whitebeard

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

 

 

 

What about?

posted by: Whitebeard at 18:30 | link | comments |

The Likudization of the World:
On Monday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warmly welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergie Lavrov for a meeting about strengthening ties in the fight against terror. “Terror has no justification, and it is time for the free, decent, humanistic world to unite and fight this terrible epidemic,” Mr. Sharon said.

The underlying message is unequivocal: Russia and Israel are engaged in the very same war, one not against Palestinians demanding their right to statehood, or against Chechens demanding their independence, but against “the global Islamic terror threat.”
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If we want to see the future of where the Likud Doctrine leads, we need only follow the guru home, to Israel — a country paralyzed by fear, embracing pariah policies of extrajudicial assassination and illegal settlement, and in furious denial about the brutality it commits daily. It is a nation surrounded by enemies and desperate for friends, a category it narrowly defines as those who ask no questions, while generously offering the same moral amnesty in return. That glimpse at our collective future is the only lesson the world needs to learn from Ariel Sharon.

The True Legacy of September 11
by Naomi Klein

posted by: Whitebeard at 08:48 | link | comments |

 

 

Free at last, free at last!

 

 

 

Negroponte, go home.

US Army, cease bombs! It's enough.

 Freedom must be for all.

posted by: Whitebeard at 19:03 | link | comments |

                                             

 

 

 

 

 

Patriot Act

 

 

 

posted by: Whitebeard at 20:53 | link | comments |

A letter from NYC

I had home exchange two times with NYC and S.Francisco. Wanderfull experience. A few days ago Howard emailed to us about an homexchange Florence-NYC Qweens. I answered that before we need to change both of our Presidents B&B.
What Howard wrote:

As for defeating our president in the upcoming elections, I hope so, but it is too close and early to tell. Mr. Bush will probably loose every state in the Northeast, and the industrial states in the North and West and win every one in the South, Midwest and Southwest. We are a nation of two very different and evenly divided groups. As you may know Mr. Bush barely won four years ago. Many people believe the U.S. election may hinge on the state of our economy and the terrorist/Iraq situation in October and early November. Unfortunately, many Americans only pay serious attention to politics after the Olympics, summer holiday and World Series.

We are saddened by the senseless loss of life in Iraq and hope our president for the next four years can find some face-saving way to bring the troops home soon. I gather from your e-mail that your president is unpopular because of his support of the coalition and Italy's involvement in Iraq. Hopefully, by the time we meet next summer, the situation will be much improved.
Best regards,
Howard
American people, wake up! Now or never again.

posted by: Whitebeard at 16:45 | link | comments |

Dear Mr. Bush,

Which of these 10 positions that you, your family and your cabinet have taken over the years represents your CURRENT thinking:

1983-88: WE LOVE SADDAM. On December 19, 1983, Donald Rumsfeld was sent by your dad and Mr. Reagan to go and have a friendly meeting with Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq. Rummy looked so happy in the picture. Just twelve days after this visit, Saddam gassed thousands of Iranian troops. Your dad and Rummy seemed pretty happy with the results because The Donald R. went back to have another chummy hang-out with Saddams right-hand man, Tariq Aziz, just four months later. All of this resulted in the U.S. providing credits and loans to Iraq that enabled Saddam to buy billions of dollars worth of weapons and chemical agents. The Washington Post reported that your dad and Reagan let it be known to their Arab allies that the Reagan/Bush administration wanted Iraq to win its war with Iran and anyone who helped Saddam accomplish this was a friend of ours.

1990: WE HATE SADDAM. In 1990, when Saddam invaded Kuwait, your dad and his defense secretary, Dick Cheney, decided they didn't like Saddam anymore so they attacked Iraq and returned Kuwait to its rightful dictators.

1991: WE WANT SADDAM TO LIVE. After the war, your dad and Cheney and Colin Powell told the Shiites to rise up against Saddam and we would support them. So they rose up. But then we changed our minds. When the Shiites rose up against Saddam, the Bush inner circle changed its mind and decided NOT to help the Shiites. Thus, they were massacred by Saddam.

1998: WE WANT SADDAM TO DIE. In 1998, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others, as part of the Project for the New American Century, wrote an open letter to President Clinton insisting he invade and topple Saddam Hussein.

