AlQueda greatest threat to US.

There can be some amusement when the alternative press quotes such a headline.

One is expecting at least a sardonic punchline.

But I caught this on the BBC.

A reminder that the whole object is to shape peoples minds.

No I didn’t read the article.

There is enough fear already.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7376233.stm

Hamas, Hezbollah, AlQueda, who created them?

And what about Iran, how did Iran end up as it is?

All of them, Venezuela, Cuba, all have been downtrodden.

To state the obvious

fascism

fas·cism

Pronunciation:

\ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm also ˈfa-ˌsi-\

Etymology:

Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces

Date 1921

1often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control ….

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

The Military Option By Uri Avnery

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1209249140/

Avnery’s latest weekly article.
He summons so much evidence on the futility of war, pointing to countries that failed (UK, France & more) and countries who achieved in the absence of war. Germany, Japan, how Israel’s 73 war was unnecessary as Sadat had offered peace a year earlier.
His insights are beautiful:

“The 1967 war was intended at the beginning to break the siege on Israel. But in the course of the fighting, the war of defense became a war of conquest which drove Israel into a vertigo of intoxication from which it has not yet quite recovered.”

Anyway he lambastes the Generals and politicians at all times, for their stupidity and their egos.

While explaining the charade of Bush’s Iraq war, he still labels it an ‘oil war’, no mention of Israel.
As he was describing post World War II wars, surprisingly he does not attribute the Soviet collapse to the war in Afghanistan, nor does he predict the US collapse due to the current wars.

But he makes a clear message that peace is more profitable. He takes some shots at Kissinger and Bush, perhaps in the hope that their current hawkish influence can be deflated.

Avneri finishes with this comment:

ALBERT EINSTEIN considered it a symptom of madness to repeat again and again doing something that has already failed and to expect a different result every time.

Avnery is an old timer, and perhaps he senses that war is a real possibility, and the Generals and Politicians involved are fools with big egos.

Jewish Laws:
Love your family
Love your creed
Interest rates are the prime economic tool.
Religion is in charge of welfare.
Israel has no Peace Corp (no accident)
Intel withdrew from the $100 laptop
A person is like their Mother
I doubt the current wars are within any law.

Criminals are always pleased to meet you.
There is an Osho neo-tarot card.
An old wise man relates what he learned from a thief.
Once he was in a place with no where to stay.
And a thief offered him a place to stay.
When the thief would came back at night.
The old man would ask, “and how was your day?”
The thief would say, “very bad, but tomorrow will be a good day”

All the Osho Transformation deck are famous parables. www.osho.com

In israel, Syria is famous for never having fired a shot across its border since the 1973 war.
For the Israeli establishment to believe that Syria could retake the Golan and maintain a ceasefire is no doubt understood.
But the israelis also want servitude: Cheap labour like in Jordan factories.
Military subservience like how Egypt keeps the Gaza border sealed.
And the free flow of capital.
Perhaps a free trade agreement.
And Israel has clearly stated it wants Syria to severe its links with Iran and Hezbollah.
So we can expect a war.
Jordan has a small population, so it seems unable to be independent, it has even been pressed to pass laws offering US servicemen immunity from prosecution.
Egypt by ALL predictions is likely to have major social upheavals, in no small measure due to the price of food.
Syria manufactures missiles with Iran. It is pretty large. It’s hard to understand how it could be defeated militarily.
Given that the population could endure more pain than the Israelis.
No doubt the rights of Israeli settlers on the Golan feature as an issue.
Why doesn’t Israel just settle for the free movement of people and nothing else.
A peace with a bitter taste is not a peace.
In a war would Israel use banned weapons? Would the world do anything?

The role and capability of the Russian military base in Syria is not much publicised.

How can Amma go around hugging everyone? She is world famous for this. She has so much love in her heart. She is admired very much, and of course she is from India where she has an Ashram.

I spend half my time worrying about who I am running into. And shaking hands I could live without. I don’t think it denotes sincerity.

Nikola Tesla (google 1,420,000 results), the father of modern science, wouldn’t allow anyone to touch him.

Harish Johari (google 77,500 results)… Another genius Guru (or author) (who also indulged in modern drink) said a person should always maintain a personal space of an arms length. After all we do have an Aura.

Last on the list would be Franz Kafka (Google 2,980,000 results) , he couldn’t form a relationship with anyone.

ps can’t google Amma without getting abbreviations, but she’s still first on the list www.amma.org .

Amma pic from http://www.ammany.org/images/main/amma.jpg

Harish Johari pic from http://thepathtooneness.org/images/harish_johari.jpg

Franz Kafka pic from http://www.philosophyblog.com.au/images/franz-kafka.jpg

Nikola Tesla pic from http://www.vias.org/encyclopedia/img/tesla.jpg

“Petrol stations run dry ahead of Grangemouth refinery strike” Times UK headline.

In this age of spin, war on terror, New World Order.
Nothing is what it seems.
Scotlands only refinery has gone on strike. The refinery also powers some offshore oil rig(s) providing a third of Scotlands or the UKs oil, so the offshore oil is also cut off. After the strike is finished it will take three weeks to get the refinery working again.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3815746.ece

The following is one readers comment on the article.
All supposedly due to a different pensions policy.

Rather ironic that they should strike about pensions for new employees. I mean, almost everyone now accepts that in the time it will take these people to retire, there will be little oil left and what is left will be refined by the producing countries. Delusional behaviour by all concerned.

Alfred, Isle of Wight, UK

What is it all about?

Is it the oil Lobby blackmailing the Government about god knows what? Keeping troops in Basra?
A rehearsal for what to do if one of Iran’s ICBMs hits a UK oil installation?
All that seems likely is, that it is the billionaire owners interest to close the refinery down.
Or a rehearsal for ‘how to cope with less oil’?

Frankly, the only certainty seems that this event has been orchestrated.

Wait and see the psuedo painful solution, and then we’ll know what it was all about.

Maybe the oil is being siphoned off somewhere else now?

Seems like on Sundays there is less news.

It is only the Christian world that has Sundays off, isn’t it?

Must be less journalists and news editors working.

The front page of WordPress is only boasting 86,000 new posts today.

On a weekday I often see twice that figure.