Israeli World Domination

Payoneer is headed by Yuval Tal, who in a 2006 Fox News interview was identified as a former member of the Israeli special forces.......

The U.S. bank linked by Dubai police to the slaying of a top Hamas commander said Wednesday that prepaid credit cards allegedly used by the hit team were provided through a partner company, and that the bank's own procedures did not flag the card users as suspicious.

Authorities in Dubai had earlier tied MetaBank to its partner Payoneer Inc., though neither police nor the companies had clarified the relationship or described how the alleged assassins acquired the cards. Payoneer works with MetaBank to provide credit cards that employers can top up to pay their employees.

MetaBank, part of Storm Lake, Iowa-based Meta Financial Group Inc., said in an emailed statement Wednesday that the cards police say were involved in the Dubai killing were issued through that employee payment program, not through one of its retail bank branches.

Funds were then loaded onto those cards by outside companies "using direct deposit for payroll, disbursements, and other compensation," the bank said.

MetaBank has launched an internal review of compliance with bank and regulatory requirements, and said it has found no signs of wrongdoing. It said the names of the people taking out the cards were not on a prohibited user watch list maintained by the U.S. Treasury Dept.'s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

"Standardized steps were taken in accordance with applicable regulations and industry standards to validate cardholder identities prior to card issuance," the bank said. "The individuals named were not on the OFAC list, and no other readily apparent method existed for Meta to determine that identity theft had been perpetrated on valid governments and their citizens."

MetaBank spokeswoman Lisa Binder said she did not know which companies loaded funds onto the cards, and declined to comment beyond what was in the statement.

Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in a Dubai hotel room Jan. 20. Police claim some of the hit team, which includes at least 26 suspects, used credit cards obtained with fraudulent passports to pay for plane tickets and Dubai hotels. Dubai police linked many of the cards to MetaBank and its partner Payoneer.

Payoneer provides prepaid MasterCards issued by MetaBank and other lenders. The company is based in New York and has a research and development center in Tel Aviv, raising suspicions of Israeli involvement in the killing.

Israel's Mossad spy agency is widely suspected of carrying out the Jan. 19 slaying, though Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement. At least 15 of the suspected killers — who used falsified passports of real people — share names with Israeli citizens.

Dubai's police chief has repeatedly blamed Israeli spy agency Mossad for the killing of al-Mabhouh, who Israel accuses of smuggling weapons to Hamas militants controlling the Gaza Strip.

Payoneer is headed by Yuval Tal, who in a 2006 Fox News interview was identified as a former member of the Israeli special forces.

Payoneer has said it was cooperating with authorities but has declined further comment. It has not made Tal available to discuss the company's involvement.

.....and of the world’s nations at NATO headquarters in Brussels, and followed by two days of meetings by NATO and allied defense chiefs last week in Istanbul, the latter attended by Israeli Chief of General Staff Gabi Ashkenazi.

The brazen involvement of Israel in a war against Islamic Afghanistan, where Israeli drones have killed and continue to kill civilians and resisters, suggests what this war really represents. ( editor: the Western countries controlled by Israel attacking Afghanistan on orders from Israel )

The invaders should note that their nickname "Moshtarak" (collective) derives from the same Arabic root as shirk (idolatry). Though Pentagon planners don’t register such subtleties, the locals surely do....

For the frequent traveler, there is a stark dichotomy across the world. Almost without exception, traveling with an Asian carrier to any Asian airport is a pleasure. In contrast, using any airline domiciled in Europe or North America with passage through airports in that part of the world is stunningly inconvenient.

Your plane for one - the Asian carriers' jet, like its European counterpart, was assembled either in Seattle or in Toulouse, France, but it is a million miles away from the aircraft you are used to flying within Europe or North America. Plonk yourself down on a suspiciously comfortable seat and there is the large television panel with an array of entertainment. Great food, courteous service. And then you remember, this is the "economy" class, which beats the "business" class on any European or American airline.

Deplane and walk past the immigration without much fuss; as you reach the baggage belts you are shocked to find your checked-in baggage already there. Then you look up and see rows of baggage belts in either direction, all quietly whirring away and depositing their contents with an almost sinister efficiency.

Recovering from the shock, you recall the last time you traveled through an airport in Europe or North America: how long it took to go past the immigration counter; baggage that turned up an hour after you arrived at the belt, if it did at all; and the airlines that almost inevitably go on strike at the most inconvenient moments.

