Wednesday, July 8, 2009
the problems of nelson mandela
" Few whites go into the townships. For them, beyond the multiracial images of the "rainbow nation" - now celebrated, sadly, not by the power of the people's epic story but by consumerist propaganda - is another country. Here live those whose blood, sweat and tears forced the pace of change and who, wrote Allister Sparks, South Africa's great chronicler, "could feel they were proclaiming their equality and that their strength of spirit could overwhelm the guns and armoured vehicles waiting outside". These are the people to whom Mandela said their "hopes and dreams are about to be realised". It follows that they ought not to have merely an expectation of a better life, but a right to one.
The truth is that this right is still denied and South Africa is still not theirs. What is clear is that "reconciliation", to which Mandela has devoted himself to the applause of most of the world, provides little more than a facade behind which apartheid continues by other means. For the question remains: reconciliation for whom?
In 1994, as election day approached, white South Africans hoarded food and fortified their houses against the feared "takeover" by domestic servants, the homeless, the unemployed and the black masses in general. Four years later, the servants are still serving, the squatters are still squatting (and still being evicted by white-led paramilitary police), and the majority are still waiting - while the "madams" and the "baases" experience no real change in their privileged way of life. For them, there is nothing new in the "new" South Africa, apart from the shared discomfort of paranoia and the acquisition of a new burglar alarm. "
The truth is that this right is still denied and South Africa is still not theirs. What is clear is that "reconciliation", to which Mandela has devoted himself to the applause of most of the world, provides little more than a facade behind which apartheid continues by other means. For the question remains: reconciliation for whom?
In 1994, as election day approached, white South Africans hoarded food and fortified their houses against the feared "takeover" by domestic servants, the homeless, the unemployed and the black masses in general. Four years later, the servants are still serving, the squatters are still squatting (and still being evicted by white-led paramilitary police), and the majority are still waiting - while the "madams" and the "baases" experience no real change in their privileged way of life. For them, there is nothing new in the "new" South Africa, apart from the shared discomfort of paranoia and the acquisition of a new burglar alarm. "
the evils of mother teresa
"I worked undercover for a week in Mother Teresa's flagship home for disabled boys and girls to record Mother Teresa's Legacy, a special report for Five News broadcast earlier this month. I winced at the rough handling by some of the full-time staff and Missionary sisters. I saw children with their mouths gagged open to be given medicine, their hands flaying in distress, visible testimony to the pain they were in. Tiny babies were bound with cloths at feeding time. Rough hands wrenched heads into position for feeding. Some of the children retched and coughed as rushed staff crammed food into their mouths. Boys and girls were abandoned on open toilets for up to 20 minutes at a time. Slumped, untended, some dribbling, some sleeping, they were a pathetic sight. Their treatment was an affront to their dignity, and dangerously unhygienic.
Volunteers (from Italy, Sweden, the United States and the UK) did their best to cradle and wash the children who had soiled themselves. But there were no nappies, and only cold water. Soap and disinfectant were in short supply. Workers washed down beds with dirty water and dirty cloths. Food was prepared on the floor in the corridor. A senior member of staff mixed medicine with her hands. Some did their best to give love and affection - at least some of the time. But, for the most part, the care the children received was inept, unprofessional and, in some cases, rough and dangerous. "They seem to be warehousing people rather than caring for them," commented the former operations director of Mencap Martin Gallagher, after viewing our undercover footage."
Volunteers (from Italy, Sweden, the United States and the UK) did their best to cradle and wash the children who had soiled themselves. But there were no nappies, and only cold water. Soap and disinfectant were in short supply. Workers washed down beds with dirty water and dirty cloths. Food was prepared on the floor in the corridor. A senior member of staff mixed medicine with her hands. Some did their best to give love and affection - at least some of the time. But, for the most part, the care the children received was inept, unprofessional and, in some cases, rough and dangerous. "They seem to be warehousing people rather than caring for them," commented the former operations director of Mencap Martin Gallagher, after viewing our undercover footage."
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The growth of the Pirate Party: Arrrrrrrrrrrrrggghhh
"After scoring a surprise electoral win in Sweden and getting high-profile support in Germany, The Pirate Party's next port of call may be Canada, where a so-far small band of buccaneers are hoping to send copyright restrictions to Davy Jones's locker.
Right now, they're a handful of loosely-organized individuals spread across the country. But they want to become an official federal political party within the next few years and get enough support to persuade Parliament to relax proposed copyright laws they say are heavy-handed and a violation of personal privacy.
"I think one of the roles a party like The Pirate Party can play is to more or less stiffen up the spines of people who might be in the NDP or the Liberals who want to get this stuff done," said Rob Sutherland, a freelance computer programmer in Regina who is one of the organizers of the Canadian group.
The Pirate Party was little-known anywhere in the world until earlier this year, when the four founders of The Pirate Bay, a Swedish torrent tracker site that helped people find and download movies, music and software, were fined millions of dollars and sentenced to jail.
The verdict created a public backlash and, almost overnight, membership in the Swedish Pirate Party more than doubled. In June's European Parliament elections, the party took 7.1 per cent of the vote in Sweden - enough for its first seat.
There has been a similar surge of support in Germany, where lawmaker Joerg Tauss recently quit the Social Democrats, one of the country's governing parties, and offered to join the fledgling Pirate Party of Germany.
The party's goals are fairly simple. It says people should have the right to share and copy music, movies and virtually any material, as long as it is for personal use, not for profit."
Right now, they're a handful of loosely-organized individuals spread across the country. But they want to become an official federal political party within the next few years and get enough support to persuade Parliament to relax proposed copyright laws they say are heavy-handed and a violation of personal privacy.
"I think one of the roles a party like The Pirate Party can play is to more or less stiffen up the spines of people who might be in the NDP or the Liberals who want to get this stuff done," said Rob Sutherland, a freelance computer programmer in Regina who is one of the organizers of the Canadian group.
The Pirate Party was little-known anywhere in the world until earlier this year, when the four founders of The Pirate Bay, a Swedish torrent tracker site that helped people find and download movies, music and software, were fined millions of dollars and sentenced to jail.
The verdict created a public backlash and, almost overnight, membership in the Swedish Pirate Party more than doubled. In June's European Parliament elections, the party took 7.1 per cent of the vote in Sweden - enough for its first seat.
There has been a similar surge of support in Germany, where lawmaker Joerg Tauss recently quit the Social Democrats, one of the country's governing parties, and offered to join the fledgling Pirate Party of Germany.
The party's goals are fairly simple. It says people should have the right to share and copy music, movies and virtually any material, as long as it is for personal use, not for profit."
Chinese debacles.
