Oh yes. The cutting off of gas, fuel, electricity, food supplies and all else wasn’t enough…
NOW the Israelis have to invade Gaza to really give it real hell, excellent!
Maybe they’ll give Dayhé another chance while they’re at it…
Israel’s army has completed plans for a large offensive in the Gaza Strip and is only waiting for government approval, the military chief said Wednesday, shortly after two Palestinian militants were killed by Israeli tank fire in the coastal area
after a [rather enjoyable] three month vacation i have decided to continue my electronic intifada aganist global injustice on the blog…
do enjoy!
An Iranian university has invited U.S. President George W. Bush to speak about such issues as the Holocaust, terrorism and human rights.
Iran’s Fars news agency reports Ferdowsi University in the northeastern city of Mashhad asked Mr. Bush to attend a question and answer session with students and professors.
I’m usually sarcastic, but honestly here, could this be a sign of human progress and development?
Its much better that Ahmadenijad speaks at Columbia University than him sending thugs to kill Iraqis and Americans in Iraq everyday.
Its much better that George W. Bush goes to Iran and speaks at a University rather than him invading countries off the bat.
Could we being seeing a move of human intellect to the policy-makers?
Bush should go. If he truly believes in his position as the ‘leader of the free world’ then let him go to Iran and defend it himself.
Sharon told police his visits to Lebanon were for tourism and that he was a homosexual who had relationships with Lebanese men, according to the report.
Oh. Okay. An Israel-German came to Lebanon for ‘gay sex’. Sure…
nice to see where all that US aid to Israel is going…
Israel is using cash incentives to encourage Jewish immigration from Iran.
An expatriate group of Iranian Jewish donors is behind a $1 million fund offering $10,000 to each Jew willing to leave the Islamic Republic for the Jewish state, according to media reports.
The fund was offering $5,000 per immigrant several months ago, but sparse interest prompted the sponsors to up the ante. For an entire Jewish family the cash incentive is $60,000, in addition to the standard aliyah benefits given to Jewish immigrants to Israel.
Few of Iran’s 20,000 Jews have taken advantage of the offer.
… and may the Jews return to the Land of Zion… AMEN. Have I alread mentioned my lime green potato that can sing, dance, and do the Finnish version of the Makerna?
What the hell? How could anyone possibly disagree with fact?! ISRAEL VIOLATES ALMOST EVERY SINGLE DECLERATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, EVERY GENEVA CONVENTION AND NEARLY ANY HUMAN MORALITY! and you want to blast HUMAN RIGHTS organization as baised?
Bush said that for the United States to be credible in standing up for human rights, “the UN must reform its own human rights council.”
RIGHT! because the United States is sooooo into human rights….
Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, secret CIA operations in eastern Europe, its all good! Woo-hoo!
But Arab diplomats, already sceptical about US efforts this year to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace after six years of what critics regard as relative neglect, said they saw no use for the new conference unless it had clear goals and a realistic chance of meeting them.
THERE HAS BEEN A LEGITMATE PEACE DEAL ON THE TABEL SINCE 2001. IT GIVES ISRAEL EVERYTHING THEY WANT. ITS CALLED THE ARAB INITIATIVE. I DON’T SEE AN ISRAELI INITIATIVE.
just accept it. you know you’re going to accept the same thing at the end of the day…
this is going to be one pointless conference.
Arab Israelis decided to boycott El-Al because the airline puts them through living HELL with security checks.
thats cool.
whats even cooler is Haaretz’s editorial on it:
There is no reason to discriminate against Israeli Arabs, in airport terminals or anywhere else. A community of one million people, the vast majority of whom have never participated in terrorist activities against the country, does not deserve to be automatically considered suspect. An organized boycott by Arab travelers, a step they have avoided to date, may be their weapon of last resort in their struggle to restore their dignity.
I honestly have a very favorable opinion of Haaretz.
One thing the Israelis have been able to construct out of justice.
