Thursday, June 24, 2010
"Democracy is the preferred system because it gives the political power to the mass media"
David Frum: "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox"
BBC Paxman: "What's the difference between Zionism and Racism?"
Do Zionists control the U S Government?
Jimmy Carter: US Candidates MUST do as Israel says
Invisible Colonization - CNN memo to staff: "We refer to Gilo as 'a Jewish neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem'...We don't refer to it as a 'settlement'"
American Mass Media is controlled by Zionists
Jimmy Carter - Palestine: Peace not Apartheid
60 Minutes - The Truth in Palestine
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
the horror
Fascism Enters Through “Terror” Door
The question is not whether fascists have held power in the United States, but why they have not yet been able to rule as fascists. The question may soon become moot, as the U.S. Supreme Court acts to further “dismantle legal barriers to actual fascist rule”
“The national criminal justice system is now set to operate as a recognizably fascist political machine.”
America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company-Owned Town
What we are witnessing is the destructive behavior of a predatory class that sees its future in trillion-dollar derivative bets; commodification of every conceivable resource (food, water, air?) and manipulation of every commodity market; privatization of every possible state function (schools, safety nets); constant expansion of the “market” in the maintenance of empire; and the “primitive accumulation” of the spoils of war.
The question is not whether fascists have held power in the United States, but why they have not yet been able to rule as fascists. The question may soon become moot, as the U.S. Supreme Court acts to further “dismantle legal barriers to actual fascist rule”
“The national criminal justice system is now set to operate as a recognizably fascist political machine.”
America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company-Owned Town
What we are witnessing is the destructive behavior of a predatory class that sees its future in trillion-dollar derivative bets; commodification of every conceivable resource (food, water, air?) and manipulation of every commodity market; privatization of every possible state function (schools, safety nets); constant expansion of the “market” in the maintenance of empire; and the “primitive accumulation” of the spoils of war.
resistance in canada - from lesbian and gay community
Town hall on free speech at Toronto Pride
One for Toronto's queer history books
Pride Toronto reverses ban on "Israeli Apartheid"
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid wins battle against censorship
Pride Toronto censorship: All of our coverage in one place
Canada: Israel's new defender
Muted support for Palestine, funding cuts for Arab groups, now a ban on the phrase 'Israeli apartheid': what's going on in Canada?
Since the beginning of 2010, the federal government has systematically cut funding to Arab-Canadian organisations and to UN relief works in Gaza. In March, the Ontario provincial legislature issued a unanimous condemnation of Israeli Apartheid Week, while the federal government considered introducing a similar motion.
However, self-censorship reached new heights last month when Toronto's Pride Committee – which organises one of the world's largest gay pride celebrations – announced it would be banning use of the term "Israeli apartheid" at the festivities.
Pride week in Toronto is a loud and highly visible public event, with a long tradition of activists linking their own campaigns for sexual rights to other struggles for liberation and social justice; however, this year the organisers caved in to pressure from pro-Israel groups and Toronto city council.
The main effect of the decision is to bar one group in particular – Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) – who have marched in the parade since 2008.
The reason given is that the phrase "Israeli apartheid" violates Toronto's anti-discrimination policy. But when asked, neither Pride Toronto nor Giorgio Mammoliti – the Toronto city councillor mainly involved – could explain in detail what was discriminatory about describing Israel's privileging of its Jewish citizens over others as a form or racism and apartheid.
"It's absolutely bizarre the way they are trying to use the language around diversity and inclusiveness to exclude people," QuAIA activist Tim McCaskell told me. "It was so 1984."
More disgusting news and some brutal truth
IDF draws up new Gaza war doctrine
Ahead of a potential new conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the IDF has drawn up plans to evacuate entire Palestinian villages and refugee camps from areas of conflict in the event of an Israeli incursion, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
In America You can criticize God, but you can’t criticize Israel
Continued Ethnic Cleansing and Measures Aimed at Creating Jewish Majority in Occupied Jerusalem
Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border
Israel did 9/11, ALL THE PROOF IN THE WORLD
Zionism 101 – The Complete Story
Accused Mossad assassination attempt on Erdogan
Revisiting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2010
Israel blasts Castro for calling swastika 'new Israeli banner'
"The hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they would not hesitate to send the one and a half million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages were exterminated by the Nazis," the ex-Cuban leader said. "It would seem that the Fuehrer's [Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's] swastika is today Israel's banner," the 83-year-old Castro declaredWho says we can't criticize the state of Israel?
