A CRIMINAL WAR TARGETING CIVILIANS AND CHILDREN - OPERATION CAST LEAD - A CRUEL PLAY ON WORDS OF A HANUKKAH CHILDREN’S SONG


A War Targeting Civilians & Children-Operation Cast Lead-A cruel play on words of a Hanukkah Children’s Song



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A Bernie Madoff-Wag the Dog War-Israeli Military Industrial Complex: a war to elect Arch-hawk Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas: Stop Now!

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Creating a Palestinian failed state will conflate to all middle east & Israel : Stop Now!


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Updated: original Midnight December, 29, 2009



Not five months ago we wrote these words concerning the Russian invasion of Georgia. Appallingly, they must be used once again.



There has been grievous outsized naked aggression and intimidation of Palestine.



Israeli authorities have vowed “war to the bitter end”



 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stop-russia-gazprom-rabaska-lng-facility-in-canada/



1) We demand the permanent full cessations of hostilities in The Israeli-Palestinian region.

2) We demand the unpartisan protection, safety and welfare of all civilians

3) We demand a nuclear-free and weapons of mass destruction free zone in the Middle East


Sarkozy Scores Diplomatic Coup in Paris

By John Leicester

The Associated Press

 http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=26568
Syrian President Bashar Assad, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the more than a dozen other leaders stood on the official grandstand, looking up the Champs-Elysees toward the Arch of Triumph. The leaders had stayed over following a summit Sunday that launched an unprecedented Union for the Mediterranean, a brainchild of Sarkozy’s aimed at securing peace across the restive region.

Forty-three nations, including Israel and Arab states, agreed at the summit to work for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction in launching the Mediterranean Union.


Daily pause in Gaza bombardment

 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24886583-601,00.html

January 7 2008



ISRAEL last night launched a daily three-hour pause to its bombing of the Gaza Strip, in a concession to international pressure for a ceasefire and outrage at the killing of 48 civilians in three UN-run schools.

In response, Hamas ceased firing rockets into Israel during the temporary ceasefire.




Israel considers broadening Gaza attack
Cabinet meets to consider sending troops into urban areas and calling up thousands more soldiers

Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 January 2009 11.52 GMT

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/gaza-israel-conflict





Israel’s military planners have prepared for two more stages of conflict in Gaza that would escalate an already heavy air and ground offensive into a full military occupation of the strip and the toppling of the Hamas movement.

Although Israeli officials reportedly believe they have already secured some achievements in the 12-day war, and despite the mounting toll of civilian casualties, there is still a strong appetite among some to step up the conflict to a much more deadly level.

The prime minister, Ehud Olmert, and his security cabinet were meeting today with army chiefs to discuss the plan.





Dozens killed as Israeli tank shells hit school

Ibrahim Barzak and Steve Weizman
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jan 06, 2009 01:05 PM

 http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/562306





GAZA CITY, Gaza – An Israeli bombardment struck outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge today, the U.N. and Palestinian medics said, killing at least 30 people – many of them children whose parents wailed in grief at a hospital filled with dead and wounded…“There’s nowhere safe in Gaza. Everyone here is terrorized and traumatized,” John Ging, the top UN official in Gaza, said after the Monday night attack on the compound of a UN school. The school has served as a shelter for refugees fleeing the 11-day offensive…



In Britain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called it “the darkest moment yet for the Middle East.” He said he had been in touch with world leaders, including from Egypt and Turkey, to discuss ways to forge a cease-fire…



“This is not a crisis, it’s a disaster,” said water utility official Munzir Shiblak. “We are not even able to respond to the cry of the people.” He said about 800,000 residents in Gaza City and northern parts of the territory had no access to running water from today. Gaza’s overall population is 1.4 million people.



Note:Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has denied several times that there is a “humanitarian crisis”.









On December 27, 2008 Israeli Authorities launched Operation Cast Lead onto Gaza.

This was significant as it was launched in a month, that the Three Abrahamic faiths

held high holy days.

The Architects of this “war” signified their intentions to target-to terrorize-to kill civilians and children. By using a cruel play on words from a children’s Hanukkah song. It is especially chilling because modern Hanukkah is associated with families and children, Light and Peace.


Modern (historical)perception

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah



Most modern scholars argue that the king was in fact intervening in an internal civil war between the traditionalist Jews in the country and the Hellenized Jews in Jerusalem.[14][15][16] According to Joseph P. Schultz:

Modern scholarship on the other hand considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppresion than as a civil war between the orthodox and reformist parties in the Jewish camp.[17]

These competed violently over who would be the High Priest, with traditionalists with Hebrew/Aramaic names like Onias contesting with hellenizing High Priests with Greek names like Jason and Menelaus. [18] In particular Jason’s Hellenistic reforms would prove to be a decisive factor leading to eventual conflict within the ranks of Judaism.[19] Other authors point to possible socio/economic in addition to the religious reasons behind the civil war. [20]

What begun in many respects as a civil war escalated when the Hellenistic kingdom of Syria sided with the Hellenizing Jews in their conflict with the traditionalists. [21] As the conflict escalated, Antiochus took the side of the Hellenizers by prohibiting the religious practices the traditionalists had rallied around. This may explain why the king, in a total departure from Seleucid practice in all other places and times, banned the traditional religion of a whole people.[22]





News Analysis: Israeli aggression has little leeway for retrogression

by Deng Yushan



 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/05/content_10603419.htm



“Yet this time, said analysts, in light of what the officials are saying and what the troops are doing, Israel has no other option but to cast a big dreidel from solid lead in Operation CastLead, which was launched during the Hanukkah festival and is code-named after a Hanukkah song mentioning a lead dreidel, a traditional Hanukkah toy.”




Operation Cast Lead Will Extract Price from Hamas and Taxpayers

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129233


by Malkah Fleisher



The Finance Ministry will not discuss the costs of Operation Cast Lead, the mission whose name comes from an Israeli song about a Hanukkah spinning top/dreidel/sivivon, largely due to the impossibility of predicting the length of fighting. However, estimates range in the billions of shekels, with some Ministry sources estimating a price tag of NIS 700 million in the first week of the war.



