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Relatives of Iraqi reporter Muntadhar al-Zeidi celebrated at his house yesterday before his release from prison. (Mohammed Ameen/ Reuters)
BAGHDAD - In Baghdad, the family of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush is preparing a festive welcome for his release from prison today after nine months behind bars. At his family’s home, relatives of Muntadhar al-Zeidi were already celebrating yesterday, waving Iraqi flags and hanging balloons and posters of the reporter on the walls.
Zeidi, a little-known reporter for a small Iraqi TV station, became an icon for many in the Arab world in a single moment in December. As Bush and Iraq’s prime minister addressed a news conference, the reporter jumped from his seat and hurled his shoes at the American president.
Bush was unhurt but forced to duck. Zeidi shouted at him in Arabic: “This is your farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq.’’
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Relatives of Iraqi reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi awaited his release at a street in Baghdad. (Saad Shalash/ Reuters)
Also yesterday, the expected release of the Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush was postponed a day, two of his brothers said, citing delays in processing his paperwork.
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Sunni and Shiite Muslims pray together at the Abu Hanifa , during Friday prayers, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Four days after a truck bombing targeted the foreign ministry building, wreckage was still strewn on a street in Baghdad yesterday. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/ AFP/ Getty Images)."
Smoke billowed after an explosion in the Bab al-Muazam district, near the former Defense Ministry in central Baghdad. (AFP/ Getty Images)
Villagers looked at the remains of a house belonging to supporters of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. Reports of Mehsud’s death were unconfirmed. (Ishtiaq Mehsud/Associated Press)
Children took refuge yesterday in a police office after clashes between security forces and Islamist radicals in Maiduguri. Fighting in the northern Nigerian city raged for a second day. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images)
Somali women who have been forced from their homes by violence in Mogadishu protested the lack of water near a camp for internally displaced people. (Mohamed Dahir/ AFP/ Getty Images)
Only craters and rubble remain of the Khazna village near Mosul after truck bombs exploded yesterday as residents slept. (Khalid Al-Mousuly/ Reuters)
Followers of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, seen on a poster at center, attended prayers in Baghdad yesterday. (KARIM KADIM/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
This undated photo showed Lynndie England holding a leash connected to a naked detainee at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (Washington Post/ File)
Josh Habib (far left), a 53-year-old translator, along with two Marines, spoke to Afghan villagers. He has hiked in extreme heat, and said this is not the job he signed up for. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press)
An egg seller in Kabul stood by a campaign billboard yesterday for President Hamid Karzai. A recent poll financed by the US government indicated that the race was tightening. (Paula Bronstein/ Getty Images)
A U.S. soldier reacts after a suicide car bomb explosion which occurred near the main gate of NATO's headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday Aug. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das7 die, 91 wounded in blast near NATO HQ in Kabul)
--Gaza children shatter world record--"
Bai Yun (right) is pregnant again. The 17-year-old panda has given birth to four cubs since arriving at the San Diego Zoo. (Associated Press/ File 2007)
President Obama walked off Marine One. “I have great health insurance and so does every member of Congress,’’ he said. (Kristoffer Tripplaar/Getty Images/Pool)
How about our vets, 'bamer? They getting all they need when the get home?
How about a more appropriate type of salute from the new American war criminal?
President Obama spoke about the Post-9/11 GI Bill in Fairfax, Va., with (from left) Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, Marine Corps Staff Sergeant James Miller, John Warner, former senator, US Senator Jim Webb, and Vice President Biden. (Jason Reed/ Reuters)
Sig Heil, 'bamer!
Iraqi police stand guard over two men who are alleged to have links to an attack on a U.S. military base that killed three soldiers in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 18, 2009. (AP Photo/ Nabil Juran)"
Iraqi women walked past walls scarred by a detonated roadside bomb that targeted a police patrol in the Karada district of Baghdad yesterday. One person died in the blast. (Ali Al-Saadi/ AFP/ Getty Images)
That's FREEDOM and LIBERATION, huh?
Btw, world, George Bush's surge FAILED!
"A report issued recently by the Iraqi planning ministry, meanwhile, painted a grim picture of life in the country, saying shortages of clean water and food were growing worse.
The report found that life expectancy had fallen to 58 years in 2008 - seven years less than during the height of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Rates of poverty, tuberculosis, hunger, unemployment, and infant mortality have all increased substantially.
So WTF have we done over there other than DESTROY the PLACE and turn it into a living hell?
I say that with as much sardonic acid as I can muster; otherwise I might pollute my site with bad language!
Family members of eleven year old Mohammed Akeel, who was killed in a bombing the day before, grieve at his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)'
Oh, and ABOUT that SURGE SUCCESS:
"a steady toll with bombs and targeted killings that would amount to a crisis in most other countries."
Translation: the MSM is MINIMIZINGM the violence and LYING about IRAQ AGAIN!
I would EXPECT NOTHING LESS from those sorry sacks of sh.... ooops, almost lost it!
Here, take this KICK in the HEAD instead, CHRISTIANS!
People prayed at a church that was the target of a bomb attack in Baghdad yesterday. (Kahtan Al-Mesiary/Reuters)
Aren't you GLAD ZIONIST JEWS got Bush to LIE US into WARS, Christians?
You SURE Bush wasn't the Antichrist?
"Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's million or so Christians for the most part coexisted peacefully with Muslims, both the dominant Sunnis and majority Shiites (New York Times October 17, 2007).... Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Christians lived side by side; many intermarried"
His SERVICE to the SYNAGOGUE of SATAN has in fact ENDANGERED CHRISTIANS!
And TELL ME again about the SECTARIAN FALSE FLAGS?
They INTERMARRY and LIVE TOGETHER until WE GET THERE?
And ABOUT that "NEW" MAN!
"Maliki has shown a... ruthlessness borrowed from the handbook of Iraq’s last strongman, Saddam Hussein.... men under Maliki’s command have arrested and threatened to detain a host of his rivals, to Basra, where security forces have swept up scores of his opponents since January, the message is: cooperate or risk his wrath"
Also related:
Occupation Iraq: Israeli-Trained Death Squads
Plan B
The Salvadorization of Iraq
Occupation Iraq: Government Hit Squad Killed Reporters
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
Islam's 9/11
The nightmare Bush dreads most
Occupation Iraq: Sectarian Saviors
How much more evidence do you need?
Operation Mockingbird
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
The Blue Angels are scheduled to fly over downtown Boston between 1:30 and 2 p.m. today. (Justin Sullivan/ Getty Images/ File 2002)"
I'm sure people in foreign lands love seeing our bombers overhead.
What's the carbon footprint on that war worship?
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and his daughter Malia (L) help volunteers and members of Congress stuff backpacks with books, food and photographs of the first dog Bo during a United We Serve event at Fort McNair June 25, 2009 in Washington, DC. Helping to fill 10,000 backpacks for children of military servicemen and women, the first family stuffed copies of "The Lightning Thief," by Rick Riordan, and "The Penderwicks," by Jeanne Birdsall into backpacks along with food items and a personal letter from the president and the first lady."
"A suspected US missile attack killed 80 people.... hit a funeral procession.... at least 4,316 members of the US military have died in Iraq"
Nice to know he's having a good time.
Given that a U.S.-sponsored coup is underway and everywhere in the media, I especially liked this one:
And here is something that may surprise you given the war-promoting demonization of the Iranians:
"As he concluded his sermon, Khamenei invoked the names of Shiite saints and began weeping."
What the hell is wrong with the Iranians? They actually have leaders that feel?
And here is a forgotten group of people you haven't heard much about lately:
In fact, the main trouble in the region is coming from the "rebels [who] rose in 2003." The unspoken reason why Eastern Africa is such a mess? The Israeli weapons-smuggling ring that the Somali pirates exposed with their taking of the Faina.
Speaking of Somalia:
Strange how the "terrorists" show up right after a peace deal, huh?
Btw, readers, Somalia is worse than Darfur but you would never know it from the MSM of AmeriKa.
That was after the U.S. called in Ethiopian troops to overthrow the security-bringing Islamists.
Don't hear much about those war crimes, do you?
Okay, on to the "HOT" WARS....
This photo not as colorful:
A boy whose house was destroyed by a US airstrike carried what was left of his belongings. Deadly airstrikes have prompted calls for better training to reduce civilian casualties. (Fraidoon Pooyaa/ Associated Press/File)
How would you like your mud-brick house to be flattened by "an Air Force B-1 dropped a 2,000-pound bomb.... troops called in F-18 fighter jet air strikes as well?"
And expect more of this because,
"the report does not recommend changes in tactics and procedures used in Afghanistan.... and the [chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen] has already said there is no reason to punish any US personnel."
No, the U.S. never punishes anyone for war crimes; that's only for the other guy.
And then the gall of the military to say that
"other recommendations include improving the military’s ability to get its side of the story in front of Afghans faster, something commanders say is frustratingly difficult. The US should be “first with the truth,’’ the report said."
Then start telling the truth about 9/11, the standdown orders, and war games.
And suddenly the Twitter phenomenon sure makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
Didn't know they were up in Afghanistan, did you?
"A team based in Kabul will update and maintain the sites.... US troops already scour websites, respond to questions from individuals, and rebut what the military considers to be false information."
That's with YOUR TAX DOLLARS, America -- so your own government can run a propaganda operation on you.
Aren't the MSM newspapers enough? (Oh, right, no one is purchasing or reading them these days because of the atrocious journalism and out right lies).
Related: Twitter and Life in the Shitter.
Now watch this for true information, not military lies:
"The footage you are about to see is poignant, heart-wrenching, and often a direct result of U.S. foreign policy. In order to help the refugees whose lives have been shattered by U.S. foreign policy and military attacks, please provide aid through the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. For more on Afghan civilian casualties, watch Director Robert Greenwald on MSNBC's The Ed Show.
Watch: VIDEO
Also related: Air strike on Afghanistan — an eyewitness account
How about next door?
Children queueing with their parents at a food distribution centre in Manyar, a town under curfew in the Swat valley. Photograph: Declan Walsh)
Of course, let us not forget the American costs, as much as the MSM would like us to forget:
"at least 4,316 members of the US military have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003"
Yup, the cost of ZIONIST WAR LIES!
Let's not forget the Iraqis, either:
Ever notice that "Al-CIA-Duh" shows up just when the U.S. needs them (or relaxes the violence, as the case may be)?
