Chaitra Sangkranti, MOSSAD AGENTS and Internal SECURITY:THINK BEFORE ADVOCATING POLITICAL PARTY
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Prophet Jesus (mpbuh) said that many false prophets will come, by their fruit they may be known.
Play Video Chaitra Sangkranti Mela is a folk fair taking place on the last day of the Bangla month of Chaitra. The last day of any Bangla month is called sangkranti, but the last day of Chaitra is considered auspicious. Traditionally, the occasion is marked by ritual baths, gifts, fasts, etc. The main ceremony is known as chadak or gajan. This is an apparently Saivite ritual. Saivite ascetics live on alms throughout the month and, on the last day, they perform several physical feats, such as piercing the body with shula (spikes), vana (arrows), or hooks, being whirled around on a wheel atop pole, walking on burning coals, etc. At present these feats are not as popular as they used to be.
On this occasion fairs are organised where toys, fruits, and sweets as well as goods made of bamboo, cane, plastic, clay, are sold. Bioscope shows, puppet shows, acrobatic feats, kite flying etc form part of the entertainment. Chaitra Sangkranti Mela has now been largely replaced by baishakhi mela. [Anjalika Mukhopadhyay]http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/C_0083.htm
We Bengalies worldwide scattered and being proud of our Bangla Nationality and mother Tongue, may be converted to Brahminism and eventually have become Americanised. Specially, in WEST Bengal Landscape and humanscape there is any scope hardly for any element of Aboriginal, Indigenous and Minority Cultural or Folk roots.
We don`t enjoy ASHTAK GAAN or GAZAN any more. But rhythmic with Globalisation, it is once again SHOPPING time for BENGALIES worldwide as we are ENGAGED to harvest all GIFTS,Concessions and BOOSTERS during Chaitra SALE.
In fact, Bengalies including the Aboriginal, Indigenous and Minority communities in West Bengal do live in an ILLUSION of Status LIBERATION as the CASTE STRUGGLE is quite absent and the Marxist Brahaminical Ruling Hegemony practice Aggressive Bangla nationalism to Co OPT all Insurrections, Movements, Uprisings and Revolts virtually leaving no SPACE for any change in the stagnent STATUS QUO STAND OFF infinite.
Micro Minority 2.3 percent Brahamins rule as the SHUDRA KAYASTHA cling with the Ruling class even after NETAJI and vivekanad, the Kayastha ICONS Betrayed and Jyoti Basu betrayed. BAIDYA and also MAHISHYA join the procession to have some thing denying the OBC status. Forty Two Percent OBC Population assumes themselves VEDIC and high caste and join the RULING Class what if they get NOTHING in exchange. Not even a cabinet minister!
First JYOTI basu denied the existence of OBC in Bengal with BURMAN COMMITTEE report. Then, DETECTION OBC drama was enacted very late and only SEVEN PERCENT Reservation for the OBC is granted in Bengal.
But this seven percent resrvation is also USELESS since CASTE CERTIFICATES are not given!
Even Caste Certificates would never help you in West bengal unless the relevent unit of the Marxist Hegemony endorse the Appointment, Posting and Transfer! Major part of the Reservation and quta posts lie VACANT or after some time LIQUIDATED as GENERAL as WORTHY SC OBC ST candidates have not to be spotted!
Forty Two percent OBC is the BACK BONE for STATUS QUO in Bengal as half the POPULATION immediately adopt the HINDUTVA BRAHAMINICAL Way and others have no way but to follow suit. Thus, SC EDUCATED lot ahs become the IN LAW community who reject their Indigenous roots!
Hence, it is all the way TAGORE, KALIBARI, RAMKRISHNA MISSION, BUDDHA, MRINAL, RAY, SUNIL and Mamata Bannerjee!
Thus, DURGA and KALI are invoked as WAR GODDESS to KILL whatever FOLK remains surviving!
Bengalies wait all the year round fro the SHOPPING Bonanza as we have to pay more in DURGA PUJA FESTIVAL, another bengali Shopping season.
It is HIGH TIME for Shopping MALLS and RETAIL CHAIN!
It is HIGH Time for ZIONIST BRAHAMINICAL WARFARE Monoploistic Aggression. Mind you, National SECULAR FASCIST Hindutva gets all the BOOST from INDIGENOUS Progressive BENGAL and ZIONISM has the most FERTILE land in Bengal undre MARXIST RULE!
I have been writing about the TRI IBLIS Satanic World Order of Post Modern Manusmriti Apartheid Illuminiti Order led by US War ECONOMY and ZIONIS CORPORTE US Imperialism and ISRAEL in almost all the Chapters of Troubled galaxy Destroyed dreams!
I have been writing about the Ruling Hegemonies, the best agents of Washington MASS DESTRUCTION System!
I have also been writing about LPG Mafia and DISINVESTMENT DEPORTATION DISPLACEMENT drives!
Several times I have been writing about MOSSAD and CIA creating all the Trouble in the Divided Bleeding Geopolitics since WAR Zone is shifted right into our Heart, since INDO US NUKE deal signed, since strategic realliance being EFFECTIVE in Indian ocean peace zone!
I have been writing about Missing Links of History, Dalit Renaissance, resistance and insurrections, Terror Strikes and Insurgency, Unstability and subvertion, Clash of civilisation, Marxist Betrayals, VOTE WISELY Campaign and Caste Hindu brahaminical Mobilisation against any change in India and survival strategies of the HEGEMONIES ruling in this part of the world!
I have been writing on CIA and MOSSAD role in India as well as fascist RSS Role in Genocide of culture, Hinduization of Defence forces and hinduization of Nationalities along with AFPSA and ZERO Tolerance and war against Terror!
I have aso written on MUMBAI CARNAGE!
Latest E Book by Nagpur based Comrade Sheetal Makram and friends on MOSSAD and CIA Justifies all my writings.
I have got the CD only this afternoon.
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Mumbai Attacks Expose
Mossad - CIA Plan to disrupt, Balkanize and Enslave India and Pakistan !
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Explanation of Terms Used in This E-Book
Chapter I : Zionist Plan to Enslave the World
Chapter II : Zionist Mossad-CIA Created Terrorist Muslim Organizations
Chapter III : Mossad-CIA is Disrupting and Balkanizing Pakistan !
Chapter IV : Mossad-CIA Disrupting India Through their Arya Brahminist Agents / Supporters !
Chapter V : Mumbai Attacks only Benefit Mossad, CIA and Arya Brahminists !
Chapter VI : Mumbai Attacks Raise Many Questions !
Chapter VII : Impending More Sinister Mossad-CIA False flag Operations ?
Chapter VIII : Mossad-CIA Plan to disrupt, Balkanize and Enslave India Through Arya-Brahminists !
Chapter IX : Process of Balkanizing India Through Arya-Brahminists
Chapter X : Intended Mossad-CIA Controlled Splinters of India !
Chapter XI :
What Masses Must Do ?
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Explanation of Terms Used in This E-Book
Important :- Whle citing the information taken from various sources, to make information truly meaningful we have used words such as Brahminists, Manuists, Arya-Brahminists, exploiters, Arya-Brahminists riding the government, Manu-media, Brahmincracy, Arya-Brahminist Demoncracy and so on and some information in bold letters. We have also put our own comments within { } to make the information more meaningful.
1) Adivasi : indigenous people that use to live in forests and also many settled in cities.
2) Arya-Brahmins : Persons who call themselves supreme race and above the law and even god. According to them the remaining masses are brought into existence to be ruled by Arya-Brahmins in the manner Arya-Brahmin like. Arya-Brahmins also represent any person, group or community that consider itself higher than the rest of mankind in above mentioned manner.
3) Arya-Brahminist : Any person belonging to any religion, caste or community who believes that the Arya-Brahmins are supreme race meant to rule the rest of the mankind and strives for imposition of Arya-Brahmin rule or strive for strengthening it by heart is an Arya-Brahminist.
4) Agent of Arya-Brahminist : Any person who work for establishing the supremacy of Arya-Brahmins to get some kind of favor is an agent of Arya-Brahmins.
5) Slave of Arya-Brahmins : Any person who is compelled to work for establishing the supremacy of Arya-Brahmins or to serve Arya-Brahmins against his wish is a slave of Arya-Brahmins.
6) Bahujans : The exploited and oppressed masses of the world who almost form 85% of total population are considered as Bahujans. In India OBC, Dalits, Muslims and Adivasi together constitute the population of Bahujans.
7) Bahujanism : Is ideology that ultimately aims to end exploitation and oppression of Arya-Brahmins (no matter what they are called) and aims to establish exploitation free society in which the various sections of Bahujans get their representation in every field according to their population proportion and Bahujan masses directly control the representatives they choose to run the government.
8) Bahujanist : Is a person who fights against the exploitation and oppression of Arya-Brahmins and their exploitation system; believes in equality, fraternity and brotherhood is Bahujanist.
Bahujanists include various Bahujan saints Such as Chakradhar, Namdev, Ravidas, Kabir, Tukaram, Harichand Thakur etc.; Social revolutionaries such as Pitamah Jyotirav Fule, Shahu Maharaj, Periyar E.V. Ramasami, Dr. Ambedkar, Guruchand Thakur etc; and communists such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao. All of them fought against exploitation and oppression of their time in the ways available to them during prevailing conditions.
9) Brahminism : The ideology that preaches supremacy of Arya-Brahmins over rest of the mankind and give Arya-Brahmins absolute power is Brahminism.
10) Manuism : Is Brahminism explained by Mr. Manu.
11) Dalits : Are castes compelled to do menial work and declared as untouchables.
12) Manumedia : Media of exploiter Arya-Brahminists.
13) Manusmriti : Book of the code of Mr. Manu.
14) OBC : Other backward classes.
Chapter I
Zionist Plan to Enslave the World
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Chapter VII
Impending More Sinister Mossad-CIA False flag Operations ?
False-Flag Operations of Israel
Gladio-Attacks on the Masses of Different Countries
Few of the False-Flag and Gladio Operations in India !
It is also a common practice for States which perpetrate and sponsor acts of terrorism to organize false flag operations against their own people and allies in order to blame the ‘enemies’ and rally support for their ‘cause’. Often, they are caught but they are above the law.
False-Flag Operations of Israel
In 1954 Israel attempted to bomb American interests in Egypt for the purpose of destroying any growing rapprochement between the two countries in what became known as the Lavon Affair.
Members of the Irgun Jewish terrorist movement dressed up as Palestinian army officers attacked the British HQ at King David Hotel in 1946 Palestine to blame Arabs.
During the six-day war in 1967, the Israelis attacked USS Liberty and murdered many US non-combatants in an attempt to blame it on Egypt and suck the Americans into a war with Soviet Union. (Ref. Phil Tourney, survivor of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty).
During the Reagan administration, a Mossad team broadcast messages from a remote location in Libya (termed as Operation Trojan Horse) implicating the Arab country in a series of yet-unsolved terror attacks that resulted in the United States bombing the home of Muhammar Kaddafi, Libya’s president.
In 1983, Israel learned of and refused to warn the US about a plot to bomb the American embassy in Beirut and its accompanying Marine Barracks that resulted in the deaths of close to 250 Americans.
In 1995, immediately following the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Israeli spies and provocateurs working in American media tried pinning the attack on Iraq.
It has been demonstrated that the 9/11 terror attacks against the World Trade Centre (WTC) and the Pentagon in 2001 were an inside job with Israeli involvement. The 9/11attack to take place on American soil that was used as the pretext for invading and destroying Afghanistan.
In January 2000, Indian intelligence detained 11 ‘Muslim preachers’ on the ground of hijacking conspiracy, but they turned out to be Israeli nationals sent with false passports to infiltrate Muslim organizations in India and were released.
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26/11 can happen again
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Combative PM takes on Advani, keeps door open for Left support
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26/11 attackers got "significant" support from India: Zardari
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Mumbai's Jews celebrate Passover
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30 Nov 2008 ... Amidst stories of heroism during the terror and carnage of Mumbai's 11/26, questions begin to be asked.
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Bibi aide admits he’s cited in Franklin case
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Are we in denial about terrorism?
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Mossad tipped off about Gaza-bound Iranian arms convoy
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Israeli officials were tight-lipped about the alleged raid with Israeli Defense Forces spokewoman, Major Avital Leibovitz, saying the sources were unknown ...
The good, the bad and the flogged
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Tracking the mastermind of the Final Solution
Jewish Advocate - Apr 8, 2009
Finally, the Israelis learned of his whereabouts and Ben Gurion ordered the Mossad to capture Eichmann and bring him to Israel to stand trial. ...
9-11 and the Mormon-Mossad-CIA Connection
OpEdNews - Apr 2, 2009
All evidence indicates that 9-11 was a planned operation of Mossad utilizing all the intelligence it had in causing the pre-planting of explosives within ...
Israel plans to strengthen ties with Sudan rebels
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Mossad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mossad (HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuhadim) (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים - Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations) is the ...
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Breaking: Warship heads for scene of Indian Ocean standoff --Somali pirates overpowered by US crew but captain still held prisoner 08 Apr 2009 Somali pirates skimmed across the Indian Ocean and muscled their way aboard a US food aid ship today... The crew had held a pirate prisoner for 12 hours and released him in return for the captain, but the pirates had not kept their side of the bargain. A US warship, the USS destroyer Bainbridge, was on its way to the area this evening. "We are trying to hold them off until the US ship arrives," said Ken Quinn, second mate on the ship. [Dollars to doughnuts, Xe and Triple Canopy are on their way, as well.]