Note: This war of terror against civilians and children is no accident-we repeat no accident-or incidental-they are not collateral damage-they are targets.

Any military expert would testify that to instill maximum Terror in civilians-armed forces should attack at night. This is what the Israeli Authorities did. Above that they

instilled even greater terror by firing rockets and missiles(powerful-deadly US made)into civilian infrastructure at the dead of night. See what what President JFK had to say about this, and organized criminal syndicates.



 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1710662559138481080





Families and children are terrorized,windows are blown out, children never sleep.



Add to that, these children are cold, hungry, thirsty, confused, terrorized and without light.



Gaza is a Bantustan,( most Indigenous Peoples are forced to live like this) the world’s largest prison complex of 1.5 million people-crammed into 40km of space. You’ve heard of prison riots, this is what it is. But the only thing they are guilty of is being forcefully dispossessed and impoverished. To emphasize the point of being imprisoned-they are walled and fenced in by the Israeli Authorities, completely blockaded. Of which former President Jimmy Carter called an abomination.



It is under these like conditions that the African National Congress, led by Nelson Mandela came about. Never forget that Mandela and ANC were classified terrorists by the corrupt and morally bankrupt state. And we must never forget that Gandhi called the founders of modern Israel “naked terrorists”, with the aid of Britain and America.




‘Gaza attack akin to war crimes’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks

 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20081228135838626C247461



Israel’s bombardment of Gaza “bears all the hallmarks of war crimes”, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said in a statement on Sunday.

“In the context of total aerial supremacy, in which one side in a conflict deploys lethal aircraft against opponents with no means of defending themselves, the bombardment bears all the hallmarks of war crimes.”

The attacks, in retaliation for rockets fired by the Palestinians, would not contribute to the security of Israel, he said.

“It is a blight not only on the Middle East, but on the entire world - and particularly world leaders who have consistently failed the people of Palestine and Israel over the past 60 years.”



 http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.2478331.0.It_is_vital_to_bring_peace_for_those_suffering_in_Gaza.php





It is vital to bring peace for those suffering in Gaza

South African Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu accurately declared that the west’s complicity in the suffering of the Palestinian people takes the form of silence.


Israel says Gaza assault ‘war to the bitter end’

By IBRAHIM BARZAK and MATTI FRIEDMAN – 4 hours ago

 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD95CJG0G0
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of what the defense minister described Monday as a “war to the bitter end,” striking next to the Hamas premier’s home, and devastating a security compound and a university building. The three-day death toll rose to 364 on Monday, with some 1,400 reported wounded, according to Palestinian medical officials. The U.N. said at least 62 of the dead were civilians, and medics said eight children under the age of 17 were killed in two separate strikes overnight.

Israel launched its campaign, the deadliest against Palestinians in decades, on Saturday in retaliation for rocket fire aimed at civilians in southern Israeli towns…

Israel’s intense bombings — more than 300 airstrikes since midday Saturday — reduced dozens of buildings to rubble. The military said naval vessels also bombarded targets from the sea.

At the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon again condemned Israel’s use of force as excessive and called for an immediate cease-fire.

5 sisters killed in IAF strike

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Jerusalem Post, Dec 29, 2008 23:54

 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230456522722&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull



At least 350 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,600 wounded since the beginning of the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources reported Monday night.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that most fatalities were “civilian policemen.”

It said that other fatalities included at least 20 children, nine women and 60 other unarmed civilians.

Among the casualties are five sisters from the Jabalya refugee camp who were killed in an air raid on their home early Monday morning, Palestinian reporters in the Gaza Strip said.

They said the five sisters were from the Ba’lousheh family. They were identified as Jawaher, four; Dina, eight; Samar, two; Ikram, 14; and Tahrir, 17.

Their mother, Samira Abu Bakr, was lightly wounded during the raid.

The Israeli Military Industrial Complex in order to perpetuate itself, procure funds and in its eyes to maintain security and stability (see George W. Bush and Neo-Conism) must secure the election of fellow neo-con Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu has always been in lockstep with the Israeli Military Industrial Complex and is a chip-off of George W. Bush’s block.


The Myth of Sanitary War
Allison Kilkenny

 http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/allison_kilkenny/2009/01/the-myth-of-sanitary-war.php

January 1, 2009, 10:02AM

There is a myth circulating in the mainstream media that Israel’s missiles are finding their targets with surgical precision.

The lie entails comparing something like the 250-pound GBU-39 “smart bomb” to a surgeon’s knife. A small side-note: the United States Congress approved the sale of this bomb to Israel. Actually, they approved the sale of 1,000 of these bombs to Israel. Second side-note: Your tax dollars bought the bombs.

So-called “rational adults” argue that this horrible, destructive device, which has enough explosive power to decimate six feet of reinforced concrete, is exactly the same as the precision guaranteed between a doctor’s steady hand, a blade, and a patient’s flesh.

It’s generous to call this myth stupid. It’s probably fairer to call it dishonest. Of course a bomb can’t be smart, or precise, primarily because of its very nature as a bomb - a tool of mass destruction. This is like the difference between if I punch you in the face or I slam you with a wrecking ball…

That’s why we’re seeing all of these terrible images coming out of Gaza of bloodied children, slain doctors, and hundreds of young men, who may or may not have been fighting for Hamas. “Smart bombs” and “smart missiles” did this damage because a huge explosion causes unplanned consequences. Shrapnel goes flying. Other buildings topple from the impact. The wrong buildings are bombed. Some bombs don’t detonate until much later when a curious child pokes it, thinking it’s a toy.

Note: At present the Israeli Authorities are in contravention of the Israeli Supreme Court, concerning freedom of the press.

By ETHAN BRONNER New York Times

 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07media.html?_r=1&em

Published: January 6, 2009



JERUSALEM — Three times in recent days, a small group of foreign correspondents was told to appear at the border crossing to Gaza. The reporters were to be permitted in to cover firsthand the Israeli war on Hamas in keeping with a Supreme Court ruling against the two-month-old Israeli ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza.

