Palestine: Israeli Love Song

neverbeforecampaign — April 04, 2010 — When the Israeli regime feels that it has to create a ministry for propaganda, you know that they are worried. This concern is shared by dedicated Zionists and other misled people all over the world. Their concern is simple: the world is begginning to realize that the Israeli regime and its policies are nothing better than any other, past or present, discriminatory/apartheid regime.

No amount of spinning tactics or communications strategies will reverse this long overdue awakening. Yet, the Zionists and their regime persist. Over the past few years we have seen initiative after initiative, document after document, and campaign after campaign, to revert to the old pereceptions that the Israeli regime represents the values of freedom, liberty and equality. This regimes latest move, an initiative to turn every citizen into a PR ambassador highlights the desperation of its spin masters and PR firms.

Along these lines, many documents have been compiled to guide anyone willing to defend the Israeli regime and its policies. Most striking, and what we have been seeing for years by Israeli politicians and advocates, is the focus on the audacious claim that the Israeli regime, and its occupation army, actually cares about the Palestinian people.

It is the same old story for all oppressors eventually their image comes to fall, and soon afterwards, so do they.

Many of the photos are by:
"Michael Ramallah": http://occupiedlove.blogspot.com/
Ahmad Mesleh: http://www.ahmadmesleh.wordpress.com

FREEWORLD, UNITE YOUR STRUGGLES

Nation By Nation (8Apr10)

29Mar-8Apr10 -- There should be absolutely -- as per our calculations and events themselves -- no question whether the west cesspits are prolapsing... and terminally at that. So it's safe then to move on to the priceless pain, which now illuminates the west rigor mortis pangs. After all, even the grisly pack of west media whores has taken to covering the merriment of the west's growing agony. (Mouseover flags for info)

Afghanistan - Karzai seems to be turning on his masters with threats of joining Talib. Watch for a new hasty "election", a code in west for imperator enthroning.
- In yet another case of west cowardice, Germs, after being ambushed and losing 3 child-murdering troops, opened fire on anything and everything managing to kill 5 of their allies.
- 29Mar-4Apr, west loses some 56 plus the customary 3-4X injury rate, 4 hmvs, 2 tanks, chopper, 8 tanks, and suffers 2 base shelling.

Australia - Like baboons and EUnuchs, ratchets up looting by "privitasation" or public assets under the pretext of shaving cost. Port of Brisbane, forestry plantations, and freight and coal rail business go on garage sale. Note how the clever blokes kept the maintenance of railways a public wallet matter.

Bolivia - Gets a 100M USD loan from Russia and begins coop on energy, military, the usuals.

Brazil - Building a fleet of space rockets slated to orbit in 2014. Too bad the NASA "moon" baboons can't read otherwise they may enjoy this one.

Canada - Ontario, too, ushers in the beautiful word "austerity" with years of public programme cuts; wage freezes on 1M public jobs; wage freezes on 350K private jobs; and dumping the lofty Toronto beautification projects.
- Has had enough of Afghanistan heroin protecting and wants out. Fights among the drug mafias?

China - Loads up on Russian S300's. Oddly, west didn't spew the usual venom and threats of bombing China or Russia.
- Following threatening all sorts of retributions, comrade Obama is singing tweely again to Beijing. Why? China responded to the comrade's threats of sanctions with the mention of trade war. EUnuchs have made it clear to USA they want no part of this war.
- Picks up Ford's Volvo for 1,8B USD on the west-wide garage sale.

CONTINUES...

Israeli Commandos Vs. Palestinian chick ( Funny Clip )

SCREW ME? 'FRAID NOT, SCREW YOU!

from the "SCREW ME? 'FRAID NOT, SCREW YOU!" department...the debts owe to Goldman Sachs are illegitimate since they were criminal deals. Greece should simply stiff Goldman, nationalize its banking system and establishes its independence from the financial services industry. There is no need to enslave yourselves to pay illegal debts to criminal banksters

Matt Taibbi presents the No-Pay Movement as some crazy idea for Greece that just might work, but it seems that it is the only solution that will prevent the banksters from illegally enriching themselves on the backs and out of the skins of the people of Greece (Argentina did almost the same thing a few years ago, with massive success, gaining time and giving the various debt holders a big haircut, but we're supposed to forget about that!). Just tell Goldman Sachs, the other foreign banksters, and especially the IMF - Argentina was further along the road to servitude and eventually paid off all the IMF loans, although many thought that the IMF payment was wasted capital that should have been kept in the country - to go fuck themselves (and tell that Stasi agent who runs Germany to go fuck herself too). There will be hard times, but not nearly as hard than if you follow the 'responsible' path of paying off the lying and stealing banksters (once they see the lay of the land they will be happy to take something rather than nothing), and at the end of the day you are much, much better off if you haven't given up sovereignty to the gang of criminals who call themselves the IMF (the IMF uses the debt as a weapon to squeeze everybody dry for the rest of time, enforcing extreme right-wing policies on the poor and middle classes). As long as you have a real functioning economy - as Greece does - and have proper tax collection procedures - which Greece needs to work on - and block big outflows of capital - the root of the problem in Argentina, facilitated by some as yet uninvestigated criminal enterprises involving Citibank and others - there is absolutely no need to permanently enslave yourselves to pay illegal debts to criminal banksters. The only reason this financial blackmail is ever paid has nothing whatsoever to so with economics, and everything to do with bribes paid by banksters to politicians.

GLACIER? NATIONAL PARK RENAMED TO GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTH NATIONAL PARK

BILLINGS, Montana — Glacier National Park has lost two more of its glaciers to climate change and many of the rest may be gone by the end of the decade, a government researcher said Wednesday.