2000: WE DON'T BELIEVE IN WAR AND NATION BUILDING. Just three years later, during your debate with Al Gore in the 2000 election, when asked by the moderator Jim Lehrer where you stood when it came to using force for regime change, you turned out to be a downright pacifist:

 

2001 (early): WE DON'T BELIEVE SADDAM IS A THREAT. When you took office in 2001, you sent your Secretary of State, Colin Powell, and your National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, in front of the cameras to assure the American people they need not worry about Saddam Hussein. Here is what they said:

2001 (late): WE BELIEVE SADDAM IS GOING TO KILL US! Just a few months later, in the hours and days after the 9/11 tragedy, you had no interest in going after Osama bin Laden. You wanted only to bomb Iraq and kill Saddam and you then told all of America we were under imminent threat because weapons of mass destruction were coming our way. You led the American people to believe that Saddam had something to do with Osama and 9/11. Without the UN's sanction, you broke international law and invaded Iraq.

2003: WE DONT BELIEVE SADDAM IS GOING TO KILL US. After no WMDs were found, you changed your mind about why you said we needed to invade, coming up with a brand new after-the-fact reason -- we started this war so we could have regime change, liberate Iraq and give the Iraqis democracy!

2003: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Yes, everyone saw you say it -- in costume, no less!

2004: OOPS. MISSION NOT ACCOMPLISHED! Now you call the Iraq invasion a "catastrophic success." That's what you called it this month. Over a thousand U.S. soldiers have died, Iraq is in a state of total chaos where no one is safe, and you have no clue how to get us out of there.

Mr. Bush, please tell us -- when will you change your mind again?

I know you hate the words "flip" and "flop," so I won't use them both on you. In fact, I'll use just one: Flop. That is what you are. A huge, colossal flop. The war is a flop, your advisors and the "intelligence" they gave you is a flop, and now we are all a flop to the rest of the world. Flop. Flop. Flop.

And you have the audacity to criticize John Kerry with what you call the "many positions" he has taken on Iraq. By my count, he has taken only one: He believed you. That was his position. You told him and the rest of congress that Saddam had WMDs. So he -- and the vast majority of Americans, even those who didn't vote for you -- believed you. You see, Americans, like John Kerry, want to live in a country where they can believe their president.

That was the one, single position John Kerry took. He didn't support the war, he supported YOU. And YOU let him and this great country down. And that is why tens of millions can't wait to get to the polls on Election Day -- to remove a major, catastrophic flop from our dear, beloved White House -- to stop all the flipping you and your men have done, flipping us and the rest of the world off.

We can't take another minute of it.
Yours,Michael Moore
mmflint@aol.com
www.michaelmoore.com

posted by: Whitebeard at 20:53 | link | comments |

WAKE UP!

The majority are with us! More than half of all Americans are pro-choice, want stronger environmental laws, are appalled that assault weapons are back on the street -- and 54% now believe the war is wrong. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO CONVINCE THEM OF ANY OF THIS -- YOU JUST HAVE TO GIVE THEM A RAY OF HOPE AND A RIDE TO THE POLLS. CAN YOU DO THAT? WILL YOU DO THAT?

In my email by Michael Moore

posted by: Whitebeard at 10:48 | link | comments |

War is an abstraction in the American imagination. It lives there, cloaked in glory, as an emblem of patriotism. We show our love for our country by sending our troops abroad and then "supporting" them, no matter what. When images appear that contradict the high-flown rhetoric of war -- whether of young GIs disgracefully humiliating Iraqi prisoners or of a devastated holy city where vast fields of American-created rubble surround a shrine -- we simply do not take them in as real. Thinking of ourselves as only motivated by good intentions, we cannot fathom the possibility that we have demonized an innocent people, that what we are doing is murder on a vast scale.

-- James Carroll, The Unwinnable War. Boston Globe; 7 Sept 2004.

Thanks to lawrenceofcyberia

posted by: Whitebeard at 20:04 | link | comments |

Anniversaries

Friday 17 September, 1982

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

01:00am - IDF radio reports from Beirut that "the IDF will not operate tonight to purge the areas of Sabra and Shatila ... It was decided to entrust the Phalange with the mission to carry out these purging operations." The report was rebroadcast at 02:00am, never to be repeated afterward.

