Personal, and public

Right, this is arguably the most difficult post i've ever written. Most likely because i'm in the most difficult place i've ever been. Also because some stuff is personal, other stuff involves a lot of other people, ad i certainly don't wish to air dirty laundry in public, nor slander. This is a post i must write, because i write posts, lol, that's what this blog is for. Just me, another view in this multi-layered multiverse of ours. And despite everything, all the trauma and raw emotion that is coursing through my veins, this is an utterly god post (typo, good post, freudian slip that i think is hilarious right now, because this post can only be about love, and God).  

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke

Evil exists. Pure, unmitigated evil that slashes and tears and burns mercilesly at all of mankind. We all know it, we've all experienced it at some point. Usually it hides behind a corporation, but sometimes there are men and women who carry that evil inside them. They partake of darkess and keep it safe, and usually hidden, deception above all else. They mix among us, we heedless to their true natures. They infiltrate, obscure, confuse, decieve, lie and all manner of things. The difference between these men and others, is that where a lie is uncovered, it is not a mere slip, or a thoughtless act worthy of remedy, but a small crack in a faultless facade, that shows intentions, which are utterly bestial and base. Not fleeting moments of anger, either, but a systematic and concerted effort to cause pain in others.

Sadly, our conventional methods of dealing with problems are, poblematic at best. For these mn know no limits. Violence, intimidation, co-ersion, blackmail, all these are merely conveniences for these men. Tools to be used against whoever they deam a threat. Because they themselves know more than any others how tenuous their place among us is. They know the falseness of the facade they wear. So they run amok among us, creating pain and misery and suffering, seemingly free of our bounds, of kindness and fellow humanity.

The thing i've learned though, is that like all bullies, they are terribly afraid inside themsves. And like all bullies have that hidden fear that consumes them. That fear is terribly simple, truth. 

They are never misguided, they are willfilly opposed to truth, and the truth is the light. Like a light, the truth is open for all to see. They hide the truth, it's part of their game. And the truth is the greatest weapon against them. It sends them reeling in agony. 

I have been involved with two such men, in the last few days. Truth be told, i've been involved with them both for years. Decades of pain and hate that i never even full conceived of. Not so much for me, this is so much not about me, but everyone around me. And i have stood silent too long in the face of this evil. I was hoodwinked too, and believed the deception, and allowed them to work their evil ways. And they have. Standing now at the summit, overlooking mountains and valleys of lives and stories, i see their acts. I see their victims crying out. I see their hearts full of malice and ego. I see the blood, the tears, and i see the effects, years later of their carefully construed slights. And i find myself unable to remain silent. I find myself standing before them as a messenger of truth and i speak the truth. 

The hardest is not letting your own personal truths replace those of other far more deserving of this moment. The hardest is needing to know that it is not your own malice that drives your tongue. The hardest is speaking truths which will cut to the core and shatter their frail minds. The hardest is speaking the truth.

Judge not, lest ye be judged.

Sounds like pretty good advice to me. I follow that advice. No really, ok? 

But all men will be judged, at some point. 

Mene mene tekel parson.

We shall all have our day, once we die. We will face whatever stands behind the veil, and be accountable for our travels on this plane, or perhaps through this corner of the cave. Some men are fortunate, and are asked to account for their works while still alive and are able to make remedy. Able, but not always willing. 

My heart is terribly sad right now. For both victim and perpetrator. But the sadness is mixed with anger. Blind rage at the blackness of the soul that caused this. And sometimes, one cannot stand aside and do nothing. For that would be the victory of all the evil that lives in this and the next world. One must stand and act. One must act righteously!! above all else, for we of the good are burdened by our actions, and must take care lest we become that which destroys. We cannot be stained with their blood, we cannot act in the same way. 