Warmer temperatures have reduced the number of named glaciers in the northwestern Montana park to 25, said Dan Fagre said, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Here is an interesting article about Glacier National Park. It is interesting because the glaciers have melted. A fact, which is also an embarrassment on a couple of levels. A young student today, a product of an educational system that excludes critical thinking or a historical perspective, might well ask his parents, "Why did they name this place Glacier National Park?" It is more likely that he might ask, "What is a Glacier?"

As a tribute to Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries, corporations that yearly spend millions of dollars producing the "junk science" regarding global warming that is regularly and routinely trumpeted on the "junk media" FOX news, I suggest the following proposition.

As a tribute to this monumental collaborative effort this park should be renamed from Glacier National Park to Global Warming is a Myth National Park.

THE ROVING EYE Collateral Pentagon By Pepe Escobar

"We've shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force."

That was General Stanley McChrystal

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Public opinion in the Pentagon-defined "arc of instability" from the Middle East to Central Asia may see it for what it is: the "rules of engagement" for a Pentagon serially engaged in perpetrating "collateral damage"

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"shoot an amazing number of people" rules of engagement in both, has just been provided by the small, independent Wikileaks website.

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This is definitely not Academy Award winner The Hurt Locker - where American soldiers are selfless heroes and Iraqis are faceless ghosts

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the kind of heroes who mistake a telephoto lens for an rocket-propelled grenade

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"Oh, yeah, look at those dead bastards."
"Nice."
"Good shoot'n."

"Thank you."

TOM ENGEHARDT: BELIEVE IT OR NOT

some figures offered in a Washington Post piece by Lieutenant General James H. Pillsbury, deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, who is deeply involved in the "drawdown of the logistics operation in Iraq": "There are... more than 341 facilities; 263,000 soldiers, Defense Department civilians and contractor employees; 83,000 containers; 42,000 vehicles; 3 million equipment items; and roughly $54 billion in assets that will ultimately be removed from Iraq."

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U.S. taxpayer dollars floated in boatloads of foreign sand from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar to create those 15-ton blast walls at $3,500 a pop. U.S. planners are now evidently wondering whether to ship some of the leftover walls thousands of miles by staggeringly roundabout routes to Afghanistan at a transportation cost of $15,000 each.

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Triple Canopy, $438 million since mid-2005 simply to guard the massive, 104-acre U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the largest on the planet

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his company has no trucks

CARTER LIST, CONT.

Carter, who came to office in early 1977, not long after Indonesia invaded and annexed the tiny island nation of East Timor, increased military aid to the Indonesian dictatorship by 80%, Most of the 200,000 East Timorese deaths during the Carter. military aid to the Moroccan, forces invaded its southern neighbor. fought Congress to restore military aid to Turkey, Cyprus in 1974. All three in violation UN Security Council

Carter, vetoed consecutive UN Security Council against South Africa. Carter took American corporate interests

people of Zaire rebelled against Mobutu Sese Seko. Carter ordered the U.S. air force to fly in Moroccan troops to save the regime

sent military aid to mujahadeen to fight the leftist government with full knowledge that it could prompt a Soviet invasion

opposed Palestinian statehood, refused to meet Palestinian leaders. dramatically increased military aid to Begin. Israel violated annex to Camp David Accord resuming settlements on West Bank. Carter refused to enforce the treaty. dramatically increased military aid to Egyptian regime of Anwar Sadat.

Carter ordered evidence of joint South African-Israeli nuclear test be covered up

In May 1980, pro-democracy protestors seized South Korean city of Kwangju. U.S.- backed dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan, Carter ordered the release of South Korean troops under U.S. command at the request of the dictator to re-take thecity massacring thousands. dictator Syngman Rhee similar reques, Eisenhower refused



ignored pleas from Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero to not send arms to the junta who were massacring many hundreds of peasant leaders, trade unionists, priests, human rights workers and other dissidents. continued even after Romero was assassinated with the shooting under orders from top Salvadoran general.

Carters last acts, approve a record arms transfers just weeks after troops under orders raped and murdered four American churchwomen

enacted Presidential Directive 59, switch to a counterforce strategy shift in nuclear policy from deterrence to one of a first-strike

supported Shah of Iran to the end. dictator ordered forces to fire onto thousands of unarmed demonstrators. dismissed anger at the 1953 U.S.-led overthrow constitutional government, was "ancient history,"

strong supporter of Fernando Marcos, Pakistani General Zia al Huq, Saudi King Faud. blocked human rights legislation initiated by Tom Harkin. increased U.S. military spending, militarized the Indian Ocean, withdrew the SALT II Treaty from the Senate before they even took a vote

SUPPLY SIDE JESUS

“Well, It’s Their Fault for Bringing Their Kids into a Battle”

OVERVIEW
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.

The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured.

After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own "Rules of Engagement".

Consequently, WikiLeaks has released the classified Rules of Engagement for 2006, 2007 and 2008, revealing these rules before, during, and after the killings.

WikiLeaks has released both the original 38 minutes video and a shorter version with an initial analysis. Subtitles have been added to both versions from the radio transmissions.

WikiLeaks obtained this video as well as supporting documents from a number of military whistleblowers. WikiLeaks goes to great lengths to verify the authenticity of the information it receives. We have analyzed the information about this incident from a variety of source material. We have spoken to witnesses and journalists directly involved in the incident.

