From: Benjamin Merhav <ben.merhav@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:26 AM
Subject: MY 494th OPEN MESSAGE TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
To: Google+ <noreply-492460c6@plus.google.com>, palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
The article below is accurately described by its title, namely, The Empire Strikes Back. The entire humanity is currently under attack by the huge USA transnational corporations. It is an attack on all fronts : military, environmental, economic, legal, psychiatric and cultural. In brief, it is a fascist, imperialist and racist attack.The spearhead of the attack is the zionist apartheid regime of Israel with the zionist Gestapo, as its clandestine arm.
This racist, fascist and imperialist attack had began on the 22nd of November, 1963 with the assassination of President J.F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, by the zionist Gestapo (see my 18th letter to the Attorney General of Australia http://5thautobiography.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-eighteenth-open-letter-to-attorney.html).
The zionist Gestapo had the collusion and collaboration of L.B. Johnson, the then Vice President, as well as of the CIA and of the FBI in the perpetration and the cover-up of this heinous crime. L.B. Johnson, who become the USA president as a result of the assassination, had participated in a meeting which coordinated the assassination one day prior to the heinous crime. "Johnson is known to have attended a final pre-assassination meeting on November 21, 1963 at Dallas oilman Clint Murchison's home. Two separate witnesses have independently verified that LBJ was present at the meeting including his former mistress Madeline Duncan Brown who stated on multiple occasions and in various venues that LBJ told her on the night of November 21, 1963 "after tomorrow those Kennedy boys will never make a fool of me again." (See : http://jfkassassinationconspiracyupdate.blogspot.com.au/p/jfk-assassination-co-conspirators.html).
This heinous assassination marks, therefore, the beginning of a fascist tyranny by the USA transnational corporations ; and all the American presidents, which have occupied the White House since then, served as the obedient puppets of this tyranny. As a result, this tyranny now rules the entire earth to the detriment of the entire humanity. Wars and imperialist terrorism are now threatening the entire humanity, as are the horrendous environmental crises, the economic crises and the daily global attacks on human rights and freedoms all over the world.
The article below highlights one aspect of the current dangers, and it deserves our attention too. However to undo the 48 year old fascist rule, the heinous assassination crime must be exposed to the public. Therefore the investigation into the heinous assassination of President J.F. Kennedy must be reopened by a genuinely independent inquiry body, using a transparent procedure to reach an objective conclusion which would be made public immediately.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/02/the-empire-strikes-back-2/#more-42189
The Empire Strikes Back
by David Macaray / February 14th, 2012
If you're looking for evidence of just how confident, militant, and insufferably arrogant companies have become in recent years, look no further than the phenomenon of the lockout. A lockout is where a company closes its doors, refusing to allow its union employees to return to work until they accede to company demands—demands that typically call for staggering cuts in wages and benefits.
Unlike strikes—which, as the ultimate manifestation of employee dissatisfaction with management, are a universally recognized form of protest—lockouts are a form of extortion. A lockout represents an unambiguous threat, an ultimatum. Management figuratively places a gun to the employees' heads and says take it or leave it.
There was a time not long ago when strikes were a regular part of the American economic landscape, and when, conversely, lockouts were about as scarce as hen's teeth. In fact, lockouts were practically unheard of. But given that the business world has been recalibrated—and given the availability of replacement workers, part-timers and temps, coupled with the weakening of state and federal labor laws—strikes are now relatively uncommon, and, in a reversal, lockouts have become management's new weapon of choice.
One of the uglier incidents occurred recently at Caterpillars' London, Ontario, facility. After the membership refused company demands that they accept a whopping 55-percent wage cut, plus the elimination of the pension plan (along with other take-aways), the plant's 465 production workers were abruptly locked out. No further negotiating, no compromises, no mediation; the company went directly to lockout mode. Then, after a 6-week lockout, Caterpillar announced it was shutting the plant down for good, and that everyone had lost their jobs. That's what we politely meant by businesses "recalibrating."
Strikes have always had a distinctly schizoid nature, being both dreaded and embraced, glorified and vilified Traditionally, when workers in a viable facility (i.e., one making a healthy profit) reached the point in contract negotiations where the company refused to budge, they hit the bricks. They shut the place down, walked off the job, thereby depriving the company of the ability to make a profit, and, very importantly, sacrificing their own economic well-being by no longer earning a wage or receiving benefits.
Because the stakes are so high, strikes have always been rightly regarded as spooky, monumental undertakings. While some strikes have been successful, many—perhaps most—have not. But successful or not, strikes need to be recognized as labor's only real weapon. Depriving management of the opportunity to make money is the only bullet in the chamber; everything else is theatrics. Other than striking, what's a union going to do to get the management's attention—threaten to stand on the front lawn and scream insults through a megaphone?
