The Rachel Corrie was seized by the Israeli attack forces on Saturday. Denis Halliday, former U.S. Assistant Secretary General, was on board and talked about how the Israeli's beat the shit out of most of the passengers. Of course, none of the materials are gonna make it to Palestine is it will alleviate the collective punishment forced upon that nation by the genocidal Israeli government.
Here is a little excerpt from the Democracy Now headlines of Tuesday, June 8:
Israeli commandos have seized another humanitarian aid boat headed to Gaza in an effort to break the blockade imposed by Israel on Gaza. Early on Saturday, Israel’s navy forcibly boarded an Irish-owned ship named the Rachel Corrie and then sailed it to an Israeli port. The boat was carrying 1,000 tons of medical and construction supplies for Gaza. Passengers included Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire and former UN Assistant Secretary-General Denis Halliday.
Are we hearing much about this one? It doesn't seem to be receiving the coverage the murders enacted by the Israeli Attack Forces got on the first flotilla.
Some passengers on the original flotilla are claiming that the Israeli Attack Forces even had an assassination list. Here is an excerpt from the same headlines from Democracy Now:
Passengers who were aboard the Mavi Marmara continue to provide new accounts of the Israeli assault. Some are now claiming they discovered a list of people the Israeli military intended to assassinate during their raid on the ship. The Independent of London reports passengers seized a booklet during their altercations with the Israeli forces who rappelled aboard. The passengers claim the booklet contained names and pictures of passengers the Israeli military intended to shoot dead. The Israeli military has denied the existence of an assassination list, and the claims could not be independently corroborated. A Turkish autopsy report shows the nine slain victims were shot a total of thirty times, many at close range. The Guardian newspaper reports five of those killed were shot either in the back of the head or in the back.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
You're Kidding
Saturday, Shusli and I decided to head to Vancouver about 5pm. We hit I-205 only to find it jammed packed because of construction.
I hopped on I-84 and headed West in slow traffic only to find I-5 Northbound jam packed as well. So we got off the freeway, had dinner, went home, and decided to try again later.
We headed out at 7pm. I-84 was fairly clear, but I-5 was still jam packed and moving slow. We decided to stay with it. I told Shusli that I thought it was weird that during the rush hours when one finally got across the Interstate Bridge traffic would race up to 55 to 60.
As we approached the bridge, we saw a sign on the side of the freeway duct taped to the concrete barrier. It was about three feet wide and two feet high and was fluorescent green with a single large wide lettered word done in black felt marker, "JAM."
"There's the problem," I joked with Shusli.
As we headed across the bridge, there were several more of the "JAM" signs.
When we got to the other side of the bridge, there was a fella maybe in his early 60's with white hair and a thick white mustache holding a fluorescent green sign that said, "Drive 55 now."
Traffic, like usual, bolted right up to 55+. It was a good laugh.
I hopped on I-84 and headed West in slow traffic only to find I-5 Northbound jam packed as well. So we got off the freeway, had dinner, went home, and decided to try again later.
We headed out at 7pm. I-84 was fairly clear, but I-5 was still jam packed and moving slow. We decided to stay with it. I told Shusli that I thought it was weird that during the rush hours when one finally got across the Interstate Bridge traffic would race up to 55 to 60.
As we approached the bridge, we saw a sign on the side of the freeway duct taped to the concrete barrier. It was about three feet wide and two feet high and was fluorescent green with a single large wide lettered word done in black felt marker, "JAM."
"There's the problem," I joked with Shusli.
As we headed across the bridge, there were several more of the "JAM" signs.
When we got to the other side of the bridge, there was a fella maybe in his early 60's with white hair and a thick white mustache holding a fluorescent green sign that said, "Drive 55 now."
Traffic, like usual, bolted right up to 55+. It was a good laugh.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
What Kind of LSD is Sarah Palin Smoking?
Sarah Palin is blaming the BP oil spill on, get this...ENVIRONMENTALISTS!
I think the worst part about that bullshit is that so many American Morons believe this stupid a-hole!
Read the article.
What kind of information, actual data, is she backing up her claims with? I believe it came from pulledoutofmyass.com.
You mean to tell me it wasn't BP paying lobbyists to pay politicians to look the other way when it came to safety regulations? She also wants to drill the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge claiming it will only leave an imprint the size of the LA airport. Where did she get her data again? pulledoutofmyass.com Check out the oil industry and the Niger Delta.