Closer to home, the aid organization Kairos had its funding cut off by the Harper government because of, the government alleges, its support for the boycott movement against Israel and its "anti-semitism". Kairos is a joint venture of thirteen Canadian churches and church organizations, including Catholic, Anglican, Christian Reformed, Evangelical Lutheran, Mennonite, Presbyterian, Society of Friends, and United Church.
The latest public figure to get the "anti-semitic" label is NDP MP for East Vancouver, Libby Davies. She has had this pinned on her because she expressed support for the international campaign to boycott and sanction Israel for its blockade of Gaza, as well as suggesting that Israel has been "occupying" the land since 1948.
Prime Minister Harper has since called for Davies to resign as deputy NDP leader and Liberal Bob Rae has accused her of "hostility and ignorance". Even some members of her own party, the NDP, have attacked her, with Thomas Mulcair NDP MP calling her comments "egregious" and out of step with her party.
It is quite interesting that, while the caucuses of the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP are very quick to jump on Davies, they have made no criticism of the killings by Israeli commandoes of the nine people on the ships attempting to break the blockade of Gaza by Israel.
It is also quite interesting that, as a 2007 BBC poll shows (see footnote 1), 52% of Canadians have a negative view towards Israel, while only 23% had a positive one. The question should be asked: Just who is out of step with who? Is it Libby Davies or is it the three federal parties in parliament who are out of step with the Canadian people?
Indeed, it is these same three federal political parties that have formed "The Canadian Parliamentary Committee to Combat Anti-semitism", the members of which are claiming that criticizing Israel is a "new form" of anti-semitism. Dylan Penner, founding member of Independent Jewish Voices, believes that the ultimate objective of this Parliamentary Committee is "to introduce legislation that would make it a crime to criticize Israel".
Canada’s Israel Lobby
Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism
“We, The Jewish People, Control America”
Israeli Spokesman Says We Control Stupid Americans
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
headlines
How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack
Leaked documents show PA undermined Turkey's push for UN flotilla probe
Israel and the aid convoy: How to make enemies
It's Official: There was No Humanitarian Aid on Mavi MarmaraTurkey, Israel, the U.S.
Neo-Conservatives Lead Charge Against Turkey
Turkish officials blow AIPAC claims out of the, uh, sea
Abbas to Obama: I'm against lifting the Gaza naval blockade
Castro says Israelis would like to send Palestinians to gas chambers
The Israeli Media’s Flotilla Fail
Haiti: Five Months After The Quake
Monday, June 21, 2010
links to save
Cultures of Resistance on Facebook
Dissident Voice
Ali Abunimah
Trying to effect change in Israel
Delegitimize Israel
Will Israel be brought to book?
FreeGaza Movement
Intifada-Palestine
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Culturesofresistance
Aloha Palestine
MaanNews
Voice of Palestine
Palestine-Info.co.uk
Haaretz
Journalists to Gaza
Gilad Atzmon
Zamon
israelpolitik
mondoweiss
MidEast Media Center
The Global Report
Alternet
Daviddegraw
Ampedstatus
John Pilger
Revolutionizing Awareness
theoildrum
ThinkProgress
Dissident Voice
Ali Abunimah
Trying to effect change in Israel
Delegitimize Israel
Will Israel be brought to book?
FreeGaza Movement
Intifada-Palestine
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Culturesofresistance
Aloha Palestine
MaanNews
Voice of Palestine
Palestine-Info.co.uk
Haaretz
Journalists to Gaza
Gilad Atzmon
Zamon
israelpolitik
mondoweiss
MidEast Media Center
The Global Report
Alternet
Daviddegraw
Ampedstatus
John Pilger
Revolutionizing Awareness
theoildrum
ThinkProgress
Sunday, June 20, 2010
US Corporate Media and Israel
The next time there is news about Israel killing activists, massacring children, bombing a refugee camp or perhaps obliterating an entire country, there is no need to pay attention to the facts. All you need to know is Israel, the eternal victim that says it will never feel secure, is just responding to some terrorist. And once the last ruthless animal is exterminated, there will be “peace.”
'How Has My Country So Terribly Lost Its Way?'