" The outbreak of unprecedented street violence in the capital of China's far western Uyghur-populated region of Xinjiang, with more than 150 persons officially reported dead and 828 injured, has caught both the central government in Beijing and outside observers by surprise. To put these events in perspective, Beijing only admitted to the loss of 18 lives and around 600 injured during the last major uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule in areas adjoining Xinjiang in March 2008.
How could a volcano of this scale erupt in Xinjiang's tightly-policed capital city, which has a demographic break-up of 75.3% Han and only 12.8% Muslim - mostly Sunni - Uyghurs? Is it believable that protesters belonging to a regimented and closely-monitored minority community can organize into mobs and kill so many people of the dominant ethnic group with just "knives, bricks and stones", as is being announced by Xinhua, the Chinese government news agency? Of the 150-and-rising casualties, how many are actually victims of agents of state? "
AND ALSO:
"The weekend violence that has left 156 people dead and more than 816 injured in Urumqi, capital of northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is the latest example of growing conflicts between China's majority Han ethnic group and ethnic minorities.
At the heart of the escalating problem are China's antiquated policies towards its ethnic minorities - a raft of Marxist measures that are now pleasing neither the ethnic Han, nor the minorities. As China's gargantuan economy has advanced, former leader Mao Zedong's vision of political and economic equality between Han and non-Han has gradually been undermined.
The end result could be seen on the bloody streets of Urumqi."
Monday, July 6, 2009
a random narrative.
Boot Stomping and Vampire Squid Gorging
The Fog of Economic War
By STEPHEN MARTIN
’Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'
--George Orwell.
When the State does not want Citizens to ‘hear’ numerous ‘mechanisms’ exist?
One aspect of the genius of George Orwell was to explain in depth how the mechanisms work; to provide thorough outline of the means of repression of humanity embracing not only State, but also ‘supranational’ or ‘geo strategic power block’ as ‘zone of influence’ - as in concept of ‘Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia’, and as anticipated works by such as Zbigniew Brzezinski ?
What is ‘unique’ about George Orwell is the span of his grasp of Politics, and ability commensurate to realise ‘Freedom’ as the right exercised to tell people what they ‘do not want to hear’; oft in form of ‘satire’ constructed on such grasp as enables enunciation of the principles of ‘control and manipulation’?
His well known quote:
‘If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.’
Demands the detailing of ‘human face’ as once was, such the State as we find ourselves to be in; such the stomp of boot?
Or indeed, as one writer recently put it concerning Goldman Sachs and as so interpreted; such be the ‘blood funnel gorging’ of ‘vampire squid’?
‘Freedom in Oceania’ as the right to tell what Goldman Sachs does not want to be heard?
Ongoing ‘stomping’ of boot or ‘blood funnel gorging’ of vampire squid as relates to the struggle for control and issue of currency; morality thereby totally abrogated such be the conjunction political, and concerning ‘War’ as ‘Racket’ meaning that ‘Oceania’ easily seen as a ‘geo strategic power block’ which encompasses America and Britain (or Airstrip One) - give or take most of Europe the racket playing out?
A ‘little bit here, a little bit there’ indeed – as the war as waged by Boot/Vampire Squid masquerading as International Banker in Oceania continues?
‘Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia’ ?
So stands the ‘chessboard’ Orwellian?
The distortion by ‘stomp’ of human face by boot, or ‘blood funnel gorging’ by squid in ‘Oceania’ having clear and definable roots in Corporatism?
As the lesson of the Stateless as ‘Master of Universe’ would be taught; loyalty is not to be to fellow humanity as ‘Brother’ or to ‘Nation’ or to ‘State’, but to ‘Corporation’; to ‘private money’?
As ‘Big Brother’ as peerless can so ‘arise’ when the State so shrunken as to cease to represent the people; when it is no longer a mechanism of moral restraint, as when taken over by a small minority composing a body as Stateless as a giant ‘vampire squid’; who trade ‘the remainder’ like some commodity in the peddling of influence, such that thieves pretend to be ‘regulating’ ; when the Stateless Bastards of ‘Oceania’ would so gorge ‘Global’ in the extension of ‘geo strategic power block’, or ‘zone of influence’ by way of the control and issue of currency as ‘blood funnel extended’ given smell of money?
When illusion prevails over reality; not peace, but war, not freedom, but slavery, not the dominance of the truly strong, but of the truly ignorant?
When Federal Reserve controls ‘Oceania’ such the ‘Economic War’ as would engulf the World, as would turn same into a giant Gaza?
‘Big Brother’ in such interpretation of Orwellian prescience is an ‘oligarchical collective’ of International Banker?
The boot on human face stomping or the vampire squid with blood funnel gorging, both precipitate of sufferance, as the life of humanity drained away?
- ‘Big Brother’ so become a ‘clipper’ of notes; a ‘middleman’ who shall have ‘cut’ as blood funnelled by vampire every transaction, as would be unseen in the exercise of such prerogative, taking arrogated share as hidden expropriation – as stomp of boot be as suck of blood funnel?
‘Big Brother’ become as master of the ‘pump and dump’, the sly degeneracy of the transfer of wealth from the many of the ‘State’ to the few as ‘Stateless’; ‘Private’ in such fog, as permits manipulation of markets and economies such that obscene polarisation of wealth be accepted as the norm - as the way things are - and have always been?
Such the ‘newspeak’ of Corporate controlled media and the ‘doublethink’ of spin in ‘Oceania’?
As money be stolen – to be lent back to real owners at usurious rate of interest?
Such the illusion as forms basis of the control and manipulation?
As now stands; whether seen as boot stamping, or great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity; tragedy evident in the ‘shock and awe’ of ‘economic meltdown’; as in the ‘inversion of logic that is ‘spin’?
As in:
‘War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength!’?
War with Iraq/Afghanistan/ Pakistan/Iran to ‘liberate’, to spread Democracy by bullet and bomb from ‘peaceful zone of influence’ as oxymoron - but that ‘they’ attacked ‘us’?
Or ‘harboured intent’ indeed.
Herman Goering ‘spilled the beans’ on that little play.
Just as a spoonful of sugar supports illusion, when ‘medicine’ would be as ‘going down’?
As ‘false flag’ now flutters - face of such ill wind as blows of ‘full spectrum dominance’ - and as no more than stomp of boot - or gorge of vampire squid be funnelled?
The Orwellian vision of ‘Oceania’ in context of ‘prescience’ is truly disturbing.
An ‘Inner Party’ of some 2% at the top, with a further 13% as ‘Outer Party’, and 85% as ‘Prole’.