Add some more lives to the over over one million (must be two million by now) Iraqis dead from this invasion and occupation.
And a people I will NEVER FORGET:
.... They want you to forget:
Read the whole article HERE""
Meanwhile, what is the mass-murderer-in-chief doing?
President Obama worked the grill during a White House Father’s Day event for teenagers and young men. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Oh, isn't that special as he rains down missiles on Pashtuns and other innocent men, women, and children.
As for that vaunted "change" we keep hearing about, these are only the latest backtracks as Obama morphs into George W. Bush III:
"Obama's plan would.... [extend] President Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, as well as other tax cuts that are scheduled to expire."
And in the biggest stab in the back:
"A federal judge said yesterday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI’s interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative... arguments by Obama administration lawyers that sounded much like the reasons the Bush administration provided for keeping Cheney’s interview from the public.... that future presidents and vice presidents may not cooperate with criminal investigations if they know what they say could become available to their political opponents and late-night comics who would ridicule them"
Since when do LATE NIGHT COMEDY SHOWS factor into GOVERNMENT DECISIONS?!
So Obama is defending Dick Cheney's treason now?
I don't want to hear anymore Cheney vs. Obama stories, 'kay?
Cripes, even the names are still the same: "Rice.... the US ambassador to the United Nations"
Residents waited for the distribution of relief goods by the Red Crescent organization to a neighborhood in Baghdad's Abu Dsheer district last September. (Mohammed Ameen/Reuters/File)
It's true: a picture is worth thousands of words -- and I can barely find any to express my sadness at what I see above.
eileen fleming
The number Of Iraqis slaughtered since the U.S. invaded Iraq is 1,320,110. [1]
The number of U.S. military personnel whose mothers will never see them again live has been officially acknowledged at 4,284. [2]
So far, the War in Iraq has bled $667,095,136,653.00 from USA tax payers wallets.
The genesis of Mother's Day in the U.S.A. began when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community and fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace.
As mothers bear the loss of human life more acutely than anyone else, in 1870, Julia Ward Howe wrote the first Mother's Day Proclamation, from which I excerpt:
Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor; nor violence indicate possession. At the summons of war let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace;
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar;
But of God.
In the 21st century, patriarchal testosterone driven 'civilization' persists in the insanity of violence for violence and we in the USA are responsible for most all of the world's manufacturing, use of, and exporting of weapons of all degrees of destruction which terrorize every innocent caught in the crossfire.
In 1999, the UN dedicated the first decade of the 21st century to Create a Culture of Nonviolence for All Children of The World.
In December 2005, I attended Holy Land Trust's Celebrating Nonviolent Solidarity Conference in the Little Town of Bethlehem: Occupied Territory. One of the workshops was sponsored by the United Network of Young Peace Builders [UNOY] the Netherlands Expertise Centre Alternatives to Violence. They informed me that in regards to the United Nations Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World, America abstained from voting and is on the record in the UN as stating: "We cannot support this initiative as it will make it harder for us to wage war."
Caesar today is understood to be the Government Industrial Military Complex which would collapse in support of Peace and Nonviolence.
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends...I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The only trouble is they are not aware they can get it."-John Lennon
On July 4, 1776, our founding father's upheld that,"We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights [and] that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it." - The Declaration of Independence
The hearts and minds that require the most transformation are the ones that hold the most power; and power never gives any away without a battle.
Gandhi spoke about how personal nonviolence is not much use to society until one weds society to political action. It is not enough to speak TRUTH to power because power doesn't care; but history proves that the most hopeless situations all of a sudden just changed for the best because forces for justice had persisted and had truth on their side.
During that 2005 conference, Jeff Halper, American Israeli and Founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions spoke about how we all need to look at life as a play and we all have a part to take. When enough 'actors' pursue justice and persist to tell the truth and remain nonviolent, 'Caesar' will acquiesce in order to maintain power.
Also during that conference, Anglican Reverend Naim Ateek, a Palestinian refugee and founder of SABEEL [Arabic for The Way] Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem, spoke about how the use of state sponsored violence corrupted the true message of Christ.
Ateek explained how Christ’s teachings and life reflected the revolutionary concept of nonviolent action and how thousands of years of not reflecting upon the fact that evil can be opposed without being mirrored, and the cycle of a ‘tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye’, never has, never will, never can bring true peace or security.
Christ taught that one must forgive and love ones enemies and one must pray for those who persecute and hate them. In a nutshell, that is what being a Christian is truly about.
Before the reign of Emperor Constantine, all the early Church Fathers taught that Christians should not serve in the army but instead willingly suffer rather than inflict harm on any other human being. St. Paul taught that the only way to resist evil is with good. Clement, Tertillian, Polycarp and every other early Church Father taught that violence contradicts Christianity.
In 313 Constantine sought to unite his empire and by legitimizing Christianity-although he waited until on his dearth bed to be baptized- many have said that was when the soul left the church. Within 100 years after Constantine, the Empire required that all soldiers in the army must be baptized as Christians and thus, the decline of Christianity began.
Augustine was the first Church Father to speak about the concept of a Just War. The Church relaxed the standards Jesus set as they negated the true teaching of Christ to justify war and thus; wrong became right, for a true Christian will always be nonviolent.
“The God of war, violence, oppression and terror must be rejected. Authentic Christianity is nonviolent and is all about peace, justice and liberation.” -Rev. Naim Ateek.
Candidate Bush claimed his favorite philosopher was Jesus, but President Bush defied the philosophy, ethics, morals and teaching of Jesus who was explicit that one must forgive to be forgiven and one must love and do only good towards one's enemies; not bomb, torture or occupy them. The problem is not with Christianity, but that too few who claim to be Christian, have actually done what Christ taught.
Dr. Mohammed Abu-Nimer from the Salam Institute of Peace and Justice [www.salaminstitute.org] lives in Washington, D.C., and he also spoke in Bethlehem, “All the Abrahamic traditions are based in nonviolence, it is our lenses that determine whether we see it. Like Christianity the concept of a Just War took root and developed after lots of discussions dealing with how to deal with believers and nonbelievers.
“The first twelve years Mohammed spent in Mecca he practiced nonviolent resistance. He was persecuted but always prayed: ‘God forgive them, they do not know what they are doing.’
“Mohammed taught against the killing of innocents, the desecration of the environment and for the humane treatment and respect towards one’s enemies. Suicide bombings are not justified and those who try to justify it negate the early principals and teachings regarding nonviolence, the pursuit of justice, doing good, universality and human dignity, equality, that all life is sacred, to be forgiving and be a peace maker."
As with Christianity, the ideals and reality have yet to transform the hearts and minds of many followers. In explaining this gap Dr. Abu-Nimer continued, “We are quick to blame the external factors such as colonialism, war, humiliation, Zionism and economic dependency. But what we lack is looking internally for we Muslims love authority, bureaucracy, loyalty and our core government system is based on nepotism not ability. There is corruption, co-optation of religious leaders, the patriarchal structure and hierarchy, the authoritarian control system, and the tribal mentality.
“We are not raised in our culture to question authority and if you engage in nonviolence you must resist authority. Our first step is to challenge our own presumptions...We have 5,000 sayings attributed to Mohammed and 700 authentically traced. The politicalization of his teachings began the corruption of his teachings.
“Every Muslim child is exposed to positive values as well as interpretations that are narrow and exclusive. An example is: ‘We are the best nation that God sent to people.’ If we truly follow the ideals of Islam, we are, but reality is that the ideals have been corrupted by wrong actions.
“Many interpret the saying: ‘Support your brother if he is just, right or wrong’ to mean you must be loyal regardless of his actions and don’t ask questions. The true way to support one’s brother [or tribe] is to point out the error of his [their] ways; to explain to him why he is wrong, to correct but not fight.”
St. Paul expressed the same sentiment: “Do not judge the nonbeliever, but provoke one another to good works.”
Dr. Abu-Nimer concluded, "Islam was revolutionary at its time but it went backwards. There is no lack of values; the lack is in interpretation…Islam must reclaim what Mohammed put down. It is a myth to believe that the conflict between Israel Palestine can be fixed by secular methods.”
Peace is not a noun, it's a verb, for peace is who you are and what you do:
Arise then, from the voice of a devastated Earth,
With a voice in solidarity that demands Disarm! Disarm!
For the sword of murder is not the balance of justice.
And blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
At the summons of war, let all people of good will and of conscience bewail and commemorate the dead,
And may the great human family in nonviolent solidarity live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress,
NOT of Caesar; But of God.
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Eileen Fleming, is the Founder of http://wearewideawake.org/ and a Feature Correspondent for www.arabisto.com/ and www.paltelegraph.com/ Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" She produced "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" because corporate media has been MIA all during a Freedom of Speech Trial in Israel.
Only in Solidarity do "we have it in our power to begin the world again."-Tom Paine
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A group of Afghans in Kandahar waited as Canadian soldiers from a NATO-led coalition checked their car (Reuters)."
Those other guys in front, you say? They only live there.
How many of them did "coalition forces" kill today?
And when was the last time you heard about the Tamils plight?
Sri Lankan Tamil civilians arriving at a government-controlled area after fleeing territory controlled by the the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan last week (Reuters)."
Related: Sri Lanka: Case Study in MSM Propaganda
Kerry's Colossal Insult
And, as usual, a TOTAL ABSENCE from the Zionist-controlled AmeriKan MSM:
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Israel continues incursions into the territory on a regular basis. |
Israeli operations kill 2, wound 4 in Gaza
"seeing the world for what it is and realizing that the world itself is the problem.... anyone who might object to the truth is automatically someone hiding something wrong"
(Blog author's note: I alter this fabulous and perceptive author's titles not out of disrespect, but respect at the unexpected and prescient phrases, themes, and ideas that catch my eye in his brilliant essays)
"So Many Questions and so Little Time to Answer
by Visible
Sometimes I have a lot of questions and sometimes I don’t have any. I think that during the times when I have questions, I am in the mode of altruism which inclines me to believe that answering certain questions will lead to solutions to longstanding problems. During the times when I don’t have any questions, it seems to me, I am seeing the world for what it is and realizing that the world itself is the problem; four antagonistic elements warring against each other forever and ever amen. Well… how and why I feel as I do doesn’t really matter.
