http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=3561&a=878663OK, THIS takes every cake so far :D
In Saddam's home town, they have created this shoe of copper ... and people think arabs have no sense of humour?
Friday, 30 January 2009
Tikrit shoe
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=3561&a=878663OK, THIS takes every cake so far :D
In Saddam's home town, they have created this shoe of copper ... and people think arabs have no sense of humour?
Blackwater banned from Iraq
Al Jazeera
Blackwater, a US private security firm, has been barred from providing security for US diplomats in Iraq for its alleged involvement in the deaths of at least 17 civilians in 2007.
The Iraqi interior ministry on Thursday said the measure followed the firm's "improper conduct and excessive use of force".
"It is because of the shooting incident in 2007 ... [Blackwater] came to us and applied and we refused them. They tried by all means to stay here and we said 'no'," General Abdel Karim Khalaf, an interior ministry spokesman, told AFP.
About time too :D
Blackwater, a US private security firm, has been barred from providing security for US diplomats in Iraq for its alleged involvement in the deaths of at least 17 civilians in 2007.
The Iraqi interior ministry on Thursday said the measure followed the firm's "improper conduct and excessive use of force".
"It is because of the shooting incident in 2007 ... [Blackwater] came to us and applied and we refused them. They tried by all means to stay here and we said 'no'," General Abdel Karim Khalaf, an interior ministry spokesman, told AFP.
About time too :D
Putin speech
Putin Speaks at Davos
Wow ... go read. Not for a VERY long time have a heard such a brilliant speech. Putin, despite his kgb background and mindset, appears to be becoming "my" statesman of this era.
He is working to understand the people, and to be seen with people doing ordinary things. In the recent Georgia trouble, and since then the gas "crisis". he showed a remarkable strategic ability, one which literally bowls the other players over. And he is VERY patriotic, his responsiobility is to mother russia, its people and land. How is it so few leaders have that passion?
This man would be quite good at chess, i'd think.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the international community is facing a host of extremely complicated problems, which might seem overpowering at times. But, a journey of thousand miles begins with a single step, as the proverb goes.
We must seek foothold relying on the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilisation. Integrity and hard work, responsibility and self-confidence will eventually lead us to success.
We should not despair. This crisis can and must be fought, also by pooling our intellectual, moral and material resources."
...
"Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing social and economic problems. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately."
And this ...
"In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated."
Wow ... go read. Not for a VERY long time have a heard such a brilliant speech. Putin, despite his kgb background and mindset, appears to be becoming "my" statesman of this era.
He is working to understand the people, and to be seen with people doing ordinary things. In the recent Georgia trouble, and since then the gas "crisis". he showed a remarkable strategic ability, one which literally bowls the other players over. And he is VERY patriotic, his responsiobility is to mother russia, its people and land. How is it so few leaders have that passion?
This man would be quite good at chess, i'd think.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the international community is facing a host of extremely complicated problems, which might seem overpowering at times. But, a journey of thousand miles begins with a single step, as the proverb goes.
We must seek foothold relying on the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilisation. Integrity and hard work, responsibility and self-confidence will eventually lead us to success.
We should not despair. This crisis can and must be fought, also by pooling our intellectual, moral and material resources."
...
"Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing social and economic problems. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately."
And this ...
"In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated."
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Govt will 'fight' anti-Semtisim
Now apart from News 24's ASTOUNDINGLY STUPID COPY EDITOR .. can't even fucking spell semitism ... and WHY does semitism have a capital s?
That's the headline ... startling, to say the least. Amongst all of our government's problems, where is anti semitism a problem??
Her comments were apparently made at rally in solidarity with Palestine on Wednesday 14 January, in Lenasia.
She is said to have told the gathering: "They in fact control [America], no matter which government comes into power, whether Republican or Democratic, whether Barack Obama or George Bush. The control of America, just like the control of most Western countries, is in the hands of Jewish money and if Jewish money controls their country then you cannot expect anything else."
Sounds fairly accurate .... but now we have the jews getting all unhappy ...
"Condemning the "classic anti-Jewish stereotyping and conspiracy-theory mongering", the organisation has laid a formal complaint against Hajaig with the SA Human Rights Commission, for anti-Jewish hate speech."