Each time, they were turned back on security grounds, even as relief workers and foreign citizens were permitted to cross the border. On Tuesday the reporters were told to not even bother coming…

On Tuesday, the press association released a statement saying, “The unprecedented denial of access to Gaza for the world’s media amounts to a severe violation of press freedom and puts the state of Israel in the company of a handful of regimes around the world which regularly keep journalists from doing their jobs.”
Obama Defers to Bush, for Now, on Gaza Crisis  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/washington/29diplo.html?em

See also  http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/abolition-of-king-coal-fossil-fuels-nuclear-power-and-weapons/
Obama is losing a battle he doesn’t know he’s in
The president-elect’s silence on the Gaza crisis is undermining his reputation in the Middle East

Simon Tisdall Sunday 4 January 2009 15.55 GMT
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 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/04/obama-gaza-israel

Desperately seeking Obama

By Sunera Thobani

| January 2, 2009

Sunera Thobani teaches Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia.

 http://www.rabble.ca/news/desperately-seeking-obama



The New Year has begun with Muslims around the world being taught a lesson in the crudity of racial equations: 400 Palestinian lives equal four Israeli lives.

Reeling from having learnt that over a million Iraqi and Afghan lives equal 3,000 American lives, the logic of this racial mathematics is certainly no new thing. After all, the first U.S. Constitution engaged in just such calculations of human worth, and Katrina demonstrated their ongoing effects. But the lesson has the power to shock every time: the images of Palestinian bodies being pulled out of the rubble in Gaza that flood news reports are unbearable to witness.

Surely the lesson cannot be lost on President-elect Barack Obama. That such violence can be waged on so defenseless a population with the support of the Bush Administration is unconscionable. That Obama chooses to remain silent is nothing short of cowardice…
The worldwide enthusiasm for the election of Barack Obama signaled a global desire for change, people around the world are sick of the lies and wars, of the guns and bombs.
Note: Abraham Lincoln, “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of people.”
Hope does not come from on high-Gandhi, just wanted a nice job but became inspired by people of color in apartheid South Africa opposed to injustice and intolerance-Martin Luther King just wanted to follow his father, in his safe and middle class baptist congregation. But became inspired by the simple act of Rosa Parks and others to resist injustice and oppression.

Hope does not come from on high-it comes from out of the mouth of babes. It comes from you and each and every other.

Gandhi and King were just a partial embodiment of Peoples movement-they were of the People.

Leaders who embody corporations, paid lobbyists, monied special interest groups, think tanks , Banks, Big Oil, security forces, public relation firms etc-are not of the people. But of the lie.

We ask where was the “Prophet of Green”, the conscience of Global Warming- Al Gore?

Absolutely Silent, struct “dumb”.It is not the first time, “People of San Francisco wanting to have PUBLIC POWER and GREEN POWER have been fighting a private fossil fuel burning power company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) - ‘a remorseless private monopoly‘ - now for a century. Recently, they have lost again because their political representatives awash with corporate money have sold them once again.”  http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stop-privatized-natural-gas-plants-plundering-pristine-ontario-lands-water-and-air/

This was Proposition H, Nov.4 2008-Al Gore and Arnold Schwarznegger were completely silent.

We ask what does a genocidal despot like president Hu Jintao and man of compassion and peace, the Dalai Lama have in common?Both have been

completely silent. However on day 10 of the slaughter,Hu Jintao called George W to tell him, he’s concerned about the humanitarian crisis.
December 17, 2008
Noam Chomsky: The Truth About Obama’s Neocon Cabinet



 http://tobefree.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/noam-chomsky-the-truth-about-obamas-neocon-cabinet/



This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama’s White House

By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. Posted November 20, 2008.



A who’s who guide to the people poised to shape Obama’s foreign policy.



 http://www.alternet.org/story/107666/?page=entire


Neocon Middle East Policy: The “Clean Break” Plan Damage Assessment (Paperback) http://www.amazon.com/Neocon-Middle-East-Policy-Assessment/dp/0976443732

Product Description
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm is a definitive Middle East Policy strategy authored and implemented by operatives in the highest levels of the US government. There is just one problem. The plan was a strategy for Israel, not the United States of America. Neocon Middle East Policy reviews strategies and consequences of the “Clean Break” plan authored by Richard Perle, David Wurmser, and Douglas Feith in 1996. It analyzes the core assumptions of the policy, cost of tactics that have already been implemented and discusses the likelihood others will be executed in the future. Neocon Middle East Policy then turns to the most difficult questions of all, “Can a policy crafted for a foreign government and presented to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu serve as a blueprint for US regional policy? At what cost in credibility, blood, treasure and American integrity? At what cost to Israel?” Neocon Middle East Policy is a must-read for anyone concerned about the convergence of US and Israeli foreign policy in the Middle East.

The Neocon Roots of Iranian-Israeli Extremism

By Jalal Alavi Political analyst

Saturday, May 17, 2008

 http://www.iran-press-service.com/ips/articles-2008/may2008/the-neocon-roots-of-iranian-israeli-extremism.shtml



LONDON, 17 May (IPS) What do Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel have in common? One thing is for certain: they are both true reflections of the neoconservative rise in US foreign policy…



While the rise of Ahmadinejad to the presidency of Iran in 2005 was in many ways related to George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Address, in which he labeled Iran a member of the “axis of evil” (thus effectively playing into the hands of Iranian extremists opposed to any sort of reform, democratization, or renewed relations with the United States), ..the potential rise of Netanyahu (a staunch opponent of the Peace Process and a campaigner for US military strikes on Iran) to the premiership of Israel (as a result of Ehud Olmert’s imminent resignation) will in major part be a result of the neoconservative bolstering of extremist factions in and outside Israel.



