All In A Day's Work: Practical Theology
(Should all CATHOLIC US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan be sent home immediately in concordance with the pope's views on "Holy War"? I'd say yesand those troops should immediately apply for a reprieve from service as it does not agree with the Catholic Church's mission on earth.)
The "POPE" must have missed this article as he was seeking to define JIHAD by, er, Midieval Standards which, I assure you, are quite different nowdays. We still had the Reign of Terror coming up and that crazy WWI and II. So, I say to the "POPE" try harder to find better substantive quotes and information, like this:
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2002-09/24/article42.shtml
“I know people in America think Muslims are terrorists, but for Rwandans they were our freedom fighters during the genocide,” said Jean Pierre Sagahutu, 37, a Tutsi who converted to Islam from Catholicism after his father and nine other members of his family were slaughtered, the paper reported.
“I wanted to hide in a church, but that was the worst place to go. Instead, a Muslim family took me. They saved my life.”
“The Catholic church has a problem after genocide,” said the Rev. Jean Bosco Ntagugire, who works at Kigali churches. “The trust has been broken. We can’t say, ‘Christians come back.’ We have to hope that happens when faith builds again.”
And let us not forget that the "POPE" doesn't like the idea of Turkey being included in his "Catholic" European Union.
This "POPE" ought to be impeached. Why not? Everyone else is getting impeached nowdays so why not this elected "official" who somehow or another has been confused with "God's Emmissary" on earth. Wonder how that happened!
"The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the truth."
16.9.06
Dear Supporter,
The resilience of Lebanon inspires us. During the war, there was example after example of people helping each other and of humanity at work. During the fighting, we were glad to contribute by using the ‘Rainbow Warrior’ to deliver urgently needed medical supplies in five trips with Medecins Sans Frontiere.
After the fighting, we are focused on the impact of the war on the environment. The impact has been massive in Lebanon but has also affected the entire region. In past weeks, we have been assessing and communicating these impacts and have teams working on beaches and on the ground to help with the clean-up efforts.
Next week, we are bringing the ‘Rainbow Warrior’ back to Lebanon to help the international and national oil-spill recovery effort. It will help assess the extent of oil smothering the sea bottom and help in its removal. We also intend to find out how much the spill is affecting underwater life by working with biologists in Beirut.
Your continued support is not just essential to help the recovery of our coasts but it also is a great motivation to our office and volunteers. If you would like to get involved directly, we invite you to join us. Contact our office on 00961 1 755665 or sign up our web site and give us a hand.
Yours in peace,
Ahmet Bektas
Executive Director
Greenpeace Mediterranean
The resilience of Lebanon inspires us. During the war, there was example after example of people helping each other and of humanity at work. During the fighting, we were glad to contribute by using the ‘Rainbow Warrior’ to deliver urgently needed medical supplies in five trips with Medecins Sans Frontiere.
After the fighting, we are focused on the impact of the war on the environment. The impact has been massive in Lebanon but has also affected the entire region. In past weeks, we have been assessing and communicating these impacts and have teams working on beaches and on the ground to help with the clean-up efforts.
Next week, we are bringing the ‘Rainbow Warrior’ back to Lebanon to help the international and national oil-spill recovery effort. It will help assess the extent of oil smothering the sea bottom and help in its removal. We also intend to find out how much the spill is affecting underwater life by working with biologists in Beirut.
Your continued support is not just essential to help the recovery of our coasts but it also is a great motivation to our office and volunteers. If you would like to get involved directly, we invite you to join us. Contact our office on 00961 1 755665 or sign up our web site and give us a hand.
Yours in peace,
Ahmet Bektas
Executive Director
Greenpeace Mediterranean
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9512
Transfer
We talk about his life in Iraq. “When I was in secondary school in Basra in the 1940s around a third of the students in my class were Jewish.
Later, when Israel was created in 1948, the Israelis did a deal with the Iraqi government to transfer the Iraqi Jews to Israel.
“Half a million were transferred. The Iraqi government got a £5 commission for every ticket they sold to an Iraqi Jew to go to Israel.
“Today the young generation in Israel aren’t taught about their roots in the Arab world, even though their grandparents may have come from there.”
Transfer
We talk about his life in Iraq. “When I was in secondary school in Basra in the 1940s around a third of the students in my class were Jewish.
Later, when Israel was created in 1948, the Israelis did a deal with the Iraqi government to transfer the Iraqi Jews to Israel.
“Half a million were transferred. The Iraqi government got a £5 commission for every ticket they sold to an Iraqi Jew to go to Israel.
“Today the young generation in Israel aren’t taught about their roots in the Arab world, even though their grandparents may have come from there.”
To Beirut
ONWARD BISBEE, ONWARD BISBEE, FIGHT FOR THE RED AND GRAY. FIGHT FOR BISBEE, FIGHT FOR BISBEE, FIGHT AND WIN THIS GAME, RAH, RAH, RAH. ONWARD BISBEE, ONWARD BISBEE, LOYAL TO YOU'RE YOUR NAME, FIGHT BISBEE, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, AND WIN THIS GAME - Bisbee High School Fight Song
The night is all I have anymore
to remind me of the place before
and the one before that, these
crickets and last chirps,
the bold lighting at the field
down the street where people clutch
helmets and grist is gut-wrenched.
All my houses are darker than the wanton
feeling of known people doing lost things
forever in a web of light and then, frustration.
They are the strange recollections,
the healthy chorus of jobs and kinships,
so many who know their way home
in the dark and those they pass by.
The dimpled lights are buttons
in the hills, treacherous old-ghosts
in line drawings pinned tightly
to these walls of solemn grace,
this worldly prison and escape hatch.
It's a friendly nightmare with open lips
and adjacent stares, dressed-up windows
with faint botherings and flies,
mine are as bare as the shores.
There are no muezzin here, no handicaps
and the rest is a barren spree
without the differentiation
of the late purple sky of home
as she hangs her head down & cries.
The satellites blink slightly,
survey us down below and the moon
shows the daylight of the other side
where people sit closer together
under the fig trees and miss me
while I think of them until
the mountains turn into night once
more and the field goes dark. I leave
these lights off as if to say
I protest all of this, I protest
this absence and the recovery.
I cannot buy or sell anything,
I just accept and take and carry.
This is the hardest poverty I've ever known.
ONWARD BISBEE, ONWARD BISBEE, FIGHT FOR THE RED AND GRAY. FIGHT FOR BISBEE, FIGHT FOR BISBEE, FIGHT AND WIN THIS GAME, RAH, RAH, RAH. ONWARD BISBEE, ONWARD BISBEE, LOYAL TO YOU'RE YOUR NAME, FIGHT BISBEE, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, AND WIN THIS GAME - Bisbee High School Fight Song
The night is all I have anymore
to remind me of the place before
and the one before that, these
crickets and last chirps,
the bold lighting at the field
down the street where people clutch
helmets and grist is gut-wrenched.
All my houses are darker than the wanton
feeling of known people doing lost things
forever in a web of light and then, frustration.
They are the strange recollections,
the healthy chorus of jobs and kinships,
so many who know their way home
in the dark and those they pass by.
The dimpled lights are buttons
in the hills, treacherous old-ghosts
in line drawings pinned tightly
to these walls of solemn grace,
this worldly prison and escape hatch.
It's a friendly nightmare with open lips
and adjacent stares, dressed-up windows
with faint botherings and flies,
mine are as bare as the shores.
There are no muezzin here, no handicaps
and the rest is a barren spree
without the differentiation
of the late purple sky of home
as she hangs her head down & cries.
The satellites blink slightly,
survey us down below and the moon
shows the daylight of the other side
where people sit closer together
under the fig trees and miss me
while I think of them until
the mountains turn into night once
more and the field goes dark. I leave
these lights off as if to say
I protest all of this, I protest
this absence and the recovery.
I cannot buy or sell anything,
I just accept and take and carry.
This is the hardest poverty I've ever known.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=75478
Note: everyone should be aware that the Mossad may be "wiring" areas in south Lebanon in order to foment disunity by exploding remote devices on the Lebanese side and perhaps against UN forces.
Note: everyone should be aware that the Mossad may be "wiring" areas in south Lebanon in order to foment disunity by exploding remote devices on the Lebanese side and perhaps against UN forces.
15.9.06
On Broadway
This is just a village
away through there, the lots
and lower helpings staggered
between posts and pillars
bordered by horizons
held together by strings.
A tiny hamlet in a bed
of stars, a tempting
masterpiece of stretched
lights and stones, puzzle
pieces and grand dramas,
macabre scenes of decay.
How weary are the patrons,
how terrible the plots.
This is just a village
away through there, the lots
and lower helpings staggered
between posts and pillars
bordered by horizons
held together by strings.
A tiny hamlet in a bed
of stars, a tempting
masterpiece of stretched
lights and stones, puzzle
pieces and grand dramas,
macabre scenes of decay.
How weary are the patrons,
how terrible the plots.
While Radical Ann and I were on the road to the Chiracuahua mountains the other day, we were talking about global warming and she told me about something called the "salt pump" or rather, the thermohaline current of the seas and oceans on earth. So I said, "Yeah, the Quran talks alot about that 'division'." So, as is my usual, I went looking for it. Took only a few seconds to come up with the data. This is called Ayat, or proofs. Just like geometry and logic use proofs, so does Islam. No more miracles, just the ordinary things taken for granted...are miraculous. Will it end global warming?
Doubt it.
Go here for a brief explanation:
http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-e.htm
And here for a nice trip through things like the tensile strength of a spider's web to the idea that we are a blob of jello revolving around a magnetic pole, everything in flux and rightly so. We all know how unstable 'stable' things can be, like the WTC. How easily they came down and how perfectly. How many strange things might be known if the investigators were involved in the science of the BUG. Bug off!
http://www.quranm.multicom.ba/science/3e-science.htm#30u2
or here for the advanced practitioner of Quranic research:
http://www.haroonsaadiq.com/quran/miracle.htm
The Quran and the Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) provide a very detailed description of the microscopic development of the human embryo from a mere sperm drop up to the stage of a completely formed human being. It is well known that microscopes were not developed until the sixteenth century AD, and even at that were very crude in design. Zacharias Janssen is credited with having invented the compound microscope in about 1590. With it, remarkable scientific discoveries were made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Dutch naturalist Anthony van Leeuwenhoek produced lenses powerful enough to prove that many tiny creatures are not spontaneously generated but come from eggs.
Yer kiddin' me! How unbelievable! It is, what got me about Islam.
Before this period, theories on human reproduction ran rampant. Some scientist believed that the menstrual blood itself developed into the fetus. Later on, a new theory was developed wherein the sperm drop was popularly believed to contain a completely developed miniature human (homunculus) which later grew to the size of a baby. The science of embryology as we know it today did not discover many of the detailed aspects of human development which are taken for granted today until only about twenty years ago, or 1973 to be precise.
That homunculus is really wicked isn't it? I think it would be rather useful in a poem.....a creator centered poem. The kind that elludes so many. The crazy data types of poems that know what truth looks like and sing. We need some more of those and less of the 'others'. Say yes to the tyranny called quality because quantity is just an offshoot of understanding.
Doubt it.
Go here for a brief explanation:
http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-e.htm
And here for a nice trip through things like the tensile strength of a spider's web to the idea that we are a blob of jello revolving around a magnetic pole, everything in flux and rightly so. We all know how unstable 'stable' things can be, like the WTC. How easily they came down and how perfectly. How many strange things might be known if the investigators were involved in the science of the BUG. Bug off!
http://www.quranm.multicom.ba/science/3e-science.htm#30u2
or here for the advanced practitioner of Quranic research:
http://www.haroonsaadiq.com/quran/miracle.htm
The Quran and the Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) provide a very detailed description of the microscopic development of the human embryo from a mere sperm drop up to the stage of a completely formed human being. It is well known that microscopes were not developed until the sixteenth century AD, and even at that were very crude in design. Zacharias Janssen is credited with having invented the compound microscope in about 1590. With it, remarkable scientific discoveries were made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Dutch naturalist Anthony van Leeuwenhoek produced lenses powerful enough to prove that many tiny creatures are not spontaneously generated but come from eggs.
Yer kiddin' me! How unbelievable! It is, what got me about Islam.
Before this period, theories on human reproduction ran rampant. Some scientist believed that the menstrual blood itself developed into the fetus. Later on, a new theory was developed wherein the sperm drop was popularly believed to contain a completely developed miniature human (homunculus) which later grew to the size of a baby. The science of embryology as we know it today did not discover many of the detailed aspects of human development which are taken for granted today until only about twenty years ago, or 1973 to be precise.
That homunculus is really wicked isn't it? I think it would be rather useful in a poem.....a creator centered poem. The kind that elludes so many. The crazy data types of poems that know what truth looks like and sing. We need some more of those and less of the 'others'. Say yes to the tyranny called quality because quantity is just an offshoot of understanding.
13.9.06
And this: I heard my dog barking over the phone. I haven't heard her voice in two whole months. You cannot imagine how I feel about that pup who they tell me, is being allowed to run through the rubble in South Lebanon and is actually, returning to her pen like a real trouper. I talked to her today and my brother in law told me, she stopped and looked at the phone. What on earth must she think about all of this!
Man I miss my dog.
Man I miss my dog.
Index to Nature: human, protective, political; Species: Female; Level: Unattractive, irresistable, defiant; Rating: discrete, relative emotive indicators obscured via technological advances in imagery with subtexts noted in linear perspective to additional 'character' in background, accidentally gathered in public domains, circa 2001.
Index to Nature: Spontaneous Generation
There are the ten kinds of rose,
more than seventy bivalves,
thousands of generally speaking,
cacti, in the dictionary of birds.
The order of texts in anxious
catalogues known simply as:
The observations of a few
in the digests called The Many
and is, if you will, a conspicuous gift
to the knowing of the opulent knowledges.