Nicely put ... fairly typical response too. Conspiracy theory mongering ... that's a new phrase though, someone very clever thought a LONG time about that one.
This, after the jeish prime minister BRAGGED about telling bus-hboy what to do at a . UN security council vote
So, we can tell the UNITED STATES what to do, but you're NOT allowed to say so.
That's the headline ... startling, to say the least. Amongst all of our government's problems, where is anti semitism a problem??
Her comments were apparently made at rally in solidarity with Palestine on Wednesday 14 January, in Lenasia.
She is said to have told the gathering: "They in fact control [America], no matter which government comes into power, whether Republican or Democratic, whether Barack Obama or George Bush. The control of America, just like the control of most Western countries, is in the hands of Jewish money and if Jewish money controls their country then you cannot expect anything else."
Sounds fairly accurate .... but now we have the jews getting all unhappy ...
"Condemning the "classic anti-Jewish stereotyping and conspiracy-theory mongering", the organisation has laid a formal complaint against Hajaig with the SA Human Rights Commission, for anti-Jewish hate speech."
Nicely put ... fairly typical response too. Conspiracy theory mongering ... that's a new phrase though, someone very clever thought a LONG time about that one.
This, after the jeish prime minister BRAGGED about telling bus-hboy what to do at a . UN security council vote
So, we can tell the UNITED STATES what to do, but you're NOT allowed to say so.
Inconvenient truths
So Al Gore is on the weatherpath again in Washington - Former Vice President Al Gore presented US lawmakers on Wednesday with a new inconvenient truth: Action on global warming cannot wait until the economy recovers.
But we saw this recently
35 Inconvenient
Truths
The errors in Al Gore’s movie
by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Now whether or not we are warming or cooling is something that is being hotly debated right now. And Gore's "weather expert" has embarrased NASA with his bad science.
For those just joining the climate discussion, Dr. James Hansen is the chief climate scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and is the man who originally raised the alarm on global warming in 1988 in an appearance before congress. He is also the keeper of the most often cited climate data.
With coldest temperature reports and such quite common this winter, global warming really does seem odd. Since the Gore movie came out, all the observable scientific data has reversed his theory. There is no global warming. There is global climate change, but since we're still unable to completely understand it, we don't know what the changes mean, never mind if they have any value at all.
The weather modelling programs upon which these claims were made, are hopelessly inadequate to the task of evaluating the complexities of wind and rain, temperature changes on the ground because of passing clouds' shadows ... No computer model can even begin.
Yet they have modelled, they have come to self directed answers, and are now running around crying wolf. They have already a huge momentum, which HAS to be stopped. They are wrong. They do however have some ideas on taxation, and CONTROL of ... well everything really. Can you imagine the size of the carbon footprints they wish to manage?
More political social engineering ... everywhere you turn.
But we saw this recently
35 Inconvenient
Truths
The errors in Al Gore’s movie
by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Now whether or not we are warming or cooling is something that is being hotly debated right now. And Gore's "weather expert" has embarrased NASA with his bad science.
For those just joining the climate discussion, Dr. James Hansen is the chief climate scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and is the man who originally raised the alarm on global warming in 1988 in an appearance before congress. He is also the keeper of the most often cited climate data.
With coldest temperature reports and such quite common this winter, global warming really does seem odd. Since the Gore movie came out, all the observable scientific data has reversed his theory. There is no global warming. There is global climate change, but since we're still unable to completely understand it, we don't know what the changes mean, never mind if they have any value at all.
The weather modelling programs upon which these claims were made, are hopelessly inadequate to the task of evaluating the complexities of wind and rain, temperature changes on the ground because of passing clouds' shadows ... No computer model can even begin.
Yet they have modelled, they have come to self directed answers, and are now running around crying wolf. They have already a huge momentum, which HAS to be stopped. They are wrong. They do however have some ideas on taxation, and CONTROL of ... well everything really. Can you imagine the size of the carbon footprints they wish to manage?
More political social engineering ... everywhere you turn.
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Zuma trial
I found this here ... (from last year)
Nicholson expected to preside over Zuma hearing
Published in: Legalbrief Today
Date: Mon 28 July 2008
Category: General
Issue No: 2119
Judge Chris Nicholson has emerged as the front-runner to preside over Jacob Zuma's bid to have his corruption trial deemed an 'unlawful prosecution'. The hearing is scheduled to get under way in Pietermaritzburg next week.
