Mexico’s great solar energy

Mexico has great potential for solar energy production, because of the high insolation level – the amount of solar radiation received by a surface at a given time.

Most of the territory receives an average of 5 kWh/m²/day (kilowatt-hour per square metre per year) – compared to 2kWh/m²/day in northern climes like Norway and over 6kWh/m²/day in high insolation places like Egypt.

According to a report by global environmental watchdog Greenpeace, the use of solar energy to heat water, wind energy projects and the use of biomass to produce electricity could generate 500,000 jobs in Mexico.
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Productos Orgánicos Hacienda San José El Marquez, which was formally registered in 2005, won the 2009 PYME (small and medium company) prize in November in the “best socially minded company” category.

My answer to the fallacy: “to fight for homosexual rights is to fight for all rights”

The article in question is here:
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/02/04/opinion-struggle-gay-rights-struggle-all-rights
It is fallacious.

The first part mentions how a homosexual was arrested and beaten, tortured in an Arab country.

The false conclusion that the author wants the readers to reach is this:
Since democracy activists are tortured for their democratic beliefs,  then  when homosexuals are tortured for their homosexual behavior,    that means  homosexuality is as worthy as democracy.

That is false.
Because, there have been black men subject to hanging because of their anti-slavery beliefs,   and there have been Nazi war criminals subject to hanging because of their genocidal behavior.

Merely because similar happening/opposition  has been given to them,  does not mean that anti-slavery belief  is the same thing as,  or  is as worthy as,   genocidal behavior.

A case can be made that all humans,  even very wicked humans (such as war criminals, or homosexuals)  do not deserve to be tortured by other human beings.
But that merely makes a commentary about their basic human value,  it does not endorse their every behavior as worthy or correct.

For after all, a thief can be locked in jail   and   a Jordanian Arab who is against monarchy can be locked in jail.

This does not mean that the behavior of theft (which is repulsive) and the behavior of democracy-activism    are  of the same worth.

Quote:
For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is [good] and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.         1 Peter 2:20

Therefore, there are people who are punished who are deserving,  and there are people who are punished who are undeserving.
Merely because people receive harsh punishment for certain behaviors,  does not show that those behaviors are equally undeserving of punishment.

Secondly,  the article talks about “laws left behind by British colonialism”.

It is a fallacy,  that all laws made by empires are wrong.   The laws and practices have to be considered on a case by case basis.
For instance, even the Nazis had good regulations.   They had anti-smoking laws.    And Fascists in Italy made trains to run on time,  and that is a good law.     There were evil laws made by them,  but it does not mean that all laws from imperial people are evil,   because even imperial people have common sense, and a partial sense of what is good (it could be…what is good for reproductive health for specific groups,  or what is good for transportation systems.   The point is,  merely because a law was made by an empire does not mean it is evil or wrong.  It has to be examined on a case by case basis.)

Thirdly, the article talks about “homo-phobic”.

You are wrong.   It is the homosexuals who are afraid.
The people whose conduct are regular according to nature, they are not afraid of ways contrary to nature,  they merely disapprove of it as destructive.
For instance, those who disapprove of smoking,  they are not afraid of cigarettes.   I have yet to see someone invent  “tobacco-phobia”,  to portray opposition to smoking  as some type of insane disorder.    It is a rational behavior,  because smoking is detrimental to health.
How much the more is homosexuality detrimental to the life of the family, and to man.    And people instinctively know this,   not out of fear,  but out of knowledge that it is wrong and harmful.   Should everyone adopt that behavior, the species would go extinct in one generation.

It is the homosexuals who are afraid,  they run even when no one chases.
Even all this attempt at associating “marriage” with their abominable behavior is driven by their fear.   They know that what they do is against nature (I think biology proves it plenty).    They are constantly aware that they are doing wrong, and constantly afraid of people pointing it out.    So they want to hide behind some official label,  that the evil they do  is…the norm.   So this entire drive to label “marriage”  with them,  is to legitimize their evildoing in front of people.

The very rainbow flag that they fly,  is God’s promise of death to them, should they continue in their evil lifestyle.   Genesis 9:12-17    The rainbow is God’s promise to destroy the world by fire, and the evildoers with it.   The rainbow is also the very glory of the LORD God  (Ezekiel 1:28),  so great will be His vengeance upon the day of wrath,   at all the evildoers  who  used Noah’s Covenant and His Magnificence  to  symbolize their evildoing.   With such pride do they hold aloft the divine promise of their destruction!

There is no such thing as “homo-phobia”.
There is, however, such a thing as “hetero-phobia” and definitely “Christ-phobia”  by the homosexuals.

Fourthly,  the word “fundamentalism”.
I have no idea what it really refers to.    In regards to Christianity,  it is only used by outsiders.   Real Christians don’t use the word “fundamentalists”,  because Christianity is not merely the fundamentals of belief,  but also the life and the faith that results from the fundamental beliefs.   So Christians can never be “fundamentalists”, because it is not enough to merely have “fundamentals”,     Christian life requires far more than that.

According to the author,  fundamentalism refers to anyone who tries to capture the state and use the government to enforce norms.
This is quite lame, because government needs to enforce norms in order to have any semblance of order in a society.   Else it’s anarchy.    Even homosexuals are trying to capture society, and perhaps make a homosexual society according to the norms of the City of Sodom.   So the homosexuals themselves are fundamentalists  according to this definition.

Fifthly,  the discussion of manhood.
A homosexual is not qualified to discuss topics of manhood,  because a homosexual has the body of a man,  but the spirit/soul of a man is either mis-formed  or missing in him.    So a homosexual is not qualified to discuss topics of manhood.
The homosexual is resentful of any reminder of the concept “manhood”,  but it does exist.

Sixthly, the words “hatred or “acceptance”
Is this psychological warfare?    Hatred’s opposite is love.
Acceptance’s opposite is refusal.

Yet the author, either blindly, or slyly,  wants to label “hatred” as the opposite of “acceptance”.   In other words,  the author puts any refusal as “hatred”.

That is not true.   A person, for instance, can refuse to purchase from a scammer.   That is lack of acceptance towards the scammer.   But that is not hatred.
However, should there be persistent action from the scammer to make the person purchase something that is wasteful or harmful,  then the person may start hating the scammer.

But not all refusal  is hatred.
So, all regular people who refuse to be homosexual,  that is not hatred,  that is merely their choice.

But when homosexuals try to force their lifestyle on the regular people,  and even threaten their children  with cancerous families of male-male or female-female,  severely distorting the formation of the kid,   then people will hate the homosexuals,  and for good reason.
Because people were living fine,  before the homosexuals tried to pollute marriage with their foul lifestyle, and impose it upon regular people.

The homosexuals should have contented themselves with merely living their lifestyles to themselves,  rather than trying to add themselves to marriage,   like a tick or a leech adding itself to a cattle’s skin,  a most unnatural and harmful addition to an originally healthy institution.

Now people have good reason to hate homosexuals,  whereas before,  people merely refused to be homosexual,  and that was it.   There wasn’t much conflict.

Now there is,  and the homosexuals really asked for it (in American society, and in other societies, that is.   Not in the realm of exchange of ideas).

Another thing:  I was not hostile towards homosexuality, I was merely against it.    That is,  I had mere refusal (non-acceptance, non-tolerance).    I did not have hatred.
But even since homosexuals tried for 3 years to torture me by adding themselves to my life (that is, by claiming me to be one of them,  and to forcibly add homosexuality to my life,  like a snake forcibly adding its fangs to my skin… some repugnant thing that is not part of me),  then I hate homosexuality.
Whereas before, when it did not bother me in life,  I did not have such fierce attitude towards it.
Just like if some snake merely crawled by, and didn’t try to add itself to my body,  then I would merely be non-accepting towards it (that is, I wouldn’t go seek it out, because I know that it is not of the same nature as me),  but I wouldn’t hate it.
But, should the snake forcibly add itself to my life (but I don’t want any snake in it),  then I will hate it, and I will fight it with all that is available until I beat it back and it’s not trying to add itself to my life anymore.

So in Uganda,  perhaps the homosexuals tried to add themselves to “marriage”?
Well then, they asked for it.
And the Africans are better men than the pathetic Americans.
The pathetic Americans love to gang up to trample down one Chinese guy, but they wouldn’t face off the FBI and the CIA,  some real opponents for them.   They wouldn’t gang up and face off Wall Street either and ask for their money back,  they didn’t hold million-man protests against Wall Street.    The pathetic Americans merely watches screens and wait for double-speakings and think that when some oligarch’s servant utters some scripted double-speaking on screen,  then things have changed.   No, only what’s on screen has changed,  real life conditions haven’t.

Anyway, the Africans are better men than the pathetic Americans.
Same with the Chinese,  I hope.

Should some homosexual get killed in Uganda, I’ll write a song about it.

You have to realize, the homosexuals oppress the kids who haven’t grown up yet, and their very homosexual lifestyle is like VX or anthrax,  it is oppression and poison to family life everywhere.   The homosexuals, by their bestial attempts to repeatedly false accuse the innocent, are also as reprehensible as any war criminals.

The conclusion is:
there is a rights to not be tortured.
But there is no rights to not get reprimanded, censured, or hated, for people who practice homosexuality.
As for criminal sentences for practice,  it should be decided on a local basis.
There should definitely be criminal sentence for doing psychological warfare on behalf of homosexuality (demonic lies like…heterosexuality is 0 and homosexuality is 10 and nearly every person is somewhere in between on a sliding scale..
No.    Natural life is natural life, and nearly every person is on that.   A few homosexuals aren’t.   There is no sliding scale.)

In other words,  there is a rights to not get tortured for all people.  That is a HUMAN RIGHTS.
But there is no such thing as homosexual rights.   No more than there is pedophile rights.
homosexuals and pedophiles  have HUMAN RIGHTS  such as not getting tortured,  etc.
But homosexuals don’t have rights for their deviant behavior,  neither do pedophiles,  or arsonists,  or kleptomaniacs, or war criminals.

(comment is about homosexuality as a behavior.   Not related to any organization)
I am left-wing in governance,  and liberal in wealth-distribution.  And anti- free-trade,  anti-sweatshops,  etc.
I am also a Christian.

Thailand’s government: please don’t force the Karen refugees to return to minefields

Dear Prime Minister of Thailand:

It is ridiculous to expect the rag-tag militia of the Karen armies to remove landmines.
1 – They don’t have GPS equipment, so how would they have an accurate map of what coordinate each mine is at?    Since they wouldn’t have a map of where each mine is, they would have to use sticks to prod each inch of terrain (and even then people may die).   It is a very time consuming process, and dangerous.
It is fiction,  to suppose that militia armies (really, guerilla armies)  in the middle of fighting against one another,   would spare their manpower to clear minefields for community service.
They barely have enough manpower to do their skirmishing.    They capture villagers and forcibly use them as human mules to carry heavy loads of ammunition and supplies.   Even in transportation they are short of manpower.   They certainly would not spare personnel to go clear landmines for other people’s benefit.
2 – Why would you believe their words?   Why would they do as they say?    No higher organization supervises them, or would jail them if they don’t clear the mines as they promise.    No one is paying them to clear mines, or fine them with fee if they don’t clear mines.    Only civilians and refugees would die or get maimed by stepping on them,  and the militias don’t care about that.

Perhaps, you should have landmines planted in your garden and backyard and front-yard.   Then ask the Karen Buddhist army and the Karen National army to clear the mines (without any deadlines or standards or verification).   Then you go for a stroll.   Would you trust that they bothered to clear the mines, even though they say yes?

so please don’t force the Karen villagers to return back into Burma.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/02/05/thailand-cease-intimidation-karen-refugees
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Human Rights Watch has grave fears for the safety of civilians forcibly returned to active conflict zones inside Burma. All three parties to the conflict in Karen state extensively use antipersonnel mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The Burmese army, DKBA, and KNLA continue to plant landmines near their military bases, on trails in the jungles, and around civilian settlements and agricultural fields. According to the Burma section of the annual Landmine Monitor Report there were 721 casualties from landmine injuries in the country in 2008. Burma has not ratified the Mine Ban Treaty and rarely participates in international forums to ban the use of landmines. There are virtually no de-mining operations currently in eastern Burma, and landmine education is limited.

On January 18, a 25-year-old Karen woman who was nine months pregnant stepped on a landmine in the refugee return zone, losing half of her left foot.

I walked back into Karen state with my ten-year-old nephew. I was 9 months pregnant. I was walking on the path leading into the village, and I followed the buffalo just off the path and then stepped on the landmine. Half of my foot disappeared. I could not walk. My nephew ran back over to Thailand to get my husband to help me. It took about 30 minutes for them to come. Three men carried me on a [makeshift bamboo] stretcher. I was worried, I feared for my baby. I was taken to Mae Sot hospital [in Thailand] and they took my baby out [C-section] on the same day. I don’t want to go back to my village [in Burma]. I only went back once and I stepped on a landmine. I’m afraid to go back again. It is not safe anywhere.

“The risks from landmines to people forced back to Burma are deadly real,” said Adams.

Human Rights Watch called on the Thai government to halt all plans to return the group and to allow UNHCR to interview and conduct refugee status determinations. International refugee support organizations have repeatedly recommended that all 2,400 Karen be temporarily relocated to an existing refugee camp at Mae La, a one hour’s drive south of Tha Song Yang.

Local Thai military officials claim there is no fighting across the border in Burma and assert that it is safe for the Karen to return. However, refugees at one of the sites told Human Rights Watch there has been extensive planting of landmines in their villages back in Burma, and they fear being [drafted as coolies] by the Burmese army and the DKBA.
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Bahrain, utterly unacceptable savage government

Bahrain is ruled by a Sunni monarch, and his spies and army are all Sunni.
But most of the population is Shia.   The Shia are discriminated against and heavily oppressed.   Even people demonstrating in the streets against poverty are arrested and tortured.   They are tortured by electrocution,  by hanging in stress position (including the strappado, perhaps?),  by beating.