The fact that US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman — who rarely appears in public — made the trip all the way down from the isolated embassy compound in the hills outside Beirut wasn’t enough one young woman following alongside the coffin of a bodyguard slain in Wednesday’s attack. “Where is George Bush?” she yelled.
EXCUSE ME? (thats all I’m gonna say, in hopes that my reaction is understood.)
I don’t want to bash the U.S. government anymore than I have to, but this is really getting out of hand!
US food aid is ‘wrecking’ Africa, claims charity
The US arm of the charity says America is causing rather than reducing hunger with a decree that US food aid must be sold rather than directly distributed to those facing starvation. In America, the subsidies for corn in particular, help underpin the junk food industry, which uses corn extracts as a sweetener, creating a home-grown a health crisis.
The farm lobby meanwhile has a stranglehold on Congress, which has balked at making any changes that would interfere with a system that promotes overproduction of commodities.
Doesn’t that remind you of a little something that Karl Marx came up with?
I’ve tried telling the world, Marxism all the way…
Man, I swear, it doesn’t get any better than Noam Chomsky talking about globalization…
My favorite part: “We’re all in favor of globalization, the question is, is it going to be in the interest of people or in the interests of private power? But everybodys in favor of it, like, nobodys opposed to the fact you can up your friend on Italy or somehting like that”
hahahahaha, I dunno, it just makes me laugh…
SO, American imperialism is moving along nicely… Well, nicely done for the 50 CEOs in Washington D.C. lobbying their case. Its horrible for the 50 million people its going to screw.
the US Senate has approved a Free Trade Agreement (FTA= Fucking The Artisan) with Peru. Well then, Peru can kiss away any hopes of national development.
The Senate Finance Committee backed a free-trade agreement between the U.S. and Peru, approving the deal without amendment in the first step for congressional ratification of the accord.
This is a BLACK DAY for the Global South…
da da da…. just give me a black mask… da da da da…
SUPPORT FAIR TRADE
Okay, okay, okay, okay, I don’t like The New York Times as much as the next Marxist, BUT, you know, if you’re going to get ‘the other opinion’ then honestly, it don’t get better than the Times.
Now I get to read Maureen Dowd make fun of Bush!
and I get to read Thomas Friedman call Corporate Fascism ‘Globalization’
and I get to read how Frank Rich think he’s a philosopher,
ALL FOR FREE! WE WILL OVERCOME THE FREE MARKET IN ALL BATTLES AND ON ALL GROUNDS!
READERS OF THE WORLD! UNITE!
I do like one column, Nicolas Kristof’s stuff from Africa is great,
Another blow to the Neo-liberals
SO, Ahmadinejad has qutie the tour on New York City next week. He arrives in New York on Sunday, addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Monday and leaves the Big Apple on Wednesday.
He’s also wanted to visit Ground Zero, and that looks like its gonna be rejected.
“This is a matter for the City of New York, but ground zero would be an odd place for the president of a country that is a state sponsor of terror to visit,” thats according Gordon Johndroe, a ‘White House spokesman’.
the NY Times got these quotes:
“It is unacceptable,” said Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“Under no circumstances,” said Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York.
“Ahmadinejad’s shockingly audacious request should be met with a vehement no,” said the former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney.
If you want to know my opinion, which I suppose you do because afterall, haha, this is my blog, I don’t like Ahmadinejad. He’s ugly with no style of how to dress. That has nothing to do with anything (although a shave may do him some good).
I don’t like him for the same reasons I don’t like George W. Bush or Zionist Israel:
He would rather support a para-millitary organization within Lebanon and not support the Republic of Lebanon- as an example of course, they all do the same in Iraq and Palestine.
BUT, what is wrong with Ahmadinejad going to Ground Zero? Iran has never supported any recent attacks on innocent civilians, inculding American and Israeli. Yes, they support Hezbollah, who has started war by attacking the Israeli army or by bombing U.S. Marines, and only attack Israeli urban centers when they attacked Lebanese ones.
SO, what is wrong with Ahmadinejad going to Ground Zero? Anti-Semitism? Hogwash! He’s never made a comment about Jews, only Zionism/Zionist which has nothing to with religon. The US’s rethoric has been worse when they talk about Iran than when Ahmadinejad talk about Israel.