We are burdened by our humanity! We are burdened with our care and love for life! It IS a burden and we are weary for the carrying!!!!! But as my friends would well know, it's a burden worth every weary step. It is an honour, to carry your friends burden. It is an honour to stand tall in the face of adversity. It truly is magnificent to unite friends and family in common love, and community. To share, to teach, to learn, to partake of this bread called life.

And part of this burden is to act, with honour, against those who seek to destroy.

I came face to face with evil. I came face to face with good. And i know that i choose good. And i know that good and evil are not abstract concepts, but living breathing animals which have their own ways. I know that love is the reason. LOVE IS THE REASON WE ARE HERE. I can shout it for ever and always and never tire. It is as absolute a truth as you will ever hear in your life. I know it is a truth that spans every single tribe race family nation that has ever been. I know this with the conviction of everything i have. And i know that i will NEVER be dissuaded. I cannot be. it is fixed and it is good. 

I know i am not God. I know i am AS a god to be sure:

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are gods?

I have no hesitation. No fear. No confusion. I am my Father's child. 

I should end this now i think. I give you the reader this, if nothing else ever, love. Take it, use it, give it away. I have plenty so come back for more. 

peace and love

Reflections by comrade Fidel

http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/reflexiones/2010/ing/f270610i.html

http://monthlyreview.org/castro/

Of course he refers to us South Africans as racists. But he outlines quite openly about how Isreal gave us US nukes. He outlines where they were to be used. Quite honestly, South Africa is still suffering the effects of the British invasion, if only through our twisted thinking, and historical mistakes. I believe that we have moved on, mostly. Our current problems are different, but STILL THE RESULT OF THE BRITISH AND THER BLOODY APARTHEID. Remember, the Afrikaaners were the first South African victims of the Empire. What followed was merely, more of the same, only distorted. I digress.

Castro shows us the current layout of the chessboard. Who is moving which piece where. And what that means. The World Cup is a diversion, for the real news, that he keeps referring to, and i believe him. Again, The world cup here is no coincidence, we are here as the sideshow, we have to be useful for something, you know?

Everyone is ready, the straights of Hormuz has 2 carriers groups in it right now, and other assets are moving to swell the numbers. Saudi Arabia has just given Iseal permission to use it's airspace militarily, although Turkey has ended the long standing agreements with Isreal over airspace. 

It's all moving very, very quickly, and the sanctions that have just been imposed on Iran have just put them in a corner. The US and Isreal, with full UK and EU backing, want war. It suits them.As with all things, nothing done by anyone else has placated them, there is nothing that will, save war. Iran has complied with IEA officials comprehensively for several years now, and their tactical nuclear ability as of now is zero, THERE IS NO THREAT.

The Empire strikes it's last blow, or will shortly. The capitalist markets of the world have been pillaged, the rape and murder of the inhabitants are about to begin. There are no other opions left, but, total war, that will turn nuclear almost instantaneously, they have been making it this way for too long, there can be no other way.

Just read this: The Empire and the Drugs

Conflict ..... resolution ... ?

What is it about conflict that sears into our brain? It consumes your mind at the cost of all else.

In the old days of dinosaurs and caves, it was easy. Fight or flight. Problem comes, either debrain it or you better be a fast runner. These days that doesn't work. More akin to being stuck in a cave with a hungry bear that can't get to you, but neither can  you escape. So you sit there and wory about it. You think about how to attack the bear, but you have not the right tools. You think about running, but the way it is, you would have to run damn near into the bear to get out. And you sit there, in the dark, getting hungrier, and colder, and more desperate. Stalemate. 

Stress: the overwhelming desire to beat the crap out of someone who desperately deserves it.

When i speak to people about stress, i mention the above definition, and point out that yes, the person (usually) DOES deserve it. It's someone else's issue that they are foisting on you. Not to say that you can (beat them), but it becomes a need, often akin to survival. Your well being depends on this problem being dealt with. And these days, there is nowhere to run.Despite all the "options" ... yu are stuck, in your house, in your job, in your marriage.