This is religious persecution, and even more,  this is oligarchy oppressing the poor.
It is utterly immoral.

http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2010/02/08/torture-redux-0

Thanks on behalf of the poor people of Haiti

Thanks on behalf of the poor people of Haiti, of whom one in ten are homeless and at least 150000 are dead in a nation of merely 10 million.
Thanks that the nations of G-7 have canceled Haiti’s debt.

Next step to help Haiti would be to curb its corruption by re-instating the Haitian President  Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
The current President Préval has been installed by Bush and the CIA in a military coup in 2004.   Since 2004,  Haitians have sunk into poverty and the government has become terribly corrupt.

Things were well when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was President in 2004, before the Bush installation of a corrupt government.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide is now in exile in South Africa.
The European Union should invite him back to Haiti.

A most cruel torture (used on Arab prisoners. Where is prosecution of Bush, Cheney, Yoo, Addington, Rice?)

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

Article from Wikipedia:  partial quote.  For more gruesome details, click on link

Strappado is a form of torture in which the victim’s hands are first tied behind their back, and then he or she is suspended in the air by means of a rope attached to wrists, which most likely dislocates both arms. Weights may be added to the body to intensify the effect and increase the pain.

Other names for strappado include “reverse hanging” and “Palestinian hanging”, although this last name may be a misnomer, because human rights groups do not believe that the technique is used by either Israel or the Palestinian Authority. It is best known for its use in the torture chambers of the medieval Inquisition, but the practice continues into the modern era.

damage. The technique typically causes There are three variants of this torture. In the first one, the victim has his or her arms tied behind his or her back; a large rope is then tied to the wrists and passed over a pulley, beam or a hook on the roof. The torturer pulls on this rope until the victim is hanging from the arms. Since the hands are tied behind the victim’s back, this will cause a very intense pain and possible dislocation of the arms. The full weight of the subject’s body is then supported by the extended and internally-rotated shoulder sockets. While the technique shows no external injuries, it can cause long-term nerve, ligament, or tendonbrachial plexus injury, leading to paralysis or loss of sensation in the arm.
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In November 2003, Manadel al-Jamadi, a prisoner of the U.S., was killed during an interrogation session at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in which the method was … used on him. (His corpse, wrapped in cellophane and packed in ice, was seen in one of the photographs that broke the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal.) The U.S. military has ruled the death a homicide.

One commentator has written,

The Associated Press quoted an expert who described the position in which Jamadi died as a form of torture known as “Palestinian hanging,” in which a prisoner whose hands are secured behind his back is suspended by his arms. (The technique has allegedly been used in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.)

Court documents filed by Muhammad Saad Iqbal on August 19, 2009 claim that Mr Iqbal was held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan and, whilst there, that he ‘was hung from the ceiling with my feet just touching the ground in the position that I later learned was called by the Spanish Inquisition “the strappado”.’

United Nations please prosecute America over Bagram

Dear United Nations,

Please fulfill your social responsibilities to humanity.
The United Nations was formed for occasions such as these.  If people didn’t foresee that there would be need to challenge dictatorial militarist regimes,  they wouldn’t have formed the United Nations:

http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/02/05/bagram-graveyard-of-the-geneva-conventions/

Waterboarding is clearly criminal. So where is the prosecution of Yoo, Bybee, Bradbury, Addington, Pearle, Alito, Cheney, Bush?

So, it is criminal when an American is waterboarded.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8505376.stm
US soldier ‘waterboards’ daughter

Waterboarding has been classified as torture by the Obama administration

A US soldier has been charged with assault after allegedly waterboarding his four-year-old daughter, police in the state of Washington have said.

Sgt Joshua Tabor dunked the girl’s head in a sink full of water for not reciting the alphabet, police in the town of Yelm said.

Waterboarding is an interrogation technique that simulates drowning and has been banned as torture by the US.

Sgt Tabor is a helicopter repairer who served in Iraq from 2007-08.

Yelm police chief Todd Stancil said Sgt Tabor was arrested on 31 January.

Officers were called after Sgt Tabor was seen walking around his neighbourhood holding a Kevlar helmet and threatening to break windows, the police chief added.

The girl was then found hiding in a locked bathroom in the soldier’s home, Mr Stancil said on Monday.

Sgt Tabor posted bail of $10,000 (£6,400) on Monday and has been confined to barracks at his base in Washington state.

But it isn’t criminal when Iraqis or Afghans are waterboarded?
By the way, the CIA and all American spies are so stupid, they take in 90% innocent people at Guantanamo.
After 3 years of the most complete spying possible, they have been wrong EVERY DAY, SEVERAL TIMES PER DAY, for 1000+ days. That’s all the 16 spy agencies of the United States, being wrong (and how wrong… as wrong as beyond human imagination) SEVERAL THOUSAND TIMES, definitely over 10 thousand times.
And this is with spying that is so complete, it is unavailable to be done on each prisoner in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And even with the most complete spying, the sons of dogs get it wrong repeatedly. And even more, they WANT to get it wrong, because they WANT to make people guilty. They are possessed by devils, anyone who is a spy.

So, the number of innocents are similar percentage in Iraq and Afghanistan’s jails. Same with the dead when the CIA strike “suspects” in Pakistan. They kill 90% innocent people, and then cover up about it. Most of the “classified files” are all the crimes committed by the spies, and kept secret because they fear criminal prosecution, revealing all the evil they have done.

Perhaps it’s time for a (no-casualty) military coup in Pakistan, and then throw out the American occupation

The article is posted later in this post:

what’s so very damning (I rarely bold an entire paragraph)  is that the CIA has been striking with missile  any car, or more than one car,  that drives at fast speed.
That means,  any car they see would be a target,  other than parked cars and cars in traffic.
They do that without finding who’s inside, at all.   They merely strike any car that’s being driven fast.   Merely fly by and strike.
Because, any car driving fast is indistinguishable with  “on the run”.
So they have been killing hundreds of civilians, and once in a while reporting that they hit somebody (by reporting a name).
I guess they could do that in America, striking every car that is driving,  and once in a while, they can report that they hit a convicted felon.

Except, even convicted felons in America have due process, and cannot be assassinated for merely being part of a gang, even the mafia.   They have to be arrested first, tried in court, then perhaps sentenced to execution.

But in Pakistan (remember the Declaration of Independence: all men are born equal!)  the CIA  has been killing anyone it thinks is a terrorist.

All the Americans know by now what is the accuracy of the CIA thinking anything towards any random innocent person.
So there is CERTAINTY that the CIA thinks everybody is a terrorist,  and then wipe out everybody,  and count on hitting something once in a while.
That’s what they did in Guantanamo.   They arrested everybody, tortured them all,  and only 1 out of 10 had something to do with Taliban or Al-Qaeda, the rest were all refugees.
And Barack still hasn’t released those poor people out of Guantanamo,  the 9 out of 10 who were innocent, and tortured.

It is utterly unacceptable that Ali Zardari is letting the CIA land, arm, and fly drones out of Pakistan to kill so many innocent people.
The Pakistani military has a long tradition of overthrowing their governments.    Let there be a no-casualty coup where you ask Zardari to retire, and let the military rule for a term,  then he can run for elections in a few years.
It is better that there is a military coup in Pakistan, and some Pakistani military officers respect the sovereignty of their country,  and drive out the American occupiers.
Then sign a peace treaty with India and let Kashmir be an independent state, a buffer zone owned by neither country.

And here finally is the article:

This article, or pieces quoted from this article, was written by Alex Thurston and was originally posted at http://www.theseminal.com/2008/02/24/cia-shenanigans-in-pakistan/
written about two years ago (when Musharraf was still leader of Pakistan)

How would you feel if the Pakistani secret intelligence, the ISI, ran a secret base in America and had struck a secret deal with George Bush allowing them to blow up your car if they thought you were a terrorist? Well, the CIA has been doing exactly that in Pakistan.

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Instead of having to confirm the identity of a suspected militant leader before attacking, this shift allowed American operators to strike convoys of vehicles that bear the characteristics of Qaeda or Taliban leaders on the run, for instance, so long as the risk of civilian casualties is judged to be low.

The new, looser rules of engagement may have their biggest impact at a secret Central Intelligence Agency base in Pakistan whose existence was described by American and Pakistani officials who had previously kept it secret to avoid embarrassing President Pervez Musharraf politically. Mr. Musharraf, whose party lost in this week election by margins that surprised American officials, has been accused by political rivals of being too close to the United States.
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Let me underscore the insanity of this: Musharraf agreed to let us blow up any car that we thought had a terrorist inside.

And we worry about the Taliban destabilizing Pakistan? What do we think is going to happen if US drones murder people who may or may not be completely innocent?

The War on Terror has stripped away so many protections on human life that none remain. The CIA is basically acting as detective and executioner all in one fell swoop (forget about “proof” or “trials” or “rights”) in Pakistan, making an absurdity of Pakistani sovereignty or any notion of human rights. Even more scary, these shenanigans represent yet another step down the road toward having US troops on the ground in Pakistan to “fight terror.” Robert Gates has been quietly pushing for that for months.

Let me get even more blunt: these moves are moronic. We need to leave Pakistan alone, especially in this moment of transition. The election results, many have pointed out, were a rejection not only of Musharraf but also of Bush and the US. How much worse will we make matters by hauling off and killing people before we can even prove that they’ve committed crimes?
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The planning and in-the-process-making of a great fascist army

And guess what, your treacherous Congress/White House hasn’t yet made an announcement about this to you, because there are too many secret things like this going on, harming the people. And the Republicans in Congress make it a secretive atmosphere.
And HALF of your tax dollars are spent on the military.

You need to elect Pete Stark as President to go fix things in Washington.

Even if Donna Edwards’ amendment  wrote in “corporate entity” referring to these things,  it’s un-democratic that power of regulation was not given to the People, the voters.
Instead, she wanted to concentrate the decision-making in the hands of government officials, rather than give it to the voters directly.

Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included

• By Katie Drummond
• February 5, 2010 |
• 9:42 am |
• Categories: DarpaWatch
  

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/pentagon-looks-to-breed-immortal-synthetic-organisms-molecular-kill-switch-included/

The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.

As part of its budget for the next year, Darpa is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating “the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement.” The plan would assemble the latest bio-tech knowledge to come up with living, breathing creatures that are genetically engineered to “produce the intended biological effect.” Darpa wants the organisms to be fortified with molecules that bolster cell resistance to death, so that the lab-monsters can “ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely.”

Of course, Darpa’s got to prevent the super-species from being swayed to do enemy work — so they’ll encode loyalty right into DNA, by developing genetically programmed locks to create “tamper proof” cells. Plus, the synthetic organism will be traceable, using some kind of DNA manipulation, “similar to a serial number on a handgun.” And if that doesn’t work, don’t worry. In case Darpa’s plan somehow goes horribly awry, they’re also tossing in a last-resort, genetically-coded kill switch:

Develop strategies to create a synthetic organism “self-destruct” option to be implemented upon nefarious removal of organism.

The project comes as Darpa also plans to throw $20 million into a new synthetic biology program, and $7.5 million into “increasing by several decades the speed with which we sequence, analyze and functionally edit cellular genomes.”

Of course, Darpa’s up against some vexing, fundamental laws of nature — not to mention bioethics — as they embark on the lab beast program. First, they might want to rethink the idea of evolution as a random series of events, says NYU biology professor David Fitch. “Evolution by selection is nota random process at all, and is actually a hugely efficient design algorithm used extensively in computation and engineering,” he e-mails Danger Room.

Even if Darpa manages to overcome the inherent intelligence of evolutionary processes, overcoming inevitable death can be tricky. Just ask all the other research teams who’ve made stabs at it, trying everything from cell starvation to hormone treatments. Gene therapy, where artificial genes are inserted into an organism to boost cell life, are the latest and greatest in life-extension science, but they’ve only been proven to extend lifespan by 20 percent in rats.

But suppose gene therapy makes major strides, and Darpa does manage to get the evolutionary science right. They’ll also have a major ethical hurdle to jump. Synthetic biology researchers are already facing the same questions, as a 2009 summary from the Synthetic Biology Project reports:

The concern that humans might be overreaching when we create organisms that never before existed can be a safety concern, but it also returns us to disagreements about what is our proper role in the natural world (a debate largely about non-physical harms or harms to well-being).

中国政府禁止发行的好书： 震撼主义（灾难和资本主义有何关系）

震撼主义（灾难和资本主义有何关系）
哪个想关心人民, 那个就该看这本书，　也可以知道中国的财产分配因该如何改善，也可知道美帝国主义的邪恶，也可知道现代化的大规模暴力殖民　是用什么样的手法做的　（飞机大炮已是次要手段，现代的手段是非常狡猾的）．
共产党不准看（因为里面解释了天安门事件是因为邓小平爱钱而做的）．
此作者为世界罕见的一流作者，为世界社会公平做出极大贡献．
因为大陆中国的出版不让，　只好在台湾出版．

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UN Report asks: “Where are the disappeared prisoners?”

http://www.truthout.org/un-secret-detention-report-asks-where-are-the-cia-ghost-prisoners56473
A major new report on secret detention policies around the world, conducted by four independent UN human rights experts, concludes that, “On a global scale, secret detention in connection with counter-terrorist policies remains a serious problem,” and, “If resorted to in a widespread and systematic manner, secret detention might reach the threshold of a crime against humanity.”

The 226-page report, published on Wednesday in an advance unedited version, is the culmination of a year-long joint study by the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. It will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in March.