When you leave the airport in Shanghai and can get to the main city 30 kilometers away within eight minutes on the superfast magnetic levitation train, you cannot help but notice that the actual technology for this wonder comes from Germany. Yet, there are no such trains in operation anywhere in Europe, let alone Germany.

Surely this is because, here in Asia, we are in the biggest cities you say. Then you go and land at one of the smaller airports - say Guangzhou, just north of Hong Kong. At a cinch, it is double the size of Munich's airport, and when you get out to the city it is not very different in the quality of infrastructure compared to Shanghai. What about the rural areas? Well, drive from Shanghai in virtually any direction and the first time you see roads that are any worse than those around the city you are a good 200 kilometers away. And even there, the roads are better than many American motorways.

Yeah alright, so the Chinese truck driver barreling towards you looks like he hasn't slept in three days (very likely), and there is the occasional car wrapped into the milestone on the side of the road; but none of that detracts from the sheer robustness of the infrastructure.

It isn't just the airports and highways. Walk into a hotel in any Asian city and you are likely to be greeted by a bewildering array of the latest electronic gadgets and equipment all seamlessly integrated into the controls next to your bedside. Check into a hotel in New York or Paris (and much worse, London), and for the privilege of paying 200% more than your Asian room rate you will likely be greeted by an old hotel room housing a cathode-ray television and archaic room controls.

Wait a minute, you say, cathode-ray TV? When is the last time you have even seen one of those anywhere in Asia - be it the local coffee shop or your friends' homes?

Step out from your hotel and your cab or the local underground will be no less impressive in terms of either newness or the scale of technology. A friend told me recently that after 10 years of living in Hong Kong he remembers the local subway (underground/tube or whatever else you want to call it) network (in this case the MTR) being delayed only once; in his native London, he said, he'd be lucky not to have a delay at least three times every week. So the Asians have mastered the ability to combine reliability and low prices with good performance. Ouch, that sure hurts your ego.

In an Asian city, if your cab driver doesn't speak a word of English there is no reason to panic - whether in Seoul or in Hong Kong, all you need to do is to press a button and presto there is a chap on the wireless doing all your translations for you to the driver. Free, of course.

"Translations", you say. That would be a nice feature to have when you want to speak in English in New York, for example.

Then you duck into a tailor's shop to see whether a new suit can be made. Sure, says the shopkeeper, a mere US$200 and two days for a bespoke suit; against $500 and more for an off-the-peg European brand that uses lower-quality material. Walk into any shop across Asia and two things immediately hit you square in the eyes - the quality of service and the sheer promptness with which you get everything.

Two days for a suit? You could be waiting longer for your creme brule in a Paris cafe, and then end up paying $30 for the privilege.

As you walk around what looks like a social housing project in Bangkok, Seoul, Singapore or Hong Kong you glimpse a few food stalls. "Surely these must be dangerous," you say, until you spot the queue of customers patiently waiting for their turn. What is more, the queue has more than a few "expats" who couldn't live without their daily visit to these stalls selling succulent local cuisine.

And then the last observation sinks in. Every single Asian city is heaving at the edges, with millions of people. Yet, crime rates are negligible and social tensions appear well under control. A far cry from the banlieu of Paris or the Turkish quarter of Berlin, for example, not to mention the public housing nightmares of Chicago or Detroit.

By the time you have done a tour across the Pacific Rim, a manner of despondency sets in. How on earth are these countries still considered "developing" when their standards of living and technology are barely available in the Western world?

That's when you remember India. "Ah!," you say, believing that here is a country that will perpetually disappoint on its infrastructure. Abysmal roads, gridlocked traffic, poor sanitation and those positively lethal curries.

Really? As you approach the airport at Mumbai and if you somehow tear your eyes away from the slums that seem to have crept straight onto the runway, the first thing you notice is the mass of flyovers that appear, quite literally, to have cropped out of the blue. Your journey to downtown in an air-conditioned cab takes an hour, not the three hours it used in a rickety old Fiat cab on the last trip.

"Surely Mumbai must be the exception," you say. "Other Indian cities will be worse." Well, no luck on that account. Whether it is the national capital Delhi or the southern city of Chennai, the improvements over the past 10 years are significant, and almost to a fault, efficient.

Even the famously lackadaisical government appears to be in a tearing hurry. From a target of 4km of new roads every day barely three years ago the target was reset at 20km per day in the middle of last year. According to independent reports, the actual progress is over 30km per day. Okay, it's a big country, but it looks to be getting an awful lot faster to go from one end to another.