Officials: Warship, others headed to pirate scene 08 Apr 2009 U.S. officials say an American warship and a half dozen others are headed to the scene where pirates captured a vessel with a U.S. crew off Somalia's coast. One official says the destroyer USS Bainbridge is headed there. Another official says there are six or seven ships on the way. A person aboard the Maersk Alabama, reached by The Associated Press by satellite phone, says crew members had retaken control of the ship. But pirates were holding the captain as a hostage in a lifeboat in waters nearby.
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Action Alert: U.S. Weapons Delivered to Israel as Tax Day Nears
April 8th, 2009
Last week, our friends at Amnesty International revealed that on March 22 the United States delivered more than 300 containers of munitions to Israel. To read the full story, click here.
This weapons delivery occurred despite the fact that Amnesty International reports that the United States is reviewing Israel's misuse of U.S. weapons during "Operation Cast Lead" in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. To download our fact-sheet about Israel's misuse of U.S. weapons in Gaza, click here.
During its December-January war on the occupied Gaza Strip, Israel killed 1,417 Palestinians, of whom 926 were civilians and 255 were non-combatant police officers, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. For additional details about Palestinian casualties, click here.
Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the National Lawyers Guild have all published reports documenting Israel's misuse of U.S. weapons during its recent war on Gaza.
Yet, on top of the outrageous news that the United States delivered more weapons to Israel last month, President Obama is expected to request later this month $2.775 billion more in weapons for Israel in his detailed FY2010 budget request.
As Tax Day approaches, consider the fact that this amounts to $17.75 for each of the approximately 156 million individuals who filed a tax return with the IRS last year.
Is this how you want to see your tax dollars spent? If not, then take action below.
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Anti-NATO protests in Strasbourg counter Obamania?
From: aic-bounces@antiimperialista.org on behalf of Newsletter Anti-imperialist Camp (aic@antiimperialista.org)
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Obama’s recent visit to Europe was marked by a mediatic hype nearly depicting him as a peace dove. Actually there are indeed widespread hopes in a change of US foreign policy towards less aggression and war drive which render people reluctant to take to the streets. Nevertheless, the very fact that some 30.000 marched (or tried to marched given the de facto ban) in Strasbourg against the NATO summit, falsifies the claim of the press that Europe would hail Obama. The massive anti-NATO mobilisation is a reminder that the imperialist role of the US und NATO did not change. As Anti-imperialist Camp we will carry on the campaign against NATO knowing that the deepening economic crisis will increase the imperialist war drive – regardless of Obama’s promises. His plans are actually to reunify the West behind the US inside NATO which should be enhanced to be used as a more collective pre-emptive tool against the global opposition. entire report:www.antiimperialista.org/content/view/6102/243/ pictures:http://www.antiimperialista.org/component/option,com_expose/Itemid,247/ ************************************Anti-imperialist Campwww.antiimperialista.orgcamp@antiimperialista.org************************************
I watched the clip of Obama speaking to the adoring crowd in Iraq the other day, and something he said just amazed me. He told the soldiers that it is time to "make the Iraqis start taking responsibility for their own government." He made it sound like they had begged us to come over there, overthrow their government, and brutally occupy them for several years.
Evidently, it must have struck Debra Sweet, head of The World Can't Wait, the same way.
Here's what she had to say:
"Barack Obama said yesterday that it's time for the Iraqis to take over. Just think about that. The Bush regime lied about the reason for the 2003 invasion; destroyed the infrastructure of the country; created a situation where over one million people were killed, 4.5 million civilians were displaced from their homes; unleashed unprecedented sectarian violence in what had been a secular country; then paid off people to stop it; set up a puppet government that ceded control of the energy industry largely to the U.S.
Obama now leads a country that wrecked Iraq without any justification, against international law...and he goes there to tell U.S. troops that the Iraqis should now step up to occupy themselves? But it's OK because Obama was the "peace candidate?"
You can't make this stuff up. But you do have to follow it, expose it, and oppose it. Write me about what you think." Debra Sweet
http://www.worldcantwait.org/
Debra's is a great group, one of the few anti-war groups who is still actually against the war, unlike United for Peace and Justice and many others who have become war cheerleaders since the election.
Jodda
“The battle...has to begin here. In America. The only institution more powerful than the U.S. government is American civil society. The rest of us are subjects of slave nations. We are by no means powerless, but you have the power of proximity. You have access to the Imperial Palace and the Emperor’s chambers. Empire’s conquests are being carried out in your name.”
Arundhati Roy
Dear friends,
Khaleda Zia has raised a number of vital points on Army killings at BDR HQ in the National Parliament on the 7th April, 2009 and apparently proved that Hasina, Shahara and Moueen couldn’t avoid the failure of the army killings and escape of the killers from BDR compound. She also claimed resignation of defense minister and home minister. Army has raised the points in the PM and Army meeting and most of the people of Bangladesh is already begun to believe those points.
It is very clear that the government had been trying to divert the Army Killing issue. Apparently Hasina and Moeen had succeeded as most of the people including political party and media of Bangladesh are now busy with the house of Khaleda.
Thank you,
Shahid Sadik
Human Rights Activist
BEFORE VOTING ASSESS MANIFESTOES: HOW TO REMOVE MASS POVERTY AND MASS UNEMPLOYMENT
Dear Members,
You must have read in my opinion article entitled “THINK BEFORE ADVOCATING POLITICAL PARTY”. Therefore, we need to understand problems of India. I have observed dire poverty not in the backward areas only but even in the villages of well developed state of Gujarat. We can’t assess development on the basis of big cities, looking large malls or seeing only higher middle class or higher income class or income of city dwellers. Therefore I want to draw attention of our Indian voters on the two major problems of India facing which are mass poverty and mass unemployment. They are interconnected. People are poor because they do not have income. That is because they are unemployed. There are also cases where people are employed and poor. For centuries, the problem of poverty is there in India. Reducing poverty is one of the major goals of planning in India. Politicians must have knowledge about the poor and their precise social and economic circumstances. Only then the political party can adopt effective policies for removing poverty.
At present as per Government of India, poverty line for the urban areas is Rs. 296 per month and for rural areas Rs. 276 per month. That is people who earn less than Rs. 10 per day is considered to be below the poverty line. As per GOI, this amount will buy food equivalent to 2200 calories per day, medically enough, to prevent death. At this level of earning in India, survival on Rs. 10 per day is a nightmare. The greater developmental tragedy in India is that about 260 million people are still living without even Rs. 10 per day.
In addition to the income based or economic view of poverty, there are other dimensions of poverty. For example, one can think of being housing poor, healthcare poor, education poor, and poor in the possession of desirable physical or mental attributes. Therefore we need to examine the manifestoes of all the political parties looking multi- dimensionally.
Generally, households with lowest income per person tend to be large, with many children or economically dependent members. Over a typical year, the poor spend nearly all their income on consumption of one sort or another and half of this consumption is likely to be in the form of food. Naturally the relative prices of food staples (food grains, pulses, oil, vegetables) are crucial to their welfare. Poor households generally invest in education for boys than for girls. The poor play little part in politics. In one sense they are disenfranchised. Of course, there are some exceptional cases. Crime, ill-health and lack of access to the poor are considered other correlates of poverty.
In India poverty is correlated with caste and race also. The extent of poverty in a country depends mainly on two factors: (1) the average level of national income and (2) the degree of inequality in its distribution.
Before assessing the programmes of political parties, it is needed to know about types of poverty in India and what steps the political party suggested in their manifestoes.
TYPES OF POVERTY
(1)Absolute poverty and Relative poverty
When people do not have adequate food, clothing and shelter, we say they are in absolute poverty.
Relative poverty refers to differences in income among different classes of people or people within the same group or among people of different countries. If we divide the population of a country into different class intervals based on income and if we compare say, the top 20 percent of population with the bottom 20 percent of population, then we can say we are studying about relative poverty.
(2) Temporary or chronic poverty
In countries like India, when there is poor rainfall, the crops fail and the farmers temporarily enter into a poverty sample. But when they are poor for long, then we call it chronic or structural poverty. For example, when agriculturists in many poor countries are dependent upon rain and when agriculture is marked by low productivity, we say farmers are in chronic poverty.
(3) Primary Poverty and Secondary Poverty
Rowntree (1901) made a distinction between primary poverty and secondary poverty. Primary poverty refers to “families whose total earnings are insufficient to obtain the minimum necessities for the maintenance of merely physical efficiency”. “Secondary poverty refers to a condition in which earnings would be sufficient for the maintenance for merely physical efficiency were it not that some portion of it is absorbed by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful such as drink, gambling and inefficient housekeeping.” Rowntree said that secondary poverty prevented many more people from meeting what he called “human needs standard” than did primary poverty (that is, inadequate incomes).
(4) Rural Poverty and Urban Poverty
A majority of the people in rural areas are poor because they do not own assets like land and they work as agricultural labourers; their wages are low and they get work only for a few months in a year. The urban poor, on the other hand, work for long hours but they get low incomes. They are employed mostly in the unorganized or informal sector. They are “sub-employed”.
Sub-employed are those 1) who work part- time but want full - time work; 2) family heads working full time who do not earn enough to bring their families over the poverty line and 3) discouraged workers who no longer seek work.
Dr.Y.C.Zala,
Anand,Gujarat,India
HUNDREDS OF MOSSAD AGENTS
CAUGHT RUNNING WILD IN AMERICA!
Warren Royal
Originally posted at http://www.la. indymedia. org/news/ 2003/07/74953_ comment.php? theme=1
The Austin American-Statesman, November 25, 2001, pg. A-11
We spoke earlier about the five celebrating Israeli "movers", (Mossad agents), who were arrested and placed in solitary confinement for weeks after they were spotted in a white van suspected of attempting to blow up the George Washington Bridge. We also reviewed how the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems - Dominick Suter - then suddenly abandoned his "moving company" and fled for Israel on 9-14. But there were still more Israeli "movers" and other Israelis whose actions raise serious suspicions. Even more suspicious is how they are always quietly released and deported.
In October of 2001, three more Israeli "movers" were stopped in Plymouth, PA because of their suspicious behavior. These "movers" were seen dumping furniture near a restaurant dumpster! When the restaurant manager approached the driver, a "Middle Eastern" man later identified as Moshe Elmakias fled the scene. The manager made note of the truck's sign which read "Moving Systems Incorporated" and called the police. When the police spotted the truck, two other Israelis - Ayelet Reisler and Ron Katar began acting suspiciously. The Plymouth police searched the truck and found a video. The Israelis were taken into custody and the video tape was played at the police station. The video revealed footage of Chicago with zoomed in shots of the Sears Tower. The police quickly alerted the FBI and it was also discovered that the Israelis had falsified travel logs and phony paperwork on them. (1) They were also unable to provide a name and telephone number for the customer that they claimed to have been working for. These Israelis were up to some sort of dirty business, and you can be sure it had nothing to do with moving furniture. These Israeli spies may have had a dark sense of humor. The name of their "moving company" actually contained the word MOSSAD embedded inside. Moving Systems Incorporated. MOving SyStems IncorporAteD...MOSSAD
On October 10, 2001, CNN made a brief mention of a foiled terrorist bomb plot in the Mexican Parliament building. They promised to bring any further developments of this story to their viewers, but the incident was never heard of again in America. But the story appeared in bold headlines on the front page of the major Mexican newspapers (2) and was also posted on the official website of the Mexican Justice Department. (3) Two terror suspects were apprehended in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. Caught red-handed, they had in their possession a high powered gun, nine hand grenades, and C-4 plastic explosives (great stuff for demolishing buildings!) Within days, this blockbuster story not only disappeared from the Mexican press, but the Israelis were quietly released and deported! The two terrorists were Salvador Gerson Sunke and Sar ben Zui. Can you guess what their ethnicity was? Sunke was a Mexican jew and Zui was a colonel with the Israeli special forces (MOSSAD). (4)
The story in El Diario de Mexico went on to reveal that the Zionist terrorists had fake Pakistani passports on them. Can you say "false flag operation?" The probable motive of this particular botched terrorist operation was to involve oil rich Mexico in the "War on Terrorism". (The War on Israel's enemies would be a more accurate description) . Mexico is no military power, but the psychological trauma of an "Arab" attack on Mexico would surely have induced Mexico to provide unlimited cheap oil to her American "protector". With cheap oil flowing to America at low prices from Mexico, the US could better afford to break off relations with the oil rich Arab states in general and Saudi Arabia in particular. That's why the planners chose 15 Saudi identities to steal for the 9-11 operation.
Many Mexicans expressed shock at the release of the two Israelis. But when you learn that Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations is a Zionist named Jorge Gutman, it's not surprising! The Zionist tentacles reach even into Mexico! La Voz de Aztlan (Mexican-American news service), in it's excellent investigative report revealed:
"La Voz de Aztlan has learned that the Israeli Embassy used heavy handed measures to have the two Israelis released. Very high level emergency meetings took place between Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Jorge Gutman, General Macedo de la Concha and a top Ariel Sharon envoy who flew to Mexico City specially for that purpose. Elías Luf of the Israeli Embassy worked night and day and their official spokeswoman Hila Engelhart went into high gear after many hours of complete silence. What went on during those high level meetings no one knows, but many in Mexico are in disbelief at their release." (5)
In November of 2001, 6 more suspicious Israelis were detained in an unspecified mid-eastern state. They had in their possession box cutters, oil pipeline plans, and nuclear power plant plans. (6) The local police called in the Feds and Immigration officials took over the scene and released the men without calling the FBI. The Jerusalem Post, the Miami Herald, (7) and the Times of London (8) all carried this amazing story and all revealed how furious FBI officials were that these terror suspects with nuclear power plant plans were allowed to go free. Of course, the corruption riddled FBI would only have caved into Zionist pressure from the Justice Department's Criminal Division boss, Michael Chertoff, and also from the ADL's "partner", FBI boss Robert Mueller - who would no doubt have found a way to eventually release those Israeli terror suspects too.
