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Jul 2 - As Israel opens Gaza border crossing, Palestinians attempt to breach Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, clash with Egyptian forces.
Israel opened the Gaza crossings for the shipment of supplies, including cement for the first time in a year, after Gaza militants halted rocket attacks on southern Israel.
At the same time clashes erupted at the Rafah crossing into Egypt as Palestinians hurled stones at the Egyptian security forces positioned on the other side of the crossing and tried to force their way through.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
An open letter to all Israelis (& their sympathizers) over 40.
Why over 40? By then the reality of spin & lies by the media has become apparent. Before the 40’s principles and convictions may be strong. But there is no understanding of the strength of an enemy.
For those that are over 40 and still identify with principles and no understanding of the adversaries strength, then you are the Jews greatest enemy.
You speak with the hubris to conquer.
With the logic that some sacrifice is required to achieve the greater goal ( of biblical truth ).
And what keeps you afloat is an ability to subdue the weak, whether they be Palestinians, Iraqis or your own independent thinkers.
Incidentally the overwhelming military advantage you have had vis a vis the Palestinians, Iraqis and Afghans proves nothing, least of all your ability to wage war on an equal.
And the independent thinkers can be routed by framing and deciept, this is what you have been reduced to. Your ideals are based on a belief that spirituality is ethnic. That you are continuing a long line of ancestry. And for this it is necessary for everyone to sacrifice. But you can only control through interference in a person’s private life, and this art you have perfected.
Is it from the bible? A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Well everyday less and less people are reading the mainstream media.
The big question remains, are you going to make the peace, or end the days in a glorious fireball.
For all the attention you give to making a dissidents life impossible, there are good chances you’ll be able to eliminate them all. And just in time, just when the buttons are being pressed.
Or you yourselves could ask to what end is your personal and collective energies leading.
Is there no way to negotiate a withdrawal from the ever expansionist neocon direction.
God helps those that help themselves. God is not going to help anyone wielding a big stick.
And you use your pseudo liberalism to further your aims, by the use of Gays and people of mixed ethnic origin.
What about considering less control?
You’ve had more control than the earth has ever witnessed before, and all that lies before us, is a collective sense of unfolding gloom and doom.
Even the economic system is proving untenable. And the world is holistic, and the whole logic is up for questioning. And if you question it: Spirituality, Ethnicity, Financial systems, then maybe you’ll find a solution.
Today right living has become, showing allegiance and doing the ritual. Nothing more nothing less.
Just punishing those that don’t.
The nightmare that is the NeoCons.
Continue eavesdropping and interfering, after all it is for your ancestors that you do it!
And enjoy all the ’stitching up’ that is your daily fare.
Friday, 20 June 2008
A message.
I tell you, God is fed up with the whole bloody lot. He/She/It is sick and tired with you lot.
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God also doesn’t give a damn about your religion, believe it or not. He couldn’t care less…Your crosses, your laws, your veils, your kippas, your statues, your feathers and your masks…You created them for you not for Him. He has no need for them. You do.
You are all so self-sufficient, you don’t need anyone. So don’t whine if He doesn’t show up.
We are releasing all Lebanese prisoners. The shebaa farms you can have. We’d love to buy some of your water. And all Lebanese are welcome to visit Israeel without a visa, yes even Nasrallah. Now we also have a lot of excess cement which you are welcome to have for free for rebuilding, and we’d like to help locate the cluster bombs.
Now to Syria: please, here, take all the Golan heights, maybe some of the settlers would like to stay under Syrian jurisdiction, that is up to them. We’d like to buy some of your oil! And Syrians are welcome without a Visa, maybe we can do some student exchanges.
Now to Iran, your Nuclear issues are no longer a pivotal concern for Israel. We want to make an unconditional peace with you. And we are frankly exhausted from hating you, and formenting more of it. And yes we’d like to buy some of your oil. And visas will be available online.
And that’s it, end of wars.
Iran will help America go home from Iraq at least.
That wretched thing “gossip” apart from making & breaking people, travels fast and far, it knows no borders.
The lawmakers must be as sussed as the best Blogs are.
In fact some commenters on officials blogs are saying everything.
Somehow the DC lawmakers have surrendered to the professional lobbyist/strategist.
If impeachment becomes necessary, then so be it, and once a nod is given, they will vote accordingly.
But there are few who could be relied upon to act with their conscience … and stay around.