It is relatively easy to find parallel of ‘Inner Party’ in context of such as ‘ Goldman Sachs Alumni’ concerning ‘Oceania’ and ‘Gini Coefficient’; also to see such on a broader, geostrategic scale as relates to such as ‘Bank for International Settlements’ or ‘Bilderberg Group’ – them such as Wolfe described as ‘Masters of the Universe’ – and who have a firm grip upon the ‘economical’ if not the ‘moral’ in the conjunction as defines ‘politics’ as stands now?
If, and it is a big contingency; there is a ‘weakness’ in the prescience of Orwell, it is not concerning ‘Morality’ when it comes to Politics - but ‘Economics’?
The ‘rat’ for last man as Winston Smith in room 101 is a lucid exposition of what the Stateless can carry out for gain as seen - as the sufferance brought about by Economic Warfare in the scorched earth policy as engineered economic meltdown is a lucid exposition of what International Banker as Stateless Bastard will do to further control, the shock and awe consequent as torture paralleling Torquemada in Spanish Inquisition?
‘Do it to Julia!’ indeed.
- For no one expects the Orwellian Inquisition!
The theft which Orwell elected to focus so lucidly upon was of ‘identity’; form of ‘psycho political expropriation’ of the primary aspects of Freedom by ‘Totalitarian’, ‘Fascist’, or more accurately, as per insight of ‘Il Duce’; ‘Corporatist’ regime:
Of information.
Of speech.
Of movement.
Of assembly?
The order as given above not without deliberation ; the premise ‘existentialist’ in so far as ‘existence prior to essence’, and recognised within the concept of ‘Newspeak’ and ‘doublethink’?
Truly vicious psychopathology is ‘discreet’ - ‘psychopolitical’ rather than ‘psychobiological’?
The Orwellian Chessboard of psychology and politics is larger than that of biology and politics which Aldous Huxley detailed?
Yet, the ‘iron fist’ as covered by ‘velvet glove’ remains?
As ‘note’ be ‘clipped’?
As blood funnel be extended by ‘vampire squid’ after the tentacles grasp?
A marvellous recent article by Matt Taibbi in ‘Rolling Stone’ on the manipulation and control by ‘Goldman Sachs’ lucidly details what amounts to a coup d’état in the United States of America?
‘Marvellous’ in the sense that truth sees war, reveals slavery, denies ignorance?
As when the eye of Stateless Bastard be spit into by humanity in the rejection - as albeit ironic?
The article ‘predictive’ in detailing future plans set in context as scheme concerning ‘carbon capping’ and ‘global warming’ as another ‘grand pump and dump’ scheme?
- As would have Stateless Bastard ‘headed off at the pass’ ?
Heard’ in the ‘crunch’ as layer of such ‘onion’ peeled and as would cause tears far from the reptilian, so announced such the ‘stage’ as all life be, the ‘ Free Market of Oceania ’ - which a complete fiction as demands ongoing ‘fog of war’ to perpetuate itself; and as would prevent the ‘clear light of day’ from descending; as demands the perspicacity of ‘luminance auditory’ as ‘clairaudient’ (as of many a Counterpunch author) to detail the gory mess of corruption boundless so resultant of perversity as would be cast as normal; of the sufferance of the body humane as thereby precipitate accepted as the ‘way things have always been’?
Of ‘truth’ as would be heard, midst such fog?
As such ‘the horn’ be rounded ?
Spin; and revolutions per minute accelerated?
Of that seen by Bram Stoker, as of parasite metaphorical – and as to political?
Form of vampire squid, and blood funnel gorge, such the clarity, such the journalistic excellence, of Matt Taibbi as an escapee of the tentacles?
Irony, tragedy, hypocrisy; all but as ‘corruption polymorphous’ - as would mask reality under ephemeral veil of illusion?
The quiet draining away of life; to ‘whimper’ as opposed to ‘bang’?
For this is the way ‘it’ ends?
As in ‘fog of war’ round ‘mulberry bush’?
‘Let’s go round again’ - such the spin denied?
‘Worthy’ such sense as rationalisation be delusion; as can feed ‘merchant’ as belongs to ‘Outer Party’ , such as Horatio Algier or Karl Rove- and as ‘blossom’ can grow on turd?
Such be the pragmatism in the question concerning ‘Oceania’:
(Whatever happened to the ‘wit and wisdom unconscious’ of the village idiot ‘elected’ as was POTUS 43?
As could repeat verbatim the inculcation of the principle by ‘mentor’ of spin as deeper within the mire of abrogation, such the lacking of wit realised; as was ‘wooden’ in the acting upon the stage as all life be, in front of autocue, such the lack of talent as would be consummate as but required ‘earpiece’ and plain instruction of :
‘repeat after me as you hear (in your right ear!)?
‘You gotta catapult the propaganda!’?
How missed the gentility so transparent of such ‘Kleptocracy Dynastic’; as ‘lacking the fog’?
Now as ‘Oceania’ has more articulate puppet, such be the disguise ‘Presidential’?)
But, digression.
The fog which would prevent the seeing is useless against the hearing – when we get down to ‘sense’?
The horn blasts Orwellian - and ‘ships’ do not so much pass in the night so much as in the fog?
The war; such the racket as sound of horn in the fog prevailing wilful; such the theft as gain seen in the deliberation by Stateless as from the deliverance of humanity unto ‘scheme; as announced by Orwell in geostrategic vision – is as would occur in broad daylight?
‘The prescience, the prescience’ as paraphrase; and ‘Heart of Darkness’ heard beating?
‘Oceania, Eastasia, Eurasia’?
Such as would be the unholy trinity as scheme ‘gan agley’?
Kid you not - as would not piss on your leg and tell you it is rain – and that it is not from ‘inside the tent’?
But that Stateless Bastards play for ‘real’, such the illusion as would stand?
The reality is of the sufferance.
It is of your life and mine.
‘Gini Coefficient’ as percentage ‘Inner Party’ reflected in the expropriation, in the deprivation, in the degeneration?
As them as would be ‘Masters of the Universe’ know?
But that for you, as me, there be but ‘scraps at the table’, so rationalised as ‘spin supreme’?
Yet there be ‘Goldstein’?
Such as Ellen Brown or G. Edward Griffin concerning the mechanics of the illusion?
On the ‘trail lonesome’, concerning body of humanity- and form of ‘pine’ concerning truth as humanity realised?
Voices destined for the ‘memory hole’, such be the mechanism of the Stateless Bastard exercised, as do not want such to be heard – as do not want such right of Freedom to be exercised?
While, suffering in such mess of the ephemeral as would be made; in trailer park, in car as home, in cardboard city of Hooverville redux, such the sucking of the blood funnel or stomp of the boot, such as of the ground where humanity ‘endures’ the play out of power, this coup d’etat by the ‘Federal Reserve’ in the ‘United States’ would yet still masquerade as Democracy?
In such, the complexity as be contained many another?