The general plan is, how
do you say it, keen. There is
a sorting of things based on:
color, lingua, juxta-resource
that is absolutely, encyclopaedic.
There are few that make sense
of it and still, a few of those
are on the verges
of looking in and away again
as if to notice a new patch
of grass that somehow escaped
the forces of stone and progress,
then crept out anyway.
It is unique, momentary, revelational
requires the finesse of the ancient,
the timing of snakes.
How unimportant grass is
in terms of parable and scholarship
when it grows. How it is when
it is found on a grave and more
still, how it demands the greatest
of attentions. Now sit still and listen.
There are the ten kinds of rose,
more than seventy bivalves,
thousands of generally speaking,
cacti, in the dictionary of birds.
The order of texts in anxious
catalogues known simply as:
The observations of a few
in the digests called The Many
and is, if you will, a conspicuous gift
to the knowing of the opulent knowledges.
The general plan is, how
do you say it, keen. There is
a sorting of things based on:
color, lingua, juxta-resource
that is absolutely, encyclopaedic.
There are few that make sense
of it and still, a few of those
are on the verges
of looking in and away again
as if to notice a new patch
of grass that somehow escaped
the forces of stone and progress,
then crept out anyway.
It is unique, momentary, revelational
requires the finesse of the ancient,
the timing of snakes.
How unimportant grass is
in terms of parable and scholarship
when it grows. How it is when
it is found on a grave and more
still, how it demands the greatest
of attentions. Now sit still and listen.
12.9.06
The Tyranny of Silence and Oppression on the Internet
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html
11.9.06
BURN, from Ode to Seven
We tried to burn the town down
a stampede put it out
as an afterthought
right near the big circle
that drains into several
asphalt tributaries
Wood Canyon, Spring Canyon
Pearly Street-
We should have known
by the water marks
on the library walls
the flood couldn't take
it down neither,
a hundred some years before.
It just kept on melting.
Wow....amen.
10.9.06
http://www.digitalballparks.com/Arizona/Bisbee_640_15.html
The oldest ballpark in the world? Who knows but it sure is old.
The oldest ballpark in the world? Who knows but it sure is old.
Detailing Israel's War Crimes Against Arabs in Lebanon, mostly muslims:
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-09/07/01.shtml
Will Israel Drive Itself Into the Sea? Or will the United States Government do it?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760290.html
In the eyes of the public, most of our national institutions and state symbols are cracked and flawed - more so than ever before.
What a pity that Nasrallah was the one who had to expose the ignominy of our leaders, who deviated from Israel's mythical motto with their hasty offensive in Lebanon. What a pity that Nasrallah was the one to pull the cover off and reveal the rustiness of the Israeli army.
...er...mythical motto? You mean a state only for Jews which, we all know, cannot be non Jews ethnically speaking. How about a state for WHITES ONLY. Remember that! Oh, Martin Luther King, where are you....and Malcolm X.....hey....how about Ghandi? Oh, never mind that....they are the ones who burned 2,500 muslims ALIVE. And now, the US is going to do what? Sell them nuclear weapons? I mean, they are already buying all our military junk. One does wonder why...geography or a mutual hatred of MUSLIMS?
Well...guess what I think?
It ain't over until the fat lady sings.
It ain't this Zionist Apologist, our old friend, Soros:
http://www.georgesoros.com/article-blinded-8-31-06?gclid=CMjY7tfRoocCFSyHFQodfVxU9w
Haha I can't believe that old faus is still hacking.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-09/07/01.shtml
Will Israel Drive Itself Into the Sea? Or will the United States Government do it?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760290.html
In the eyes of the public, most of our national institutions and state symbols are cracked and flawed - more so than ever before.
What a pity that Nasrallah was the one who had to expose the ignominy of our leaders, who deviated from Israel's mythical motto with their hasty offensive in Lebanon. What a pity that Nasrallah was the one to pull the cover off and reveal the rustiness of the Israeli army.
...er...mythical motto? You mean a state only for Jews which, we all know, cannot be non Jews ethnically speaking. How about a state for WHITES ONLY. Remember that! Oh, Martin Luther King, where are you....and Malcolm X.....hey....how about Ghandi? Oh, never mind that....they are the ones who burned 2,500 muslims ALIVE. And now, the US is going to do what? Sell them nuclear weapons? I mean, they are already buying all our military junk. One does wonder why...geography or a mutual hatred of MUSLIMS?
Well...guess what I think?
It ain't over until the fat lady sings.
It ain't this Zionist Apologist, our old friend, Soros:
http://www.georgesoros.com/article-blinded-8-31-06?gclid=CMjY7tfRoocCFSyHFQodfVxU9w
Haha I can't believe that old faus is still hacking.
The Old West
There is something new about the sky
this time, it has never been that way
before. It is startling to know the radios
have been playing for such a long time
beneath it and from state to state.
Out there in the depths of Miracle Valley
the Bright Spot is for sale, it says:
For Sale
near Green Bush Draw, the Bible College
is in tatters and the Masonic Lodge
hasn't been opened in years. The dreamy
silence under the clothes-lines is the same
as it used to be but there are few dresses
there and the wires are sagging. Everyone
is in uniform for the long cool days ahead,
you can find them weeping if you try.
I hope to see a deer, then I do.
Hear Brenda Smith and Bud Yoder sing the MV anthem...beautiful.
http://www.miraclevalley.net/
There is something new about the sky
this time, it has never been that way
before. It is startling to know the radios
have been playing for such a long time
beneath it and from state to state.
Out there in the depths of Miracle Valley
the Bright Spot is for sale, it says:
For Sale
near Green Bush Draw, the Bible College
is in tatters and the Masonic Lodge
hasn't been opened in years. The dreamy
silence under the clothes-lines is the same
as it used to be but there are few dresses
there and the wires are sagging. Everyone
is in uniform for the long cool days ahead,
you can find them weeping if you try.
I hope to see a deer, then I do.
Hear Brenda Smith and Bud Yoder sing the MV anthem...beautiful.
http://www.miraclevalley.net/
9.9.06
Girl's Best Friend, Bijoux
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/prologue.htm
Regarding the invention of diamonds. Read this so many years ago and so glad I held the link.
XRAYS
(For Telch)
The bones of Bayruth look like buildings
before the flesh and secrets
have been carried off by the organisms
there, faces carry
the look of assassinations well
on eclipse days and the ordinary ones,
a type of sudden death syndrome.
The fruit vendors to the kaak trolley spies
have a winsome glow when the sun
is skewed regardless of the sea's intentions.
Some roll their pants up to the knees
and others fall apart on xray, shoulders
and legs, tiny feet and these poor
sell square pieces of the old film
so the others might view the little silver slivers
rather than suffer the myth of going blind.
From a very nice Israeli blog that is just too awful to believe. I cannot imagine what this person thinks killing families in their homes, on their beaches, driving them into other countries has to do with all these "concessions". With concessions like that, you don't need enemies.
Read on:
"Me? I find it hard to separate my identity as a Jew from my feelings about Israel and her right to a peaceful existence. I feel like because I AM a Jew, I am in for a penny and in for a pound regardless of the outcome.
I don't want to watch the news...not that I don't want to know what's going on, but because I cannot stand the slanted, pro-Palestinian western media. "Look at the big, bad Jews and what they do to the poor little, hut-living Palestinians!" They don't talk about all the concessions that were made for them or how freely they come and go in Israeli society for the most part - no, it is best to show the downtrodden underdog being bullied around by the Jew in the tank who has no heart...no soul.
Well, MY Jewish soul cannot stand that. It rips me apart. So...right or wrong, I am tied to my homeland and to the hope that THIS time...it will finally work."
From this horrendous blog: http://ajewishsoul.blogspot.com/
8.9.06
The Kings Of Reparations Need to PAY UP. If not in their abandonment of their vile Zionist cause, then in cold hard cash. Hit 'em where it hurts I say.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=75287
"Israel's relentless bombing of the country's infrastructure and the eight-week blockade dealt a severe blow to all segments of the economy, which was finally recovering from the blow it took following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.
Azour said that the government will come up with a global approach to the problem which will focus on ways to cut the size of the public debt through additional soft loans."
"You are fighting a people who have faith such as no one else on the face of the earth possesses. And you have chosen open warfare with a people who take pride in their history, their civilization, and their culture, and who also possess material power, ability, expertise, knowledge, calm, imagination, determination, steadfastness, and courage. In the coming days it will be between us and you, God willing. " Sayyed Nasrallah
5.9.06
Streetlights At Six
In the long haul of getting
In the long haul of getting
used to it, an acre of years
in the bottleneck of time,
What about the flags, the stories
to tell, receipts and neighbors
who bicker over parking space.
I am the homeless I'll say. A good excuse.
All of that Atlantic below us,
What about the flags, the stories
to tell, receipts and neighbors
who bicker over parking space.
I am the homeless I'll say. A good excuse.
All of that Atlantic below us,
every one of her fish.
Leaving is always the same,
goodbye to fog and the shape of bread
there, impractical kitchens.
Hello to the typical bravery
of fire departments, right on red remember?
Sliding doors and old formica.
Year after year labelled first to thirty first
in Gregorian. Everyone is bringing 1980
to the pot luck. Streetlights at six.
Xeroscaping. Lawnmowing. Post offices.
Little Debbie cakes, better homes and gardens
up the yingyang. A certain kind of heaven
but no where like home, clicking my heels
and they don't know where to go:
Witch of the East, Witch of the North,
one shiney the other vindictive.
It was always about them. Then someplace else.
Leaving is always the same,
goodbye to fog and the shape of bread
there, impractical kitchens.
Hello to the typical bravery
of fire departments, right on red remember?
Sliding doors and old formica.
Year after year labelled first to thirty first
in Gregorian. Everyone is bringing 1980
to the pot luck. Streetlights at six.
Xeroscaping. Lawnmowing. Post offices.
Little Debbie cakes, better homes and gardens
up the yingyang. A certain kind of heaven
but no where like home, clicking my heels
and they don't know where to go:
Witch of the East, Witch of the North,
one shiney the other vindictive.
It was always about them. Then someplace else.
4.9.06
Too Little Too Late:
News of the EU banning flights carrying IDF (Israeli Death Forces) cargo from 'stopovers' in their countries and this below, the monsters cannot travel for fear of being hauled in to prisons.
It is unfortunately, too little too late. I mean these soldiers shit it plastic bags and put it in our washing machine. What in God's name does that have to do with a war on terror?
I plan on hunting these people with my words until the day I die. Wherever I find a person who supports Zionism, I will condemn. Israel has no permanent right to exist. Not anymore. Not that it ever did, it was imposed by fascists on the unsuspecting bedouin tribes of the TransJordan of yore. What goes around though, comes around. Suffice it to say, I do not wish Israel or Israelis any peace whatsoever. They don't deserve it.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/758476.html
News of the EU banning flights carrying IDF (Israeli Death Forces) cargo from 'stopovers' in their countries and this below, the monsters cannot travel for fear of being hauled in to prisons.
It is unfortunately, too little too late. I mean these soldiers shit it plastic bags and put it in our washing machine. What in God's name does that have to do with a war on terror?
I plan on hunting these people with my words until the day I die. Wherever I find a person who supports Zionism, I will condemn. Israel has no permanent right to exist. Not anymore. Not that it ever did, it was imposed by fascists on the unsuspecting bedouin tribes of the TransJordan of yore. What goes around though, comes around. Suffice it to say, I do not wish Israel or Israelis any peace whatsoever. They don't deserve it.
There is no ideological war except the one the bigots are waging on the non.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/758476.html
3.9.06
Ode To The Glory Hole
The New Ages were best described
in the litter of insects, an unknown
individual sold worm casings
for fuel, sugar cane was all the rage
in Argentina and girls used bracelets
made of ink. Not bad really.
There was a gap between the tribal
and communal that spanned eons
and the ropes connected tangents
in the vapors. We aren't talking
about the Glory Hole anymore are we?
Scanning the obituaries is always
the same, faces, and if you're lucky
it's a baby or another who passed asleep.
Those are real tough definitions
for the involved, the ancient tabernacle
seekers and keepers who wish always
for a St. Bernard or Lucius Grandiosus,
better yet to be one than see one,
so they think. The miracle of the head
isn't light nor praiseworthy
even in the hard malignant
generations. Nowdays, there's just too
much prophecy and so many arrested.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/travel/articles/1016bisbee1016.html
Good ole Boyd...always loved him and his wife Laurie and their tiny daughter Sarah who must not be so tiny anymore.
"..tchotchkes"...Radical Ann will appreciate that minimalist quote!
Says Boyd, ""I like heavies," he admitted. "People who are serious about who they are and what they're doing. Who are not to be toyed with. With a real toughness. And it can fall on both sides of the legal question. There are good ones and bad ones. I like the good ones, too. It's the seriousness that attracts me.
Yeah.....not soft like crisicola which characterizes the nature of some poets and thinkers. Copper is for bullets you know...shooting, thatsortofthing.
The New Ages were best described
in the litter of insects, an unknown
individual sold worm casings
for fuel, sugar cane was all the rage
in Argentina and girls used bracelets
made of ink. Not bad really.
There was a gap between the tribal
and communal that spanned eons
and the ropes connected tangents
in the vapors. We aren't talking
about the Glory Hole anymore are we?
Scanning the obituaries is always
the same, faces, and if you're lucky
it's a baby or another who passed asleep.
Those are real tough definitions
for the involved, the ancient tabernacle
seekers and keepers who wish always
for a St. Bernard or Lucius Grandiosus,
better yet to be one than see one,
so they think. The miracle of the head
isn't light nor praiseworthy
even in the hard malignant
generations. Nowdays, there's just too
much prophecy and so many arrested.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/travel/articles/1016bisbee1016.html
Good ole Boyd...always loved him and his wife Laurie and their tiny daughter Sarah who must not be so tiny anymore.
