In the Shambles
(For the Jews)

They became the kings
of things who used
light in miraculous ways.
The people had given up
on elephants but the dogs
kept a watch going anway
and were adopted faster than people.
This was at the time
of extra-ordinary heavens,
each one better than the next.
Massive libraries were as hollow
as the sacred sounds
they hoped to project:
hard to find, rare, on request
put precious little stock in the litter.
Motion turned up everywhere
in fact, water played more
than one game in alchemy.
Generational handicaps were
not much of a concern
in the smaller societies
where chiefs had traded
the grass shares for better digs
and no one paid any longer
for a just cause or an actual
spirit play. Spin-wheels bled
personal drama into a worn-out
battter of happy-go-lucky
and hunky-dory handshakes
made motors stall and babies weep.
Imperial highways took years
to barge through and complete
armies were gathered from
the prisons to customize the sides.
Battle scars stained just about
every podium a kind of dull gray
with speeches called mark my words.
When the great huge storm
came up from every south,
twice as often in the north,
fallen rain grew more
useless every single day.
We struggled against the doors
which refused to shut right
because of the glaciers
whose groans kept us awake
way into the night.
So much for all these plugs
we used to say when basically
all the vendors left pieces
the size of moth's eyes.
Each little place had one
important theocracy -
the chiming kept knives
and razors sharp enough
to gut fish for the old
restaurant we used
to look at and long for.
At last however, the ground
became as flat as it used to be.
The maps stretched for miles
and miles took years to explain.
We tried to get word out
as soon as we could.

http://www.wisconsinproject.org/pubs/articles/1987/heavywatercheaters.htm

Because of heavy water, France, India, and Israel all have been able to make nuclear explosives free of international control.

Why was the destruction of the Shi'i
mosque at Samarra* so important?

The history of Sunni Islam is actually the history of the oppression of the Shia, their martyrdoms and burial places. Places like Saudi Arabia to this day do not allow anyone to have a marker or headstone on a grave. This is related to the fact that they simply do not want anyone to know what it is that they did to the earliest followers of the Sunnah of the prophet Mohamed (SA) who are known as Shi'i. I actually lived just down the road from a Saudi graveyard and the people there used to stack rocks on top of the graves hoping against hope to be able to one day come back and be able to recognize where their baby or granny was buried. It is truly unfair and all due to an oppression that seeks to hide the past from us all, their past. The Sunni Oppressor past and as well, to disguise the present from modern observers who would really like an explanation.

The hoary details:

"Gathering the people who lived there, Imam Husain (A) asked the name of the place. Some said that it was called Naynava, others said it was also called Mariya. Imam Husain (A) asked if there was any other name. Someone said it was also known as Shattul Furaat. Then one old man came forward and said that he had heard his ancestors say that one name for this area was Karbala.

When Imam Husain (A) heard this, he smiled and thanked Allah and then said, "Surely this is the plain where my Holy Grandfather has prophesied that I, with my faithful companions shall lay slain after suffering three days of hunger and thirst. We will not move from here - we have reached our destination."

Imam Husain (A) then ordered for his caravan to stop and tents were pitched next to the banks of the river Euphrates.

The caravan of Imam Husain (A) had arrived in Karbala and their tents were pitched next to the river Euphrates. As his companions settled down, Imam Husain (A) took his brother Abbas (A) around the barren desert and pointed out the various places where each of his comrades would fall and be slain on the Day of Ashura.

The people living in the area were from the tribe of Bani Asad. Imam Husain (A) purchased the land of Karbala from them and then gifted it back to them. He then addressed the men of Bani Asad saying, "On the tenth of this month you will see our dead bodies lying on this plain with our heads severed and taken away. Please bury us, and when our devotees come to visit our graves, treat them with honour and point out to them the places of our burial." He then turned to the women of the tribe and said, "O virtuous ladies! If your husbands, fearing Yazid, do not bury us, then please encourage them to do so or do it yourselves." Finally, he turned to the children of Bani Asad and said, "O innocent ones! If your parents, out of fear of the ruler, do not bury us then, by way of playing, bring some earth and throw it on our bodies to hide them." This heartrending appeal of Imam Husain (A) made all the listeners weep. "

For part of the entire story of Kerbala:

http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/islam/0000082.php

Other chapters appear on the Shia News site and each one is equally delectable and agreed upon by all muslims be they Sunni or Shi'i.

Notes on the shrine at Samarra:

http://www.al-islam.org/shrines/samarra.htm

Perhaps non muslims will soon begin to understand why the Shi'i perform self flagellation during Ashura (Muharram 10) and will recognize what kind of disaster that the US has facilitated (in Iraq where Kerbala is located) out of both ignorance and greed...and either knowingly or unknowingly..it doesn't really matter now whose fault it "is". Because it is.

Why is Mia so mad at Steven Stealberg?

http://www.slate.com/id/2170857/#Darfur

I'll tell you why I hate the SOB. First, he stole the story of an Iranian who stayed in the Charles de Gaulle airport for nine years and made the main character (played by Tom Hanks) in the movie The Terminal into a some type of "Marxist" citizen of an unknown "Marxist" breakaway Republik.

Now...if that wasn't bad enough....

The dog sent money to Israel last year and made a big deal about how much he loves the New Nazi-ism aka Zionism and how everyone in creation ought to send money to these genocidal racists who live there and stole the land from the Palestinians who had lived there for centuries.

Oh. As if people would: Boycott this monster.

I am so honored to be seen with some of these poets. The prolific Lyn Lifshin and the recluse Kristine Ong Muslim. Man. Makes me want to submit again.

So the next few posts are a celebration of those poets who are upcoming in 4am Poetry Review.

In Pedestal, this wonderful poem that just trips all over itself and scores a great big three pointer at the end there:

Malaika King Albrecht - Sounds After the Howl

http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/Content/cb.asp?cbid=5102

Carolyn Srygley-Moore - Two Poems
Casting Out The Whistler's Tarantula

http://www.threecandles.org/poetry/cmoore.html

4am Poetry Review

Issue 2 features poems from: Barry Ballard, Todd Heldt, Margaret Porter-Swaid, Malaika King Albrecht, Jude Goodwin, Jody Helfand, Jack Thorn, Joel Solonche, Carolyn Srygley-Moore, Brian Diamond, Kristine Ong Muslim, Chavisa Woods, Simon Perchik, Lyn Lifshin, Bridget Gage-Dixon, Maurice Oliver, Doug Ramspeck, Thomas Patterson, and M. Arroser.

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Behavioral Research,
the West and Islam

Whilst out and about garnering information to consolidate some ideas I've been having about the problems associated with the heretofore practice of Western Behavioral research studies being skewed and based on non muslim people and therefore, based on faulty logic (expecially the Freudian nonsenses)...I happened into this great little blog entry about Muslim kids being sent to the King David school in the UK. Imagine my delight at such a find!

"Muslim parents are pleased that ‘all the kids mix and go to one another's parties and are in and out of each other's houses’. The Jewish parents and teachers too are just as enthusiastic: “You know, in these difficult times in the world, I think we show how things should be done. It's really a bit of a beacon," says one teacher, whose three children all went to King David and ended up at Oxford University. One Jewish parent commented: "My son is eight and has loads of Muslim friends." And perhaps most important of all is that some of the cross-cultural friendships forged at King David last a lifetime."

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2007/03/muslim-children-are-not-born-jew-haters.html

One of the other things I was meaning to look into but as is the case of skewed analysis in the world being based on NON SUBMITTING muslims (everyone included in that regardless of their sect/nonsect)..but that kind of research is hard to find...I was hoping to show the notion of little people not knowing how to get dressed!

Yes. You bet. KIDS.....believe it or not...do not know how to pick their own clothing!

So...we adult animals do it for them. It's our job. Adult muslim animals do it their way and their way seems to really anger non submitting muslims (the entire population of humanity who is the group of NON submission by default, choice or hatred of Islam and the Messenger).