In December, 2001, the Los Angeles Times published the story of how two jewish terrorists were arrested by the FBI for plotting to blow up the office of US Congressman of Arab descent - Darrell Issa (R-CA), and a California mosque. (9) Irv Rubin and Earl Kruger of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) were charged with conspiracy to destroy a building by means of explosives. This story got brief national coverage but quickly disappeared too. These Zionists sure love blowing up buildings and killing innocent people don't they?
In May of 2002, yet another moving van was pulled over in Oak Harbor, Washington near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. Fox News reported that the van was pulled over for speeding shortly after midnight. The passengers told the police they were delivering furniture, but because it was so late at night, the police weren't buying the story. A bomb sniffing dog was brought in and the dog detected the presence of TNT and RDX plastic explosives in the truck (great stuff for demolishing buildings!) Both Fox News (10) and the Ha'aretz newspaper of Israel (11) reported that the two "movers" were Israelis.
In December, 2002, Ariel Sharon made the amazing claim that Al-Qaeda agents were operating inside of Israel. But when Palestinian authorities apprehended the suspects, they turned out to be Palestinian traitors impersonating Al-qaeda agents for the MOSSAD! From the Sydney Morning Herald of Austrailia:
"Palestinian security forces have arrested a group of Palestinians for collaborating with Israel and posing as operatives of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, a senior official said yesterday. ..The arrests come two days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged al-Qaeda militants were operating in Gaza and in Lebanon.
It was considered a surprise because the Gaza Strip is virtually sealed off by Israeli troops. The hardline Israeli leader also charged other members of the terror group were cooperating with Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hizbollah" (12)
You know, if Sharon wasn't so dangerous, I'd almost be amused by his bullshit!
According to FOX news, throughout late 2000 and 2001, a total of 200 Israeli spies were arrested. (13) It was the largest spy ring to ever be uncovered in the history of the United States. The Washington Post also reported that some of these Israelis were arrested in connection with the 9-11 investigation. (14) US. Carl Cameron of FOX News Channel did a excellent four part, nationally televised, series of investigations into this blockbuster scandal. But FOX pulled the investigative series after Zionist groups complained to FOX executives. FOX even went so far as to remove the written transcripts of the series from its website! In it's place was posted a chilling, Orwellian message which reads: "This story no longer exists." (15) Fortunately for the sake of history, the FOX transcripts were copied onto to many other websites and all four parts are available for your review. (see footnotes.)
The FOX series and other mainstream news media sources revealed that many of these Israelis were army veterans with electronics and explosives expertise. Many of them failed lie detector tests. FBI agents told FOX that some of their past investigations were compromised because suspects had been tipped off by Israeli wiretapping specialists. It was discovered that Israeli companies such as Comverse and Amdocs have the capability to tap American telephones (great for blackmailing all those wife-cheating politicians! ) FBI agents also told FOX they believed the Israelis had advance knowledge of the 9-11 attacks. (which certainly would explain why no Israelis died in the WTC) Still another US official informed FOX that some of the detained Israelis actually had links to 9-11, but he refused to describe the nature of those links. The FBI official told FOX's Carl Cameron:
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information. " (16) (emphasis added)
Then there was that small army of Israeli "art students" who were arrested for trying to sneak into secured US Federal buildings and staking out 36 Department of Defense sites. Some of these suspicious "art students" even showed up at the homes of Federal employees. (17) Ron Hatchett, a Department of Defense analyst, told Channel 11, KHOU news in Houston that he believed that the "art students" were gathering intelligence for future attacks. Here's an excerpt from the October 1, 2001 KHOU investigative report by Anna Werner:
"Could federal buildings in Houston and other cities be under surveillance by foreign groups? That's what some experts are asking after federal law enforcement and security officials - nationally and in Houston - described for the 11 News Defenders a curious pattern of behavior by a group of people claiming to be Israeli art students."
"Hatchett says they could be doing what he would be doing if he were a terrorist, sizing up the situation: "We need to know what are the entrances to this particular building. We need to know what are the surveillance cameras that are operating. We need to know how many guards are at this operation, when do they take breaks?" Says Hatchett: This is not a bunch of kids selling artwork."
"A former Defense Department analyst, Hatchett believes groups may be gathering intelligence for possible future attacks. "Some organization, thinking in terms of a potential retaliation against the U.S. government could be scouting out potential targets and . looking for targets that would be vulnerable."
And a source tells the Defenders of another federal memo, stating that besides Houston and Dallas, the same thing has happened at sites in New York, Florida, and six other states, and even more worrisome, at 36 sensitive Department of Defense sites. "One defense site you can explain," says Hatchett, "well that was just a serendipitous, .... Thirty-six? That's a pattern." (18)
A Federal memo stated that these "art students" may have had ties to an "Islamic terror group". More likely, they were the "Islamic terror group"! Remember the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946, and how the "Arab terrorists" were actually Irgun terrorists? Remember the Zionist terrorists caught in Mexico with Arab passports? Remember the official motto of the Mossad - By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War. Are you getting the picture? Can you say "false flag operations"?
In a follow up report a few days later, KHOU Channel 11 revealed that Dallas was also targetted:
"11 News reported how people claiming to be "Israeli art students" might be trying to sneak into federal buildings and defense sites, and even doing surveillance. And at least one expert said he thought it could all be preparation for an attack. Well, now federal sources say they are not ruling out that all of this could be connected with the hijackings on September 11, because of events in another Texas city.
In Dallas, the so-called students hit early this year at the city's FBI building, the Drug Enforcement Administration and at the Earle Cabell Federal building, where guards found one student wandering the halls with a floor plan of the building.
So the Dallas INS went on the alert, finding and arresting 15 people in March. Thirteen claimed to be Israelis and two are professed Colombians. But according to sources, once again their passports were phony. And another federal source says some of those arrested also appeared to have lists of federal employees and their home addresses.
All 15 "students" have now been deported. Now, since our first story ran Sunday night, some viewers called who said that they've been visited by people who claim to be Israeli students selling art." (19)
Absolutely mind boggling! Why were Israeli explosives experts, posing as "art students" roaming the halls of US Federal buildings? Why were Israeli army vets, armed with explosives and detonators, roaming the halls of the Mexican Congress? Why were Israeli "movers" caught in vans with explosives residue ? Might some of these shady characters have once also "roamed the halls" of the World Trade Center prior to 9-11? Why aren't "60 minutes", "Nightline", "20/20", and the rest of the Zionist media aggressively pursuing the story behind the Israeli "art students" and "movers" with 1/1,000th the zeal that they pursued Martha Stewart over allegations of insider trading (who cares?), or 1/10,000th the zeal that they pursued the Catholic Church over an occasional pedophile priest? (funny how we never hear about the documented cases of pedophile rabbis!) or 1/100,000th the zeal that they pursue the Muslim bogeyman on a daily basis? Something smells rotten here!
One would think that these intriguing mysteries would have great TV audience appeal, especially in light of the fact that the Oklahoma Federal building was blown up in 1995 by the since executed Timothy McVeigh (dead men tell no tales), and a "John Doe # 2" of "Middle-Eastern appearance", who was never tracked down or pursued despite numerous eye-witness accounts and despite an FBI All Points Bulletin which clearly described him as such.
Of America's major networks, only FOX News made a meager attempt to investigate these mysteries, but FOX was quickly silenced by Zionist pressure. This alone is evidence of criminal activity! Before his excellent work was silenced, FOX's Carl Cameron reported this amazing bit of information:
"Investigators within the DEA, INS, and FBI have all told FOX News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying is considered career suicide." (20) (emphasis added)
Did you catch that? If a Federal investigator dares to "even suggest" Israeli spying, he has committed "career suicide"! And if a journalist like FOX's Cameron dares to bring this scandal to light, he is told to shut his mouth. If they persist, they may even be called "anti-Semitic" - a label which has served as the kiss of death for many a career. This means that Zionist Mafia can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and however it wants - including orchestrating, financing, executing, and covering up the true story of events in the Middle East, the 9-11 massacre, and the ensuing "War on Terrorism" (war on Israel's enemies).
Now do you remember the Mossad's "warning" about the 200 "Al-Qaeda terrorists" said to have been preparing major attacks in the US? (21) At the time of this writing, we are one year into the largest investigation in American history, and not one of these 200 "terrorists" has yet to be uncovered. (22) But 200 Israeli spies were uncovered, among them many military members, electronics experts, wiretapping and phone tapping specialists, and explosives experts with the skill to bring down tall buildings. (23) Logic and common sense leads to the conclusion that the "200 Al Qaeda terrorists" were in reality, 200 Zionist terrorists sent to frame the Arabs for terrorist attacks and drag America into a war.
On December 11, 2002, Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), a leading member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, appeared as a guest on the PBS Newshour with Gwen Ifill. Graham surprised Ifill by expressing his belief that a foreign government or governments had to have funded and supported the hijackers. Here's part of the exchange:
IFILL: "Are you suggesting that you are convinced that there was a state sponsor behind 9/11?"
GRAHAM: "I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing - although that was part of it - by a sovereign foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down, make the further case, or find the evidence that would indicate that that is not true and we can look for other reasons why the terrorists were able to function so effectively in the United States."
IFILL: "Do you think that will ever become public, which countries you're talking about?"
Now listen to Graham's bombshell... ......:
GRAHAM: "It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people of the United States are facing today." (24) (emphasis added)
Senator Graham is suggesting that US intelligence knows which foreign government helped the terrorists, but the government isn't going to tell us for another 30 years! Given the current state of anti-Muslim war hysteria being promoted by the media and government, common sense dictates that if an Arab government was ever discovered to have sponsored 9-11, we'd be seeing the evidence night and day on the controlled media, and hearing about it non-stop from all the President's warmongers as well as the Israeli-occupied US Congress and Senate. This alone is evidence that no Arab government was involved in 9-11.
It can't be an Arab government. Why would any Arab government sponsor "Al-qaeda", an organization dedicated to overthrowing what it sees as corrupt, US-backed Arab governments? What Arab government would have incentive to attack America- its best oil purchasing customer? What Arab government would have the ability to shield itself from US media exposure? What Arab government would be so suicidal, so hell-bent on its own destruction, as to attack a mighty nuclear superpower like the United States? So who, if not an Arab government could be the chief sponsor of 9-11? Again, let's go back to FOX News quoting an FBI official. Pay close attention to the specific language used:
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information. " (25) (empasis added)
In order for evidence "linking these Israelis to 9-11" to become classified, the evidence has to have existed in the first place! Furthermore, but it must have been very, very serious stuff indeed. Only the really ugly stuff merits the distinction of being "classified! "
It may be possible that the good Senator doesn't know himself which country or countries are involved. Graham may still be under the delusion that it's an Arab government. Or, perhaps he's a disgusted patriot just trying to throw a subtle shot at Israel in his own little way, without actually having to commit "career suicide" as so many other anti-Zionist politicians have in the past. History will reveal the truth one day, just as it did for Pearl Harbor. The trouble is, by that time, no one will care about 9-11 and this phony war "War on Terrorism" anymore. The American attention span does not reach "20-30 years". It's closer to 20-30 minutes, about the length of an average Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, or Tom Brokaw infomercial. If even that!
History always repeats itself. But who will teach this history to the American people when the Zionists control the information industry? The Zionist Mafia and their ass-kissing careerist henchmen in media, government, academia, and business have all of the bases covered.
Ex-CIA operative tied to Cuba bombings: jury
By Tom Brown
Reuters
Thu Apr 9, 2009
Miami - A federal grand jury has accused anti-Castro Cuban exile and former
CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles of lying to U.S. authorities about his
role in bomb attacks against tourist sites in Cuba in 1997.
In an indictment filed against Posada by the grand jury in El Paso, Texas,
on Wednesday, he is accused of seeking to "obstruct and impede" the work of
the U.S. government by lying during an immigration interview about his role
in the attacks.
An Italian man was killed in the 1997 bomb blasts in Cuba in a case the
indictment highlights as an "offense involving international terrorism."
The arraignment of Posada, who has a long history of violent opposition to
former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, has been set for April 17 and jury
selection for a trial is expected to begin on August 10.
Posada is wanted in both Cuba and Venezuela, where he is accused of
masterminding the 1976 suitcase bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73
people. That bombing occurred while Posada, a naturalized Venezuelan, lived
in the oil-rich South American nation.
The latest indictment marks the first time since Posada arrived in the
United States seeking asylum in March 2005 that he has been linked in a
court proceeding to the Cuba bombings which killed Italian national Fabio di
Celmo.
Posada's Miami-based attorney Arturo Hernandez could not be reached for
immediate comment.
But a front-page story in Thursday's edition of Cuba's Communist Party
newspaper Granma called the indictment "a surprising change of strategy" by
U.S. prosecutors.
It came after "repeated requests for (Posada's) extradition by the
government of Venezuela," the newspaper said, adding that it also preceded a
regional Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago next week "where the
topic will inevitably be mentioned."
Though it branded Posada "the most famous terrorist of the hemisphere,"
Granma noted that the U.S. charges against him had been limited to perjury
and obstruction.
U.S. President Barack Obama will attend the Trinidad summit and calls for a
normalization of U.S.-Cuba ties are expected to figure prominently there.
Cuba had repeatedly accused Obama's predecessor, former President George W.
Bush, of coddling Posada because of his CIA past and his support in the
hard-line U.S. Cuban exile community where many regard him as a hero.
Wednesday's indictment does not charge Posada, 81, with planting the Cuba
bombs but with lying to an immigration court about his alleged
behind-the-scenes role in the attacks at hotels, bars and restaurants in the
Havana area.
The Cuban government has claimed that one of two Salvadoran nationals
convicted in Havana of the bombings, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, placed the bomb
that killed the Italian and charged that Cruz Leon was a Posada accomplice.