SO, what’s with Ahmadinejad going to Ground Zero? I don’t know.
Its apperent that anyone in New York or the White House or the US knows either.
He’ll also be speaking at Columbia University. Which only goes to prove that Columbia is the coooooooolest university EVER! In more ways than one, just take a look at Butler Library and you’ll know why!
So, another assissination in Beirut. Un-Huh. Yup…
Antoine Ghanem was assassinated, how many people knew who he was before he died will be a rather unanswerable question, but he’s dead. A March 14 politician has been killed.
And sorry for this, but what’s new? The Lebanese people knew this was going to happen, we just didn’t know when. Now it happened for real and we continue to be the most politicaly ignorant, blindly stupid population on earth.
I’m being this harsh for a reason. Everyone in the past few hours preceeding the assassination has yet to take a REAL stance on this:
‘It was Bashar’
‘It was Feltman’
‘It was Ahmadenajad’
‘It was Boash’ (accented version of ‘Bush’)
‘It was Aoun’
‘It was Hariri’
‘It was Nasrallah’
‘It was Gamayel’
WHAT THE HELL? Do people not see that what’s happening to the Middle East (not strictly Lebanon) is not war. It’s not bombs. It’s not a fight.
It’s a language. A political science of its own kind being played out on OUR LAND.
We- Lebanese, Palestinians and Iraqis- are fucked with, by every single damn corner of the earth. The Americans, the Iranians, the French, the Syrians, the Russians, the Chinese, and even the North Koreans apparently.
When are we going to seriously ask ourselves when will WE let this end?
Antoine Ghanem and the four others that died with him are dead because we invite the US, Iraninan, and French ambassadors into the hallways of power in Lebanon.
Kick them out and the assissinations will follow them.
‘Independence anyone?’
I think I should update all readers on Madonna’s trip to Israel. It’s just so important.
“Tell me what I should do, Mr Peres, because I am in love with Israel,” pop star Madonna, who is visiting the Jewish state to attend a conference on Kabbalah, told President Shimon Peres on Saturday evening.
“Tell me what I should do, Mr. Peres, because I love Israel,”. Un-huh. Well, I’ll give her a list of 10 things she can do:
1. Go to the West Bank, evict some Palestinians from their homes,
2. Bulldoze their house
3. Cut down their olives trees that are 20 generations old
4. Invade land that isn’t yours
5. Make a ski resort on that land where a 200 year old Arab house was
6. Build a huge wall that makes Palestine a prison
7. Wage a war against ‘terrorists’
8. Purposely destory an entire country as ‘colateral damage’
9. Steal natural resources from the people you occupy
10. Create a Lobby to ensure totally and unconditional control of American forgein policy.
THANKS MADONNA!
WHO HEARD ABOUT THIS??
THE AMERICANS ARE BUILDING A SPERATION WALL IN BAGHDAD!!!!!
Hundreds of Iraqis have staged a protest against the building of a dividing wall between a Shia district of Baghdad and a Sunni area.
What is it about these forgein occupying forces and their goddam walls! AND ALL ON ARAB TERRITORY!
What? Were they actually impressed with the Berlin Wall?
add another one to the list:
WE HAVE ANOTHER WALL TO TEAR DOWN
HAHAHAHAHA, okay, I’ll stop laughing… Hehehe, get this:
Inherent diversity has often led to ugly history. Professor Samuel P. Huntington of Harvard University addresses this legacy directly in his recent book ‘Who Are We?’ He emphasizes the importance of King Philip’s War of 1675-76 in the American colonies. This particularly brutal and costly war between Native Americans and Europeans ended a remarkably friendly coexistence and cooperation between the races, creating an atmosphere of hatred and violence that continued through much of American history. Huntington proceeds to discuss the importance of such events as the Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, just before the Civil War, which defined African-Americans as property rather than human beings with rights. In such an environment, a national culture and uniformity of law are essential if positive founding values are to be realized.