Unfortunately...submitting muslims have not been studied and due to the invasion of Western values, media and failure to submit to any religion let alone Islam..that kind of information is highly unavailabe and usually studies are marked by an inability to properly isolate variables and one of the new variables is the admixture of Western hypocrisy, capitalism and greed which tends to rip the Islam right out of a soul....and it rips the validity right out of a study done in a primarily submitting Islamic country like Saudi Arabia, Iran or Indonesia where studies like that need to be done in order to determine if Islam really does prevent certain types of things.

Therefore...when muslim parents choose to teach their young girls to cover their hair...they are only teaching them how to dress.

No more and no less. It is no different than the non submitting muslims in the world who teach their young ladies to wear miniskirts and tube tops and their boys to wear ties.

Yikes. It is as simple as that.

Peace on those that deserve it. Heh...who needs research when you have simple logic. But here is a sample of how research methodologies have utterly failed to serve humanity:

http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/14/1/7.pdf

Another tainted food recall:

http://www.castleberrys.com/news_productrecall.asp

Geez..I'm really glad I don't eat canned chili. Really glad.

I'm also really thinking that it is best not to eat food from a company that specializes in human "eatables" and dog ones.

Time to eat Kosher/Halal only?


I think so.

The Cold River

I have been writing poems
all my life but this one
just won't get out.
It follows me everywhere
and fills my gut
with sea sickness.

The worst thing about
this poem is that it
is everyone's poem
and like me, they cannot
seem to write it down either.

Some thoughts on Cold River, Nahar al Barad:

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/2671

So....when we discuss this particular fitna called Cold River (in English)...is it not important that we discuss the fact that Sayyed Nasrallah...when he "supports" the Sunni Palestinians...he is not supporting their Sunni doctrine. He is supporting the Islamic umma and brotherhood of all muslims.

BEIRUT ASSASSIN LEAVES MARK

The cocks were storm-crowing that morning
after a real long spell of total
environmental darkness. Two broughams sped by.

(In the land of the prophets
the angels talk out-loud,
people pretend not to notice.
Here it is the status quo.)

All the clocks whirred with quick sighs.
At sunset the clouds were full of the dust.
On the sand hundreds of lovers were kissing
out in the open. Everyone was buying
flowers and the coffee carts were brimming
with hot fluids and stale remedies to the skies.

Then everything just stopped. Windows fell
apart and people ran home, started looking.
Zoom in, zoom out, zoom in, zoom out.
I felt around for my watch to note the time.
School was letting out and I compared JFK,
that unholy day to this one. Must have been similar.

Shapely forms felt their way toward the horizons
and the same herd of goats crossed my path twice.
No more luck, no more money, no more beadsmen.
The predictions are always keen to usurp everyone
and the last unlucky man born will tremble
near a pitcher of water and a set of lost keys.
This benediction quieted all the kinfolk
and the rich slept closer to their quarters
but it does take some time, perhaps forever.
The poor remain indifferent.

One man was found two weeks later in the rubble,
pointing in one direction, holding his cell.
No one called out the dogs because it is said
the canines ate the corpses in Sabra and Shatilla.

I wonder.. to whom was he speaking,
where was he pointing?


..well of course...he was pointing to the US/Zionist war machine and that was a missile strike not a car bomb in case you didn't notice.

Mother Nature will be like "slowwwww doooowwwn"....

Human BEATBOX:





Australian Idol Beatbox:




The Antichrist beatbox:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVCb52iQrfo

The Buttoning of the Coats

Listen to this

nothing
outside
not even a dog barking

planes not flying
off the tarmac

some kind of hum
from the freeway

not much really
but so incessant

honk

listless unimportant
as we all are
on the couches
the crematoriums.

The Aleutians,
where are they again?

Listen
to the buttoning
of the coats.

Are Israeli Jews driving themselves into the ocean? What a surprise....


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070724/wl_nm/germany_israel_dc_1

German law makes it easy for former citizens who fled the country during Nazi rule to regain their citizenship and offers the same chance to their descendants.

But few Israelis took advantage of this until recently -- a shift experts attribute to rising political instability in the Middle East, opportunities within an enlarged European Union and new attitudes towards Germany of a younger Israeli generation.

...well. Isn't this where they belong in the first place? Wasn't it the Nazis who were so damn mean to them? We all know it had nothing (the Holycaust) to do with the Arabs.

Bon Voyage!

Dear Redacted

We are home as of 1 am July 24. EXACTLY one year after we arrived..to the day...from our terrible war adventure.

It was a long hard trip (redacted). Good and bad...mostly closure of some things. Letting go of the ideal of "expatriatism" for now. It has been my central motivation and I realize now that I must move forward and I must move in this direction and at this pace.

What to do. The Middle East is a downright catastrophe and as well, it is the will of the Lord. I know that but it doesn't necessarily make it any easier to watch from these plush and verdant sidelines in Bisbee AZ.

More to be revealed...I hope you are well and up to your usual practices of working hard. I've got so much to do in the next few weeks in order to get my middle one Sarah booked into a decent university. She was accepted at both the U of A and NAU so that is all fine and good. The U of A did pull a nasty trick on us though and asked for a domicile affidavit since they must have had dark suspicions about her citizenship. When I got the lady on the phone of course...she heard my voice and my double yas were typically Arizonianisms and she got Sarah accepted within minutes. Imagine that! Only moments before she was told that her file was under review and she wouldn't have an answer for at least two weeks. Huh? I told Sarah to get back on the phone and we'll speak to someone who understands what it means to request priveledged information prior to having the authority to do so (domicile statements). It's amazing what a True Blue Double Ya will get you nowdays at our lovely public universities like the University of Arizona which is actually a private institution but the bigots there just don't tell the taxpayers so..they keep insisting that it is public but we old rednecks down here know the GD Truth about it all. It was the craziest thing and we put down the phone and I told Sarah: You've just been discriminated against for being an Arab. Get used to it and be calm and ingratiating...people are so stupid (redacted). Americans are at the bottom of the food chain only they still believe they got something going up top. Man.

The meek shall inherit the earth....


but when?

All my bestests

Me

Some Back Stories of Years Gone By:

Notes of City Sheperds

This land is written
by the indigenous
flowers and broad-striped
fish, terrain split by rivers
in hand-tilled land.
Great patchwork fields
become deeds forever
tucked into blankets.
On and on so balances
feign universe like this,
bi and tri lingual.
The mass of ocean
measures time against
sand, so entranced.
Washed stones strike
in salty kilns the others,
the smooth and rocky
exile, this forgery
and treason.

Chorus:

This border of our land
runs ragged to tarmac
near city maze.
North wind sculpts
with horse hair bow
in silence everlasting.
Dry down the daisy
in limestone rock
perched accidently there.

Sing: our misery in shepherd
gapes open to the sea.


This map a cold front
is a coda, to an end
it points.
Spring falls from
trees to apple blossom.
Peat steams joy for screams
in breaths forgotten,
these of foreigners
built into boots
of perfect straw.
Where we have been
in order to go
silent and single filed?
Whirl down
our set of stairs
into calcitic waters
to rise like light
from wells inside wells.

So wait our magical bones,
things unspeakable,
in! swallowed the skin.
Miracles of tedium,
quick fingers in violin.

Second Chorus:

This border of our land
runs ragged to tarmac
near city maze.
North wind sculpts
with horse hair bow
the silence everlasting.
Dry down the daisy
in limestone rock
perched accidently there.

Sing: our misery in shepherd
gapes open to the sea.

Third Chorus:

North wind sculpts
horse hair bow
down the daisy
over tarmac heart
daisy it down to
horse everlasting
in boots of straw
near kilny sea.
North wind sculpts
rock, deed and violin
with horse hair bow
down the daisy
over tarmac heart
perched accidently there:

down near the sea
down near the sea,

down and near
the sea.

Final:

Da cow and da sheep
da cow and da sheep
dae weep and dae weep,
'caus dar is no sleep
for da cow and da sheep.

In every time zone

a soldier patrols the perimeter of the site
in a certain kind of loneliness.
He persists but I do not.

A prayerful moth, rather large,
finds sanctuary on top of the blinds
but we do not.