Today, I’ve got some questions. One of the questions I have is… Why is the
Zippy Livni doesn’t want to form a government with Bennie Netanyahoo. We’re given the impression that this is because her party with Ehud Barak (no relation to the present U.S President) are a peace party looking for a two state solution and the Netanyahoo/Lieberman coalition is the party of war. Here’s what puzzles me. Livni’s government, under the direction of Skull Olmert, slaughtered a whole lot of Lebanese behind a false flag caper and then practically destroyed
What are we too expect from 9/11 Bennie and Mad Dog Lieberman? Here’s how it looks. With Zippy and the other Hellraiser pinheads, the Palestinians only get a little white phosphorus… a destroyed infrastructure and being used for target practice on odd days of the week with every other Sunday off. With Bennie and the Vets they get used for target practice 24/7 and everybody else gets flayed alive and crucified by the side of the road to Tel Aviv come next Hanukah and then on each of the eight days they set a different group on fire so it has a kind of ‘Spartacus celebrates Mardi Gras in Hell’ effect which will delight all the little Israelis and the Palestinians will just be happy to be playing a part in that.
My question is about the difference between these two groups of psychopaths; is it a matter of degree only? I don’t know if I’ll be able to hear your response over the noise of the bulldozers in
While we are on the subject of
It appears that Obama is not going to put an end to torture. It appears that they’ll just close Gitmo and reopen it somewhere else. It appears that he is not going to end war; he’s going to relocate that too and while offering a small token to besieged homeowners and major cash to bottomless banks, we now have bankers complaining about the token being given to the homeowners. Obama is talking tough about
Here’s another question I have. Now that we know that the Afghanistan war was all about getting the heroin trade back on it’s feet and now that we know that most of the nations engaged by proximity or presently performing the ongoing assault are engaged in it. Now that we know that many of the major banks were propping up their bottom line with huge influxes of drug money… why is nothing being done about any of it?
Well, some of you are frothing at the mouth about now because I have the temerity to say these things… never mind whether they are true or not and they damn well are… it’s that I’m saying it. That also begs the question of why the truth would bother anyone. Why is the truth so unwelcome? It’s because it can interfere with business as usual and it makes whoever may be sucking off of that tit uncomfortable because there’s an implication that they might be part of something wrong. Well… you are. You certainly are. I’m going to take it for granted from now on that anyone who might object to the truth is automatically someone hiding something wrong about themselves. It doesn’t matter what reasons you give. This is the real reason. I’ll allow that you might be clueless and stupid so you can pick that as an alternative option if you want to.
So it goes… on and on… so it goes… embarrassing questions and insufficient answers. Real answers require change. Didn’t I hear something about change recently? You’re going to get about the same amount of change as you’re getting from that big tax break. What’s that come to? I hear it’s something on the order of about $13. a week. Well whoop de doo!!! I expect you’ll be partying down now. Wiser heads may just invest that money in something and get ready to retire about a hundred years after they die.
I’ve got a lot more questions. I want to know where that new 9/11 commission is. I want to know how come the Main Stream Media has so little to say about how really bad things are going to get. I want to know what kind of a scam ‘they’ are cooking up to justify attacking
The more this whole ugly business continues and the more outrageous the acts by those manipulating it continue, the more it looks like a movie. It looks like a movie whose purpose is to expose the actors. Every day it gets more absurd and every day it gets closer to the denouement. Armies of sleepwalkers and hypnotized subjects go about their business as if the dream or the spell were reality itself. The sleepwalkers can hear the sounds of the fire engine speeding to their burning house but in the dream it seems like something else. Those hypnotized have been told it is something else. One thing you may be sure of… it is going to prove to be something else.
You’ve probably got questions too and this would be a good time for you to let fly. We’re all ears here as opposed to ears of corn everywhere else (grin). Once again, the questions that everyone should be asking themselves is, “Who am I?” “What am I doing?” "Why am I doing it?" and “If I am in danger of losing everything; what would I most hate to lose?” The clock is ticking and time is not on your side.
--MORE--"
"I’m not letting you go down without annoying you every step of the way. If that’s negative then so be it"
I know the feeling.
(Blog author's note: I alter this fabulous and perceptive author's titles not out of disrespect, but respect at the unexpected and prescient phrases, themes, and ideas that catch my eye in his brilliant essays)
"The Howdy Doody President
by Visible
I’m sure there are some readers who feel that I accentuate the negative over the positive in my postings here. My answer would be, “Do you want me to lie to you?” I’m not trying to get you to sleep with me. A lot of you can accomplish that without my help. Sometimes I feel like I’m in one of those zombie movies that I don’t watch because I am too busy avoiding the zombies in the street. Some things are very clear to me and they are clear to others as well. This gives me a confirmation about what I am seeing. I cannot understand why so many more people cannot see what is happening. I have to assume that it is because they are seeing what they want to see because reality doesn’t jibe with their plans for the future.
People pretend that something is other than what it is because they think that is going to influence the outcome. Maybe they’ve read about positive thinking or visualization. Maybe they’ve got Nom-Myoho-Renge-Kyo playing in the back of their heads or they’ve been having a liquid lunch with Louise Hay. I’m all for the power of positive thinking. I employ it on a regular basis but… I’m against pissing in my own ear and telling myself its rain.
I believe that if you lie to yourself then you are certain to lie to others. It might make you popular with a larger segment of the population. It might put you on the rubber chicken glad-handing circuit and maybe you get to sit on the couch with Oprah but the last thing we need any more of is beautiful liars who won’t see what’s in front of them and don’t mind taking others along for the ride. It’s exactly that kind of mentality that got you where you are today …and you want more?
Nadya Suleman is the poster girl for where Western Culture is at today. For all of the great things we could be up to and inquiring after, Fox News has the larger audience because it reduces everything to the basest and most common denominator. There’s a price for this and you can see what that price is by paying attention to what is disappearing. It’s that simple. If ever a culture needed a bitch-slapping it’s the one we’re afflicted with today. You will wake up or you will be woken up and your sugar plums are going to turn into Umeboshi plums with a Natal plum garnish.
I may like them but Umeboshi plums do not taste good on a deformed palate and Natal plum will stick you good. Nature has a way of telling you when something is wrong and it is called, ‘pain’. What you’ll do is look for an allopathic, pharmaceutical solution. What you’ll do is drink and deny. What you’ll do is try to escape but since it is a part of you, I am curious about where you think you’ll go without it tagging along. You can’t fix something by treating the symptoms but that’s what you want to do. You want to suppress the information that is telling you… you have to change your style.
Now you have a president who looks good. He talks good. He put the same people who created the present mess in charge of cleaning it up AND he’s got a Blackberry. I see a lot of foxes with smiles on their faces and a big chicken shortage. Obama sure does like to drop
In the meantime you won’t be hearing about any of those annoying questions concerning that airplane crash in
You want your system fixed? You want your world to operate with a semblance of order so that you can be industrious and enjoy the fruits of your labor? Eliminate the Federal Reserve. Put the right people in jail and take their money. Demand that a certain special interest group register as an agent of a foreign power. Support war crimes trials and do not purchase any product that has 729 on the bar code. That’s a start. That will do more for fixing the mess you are in than all of the gratuitous band aids on sucking chest wounds that are presently being employed. How come I know this and they don’t? Am I smarter than them? No… I’m honest and you should find the stones to be honest too.
You’ve been emasculated by banal entertainments and impossible dreams in a mechanical rabbit chase. The rabbit doesn’t get a carrot and neither do you. This rabbit doesn’t even eat carrots …and you’re not going to eat carrots any more than you’re going to eat Umeboshi plum are you? Sometimes the bitter pill is the one that will save your ass.
Don’t look at Obama. Look at who Obama is listening to. Look at the people Obama put into a position to tell him what is happening.
Over two years ago I told you what was going to happen to your economy. I’m not the Lone Ranger in that regard but rather one of a few. I’m telling you today that when what they intend for
You just don’t seem to want to learn so it happens again and again and again. Keep your eye on Howdy Doody and pay no attention to the men behind the curtain. You’re going to learn this time. This time you are going to take to the streets because you may well already be living on them or one step away.
“It’s Howdy Doody time. It’s Howdy Doody time. It’s Howdy Doody time.” Buffalo Bob is played by Rahm Emanuel and Clarabelle the Clown is played by, “I’m a Zionist” Joe Biden. The gangs all here, maybe it’s time for Woody Willow too. Does it matter which puppet they use? Cartoon characters are climbing up out of the sidewalks and “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is coming out of the speakers. Feet are tapping while the lyrics are ignored. Conditions are noted while the causes are ignored. The pain is medicated while the origin’s ignored. All eyes are focused on the cell phone screen in the secret masturbation of the teenage girls we’ve become. The leg rocks up and down in steady rhythm as we dream of Prince Charming when we are actually Little Red Riding Hood. You get a different result when the fairy tale is real unless you’re reading the Brothers Grimm.
Go ahead… I can’t stop you. Dr. Feelgood is on the phone. Humanity… so much promise. All that hard work that we did and it has come to this? I know I just said this yesterday but it’s the same today. I’m not letting go of my faith in you. I’m not letting you go down without annoying you every step of the way. If that’s negative then so be it. If you will just join arms with your equally abused friends and neighbors there are no amount of puppets that can maintain this world as a vampires feeding ground. You have the power. They have only the illusion.
No matter what you may do or not do… the greatest thing you can do is to be aware. Merely by seeing and recognizing you unleash more garlic and holy water than you will ever need. See… recognize and declare “citoyen j’accuse.”
by ED CIACCIO
www.opednews.com
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."~~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's a speech known very well to advocates of peace and social justice. It's an audacious, even dangerous speech which turned many former supporters against him after he gave it, and may even have accelerated the efforts of those who felt so threatened by this audacity that they murdered him a year after he delivered it. And it's a speech that has even more resonance for us today than it did more than 40 years ago, and not merely because we will see our first African-American President inaugurated five days after what would have been Dr. King's 80th birthday.
On April 4, 1967, exactly a year before his assassination, King gave a speech -- "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" -- at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. Clergy and Laity Concerned was one of many groups opposed to the Vietnam War. This powerful, enlightening speech contains passages which are strikingly, even eerily, more relevant to us today than when King first spoke them. Replace "Vietnam" with "Iraq and Afghanistan" and this speech is as timely as if it was given this morning. Anticipating and answering those who criticized him for speaking out against the illegal, unnecessary war on the people of Vietnam, he said:
"I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such... I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government."