In an introduction, the UN experts established that:

a person is kept in secret detention if State authorities acting in their official capacity, or persons acting under the orders thereof, with the authorization, consent, support or acquiescence of the State, or in any other situation where the action or omission of the detaining person is attributable to the State, deprive persons of their liberty; where the person is not permitted any contact with the outside world (“incommunicado detention”); and when the detaining or otherwise competent authority denies, refuses to confirm or deny or actively conceals the fact that the person is deprived of his/her liberty, hidden from the outside world, including, for example, family, independent lawyers or non-governmental organizations, or refuses to provide or actively conceals information about the fate or whereabouts of the detainee.

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the heart of the report is a detailed analysis of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” policies.

Of particular concern to the authors of the joint study – beyond the overall illegality of the entire project conceived and executed by the Bush administration – is the fate of dozens of men held in secret prisons run by the CIA, or transferred by the CIA to prisons in other countries. Based on figures disclosed in one of the Office of Legal Counsel’s notorious “torture memos,” written in May 2005 by Assistant Attorney General Stephen Bradbury, the CIA had, by May 2005, “taken custody of 94 prisoners [redacted] and ha[d] employed enhanced techniques to varying degrees in the interrogations of 28 of these detainees.”
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As [Scott Horton] explained in an article last week, following the publication of the first ever list of prisoners held in Bagram, it appears that a handful of these men may indeed be in Bagram, but not all of them, and it is, therefore, imperative that the publication of this list leads to pressure on the Obama administration to reveal details of all the “disappeared” detainees.

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State-owned Bank of California, State-owned Bank of Florida….state-owned bank in each State!

State-owned bank in every 50 states!
Public voters-owned  banks  in every 50 states!
Let’s go back to pre-Reagan  pre-Nixon  pre-CIA pre-fascist   America!
Dismantle Bank of America,  and divide its properties among 50 states.
Same with JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Since they are now government-controlled (so I last heard…unless it’s only the GM corporation), then government can nationalize them.   Nationalize their properties and divide it among the 50 states.   That’ll get rid of all those pesky Wall-Street bankers and replace them with State-owned public banks or State-owned credit-unions.    It would end all financial fraud (nearly) because the Attorney General of each State would have exceedingly high supervision over a public-owned enterprise.

There is an extremely relevant article here:
Suggest that President Obama and Vice-President Biden look at it:
(Vice-President Biden should focus on distributing wealth and dismantling Wall Street and helping the poor.
Dear Vice-President Biden, please…nationalism is a mere distraction.    I know that trick – because I am a history major – .    “Pre-eminence” of a country means   wealth in the hands of the richest 1%,  and the poorer 99%  are rewarded with “pride” of being ….-an.   But the reality is that wealth is in the hands of the richest 1%, and pride is used to replace the lack of wealth,  to distract the angst  at foreigners,   rather than at the richest 1% of Americans who are robbing the rest.     That trick has been played in every empire.     So,  really,  please stop talking about the “pre-eminence” of America,   you know,  America has had 40 years of “pre-eminence” since Nixon,  and that’s  when  the richest 1%  gained  pre-eminence in bonus pay,  while  the poorer 99% were supposed to be “proud”  (rather than earning a good wage).     Are they supposed to fill their stomach with propaganda stories of how many people their ever “victorious troops” have killed?    Are they supposed to fill their stomach with how powerful the spies are at torturing people?  (O, 90% of the people in Guantanamo were innocent,  this has been admitted)      Really,  when the priority is “pre-eminence”,  it really means  to focus on the wealth of the richest,  while robbing the poor and average Americans,   but tell them to be “proud”,  because they don’t have a decent wage or Medicare for everybody or well-funded public education,   so they have to be distracted with being “proud”  and having angst against foreigners,   rather than angst at those who are robbing them sine 40 years,   the Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Bush   de-regulation and low-tax people,   plus those who spend HALF the national budget on military and weapons.     That is, too many of those in Congress have been going along with the ridiculous military expenditures,  except the Progressives, most of whom are on this list of Friends of the Common People (rather than the few ultra-rich).

Cut Wall Street Out! How States Can Finance Their Own Economic Recovery

Saturday 31 October 2009

Pouring money into the private banking system has only fixed the economy for bankers and the wealthy; it has not done much to address either the fundamental problem of unemployment or the debt trap so many Americans find themselves in.

President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan has so far failed to halt the growth of unemployment: 2.7 million jobs have been lost since the stimulus plan began. California has lost 336,400 jobs. Arizona has lost 77,300. Michigan has lost 137,300. A total of 49 states and the District of Columbia have all reported net job losses.

In this dark firmament, however, one bright star shines. The sole state to actually gain jobs is an unlikely candidate for the distinction: North Dakota. North Dakota is also one of only two states expected to meet their budgets in 2010. (The other is Montana.) North Dakota is a sparsely populated state of less than 700,000 people, largely located in cold and isolated farming communities. Yet, since 2000, the state’s GNP has grown 56 percent, personal income has grown 43 percent and wages have grown 34 percent. The state not only has no funding problems, but this year it has a budget surplus of $1.3 billion, the largest it has ever had.

Why is North Dakota doing so well, when other states are suffering the ravages of a deepening credit crisis? Its secret may be that it has its own credit machine. North Dakota is the only state in the Union to own its own bank. The Bank of North Dakota (BND) was established by the state legislature in 1919, specifically to free farmers and small businessmen from the clutches of out-of-state bankers and railroad men. The bank’s stated mission is to deliver sound financial services that promote agriculture, commerce and industry in North Dakota.

Saving huge money on heating/air conditioning: vertical gardens/vegetables

PORTLAND, Ore. — Urban gardening used to seem subversive. People planted tomatoes in public parks, strung their hops to rooftops to make homebrew and reclaimed empty lots as community farm…
Yet here in one of the more thoroughly tilled cities in America, subversive has come full circle: the federal government plans to plant its own bold garden directly above a downtown plaza. As part of a $133 million renovation, the General Services Administration is planning to cultivate “vegetated fins” that will grow more than 200 feet high on the western facade of the main federal building here, a vertical garden that changes with the seasons and nurtures plants that yield energy savings.

“They will bloom in the spring and summer when you want the shade, and then they will go away in the winter when you want to let the light in,” said Bob Peck, commissioner of public buildings for the G.S.A. “Don’t ask me how you get them irrigated.”

Rainwater, captured on the roof, and perhaps even “gray water” recycled from the interior plumbing are both possibilities….

The G.S.A. says the building will use 60% to 65% less energy than comparable buildings and estimates a savings of $280,000 annually in energy costs. Solar panels could provide up to 15 percent of the building’s power needs. The use of rainwater and low-flow plumbing fixtures will reduce potable water consumption by 68 percent. And energy for lighting will be halved.

“It will be one of the more energy-efficient high-rises in America, possibly in the world,” said James Cutler, whose architecture firm, Cutler Anderson, led the design work.

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In comparison, these buildings in China are just miserable:
covered in advertising rather than greenery.

On second thought, eliminate Corporation Personhood first

On second thought,  it’s better to first eliminate Corporation Personhood.
adding “human” in the first words of 14th Amendment would be enough.

Here, I’ll do something to help the President

A national single-payer style health care reform system would provide a major stimulus for the US economy by creating 2.6 million new jobs, and infusing $317 billion in new business and public revenues, with another $100 billion in wages into the US economy.
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In fact, making Medicare available to all Americans would do more than the president is seeking. Unlike any Democratic proposal, it would cover everyone in the United States, truly control costs and not require additional spending by the government by saving at least $400 billion annually wasted by the insurance industry.

This is the correct thing to do.

Last Friday, when President Obama vanquished the entire Republican caucus in question time in Baltimore he said:

“Now, what I said at the State of the Union is what I still believe. If you can show me and if I get confirmation from health care experts, people who know the system and how it works, including doctors and nurses, ways of reducing people’s premiums, covering those who do not have insurance, making it more affordable for small businesses, having insurance reforms that ensure people have insurance even when they’ve got preexisting conditions, that their coverage is not dropped just because they’re sick, that young people right out of college or as they’re entering in the workforce can still get health insurance – if those component parts are things that you care about and want to do, I’m game.”

Outside, two doctors were arrested for trying to tell the president a better way to really solve America’s health crisis. The president wants a system that doctors confirm works – well, this one is supported by 60% of US doctors. He wants a system that nurses will confirm works. This approach is supported by the National Nurses United – the largest nurses union in the country. And, 2/3 of Americans support their better way.

For more than a year, advocates of expanding Medicare so it covers all Americans have been trying to tell the president how to fix health care. They have faxed, emailed, telephoned, visited Washington, attended town hall meetings … they’ve even gotten arrested protesting their exclusion at hearings. Even the president’s own doctor, David L. Scheiner, has urged him to adopt a national health care program with Medicare for all at its foundation. In every way they know how they have tried to tell the president.

The president claims he will listen to all ideas. Why will he not listen to the idea with the widest public support?
http://www.truthout.org/does-president-obama-really-want-a-better-approach-fix-health-care56591?print

Mr President,  please go for the single-payer Medicare plan.
It would deal a heavy blow against the Republicans, and show them out of step with the best welfare of the American people.
It would also go a long way to restore confidence in the Democrats.
Please remember, liberal Massachusetts voted in a Republican  because they wanted a public-option single-payer  Medicare,   which wasn’t included in your plan.   So they voted in a Republican to stop your privatized plan.
Please do the correct thing, which is favored by 2/3 of Americans.   Please give Medicare to everybody.   It also leads to gain of 2.6 million jobs.

Scanners in European airports…

… are pushed by greedy merchants eager to extort tens or hundreds of billions from European tax payers.

So, whether an European country should or should not purchase those highway-robbery scanners,  should be a decision by referendum  in  each European country.   Let the national populations decide (if Europe still has democracies,  rather than  American military-districts  with European names).

Anders Rasmussen, you American imperialist. Have you gone mad?

NATO … should become the forum for consultation on global security…. said NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Really, I have great suspicion that you are a Quisling to your own people.   It happened before in 1940s,  it surely can happen again.
You know fully well that NATO is a military organization commanded by one warlord: the American Pentagon.   The commander-in-chief of NATO has always been American.   Any country that joins NATO really gives up independence of its own military, and put it under American occupation.   The country also comes under American occupation, as America would send troops (and SPIES and SPY EQUIPMENT) in all those NATO bases… Americans occupying those countries by borrowing the name of NATO.

Europe is in imminent danger of losing all its military forces, and get militarily colonized by America.
Look at all those spineless European countries (except Spain’s Zapatero, and France when it had Chirac)  who would go do fools’ errands for America,  like a dog pack running at the direction of its master.
NATO has far outlived its circumstances.   It should have been dissolved with Warsaw Pact.
It should even more so be dissolved now.   Afghanistan should be the grave of NATO.

Europe should cut ties from America in military command.
Europe should have its own Rapid Reaction Force, with perhaps a joint European Command (with, alternatively  a Spanish/Portuguese, French/Belgian, German/Dutch, British, Italian,  Scandinavian  commander).    (I really loathe the idea of Scandinavian  Social Democracies getting involved in any militaries at all,  so I put it last.   Also, the Slav countries should have their own community,  the East European League, which would include Greece and the Southern Slavs)

No European armies should be under command of America.
Don’t be fooled by America’s WWII history.   Even though it has been only 60 years,  America is now very fascist and TOTALLY different from the long-time-ago-country that fought against Hitler.    America likes to invoke WWII often,  so as to deceive people on what it is now:  an  imperialist oligarchy driven by greed,  wanting to occupy all the countries of the world militarily and economically,  to make a world-wide  feudal society  centered  around the richest 1% of Americans (and those Quislings in Britain and Europe who help them).

America is the biggest evildoer since the dissolution of USSR.    How could an American-controlled military organization   be a “global forum” for solutions?   Don’t you know all the dictators installed by America in other countries?   Duvalier in Haiti, Pinochet in Chile, Somoza in Nicaragua, Park Chun-hee in South Korea, Mohammed Pahlavi in Iran, Saddam in Iraq…
How could you refer to an American military organization as the “global forum”?

Really,  you are not even the leader of NATO.
You are just some “European face” propped up to do advertising.
The real leader of NATO is the American man with military control of NATO armies.    Admiral James G. Stavdris is the current commander of EUROCOM  and “Supreme Allied Commander Europe”  (that is, the commander of NATO).

NATO is such an American imperialist organization, that it’s merely a US military district of the Pentagon.   The Pentagon divides the whole world into military districts.   (Ignore the colors, they are all pieces of evil).      And Europe is occupied by the EUROCOM, or European Command  of the Pentagon.

Pentagon rules EUROCOM  through NATO.
The commander of NATO has always been an American general/admiral.

Anders Rasmussen,  by elevating NATO,  you are making not only your country, but most of Europe into an American colony!   A quasi-satrap of American empire!   (a satrap, is an imperial district, with nominal kings,  who gave allegiance to the Persian Shah,  and opened their treasuries and their countries at the disposal of the Shah).

Really, you Quisling of your own nation, and of Europe!

NATO needs to be dissolved!
France needs to back out of it first, and expel any American troops!
Then Germany and Italy.   Then Belgium and Netherlands.   Then Spain and Portugal.
The East European countries will follow on, because they’d rather have a defense treaty with the RRF (Rapid Reaction Force).

It is very important that Sarkozy be overthrown in the next election,  and Ségolène Royale be elected.
It is very important that  the Social Democrats win the next elections in Germany (do NOT be in favor of Turkey joining EU.   If Turkey should join EU,  then you should first add India and Pakistan and Bangladesh).
It is very important that the Social Democrats remain in government in Spain and Portugal for the next 10 years.
It is very important to start a wealth-distribution movement in Italy,  to overthrow Berlusconi and install a Social Democratic government.

France needs to back out of NATO first, then Germany.

Make an independent Europe without foreign (American) occupation!

The preparation for the Rapid Reaction Force need to continue.   It were to have been ready in 2007, but the attention span has been all derailed by the WilliamTu scandal in America.