Momentary gladness fills the room,
grace ends with a smile.
Your presence fills nothing but the void
as a car loading explosives at dawn
shuts prophecy down for the day.
It is grown here and exported, how?

Radishes grow into melons.
Dogs scattered in various poses
at the road side, mangled and all
quite dead. How can this be?
Who is painting the roads red?

A minaret climbs through the arcadia door,
it is almost beautiful, a knick knack.
The men in clusters near the bottom
count several angles, another balances
high on the scaffold with bare chest.
A slaughter in the dust one year ago
and next year my decorations will
sing everything is loved once before
building a reputation, wherever that is.

What is the bird surprise?

The Bird Surprise

Embedded

I thought I was just pretending
all along, saying well, that's
bound to happen and it does and I say
well, that's bound to happen.
We all know that when we leave
the room, the room disappears,
we've perceived since we were born
and sometimes talk it over
with strangers knowing
that once the guy leaves
he takes your secrets with him
into the ether or
the dark same thing.
It is a strange statistic
and one I am fond of until
it comes to the war zones.

One Blogs to remember where one has put one's work.

http://www.voicesonthewind.net/toc.html

Three wonderful poems by the famous Dick Bakken and a few others including the lovely Ms. Sanger and the always entertaining Cappy Love Hanson. And myself.

Home is Where it is Raining

Bisbee Forecast

Scattered T-storms
PM T-storms

Scattered T-storms

Scattered T-storms

Scattered T-storms

The United States of America is formally under Israeli Occupation

Thomas Jefferson, George Washington on the dangers of American alignment with foreign powers to the detriment of their own people:

http://gunsofthepatriots.blogspot.com/

"...nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils 7 Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter."


...from George Washington's Farewell Address: The Avalon Project

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/washing.htm

US supporting Kurdish Terrorism against Iranians on Iranian soil. Turkey isn't happy about the weapons I imagine...being given to their "insurgency class". Oh..what a tangled web they have woven:

http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/07/are-we-already-at-war-have-us-enabled.html

Death to Israel. Crippling misery to the US.

Iranian Jews Refuse Israeli Citizenship and Money to "Repatriate"

Guess they understand the question here.


http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103010.html

And Our Command is but a single (Act),- like the twinkling of an eye.
And (oft) in the past, have We destroyed gangs like unto you: then is there any that will receive admonition? (54;50-51)

Big Mystery:

Contacted by CNN, a Hezbollah spokesman in Lebanon said he would not dignify the U.S. allegations with a response. And it remains unclear why Hezbollah's leadership would risk sending advisers to Iraq: American intelligence officers suspect Hezbollah -- which is indebted to Iran for decades of military and financial support -- had no choice.


Ahem. Well there you go. The truth is always in the last sentence in any article issuing out of the newsrooms of a MASSIVELY corrupt Western media.

The answer to it is pretty easy i.e. "Why would Hezbollah risk" such a thing. Indeed. When in fact Lebanon is up to its arse in its own alligators...why indeed.

Well. Exactly. They wouldn't.

I can tell you what may be the case. Every day of every week, young men seek to join the only Arab army to have ever beaten the US/Zionist threat. Beaten those scum not once but three times. And every day of every week of every year since Hezbollah liberated the south of its OWN country from the slimy hands of the Israelis, young men have been refused admission to this elite band of resistance fighters. It is no secret that part of the success of Hezbollah is in the fact that they only admit men to fight who demonstrate extreme dedication to Allah and to the Shia party (the elite of Islam). Therefore, there are many young men so hell bent on being "in" Hezbollah, there are many who literally impersonate Hezbollah fighters because they have been refused by same.

I ought to know...I've met a few and a couple of years ago, one man who was refused admission to this particularly blessed Islamic army...went to the home of a high ranking Hezbollah advisor and shot him in cold blood.

My guess is that this guy is either a Sunni or US plant...or most likely what you'd call:

A wannabe.

But there is no reason Nasrallah would send anyone to Iraq. That is ludicrous. It is as ludicrous as Israel insisting that Hezbollah kicked the butt of Israel using soldiers from Somalia and Iran last year and kept INFECTING the media with stories full of outright LIES. No problem, Israelis are liars but would they just do what they are supposed to and give the Palestinians their humanity back instead of insisting on stealing the humanity of others? Just for kicks.

What idiots.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/01/iraq.hezbollah/index.html

This can't be true.....can it?

http://campaignsandelections.com/oh/releases/index.cfm?ID=1328


Thought crimes? Versus the Iraq debacle? Nuts.

A Post From June 2006 as I haven't felt like reading much of other people's poetry lately. I guess you can say the world is a bit depressing right now especially when you are in the thick of it "over here" and you hoped for something to improve...knowing full well that not only was it not going to improve but it was going to continue to deteriorate. Al Q (or some other entity) has just exploded an "IED" near Haris in a place called Khiam. Khiam you will remember is the town that was completely destroyed last year by Israeli war crimes and the historical landmark known as "Khiam Prison" where arabs were tortured by other Arabs (the Christian Lebanese) and paid to do so by Israel itself. Men had their penises electrocuted and many were kept in a wooden box the size of a 60 inch cardboard box that is made to house a TV for shipment. I'll be heading down there today but each time we go it gets a bit more serious. IEDs aren't a pleasant book to read for summer if you know what I mean.

Today In The Real Third World

The city on fire
was traffically jammed,
cross circuits of humbled wires
over the intersections of
'used to be a war here'
and
'used to be a war here'.
Struggling their beefy little hearts
out to go on home to their steamy kitchens,
their lousy children and fat wives.
No one any more decent for the excuse
of it all including the rickety
rattan furniture on the balcons
to the beautiful sea on the right
or the left or the center.
Somewhere out there a prostitute wailed
and somewhere else a man spit into a urinal
and still somewhere else out there
was I. In the middle of it all,
chest nearly bleeding from contaminations
fresh from the instructor who hates funerals
(his wife dying in Britain now).
We all hate funerals and burying.
Everyone hates to be in a scene.
Cops are cartoons and stand there
waving this way and that way
so it looks like there are some.
They even wear white gloves!
Life is an illusion, can't you see it?
The real authorities are spies and run
around all day chasing the generalissimos
who aren't all that real either.
The army is a lot younger and unhappier now
in the beds of their jiggling trucks.
I love their smiles. So young. So fresh.
So out there it hurts. So very, very real.


*Of course, Life is an illusion, can't you see it? is from the Quran. I wrote that poem in response to one I read that was just plain awful (somewhere else). Now, it is okay to write poems that aren't that great technically speaking. A poet has to start somewhere you know. What was awful about the poem that I read were two things: the poem itself and one of the critics of the poem. The poem was just chock full of gratuitous and graphic violence. Now, violence is okay but I really hate a poem to get so violent with me it makes me sleepy and fatiqued which I am now, very. Sensationalism in poems however is just awful, especially when it involves so much killing and bloodying up of the set props. Messy. A poem can be violent you see without all the trouble of having to clean up once you've read it. A poem I believe should entertain the reader and entertain them in many ways. The reader ought to leave the poem feeling refreshed or illuminated (to his/her own self because lets face it, there are no new thoughts really under the sun rather, there is just better merchandising). Now, the critic said something truly awful. He said the poem was "Just great!" but that the poet shouldn't be surprised if no one "got it" and I guess I am going to assume that means they are going to say "this poem is awful". Now...as a critic...I would never make excuses for someone else's poem being horrific and lacking in all the things that make good poems good and full of all the things that make bad poems bad (which is usually a general lack of technique).

So I said...here...I'll write you a violent poem in a few minutes and you won't have to clean up after you read it. It might even make you sad enough that it makes you happy because you feel humanly related to it. I think that is the key to good poetry. Relating to another human something very human. Gore isn't human. Gore is taboo. It is just that the TV has made it a staple of the diet and everyone is so amazed at how much blood it takes to make a scene look bloody. I think mine is quite bloody without ever mentioning a shark, a knife, a gun or sheesh, a murderer or the murdered.