The Texas grand jury said Posada lied to an immigration judge when asked if
he had arranged for Cruz Leon to carry explosives into Cuba. "(The)
defendant had been involved in soliciting other individuals to carry out
said bombings in Cuba," the indictment read.
After entering the United States illegally in 2005, Posada was subsequently
indicted on seven immigration fraud charges accusing of him of lying to
immigration authorities, but a U.S. judge threw out those charges in May
2007.
Earlier, Posada was jailed in Panama for plotting to kill Castro during an
Ibero-American summit in 2000, but was pardoned by outgoing President Mireya
Moscoso in 2004.
He has lived in the Miami area with his wife since he was released from jail
April 2007 on bail totaling $350,000.
(Additional reporting by Jeff Franks in Havana; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idUKTRE5384Q320090409
A shameful tradition continues
Debt slavery in Florida's tomato fields remains an issue
By Cal Colgan
Flagler College Gargolye
April 8, 2009
Every week, students from schools all over the country hungrily rush to
their cafeterias and bistros, munching on subs and sandwiches and chomping
on cheeseburgers containing slabs of juicy, red tomatoes. Parents buy the
rose-colored fruits to force-feed their stubborn children. Health nuts
purchase organic tomatoes for homemade dishes of pasta or couscous.
And every day, barrels of tomatoes are shipped all over the country from
Florida's tomato fields to be taken for granted by the insatiable mouths of
middle class Americans.
Few people realize that the majority of those ripe ruby fruits they purchase
were picked after hours of back-breaking labor amidst threats and occasional
beatings: the typical symptoms of a shameful social disease that was
supposed to have been eradicated over 140 years ago.
Slavery exists in Florida's tomato fields.
The town of Immokalee is the heart of the tomato-growing industry. In his
March 2009 article for Gourmet Magazine, Barry Estabrook writes that
although Immokalee is only an hour northeast of Naples, the
second-wealthiest metropolitan area in the nation, the town stands in stark
contrast to its southern counterpart.
With a population that is 70 percent Latino, a large portion of the town's
workers are migrant tomato-pickers.
"Per capita income [for Immokalee] is only $8,500 a year," Estabrook said.
"One-third of the families in this city of nearly 25,000 live below the
poverty line. Over one-third of the children drop out before graduating from
high school."
It was in the midst of this squalor that the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
was born. The C.I.W. Web site states that the coalition is a
"community-based worker organization."
Since 1993, the C.I.W. has campaigned for higher wages and better working
conditions for the residents of the Southwest Florida town, the Sunshine
State's largest farm worker community. Ironically, perhaps, the most recent
documented case of modern-day slavery in the tomato-picking industry
occurred in Immokalee.
"For two and a half years, beginning in April 2005, Mariano Lucas Domingo,
along with several other men, was held as a slave [at a house on South
Seventh Street]," Eastabrook said. Domingo is a Guatemalan immigrant in his
thirties who crossed the border illegally so he could find work to send
money home for a sick parent. Expecting to earn about $200 a week in the
tomato fields, he was hired by then 23-year-old Cesar Navarrete, an illegal
Mexican immigrant who agreed to give Lucas room and board at his family's
South Seventh Street home. Navarrete also told Lucas that he would extend
credit to cover the periods of the year tomatoes could not grow.
The reality of the situation turned out to be far different.
Lucas soon discovered that his "room" was the back of a box truck that he
shared with two or three other workers. Because there was no plumbing, Lucas
and the other occupants of the truck had to urinate and defecate in a
corner, prompting Navarete to lower Lucas's pay by $20 a week. Eastabrook
said Navarrete "also charged Lucas for two meager meals a day . . . Cold
showers from a garden hose in the backyard were $5 each. Everything had a
price."
As a result of Navarrete's conniving company-boss system, it wasn't long
before Lucas was $300 in debt. But when Lucas suggested to Navarrete after a
month of ten-hour workdays that he should have already paid off his debt,
Navarrete threatened him, telling Lucas he would beat him if he ever tried
to leave the farm.
And instead of calculating what Lucas had supposedly paid off and what he
actually earned, Eastabrook said, "Navarrete took Lucas's paychecks, cashed
them, and randomly doled out pocket money . . . Over the years, Navarrete
and members of his family deprived Lucas of $55,000."
During those two and a half years, Lucas was not allowed to take a single
day off. "If Lucas became ill or was too exhausted to work," Eastabrook
said, "he was kicked in the head, beaten and locked in the back of the
truck. Other members of Navarrete's dozen-man crew were slashed with knives,
tied to posts, and shackled in chains."
Lucas finally escaped on Nov. 18, 2007, and Navarrete and his brother were
each sentenced to 12 years in prison. But the depravity of the Navarrete
family is not an isolated case. It is the seventh documented case of slavery
rings in Florida's tomato fields. From 1997 to 2007, these seven cases have
involved more than 1,000 men and women being held in some form of
involuntary servitude.
The Palatka 2007 slavery case hits even closer to St. Augustine. According
to the C.I.W. Web site, Ron Evans was sentenced to 30 years in federal
prison for operating a slavery ring, and his wife and son were sentenced to
20 years and 10 years, respectively.
"Operating in Florida and North Carolina," the Web site says, "Ron Evans
recruited homeless U.S. citizens from shelters across the Southeast,
including New Orleans, Tampa and Miami, with promises of good jobs and
housing."
As some of the homeless workers had alcohol and drug addictions, Evans also
sinisterly lured them to his Palatka and Newton Grove, NC labor camps with
promises of alcohol and crack cocaine, which he would then deduct from their
pay, along with food and rent. The homeless individuals, says the C.I.W. Web
site, were soon in a state of perpetual debt.
"In Florida, Ron Evans worked for grower Frank Johns," the C.I.W. Web site
says. "Johns was 2004 Chairman of the Florida Fruit and Vegetable
Association, the powerful lobbying arm of the Florida agricultural
industry."
Such despicable acts on the part of field bosses often go ignored by growers
such as Johns. As late as April of last year, Reginald L. Brown, vice
president of the Florida Tomato Growers exchange, told a U.S. Senate
committee that "Florida's tomato growers abhor and condemn slavery," and
maintained that any instances of involuntary servitude are isolated cases by
private growers and not the commercial tomato industry.
But Lariza Garzón begs to differ.
A member of the National Farm Worker Ministry and the Youth and Young Adult
Network, Garzón, 26, has been involved in raising awareness about the plight
of farm workers since 2004. She has worked with local groups such as the
C.I.W., state groups such as the Farm Worker Association of Florida, and
national groups such as the Farm Labor Organizing Committee to fight for
humane working conditions for our nation's farm workers.
Garzón maintains that modern-day slavery in Florida's tomato fields is
common.
She said a tomato company will typically hire "a crew leader so that [the
company] can wash [its] hands of the rest of what happens to the workers.
The crew leader is the immediate supervisor of the worker."
Garzón said crew leaders are responsible for the physical abuse of workers
and other symptoms of slavery, but that sometimes the tomato growers
themselves are the culprits.
"Because of the crew leader system, farm workers are more vulnerable [to
exploitation and slavery] than workers in other areas," she said.
Those farm workers that aren't slaves still labor for miniscule wages. The
C.I.W. won industry-wide raises in farm workers' pay from 13 to 25 percent
in 1998, bringing the tomato-picking piece rate back up to the level it was
in 1980. In 2001, the group began a boycott of Taco Bell, followed by other
companies in the food industry like McDonald's and Burger King. The C.I.W.
demanded that the companies pay their workers a penny more per pound of each
tomato they pick.
But although the C.I.W. won promises of a commitment to better working
conditions on the part of these companies, conditions in Florida's tomato
fields still remain deplorable. The Ft. Myers News-Press said in a March 12
article that although the companies agreed to the pay increase, the Florida
Tomato Grower's Exchange has refused to pay tomato pickers directly, instead
paying extra wages into an account that never reaches the workers. And the
C.I.W. claims the average farm worker in Immokalee is still well below the
poverty line.
"If it's not called slavery, it's called exploitation," Garzón said.
Conditions in Florida fields may seem hopeless, but awareness and help on
behalf of migrant farm workers is growing. Organizations like Harvest of
Hope have joined the fight.
Phil Kellerman, 53, founded the organization in 1997 out of an inheritance
he received from his social worker grandmother. Since its founding, H.O.H.
has given over $714,000 to migrant farm workers and their families.
According to the organization's Web site, the money is for "repairs to
vehicles, housing, utilities, medical services and bills, food, clothing,
funeral expenses and tuition for migrants students attending college."
Kellerman said he and his brother, Ed, 56, senior lecturer for the Dial
Center for Written and Oral Communication at the University of Florida, have
helped at least 3,500 individual cases involving almost 20,000 farm workers.
Recently, H.O.H. organized a benefit concert for migrant farm workers here
in St. Augustine. The three-day music festival, lasting from March 6 to 8,
involved 141 bands and had at least 17,000 people coming through the gates.
Over 80 percent of the proceeds will be used for services for migrant farm
workers, and 10 percent of that 80 percent went directly to educational
services for migrant students in Florida.
The fight against modern-day slavery in Florida has continued as well. On
March 25th, Gov. Charlie Crist met with representatives of the C.I.W. Crist
agreed to meet with the representatives after members of the C.I.W. traveled
to Tallahassee and protested the governor's two years of refusal to meet
with the group by reenacting the instances of the Navarrete case.
Crist said that he would publicly address the issues raised by the
representatives, which included calling on growers to improve working
conditions for tomato pickers and cracking down on modern-day slavery in the
tomato fields.
Finally, it appears that the state government is shining light on the
shadowy specters of slavery and exploitation. But more needs to be done if
we are to overcome the dark and dastardly characteristics of the
agricultural industry.
Garzón believes there needs to be an easier path to citizenship for working
immigrants who have been in the U.S. for several years. In this way, many
migrant workers would not be lured into low-wage jobs from questionable
growers and crew leaders. She also said there needs to be reform in labor
laws that apply to farm workers, as well as higher wages and better benefits
for them.
Above all, she said, we must reform the food industry.
"Agriculture companies need to take more responsibility for what happens to
the workers. The crew-leader system needs to stop."
Modern-day slavery and economic exploitation will not end in Florida's
fields by government action alone. Individual citizens need to take action
against the industries that are condoning and perpetuating these ruthless,
inhuman acts. It is time we realized that every purchase we make has
political implications; and it is up to us to decide whether the price of
tomatoes is worth the shackles.
http://gargoyle.flagler.edu/?p=3030
In reply to a question, Mr Holbrooke alleged the bulk of Taliban leadership was in Pakistan, and not in Afghanistan. `Any day they may be in Karachi, Miramshah or some other city.' He said both Pakistan and the US had a common enemy, threat and challenge.
Mr Holbrooke said the attack on Mumbai had been carried out by `strategic terrorists' who wanted to damage relationship between India and Pakistan and their goal was to ignite a war between the two countries. He underlined the need for both countries to work together.
He evaded a question about the Kashmir dispute and just said that the United States would not mediate between India and Pakistan.
At the joint press conference with Mr Holbrooke, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, quite in contrast with his usual diplomatic, effusive and soft-spoken demeanour, was quite firm and categorical in mentioning Pakistan's reservations with regard to the way the US was handling its ally in the war on terror and its anti-Pakistan campaign.
The disagreements between the two sides pertained largely to the drone strikes in Pakistani territory and the vilification campaign against the ISI. `While there are some positive elements and we recognise and appreciate them, there are certain red lines,' Mr Qureshi said in a passionate tone, adding that those `red lines' were discussed and he would take them up at a subsequent US-Pakistan-Afghanistan trilateral interaction planned for next month in Washington.
Mr Qureshi said: `We did talk about drones and let me be very frank: there is a gap between us and them.'
He attributed this divergence to the trust deficit between the two allies and said: `The bottom line is the question of trust.'
It was clear from the foreign minister's words that there was a fundamental shift in the way Islamabad now wanted to deal with Washington. `The terms of engagement are very clear… We will engage with mutual trust and mutual respect in view and that is the bottom line.'
Mr Qureshi's message perhaps could not have been more unequivocal; he stated that cooperation could continue only if balance and respect were restored to the relationship.
`We can only work together if we respect each other and trust each other. There is no other way and nothing else will work,' he said rather bluntly.
Reacting to President Barack Obama's assertion that there would be `no blank cheques for Pakistan", the foreign minister said: "We neither accept nor give one.'
Mr Qureshi also said that Pakistan's expectations from its friends were not just monetary. `We have certain expectations from the Friends of Democratic Pakistan. Most importantly, these expectations are not cents and dollars; rather it is the political support that Pakistan expects from them.'
Ambassador Holbrooke downplayed Mr Qureshi's outburst by saying that the US was already addressing these issues through negotiations and would continue the approach in days to come. `In line with Foreign Minister Qureshi's suggestions, we hosted the first Pakistan-Afghanistan-US trilateral meeting in Washington. We also went to The Hague… We will go to Tokyo, the second round of trilateral conference in Washington on May 6 and 7. This is the pattern that will continue.'
Admiral Mullen reiterated that the US commitment to Pakistan was for a long term and would lead to `a surplus of trust'.
Mr Holbrooke and Admiral Mullen, who came to Pakistan together for the first time, also held meetings with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif. On Monday night, they had held a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari.
PARTICIPATION IN UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM EVENTS OF (IWCO)
Greetings,
We at Ideal World Concept Organization (IWCO) send our warm greetings to our entire
members worldwide. And with great enthusiasm, we wish to invite groups, youths, women
and youth focused organizations to be part of our forthcoming combined international
conference on child labour, abuse and neglect taking place in the United States and the
United Kingdom respectively. The combined conferences are of two segments.