Europe should be a collective defense pact, excluding America and excluding the Slavic countries (for less friction with Russia).

Defend Mexico’s society, exterminate homosexual banditry against marriage

Dear President Felipe Calderon, of Mexico:

I fully support you in the endeavor of defending the basic unit of Mexican society.
Each child has the basic human rights of growing up in a family of a father and a mother, male and female.
Please have compassion upon the humankind, and exterminate homosexual banditry against marriage.

There is no “rights” of homosexual activity, no more than there are “right” to be pedophile, or a thief, a murderer, a war criminal.
All those activities are conducted by an urge, and urges have to be classified by the Justice of Heaven,  for an urge doesn’t make it a “rights” and entitlement.
The devils’ servants, the homosexuals and those who advocate for homosexuality as a “rights”,  are one of the greatest enemies of the humankind  (the others are oligarchs  and those who pursue money/wealth and oppress the poor).

Mobilize the entire Mexican society to defend their homes,  against this anti-Christ spirit that speaks in nice words and present itself in nice pictures (of perverted non-families).   Defeat in its early sprouts this ungodly undergrowth of Satanic filth, uproot them all and all and give that ideology no “lebensraum”  in Mexico  within the area of your Constitutional responsibilities.

The other things you need to do:
- Repeal NAFTA,  do Protectionism,  raise tariffs sky-high on non-Mexican-made items.
- develop a domestic manufacturing market, and use tariffs to protect it from foreign imports (as the “Asian tiger” economies practiced between 1950 and 1997, before they were ruined by free-trade)
- Raise a tax of 91% on any Mexican whose annual income is 1 million pesos or more.
- Raise an income tax of 50% on the richest 500 Corporations in Mexico (especially the foreign ones).
- Distribute wealth to the poor
- Create jobs by asking advice from Evo Morales and Luis da Silva.
- nationalize most large enterprises  to make them public-owned.

Sincerely, in Christ

Qiyu William Tu

Wealth distribution and jobs and real power-sharing, Mr Al-Hashimi

Dear Vice President Al-Hashimi of Iraq:

There comes a point where application of military force has done all that it can, and Iraq has reached that point.    This is because military force never solves the root issues (all movie script-writers are idiots when it comes to understanding society).

There are Sunnis (among them, Kurds) afraid of Iraq becoming a Shia dictatorship like Iran.
They have immense distrust of a large military.  The more military force is used, the more the Sunnis would think that the Shia are preparing a dictatorship.

Please do not imitate the Americans, please don’t do an Iraqi-army occupation of Iraq.  It will not go well.    It will merely repeat the past 7 years of history,  except with the Iraqi Army playing the American role.

Here is what Iraq needs:
They are tired of military units that don’t come from their own neighborhood.
They are also tired of 50% unemployment  and  7-year lack of electricity, water services and decent sewage/garbage evacuation.

The Iraqi Army is making the same mistake the Americans made after the 2003 invasion.   Immediately after toppling Saddam, the Americans should have let each town run its own local democracy,  handle its own affairs, and pull all American troops out of the country.

In fact, in 2003 the Iraqis did run good democracies in many towns,  they elected their own local representatives and  governed their local affairs well,  like what Haitians were doing after the earthquake.

But Paul Bremer came in, with the American troops,  and Paul Bremer canceled all the local elections (to the immense betrayal of all the Iraqi people, who expected democracy), rejected all the local leaders,  and appointed his own people in each city,  dictator-style.
Then US troops were deployed in each city, doing surveillance and breeding resentment.

Had Paul Bremer let each local Iraqi city run its own business,  rather than impose a top-down military occupation,  there wouldn’t have been a nation-wide insurgency.

What the Iraqi government needs to do:

• immediate conference with Luis da Silva of Brazil and Evo Morales of Bolivia.  They are experienced people in creating job opportunities and diminishing unemployment  (which is Iraq’s biggest problem).
• high taxes on the richest Corporations and people in Iraq  (starting with Halliburton, and all the military contractors).
  The taxed wealth would be distributed to the provinces, to the poor.
• pull the Iraqi Army out of the cities.
  In fact, disband at least half the Iraqi Army, especially the infantry.
• local security would be organized by local people in each town.   Each town will have their own militia,  however they like it.
• Job creation.
• Keep referring to Luis da Silva and Evo Morales  for advice.
  They are experienced in bringing employment in impoverished countries.
  They are also experienced in resisting American encroachment.
• This is important:
  make the Prime Minister of Iraq, the most powerful position,  to be held by  Shia, Sunni Arab, Kurd,   in a three-turn rotation basis.   So that for one term, the Prime Minister would be Shia, and only chosen from Shia candidates.    For the next term, the Prime Minister would be Sunni Arab  and only chosen from among Sunni Arab candidates.   For the next term,  the Prime Minister would be Kurdish, and only chosen from among the Kurdish candidates.
  This is important for national reconciliation.
  Do this three-turn rule for Prime Minister, and the attacks will decrease significantly.
  Cease using the Iraqi Army, and let people go home to make their own militia, and the attacks will decrease even more
  Create lots of jobs,  distribute wealth to the poor, and the attacks will go to almost none.

  If you don’t do this three-turn rule,  there will be no end of fear by the Sunni in the middle, that their existence is in danger,  and there will be no end of attack on the Shia.   And there will be no end of distrust between the Sunni and Shia,  really slowing the nation to a standstill.

  The Kurds would also be pleased by this three-turn rule, and there would be far less chaos in Mosul and Kirkuk.

• Increase the local authority of each towns.   Put the national government being in an assistance role,  should the towns request it,   rather than a top-down role.
  The communication structure of Iraq has not yet developed to the point of enabling a good  top-down management from Baghdad.  It’s too slow.
  The local governments respond to  their own people’s needs  faster.
  The local governments also know how to best govern their own area.   It is not wise to send in Iraqi Army, and apply the same things in all the areas,   like what the Americans do.
• Since Saddam killed many of the top leadership of Al-Baath in order to seize power,  it can be correctly said that the policies under Saddam were more due to Saddam’s person than to Al-Baath.
  Gamal Abdul Nasser had a similar party in Egypt, and did not result in the repression and reign of terror that the Iraqis experienced from Saddam.
  Therefore, cease the repression against former Baath Party members.
• Let the Anbar province run its own affairs,  with very tribal government, if they like.
• Let the Sunni in the middle have their own Sunni militia.  Make the “Sons of Iraq” to be the Sunni militia.    Have the national Iraqi Army stay out of the Sunni areas.
  Make a pledge to respect and protect Sunni as a minority, in exchange for them not attacking Shia.
  (this would include a stop to “de-Baathification”,  which is some American thing.   De-Baathification is totally preventing reconciliation of the country.
• Stop taking American advice.
  Stop taking American advice and American governance.   Americans don’t know a thing about Iraq,  they don’t know a thing about non-American people.    They try to use formulas (like de-Baathification)  that worked with totally different people and totally different areas,  and they bring the formulas to Iraq,  because the Americans think that all  non-Americans   are all the same.   That’s how ignorant the Americans are.
• Announce that the Kurd area can have its own administration, even as a federated state of Iraq, but must remain part of Iraq, with same tax rate to the national government.    Let the Kurds do their own administration of their area.
• Tell people to stop bombing local markets (where there is buying/selling),  else the unemployment rate will remain at 50%  and everybody will be worse off.
• Negotiate for Kuwait to become a federated-state of Iraq,  so that the wealth of little Kuwait can be spread over the poor vast area of Shia south,  thus assisting the poor by sharing the excessive Kuwaiti wealth.

It is important to cease to think of the “security” of the government, and using the Iraqi Army to maintain it.
It is important to think from the perspective of the population.  And they are have less security because of the nation-wide occupation (by “their own” army).
Therefore, there should be local militias and local governance, assurance of power-sharing (the three-turn Prime Minister rotation, each only for one term),   creation of jobs  and distribution of wealth.

The current American-style occupation will never bring peace,  whether the occupier is the American army or the Iraqi army.   Both are trained to think of their own security,   neither are trained to think from the side of the population.

Barack is doing well with Consumer Financial-Protection Agency

There is one major thing Barack is doing correctly, and with good justice towards the American People.

Barack is pushing for the establishment of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

In this one major action, Barack is on the side of the American People against the wealth-thieves of Wall Street.

What is the Consumer Financial-Protection Agency?
It will be a very good agency (like Environment Protection Agency, and Employment Development Department)

To quote Elizabeth Warren:

1. It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house.
2. But it is possible to [get a] mortgage that has [a] one-in-five chance of putting the family out on the street…

1. Similarly, it’s impossible to change the price on a toaster once it has been purchased.
2. But … it is possible [for evil bankers] to [multiply the amount you owe, even though you signed an agreement for a lesser amount]

The difference between the two … is regulation.

Regulation is a very good thing!
Having regulation is better than having an umbrella when it’s raining,  or having a coat when it’s snowing!

Regulations is when government has the power to supervise  banking-criminals,  and make sure they aren’t doing lawless things,  like scamming people on a mortgage and put the family on the street (after extorting much money out of the family).

The Republicans hate regulations.   They always push to de-regulate.
What happens when the banks are de-regulated?   They have more and more evil-freedom to be lawless (and harmful),  and they lawlessly use banking-methods   to extort the American People,  and first extort the people’s money,  then extort the people’s homes!

It used to be that banks were very well regulated, and no banker would dare commit such financial crimes as were committed by Bernard Madoff, or by the 6 Wall Street banks (JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo/Wachovia)  in the era of 2008/2009.

But the right-wing of politics,  the side of oligarchs and massive-scale thieves,
(mis-named as “right”)   have steadily de-regulated banks and Wall Street  by the actions of Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Bush.
The right-wing has pushed for 40 years to crash the country, and cater to the rich but make the poorer Americans unemployed and lacking basic wealth.

The financial debacle of 2008,  that is the culmination (season finale) of 40 years of Republican de-regulation  (unfortunately, Carter and Clinton-the-husband  did not roll back the Republican de-regulation, they merely tolerated it and did not try to change it back).

The actual unemployment rate of the country is more close to 20%.
It’s the result of Republicans de-regulating banks and Corporations.    It’s the result of Republicans concentrating wealth in the hands of the richest 3 million Americans,  while taking it away from the poorer 297 million Americans.     It’s the result of Republicans lowering taxes on the rich 3 million Americans,  while increasing tax on poorer 297 million Americans  (yet, that’s what those Bush tax-cuts were doing,  reverse-Robin Hood).
It’s the result of Republicans doing Free-Trade (allowing sweatshops) and throwing away millions of jobs … who are now in Third World countries instead of in America.
It’s the result of Republicans encouraging the growth of Fortune 500 such as Wal-Mart… and each Fortune 500 grow in wealth by destroying hundreds and thousands of small businesses, causing unemployment.

I have to re-read that book to get the exact number, but if you would please read “When Corporations rule the world” by David Korten,  you would see that
the richest 300 or 500 Corporations,   their wealth is about 30% of all the wealth on the planet.   But they share it with less than 0.5% of all the workers on the planet.

In other words,  it is destructive to nearly all people (except a few very rich)  to have huge Corporations that are privately owned.    When the richest 300 or 500 Corporations own about 30% of the world’s wealth,  then they should also hire 30% of all the workers in the world, to provide them with livelihood.

But no, they hire a tiny amount of workers compared to their stored wealth.  Why?   This is so that they would pay a tiny amount in salary,  so that the CEO, Board of Directors and Shareholders    can pocket the immense wealth that remains.
This is why it can be accurate said that no person can be a billionaire without being a horrible criminal and evildoer  (and I’d include the hundred-million and ten-million  -aires  in that category as well).    No person can achieve that much wealth by their own labor,  only by robbing the labor of other people and then not paying them a living wage.    Also, by ignoring the suffering of poor populations, by not hiring as many workers as possible,   so that the richest few can pocket more money.

Pollution happens for the same reason.   The richest few don’t want to spend money installing filters.    They don’t love compassion on the poor.   They love wealth,  and would rather not-spend the money to install filters,   that way they can keep more money stored in their pockets, and be richer.

All these destructive behaviors… they are done by a few rich people (less than 3 million Americans)  against the average and poor  (297 million Americans).
They are also done by the richer population of the planet (maybe richest 5%-10%) against the poorer people of the planet (the poorer 90%-95% living in Latin America, Africa and Asia)

It is possible to reduce these destructive behaviors by the richest rich.
Regulation  can reduce these destructive behaviors.

All who have compassion on the poor,  would support regulations (regulations against banking/Corporations).

Regulations are pushed by the left-wing of politics (not perfect, but overall, the left-wing is the correct side of politics – excluding Marxism and homosexuality.
Whoever loves justice and compassion…usually the left-wing of politics is in accordance with that.     The right-wing of politics is entirely dedicated to gathering wealth for a few rich).

- add: the “left-wing” and “right-wing”  are recent naming done by people,  probably within the last 100 years.    Unfortunately, in English, the word “right”  sounds better,   and it has been stolen by the  oligarchy side, in labeling themselves.   But when talking about politics,  you have to remember that the “left-wing” and “right-wing” are labels done by recent men,  not by God.    And in politics,  the right-wing is the love of wealth.
Marxism was a Jesus-less attempt to overcome greed… so it failed.
Even though Marxism is more spectacularly known as being on the left,  it is a rather small portion of the left-wing.   The other things on the left-wing are:
advocacy for human rights,  labor activism  or asking for fair wages and safe working conditions,   progressive taxation  or  taxing the excessive wealth of the rich to distribute to the poor,   environmental protection or preventing the greed of the richest from harming the poor people,  democracy,  Social Democracy  which is democracy  combined with wealth-distribution,    and Christianity when correctly practiced is definitely left-wing in governance.