Okay okay, for those of you who don’t get it, this *fascist* dude, Samuel P. Huntington (professor at Harvard…) wrote this book called ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ on the clashing of cultures, and now every damn neo-con from Dick Chenny to the dead Ronald Reagan keep talking about it…
Anyhoo, Huntington likes to blame ‘CLASHING CULTURES’ and not this little thing called E-C-O-N-O-M-I-C-S for the reason that we start wars and stop them. What this does in reality is creates false enemies, and now, in this article, it creates false enemies EVEN AT HOME.
God Bless America. May God Continue to Give Us Radical Museums, like O-Sam-a Ben La-Deen, to Continue to Fight With Our Big Big Guns.
Saudi Women want to drive. High Time!
Saudi Arabia’s newly established League of Demanders of Women’s Right to Drive Cars plans to deliver a petition to King Abdallah Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud, calling for their “stolen” entitlement of free movement to be restored.
I love The Independent!
They got some really messed up S*** going on at the State Department!:
The U.S. Department of State’s International Information Programs (IIP) in Washington D.C., the Public Affairs Office at the U.S. Embassy in Israel, and the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center jointly held an international video conference seminar focusing on both domestic and foreign affairs in Lebanon. Israeli and U.S. experts examined the balance of and struggle for power in the country, external factors, and future prospects.
Okay, I really really really don’t get this now. I really don’t.
They were talking about LEBANON, so they had a video confrence with the US Embassy in ISRAEL?
OH! How long ago was it when we moved to Mars??!!!!
For those of you who like ‘getting every angle’ you’ll enjoy this…
Article I:
A senior U.S. nuclear official said Friday that North Koreans were in Syria and that Damascus may have had contacts with “secret suppliers” to obtain nuclear equipment.
Article II
In a rare olive branch to North Korea, President George W. Bush said the United States can consider a peace treaty with the reclusive Communist state.
WHERE THE GODD*** F*** IS THE RUBRIC ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY?? SOMEBODY SHOW ME SOMETHING!!!
Poor North Koreans, they’re probably more confused than I am…
Sharon always maintained he could not be blamed for Arab Christians killing Arab Muslims, charging that he was the victim of a defamation campaign.
This is the most utter amount of bull-havoc I have heard in my life. If the Allies had done that during World War II then who is to say that Hitler wouldn’t have killed all the Jews?! I’d would have liked to see Sharon as the head of the Third Reich
Too bad the old man can’t see the Sunnis and the Shittes go at it, he would have had a ball!
THE JEWISH LOBBY EXPANDS!
Madonna reportedly wore a black jacket, cinched at the waist with a belt, and maintained something of a disguise in a red and black plaid baseball hat.
Actors Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are also in the city for the conference, both are devoted Kabbalah followers.
Un-huh, Un-huh, Un-huh, Un-huh, Un-huh, Un-huh… This is where P-O-L-I-T-I-C-S (you make a political statement by visting Israel proper) and contemporary pop culture fuse: Israel.
Oh, and and and: Madonna’s black jacket. We can’t forget that can we…
After two years as serving in a 128 member parliment, which rarely meets, Saad Hariri has become a government Expert. A Professor of sorts.
He has survived so much turmoil as the installed leader from such a oppostion that now he feels experinced enought to go off to Pakistan (I’m sure you can make the national interests connection on your own there, G/god[s] knows I can’t) and talk too Mussaraf about.
The following is sarcasm. but in all irony anyone who takes it serouisly (as do I, dearly and deeply) will actually be pretty smart:
‘You know Perv, really, the best time to make speeches is on Friday… Everyone is praying, just get your newspaper to make up something nice up, it works for me!!’
link to some news on the matter is at: http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/09/09/top1.htm
I really love how indifferent Americans are on what and how things are being operated on their behalf.
Every American citizen is a taxpayer, or at least the IRS hopes so. Each one of them has the right to question, infulence, and take charge of issues and topics that is being used with their tax dollars
So then, why is that America was sold this Iraq War with barely any questions being asked by their tax paying citizens?