It is difficult to ‘steal the world’ in broad daylight, though that has never stopped those so degenerate in their greed and lust for power from trying to do so.
Thus the fog.
So it goes.
It was perhaps once possible to see ‘Oceania’ as benign – in the second World War it was the ‘Anglo American axis’ that could be seen as against the particular Corporatism which the Nazis represented, though the contribution by way of sufferance of Russia must be acknowledged .
As must as the activities of Prescott Bush be so acknowledged in sense of ‘memory hole’ be denied; as it is a warped and sickly world as would the Stateless preside over, as bought and sold for little more than gold – and the sufferance of ‘brother’ be damned?
On the Orwellian Chessboard right now: ‘Oceania’ seeking to incorporate more of Europe; the ‘bridgehead’ that of 51st State as ‘Airstrip One’ (As once was Master in the pretence now but servant, as once taught lessons now in receipt?)
‘Eastasia’ is become as Sino Soviet alliance – as per the meeting in Yekaterinburg detailed this journal, by Michael Hudson.
‘Eurasia’ is as the remainder?
For it has always been so, has it not, that Oceania is at war with Eastasia - or should that be Eurasia?
As ‘Oceania’; not born of ‘Command Economy’ as per the basis of Orwell’s geostrategic vision as Economic, but of the Capitalist free market as hijacked by International Banker, in the subtleties of finance as expropriation; as hidden taxation?
End note.
This small article inspired by reading of Goldman Sach as Vampire Squid in ‘The Great American Bubble Machine’.
Matt Taibbi should be given an ‘award’ – as befits opening quote this small article, as he tells people not so much as what they want to hear, as need to hear.
An award Orwellian perchance?
Say nought of ‘Wenner Media’ as sponsor of such anti-Corporatism.
There is a vampire squid about.
It is attached to the face of humanity.
Feed not the gorge of the funnel - break free from the grasp of the tentacle?
‘Freedom!’ the cry eternal, over such the ephemeral, as reality evermore transcends the illusory?
- If there was hope, it lies in the proles?
One thing for sure.
It never was with those vampire squids as ‘Goldman Sachs Alumni’ – as are destined to be a memory, as part of the ‘whole’ so realised.
-Ain’t that a ‘kick in the funnel’ as would gorge?
Stephen Martin can be reached at: stephenmarti@yahoo.com
The Fog of Economic War
By STEPHEN MARTIN
’Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'
--George Orwell.
When the State does not want Citizens to ‘hear’ numerous ‘mechanisms’ exist?
One aspect of the genius of George Orwell was to explain in depth how the mechanisms work; to provide thorough outline of the means of repression of humanity embracing not only State, but also ‘supranational’ or ‘geo strategic power block’ as ‘zone of influence’ - as in concept of ‘Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia’, and as anticipated works by such as Zbigniew Brzezinski ?
What is ‘unique’ about George Orwell is the span of his grasp of Politics, and ability commensurate to realise ‘Freedom’ as the right exercised to tell people what they ‘do not want to hear’; oft in form of ‘satire’ constructed on such grasp as enables enunciation of the principles of ‘control and manipulation’?
His well known quote:
‘If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.’
Demands the detailing of ‘human face’ as once was, such the State as we find ourselves to be in; such the stomp of boot?
Or indeed, as one writer recently put it concerning Goldman Sachs and as so interpreted; such be the ‘blood funnel gorging’ of ‘vampire squid’?
‘Freedom in Oceania’ as the right to tell what Goldman Sachs does not want to be heard?
Ongoing ‘stomping’ of boot or ‘blood funnel gorging’ of vampire squid as relates to the struggle for control and issue of currency; morality thereby totally abrogated such be the conjunction political, and concerning ‘War’ as ‘Racket’ meaning that ‘Oceania’ easily seen as a ‘geo strategic power block’ which encompasses America and Britain (or Airstrip One) - give or take most of Europe the racket playing out?
A ‘little bit here, a little bit there’ indeed – as the war as waged by Boot/Vampire Squid masquerading as International Banker in Oceania continues?
‘Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia’ ?
So stands the ‘chessboard’ Orwellian?
The distortion by ‘stomp’ of human face by boot, or ‘blood funnel gorging’ by squid in ‘Oceania’ having clear and definable roots in Corporatism?
As the lesson of the Stateless as ‘Master of Universe’ would be taught; loyalty is not to be to fellow humanity as ‘Brother’ or to ‘Nation’ or to ‘State’, but to ‘Corporation’; to ‘private money’?
As ‘Big Brother’ as peerless can so ‘arise’ when the State so shrunken as to cease to represent the people; when it is no longer a mechanism of moral restraint, as when taken over by a small minority composing a body as Stateless as a giant ‘vampire squid’; who trade ‘the remainder’ like some commodity in the peddling of influence, such that thieves pretend to be ‘regulating’ ; when the Stateless Bastards of ‘Oceania’ would so gorge ‘Global’ in the extension of ‘geo strategic power block’, or ‘zone of influence’ by way of the control and issue of currency as ‘blood funnel extended’ given smell of money?
When illusion prevails over reality; not peace, but war, not freedom, but slavery, not the dominance of the truly strong, but of the truly ignorant?
When Federal Reserve controls ‘Oceania’ such the ‘Economic War’ as would engulf the World, as would turn same into a giant Gaza?
‘Big Brother’ in such interpretation of Orwellian prescience is an ‘oligarchical collective’ of International Banker?
The boot on human face stomping or the vampire squid with blood funnel gorging, both precipitate of sufferance, as the life of humanity drained away?
- ‘Big Brother’ so become a ‘clipper’ of notes; a ‘middleman’ who shall have ‘cut’ as blood funnelled by vampire every transaction, as would be unseen in the exercise of such prerogative, taking arrogated share as hidden expropriation – as stomp of boot be as suck of blood funnel?
‘Big Brother’ become as master of the ‘pump and dump’, the sly degeneracy of the transfer of wealth from the many of the ‘State’ to the few as ‘Stateless’; ‘Private’ in such fog, as permits manipulation of markets and economies such that obscene polarisation of wealth be accepted as the norm - as the way things are - and have always been?
Such the ‘newspeak’ of Corporate controlled media and the ‘doublethink’ of spin in ‘Oceania’?
As money be stolen – to be lent back to real owners at usurious rate of interest?
Such the illusion as forms basis of the control and manipulation?
As now stands; whether seen as boot stamping, or great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity; tragedy evident in the ‘shock and awe’ of ‘economic meltdown’; as in the ‘inversion of logic that is ‘spin’?
As in:
‘War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength!’?
War with Iraq/Afghanistan/ Pakistan/Iran to ‘liberate’, to spread Democracy by bullet and bomb from ‘peaceful zone of influence’ as oxymoron - but that ‘they’ attacked ‘us’?