The first segment shall commence in Andalusia, Alabama USA on 16th till 19th June, 2009.The venue is BLUE LAKE AUDITORIUM, 8569 Oakwood lane, Andalusia , Alabama 36241 , USA .
The second segment shall take place in London from 22nd till 25th June, 2009 at FLOSSIES CONFERENCE CENTRE Station Road, East Tisted, Near Alton, Hampshire , GU34 3QP , London, United Kingdom.
THE OBJECTIVES:
1. To discuss the root causes of child labour, abuse and neglect in order to help in
eradicating these social ills.
2. To re-educate and enlighten the youths and adults about these social vices and
also promote community organizing as a tool to re-connect people to each other with
a common goal of building safe, supportive and good communities.
3. To create spaces for the youths of the world to acquire the power of collective action,
critical dialogue and community organizing to undermine child labour, abuse and neglect.
4. To equip the youth and adult participants with vital tools and know-how.
This will aid them in conducting such workshops amongst youths and women in their various
countries.
We have noticed that this is an incredible means of interacting with different organizations
of the world on a particular issue as it affects youths, women and adults. Moreover, funding may
be provided for individuals from qualifying organizations. Provisions have been made for
all delegates to this event, all round tickets, feeding and accommodation in USA by our sponsors.
Please note that all delegates will take care of their feeding and accommodation in the UK as the resources of (IWCO) do not cover that.
CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPATION:
Only groups with member delegates between the numbers of five (5) minimum and ten (10) maximum selected would be allowed to participate from each of the selected countries. Also individuals who do not belong to any of the organizations but are sincerely interested to participate should form a group of at least five and then apply as group. Please note that all participants MUST be part of the two segments ( U.S.A. and U.K. ) or their registration forms will not be processed by the IWCO secretariat.
MODE OF APPLICATION:
Interested organizations should forward the following information about their organization.
1. Aims and objectives of their organization.
2. Organization profile.
3. Achievements so far.
N.B. Intending participants are expected to direct their responses to the coordinator Philip Brawn at philipbrawnconsult@gmail.com for more details. The deadline for application is as set by the Organizing Committee of (IWCO). Also note that (IWCO) will only respond and attend to the applications forward to the above contact email address.
Yours Faithfully,
PHILIP BRAWN.
(Coordinator-IWCO)
philipbrawnconsult@gmail.com
The Death Of Rice In India :No Basmati, No Katarni
by Arun Shrivastava
We will soon be eating genetically modified rice invented by seeds multinational corporations
Someone said, "Monsanto invented the pig.' Very soon we will learn, right here in India and Asia, that US and European seeds multinational corporations "invented" rice. And soon we shall be paying up front royalty to these companies for eating rice. Hold your breath; that situation is upon us.
I pose this question to you before you read further: What would you do to a company that claims it "invented rice" and wants its pound of flesh because you, Sirs and Madams, eat rice?
India is a rice country. Rice has been our staple for thousands of years. A French scientist had once said India has 200,000 varieties of rice. Other environmentalists say 100,000. Does it matter? In the traditional rice producing regions I found that the taste and shape of rice often differed from village to village. Not any more. Post green revolution, the varieties available in the market for commercial sowing has dropped to about fifty what must surely be called the greatest destruction of genetic diversity in any food crop anywhere in the world.
Forty years ago when my mother cooked basmati rice, a gentle aroma would pervade the entire home. Not any more. Under Green revolution rice slowly hybridized into a commodity and now produced in large mechanized farms with heavy doses of fertilizers and pesticides. Bayer CropScience, a German company, genetically modified rice seeds. This gene revolution genie is now out of the bottle and no one knows how many rice varieties are contaminated. No one really knows how much of this engineered poison has already entered our food chain. And that has happened without proper biosafety studies.
Rice belongs to the Oryza specie. Lay persons like me were told that rice is self pollinating with little or no chance of pollen drift and contamination of neighbour's rice field. However, RiceTech, a US-based hybrid seeds company, has documented that "wind assisted rice pollens can move over 600 feet." [APHIS Workshop, September 13-15, 2004; Abstract] If genetically engineered rice is planted amidst non-genetically modified rice, there is every chance that non-genetically modified rice will be contaminated and this is what happened in the United States of America.
US Rice Gets Contaminated
Bayer CropScience (the German multinational seeds company) conducted field trials of LL601 (better known as Liberty Link 601) from 1999 to 2001 in Louisiana. It then dropped the project and did not seek US Government permission to market it. In 2006, widespread contamination of US long-grain rice with LL601 trait was reported.
Covering the event, Rick Weiss, the Washington Post staff writer, reported, "The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating how the variety escaped from test plots into farmers' fields, where it was quietly amplified for years until its discovery. The seeds and plants of LL601 look virtually identical to those of the popular conventional variety with which they had become mixed, said Steve Linscombe, director of Louisiana State University's rice research station in Crowley.. The day the contamination was announced in August, Bayer asked the government to approve the variety."
On 5th October 2007, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) concluded its genetically engineered rice investigation. Investigators had hoped to identify how each GE rice line entered the commercial rice supply, but the exact mechanism for introduction could not be determined in either instance. (Source: USDA, Press Release, www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome?contentidonly=trueandcontentid/2007/10/0284/xml) However, it could not pinpoint how engineered rice seeds could contaminate over such a large area. Speculation was rife: some said mislabeling, others said human error, yet others said containers got mixed up.
Approval By Contamination
On 24th November, 2006 the USDA granted marketing approval of genetically-engineered Liberty Link 601 of Bayer CropScience. (GE) rice variety following its illegal contamination of the food supply and rice exports, first announced three months ago. The controversial decision was taken despite the insistence of Bayer CropScience that it had dropped plans to commercialize the variety five years ago. "With this decision, USDA is telling agricultural biotechnology companies that it doesn't matter if you're negligent, if you break the rules, if you contaminate the food supply with untested genetically engineered crops, we'll bail you out," said Joseph Mendelson, Legal Director of the Center for Food Safety. "In effect, USDA is sanctioning an 'approval-by-contamination' policy that can only increase the likelihood of untested genetically engineered crops entering the food supply in the future, and further erode trust in the wholesomeness of U.S. food overseas," he added.
Naturally, Bayer CropScience welcomed the decision of USDA. "The deregulation confirms the preliminary decision of USDA, published on September 8, 2006, that LLRICE601 does not pose any environmental concerns and should no longer be regulated."
http://www.bayercropscience.com/bayer/cropscience/cscms.nsf/id/20061124_EN?Open&ccm=400020000&L=EN&markedcolor=%23003399
Oh yes, it does, Mr. Bayer. That is why US rice consignments were returned or destroyed at Rotterdam port.and another, and another.and another.
Is India Vulnerable?
You bet it is. In January I received a set of documents from an Agriculture University in West Bengal that illegal genetically modified Bhindi (Okra) has been planted. In March I was told in Jhansi that poor farmers were offered lucrative deals to plant "special seed" of all sorts of vegetables including green chilly.
Who knows at how many places illegal genetically engineered rice have been planted?Only when contamination will be discovered at the port of landing of Indian rice exporters that India will wake up to the destruction of its 10,000 years of heritage: THE RICE.
Following on from the US example, it is not too far fetched to say that our favourite staple rice will be owned by one of the five or six seeds multinationals.because they "invented" it! Who will be the first to contaminate our rice is at best a guess.
But IT WILL BE CONTAMINATED. THEY ARE TOO DETERMINED TO OWN OUR FOOD.
Any questions?
Neither the Congress Party, nor BJP, nor CPM nor CPI, nor RSP, nor SP, nor Shiv Senanone has the guts or the political will to oppose the fraud of these multinational corporations. They have all been silenced.
"Who cares if GMO seeds don't provide any of the benefits that were promised? Certainly not the seed companies. Perhaps benefits to the people of the world were never the point. Perhaps the point was to get those first GMO crops in the ground -- promise them the moon! -- and then allow nature to take its course and contaminate the rest of the planet with patented pollen. The intellectual property lawsuits will come along in good time."
(Source: http://www.grain.org/research/?id=354 2005 was a very good year for the biotech food industry; Peter Montague; Rachel's Democracy & Health News #837, Jan-2006)
Massacre probe report is a headache for rulers in Bangladesh
Sunita Paul April 09, 2009
Commerce Minister Lt. Col. (Retired) recently said the BDR massacre was not simply a "mutiny", but a deep-rooted conspiracy to destabilize the present government in Bangladesh.
"A good number of people, who were involved in the bloodbath at BDR headquarters, have been identified through confessional statements," said Faruq Khan.
Some 841 people have been arrested to date, 1,200 important pieces of evidence are being scrutinized, and 66 places have been marked as crime scenes, he told reporters at a briefing following the fourth meeting of the post-mutiny coordination committee.
The minister also said, "It was not a mutiny. It was instigated to destabilize the present government, create barriers to development, and undermine the reputation of the armed forces."
This is the fifth installment of changed version of statements by the minister who is also the coordinator of the three probe committees.
With the latest statement of the minister, since the term ´mutiny´ is now replaced with ´massacre´, which according to many is the most appropriate term to describe the bloody incident, the ´General Amnesty´ announced by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed giving impunity to the people involved in the ´mutiny´ stands void, as this was not any mutiny at all, but pre-planned massacre.
I have bee trying to bring up untold facts about this tragic incident for past few weeks. My write up were directly or indirectly carried in a large number of newspapers around the world. Sensing such tremendous media coverage in the international arena, some pro-Awami League people are reportedly becoming extremely active in rumors to discredit my writings. But, my readers, who know me for past few decades are aware that, in my write ups I always try to give facts, instead of biased concoctions.
Here also, I will bring up some points, which were somehow ignored in Bangladeshi and international media:
1. The massacre started at 9:30 am on February 25, 2009 (it was even confirmed by the Prime Minister in the parliament and many of the officers who survived from the Bangladesh Riffles headquarters).
2. State Minister for Local Government Ministry, Jahangir Kabir Nanak went to the BDR headquarters along with his party colleague Mirza Azam, MP at around 2:45 pm on the same day to ´negotiate´ with the ´renegade´ Bangladesh Riffles soldiers.
3. A 14-men delegation of the ´renegade´ soldiers went to meet the Prime Minister at around 3:30 pm.
4. At 2:30 pm bodies of Dhaka Sector commander Col. Syed Mujibul Haque and 36 Rifle Battalion commanding officer Lt. Col. Enayet´s dead body was discovered near the Nababganj drainage canals (the drain runs under Pilkhana). One of the dead bodies had a letter from presumably the BDR soldiers that asked that the message be sent to all media that they have been oppressed by army officers, and their backs were against the wall.
5. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was already informed about this matter and she questioned the killer delegation when they met her along with others.
6. Prime Minister asked Deputy Assistant Director of BDR, Towhidul Islam (one of the kingpins) about the recovery of the dead bodies, where he endorsed the fact of killing ´some of the officers including the DG´.
7. The Prime Minister did not inquire the names of the murdered officers as well whereabouts of their dead bodies, although at 6:00 pm she announced the amnesty without setting any pre-condition with the ´mutineers´ to handover the dead bodies and provide details of the surviving officers and members of their families.
8. Although general amnesty was declared at 6:00 pm and BDR men already came to know about this through television channels as well as from their 14-member kingpin delegation returning from the PMs Office, firing inside the BDR headquarters did not stop. Murder and brutality on the officers and members of their families continued inside the BDR headquarters taking the advantage of snatched power connection and general amnesty.
9. Female members were physically abused during the dark hours of February 25, 2009 when the soldiers came to know that all of their acts will be pardoned through the General Amnesty declared by the Prime Minister.
10. On March 1, 2009, the police forces of Bangladesh suddenly started receiving 100% ration, which was one of the 22 demands of the BDR. Was there any credible intelligence regarding a similar threat at the Police force? If so, from whom? Or, this was a ´reward´ for their ´cooperation´ in letting the mutineers flee from the BDR headquarters under directives from the powerful quarters in the government?
11. According to a poll conducted by a website titled ´Bangladesh Military Forces´ (www.bdmilitary.com), asking "Do you think the government is manipulating the BDR massacre probe?", more than 80 per cent of the people said ´YES´, while only 12 per cent said ´NO´. Does it reflect the minds of the Bangladeshi people? If, yes, then certainly there should be every reason to question government´s sincerity in holding a ´neutral´ investigation into the matter.
12. State Minister for LGRD, Jahangir Kabir Nanak suddenly left Bangladesh with mysterious ailment. No further single word from the government on his ´physical condition´ nor there is a single word uttered by anyone in the administration about the name of the medical center in Singapore where he is under treatment.
13. Several expatriates in Singapore saw Mr. Nanak in ´good mood´ and ´stable healthy condition´ in a number of places in Singapore. At least four more influential figures in the ruling party also tried to leave the country during last week, whose names came as suspected abettors of the bloody massacre.
14. There is no investigation by the government to find out the names of the people who helped several ´mutineers´ in fleeing the country through special passage within the boarding bridge area. It may be mentioned here that younger brother of Jatiyo Party chairman Hussain Muhammed Ershad, G. M. Qader is in charge of the Civil Aviation Ministry. Qader was already known to be an Awami League loyalist inside Jatiyo Party.
15. Bangladesh missions abroad are briefed for all possible initiatives in stopping any press coverage or follow-up reports on the BDR massacre issue. Such actions may certainly generate many confusions and doubts.