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Unverified stats about Israel
Israeli World Records-
• Israel was established upon the ruins of another nation that it destroyed; Palestine
• Israel hold the world record in the number of towns & villages it ethnically cleansed...500+
• Israel holds the world record in the number of refugees it deported...4 million +
• Israel holds the world record in the number of homes it demolished...60 thousand +
• Israel is the country with the highest record of UN condemnation...500+ times
• Israel is the country with the highest number of protective US Security council vetoes...100+ times
• Israel has killed more innocent civilians per capita than any other country...50 thousand+
• Israel has imprisoned more civilians per capita than any other country...250 thousand+
• Israel has rendered more innocent civilians handicapped per capita than any other country...50 thousand+
• Israel has injured more innocent civilians per capita than any other country...200 thousand+
• Israel has only two countries to defend its policies in the United Nations. These countries are America & Micronesia. The population for Micronesia as of June 2008 is only 108,000
• Israel is the only country on Earth that denies the right of return of refugees
• Israel is the only country on Earth that still occupies a whole other country & parts of two other countries
• Israel is the only country on Earth that publicly, steals the water of its neighbors
• Israel is the only country on Earth that has legalized home demolishing as a method of collective punishment
• Israel is the only country on Earth that uproots trees as a method of collective punishment
• Israel is the only country on Earth that deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and justifies it
• Israel is the only country on Earth that legalized assassination
• Israel stands unique in using human shields in military operations
• Amongst all countries, Israel is the only one that has legalized torture
• Israel is the only country on Earth that builds illegal settlements in occupied lands
• Israel is the only country on Earth that publicly jails activists without trial
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Israel has created the highest number of checkpoints
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Israel holds the world record in the number of curfew it has installed on the Palestinians
• Israel is the only country on Earth whose checkpoints deny women access to hospitals, they give birth alone and babies usually die
• Israel is exceptional in being the only country on Earth whose checkpoints denies patients access to hospitals, and they end up dying
• Israel is the only country on Earth whose checkpoints are where wedding parades come to an end
• Israel is the only country on Earth who check points schoolchildren, denies them access to school, and puts an end to their classes
• Israel is one of two countries that, against International Law, use cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs. America is the other...what a surprise huh?
• Israel holds the world record in the number of soldiers refusing to serve in the army
• Israel despite being a rich country, receives the highest financial aid, more than the sum aid to all sub-Saharan Africa!
• Israel claims its enemies want to wipe it off the map, but it has indeed wiped a whole country called Palestine off the map!
• Israel is the country that has introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East. But the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
• After East Germany, Israel is the only country that is building a segregation wall
• Second to South Africa, Israel is the only country to establish an apartheid regime
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first iron gates on roads
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first cities turned into jails with gates and opening hours
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first apartheid walls
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first electrified segregation fences
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first 'eyes specific' rubber bullets
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first abortion efficient, infant killing tear gas
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first humiliation guaranteed human cages
• Israel is the only country on Earth that has a political party that publicly advocates ethnic cleansing of native citizens (Palestinians)
• Israel is the only country on Earth that still has racist laws that discriminate against native citizens (Palestinians)
• Israel is the only country on Earth known to have a memorial dedicated to a terrorist where his followers gather and dance
• Israel is the only country on Earth that imprisons kids for political reasons
• Israel was established upon the ruins of another nation that it destroyed; Palestine
• Israel hold the world record in the number of towns & villages it ethnically cleansed...500+
• Israel holds the world record in the number of refugees it deported...4 million +
• Israel holds the world record in the number of homes it demolished...60 thousand +
• Israel is the country with the highest record of UN condemnation...500+ times
• Israel is the country with the highest number of protective US Security council vetoes...100+ times
• Israel has killed more innocent civilians per capita than any other country...50 thousand+
• Israel has imprisoned more civilians per capita than any other country...250 thousand+
• Israel has rendered more innocent civilians handicapped per capita than any other country...50 thousand+
• Israel has injured more innocent civilians per capita than any other country...200 thousand+
• Israel has only two countries to defend its policies in the United Nations. These countries are America & Micronesia. The population for Micronesia as of June 2008 is only 108,000
• Israel is the only country on Earth that denies the right of return of refugees
• Israel is the only country on Earth that still occupies a whole other country & parts of two other countries
• Israel is the only country on Earth that publicly, steals the water of its neighbors
• Israel is the only country on Earth that has legalized home demolishing as a method of collective punishment
• Israel is the only country on Earth that uproots trees as a method of collective punishment
• Israel is the only country on Earth that deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and justifies it
• Israel is the only country on Earth that legalized assassination
• Israel stands unique in using human shields in military operations
• Amongst all countries, Israel is the only one that has legalized torture
• Israel is the only country on Earth that builds illegal settlements in occupied lands
• Israel is the only country on Earth that publicly jails activists without trial
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Israel has created the highest number of checkpoints
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Israel holds the world record in the number of curfew it has installed on the Palestinians
• Israel is the only country on Earth whose checkpoints deny women access to hospitals, they give birth alone and babies usually die
• Israel is exceptional in being the only country on Earth whose checkpoints denies patients access to hospitals, and they end up dying
• Israel is the only country on Earth whose checkpoints are where wedding parades come to an end
• Israel is the only country on Earth who check points schoolchildren, denies them access to school, and puts an end to their classes
• Israel is one of two countries that, against International Law, use cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs. America is the other...what a surprise huh?