Israel: WAR CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA

The facts are simple and straightforward. Israeli forces reconnoitered the ship for hours in daylight with unlimited visibility, correctly reported the ship’s identity to their headquarters, then attacked the clearly marked and defenseless American ship by air and sea for more than 75 minutes, killing 34 men and wounding more than two-thirds of the 297-man crew.

After disabling the ship with a 40-foot torpedo hole and hundreds of canon and missile hits, Israeli torpedomen continued to fire from as little as 50 feet away. They ignored the oversize American flag that flew in plain sight from the mast while firing on medical personnel and firefighters nearby. Finally, as preparations were being made to abandon ship, they machinegunned the ship’s empty life rafts which had been lowered into the water awaiting survivors—a clear violation of Geneva conventions.

from: http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May-June_2007/0705026.html

And this is what they did to the equipment and soldiers of the US military who Americans are supposed to honor:



And the American/Israeli mafia has the AUDACITY to scorn Muslims who pay tribute to their martyrs with money?

This caca needs to hit the fan and by gosh, I think it is beginning to stink.

No more leaky Black Holes that you can't photograph.
I just hate things that people tell me are there but can't be proven*.

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/621/1

If new calculations are correct, the universe just got even stranger. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, have constructed mathematical formulas that conclude black holes cannot exist. The findings--if correct--could revolutionize astrophysics and resolve a paradox that has perplexed physicists for 4 decades.

Proof "Q" or rather, Al Qaf

50:6] Do they not then look up to heaven above them how We have made it and adorned it and it has no gaps?

Hmm. My bets are on Case Western Reserve just on the basis of the cool sounding name of their techie university.

Destroying the Past

http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=55&p=33919&s2=22

"The world’s oldest civilization is being destroyed before our eyes---its cities laid to waste, its people slaughtered by the tens of thousands. Saddam never could have dreamed of devastation on this scale. We’ve ruined everything. Truckloads of dead men are delivered to the Baghdad morgue every morning where they are processed and then dumped in mass graves in abandoned soccer fields or schoolyards. 20% of the population has either been internally displaced or forced to flee into Jordan and Syria. In Falluja alone, 65% of the buildings have been destroyed and tens of thousands of its citizens are left living in tent cities scattered across the desert--exposed to the elements, living on crusts of bread and foul water. The number of refugees has risen rapidly; 2 million in Amman, Damascus and Cairo. They go wherever they can to avoid the bombing and find safety or shelter."

"We are starving and brutalizing children while we extol the "America’s fallen" as if one life is more valuable than another. What sort of sick joke is this? This is nothing more than cultural narcissism served up by pseudo-patriots in the political establishment who are drunk on death and power. They worship violence like a god and they are pushing us all towards Armageddon."

"The same sinister forces which are inciting the sectarian violence are trying to remove all sense of kinship, brotherhood, nationalism and spirituality. Their objective is to "wipe the slate clean" and rebuild the entire society according to their neoliberal model."

If that is not genocide; then what is?

Hmm. I'd say yes, that is what genocide is and congratulations to all Americans. You are now the new Nazi Germany in the eyes of everyone else and even yourselves. It is a damn shame.
The up side of that is that you are not in your distress all alone. You have your long and much touted friends, the Israelis.

Afterall, haven't you told us over and over and over again how they are your friends?

They sure are and now the two of you are pretty much, the sum total of human evil for the future as far as the eye can see.

Never know though...maybe a few Americans will change the way things go. Maybe all those guys you sent over there will begin to revert to Islam and slam dunk your evil empire without the help of a single Arab person. You see, one of the "blowbacks" of war is that you get this incredible influx of things you didn't count on...like leprosy, like DU diseases, like amputees and like: New Muslims. Some of those guys no doubt understand what they've been through. And some of them are going to come calling on you and so will their children and their children's children.

Good luck with it.

http://palestinianpundit.blogspot.com/

The same sinister forces which are inciting the sectarian violence are trying to remove all sense of kinship, brotherhood, nationalism and spirituality. Their objective is to "wipe the slate clean" and rebuild the entire society according to their neoliberal model.

The US invasion has turned Iraq into a testing-ground for new theories on counterinsurgency. One by one the cities in the Sunni region have been surrounded with razor-wire; vital supplies have been cut off, check-points set up, snipers placed on rooftops, and the siege begins. Civilian neighborhoods are branded as "terrorist strongholds" and pounded with heavy artillery and aerial bombardment. We have declared war on some of the poorest people on earth—ghetto warfare with the most sophisticated high-tech weaponry ever invented.

Sometimes, it isn't the blog that gets you but the wayward comments of the posters. Afterall, there is a blog explosion going on and I suspect it is a means of allowing people an outlet rather than giving them a solution to the crisis humanity is embroiled in. All the same...you read some comments and have to chuckle and share it:

"Abbas has had so many Kosher Salamis shoved were the sun don't shine he about as used as an old whore can be."

I think forevermore, I'll see that guy and think of some old lady named Goldie.


http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/06/documents-prove-dahlans-involvement-in.html

Now. I like to believe I am a pretty good reader. I read this interesting article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2107696,00.html

The article says:

Staff at the consulate said that they decided a photoshoot would be a good way of promoting Israel to young Americans.

(It should read: ..a good way of using sex to distract young men from the truth.)

David Dorfman, an adviser at the consulate in New York, told the Associated Press: "Males that age have no feeling towards Israel one way or another, and we view that as a problem, so we came up with an idea that would be appealing to them."

(Should read: Most young people in America are pretty stupid but have increasingly hostile views towards Israel....so we came up with the idea of giving them a boner so that they would associate Israel with sexual fulfillment.)

Israel is keen to sell itself as a western country with beaches and nightclubs rather than a country full of religious zealots which has been in a permanent state of emergency since its creation.

(Should read: Israel hates the fact that people know they are a criminal and rogue state hell bent on both the extermination and/or transfer of indigenous people from whom they stole an important piece of property and therefore Israel is becoming desperate enough to use female soldiers in ways that humiliate them. Israel has been in a permanent state of denial regarding its war crimes ever since it started committing them in 1947 and hence, are perpetually waiting for the victims of their criminal activity to demand justice in any way possible.)

Best Blog Name Ever:

http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/

..and fantastic information artfully presented.


"Oh Low-rence!"

Take Lawrence of Cyberia's
"72 Virgin Quiz":

http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2006/12/the_seventy_two.html


...I am constantly amazed at people. Lawrence, you get a double thumbs up. Sorry about your mom.

Civilian casualties in Nahar al Barid, Lebanon aka "Cold River"

http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/05/crimes-and-corruptions-of-new-world_29.html


"Abu Harayra" by the way is a much hated "hadith" writer of the first century Hijra. Basically, he was a propagandist extraordinaire and was known to stroke his cat much the way Dr. Evil does in Austin Powers. Obviously it is not the guy's real name but a name designed to incite the Shia to violence.

Sick sh*t if you ask me.

*Graphic images, viewer discretion advised.

The Lady at the Bank

These pieces should fly
instead of bark or for instance,
the future ought to open
into the right scenes
as being dispatched properly,
following a certain evolution.
The lady at the bank says
it is time to apply, to complete
forms for exile, igne combusta.
The embassies call each other
at home and say: flee, march, adapt.
Clerks drift to sleep
with the knowledge of long
summers in dreadful times,
even longer winters and nights
occupied in the worst dreams.
Fruits arrive on trees withered,
pickled in dust and weary tastes.
Rumours have it that garbage
is the first luxury of mankind
but few people know
until it is too late
and the rest are used to it.
You have to wonder
about the eyes sometimes.
Look hard at the old photographs
to find something there,
some little particle, reunions.
While counting blessings:
estimate the shipping weight,
resale value, insurance rates.
He apologizes by saying:
you are still a gypsy,
when will you get home?
These credentials in suitcases
labeled: hope, caution, trouble
are more than enough confidence.
There are still places
on the planet where we might
find a vacancy or try to wish for.

Oh Dear.