"This I believe to be the privilege and the burden of all of us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader and deeper than nationalism and which go beyond our nation's self-defined goals and positions. We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers."
In his 1967 speech, citing such a U.S. foreign policy, even before the term 'blowback' was widely known, King said: The "love" of which King speaks is not the sentimental, Hallmark-card variety. It is not a mushy, "bleeding-heart liberal" emotion. It is a very active verb. Its closest meaning in English is demonstrating "compassion" and "empathy" (not mere "sympathy"), two words which carry within them the meanings of putting oneself in the place of those who are suffering, of "feeling the way they feel", not just "feeling for them." Out of this compassion comes the realization not only of our literal as well as moral kinship, but of the need for justice or fairness for those suffering and oppressed, especially due to our values and our way of living. It is the basis of the Golden Rule as well as of our own Declaration of Independence.
A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. This call for a world-wide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation.
"Power devoid of love and conscience" is exactly what we in the U.S. have been blighted with for at least the past eight years, but which has also been the modus operandi of all governments, whether they call it "realpolitik" or "pragmatism," for most of human history. That is why "reform" will not suffice. That is why "a radical revolution of values is needed now, meaning "radical" in both the sense of "extreme" and "going to the root of," and "revolution" as in "overthrowing" the accepted, but continuously failing, value system of our culture.
We ignore, or choose to forget this full legacy, not only to our shame and peril, but to that of future generations.
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Andrew Hughes
Global Research,
Thursday, Jan 15, 2009
Politics and reality.The two are woven like two disparate threads in to a garment that attempts to fit all.
Belief in what comes out of the mouths of politicians is a flaw that has led to the justification of horrendous acts that ordinary people would never normally tolerate. Politicians, supported by a bought and paid for media machine, have an uncanny ability to distort reality and that which would be normally morally repugnant to a reasonable person becomes acceptable on the grounds of the perceived exigencies of the day.
Thus we have the wanton slaughter of children justified by “self defense”; the justification of wanton slaughter justified by what happened on 11 September 2001; wanton slaughter justified by the need for natural resources. We are looking at the death of moral obligation and the respect of one’s neighbor. These are indeed dark days when someone has to spend hours recounting historical facts, not politically polite half truths, to impress upon someone that burning a five year old child to death with molten phosphorous is actually not such a humane thing to do.
Looking at the mainstream reporting from Gaza right now, one has to leave one’s conscience at the door and don the hat of an ignorant dolt to lap up the mendacious palaver that passes for impartial reporting these days. Would anyone seriously want to murder a child ? Well, looking at the various commentaries around the print and internet media, one would have to assume that it’s perfectly OK. If it was not OK then the evident crime would be pointed out and outrage would ensue. But, alas, no....
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by Paul Craig Roberts
January 05, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" -- President George W. Bush was in his stand-up comedian role when he declared that he wanted to be remembered as a fighter for human rights.
Seldom has a fighter for human rights amassed Bush’s death toll. According to Information Clearing House, Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq has resulted in 1,297,997 dead Iraqis. Millions more have been wounded, and millions are displaced. Bush’s legions have taken out weddings, funerals, kid’s soccer games, hospitals, and mosques.
And that’s before we come to Afghanistan....
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Related: A Sight No Child Should See
Yeah, that's right! I put it up because of the PRECIOUS and PRICELESS LIFE I SEE!!!!
An American soldier scans a neighborhood while on a routine patrol in eastern Baghdad yesterday. As the United States prepares to remove some forces, reports of violence are down sharply across the country. (Karim Kadim/Associated Press)."
This is ROUTINE?
What's the soldier doing, mapping the 'hood out for a computer grid or something? They already do the biometrics and the eye scans!
Yeah, and ABOUT that VIOLENCE!!!!
"Violence is dropping sharply throughout the country (December 22, 2008)
However, the pace of violence in Iraq has picked up in the last few weeks (December 17, 2008)"
You know what? Make of them what you will because I'm tired of them!
"Even today, Iraq is far from peaceful; an average of 500 people are murdered each month, making it one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Baghdad at the end of 2008 is a deeply divided city. Neighbourhoods that were religiously and ethnically cleansed by the wave of violence that engulfed the city before 2007 are now fortified by row upon row of concrete blast walls."
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
We're rapidly approaching our eighth consecutive wartime Christmas, and I suppose I should be used to the horror of it all by now. But no dice.
I'm not getting used to anything. Instead I'm realizing that I think of Christmas much as I think of the Glorious War On Terror.
I hate it. I wish it were over. And I wish we would never have another one.
Every aspect of Christmas during wartime strikes me as gross and disgusting and totally perverted; or perhaps I should say it strikes me as even more gross, disgusting and perverted than it does in peacetime.
This year in particular:
I do not wish to give or receive any gifts.
I do not wish to chop down any trees and bring them into my house.
I do not wish to hang any lights or ornaments.
I do not wish to buy or consume any seasonal foods or beverages.
I do not wish to host or attend any festive gatherings.
I do not wish to visit or be visited by anyone.
And I'm tired of being sneered at because none of these things appeal to me.
I feel exactly the same way about the Glorious War crimes: the noble war crimes that are still going on in Afghanistan and Iraq, the proxy war crime that is still going on in Somalia, the mostly undeclared war crime being waged against Pakistan, the threats of unprovoked war crimes against Iran and Venezuela, the clandestine war crimes being waged against most of Africa, and most of South America, and big parts of Asia, and so on, and on and on ... and that's not to mention the home front: the war against the Constitution, the war against your job, the war against your savings, and especially the war that's being waged against the truth -- not only by the government and the complicit major media but by much of the so-called "independent" media as well.I look around and I see all this and I just don't see anything worth celebrating.
It's all gross and perverted ... and the people who revel in it disgust me to no end.
I understand that there's no analytical value in any of this; it won't help anyone to overthrow any tyrants or to throw off any chains. But if you find yourself feeling exceptionally repulsed by all the festivities this Christmas, it might help you to know you're not alone.
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It does, WP!
Also see: Christmas And The GWOT [2]: Personal Salvation And National Destruction
- By Karl Schwarz
12-16-8 - I started to name this essay 'Gone with the Wind' for that is what is happening to America right now. However, out of respect for Rhett Butler and Mammie, GWTW is mentioned only because it is happening right now to many lives in America. From what I am hearing, seems many Americans are starting to see what The Grapes of Wrath was all about, too.
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- But, of course! Barky is going to assume the global leadership role to defeat Global Warming. That would be laughable material for Letterman and Leno if it were not so pathetic and wantonly arrogant. Another DC fraud is in the making. I wish George Carlin were still with us, he would ream Barky good on that one.
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- To state that the United States is in a melt-down mode, a total wreck is putting it kindly. This has been a massive train wreck in slow motion that goes all the way back to the George H W Bush Administration. America has been on a downward decline for the past 20 years and now the cancer may not be reversible.
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- Like a malignant tumor, it has sunk its teeth into our nation and our lives and may well end America and the goodness it stood for over most of the past 232 years. Many voices have spoken out, yet America chooses to blink, shrug its shoulders, and go back to living the inane and asinine, as if some painless solution will miraculously appear on its own. I hear this, almost verbatim, way too often: "It is all so depressing...I don't know what to do."
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- Well, when a flame thrower is scorching your ass it is way past time to figure out what to do.
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- I have never in my life seen a serious problem go away by ignoring it, whining about it or going into depression over it. No, Scarlett O'Hara, it will not be better in the morning after you sleep on it. And if you are not hearing the message clearly from Washington, DC, let me translate for you: "Frankly, my dear, we don't' give a DAMN (about America)."
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- Who is to blame for this fiasco, The Wreck of the Good Ship America?
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- Actually, there are three root causes that stick out the most to me. First, the decadence and greed of the American culture is to blame. We have evolved into a nation where 'things' mean more than real values or real people.
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- Secondly, those 'chosen' to lead us are about the most despicable and incompetent among us. Truly carney show hosts bereft of character and honor, and worse, integrity. These hocus-pocus charlatans in DC are not even C Class entertainment.
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- Lastly, the American population is to blame. A nation gets the leaders it deserves and if ever that was on display it is glaringly exhibited in current day America.
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- Frankly, Americans might as well elect Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck. DC would be much improved over the hand-puppet executioners of America we see on TV now every time they want to flap their jaws.
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- Good leadership cannot happen because the moment a name is announced, out come the Internet trolls and main stream media to destroy that person with any lie, stunt, or knife in the back they can dream up. Americans are going to have to blow that off and refuse the current process to elect their own leaders.
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- Do you think you did your civic duty by going out and voting for 'CHANGE' we will never see? The only 'change' we now see is that things are getting worse...and will only get much worse If you have done your civic duty, go back to watching Jerry Springer and the other worthless shock TV shows, and remain clueless as to why the world is laughing its ass off at America on the one hand and seething in anger at America on the other. These idiots and thieves in DC and Wall Street have devastated much of the world's savings to keep you misled as to how 'robust' the US economy was.
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- Much of this $7 trillion bailout - with NO oversight - is composed of direct cash payments to foreign capital sources to keep them from filing the lawsuit of the millennium against Wall Street and Washington, DC for FRAUD. Bernanke refuses to reveal where two TRILLION of YOUR dollars went. Get it?
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- It seems that most Americans no longer remember what the key ingredients are that made the USA a great nation. I do, but damned if I can find a way to get people to look at realities, or even look at their own lives and realize how grave the situation is right now. I remember a day when a simple motto of "when the going gets tough, the tough get going" was all the urging America needed. Now, no amount of urging or facts disrupts from the mindless pursuits of vapid 'entertainment' and sports and other less than frivolous pastimes. So many useless distractions...all orchestrated so the average American does not need to think about the harsh realities staring them in the face. Yes, the majority of Americans will do almost anything but take a long hard look in the mirror and face those sticky, ugly realities. Until they lose their jobs, homes... and place in the pasture.
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- I remember well when the finest products made bore the label "Made in the USA" but that has diminished to the point of almost being extinct. The last time I was in a WalMart, originally that bastion of pride for the "Made in the USA" label, I had to look down 14 aisles before I found anything that was made in our country. The simple concepts of doing a job well and actually earning that paycheck through honest, competent labor is now pretty much a thing of the past in America.
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- The America I see today is not the America I grew up in. I miss the good America and have come to despise what it has devolved into in the prime of my professional career. When I was young I did not need a key to the house, it was always unlocked unless we were out of town, and we never were robbed. I spent over 40 years of my life being a proud but not an arrogant American. I have spent the last 20 years watching everything good about my homeland being defiled and undermined with lies, and greed and corruption.