Of course, Marxism believed itself to be superior to all these things,  so Marxism tried to eradicate all these other good things, in addition to opposing the right-wing.   The result of Marxism was quite bad.

The things on the right-wing of politics:

• de-regulation:  to make Corporations and banks lawless,  so they can extort people or destroy people’s lives without punishment.
• flat tax:   to tax rich and poor the same rate,  so that the wealth is not distributed from the rich to the poor
• tax cuts for the rich:   make it so that rich people pay less tax, and poor people pay more tax.  This is even worse extortion.
• privatization:   destroy the public-owned enterprises and make them for-profit.   Public-owned enterprises like public transportation should not be privatized,  because when public-owned,  the aim is for low-profit, low-cost to the population,  while hiring as many workers as possible.
  When privatized,  the greedy CEO will want to pocket more money,  so he fires as many workers as possible (more money saved on salary = more of his personal money),  he diminish or takes away medical care for sick workers (less money spent on workers = more of his personal money),   he increases the prices of service  (more money extorted from the population = more of his personal money).
• oligarchy:  the right-wing version of democracy, which is no democracy at all.    Let the people vote,  but twist the election process so that only richest people can ever reach the voting-list.     That way, no matter what the people vote,  the result will always be a rich person,   who will then think for the wealth of the rich,  and  not think about the well-being of the poor.
• militarism:   because the right-wing government is hijacked by the richest few,  even when it’s a “democracy”,   there will be many oppressed poor people.    They are likely to have a lot of protests.    And the richest few are interested in conserving their wealth (hence conservatives)  and not distributing it to the poor.   So they hire a huge number of soldiers to protect their wealth from their own people (the actual meaning of “national security”).    They also try to find some “outside enemy” (like…in the case of Chinese merchants, Japan)  for the population to divert its anger on,   rather than the real source of the country’s problem,  which is the lack of wealth distribution.

  Sometimes, the military is commanded by the richest men to go fight a war, merely to distract the country from its own corruptions  (the Catholic church sent people on the Crusades starting in 1099, to kill Muslims as enemies, because the Catholic Church was extremely corrupt and wanted to divert attention  from the immense wealth concentrated in the hands of a few)

• colonization:  to go into someone else’s country and rob the wealth.   The wealth is pocketed by the richest few aristocrats.
  The rest of the country is “rewarded” with nationalist pride, that their country has the power to go rob someone else.
  Colonization, in the obvious way, is done by sending soldiers to invade a country and occupy it,  then forcing the government to sign an unequal treaty that allows the robbery of the land’s wealth  (such as British Empire did with China, or what America is currently trying to do with Iraq).
  Colonization, in the more perverse way,  does not use troops  so that people don’t notice.  That way people wouldn’t resist.     Envoys from the imperial government are sent to the government of the poorer country,  to sign a free-trade agreement  (“economic partnership agreement”,  in Africa).
  Or, bankers are sent from the IMF/World Bank,  and ask the poorer country to take a loan.   But the conditions on taking the loans,  is that the poorer country would sign an unequal treaty,   allowing the invasion of IMF bankers,  who will do “Structural Adjustment” on the country’s government and wealth.    After the “structural adjustment” are done,  the country becomes a colony of the IMF and the Corporations controlling IMF  (the Fortune 500 of America, and some from Europe)
• There are more tricks in the right-wing of politics.  But it’s all for one objective:   to increase the wealth of the richest few,  by robbing the poorer many.
  It doesn’t take a scientist to realize that this is the wrong method of governance.

And for those who dislike the Marxist government in China… it has Marxism on paper.   In practice,  it has some left-wing and some right-wing policies  (and half the social problems are caused by the right-wing policies of privatization and pursuit of wealth.  The other half of the social problems are caused by the Marxist policy of opposing democracy  and  having  a  one-party rule).

China must not have a right-wing government, with all right-wing policies.
China must go from a  mistaken left-wing government (Marxist)  to a correct left-wing  government  (Social Democracy as in Norway).

Back to the main topic:  The Republicans have de-regulated the banks/Corporations   more and more for 40 years.   They have also privatized more and more things.
The result, is that unemployment has grown in this country since 1969/1970 (when Nixon, the first crook installment,  took office).   The result, is that the actual value of the median wage has  fallen in this country since 1970,  but American workers are working longer hours since 1970.
The result, is that the wealth owned by the poorer half of the population has decreased.     The wealth owned by the richest 1%  has exceedingly increased.

Nearly everybody became poorer,  while a few richest rich became near-infinitely richer.

That’s robbery of the many.
That’s the result of right-wing governance,  de-regulation, tax cuts on the rich, privatizations (of all the “socialized” things).

It results in higher unemployment.
It results in lower wages for the working families.
It results in more lawlessly evil bankers
It results in bigger Fortune 500 Corporations that destroy millions of small businesses  but  never provide the jobs to replace those they destroyed.
It results in less regulations on Corporations
It results in de-regulated Corporations scamming people and polluting people with impunity
It results in less jobs in America as de-regulated Corporations  brazenly open sweatshops overseas  (the Americans are denied jobs at home,  the foreigners are given “jobs” that deny a living wage and humane working conditions)
It results in destruction of smaller and non-sweatshop businesses based in America,  as free-trade (lack of Protectionism)  means sweatshop-labor items can be sold far cheaper than honestly-made items,  thus driving smaller and non-sweatshop businesses  out of business.
The right-wing governance penalizes honesty,  and rewards oppressive extortion.
In addition, it results in the propping of more than 40 dictators by the CIA (I read from someone else, I can’t yet list all 40, but I can list at least 20).
It results in 700 military bases occupying 117 foreign countries.
It results in 10000 nuclear weapons (you only hear about the missiles, but there are other types, like nuclear bombs, mines, artillery shells and torpedoes).
It results in one dollar out of every two  spent on military-related things.
It results in shortage of funds for education.
It results in the Republicans throwing away trillions at Wall Street (Barack went along with them, but the idea of priority-to-richest-people is right-wing, and started by Bush)
It results in huge funds given to the Pentagon and military,    but that fund is not instead used for universal health-care.

The Christians and “Christians” in this country have been fooled by the misnomer of “right”-wing  (without pondering that it’s a false-naming and false-advertising, compared to the other meanings of the word “right”).    They have tried hard to hitch the Christian wagon to the right-wing governance,  and in the process  lost their own Christian souls,  strayed from the presence of God, and antagonized many justice-loving compassion-loving people  into thinking that Christianity is a religion where the practice consists of oppressing the poor through sweatshops,  killing poor people through pollution, installing brutal dictators in other countries, torturing poor people, going to war to increase the wealth of the oil industry, doing multi-billion dollar frauds on Wall Street,   then perverting the law by de-regulation  (destroying/erasing the laws)   or  by corruption (not obeying the laws)   so that the evildoers doing these things go unpunished.
And add on top of that,  frequent talk of “freedom”, “family values”, “morality”, “the importance of prayer” and God.

And, the horror,  “defending” the Constitutional freedoms  by using Patriot Act  to deny Constitutional freedoms to everybody  (and Admiral Dennis BLIAR  announced a few days ago that Americans don’t even have the freedom to live, or to be arrested first)

Since the right-wing (and the militarists)  are so Orwellian, it’s better to not “defend”  the Constitutional freedoms.

Whoever wants a fair society must oppose right-wing in government.
Please vote for Progressive and Green candidates in this November elections.

Help by pushing to pass the Fair Elections Now Act.
Help by electing left-wing candidates who will speak for the People.
Help by supporting the left-wing NGOs on this page.

Also, of course,  help by supporting the Consumer Financial Protection Agency,  so that there would be “human rights” lawyers  helping to protect your “human rights”  of  not getting scammed by bankers and loans people.

And help by living genuine Christianity and teaching it to others  (Micah 6:8).   The practice of genuine Christianity would result in a left-wing Social Democratic government,  with wealth distribution.

Repent, O people of the right-wing in politics,  because your governance method results in evil and what the LORD God loathes: love of wealth, love of vanity,  and love of pleasure caused by massive advertising/consumerism (
which is the Fortune 500’s method of increasing their wealth,  by taking it from the population).
Repent from your support of the right-wing governance,  and advocate for wealth-distribution,  advocate for higher taxes on the rich,  advocate for regulation  of  Corporation greed,   advocate for environment protection  against pollution,  advocate for less spending on military and more on education and health-care.   Advocate against free-trade and for fair trade.  Advocate against free-market  and for government-controlled market.   Advocate against Fortune 500 and for small businesses and for public-sector enterprises.    Advocate against propping up dictators  and for governments respectful of the poor.    Advocate against advertising and for public education (especially about social responsibility to the poor).
Advocate against the right-wing’s pursuit of wealth and pursuit of nationalist/militarist vanity  while chewing some “Christian” words.
Advocate for the Way of life of our LORD God, which is to think about the poor (Galatians 2:10, Luke 3:11), to do justice for the oppressed(Isaiah 1:17),  and to not have vanity in front of God or men(Proverbs 6:17).
In other words, to do justice, to love mercy/compassion, and to walk humbly with your God.

拆大群穷人老百姓的屋子，建小群州官富豪的别墅 – 上海和香港的富商鬼子

以血汗工厂和污染，扣工钱，扣过滤器，扣人命，而积攒起来的财产，如欠血债。
以驱逐穷人拆民房，导致大批穷人落入贫困，为了霸占穷人的土地建富人的豪华房
的，如战犯。
中国人需要分财产。
任何收入高于最低工资十倍的，没有财产权，只有跟其他所有人平等作老百姓的权利。
也就是说，任何年薪高于十万人民币的，要倾家荡产，分给穷人。此人在中国收入
的最高5%或1%，不分配财产给更穷的70%，欺人太甚。
任何豪华房子一律没收，为公家财产，作为公用学校或公用医院。
否则社会没有公平。

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French luxury tells a tale of China’s haves and have-nots

“Communist” nation’s new rich lavish millions on luxury homes

{really, the “Communist” Party only kept a name.
It has, by rhetoric, belief in Marxism  and tries to achieve Socialism.
It has, in practice,  free-market Corporation-fascism,  hindered only by the preservation of some public-sector enterprises,  and by an authoritarian government that doesn’t let  Corporations rule the country.    Thus the authoritarian government is saving China from getting colonized by Wall Street,  by not letting free-market Capitalism take over the country.
But whatever of Capitalism that is allowed in China,  it harms so many poor people.
And the authoritarian government, even though it is saving China by controlling the Capitalism,  it is also harming so many poor people,  because it prevents  a free-press from reporting on all the social problems that need to be known,  namely the perversion of justice and the plight of the poor.

China needs to become democratic in the government-population relation,  and keep authoritarian in the government-market  relation,   and abandon Marxism in favor of European-style socialism, where poor people are thought about first.
In other words, China needs to become Norway-in-Asia 挪威, or Brazil-in-Asia 拔西, or Spain-in-Asia 西半亚     因为原在的字有不恰当的双重意思(比如“巴西”)，所以我自用我的音译。
China needs to be a Social Democracy.   Democratic in government,  and Socialist in economy.  Not Mao’s socialism,  but the socialism of Norway, Spain, Brazil.
It is not possible to achieve a fair society for poor people through Marxism.
But it is possible through Social Democracy,  which is leftist government,  European style.

But these monsters,  they are imitating  fascism and oligarchy and monarchy,  European style. That is,  the right-wing evils of Europe(and America),  the imperialism on the poor.   These monsters are imitating the 19th-century imperialists  and  colonizing their own country!}

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/french-luxury-tells-a-tale-of-chinas-haves-and-havenots-1883676.html
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China is undergoing a property boom. All over the country they are building slightly alarming neo-Gothic, neo-Tudor, neo-classical piles as the communist nation’s super-rich hunger for the look of a European pad combined with the luxury of an Asian high-end villa.

At the Palais de Fortune development, houses cost up to £5.5m each. They are generally sold long before they are built to Chinese buyers, either from the mainland or from Hong Kong. Inside, the compound feels like another planet, as you pass golden golf carts with badges on the bonnet reminiscent of Rolls-Royce’s Silver Lady. The villas are an incongruous vision of European elegance amid the more typical Beijing suburban features of flat-bed tricycles and barely paved dirt roads.

“The first two phases are all sold out, and we have started working on phase three,” said Tang Ming, deputy marketing director for the development. “The houses run between 43 million yuan (£3.9m) and 63 million yuan (£5.7m) and tend to be bought by Chinese buyers – from Hong Kong and Malaysia, but mostly the mainland, from Wenzhou and Shanghai and Beijing. They are bought by successful people who are busy and want to be near the airport.”
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The wealth gap between rich and poor is growing, and there is a certain amount of resentment around about the prices some of these villas are fetching. While the über -wealthy are splashing the cash and taking advantage of low interest rates, a recent report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences showed more than 80 per cent of urban Chinese cannot afford to buy homes.

Donna Edwards is a good Congresswoman

Please vote for her to keep her in office.
She can be depended on to advocate for the poor and average people, against the fascism of the rich.

This, would, save Democracy in America

First, pass an already-in-Congress law called Fair Elections Now Act
Then, do this Constitutional Amendment.

This would fix Congress.
Congress’ biggest problem, is that the members are constantly spending time raising money.   Half their time  in office is not spent working,  but in raising money.
That leaves nearly all Congress members vulnerable to bribes or to Corporation-pressures.

So, fixing Congress’  fundraising methods  would give the members time to actually work for the nation.   It would also significantly do away with Corporation influence.
The Corporation Personhood can always be brought up later, with a later wave of Congressmen elected into Congress through   election-process  that would have been fixed  by passing the reforms mentioned above.