Yeah, I always see "extreme environmentalists" looking to kill the earth because they aren't allowing companies like BP and so many others to kill the planet first. Come to think of it, I rarely see environmentalists succeed over big business. However, Sarah Palin seems to think environmentalists have more power in Wasthington than big business. Yeah, I always see Barack Obomber courting their favor as powerful as the environmental lobby is...NOT!
Jesus! What screws with my head is that people actually believe this crap!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Do You Really Want Peace?
Greg Mortenson is head of the Central Asia Institute. It is an organization that builds schools, mostly for girls, in Pakistan and Afghanistan. You can read about it in "Three Cups of Tea," and "Stones Into Schools," both by Greg Mortenson. These are the people of peace folk should take into their hearts and souls as examples and inspiration. Against cultural odds in an area of the world known for alleged Islamic extremists, these folk build mostly girls schools and pay teachers to teach. Along with this crazy yet amazing idea of Greg Mortneson's, comes peace. Peace follows. People in war torn regions what this because it brings and inspires peace and achievement within these communities. These schools do not push western ideals. They are built with the community, for the community, with the community's permission, and the curriculum is controlled by the community.
Sarfraz Khan is one of the main leg work fellas involved with the Central Asia Institute. He does all the serious leg work. Did I mention the fact that he does the serious leg work for this organiztion. Amazing fella and personal hero of mine. Sarfraz Khan. Here is an interview with him from Youtube.
Sarfraz Khan Interview
A Must See Video
Here is a must see video from the Commond Dreams website of an interview with Huwaida Arraf and Norman Finkelstein by Grit TV. I believe Huwaida is a reporter for Grit TV and was with the flotilla. Please watch this video. It reminds you why the flotilla was doing what it was doing. That they were unarmed (contrary to the Israeli claim). That all media was taken from the passengers usually after a good beating where most did not resist.
If we don't need to be concerned about what is happening in Gaza, why doesn't Israel let the Gazan's tell their own story? Again, BAI's (belligerently anti-intellecuals), what are the Israeli's trying to hide? What is Israel trying to hide that is actually happening in Gaza and other Palestinian territories? Why doesn't the alleged mainstream media talk about the Palestinian side of the story? Shouldn't the media be telling the whole story? Wouldn't it be considered propaganda and not news if only part of the story is told? Why isn't the mainstream talking about the other side of the story about the flotilla? Could it be that the media is protecting our friends in Israel like President Johnson did when 34 U.S. naval personnel were murdered with a torpedo because they were spying on war crimes the Israeli's were committing during the Six Day War on board the U.S.S. Liberty? Johnson said he could have cared less if all the sailors on board the Liberty were killed as long as the Israeli nation state was protected from the crimes it was committing. Is the media protecting the friend of the U.S. government, Israel, from having to face justice for their crimes against humanity? Of course, the U.S. commits vast amounts of crimes against humanity and to look at one criminal may point folk to look at the others.
Let me point out again, there were no barrel flashes from rifle fire coming from the Israeli guns as they were being defended against by a few activists on that ship. This should tell you that the shots were not fired after being attacked by folk with rods. The Israeli government released and sanctioned videos the world is being supplied and has control of all the other video and recorded information. Could it be that the defenders were actually outraged at having seen their friends murdered, or family murdered, and were thus trying to protect others from being murdered? I'm just pointing out the obvious.
If we don't need to be concerned about what is happening in Gaza, why doesn't Israel let the Gazan's tell their own story? Again, BAI's (belligerently anti-intellecuals), what are the Israeli's trying to hide? What is Israel trying to hide that is actually happening in Gaza and other Palestinian territories? Why doesn't the alleged mainstream media talk about the Palestinian side of the story? Shouldn't the media be telling the whole story? Wouldn't it be considered propaganda and not news if only part of the story is told? Why isn't the mainstream talking about the other side of the story about the flotilla? Could it be that the media is protecting our friends in Israel like President Johnson did when 34 U.S. naval personnel were murdered with a torpedo because they were spying on war crimes the Israeli's were committing during the Six Day War on board the U.S.S. Liberty? Johnson said he could have cared less if all the sailors on board the Liberty were killed as long as the Israeli nation state was protected from the crimes it was committing. Is the media protecting the friend of the U.S. government, Israel, from having to face justice for their crimes against humanity? Of course, the U.S. commits vast amounts of crimes against humanity and to look at one criminal may point folk to look at the others.