• Israel holds the world record in the number of soldiers refusing to serve in the army
• Israel despite being a rich country, receives the highest financial aid, more than the sum aid to all sub-Saharan Africa!
• Israel claims its enemies want to wipe it off the map, but it has indeed wiped a whole country called Palestine off the map!
• Israel is the country that has introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East. But the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
• After East Germany, Israel is the only country that is building a segregation wall
• Second to South Africa, Israel is the only country to establish an apartheid regime
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first iron gates on roads
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first cities turned into jails with gates and opening hours
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first apartheid walls
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first electrified segregation fences
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first 'eyes specific' rubber bullets
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first abortion efficient, infant killing tear gas
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first humiliation guaranteed human cages
• Israel is the only country on Earth that has a political party that publicly advocates ethnic cleansing of native citizens (Palestinians)
• Israel is the only country on Earth that still has racist laws that discriminate against native citizens (Palestinians)
• Israel is the only country on Earth known to have a memorial dedicated to a terrorist where his followers gather and dance
• Israel is the only country on Earth that imprisons kids for political reasons
Friday, June 18, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Comic relief
Israeli students plan "Kurdish freedom flotilla"
What sounds like a diabolically clever public relations coup starts sounding too clever by half when you listen to people in the region. As one reader remarked to the Israeli news source Ynet, "Israeli ignorance is hilarious. Kurds are the most extreme Islamists in Turkey. Most of the Erdogan cabinet are Kurdish. Most of Erdogan's voters are Kurds. Kurdish mosques are full of Hamas and Hezbollah posters. I really want to watch Israelis meeting the Kurds, that will be a scene to watch."
It seems the waters of the eastern Mediterranean will be awash in self-righteous flotillas this summer. Generous Israelis are shipping humanitarian aid to oppressed Muslim and Christian communities -- everywhere except to Gaza. According to the Jerusalem Post, yet another ship -- packed to the gunwales with humanitarian supplies -- is about to head from Israel to Cyprus
Ideas for ‘reverse flotillas’ gain steam
Thursday, June 10, 2010
15 min of footage released
It has been cut, perhaps so as not to show actual murders taking place or dead bodies...More to be released in next 24hours.
Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara, May 31st 2010 // 15 min. from Cultures of Resistance
Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara, May 31st 2010 // 15 min. from Cultures of Resistance
War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields
More evidence
Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security
Lieberman: Israel shouldn't lift Gaza siege until Hamas lets Red Cross see Shalit
Israel FM Lieberman admits Gaza blockade intended as collective punishment: a war crime
Israel trying to get Gaza people to overthrow Hamas
Through piracy, Israel has revealed its true nature to the world
Advocate of war crimes to head IDF enquiry
By Moshe Machover – 10 June 2010According to a YNET report of 7 June, 2010, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi has appointed Maj-Gen (ret.) Giora Eiland to head “external inquest into deadly raid of Gaza flotilla”.
This is an excellent choice. Gen. Eiland is the main author of the Dahiya Doctrine of “disproportionate response”, which calls for “the wholesale destruction of the military, government and civilian infrastructure of the enemy entity”.