How come no one said, ’Yo, dudes in Washington, why the hell are you invading Eye-Rack with 130,000 troops?’ (aka: iRaq, aka: Iraq) Now, every single America is asking those question, and Petraeus is tyring to fix the mistakes of an indifferent people. Or is he?
“He’s the right person, three years too late and 250,000 troops short,” Mr. Skelton said of the general and the general’s predicament, as he sees it.
If you market it, people will buy it in a capitalist society. Whatever the F*** it is or could be.
I love you Adam Smith. So much.
Yes. The Israeli Lobby does not exsist… It simply does not.
Thats why, Nadia Abu El-Haj is being denied tenure at Bernard.
It is Dr. Abu El-Haj’s book, “Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society,” that has made her a lightning rod, setting off warring petitions opposing and supporting her candidacy, and producing charges of shoddy scholarship and countercharges of an ideological witch hunt.
She wrote a book on Israel’s archaeological practices!! Not even political!!! Man, I really wish Bangledesh has a powerful lobby… They’d be out of pverty in no time…
The Jewish Lobby, the Lobby which ensures a totaly pure pro-Israeli take on matters of politics in Washingtion, has, yes it has, hit an all-new level of corrupt saddens.
George Shultz, neo-Liberal-neo-Conservative-neo-Fasicts Regan’s Secretary of State, has written the intoduction to a book called, get this: The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control by Abraham Foxman… A book i’ll be waiting to read…
The United States supports Israel not because of favoritism based on political pressure or influence but because the American people, and their leaders, say that supporting Israel is politically sound and morally just.
We are a great nation. Mostly, we make good decisions. We are not babes in the woods. We act in our own interests. And when we mistakenly conclude from time to time—as we will—that an action or policy is in America’s interest, we must take responsibility for the mistake.
Yes. All of the above is true, and George Shultz believes every single word. Yes.
And at this rate, I also think you should know that i own a lime green potato that can sing, dance and do the Finnish version of the Makarena… Its very entertaining…
So the ‘liberal’-New York Times wishes to prove its ‘resistence’ towards Georgey Bush…
THE instructor held up an unfurled green condom as she lectured a dozen brides-to-be on details of family planning. But birth control was only one aspect of the class, provided by the government and mandatory for all couples before marriage. The other was about sex, and the message from the state was that women should enjoy themselves as much as men and that men needed to be patient, because women need more time to become aroused.
This is not the picture of Iran that filters out across the world, amid images of women draped in the forbidding black chador, or of clerics in turbans.
If the West actually believes that Iran isn’t a modern, developed and organized country then its no wonder they get themselves into messes in the first place…
‘But they hang people in the streets!’…. yeah, they do. (no, i’m serouis, they do)
“We overcame all those terrorists who were willing to destroy our country,” those are the words of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Sinioria in the aftermath of the fall of the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp.
In all irony or confusion, this is no time to rejoice. While Lebanese seem proud of their army, which they should be under any and all circumstances, the four month battle shows more imperfections that anything else.
Firstly, the duration of the seige speaks for itself. Four months is a time frame that was much too long to the results if the battle. It created tension and fueled Lebanon’s image as a inconsistent and unstable place to work, visist and invest
Second, the price paid was high. 158 soilders dead with 300 wounded is a not easy to take in. This shows us there is a real fighting force in the country. These are not merely petty Al-Qaeida terrorists, Fatah al-Islam have proven their ability to fight as a millita, meaning the army will have much more to worry about,
Third, and most importantly, what are the results? We have a destoryed Palestinian refugee camp with 35,000 already poor and stateless people now homeless.
Fatah al-Islam’s leaders are not captured, they roam free. They still can enter any other lawless refugee camp. They still can carry out acts of terror.
Today it became a victory for the Lebanese army, the past four months it was a victory for Fatah al-Islam.
The world lied to us. Israel blocked the US from giving the Lebanese army any real, modern, effective equipment. We were given ancient jeeps and and a few mortar rounds. Then, with much begging, we were given two ancient helicopters that also did not prove to be as effective as thought. We needed heavy armor battle tanks and fighter helicopter (I would say jets, but I’m not going to get into science fiction).