"..tchotchkes"...Radical Ann will appreciate that minimalist quote!
Says Boyd, ""I like heavies," he admitted. "People who are serious about who they are and what they're doing. Who are not to be toyed with. With a real toughness. And it can fall on both sides of the legal question. There are good ones and bad ones. I like the good ones, too. It's the seriousness that attracts me.
Yeah.....not soft like crisicola which characterizes the nature of some poets and thinkers. Copper is for bullets you know...shooting, thatsortofthing.
The Snakefeeders
What a poor bird
the walking dragonfly
makes, desperate vibrations
as she goes along with her
tender respiratory tracts dragging
behind, a fish out of water
and practically insane.
A sluggish caterpillar is
miserly, a wealth of legs
and expertise in the disguise
of a saint yet to ascend
makes his way into the mystery.
The subtle noises bewteen them
are only prayers and whispers.
What a poor bird
the walking dragonfly
makes, desperate vibrations
as she goes along with her
tender respiratory tracts dragging
behind, a fish out of water
and practically insane.
A sluggish caterpillar is
miserly, a wealth of legs
and expertise in the disguise
of a saint yet to ascend
makes his way into the mystery.
The subtle noises bewteen them
are only prayers and whispers.
2.9.06
A "response" in the H'aretz from a Christian Lebanese reader regarding an article titled something like the Fun has run out of being an Israeli citizen or something to that effect:
Olmert to make Israel a fun place, lol, how? by destroying neighboring fun places so Israel becomes the only fun place around? go do it otherwise cuz here for your destruction you`ll be responded to with destruction. stop betting on the U.S and start dealing with your neighbors. did Israelis know that of the 100s of Lebanese factories Israel hit, 11 were regional competitors to parallel Israeli factories? best example is "LibanLait" the biggest milk factory in Lebanon who had won a deal for selling Unifil milk vs an Israeli milk factory so they leveled it and 10 other ones of the same case. thats the way they make it "fun" and "prosperous" by destroying neighboring fun and prosperity, don`t be too pleased cuz the factories will be rebuilt and will now compete more fiercely, they`ll accept to lose money to get deals away from Israeli competitors. go play dirty games somewhere else.
Hmm.
Olmert to make Israel a fun place, lol, how? by destroying neighboring fun places so Israel becomes the only fun place around? go do it otherwise cuz here for your destruction you`ll be responded to with destruction. stop betting on the U.S and start dealing with your neighbors. did Israelis know that of the 100s of Lebanese factories Israel hit, 11 were regional competitors to parallel Israeli factories? best example is "LibanLait" the biggest milk factory in Lebanon who had won a deal for selling Unifil milk vs an Israeli milk factory so they leveled it and 10 other ones of the same case. thats the way they make it "fun" and "prosperous" by destroying neighboring fun and prosperity, don`t be too pleased cuz the factories will be rebuilt and will now compete more fiercely, they`ll accept to lose money to get deals away from Israeli competitors. go play dirty games somewhere else.
Hmm.
1.9.06
You see, there is no peace without resolution. Some Jews think like me believe it or not.
Now that is just crazy and most likely, a surprise to areligious individuals...the doubters and detractors, the whining poets of NC and "help me find some please"...oh God...what an individual! What a complete stranger to dignity!
But this Uri is quite right and quite alright by me. However we know it is impossible as things stand right now with IsUNreal still blockading an entire country trying to convince it to go to war with itself....the crops in Lebanon are failing and no one to tend them and no water to tend with. You see they have no fuel in Lebanon to pump water and there may be starvation soon.
http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery08262006.html
"The Zionist movement has planted a foreign body in this country, which was then a part of the Arab-Muslim space. The inhabitants of the country, and the entire Arab region, rejected the Zionist entity. Meanwhile, the Jewish settlement has taken roots and become an authentic new nation rooted in the country. Its defensive power against the rejection has grown. This struggle has been going on for 125 years, becoming more violent from generation to generation. The last war was yet another episode."
And Clinton, Bush, Ford, et.al. are just ugly commas to it all. That is what I know. This war is a religious one and the ugly commas lie all the time about their own...simultaneously raising their kids "well" and leaving the poor folk called the masses to their own slavish devices. You see...they reserve "religion" for themselves and sell the public, a new can of worms under every administration. Clinton there who divested Americans of their right to Habeus Corpus..playing good cop and bad cop. They are all bad if you ask me. Like Ralph Nadar is quoted: A duopoly. And I might add, a duopoly monopoly on bigotry.
And they will: Tell it to the ancient judge when it comes time to swap war stories. On that, you can bet.
Now that is just crazy and most likely, a surprise to areligious individuals...the doubters and detractors, the whining poets of NC and "help me find some please"...oh God...what an individual! What a complete stranger to dignity!
But this Uri is quite right and quite alright by me. However we know it is impossible as things stand right now with IsUNreal still blockading an entire country trying to convince it to go to war with itself....the crops in Lebanon are failing and no one to tend them and no water to tend with. You see they have no fuel in Lebanon to pump water and there may be starvation soon.
http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery08262006.html
"The Zionist movement has planted a foreign body in this country, which was then a part of the Arab-Muslim space. The inhabitants of the country, and the entire Arab region, rejected the Zionist entity. Meanwhile, the Jewish settlement has taken roots and become an authentic new nation rooted in the country. Its defensive power against the rejection has grown. This struggle has been going on for 125 years, becoming more violent from generation to generation. The last war was yet another episode."
And Clinton, Bush, Ford, et.al. are just ugly commas to it all. That is what I know. This war is a religious one and the ugly commas lie all the time about their own...simultaneously raising their kids "well" and leaving the poor folk called the masses to their own slavish devices. You see...they reserve "religion" for themselves and sell the public, a new can of worms under every administration. Clinton there who divested Americans of their right to Habeus Corpus..playing good cop and bad cop. They are all bad if you ask me. Like Ralph Nadar is quoted: A duopoly. And I might add, a duopoly monopoly on bigotry.
And they will: Tell it to the ancient judge when it comes time to swap war stories. On that, you can bet.
Methods At C'ana
Down that road they hate
to bother the birds
and the moths take care
of themselves. Memories
of bread and passers-by,
days of nothing, basic
meals and rudimentary troubles.
Limp cloths for dusty wings
over whole dead armies
ash pretty and weary,
cookware and clothing
caught in the betrayal
of buildings, the unbrushed
hair of those mornings!
In the rubble, such
a sweet place to remember
one has been, such grace and surrender.
http://www.mmorning.com/article.asp?Article=8916&CategoryID=2
30.8.06
Can you really not see? (Yes Amira Hass, they have been blinded. The Quran tells us about this over and over and over....)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/756413.html
By Amira Hass
Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because "God chose us." Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction. Leave aside the military commanders who knowingly jail an entire nation in pens surrounded by walls, fortified observation towers, machine guns, barbed wire and blinding projectors. Leave aside the ministers. All of these are not counted among the collaborators. These are the architects, the planners, the designers, the executioners.
But there are others. Historians and mathematicians, senior editors, media stars, psychologists and family doctors, lawyers who do not support Gush Emunim and Kadima, teachers and educators, lovers of hiking trails and sing-alongs, high-tech wizards. Where are you? And what about you, researchers of Nazism, the Holocaust and Soviet gulags? Could you all be in favor of systematic discriminating laws? Laws stating that the Arabs of the Galilee will not even be compensated for the damages of the war by the same sums their Jewish neighbors are entitled to (Aryeh Dayan, Haaretz , August 21).
Could it be that you are all in favor of a racist Citizenship Law that forbids an Israeli Arab from living with his family in his own home? That you side with further expropriation of lands and the demolishing of additional orchards, for another settler neighborhood and another exclusively Jewish road? That you all back the shelling and missile fire killing the old and the young in the Gaza Strip?
Could it be that you all agree that a third of the West Bank (the Jordan Valley) should be off limits to Palestinians? That you all side with an Israeli policy that prevents tens of thousands of Palestinians who have obtained foreign citizenship from returning to their families in the occupied territories?
Could your mind really be so washed with the security excuse, used to forbid Gaza students from studying occupational therapy at Bethlehem and medicine at Abu Dis, and preventing sick people from Rafah from receiving medical treatment in Ramallah? Will also you find it easy to hide behind the explanation "we had no idea": we had no idea that the discrimination practiced in the distribution of water - which is solely controlled by Israel - leaves thousands of Palestinian households without water during the hot summer months; we had no idea that when the IDF blocks the entrance to villages, it also blocks their access to springs or water tanks.
But it cannot be that you don't see the iron gates along route 344 in the West Bank, blocking access to it from the Palestinian villages it passes by. It cannot be that you support preventing the access of thousands of farmers to their land and plantations, that you support the quarantine on Gaza which prevents the entry of medicine for hospitals, the disruption of electricity and water supply to 1.4 million human beings, closing their only outlet to the world for months.
Could it be that you do not know what is happening 15 minutes from your faculties and offices? Is it plausible that you support the system in which Hebrew soldiers, at checkpoints in the heart of the West Bank, are letting tens of thousands of people wait everyday for hours upon hours under the blazing sun, while selecting: residents of Nablus and Tul Karm are not allowed through, 35-year-olds and under - yallah, back to Jenin, residents of the Salem village are not even allowed to be here, a sick woman who skipped the line must learn a lesson and will be purposefully detained for hours. Machsom Watch's site is available for all; in it are countless such testimonies and worse, a day by day routine. But it cannot be that those who are appalled over every swastika painted on a Jewish grave in France and over every anti-Semitic headline in a Spanish local newspaper will not know how to reach this information, and will not be appalled and outraged.
As Jews we all enjoy the privilege Israel gives us, that makes us all collaborators. The question is what does every one of us do in an active and direct daily manner to minimize cooperation with a dispossessing, suppressing regime that never has its fill. Signing a petition and tutting will not do. Israel is a democracy for its Jews. We are not in danger of our lives, we will not be jailed in concentration camps, our livelihood will not be damaged and recreation in the countryside or abroad will not be denied to us. Therefore, the burden of collaboration and direct responsibility is immeasurably heavy.
...yes Amira Hass....if you only knew how heavy. Thank you Amira Hass...there are some good people left.
And here is another Bright Movie video almost as good as the Burninator with Strong Bad....
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oS2ESHKhBQY
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/756413.html
By Amira Hass
Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because "God chose us." Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction. Leave aside the military commanders who knowingly jail an entire nation in pens surrounded by walls, fortified observation towers, machine guns, barbed wire and blinding projectors. Leave aside the ministers. All of these are not counted among the collaborators. These are the architects, the planners, the designers, the executioners.
But there are others. Historians and mathematicians, senior editors, media stars, psychologists and family doctors, lawyers who do not support Gush Emunim and Kadima, teachers and educators, lovers of hiking trails and sing-alongs, high-tech wizards. Where are you? And what about you, researchers of Nazism, the Holocaust and Soviet gulags? Could you all be in favor of systematic discriminating laws? Laws stating that the Arabs of the Galilee will not even be compensated for the damages of the war by the same sums their Jewish neighbors are entitled to (Aryeh Dayan, Haaretz , August 21).
Could it be that you are all in favor of a racist Citizenship Law that forbids an Israeli Arab from living with his family in his own home? That you side with further expropriation of lands and the demolishing of additional orchards, for another settler neighborhood and another exclusively Jewish road? That you all back the shelling and missile fire killing the old and the young in the Gaza Strip?
Could it be that you all agree that a third of the West Bank (the Jordan Valley) should be off limits to Palestinians? That you all side with an Israeli policy that prevents tens of thousands of Palestinians who have obtained foreign citizenship from returning to their families in the occupied territories?
Could your mind really be so washed with the security excuse, used to forbid Gaza students from studying occupational therapy at Bethlehem and medicine at Abu Dis, and preventing sick people from Rafah from receiving medical treatment in Ramallah? Will also you find it easy to hide behind the explanation "we had no idea": we had no idea that the discrimination practiced in the distribution of water - which is solely controlled by Israel - leaves thousands of Palestinian households without water during the hot summer months; we had no idea that when the IDF blocks the entrance to villages, it also blocks their access to springs or water tanks.
But it cannot be that you don't see the iron gates along route 344 in the West Bank, blocking access to it from the Palestinian villages it passes by. It cannot be that you support preventing the access of thousands of farmers to their land and plantations, that you support the quarantine on Gaza which prevents the entry of medicine for hospitals, the disruption of electricity and water supply to 1.4 million human beings, closing their only outlet to the world for months.
Could it be that you do not know what is happening 15 minutes from your faculties and offices? Is it plausible that you support the system in which Hebrew soldiers, at checkpoints in the heart of the West Bank, are letting tens of thousands of people wait everyday for hours upon hours under the blazing sun, while selecting: residents of Nablus and Tul Karm are not allowed through, 35-year-olds and under - yallah, back to Jenin, residents of the Salem village are not even allowed to be here, a sick woman who skipped the line must learn a lesson and will be purposefully detained for hours. Machsom Watch's site is available for all; in it are countless such testimonies and worse, a day by day routine. But it cannot be that those who are appalled over every swastika painted on a Jewish grave in France and over every anti-Semitic headline in a Spanish local newspaper will not know how to reach this information, and will not be appalled and outraged.
As Jews we all enjoy the privilege Israel gives us, that makes us all collaborators. The question is what does every one of us do in an active and direct daily manner to minimize cooperation with a dispossessing, suppressing regime that never has its fill. Signing a petition and tutting will not do. Israel is a democracy for its Jews. We are not in danger of our lives, we will not be jailed in concentration camps, our livelihood will not be damaged and recreation in the countryside or abroad will not be denied to us. Therefore, the burden of collaboration and direct responsibility is immeasurably heavy.
...yes Amira Hass....if you only knew how heavy. Thank you Amira Hass...there are some good people left.
And here is another Bright Movie video almost as good as the Burninator with Strong Bad....