As quoted by New York Times, 19 January 2009:
The Israeli theory of what it tried to do here [in Gaza, 2008-9] is summed
up in a Hebrew phrase heard across Israel and throughout the military in the past weeks: “baal habayit hishtageya,” or “the boss has lost it.” It evokes the image of a madman who cannot be controlled.
“This phrase means that if our civilians are attacked by you, we are not going to respond in proportion but will use all means we have to cause you such damage that you will think twice in the future,” said Giora Eiland, a former national security adviser.
Now it gets more digusting and repulsive
Some of these are are democrats I used to respect and thought were sane.
Now I want to throw up
"I thank those that have joined in, in raising our voice to defend actions that really need no defense. Actions that any nation on earth would take if it were similarly threatened. Period. Any nation on earth."
And here is the sickening, repulsive Glenn Beck
Who are the terrorists?
Israeli Occupation Forces Kidnap and Terrorize “Confession” Out of 13 Year Old Boy
Fear, pain and propaganda
Now I want to throw up
"I thank those that have joined in, in raising our voice to defend actions that really need no defense. Actions that any nation on earth would take if it were similarly threatened. Period. Any nation on earth."
And here is the sickening, repulsive Glenn Beck
Who are the terrorists?
Israeli Occupation Forces Kidnap and Terrorize “Confession” Out of 13 Year Old Boy
Fear, pain and propaganda
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Israelis protesting massacre
What did we do? We united all of Turkey in hatred for Israel. Was it worth it?
Israel Navy reserves officers: Allow external Gaza flotilla probe
"Officers denounce operation as 'military and diplomatic failure', slam government for placing blame on the activists."
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Twilight Zone - Descent into Madness, Chaos, Hell
These last few days, ever since the IDF executed pro-Gaza activists in international waters, I feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone. It was such an incomprehensible act I became obsessed with finding out why. Watching and reading everything I could find on-line about the slaughter to figure out what in the world is going on.
Well, a week later, staying up till 4-5am some nights, I am deeply disturbed by what have uncovered.
The last few months I have been wrapped up with "paperwork" demanded by corrupt governments, this event woke me up.
How to summarize...I feel sick, ill. I want to throw up, it is so staggering I can't take it all in.
This is all started for me with the campaign and subsequent election of B.Obama as President of the United States. At the time, the issue for me was why Obama was selected to be the next president and why did the Republican party bend over backwards to get him elected with the most votes possible.
I didn't understand it at all as had never seen such a one-sided campaign in the US before.
At the same time, I discovered the Zeitgeist movement. It made sense to me and served as a logical explanation for such a one-sided presidential campaign. In other words, I fooled myself into believing for at least a year or more, that Obama was chosen to make the world a better place with zeitgeist values - protect the environment and humanity.
I have always known there were two directions possible, a better world for all people, or a fascist police state. I foolishly believed in the former for a long time because I wanted to.
I recognize that there is little to nothing I can do about what is happening or where this is going.
I am just trying to figure out where it is going. My wife asks me why I am so obsessed with trying to figure this out since there is nothing I can do about it and I can't give her a good answer. I don't know why, I just feel like I have to try, for what I don't know. I do know I have made some terrible decisions over past three years but fortunately can't make any more like that as have run out!
So, this brings us to today, June 8th 2010.
I got re-obsessed with the issue of where this is going and what it all means when the IDF murdered 13/16? (9 confirmed dead, 4 missing likely thrown into the sea) and wounded more than 100 others in a dawn raid, in international waters, on the "Gaza flotilla"
I couldn't understand why the IDF and US-Israeli governments would do this. It was obvious that Israel would not have acted without the US, so the question becomes why do it?
Such a blatant act could not be covered up when members of parliament, noble prize winners, holocaust survivors, journalists and activists from over 30 countries were on board. It would be impossible, short of sinking six ships and killing them all to prevent their version of events ever coming out, which in it itself would have been difficult to explain.
So what was the point?
At first I thought this act of murder and state terrorism was to send a message to the world that Israel was a rapid dog not to be messed with. No matter who you are or where you are from don't mess with Israel. Classic Moshe Dayan strategy “Israel must be a like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.”
If only this were the case, but this is far too simplistic an explanation.
The truth is far more sinister.
The truth makes one question everything. Who said what and why. Who organizes or finances anything.