Another possible candidate, according to speculation in The Witness, is Judge Leona Theron, who was the first woman of colour to be appointed a judge in KwaZulu-Natal in October 1999 at the age of 32. The report says both Nicholson and Theron have the necessary credentials in terms of seniority and experience. Nicholson has long been a supporter of the 'underdog' in society and active campaigner for human rights, and Zuma's supporters are unlikely to have any gripe if he is chosen
Full report in The Witness
And this morning there was this ...
Next Zuma judge is a woman
January 28 2009 at 08:38AM
By Karyn Maughan and Botho Molosankwe
The judge in the hot seat for ANC president Jacob Zuma's next court appearance is an inspired and vocal activist for women's rights.
But it remains to be seen whether Judge Leona Theron - appointed as KwaZulu-Natal's first black female judge at age 33 and one of the youngest judges to act in the Supreme Court of Appeal - will be on the bench for Zuma's corruption trial after she initially presides over his February 4 appearance in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala confirmed the appointment of Theron for Zuma's court appearance, where the future course of the National Prosecuting Authority's corruption, fraud, money laundering and racketeering case against Zuma is expected to be decided.
...
As a Fulbright scholar, she graduated with a master of laws degree from the University of Georgetown in the United States in 1990.
She became an advocate in South Africa the following year.
While at university, Theron worked part time as a cashier at the now defunct OK Bazaars in Umhlanga Rocks.
She received both her BA law and BA from the then University of Natal.
Theron also sits on the board of the Durban Playhouse, is a trustee of the African Monitor and serves as an adviser to the Anglican Bishop of Natal.
She is a board member of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at UKZN and the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders.
Summary of case here
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I don't quite know what to think, i certainly will be paying attention. From this brief resume, i certainly think she'll be better than Nicholson, and being a woman, who forced a life sentence onto a rapist who severely assaulted his victim, well zuma had better have his shit in order ... i see his good luck streak hitting a brick wall.
Nicholson expected to preside over Zuma hearing
Published in: Legalbrief Today
Date: Mon 28 July 2008
Category: General
Issue No: 2119
Judge Chris Nicholson has emerged as the front-runner to preside over Jacob Zuma's bid to have his corruption trial deemed an 'unlawful prosecution'. The hearing is scheduled to get under way in Pietermaritzburg next week.
Another possible candidate, according to speculation in The Witness, is Judge Leona Theron, who was the first woman of colour to be appointed a judge in KwaZulu-Natal in October 1999 at the age of 32. The report says both Nicholson and Theron have the necessary credentials in terms of seniority and experience. Nicholson has long been a supporter of the 'underdog' in society and active campaigner for human rights, and Zuma's supporters are unlikely to have any gripe if he is chosen
Full report in The Witness
And this morning there was this ...
Next Zuma judge is a woman
January 28 2009 at 08:38AM
By Karyn Maughan and Botho Molosankwe
The judge in the hot seat for ANC president Jacob Zuma's next court appearance is an inspired and vocal activist for women's rights.
But it remains to be seen whether Judge Leona Theron - appointed as KwaZulu-Natal's first black female judge at age 33 and one of the youngest judges to act in the Supreme Court of Appeal - will be on the bench for Zuma's corruption trial after she initially presides over his February 4 appearance in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala confirmed the appointment of Theron for Zuma's court appearance, where the future course of the National Prosecuting Authority's corruption, fraud, money laundering and racketeering case against Zuma is expected to be decided.
...
As a Fulbright scholar, she graduated with a master of laws degree from the University of Georgetown in the United States in 1990.
She became an advocate in South Africa the following year.
While at university, Theron worked part time as a cashier at the now defunct OK Bazaars in Umhlanga Rocks.
She received both her BA law and BA from the then University of Natal.
Theron also sits on the board of the Durban Playhouse, is a trustee of the African Monitor and serves as an adviser to the Anglican Bishop of Natal.
She is a board member of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at UKZN and the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders.
Summary of case here
__________________________________________________________________
I don't quite know what to think, i certainly will be paying attention. From this brief resume, i certainly think she'll be better than Nicholson, and being a woman, who forced a life sentence onto a rapist who severely assaulted his victim, well zuma had better have his shit in order ... i see his good luck streak hitting a brick wall.