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oS2ESHKhBQY
Iran Hates To Have Its Fingernails Pulled Out By The Great Satan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/world/middleeast/28iran.html?ex=1157515200&en=e369d6401b2198f1&ei=5070&emc=eta1
"Israeli" journalist writes to provoke shame in US policymakers...nothing new there! Man they never give up the whining anymore and we are all getting pretty darn tired of it. NO ONE should go fight for Zionism, let me make that perfectly clear. If they want to fight, then let 'em....but US soldiers deserve better. Bring 'em home.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/756412.html
The Iranian rejection of the Security Council's demand that it freeze its enrichment program as a condition for negotiations left no doubts about Tehran's determination. As Iran's determination grows, the West's resolution weakens. It is not just that today, the Western public, especially in the United States, has no interest in talk about exercising the military option against Iran: The Israeli experience in Lebanon weakened belief in the ability of aerial bombing to achieve diplomatic goals. Rather, it seems there is a fear of any confrontation with Iran.
The American fiasco in Iraq and the 34 days of pointless fighting in Lebanon have engendered fatigue over the use of force in the United States. A confrontation with Iran means another dramatic rise in gasoline prices, which are already very high. The statements made two months ago about economic sanctions against Iran under the auspices of the Security Council are now dissolving rapidly.
An American friend who holds a senior position, and who has been steeped for years in the secrets of the diplomatic effort over Iran, told me this week that he has never been this depressed, as a result of the West's inability to act with determination on the issue of nuclear proliferation. He cannot detect in any Western capital a leadership with the determination and the public support to take action to stop Iran's nuclearization. The only capital in which he discerns determined leadership with a clear strategy and direction is Tehran.
There is a feedback mechanism between Iranian belligerence and Western defeatism. Just as Iran today is more deterring than deterred, the reverse is true of the West. Just as Hassan Nasrallah likened Israel to a spiderweb, the Iranians now see the West as a dog that barks, but does not bite. The Western nations' inability to enforce the Security Council resolution on Iran is the clearest expression of this syndrome.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/world/middleeast/28iran.html?ex=1157515200&en=e369d6401b2198f1&ei=5070&emc=eta1
"Israeli" journalist writes to provoke shame in US policymakers...nothing new there! Man they never give up the whining anymore and we are all getting pretty darn tired of it. NO ONE should go fight for Zionism, let me make that perfectly clear. If they want to fight, then let 'em....but US soldiers deserve better. Bring 'em home.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/756412.html
The Iranian rejection of the Security Council's demand that it freeze its enrichment program as a condition for negotiations left no doubts about Tehran's determination. As Iran's determination grows, the West's resolution weakens. It is not just that today, the Western public, especially in the United States, has no interest in talk about exercising the military option against Iran: The Israeli experience in Lebanon weakened belief in the ability of aerial bombing to achieve diplomatic goals. Rather, it seems there is a fear of any confrontation with Iran.
The American fiasco in Iraq and the 34 days of pointless fighting in Lebanon have engendered fatigue over the use of force in the United States. A confrontation with Iran means another dramatic rise in gasoline prices, which are already very high. The statements made two months ago about economic sanctions against Iran under the auspices of the Security Council are now dissolving rapidly.
An American friend who holds a senior position, and who has been steeped for years in the secrets of the diplomatic effort over Iran, told me this week that he has never been this depressed, as a result of the West's inability to act with determination on the issue of nuclear proliferation. He cannot detect in any Western capital a leadership with the determination and the public support to take action to stop Iran's nuclearization. The only capital in which he discerns determined leadership with a clear strategy and direction is Tehran.
There is a feedback mechanism between Iranian belligerence and Western defeatism. Just as Iran today is more deterring than deterred, the reverse is true of the West. Just as Hassan Nasrallah likened Israel to a spiderweb, the Iranians now see the West as a dog that barks, but does not bite. The Western nations' inability to enforce the Security Council resolution on Iran is the clearest expression of this syndrome.
28.8.06
http://www.electronicintifada.net/lebanon/
THIS kind of Zionism pal. Not the other 'kind', you know, the one that supposedly publishes us poor poets.
Some reports in the comments and some, highlighted here regarding Zionist Torture which looks a helluva lot like Nazi brutalities:
Since the brake out of Al Aqsa Intifada on 28/09/2000, ten Palestinian prisoners have died as a result of the practice of physical torture, medical neglect, and a failure to provide the necessary health care. The ten martyrs are: 1. Prisoner Waleed Mohammad Issa Amro, 24 years old from Dora, Hebron. Died on 19/02/2003 in Nafha Desert Prison. After he suffered a heart stroke, he never received the necessary medical attention 2. Prisoner Basheer Oweis, 27 years old from Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus. Died on 16/09/2004, in Megiddo Prison after he suffered a severe apoplexy and the prison’s medical team never provided him anything other than tranquilizing injections every time his case deteriorated3. Hasan Abed Al Salam Jawabrah, 21 years old from Arroub Refugee Camp, Hebron. Died on 28/05/2005, in Megiddo Prison where he suffered a case of psychiatric disorder and severe depression after he was brutally beaten and physically tortured during interrogation 4. Anas Kamel Mustafa Masalmah, 18 years old from Dora, Hebron. He died on 09/03/2003, in Ashkalon Prison. He suffered serious bullet wounds before he was arrested, but he never received the necessary medical attention5. Mohammad Hasan Abu Hadwan, 65 years old from Shu’fat, Jerusalem. Died on 04/11/2004, in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital after he spent 19 years imprisoned, and suffered from a heart condition. 6. Fawaz Saeed Hassan, 27 years old from Tulkarem. He died 16/09/2004, in Megiddo Prison after he suffered a severe heart attack. He had a heart condition 7. Abed Al Fattah Yousef Raddad, 25 years old from Tulkarem. He died on 05/05/2005, in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital, after he had gone through brutal interrogation as he suffered a bullet wound in the foot8. Rasem Suleiman Ghneimat, 27 years old from Ramallah. He died on 27/01/2005 in Megiddo Prison after a fire burned part of the prison9. Ali Mohammad Tawfeeq Abu Al Rubb, 20 years old from Jenin. He died on 10/06/2005 in the prison of Rosh Bina after he had undergone severe physical torture. He was found hung in his prison cell, traces of strikes were located on his skull 10. Bashar Aref Bani Odeh, 27 years old from Tammon, Tubas. He died on 23/06/2005 in Gilboa’ Prison after he suffering a heart attack
THIS kind of Zionism pal. Not the other 'kind', you know, the one that supposedly publishes us poor poets.
Some reports in the comments and some, highlighted here regarding Zionist Torture which looks a helluva lot like Nazi brutalities:
Since the brake out of Al Aqsa Intifada on 28/09/2000, ten Palestinian prisoners have died as a result of the practice of physical torture, medical neglect, and a failure to provide the necessary health care. The ten martyrs are: 1. Prisoner Waleed Mohammad Issa Amro, 24 years old from Dora, Hebron. Died on 19/02/2003 in Nafha Desert Prison. After he suffered a heart stroke, he never received the necessary medical attention 2. Prisoner Basheer Oweis, 27 years old from Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus. Died on 16/09/2004, in Megiddo Prison after he suffered a severe apoplexy and the prison’s medical team never provided him anything other than tranquilizing injections every time his case deteriorated3. Hasan Abed Al Salam Jawabrah, 21 years old from Arroub Refugee Camp, Hebron. Died on 28/05/2005, in Megiddo Prison where he suffered a case of psychiatric disorder and severe depression after he was brutally beaten and physically tortured during interrogation 4. Anas Kamel Mustafa Masalmah, 18 years old from Dora, Hebron. He died on 09/03/2003, in Ashkalon Prison. He suffered serious bullet wounds before he was arrested, but he never received the necessary medical attention5. Mohammad Hasan Abu Hadwan, 65 years old from Shu’fat, Jerusalem. Died on 04/11/2004, in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital after he spent 19 years imprisoned, and suffered from a heart condition. 6. Fawaz Saeed Hassan, 27 years old from Tulkarem. He died 16/09/2004, in Megiddo Prison after he suffered a severe heart attack. He had a heart condition 7. Abed Al Fattah Yousef Raddad, 25 years old from Tulkarem. He died on 05/05/2005, in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital, after he had gone through brutal interrogation as he suffered a bullet wound in the foot8. Rasem Suleiman Ghneimat, 27 years old from Ramallah. He died on 27/01/2005 in Megiddo Prison after a fire burned part of the prison9. Ali Mohammad Tawfeeq Abu Al Rubb, 20 years old from Jenin. He died on 10/06/2005 in the prison of Rosh Bina after he had undergone severe physical torture. He was found hung in his prison cell, traces of strikes were located on his skull 10. Bashar Aref Bani Odeh, 27 years old from Tammon, Tubas. He died on 23/06/2005 in Gilboa’ Prison after he suffering a heart attack
Deportations, transmigrations and State Sponsored Slavery of Ethiopian Jews, the many tie ins with "captives" and the Traditional Wars of the Ancients, hidden from view...you gotta look for this stuff folks, you have to READ:
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/briefing/daily_briefings/1991/9105/086.html
Q Can I ask a couple questions about the MiddleEast. There's a report that we're blocking the flow offinancial aid to Lebanon until Western hostages held by thepro-Iranian militants are free. Have you anything -- MS. TUTWILER: Never heard that. Q O.K. It was out today. And then another thingwas Israel's Defense Ministry says that it's encouraged byShi'ite Muslims in Lebanon, saying that they've offered to tradeIsraeli prisoners for the Lebanese held by Israel? Anythingthat it bodes well for our hostages perhaps? MS. TUTWILER: As you know, we do not discuss hostagesfrom this podium nor does really the President or the Secretaryof State, other than to consistently restate our policy thatthey must be released immediately and unconditionally. And so Idon't, number one, know about the two specifics you've justmentioned to me, but I know that we really -- our policy is thatanything you may say could somehow do harm, which is notintended, and so we just simply don't discuss them, other thanto say what our standard policy is.
These types of things are what I read. I don't generally read the LANGUAGE school poets much other than to cop a good laugh out of their baloney as it pertains to the real role of POETICS. The Grand Old Style of Changing the World types of things, the ethical poetics of yesteryear. So lets see...anything else of interest from the 1991 May meeting of the State Department?
Q That the United States has somehow been exportingtechnology to South Africa which wound up in Iraq? MS. TUTWILER: I have no idea, number one. I was soundasleep when Nightline was on last night. I have not heard aboutthe report, and I haven't seen it. Q Jack will get you a tape. (Laughter)
...now if you don't mind, I'd like to remind you of the nice little tidbit left behind by our famous president Ronnie Reagan who basically took Saddam off the Terrorist hitlist in 1982 and lifted the ban on "Dual Use Chemicals"...oh, you know the type....stuff to make Sarin and the like. Mustard gases..the old school drugs of choice.
You see, US foreign policy requires a bit more than the usual USA Today mentality. A bit more than that and Lanny taught me that sort of thing....HOW TO LOOK. Need I remind anyone here of the headline that broke the Zionist's back in Apartheid South Africa?
ZIONISM IS RACISM
http://www.jews-for-allah.org/Jews-not-for-Judaism/racism_against_ethiopian_jews.htm
Factoid: Due to the plan to build a barrier between the indigenous laborers called Palestinians, they literally had to import "Jewish" slaves
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/08/27/powell.un.race/index.html
Ethnic Cleansing is OPENLY discussed in the Knesset:
http://newsmine.org/archive/war-on-terror/israel/apartheid/israeli-mp-proposes-ethnic-cleansing.txt
Settlers poisoning livestock, just like in the Old Testament! This is 2005 people, not 105.
http://newsmine.org/archive/war-on-terror/israel/apartheid/settlers-poisoning-palestinian-livestock.txt
Secret jails? Who? er....only if they want to keep you a secret hostage from the unwary American press:
http://newsmine.org/archive/war-on-terror/israel/apartheid/abuse/israel-acknowledges-running-secret-jail.txt
And this is just so precious:
http://newsmine.org/archive/war-on-terror/israel/apartheid/abuse/hizballah-leader-says-israel-tortured-him.txt
On Tuesday, he told a Tel Aviv court that the Shin Bet security services kept him naked in an interrogation facility for a month as they questioned him around the clock.The interrogators alternately splashed him with hot and freezing water, shook him until he fainted, squeezed his testicles, sodomised him and sexually assaulted him with a stick, he said. "I would pray that I'd die," said Dirani.Dirani described how one captor named George brought a uniformed soldier nicknamed Kojak into the room. The soldier dropped his pants and George told Dirani the soldier would sodomise him if he did not talk, he said. Days later, Dirani was shackled and pushed down onto a bench, he said. "I couldn't see or resist ... I was raped by the soldier. He said he would rape me, and he did," he told the court. In the courtroom, Dirani identified George from a photograph he was shown. Tuesday's comments were his first since being kidnapped.
IS IT ANY WONDER THAT ISRAEL DOESN'T WANT TO RELEASE THESE PEOPLE? IT IS BECAUSE THEY WILL BE ABLE TO RELATE THE HORRENDOUS FORMS OF TORTURE, THE SAME TYPE THAT THE MOSSAD HAS BEEN TEACHING TO THE US MILITARY FORCES, PUBLICALLY?
WHAT A BIG SURPRISE. NOT.
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/briefing/daily_briefings/1991/9105/086.html
Q Can I ask a couple questions about the MiddleEast. There's a report that we're blocking the flow offinancial aid to Lebanon until Western hostages held by thepro-Iranian militants are free. Have you anything -- MS. TUTWILER: Never heard that. Q O.K. It was out today. And then another thingwas Israel's Defense Ministry says that it's encouraged byShi'ite Muslims in Lebanon, saying that they've offered to tradeIsraeli prisoners for the Lebanese held by Israel? Anythingthat it bodes well for our hostages perhaps? MS. TUTWILER: As you know, we do not discuss hostagesfrom this podium nor does really the President or the Secretaryof State, other than to consistently restate our policy thatthey must be released immediately and unconditionally. And so Idon't, number one, know about the two specifics you've justmentioned to me, but I know that we really -- our policy is thatanything you may say could somehow do harm, which is notintended, and so we just simply don't discuss them, other thanto say what our standard policy is.