Should this latter scenario be the actual outcome of Israel’s next general election, it will undoubtedly bring about not only the gradual isolation of the proponents of peace throughout Israel and beyond, but also the total failure of the Middle East Peace Process initiated by the collective efforts of Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Menachim Begin of Israel, and the Carter administration in September of 1978.

The fact of the matter is that a group of neoconservatives close to the Bush administration is, and has been since the 1970s, fixated on warmongering and the use of America’s military might as a foreign policy tool, so as to establish a more lasting pattern of US domination in the Middle East than that which was the case during the Cold War. The terrorist attacks of 11 September did, of course, greatly facilitate the emergence of this trigger-happy group in US foreign policy circles, as a result of which Bush was persuaded to renege on his once presidential campaign promise to limit the role of the United States abroad.

From this perspective, it may be said that the failure of the reform movement in Iran (internal factors aside) and the potential collapse of the Middle East Peace Process, which is aimed at building the foundation for what could later become a two-state solution, can both be considered as two major consequences of the neoconservative domination of US foreign policy. What is more, the failure or collapse of such potentially empowering movements and processes as those mentioned above cannot but please the neoconservatives, as a divided and thus volatile Middle East that would be incapable of jeopardizing US interests in the region has always been one of their historical longings.

All this, of course, should be cause for alarm, as the discourse of peace is slowly but surely giving place to that of war.

With the above in mind, it would not be far-fetched to assume that the role played so far by the likes of Ahmadinejad and Netanyahu has been one of an instrumental nature to neoconservative strategizing, in that it has provided the Bush administration with the pretext necessary to “stay the course”, so to speak, in the region. This, of course, is not the end of the story, as the spirit of neoconservative warmongering has been gaining greater momentum in the United States on almost a daily basis. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent remarks, for example, with regard to the potential “obliteration” of Iran should Iran’s despotic rulers decide to attack Israel have not only boosted the chances of Bush administration pre-emptive (or rather preventive) strikes on Iran’s nuclear and military facilities, but also have very much tainted her hitherto Democratic credentials.

On the basis of foreign policy alone, therefore, it may be said that Clinton’s calculated remarks are not only in tune with those of such figures as John R. Bolton and Charles Krauthammer who have been hawkishly campaigning for further chaos, death, and destruction in the Middle East, but also are a reflection of the renewed momentum gained by neoconservative circles and media outlets in the United States. All this, of course, should be cause for alarm, as the discourse of peace is slowly but surely giving place to that of war, most importantly, amongst general populations, as some opinion polls suggest, thus robbing each and every nation on earth of the opportunity and resources to plan for a more humane environment, be it at the local or global level.

While the likes of Ahmadinejad and Netanyahu must realize the importance of peace and cooperation for regional prosperity (the sort of peace and cooperation that can only stem from a deep sense of justice and humane behavior at both the national and international levels), the likes of Clinton must realize that a principled stance in support of democratic values and nuclear non-proliferation cannot logically or morally be reconciled with threats of nuclear annihilation against other nations, more so if those nations are governed undemocratically, as is the case in Iran. Let us hope, then, that such realizations will have a chance of emerging out of the current mentality of death, destruction, and lack of respect for human dignity. ENDS ALAVI 17508

Editor’s note: Mr. Jalal Alavi is a sociologist and political commentator residing in Britain.



Poll: Kadima takes lead over Likud

December 26, 2008

 http://jta.org/news/article/2008/12/26/1001827/poll-kadima-takes-lead-over-likud
(JTA) — Kadima has taken a slight lead over Likud in a newly released poll.

The survey, commissioned by the Ma’ariv newspaper, has Kadima — led by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni — taking 30 Knesset seats, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party winning 29 seats. Trailing further behind were Yisrael Beiteinu with 13 seats and Labor with 11.

The Ma’ariv poll follows on the heels of two polls released earlier in the week which found Likud had lost ground to Kadima in recent weeks, but still retained a lead in the mid-to-high single digits.

The Israeli general election will be held on February 10.

(Note: Israeli military-industrial complex strike is launched Dec. 27 08)



Winds of war blow Netanyahu’s way

A “Globes”-Geocartography poll finds the right-wing block has extended its lead.

Lilach Weissman1 Jan 09 19:35



 http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000412980&fid=942





New anti-Livni slogan slammed for being sexist

By Mazal Mualem and Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent

 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050280.html



The gender card made a late but inevitable appearance on the political campaign scene Thursday when Likud launched ads featuring Kadima leader Tzipi Livni’s image alongside a slogan reading “It’s too big for Livni [to handle].”
Kadima accused Likud and its leader Benjamin Netanyahu of male chauvinism against the female politician, while Likud defended its stance and female politicians from both sides were sent into the fray to defend their parties…


“It’s unfortunate that Bibi should try and take us back to dark days when women were not considered appropriate to carry out important jobs,” Minister of Tourism Ruhama Avraham Balila of Kadima said, referring to the Likud leader by his nickname. “We remember Bibi was [prime minister,] and failed royally. I believe the women of Israel will cast their votes in such a way that Livni will prove she can succeed where Bibi failed.”



The Israel Women’s Network slammed the slogan.

“It is inconceivable that in the 21st century Likud and its leader would try to cast doubts on the ability of a woman to lead the country,” the organization’s chairwoman, Rina Bar-Tal, said. “The campaign reeks of unforgivable chauvinism. Like Ehud Barak who called Livni, Tzipora, we see that every time a woman manages to threaten the male hegemony, some are afraid and try to bring us back to the dark days in which women were removed from leadership functions.”





Let us be clear, creating a failed (collapsed) State of Palestine (pre even) will ensure that Hamas or Hamas-like organizations take a stronghold in Palestine.

Both Israel and Palestine have a common problem. It is not each other, you are brothers and sisters. However, by collapsing an emerging Palestine, you will both face a common enemy. Israel should make amends to their semitic brothers and sisters. And Arabs should extend their hand in friendship and solidarity.



Palestine as a collapsed state, will see Warlords and organized criminal syndicates as a way of life. Organized criminal syndicates are transborder and do not have an ideologic divide.