16. The case of Awami League leader Torab Ali Akhand, who was arrested along with his son for their involvement behind the BDR Massacre are suddenly blacked-out from the media coverage. It was earlier mentioned that Torab was willing to record confessional statements in connection to the massacre. But, the sudden fishy behavior of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in letting Torab to give confessional statement or suddenly putting him on ´media isolation´ is very interesting. Some of the leaked information on the interrogation of Torab Ali Akhand indicates that names of heavyweight people in the government and the ruling party already came prominently as the abettors of the massacre. Sending Torap to media isolation may be a part of efforts by the ruling party in salvaging their men from being tried in Court Martial for their involvement in the massacre.
Proper investigation and quick trial of the killers, collaborators and instigators of the BDR massacre has already become a demand of the people of Bangladesh. And, they are look for the army investigation report, which according to all are hoped to be accurate, unbiased and neutral.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/97750
Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist) statement for the Anti-Imperialist Conference in Thessaloniki, 21-22/3/2009
A significant step towards the joint anti-imperialist struggle in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean Region!
The International Anti-Imperialist Conference was held with success, in 21-22/3/2009 in Thessaloniki on the occasion of the tenth anniversary since the NATO/imperialist intervention in the former Yugoslavia, organized by the Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist). In this conference, communist parties and organizations from the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean region were invited and participated with their delegations: New Communist Party of Romania, magazine “Partisan” from Turkey, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Bulgarian Workers-Peasant Party, Bulgarian Workers' Party (Communists), Bulgarian Workers Union' Association, Bulgarian Workers Marxist movement and the Socialist Party of Cyprus. The Italian philosopher Constanzo Preve also participated. The conference was supported by the International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS). Manolis Arkolakis, ILPS vice chair and responsible for external affairs participated and greeted the conference on behalf of ILPS. The delegations or the Left Radical of Afghanistan and the Committees to Support Resistance - for Communism (CARC) from Italy, due to technical problems and despite their will, did not attend but they have sent their contributions which were distributed to the participants-delegates of the conference.
During the open debate that took place in the Polytechnic Campus of Thessaloniki, on Saturday 21/3/2009 besides the participant delegations, conveyed their messages of solidarity the delegations of: Committee Against Foreign Bases and Dependence from Chania-Crete, the Anti-War, Anti-imperialist Committee of Karditsa, the Militant Movements of Students, Greece. The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), the Revolutionary-Communist Youth League from Austria, ATIK and New Democratic Youthfrom Turkey also conveyed their messages of solidarity to the conference. The main contribution in the open debate on behalf of CPG (m-l) was made by the General Secretarycom.Vasilis Samaras.
In the multilateral and bilateral meetings of the delegations that took place during the two days of the meeting there was an exchange of views on the international situation, the imperialists’ policies across the world and more particularly in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean Region and they examined ways and political aspects to consolidate the coordination and the joint anti-imperialist struggle and solidarity. More particularly they discussed and exchanged their views on the situation in the occupied Palestine and the heroic resistance of the Palestinian People in Gaza Strip and the West Bank and they stressed the need to consolidate the international solidarity to resistance..
The situation in Cyprus was also discussed particularly and there was a thorough exchange of experience and views for the situation in the Balkan countries and the level of the anti-war and anti-imperialist struggle. All delegates noted the important absence of delegates from the countries of former Yugoslavia and stressed the need to increase the effort to expand contacts and meetings towards a more multilateral cooperation and coordination.
There were also suggestions on multilateral initiatives of joint talks and activities, in a period of increased danger for peace in the region due to the imperialist aggression. This aggression is expressed by the rapid increase of the military presence of NATO/US military forces and bases in the Balkans. The significance of such and similar joint meetings was also stressed as well as the need to continue in the future. The delegates saluted the mass anti-NATO initiatives and demonstrations that take place these days in Europe for the summit of this criminal, warlike alliance. They also denounced the plans of the NATO Eastern expansion. There was also a proposal for a joint resolution that will be published after the necessary elaboration soon. All contributions have been published in http://www.kkeml.gr/english/int_meeting/index_10th.html
Revolutionary Greetings
Athens 31/3/2009
Communist Party of Greece
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A global specialist in the Zionist movement’s history Abdel-Wahab ...
Yemen Times - Sana'a,Yemen
April 9, 2009
“The functional nature of the State of Israel based on the fact that colonization has created it to perform a specific function. It is a colonial project..."
El-Messiri, Abdel-Wahab Muhammad, was an Egyptian author, intellectual and scholar. He was born in October 1938 in Damanhur, capital of Buhayrah Governorate, near Alexandria. El-Messiri received his primary and secondary education in Damanhur before he enrolled at the Alexandria University, Faculty of Arts, English Department in 1955. After his graduation in 1959, he was appointed lecturer in the same university.
In 1963, El-Messiri left Egypt and attended Columbia University, New York, in the United States where he obtained his Master’s degree in 1964. Later on, he obtained his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1969. Upon coming back to Egypt at the beginning of the seventies, El-Messiri was a member of the Board of Experts in the Al-Ahram Center of Political and Strategic Studies. In 1975, he was appointed cultural consultant for the Arab League’s permanent delegation in the United Nations in New York up to 1979. He returned to Egypt to lecture in Ain Shams University until 1983. He also taught English Comparative Literature in other universities including King Saud University, Saudi Arabia (1983–1988) and at Kuwait University, Kuwait (1988-1989). He worked also as a visiting Professor in the Islamic Malaysian University in Kuala Lumpur and in the Nasser Military Academy. Among other positions that he held working as the Academic Chancellor of the Universal Institute for Islamic Intellect in Washington (1992-2008) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Islamic and Social Sciences (1993-2008), Virginia, USA. He was also the consultant of editorial board for several periodicals published in Egypt, Malaysia, Iran, United States, England and France. In January 2008, El-Messiri was assigned to work as the General Coordinator of the Egyptian Movement for Change (Kefaya).
El-Messiri managed to write over than 70 books in Arabic and English during 30 years of his intellectual career. He composed in different fields such as Jews, Judaism and Zionism; secularism, postmodernism, Western culture and contemporaneity; literary theory and comparative literature. His first book entitled “End of the History: An Introduction for Studying the Zionist Intellect’s Structure” (1972) which shows that Zionists are trying to put and end for the history by stopping its elements which hinder the organic development of Jews. In 1976, El-Messiri wrote “Israel and South Africa: The progression of a Relationship” in which he compares Zionism with Apartheid. He authored “The Encyclopedia of Zionist Concepts and Terms: A Critical Vision” in 1975 and decided to update this encyclopedia to has a fundamental vision offers a comprehensive cognitive substitute. Consequently and after more than 25 years of research and critical inquiry, El-Messiri published his eight-volume magnum opus entitled “The Encyclopedia of Jews, Judaism and Zionism: A New Explanatory Model” (1999) which is constructive and suggests alternative ways of looking at Jewish, Zionist, and Israel phenomena. It also deals with all aspects of the history of the ancient Hebrews, and that of the Jewish communities all over the world. El-Messiri was threatened with death for his encyclopedia from religious Jews and was accused of anti-Semitism.
In the field of literature, El-Messiri wrote many books especially about the Palestinian literature such as “A Lover from Palestine and Other Poems” (1972), “Analects of Romantic English Poetry: Some Historical and Critical Studies” (1979), “Three Studies in English Literature” (1979), “The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry” (1983) and “A Land of Stone and Thyme: Palestinian Short Stories” (1996).
He wrote his autobiography in the book entitled “My Intellectual Journey in Seeds, Roots and Fruits: An Objective Memoir” (2001) which contains details on how his ideas were generated and about the explanatory method he uses. Among his other important books “Who is the Jewish?” (1997), “The Hidden Hand: A Study in the Destructive and Secret Jewish Movements” (1998) and “Partial and Complete Secularism” (2002).
Several works of El-Messiri were translated into foreign languages including English, French, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and Portuguese. His works written and published in English included: “Israel, Base of Western Imperialism” (1969) and “The Land of Promise: A Critique of Political Zionism” (1977) that contains a prolix text which can be taught as an academic subject tackling the Zionism’s history. In the field of children’s literature, El-Messiri composed several stories such as “The Princess and the Poet” (1993), “Cinderella and Madame Zainab Khatoon” (1999), “A Very Fictional Story” (2001) and “Songs to the Beautiful Things” (2002).
During his literary career, El-Messiri obtained many certificates of appreciation from the Indonesian Intellects’ Union (1994), the University of Jerusalem in Palestine (1995), the International Educators’ Hall of Fame (1996), the Faculty of Law at the University of Emirates (1999) and the Arab Physicians Syndicate (2003). He was also conceded several awards including the Suzan Mubarak’s Award for the Best Writer of Children’s Literature (2000 and 2003), the Award of Sultan Al-Awais regarding his intellectual oeuvre from the United Arab Emirates (2002), the Award of International Board on Books for Young People (2004), the State’s Appreciative Award in Literature (2005) and the Award of Al-Quds from the Arab Union for Authors and Writers (2008).
El-Messiri died on July 3, 2008, in Cairo suffering from cancer. Apparently, El-Messiri has devoted a significant part of his intellectual career to the defense of the Palestinian cause. He once said: “The functional nature of the State of Israel based on the fact that colonization has created it to perform a specific function. It is a colonial project which has no relation with Judaism.”
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By Kenneth J. Theisen
On Tuesday, April 7th President Barack Obama made an unannounced four-hour trip to Baghdad to promote the continuing war there, while pretending to end it. (This is reminiscent of the surprise trips taken there by his predecessor, George W. Bush.) Obama’s Iraq trip was actually confined to Camp Victory, the largest U.S. military base in Iraq. It was more of a photo-op than a trip that involved any real substance.
During his short stay, Obama met with top U.S. Iraq commander, General Ray Odierno; and a few Iraqi puppet leaders, such as Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Al-Maliki told reporters, "We assured the president that all the progress that has been made in the security area will continue."
Of course security was not good enough to allow Obama to travel through Baghdad streets or beyond the confines of the military base. An AFP report indicated that Obama’s touch down in Baghdad occurred when “a spate of recent attacks have killed dozens and wounded hundreds more.” The report continued that “A string of car bombings in mainly Shiite districts of Baghdad on Monday killed at least 34 people in what the US military said appeared to be coordinated attacks by Al-Qaeda. A further eight died in another attack in the capital before Obama's arrival on Tuesday.”
Obama made a short propaganda speech to the assembled U.S. troops and stated, "It is time for us to transition to the Iraqis. They need to take responsibility for their country." Obama told the troops, “You have given Iraq the opportunity to stand on its own as a democratic country. That is an extraordinary achievement.” I wonder if Obama sensed the irony of declaring a country “democractic” in making this announcement at just one of the many U.S. bases used to occupy it. But in a deeper sense, the invasion and continuing military occupation of Iraq concentrate exactly what the U.S. delivers when it claims to bring democracy to any country.
The so-called democratic government there was installed after a massive U.S. invasion that has resulted in the deaths of a million Iraqis. Millions more are external or internal refugees. Hundreds of thousands of medical personnel and other educated Iraqis have fled the country. The U.S. still occupies the country with more than 100,000 U.S. troops and tens of thousands of U.S. contractors. The U.S. is currently training tens of thousands of Iraqi puppet troops to help the U.S. to control the country, even after the so-called withdrawal of “combat troops.”
The U.S. has the largest U.S. embassy in the world located not too far from where Obama made his speech and that embassy will be the real hub of control in Iraq for years to come if the Obama administration is able to carry out its goals in Iraq. This is the reality of “democracy” that the U.S. has brought to Iraq.
During his speech about making Iraqis responsible for their country, Obama did not mention that his “withdrawal plan” would leave a U.S. force of 50,000 in Iraq to provide “counterterrorism duties.” I guess these 50,000 troops, the tens of thousands of U.S. contractors, and the huge embassy to be left behind will just be assisting the Iraqis in taking responsibility to follow U.S. dictates.
Obama’s quick stop had nothing to do with promoting an independent Iraq and everything to do with fooling the American people. His stopover led network newscasts and generated overwhelmingly positive U.S.
mainstream media coverage. Obama was framed in front of cheering U.S. troops. His remarks were not critically examined by the media and millions of Americans actually think Obama is “withdrawing” from Iraq and handling over responsibility of their country to the Iraqis.
http://worldcantwait.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5505:obama-s-trip-to-iraq-continuing-war-and-occupation&catid=117:homepage&Itemid=289
A third intifada?
Marcy Newman, Body on the line
April 8, 2009
from stories i am hearing from friends from al quds to safa to beit ommar as well as in the media it looks like an intifada is rising up. although most of my friends agree that for a real full-blown intifada to emerge there needs to be one against the palestinian collaborationist authority too. (this includes friends of mine who were long in fatah’s resistance.) one of the reasons why is best expressed by an anonymous blogger i read, al-falasteenyia, says it best when she names fatah and hamas "fatamas":
Avigdor Lieberman stated that israel hasn’t committed itself to Annapolis or anything else. i couldnt agree with him more!) so, this means that members of fatah and hamas (i shall hereby refer to them as FATAMAS, b/c lets face it, we deserve better) should agree now right? i mean, why should fatamas force itself to abide to previous agreements when israel never has? when israel continues to build settlements? when israel does not (and indeed never has) stuck to the road map- or any other agreement, un resolution, etc? so fatamas, take a hint from lieberman and get over yourselves. (hold up. did i mention that israeli police held lieberman for 7 hours on corruption charges? scandalous! im lovin it!) but lets be real. lieberman isn’t the super racist stud you think he is. as nimer sultany says, lieberman is no abnormality. fact is we got the rest of bibi’s cabinet to deal with.
but for now energy seems to be directed against the main enemy: the zionist colonist terrorists. here is footage from al quds and the fighting between palestinians, who are throwing stones, and israeli terrorists who are shooting rubber-coated steel bullets:
my dear friend nora filmed israeli terrorists in beit ommar today targeting, among other villagers, a 4 year old child. she wrote this about it and she filmed it too (see below):
Today, the Israeli military once again invaded and attacked Palestinian residents of Beit Ommar village. For a few hours, the military had stationed themselves on the border of the village near Safa — where settlers had shot at Palestinians hours earlier. One woman trying to get home in Safa from Beit Ommar told us her brother had been shot by a settler and she was attempting to get home to be with her children who were shaken up. But the road was now full of soldiers and she couldn’t get to her home or her kids.