These types of things are what I read. I don't generally read the LANGUAGE school poets much other than to cop a good laugh out of their baloney as it pertains to the real role of POETICS. The Grand Old Style of Changing the World types of things, the ethical poetics of yesteryear. So lets see...anything else of interest from the 1991 May meeting of the State Department?
Q That the United States has somehow been exportingtechnology to South Africa which wound up in Iraq? MS. TUTWILER: I have no idea, number one. I was soundasleep when Nightline was on last night. I have not heard aboutthe report, and I haven't seen it. Q Jack will get you a tape. (Laughter)
...now if you don't mind, I'd like to remind you of the nice little tidbit left behind by our famous president Ronnie Reagan who basically took Saddam off the Terrorist hitlist in 1982 and lifted the ban on "Dual Use Chemicals"...oh, you know the type....stuff to make Sarin and the like. Mustard gases..the old school drugs of choice.
You see, US foreign policy requires a bit more than the usual USA Today mentality. A bit more than that and Lanny taught me that sort of thing....HOW TO LOOK. Need I remind anyone here of the headline that broke the Zionist's back in Apartheid South Africa?
ZIONISM IS RACISM
http://www.jews-for-allah.org/Jews-not-for-Judaism/racism_against_ethiopian_jews.htm
Factoid: Due to the plan to build a barrier between the indigenous laborers called Palestinians, they literally had to import "Jewish" slaves
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/08/27/powell.un.race/index.html
Ethnic Cleansing is OPENLY discussed in the Knesset:
http://newsmine.org/archive/war-on-terror/israel/apartheid/israeli-mp-proposes-ethnic-cleansing.txt
Settlers poisoning livestock, just like in the Old Testament! This is 2005 people, not 105.
http://newsmine.org/archive/war-on-terror/israel/apartheid/settlers-poisoning-palestinian-livestock.txt
Secret jails? Who? er....only if they want to keep you a secret hostage from the unwary American press:
http://newsmine.org/archive/war-on-terror/israel/apartheid/abuse/israel-acknowledges-running-secret-jail.txt
And this is just so precious:
http://newsmine.org/archive/war-on-terror/israel/apartheid/abuse/hizballah-leader-says-israel-tortured-him.txt
On Tuesday, he told a Tel Aviv court that the Shin Bet security services kept him naked in an interrogation facility for a month as they questioned him around the clock.The interrogators alternately splashed him with hot and freezing water, shook him until he fainted, squeezed his testicles, sodomised him and sexually assaulted him with a stick, he said. "I would pray that I'd die," said Dirani.Dirani described how one captor named George brought a uniformed soldier nicknamed Kojak into the room. The soldier dropped his pants and George told Dirani the soldier would sodomise him if he did not talk, he said. Days later, Dirani was shackled and pushed down onto a bench, he said. "I couldn't see or resist ... I was raped by the soldier. He said he would rape me, and he did," he told the court. In the courtroom, Dirani identified George from a photograph he was shown. Tuesday's comments were his first since being kidnapped.
IS IT ANY WONDER THAT ISRAEL DOESN'T WANT TO RELEASE THESE PEOPLE? IT IS BECAUSE THEY WILL BE ABLE TO RELATE THE HORRENDOUS FORMS OF TORTURE, THE SAME TYPE THAT THE MOSSAD HAS BEEN TEACHING TO THE US MILITARY FORCES, PUBLICALLY?
WHAT A BIG SURPRISE. NOT.
For those who wish to actually UNDERSTAND Islam a little better and determine the nature of the new Islamic unity, I am providing a link to the foremost in treatises that eloquently relates what the problems are and how agreement was eventually reached between the major scholars at the turn of the last century. This unity is actively being sought out and destroyed by the US/Zionist forces in countries where there are Shi'i/Sunni majorities. In Sunni countries (like Saudi Arabia) this book is banned and it is no wonder.
http://www.al-islam.org/murajaat/index.htm
3) The generations of the first three centuries, then, never followed any of those sects at all. Where were those sects during those three generations, the best generations ever? AlAsh`ari was born in 270 A.H. and died in 320 A.H. Ibn Hanbal was born in 164 A.H. and died in 241 A.H. AlShafi`i was born in 150 A.H. and died in 204 A.H. Malik was born in 95 A.H.[1] and died in 179 A.H. Abu Hanifah was born in 80 A.H. and died in 150 A.H. Shi`as follow the sect of the Imams from the Prophet's Household, and the household surely know what their house contains. NonShi`as follow the sects of the learned sahabah and tabi`in; so, what makes it "mandatory" on all Muslims, after those three centuries had gone by, to follow those sects instead of the one followed before them? What made them divert their attention from those who were peers only to the Book of Allah and its own companions, the descendants of the Messenger of Allah and his trustees, the nation's ark of salvation, the leaders, the security, and the Gate of Salvation?
...that is only one of the proofs provided in this magnificent book regarding the validity of the Shi'i stance. Truly, people in the West do not understand Islam nor do they understand the critical nature of the war in Iraq and what US interventionism has done there. They could not possibly understand the nature of a muslim's support of Bush due to the fact that US style 'democrazy' was the "next best thing" to establishing unity amongst the TWO sects of Islam (not Sufis, not Wahhabis..but the realdeal, Sunni/Shi'i). When the Shi'i mosque in Iraq was destroyed...it became quite clear to the Shi'i that foreign mercenaries and agent provacateurs were busy trying to spawn a civil war. They (the Mossad and Wackenhut operatives) were getting impatient with their war torn ideas. As they were getting impatient with Lebanon who refused for TWO years to indulge in this nice little thing called a Civil War....you see...they sent that Valentine to Lebanon two whole years ago and hadn't received what they expected out of that....therefore they used the Israeli soldier's captivity to launch the largest WAR CRIME since Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran at the behest of the Sunni sponsors: AMERICA (Zionist backed and vice versa the Christian Zionist Bush and Co. plus Osama's family business partners).
Politics is only one level of all of this. We also need to check in on those notorious Taif accords. Why was Taif chosen?
Only a real muslim knows why.
http://www.al-islam.org/murajaat/index.htm
3) The generations of the first three centuries, then, never followed any of those sects at all. Where were those sects during those three generations, the best generations ever? AlAsh`ari was born in 270 A.H. and died in 320 A.H. Ibn Hanbal was born in 164 A.H. and died in 241 A.H. AlShafi`i was born in 150 A.H. and died in 204 A.H. Malik was born in 95 A.H.[1] and died in 179 A.H. Abu Hanifah was born in 80 A.H. and died in 150 A.H. Shi`as follow the sect of the Imams from the Prophet's Household, and the household surely know what their house contains. NonShi`as follow the sects of the learned sahabah and tabi`in; so, what makes it "mandatory" on all Muslims, after those three centuries had gone by, to follow those sects instead of the one followed before them? What made them divert their attention from those who were peers only to the Book of Allah and its own companions, the descendants of the Messenger of Allah and his trustees, the nation's ark of salvation, the leaders, the security, and the Gate of Salvation?
...that is only one of the proofs provided in this magnificent book regarding the validity of the Shi'i stance. Truly, people in the West do not understand Islam nor do they understand the critical nature of the war in Iraq and what US interventionism has done there. They could not possibly understand the nature of a muslim's support of Bush due to the fact that US style 'democrazy' was the "next best thing" to establishing unity amongst the TWO sects of Islam (not Sufis, not Wahhabis..but the realdeal, Sunni/Shi'i). When the Shi'i mosque in Iraq was destroyed...it became quite clear to the Shi'i that foreign mercenaries and agent provacateurs were busy trying to spawn a civil war. They (the Mossad and Wackenhut operatives) were getting impatient with their war torn ideas. As they were getting impatient with Lebanon who refused for TWO years to indulge in this nice little thing called a Civil War....you see...they sent that Valentine to Lebanon two whole years ago and hadn't received what they expected out of that....therefore they used the Israeli soldier's captivity to launch the largest WAR CRIME since Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran at the behest of the Sunni sponsors: AMERICA (Zionist backed and vice versa the Christian Zionist Bush and Co. plus Osama's family business partners).
Politics is only one level of all of this. We also need to check in on those notorious Taif accords. Why was Taif chosen?
Only a real muslim knows why.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525955870&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Three bombs in a Turkey.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1154525953563
Illegal to import "information" into the USA.
**Is it any wonder why Americans are ignorant? Good people starving for good information.
My suggestion: Read the Israel dailies.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525950456&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The trick to reading these articles is to read them beyond the second paragraph. In this article, we find the truth at about paragraph 7-8 and then, further in the article, it lapses into the typical "rewriting" of events that Israel engages in constantly. The JP by the way, is to news what FOX is to CNN. The JP reflects the fundamentalist views of Israeli citizens while the Ha'retz is the liberal POV. Here is paragraph 7 & 8 for your perusal:
Asked whether that meant that Germany was already actively mediating for the soldiers' release, Erler said, "There's an old rule that if you can mediate successfully, you don't make details public.
"We all hope for a success and therefore shouldn't press for every detail to be made public in advance," he said.
As far as Nasrallah's comments related by this article...well....it is a well known fact that Israel twists words to suit whatever it is they want people to believe about the fictional state they created and that they live in. They generally don't mention too much about things like the Reuter's van they bombed yesterday or the names of the real human beings that they kill that are of Arab descent. That is pretty much 'status' quo for all of their media products.
How do you know? Well easy. When they quote a seriously God Fearing fighter like Nasrallah saying that this victory was not "divinely aided" they are literally lying out front. All muslims know that whatever we get we always say "al'ham'du'lillah". The Israelis wouldn't know that because they do not fear God anymore. They are mostly athiests and POORLY informed "Jews" who have been lied to and think that they will attain heavenly divinity if they OCCUPY LAND which belongs to others via Zionist recruitment tactics which historically served the purpose of manning the Zionist army which now incites hatred of Jews worldwide and murder of innocent human beings who believe in the same God of the Jews. Horrible.
Three bombs in a Turkey.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1154525953563
Illegal to import "information" into the USA.
**Is it any wonder why Americans are ignorant? Good people starving for good information.
My suggestion: Read the Israel dailies.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525950456&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The trick to reading these articles is to read them beyond the second paragraph. In this article, we find the truth at about paragraph 7-8 and then, further in the article, it lapses into the typical "rewriting" of events that Israel engages in constantly. The JP by the way, is to news what FOX is to CNN. The JP reflects the fundamentalist views of Israeli citizens while the Ha'retz is the liberal POV. Here is paragraph 7 & 8 for your perusal:
Asked whether that meant that Germany was already actively mediating for the soldiers' release, Erler said, "There's an old rule that if you can mediate successfully, you don't make details public.
"We all hope for a success and therefore shouldn't press for every detail to be made public in advance," he said.
As far as Nasrallah's comments related by this article...well....it is a well known fact that Israel twists words to suit whatever it is they want people to believe about the fictional state they created and that they live in. They generally don't mention too much about things like the Reuter's van they bombed yesterday or the names of the real human beings that they kill that are of Arab descent. That is pretty much 'status' quo for all of their media products.
How do you know? Well easy. When they quote a seriously God Fearing fighter like Nasrallah saying that this victory was not "divinely aided" they are literally lying out front. All muslims know that whatever we get we always say "al'ham'du'lillah". The Israelis wouldn't know that because they do not fear God anymore. They are mostly athiests and POORLY informed "Jews" who have been lied to and think that they will attain heavenly divinity if they OCCUPY LAND which belongs to others via Zionist recruitment tactics which historically served the purpose of manning the Zionist army which now incites hatred of Jews worldwide and murder of innocent human beings who believe in the same God of the Jews. Horrible.
27.8.06
The other calicoe:
http://uiforum.uaeforum.org/showthread.php?p=62916#post62916
Once upon a time on the Sillimania boards, a Turkish poet was discussed and I said to the silly posters there something they didn't quite comprehend. I said, in response to the excerpts from his book, that it is "clear" that that poet had not negotiated his Islamic contract with poetry yet.
There were many dazed looks. Those looks now reflect a kind of silence and it is now that a reminder is sent to them....I negotiated my contract.
Jihad is a misunderstood word. EVERYONE performs jihad when they speak the propaganda that we all speak or spread. All speech is personal propaganda. Jihad however is applied to muslims in particular and it is a much feared concept. If only people understood their own linguistic properties better.
A funny incident happened to me yesterday. I visited what will be my new home for a while to see if the real estate agent had started cleaning it up for me. I met the neighbor and he introduced me to his very loud Chow Pooch. We made small talk....he is a prison worker as so many are these days and in these parts. Obviously a Bush supporter as well because all prison workers in the US anymore work in some way or another for Dick Cheney and Halliburton which is engaged in the building of prisons and prison compounds. The conversation with my new neighbor "Bob" turned to the satellite dish and I asked him if it would be a good idea to get that service as opposed to simple cable and the usual AMERICAN cable broadcasts (which I'll tell you, from having lived overseas for so long, are horrendously one sided regardless of which channel you switch to).
Bob said, "Yeah, you can't get news. About the best thing you can get is FOX news."
Oh dear. Me and Bob. Good thing he has three dogs: Rottweiler, Police Mutt (retired) and Chow. And he added, "Everyone seems to hate Bush now."
Yes, indeed. Isn't it wonderful how things pan out in the end. Sadly enough, those that hate Bush hate him for all the wrong reasons and still do not know why they hate muslims so bad.