Or ‘harboured intent’ indeed.
Herman Goering ‘spilled the beans’ on that little play.
Just as a spoonful of sugar supports illusion, when ‘medicine’ would be as ‘going down’?
As ‘false flag’ now flutters - face of such ill wind as blows of ‘full spectrum dominance’ - and as no more than stomp of boot - or gorge of vampire squid be funnelled?
The Orwellian vision of ‘Oceania’ in context of ‘prescience’ is truly disturbing.
An ‘Inner Party’ of some 2% at the top, with a further 13% as ‘Outer Party’, and 85% as ‘Prole’.
It is relatively easy to find parallel of ‘Inner Party’ in context of such as ‘ Goldman Sachs Alumni’ concerning ‘Oceania’ and ‘Gini Coefficient’; also to see such on a broader, geostrategic scale as relates to such as ‘Bank for International Settlements’ or ‘Bilderberg Group’ – them such as Wolfe described as ‘Masters of the Universe’ – and who have a firm grip upon the ‘economical’ if not the ‘moral’ in the conjunction as defines ‘politics’ as stands now?
If, and it is a big contingency; there is a ‘weakness’ in the prescience of Orwell, it is not concerning ‘Morality’ when it comes to Politics - but ‘Economics’?
The ‘rat’ for last man as Winston Smith in room 101 is a lucid exposition of what the Stateless can carry out for gain as seen - as the sufferance brought about by Economic Warfare in the scorched earth policy as engineered economic meltdown is a lucid exposition of what International Banker as Stateless Bastard will do to further control, the shock and awe consequent as torture paralleling Torquemada in Spanish Inquisition?
‘Do it to Julia!’ indeed.
- For no one expects the Orwellian Inquisition!
The theft which Orwell elected to focus so lucidly upon was of ‘identity’; form of ‘psycho political expropriation’ of the primary aspects of Freedom by ‘Totalitarian’, ‘Fascist’, or more accurately, as per insight of ‘Il Duce’; ‘Corporatist’ regime:
Of information.
Of speech.
Of movement.
Of assembly?
The order as given above not without deliberation ; the premise ‘existentialist’ in so far as ‘existence prior to essence’, and recognised within the concept of ‘Newspeak’ and ‘doublethink’?
Truly vicious psychopathology is ‘discreet’ - ‘psychopolitical’ rather than ‘psychobiological’?
The Orwellian Chessboard of psychology and politics is larger than that of biology and politics which Aldous Huxley detailed?
Yet, the ‘iron fist’ as covered by ‘velvet glove’ remains?
As ‘note’ be ‘clipped’?
As blood funnel be extended by ‘vampire squid’ after the tentacles grasp?
A marvellous recent article by Matt Taibbi in ‘Rolling Stone’ on the manipulation and control by ‘Goldman Sachs’ lucidly details what amounts to a coup d’état in the United States of America?
‘Marvellous’ in the sense that truth sees war, reveals slavery, denies ignorance?
As when the eye of Stateless Bastard be spit into by humanity in the rejection - as albeit ironic?
The article ‘predictive’ in detailing future plans set in context as scheme concerning ‘carbon capping’ and ‘global warming’ as another ‘grand pump and dump’ scheme?
- As would have Stateless Bastard ‘headed off at the pass’ ?
Heard’ in the ‘crunch’ as layer of such ‘onion’ peeled and as would cause tears far from the reptilian, so announced such the ‘stage’ as all life be, the ‘ Free Market of Oceania ’ - which a complete fiction as demands ongoing ‘fog of war’ to perpetuate itself; and as would prevent the ‘clear light of day’ from descending; as demands the perspicacity of ‘luminance auditory’ as ‘clairaudient’ (as of many a Counterpunch author) to detail the gory mess of corruption boundless so resultant of perversity as would be cast as normal; of the sufferance of the body humane as thereby precipitate accepted as the ‘way things have always been’?
Of ‘truth’ as would be heard, midst such fog?
As such ‘the horn’ be rounded ?
Spin; and revolutions per minute accelerated?
Of that seen by Bram Stoker, as of parasite metaphorical – and as to political?
Form of vampire squid, and blood funnel gorge, such the clarity, such the journalistic excellence, of Matt Taibbi as an escapee of the tentacles?
Irony, tragedy, hypocrisy; all but as ‘corruption polymorphous’ - as would mask reality under ephemeral veil of illusion?
The quiet draining away of life; to ‘whimper’ as opposed to ‘bang’?
For this is the way ‘it’ ends?
As in ‘fog of war’ round ‘mulberry bush’?
‘Let’s go round again’ - such the spin denied?
‘Worthy’ such sense as rationalisation be delusion; as can feed ‘merchant’ as belongs to ‘Outer Party’ , such as Horatio Algier or Karl Rove- and as ‘blossom’ can grow on turd?
Such be the pragmatism in the question concerning ‘Oceania’:
(Whatever happened to the ‘wit and wisdom unconscious’ of the village idiot ‘elected’ as was POTUS 43?
As could repeat verbatim the inculcation of the principle by ‘mentor’ of spin as deeper within the mire of abrogation, such the lacking of wit realised; as was ‘wooden’ in the acting upon the stage as all life be, in front of autocue, such the lack of talent as would be consummate as but required ‘earpiece’ and plain instruction of :
‘repeat after me as you hear (in your right ear!)?
‘You gotta catapult the propaganda!’?
How missed the gentility so transparent of such ‘Kleptocracy Dynastic’; as ‘lacking the fog’?
Now as ‘Oceania’ has more articulate puppet, such be the disguise ‘Presidential’?)
But, digression.
The fog which would prevent the seeing is useless against the hearing – when we get down to ‘sense’?
The horn blasts Orwellian - and ‘ships’ do not so much pass in the night so much as in the fog?
The war; such the racket as sound of horn in the fog prevailing wilful; such the theft as gain seen in the deliberation by Stateless as from the deliverance of humanity unto ‘scheme; as announced by Orwell in geostrategic vision – is as would occur in broad daylight?
‘The prescience, the prescience’ as paraphrase; and ‘Heart of Darkness’ heard beating?
‘Oceania, Eastasia, Eurasia’?
Such as would be the unholy trinity as scheme ‘gan agley’?
Kid you not - as would not piss on your leg and tell you it is rain – and that it is not from ‘inside the tent’?
But that Stateless Bastards play for ‘real’, such the illusion as would stand?
The reality is of the sufferance.
It is of your life and mine.
‘Gini Coefficient’ as percentage ‘Inner Party’ reflected in the expropriation, in the deprivation, in the degeneration?
As them as would be ‘Masters of the Universe’ know?