WikiLeaks wants to ensure that all the leaked information it receives gets the attention it deserves. In this particular case, some of the people killed were journalists that were simply doing their jobs: putting their lives at risk in order to report on war. Iraq is a very dangerous place for journalists: from 2003- 2009, 139 journalists were killed while doing their work."

MAX BLUMENTHAL REPORTS ON THE THIRD TEMPLE

For the past three days the Israeli Army has sealed off parts of the Old City to prevent radical Jewish settlers from breaking into the Al-Aqsa Mosque to act out their messianic fantasies. The settlers intend to “redeem” the Temple Mount and construct the Third Temple, inciting a religious war in the process.

Incidentally, spent an hour tonight watching Talkline with Zev Brenner on Jewish Life TV, or JLTV. It is channel 120 on New York City’s Time Warner. This show is created by fanatical settlers for the national religious camp’s supporters in the US. It features a guest roster of far-right figures, including a few I’ve seen around Jerusalem and the West Bank. The show is devoted to promoting a Jewish takeover of Al-Aqsa to bring about the “Third Temple”

“We need to invest all of our efforts into the Temple Mount and rebuilding the Third Temple,” Zev Brenner proclaims during his show.

Another speaker appears beside Brenner and declares, “Israel is divided into two camps: the whiners and the heroes.” The heroes, he explains, are the people “who lace up their boots, put on their uniforms, and go out and fight for the Israeli Army…They don’t whine about the politicians, they go out and do what’s asked of them.”
The program goes straight into footage of the IDF tanks going into Gaza during the early 2009 assault.
Shimon Peres enters the prayer tent to pump up the soldiers and prays with them. The footage highlights the role religious fervor played in elevating the soldiers’ morale as they prepared to attack Gaza.

“The leader of Iran says he has two sons: Hezbollah and Hamas,” Peres declares. “Now he will have two crippled sons!” The soldiers break into song: “Am Yisrael Chai! Am Yisrael Chai!”

POST JSOC

That doesn't mean I'm criticizing the people who are executing. I'm just giving you perspective. We've shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force.- Stanley McCrystal

PHOTO
lets McChrystal and Eikenberry know who's boss (a lot more convincingly than that last attempt); puts McChystal directly on the spot, given that the surge was really the General's idea; and, with this over-the-top, supreme chairman-like set up, leaves both men almost cowering over all the Afghan civilians we've been bumping off in waging our high profile hearts-and-minds campaign.

Arundhati Roy on the Palestinian / Israeli Conflict

Arundhati Roy, has offered her services to act as a representative on behalf of the Maoist resistance group fighting Indian Armed Forces and Security Services
She is not in the good book of both Pro-Israel and Hindutva groups because she has compared Indian occupation of Muslim majority Kashmir with the Jewish illegal occupation of Palestine

Arundhati Roy’s offer, while well-comed by the Maoist leadership – has irked Hindutva establishment.



They mirror the incredible mental descent and cultural depravity of a post-Bollywood, web-savvy class, cut off from historical precedent, unaware of India’s socio-economic past, unaware of rational, sensible discourse and debate, ignorant about India’s own philosophical traditions, let alone world history– about colonization and the genocide against aboriginal people.

It is time for all the alternative left and democratic opposition to come together on a common platform oppose this horrendous Green Hunt before full scale massacres start happening.

Naxalite/Maoist/Red Corridor essay
Walking With The Comrades
Gandhians with a Gun? Arundhati Roy plunges into the sea of Gondi people to find some answers...
Arundhati Roy

SIGNAL TO NOISE TO RATIO

Dimitri Khalezov, The Third Truth

Dimitri Khalezov is a confidante of Viktor But the so-called Merchant of Death as well as a researcher on 9/11. He has promulgated the theory that a team of foreign agents, some of whom were seen celebrating immediately after the collapse of the towers, were responsible for the terrorism event.

[edit] Main Theory on 9/11

Khalezov's main theory in relation to 9/11, which he describes by using the portmanteau word "911thology", is that preset nuclear charges under the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were triggered on 9/11, causing their collapse. He alleges that there is evidence of radioactive fallout damage at the time and amongst the survivors of 9/11 to this day.

He further alleges that a nuclear missile struck the Pentagon on 9/11, although it was deliberately set to not detonate on impact.

His theories have been widely criticised, sometimes with straw man arguments but more often on basic logical grounds, relating to the availability of the technology he alleges is involved, the opportunity for a foreign power to trigger the devices, and the availability of the nuclear missile in relation to his Pentagon hypothesis.

His theory is now the subject of a book and pamphlet, as well as a documentary film to be released in the latter part of 2009.

Khalezov's unique version of nuclear demolition in relation to 9/11 is perhaps the most controversial of the seriously held 9/11 conspiracy theories due in part to his refusal to provide complete evidence for his theory freely.

The Third Truth, by Dimitri Khalezov Author’s Introduction.
The Third Truth, by Dimitri Khalezov
Author’s Introduction.

This book is definitely not a pleasant surprise for some of the world politicians and leaders because the truth described in it has happened and it threatens the world peace. Even if some people do not want to be responsible for their own actions the world should know who is playing these political games without boundaries.

Someone might think at first that this book is just one more conspiracy theory. Unfortunately, it is NOT a conspiracy theory. This book is an explanation of what really happened on 9/11. This is a testimony of a person who, firstly, was an appropriate specialist in related fields, and, secondly, who was personally involved with the events. That’s it. See the difference between a testimony of an eyewitness (who is also an expert in the same time) and some guessing of a lay “theorist” who neither saw, nor knew anything at all? That is the very difference between a testimony and a “conspiracy theory”.