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Pirates drown while fighting over loot
Five Somali pirates drowned when a wave washed off their getaway boat as they squabbled over over how to split their $3 million ransom.
The ransom had been paid to the pirates to end the world's biggest ship hijacking.
The canister full of cash was parachuted onto the Sirius Star - observed by the U.S. Navy who provided these images - and the two-month ordeal of the 25 crew, including two Britons, was finally over.
The pirates originally wanted more than £16 million to release the boat and its £65 million load of oil. Eventually they accepted the offer of $3million (around £2million).
But as they made off they continued to row about the payout.
'Two of them swam and survived. One is still missing.
The weather was so terrible that it blew the boat over, then sank it.
We got five dead bodies and we are still searching for the missing one. The waves were disastrous,' said Farah Osman, an associate of the gang.
It is not known what happened to the money or those who survived.
After the squabbling gang left the Saudi supertanker its crew were free to move to a safe port.
Both British crewmen - chief engineer Peter French and second officer James Grad - said they were well treated by the pirates.
Andrew Mwanguru, of the East African Seafarers Assistance programme, based in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, said: 'The last batch of gunmen have disembarked from the Sirius Star. She is now steaming out to safe waters.'
The company has declined to comment.
The Sirius Star was captured in November with 25 crew members, 450 nautical miles southeast of Kenya in the boldest seizure to date by Somali pirates.
Story taken from: www.dailymail.co.uk
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You can't make this stuff up. They pulled a daring robbery, GOT THE MONEY, then died stupidly on the way home. The photo above is what $3 000 000 dollars looks like, parachuting down to the tanker.
The ransom had been paid to the pirates to end the world's biggest ship hijacking.
The canister full of cash was parachuted onto the Sirius Star - observed by the U.S. Navy who provided these images - and the two-month ordeal of the 25 crew, including two Britons, was finally over.
The pirates originally wanted more than £16 million to release the boat and its £65 million load of oil. Eventually they accepted the offer of $3million (around £2million).
But as they made off they continued to row about the payout.
'Two of them swam and survived. One is still missing.
The weather was so terrible that it blew the boat over, then sank it.
We got five dead bodies and we are still searching for the missing one. The waves were disastrous,' said Farah Osman, an associate of the gang.
It is not known what happened to the money or those who survived.
After the squabbling gang left the Saudi supertanker its crew were free to move to a safe port.
Both British crewmen - chief engineer Peter French and second officer James Grad - said they were well treated by the pirates.
Andrew Mwanguru, of the East African Seafarers Assistance programme, based in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, said: 'The last batch of gunmen have disembarked from the Sirius Star. She is now steaming out to safe waters.'
The company has declined to comment.
The Sirius Star was captured in November with 25 crew members, 450 nautical miles southeast of Kenya in the boldest seizure to date by Somali pirates.
Story taken from: www.dailymail.co.uk
___________________________________________________________________
You can't make this stuff up. They pulled a daring robbery, GOT THE MONEY, then died stupidly on the way home. The photo above is what $3 000 000 dollars looks like, parachuting down to the tanker.
Monday, 26 January 2009
Einstein
This giant of men, someone who saw beyond our own understanding, into a larger, more ordered universe. He is most famous for E=mc2, which tells us simply what the ancients knew all along, we are energy. All we are, all we see, is energy in some form or another. And energy flows through us, almost like the waves of the sea, only, as seen underwater, with the seaweed and kelp ebbing and flowing in harmony.
What i admire him for though, more than the scientific, is his moral contribution to mankind. He was a terribly deep thinker, and his searching mind often took him to strange corners of our psyche. He believed in the GOODness of the universe, and our need to strive for it. He believed in order, yet he placed more emphasis in the need for intuition than logic.
Here is a short selection of quotes, thoughts to think about.
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
As quoted in Breakthrough : Israel in a Changing World (1996) by Gad Yaacobi, p. 98
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
An explanation of relativity which he gave to his secretary Helen Dukas to convey to non-scientists and reporters, as quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, l56 (1957) by James B. Simpson; also in Expandable Quotable Einstein (2005) edited by Alice Calaprice
The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. The important thing is not to stop questioning; never lose a holy curiosity.