Ideas are all courtesy of  www.Change-Congress.org

China didn’t/doesn’t allow parents to protest

China needs to let parents protest, to have a harmonious society.
There must first be love of justice, compassion towards the poor and oppressed, and humility against vanity (in other words, priority must not be given to the rich, as if they were more important, but people must be treated equally).
Then there will be harmony.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/7/chinas_unnatural_disaster_new_hbo_documentary

More reason to revoke fascist Barack’s Nobel Peace Prize

NEW YORK, Feb 5, 2010 (IPS) – Civil liberties advocates and legal authorities struck back Friday at what they describe as the “deliberate targeted killing of U.S. citizens far away from any active hostilities…[by random wishes from the President]“

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Attorney George Brent Mickum, who has defended a number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, told IPS, “I guess my sense is that it’s just more fear mongering. They kill somebody and don’t need to offer any justification.”

“We have killed thousands of innocent civilians while attempting to target alleged operatives. And let us not forget how frequently our intelligence has been wrong about alleged operatives,” Mickum noted.

He added, “My clients Bisher al Rawi, Jamil el-Banna, Martin Mubanga, abu Zubaydah, and Shaker Aamer all are alleged to have been operatives based on intel. In every case that intel was incorrect. I don’t have any expectation that our intel with respect to alleged American operatives is likely to be any better.”

Another constitutional scholar, Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois Law School, told IPS that “this extrajudicial execution of human beings” violates both international human rights law and the fifth amendment of the U.S. constitution.

“The U.S. government has now established a ‘death list’ for U.S. citizens abroad akin to those established by Latin American dictatorships during their so-called dirty wars,” he said.

The human rights advocacy community was equally forceful in its pushback. Daphne Eviatar, an attorney with Human Rights First, told IPS, “The short answer is that combatants can be targeted and civilians cannot under international law. Their citizenship isn’t relevant. But just being a ’suspected terrorist’ doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a combatant.”

She added, “The key question, and where there may be serious disagreement, is whether the person targeted is ‘directly participating in hostilities’. If not, and they’re targeted, it’s a war crime.”

Chip Pitts, president of the Bill of Rights Defence Committee, told IPS, “As with its embrace of the [George W.] Bush approach to indefinite detention, the Obama administration’s even greater reliance on targeted extra-judicial killing – including of U.S. citizens – is a tragic legal, moral, and practical mistake.”
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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50236

Pentagon refuses to hand over tortured man’s missing throat

1 – Pentagon refuses to hand over tortured man’s missing throat
2 – Barack, the black military-fascist, is cooperating with Republicans in running a dictator regime,  where the Americans will be treated as badly as the Iraqis.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/02/05/pentagon-wont-hand-over-dead-prisoners-missing-throat-and-other-disturbing-revelations/

The Republican’T Party planning Jim Crow laws

Jim Crow laws are laws made by Southern plutocrats before Martin Luther King Jr., so that blacks couldn’t vote. This kept poor-average-people’s-advocates from holding government, and kept Southern States’ government to being plutocracy (or servants of the richest few only) for 200 years.

So, you either choose to have our Democracy (our republic),  and vote for Democrats.
Or you choose to have  a plutocracy (a dictatorship, a Wall-Street plantation regime…however you call it) and vote for the fascist Republicans.

The opening [Republican] speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a “literacy test” to protect America from presidents like Obama — a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/145558/shocker%3A_tea_party_convention_opening_speaker_suggests_a_return_to_jim_crow_voting_laws

Republicans are preparing a Stalinist regime

American People never gave permission to the government to kill them.
How could you let this spy-fascist of CIA person “decide” laws without public permission?
FYI, since the country is ruled by Constitution, and not Hitler, the government doesn’t have any “rights”, except those specifically given to it by the population.
And no one has ever voted to die at the hands of the government, no one has given the government the permission to do so without an arrest (for a terrible crime), a trial by jury, and even then, the public can vote away the death penalty.

Other than that process, the government doesn’t have the right to kill its own citizens.
The government doesn’t have the rights to kill foreigners in foreign countries either, other than a Declaration of War by Congress or a UN mandate. There is neither in Iraq or Afghanistan, so all those people are murdered. All the airstrikes in Pakistan/Yemen, are murders.

If you machine-gun down a whole crowd of people in a ghetto, chances are that you’ll kill some criminal…eventually. Really, you can do that in New York and say the same.
But that does NOT give permission to kill people like that without arrest and trial and conviction by jury.
So, killing huge numbers of people in Pakistan (with the CIA’s ability to “tell the truth”, I am certain that most of the people are innocent Pakistanis, just like most people in Guantanamo are innocent Arabs) probably gets a few Al-Qaeda persons, once in a while. But it is irrelevant whether the US government dislikes a person, it is criminal action to kill someone like that without going through arrest-trial by jury – execution by death penalty. Or a declaration of war against Pakistan. Neither of these have happened.
Same with Afghanistan and Iraq.

So, every death in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Pakistan = the same thing as if some thugs rushed in those countries, and started killing people randomly. They were all assassinations.

The UN should have the principles to prosecute Bush as war criminal for all those things (and Barack himself, for allowing these to go on).

As the so-pious Thomas Manton or some other Puritan wrote in one of his Sermons: (paraphrase)
Practice does not define Law.
Law defines Practice.

In other words, laws are not changed by how often they are broken.
The behavior of committing crimes, even when it happens often, does not change a law. Behaviors do not define the law.
It’s the law that define (and restrict) the behaviors.

Top 10 Problems with America Killing Its Own Citizens

Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.

February 5, 2010

The director of U.S. national intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee the government has the right to kill Americans abroad.

Here are 10 problems with this:

1. Acts that are crimes under national and international law don’t cease to be crimes because you cross a border.

2. Acts that are crimes under national and international law don’t cease to be crimes because you engage in them frequently. Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.

3. Killing people has nothing whatsoever to do with gathering so-called intelligence.

4. Even in this age in which senators and house members petition and write public letters to the president imploring him to obey laws, rather than introducing legislation, issuing subpoenas, holding impeachment hearings, or defunding agencies, the fact remains that Congress, above all, IS the government, and it is just not the place of the director of national thuggery to come in and dictate what the law will or will not be.

5. Having made the globe a battlefield and sanctioned crimes including lawless imprisonment, torture, warrantless spying, indiscriminant bombings, and the use of white phosphorous, depleted uranium, and other sickening weapons, on the grounds that all is fair and legal in war, preventing Americans from becoming the innocent victims of the war is becoming harder and harder. If active military can be on duty here, if we can be spied on, kidnapped, and imprisoned here. If our most prominent foreign death camp can be relocated here, by what logic — and for how long — can government assassinations of Americans (without trial) be confined to elsewhere?

6. Typically when we assassinate people abroad, a lot of other innocent people are killed in the process. Those are all murders. That too will come home if there is not resistance soon, major resistance to this madness.

7. We are being asked to trust extrajudicial decisions on whether or not to murder, not just to allegedly wise judges who are in too big a hurry or find it logistically unfeasible to hold a trial, but to the very people who lied us into the wars that are motivating most of the international hostility toward our country and draining most of the resources Americans need at home.

8. No republic has ever survived putting this kind of power in the hands of a single ruler, with no independent legislature, no independent press, and no independent popular resistance. And we’re almost there.

9. These people usually only admit to believing they have the barbaric “right” to do things that they have already done.

10. What are the chances the Director of Intelligence will never consider a president a threat to national security?
http://www.alternet.org/rights/145556/top_10_problems_with_america_killing_its_own_citizens

Needs fundraising for these candidates:

All these candidates are, more or less, anti-fascist Democrats.
All of these candidates are in a leaning-Republican area.
The higher the R+ number is, the higher is the area’s Republican-leaning.
The letter-number code is their State, plus the Congressional District.  So TX-17, would be Texas, 17th Congressional District.

So, whoever doesn’t want the country to be taken over by fascism, please campaign for these people, fund-raise for these people, and vote for them.

Chet Edwards	TX-17	R+20
Bobby Bright	AL-02	R+16	N/A
Ike Skelton	MO-04	R+14
Frank Kratovil Jr.	MD-01	R+13	N/A
Rick Boucher	VA-09	R+11
Earl Pomeroy	ND-AL	R+10
Alan B. Mollohan	WV-01	R+9
Brad Ellsworth	IN-08	R+8
Christopher P. Carney	PA-10	R+8
John M. Spratt Jr.	SC-05	R+7
Ann Kirkpatrick	AZ-01	R+6	N/A
Betsey Markey	CO-04	R+6
Baron P. Hill	IN-09	R+6
Heath Shuler	NC-11	R+6
Harry Teague	NM-02	R+6	N/A
Harry E. Mithcell	AZ-05	R+5
John T. Salazar	CO-03	R+5
Collin C. Peterson	MN-07	R+5
Mike McIntyre	NC-07	R+5
Eric J. J. Massa	NY-29	R+5	N/A		√
Thomas S. P. Perriello	VA-05	R+5	N/A
Gabrielle Giffords	AZ-08	R+4
Ciro D. Rodriguez	TX-23	R+4
Bart Stupak	MI-01	R+3
John J. Hall	NY-19	R+3	√
Alan Grayson	FL-08	R+2	N/A
Mark H. Schauer	MI-07	R+2	N/A
Bob Etheridge	NC-02	R+2
Michael A. Arcuri	NY-24	R+2
Steve Kagen	WI-08	R+2
Jerry McNerney	CA-11	R+1
Deborah L. Halvorson	IL-11	R+1	N/A
Bill Foster	IL-14	R+1
Timothy J. Walz	MN-01	R+1
John H. Adler	NJ-03	R+1	N/A
Bill Owens	NY-23	R+1
John P. Murtha	PA-12	R+1
Carol Shea-Porter	NH-01	EVEN		√
Timothy H. Bishop	NY-01	EVEN

Party of the Few-Rich: “poor people are animals” | So, the Poor-Many, please overthrow Republicans, raise taxes on the rich

the article is so good, I pasted as much of it as possible.

Republican Party:  cater to the richest 1%.   Also, they think non-rich people are animals (that is… the average Americans driven out of their homes by Wall Street extortion).

Americans’ answer should be:   overthrow Republicans wherever you see them,    elect  Progressive Democrats,  elect Green Party
RAISE TAXES on the richest rich (HALF the wealth in the country is hoarded by the rich 3 million Americans.      The non-rich 297 million Americans  are squeezed into the other half.
It’s time to raise taxes on the richest Corporations, and richest individuals, and seize that excessive luxury-wealth  to create jobs for poor people.
)

http://www.alternet.org/news/145538/hightower%3A_gop_is_the_party_that_thinks_helping_the_poor_and_hungry_is_like_feeding_%27stray_animals%27
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Andre Bauer? He’s the Lieutenant governor of South Carolina

Andre proclaimed that much of his political thinking was shaped by his grandmother and that he had learned a valuable lesson from her.

“She told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why?” he asked, pausing for comedic effect. “Because they breed! You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce.”
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The need for food stamps has been soaring as more and more Americans are falling out of the middle class into poverty. From 2000 to 2008, 5 million more were added to the poverty rolls, and that was before the economic collapse of the last two years. In fact, check this out Andre, and laugh if you feel like it: About 6 million Americans today are living entirely on food stamps — they’ve lost their jobs and have no other income. That’s one out of every 50 of us, and their numbers are growing rapidly. Now, isn’t that a hoot?

Well, one who’s not laughing is Republican member of Congress John Linder. This far-out Georgia right-winger is irked that America’s food stamp program will grow to more than $60 billion this year. “This is craziness,” Linder barked to a New York Times reporter.

{I add:  Federal government waste $52 billion per year on nuclear weapons, and $40 billion will be wasted to fund merely-30000 Americans to go make the Afghans even more hostile.}

“We’re at risk of creating an entire class, a subset of people, just comfortable getting by living off the government.”

Comfortable? When was the last time this pampered lawmaker experienced the “comforts” of the food stamp life? Linder himself has been “living off the government” for 18 years, but at the high end — drawing $174,000 a year in pay, plus subsidized health care, a fat pension and generous perks of office.

Hypocrisy aside, Linder is an anti-government, laissez-faire extremist who buys into Bauer’s fantasies about lazy, good-for-nothing strays getting food stamps.

“You don’t improve the economy by paying people to sit around and not work,” he grumps, adding, “You improve the economy by lowering taxes.”

Really? Perhaps the gentleman from Georgia has forgotten that he and the whole Washington insider crowd tried that scam again and again throughout the past decade, slashing all sorts of taxes for corporations and the wealthy. Since Linder is a multimillionaire, that economic “plan” undoubtedly worked out splendidly for him.
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Also, after the 10-year frenzy of tax-cutting, middle-class families are earning less today, in real dollars, than they did in 1999. Add in skyrocketing health care costs and the plummeting value of people’s homes, and we get the harsh reality of mushrooming poverty.

So that “subset of people” on food stamps whom Linder so callously denigrates are [results of his actions]! The food stamp program has had to grow because the [low-tax] that [the Conservatives] pushed has wrecked America’s middle class.
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Republican Party’s official stance: wealthy = human; not-wealthy = animal

That does explain why Republicans have been using CIA, since 1947, to install so many brutal dictatorships in poorer countries, resulting in many millions of death, and brutal suffering for hundreds of millions of poor people.
That does explain why Republicans have been using Free-Trade, since…1970s Nixon-era, to colonize poor countries, to set up sweatshops and rob the wealth of foreign lands.
That does explain why Republicans have been using Corporation Personhood (a perversely devilish twisting of the word “person” in the 14th Amendment) to encourage excessive power in the Corporations, even at the harm of human beings (low-wage, toxic pollution, obstruction of anti-Corporation lawsuits when humans are harmed).
That does explain why Republicans have been using free-market/free-trade doctrine to de-regulate Corporations, making them lawless, and expanded their wealth to the point that HALF the wealth in America is owned by the richest 1% of the population (the few owners of the Fortune 500 and Wall Street).

The Republicans value the lives of the richest few.
They don’t care a bit about the lives of the non-rich… that is, the lives of 99% of the Americans.