Let me point out again, there were no barrel flashes from rifle fire coming from the Israeli guns as they were being defended against by a few activists on that ship. This should tell you that the shots were not fired after being attacked by folk with rods. The Israeli government released and sanctioned videos the world is being supplied and has control of all the other video and recorded information. Could it be that the defenders were actually outraged at having seen their friends murdered, or family murdered, and were thus trying to protect others from being murdered? I'm just pointing out the obvious.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
What it Looks Like to Me
What Israel did can be pieced together in this insinuation given the first hand accounts by some of the activists who were released.
Israel launched the attack firing before they boarded the ships in which some or most of the killing took place. The soldiers who landed where then defended against by some of the brave folk on board, which is where you see the alleged attacks on the Israeli Terrorist Forces with sticks. They were probably defending against any further murders on the part of the Israeli Terrorist Forces.
Israel has confiscated all cell phones, lap tops, and any other forms of communication so that they can control the story to make them look good (if one can look good in such a massacre). They released the video of their soldiers being beaten WITHOUT the time stamp, so it would look like these peace loving Israeli Terrorist Forces were attacked before opening fire. However, you don't see the fellas in uniform opening fire at all during this particular scene.
Knowing that a majority of folk will just play into Israeli hands, especially the U.S. public whom I allege most are "belligerently anti-intellectual," will eat it up with a spoon, in spite of the above acknowledged facts and allegations on my part. The facts are the Israeli's fired even before landing on the boat. My allegations are they let themselves be attacked by the braver folk so it could be used as propaganda later, which it has been. A fact noted is that the time stamp is not present on the videos.
One of the statements that belligerently anti-intellectual types like to throw around are, "if you have nothing to hide, why don't you just let the cops into your house?" If the BAI's are capable of using this logic in this situation, they should ask, "Why are the Israeli's so afraid of letting out any of the other sources of information such as the laptops, cell phones, etc.? What are they trying to hide? If they have nothing to hide and did exactly as they said, why aren't they letting others see these particular sources of information?" But then again, they aren't belligerently anti-intellectual for nothing. Such thought requires such headache inducing mental actions known as "critical thinking."
Israel launched the attack firing before they boarded the ships in which some or most of the killing took place. The soldiers who landed where then defended against by some of the brave folk on board, which is where you see the alleged attacks on the Israeli Terrorist Forces with sticks. They were probably defending against any further murders on the part of the Israeli Terrorist Forces.
Israel has confiscated all cell phones, lap tops, and any other forms of communication so that they can control the story to make them look good (if one can look good in such a massacre). They released the video of their soldiers being beaten WITHOUT the time stamp, so it would look like these peace loving Israeli Terrorist Forces were attacked before opening fire. However, you don't see the fellas in uniform opening fire at all during this particular scene.
Knowing that a majority of folk will just play into Israeli hands, especially the U.S. public whom I allege most are "belligerently anti-intellectual," will eat it up with a spoon, in spite of the above acknowledged facts and allegations on my part. The facts are the Israeli's fired even before landing on the boat. My allegations are they let themselves be attacked by the braver folk so it could be used as propaganda later, which it has been. A fact noted is that the time stamp is not present on the videos.
One of the statements that belligerently anti-intellectual types like to throw around are, "if you have nothing to hide, why don't you just let the cops into your house?" If the BAI's are capable of using this logic in this situation, they should ask, "Why are the Israeli's so afraid of letting out any of the other sources of information such as the laptops, cell phones, etc.? What are they trying to hide? If they have nothing to hide and did exactly as they said, why aren't they letting others see these particular sources of information?" But then again, they aren't belligerently anti-intellectual for nothing. Such thought requires such headache inducing mental actions known as "critical thinking."
Bravely Defending...
I believe, if things follow their usual course, that the Israeli soldiers will be praised for their alleged self-defense tactic. Mind you, it is actually an act of state sanctioned terror that will be...WILL BE...supported by the Obomber administration as I've heard Israel described as the U.S. pitbull in the Middle East. They help keep the oil flowing to the proper "interests." What these murders and are for is to "terrorize" any folk looking to help the Palestinians who are heavily oppressed by the nation state of Israel, that you have the potential to be murdered by these murderers. We know the U.S. will support this action like they supported so many other murderous nation states in order to serve the self-interests of the wealthy. These types of things are not unusual for governments to do. This one was rather open and blatant. A hands in the cookie jar, if you will. A convoy of peaceful ships attacked by Israeli state sanctioned terrorists to strike terror into activists looking to ease the Israeli caused suffering of the Palestinian people (and so many others throughout the region). This will be called brave and defensive. Here is a bit of "Black and Tans" lyrics by the Wolftones. It is about the sell-outs who bravely killed with guns those with spears and bows and arrows. They won medals for this. Kind of like the British soldiers who won medals for killing unarmed Irish protesters on Bloody Sunday. Kind of like the 7th Cavalry who won 29 medals of honor for murdering some 500 unarmed Lakota. Here is part of the lyrics.