It is all about TV. Why, even in Saudi Arabia, the cablevision is owned and operated by the Zionists. A fact many did not know. How else is it that the Holy Lands play porno at night!
http://uiforum.uaeforum.org/showthread.php?p=62916#post62916
Once upon a time on the Sillimania boards, a Turkish poet was discussed and I said to the silly posters there something they didn't quite comprehend. I said, in response to the excerpts from his book, that it is "clear" that that poet had not negotiated his Islamic contract with poetry yet.
There were many dazed looks. Those looks now reflect a kind of silence and it is now that a reminder is sent to them....I negotiated my contract.
Jihad is a misunderstood word. EVERYONE performs jihad when they speak the propaganda that we all speak or spread. All speech is personal propaganda. Jihad however is applied to muslims in particular and it is a much feared concept. If only people understood their own linguistic properties better.
A funny incident happened to me yesterday. I visited what will be my new home for a while to see if the real estate agent had started cleaning it up for me. I met the neighbor and he introduced me to his very loud Chow Pooch. We made small talk....he is a prison worker as so many are these days and in these parts. Obviously a Bush supporter as well because all prison workers in the US anymore work in some way or another for Dick Cheney and Halliburton which is engaged in the building of prisons and prison compounds. The conversation with my new neighbor "Bob" turned to the satellite dish and I asked him if it would be a good idea to get that service as opposed to simple cable and the usual AMERICAN cable broadcasts (which I'll tell you, from having lived overseas for so long, are horrendously one sided regardless of which channel you switch to).
Bob said, "Yeah, you can't get news. About the best thing you can get is FOX news."
Oh dear. Me and Bob. Good thing he has three dogs: Rottweiler, Police Mutt (retired) and Chow. And he added, "Everyone seems to hate Bush now."
Yes, indeed. Isn't it wonderful how things pan out in the end. Sadly enough, those that hate Bush hate him for all the wrong reasons and still do not know why they hate muslims so bad.
It is all about TV. Why, even in Saudi Arabia, the cablevision is owned and operated by the Zionists. A fact many did not know. How else is it that the Holy Lands play porno at night!
Wild World
(Cat Stevens, aka Yusef Islam)
Now that I've lost everything to you
You say you wanna start something new
And it's breakin' my heart you're leavin'
Baby, I'm grievin'
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you have a lot of nice things to wear
But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl
You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because I never wanna see you a sad girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware
Chorus
Baby, I love you
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware
(Cat Stevens, aka Yusef Islam)
Now that I've lost everything to you
You say you wanna start something new
And it's breakin' my heart you're leavin'
Baby, I'm grievin'
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you have a lot of nice things to wear
But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl
You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because I never wanna see you a sad girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware
Chorus
Baby, I love you
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware
26.8.06
25.8.06
On the Curious Works of Strangers
Belshazzar
(translated by Daniel Platt)
The midnight hour drew closer on;
In mute repose lay Babylon.
But up in the castle of the king
There's noise, and torches flickering.
Up there in the kingly hall so vast
Belshazzar held his king's repast.
The lackeys sat in a shimmering line,
And emptied their beakers of sparkling wine.
The beakers were klinking, the lackeys were loud,
It did the stiff-necked monarch proud.
The king's cheeks glowed with a fervent shine;
And boldness quickened with the wine,
And by this boldness blindly spurred,
He blasphemed God with a sinful word.
And he boasted and mocked the holy name;
The lackey troop roared its acclaim.
The king called out with a haughty face;
The servant flew and returned apace.
He bore on his head much golden ware;
From Jehovah's temple, plundered there.
And the monarch seized, with outrageous whim,
A holy beaker, filled to the brim.
And he drained it rashly to the drips
And cried aloud with foaming lips:
Jehovah! I scorn Thee from now on -
I am the king of Babylon!
Yet scarcely were the words expressed,
But a secret trembling began in his breast.
No laughter rang out loud and shrill;
The hall became cadaver-still.
Behold! Behold! upon the wall
A thing — a hand — came in the hall;
And wrote in fire upon the wall,
And wrote, and vanished in the pall.
The king just sat there, goggle-eyed,
With knocking knees, pale, terrified.
The lackey troop, by horror bound,
Sat cold and still, without a sound.
Magicians came, yet none at all
Could decipher the flame-script on the wall.
But Belczar, that very night
By his own men was killed outright.
The Map of Cars, Mercury and Marquis
That was the labrynth we skirted in the gulch
a hard right past the Philadelphia where
hash was the babysitting tutorial.
The only baby is in that jar, it is lifted.
Carmen and Peter and all Jewish Jon ran off
while my sister tailed along
to see some more of the avante garde
on subway street. Can't remember
changing the diapers but I must have arrived
to that engagement in the brougham.
Boy it was so big where the cop ran me down.
Found the brougham a week later in front of elmo's,
he stood in front of me (in high heels) with his black boots,
"Do that again young lady and you'll get
fleeing arrest," what a thing! and now it's small.
Fleeing arrest, no better way to describe that
glide down youngblood with brakes tapping,
the sides of the alley almost scraping
stopping just short of a decision,
up to zacatecas or down to the lyric,
but old bear was up in the canyon
casting spells on the mons, mine
and several others so you file down to the bottom
again, another hard right past the grassy,
past the flood-stained county library
up to the baptist church where pies
never burned, zig zag the castle rocks
where turquoise bob was selling coke
from an old barbeque grill window, the cafe
nearwhere the brakeman broke his victorian spine -
the old coaster races that Jack runs now,
up to the iron man part of Cork, all those
serenity prayer miners hacking in the echoes,
crawling slowly just out of sight of the rectory
slow enough to catch a whiff of the votives.
Another right but not so hard into garden
past spider across from our cousin's house
which was then empty except for the touching
we did under the ocatillo canopy with the harsh
tunnel under the stairs and into the garage, buried in the hill.
Up to mayer, back that brougham in, her long spine
and they are all girls we said, part of the celtic
myth of deers, the two point
bucks and doe eyed weaklings, all the cars
are girls, and you got away and pushed her spine
to the end of laundry hill and let her down easy.
The eight track was hauling out year of the cat.
http://thomasfly.com/songs/Al_Stewart/Year_of_the_Cat.htm
Belshazzar
(translated by Daniel Platt)
The midnight hour drew closer on;
In mute repose lay Babylon.
But up in the castle of the king
There's noise, and torches flickering.
Up there in the kingly hall so vast
Belshazzar held his king's repast.
The lackeys sat in a shimmering line,
And emptied their beakers of sparkling wine.
The beakers were klinking, the lackeys were loud,
It did the stiff-necked monarch proud.
The king's cheeks glowed with a fervent shine;
And boldness quickened with the wine,
And by this boldness blindly spurred,
He blasphemed God with a sinful word.
And he boasted and mocked the holy name;
The lackey troop roared its acclaim.
The king called out with a haughty face;
The servant flew and returned apace.
He bore on his head much golden ware;
From Jehovah's temple, plundered there.
And the monarch seized, with outrageous whim,
A holy beaker, filled to the brim.
And he drained it rashly to the drips
And cried aloud with foaming lips:
Jehovah! I scorn Thee from now on -
I am the king of Babylon!
Yet scarcely were the words expressed,
But a secret trembling began in his breast.
No laughter rang out loud and shrill;
The hall became cadaver-still.
Behold! Behold! upon the wall
A thing — a hand — came in the hall;
And wrote in fire upon the wall,
And wrote, and vanished in the pall.
The king just sat there, goggle-eyed,
With knocking knees, pale, terrified.
The lackey troop, by horror bound,
Sat cold and still, without a sound.
Magicians came, yet none at all
Could decipher the flame-script on the wall.
But Belczar, that very night
By his own men was killed outright.
The Map of Cars, Mercury and Marquis
That was the labrynth we skirted in the gulch
a hard right past the Philadelphia where
hash was the babysitting tutorial.
The only baby is in that jar, it is lifted.
Carmen and Peter and all Jewish Jon ran off
while my sister tailed along
to see some more of the avante garde
on subway street. Can't remember
changing the diapers but I must have arrived
to that engagement in the brougham.
Boy it was so big where the cop ran me down.
Found the brougham a week later in front of elmo's,
he stood in front of me (in high heels) with his black boots,
"Do that again young lady and you'll get
fleeing arrest," what a thing! and now it's small.
Fleeing arrest, no better way to describe that
glide down youngblood with brakes tapping,
the sides of the alley almost scraping
stopping just short of a decision,
up to zacatecas or down to the lyric,
but old bear was up in the canyon
casting spells on the mons, mine
and several others so you file down to the bottom
again, another hard right past the grassy,
past the flood-stained county library
up to the baptist church where pies
never burned, zig zag the castle rocks
where turquoise bob was selling coke
from an old barbeque grill window, the cafe
nearwhere the brakeman broke his victorian spine -
the old coaster races that Jack runs now,
up to the iron man part of Cork, all those
serenity prayer miners hacking in the echoes,
crawling slowly just out of sight of the rectory
slow enough to catch a whiff of the votives.
Another right but not so hard into garden
past spider across from our cousin's house
which was then empty except for the touching
we did under the ocatillo canopy with the harsh
tunnel under the stairs and into the garage, buried in the hill.
Up to mayer, back that brougham in, her long spine
and they are all girls we said, part of the celtic
myth of deers, the two point
bucks and doe eyed weaklings, all the cars
are girls, and you got away and pushed her spine
to the end of laundry hill and let her down easy.
The eight track was hauling out year of the cat.
http://thomasfly.com/songs/Al_Stewart/Year_of_the_Cat.htm
24.8.06
Noam Chomsky on Nasrallah: "He (Nasrallah) has no objection to Noam quoting him on anything he has said, and his last question to Noam is a request for advice on what Hizbullah can do to counter the pernicious propaganda in the US. "
In response to Assaf Kfoury’s July 12 ZNet article “Noam Chomsky in Beirut”,
where Chomsky is quoted as saying ” I think Nasrallah [head of
Hizbullah] has a reasoned and persuasive argument that the arms should
be in the hands of Hizbullah as a deterrent to potential aggression,
and there are plenty of background reasons for that . . . .”, a ZNet Sustainer
asked Noam “Now, I know you dislike labels, but I’m pretty much feeling
your ethics are Consequentalist, so I am wondering what are a number of
the top consequences you expect (ed) from making this statement?”
Below is Noam’s response…
Reply from Noam Chomsky:
Thanks for raising an important question.
We can drop abstruse matters like consequentialism, and keep to
one of the most elementary of moral truisms: we are responsible for the
anticipated consequences of our actions, or inaction. Of course, that
does not provide a simple guide, because there are always many varied
and often conflicting consequences. But the question does come up all
the time, and is worth considering. Take a few examples.
In 1977, Edward Herman and I revealed gross distortions, often
outright (and uncorrectable) lies, in coverage of Cambodia. In
particular, we pointed out that in the major book on the topic,
considered then the prime source (rightly), the death toll resulting
from the US bombing of Cambodia was vastly exaggerated, apparently
because of a misreading of "casualties" as "deaths." I was aware that
pointing that out might embolden elements of US political and
intellectual classes to continue their support for terrible crimes and
their preparation for others. Not a consequence I wanted, of course,
but I thought it was outweighed by the need to unearth the truth.
To take another case, more closely related to your apparent
concerns, for about 30 years I've been harshly condemning crimes of the
PLO, and writing that Israel should have the rights of any state in the
international system, including the right of self-defense. I realized,
of course, that such statements and the review of the evidence could
well contribute to the dedication of the US government, with the strong
support of articulate opinion, to provide the requisite means for
outrageous Israeli atrocities and to the unilateral US undermining of
the very real opportunities for political settlement. But again, I
thought telling the truth outweighed those dire consequences. There are
many other cases.
Interestingly, none of these cases has ever elicited a word of
criticism. I don't recall receiving any letters from you about them,
for example. Need we ask why?
Turning to your question, an accurate account of my response to a
question asked by a TV journalist in Lebanon, and the context, has
already appeared on Znet: an article by Assaf Kfoury, who accompanied
my wife and me throughout my trip to Lebanon (and knows far more about
Lebanon than I do, as does Irene Gendzier, who also accompanied us
throughout, including visits that you didn't learn about from your
sources, such as much longer ones with the leading opponents of
Hezbollah). *
His account on Znet also answers your question. As he points out,
the anticipated consequence of the comments is that they should "feed
the right-wing rumor mill for a long time to come," thereby
contributing to US-Israeli crimes against Palestinians and Lebanese.
These are now reaching new levels of intensity, with the US-Israel
virtually destroying Lebanon, continuing the massive assault against
Gaza, and systematically pursuing their programs of annexation,
cantonization, and imprisonment in the West Bank to ensure that
Palestinian rights will never be recognized.
So yes, the anticipated consequences were very ugly -- though of
course I didn't know then how grotesque US-Israeli behavior would
become. I didn't anticipate that Israel would step up its atrocities
(always with US backing and the complicity of articulate opinion and
the media) by kidnapping two civilians in Gaza, a doctor and his
brother, and removing them to the oblivion of the thousands of others
like them in Israeli prisons, commonly without charges or sentenced in
courts that are a bad joke, hence kidnapped.. That was June 24. On June
25, in probable retaliation, Palestinian militants captured a soldier
of the attacking army, Corporal Gilad Shalit. Israel responded by sharp
escalation of its crimes in Gaza, followed a few weeks later by the
kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah and new US-Israeli war
crimes in Lebanon.
The pretext is the kidnappings, but any person who bothers to
think, instead of reflexively repeating state propaganda, knows that
the US-Israel regard kidnapping is quite fine, including kidnapping of
civilians, a far worse crime under international law than kidnapping of
soldiers. The June 24 Israeli kidnappings are only one of many
examples. Since the powerful don't investigate their own crimes,
details are unknown, but there is plenty of evidence nevertheless. For
example, the shocking revelations about Israel's secret prison/torture
chambers, far worse than Guantanamo, in which hundreds of Lebanese have
been kept, many abducted from Lebanon, some kept as hostages for many
years. No one knows what happened to them, beyond the few who are
acknowledged. There are some who are concerned about them, among them
the father of the captured Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, who
expresse his sympathy for the families of the abducted Lebanese
prisoners in Israeli jails (Israeli radio, July 20).