The goal, is always to deal with it both humanely, and expediently. Although truth be told if you achieve either one of those you are ahead of the game. That the two above are often diametrically opposed is just more ... confusion. Expediently would involve a thick stick. But thats not very humane. Humanity would require care, and love, and diligence, but that is NEVER expedient. The truly human response looks like one of those love paddles, that parents use. It hurts like HELL but has "we really love you" written on the side. As i said, that's humanity for you. 

Creativity is the thing. But to be creative you cannot be tied down as your thoughts, especially fearful ones, force you. After a few days perhaps, you'll realise that there are rocks at your feet. Not enough with which to attack the bear, but perhaps distract? And while you are now scurrying around with renewed hope, you find a carcass, not too old either. Another animal that has met the fate you are envisioning for yourself. Throwing it down, the bear instantly attacks it, and is so utterly entanced with it's meal, it does not notice you slipping through the entrance where the bear was guarding so patiently. 

You are alive. and you neither fought nor ran, although i'd wager you're running now. 

Sometimes, in the middle of panic and fear, you have to sit, and relax. WHAT SHALL BE SHALL BE. All that you can ever do is be utterly receptive to your surrounds, the cues and clues that show you where the true solution lies.

But sometimes a big stick is more fun.

The business of the SA REPUBLIC

Business Address 
EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
3051 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20008 
021 464 6100

Business address of what you ask?

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA CIK#: 0000932419 (see all company filings)

I didn't know of this.

www.sec.gov

The significance of REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA being a corporation is that company law applies. As REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA is registered with the SEC, one has to wonder WHAT company law applies?

From http://forum.worldfreemansociety.org/

I am investigating further.

FUCK THE FUCKING FUCKERS

ALRIGHT

ps i meant that

pps manowar ROX

ppps people suck ... and not the good way either

Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride

see?

pppps how does the p*s thing work? ad infinitum? or wot?

ppppps ... nobody likes my music, they all tell me to turn it down. fucking heathen.

With Malice and Forethought

http://www.withmaliceandforethought.com/

With Malice and Forethought
An Autobiography on Life and Corruption
or
(How to cover up killing 160 innocent people
 and How to get away with $150 million in tax fraud)

Dave Meckanic

All Web and other Pages Copyright © 1999 - 2008
ISBN-10: 1419639269
ISBN-13: 978-1419639265

Just finished reading this, and wow, what an utterly enthralling account. Just a guy, albeit bordering on genius, who ended up in the air up there, and being utterly fucked over all the way.

South Africa, circa late 1980's, and Canada, circa 1990's. Took me a few days, over 500 pages in there, and not "well" written, really. He's not a writer, yet, although this was an astounding first book. It's a story, told as record, which makes it interesting in another way, in the way that details are important. There are many really insightful comments in the book, about people, governments and business, and law. The story rips at the heart of the lies we are told "for our own good", and how the "law" now serves only those who are abe to afford it's manipulation.

Trafficking claims exaggerated

Ok, again news24.

Now i did cover this a while back, HUMAN TRAFFICKING .... aka slavery was the big demon forecast by TPTB. Hmmmm but of course there was no evidence for it, only ... educated opinions, by people who would be in charge ... hmmm.

Anyhow, without further ado, the sequel.

Johannesburg – Claims exaggerating the danger of human trafficking during the Soccer World Cup have resulted in the sidelining of other important social issues, the University of the Witwatersrand's forced migration studies programme has found.

Programme director Professor Loren Landau said that despite "alarming" radio and television advertisements, there had been little evidence suggesting high volumes of human trafficking in South and southern Africa.

"Nor does local or comparative evidence indicate that a major sporting event is likely to increase these volumes," he said in a statement.

The programme's latest "Migration Issue Brief 4: Human Trafficking and Migration" refuted what it felt were exaggerated claims about the crime.

"Before the 2006 Soccer World Cup, media reports and Non-Governmental Organisations claimed that 40 000 women and children would be trafficked into Germany," said Landau.