But that for you, as me, there be but ‘scraps at the table’, so rationalised as ‘spin supreme’?
Yet there be ‘Goldstein’?
Such as Ellen Brown or G. Edward Griffin concerning the mechanics of the illusion?
On the ‘trail lonesome’, concerning body of humanity- and form of ‘pine’ concerning truth as humanity realised?
Voices destined for the ‘memory hole’, such be the mechanism of the Stateless Bastard exercised, as do not want such to be heard – as do not want such right of Freedom to be exercised?
While, suffering in such mess of the ephemeral as would be made; in trailer park, in car as home, in cardboard city of Hooverville redux, such the sucking of the blood funnel or stomp of the boot, such as of the ground where humanity ‘endures’ the play out of power, this coup d’etat by the ‘Federal Reserve’ in the ‘United States’ would yet still masquerade as Democracy?
In such, the complexity as be contained many another?
It is difficult to ‘steal the world’ in broad daylight, though that has never stopped those so degenerate in their greed and lust for power from trying to do so.
Thus the fog.
So it goes.
It was perhaps once possible to see ‘Oceania’ as benign – in the second World War it was the ‘Anglo American axis’ that could be seen as against the particular Corporatism which the Nazis represented, though the contribution by way of sufferance of Russia must be acknowledged .
As must as the activities of Prescott Bush be so acknowledged in sense of ‘memory hole’ be denied; as it is a warped and sickly world as would the Stateless preside over, as bought and sold for little more than gold – and the sufferance of ‘brother’ be damned?
On the Orwellian Chessboard right now: ‘Oceania’ seeking to incorporate more of Europe; the ‘bridgehead’ that of 51st State as ‘Airstrip One’ (As once was Master in the pretence now but servant, as once taught lessons now in receipt?)
‘Eastasia’ is become as Sino Soviet alliance – as per the meeting in Yekaterinburg detailed this journal, by Michael Hudson.
‘Eurasia’ is as the remainder?
For it has always been so, has it not, that Oceania is at war with Eastasia - or should that be Eurasia?
As ‘Oceania’; not born of ‘Command Economy’ as per the basis of Orwell’s geostrategic vision as Economic, but of the Capitalist free market as hijacked by International Banker, in the subtleties of finance as expropriation; as hidden taxation?
End note.
This small article inspired by reading of Goldman Sach as Vampire Squid in ‘The Great American Bubble Machine’.
Matt Taibbi should be given an ‘award’ – as befits opening quote this small article, as he tells people not so much as what they want to hear, as need to hear.
An award Orwellian perchance?
Say nought of ‘Wenner Media’ as sponsor of such anti-Corporatism.
There is a vampire squid about.
It is attached to the face of humanity.
Feed not the gorge of the funnel - break free from the grasp of the tentacle?
‘Freedom!’ the cry eternal, over such the ephemeral, as reality evermore transcends the illusory?
- If there was hope, it lies in the proles?
One thing for sure.
It never was with those vampire squids as ‘Goldman Sachs Alumni’ – as are destined to be a memory, as part of the ‘whole’ so realised.
-Ain’t that a ‘kick in the funnel’ as would gorge?
Stephen Martin can be reached at: stephenmarti@yahoo.com
Sunday, July 5, 2009
how to construct a radio in a prison camp: interview
"The plan was made to begin building the radio, so until we could build components, there was nothing much we could do. A look at the circuit diagram of a regenerative receiver indicates a number of capacitors - about two or three are required -low capacitors to make the oscillating part of the system work, and in fact from memory we needed in the grid circuit at least one ".01 microfarad" capacitor and there was no chance we could get this anywhere, or any other components.
So we hit upon the idea of taking some tin foil or aluminum foil from the lining of the tea chest from which the Japanese supplied with the rice rations, then by the well known equations for calculating capacity and the relationship of the surface area and spacing of the plates, we built a capacitor or, at least, I built a capacitor which according to calculations should have been about ".01 microfarad."
If I could put an aside here, I built a replica of this capacitor some years ago, and it went out to Simpson barracks where we had some friends in the testing laboratory, and with great excitement the Warrant Officer concerned said, "We will see how good your calculations were"; so he put it on his equipment which was accurate to many decimal points and read on his display unit, ".009 microfarad", so we thought we were pretty good.
I said "Touché" to him because he didn't think we could do it. I made two or three of these, and I still had one of them that would work if I built the receiver again, which I have been thinking about doing, except there is always something else, like a lot of other projects which one has as one gets older.
The resistors were another problem. We found out that we could use the impurities in some of the tree wood and the bark, particularly cinnamon bark which was available by getting through the wire only about 2 feet and we could normally pinch that while the Japanese sentry was moving around.
We used a piece of string with the material rubbed on it from the burning of the cinnamon bark with some impurities in it (we didn't have a chemical analysis); we weren't very fussed because most grid-leak resistors were about a megohm or thereabouts and we had no means or any way we could measure a megohm, so it was largely a trial and error thing to see if it would work. We made a number of these bits of string and tied them round different things to dry them out to get the thing going. Eventually about an inch, three quarters of an inch to an inch, was about the right order of things to get about a megohm resistance. They were the two main things.
Now the things we couldn't provide, couldn't do. We had to make coils; they were largely trial and error, one could calculate the inductance of these if one had access to some means of measuring the wire gauge and the space between them. So that was largely a trial and error business.
The two biggest components, or two biggest requirements, were we needed some headphones and we needed a valve, and I thought that the rest could be made locally with a bit of luck. On the question of the headpiece an outside contact smuggled in one headphone, which was better than no headphone, and a valve - no valve holder but one can't have everything in this life.
The other trouble was the power supply. The Japanese main around the camp which provided the power was 110 volts roughly according to the power station meter which we couldn't help but see, because we delivered the wood there while the power station was running; I switched over when no one was looking and the frequency was about 60 Hz, not 50 Hz as we thought, not that this worried us anyway but to know that it was manageable.
So two problems remained for the power supply. The first one was the A-battery or low voltage supply necessary for the filament of the valve. We started with a couple of dry cells, but these didn't last very long and we had to make something then. Through being friendly with the pharmacist with the party, we got some potassium bichromate and made up a bichromate cell, which is probably well known in the text books but not of very practical use. It's fairly hungry for zinc and it needs some sulfuric acid which one can't throw around or hide easily, but it served for some time and was quite successful but, in the end, had the operation lasted very long, we would have been in trouble for that. Two of these cells provided about 3 volts to 4 volts, and 6 volts was a bit too much because each cell was running at a bit over 2 volts, about 2.2 volts.