The lawmakers have a full understanding that the Cabal has lost credibility, internally and externally. And even know many more scandals.
The only point of this post is to say the lawmakers are not dumb or unaware, they are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fear is the only currency of what’s left of the US oligarchy, just like its foreign policy.
Apart from Ron Paul and Al Gore.
I can only see: “too little, too late”.
Tomorrow is for those that think Food, Water, Weather, Energy, Peace, and an equality.
This is just the first paragraph, the link below will go to the full article.
It is the fact of being harrassed that made me post the link to his web site. Because there is not widespread dissidence in Israel, might be out of fear of harrassment.
Last summer, the Pappe family packed its belongings, rented out its spacious house in Israel and moved to Britain. Ever since his support of an academic boycott on Israel’s universities became public, historian Ilan Pappe, 54, has felt like public enemy number one. Pappe says he had received death threats by phone almost on a daily basis.
…The University of Michigan Press’s decision to stop distributing books by Pluto Press, a leftwing British publisher whose big offense was publishing Overcoming Zionism, by Joel Kovel. What is there to say other than that it’s tragic? Kovel is for a one-state solution.
– A call to transform Israel into a secular democracy by a leading writer –
‘This book is absolutely fundamental for those who reject the unfortunate confusion between Jews, Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel — a confusion which is the basis for systematic manipulation by the imperialist power system. It convincingly argues in favour of a single secular state for Israelis and Palestinians as the only democratic solution for the region.’
Samir Amin, director of the Third World Forum
‘Joel Kovel’s uncompromising criticism of Zionism is rooted in a very deep feeling of empathy and solidarity with his fellow-Jews caught in the death-trap of the Zionist adventure. The way out Kovel is suggesting - a bi-national Israeli-Palestinian state - may be challenged, but definitely not ignored.’
This is 2008: total surveillance.
If you are a dissident, or indeed if you are being head hunted by the mafia, a corporation or an intelligence agency. Expect to be undermined with the aid of technology.
Techno-Fascism: Every Move You Make
Chellis Glendinning: CounterPunch
Surveillance of private calls and emails. Cameras documenting every move. No habeas corpus. Unimpeded entry into personal financial records. Voting machines changing election outcomes with the flick of a switch. Protest defined as terrorism.
With some private knowledge on an individual it is perfectly possible to undermine their social life. To this end a human is somewhat useless on his or her own.
Or if necessary disrupt the family life.
“Inverted totalitarianism,” as [Sheldon Wolin] calls it in his recent Democracy Incorporated, “lies in wielding total power without appearing to, without establishing concentration camps, or enforcing ideological uniformity, or forcibly suppressing dissident elements so long as they remain ineffectual.
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Inverted totalitarianism is both inverted and totalitarian because of the power of modern mass technological systems to shape and control social realities, just as they shape and control individual understandings of those realities
Its contemporary existence is most definitely the result of the efforts of a group of right-wing fundamentalists who hurled themselves into power through devious means — but today’s desperate social inequities, dire ecological predicament, and fascist politic are the offspring of long-evolving technological centralization and control. [...]
Perhaps a post mortem on our civilisation will say: the humans weren’t ready for technology, all they could do with it is interfere in peoples lives.
The authour Chellis Glendinning ends the post by suggesting the future will be a return to localisation. And therefore the end of our rapid mass mobility. A kind of back to roots and eating locally:
Or visions of the forced localization that Peak Oil, economic collapse, climate change, and ecological devastation propose.
America, will you sink already?!
Waging war on Pakistan’s tribal area.
About to start a naval blockade on Iran.
Trying to set up a missile system in Lithuania.
Wooing Georgia and Ukraine into NATO.
Ya you got support at the UN for your resolutions.
But don’t you think Russia and China and Iran are aligned? Talking all the time.
You have bankrupted your own country. Nor is the UK in good shape.
Practiced genocide and torture.
The world doesn’t need you.
“Washington must learn from its past mistakes or face a valiant nation that is not afraid of ridding the region of their presence once and for all,” said Larijani on Wednesday.
The US actions do not make sense, they are simply self defeating.
And your allies: UK France Italy Canada Dutch, none of the people support the warring.
Which makes for a boss no one likes.
Now don’t get me wrong, American people are great. Then the question is: ‘what has gone wrong?’
If he wanted to audit Fort Knox, that means something fishy is going on.