Here's a true story. In 1983 I was part of a union negotiating team that called a strike against a major manufacturing company, an action that put more than 700 men and women out on the street. It was a chaotic scene. Even though we got a 96-percent strike authorization vote prior to the shutdown, once the real thing happened, and the hammer dropped, people were understandably frightened and anxious. The strike lasted 57 days.
Looking to nip any problems in the bud, we immediately contacted the company's HR rep and made clear our views regarding people crossing the picket line. Although we were a tight local, and didn't anticipate scabs, you never know what people will do in a crisis. We told the company that if they allowed scabs to cross, we would be forced to retaliate by taking out full-page ads in local newspapers, exposing the company's greed and stubbornness, and calling them bad names.
They didn't take our peremptory salvo well. The strike was barely four hours old, and tensions were already running high. They told us to shut up, mind our own business, and not presume to lecture them on how to run their operation. But they also informed us that they had no intention of allowing people to cross over, believing that allowing people to cross would create more problems than it solved. We believed them.
But within a week or two, a handful of our guys tried to do just that. They approached at night (it was a 24-hour operation) hoping they wouldn't be observed, and asked to be put to work. When the company refused, it occurred to them that being denied entry might very well constitute a "lockout." While it was a known fact that strikers weren't entitled to unemployment benefits, wouldn't "locked-out" employees be eligible?
They went down to the unemployment office and made their case. They told the duty officer that even though their union had called a strike, they themselves wished to continue working, but the company wouldn't let them. "Doesn't that mean that this is a lockout and not a strike?" they asked eagerly. The duty officer seemed puzzled. She thought about it a moment and answered: "What's a lockout?"
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I ask every reader to send immediately protest messages to the following email addresses, and with a copy to my email address (ben.merhav@gmail.com).
" I protest the continuous torture of the Australian citizen Benjamin Merhav by sleep deprivation and his daughter and son by psychiatric torture in Melbourne, Australia.
This torture is perpetrated against Benjamin Merhav directly by the clandestine arm of the State of Israel (the zionist Gestapo), and indirectly by the same culprit against Benjamin's daughter and son.
I demand that the Australian government instruct ASIO to protect these Australian citizens, and stop these terrorist crimes by a foreign government on Australian soil immediately !"
2. to ICJ-Australia and ICJ Secretariat (email president@icj-aust.org.au,chair@icj-aust.org.au,sec-gen@icj-aust.org.au,
info@icj.dk,info@icj.org ) a message along the following lines :
"I protest your refusal to investigate Benjamin Merhav's complaint against the Australian government's approval of ASIO's violation of the rule of law in Australia, regarding the continuous torture in Melbourne of himself, his daughter and his son , all Australian citizens, by the clandestine arm of the State of Israel (the zionist Gestapo).
I demand your immediate intervention to protect these Australian citizens, to stop the perpetration of these terrorist crimes In Australia, and to end these violations of the rule of law by the Australian government in Australia."
3. to the PCHR and to all the Palestinian leaders in occupied Palestine ( email english@palestine-info.co.uk ;
pchr@pchrgaza.org ) message along the following
lines :
"I protest the betrayal of Benjamin Merhav by Raji Sourani to the zionist Gestapo's torture.I demand Sourani's replacement on the ICJ and on FIDH with a honest Palestinian patriot who would initiate protest action against the torture of Benjamin Merhav, his daughter, and his son by the zionist Gestapo in Australia.
I demand that the Palestinian leaders encourage Palestinians and their supporters to protest this ongoing terrorist torture by the zionist Gestapo, and to demand that it should stop immediately."
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DISBAND NOW THE ZIONIST APARTHEID REGIME OF ISRAEL !
A JUST SOLUTION TO THE ZIONIST CONFLICT IN PALESTINE CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT FIRST DISBANDING THE ZIONIST APARTHEID REGIME OF ISRAEL !
FOLLOWING THE DISBANDING OF THIS RACIST REGIME, A DEMOCRATIC, NON-RACIST STATE, TO WHICH ALL THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES WOULD BE INVITED TO RETURN, SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED ON THE ENTIRE AREA OF HISTORIC PALESTINE !
THIS SHOULD BE WRITTEN INTO THE PLATFORM OF THE BDS MOVEMENT NOW, AS THE PURPOSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT OF THE ZIONIST APARTHEID REGIME OF ISRAEL !
Palash Biswas
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