"Yet, in research conducted after the 2006 World Cup, researchers found evidence of only five cases of trafficking," he said.

"Considering the limited evidence for trafficking into South Africa, the attention the issue has received in policy prioritisation and media reporting appears disproportionate.

Oh yes, 40 000 estimated ... 5 found. Hmmmm. Flase flag anyone? The point of the article was that massive funding and attention was taken away from .... more pressing concerns, like rape murder and so on.

Sincerely, we have many serious problems in our society. Most totally fixable, but you have to acknowledge the appropriate priority. But for fuck sakes, they still think weed is a freaking priority .... so i guess we can see where their interest lies.

Taking a non issue, making it an issue, taking a lot of resources (from elsewhere) to fix said issue, and then justifying their uselessness by statistics. Doesn't that sound so ... typical?

I'm GLAD there are no "human trafficking" problems, really. But i told you so, i did. If they'd spent that effort on the real traffic, the world would be a happier place already.

Cold cont.

News24:

Nearly 500 African penguins died in 24-hours because of cold and wet weather at Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape, SA National Parks (SanParks) said on Tuesday.

SanParks spokesperson Megan Taplin said: "The chicks, aged between a few weeks and two months, are covered only with down feathers. They succumbed to the cold and wet weather that has hit Bird Island."

Taplin said rangers on the island were trying to rescue the remaining birds by giving them temporary shelters made from available materials on the island.

"They are also attempting to drain penguin nests which have filled up with water after about 20mm of rain on the island," she said.

Cold cont.

Coldest ever

It's cold here, really really cold. I believe last night standerton was -11 ... that's centigrade for international types.

IOL:

Just before dawn, the mercury bottomed out at -3,2degC, which, according to the SA Weather Service, broke the previous record of -3, set on June 30, 1994.

Cars skidded on icy roads, records tumbled, and it's official: it's the coldest World Cup ever.

International media are already calling this World Cup the coldest ever, with teams having to deal with frozen training pitches, and journalists whinging about the need for hot water bottles and long johns.

______________________________________________________

Global warming huh? Reminds me of the early nineties when it was last this cold in JHB. I used to walk along a river to school, lol. Very very very cold.

My only regret is what the cold did to my plants. Black frost isn't friendly.

Codex and oil

Ok, i've just figured out what the oil spill was for:

Codex alimentarus has just been implemented in the states by Barry.

“Section 6 (g) contains specific plans to ensure that all prevention programs outside the Department of Health and Human Services are based on the science-based guidelines developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under subsection (d) of this section.”

Think long and hard about preventative medicine. Vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc.

You're not allowed those anymore, unless your doctor prescribes them for you. 

Think about that, long and hard.

www.codexalimentarius.net

Mr Terry Pratchett on "abraxas"

"He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards. " - Terry Pratchett 

Morning traffic

I'm caged. The bike is in itty little bitty pieces, lots of em. Frame has been welded now, and re-inforced, properly i'm told. Or at least as good as is possible. The alloy is a tricksy barstard, so we'll have to see if it works. 

So ... nissan 1400 agricultural implement, with me inside. 

So imagine my surprise when i try clear the ice off the car window, with luke warm water, and it freezes instantly. i'm talking 5 seconds here. That was fun. I saw a military convoy, 8 APC's carrying about 8 guys each. Followed by an ambulance. I loved that bit ... someone is going to get hurt. And then there was the delightful metro double cab bakkie idling along the yellow lane pulling people out the traffic, seemingly at random. Thrills. 

My 2 biker buddies passed me, the gold wing and the red kawa ... *sigh* until i get the bike back together it's going to be hell.

peace

Quakers

So the other day my son felt an earth tremour. We found it measured 4.3 on the Richter scale, and it was quite an event. Then a few days back, there was another. 

I felt one last night, lying in bed, very eery in fact. Not enough to notice really, but all was quiet and still, so it was easy enough to pick up on, just a background rumble, the windows rattled slightly.