It must be said here that Hamas,in Gaza won the most democratic and fair election in all the Arab states. Hamas is much more than a government, it is a movement(moving to nonviolence we urge but no less resistent of the Arab peoples, that threatens the Despots, the Monarchs,(who ruthlessly oppress their people and take,take,take, enriching themselves and their corporate masters)

it can even free the People of Iran. It is especially problamatic to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. By extension US NeoCon foreign policy.



As a matter of fact the Israeli Authorities are doing the dirty work for Saudi Arabia-The House of Saud(read US NeoCon interests) Free, Democratic and not corrupt Arab states are not in their interests-see Oil. What this is, is another tragic, deadly utter NeoCon failure.This must be repeated- almost all the terrorists of 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia, including billionaire Osama Bin Laden.

Not one was Palestanian or Iraqi.



The criminal Gang of Four, who launched this modern “Bay of Pigs”and Slaughter of the Innocents are as follows:



Ehud Olmert, PrimeMinister-aka-“dead politician walking”, because of his imminent resignation, due to numerous criminal charges of corruption, graft,

fraud. Including taking envelopes stuffed with cash, for up to $500,000 from his good friend Frank Louie-who then was able to privatize Israel’s second largest

public Bank. It goes on and on, Olmert was formerly Jerusalem’s Mayor-for all this and this criminal war -he will be served Israeli justice.



Ehud Barak, Defence Minister and leader of Labour Party-aka-zig-zag, because he screws everything up royally. A former tragic PrimeMinister.



Tzipi Livni, head of Kadima Party and Foreign Affairs Minister. A former Mossad Agent-aka-Mrs. Clean-gunning for PrimeMinistership. See youtube etc for “their is no Humantarian crisis in Gaza”

These three comprise the Roman Troika. A true to life inept back-stabbing-three stooges.



Benjamin Netanhayu,-aka-Bibi-say no more. OK he’s the fourth stooge-see above info-a modern day George W Bush for Israel. One of Israel’s worst performing PrimeMinisters and obsessed with fellow NeoCon Iran’s Ahmadinejad. He was Gung-Ho for this war, any war. Was recruited to sell this war to the west by Olmert. Likely to be Israel’s next PrimeMinister.



There are more besides these four, but they should be brought before the World Court and Israel’s court for high crimes against humanity. Their collaborators the Bush-Cheney criminal regime should stand next to them.(Note: Israel and the US are with a handful of countries eg China non signatories to the World Criminal Court.





Dec 29, 2008 11:39 | Updated Dec 29, 2008 15:23

One Just man Stands Up
Netanyahu calls on Olmert to fire Minister Raleb Majadle

 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230456510967&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Likud chairman and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to dismiss the Minister of Science, Culture and Sport Raleb Majadle from the government for boycotting Sunday’s cabinet meeting in protest of the Gaza operation.

Netanyahu also called on all Israeli citizens, Arab and Jewish, to “remain loyal to the state of Israel during this just war against our enemy.”

Netanyahu spoke at a special Knesset session also attended by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.






U.S.-Backed Israeli Policies Pursuing “End of Palestine”

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez

Democracy Now, July 14, 2006



 http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20060714.htm





AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. Well, can you talk about what is happening now, both in Lebanon and Gaza?

NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, of course, I have no inside information, other than what’s available to you and listeners. What’s happening in Gaza, to start with that — well, basically the current stage of what’s going on — there’s a lot more — begins with the Hamas election, back the end of January. Israel and the United States at once announced that they were going to punish the people of Palestine for voting the wrong way in a free election. And the punishment has been severe.




The Bizarre Race to Be Jerusalem’s Mayor

By Tim McGirk / Jerusalem Monday, Nov. 10, 2008

 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1857925,00.html?iid=tsmodule



Arkady Gaydamak, the enigmatic Israeli-Russian billionaire, thought he had his campaign for mayor of Jerusalem all gamed out…



In the run-up to Tuesday’s mayoral race, Gaydamak — once the prohibitive favorite because of his lead in campaign financing — has had a streak of bad luck. Like many Russian oligarchs, he was hit hard by the global economic crisis. His fortune shrank, forcing him to sell off a major Israeli company at a $100 million loss and to fire nearly all of his radio-station staff. Worse still, Gaydamak, supposedly the model for the title role in the movie The Lord of War (starring Nicolas Cage as an arms dealer in Africa), is one of 42 high-profile defendants on trial in France for illegally shipping weapons to Angola in the 1990s. Gaydamak chose not to attend those proceedings. (See pictures of Israel at 60.)

These setbacks have not helped Gaydamak’s chances of being elected mayor of the Holy City.



The outcome of this race will have repercussions for the Obama Administration’s Israel-Palestinian peace plans, since the dilemma of Jerusalem — whether it will be shared with the Palestinians or remain the undivided Jewish capital — lies at the heart of any future accord. Gaydamak’s rivals for the mayoralty are an ultra-Orthodox Jew and a right-wing software mogul…



Over the decades, the Palestinian leadership has urged Arabs to boycott municipal elections, claiming that it would validate Israel’s “illegal” claim to the city. But the city’s Arabs lose everything by refusing to vote. Without anyone lobbying for them on the city council, Arabs receive just one-tenth of municipal services — they have fewer schools, clinics, playgrounds and road repair — despite paying taxes.





Meanwhile, Jerusalem, the capital of three monotheistic faiths, could drift toward religious intolerance. As columnist Tom Segev writes glumly in the newspaper Haaretz, “All that is left is to envy those Jerusalemites who have already left the city.”





Men of no honor

Jerusalem Post, Nov 19, 2008 19:12 | Updated Nov 20, 2008 10:21  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404779992&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull



It’s easy to get caught up in the romance and mystique associated with organized crime. Misfits and sociopaths are somehow transformed into glamorous characters when their names are tied to the underworld.