This book not only claims something, it proves everything. Its proof is not based on logic alone. This proof also includes names, photographs, photocopies of documents, statements of well-known officials, and all necessary references – including criminal cases numbers –where every claim of the author can be easily verified. However, if anyone is interested in more proofs and details – there is my contact information at the end of the book. All honest investigators and sincere researchers are welcome to contact me.

WHO KNEW?...GO FIGURE

The NYT continues to surprise. It might be that this kind of analysis appears because it is a discussion of Russia and not the US. Or maybe in the US, one has to speak between the lines and this was merely smuggled into the NYT. At any rate, this is a rare analysis to be found in the NYT. It doesn't, as they say, fit the the dominant narrative.

ALMOST every month for the past two years, Chechen suicide bombers have struck.But do we really understand what drives young women and men to strap explosives. The three of us, in our work for the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism, have analyzed every Chechen suicide attack

few of the suicide bombers profess religious motives. Something is driving,it is hardly global jihad.

As we have discovered in our research on Lebanon, the West Bank, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, suicide terrorist campaigns are almost always a last resort against foreign military occupation

“black widows” — women who have lost a husband, child or close relative to the “occupation” and killed themselves on missions to even the score

“They do not accept being humiliated and living under occupation.”

“The Russians think the war is distant,” he said. “Blood will not only spill in our towns and villages but also it will spill in their towns

“This is the land of our brothers and it is our sacred duty to liberate these lands.

What explains the three-year pause in suicide bombing?

• Russians pursued a robust hearts-and-minds program

• killed significantly fewer civilians.

• Amnesty was granted to insurgents

Russians then over-reached

• stamp out the remaining militants

• ambitious counterterrorism

• rebels were abducted and imprisoned

• forced confessions and coerced testimony

• claims of extensive torture and executions

• [Russia]suppress knowledge of its policies through official lies, obstruction and witness intimidation.”

Chechen suicide terrorism is strongly motivated by both direct military occupation by Russia and by indirect military occupation by pro-Russia Chechen

any realistic solution

• must improve the legitimacy of Chechnya’s core social institutions

• free and fair elections

• adopting internationally accepted standards of humane conduct

• equally distributing the region’s oil revenues

No political solution would resolve every issue. But quelling the rebellion with diplomacy...is in its security interests

as Chechens feel themselves under occupation, the cycle of violence will continue

On the way home this day, I rode for a while behind this bumper sticker: Si quieres la paz, lucha por la justicia

DYN CORP REGIME CHANGE

Managua, Mar 22 (Prensa Latina) Nicaragua is under a destabilizing strategy similar to that aimed at other member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)

Published here by La Primerisima radio website, the article recalls that since 1994, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) started to install the so-called Offices of Transition Initiatives (OTI) in several countries worldwide. created to support transition to capitalism in East European countries

in Venezuela, OTI was created in July 2002, after the failed coup. in Bolivia
2005 to prevent Evo Morales

"The United States and its Tangle of NGOs in Nicaragua," Uruguayan journalist based in Sweden Jorge Capelan

under USAID orders, OTIs have established networks with political parties, media, non governmental o. they provide with funds and training
in Nicaragua.

CampTransparencia program run by paramilitary DynCorp organized forums. cadres have experience in "regime change" operations

There is no excuse to act all innocent with the money the "civil society" gets from the United States, as it is all part of a destabilizing political-military plan to dominate the country, Capelan said in his article.

BONUS:
Real Deal: CSC DynCorp & the Economics of Lawlessness

REWRITING HISTORY

conservatives have pushed the state school board to rewrite guidelines, downplaying Thomas Jefferson
playing up such conservatives as Phyllis Schlafly and the Heritage Foundatio
challenging the idea that the Founding Fathers wanted to separate church and state
The Jamestown settlers? Socialists
Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, Ill-informed professors made up all that bunk about him advocating a strong central government.

Theodore Roosevelt ? Another socialist. Franklin D. Roosevelt ? Not only did he not end the Great Depression, he also created it.

Joe McCarthy ? Liberals lied about him. He was a hero.

"History in the popular world is always a political football," said Alan Brinkley , a historian at Columbia University . "The right is unusually mobilized at the moment."

JAMESTOWN

ALEXANDER HAMILTON
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

JOE MCCARTHY

DOLLAR SHORT AND A DAY LATE

by: Jill Richardson

Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 05:00:00 AM PDT

Bill Clinton realized a decade or so too late that he messed up by prioritizing Arkansas rice farmers over Haitians. In a stunning and wonderful apology, Clinton said:

It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake... I had to live everyday with the consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did; nobody else.

Wow. Just so you can connect all of the dots here, recall that Clinton is from Arkansas and Arkansas is the top rice producing state in the U.S. During his time in office, Clinton imposed neoliberal economic reforms on Haiti, flooding their markets with cheap U.S. rice. This put Haitian farmers out of business, sending many of them to Port-au-Prince. In a stroke of irony, many out of work farmers were starving... not because there was no food but because they could not afford it. I'll be honest that I'm thrilled Clinton's now come face to face with Haiti's crushing poverty in a big way, because he seems to truly understand what he did as President and why it was not good. Let's hope he also understands that this is not a phenomenon limited to Haiti:

"A combination of food aid, but also cheap imports have ... resulted in a lack of investment in Haitian farming, and that has to be reversed," U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes told The Associated Press. "That's a global phenomenon, but Haiti's a prime example. I think this is where we should start."