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2643033.ece

But the long-term implications are escaping nobody. Climatologists see a growing volatility in the south-east's weather - today's drought coming close on the heels of devastating hurricanes two to three years ago. In the West, meanwhile, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests a movement towards a state of perpetual drought by the middle of this century. "The 1930s drought lasted less than a decade. This is something that could remain for 100 years," said Richard Seager a climatologist at Columbia University and lead researcher of a report published recently by the government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

While some of this year's dry weather is cyclical - California actually had an unusually wet year last year, so many of the state's farmers still have plenty of water for their crops - some of it portends more permanent changes. In Arizona, the tall mountains in the southern Sonoran desert known as "sky islands" because they have been welcome refuges from the desert heat for millennia, have already shown unmistakable signs of change.

Predatory insects have started ravaging trees already weakened by record temperatures and fires over the past few years. Animal species such as frogs and red squirrels have been forced to move ever higher up the mountains in search of cooler temperatures, and are in danger of dying out altogether. Mount Lemmon, which rises above the city of Tucson, boasts the southernmost ski resort in the US, but has barely attracted any snow these past few years.

Abu Ghraib was much worse than anyone thought:

I learned from Taguba that the first wave of materials included descriptions of the sexual humiliation of a father with his son, who were both detainees. Several of these images, including one of an Iraqi woman detainee baring her breasts, have since surfaced; others have not. (Taguba’s report noted that photographs and videos were being held by the C.I.D. because of ongoing criminal investigations and their “extremely sensitive nature.”) Taguba said that he saw “a video of a male American soldier in uniform sodomizing a female detainee.” The video was not made public in any of the subsequent court proceedings, nor has there been any public government mention of it. Such images would have added an even more inflammatory element to the outcry over Abu Ghraib. “It’s bad enough that there were photographs of Arab men wearing women’s panties,” Taguba said.

http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/06/generals-report-seymour-hersh.html

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/2143

The WorldNetDaily news website reported Muhammed Abdel-El, the spokesperson for the Hamas-allied Popular Resistance Committees group, as saying: "The CIA files we seized, which include documents, CDs, taped conversations, and videos, are more important that all the American weapons we obtained the last two days as we took over the traitor Fatah's positions."

Another Hamas official, quoted by WND, said the CIA documents they browsed so far contain "information about the collaboration between Fatah and the Israeli and American security organizations; CIA methods on how to prevent attacks, chase and follow after cells of Hamas and the Committees; plans about Fatah assassinations of members of Hamas and other organizations; and American studies on the security situation in Gaza."

The official claimed the documents also detailed CIA networks in other Arab countries, and "how to help beat Islamic allies of Hamas in other Arab countries, including Egypt and Jordan.

On Divine Right and Being Right

What does actual Divine Right mean? Look like? Who has it and how did they get it?

Very good question when you have a whole group of people who have somehow developed an opinion of themselves as being more intelligent than the rest of us poor sods (religious zealots and mostly dark skinned people) i.e. the Americans, Europeans, White People, et.al. Those people. Those people are indeed a fabulous bunch of individuals overall and have invented things, have developed well oiled machinery called "societies" and overall, have much better hygeine than the oppressed and impoverished are able to enjoy. It isn't hard to imagine how "they" got the idea in their head that they were somehow a "superior race". To make matters worse, some of the best people in those same social frameworks do have a sense of morality, ethics and global citizenship.

But.....are they capable of leading this often cited term: The New World Order? Who selected them to do this?

Darwin? Um...they (even the good members of Western society subconsciously believe this (i.e. the Myth of Natural Selection in which nature plays the role of God/Allah and is quite cruel and unthinking) and their efforts (good and bad) they attribute to their highly developed sense of their own goodness aka superiority i.e. it is in their collective conscious and cannot be ignored) seem to think so even though Darwin was simply a man with an opinion. Just an ordinary person with a partially good idea and it was partial. He knew nothing of genetics or the fact that genetics dictate not only adaptation but they pre-empt claims to actual "evolution". There is no such thing as evolution because if there was such a thing it would "pre-exist" in DNA and be empirically observable as "remnants" of the "revision" (known as evolutions).

So who gets Divine Right and how does one know what that actually looks like? History tells us that there have been numerous such claims to "Divine Right". To this day, a monarch sits in Buckingham Palace yet we ignore it as just the fantasy of the nostalgic British. And they pay dearly (in cold hard cash) to support this thing called Divine Right. Suffice it to say, with a history so full of such claimants to the "prize" called Divine Right, it is nearly impossible for a non-muslim individual to actually begin to understand the actual possessor of Divine Right and what that entails. This is largely due to the abuse of "Divine Right" as a man-made type of thing called monarchy, aristocracy, plutocracy, etc.

Of course, I am talking about the Ruler of the worlds and what has become to be known as that Ruler's "emmisaries". Let's call those people prophets instead of kings noting that in some circles the terms are interchangable (i.e. the Christians refer to Jesus Christ (SA) as "The King of Peace"). I assure you though that he was not a King, he was a prophet. And if you will, let us call the Divine Ruler Allah and imagine Allah to sit upon this much scoffed at "eternal throne" (per his own description of his status). "His" is used for lack of a better word to indicate the antecedent but note, Allah is 'gender free' and we do not have words to express the actual characteristics of the Creator.

I would like to interject here, my opinion about myself (as a model of a believer/fanatic/whatever) and evaluate that opinion in terms of what I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, is the belief "non believers" have about us Religious Zealots (of whatever persuasion). Yes....we or at least I, am well aware that to most people I appear to have no clue as to what their opinion is of me. In fact, the exact opposite is true. I know exactly what they think. It is they who do not know what I think. That makes me a teacher of relatively ignorant students. As a teacher or lets be semantic about it, a "professor" (in the land where teaching is not indoctrination but actual professing to believe in something). What good would it be to have teacher who does not actually believe in what they are teaching? Rest assured however that I completely understand how "out there" my opinions must seem to those who live in ignorance of actual religion, monotheism and specifically, Islam. I've suffered much derision due to the ignorance of others and muslims have shed blood because it. It is OUR clear reality even if it is not clear to nonmuslims.

Islam is the final part of the trilogy and the last word. There is no other sacred text in which the Creator ever said "I'm done now" except for the Quran. There could be any number of sacred texts (from the Vedas to the I Ching) but not a single one of them reveals that the author was in fact finished. Only the Quran says this and only the last prophet said that he himself was to be the last prophet ever designated to such a lofty HUMAN post.

Where does that leave the rest however? The Christians, the Jews, the Pagans, etc?

Not really my problem to be honest but to be fair, I do not envy them in their position. As for most "new" Christian sects like the Amish and Mormons, they actually follow a sacred text (the Old Testament) that they have adapted to fit their own ends. This fact is clear upon reading those texts like "The Book of Mormon" written by John Smith, the progenitor of the sect called Mormon. Therefore, these are merely more sects developed from the Christian sect where the Christian sect itself was not "authorized" either as a "distinct" religion from the one religion/philosophy of the creator (Islam, Hanifism, Monotheism rooted in the Abrahamic/Noahide traditions which are in turn sprouts from the most basic of ancestors (all human beings), the religion taught to Adam and Eve by the Creator before the "fall" into this curious reality we call life. Life which is a suspended state of being in which light and time form a construct that is visible to the given human senses (five).

Recently I was in conversation with an extremely intelligent man. Not really what you'd call a "fanatical" muslim...more what "one of you" would call, a "moderate". He was attempting to relate to me that he believes all other religions deserve to be heard, tolerated, etc. I looked at him and said, "But we are right Mohamed." He appeared to be quite shocked at this. How on earth could a muslim say such a thing? Yet....he knew I was right. We have (as muslims) a really rough road to traipse in this matter. How do you deal with the ignorant without alienating them to the cause?

We can't. It is as simple as that and a "fanatic" (me) has to choose one thing or the other: Go along with what non muslims say (and further their ignorance via failure to address their misconceptions) or stand up to it and refuse to back down.

In other words, INSIST that we are right. Afterall, no one ever won a battle by insisting that they were wrong you know. And there is a battle going on in the world whether "you" like it or not. "You" being anything from a good Catholic to a staunch ideological Athiest. Anything from the nicest of persons to the vilest of criminals. "You" are all in the same boat it seems. Perhaps that is why the Quran harps on about the "Ark" of Noah (Nuh, SA). You are either on this boat or you are not...it is a "you are with us or against us" type of thing.