Statement to William Miller, as quoted in LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
As quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
Letter of 1950, as quoted in The New York Times (29 March 1972) and The New York Post (28 November 1972)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Ideas and Opinions (1954)
I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
In response the telegrammed question of New York's Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein in (24 April 1929): "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid 50 words." Einstein replied in only 25 (German) words. Spinoza's ideas of God are often characterized as being pantheistic.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Interview with George Sylvester Viereck (January 1931)
Friday, 23 January 2009
Hostory repeats itself
i can't reprint this here .... but have to link
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2510
What's it been? 2, maybe 3 generations, and it's exactly the same, photo for photo ... fuck i feel sick ...
PS it is VERY disturbing.
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2510
What's it been? 2, maybe 3 generations, and it's exactly the same, photo for photo ... fuck i feel sick ...
PS it is VERY disturbing.
“We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk.”
~ Carlos Castaneda, "A Separate Reality"
~ Carlos Castaneda, "A Separate Reality"
I am man
Who am i? Who is God? And why are these issues always getting confused?
I am not god. If i were i am sure things would be different. I am distant cousin to god, like a shooting star is related to the sun. They have much in common, celestial lights shining through the dark. But, while the sun continues it's massive nuclear powered chemical reaction, the shooting star is just another rock.
Fate, luck, karma, predistination, free will ... all these wonderfully silly ideas that are all meaningless. Entropy, there is a nice solid concept for you to grasp. Real, tangible, irrefutable, and it's here, has been for countless millenia, will outlast everything else. I always feel slightly nauseous when people tell me that my fate is in my own hands ... no it's not. These same eople are usually wealthy, or at least comfortable, and i'm sure they like the idea that they are responsible for their happiness. Ask a poor person why they were so horrible to themselves, and you will get the look that says it all.
Control, power, supremacy, these are what people WANT. They crave it like a drug, and anything that comes between them and it is but a problem to be solved as expediently as possible. They think they can get it, have it, use it, and they DESERVE it. How dare they? As though any of us mortals have the right to more than any other? We are little stones on the beach of the universe ... and the bigger stones seem to think they are more valuable than the smaller. The ARROGANCE of these people ... who seem to think they are any more than a pathetic piece of meat ... for them i pray the hell of eternal torment, but to what end? By then too late ... better to cease to exist and never bother this earthly realm again.
God, should IT exist and be what people claim ITit says IT is, is a seriously demented being. From the God of the jews to kali and beyond, the message is always clear:
Jealous, petty, violent ... exactly what our own society deems to be admirable traits of survival. I cannot fathom how many contradictions and iconsistencies have come to be rolled into a neat pile and proudly called WORTHY. I would not wish to be like that. I am man.
God gives on one side and takes the other, never rhyme or reason, but the people will always credit IT with their own stupid ideas, and feel clever for it, and expect to be rewarded, like a stupid dog drooling at noise.
We are stones, occasionally we glimpse other things, in our awareness of around us ... but we will never be more than that. Stones that hope for an afterlife, ith pretty pools of cleaning water and all manner of enticements. To become more than stones we tramle and crush other stones ... in the vague understanding that anything truly worthwhile would be limited, and as such strived for.
God, gods, goddess and any other anything that wants to jump on the list. Fuck you all ... you are worse than man ... you who are so high and demanding of our praise, yet so petty and vulgar. Shame on you. Standing aside and claiming we control ourselves, yet reaching don to our level for no other reason than to interfere for YOUR OWN GLORY, or something. Go away. Leave us alone, i think you've done enough, really, go NOW. There is no justice, no higher anything. There is only brutality and death. ONLY MAN can look at this and triumph in a quiet house, and meditation on this dirty little life he has. But the gods, who nspire all of the worst in us, claim all the best for themselves, enough.
I AM MAN
I am not god. If i were i am sure things would be different. I am distant cousin to god, like a shooting star is related to the sun. They have much in common, celestial lights shining through the dark. But, while the sun continues it's massive nuclear powered chemical reaction, the shooting star is just another rock.