Dated yesterday: Timeslive

An earthquake that measured 4.3 on the Richter scale was felt along the West Rand and parts of Johannesburg this afternoon, the Council for Geosciences said.

News24

Johannesburg – Four earthquakes were recorded around Gauteng, the North West province and Limpopo on Wednesday, the Council for Geosciences reported on Thursday.

The first was at 13:28 in the Gamoep area of Limpopo and measured 2.4 on the Richter scale, with a depth of 5km.

The second earthquake was at 19:.34 in Gauteng, along the Roodepoort mining belt, west of Johannesburg. It measured 2.4 on the Richter scale and was recorded with a depth of 2km.

A third earthquake was recorded in the area of the West Rand gold mines in the North West at 23:42, measuring 2.9 with a depth of 2km.

A fourth was recorded at 23:49 in the same area, measuring 2.9 with a depth of 2km.

Oddly, what i felt was close to 9PM.

These tremours are certainly increasing in frequency. Not huge news, but worth taking note of.

The Universe

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. - Terry Pratchett

Yes. 

Lookee here .... a universal scale thingy: http://htwins.net/scale/index.html

Way cool.

Welcome World Cup

1.3m state staff declare wage dispute day before Cup kickoff

Public service unions representing 14 unions and around 1.3 million state employees have declared a dispute, the parties said on Thursday, the day before the World Cup kicks off.

Unions affiliated to the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Independent Labour Caucus (ILC) said the dispute had been declared "as a result of the employer's intransigence and inability to meet the demands of labour".

"The employer is totally out of touch with the reality of the existing conditions in the country.

"Workers are struggling to keep up with spiralling increases in municipal rates and taxes caused by the 24.5 percent of electricity tariff increases."

_________________________________________________________________

This is already a laugh a minute, stampedes, drunk policemen speeding towards team hq's, several armed robberies and thefts, and we're on day1. 

May i just remind everyone of SA's status of TB capital of the world? When someone is blowing a vuvuzela at you, he's likely sharing his germs too. 

It's a lovely day for a braai. Not realy, it's cold, windy and cold. Not even sunny. ROFL!! And our company, and many others, are doing the let's watch the game together. I don't, really really really don't get it. Good luck and keep safe.

C/2009 R1 (McNaught)

http://cometography.com/lcomets/2009r1.html

Big as Jupiter they say. Nice.

RIP Granny

My granny died friday of a grand old age. Gone to join her lifelong friend in heaven.

Anne and Harry were both the quntessential example of everything good and wholesome. She missed her Harry in the last years. I sood in in some ways for her, but it wasn't the same.

Death took it's time, she was ready, but that old boere tannie body just wouldnt give up, tough as nails that old lady was. 

I miss her, but i miss the younger her, running around the Kommetjie rocks so fleetly that this little boy couldn' keep up. Teaching me the mysteries of rock pools and the little animals that lived there. Limpet fritters, that was my favourite treat. Sunshiny morning walking up to the local bakery for cheeserolls, stopping and chatting to all her friends. 

I miss her knowledge, her phenomenal understanding of the universe, plants, stars, animals and even people, she had the insight and compassion of a true leader. 

She became old, as we do. She became like her mother, Ouma we used to call her, who sat quietly in the lounge, and tripped us kids with her walking stick, chuckling loudly when we fell, and even more so when i apologised to her. And, like her mom, she never lost her sense of humour and good spirits, although we kept the walking sticks away.

An old lady who died a dignifed death at home, no fear, no uncertainty. She has gone to her Jesus, and her Harry after living the good life, a shining example of how it should be done.

Oh granny thank you, for all those years.