The biggest problem was a rectifier to rectify the AC into DC without dropping it to a low voltage, because remember in those days we needed high voltages for the B supply, or anode supply, but in these days we bring everything down to small DC voltages; we needed to get them up as high as we could. That was a partial failure in that using aluminum foil again and oxidising one piece of it, or length of it folded over, with some weak acid and then using the two electrodes, one of clear aluminum and one of a zinc salt and aluminum, we could make a rectifier. "
So we hit upon the idea of taking some tin foil or aluminum foil from the lining of the tea chest from which the Japanese supplied with the rice rations, then by the well known equations for calculating capacity and the relationship of the surface area and spacing of the plates, we built a capacitor or, at least, I built a capacitor which according to calculations should have been about ".01 microfarad."
If I could put an aside here, I built a replica of this capacitor some years ago, and it went out to Simpson barracks where we had some friends in the testing laboratory, and with great excitement the Warrant Officer concerned said, "We will see how good your calculations were"; so he put it on his equipment which was accurate to many decimal points and read on his display unit, ".009 microfarad", so we thought we were pretty good.
I said "Touché" to him because he didn't think we could do it. I made two or three of these, and I still had one of them that would work if I built the receiver again, which I have been thinking about doing, except there is always something else, like a lot of other projects which one has as one gets older.
The resistors were another problem. We found out that we could use the impurities in some of the tree wood and the bark, particularly cinnamon bark which was available by getting through the wire only about 2 feet and we could normally pinch that while the Japanese sentry was moving around.
We used a piece of string with the material rubbed on it from the burning of the cinnamon bark with some impurities in it (we didn't have a chemical analysis); we weren't very fussed because most grid-leak resistors were about a megohm or thereabouts and we had no means or any way we could measure a megohm, so it was largely a trial and error thing to see if it would work. We made a number of these bits of string and tied them round different things to dry them out to get the thing going. Eventually about an inch, three quarters of an inch to an inch, was about the right order of things to get about a megohm resistance. They were the two main things.
Now the things we couldn't provide, couldn't do. We had to make coils; they were largely trial and error, one could calculate the inductance of these if one had access to some means of measuring the wire gauge and the space between them. So that was largely a trial and error business.
The two biggest components, or two biggest requirements, were we needed some headphones and we needed a valve, and I thought that the rest could be made locally with a bit of luck. On the question of the headpiece an outside contact smuggled in one headphone, which was better than no headphone, and a valve - no valve holder but one can't have everything in this life.
The other trouble was the power supply. The Japanese main around the camp which provided the power was 110 volts roughly according to the power station meter which we couldn't help but see, because we delivered the wood there while the power station was running; I switched over when no one was looking and the frequency was about 60 Hz, not 50 Hz as we thought, not that this worried us anyway but to know that it was manageable.
So two problems remained for the power supply. The first one was the A-battery or low voltage supply necessary for the filament of the valve. We started with a couple of dry cells, but these didn't last very long and we had to make something then. Through being friendly with the pharmacist with the party, we got some potassium bichromate and made up a bichromate cell, which is probably well known in the text books but not of very practical use. It's fairly hungry for zinc and it needs some sulfuric acid which one can't throw around or hide easily, but it served for some time and was quite successful but, in the end, had the operation lasted very long, we would have been in trouble for that. Two of these cells provided about 3 volts to 4 volts, and 6 volts was a bit too much because each cell was running at a bit over 2 volts, about 2.2 volts.
The biggest problem was a rectifier to rectify the AC into DC without dropping it to a low voltage, because remember in those days we needed high voltages for the B supply, or anode supply, but in these days we bring everything down to small DC voltages; we needed to get them up as high as we could. That was a partial failure in that using aluminum foil again and oxidising one piece of it, or length of it folded over, with some weak acid and then using the two electrodes, one of clear aluminum and one of a zinc salt and aluminum, we could make a rectifier. "
Wahhabis and Zionists...sitting on a tree...
"Saudi Arabia has indicated to Israel that it would not protest use of its airspace by Israeli fighter jets in the event the government resolves to launch a military assault against Iran, according to a report which appeared in the British newspaper The Sunday Times.
The Prime Minister's office issued a statement in response Sunday morning, saying that "the Sunday Times report is fundamentally false and completely baseless."
According to The Sunday Times, Mossad chief Meir Dagan held secret meetings with Saudi officials, who gave their tacit approval to Israel's use of the kingdom's airspace. "
The Prime Minister's office issued a statement in response Sunday morning, saying that "the Sunday Times report is fundamentally false and completely baseless."
According to The Sunday Times, Mossad chief Meir Dagan held secret meetings with Saudi officials, who gave their tacit approval to Israel's use of the kingdom's airspace. "
Saturday, July 4, 2009
a word on Honduran coup.
from znet:
"The coup against Manuel Zelaya of Honduras represents a last ditch effort by Honduras' entrenched economic and political interests to stave off the advance of the new left governments that have taken hold in Latin America over the past decade. As Zelaya proclaimed after being forcibly dumped in Costa Rica: "This is a vicious plot planned by elites. The elites only want to keep the country isolated and in extreme poverty."
Zelaya should know, since his roots are in the country's large, land-owning class, having devoted most of his life to agriculture and forestry enterprises that he inherited. He ran for president as the head of the center-right Liberal Party on a fairly conservative platform, promising to be tough on crime and to cut the budget. Inaugurated in January, 2006, he supported the US-backed Central American Free Trade Agreement, which had been signed two years earlier, and continued the economic policies of neo-liberalism, privatizing state held enterprises.
But about half way into his four year term, the winds of change blowing from the south caught his imagination, particularly those coming from Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, the largest regional power fronting on the Caribbean. With no petroleum resources, Honduras signed a generous oil subsidy deal with Venezuela, and then last year joined the emergent regional trade bloc, ALBA, the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas. Inspired by Venezuela it now has Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Dominica and Ecuador as members. Simultaneously, Zelaya implemented domestic reform policies, significantly increasing the minimum wage of workers and teachers' salaries, while stepping up spending in health care and education.
The upshot is that a reform-minded president supported by labor unions and social organizations is now pitted against a mafia-like, drug-ridden, corrupt political elite that is accustomed to controlling the Supreme Court, as well as congress and the presidency. It is a story often repeated elsewhere in Latin America, with the United States almost always weighing in on the side of the established, entrenched interests.
The Honduran elites were outraged that a member of their class would carry out even modest reforms. They began to portray Zelaya as a demagogue, and demonized Hugo Chavez as trying to take over the country. When Zelaya announced that he would hold a plebiscite on June 28 to see if the country wanted to have the option in the upcoming November presidential elections to vote for the convening of a constituent assembly that would draft a new constitution, the political establishment would have none of it. They incorrectly claimed that Zelaya was trying to stand for re-election. In fact the possibility that a president might serve a second term could only emerge in a new constitution that would not be drafted until well after Zelaya left office in January, 2010. The elites did however have reason to fear a new magna carta, since this is the path that Chavez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia and Rafael Correa in Ecuador have used to draft new constitutions to begin transforming their countries political, social and economic structures.