It is however not a secret to muslims be they like me (a so-called 'fanatic') or like him (Mohamed, a so-called 'moderate')...that there is "no coercion" in religion. There just isn't and there is no such thing as a man made "Divine Right". It is, IN FACT, a contradiction of terms. Divine Right IS DIVINE. It isn't man made and it cannot be stolen nor can it be claimed as a prize or as booty of war. It is designated and owned by the Divine Ruler and the authority stemming from it is bequeathed by that ruler whom we muslims call "Allah" (because Allah told us Allah's name) and most other people call "God". Ironically, even the Divine Right itself is non-negotiable to those in possession of it. In other words, those who received it didn't ask for it but they knew they had a duty to protect it. They are known as the Shi'i and specifically, the Twelve designated custodians of the Quran and its historical contexts and tangents. They are basically long dead scholars. And this is exactly why the Shi''i are the number one targets of the Israeli-US-Zionist alliance (the Great Satans). If you think otherwise then YOU are insane and being led down the garden path by your very own friends and family, pastors and neighbors, broadcasters and movie stars.

Back to history though because we are making it. Humans tend to view history as a paradigm but not one that they have anything to do with. As if they are not themselves constructing their own parables of existence that might one day in the distant future be read as cautionary tales or as educational texts on "how not to repeat" history itself. This is no doubt why we muslims were instructed to worship Allah as if Allah is very near. Not inside but not outside either. We are taught to observe Allah by observing Allah's rules, the wonder of creation (as Allah's "manifestations" and the only way to "see" Allah is via his creation) and to never let our guard down. Not for one minute. And that is exactly what non muslims (and a large number of muslims too) are guilty of. Letting their guard down. Allowing themselves to construct fallacies and fantasies. Allowing themselves to take this world for "granted". Allowing ourselves to enjoy riches while so many are enjoying immense poverty, frustration, oppression and despair. And mind you, no muslim will tell you that we can eradicate those problems because we know that those problems are man made, not heaven sent. The only problems that are heaven sent are natural disasters and that is why EVEN insurance companies oftentimes do not cover what they call "Acts of God" i.e. it is an actual legal term (which reflect actual "divine" law and its consequences). These events are "sent" via the outcomes of the design itself and known/described by the designer due to his (Allah's) relationship to his own creation. Say this to a non believer however and they'll swear you are insane. They are so out of touch but I guess now that Global Warming is indeed upon us they better get on the ball and figure out that it does no one any good if only North America and Europe practice better environmental hygeine.

Non muslims, generally speaking, have grown so incompetent in these details that they don't even realize how much a part of their everyday lives the "language" of Allah actually is. And it is. Because the laws of Allah are naturally derivitives of the creation itself. How on earth do non muslims think it can be otherwise? I mean it is understandable that Athiest don't "get it" but how is it that humans who "say" they believe in "God" cannot recognize that there is only one Creator (if there were "many" then they would be at war with one another ala the Greek sanctimonies). Therefore, that one Creator only has one philosophy and it saturates everything that (sic) was created. The laws of that creation are both unwritten and written and are exactly IDENTICAL to one another. This is why there are "good people" in the world who are not anything close to being muslim and in fact, some Athiests are mighty damn fine people. "They" heard or understood the quality of the creation that is unwritten and silently agreed upon by every living soul. Every single one as much as evil is agreed upon by those whose inner inclinations are "towards" goodness or "towards" evil. A natural polarity and a kind of quarantine that separates the good from the evil people in the world.

What people (all of them) don't agree upon is Divine Right. Geez, most kids don't even listen to their parents anymore let alone "God". Even those who agree on what constitutes an "evil" act or a good one do not realize that they actually believe themselves to somehow be in possession of Divine Guidance merely because they don't murder, rape, pillage, smoke, drink, cuss, pick their nose or some other variable measure of "human goodness".

They could not be more wrong. Divine Right and the Right to be Right is assigned to certain people. It was given to them long ago. It is an actual human history and it is the underlying cause of ALL wars be they in Afghanistan or in Argentina. Be they wars of Social Democrats against Right Wingnut Fascists. Be they wars within an individual's mind.

Allah's statement about the whole issue and ruling is simply this:

"You" (the reader) will follow me WILLINGLY or UNWILLINGLY. In reality, we muslims have nothing to do with forcing anyone into our way of life or thinking. We muslims are simply people who do it (worship Allah) willingly. Non muslims are those who do it unwillingly but they do it all the same. How so? Via the consequences which do not vary and they do not comprehend our labels because they are "consequences" and not people. Consequences do not selectively choose not to punish muslims either. There is no 'get out of jail free card' to be had by anyone. The Quran points this out quite clearly when it says, "Do not look for ONE catastrophe, look for MANY". The "good old days" when Allah used to select one "model" community to make a point (and evacuate the virtuous prior to the catastrophe) are long over. Allah had the last session and it is called the Quran and it does not pretend to be "otherwise". It does not pretend to be "in competition" with any other 'philosophical' method. Imagine Allah debating with himself about his treatise on Buddhism. That would be not only ridiculous but outrageous. Even more outrageous than a man who is God questioning his own self when he was being crucified by saying, "Father, why have you forsaken me?" How on earth could "God" forsake himself? Ought to be obvious but amazingly enough...there are more Catholics and Christians than muslims to this day.

To make a long essay longer, to get to the point now. When Allah made his last proclamations, selected his last emmissary to the planet...he did one more thing.

He appointed a person who was to lead the religion until the end of "our" paradigm.

He chose an Imam at a place called Ghadeer and then said, "Now, I have perfected your religion for you." What did he mean? Did he mean he only perfected "Islam"?

Absolutely not. "Perfection" is not a quality of "parts". It is a quality that can only be assigned to a "whole". He perfected the whole darn process right down to the last detail of removing the "wild cards" called "prophets" and instead, appointed a human being to be the arbiter of a relatively unwieldy thing: the future of mankind without giving him the "wild card" which is the ability to defy logic by predicting the future and the ability to perform miracles. Allah clarified everything (in the Quran) that came before from the Vedas to Las Caux all the way into the future to include the last map of the genome because naturally, Allah knows all about this and all about the future. Furthermore, Allah stated that clearly when Allah openly related that the Quran would not be followed by anything else. It would suffice for the entire future i.e. for "all time". I have little doubt (none really) that in the future, the FUTURE (which will then be, the PAST), will prove to be even more detectable in the Quran than it already is. We just don't know it yet because we have more things about our planet yet to discover. About ourselves and about the cost of the shattering changes that are upon us all right now. And they are. They most definitely are.

And what else would you think a "Divine Right" is supposed to be about? It isn't about oil companies or Uninted Nations courtrooms. It is about mankind itself and how to recognize FACT from FICTION.

And this is the Key to Iraq.

And yes, this is all far worse than Vietnam. It is worse than twenty thousand such things.

A few things about the Sermon of Ghadeer in which actual Divine Right was established:

http://www.ummah.net/khoei/imamate.htm

The War which you are engaged in and as muslims, we are trained to be immune to:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17865.htm

"There is no escaping our individual and collective complicity in this sad state of affairs.

One difference between what is happening in our country and the state-controlled media of the old Soviet Union, is that in the Soviet Union, most people were quite aware that what was being presented to them by their corrupt government as news was nothing but mind-warping propaganda. Many Americans have fallen so under the spell of the Bush regime’s criminal lies that they don’t even know they are being lied to. It is like we are living in a land of state-controlled zombies who think they are free citizens of a free country."

Well duh. I coulda told people this ten years ago and in fact I did. Fact is, most people don't want to know and are truly not interested in bettering the world because that involves real effort. And there is a way to combat mind control.

It is called Islam and it is learned by studying the Quran.

Time, as my mother in law always tell me.....doesn't wait for anyone. And one day, it will be too late to do anything about society let alone oneself.

From the PROOF called The Pen:

So leave those who deny this Discourse to Me. We shall lead them step by step to (ruin) in a way they will not know.