Sanitation seems like a worry until your roadside food vendor proffers a bottle of mineral water with the just-cooked delicacy. The food waste behind the stall seems to disappear quietly and efficiently into a new drainage system.

As for those lethal curries, forget it. Indians still eat the most inhumanly spicy food on earth (IMHO), but the inevitable trips to the bathroom and/or the doctor for your episode of Delhi-belly appear to have been banished almost magically. The cuisine map is now richer and food quality has improved dramatically alongside.

It is not the gargantuan dams of China or the super-efficient underground in Singapore that impresses you, but rather the fact that even the most economically backward parts of Asia have taken growth to be their mantra. What's more, they have the financial muscle to push it through.

With that, your despondency turns to depression. How, you ask, can the "developed" world ever regain its luster?

For a start, all American and European cities will have to reinvest hundreds of billions into their cities to rejuvenate the existing infrastructure. Then the states/smaller countries will have to connect the cities to the rest of the region, install new technology infrastructure, focus on customer service and improve productivity to new heights to compete with the Asians.

Ah, but a minor detail intervenes. Who has got the money to do all that? Well, let us raise taxes you say. Problem is, no one in your country is making much money in the first place so raising taxes will simply drive consumption down and drive the deficit wider. Well, let us borrow the lot you say. Trouble is, no one has the money to lend to you at your abysmally low rates. Except the Asians - who you then recall can play tough once in a while.

And that's about when you reconcile to the inevitable future - Asia with its apparently permanent advantage on infrastructure and operating efficiency leaving Europe and North America ever further behind. Nothing appears to have the ability to reverse this trend.

Recalling that one of London's nicknames is "Londongrad" due to its large number of Russian residents, Alexander Zvygintsev, Russia's deputy prosecutor general, claimed that the UK and Israel harbour more Russian criminals than any other countries. Over 66,000 Russian nationals are currently on the run abroad, he added.

"The greatest number of such fugitives is hiding out in Israel and Britain," he told state newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta. "It is no coincidence that the capital of the latter is often called Londongrad."

"It is not petty thieves who hide out there but figures with significant funds. It seems that London, as a major financial centre, is turning into a giant launderette for laundering criminally-sourced funds."

Mr Zvygintsev went on to accuse Britain of flouting the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, saying the UK often granted asylum status to fugitive Russian nationals on fabricated grounds and then refused to extradite them "for political reasons".

He complained that wealthy Russian fugitives were skilled at taking advantage of liberal laws such as those in the UK to win asylum on bogus political grounds in order "to protect themselves from being handed over to face Russian justice.

"A huge number of specifically these kinds of 'jailbirds' have sought sanctuary in Britain," he lamented.

Although he did not name him, billionaire oligarch Boris Berezovsky was likely to have been in his thoughts. British courts have long refused to extradite Mr Berezovsky who has been convicted in Russia (in absentia) for massive embezzlement. Mr Berezovsky, who has political asylum in the UK and is a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, has successfully argued that the charges are trumped up and said he could not get real justice in Russia.

Other prominent London-based Russian fugitives include Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev and businessman Yevgeny Chichvarkin, the founder of Russia's largest phone retailer.

An alleged Israeli spy has been violently overpowered by bodyguards at a bar in northern Iraq for displaying drunken antics.

Last Thursday, the heavily-intoxicated 62-year-old, named Dawood Baghestani, reportedly began displaying immoral behavior and was battered by bouncers at the bar located in the Iraqi Kurdistan's City of Arbil.

Baghestani is purported to be one of the Israeli fifth columnists in northern Iraq who is in the business of deploying Israeli agents in the Iraqi Kurdistan. He is known to have traveled to Israel a number of times, including a “clandestine” visit back in 1967.

The alleged operative is reported to have been carrying out espionage activities for Israel under the guise of running the Israel-Kurd magazine in the Kurdish-populated area.

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Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes

When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, Judith Popinski was treated with great kindness.

She raised a family in the city of Malmo, and for the next six decades lived happily in her adopted homeland - until last year.

In 2009, a chapel serving the city's 700-strong Jewish community was set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated, worshippers were abused on their way home from prayer, and "Hitler" was mockingly chanted in the streets by masked men.

"I never thought I would see this hatred again in my lifetime, not in Sweden anyway," Mrs Popinski told The Sunday Telegraph.

"This new hatred comes from Muslim immigrants. The Jewish people are afraid now."

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Israeli World Domination needs to destroy the Euro because it is being used as an alternative to the dollar by Russia, China, Iran, and others.