Call me paranoid, but I question everyone and any organization now. No one is to be trusted. Motives are always suspect.
I now know that you cannot look at someone's background and say I have a good idea of where that person is coming from and what their motives are. B.Obama's background is impeccable. Friend of Bill Ayers, went to Palestinian activist wedding, was a community organizer etc etc.
Background is irrelevant, power, money and greed are all that matter. The fact that the free Gaza movement is associated with bill ayers makes it suspect.
But I digress, the point is what was the objective of the IDF and US-Israeli policy in executing Turkish civilians and terrorizing foreign nationals.
What is clear is that the Israeli state is an apartheid theocracy. This has been evident for a long time but what does its most recent message mean. The answer to that is ominous.
In an interview with CTV news Raymond Tanter of Georgetown University said "I see what president Obama has done, I'm not paying attention to what he says. He will, by end of the summer, have half of the deployable aircraft carriers in the United States fleet in striking distance of Iran which is the existential threat to Israel. Five aircraft carriers in the med, Persian gulf, Indian ocean, Arabian sea. That's huge, it's humongous."
Far more disturbing is Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck sets the tone for the entire Fox news network and any message he carries is sure to be broadcast on sister networks like ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC and the rest. Glenn gives a nice summary of the main street media's message to the masses.
The message he is now broadcasting to the American people makes my hair stand on end.
Well, a week later, staying up till 4-5am some nights, I am deeply disturbed by what have uncovered.
The last few months I have been wrapped up with "paperwork" demanded by corrupt governments, this event woke me up.
How to summarize...I feel sick, ill. I want to throw up, it is so staggering I can't take it all in.
This is all started for me with the campaign and subsequent election of B.Obama as President of the United States. At the time, the issue for me was why Obama was selected to be the next president and why did the Republican party bend over backwards to get him elected with the most votes possible.
I didn't understand it at all as had never seen such a one-sided campaign in the US before.
At the same time, I discovered the Zeitgeist movement. It made sense to me and served as a logical explanation for such a one-sided presidential campaign. In other words, I fooled myself into believing for at least a year or more, that Obama was chosen to make the world a better place with zeitgeist values - protect the environment and humanity.
I have always known there were two directions possible, a better world for all people, or a fascist police state. I foolishly believed in the former for a long time because I wanted to.
I recognize that there is little to nothing I can do about what is happening or where this is going.
I am just trying to figure out where it is going. My wife asks me why I am so obsessed with trying to figure this out since there is nothing I can do about it and I can't give her a good answer. I don't know why, I just feel like I have to try, for what I don't know. I do know I have made some terrible decisions over past three years but fortunately can't make any more like that as have run out!
So, this brings us to today, June 8th 2010.
I got re-obsessed with the issue of where this is going and what it all means when the IDF murdered 13/16? (9 confirmed dead, 4 missing likely thrown into the sea) and wounded more than 100 others in a dawn raid, in international waters, on the "Gaza flotilla"
I couldn't understand why the IDF and US-Israeli governments would do this. It was obvious that Israel would not have acted without the US, so the question becomes why do it?
Such a blatant act could not be covered up when members of parliament, noble prize winners, holocaust survivors, journalists and activists from over 30 countries were on board. It would be impossible, short of sinking six ships and killing them all to prevent their version of events ever coming out, which in it itself would have been difficult to explain.
So what was the point?
At first I thought this act of murder and state terrorism was to send a message to the world that Israel was a rapid dog not to be messed with. No matter who you are or where you are from don't mess with Israel. Classic Moshe Dayan strategy “Israel must be a like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.”
If only this were the case, but this is far too simplistic an explanation.
The truth is far more sinister.
The truth makes one question everything. Who said what and why. Who organizes or finances anything.
Call me paranoid, but I question everyone and any organization now. No one is to be trusted. Motives are always suspect.
I now know that you cannot look at someone's background and say I have a good idea of where that person is coming from and what their motives are. B.Obama's background is impeccable. Friend of Bill Ayers, went to Palestinian activist wedding, was a community organizer etc etc.
Background is irrelevant, power, money and greed are all that matter. The fact that the free Gaza movement is associated with bill ayers makes it suspect.
But I digress, the point is what was the objective of the IDF and US-Israeli policy in executing Turkish civilians and terrorizing foreign nationals.