TO THE ANGELS

TO THE ANGELS 
by Allen Ginsberg 

These are the thoughts -- anxieties -- of anxious marchers 
That the Angels will attack them 
for kicks, or to get publicity, to take the heat off 
themselves 
or to get the goodwill of police & press &/or right 
wing Money 
That a conscious deal has been made with Oakland 
police 
or an unconscious rapport, tacit understanding 
mutual sympathy 
that Oakland will layoff persecuting the Angels 
if the Angels attack & break up the March & 
make it a riot 
Is any of this true, or is it the paranoia of the less 
stable-minded marchers? 
As long as Angels are ambiguous and don't give open 
reassurance that they can be trusted to be tranquil, 
The anxious souls, the naturally violent, the insecure, the 
hysterics among the marchers have an excuse for 
policy of 
self-defense thru violence, 
a rationalization for their own inner violence. 

That leaves the Marchers with choice of defending them- 
selves thru force on account of fear & threat 
unleashing the more irrational minority of rebels 
or at best, defending themselves coolly, under control 
BUT CRITICIZED FOR BEING LAWLESS 

or not defending selves, and possibly abandoned by police 
(for we have no clear assurance from Oakland police 
that they will sincerely try to maintain order and guard 
our lawful right to march) 
if you attack, & having innocent pacifists, youths 
& old ladies busted up 
AND CRITICIZED AS IRRESPONSIBLE COWARDS 
By you, by Press, by Public & by Violence loving leftists 
& rightists.

As it stands the VDC adopted policy of pacifism for marchers, 
WHO SIMPLY WILL NOT FIGHT. And will try to 
make the march a HAPPY SPECTACLE. 

***

Do Angels have any questions for Vietnam Day Committee? 
any suspicions that might be cleared up now? 
What's the main complaint? 

What do the Angels plan to do Nov. 20? Do they really have 
a plan? 
Let's now make a plan that will leave everybody secure.

Because the Fearheads around the VDC public meetings 
believe the Image of Angels as "They like to bust people 
up for kicks" and naturally you get a bad rep. that way 
especially if you've finally found a group you can beat up 
with some social approval, temporarily, 
& compliance of the cops. 

You don't want to "change" you want to be yrselves, 
& if that includes sadism, or forced hostility, 
here's a situation where you can get away with it. 
BUT NOBODY WANTS TO REJECT THE SOULS OF 
THE HELL'S ANGELS 
or make them change --
WE JUST DON'T WANT TO GET BEAT UP 

***

The protest march is trying to point out 
that the terror in Vietnam is making 
same terror here inside our country 
loosing publicly the same cruel psychology that'll 
give approval to busting yellow head gooks in Vietnam 
This is infecting peaceful human relations here 
allowing for public mass persecution of people 
who disagree with 
the 
growth of mass hostility mass hypocrisy mass conflict 
The mass of marchers are not POLITICAL, they're 
PSYCHOLOGICAL HEADS 
who don't want the country to drift into the habit of blind 
violence & unconscious cruelty & egoism NOT 
COMMUNICATION -- with outside world or lonely 
minorities in America 
such as yourselves 
and ourselves 
AND the negroes 
AND the teaheads 
AND the Communists 
AND the Beatnicks 
AND the Birchers 
AND even the so called Squares 
I am afraid that once 
the people who hate us peace 
Marchers & let you beat us up, -- afraid of us Pacifists 
will then, still having this 
fear and hate at heart, turn it on you 
afraid of you, too, 
or ask you to turn it on other minorities 
the negroes? 

Ultimately on you and each other. 
(This was the pattern of Brown Shirts in Germany 
who were used by hate politicians, 
& then creamed in Concentration Camps. 
I think.) 

**

I said we were not politicians mostly. And you say 
you're indifferent to politics. But you're getting hung on 
politics and taking Geopolitical positions promoting bomb 
Vietnam. 

***

What ELSE, besides this politics, will take the heat 
off the Hell's Angels? 