I captured a video of the soldiers upon their retreat from Beit Ommar — when an Israeli soldier deliberately chucked a heavy sound grenade at the feet of a 4 year old boy.
and my dear friend josie wrote this about her family’s village in safa, which is also besieged by israeli terrorists:
This morning we woke up to more alarming news from the village of Safa where my sister-in-law lives with her family. Following the murder of an Israeli settler in a nearby illegal settlement last week, the families in Safa have endured one form of collective punishment after another.
The men in the village were rounded up by Israeli soldiers and kept in the schoolyard. It’s been reported that 28 men were detained for even longer periods of time. Three homes in the village were taken over by Israeli soldiers and turned into military posts. The whole village was under curfew for more than 24 hours as Israeli soldiers searched (and damaged) homes and the following days all roads leading in and out of the village were blocked.
And now Israelis living in the nearby illegal settlement and Israeli soldiers have attacked the village injuring 38 people.
while the attacks on palestinians is beyond reprehensible, what is beautiful to see everyone resisting, and resisting together. i hope this gains momentum. we need to see more of resistance like this. one of my friends who was beaten up by the israeli terrorists in al quds saturday night defending the jaber home from the israeli colonists, who eventually stole the house and kicked out the family (2 of whom were sent to jail), came to have lunch with me today. he said the resistance he is seeing in the old city feels like an intifada is brewing. a new intifada. a third intifada. an intifada to liberate the land. 100% of it. let’s hope.
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http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/03/the-archipelago-of-eastern-palestine.html
Thanks to reader Jim Harb for alerting us to this interesting imaginary map. It is one way of showing the fragmentation of the West under Israeli occupation - an archipelago of disconnected islands. It's from the website Strange Maps, which also has some background from Julien Bousac, the artist who created the map:
“Maybe posting the full map would help to take it for what it is, i.e. an illustration of the West Bank’s ongoing fragmentation based on the (originally temporary) A/B/C zoning which came out of the Oslo process, still valid until now. To make things clear, areas ‘under water’ strictly reflect C zones, plus the East Jerusalem area, i.e. areas that have officially remained under full Israeli control and occupation following the Agreements. These include all Israeli settlements and outposts as well as Palestinian populated areas.”
Mr Boussac took advantage of the resulting archipelago effect “to use typical tourist maps codes (mainly icons) to sharpen the contrast between the fantasies raised by seemingly paradise-like islands and the Palestinian Territories grim reality.” The map does have a strong vacationy vibe to it – but whether that is because of the archipelago-shaped subject matter, or due to the cheerful colour scheme is a matter for debate.
Those colours, incidentally, denote urban areas (orange), nature reserves (shaded), zones of partial autonomy (dark green) and of total autonomy (light green). Totally fanciful are of course the dotted lines symbolising shipping links, the palm trees signifying protected beachland, and the purple symbols representing various aspects of seaside pleasure. The blue icon, labelled Zone sous surveillance (‘Zone under surveillance’) has some bearing on reality, as the locations of the warships match those of permanent Israeli checkpoints.
Some of the paradisiacally named islands include Ile au Miel (Honey Island), Ile aux Oliviers (Isle of the Olive Trees), Ile Sainte (Holy Island) and Ile aux Moutons (Sheep Island), although the naming of Ile sous le Mur (Island beneath the Wall) constitutes a relapse into the grimness of the area’s reality.
For more on the fragmentation of the West Bank, check out this resource page from the American Friends Service Committee. As you'll see in a video on the AFSC page, the map above is what some consider a "viable" Palestinian state in a two-state solution.
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Iraqi babies for sale: people trafficking crisis grows as gangs exploit poor families and corrupt system
Afif Sarhan, Guardian
April 6, 2009
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/06/child-trafficking-iraq
A Shiite woman with her baby waits to receive aid distributed by Iraqi
government in Sadr city, Baghdad. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP
• At least 150 children a year sold for £200 to £4,000
• Some bartered youngsters become sex abuse victims
Corruption, weak law enforcement and porous borders are compounding a
growing child trafficking crisis in Iraq, according to officials and aid agencies, with scores of children abducted each year and sold internally or abroad.
Criminal gangs are profiting from the cheap cost of buying infants and
the bureaucratic muddle that makes it relatively easy to move them
overseas. Accurate figures are difficult to obtain because there is no
centralised counting procedure, but aid agencies and police say they
believe numbers have increased by a third since 2005 to at least 150
children a year.
One senior police officer said at least 15 Iraqi children were sold
every month, some overseas, some internally, some for adoption, some for sexual abuse. Officials believe at least 12 gangs are operating in Iraq, offering between £200 and £4,000 per child, depending on its
background and health. The main countries in which they are sold are
Jordan, Turkey, Syria and some European countries including Switzerland, Ireland, the UK, Portugal and Sweden.
According to Colonel Firaz Abdallah, part of the investigation
department of the Iraqi police, gangs use intermediaries who pretend to be working for non-governmental organisations. During negotiations with the families, members of the trafficking gangs prepare the paperwork: birth certificates, change of names and the addition of the child to the passport of the intermediary or any other person who is paid to take the child outside, usually to Syria and Jordan and from there, to Europe or other Middle East countries.
"The corruption in many departments of the government makes our job
complicated [because] when those children come to the airport or the
border, everything looks correct and it is hard for us to keep them
inside the country without significant evidence that the child is being trafficked," Abdallah said.
"A couple of weeks ago we caught a couple with a six-month-old baby
leaving by car from the Iraqi border to Jordan. One of our police
officers found the age difference between the couple strange and asked
our office to check. After arresting them we found out that the girl was sold by her parents and was going to be taken to Amman, then after that, to Ireland where a family had already paid for the baby."
One dealer, who asked to be called Abu Hamizi, said child trafficking
from Iraq was cheaper and easier than elsewhere, given the readiness of underpaid government employees to help with the falsification of
documents.
"Before we try to negotiate with any family we study their living
conditions, their debts, the goods they own, and when we feel that the
relatives are suffering with unemployment and cannot feed their
children, we make our approach that in most of the time is welcomed as
we are seen as aid workers," he said.
"During the period of investigations, we present ourselves as employees of a local NGO and offer some food and clothes. After we get their trust, we make our offer that varies according to what we have found out. If the family is really poor they can accept very low deals but sometimes with more literate ones, prices are higher.
"We prefer babies but sometimes families request children from one to
four years old but they are rare cases."
The traffickers said they would check up occasionally to ensure the
child was doing well. But Abu Hamizi said he once heard from a colleague that one of babies sold last year was used for organ transplants in the Middle East.
Though Abu Hamizi insists that "client" families were well-treated, a
2007 report by the NGO Heartland Alliance found that traffickers
employed the threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud,
deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or
benefits to a person in control of the victim.
Sarah Taminn, 38, a widow and mother of five from Babel, said she had
already sold children aged four and two in the past year. She had no
regrets despite receiving less money than promised by the dealer.
"People might see me as a monster but if they know how hard it is to
live in a displacement camp, without a job, support or husband, they
might change their idea," she said. "I did anything possible to keep
them with me but I lost my husband while I was pregnant with my fifth
child and life became too hard. I love all my children. I know that the families who adopted them will give a good life, food and education that I would never give."
Aid workers say very little is being done to overcome the problem.
"Reports of trafficking are increasing because people are much more
aware now and they feel confident enough to talk about this child rights violation," said Fatuma Ibrahim, chief child protection officer of Unicef from the Iraq Support Centre in Amman.
"Of course, Unicef is very concerned about these reports and we are working with the Ministry of Labour and Social Services to follow up on reports of alleged 'adoptions'."
Aid agencies are warning parents that many children are used as sexual
workers or sold to paedophiles. "We tried to approach many of these
families to alert them about what can happen with their kids but we have been threatened and two aid workers were killed after they tried to prevent a child negotiation," said one aid worker, Ahmed Sami.
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Obama Administration Embraces Bush Position on Warrantless Wiretapping and Secrecy --Says Court Must Dismiss Jewel v. NSA to Protect 'State Secrets' 06 Apr 2009 The Obama administration formally adopted the Bush administration's position that the courts cannot judge the legality of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) warrantless wiretapping program, filing a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA late Friday... The Obama Justice Department claims in its motion that litigation over the wiretapping program would require the government to disclose privileged "state secrets." These are essentially the same arguments made by the Bush administration three years ago in Hepting v. AT&T, EFF's lawsuit against one of the telecom giants complicit in the NSA spying.
Obama's DoJ defends Bush-era wiretaps --Telecom spy program a 'state secret' 06 Apr 2009 The US Justice Department under President Obama is invoking Bush Administration tactics to dismiss a lawsuit alleging federal agents engaged in illegal phone and email surveillance of ordinary US citizens. A motion submitted to US District Judge Walker on Friday claims disclosing information on the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program would "cause exceptionally grave harm to national security." The 36-page brief invokes "state secrets" privileges to keep mum on the case, and claims the 2001 Patriot Act grants government agencies an umbrella "sovereign immunity" for domestic spy programs.
CLG: Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment: Universities Possible Terror Portals --2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment, Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of State Police, Virginia Fusion Center State - Federal - Local - Private, March 2009 --Posted by Lori Price 08 Apr 2009 The Lowlights: Virginia's network of colleges and universities also represent a potential avenue of entry for terrorist operatives and a possible forum for recruitment of sympathizers... In addition to reviewing information directly reported to the VFC, surveys were sent to all Virginia local law enforcement agencies to determine the extent of terrorism activities throughout the state. Information of interest included not only event-specific data, but also suspicious traffic stops or activities consistent with pre-operational attack planning. Assessments of the overall threat posed by specific terror and extremist groups or movements were completed utilizing the Project SLEIPNIR: Revised Long Matrix for Criminal Extremism utilized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
New evidence of police attacks on G20 victim --Eyewitness claims riot police assaulted newspaper seller three times before he died near protest 09 Apr 2009 The Metropolitan Police faced fresh allegations of brutality last night after it emerged that a man who died at the G20 protests may have been attacked by riot police three times. Ian Tomlinson was walking home from work when he was hit and pushed over by an officer in an apparently unprovoked attack. Minutes later the 47-year-old lay dying on a London street.
The police: Unaccountable, secretive and out of control --This assault shows why the police are in urgent need of reform (The Independent) 09 April 2009 ...[W]hat is so damning about the video footage that has emerged from last week's G20 protests in London is that there is nothing in the slightest bit reasonable about the force that was used against Ian Tomlinson. Mr Tomlinson was plainly walking away from riot officers when he was struck. It is impossible to say for certain that this assault by a baton-wielding riot officer brought on Mr Tomlinson's heart attack only a few minutes later. But most people will find it impossible to disconnect the two events.
Do U.S. drones kill Pakistani extremists or recruit them? 07 Apr 2009 Even as the Obama administration launches new drone attacks into Pakistan's remote tribal areas, concerns are growing among U.S. intelligence and military officials that the strikes are bolstering the Islamic insurgency by prompting Islamist radicals to disperse into the country's heartland. Al Qaida [al-CIAduh], Taliban and other militants who've been relocating to Pakistan's overcrowded and impoverished cities may be harder to find and stop from staging terrorist attacks, the officials said.
Roadside bomb injures 6 civilians in S Afghanistan 08 Apr 2009 Six civilians were injured as a roadside bomb struck two vehicles in Kandahar province south of Afghanistan on Wednesday, spokesman of provincial administration Zalmai Ayubi said. "The blast took place when two civilian automobiles were passing a bridge close to Kandahar airport, wounding six persons and three of them in critical condition," Ayubi told Xinhua.
NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan 08 Apr 2009 A NATO soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan, where six civilians were also wounded Wednesday in a bomb blast while traveling on a road close to the military alliance's main base in southern Afghanistan. The soldier was killed in a "hostile incident" Wednesday, a NATO statement said, without providing the exact location of the incident or the nationality of the victim.
Obama team readying for confrontation with Netanyahu 08 Apr 2009 The Obama administration is readying for a possible confrontation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by briefing Democratic congressmen on the peace process and the positions of the new government in Israel regarding a two-state solution. The Obama administration is expecting a clash with Netanyahu over his refusal to support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
In shift, Obama administration will join Iran nuclear talks 08 Apr 2009 The Obama administration significantly stepped up its diplomatic engagement with Iran on Wednesday, saying it would break with former president George W. Bush's policy and permanently join international talks with Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons program. The talks also include Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia, and the switch in U.S. policy was announced in a statement by the six nations after consultations in London.
Treasury lists Chinese, Iranians for WMD 08 Apr 2009 The U.S. Treasury Department listed a Chinese national and six Iranian businesses Tuesday as agents engaged in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The designation falls under Executive Order 13382, a 2005 measure that freezes the assets of alleged distributors of weapons of mass destruction.
Bomb near Iraq Shi'ite shrine kills 7 08 Apr 2009 A roadside bomb in the Shi'ite Kadhimiya district in northwest Baghdad killed seven people and wounded 23 on Wednesday, police said, a day after a bomb in the same area killed nine. Kadhimiya is home to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
US court hands new defeat for Uighurs at Guantanamo 07 Apr 2009 A federal appeals court ruled today against a group of Chinese Muslims who have been held for years at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and had sought judicial review of their fate. The executive branch of the US government has the sole authority to decide where to send the detainees, the court said. The appeals panel in Washington ruled by a 2-1 vote that judges may not second-guess those decisions.
