez can lock you & I up on his say so.
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:59 pmLet’s focus on the corrupt elements of some in our own party who week after week continue to demorlize the base of our party.
oh my!!! i almost forgot!
TODAY IS ZOOEY’S BIRTHDAY!!!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZOOEY!!!
November 3rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm:-)
Kerik’s indictment and subsequent release of evidence will also indict Rudy and tank his campaign. Just like the Shrub, everything Rudy touches turns putrid because he and his mafioso thug buddies have no credibility at all. Rudy’s performance on the campaign trail is abysmally fraught with inconsistencies, lies, flipflops, and downright nonsense. How this idiot ever got this far in a campaign to become president is a direct reflection on how far down the abyss this country has fallen.
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:06 pmHappy Birthday Zooey! I knew there was a deep connection ‘tween us – I’m a Scorpio, too. Happy, Happy day to you! Mine is a week from now.
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:07 pmI would be worried if I honestly thought that Giuliani had a chance to win the White House. He doesn’t. I’m not worried.
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:24 pmI check: 8,500,000 military deaths in China at Japenesede hands.
Check that: more than eight million.mm72 million according to Wickipedia. War sucks. Dubya never fought so he doesn’t know. Read Flags of our Fathers. . . . Ever had your best friend’s head slide down you back. . . read it.
Country Population 1939 Military deaths Civilian deaths Jewish Holocaust deaths Total deaths Deaths as % of population
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:39 pmAlbania[1] 1,073,000 28,000 200 28,200 2.63%
Australia[2] 6,998,000 39,400 700 40,100 0.57%
Austria[3] 6,653,000 40,500 65,000 105,500 1.59%
Belgium[4] 8,387,000 12,100 49,600 24,400 86,100 1.02%
Brazil[5] 40,289,000 1,000 1,000 2,000 0.00%
Bulgaria[6] 6,458,000 22,000 3,000 25,000 0.38%
Burma[7] 16,119,000 22,000 250,000 272,000 1.16%
Canada[8] 11,267,000 45,300 45,300 0.40%
China[9] 517,568,000 3,800,000 16,200,000 20,000,000 3.86%
Cuba[10] 4,235,000 100 100 0.00%
Czechoslovakia[11] 15,300,000 25,000 43,000 277,000 345,000 2.25%
Denmark[12] 3,795,000 2,100 1,000 100 3,200 0.08%
Estonia[13] 1,134,000 40,000 1,000 41,000 3.62%
Ethiopia[14] 17,700,000 5,000 200,000 205,000 1.16%
Finland[15] 3,700,000 95,000 2,000 97,000 2.62%
France[16] 41,700,000 212,000 267,000 83,000 562,000 1.35%
French Indo-China[17] 24,600,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 4.07%
Germany[18][19][20] 69,623,000 5,533,000 1,810,000 160,000 7,503,000 10.77%
Greece[21] 7,222,000 20,000 220,000 71,300 311,300 4.31%
Hungary[22] 9,129,000 300,000 80,000 200,000 580,000 6.35%
Iceland[23] 119,000 200 200 0.17%
India[24] 378,000,000 87,000 1,500,000 1,587,000 0.42%
Indonesia[25] 69,435,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 5.76%
Iran[26] 14,340,000 200 200 0.00%
Iraq[27] 3,698,000 1,000 1,000 0.03%
Ireland[28] 2,960,000 200 200 0.00%
Italy[29] 44,394,000 306,400 145,100 8,000 459,500 1.04%
Japan[30] 71,380,000 2,100,000 580,000 2,680,000 3.75%
Korea[31] 23,400,000 60,000 60,000 0.26%
Latvia[32] 1,995,000 147,000 80,000 227,000 11.38%
Lithuania[33] 2,575,000 212,000 141,000 353,000 13.71%
Luxembourg[34] 295,000 1,300 700 2,000 0.68%
Malaya[35] 4,391,000 100,000 100,000 2.28%
Malta[36] 269,000 1,500 1,500 0.56%
Mexico[37] 19,320,000 100 100 0.00%
Mongolia[38] 819,000 300 300 0.04%
Netherlands[39] 8,729,000 7,900 88,900 106,000 202,800 2.32%
Newfoundland[40] 300,000 1,000 100 1,100 0.37%
New Zealand[41] 1,629,000 11,900 11,900 0.67%
Norway[42] 2,945,000 3,000 5,800 700 9,500 0.32%
Philippines[43] 16,000,000 57,000 90,000 147,000 0.92%
Pacific Islands[44] 1,900,000 57,000 57,000 3.00%
Poland[45] 27,007,000 100,000 1,900,000 3,000,000 5,000,000 18.51%
Portuguese Timor[46] 500,000 55,000 55,000 11.00%
Romania[47] 19,934,000 300,000 64,000 469,000 833,000 4.22%
Singapore[48] 728,000 50,000 50,000 6.87%
South Africa[49] 10,160,000 11,900 11,900 0.12%
Soviet Union[50] 175,500,000 10,700,000 11,900,000 1,000,000 23,600,000 13.44%
Spain[51] 25,637,000 4,500 4,500 0.02%
Sweden[52] 6,341,000 200 200 0.00%
Switzerland[53] 4,210,000 100 100 0.00%
Thailand[54] 15,023,000 5,600 300 5,900 0.04%
United Kingdom[55] 47,760,000 382,600 67,800 450,400 0.94%
United States[56] 131,028,000 407,300 11,200 418,500 0.32%
Yugoslavia[57] 15,400,000 446,000 514,000 67,000 1,027,000 6.67%
Totals 1,961,071,000 25,095,500 41,759,700 5,754,400 72,609,600 3.70%
So sorry . . . had no idea this sucker was so long . . so many died.
Please excuse me.
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:40 pmWhen even a questionable person like Kerick questions Rudy’s moral character, me thinks there is good reason to really start asking questions about Rudy.
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:47 pmWhat’s the difference between a national tragedy and a cow?
November 4th, 2007 at 8:56 amGiuliani doesn’t know how to milk a cow!
This is s rather prejudiced story by TP, feeding the old stereotype that if someone is Italian, he must somehow be “Mafia.†Shame on you TP. Shame.
Comment by TCDon — November 4, 2007 @ 10:54 am
As usual, you fact-free idiot, you have it backwards. You should try shitting out of your ass, instead of your brain. Now, change your Depends, and collect your next post from the dirty ones.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:25 amTCDon,
You twit . . . complaining about Italian-mafia stereotyping and then signing off as the “Don.”
Stupid is as stupid does.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:41 amShame on you, TP. And shame on you Lefty, for condoning it.
Comment by TCDon — November 4, 2007 @ 11:46 am
Screw you, Don, you mafia freak. Giuliani is lower than a mafiosos, at least they have a code of honor, something Giuliani’s never shown. The mafia should be upset that a pig like rudely is being compared to them. As for you, you’re just a phony, there isn’t an iota of real concern in your posts. And as far as the catholic thing is concerned, that is another excellent reason to throw Giuliani off the ticket; especially witb a nazi pope.
November 4th, 2007 at 2:29 pm