So now that Clinton gets it, let's hope he shares his newfound wisdom with his wife... and her boss. The bipartisan Clinton-Bush team is now promising that the U.S. will help create Haitian jobs. I sincerely hope that their plan is not to increase imports of Haitian goods to the U.S. so that they can create more jobs in sweatshops, but I fear that might be the case.

LBJ

Hitler Discovers Republicans Have No Ideas.m4v

FOX NEWS JOKES ABOUT KILLING OBAMA

LET'S HEAR FROM A SOCIALIST

"This is not a healthcare reform bill," says Socialist Party USA co-chair Billy Wharton, "It is instead a corporate restructuring of the American healthcare system designed to enhance the profits of private health insurance companies disguised with the language of reform"

As the Socialists note:

The bill passed by the House (March 21) would mandate all Americans to purchase health insurance coverage or face a fine. It would also create health insurance exchanges, an idea crafted by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, where people would purchase insurance from private companies. Those not eligible for Medicaid but who still could not afford to purchase insurance would receive public funds from the federal government to purchase bare bones coverage insurance plans from private insurers.

(Socialists) opposes this restructuring on the grounds that the mandates allow private insurers to use the coercive power of the state to enhance their private profits. Insurance credits will serve as a public subsidy to private companies. It is yet another case of public money that could be used for necessary social programs being funneled towards companies that engage in practices that are abusive and detrimental to the overall society.

Wharton argues, "public funds would be better spent in creating a national single-payer system.



Wharton wrote in his recent Washington Post piece -- titled "Obama's No Socialist. I Should Know" -- "The funny thing is, of course, that socialists know that Barack Obama is not one of us. Not only is he not a socialist, he may in fact not even be a liberal. Socialists understand him more as a hedge-fund Democrat -- one of a generation of neo-liberal politicians firmly committed to free-market policies."

ROBERT SCHEER

This guy, Robert Scheer used to work at this place. He was fired after running his column for more than 12 years and working as a reporter for the paper 17 years, the Los Angeles Times ended a nearly thirty year relationship with Scheer for writing this column, among other related items. He currently runs this website. The corporate elites and their media are rapidly loosing control of the dominant story. Every computer is a printing press. Information is rapidly being decentralized.

SARAH PALIN AND NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST

FORREST, WALLACE AND PALIN

Sarah Palin as Nathan Bedford Forrest. This is an Jayne Lyn Stahl piece is an interesting article

This article matches up with one of my pet theories of history which goes like this:

People wonder why Robert E Lee basically countered the command of his own government and signed the peace treaty with Grant when the south could have gone underground and fought and won a guerrilla insurrection.



The fact is this is exactly what the South did. There is a quote I have failed to bookmark where Lee was asked to lead this insurrection and he declined, informing them that he wasn't the man for the job and he recommended they ask Nathan Bedford Forrest

The Ku Klux Klan was that insurrection and they succeeded in running the "north" out and took back their government. This scarcely known document is a major document in US history and is known as the Compromise of 1877. Some of how this came to be is here, here and here. It is the real peace treaty between the South and the North.



There was a racist component of the KKK and especially the 20Th Century KKK. but while the racism was there, it wasn't the main story.

The South shall Rise again, and again, and again, and again until the secession is recognized and codified.

Being the grandson of Joseph Eugene Bee Stonewall Jackson Robert E Lee Roberts, I can tell you for sure, these Southerners will never forget. The oil has done been pumped out of Texas, hell, give it to em and let em fight the Mexicans for it. This time they'll lose for sure, and won't that be funny.

HUBRIS AND PRIDE, WELLPOINT AND FOX NEWS

The inauthentic man faces a difficult balancing act, for he is not only avoiding the truth, he has forgotten where he put the truth...that is the kind of self-delusion that creates missteps and a hubris that often leads to downfall.

"Pride goes before a fall" -- hubris. It is also referred to as "pride that blinds", as it causes someone accused of hubris to act in foolish ways that belie common sense. Hubris indicates a loss of touch with reality and overestimating one's own competence or capabilities, especially for people in positions of power.

And really, this applies not just to WellPoint, as FoxNews easily points out in the video, but to FoxNews, itself

WAKHAN

This narrow strip of land once formed the buffer zone between the British & Russian Empires and was of immense strategic importance during the 19th century Great Game.

The corridor was a political creation of the Great Game. The Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission of 1895-1896 demarcated the land as a buffer between British India and the Russian Central Asia. Once part of the Silk Road, the Wakhan Corridor has been closed to border traffic for almost 100 years due to political reasons.


Day 1: Tour starts Dushanbe
Day 2: Dushanbe
Day 3: Dushanbe – Kalaikhum
Day 4: Kalaikhum - Bartang Valley
Day 5: Bartang Valley
Day 6: Geisev Valley
Day 7: Geisev Valley to Ishkashim (Tajikistan)
Day 8: To Ishkashim (Afghanistan)
Day 9: Ishkashim – Keshnikhan
Day 10: Keshnikhan - Khandud
Day 11: Khandud - Goz Khan
Day 12: Goz Khan - Kret via hot springs
Day 13: To Sarhad e Broghil
Day 14: Sarhad e Broghil
Day 15: Sarhad e Broghil - Qala e Panj
Day 16: Qala e Panj - Ishkashim
Day 17: Ishkashim - Khorog (Tajikistan)
Day 18: Khorog - Kalaikhum/Yoged
Day 19: To Dushanbe
Day 20: Tour ends in Dushanbe

PETRAEUS' CRY

Will it be long before Petraeus’ cry rings across the majority of the citizenry fed up with America’s wars in the Middle East? And will this not put a sharper edge on the limp calls for Israel to think twice about continuing its apartheid policy, its relentless ethnic cleansing of Palestine? Does this not begin to pose the question of "Us or Them" for the American populace?