That heat's on everybody, not just you 
To go to war, to be drafted, 
to make money on war jobs & economy, to be destroyed 
by Bomb, to get busted 
for pot --

To take the heat off, you've got 
to take the heat off 
INSIDE YOURSELVES --
Find Peace means stop hating yourself 
stop hating people who hate you 
stop reflecting HEAT 
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HEAT 
THE MOST OF PEACE MARCHERS ARE NOT HEAT 
They want you to join them to relieve 
the heat on you & on all of us. 

Take the heat -- Anxiety Paranoia -- 
off us, AND off the police, off all the fearful 
REASSURE, and act clearly in such a way 
as to reassure --
by being kind not 
cruel --
and it'll be remembered and responded to. 

Forcing self, others and police into a corner 
increases heat. 
Beating up on Vietnam won't take the heat off 
even if whole country joined Hell's Angels 
-- world will apply heat & world be destroyed 
(almost happened thru Hitler) 

Yes time to take the heat symbolism off the Swastika 
and give the swastika back to the Indians & Peaceful Mystics 
& Calcutta Ganja Smokers 
Can you imagine doing the same for the Hammer and
Sickle? 
I've seen Jewish Stars, & there is M 13, & LSD 
& Negro Crescent 
to make HAPPY on yr. backs. 

***

I called Beatnick or Vietnick not want a way that is not 
common for all -- recognizable & acceptable to all -- want a 
way we can all live together without heat & rejection. 
My desire to share, not 
MONOPOLIZE the images, because I don't want to 
be ALONE in Earth. 
I don't want unnecessary suffering for me, or anybody -- 
you, the police, the Vietnamese, the entire human 
universe. 

***

What is the way out of the heat 
for you? If stop threat to take over 
others, then people let you alone. 
Have you stopped threatening the Marcher people 
yet? 
If you threat, you must WANT heat. 
We're trying 
to take it off you, & off us, & off the 
cops, & off the U.S. & off China & off Vietnam. 

The heat is human, emotional, not a law 
of nature. 

How many Angels really dig your political position 
aside from its tactics as heat relief? 
How many hate the marchers? really want to bug them? 
Is it you & Tiny's personal goof, or really what you all 
want? 

If you dig POT why don't you dig that the whole 
generation who don't dig the heat war also dig pot and 
consciousness & spontaneity & hair & they are your natural 
brothers. 
rather than the moralistic rigid types 
who have fixed warlike negative image of America? 
The great image -- which all can buy -- is your own ideal 
Image 
WHITMAN's free soul, camarado, also of Open Road! 
I asking you be Camarado, friend, kind, lover, because vast 
majority of peace marchers 
actually respect & venerate your lonesomeness 
& struggle & would rather be peaceful intimates 
with you than fearful enraged frightened paranoid 
enemies hitting each other. 
That probably goes for the police too who have human 
bodies under uniform. 

There are some rigid souls -- who believe the universe is 
evil -- frightened of sex & pot & motorcycles & PEACE 
even if it was all peaceful and tranquil 
afraid of life, not realizing its harmless emptiness 
These are the people we should be 
working on -- making love to them 
blowing our minds and theirs 
softening them, enlarging their consciousness 
and our own too in the process 
not fighting eachother 

All separate identities are bankrupt 
Square, beat, Jews, negroes, Hell's Angels, Communist & 
American. 

Hell's Angels & Tiny Intervention has probably had good 
effect 
forced the leaders & marchers to look inside 
themselves to measure 
how much their march is blind aggression 
put-on motivated by rage & 
confused desire to find someone to BLAME 
& fight & scream 

OR 

How much the march will be a free expression 
of calm people who have controlled 
their own hatreds 
and are showing the American People 
how to control their own fear & hatred 
and once and for all be done with the pressure 
building up to annihilate the planet 
and take our part ENDING THE HEAT on earth. 

-- Delivered as a speech at San Jose State College, Monday November 15, 1965, before students and representatives of Bay Area Hell's Angels

Throw down the sword

Throw down the sword,
The fight is done and over,
Neither lost, neither won.
To cast away the fury of the battle
And turn my weary eyes for home.