The fight at Nahr el-Bared can be compared with what the US army faces constantly in Iraq… If the Lebanese army did what the US has been trying to do for 4 years in 4 months, then maybe Lebanon should invade Iraq next!!
Okay, either The Jerusalem Post is being the Zionist trash rag it is, OR the Israeli government are magnificent hypocrites, OR, the most likely: BOTH!
This article says (from The Jerusalem Post) says:
Russia was partly responsible for the heightened tension between Israel and Syria at the beginning of the summer, head of the Diplomatic-Security Bureau at the Defense Ministry, Gen. Amos Gilad (ret.) said on Thursday.
But! While all thats good and dandy, it doesn’t mean the Israelis and the Russians can’t be buddies!
This article says (from ‘RussiaToday’) that the Russians and the Israelis are only getting closer:
The Israeli Internal Security Ministry voted unanimously to cancel the law requiring visas for visitors from the former Soviet Union and Russia.
“It proves we have a good relationship. It shows our hope for co-operation in the sphere of tourism and we really expect to improve our political relationship,” said Avigdor Lieberman, the head of the Russian-Israeli political party.
So the Israelis are warming up to the people selling their enemies weapons, wow, at this pace, Nasrallah may go to Antoine Lahd’s Lebanese resturant in Tel Aviv…
someone explain, I can’t figure this out: okay, they install a new government in the West Bank so that Japan can buy Israeli guns? hun?
from: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3442757,00.html
Japan seeks to promote business relations with Israel
‘Matsuda said that this was indicated in Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso’s visit to Israel last week, when he met with a number of representatives of Israeli companies such as Rafael Armament Development Authority Ltd, Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd and a line of high-tech companies.“I am aware of the fact that Israel is very interested in marketing defense products abroad. The Japanese military is currently based on local production and import from the United States, but we are examining purchase possibility from alternative weapon sources,” he said.
“The main reason for our increased interest in Israel is political,” Matsuda said. “Because of the new government in the West Bank (headed by Salam Fayyad) we see a chance for a peace process and are interested in contributing to its advancement. We are also aware of the fact that an improved political situation in the region will create a better atmosphere for economic investments.”‘
Economic investments in what? Tanks and missiles? maybe after they sign a peace deal we can all go to the firing range and sing Kumbaya
So, the record-breaking popular German Chancellor, Angela Merkel headed east this week,
when I typed in ‘merkel’ into Google News, these are the headlines that I got:
‘Germany’s Merkel prods China on rights’
‘Merkel to press China on emissions’
‘Chancellor Merkel to Press China for Help in Darfur’
‘Merkel Pushes G-8 Climate Pledge in 5-Day Trip to China, Japan’
looks like the Chancellor’s main reason for heading East was to secure some assurence or discuss details on carbon emissions and climate change… that would nice, wouldn’t it? to know that a world leader met with an upcoming superpower and told them to cut carbon emissions. UNFORTUNETLY, shall we take a look of some economics?
China is overtaking the United States as the world’s second-biggest exporter and steadily catching up with Germany, the world’s biggest, noted officials.
With exports to Germany of almost 49 billion euros ($66.42 billion) in 2006, China comes third among countries exporting to Germany — yet only 3 percent of German exports go to China.
that means there are big oppertunites for German companies to take in China. China’s booming and Germany has the best enginnering firms in the world. So its not a total coninsidence that Ms. Merkel took a delegation of busniess leaders with her to China. Reuters reported: ‘deals will be signed in a range of sectors, said the officials who declined to give any details.’
She went to save the environment. She made a quick buck on the way.
bounjourno! welcome to Vallo Humanitas (i guess we can call it ‘vallo’ for short), which is Latin for ‘Defending Culture’
this blog acutally has a simple and straightforward philiosophy: discuss, in a political nature: bring awarness to the growing supressed voices of global justice, with a concentration on the middle east and Arab World (yes yes, there is much to talk about)