For the past three days, the country has been mesmerized by Ya’acov Alperon, the crime boss who was blown-up in his rental car on a busy Tel Aviv boulevard…



Israeli mobsters don’t walk in the footsteps of Don Corleone, Pete Clemenza or Tom Hagen. They have no honor, no decency.

In June, Yoram Hacham, the lawyer for crime figure Asi Abutbul, was blown up in his car in Tel Aviv. In August, Marguerita Lautin was murdered while she sat with her husband and children on a Bat Yam beach.

And hours after Alperon’s burial, a bomb was discovered outside the police station - and next to a kindergarten - in Ramle, where investigators were trying to solve the killing..
For the time being, the Alperons fight the Kedoshims for control of the Herzliya marina; the Ohanas over gambling in Kfar Saba; the Abergils over the recycling industry, and the Abutbuls over the seamier side of Netanya.

THE TRUTH is, organized crime has been a blight for decades. Back in 1977 a crusading young MK named Ehud Olmert made the headlines by probing the underworld. Even then the cars of criminal kingpins were being blown up, there were fears that the police had been infiltrated by the mafia, and a committee charged with looking into the “crisis” blamed disrespect for the law and a developing subculture of criminality.

Israelis have gone from debating whether there is organized crime to practically glorifying it.

Of course we in the media need to report on the killing of a mafia boss in broad daylight on a busy street. But can’t we do it in a way that doesn’t make heroes of thugs?

Society’s message must be that those who join the underworld are to be shunned, shamed and marginalized - not vicariously celebrated.



Israeli Mob Hits Spur Outcry in Nation Accustomed to Terrorism

By Calev Ben-David

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg)

 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=algQE4mxkR9E&refer=home

Increased street violence between organized crime families, a rising toll in dead and wounded innocent bystanders and threats against public figures have spurred an outcry in a country more accustomed to terrorism than to gangland hits…
The gangs profit by illegal gambling, car theft, extortion, loan-sharking, prostitution, drug-trafficking and infiltration of legitimate businesses, he said. Israeli mobsters have also expanded internationally, forging links with Russian organized crime via Russian-speaking immigrants who arrived in the past two decades…
Israel has about a half-dozen major organized crime families from both the Jewish and Arab communities, said former national police commander Assaf Hefetz, who is running for the parliament, or Knesset, on the Likud party list. Each has between 300 and 400 hard-core members.

The annual cost to the economy of organized crime is about 13 billion shekels ($3.3 billion), or 2 percent of GDP, he said in a telephone interview. That includes extortion and fraud rackets aimed at legitimate businesses, property and car theft and organized-crime control of a large “gray market” funded by loan sharking and money laundering. (Note: any investigator

into organized crime will tell you these numbers are pulled out of a hat-unless police are doing their accounting?)

The Knesset held a special hearing November 24 on the threat of organized crime. “The public has no confidence that the police are coping with the phenomenon of organized crime violence,” said Labor member Ophir Pines-Paz at the meeting.



The last few years have seen a growing number of threats and violent incidents directed at local public officials..



Such acts have led to calls for the government to utilize some of the same methods and resources it deploys against terrorism in its battle on organized crime.

Alexander Lautin, testifying at the Knesset hearing, suggested mobilizing Israel’s feared internal security agency, the Shin Bet, which has always dealt exclusively with terrorist threats. Both Mantzur and Pine-Paz said the answer was not diverting resources from Israel’s already over-stretched internal security forces, but reinforcing police efforts
Foreign Loans Diverted in Monster Money Laundering

The Mafia, Oligarchs, and Russia’s Torment(1999)

Beyond Transition
THE NEWSLETTER ABOUT REFORMING ECONOMIES***

 http://www.worldbank.org/html/prddr/trans/julaug99/pgs11-13.htm

Federal and state authorities, examining possible money laundering through the Bank of New York, suspect that Russian organized crime may have been involved in skimming International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and other foreign economic aid to Russia, the Wall Street Journal reported on August 25. Altogether, as much as $10 billion was allegedly laundered through the bank, the 16th largest asset-holding bank in the United States. A top IMF team started consultations in Moscow to pour over Russia’s finance books.

The probe into the route of IMF loans to Russia is part of a wide-ranging U.S. federal investigation into Russian money transfers that passed through the Bank of New York (and its London offices) in the past year or so.

Banks won’t loosen credit



As economy staggers and criticism mounts, bankers hold the line on lending practices

Jan 06, 2009 04:30 AM

 http://www.thestar.com/article/562226

Back in the early Seventies, Israeli PrimeMinister Golda Meir, was asked to accept

notorious mobster Meyer Lansky to sanctuary in Israel. Golda said she accepts the

right of return for all Jews but not Mobsters. Lansky was the right hand man for Boss of bosses-Lucky Luciano. Lucky worked as an intelligence agent for US in the forties in Italy. In the fifties he worked for the cia in Cuba.













From The Times

January 5, 2009
It breaks my heart to see Israel’s stupidity
It has a right to respond to attacks, but will not achieve its ultimate aim - peace - until it stops thinking in military terms



Michael Lerner

Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun magazine.
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5446519.ece
But the kind of response matters. Killing 500 Palestinians and wounding 2,000 others (at the time of writing) is disproportionate. Hamas can harass, but it cannot pose any threat to the existence of Israel. And just as Hamas’s indiscriminate bombing of population centres is a crime against humanity, so is Israel’s killing of civilians (at least 130 so far in Gaza, not to mention the thousands in the years of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza).

Hamas had respected the previously negotiated ceasefire except when Israel used it as cover to make assassination raids. Hamas argued that these raids were hardly a manifestation of a ceasefire, and so as symbolic protest it would allow the release of rocket fire (usually hitting no targets). But when the issue of continuing the ceasefire came up, Hamas wanted a guarantee that these assassination raids would stop. And it asked for more. With hundreds of thousands of Palestinians facing acute malnutrition, Hamas insists that the borders be opened so that food can arrive unimpeded. And in return for the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, it asks for the release of 1,000 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel…

ave left.