Fate, luck, karma, predistination, free will ... all these wonderfully silly ideas that are all meaningless. Entropy, there is a nice solid concept for you to grasp. Real, tangible, irrefutable, and it's here, has been for countless millenia, will outlast everything else. I always feel slightly nauseous when people tell me that my fate is in my own hands ... no it's not. These same eople are usually wealthy, or at least comfortable, and i'm sure they like the idea that they are responsible for their happiness. Ask a poor person why they were so horrible to themselves, and you will get the look that says it all.
Control, power, supremacy, these are what people WANT. They crave it like a drug, and anything that comes between them and it is but a problem to be solved as expediently as possible. They think they can get it, have it, use it, and they DESERVE it. How dare they? As though any of us mortals have the right to more than any other? We are little stones on the beach of the universe ... and the bigger stones seem to think they are more valuable than the smaller. The ARROGANCE of these people ... who seem to think they are any more than a pathetic piece of meat ... for them i pray the hell of eternal torment, but to what end? By then too late ... better to cease to exist and never bother this earthly realm again.
God, should IT exist and be what people claim ITit says IT is, is a seriously demented being. From the God of the jews to kali and beyond, the message is always clear:
Jealous, petty, violent ... exactly what our own society deems to be admirable traits of survival. I cannot fathom how many contradictions and iconsistencies have come to be rolled into a neat pile and proudly called WORTHY. I would not wish to be like that. I am man.
God gives on one side and takes the other, never rhyme or reason, but the people will always credit IT with their own stupid ideas, and feel clever for it, and expect to be rewarded, like a stupid dog drooling at noise.
We are stones, occasionally we glimpse other things, in our awareness of around us ... but we will never be more than that. Stones that hope for an afterlife, ith pretty pools of cleaning water and all manner of enticements. To become more than stones we tramle and crush other stones ... in the vague understanding that anything truly worthwhile would be limited, and as such strived for.
God, gods, goddess and any other anything that wants to jump on the list. Fuck you all ... you are worse than man ... you who are so high and demanding of our praise, yet so petty and vulgar. Shame on you. Standing aside and claiming we control ourselves, yet reaching don to our level for no other reason than to interfere for YOUR OWN GLORY, or something. Go away. Leave us alone, i think you've done enough, really, go NOW. There is no justice, no higher anything. There is only brutality and death. ONLY MAN can look at this and triumph in a quiet house, and meditation on this dirty little life he has. But the gods, who nspire all of the worst in us, claim all the best for themselves, enough.
I AM MAN
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
No change
At the Earth Summit in 1992, George H.W. Bush forcefully declared, "The American way of life is not negotiable."
Baltimore Chronicle, Aug. 3, 2004
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My principle focus as vice president has been to protect the American people in our way of life
Transcript: Vice President Cheney on 'FOX News Sunday', Dec. 222, 2008
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We will not apologize for our way of life nor will we waver in its defense.
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 2008
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That's what i thought, thanks to Moon of Alabama for this concise version.
Baltimore Chronicle, Aug. 3, 2004
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My principle focus as vice president has been to protect the American people in our way of life
Transcript: Vice President Cheney on 'FOX News Sunday', Dec. 222, 2008
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We will not apologize for our way of life nor will we waver in its defense.
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 2008
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That's what i thought, thanks to Moon of Alabama for this concise version.
Monday, 19 January 2009
Bantu education
"Fifty percent of kids who enter school never pass out through Grade 12," said Cronje, questioning whether a school system which saw half its entrants never reach Grade 12 could hold forth 62.5 percent as "an honest reflection of the passout from the school system".
Cronje said the current school system was much the same as Bantu education, in that it was stunting "mainly poor, mainly black" children.
"The low pass rates, the low throughput rates and the low rates of university entry passes (calculated by the institute as an effective 11,7 percent) are perhaps now the greatest single crisis facing South Africa."
"The end result is not very different from that of Bantu education."
Taken from IOL
SO the department of miseducation tells the world we have a pass rate of 62,5%.
The Institute of Race Relations said it should be considered that:
of the 920 716 students who were in Grade 11 in 2007,
only 333 681, or 64 percent, went on to write their matric examinations in 2008.
"36,2 percent is a more accurate reflection of the real effective matric pass rate than the 62,5 percent cited by Education Minister Naledi Pandor," Frans Cronje, the deputy chief executive officer of the institute, told the Cape Argus.
"You wouldn't go through 11 years and give up of your own volition.
"Something is preventing them from getting through, but we don't know exactly what," said Cronje.