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- America has changed with the times, but the changes I see are not the types that are desirable or indicative of greatness. Life is now a day- by-day journey, not a destination from birth to grave with an benevolent US government as your step parent, your mentor, your 'brain washer' or your savior from the hardships of life. Anyone who believes, or even thinks for a split second, that Washington, DC is an attentive caretaker for Americans is a complete idiot.
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- These cretins in DC could not care less if you are dead or alive, or in the current state of destitution, and foundering somewhere between point A and point B. The only time you matter is every 2 or 4 years so you can cast your worthless vote, to give the bogus patina of legitimacy to this Grand Theft going on in our National Capitol.
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- The Danish have a great proverb: "Life is not playing a good hand; life is playing a bad hand well." What most Americans have forgotten is that they have to play that hand well, not sit on cellulite 'fast food' butts and let Washington, DC play out your life for you. Anyone waiting on solutions from DC might as well sit and wait for the Sun to rise in the West and set in the East. It will be a long wait, and America is running out of time.
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- America was built on self-perseverance and determination, two words many Americans no longer know the meaning of today. It was also built for the most part on the simple premises of honor, character, integrity and doing a job well done or making a quality product. I have watched closely for 30 years and there is another word that America fails in. That word is discernment, and lack thereof.
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- Ask many Americans "what is of value" and a majority cannot come up with a single answer or single thing that is truly of value. Most Americans can no longer discern between a true political issue that will make or break their lives, and a moral issue entered into the discussion to further fragment our culture.
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- I see way too many people just mumbling, stumbling and waddling their way through life and not paying any attention to what is gutting their lives and leaving them in ruins.
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- When the violence was raging between the UK and Northern Ireland, an Irish pop star wrote a song that contained in its very words what is wrong with the United States today. Her name is Delores O'Riordan and she was the lead singer of the Irish band The Cranberries.
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- This is primarily for electric guitars but the acoustic guitar version makes it much easier to understand the words.
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- The words of this song say it well "it's not me, it's not my family", and "it's the same old theme since 1916". Listen close to the words, your future depends on grasping the realities of what is happening right in front of your eyes. Many Americans are refusing to face the tragic actions of our government merely because it does not directly affect them...or so they think. Their child is not in harm's way, or was sent home maimed or dead due to the lies of this US government and it's foreign adventures for oil and dominion. It is not just Bush, it is all of them in the White House, the US Congress and in key positions like CIA, the State Department, etc. It is a government agenda for the elite. And it is killing our nation.
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- I am 57 and when I was coming of voting age the Vietnam War was raging and the US was losing. I remember, well, hundreds of thousands strong coming out in the streets to protest that war once Americans knew that Lyndon Johnson had lied to escalate it. Some of those protests became quite violent because the youth of America at that time refused to be involved in the travesty that was Vietnam. I remember a time that the youth of America would rather die on the streets of America standing up for what is right rather than in a rice patty in Vietnam playing out a great lie from Washington, DC.
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- If the Iraq lies and genocide had happened in my generation 10 to 20 million armed Americans would have been in Washington, DC casting these frauds out of power, at gunpoint or in a barrage of lead. We know the meaning of the Second Amendment, and we know exactly why these lying SOBs in DC want a Con-Con (Constitutional Convention) - to take your Freedom Of Speech and the Second Amendment.
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- Trust me, there is no terrorist in the world more frightening to Washington, DC than the wrath of America if our people decide DC has to go by whatever means necessary. Thomas Jefferson stated it clearly in the Declaration of Independence that when a government no longer serves the needs of its subjects, the people - a free people - have the right to change that government. That is the battle line people, get that straight and never forget it. You have been sold out, betrayed and stabbed in the back.
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- I hear all of this talk about America being the land of the brave...but I yet to see much of it on the streets of America at any time during this huge Bush/Cheney/DC lie of Afghanistan and Iraq and 9-11.
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- Look very closely at how America is falling apart right now, and appreciate that it is all blowback to the lies we have all had to endure for the past three presidential administrations. It is not just Bush. It is his father, it is Clinton, and the current moron, and now this pretend president who cannot produce a birth certificate.
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- Where are such patriots today? Evidently playing Nintendo or PlayStation, or surfing the Internet or TV and pretending they are making a difference by pressing remote controls, pushing joy sticks, or tapping on computer keyboards.
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- I remember, well, a time when I knew in my heart and soul that no enemy could defeat America, for America was more than just a nation. It was an ideal founded on freedom, liberty, character, integrity, and justice for all. Those magnificent traits have died during the last 20 years, and the final defeat of the United States will be nothing more than a whimper from the last American victim telling their forlorn tale on the Jerry Springer Show.
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- Where is your outrage today, America, at the travesties that are Afghanistan and Iraq and the bogus Global War on Terror? Where is your collective understanding or moral rightness and indignation that the nation you live in has murdered close to 4 million people for oil and gas so you can live the pretend life of Riley, in the nightmare of the American Dream?
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- You see, to have a Number One Nation based on consumerism, your national leaders have to create jobs so those consumers can shop and keep up the pretense that is 'America.' Did you miss that memo? No jobs, no consumers, no consumer-based economy...the math is really quite simple. Did you miss that, too? You cannot be a consumer and prop-up America if you have no job or are treading so much debt water that you can no longer 'shop 'til you drop' to keep this Wall St/DC illusion alive. The business plan has failed, the system is past broken. It is in shambles.
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- America is only number one in three things I can see and identify: 1) lies; and 2) debt; and 3) sheer unmitigated fraud.
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- When did you last hear on the news "failed to meet Wall Street analyst targets or expectations"? Do Wall Street expectations matter to you - or do your expectations for you own life matter to you?
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- That is a pass or fail question, so think the answer through carefully if you can.
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- If asked who 'won' in Afghanistan and Iraq, far too many Americans think we won and all is hunky-dory. We lost folks...and that is why our nation is still stuck in the quicksand because we have gutless leaders who refuse to admit their mistakes, their lies, their crimes against humanity.
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- They even assassinated a president, John F. Kennedy, because he was going to pull the US out of Vietnam. Immediately after Kennedy was assassinated orders were given by Lyndon Johnson to escalate the Vietnam War.
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- "It's the same old theme since 1916, in your head, in your head, they are fighting with their tanks and their bombs, Zombie, Zombie."
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- What is this "same old theme since 1916?" That theme is Zionism and subjugation of this world under the boot heels of fascist Zionism and globalization.
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- If you research history you will find that the US was drug and duped into World War I and World War II because certain Zionists wanted Israel created and needed the blunt force of the US to accomplish that. For anyone who has paid attention, the world has now witnessed 60 years of Zionist Israel ill-will towards their fellow man, and for the past 20 years ill will towards any Middle East neighbor that Israel does not like. And 'ill will' usually means torture, suffering and death.
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- There was a draft during the Vietnam War but now we have the 'all volunteer army'. Is it? When people cannot find work because the entire economic engine of their nation is broken, the Army is a job and a paycheck. When an entire nation has been plundered by financial terrorists that is not actually volunteerism to go fight in these made-up wars; it is more accurately described as necessity to eat and many times to support a family.
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- The entire world now knows that George W Bush and Tony Blair willfully lied to invade Iraq again in 2003. What part of 'lied' do you not understand? About 2 million Iraqis are now dead at the hands of the US and UK, so what part of 'LIED' do you not understand? On his recent trip to Baghdad, Bush was put forth as quote: "A great friend of Iraqis, who delivered them from tyranny." Of course, that was while he was dodging two shoes thrown at him because the Iraqi reporter apparently knew what a vile lie looks like and smells like.
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- Are the deaths of about 2 million human beings in a foreign land OKAY with you? As long as it is not your family, your children, is that OKAY with you? Can you possibly imagine that killing about 2 million people in Afghanistan and 2 million in Iraq has made you less safe in America, not safer? Can you get those numbed brain cells to make that connection at all?
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- Think, also, about the fact that 1 million US troops have been exposed to depleted uranium, crappy DoD vaccines and will never again have normal lives. Is that OK with you, too?
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- It was not enough to deliver the carnage to other nations; the carnage was also put on our own US soldiers and citizens. Is that OK with you, too? God help you if it is...for much of our military is now so sick it cannot defend America. I am not worried about all of this NorthCom talk and its cracking down on America. Our military is too ill to take on America.
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- Does America stand up for what is right? Hardly. Too many in America still believe every lie DC and Wall Street pump out. The US still does not have that Afghanistan pipeline and Barky is going to 'surge' Afghanistan and prove to the world how much of an pyschopathic killer he is...just like his predecessors.
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- There is still the lingering reality of 9-11 and using that as the excuse to attack Afghanistan and take over a pipeline deal, rather than joint venture one with the Bridas Corporation. The Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals records are something that Washington DC wishes to avoid having a public discussion on.
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- "It's the same old theme since 1916?" I say that is exactly what we are all witnessing. The good ship America has already hit the iceberg and the ship is going down. Make sure those deck chairs are arranged all neat in a row. Surviving victims may get a slot on the Jerry Springer Show.
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- I hear the rhetoric for 'change' and watch a non-thinking, mesmerized voting populace assume that merely changing party control of the White House, Senate and House are change. Have you not figured it out yet, America? Neither party stands for change. Neither party has that instant, painless solution so Americans can continue to live an irresponsible lifestyle based in self-induced illusions and the intentional delusions and lies fed to the sheep by DC and main stream media.
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- If you are relying on these nitwits in DC to deliver solutions and relief to the weary masses, good luck and best wishes.
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- Oh, yes, the US is also going to 'lead' the world in the Global Warming scam. Folks, they are leading you right into the abyss. Wake up before it is too late. It may already be too late but do not go quietly into the night like a nation of cowards quivering every time DC utters the word 'terrorists'. THEY are the terrorists.
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- Look around you, America. The housing bubble was an artificial propping up of the US economy so Americans would think everything was okay with the US economy. It was a massive hoax. Dig deep and learn the truth that our criminal government and the criminal thugs on Wall Street intentionally and willfully plundered other nations, their banks, their pension funds so you folks in America could keep waddling and stumbling through life thinking all was okay. Just go shop, spend 'money' (run up your credit cards), and do not worry about realities.