I think he has officially withdrawn from the presidential race.
But anything is possible, there are 5 and a half months left.
And people who rock the boat, disappear, often with heart attacks.
I wouldn’t count him out of the running. He seems to have a sense of how far he can go.
But Fort Knox being filled with Hershey bars could upset some people.
Ron Paul has made the preservation of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights a centerpiece in his campaign for the Whitehouse and has said in the past that he would ‘repeal the police state’ referring to the Patriot Act.
Paul hammered the Federal Reserve monetary system for creating money out of thin air and said that true inflation was being covered up. He also said to volcanic cheers that he wanted to Audit Fort Knox.
Paul linked freedom to prosperity. We can’t afford empire, empire costs money and we are going into debt to finance the war. Paul criticized the cost of ‘maintaining empire’ referring to the U.S. global military presence.
“It was the Republicans who helped engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9/11,” he asserted.
In a September 2003 article for The Guardian newspaper, Michael Meacher, who served as Tony Blair’s environment minister from May 1997 to June 2003, shocked the establishment by calling the global war on terrorism “bogus.” Even more controversially, he implied that the U.S. government either allowed 9/11 to happen, or played some role in the destruction wrought that day.
Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, who was commanding general of U.S. Army Intelligence and Security until 1984, is quoted on the ‘ Patriots Question 9/11 ‘ Web site as saying, “I look at the hole in the Pentagon and I look at the size of an airplane that was supposed to have hit the Pentagon. And I said, ‘The plane does not fit in that hole.
One [9/11] commission member (Sen. Max Cleland) resigned, saying the White House did not disclose enough information.”
On Democracy Now’s radio show in March 2004, Cleland even went as far as to say, “This White House wants to cover it (the facts of 9/11) up.”
Meanwhile, those who do not fight the war, but fund it, are forced to pay both the immediate costs, as well as seeing their long term purchasing power erode, as the twin pillars of debt and inflation are foisted upon the backs of current taxpayers and future generations.
The danger is when the noose appears, war with someone will look more attractive.
Are we all to suffer (at least in income) for a few waywards at the top? The Financial Times has just done a piece on 9/11, and so has Switzerlands largest selling daily (Blick).
June 18, 2008 Global Research Tim Russert, Dick Cheney, and 9/11”
by Prof. David Ray Griffin This article painstakingly goes through the details of peoples movements and raises some questions. Tim Russert has died too.
Think of: the communists after the Soviet Union fell.
then when the hippies discovered Ronald Reagan.
when the church suffered losses after the second world war,
many of the churches are now cinemas and Bingo halls.
when the Argentinians lost their economy.
And they all got over it.
I don’t imagine nor suggest anyone should give up their belief system. We all know how precious they are.
The Israeli Ambassador says Britain is a “hotbed for radical anti-Israeli views”.
Yes a fall from grace has occurred. Combine bad policies (Iraq, Palestinians and Lebanese) with the internet, and all sympathy evaporates.
Come and join the humanity club.
In Israel there is some introspection. To the Cabal there is none. And to the vast majority of people in the world there is a sense of ‘enough is enough’.
The Hubris created from lording over the Palestinians has nurtured an empire.
It is the internet that has undone the sympathy for it. It has not made people think differently. Just awakened what was inside. This does not mean they are a load of anti semites, just that it is human to empathise with the underdog. Being ‘human’ comes before race, religion and culture, for most people.
If an acceptance of that term ‘human’ could be applied to Israel or Zionism, everything would be okay.
But the way the religion’s influence has evolved means people think their spirituality is combined with race and genetics.
And the media czars who shape public opinion and are beholden to the special interests, aren’t interested in anything except nurturing patriotism and nationalism.
Without these fundamentals, a person is subject to 24 hour harrassment. And it all seems legal. Fascism means sacrifycing one’s private life for the nation.
We are not told what goes on behind the scenes. But there are clearly major differences of opinions. Highest ranking officers in the British Afghan forces are resigning.
Headlines saying US unhappy with British proposals for transatlantic airlines taxes are just euphamisms for some genuine differences, probably about the war on terror.
When a major demonstration is organised in London, on that day there are severe disruptions to the tube (the underground transport), to prevent people getting there. With similar forethought the authorities wouldn’t want any free communications.
Cutting the internet is likely a possibility in any crises, not only war with Iran.
I think there is nothing that comes close to replacing it.