Daybreak - Israeli officers and soldiers watch with binoculars what is happening inside the Shatila camp. They can see piles of bodies and men being lined up for execution. Soldiers from an armored unit stationed 100 meters from the camp report that they can see the execution of civilians by the militiamen. Lieutenant Avi Grabowski, deputy commander of an IDF tank company witnesses the Phalangists killing civilians, including women and children. He confronts a Phalangist about killing pregnant women. The Phalangist answers that "pregnant women will give birth to terrorists." Israeli soldiers who report Phalangist atrocities against civilians to their superiors are ordered not to interfere with what is happening in the camps and not to enter the area. When Grabowski reports to his battalion commander, he is told: "We know, it's not to our liking, and don't interfere."

05:30am - Lieutenant Colonel Moshe Hevroni, the bureau chief at IDF General Staff HQ in Tel Aviv, receives a report indicating that 300 casualties are reported in the camps. At 07:30am, he passes this information to Avi Duda'i, a personal aide to Defense Minister Sharon.
See here

And now?
VIOLENCIA EN IRAK
Al menos 60 muertos en los bombardeos de Estados Unidos contra Faluya y Ramadi
El Ejército de Estados Unidos ha confirmado la muerte de al menos 60 personas tras el bombardeo contra campamentos insurgentes en Faluya y Ramadi supuestamente bajo mando del radical islamista Al Zarqaui. Varios testigos afirman que entre las víctimas se encuentran civiles.
http://www.elpais.es/

32 killed as US pounds Falluja
8.30am: US forces attack suspected terrorists in insurgent stronghold.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Fallujah strikes 'kill 60'
US warplanes bomb targets in flashpoint town
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
I don't see this news in the american newspapers.

posted by: Whitebeard at 09:47 | link | comments |

 

 

 

Appeal!

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/freeourfriends

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Ballots against bullets

The next November - or before -, american people, entire mankind!

Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun

...But Phaeton refused to change his mind and insisted on driving the chariot of the Sun. Apollo sighed and led the boy to the magnificent chariot. It was made of blazing gold , with golden wheels that had spokes of silver. The chariot was embedded with rubies and other precious gems. But unlike Earthly jewels, these gave off a dazzling glow. The horses were called and then brought forth by the Hours, goddesses who waited upon the sun.

...But Phaeton refused to change his mind and insisted on driving the chariot of the Sun. Apollo sighed and led the boy to the magnificent chariot. It was made of blazing gold , with golden wheels that had spokes of silver. The chariot was embedded with rubies and other precious gems. But unlike Earthly jewels, these gave off a dazzling glow. The horses were called and then brought forth by the Hours, goddesses who waited upon the sun.

Poor Phaeton was terror-stricken and could barely hold the reins much less restrain the powerful horses. Higher and higher the stallions went and thus the rays of the Sun chariot grew distant from the Earth. The sky turned black as night, with the Sun only as a speck of light far above. The horses of the sun ran towards the pole star and in doing so came near the giant serpent. This serpent for ages had been sluggish and harmless since it was in the icy-cold regions of the pole star. But now the great heat from the sun chariot awoke the horrible snake and it hissed, exhaling poisonous breath.

Now the chariot was speeding head-long toward the gigantic Scorpion. The huge monster raised its tail in an attempt to slash out with is stinger. Then the fear-struck boy completely dropped the reins and the unchecked horses galloped downwards.

Closer and closer the fiery chariot came to the Earth. Rivers began to dry up, cities and forest caught fire because of the great heat. Neptune raised his head from the sea and shook his trident angrily at the chariot of the sun. But the air was so hot that Neptune soon dove back into the seep blue sea. As the chariot crossed the continent of Africa it was so close that it set on fire the great Sahara forest. That wooded region of northern Africa was reduced to ashes and burning sands.
All creatures began to cry to Zeus for help because of the unbearable heat. The gods. the humans, the animals, and the Earth herself were afraid that everything would soon be burned up. Zeus listened to their plea and then he climbed on high. He was armed with a thunderbolt and he threw the deadly shaft at the chariot of the sun. The magic oil Apollo had put on Phaeton protected the boy from the heat and the flames of the chariot, but it could not save him from a thunderbolt of Zeus. There was a deafening crash as the lightening shattered the chariot and Phaeton fell wrapped in sizzling flames. The horses ran home while pieces of the wrecked chariot fell hissing into the sea.