Assassin suspect released in Turkey 08 Apr 2009 A man in Turkey, who was last week detained on suspicion of plotting to kill visiting US President Barack Obama, has been released. Turkish officials have said the man was deemed to be mentally disturbed and was released on the weekend. It is believed the man, of Syrian origin, threatened to stab the US president.
Warship heads for scene of Indian Ocean standoff --Somali pirates overpowered by US crew but captain still held prisoner 08 Apr 2009 Somali pirates skimmed across the Indian Ocean and muscled their way aboard a US food aid ship today... The crew had held a pirate prisoner for 12 hours and released him in return for the captain, but the pirates had not kept their side of the bargain. A US warship, the USS destroyer Bainbridge, was on its way to the area this evening. "We are trying to hold them off until the US ship arrives," said Ken Quinn, second mate on the ship. [Dollars to doughnuts, Xe and Triple Canopy are on their way, as well.]
Officials: Warship, others headed to pirate scene 08 Apr 2009 U.S. officials say an American warship and a half dozen others are headed to the scene where pirates captured a vessel with a U.S. crew off Somalia's coast. One official says the destroyer USS Bainbridge is headed there. Another official says there are six or seven ships on the way. A person aboard the Maersk Alabama, reached by The Associated Press by satellite phone, says crew members had retaken control of the ship. But pirates were holding the captain as a hostage in a lifeboat in waters nearby.
"I am under a lot of pressure to not diagnose PTSD" By Michael de Yoanna and Mark Benjamin --A secret recording reveals the Army may be pushing its medical staff not to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder. The Army and Senate have ignored the implications. 08 Apr 2009 Last June, during a medical appointment, a patient named "Sgt. X" recorded an Army psychologist at Fort Carson, Colo., saying that he was under pressure not to diagnose combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
'US army bans PTSD diagnosis over costs' 08 Apr 2009 The US Army has reportedly pressured its medical staff not to diagnose combat veterans, who had fought in Iraq, with post-traumatic stress disorder. The shocking news was revealed after an Iraq veteran recorded an Army psychologist at Fort Carson, Colorado, during a medical appointment.
Traces of explosives in 9/11 dust, scientists say 06 Apr 2009 Tiny red and gray chips found in the dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center contain highly explosive materials -- proof, according to a former BYU professor, that 9/11 is still a sinister mystery. Physicist Steven E. Jones, who retired from Brigham Young University in 2006, is one of nine authors on a paper published last week in the online, peer-reviewed Open Chemical Physics Journal. For several years, Jones has theorized that pre-positioned explosives, not fires from jet fuel, caused the rapid, symmetrical collapse of the two World Trade Center buildings, plus the collapse of a third building, WTC-7.
Police: Jet thief wanted to be shot down 08 Apr 2009 Suicide by fighter jet was the goal of a flight student who stole a plane in Canada, entered U.S. airspace and flew an erratic path over the Midwest with the military on his tail before landing the craft safely on a rural Missouri road, federal authorities said Tuesday. On Tuesday, Adam Dylan Leon was charged with transportation of stolen property and illegal entry.
U.S. regulator approves rapid test for bird flu 07 Apr 2009 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it had approved a fast test for H5N1 bird flu that can show in less than an hour if people are infected. The test, made by Sunnyvale, California-based Arbor Vita Corporation, should greatly speed up diagnosis and treatment [DoD military missions, incarcerations in KBR detention centers] of people infected with avian influenza, the FDA said.
Pentagon spends $100 million to 'fix' cyber attacks 07 Apr 2009 The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the last six months responding to and repairing damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems, military leaders said Tuesday.
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Cyberspies Penetrate U.S. Power Grid, Leave Software That Could Disrupt System --The intrusions were not just limited to the electrical power grid, but affected systems like water and sewage. 08 Apr 2009 The U.S. has uncovered evidence that cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. power grid and left behind software that could be activated to disrupt American infrastructure, FOX News confirmed Wednesday. The "intrusions," first reported by The Wall Street Journal, have occurred over a period of time, one U.S. official said -- not all at once. [US corpora-terrorists are desperate to privatize US electrical systems, water and sewage. See: Drought 'Oddities'.]
US financial bailout watchdog eyes AIG payments 08 Apr 2009 The in-house watchdog for the U.S. Treasury Department's massive financial rescue program is examining billions of dollars in counterparty payments made by bailed-out insurer AIG to major banks, such as Goldman Sachs, according to a letter obtained on Tuesday. American International Group, which has received $180 million in taxpayer aid since last fall to save it from collapse, disclosed on March 15 that it had paid more than $90 billion to Goldman and to European banks including Germany's Deutsche Bank, France's Societe Generale, and Britain's Barclays.
Fed sees economy sliding further 08 Apr 2009 Federal Reserve policy-makers, faced with bleaker forecasts for a rapidly worsening recession, decided to buy a "substantial" amount of U.S. Treasury and mortgage debt to halt the slide, minutes of their most recent meeting showed on Wednesday.
Oil Giants Loath to Follow Obama's Green Lead 08 Apr 2009 The oil companies have frequently run advertisements expressing their interest in new forms of energy, but their actual investments have belied the marketing claims. The great bulk of their investments goes to traditional petroleum resources, including carbon-intensive energy sources like tar sands and natural gas from shale, while alternative investments account for a tiny fraction of their spending. So far, that has changed little under the Obama administration.
Ginger, Turmeric, Neem Declared "Hazardous" in Thailand After Chemical Companies Try to Protect Pesticide Profits By David Gutierrez 07 Apr 2009 The government of Thailand has classified 13 plants - traditionally used as herbal medicines and natural pesticides - as "hazardous substances," causing outrage among farmers and advocates of traditional medicine. The plants - including ginger, turmeric, neem and chili - have been classified by the Industry Ministry as "hazardous substances type 1," requiring all manufacturers, growers, importers or exporters of any products made from the plants to follow strict safety and quality control rules or face up to six months in jail and a 50,000 baht ($1,400) fine.
Ballot Review Gives Franken Solid Advantage 07 Apr 2009 Democrat Al Franken’s lead in Minnesota’s long-disputed Senate race increased to 312 votes Tuesday, making it mathematically impossible for Norm Coleman to win his state trial challenging the election outcome. A three-judge panel appointed by the state Supreme Court is expected to rule this week that Franken won the race. Franken’s slim advantage expanded after election officials, acting under court order, opened and counted 351 previously rejected [?!?] absentee ballots.
Silvio Berlusconi tells earthquake survivors to head for the beach 09 Apr 2009 Silvio Berlusconi has told survivors of the Italian earthquake to lift their spirits by heading for the beach. He added that people forced from their wrecked homes should look on their tented accommodation as a spot of camping. The Italian Prime Minister’s comments have enraged some of those living in tent villages, after a second fitful night that was rocked by aftershocks from the 6.3-magnitude earthquake, Italy’s worst for 30 years. The death toll rose to 250 yesterday.
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Previous lead stories: CIA medics joined in Guantánamo torture sessions, report says --Leaked ICRC report claims medical staff monitored terror suspects during waterboarding, recommended continuation of torture 07 Apr 2009 Medical personnel committed a "gross breach of medical ethics" by taking part in torture in Guantánamo, a leaked International Committee of the Red Cross document has revealed. The 40-page confidential report, written in 2007, describes how medical staff working for the CIA monitored prisoners' vital signs to make sure they did not drown while being subjected to waterboarding. Medical personnel were also said to be present when prisoners were shackled in a "stress standing position". The detainees were "monitored by health personnel who in some instances recommended stopping the method of ill-treatment, or recommended its continuation, but with adjustments", according to the report. The Red Cross concluded: "The alleged participation of health personnel in the interrogation process and, either directly or indirectly, in the infliction of ill-treatment constituted a gross breach of medical ethics and, in some cases, amounted to participation in torture and/or cruel inhuman or degrading treatment."
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The Pragmatism of Ethnic Cleansing
by Steven Salaita
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/salaita.php?articleid=13881
Barack Obama's election victory has inspired a windfall of comment, most of it euphoric, with some grumbling from the political Right and the small quarters of the Left that remain unimpressed, so I am hesitant to contribute to the chatter. There is one element of Obama's victory, however, that has received less attention than it deserves, and that is his profound commitment to an extreme form of Zionism. I do not wish to spend this essay condemning Obama for that commitment; I have done so elsewhere, and others have offered eloquent condemnation already, though such a perspective hasn't yet managed to penetrate the liberal-Left.
As a note of clarity, I do not use the phrase "extreme form of Zionism" for rhetorical effect; I deploy it soberly and literally. Obama's statements during his campaign unambiguously situate him in a right-wing Zionist outlook both politically and philosophically.
During his 2008 AIPAC speech, for instance, Obama promised, "I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything in my power. Everything." Later, he remarked, "It was just a few years after the liberation of the camps that David Ben-Gurion declared the founding of the Jewish state of Israel. We know that the establishment of Israel was just and necessary, rooted in centuries of struggle and decades of patient work, but 60 years later we know that we cannot relent, we cannot yield, and as president I will never compromise when it comes to Israel's security."
These comments are notable for their implicit ferocity. Obama not only expresses fealty to Israel's lobby, he also refuses to set any parameters for what he would consider acceptable Israeli behavior. "Everything," after all, is a remarkably broad obligation.
Rather than condemning Obama's Zionism, I would like to instead focus on the justifications and rationalizations for his decision, especially those that dismiss its moral consequences and instead emphasize what its purveyors claim to be its strategic inevitability.
I have seen countless times on the Internet and have heard even more frequently some variation of the following argument: "Obama had to court the Israel lobby in order to be elected; it's part of presidential politics in the United States." Bolder commentators suggest that it would be foolish to expect otherwise, a point implied by the novelist and blogger Laila Lalami: "During the primaries, I was often surprised at the line of thinking that equated Barack Obama with the status quo, simply because he was not progressive enough. Of course Obama was not progressive enough." Other liberals smugly accuse Obama's skeptics of purism, which they say has no business in serious political conversations.
Let's unpack some of these discourses. The first thing I would like to argue is that criticizing Obama for not being progressive enough is not the same thing as equating him with the status quo, though such an argument would have plenty of evidence to support it. Nor is it automatically naïve to suggest that Obama's sycophantic Zionism should be contested. To say that Obama had to cozy up to Zionist fanatics in order to be elected may well be true (though it's not a given), but proponents of this complaint assume that Obama's election was more important than the policies he supported. They also assume that Obama's critics misunderstood his motivation, which was to curry favor with a demographic that would help him achieve his goal of becoming president.
I cannot speak for other critics of Obama, but I am well aware that American elections are structured in such a way that certain groups must be appeased, Zionists being one of them (corporations and weapons manufacturers being a few others). I am also aware that no presidential candidate will be adequately progressive, because true progressives do not win presidential elections in the United States. It is not a lack of knowledge that leads me to criticize Obama's courtship of colonizers, but a devotion to those who suffer from the pernicious American policies that are reinforced by American electoral culture.
Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians. There is nothing tolerable about ethnic cleansing; it is a deeply violent process. It is thus ethically dubious to sacrifice the Palestinians (among others) to American electoral pragmatism.
If we are to pursue worldly justice, then, American presidential elections aren't the best place to devote energy. The problem is structured into the electoral system, which is why those who hope to effect change in the world are forced to concede their most basic moral principles when they invest themselves in national campaigns. They end up expressing a profoundly misplaced sense of purpose.
In the most recent election, they were forced to concede that Afghans may face an even more destructive military occupation and that the Palestinians will continue to suffer what has become a humanitarian catastrophe. This concession may be something they're prepared to live with, but we should remember that the Afghans and Palestinians have no choice. They must accept the consequences of American electoral pragmatism, which dictates that certain centers of power must remain impervious. Those impervious centers of power also work against the well-being of the vast majority of American voters, which is their particular genius. They manage to get people excited about enacting their own irrelevance.
Antonio Gramsci expertly assessed these phenomena many decades ago with his theory of hegemony, a commonly misused word these days. Gramsci developed the notion of consent that Noam Chomsky would appropriate and make popular. Of Gramsci's many germane points, the one most relevant here is his observation that what any given community automatically deems "commonsensical" actually supplements the interests of that community's elite. Commonsense, then, is not an intuitive, self-evident phenomenon, but a formulation that results from a complex process in which popular conceptions of a society's well-being become coterminous with the needs of the powerful and wealthy.
Ignoring Obama's uglier electoral moves, then, wasn't commonsensical or inevitable at all. It was the result of accepting ethnic cleansing as an American political reality. I doubt that Obama's pragmatists would have been such staunch advocates of electoral realism if they, like the Palestinians, were being removed from their homes and confined to bounded ghettoes. If readers might excuse the hyperbole, I am simply making a basic moral point: there are actual humans with actual feelings and families and aspirations that live with the brute realities that come of our abrogation of ethical probity when we choose instead to submit to the electoral limitations that the powerful have offered us.
I hope that my compatriots will remember that voting does not itself constitute action; work needs to be done outside of state apparatuses. I am aware, though, that most citizens are done acting for four years, having been told over and again that voting, an act of legitimation and not of change, represents the pinnacle of civic responsibility. (To be fair, this is true insofar as civic responsibility as defined by corporate media is to be a good citizen, the kind that doesn't go around making trouble doing things like thinking critically and challenging systemic injustices.)
One bit of heartening news is the fact that the Palestinians know better. A number of polls, including a recent one conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center, show that Palestinians "think the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president will have no impact on the chances of a solution to the conflict with Israel." Instead of sacrificing the Palestinians to their liberal fetishes, maybe Obama's apologists should just shut up for a moment and listen to them instead.
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