This writer has long contended that Israel has been risking a serious backlash in the U.S. When it erupts, it may not be pretty. And it may be especially dangerous given the long policy of crying "wolf" over anti-Semitism. It would seem very wise for American Jewry to boot out the neocons and Israel-Firsters from their midst and hasten back to the morality of the secular, humanist Judaism which was dominant in the U.S. not so long ago. It may not be simply a matter of morality but of self-interest.

PALESTINIAN CHRONICLE: Ramzy Baroud

clipped from: palestinechronicle.com

- M. Shahid Alam is professor of economics at Northeastern University, Boston. He is author of Israeli Exceptionalism (Palgrave, 2009) and Challenging the New Orientalism (IPI, 2006). He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com. Contact him at alqalam02760@yahoo.com.

The 9-11 attacks offered Israel would emerge from these wars as the undisputed regional hegemon, and, possibly, a world power

history took a number of ‘wrong’ turns. Iraq became a quagmire for US troops. Iran’s Shi’ite allies Iran gained control over much of Iraq, barring the Kurdish region. Soon, Iran had extended its influence into eastern Afghanistan. Israeli policy had boomeranged.

In a strange reversal, Iran now cast its shadow over much of the Middle East. It mocked Israel, stood up for the Palestinians, showed up the pro-American Arab regimes for what they are, forcing them to openly identify with Israel. In bitterness, some Arab commentators blamed the US for resurrecting the ancient Persian empire.

the US is insisting that Israel suspend new settlement construction in East Jerusalem to pave the way for ‘peace’ talks

On March 9, when the US Vice President, Israel’s settlement activity “undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us, and it endangers regional peace.”

Joe Biden was echoing the message delivered by General Petraeus, commander of US troops in the Middle East, to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the US Armed Services Committee. Hillary Clinton too reiterated this message in her speech to AIPAC.

June 1967, two destabilizing results, created it anew, its native problem in 1948 to retain the West Bank and Gaza, also, extremist Jews who began to colonize East Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza. Unable to drive out the Palestinians, this new round of colonization would turn Israel into an apartheid state.

In the 2000s, international civil society started taking notice. Movements
divest from, boycott and sanction Israel, Western legal systems to prosecute Israelis
sraeli leaders ow heckled

In 1982, in a bid to extend Israel’s northern border creating Hizbullah

In 2000, they forced Israel to withdraw unilaterally, and in July 2006 repulsed a fresh Israeli invasion, giving Israel a bloody nose.

Tehran was now positioned right next to Israel’s northern border. the same time to defeat the Second Intifada built the apartheid Wall. Gaza while sealing it from outside contacts

‘peace’ talks lost their urgency. pro-US Arab regimes a bit nervous: they needed the charade of ‘peace’ talks

Egyptian-Israeli siege of Gaza brought Iranian influence to Israel’s southern border

After the Cold War, the Zionists too – led by the Neocons – pursued the same goal.
Using the absurd thesis of the ‘clash of civilizations,’ they began to promote a Western war against the Islamicate

Israel’s long-standing war strategy. Israel took US money and weapons, but fought its own wars. built Israel’s military strength and prestige, kept the US military out of Israel’s path to hegemony

When al-Qaida struck on 9-11, Israel saw opportunity

ten years later, chickens are coming home, US military has spoken

ALI ABUNIMAH

Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse delivers the keynote address at the 2009 Campus BDS Conference at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.

OMAR BARGHOUTI

Founder of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions for Palestine Campaign Omar Barghouti, talks about how the movement has progressed, its achievements and future goals. Founder of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions for Palestine Campaign Omar Barghouti, talks about how the movement has progressed, its achievements and future goals.

Here is a map from the NYT's today. The "green line" is shown. The wall is the light dotted line. I'm not sure what this wall is called. It is 436 miles long. The Israeli's call it "separation fence", "security fence" or "anti-terrorist fence", "seam zone"

The Palestinians call it the racial segregation wall, or the "Apartheid Wall."

The International Court of Justice calls it "wall"

The BBC's style guide for journalists states "The BBC uses the terms barrier, separation barrier or West Bank barrier as acceptable generic descriptions to avoid the political connotations of "security fence" (preferred by the Israeli government) or "apartheid wall" (preferred by the Palestinians)."

By the Maps: Understanding Israel's Increasing Grip On Jerusalem

THE NEW GLADIO IN ACTION

By Jonathan Mowat
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Mar 19, 2005, 02:34

What is new about the template bears on the use of the Internet (in particular chat rooms, instant messaging, and blogs) and cell phones (including text-messaging), to rapidly steer angry and suggestible "Generation X" youth into and out of mass demonstrations and the like -- a capability that only emerged in the mid-1990s. "With the crushing ubiquity of cell phones, satellite phones, PCs, modems and the Internet," Laura Rosen emphasized in Salon Magazine on February 3, 2001,"the information age is shifting the advantage from authoritarian leaders to civic groups." She might have mentioned the video games that helped create the deranged mindset of these "civic groups." The repeatedly emphasized role played by so-called "Discoshaman" and his girlfriend "Tulipgirl," in assisting the "Orange Revolution" through their aptly named blog, "Le Sabot Post-Modern," is indicative of the technical and sociological components involved.

Chris Hedges on "Empire of Illusion"

Social critic and author of "Empire of Illusion", Chris Hedges talks about the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle in American culture.