There were times when I stood at death's own door
Only hoping for an answer.

Throw down the sword,
And leave the glory -
A story time can never change.
To walk the road, the load I have to carry -
A journey's end, a wounded soul.

There were times when I stood at death's own door
Only searching for an answer.

- Wishbone Ash

SA Recalls Ambassador

It should be obvious which ambassador we are talking about.

Ambassador recalled

Ebrahim said the recall was a form of protest, following Monday's clash between Israeli defence force members and a flotilla which intended to break the Gaza blockade with aid. 

But Ebrahim added that Coovadia would return to Tel Aviv.

South Africa's Al Jama-ah political party also said it was pleased by government's actions and believed they gave effect to the position of former president Nelson Mandela that "South Africa will never be free until Palestinians are free".

And from Timeslive:

The Jewish leaders said the facts of the incident were not yet fully known.

The Jewish leadership said it regretted that SA was so far the only country, apart from Turkey, to have taken "so radical and disproportionate a step, despite not being directly involved in the matter".

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Today i am proud to be a South African. The government has done something moral, taken a moral stand. The reasons of course are not entirely unselfish, and in view of the overall record rather hypocritical. I only wish we took such firm action against all such abuses. Like in Zimbabawe.

The ANC does have an axe to grind with Israel. That much is clear. Cosatu has welcomed this decision, as they would. Buthey protested Zim too, they have a moral standing in my eyes.

The local Jewish leadership can go fuck themselves. After their treatment of Justice Goldstone they are lower than pigshit to me. At least the South African muslim population have an inkling of their minority status, and are obliged to behave themselves. They also bear the burden of a moral standing in the community. The Jews know no such humility.

Anubis in Denver

Remember Death by Horse?

Well Denver International Airport is at it again.

Welcome Anubis, god of the underworld and usher of dead souls to the afterlife.

Apparently part of a travelling exhibition courtesy the Denver Museum. Made of concrete, it will only be temporary. It's still very bizarre.

Israel's Most Illicit Affair

By Glenn Frankel

May 28, 2010 "Foreign Policy" -- History is a great teacher, but sometimes it packs a nasty sense of irony. A case in point: South African Prime Minister John Vorster's visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in April 1976, where he laid a wreath to the victims of the German Reich he once extolled.

It's bad enough that a former Nazi sympathizer was treated like an honored guest by the Jewish state. Even worse was the purpose behind Vorster's trip to Israel: to cement the extensive military relationship between Israel and the apartheid regime, a partnership that violated international law and illicitly provided the white-minority government with the weaponry and technology to help sustain its grip on power and its oppression of the black majority over two decades.

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Read it all, save it, disseminate it. Make people aware of BOTH our histories. I do notice a comment about the anc being so overwhelmed by covering it's own inadequacies that it does not recognise the vital international importance of these documents. 

While FW et al are vehemently denying, Pretoria has both accepted the validity of these documents, and has assumed a pretense of disinterest. Both are massive mistakes.

As Turkey is finding out, Isreal is a poor ally, and as SA is about to find out, a terrible enemy. 

I went down

Ya ya. I went down and it was my own fault. Even worse it was the most stupid way possible. I'm ok thanks, as is the bike, save several months salary worth of plastic.

Leaving the garage after filling up, i pulled out the forecourt. It had all the signs, paving, unfriendly slope to the exit, that place where all the cars leave their 1 drop of oil, oh and of course, the big glossy STOP sign painted. Slip grip twist ... and my balance was now suddenly between the tank and handlebars, and the bike off balance. I lost it. 

*sigh*

5km/h .... no more than that. 

fmyfine

https://www.fmyfine.co.za/

Traffic Fine Excuse Letter Generator

Who made this piece of $*&# website?

Mary Anna and Alice Dee were sick of paying for traffic fines so they got a bergie to put some codes on the interwebz.

Go see :-D