Annually, there were roughly a million students per grade in all grades from Grade one to 11, "but suddenly in Grade 12 you have half that number".
Cronje said the current school system was much the same as Bantu education, in that it was stunting "mainly poor, mainly black" children.
"The low pass rates, the low throughput rates and the low rates of university entry passes (calculated by the institute as an effective 11,7 percent) are perhaps now the greatest single crisis facing South Africa."
"The end result is not very different from that of Bantu education."
Taken from IOL
SO the department of miseducation tells the world we have a pass rate of 62,5%.
The Institute of Race Relations said it should be considered that:
of the 920 716 students who were in Grade 11 in 2007,
only 333 681, or 64 percent, went on to write their matric examinations in 2008.
"36,2 percent is a more accurate reflection of the real effective matric pass rate than the 62,5 percent cited by Education Minister Naledi Pandor," Frans Cronje, the deputy chief executive officer of the institute, told the Cape Argus.
"You wouldn't go through 11 years and give up of your own volition.
"Something is preventing them from getting through, but we don't know exactly what," said Cronje.
Annually, there were roughly a million students per grade in all grades from Grade one to 11, "but suddenly in Grade 12 you have half that number".
Bloody well done ZAPIRO!!!
http://www.mg.co.za/cartoons/160109zapirobig.jpgYou have to go see the whole image, blogger not helping ... it's on the Mail and Guardian website ... http://www.mg.co.za/cartoons/160109zapirobig.jpg
Bullet in thehead
A bullet in your fucking head
Rage against the machine have taken a lot of flack for gratuitous violence in their lyrics and how inappropriate they are. Read the story above, then read the lyrics, they are actually saying something ...
Rage Against the Machine Bullet in the Head Lyrics:
This time the bullet cold rocked ya
a yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
nothin´ proper about ya propaganda
fools follow rules when the set commands ya
they said it was blue
when the blood was red
that´s how you got a bullet blasted through ya head
blasted through ya head
blasted through ya head
I give a shout out to the living dead
who stood and watched as the feds cold centraliced
so serene on the screen
you was mesmerized
cellular phones soudin¨a death tone
corporations cold
turn ya to stone before ya realize
they load the slip in omnicolor
they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatras
and mutha fuckas lost their minds
just victims of the in-house drive-by
they say jump, you say how high
they load the clip in omnicolors
they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatras
and mutha fuchas lost their minds
no scape from the mass mind rape
play it again jack and then rewind the tape
play it again and again and again
untill ya mind is locked in
believen´ all the lies that they´re tellin´ya
buying all the products that they´re sellin´ya
they say jump
ya say how high
ya brain dead
ya gotta fuckin´ bullet in ya head
just victims of the in-house drive-by
they say jump, you say how high
ya standin´ in line
bellevin´ the lies
ya bowin down to the flag
ya gotta bullet in ya head
"Other children have other horrific injuries - such as Samer, not yet three years old, who was shot in the back outside her home in Gaza, and had to wait three hours for medical help to reach her.
Samer thinks she knows what happened to her.
"The Jewish shot me," she said in Arabic. "And they killed my little sister."
Rage against the machine have taken a lot of flack for gratuitous violence in their lyrics and how inappropriate they are. Read the story above, then read the lyrics, they are actually saying something ...
Rage Against the Machine Bullet in the Head Lyrics:
This time the bullet cold rocked ya
a yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
nothin´ proper about ya propaganda
fools follow rules when the set commands ya
they said it was blue
when the blood was red
that´s how you got a bullet blasted through ya head
blasted through ya head
blasted through ya head
I give a shout out to the living dead
who stood and watched as the feds cold centraliced
so serene on the screen
you was mesmerized
cellular phones soudin¨a death tone
corporations cold
turn ya to stone before ya realize
they load the slip in omnicolor
they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatras
and mutha fuckas lost their minds
just victims of the in-house drive-by
they say jump, you say how high
they load the clip in omnicolors
they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatras
and mutha fuchas lost their minds
no scape from the mass mind rape
play it again jack and then rewind the tape
play it again and again and again
untill ya mind is locked in
believen´ all the lies that they´re tellin´ya
buying all the products that they´re sellin´ya
they say jump
ya say how high
ya brain dead
ya gotta fuckin´ bullet in ya head
just victims of the in-house drive-by
they say jump, you say how high
ya standin´ in line
bellevin´ the lies
ya bowin down to the flag
ya gotta bullet in ya head
"Other children have other horrific injuries - such as Samer, not yet three years old, who was shot in the back outside her home in Gaza, and had to wait three hours for medical help to reach her.