What is clear is that the Israeli state is an apartheid theocracy. This has been evident for a long time but what does its most recent message mean. The answer to that is ominous.
In an interview with CTV news Raymond Tanter of Georgetown University said "I see what president Obama has done, I'm not paying attention to what he says. He will, by end of the summer, have half of the deployable aircraft carriers in the United States fleet in striking distance of Iran which is the existential threat to Israel. Five aircraft carriers in the med, Persian gulf, Indian ocean, Arabian sea. That's huge, it's humongous."
Far more disturbing is Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck sets the tone for the entire Fox news network and any message he carries is sure to be broadcast on sister networks like ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC and the rest. Glenn gives a nice summary of the main street media's message to the masses.
The message he is now broadcasting to the American people makes my hair stand on end.
Kevin o' Keefe
Ken O'Keefe Speaks, Photos Painful to See and More Israeli Lies Exposed
Caroline Glick - Homicidal Zealot
Bil’in - a Palestinian village that is struggling to exist
electronicIntifada.net
http://www.hybridstates.com/
Detailed Compiled Eyewitness Accounts Confirm Cold-Blooded Murder and Executions by Israeli Military
They walked up to the man co-ordinating facilities for journalists, put a gun to his head and shot him dead at point-blank range
Was the Obama Administration involved in the Planning of the Israeli Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla?
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"I see what president Obama has done, I'm not paying attention to what he says. He will, by end of summer, have half of the deployable aircraft carriers in the United States fleet in striking distance of Iran which is the existential threat to Israel. Five aircraft carriers in the med, Indian ocean, Arabian sea. That's huge, it's humongous." - Raymond Tanter, Georgetown University - CTV News June 1st 2010
Caroline Glick - Homicidal Zealot
Bil’in - a Palestinian village that is struggling to exist
electronicIntifada.net
http://www.hybridstates.com/
Detailed Compiled Eyewitness Accounts Confirm Cold-Blooded Murder and Executions by Israeli Military
They walked up to the man co-ordinating facilities for journalists, put a gun to his head and shot him dead at point-blank range
Was the Obama Administration involved in the Planning of the Israeli Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla?
Canadian establishment's deference to Israel is out of date
Mossad chief: Israel gradually becoming burden on U.S.
Strenger than Fiction / Israel's bunker mentality
Essay of the week: What drives Israel?
Probably the most bewildering aspect of the Gaza flotilla affair has been the righteous indignation expressed by the Israeli government and people.=======================================
"I see what president Obama has done, I'm not paying attention to what he says. He will, by end of summer, have half of the deployable aircraft carriers in the United States fleet in striking distance of Iran which is the existential threat to Israel. Five aircraft carriers in the med, Indian ocean, Arabian sea. That's huge, it's humongous." - Raymond Tanter, Georgetown University - CTV News June 1st 2010
Activists claim they never intended to enter 68 mile military zone
This is supported by direction of flotilla, WEST
Did Israel press on with bloody attack on Mavi Marmara even as ship fled at full-speed?
Israel and the JDL defending itself
Caroline Glick - the heinous producer of the self-fulfilling "we con the world"
Tony Blair: Israel has a right to defend itself
Turkish Doctor Describes Treating Israeli Commandos During Raid
Photographs of Battered Israeli Commandos Show New Side of Raid
A Short Primer on Israeli Propaganda for Media Dummies
Monday, June 7, 2010
More first hand accounts of what happened
Detailed Compiled Eyewitness Accounts Confirm Cold-Blooded Murder and Executions by Israeli Military LOTS
CBC.CA - Israelis on ship acted in self-defence
Guardian.co.uk - Turkish jihadis bent on violence attacked troops, Israel claims
FoxNews -Israeli Officials Claim Aid Flotilla Had Ties to Al Qaeda, PM Gives Military 'Full Support'
CNN - Israeli assault on Gaza-bound flotilla leaves at least 9 dead
NY Times confirms Israel started hostilities on flotilla
Leicestershire man describes horror of seeing activists shot dead on aid boat
The hijacking of the truth: Film evidence 'destroyed'
Jewish flotilla to break Gaza siege
German Jewish group prepares flotilla to protest Israel's blockade on Gaza. 'Activists frightened, but not by Hamas,' member of organization says
Turkey to cancel defense agreements with Israel after flotilla attack
Disturbing
Israeli commando who shot six passengers in aid convoy in line for medal
Who was killed
Testimony of rogue commando who killed six civilian activists further undermines official IDF story
Israel flip-flopping on the detention of commandos aboard Mavi Marmara
Yet another glaring contradiction in Israeli account of flotilla massacre
Ethan Bronner of NY Times confirms Israel started hostilities on flotilla
Further Israeli lies about capture of Israeli commandos
Legal issues raised by flotilla assault: Israeli navy commandos inadvertently attack Gilad Shalit
Lest you have any doubt about rising fascism in Israel
Israel Navy: 3 commandos nearly taken hostage in Gaza flotilla raid
Gaza flotilla raid: Joe Biden asks 'So what's the big deal here?