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- The real cause of the credit crunch is because the US ripped-off other nations to keep your 'American Dream' illusions alive. Look around you, the ship is sinking. You have been had, you have been screwed over by the very government you keep putting back into office.
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- What is in your head? Are you a Zombie or an American?
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- If you are following the Madoff $50 billion scandal story, it should be eminently clear to you, even the Wall St gangsters can't even trust their own. Why would you trust THEM for a second?
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- It is time for you decide...because the quality of life of your future is on the line, right now, and has been for years. It is time to stop the delusions and face the realities of what is killing our nation and our future.
by Jim Kirwan
12-15-8
If there was a real nation here instead of an occupied country then the events in Iraq yesterday should have been started by US citizens on the day that Bush was inaugurated back in 2001. That simple act of personal defiance spoke volumes and made this secret "victory lap" of arrogance into the criminal-farce that Bush has represented since the day he took office. (1)-
- Now with millions dead and millions more displaced along with the millions of additional people whose lives have been ruined: It is now America's turn to ponder why we failed to act to stop the madness, just as it is Americans, that are now beginning to finally feel the real effects of this political-boomerang that is coming back to kill us, one way or another.
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- Hundreds of people have asked what they could do about anything, as they feel that they are too small to matter. I would only remind them that a selected-president is only a figurehead, and below him are hundreds of thousands of others, that each for their particular part also serves their owners ends as well. Ordinary citizens do come into contact with those people, and can let them know exactly how they feel, without real violence. By doing this across this occupied territory-real differences could be made: by individual people. So here ironically, is a way for Americans to begin to take back their country given to us by an Iraqi camera-man at a press- conference in his own occupied country....
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Att - Messrs. Vladimir Putin, Hu Jintao, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Hassan Nasrallah, Fidel Castro, et al,
Dear Sirs,
The Western bloc-media has declared you the villains of the world. You know as well as I do that none of you, nor your countries, nor your people, will ever get a break in the Western media. The entire media sings from the same song-sheet with a simple message. Each of you is a variation of Orwell's Emmanuel Goldstein. Collectively you are those whom we must hate.
To be honest, I don't know where your heads are at precisely. But I'm assuming that you understand how the world works. I'm assuming that you're perfectly aware that the Reserve Banks of the world are privately owned and what this means. Tie this power to the undeniable bloc nature of the media and its refusal to acknowledge this power, and it's no great feat of logic to arrive at the conclusion that the media is, in essence, a machine to cloud our minds to the nature of our subjugation.
Effectively we all participate in a mad charade, an idiotic drunken parlour game, wherein the perpetual topic-du-jour is that old chestnut 'What's to be done?' To obey the rules of the game we must discuss this topic in every way possible but we must never mention the chief protagonists, which is to say, international banking. The entire perverse system of monetary policy, and control of the means of exchange, must be dealt with, not as a human contrivance subject to alteration, but as an act of God that may not be questioned.
I notice that you all play within the parlour game rules. And some of you do quite well occasionally. Mr Putin has had some interesting footage showing him staring down a tiger and displaying his martial arts ability. Hats off. But between these minor efforts (which, trust me, the media did its best to spin as vaguely comedic, or undignified, or otherwise as 'not quite the thing') and, say, the watertight depiction of Russia as the ogre of Ossetia, it's small potatoes. But all of you receive the same thing.
In China, never mind the tirelessness of Hu Jintao throwing himself amongst the people struck homeless in that earthquake, nor the millions of servicemen and women he then mobilised into a fearless hands-on disaster relief (which the American government could watch as a 'How to' if the welfare of their citizens was worth tuppence to them), the Western media barely batted an eyelid. Besides, their reporters were far too busy looking for Chinese citizens unhappy with their government. And they found them, sure enough, one after another. (Well, shit, eh? Like this is difficult - Pick a country, any country). With this as the perpetual template, unsurprisingly we in the West will only ever know of the Chinese as villains. And when the bankers move against China (à la David Sassoon and his opium wars) we in the deluded West will righteously cheer its destruction. And geez, you can hardly blame us - all we know is what we are told.
Perhaps you have your fingers crossed. Just like Tariq Aziz. He was the Iraqi Foreign Minister in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. It didn't matter how much he kowtowed and did as he was ordered (always scrupulously obeying the rules of the parlour game). His handing over of the complete 40,000 pages detailing the weapons programme and allowing the CIA-infested weapons inspectors to wander all over his sovereign nation was never going to make a lick of difference to Iraq's inevitable bombing. And that's the lot of anyone who plays within the rules of the parlour game. You will always be on the back foot. It's not your game and if you stay within it, you will lose. And lose big. Destruction-of-your-nation big. I'm sure you get it.
In any conflict, whoever follows the agenda set by their opponent will always be on the back foot, always reduced to defensive tactics. It stands to reason. The only way to 'win' (exactly the wrong word but let's carry on) is to seize the initiative. And the only way to do this is to Call The Game. The game isn't hidden from public view for no reason. Nor does its veiled nature add some minor degree of utility to the whole caper. This veil of delusion is the single crucial function by which the enterprise succeeds or fails. Pull away that veil and start a global public discussion on the true nature of reserve banking (and the role the media plays as its handmaiden) and the bankers (and their media monkeys) will be forced into unfamiliar territory. I expect that even wrongfooted like this they will still be formidable opponents. But at least you'll have them on the back foot.
So. Rather than stand in front of the UN and call George Bush the devil, or mouth generalities about peace amongst men of good will, why not call the game? I'm not going to say that this is easy. Packing the history of international banking and control of the world's money supply into fifteen minutes is no easy task. But it can be done. Hell, if you want a hand, for an absurdly modest fee I'm your man. The comment section is below, and world leaders are perfectly welcome, ha ha.
But forget me, I'm nobody. This will be your gig. In English 'your' can be singular and plural. Take it here as the plural. Acting in concert will be vital. Each of you must reinforce the others and put out a consistent, coordinated and coherent message. And the beauty of it is that all you will have to do is: tell the truth; not waste time on red-herrings; and stick to your guns. The last part of this will not be easy. God knows that in this bullshit world there's nothing braver than the man who tells the truth. And we all know how powerful those who control the money supply are. They whacked Kennedy and got away with it. And they can whack you too. But only if you're a singleton. Act in concert and the possibility of your silencing becomes ever more unlikely.
But if you stay silent, stay isolated, one way or another they're going to whack you anyway. You and your whole nation. The bloc-media hasn't invested all this time and capitol painting each of you as the enemy for nothing. They don't do this lightly. They do this because they are the part of the machine that is going to destroy you. How about this - the media is the laser that paints the target so that the bomb knows where to go. The bomb is us, sure enough. Make no mistake, you are lit up by that laser.
Forget living in the shadows. The media-laser loves it there. The media doesn't just light things up, they actually render in the shadow also. In fact, this rendering of shadow is their primary purpose. If anything they're better at that than casting light. The only strategy for dealing with this mastery of darkness is to flood the whole place with the broad daylight of truth.
It's easy and it's hard. But the time is now, you're the men for the job, and no job was more worth doing. You know this is true.
I have a dream. I dream that you're not the servants of the bankers. I dream that you're possessed of intellect, of free will, and of big balls. I dream that you're men whose place in history will be that reserved for those who usher in an era. An era free from delusion. An era of peace and prosperity. A second Enlightenment, perhaps. It's not impossible. And all things being equal, why wouldn't you pick this dream? Who but a slave would follow someone else's dream of warfare, starvation, misery and suffering? Are you not masters of which dreams you choose? If you are serious, bold, act in concert, and stay true, this false dream is yours to smash. You will be your own masters and earn the thanks of a world freed of delusion and subjugation. That's my dream. What's yours?
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An Iraqi woman and two children walked through the wreckage after two explosions yesterday in the Nahdha district in Baghdad. Besides the 18 people killed, 52 were injured, officials said. (Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images)
Related:
I NEVER BELIEVED in SECTARIANISM to begin with!
Memory Hole: The Dream Vacation
Memory Hole: Sistani's Reach
Memory Hole: The Uniters of Islam
Occupation Iraq: Sectarian Saviors
The Real Muqtada al-Sadr
"Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's million or so Christians for the most part coexisted peacefully with Muslims, both the dominant Sunnis and majority Shiites (New York Times October 17, 2007)....
Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Christians lived side by side; many intermarried"
And again:
"In Iraq, followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as well as other Shi'ite and Sunni groups have staged demonstrations for the last three days demanding Zaidi's release."
Yeah, tell me again about that "sectarianism."
See Occupation Iraq: Israel's IEDs and related links within for more.
Remi Kanazi
In the United States, a growing number of leftists are voicing their opposition to the Israeli occupation. They condemn the demolition of homes, the jailing of Palestinians without charge, and the confiscation of Palestinian land for settlements. They don’t support the Israeli troops or their mission, nor do they give a free pass to those who are just “doing what they are told.” Nonetheless, many of these same individuals support the US troops in Iraq. Dangerously, most Americans put forth the notion that the troops’ intrinsic heroism provides them with the impunity to destroy any bogeymen who stand in their way, cultivating a code of silence that strongly discourages dissent. It is under this premise that we support our “brave” and “noble” soldiers: we know their stories well, they miss their families, they are “just like us,” and we should respect their service. While one may comprehend the mindset of the troops, this understanding does not validate support for them. If the invasion of Iraq, the mission, and the occupation as stated policy are all wrong, then support for the armed forces carrying out the mission must also be wrong. US soldiers are not a monolith and nearly everyone would argue that the majority of the troops are “good people.” Yet, our emotional inclinations and the societal norm that tells us troops are good like bumper sticker slogans shouldn’t serve as justification for supporting them and, by extension, the mission they are carrying out. We are led to believe that a soldier can either serve out the rest of his tour or be branded a disgrace and imprisoned for becoming a conscientious objector. In reality the choice is much starker: a soldier can refuse to serve or contribute to the death of a million Iraqis.... |
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"How many people will admit that Iraq was better off under Saddam than it is today, ruined by conflict generated by the destruction of Iraqi society prompted by the toppling of the Iraqi dictator? How many people will decry the kangaroo court and the lynch mob that convicted and executed Saddam as a travesty of both law and justice? Unless one is willing to repudiate all aspects of the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, inclusive of the termination of Saddam's regime, then any indignation shown over the so-called intelligence failure represents nothing more than hypocrisy"
I will be forever indebted to this man for opening my eyes. So many other things have flowed from his information.