This is why the Republicans funneled 14 trillion (a year of America’s entire economy is only worth 3 trillion) into a few tens of thousands of bankers on Wall Street, instead of into the pocket of the average Americans.

The richest persons, their lives are more valuable.

Barack, so far, seems to be a believer in this.
He has forgotten about his kin. He has not spoken against the Bush coup in Haiti, when Bush overthrew the man who did care for the poor (Aristide is the man), to install a fascist who only cares for the rich.

Barack has forgotten that the lives of the poor are equally valuable as the lives of the rich. This is how he wants to keep those poor people in Guantanamo forever. This is why he hastes to listen to Timothy Geithner and the Pentagon, but isn’t as hasty to listen to the NAACP and Human Rights Watch.

The Christians in this country (the real Christians, not the Republicans) need to pray that Barack loves the poor people, pray that Barack doesn’t cooperate with evil people such as these:

http://www.indigojournal.com/diary/1644/bauers-stray-animals-comments-represent-gop-orthodoxy

Bauer’s ‘Stray Animals’ Comments Represent GOP Orthodoxy

by: Tim Kelly
Sun Jan 24, 2010 at 11:10:23 AM EST

There’s a reason not a single Republican candidate has stepped forward to condemn Andre Bauer’s comments saying poor people are stray animals – because Bauer is only expressing mainstream thought in the SC GOP.

Henry McMaster, Nikki Haley and Pretty Boy Barrett know that repudiating Bauer will cost them votes in the June primary. But their silence isn’t just a political calculation – it’s a core conviction of the party they represent.

The first thought of every GOP candidate who heard Bauer’s remarks wasn’t shock and disgust… [it was: "I wish I said the same thing first."]
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In a country that worships at the altar of unfettered capitalism, there is no greater sin than being poor, except being poor and black at the same time.
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There is a gruesomely scary flaw in this Amendment

Amendment XXVIII

Section 1. The sovereign right of the people to govern being essential to a free democracy, the First Amendment shall not be construed to limit the authority of Congress and the States to define, regulate, and restrict the spending and [any] activity of any corporation, limited liability entity, or other corporate entity created by state or federal law or the law of another nation.

Section 2. Nothing contained in this Article shall be construed to abridge the freedom of the press.

The danger is to have an Amendment that doesn’t deal with the problem.

Terrible flaw #1:
what about the authority of the People? (grassroot level voter’s propositions).
This only gives authority to Congress members and State legislatures… the VERY persons who would take Corporation bribes to get into office. They are not the most motivated people to regulate Corporation spending.
The average persons do not take Corporation bribes, therefore the People is best put at regulating Corporation spending.

Terrible flaw #2:
This only “regulates” the spending by Corporations.
It needs to be banned altogether.

Terrible flaw #3:
This would give the government to define/regulate/forbid   ANY activity of a Corporation, not merely election-financing activity.
In other words,  should this law pass,  the government can suddenly forbid a non-profit Corporation like www.bible.com   from preaching Christianity, or speaking against homosexuality.  The government can suddenly order www.bible.com  to  not display certain parts of the Bible  (like those parts that denounce homosexuality as evil).
The government can suddenly forbid the publishing Corporations from  printing any book that criticizes American war crimes, or criticizes sweatshops.
The government can also suddenly forbid any Corporation from displaying information about an opposition Party (like Progressive-Democrat Party, or Green Party) during the campaigning for elections.

Terrible flaw #4:
This doesn’t make it clear that “person” in the 14th Amendment only refers to human beings, and doesn’t refer to Corporations, which are artificial “persons”.
The entire Corporation Personhood comes from that one word in the 14th Amendment.

The biggest and most horrible flaw of all (and I wonder whether this has been deliberately added with sinister motive):

…or other corporate entity created by state or federal law or the law of another nation

This Amendment says that a “corporate entity” created by government law can have its Free Speech and any activity, revoked by Congress or the States.

There can definitely be a situation where, the US government decides to get really tyrannical, and forcibly creates each person as a one-person Corporation.
Then everybody would lose their Free Speech.

Not only that, and this is SO SINISTER.
You would lose ANY activity! The government would then restrict any activity of yours. (re-read the “Constitutional” amendment above)

And even worse!
Any other nation’s government (not elected by you) can forcibly “create” you as a Corporation, and by this law, you would lose all freedoms and rights, because the US government would be able to do whatever it wants with you.
In other words, the US government has many puppet nations.
For instance, Palau is a puppet nation of the US government. Djibouti is a puppet nation of the US government… half the size of Florida but its population is only 300 thousand, and both the US and French put their imperial troops there, and essentially control the government to do whatever the American militarists want it to do.
Egypt and Jordan are puppet nations of the US government, they have “torture room-service for-rent”, and the US ships prisoners there to get tortured.
Should the sinister fascists want it, the “government” of Palau, or the “government” of Djibouti (i.e. some Republican guy sitting in the dungeons of the Pentagon) could get a database of all American citizens, and forcibly “create” each one of them as a Corporation.

And, by the “law of other nations”, as that above-law announces, you would suddenly and totally lose all your freedoms and rights, and become lower than a slave on a Southern plantation.
Worse, you can’t even challenge it, because only the State government and the Congress can “define” and “regulate” and “restrict” ANY of your activities. You lose even the ability to “define” your activities.
So, in other words, the tyrannical government could decide that…speaking anything negative about the government is terrorism (so you’d have to continually praise the government, like how when Stalin enters a room, no Soviet citizen dared to stop clapping, and they kept clapping on and on, because it was “treason” to be the first person to stop clapping).  And you would lose even the ability to “define” your activities. The words, the words of the law, the words of the English language itself, the very definition of the words can be as perversely-twisted as possible, and you would not be able to do a thing about it.

And O, this can happen by the action of any other nation, not merely those you vote into office.
The Pentagon (not even Congress, but any fool of a fascist general on his own…with that huge supply of billions of money given to Pentagon each year) can bribe the dictator of any small nation… like Djibouti, or Mauritania, or Eritrea, and they could “by the law of that nation” create each American as a Corporation.
And suddenly, one day you wake up, and you have lost all your rights and freedoms, along with the ability to challenge any decision made about/against you, by the totally-oppressive Department of Homeland Security, empowered higher than Stalin, in one day.

This Amendment never excluded the ability of a person to REFUSE to be “created” as a Corporation, or REFUSE to be forcibly re-classified as a Corporation.

I tell you, the Homeland Security has some very Satanic people. They are always thinking about how to make a worse dictatorship in this country.
I tell you, the Homeland Security can bribe Congress (or Corporations can bribe Congress…the Republicans, the Blue Dog Democrats, the Joe Liebermans), and they take each person’s Drivers’ License, the database with everybody’s Driver’s License file, and with a few keys on the computer, the Republican and Pentagon fascists can immediately (with Congress powers…Congress can be easily taken over with Corporation bribes) issue a Corporation Charter (a Corporation license) on each individual in America.

Suddenly, every person is forcibly re-classified as American-Biped, Incorporated. Corporation name would be your name. Corporation number would be the Driver’s License.

And in one instant, each and every person in America would lose Free Speech (including the ability to protest), by this Satanic loophole in this Amendment.

And each and every person would not even be able to protest his/her own forcible “incorporation”, because the Homeland Security people will merely say: you are already a one-person Corporation now, you no longer have free-speech, even though you never gave permission to be added as a Corporation…now our database says that you are a Corporation, so you lose even the ability to protest about how you got on it.

The dictatorship would be so total, it would surpass Stalinism, it would surpass Mao, it would surpass Hitler and Pol Pot.

I tell you, it’s a Satanic loophole, meant for future dictatorship.
Because:
1 – it did not define the difference between human beings and fictional “persons” (which are Corporations), and make a total separation between the humans and the Corporations.
2 – it did not give authority to the voters, the People, to control the Corporation. It only gave authority to the Congress and the State governments (which can be so easily bribed).

This opens wide the ability for a tyrannical government (the current government is already everyday-tyrannical…you MUST have noticed!) to forcibly reclassify each person as a Corporation, and then take away every human being’s free speech.

I tell you, there needs to be a “inviolable barrier” between human persons, and artificial “persons” (Corporations).
The Amendment needs to make clear that the word “person” in 14th Amendment refer to human persons only, and not to Corporations. This would demolish the Corporations’ claim that they are “persons” equal with humans.

I am a very reasonable person. And I tell you, just like the 14th Amendment was written with a loophole (the rich people wrote “person”, rather than “natural-born person”, so that Corporations later could play with the word), this Amendment is also written with a loophole.

It doesn’t matter whether Donna Edwards noticed or did not notice it (maybe some Joe Lieberman “covertly fascist-Republican” added the words and she didn’t notice), the point is, this Amendment is a direct doorway to worse dictatorship than Stalinism.

A correct Amendment would be:

XXVIII Amendment of the Constitution:

This Amendment defines the word “person” and “the People”, in the US Constitution and other US laws, to only refer to Human Persons (or flesh-born persons).

Fictional “person” (Corporation charters, business licenses) are not equal with human beings, are not part of “the People”, and are subject to any rule/regulation decided by the People and the States and Congress.

This Amendment restores the correct meaning of equality in the 14th Amendment, which meant “equality between human beings of different skin colors”, and not “equality between humans and Corporations”.

Alan Grayson, Peter Stark, Barbara Lee, could one of you write it?

P.S. To the American people, you never want to become a Corporation. Because, Corporations are … a piece of property. They are made to be totally-controlled and totally-owned by somebody. If you become a Corporation, you can be bought/sold/owned by any person, it would be more drastic than African slavery.

And…maybe, maybe that’s the future plan of the anti-Christ to totally-control each person in the world, perhaps in 100 years when he comes? (no one can buy or sell, except with the “mark of the beast” – a forced Corporation charter- on the hand and on (inside?) the forehead).
But not now, not when you are informed about this, not in America.
Not this Donna Edwards Amendment, not in its current wordings. The loophole is too terrible.

For the good of the American people (and people of the whole world… because, eh, America has got 10000 nuclear weapons,  so it’s really bad for everybody in the whole world if fascism gains total-control of America),   the 28th Amendment should be the way I wrote it,  or some other words expressing the same meaning.

Please do the good thing, and define “person” as only referring to human beings,   and exclude  business-licenses  out of “We The People”.
(do you have any idea how ridiculous it is,  that Corporations have been pretending that a piece of business-license is equal to a human being,  and that  a piece of business-license should have First Amendment and  bribe the government,  or that it should have Fourth Amendment  to prevent searches/seizures when it’s running a sweatshop/slave labor,   or that it should have the Eighth Amendment to prevent its dismantling…because ending the business license would be “death penalty” ,  even when it has been polluting and destroying the health of many poor people
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And,  most insultingly for human beings,  a business-license  can pretend that it has the Fifth Amendment,  and thus,   a Corporation pouring toxins  every year   poisoning tens of thousands    cannot only be sued once for that same crime,    because the Fifth Amendment forbid a human being from being abusively put on trial twice for the same crime.
So Corporations use the protection-from-abuse  of human beings,    to harm human beings.    So you can only sue a Corporation once for a specific type of pollution.    After that,  it can go on polluting with impunity.)
Really, “person” in the Constitution   needs to be defined to refer to human beings  only,   and not to fictional persons (business licenses).

Is there even one Senator/Congressman  with the good of the People at heart?

John Kerry, please?
Barbara Lee, Pete Stark, Alan Grayson?
Or Donna Edwards, with a rewritten Amendment?   (because of how politicians constantly jeer everybody,  I hope you have the strength to re-write something)

Please repeal ALL monopoly “exemptions”

Dear Democrats in Congress (excluding Lieberman, Nelson, and other similar, mis-named fascists):

Please repeal not merely the exemptions of pharmaceutical industry,  but ALL  monopoly exemptions in ALL industries.
This country’s wealth distribution is so terribly skewed,  the richest 1% of the country own HALF the wealth of the nation.     This is because Corporations have become lawless,  too much “deregulation”,  too much destruction of laws that were meant to restrain greed and restrain the “money-vacuuming” craze of biggest Corporations.

It is utterly terrible that some Corporations are given a no-limit ability to damage the American nation, and through accumulation of wealth,  establish themselves as oligarch,  creating the type of unsupervised unelected power that the Founders were very motivated to forbid,  lest democracy be destroyed and America falls into  the condition of despotic British Empire under King George,   an oligarchy/dictatorship by richest few…  which is     Reagan’s de-regulated “market”      and   George Bush’s “signing statements” and use of torture and secret prisons.

In the interest of restoring Democracy,  of fighting for the basic guarantee of individual safety from tyrannical  richest-few   and tyrannical military-regime-ruling-over-America,    it is necessary to repeal any monopoly exemptions,  that those hitherto arrogant bankers and Corporation oligarchs  can be cut down to size,    and that a public-sector may exist again,   arising from its destruction by Reagan.    This would enable the creation of many jobs,  and many small businesses thrive in fair competition,  without being destroyed and swept away in their myriad infancy by the tidal waves of a few monopolistic Corporation giants.
(that is what PEPSI, Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Nike, Adidas, Colgate-Palmolive, GE, Google…  have been doing for years, destroying several small enterprises per month,  destroying countless jobs in the process.    A huge Corporation always gives far less employment    than  a myriad of small Corporations that add up to the same financial size.
The current unemployment is due to a lack of small businesses… and due to the un-regulated  un-taxed size/wealth of Wal-Mart, PEPSI, Coca-Cola, Google, Aetna, Pfizer… etc.,  and all the small businesses they have destroyed in order to grow so large)

House Bill Would Repeal Health Industry Antitrust Exemptions

Democratic Congress members Tom Perriello and Betsy Markey have announced plans to introduce a measure this week to repeal the insurance industry’s exemption from federal antitrust laws. Critics say the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 has granted the insurance industry a captive market with no curbs on price fixing and other anti-competitive practices. A similar measure passed in a House committee vote last year but has stalled with the breakdown of talks on healthcare reform.