MERCENARIES IN AFPAK

covert mercenary networks in "Afpak"), and Iraq to murder tribal militants. former senior Pentagon official Mike Furlong, International Media Ventures (IMV), to provide the US military with "cultural information" about Afghanistan’s Pashtun tribes.

Codename: Operation Capstone. "the Cultural Engineering Group" of Florida, and "Counter-Narcoterrorism Technology Program" of Virginia funded Furlong with $24.6 million.

Furlong hired former special forces to assassinate Pashtun leaders and target tribal compounds for strikes by US Predator drones. free enterprise known as "Murder Inc."

Dewey Clarridge from the 1980’s Afghan war, were involved. IMV’s CEO came from major defense contractor L-3



huge ruckus. Pentagon has cut Furlong adrift. Shades of CIA agent Ed Wilson set up as a deniable "independent" arms and explosives to Libya and Angola. this intrigue blew, Wilson was buried alive in federal prison

This latest recalls 1980’s guerilla war in El Salvador government death squads and
1968–1972 Operation Phoenix in South Vietnam, killed from 26,000 to 44,000 suspected Communists

growing criticism of 275,000 mercenaries (AKA "private contractors") in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, operate without any accountability, legal structure, or oversight



US mercenaries are likely behind bombings of civilian targets in Peshawar. Indian intelligence spreading mayhem to destabilize Pakistan

Xe (formerly Blackwater) and DynCorp have raked in fortunes running private armies for the US. They are major donors to the far right of the Republican Party



private armies are goose-steps away from Nazi Brownshirts of late 1920’s Germany

US Special Forces in Afpak not until this month under control of McChrystal. They reported to Petraeus in Tampa. McChrystal rose leading US Joint Special Operations Command who were on campaigns of liquidation and intimidation in Iraq, and
Afghanistan

To the Pentagon’s fury, CIA runs its own. paramilitary drone assassination ops. 90%
are civilians. "wet affairs" undermine the agency. CIA’s paramilitaries report to Langley. Pakistan is not informed

How many of the 15 other US intelligence agencies are running private armies. special forces from NATO whose operations are deep secret

Australia criticism for attacks on civilians by SAS units

Britain’s renowned SAS and SBS commandos are very active

US brands all as "illegal combatants, denying them due process and Geneva Convention

CONSERVAPEDIA DEFINES NEOCONSERVATIVE

A neoconservative (also spelled "neo-conservative"; colloquially, neocon) in American politics is someone presented as a conservative but who actually favors big government, interventionalism, and a hostility to religion in politics and government. The word means "newly conservative," and thus formerly liberal. Many neocons had been liberals in their youth and admired President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The defining position of a neoconservative is advocacy of an American foreign policy that seeks to install democracy in other nations. That reflects both their emphasis on foreign policy and their downplaying the significance of the differences in cultures and religion around the globe. The neoconservative position was discredited in the failure of democracy in the Iranian elections of 2009.

The neoconservative movement emerged in the mid 1970s, played a limited role in the Ronald Reagan Administration, and then had a voice in the Defense Department under the George W. Bush Administration after 2001.

Neoconservatives are often preferred by liberals to portray the conservative voice in the media, as in television talk shows, newspaper columnists, magazines, think tanks, and advisory positions in Republican Administrations. Irving Kristol and Leo Strauss were the major founders of the movement.

Some prominent spokesmen include Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Perle, Robert Kagan, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Schwartz, Elliott Abrams, Ben Wattenberg and Carl Gershman.

In contrast to traditional conservatives, neoconservatives favor globalism, downplay religious issues and differences, are unlikely to actively oppose abortion and homosexuality. Neocons disagree with conservatives on issues such as classroom prayer, the separation of powers, cultural unity, and immigration. Neocons favor a strong active state in world affairs. Neocons oppose affirmative action with greater emphasis and priority than other conservatives do.

On foreign policy, neoconservatives believe that democracy can and should be installed by the United States around the world, even in Muslim countries such as Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

Neoconservatives did not dominate the George W. Bush administration but did support its foreign policy, and especially favored the Iraq War and its efforts to spread democracy worldwide. Neoconservatives also favor military action against Iran.

FRANCHISING DICTATORSHIP

The Corporate Globalization Network (hereafter called the "Franchisor" agrees to provide to the Local Comprador (hereafter called the "Franchisee"):

1) training in media propaganda, subversion of democracy, and destruction of the middle class and intellectuals
1a) there will be an extra charge for corporate media propaganda in favor of franchisee's "movement" in the first world press
2) covert arms shipments and training for paramilitaries before the coup
3) organization and training of secret police and outsized armies after the coup
4) Chicago-school economic advisors to organize the pillaging of the economy by multinationals
5) access to money-laundering and capital flight services
6) diplomatic recognition from the U.S. and other gangster franchisors.

The Franchisee agrees to provide the Franchisor:

1) the superficial appearance of being a democracy
2) the destruction of all government price supports and subsidies for social services.
3) the privatization of all natural resources, such as petroleum and fresh water.
4) the outlawing of trade unions
4a) where this is not possible, assassinations of labor leaders is an acceptable substitute.
5) the avoidance or repeal of inconvenient laws on environmental protection
6) adherence to the dictates of the IMF, the WTO, and other international loan sharks.
7) the destabilization of neighboring regimes who refuse to "get with the program"
8) finally, the franchisee agrees to generally behave as the franchisor tells him to.