"For Bush - and Obama - a gut check; George Bush says the failure to find WMD in Iraq is his biggest regret. He should regret trusting his gut over the intelligence
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- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday December 2 2008
George Bush's candid interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson has one moment of awful truth – when the president, asked if he'd have gone to war had he known there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, stated: "That's a do-over that I can't do." If only he could.
More than 4,207 US service members, 314 coalition troops (including 176 British fatalities) and tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Iraqis might be alive, including, of course, Saddam Hussein, the former ruler of Iraq whom Bush promised to disarm together with America's "friends of freedom". Saddam, Bush proclaimed in the weeks leading up to his decision to invade, and subsequently occupy, Iraq, was "a dangerous, dangerous man with dangerous, dangerous weapons." The Iraqi dictator was "a danger to America and our friends and allies, and that is why the world has said 'disarm'".
Bush, in his revealing interview, claimed he wished "that the intelligence had been different", but that was never really the point. Bush, like so many others, had made up his mind regarding Saddam independent of the facts of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Try as he might to spread responsibility for his actions by pointing out that "a lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein," the fact is WMD was simply an excuse used by the president to fulfil his self-proclaimed destiny as a war-time president who would avenge his father's inability (or, more accurately, sage unwillingness) to finish the job back in 1991, in the aftermath of the first Gulf war.
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Related: Mirror, mirror, on the wall... Part 1 and 2
"Outreach renews a call to stem violence" by John R. Ellement, Globe Staff | November 25, 2008
Boston ministers and law enforcement officials announced yesterday the second straight "Season of Peace," a public education campaign aimed at reducing, if not eliminating, violence in the city between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day....
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said while crime is down slightly, he hopes the program cuts it even further:
"We as adults have an obligation, a duty to our kids, to preach this message of peace. If we can reduce it by one violent event, I'm happy."
This as we SEND THEM OFF to WARS based on DAMNABLE LIES -- and POUR TRILLIONS into them while NEGLECTING OUR CHILDREN!
--more--"Related: The Pentagon Spending Sprees
"Mass. firms snaring more US work; Defense awards lead way as pacts reach $11.8b in '07" by Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | November 25, 2008
The Massachusetts economy has become increasingly reliant on Uncle Sam in recent years.
According to the most recent available figures, the federal government awarded $11.8 billion in contracts to Bay State companies in fiscal 2007, more than double the haul in 2000, mostly for defense work.
"It's huge," said retired Air Force Brigadier General Donald J. Quenneville, the executive director of the Defense Technology Initiative, a group that tries to nurture the region's defense industry. "Any time you can provide billions of dollars to the economy, it certainly has a very positive effect - not only for our economy in Massachusetts, but also for our neighboring states."
This type of statement makes me ill.
What sort of "positive effect' has it had on all the INNOCENTS WE HAVE SLAUGHTERED and COUNTRIES we have DESTROYED?
Shouldn't we be WEANING OURSELVES AWAY from the BLOATED MILITARISM and WAR MENTALITY? AmeriKa, this land of "peace?"
Quenneville said there might be lower demand for new fighters, tanks, and warships if President-elect Barack Obama can wind down the war in Iraq.
That's not happening, and anyone who thinks so is an idiot.
But he said the state's defense sector could remain vital because it does cutting-edge work on developing new technologies, which Obama has cited as a priority. "There might be some downturn in the defense sector," said Quenneville, "but I think we will fare better than other parts of the country."
Lawrence J. Korb, an assistant defense secretary under former President Reagan and now a senior fellow at the American Progress think tank. "It will still grow, but not at the same rate."
While EVERYTHING ELSE in this nation is HACKED to the BONE!!!
Ah, but shit-eating Amurkns LOVE THEIR EMPIRE and LOVE THEIR MILITARY, so they can just suck on it!!!!!
Because of its role in developing new weapons systems, Massachusetts receives a disproportionate share of federal contracting dollars....
What, little, liberal, gay-loving MASSACHUSETTS is a leader in developing WEAPONS of MASS MURDER?! Why isn't THAT being PROTESTED by the same-sex or enviro- crowd?
Uh-huh, that's what I thought!!!!
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About 89 percent of the funding awarded to Massachusetts companies was from the Defense Department, according to www.fedspending.org, a website set up by a nonprofit watchdog group to track federal contracts. Contracts were inked by the Navy, Army, and Air Force to produce guided missiles, defense electronics, jet engines, and research and development on military systems, among other items.
The biggest beneficiary was Waltham defense giant Raytheon Co., which received $3.2 billion for work in Massachusetts. The company, which makes radar systems, missiles, and other products, has roughly 12,000 employees in the state. Raytheon spokesman Jonathan Kasle said the company's employment in Massachusetts is stable and the company is continuing to try to hire "top technical talent."
"Raytheon bucks the tide as its profit rises sharply.... "Demand in our industry is driven by the threat environment" -- William H. Swanson, Raytheon's chairman and chief executive
The VERY DEFINITION of WAR PROFITEERING!!!!
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
In a research report this month, JPMorgan & Co. analyst Joseph Nadoll predicted US defense spending will continue in the near term, with "Raytheon leading the way with expected growth of 8 percent in 2009."
While the REST of the ECONOMY for AMERICANS CONTRACTS until 2010!!!! WAKE UP, AmeriKa, and OVERTHROW THIS WAR MACHINE!!!!!! Where are you?!!!!!!!!!
Second to Raytheon is General Dynamics Corp., which received $1.2 billion for work in Massachusetts in 2007. The company has 3,000 employees in the state, largely in Needham, Pittsfield, Taunton, Quincy, and Westfield. In Taunton, the company builds rugged computers and communications systems; in Pittsfield, it makes guidance controls for submarines and ballistic missiles. Despite the cloudy forecasts for defense spending, General Dynamics executives said they remain optimistic.
"Across the corporation, the prospects are good for growth," said company spokesman Rob Doolittle. "The defense sector is generally strong, and the programs supported through our operations in Massachusetts are strong." I guess you would be happy when money is shoveled at you for no reason, you disgusting piece of filth that masquerades as a person.
Put WAR LOOTERS right next to CIGARETTE MANUFACTURERS for WORST SCUM on the PLANET (Zionist occupy a higher level spot)!!!!
Other major recipients of US contracts last year include General Electric Co., which builds jet engines in Lynn; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which does key defense research at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory; and The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. in Cambridge, which also handles defense research.
Oh, I SEE the GREAT LEFTISTS CHOMSKY'S SCHOOL is a WAR AGENDA BENIFICIARY!!!!
Not all the government contracts were for weapons. Partners Healthcare of Boston received $15.7 million, mostly for biomedical research done for the National Institutes of Health.
Oh, the LOOTERS at PARTNERS also got FED DOLLARS, huh?
Please see: Why the Nation Doesn't Need Massachusetts Health Care
And Harvard University received $11 million, mostly for research done for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
What, a $30 BILLION endowment isn't enough for them?
--more--"What a "COINCIDENCE," huh?
And CUI BONO?
"Bombings in Iraq kill 21 ahead of vote on pact; Insurgents show defiance; Government workers hit" by Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post | November 25, 2008
BAGHDAD - Three bombings targeting Iraqi government employees and the US-fortified Green Zone killed at least 21 people and left scores wounded yesterday, two days before the Iraqi Parliament is expected to vote on a much-debated security agreement with the United States.
The attacks illustrated the vulnerability of Iraq's security apparatus and the lingering defiance of an insurgency whose influence has declined in recent months.
In the deadliest attack, a magnetic bomb demolished a bus used by employees of the Ministry of Trade, killing 14 people and wounding seven, police said. Eight women were among the dead. The bomb, police said, was attached to the fuel tank of the bus, which erupted in flames.
Fuad Falih, a police officer guarding a checkpoint about 90 feet from the site of the explosion, said one of the victims was a pregnant woman. Hospital officials said many of the victims were so badly burned they could not immediately be identified.
"We have seen many victims of bombing before but we never cried about them like this one," Falih said.
In the second attack, a suicide bomber blew herself up as she waited in line to be searched at an entrance to the Green Zone, killing five people and wounding 12, police said. All the dead were government employees, witnesses said. The heavily protected Green Zone includes the US Embassy and Iraqi government buildings....
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Iraq's Parliament is expected to meet tomorrow to vote on a security pact that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011 and require them to work more closely with Iraqi forces. US troops have been instrumental in weakening the insurgency.Yeah, NEVER MIND that they CREATED the "INSURGENCY" with the INVASION!!!!
You GOTTA LOVE that PROPAGANDISTIC AmeriKan MEDIA WRITING STYLE, don't you, AmeriKa?
You gotta love HORSE SHIT JOURNALISM!!!!!
There was no evidence that yesterday's attacks were linked to the contentious debate over the security pact, but they could bolster the Iraqi government's claim that a hasty American departure could undermine the relative stability that many parts of Iraq have enjoyed since 2007. --more--"
And CUI BONO, folks?
Yeah, and since the LYING, AGENDA-PUSHING, WAR-PROMOTING War Daily is claiming that, you KNOW the OPPOSITE is TRUE!!!!
And here is ANOTHER THING to think about:
Do you think THOSE who want us to LEAVE would BOMB to get us to STAY?
Again, CUI BONO?
Still not convinced?Also see: Occupation Iraq: Zionist American Goon Squads Terrorizing Iraq
Occupation Iraq: Israel's Post-It Bombs
Occupation Iraq: Israelis Killing U.S. Troops
Occupation Iraq: Israeli-Trained Death Squads
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Al-CIA-Duh
Who Invented "Al-CIA-Duh?"
"Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Occupation Iraq: British Bombers
Occupation Iraq: America's Roadside Bombs
Salvador Option
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
Islam's 9/11
How much more evidence do you need?
Final fart bleat: New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
With poot: Operation Mockingbird
Are we CLEAR, readers?
Oh, about that sectarianism: Memory Hole: The Dream Vacation
Memory Hole: Sistani's Reach
Memory Hole: The Uniters of Islam
Occupation Iraq: Sectarian Saviors
The Real Muqtada al-Sadr
Are we CLEAR, readers?
"Iraq security pact poses detainee dilemma for US" by Ryan Lucas, Associated Press | November 24, 2008
CAMP CROPPER, Iraq - The US military is rushing to build criminal cases against some 5,000 detainees it deems dangerous.... because the proposed security pact with Iraq would end its right to hold prisoners without charge.... If passed, the deal would mean US troops could no longer hold people without charge as they have since the 2003 invasion....