That's barely the tip of an iceberg. We can dismiss the pretexts
with contempt. Returning to your question, there are also "opportunity
costs": while you and I are discussing this, we are not acting to put
an end to the horrendous ongoing atrocities for which we both share
responsibility. Back to the elementary moral truism. ..
http://blog.zmag.org/node/2689
*in reference to http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=22&ItemID=10568 which is an article detailing NC visit to Nasrallah, Khiam prison, the south, Sabra and Shatila.
In response to Assaf Kfoury’s July 12 ZNet article “Noam Chomsky in Beirut”,
where Chomsky is quoted as saying ” I think Nasrallah [head of
Hizbullah] has a reasoned and persuasive argument that the arms should
be in the hands of Hizbullah as a deterrent to potential aggression,
and there are plenty of background reasons for that . . . .”, a ZNet Sustainer
asked Noam “Now, I know you dislike labels, but I’m pretty much feeling
your ethics are Consequentalist, so I am wondering what are a number of
the top consequences you expect (ed) from making this statement?”
Below is Noam’s response…
Reply from Noam Chomsky:
Thanks for raising an important question.
We can drop abstruse matters like consequentialism, and keep to
one of the most elementary of moral truisms: we are responsible for the
anticipated consequences of our actions, or inaction. Of course, that
does not provide a simple guide, because there are always many varied
and often conflicting consequences. But the question does come up all
the time, and is worth considering. Take a few examples.
In 1977, Edward Herman and I revealed gross distortions, often
outright (and uncorrectable) lies, in coverage of Cambodia. In
particular, we pointed out that in the major book on the topic,
considered then the prime source (rightly), the death toll resulting
from the US bombing of Cambodia was vastly exaggerated, apparently
because of a misreading of "casualties" as "deaths." I was aware that
pointing that out might embolden elements of US political and
intellectual classes to continue their support for terrible crimes and
their preparation for others. Not a consequence I wanted, of course,
but I thought it was outweighed by the need to unearth the truth.
To take another case, more closely related to your apparent
concerns, for about 30 years I've been harshly condemning crimes of the
PLO, and writing that Israel should have the rights of any state in the
international system, including the right of self-defense. I realized,
of course, that such statements and the review of the evidence could
well contribute to the dedication of the US government, with the strong
support of articulate opinion, to provide the requisite means for
outrageous Israeli atrocities and to the unilateral US undermining of
the very real opportunities for political settlement. But again, I
thought telling the truth outweighed those dire consequences. There are
many other cases.
Interestingly, none of these cases has ever elicited a word of
criticism. I don't recall receiving any letters from you about them,
for example. Need we ask why?
Turning to your question, an accurate account of my response to a
question asked by a TV journalist in Lebanon, and the context, has
already appeared on Znet: an article by Assaf Kfoury, who accompanied
my wife and me throughout my trip to Lebanon (and knows far more about
Lebanon than I do, as does Irene Gendzier, who also accompanied us
throughout, including visits that you didn't learn about from your
sources, such as much longer ones with the leading opponents of
Hezbollah). *
His account on Znet also answers your question. As he points out,
the anticipated consequence of the comments is that they should "feed
the right-wing rumor mill for a long time to come," thereby
contributing to US-Israeli crimes against Palestinians and Lebanese.
These are now reaching new levels of intensity, with the US-Israel
virtually destroying Lebanon, continuing the massive assault against
Gaza, and systematically pursuing their programs of annexation,
cantonization, and imprisonment in the West Bank to ensure that
Palestinian rights will never be recognized.
So yes, the anticipated consequences were very ugly -- though of
course I didn't know then how grotesque US-Israeli behavior would
become. I didn't anticipate that Israel would step up its atrocities
(always with US backing and the complicity of articulate opinion and
the media) by kidnapping two civilians in Gaza, a doctor and his
brother, and removing them to the oblivion of the thousands of others
like them in Israeli prisons, commonly without charges or sentenced in
courts that are a bad joke, hence kidnapped.. That was June 24. On June
25, in probable retaliation, Palestinian militants captured a soldier
of the attacking army, Corporal Gilad Shalit. Israel responded by sharp
escalation of its crimes in Gaza, followed a few weeks later by the
kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah and new US-Israeli war
crimes in Lebanon.
The pretext is the kidnappings, but any person who bothers to
think, instead of reflexively repeating state propaganda, knows that
the US-Israel regard kidnapping is quite fine, including kidnapping of
civilians, a far worse crime under international law than kidnapping of
soldiers. The June 24 Israeli kidnappings are only one of many
examples. Since the powerful don't investigate their own crimes,
details are unknown, but there is plenty of evidence nevertheless. For
example, the shocking revelations about Israel's secret prison/torture
chambers, far worse than Guantanamo, in which hundreds of Lebanese have
been kept, many abducted from Lebanon, some kept as hostages for many
years. No one knows what happened to them, beyond the few who are
acknowledged. There are some who are concerned about them, among them
the father of the captured Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, who
expresse his sympathy for the families of the abducted Lebanese
prisoners in Israeli jails (Israeli radio, July 20).
That's barely the tip of an iceberg. We can dismiss the pretexts
with contempt. Returning to your question, there are also "opportunity
costs": while you and I are discussing this, we are not acting to put
an end to the horrendous ongoing atrocities for which we both share
responsibility. Back to the elementary moral truism. ..
http://blog.zmag.org/node/2689
*in reference to http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=22&ItemID=10568 which is an article detailing NC visit to Nasrallah, Khiam prison, the south, Sabra and Shatila.
23.8.06
ISRAELI PRISONERS.....ER.....THAT MEANS, NOT TWO SOLDIERS OF ISRAELI NATIONALITY BUT ARABS ILLEGALLY RETAINED IN ZIONIST PRISONS:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1714466442511220171&q=Captured+Prisoners
"The norm is physical torture."
Watch this film.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1714466442511220171&q=Captured+Prisoners
"The norm is physical torture."
Watch this film.
http://archmemory.blogspot.com/
Sad poet stories, are there more? Who are these poets and why are the "big guys" not talking about anything except their belly buttons?
Blogrolling the Courageous, non bigoted poets as follows (you won't find Ron Silliman on this blogroll!):
http://joshcorey.blogspot.com/
http://pjoris.blogspot.com/
(..to be continued as research takes time)
Notes of City Sheperds
This land is written
by the indigenous,
flowers and broad striped fish,
terrain split by rivers<<<<<
in hard 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 hearts
piled with no reason.
Chorus:
This border of our land
runs ragged to tarmac
near city maze.
North wind sculpts
with horse hair bow
in buffet of 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
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 to down
our set of stairs
into calcitic waters
to rise like light
from wells inside wells.
So wait our magical bones,
types of 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
in buffet of silence everlasting.
Dry down the daisy
in limestone rock
perched accidently there.
Sing: our misery in shepherd
gapes open to the sea.
Final Chorus:
North wind sculpts
horse hair bow
down the daisy
over tarmac heart
bow the buffet
daisy it down to
horse everlasting
in boots of straw
near kilny sea.
North wind sculpts
horse hair bow
down the daisy
over tarmac heart
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.
Sad poet stories, are there more? Who are these poets and why are the "big guys" not talking about anything except their belly buttons?
Blogrolling the Courageous, non bigoted poets as follows (you won't find Ron Silliman on this blogroll!):
http://joshcorey.blogspot.com/
http://pjoris.blogspot.com/
(..to be continued as research takes time)
Notes of City Sheperds
This land is written
by the indigenous,
flowers and broad striped fish,
terrain split by rivers<<<<<
in hard 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 hearts
piled with no reason.
Chorus:
This border of our land
runs ragged to tarmac
near city maze.
North wind sculpts
with horse hair bow
in buffet of 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
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 to down
our set of stairs
into calcitic waters
to rise like light
from wells inside wells.
So wait our magical bones,
types of 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
in buffet of silence everlasting.
Dry down the daisy
in limestone rock
perched accidently there.
Sing: our misery in shepherd
gapes open to the sea.
Final Chorus:
North wind sculpts
horse hair bow
down the daisy
over tarmac heart
bow the buffet
daisy it down to
horse everlasting
in boots of straw
near kilny sea.
North wind sculpts
horse hair bow
down the daisy
over tarmac heart
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.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/753657.html
LONDON - In a report to be released Wednesday, Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes, saying it broke international law by deliberately destroying Lebanon's civilian infrastructure during its recent war with Hezbollah guerrillas.
The UN's children's fund, UNICEF, estimates that some 1,183 people died***, mostly civilians and about a third of them children, while the Lebanese Higher Relief Council says 4,054 people were injured and 970,000 displaced. UN officials reported that around 15,000 civilian homes were destroyed.
The Amnesty report cited "the widespread destruction of apartments, houses, electricity and water services, roads, bridges, factories and ports," which, taken with statements by Israeli officials, "suggests a policy of punishing both the Lebanese government and the civilian population in an effort to get them to turn against Hezbollah," it said. It accused Israel of applying an overly broad interpretation of what constituted a military objective when it attacked power plants, bridges, main roads, seaports and Beirut's international airport, all of which are "presumed to be civilian."
***Died is a euphemism for WERE KILLED.
What can be said about Ha'retz is that it is a newspaper that tells it like it is. You have to give the Israeli journalists there credit for honesty, including the story they printed many years ago now about the 2 hour warning which was recieved prior to the WTC attack by Israelis. That story DID appear in Ha'retz and Amiri Baraka who cited this phenomenal warning given to Israelis (not Jews as was related in the popular media and on anti semitic hate sites) lost his position as the poet laureate of ?New Jersey (poor memory for states it seems save for that horrible place called Newark, awful city). Now, let it be known, Amiri Baraka didn't deserve Ron Silliman's heinous attack either nor did he deserve to be 'de-lauralized' for relating the TRUTH.
The truth hurts everyone sometimes. Now that the Islamic world has had to face the truth about Al Qaeda, it is time for EVERYONE to face the truth about so-called Israel and its so-called democracy and its abuse of religion which it utilizes to keep people from criticizing their heinous acts against muslims worldwide, in the media and for real as is the case with the Israeli destruction of an ENTIRE COUNTRY.
Right to exist? Who asks? Lets see...when a person has a right and abuses it, what happens next to any given individual? They lose that right. They go to jail.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/753202.html
So next up: Should Israel evacuate the Golan Heights which it literally STOLE during a cease fire during the Six Day War? Food for thought regarding this current cease fire in Lebanon...they are up to their old tricks again and EVERYONE is watching this time, ESPECIALLY the freedom fighters of Lebanon who managed to nab a few "commandos" in the Beka dressed up nicely as Lebanese Army personnel. I'll bet few of you know that Ehud Barat, ex prime minister of Israel who was in charge when Lebanon was finally LIBERATED by HEZBOLLAH a few years back....dressed up as a woman in order to enter Lebanon and assassinate Yasser Arafat. I'll bet most didn't know that!
LONDON - In a report to be released Wednesday, Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes, saying it broke international law by deliberately destroying Lebanon's civilian infrastructure during its recent war with Hezbollah guerrillas.
The UN's children's fund, UNICEF, estimates that some 1,183 people died***, mostly civilians and about a third of them children, while the Lebanese Higher Relief Council says 4,054 people were injured and 970,000 displaced. UN officials reported that around 15,000 civilian homes were destroyed.
The Amnesty report cited "the widespread destruction of apartments, houses, electricity and water services, roads, bridges, factories and ports," which, taken with statements by Israeli officials, "suggests a policy of punishing both the Lebanese government and the civilian population in an effort to get them to turn against Hezbollah," it said. It accused Israel of applying an overly broad interpretation of what constituted a military objective when it attacked power plants, bridges, main roads, seaports and Beirut's international airport, all of which are "presumed to be civilian."
***Died is a euphemism for WERE KILLED.
What can be said about Ha'retz is that it is a newspaper that tells it like it is. You have to give the Israeli journalists there credit for honesty, including the story they printed many years ago now about the 2 hour warning which was recieved prior to the WTC attack by Israelis. That story DID appear in Ha'retz and Amiri Baraka who cited this phenomenal warning given to Israelis (not Jews as was related in the popular media and on anti semitic hate sites) lost his position as the poet laureate of ?New Jersey (poor memory for states it seems save for that horrible place called Newark, awful city). Now, let it be known, Amiri Baraka didn't deserve Ron Silliman's heinous attack either nor did he deserve to be 'de-lauralized' for relating the TRUTH.
The truth hurts everyone sometimes. Now that the Islamic world has had to face the truth about Al Qaeda, it is time for EVERYONE to face the truth about so-called Israel and its so-called democracy and its abuse of religion which it utilizes to keep people from criticizing their heinous acts against muslims worldwide, in the media and for real as is the case with the Israeli destruction of an ENTIRE COUNTRY.
Right to exist? Who asks? Lets see...when a person has a right and abuses it, what happens next to any given individual? They lose that right. They go to jail.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/753202.html
So next up: Should Israel evacuate the Golan Heights which it literally STOLE during a cease fire during the Six Day War? Food for thought regarding this current cease fire in Lebanon...they are up to their old tricks again and EVERYONE is watching this time, ESPECIALLY the freedom fighters of Lebanon who managed to nab a few "commandos" in the Beka dressed up nicely as Lebanese Army personnel. I'll bet few of you know that Ehud Barat, ex prime minister of Israel who was in charge when Lebanon was finally LIBERATED by HEZBOLLAH a few years back....dressed up as a woman in order to enter Lebanon and assassinate Yasser Arafat. I'll bet most didn't know that!