Yet I will give them respite: Surely My plan is compact.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF13Ak02.html

"The allegation that Iran had reversed a decade-long policy and was now supporting the Taliban, conveyed in a series of press articles quoting "senior officials" in recent weeks, is related to a broader effort by officials aligned with US Vice President Dick Cheney to portray Iran as supporting Sunni insurgents, including al-Qaeda, to defeat the United States in both Iraq and Afghanistan."

Oh hahaha, haha er...um...hahaha. Oh I'm so sorry. I am a bit choked up about that one.

REVERSED A DECADE LONG POLICY? Oh, hahahaha...dear me. That one is sure a good one.

The Shi'i / Sunni conflict started when the prophet Mohamed (SA) lay dying and three men met together to steal the Kaliphate from the designated owner of it. They managed to steal the "office" but as we muslims all know (and it is being made more clear day by day) that they could not steal the intelligence, the divine guidance nor the fellowship of truth from those who possessed it as much then as they do now. In other words, this "policy" is over 1400 LUNAR YEARS young. Oh brother. What complete morons.

Decade long "policy". That could only be stated by a person or a people who have absolutely no comprehension of what "Faith" in the Creator of the Worlds actually means to those of us (muslims) who do. And perhaps a few other non muslims who actually believe in the validity of Islam but cannot revert to being muslims due to issues relating to their ethnicity and/or culture and fear of ostracism from same.

The Holocaust Industry by Dr. Norman Finkelstein

Order here: http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/content.php?pg=7

The oldest assistant professor in the world, students and supporters speak out:

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=1080

"Finkelstein is a popular professor at DePaul whose tenure bid was opposed by Zionists because of his criticisms of Israel's occupation of Palestine. Dr. Finkelstein exceeds DePaul's expectations for tenure."

"The U.S relies on its ally, Israel, in the imperialist agenda in the Middle East - maintaining strategic control of oil. Not just the oil corporations and the U.S. government, but academic institutions like DePaul University, march in lockstep. Any voice that is raised critical of Israel or sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians is struck down and marginalized."

The Aspiritations of a Druze Hair Stylist

Where is God said
my hairdresser outside
while overlooking the sea,
speaking of targetted
assassinations and the other
small talk one shares
with those who dabble
in hair and secrecy.
His car is worth eighty
thou and he hopes
America will embrace
his desire to set up shop
on the streets of a medium
sized city between
a Walmart and a Hallmark.
You don't know what
we believe in he says,
we believe in the trans-
migration of souls, we
believe in second chances.

I said I believe I'll not
be coming back to you,
and as for predictions:
Go Nidal. Go and see.
There will be no more setbacks
for you, you've got nothing to lose.

Dear So and So,

Sounds like you are having a great time shaking up the
stones and wood. The best description of people is
that of stones and wood...so good that you find it in
the Quran in several places. Has to do with the by
products of human physical cellular deterioration.

"Qul: Koonoo hajaratayn wa hadeeda"....which means
literally: Say! Be you stones or iron....(implied, I,
the Creator will resurrect you.)

And you are busy resurrecting yourself.

As for this place...it is a bleak reality and
prognosis right now. Up in Nahar Barid (in English
that means "Cold River") the bombs are still
eradicating the domiciles of the refugees. It will be
quite the game trying to restore that dump to
habitable levels once again...considering the number
of townships and suburbs that were totally destroyed
by Israel last year. The US is trying to force the
Lebanese into a civil war. They just don't give up
all that easily. Hezbollah however refuses to
lift a hand against the citizens of this country and
as long as they remain steadfast in that then there
won't be a war...there will just be more of this
miserable kind of Doctor's Waiting Room motion in
which people are waiting for something and waiting and
waiting and waiting. As far as the south
however...well. The Al Q people have tried to stir up
trouble down there in Naqoura (a town specializing in
UN occupation that sits right on the Israeli border on
the Mediterranean Sea). And as for the villages down
there...well the "watchers" are everywhere...you never
know who is in the group as they are ordinary people
who have joined up with the citizen's army. We saw
(redacted). We also saw some other
things but I cannot go into detail on that point.
Suffice it to say though that the Mossad (Al Qaeda in
Lebanon as it is formally known) is being monitored
constantly down there and the Hez knows far more than
it ever discloses about the UN soldiers who are on the
take and the Al Q who are meddling in internal affairs
here. So there is a certain level of security but I
would not be completely surprised if they stage one of
their famous bomb outs in a Shi'i mosque down there in
the coming months or days. It is bound to happen you
know...or maybe not. We can only hope that it
doesn't. The velvet revolution was in play when my
daughter went to the American Community School
graduation shindig two weeks ago (it is subsidized by
the parent organization in "New York")....they had the
US ambassador give the keynote address. They work on
the kids you know...show them handbooks about
prosperity and success...all the while they are paying
to gun down the innocent elsewhere and sometimes the
guilty. They play both sides...slaughtering the
soldiers and then arming the soldiers to fight the
slaughterers. No telling what this plan wreaks of but
no doubt, the UN 'tribunal' will never investigate
THIS slaughter they've perpetrated via their labyrinth
of war parties and monies.

I can say though without any reservation now, that our
decision to take a hiatus from here was correct.
Things are tough here and the people on the street are
angry, tired, poor and not so very humble anymore
about taking a few bucks from Uncle Sam to do the
dirty. To collaborate. But not the Shi'i who
overall...believe that Jesus Christ (SA) is about to
make an entrance alongside the Mahdi. Yes. They do
think that even though we do not know the time we are
mostly convinced that it is soon. How soon?
Well...Jesus said he'd be back soon and that was two
thousand years ago so your guess is as good as ours.
I, myself think there is much more suffering to endure
prior to the return. It just isn't bad enough yet and
each day is slowly a bit worse and sometimes rapidly a
bit worse...but never better. Never really better.

It ought to give me the inspiration to write a lot
about things but it doesn't. It isn't right really to
do too much of that in my estimation and therefore, my
mind does not operate on the poetical apparatus. It
just closes up and says keep quiet.

Electricity is still being rationed and even more
seriously so. We get about eight hours of it a day
and so we have to pay for a service that gives you
enough amps to light a few lights and occassionally
enough to run the color TV and computer. Most days
though it is only enough to light the house and the
small apartment of the gateman.

The weather is Bomb-Cloudy.

When you get enough of those lit you get this
pall that just hangs around and pretends to be a rain
system. Summer in Beirut is usually quite blue and
shiny but most days now are just a dull gray that
clears a bit by noon and then returns by nightfall.
It is compounded by the dust from the rubble and
reconstruction which is in slow but full motion. On
the bright side, the pall keeps the daytime
temperatures a little lower.

Yours Truly,

Amen

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0603liberty0603.html?&wired

The USS Liberty.

Maybe one day these Americans will get their day in court. One day when Israel is labeled the entire axis of evil in the modern world and sanctioned by the civilized world until it disappears off the map forever.