The Americans have evidence against only "a few hundred" of the most dangerous detainees, Quantock said, leaving open the possibility that thousands could find themselves back on Iraq's streets soon....
Where they SHOULD HAVE BEEN from the beginning!
The transition comes amid a marked improvement in security that has boosted the confidence of Iraq's government and allowed security-based detention to give way to a civilian justice system. It would also mark a major step toward shutting down a detention system that was tainted by the scandal at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, where US guards abused detainees.
As if Abu Ghraib was the ONLY INCIDENT and PLACE of TORTURE!
US forces are holding around 16,500 detainees in all. The largest facility, with some 12,900 prisoners, is at Camp Bucca near the city of Basra. --more--
The artcile goes on to say we are bringing "civilian justice" and our court system to enlighten the Iraqis! How sickening!
For more on the abominable atrocity of U.S. torture, go HERE
The problem with this activity I used to enjoy (it is hard for me to believe that I once viewed the Zionist-controlled garbage as fair and objective) is that the lies, obfuscations, and hurtful agendas that are pushed by the mouthpiece media are not harmless or irrelevant; they are hurtful to the world's soul. They have anesthetized the AmeriKan mind with their Zionist-soaked garbage while propagating lies of such evil that I am reduced to raging profanities at the brazeness of such total disinformation and propaganda. As an example, I am going to compare some pieces I found in my local (I buy on Sunday for friend so he can have sports) and you can compare them with some of the Globe stories I posted below. I will offer a few comments; however, I am too exhausted to spew rage at the unrelenting lies in service of the wider agenda-push.
I do wish Americans would put the pieces together about what is going on in this world, their country, and where it is headed. I know it is difficult to come to grips with the truths that the bloggers off to the left (links) tell; however, it is imperative that you open your eyes, America.
The first thing I noticed was my local had local coverage of the JFK assassination anniversary. Nothing investigative, nothing probing, but at least they recogniized the man -- which is more than the Boston Globe did this weekend (and that tells you more about what is the BG). My elation (and, by contrast, dejection) was quickly squelched.
The next item I noticed was a brief about protesters in Iceland worried about the financial crisis. Of course, the AmeriKan MSM would want to ignore those protests because you wouldn't want to be giving Americans any ideas (not that they would know what to do with them).
As I flip through I notice all the same propaganda that the BG gives me; different authors and news organizations, but basically the same stuff. When I hit the Region section, I get a front-pager about the Green Conference over at UMass. This dovetails in with the tv report I just saw where the churches around here are jumping on the fart mist fascista plan. They had the kids -- ALL BUNDLED UP in their WINTER GEAR -- passing out GLOBAL WARMING LEAFLETS!! I mean, COME ON!!!! Btw, the GROUND is FROZEN HERE!!! I can't even get through one post with them without beginning to become irritated. I'm just so sick of the damn lies I'm almost weeping!
But it gets better (or worse). I'd like to serve this one up in honor of my dumb-f*** state peers for rejecting the abolition of the income tax and who are now facing higher taxes and service cuts so we can pay off bank debt and fund corporations with taxpayer handouts (and in getting the sourced article, the news gets worse again).
"Big-name producers and directors will come to Massachusetts because it offers filmmakers a sales tax exemption and a 25 percent tax credit for payroll and production expenses, DiLorenzo said. For its part, in addition to a zoning change, Plymouth's Town Meeting gave the developers a 75 percent break on the studio's real estate taxes for the first five years."
Yup, as SERVICES are GUTTED and TAXES GO UP in this state we are GIVING AWAY $$$ to HOLLYWOOD, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, HOLLYWOOD -- to the tune of nearly a billion a year! Umm, you are GETTING WHAT YOU DESERVE, dumb-f*** Mass. residents and I think the "massachusetts" posts while be taking a reduction here. Screw you dumb bastards!
Moving on, the next item is:
"Twenty-two churches have stopped providing shelter to homeless New Yorkers -- on city orders. With temperatures below freezing on Saturday, the churches had to follow a city rule requiring faith-based shelters to be open at least five days a week -- or not at all. Arnold Cohen, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit that serves as a link between city officials and shelters, delivered the news to the churches several weeks ago that that they no longer qualify. As a result, hundreds of people now won't have a place to sleep, he said."
How many times do I have to type TRILLIONS for WARS and BANKS, etc, until you finally SEE what is GOING ON, America? When YOU are HOMELESS?
And how about a nice lie to keep you going?
My local has an article titled: "Market for boats strong"
The Boston Globe told me: "In turbulent economy, boat owners abandoning thousands of crafts"
So WHICH NEWSPAPER is the LIAR? Do I really have to repeatedly make my point day after day, article after article? The AmeriKan MSM is nothing more than a lying, divisive, hurtful, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, enemy-creating, scandalous piece of Zionist-controlled garbage.
Movin' on:
"The cost of this success has been high for America, and some may argue it has not been worth the price. But it is still a succes."
That is BUSH'S FORMER SPEECHWRITER telling us Iraq is a SUCCESS. These people are SICK, readers!!! I don't see how you can call that AGGRESSION based on LIES, that MASS-MURDERING and CRIMINAL OCCUPATION a SUCCESS! I just don't see it, I'm sorry. And it's been OVER FIVE YEARS now with NO END in sight (if you believe the "pullout" talk, then you are a fool and I wish you would click away from my blog right now)!!! Remember how EASY they told us it was all going to be?
Finally (and thankfully), I will end with this ridiculousness from the New York Times:
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Are you EFFIN' S***TING ME?!! Readers, I READ NEWSPAPERS and do the PROFANITY-LACED TIRADES look like I'm HAPPY? What SELF-SERVING PROPAGANDA!!!!
But the researchers could not tell whether unhappy people watch more television or whether being glued to the set is what makes people unhappy.
EXACTLY!!! TV does make people unhappy: watching garbage propaganda will do that to you. That is why the television remains off.
“I don’t know that turning off the TV will make you more happy,” Dr. Robinson said. Still, he said, the data show that people who spend the most time watching television are least happy in the long run. Since the major predictor of how much time is spent watching television is whether someone works or not, Dr. Robinson added, it’s possible that rising unemployment will lead to more TV time."
Gee, that is the SECOND TIME the MSM has pushed the "we'll all be watching tv because of the Grand Depression of 2009!" Think they are PUSHING an AGENDA or what? WARNING YOU, America!
Of course, how that comes to grips with her totally opposing viewpoint is up to you to figure out; I'm done.
Then again, maybe I should just sit back, take some time off and relax. Maybe Les Visible is correct and the only thing that can be done is to let these monsters destroy themselves; the protesting, the activism, and the will of the people sure didn't stop them, and I doubt anything will. That's actulaly how I ended up blogging, folks. There was nothing else left to do. Anyhow, I'm not sure what the next few days will bring here. I am appalled at the War Dailies that populate the news rack at the corner store. Maybe that is a purchase I should cut back on. Hey, I am (not proudly) a fool for continuing to purchase them at this late date. The best thing that could happen to Amerika's newspapers is that they die.
Yup, after hearing all week about how only the marginal Sadr stands against the continued occupation, I find this piece of backtracking bullsh*t in my Sunday sh*t sheet!
"Iraqi lawmakers divided on US pact; Vote on security deal is postponed until Wednesday" by Christopher Torchia, Associated Press | November 23, 2008
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi Parliament is to vote Wednesday on a pact that would allow American troops to stay in Iraq for three more years, but the government's hopes of winning by a wide margin to ensure the deal's legitimacy appeared to be fading.
It never was going to be passed by a wide margin; that was just AP crap we were being fed.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his top ministers struggled yesterday to rally support for the pact, arguing that Iraqi security forces aren't ready to stand on their own. A United Nations mandate for the American troop presence expires Dec. 31, and US military operations would have to stop immediately without a new mandate or the legal cover of the pact being considered by Parliament.
All this crap about operations stopping, etc, etc. It's all bullshit. We are there, we are staying there, and no one can make us leave.
The defense minister warned that losing the protection of the US Navy could even bring piracy to Persian Gulf waters like that plaguing international shipping off Somalia....
Oh, COME ON!!! STOP SHOVELING the BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!
You know, it would help if EVERY TIME YOU WANTED something you assholes didn't holler the SKY is FALLING -- because IT IS NOT and I AIN'T EATING SHIT ZIONIST PROPAGANDA ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The speaker, a Sunni Arab, rated chances for the pact's passage at "50-50.".... But many Iraqis see the American presence as a smear on national sovereignty, even if some believe it is needed for now to combat a lingering insurgency....
Of course, YOUS Amurkns wouldn't see an OCCUPATION as a smear on you!! That's only for unreasonable Muslims who disagree with their societies being shattered!!! And WE DON'T!! WE LOVE OUR ZIONIST CONTROLLERS and OPPRESSORS!! Look at how much of their shit we eat!!!!!!!!!!!
And, yes, Iraqis believe OUR PRESENCE is needed -- all four of our puppets!!!! Pffft!
Yesterday, several lawmakers said it made no sense to approve a deal with a US administration that has less than two months left in office and argued a better option would be to negotiate a new pact once Barack Obama becomes president.
Yeah, I was WONDERING ABOUT THAT MYSELF!! What is the FUCKING RUSH? Everytime we have RUSHED DEALS through (Patriot Act, Iraq, spying, bailout) we get screwed in the pooper!!! I think the IRAQIS are RIGHT!
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Critics in Parliament said they should have been given months, not days, to study and debate the deal. They said negotiations were conducted in secrecy without their input.
Welcome to AmeriKan-style "democracy, " Iraqis!! SUCKS, doesn't it?
"What is really bothering me is that we are always in a hurry, and we later regret what we do," said Maysoun Damlouji, a female lawmaker from a 25-seat secularist bloc led by Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister.
And that is AYAD ALLAWI, America's FORMER FORMER STRONGMAN MURDERER in IRAQ!!!
Isn't it amazing how all AmeriKa's stooges (like Allawi and Chalabi) are still walking around and are in Iraq's government?
U.S GOT WHAT it wanted even if it "failed," huh?
Even the pact's supporters acknowledge it amounts to a compromise by Iraq, because US-led foreign troops would stay longer on Iraqi soil....
And CUI BONO, 'eh, Amurkn?
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