How do we get out of this destructive spiral? The first step is for the world to demand an immediate ceasefire. That ceasefire should be imposed by the United Nations and backed unequivocally by America. Its terms must include the following:

— Hamas stops all firing of missiles, bombs or any other violent action originating from the West Bank or Gaza, and co-operates in actively jailing anyone from any faction that breaks this ceasefire.

— Israel stops all bombing, targeted assassinations or any other violent actions aimed at activists, militants, or suspected terrorists in the West Bank or Gaza, and uses the full force of its army to prevent any further attacks on Palestinians.

— Israel opens the border with Gaza and allows free access to and from Israel, subject only to full search and seizure of any weapons. Israel allows free travel of food, gas, electricity, water and consumer goods and materials including from land, air, and sea, subject only to full search and seizure of any weapons or materials typically used for weapons.

— Israel releases all Palestinians in detention and returns them to the West Bank or Gaza according to the choice of the detainees or prisoners. Hamas releases Gilad Schalit and anyone else being held by Palestinian forces.

— Both sides invite an international force to implement these agreements

— Both sides agree to end teaching and/or advocacy of violence against the other side in and outside mosques, educational institutions, and the media.

— This ceasefire would last for 20 years. Nato, the UN, and the US all agree to enforce this agreement and impose severe sanctions in the event of any violations.

These steps would make a huge difference, isolate the most radical members of each side from the mainstream, and make it possible to then begin negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on a broader and deeper set of issues.

The basic condition for creating peace is to help each side feel “safe”. A first and critical step is to speak in a language that is empathic toward the suffering of each people in a climate of discourse in which both sides’ stories are heard and understood.

Yet Israel, as the militarily superior power, ought to take the first steps: implementing a massive Marshall Plan in Gaza and in the West Bank to end poverty and unemployment, rebuild infrastructure and encourage investment; dismantle the settlements or make settlers become citizens of a Palestinian state; accept 30,000 Palestinian refugees annually back into Israel for the next 30 years, apologise for its role in the 1948 expulsions and offer to co-ordinate a worldwide compensation effort for all that Palestinians lost during the Occupation; and recognise a Palestinian state within borders already defined by the Geneva Accord of 2003.

This is the only way Israel will ever achieve security. It is the only way to permanently defeat Hamas and all extremists who wish to see endless war against Israel.

The most significant contribution the new Obama administration could make to Middle East peace would be to embrace a strategy that homeland security is best achieved not by military or economic domination but by generosity and caring for others. If this new way of thinking could become a serious part of US policy, it would have an immense impact on undermining the fearful consciousness of Israelis who still see the world more through the frame of the Holocaust and previous persecutions than through the frame of their actual present power in the world.

It breaks my heart to see the terrible suffering in Gaza and in Israel. As a religious Jew I find it all the worse, because it confirms to me how easy it is to pervert the loving message of Judaism into a message of hatred and domination. I remain in mourning for the Jewish people, for Israel and for the world.

Israel’s security barrier adds to wildlife’s struggle for survival

Wall disrupts breeding patterns, threatens species, environmentalists on both sides of structure say

Oakland Ross
Middle East Bureau, Nov 03, 2008 04:30 AM  http://www.thestar.com/World/Columnist/article/529267

BETHLEHEM–From the steps of the Caritas Hospital in the town where Christ was born, you can sometimes see jackals or foxes frantically burrowing their way beneath the tall concrete security barrier that now separates Bethlehem from Israel.

Sometimes they make it through. Sometimes they don’t.

“You can see it right with your own eyes,” says Imad Atrash, director of the Palestinian Wildlife Society. “They are searching for their survival.”

They are also demonstrating that the notorious wall – built by Israel as a security measure against Palestinians militants or suicide bombers – imposes hardships on animals as well.

“It obviously cuts down cross-border migration,” says Hillel Shuval, a prominent Israeli environmentalist. “It’s reduced the food for any particular animal.”

The structure interferes with breeding patterns, too.

“Successful breeding in the wild requires free roaming,” says Shuval. “The wall has seriously cut down on the fertility of animals.”

The barrier, whose construction began in 2003, has also complicated life, or hastened death, for several species of birds that nest on the ground, says Atrash, and has destroyed the habitat of at least one species of indigenous orchid…
Still far from complete, the barrier is eventually to stretch for more than 700 kilometres. Especially where it passes through urbanized areas, the structure takes the form of sturdy concrete slabs, frequently spray-painted with angry Palestinian graffiti.

But, for most of its length, the barrier is constructed of chain-link fence, electronically monitored and flanked by a military road.

The wire fence is a problem for animals, too.

“It stops anything larger than a hare,” says Atrash. “It’s very limited the number of animals that can get through.”

The barrier has yet to be extended through most of the Judean Desert, a rugged moonscape that sprawls to the east of Jerusalem. Atrash says he hopes the fence never will be constructed there.

Rare and sometimes endangered animal species are more numerous in those open, still undeveloped lands, he says, and an impenetrable barrier slicing through their domain is the last thing they need.

Located at the juncture of three continents – Africa, Asia, and Europe – Israel is blessed with a rich and varied trove of fauna and flora, despite its parched climate…
Israel this “war” and this fence is an abomination. Take this wall of “Jericho” down.
The Conflicted Middle East To Worsen As Global Warming Causes Rising Sea Levels

Jan 3rd, 2009 by Karin Kloosterman

 http://greenprophet.com/2009/01/03/5658/water-conflict-global-warming/comment-page-1/
If you think things seem pretty dicey in the Middle East right now with Israel and Hamas fighting, according to IRIN, expect tensions to become a whole lot worse, once global warming comes into play. Rising sea levels, they say, will have severe environmental, economic and political implications for the already water-stressed Middle East.

The report they site is called “Climate Change: A New Threat to Middle East Security,” written by Friends of the Earth Middle East (FOEME), who we’ve blogged about extensively.