This article details the actions of Israeli World Domination that led to the current European economic crisis and it's effectiveness in attacking the euro.

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Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts.

As worries over Greece rattle world markets, records and interviews show that with Wall Street’s help, the nation engaged in a decade-long effort to skirt European debt limits. One deal created by Goldman Sachs helped obscure billions in debt from the budget overseers in Brussels.

Gary D. Cohn, president of Goldman Sachs, went to Athens to pitch complex products to defer debt. Such deals let Greece continue deficit spending, like a consumer with a second mortgage.

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This is a typical ploy for Israeli's accused of crimes. Polanski is old. All they have to do is stall the legal proceedings until Polanski dies of old age. In the meantime Polanski continues to party at his ski chalet as if nothing ever happened.

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In a victory for Roman Polanski, a Swiss justice official said Friday that authorities there won't extradite the director to the United States until L.A. courts determine whether Polanski should serve time for having sex with a 13-year-old girl more than three decades ago.

The official said Polanski should remain under house arrest at his Alpine lodge until the courts in California resolve various legal issues.

Last month, a judge rejected Polanski's request to be sentenced in absentia, scuttling the director's latest bid to end his three-decade-old child sex case.

The judge hoped that such a sentencing would allow his lawyers to lay out evidence of judicial misconduct in his case and secure him a sentence of no further time behind bars. Although a state appeals panel had suggested that Polanski be sentenced in absentia as the director is facing extradition proceedings in Switzerland, Judge Peter Espinoza said he was not bound by the higher court's suggestion.

Polanski's defense quickly vowed to appeal.

"When the question is still open, why should he be extradited?" Swiss justice official Rudolf Wyss told Associated Press. "As long as the question is still open, our decision depends on that."

Polanski fled the U.S. just before he was set to be sentenced for having sex with the girl, contending that the original judge in the case, the late Laurence Rittenband, reneged on a promise to count the time the director spent in state prison before sentencing as his entire punishment.

Swiss officials have said Polanski faced two years in prison if sent back to L.A.

Hong Kong's highest court today overturned an American woman's murder conviction and ordered that she be retried for allegedly drugging her husband with a laced milkshake and bludgeoning him to death.

Hong Kong's court of final appeal found in its 111-page decision that prosecutors had used illegal evidence in the trial of Nancy Kissel, but ordered that the 45-year-old be kept in custody pending a bail application ahead of her second trial.

Kissel, who lost her first appeal against her conviction, smiled broadly when the chief justice, Andrew Li, announced the stunning reversal.

A friend of Kissel, Nancy Nassberg, told reporters the mother-of-two was "elated". She said Kissel's parents were unable to travel from the US for the hearing but they had been notified of the result.

"I'm proud, very proud of Nancy. She was a good wife. She is a great mother, a great daughter, a great sister and a great friend," Nassberg told reporters. "We think justice is served."

Kissel's lawyers argued during the appeal hearing that prosecutors broke the law by using evidence during the trial that drew from the American's initial bail hearing, after she was charged. The five judges from the court of final appeal agreed.

"It is plainly in the interests of justice that there should be a retrial," they said.

Kissel has been serving a life sentence since she was convicted in September 2005. Her trial made headlines worldwide with its allegations of drug abuse, kinky sex and adultery in the wealthy world of expatriates in the Asian financial hub.

Kissel admitted bashing her husband, Robert, in the head in self-defence as he was threatening her with a baseball bat in an argument. She described the 40-year-old investment banker for Merrill Lynch as an erratic, whiskey-swilling workaholic, who also snorted cocaine and forced her to have painful anal sex.

On December 29, 2009, the official Google weblog published an entry written in support of the Green Movement and its uploading of amateur videos of opposition protests on YouTube. However, Google Inc does not allow Iranians to download its Google Chrome, Google Talk, Google Code or Picasa software, all of which are extremely popular among the Green Movement's members.

A large number of security applications, such as tunneling or secure shell software, which create protected links between two points, are inaccessible to Iranians.

Also, United States financial institutions are barred from dealing with Iran and that cuts off many routes. Foreign companies have blocked almost all access to online shopping and financial transactions from Iran. If anyone in Iran buys software from abroad using a foreign account, their Internet address will reveal their location and the bank account will be frozen.

Websites selling Internet domains and hosting services will not provide services to Iranians and Internet phone company Skype, which would provide Iranian dissidents with a safe means of communication via its messenger, does not allow Iranian Internet addresses or let Iranians buy credit.