22.8.06
In The Locality Of Whimpers
The static of those times was deafening,
transcripts and telegrams bogging
down all the lines, apothecaries
and epistlaries grew quite rich.
They all began to tell their stories,
everyone of them, quite dismal
because of the chatter and negations. We all
hoped for more but came up with so much
less. So many forgotten aftermaths,
so many more to make, we felt quite sad.
Our whimpers grew into infamous
proportions, exponential even,
until we wept with a single growl,
"Enough is enough, we want more."
Lost as strangers in the strangeness
of going home to find the huts burned
to their very interior ashes, those
ashes in the sky or the breath
of our friend Iblis. He was tremendously
hard to find except in the fine print
of the conventions. He wasn't
what you would call, a good listener.
Iblis produces ashes like whispers,
his spooky action at a distance
and stands to gain more than a few
borrowed souls and heartbroken women,
a real deadbeat dad rounding up his vixen.
That is what they say about him anyway.
She said to him early on, "Come and get me,
if you can. I hide quite near the tan area
called the gray matter. It isn't easy to find
but try anyway. I've got nerves of steel."
***And who was to figure that he'd burn my hut too. Never a dull moment in this battle.
The static of those times was deafening,
transcripts and telegrams bogging
down all the lines, apothecaries
and epistlaries grew quite rich.
They all began to tell their stories,
everyone of them, quite dismal
because of the chatter and negations. We all
hoped for more but came up with so much
less. So many forgotten aftermaths,
so many more to make, we felt quite sad.
Our whimpers grew into infamous
proportions, exponential even,
until we wept with a single growl,
"Enough is enough, we want more."
Lost as strangers in the strangeness
of going home to find the huts burned
to their very interior ashes, those
ashes in the sky or the breath
of our friend Iblis. He was tremendously
hard to find except in the fine print
of the conventions. He wasn't
what you would call, a good listener.
Iblis produces ashes like whispers,
his spooky action at a distance
and stands to gain more than a few
borrowed souls and heartbroken women,
a real deadbeat dad rounding up his vixen.
That is what they say about him anyway.
She said to him early on, "Come and get me,
if you can. I hide quite near the tan area
called the gray matter. It isn't easy to find
but try anyway. I've got nerves of steel."
***And who was to figure that he'd burn my hut too. Never a dull moment in this battle.
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.
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.
21.8.06
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html
A real life dragon burninates the countryside, burninates the peasants.
STRONG BAD. Don't miss it. Hilarious and worth the time it takes to click.
A real life dragon burninates the countryside, burninates the peasants.
STRONG BAD. Don't miss it. Hilarious and worth the time it takes to click.
Crash Course: Revisionism
"He beat me and attached the electrodes to my nipples. Then all I remember is that I was screaming." - spoken by a woman imprisoned by Utopians in Khiam prison in Southern Lebanon aided by their collaborators, mostly Maronite Christians.
Welcome to the newest visitors to this blog, the FREEPERS. I've long wanted a rational discourse with those whose only media contact is with Rupert Murdoch's FOX broadcasting network. Thanks to the work of a journalist actively involved in the US military, I now have access to the minds of the most incalcitrant non thinkers.
Start here to learn how the state of Israel came into being as part of the Collective Jungian Consciousness of America:
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story674.html
Now, in order to understand this bogus Arab-Jewish conflict, it is necessary to review the concept of slogans such as the one that was used to convince the nations of the world to accept the violent expulsion of an invisible population of humans known as Palestinians. That slogan which was coined by the Zionists in WWII GERMANY is:
A people without a land and a land without a people.
Now, how is it that both cases can exist so easily side by side in the consciousness of some people? If Israel was a land without a people then how exactly and when exactly and WHERE exactly did this 2,000 year long war between the "Jews and Arabs" take place?
The Big Fat Myth: THERE WAS NO 2,000 YEAR OLD WAR and there has not been 'centuries' of conflict. There were wars amongst believers of various stripes including the humungous oppression of the Sunni Ottoman Empire which was waged more upon the Shi'i muslims while the Jews enjoyed long periods of peace under the protection of Ottoman Rule. And the Christian oppressions of both the Jews and the Muslims. To this day, Turkey enjoys a healthy population of Jews and to a large extent, they are the 'movers and shakers' of Turkish society. You never see Turkey involved in a religious war even though the population of Turkey is overwhelmingly muslim. Where is the war with the Jews? And since when is it considered a healthy aspect of democracy to encourage oppression via the rule of minorities over majorities as is the case with the openly stated desire of the Zionists in WWII Germany to create a Maronite Christian State in Lebanon which was always a country designated as the refuge of all believers including Jews, Druze, Fatimids, etc. ad nauseum? What kind of people use collaboration as a means of guaranteeing their own self indulgent security?
http://www.inminds.co.uk/khiam-prison.html
"Khiam prison was a detention and interrogation camp during the years of the Israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. From 1985 until the Israeli defeat in May 2000, thousands of Lebanese were held in Khiam without trial. Most of them were brutally tortured - some of them died.
The prisoners included members of the resistance, their relatives, civilians by the dozen whose crime was innocence, who would not collaborate with the Israelis or the SLA, who refused to join the murderous little militia, who declined to give the Israelis information about the Lebanese resistance."
THERE is no war with the Jews waged by the Arabs. There never was one. The war, as Americans know it, is the ARAB-ISRAELI WAR and it has been continuously raging on since the creation of the fictional state of Israel and has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. It has nothing to do with the Jews although many Jews would beg to disagree. They also have a collective conscious and one that has also been exploited and manipulated by corrupt leaders such as Begin, Sharon and the current Zionist president, Ehud Olmert. I've little doubt that Jews worldwide are shocked and dismayed by the example set by these people who have done little to promote peace and much to promote killing of Arabs. I have little doubt that their psychology is reeling from the impact of being implicated in serious war crimes....after all, the reason Israel was CREATED was supposedly due to the horror called the HOLOCAUST.
If I were a Jew of ANY nationality (like Muslims, Jews can live anywhere they please in the world and being Jewish has nothing whatsoever to do with Israeli citizenship)...I would be horrified if I created a holocaust when in fact, I was the victim of one.
And seeing as how most people are result driven and definition oriented, it has never been more important to study the meaning of the word ZIONISM. Zionism is literally defined as UTOPIA.
WHERE IS THIS UTOPIA? All I see is murder and expulsion, the creation of more and more refugees and anger towards Utopians.
These same Utopians have entered Lebanon dressed as Lebanese Army Soldiers and were attacked by the resistance in the Bekaa valley just a few days ago. In fact, those same Utopians are busy at work in Iraq having arrived a full year ahead of the US Occupation army there. These same Utopians are in charge of the training of US special forces who methodically torture muslims using religious knowledge and the muslim aversion to dogs and sodomy.
"He beat me and attached the electrodes to my nipples. Then all I remember is that I was screaming." - spoken by a woman imprisoned by Utopians in Khiam prison in Southern Lebanon aided by their collaborators, mostly Maronite Christians.
Welcome to the newest visitors to this blog, the FREEPERS. I've long wanted a rational discourse with those whose only media contact is with Rupert Murdoch's FOX broadcasting network. Thanks to the work of a journalist actively involved in the US military, I now have access to the minds of the most incalcitrant non thinkers.
Start here to learn how the state of Israel came into being as part of the Collective Jungian Consciousness of America:
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story674.html
Now, in order to understand this bogus Arab-Jewish conflict, it is necessary to review the concept of slogans such as the one that was used to convince the nations of the world to accept the violent expulsion of an invisible population of humans known as Palestinians. That slogan which was coined by the Zionists in WWII GERMANY is:
A people without a land and a land without a people.
Now, how is it that both cases can exist so easily side by side in the consciousness of some people? If Israel was a land without a people then how exactly and when exactly and WHERE exactly did this 2,000 year long war between the "Jews and Arabs" take place?
The Big Fat Myth: THERE WAS NO 2,000 YEAR OLD WAR and there has not been 'centuries' of conflict. There were wars amongst believers of various stripes including the humungous oppression of the Sunni Ottoman Empire which was waged more upon the Shi'i muslims while the Jews enjoyed long periods of peace under the protection of Ottoman Rule. And the Christian oppressions of both the Jews and the Muslims. To this day, Turkey enjoys a healthy population of Jews and to a large extent, they are the 'movers and shakers' of Turkish society. You never see Turkey involved in a religious war even though the population of Turkey is overwhelmingly muslim. Where is the war with the Jews? And since when is it considered a healthy aspect of democracy to encourage oppression via the rule of minorities over majorities as is the case with the openly stated desire of the Zionists in WWII Germany to create a Maronite Christian State in Lebanon which was always a country designated as the refuge of all believers including Jews, Druze, Fatimids, etc. ad nauseum? What kind of people use collaboration as a means of guaranteeing their own self indulgent security?
http://www.inminds.co.uk/khiam-prison.html
"Khiam prison was a detention and interrogation camp during the years of the Israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. From 1985 until the Israeli defeat in May 2000, thousands of Lebanese were held in Khiam without trial. Most of them were brutally tortured - some of them died.
The prisoners included members of the resistance, their relatives, civilians by the dozen whose crime was innocence, who would not collaborate with the Israelis or the SLA, who refused to join the murderous little militia, who declined to give the Israelis information about the Lebanese resistance."
THERE is no war with the Jews waged by the Arabs. There never was one. The war, as Americans know it, is the ARAB-ISRAELI WAR and it has been continuously raging on since the creation of the fictional state of Israel and has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. It has nothing to do with the Jews although many Jews would beg to disagree. They also have a collective conscious and one that has also been exploited and manipulated by corrupt leaders such as Begin, Sharon and the current Zionist president, Ehud Olmert. I've little doubt that Jews worldwide are shocked and dismayed by the example set by these people who have done little to promote peace and much to promote killing of Arabs. I have little doubt that their psychology is reeling from the impact of being implicated in serious war crimes....after all, the reason Israel was CREATED was supposedly due to the horror called the HOLOCAUST.
If I were a Jew of ANY nationality (like Muslims, Jews can live anywhere they please in the world and being Jewish has nothing whatsoever to do with Israeli citizenship)...I would be horrified if I created a holocaust when in fact, I was the victim of one.
And seeing as how most people are result driven and definition oriented, it has never been more important to study the meaning of the word ZIONISM. Zionism is literally defined as UTOPIA.
WHERE IS THIS UTOPIA? All I see is murder and expulsion, the creation of more and more refugees and anger towards Utopians.
These same Utopians have entered Lebanon dressed as Lebanese Army Soldiers and were attacked by the resistance in the Bekaa valley just a few days ago. In fact, those same Utopians are busy at work in Iraq having arrived a full year ahead of the US Occupation army there. These same Utopians are in charge of the training of US special forces who methodically torture muslims using religious knowledge and the muslim aversion to dogs and sodomy.
20.8.06
Ode To The Gully Washer
(for James Corner)
When it came down we'd bow
our heads and utter each to each
the plain-spoken dialogue
of the deluge. Years' worth
of waiting over in a flash. Resurrection's
aisle cleaned up, mint and grass
combed out properly in three directions.
A kicked ball would turn up
near the corner in a stretch
of wild rasberry wholly out
of reach, no trespassing sign needed.
Tadpoles and water walkers,
giant red dragonflies called snakefeeders:
everything with a description
sorting origin and function, a collection
of results-specific identifiers
for the concerns of our people.
Wasps with addresses and vendettas,
rocks with names beside
bean vines and China Berries,
pop beetles and walking sticks.
A host of communion eaters
and seekers, drought prone to river wise.
Our contempt reserved for the fires.
http://bisbeedailyphoto.blogspot.com/
The second photo is taken a hundred yards from where I am living, displaced by Israel. I'd say it is one of the most unexpected things that could have happened to me thus far. Bisbee is now a town full of affluent Californians who have literally "bought" a piece of timeless real estate. What did they buy? Do they know our stories? Why me? Well, why not me? I must be here for a reason...to write the Glory Hole Ode and others (to Buckets and Leaks) based on xenophobic fantasies, as all the Odes are and ever were. It is such an important detail....and such an evocative tale.
How hard it is to walk around with miracles inside of one's head. Is it any wonder why there are so many insane ones on the streets in America? Back in Haris, South Lebanon, I only ever saw one. One solitary insane man who always wore a coat, winter and summer, rain or shine.
(for James Corner)
When it came down we'd bow
our heads and utter each to each
the plain-spoken dialogue
of the deluge. Years' worth
of waiting over in a flash. Resurrection's
aisle cleaned up, mint and grass
combed out properly in three directions.
A kicked ball would turn up
near the corner in a stretch
of wild rasberry wholly out
of reach, no trespassing sign needed.
Tadpoles and water walkers,
giant red dragonflies called snakefeeders:
everything with a description
sorting origin and function, a collection
of results-specific identifiers
for the concerns of our people.
Wasps with addresses and vendettas,
rocks with names beside
bean vines and China Berries,
pop beetles and walking sticks.
A host of communion eaters
and seekers, drought prone to river wise.
Our contempt reserved for the fires.
http://bisbeedailyphoto.blogspot.com/
The second photo is taken a hundred yards from where I am living, displaced by Israel. I'd say it is one of the most unexpected things that could have happened to me thus far. Bisbee is now a town full of affluent Californians who have literally "bought" a piece of timeless real estate. What did they buy? Do they know our stories? Why me? Well, why not me? I must be here for a reason...to write the Glory Hole Ode and others (to Buckets and Leaks) based on xenophobic fantasies, as all the Odes are and ever were. It is such an important detail....and such an evocative tale.
How hard it is to walk around with miracles inside of one's head. Is it any wonder why there are so many insane ones on the streets in America? Back in Haris, South Lebanon, I only ever saw one. One solitary insane man who always wore a coat, winter and summer, rain or shine.
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