The Franchisor permits the Franchisee to make a profit:

1) by exploiting his citizens and his country's resources
2) by graft and corruption,
3) by intimidation and ethnic cleansing,
4) by growing drug crops or participating in drug smuggling,
5) by being an offshore banking haven,
6) or by any other of the various criminal means accepted by the global elites.

Maafa 21

This month, the group expanded its reach, making national news with 80 billboards around Atlanta that proclaim, “Black children are an endangered species,” and a Web site, www.toomanyaborted.com.

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A new documentary, written and directed by Mark Crutcher, a white abortion opponent in Denton, Tex., meticulously traces what it says are connections among slavery, Nazi-style eugenics, birth control and abortion, and is being regularly screened by black organizations.

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Data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that black women get almost 40 percent of the country’s abortions, even though blacks make up only 13 percent of the population. Nearly 40 percent of black pregnancies end in induced abortion, a rate far higher than for white or Hispanic women.

Still, enough threads of truth weave through the theory to make “Maafa 21,” the documentary whose name is a Swahili word used to refer to the slavery era, persuasive to some viewers, at least at a recent screening at Morris Brown College, a historically black institution in Atlanta.

GLUGH, GLUGH

"We have never had negative equity like this at the national level in as many different regions as we have now,"...borrowers who are underwater in 142 distinct markets

1. Las Vegas

whatever you bought it's worth about half. More than 81 percent of single-family home mortgages in Las Vegas had negative equity...it may take 20 years
to climb back

2. Merced, Calif.
3. Phoenix
4. Orlando
5. Greeley, Colo.
6. Bend, Ore.
7. Minneapolis-St. Paul
8. Memphis
9. Cleveland
10. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Hum Dekhenge ( Iqbal Bano ) Complete Poem

Walking With The Comrades
Gandhians with a Gun? Arundhati Roy plunges into the sea of Gondi people to find some answers...
Arundhati Roy

Comrade Sukhdev asks if he can download the music from my Ipod onto his computer. We listen to a recording of Iqbal Bano singing Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s Hum Dekhenge (We will Witness the Day) at the famous concert in Lahore at the height of the repression during the Zia-ul-Haq years.

Jab ahl-e-safa-Mardud-e-haram,
Masnad pe bithaiye jayenge

(When the heretics and the reviled will be seated on high)

Sab taaj uchhale jayenge
Sab takht giraye jayenge

(All crowns will be snatched away
All thrones toppled)

Hum dekhenge

Fifty thousand people in the audience in that Pakistan begin a defiant chant: Inqilab Zindabad! Inqilab Zindabad! All these years later, that chant reverberates around this forest. Strange, the alliances that get made.



(English Translation) We shall see


We shall see

It is a must that we shall see
The day that has been prophesized
The one written on the Tablet of Fate

We shall see

When the insurmountable mountains of oppression
Shall blow as if cotton flakes
And beneath the feet of us common folk
This land will throb with a deafening sound
And upon the heads of the despotic folk
Lightening will strike a thundering pound.

We shall see

When from the Palace of our Lord
All earthly gods will be taken out
We, righteous ones, outcasts of Church,
shall don a glorious robe, no doubt.
All crowns will fly
All thrones will fall

We shall see

Only the name of the Lord will stay on
who is unseen, yet ever seeing
who is the sight, as well as the scene
The shout of "I am The Truth"* shall rise
which is true for you and I
and the creation of the Lord will rule
which is true for you and I.

We shall see

It is a must that we shall see

We shall see.

HOW CORPORATIONS BECAME PERSONS II

The case is most notable for the obiter dictum statement that corporations are entitled to protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Preceding every case entry is a headnote, a short summary in which a court reporter summarizes the opinion as well as outlining the main facts and arguments.

The court reporter, J.C. Bancroft Davis, wrote the following as part of the headnote for the case:

"The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does."[5]

In other words, corporations enjoyed the same rights under the Fourteenth Amendment as did natural persons.[6] However, this issue is absent from the court's opinion itself.



John Chandler Bancroft Davis (December 22, 1822 – December 27, 1907), commonly known as Bancroft Davis, was an American lawyer, judge, diplomat, and president of Newburgh and New York Railway Company.[1]

Acting as court reporter in the 1886 Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad case, Davis is a key figure in the corporate personhood debate. Journalists have since cited Davis's prior position as president of Newburgh and New York Railway as evidence of a conflict of interest in the corporate personhood interpretation of the ruling.

FULL SPEED AHEAD

To the delight of Mahmoud Zahar and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel's homemade weapons of mass destruction - pro-settlement bureaucrats with conflicts of financial and ideological interest - have done in one meeting what Israel's foes have sought for generations: driving a stake through the heart of Israel's relationship with the White House.
We should have known. But in the swamp of anomaly and impossibility that is Jerusalem, you can easily lose sight of, and belief in, the basics:


Bradley Burston is a columnist for Israel's Haaretz Newspaper, and
Senior Editor of Haaretz.com which publishes his blog, "A Special Place in Hell." During the first Palestinian uprising, he served as Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, and was the paper's military correspondent in the 1991 Gulf War. In the mid-1990s he covered Israeli-Arab peace talks for Reuters. He is a recipient of the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Mideast Journalism, presented at the United Nations in 2006.

Burston was born and raised in Los Angeles. After graduating from UC Berkeley, he moved to Israel, where he was part of a group which established Kibbutz Gezer, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Burston served in the IDF as a combat medic, later studying medicine in Be'er Sheva for two years before turning to journalism.

IS OBAMA AN ANTI-SEMITE

"He went on to say that Obama's anti-Semitism stems from years of indoctrination by controversial preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom Obama distanced himself from during the election campaign."