1. That on June 8, 1967, after eight hours of aerial surveillance, Israel launched a two-hour air and naval attack against USS Liberty, the world's most sophisticated intelligence ship, inflicting 34 dead and 173 wounded American servicemen (a casualty rate of 70 percent, in a crew of 294);



2. That the Israeli air attack lasted approximately 25 minutes, during which time unmarked Israeli aircraft dropped napalm canisters on USS Liberty's bridge and fired 30mm cannons and rockets into our ship, causing 821 holes, more than 100 of which were rocket-size; survivors estimate 30 or more sorties were flown over the ship by a minimum of 12 attacking Israeli planes which were jamming all five American emergency radio channels;

3. That the torpedo boat attack involved not only the firing of torpedoes, but the machine-gunning of Liberty's firefighters and stretcher-bearers as they struggled to save their ship and crew; the Israeli torpedo boats later returned to machine-gun at close range three of the Liberty's life rafts that had been lowered into the water by survivors to rescue the most seriously wounded;

4. That there is compelling evidence that Israel's attack was a deliberate attempt to destroy an American ship and kill her entire crew; evidence of such intent is supported by statements from Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Undersecretary of State George Ball, former CIA Director Richard Helms, former NSA Directors Lt. Gen. William Odom, USA (Ret.), Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, USN (Ret.), and Marshal Carter; former NSA deputy directors Oliver Kirby and Maj. Gen. John Morrison, USAF (Ret.); and former Ambassador Dwight Porter, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon in 1967;

5. That in attacking USS Liberty, Israel committed acts of murder against American servicemen and an act of war against the United States;

6. That fearing conflict with Israel, the White House deliberately prevented the U.S. Navy from coming to the defense of USS Liberty by recalling Sixth Fleet military rescue support while the ship was under attack; evidence of the recall of rescue aircraft is supported by statements of Capt. Joe Tully, Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, and Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis, the Sixth Fleet carrier division commander, at the time of the attack; never before in American naval history has a rescue mission been cancelled when an American ship was under attack;

7. That although Liberty was saved from almost certain destruction through the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, William L. McGonagle (MOH), and his brave crew, surviving crewmembers were later threatened with "court-martial, imprisonment or worse" if they exposed the truth; and were abandoned by their own government;

8. That due to the influence of Israel's powerful supporters in the United States, the White House deliberately covered up the facts of this attack from the American people;

9. That due to continuing pressure by the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, this attack remains the only serious naval incident that has never been thoroughly investigated by Congress; to this day, no surviving crewmember has been permitted to officially and publicly testify about the attack;

10. That there has been an official cover-up without precedent in American naval history; the existence of such a cover-up is now supported by statements of Rear Adm. Merlin Staring, USN (Ret.), former Judge Advocate General of the Navy; and Capt. Ward Boston, USN, (Ret.), the chief counsel to the Navy's 1967 Court of Inquiry of Liberty attack;

11. That the truth about Israel's attack and subsequent White House cover-up continues to be officially concealed from the American people to the present day and is a national disgrace;

12. That a danger to our national security exists whenever our elected officials are willing to subordinate American interests to those of any foreign nation, and specifically are unwilling to challenge Israel's interests when they conflict with American interests; this policy, evidenced by the failure to defend USS Liberty and the subsequent official cover-up of the Israeli attack, endangers the safety of Americans and the security of the United States.

The Stench of Israel
Pervades the Middle East

Stinky. Really foul odors. Man it is bad. Death to Israel? Oh no, of course not. We Have To Love these so-called "Jews". Why? Because they told everyone on the entire effing planet that to not love the so-called "Jews" was to be an apostate to humanity itself. Read on, by all means. Read about what these malodorous humans have done:

http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3564&blz=1

In his country, Mehlis has been rebuked for unethical and unprofessional practices. According to Germany's Junge Welt magazine, former UN investigator Detlev Mehlis received a $10m USD slush fund to rig the UNIIIC outcome against Syria. An inquiry by German public TV Zweites Deutsche Fernsehen found that Mehlis had relied on CIA, MI6 and Mossad intelligence in prior investigations, namely the Berlin Disco bombing of the 1980s where Mehlis knowingly used testimony supplied by Arab Mossad agent Mohammad Al Amayra in his case against Libya. Mehlis also relied on NSA intercepts of fake telephone calls that former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky revealed were made by Mossad agents, posing as Arab terrorists. The phone calls proved Libyan guilt and justified America's bombing of Libya.

In the Hariri case, German critics claimed "the choice of Mehlis was done because of his links to the German, American, French and Israeli intelligence agencies". Lebanese news source libnen.com, and Le Figaro confirmed that the British MI6 and Mossad have been supplying much of the UN Commission's intelligence.

When Mehlis resigned in disgrace, the UN hired Belgian prosecutor Serge Brammertz at Mehlis' recommendation - but Brammertz could also be vulnerable to US pressure if he assembles a verdict not to America's liking. Under Belgium's Universal Competence Law, Belgian legislators charged US Centcom General Tommy Franks, President George W Bush, VP Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell with war crimes in Iraq. In 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld threatened to pull NATO headquarters out of Belgium if the prosecutions commenced. Shortly after, the Universal Competence Law was dropped.

Ah well. No effing wonder and now that the US/Zionist's cuckold Fuad Siniora has invited the corrupt and US/ZIONIST controlled UN into the country's justice system (and received their slimy weapons)...his squirmy little partner, Saad Hariri (the son of the poor murdered Rafik Hariri) engineers a made for TV mini-war in Tripoli, complete with US weapons supplied over the past few days in order to re-establish this failed Prime Minister as an actual leader. That little pip squeak (Siniora) needs all the help he can get to redeem himself after his tearful performances last year in front of the international press. Where was the US then Fuad?

Using the Salvador Option against Syria had first been raised by Newsweek and the London Times in January, 2005. After Hariri's death, on February 14, Hariri's long-time personal advisor Mustafa Al Naser said: "The assassination of Hariri is the Israeli Mossad's job, aimed at creating political tension in Lebanon." (Asia Times 2/17/05) The Sunday Herald of Scotland hinted at a US role. "With controversial diplomat John Negroponte installed as the all-powerful Director of National Intelligence, is the US about to switch from invasions to covert operations and dirty tricks? The assassination of the former Lebanese PM has aroused suspicions." (Sunday Herald 2/20/05)

Fred Burton, Vice President of counter-terrorism at Stratfor, was also suspicious. Burton, who spent over 20 years as a counter-terrorism expert at the US State Department and the Secret Service, has investigated most terror attacks against US Embassies abroad, as well as the first World Trade Center bombing, and the murder of Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin. Stratfor's Burton also specialized in Syrian terror operations and methods. He rejected both Syria and Hezbollah as the perpetrators behind the Hariri killing. "Syria lacks the finesse", and the "complex nature" of the remote-control technology needed to implement "the surgical nature of the charge" are beyond their capacity, he insisted. "This is not their style... and Hezbollah would not have this capability." (UPI 6/27/05)

All excerpts from:

Trish Schuh was a co-founder of the Military Families Support Network and is a member of Military Reporters and Editors, and the United Nations Correspondents Association. She has lived and studied in Lebanon and Syria. This the third piece in a three part series on the attempted overthrow of Syria.

The only problem with any of the facts in this well researched piece( from my extensive and ongoing research into the details of this crime wave which started with the assassination (not mentioned in the article) of Elie Hobeika*). Hobeika was the overseerer of the Sabra and Shatilla massacres who later on was in cahoots with both Hariri and Jumblatt (pro US Druze and contemptible all around scumbag). They were hoping to establish a militia in our neighborhood after the Syrians departed (voluntarily and prior to the Hariri debacle). Hobeika was also slated to testify against Ariel Sharon at the Hague but met an untimely death as he had literally turned against his handlers in Lebanon and most likely would have outed a number of them including Hariri and Jumblatt. His murder had NOTHING to do with his testimony against Sharon and his absence from the proceedings affected nothing.

As well, the article mentions a poor little fellow known as Abou Addas (whom I wrote about last year in the piece titled "Where is Mr. "Mr. Abou Addas". My thinking is that he was simply a decoy who was utilized to throw off the scent. He wasn't a suicide bomber and disappeared WEEKS before the assassination after telephoning his family and appearing quite distressed about something. Poor Mr. "Mr. Abou Addas".


*The assassination of former militia warlord and postwar cabinet minister Elie Hobeika on January 24 will probably remain a riveting mystery for the foreseeable future. The Lebanese government's track record in investigating the killings of prominent political figures is dismal and Hobeika is likely to join a long list of assassinated Lebanese public figures, such as Sunni Grand Mufti Hassan Khalid (1989) and President Rene Mouawad (1989), whose assassins have never been officially identified.

http://www.meib.org/articles/0201_l1.htm

Hobeika's Car:



Hariri Site:

??Israeli Targeted Assassination? Airstrike? Why not. Absolutely. Who would notice? Just like the WTC, when everyone is looking up they blow up the base of the buildings. In this case, no one would notice another Israeli violation of airspace and in the commotion that followed, no one is looking up.




I've seen lots of bomb sites you know. I also know a tad bit about physics. Missiles make craters and car bombs do not. It is that simple.