Israel hasbara fails again: Photos show Mavi Marmara passengers protecting, aiding Israeli soldiers
Hasbara comedy video further exposes IDF "knife-attacker" photo fraud.
Proof emerges IDF audio of radio communication with Mavi Marmara is fabricated.
Israel Navy reserves officers: Allow external Gaza flotilla probe
IDF legal official: Israel should probe Goldstone Gaza report
Israel: Fiasco at Sea
Is the Embargo Good for the Jews?
What goods does Israel bar from the Gaza Strip?
Rabid Rally in Tel Aviv for Israeli Commandos Who Killed 9 Peace Activists
If Gaza's relief is a step closer they won't have died in vain
The per verbal rabbit hole
The more look into the events last week and the aftermath the more disturbing it gets. The links, stories, articles, posts, videos about this are limitless. Some on the blogosphere have written fantastic insights into what happened and the events that followed. It is really too much too list.
What is becoming clearer though is that the IDF and its hasbara are nothing more than incompetent propagandists that would have made even Joseph Goebells ashamed. They cannot get a story straight or control its own releases to maintain continuity. They come out with one version of events only to have it contradicted a day or so later by someone else within the IDF itself.
More disturbing than the picture of the IDF as an incompetent band of murderers, hooligans, thugs, bullies and facists, is the role of the United States in supporting Israel and the IDF, and in particular Obama who has revealed himself as a Zionist.
The image and message Obama projected during the presidential campaign has been completely shattered. The question the republicans kept asking during the campaign "Who is Obama" has definitly been answered. He is a zionist agent, just like every president since Kennedy.
There are many examples could use to show this but here is a very recent one, his interview on Larry King Live June 3rd 2010.
What is becoming clearer though is that the IDF and its hasbara are nothing more than incompetent propagandists that would have made even Joseph Goebells ashamed. They cannot get a story straight or control its own releases to maintain continuity. They come out with one version of events only to have it contradicted a day or so later by someone else within the IDF itself.
More disturbing than the picture of the IDF as an incompetent band of murderers, hooligans, thugs, bullies and facists, is the role of the United States in supporting Israel and the IDF, and in particular Obama who has revealed himself as a Zionist.
The image and message Obama projected during the presidential campaign has been completely shattered. The question the republicans kept asking during the campaign "Who is Obama" has definitly been answered. He is a zionist agent, just like every president since Kennedy.
There are many examples could use to show this but here is a very recent one, his interview on Larry King Live June 3rd 2010.
Larry King – President Obama Interview Transcript
Obama - Here’s what we’ve got. You’ve got a situation in which Israel has legitimate security concerns when they’ve got missiles raining down on cities along the Israel/Gaza border. I’ve been to those towns and seen the holes that were made by missiles coming through people’s bedrooms. Israel has a legitimate concern there. On the other hand you’ve got a blockage up that is preventing people in Palestinian Gaza from having job opportunities and being able to create businesses and engage in trade and have opportunity for the future.
Firedoglake sums it nicely:
No, Mr President. The Real Problem in Gaza is not a Lack of “Job Opportunities.”
"On the one hand, these missiles are "raining down on Israel," which is quite the exaggeration (23 casualties in 10 years is hardly raining). Indeed, no mention of the artillery, white phosphorous or 500 pound HE bombs raining on Gaza. Or the snipers shooting at children. Or the American who was just blinded by a heroic IDF soldier.
On the other, the main problem Gazans have is a lack off business opportunities. That strikes me as some foul Randian BS, eh? No, the lack of clean water, food, schools or medicine isn’t an issue. It’s the lack of business opportunities. Roger that!"
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