But the chief of gods replied, "You have lost a son, true. But how many men on Earth were burned up? I had no choice but to blast the fiery chariot, otherwise every creature on Earth would have been destroyed."

With these words and those of the other gods, Apollo was finally persuaded to return to his rightful duty. He bridled his fiery horses to the Sun chariot the next day and the Sun once again traveled its correct course. It still gives proper light and heat to this very day.
Found here.

posted by: Whitebeard at 08:28 | link | comments |

 

Give back our Twins. Europe is not Honduras.

During his ambassadorship, human rights violations in Honduras became systematic. The infamous Battalion 316, trained by the CIA and Argentine military, kidnaped, tortured and killed hundreds of people. Negroponte knew about these human rights violations and yet continued to collaborate with them while lying to Congress.

Found here

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posted by: Whitebeard at 08:14 | link | comments |

My America

Thank you so much, dearest friends:

grow up and multiply,

You have a beautifull faces!

A prayer: translate the most important documents (spanish, francais, japanese, italian...). In bocca al lupo! ( good luck)

posted by: Whitebeard at 23:00 | link | comments |

John Negroponte

Just last month went to Baghdad

Nice guy as you can see here.

He knows where Simona & Simona stay at now.

posted by: Whitebeard at 12:21 | link | comments |

 

Mr Runfeld,

Mr President,

give back our twins

Brothers and Sisters, I'm here to tell you that I charge those white men. I charge those white men with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge those white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that those men can go and say they created peace and harmony. Everywhere they are gone, they created havoc. Everywhere they 're gone,they created destruction.
Whitebeard   ( from Italy)

Being born here does not make you an American. I'm not an American. You're not an American. You are one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of America.

You and I, we've never seen any democracy. We ain't seen no democracy in the cotton fields of Georgia. There's no democracy down there. We didn't see any democracy on the streets of Harlem, and the streets of Brooklyn and the streets of Detroit, or in Chicago. There ain't no democracy down there. No, we've never seen democracy. All we've seen is hypocrisy. We don't see any American Dream. We've experienced only the American Nightmare.
...And when I speak, I speak as a victim of American democracy.
-- Malcolm X

posted by: Whitebeard at 11:12 | link | comments |

When dying is such a frightening and distressing subject

This is an Urgent request to all campaign supporters

You may have seen my letter recently published in the Independent newspaper.

It argued that there are many terminally ill patients who feel deprived of their rights not only at the end of their lives, when doctors take control of decisions, but also feel denied the right even to discuss this openly. 

It cannot be right to potentially criminalize even the discussion of death when dying is such a frightening and distressing subject. This uncertainty is leading more and more people to make difficult journeys abroad to die, and undermines further a criminal law that is left either impotent or harsh and inflexible.

I welcome the present debate about patient choice, but if this is to be made truly meaningful, it cannot omit a serious consideration of this important issue from its agenda when it affects so any real people every day.

As you maybe aware, a Special House of Lords Select Committee has been set up to consider the issue and your help is vital.

Please send a message in support of the law being changed to the committee by email mailto:assisteddyingbill@parliament.uk (or type in assisteddyingbill@parliament.uk) by this Friday - 3rd September 2004.

Thank you for your help.

Best wishes

James Plaskitt
Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Compassion in Dying
Labour MP for Warwick & Leamington


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posted by: Whitebeard at 07:56 | link | comments |

 

Ordinary Americans

have been manipulated into imagining they are a people under siege whose sole refuge and protector is their government. If it isn't the Communists, it's al-Qaeda. If it isn't Cuba. it's Nicaragua. As a result, this, the most powerful nation in the world - with its unmatchable arsenal of weapons, its history of having waged and sponsored endless wars, and the only nation in history to have actually used nuclear bombs - is peopled by a terrified citizenry, jumping at shadows. A people bonded to the state not by social services, or public health care, or employment guarantees, but by fear.

Transcript of full speech by Arundhati Roy in San Francisco, California on August 16th, 2004.

 

posted by: Whitebeard at 21:32 | link | comments |

 Losers

 

 

Great!

Courage, american people: ballots against bullets.

posted by: Whitebeard at 09:37 | link | comments |