The political establishment decided to nip this process in the bud by quashing the plebiscite scheduled for Sunday, June 28. The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional and the military refused to help distribute the ballots. Then Zelaya fired the head of the army, General Romeo Vasquez, and led workers and social movement activists to seize ballots stored at an air force base for distribution. On Sunday at 6AM, the day of the plebiscite, the military sent a special army unit to seize Zelaya in his pajamas and to deport him to Costa Rica. The next day the Supreme Court levied charges of treason against Zelaya, and the Congress elevated its president, Roberto Micheletti to be the interim president of the country.
The rest of the Americas, and most of the world, reacted with outrage against the coup. The Organization of the Americas convened an emergency session and voted unanimously to call upon the coup makers to restore Zelaya to power. Regional organizations like the Group of Rio also denounced the coup, while the European Economic Union and the World Bank announced that they were suspending economic assistance to Honduras. Even the governments of Alvaro Uribe of Colombia and Felipe Calderon of Mexico felt compelled to denounce the coup.
What explains this virtually unanimous opposition to the coup? Most of Latin America still remembers the dark days of the 1970s and 1980s when three-quarters of the continent's population fell under military rule. Countries like Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil still bear the scars and traumas of this period, and do not want to contemplate any opening that would allow their militaries to begin interfering once again in the political sphere."
"The coup against Manuel Zelaya of Honduras represents a last ditch effort by Honduras' entrenched economic and political interests to stave off the advance of the new left governments that have taken hold in Latin America over the past decade. As Zelaya proclaimed after being forcibly dumped in Costa Rica: "This is a vicious plot planned by elites. The elites only want to keep the country isolated and in extreme poverty."
Zelaya should know, since his roots are in the country's large, land-owning class, having devoted most of his life to agriculture and forestry enterprises that he inherited. He ran for president as the head of the center-right Liberal Party on a fairly conservative platform, promising to be tough on crime and to cut the budget. Inaugurated in January, 2006, he supported the US-backed Central American Free Trade Agreement, which had been signed two years earlier, and continued the economic policies of neo-liberalism, privatizing state held enterprises.
But about half way into his four year term, the winds of change blowing from the south caught his imagination, particularly those coming from Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, the largest regional power fronting on the Caribbean. With no petroleum resources, Honduras signed a generous oil subsidy deal with Venezuela, and then last year joined the emergent regional trade bloc, ALBA, the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas. Inspired by Venezuela it now has Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Dominica and Ecuador as members. Simultaneously, Zelaya implemented domestic reform policies, significantly increasing the minimum wage of workers and teachers' salaries, while stepping up spending in health care and education.
The upshot is that a reform-minded president supported by labor unions and social organizations is now pitted against a mafia-like, drug-ridden, corrupt political elite that is accustomed to controlling the Supreme Court, as well as congress and the presidency. It is a story often repeated elsewhere in Latin America, with the United States almost always weighing in on the side of the established, entrenched interests.
The Honduran elites were outraged that a member of their class would carry out even modest reforms. They began to portray Zelaya as a demagogue, and demonized Hugo Chavez as trying to take over the country. When Zelaya announced that he would hold a plebiscite on June 28 to see if the country wanted to have the option in the upcoming November presidential elections to vote for the convening of a constituent assembly that would draft a new constitution, the political establishment would have none of it. They incorrectly claimed that Zelaya was trying to stand for re-election. In fact the possibility that a president might serve a second term could only emerge in a new constitution that would not be drafted until well after Zelaya left office in January, 2010. The elites did however have reason to fear a new magna carta, since this is the path that Chavez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia and Rafael Correa in Ecuador have used to draft new constitutions to begin transforming their countries political, social and economic structures.
The political establishment decided to nip this process in the bud by quashing the plebiscite scheduled for Sunday, June 28. The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional and the military refused to help distribute the ballots. Then Zelaya fired the head of the army, General Romeo Vasquez, and led workers and social movement activists to seize ballots stored at an air force base for distribution. On Sunday at 6AM, the day of the plebiscite, the military sent a special army unit to seize Zelaya in his pajamas and to deport him to Costa Rica. The next day the Supreme Court levied charges of treason against Zelaya, and the Congress elevated its president, Roberto Micheletti to be the interim president of the country.
The rest of the Americas, and most of the world, reacted with outrage against the coup. The Organization of the Americas convened an emergency session and voted unanimously to call upon the coup makers to restore Zelaya to power. Regional organizations like the Group of Rio also denounced the coup, while the European Economic Union and the World Bank announced that they were suspending economic assistance to Honduras. Even the governments of Alvaro Uribe of Colombia and Felipe Calderon of Mexico felt compelled to denounce the coup.
What explains this virtually unanimous opposition to the coup? Most of Latin America still remembers the dark days of the 1970s and 1980s when three-quarters of the continent's population fell under military rule. Countries like Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil still bear the scars and traumas of this period, and do not want to contemplate any opening that would allow their militaries to begin interfering once again in the political sphere."
this is what we have to deal with here.
and they want us to compromise with this shit, really?
"Housing Minister Ariel Atias on Thursday warned against the spread of Arab population into various parts of Israel, saying that preventing this phenomenon was no less than a national responsibility.
"I see [it] as a national duty to prevent the spread of a population that, to say the least, does not love the state of Israel," Atias told a conference of the Israel Bar Association, which focused on a reforming Israel's Land Administration.
The Shas minister referred to Harish, a housing project built for the Haredi community in northern Israel, saying that the Arab population from the nearby Wadi Ara was spreading into the Harish area."
"Housing Minister Ariel Atias on Thursday warned against the spread of Arab population into various parts of Israel, saying that preventing this phenomenon was no less than a national responsibility.
"I see [it] as a national duty to prevent the spread of a population that, to say the least, does not love the state of Israel," Atias told a conference of the Israel Bar Association, which focused on a reforming Israel's Land Administration.
The Shas minister referred to Harish, a housing project built for the Haredi community in northern Israel, saying that the Arab population from the nearby Wadi Ara was spreading into the Harish area."
J.H. William III
He is absolutely stunning in his work.
check out these two covers, made by him for Detective Comics, starring the new (and what the media likes to spotlight - lesbian) Batwoman.
and as a bonus: interior art for his work in Detective Comics (written by Greg Rucka, an excellent mystery writer who has experience working on the batman titles). William seriously takes the medium of comics to mind-gasping heights.
google the guy, you will not be disappointed.
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