"Come tell us how you slew
Those old Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows,
How you bravely slew each one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them damn natives to the marrow."
Go here for the rest of the song lyrics.
Here, let me give you a spin on some other history to give you a sense of how these murders, this massacre, makes me feel.
Kip Kinkel was bravely defending himself when he killed in self-defense a few of his fellow classmates.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold bravely defended themselves from their high school comrades at Columbine High School. What brave young men they were.
Ted Bundy, a lover of women, bravely defended himself against them.
Now there is a different spin to the murderers mentioned above. It is not much different, really, than the spin being put on the murders of 19 folk on that unarmed flotilla (sticks and knives are not arms compared to guns with live ammunition). The Israeli military did not act bravely, nor was it in self-defense. The Israeli military murdered, massacred, and terrorized any thinking of helping the people they enjoy making suffer for being Palestinian.
So, if Israel was bravely defending itself against folk who didn't have weapons. Remember when Colin Powell was showing the photos of the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq's possession? You remember, the vehicles that actually weren't weapons, but got the U.S. into a war that has slaugthered some one and a half million Iraqis. That is the proof of the weapons that Israel has. They ought to hire Colin Powell to give them some international legitimacy. Colin, BTW, helped in the cover up of the My Lai massacre, where brave U.S. soldiers defended themselves against unarmed Vietnamese, Lt. Cally starting out first by killing a young boy. Brave brave men.
Now imagine you are at a basketball game. When the whistle blows and the ball is thrown for the game to start, one team whips out automatic weapons and murders everyone on the other team. Did the team with the weapons win? I dare you to question that. Would you question the bravery and the sportsmanship of men who are heavily armed? Would you?
That is how Israel will be justified in these murders. This massacre. That is how these men murdering folk armed with sticks and knives will be praised. However, in obvious reality, they are cowards and murderers, like Kip Kinkel, Ted Bundy, Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold. No one makes excuses for Kip, Ted, Eric and Dylan. They call them mass murderers.
"One law for the common man, another for the king."
We have to change everything folks.
"Come tell us how you slew
Those old Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows,
How you bravely slew each one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them damn natives to the marrow."
Go here for the rest of the song lyrics.
Here, let me give you a spin on some other history to give you a sense of how these murders, this massacre, makes me feel.
Kip Kinkel was bravely defending himself when he killed in self-defense a few of his fellow classmates.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold bravely defended themselves from their high school comrades at Columbine High School. What brave young men they were.
Ted Bundy, a lover of women, bravely defended himself against them.
Now there is a different spin to the murderers mentioned above. It is not much different, really, than the spin being put on the murders of 19 folk on that unarmed flotilla (sticks and knives are not arms compared to guns with live ammunition). The Israeli military did not act bravely, nor was it in self-defense. The Israeli military murdered, massacred, and terrorized any thinking of helping the people they enjoy making suffer for being Palestinian.
So, if Israel was bravely defending itself against folk who didn't have weapons. Remember when Colin Powell was showing the photos of the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq's possession? You remember, the vehicles that actually weren't weapons, but got the U.S. into a war that has slaugthered some one and a half million Iraqis. That is the proof of the weapons that Israel has. They ought to hire Colin Powell to give them some international legitimacy. Colin, BTW, helped in the cover up of the My Lai massacre, where brave U.S. soldiers defended themselves against unarmed Vietnamese, Lt. Cally starting out first by killing a young boy. Brave brave men.
Now imagine you are at a basketball game. When the whistle blows and the ball is thrown for the game to start, one team whips out automatic weapons and murders everyone on the other team. Did the team with the weapons win? I dare you to question that. Would you question the bravery and the sportsmanship of men who are heavily armed? Would you?
That is how Israel will be justified in these murders. This massacre. That is how these men murdering folk armed with sticks and knives will be praised. However, in obvious reality, they are cowards and murderers, like Kip Kinkel, Ted Bundy, Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold. No one makes excuses for Kip, Ted, Eric and Dylan. They call them mass murderers.
"One law for the common man, another for the king."
We have to change everything folks.
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