The report produced by FOEME details that climate change is something of a “threat multiplier,” meaning that the forecasted changing weather patterns brought on by global warming, will exacerbate water scarcity and tensions over water between nations. In particular between those in Jordan, Gaza and Egypt…

According to IRIN: Rising sea levels would also contaminate the drinking water of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza due to sea water intrusion contaminating their only water source, the coastal aquifer, the FOEME report says.

Positive environmentalists see the dreary future could lead to cross-border cooperation.

“Being left unprepared will affect not only economic, physical, and environmental security, but national, regional, and global security, if actions are not taken now to mitigate, and adapt to the projecte

To the people of Gaza and Hamas:



The very little that you had has been destroyed, your infrastructure, energy, and especially the lives of the most innocent, your children.

The heart is full of pain, suffering and thoughts of revenge. You say the Israeli Authorities have legitimized the killing of children. We say they and no one has such a right and they should be brought to justice.



We say, whoever harms children now-be they corporations, tyrants, politicians, soldiers, religious etc As someone long ago said, it would be better for them to tie a millstone around their necks and be thrown to the bottom of the sea.



Your heart and your faith is still strong-Rebuild Gaza-turn it into a Green Economy,

turn your guns into solar panels and your rockets into wind turbines. From the blood of your children, you will have your Home, abundant food, shelter and safety.



The world and the Arab world owes you this. It is time they act. Make yourself the world’s first fully Green state and be a model to the world. The Green Verdant One walks among you.



To the Authorities in Israel:



At Mt. Sinai a great evil was committed, a golden calf was made ( the world today fashions itself another golden god called the audacity of hope) and inside it were young children , who were to be burnt in sacrifice. In this slaughter Abraham killed his son Isaac. You have become a military Goliath- now you will wrestle with the spirit of young David-your very emblem.



But you have also become as Pharoah onto these people and treat them as dogs-so you will also wrestle with the spirit of an Elderly Moses. Begin to make amends.



The Days of fine wine, ambrosia and rhetoric are over. It is a time of Reckoning and Truth.Test these words you will find them stronger than diamonds and gold.



We know what the high and mighty, the world over think. There is no Justice, no Truth and that Might makes Right. But you can not completely know-until one is deceased.All Wars must cease(stop the arms manufacturers )Humanity must work together to solve our greatest threat. If not then the world and humanity is on a collision course with a “comet”.










Jan 1, 2009 8:18 | Updated Jan 1, 2009 2:23
Israeli stocks post biggest yearly drop since 1983 on global crisis

By BLOOMBERG




 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733122524&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Updated Jan 1, 2009 7:23
GDP at slowest pace in five years

By BLOOMBERG

 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733122129&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV4PikvIAwk&feature=related
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWSZB2VecLA&feature=related
What war teaches us is that there is no Jew, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Secularist, Atheist, Sikh etc. What matters is how we relate to each other and our beloved Earth. This is prayer in action. This is love and compassion in action. We are all healers and physicians, we should never do harm.

We know literal physicians are prone to hypocrisy because of pressure from pharmaceutical corporations, big government and medical and religious institutions. We must resist and wither away those corporations, institutions and governments etc. that would make and condition us to do harm.

Vigil/Info Picket against Nuclear Power and Privatization of Ontario Power Wed Jan 14, 2009, Toronto, ON

Ontario Power Generation building (OPG)
700 University Avenue corner of College/University Av,
Toronto, ON M5S 1VO

VIGIL / INFO PICKET

Say No to Ontario Power Authority Disempowerment

Say No to Nuclear Power, Gas and Coal plants

Say No to $40 Billion for Nukes

Say No to privatization of Ontario Power

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Say Yes to Green Jobs, Social Safety Net, Anti-Poverty Programs, Ending Child Poverty etc.

Say Yes to 100% Public Power

Say Yes to 100% Energy Efficient Infrastructure (old and new)

Say Yes to 100% Renewable Energy

Vigil-Info picket
STOP PRIVATIZATION of Ontario Power
say no to Nuclear Power
11-12 noon / Wednesday December 31, 2008
Ontario Power Generation Bldg corner of University and College,
Toronto Across from Queen’s Park

Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance(a homeless network of transborder activists, students, academics, Aboriginal etc.)
www.floodiceorfire.wordpress.com

Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!

The Great Struggle Continues….
See also:
Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/abolition-of-king-coal-fossil-fuels-nuclear-power-and-weapons/
July 13, 2008

THE END OF THE DINOSAUR CIVILIZATION (FOSSIL FUELS, NUCLEAR) AND THE EMERGING CONFLATION OF GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL CIVIL WAR, WORLD ECONOMIC DEPRESSION AND THE EXTINCTION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES…

(Thisdocument is sent to all global politicians, energy stakeholders, investment and banking houses etc., please post, link and circulate widely)

According to an old story, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of them was the most skilled in the art. The physician, whose reputation was such that his name became synonymous with medical science in China, replied, “My eldest sister sees the spirit of sickness and removes it before it takes shape, so her name does not get out of the house. My elder brother cures sickness when it is still extremely minute, so his name does not get out of the neighborhood. As for me, I puncture veins, prescribe medicines, and massage skin, so from time to time my name gets out and is heard among the lords.”

(Dr. Thomas Cleary’s introduction to Sun Tzu’s Art of War translation – note: Sun Tzu was writing at a time when Chinese civilization was embroiled in civil wars.)

War, Global Warming, financial calamity, starvation and suffering has become pornographic fodder world-wide. “The best and brightest” participate and profit by it regardless of their being on the right, left or the middle.

Chaos and Disorder are imbued and dispersed in our Knowledge-, Economic-, Climate-, even Wisdom networks of knowing. Politicians run amuck and Corporations have their blinders on to everything except what legally they are obligated to do – that is to make profit above all else. (see The Corporation documentary - What is a corporation?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y )

Too late is it now for long-term planning in the phase-out of King Coal and other Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power and Weapons.

All Tribes, Nations, Communities and Peoples must call and ACT for the Full Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons immediately.

The Earth herself and all Species are our Allies

Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels and Nuclear power and Weapons Everywhere!…