Samer thinks she knows what happened to her.
"The Jewish shot me," she said in Arabic. "And they killed my little sister."
Friday, 16 January 2009
Geneva convention
Taken from: In Gaza
"Arce’s video footage caught the incident, and is testimony to what we’ve seen, what medics have told us they’ve long endured, and what Israeli authorities beligerently continue to deny: Israel is targeting medical personnel, as Israeli forces target journalists, civilians, and these days in Gaza anything that moves. No sanctuary, no safety, no guarentee of medical service."
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Milkmag
On a lighter note ... saw something that really got my attention.
Milkmag
A digital magazine for digital heads like me ... full of the usual tupe of stuff. Except, it incorporates "youtube" movies in it's stories, and the layout is of a magazine, ie you watch the pages turn.
Very nice concept, it actually feels nice to read, and you're compelled to turn the page.
Milkmag
A digital magazine for digital heads like me ... full of the usual tupe of stuff. Except, it incorporates "youtube" movies in it's stories, and the layout is of a magazine, ie you watch the pages turn.
Very nice concept, it actually feels nice to read, and you're compelled to turn the page.
Letter protests South African Jewish leaders
Taken from JTA - Jewish news service
CAPE TOWN (JTA) -- A letter from a group of Jewish South Africans published in a Cape Town newspaper tells Jewish leaders who support Israel's Gaza operation not to speak for them.
Nearly 100 Jews signed the letter, which appeared Monday in the Cape Times daily, attacking a statement supporting Israel's decision to launch a military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The statement was issued by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, the South African Zionist Federation and the office of the chief rabbi on behalf of the community.
While the group recognizes the existence of communal structures, it is "distressed that they purport to speak for us and the many Jews who are uncomfortable with the destruction in Gaza, claiming one collective view for the entire community." The letter calls the approach of the communal bodies "irresponsible" in view of the divergence of opinion within the community.
It describes Israel's response in Gaza as "inhumane and disproportionate collective punishment prohibited under international law" while "strongly opposing" the rockets Hamas has been firing into Israel. It calls on communities "vocal in their support for the Palestinians" to condemn the latter.
About 15,000 protesters marched on the South African parliament last week under the banner of the Muslim Judicial Council against Israel's actions in Gaza.
"We call on the Jewish Board of Deputies not to exacerbate local tensions with statements that demonstrate a lack of compassion for Palestinian lives," the letter concludes.
Among the letter's signatories were the principal of the University of Cape Town, Max Price, and the controversial cartoonist Zapiro.
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Very nice ... do not speak for us ... very clear.
CAPE TOWN (JTA) -- A letter from a group of Jewish South Africans published in a Cape Town newspaper tells Jewish leaders who support Israel's Gaza operation not to speak for them.
Nearly 100 Jews signed the letter, which appeared Monday in the Cape Times daily, attacking a statement supporting Israel's decision to launch a military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The statement was issued by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, the South African Zionist Federation and the office of the chief rabbi on behalf of the community.
While the group recognizes the existence of communal structures, it is "distressed that they purport to speak for us and the many Jews who are uncomfortable with the destruction in Gaza, claiming one collective view for the entire community." The letter calls the approach of the communal bodies "irresponsible" in view of the divergence of opinion within the community.
It describes Israel's response in Gaza as "inhumane and disproportionate collective punishment prohibited under international law" while "strongly opposing" the rockets Hamas has been firing into Israel. It calls on communities "vocal in their support for the Palestinians" to condemn the latter.
About 15,000 protesters marched on the South African parliament last week under the banner of the Muslim Judicial Council against Israel's actions in Gaza.
"We call on the Jewish Board of Deputies not to exacerbate local tensions with statements that demonstrate a lack of compassion for Palestinian lives," the letter concludes.
Among the letter's signatories were the principal of the University of Cape Town, Max Price, and the controversial cartoonist Zapiro.
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Very nice ... do not speak for us ... very clear.
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