Finalement! LES HAïTIENS DEMANDENT ARISTIDE!

Hourra pour Aristide!
À bas les chiens de Duvalier!
À bas les envahisseurs Américains et George Bush, oppresseurs des Haïtiens!

AMY GOODMAN: As we move on now to Haiti, it’s been three weeks since the massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated much of the country. The official death toll stands at 170,000; it’s expected to rise. Many more have been left injured and homeless. A full twenty-one days after the quake, survivors are still desperate to receive aid, with food, water and medical relief not reaching the areas it’s needed most.

In the Haitian town of Gressier, residents blocked roads and seized trucks Friday to protest the lack of aid. Residents said trucks with humanitarian assistance have driven through the town on the road to Léogâne, but have not stopped to distribute any aid in Gressier. Well, when we drove to Gressier two weeks ago, a young man approached us to say, well, just that.

STEVENSON CALIXTE: [translated] Up until now, people are suffering. [inaudible] People are wounded. They have broken bones. And they haven’t done anything. There are no doctors. There’s nothing, nothing here. We, here in Gressier, we don’t have anything. And they haven’t told us anything, either. And for the wounded, we can’t even figure out. And 98 percent of the houses have been destroyed.
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CARTEL CASSEUS: [translated] The Americans and the French have been in Haiti for a long time, and they never do anything. Only Aristide will do something for us. Each time Aristide wants to make a change, they make him fly away. I want to die for him. We are the people of Aristide, and we believe he’s going to come back. We don’t live, because we don’t have possibilities. We can’t go to school. We can’t go to work. We live on the street.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/2/haiti

Add: Center for Constitutional Rights should go to South Africa themselves, and fly back with Aristide. Are you defenders of constitution or of the fascists? Why are you so passive? To be passive and wait for Republicans to not have greed anymore (and not oppress the poor anymore), is like passively waiting for rabid dogs to stop drooling.

China is not colony of America; Switzerland is not colony of China

Note:
Switzerland is first obligated to Justice and rule of law.
Then, should it decides, it may give accommodation to what other people thinks;  and it shouldn’t even acknowledge the arrogance from a country that esteems neither Justice nor rule-of-law.   Such a country should govern its own business well, get its own population treated decently first,  then have the qualification to give some opinions to the Swiss on how to treat people.

Note:   don’t think that merely because I resist American Empire,  that I wouldn’t resist any attempt at making a Chinese Empire.   That is equally unacceptable.   Justice needs to come first, then compassion for the poor and oppressed.  Then humility in front of Yehovah.   China severely lack in all these categories.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/latest-news/china-swiss-move-uighurs-will-undermine-ties-534
BEIJING: China said on Thursday that Switzerland’s decision to grant asylum to two ethnic Uighurs from Guantanamo Bay would “surely undermine” bilateral relations.

“The position of Switzerland will surely undermine China-Switzerland relations,” foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters.

Switzerland agreed on Wednesday to accept the two Uighurs from the controversial US prison, defying pressure from Beijing, which wants them returned to China.

The Swiss justice ministry said in a statement the decision was made on humanitarian grounds.

Beijing’s position is that the pair are suspected terrorists and should be returned to China.

They were among 22 Uighurs captured in Afghanistan when the US-led coalition bombing campaign began there in 2001, a month after the September 11 attacks on the United States.

They were eventually turned over to Pakistani authorities, who then handed them to the United States.

Ma repeated China’s position that the two Uighurs were members of the “East Turkestan Islamic Movement,” a group listed by the United Nations as a terrorist group.

He added that “every country has international obligations, and so has Switzerland,” not to shelter such people.

O shame upon Imperial America, who enrich the richest 1%, while oppressing 99% of the population

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/workplace/144903/a_foreign_tourist_tipped_me_a_buck_for_being_american_…_what_does_that_say_about_our_empire/?obref=obinsite
When I tended bar in Berlin, I earned a minimum wage of around $11 per hour, and that was almost 20 years ago (for perspective, the federal minimum wage here in the U.S. was under $4 an hour that year).

Portugal: socialist example for Mexico and China

Portugal has an European-socialist government (just like Spain and Brazil) which distributes wealth really well. It also cares for poor people by developing green energy

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50193
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wind and solar energy now provide 35.9 percent of the electricity it consumes.

And when adjusted to take into account the 23 percent shortfall in hydroelectric power in 2009, wind and solar power represent 41.1 percent of electricity supply, according to the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association (APREN).

The greatest expansion was seen in Portugal’s wind energy industry, which has taken second place in the world after Denmark, displacing Spain to third place.
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The struggle to promote wind energy is fought on a number of fronts, including promoting private use of small wind turbines.
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nine European countries meeting in December in Ireland decided to create a new “green-energy” electricity grid, the Lusa news agency reported.

This has been the main European reaction so far to the Copenhagen summit’s failure to reach an agreement, and it involved Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.

The grid will connect 65 power plants in the nine countries – eight from the European Union, and Norway – using a cutting-edge distribution system and drawing exclusively on renewable sources of energy. The cost of the project is estimated at 30 billion euros (43 billion dollars).

Most of the costs will be absorbed by private companies, especially the big European energy consortiums, Lusa reported.

Thousands of kilometres of high-voltage undersea cables will be laid over the next 10 years, mainly off the coasts of Germany and the United Kingdom, to transmit wind energy from these countries, hydroelectric power from Norway and wave energy from the North Sea to the heart of Europe.

The grid’s main purpose will be to balance wind, water and solar energies to prevent overall fluctuations in supply. Another reason for the innovation is that the existing grid has no way of storing wind energy.

Sven Teske, an energy expert with global environmental watchdog Greenpeace, welcomed the initiative…

The colossal increase in the number of European projects to develop alternative energies “has its roots in the appalling rise of pollution, or in other words, in irrationality and the failure of the dominant model of economic growth, which has created the need for a new energy culture to replace dependence on oil,” Portuguese environmentalist Isabel de Castro told IPS.

A determining factor, even for those who do not support clean energy per se, “is the permanent political instability in the region where most oil production and natural gas reserves are located, which makes the search for alternative solutions a global priority.”

De Castro, a lawmaker for the Ecologist Party (the Greens) from 1992 to 2002, is a keen supporter of renewable energies, efficiency…
According to the activist, efforts need to be put into “alternative energies, not just wind power but also solar heating, photovoltaic energy, biomass, waves and tides, as well as encouraging energy efficiency and changing production processes, relying on innovation and clean production.

President Álvaro Colom: please allow only civilians to investigate military

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50195
GUATEMALA CITY, Feb 2, 2010 (IPS) – Human rights groups are worried that the declassification of military archives dating from Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil war, which left more than 200,000 victims, by a special commission will not go far enough in terms of clarifying the atrocities.

In March 2009, centre-left President Álvaro Colom established the Military Archive Declassification Commission, made up of three representatives of the Defence Ministry, one delegate from the Presidential Human Rights Commission, and three representatives of presidential secretariats.

According to the agreement that gave rise to the commission, its mandate is to sort out and file military documents on national security affairs involving the 1954 to 1996 period. (In 1954, a coup d’etat organised by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) overthrew democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz, ushering in decades of military dictatorship.)

In early January, Argentine President Cristina Fernández ordered the military to declassify all documents related to that country’s 1976-1983 dictatorship, stating in a decree that “such information cannot continue to be kept inaccessible under the argument that it would threaten national security.”

Guatemala’s Military Archive Declassification Commission had a Jan. 12 deadline for completing its work, but Colom extended it until June 2010.

In the meantime, human rights groups’ doubts and scepticism with regard to the possibility of real progress are growing, because virtually nothing has come out about the Commission’s work.
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The report blames 93 percent of the atrocities on government forces and allied paramilitary death squads.

“The importance of the declassification of military records lies in the fact that they contain information on abuses committed by high-level military commanders during the internal conflict and could be used as evidence in trials of those responsible, to break with the culture of impunity,” said Hudson.

Another aspect that has given rise to concern among civil society organisations is the role that the armed forces are playing in the Military Archive Declassification Commission. Not only do they have three representatives on the Commission, but they coordinate it themselves.

“It’s like setting the fox to guard the hen house,” said Iduvina Hernández, head of the Association for the Study and Promotion of Security in a Democracy (SEDEM).

The army should not decide which information to hand over, but should limit its role to arranging the transfer of the military documents, she told IPS,

Some articles about oppressed people in Kenya

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50147
http://www.hrw.org/en/node/87599

Hamas accepts existence of Israel within 1967 borders

So stop sieging Gaza.
Please democratize Jordan
Abbas refused to recognize the Goldstone Report of Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
Abbas can no longer be qualified as a leader of the Palestinian Arabs.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50152

Dr. Mahmoudi Ramahi, surgeon and secretary general of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
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Q: Abbas has said that until Hamas signs an Egyptian-sponsored reconciliation agreement there will be no elections. Why is Hamas refusing to sign the document?

A: We have three conditions for signing the document. The political arrest campaign against Hamas members in the West Bank must cease. All West Bank Hamas members dismissed from their employment on the grounds of political affiliation must be reinstated, and new elections should have been held on Jan. 25. The PA agreed to these conditions during last year’s unity talks.

However, following U.S. envoy to the Mideast George Mitchell’s visit to Cairo last year the Americans applied pressure on the PA and Abbas then reneged on the agreement.

The PA stated they no longer had the funds to reemploy dismissed Hamas employees. They further stated that any future election committee could only comprise Fatah members. These circumstances are obviously unacceptable to us after we won the last elections which were both free and fair.
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Q: Do you believe the popularity of Hamas in the West Bank has grown and do you think this popularity might be another reason for the PA refusing to hold elections?

A: Abbas has publicly acknowledged our growing popularity. I have no doubt that if free elections were held tomorrow we would win them again as we did in 2006. At the student elections at Birzeit University last year, we got 20 percent more votes than the previous year and lost only by a narrow margin.

A lot of PA employees are only affiliated to the PA because they are dependent on the PA for employment and a salary. If the EU had to stop paying their salaries for one month the PA’s support base would diminish even further from the little it has now.

Q: Hamas accuses the PA of running an undemocratic political entity where political arrests, human rights abuses and the muzzling of the press is the norm, but isn’t Hamas doing the same in Gaza?

A: The Hamas leadership in the West Bank has not only criticised what is happening in Gaza but urged the leadership there to cease these practices. However, it is important to remember that the PA has more than 500 political prisoners in the West Bank whereas Hamas has only 50 prisoners and a number of these are held on murder charges. Many of these arrests were also in retaliation for the West Bank arrests.

Q: PA prime minister Salaam Fayyad admitted that torture of Hamas detainees in the West Bank occurred but said this officially stopped last October. Is this true?

A: For the most part the severe beating of detainees and tying prisoners in stress positions has stopped. But other forms of abuse are now being implemented such as forcing detainees to sleep on cold, concrete floors without mattresses or blankets in winter or flooding cells with water so sitting down is impossible.

Q: Why should the U.S. negotiate with Hamas if they have reason to believe that even though your organisation won free elections once in power you would enforce an Islamic theocracy?

A: We are a moderate Islamic movement and we were never given even a month’s period after the elections to prove our credentials. If we had been given a chance and proven ourselves to be undemocratic then it would be logical to boycott us but not before. I explained this to ex-U.S. president Jimmy Carter after the 2006 elections which he helped to monitor and may I point out that the PA is far from democratic.

The influence of Islam in the region is increasing whether the West likes it or not. The choice is to deal with moderate Islamic groups like ourselves or continue boycotting us and fuel real Islamic extremism in the form of al-Qaeda and then try negotiating with them.

Q: The Americans also say your refusal to recognise Israel’s right to exist is problematic.

A: We have already stated repeatedly that we accept the existence of Israel within the 1967 borders as a political reality even if we do not approve its moral legitimacy.

Israel on the other hand has never recognised the right of a Palestinian state to exist even under the PA, despite the PA recognising Israel’s right to exist. All Israel has recognised is the legitimacy of the Palestine Liberation Organisation as the sole representative of the Palestinian people.

Out of every 1$ of American aid, 33 cents goes to US military, only 9 cents to food for Haitians

Also, it’s very bad idea to use military to do relief.
Military units only “relieves” their own soldiers. They are good at destroying things and looking after members of their units, and at being hostile to anyone not part of their units, that’s it.
They are not good at distributing food (which requires a non-hostile action towards people who are not member of their military units).

The military is trained in one thing: to be hostile towards people who aren’t part of their military units.

So it is a terrible idea to send military people to go do disaster relief.
At the most, military vehicles can be used to transport items, but immediately upon unloading, it should be given to local Haitians who live there.

The US military is ignoring that the Haitians have local leaders in each neighborhood.
The US military is already pretending that the Pentagon has replaced the Haitian government, and that Haiti is some type of… Kabul, militarily ruled by American soldiers. AND the US military is not accomplishing what even an incompetent civilian government would.

But the local Haitians are competent, as the article demonstrates.
Therefore, it is a mistake to occupy Haiti and depend on the US military. The military is trained for hostilities against foreigners (AND trained to ignore suffering).
So it is a terrible mistake to militarily occupy Haiti and put distribution of relief  into the hands of the military.    They really haven’t done a thing, except digging in for the invasion of the country.

…
Little food and water has been distributed by the dozens U.S. troops milling about the beach since the earthquake, according to local leaders.

“I went there to talk to them,” said Jean-Jacob Renee, an English teacher. “They said they are there to set up some tents for themselves, but they did not come with food or water – anything for the people.”

He said the only aid the military brought to Grand Goave was distributed by Catholic Relief Services, an international NGO. “When they are in the town, we don’t know. We don’t have their phone number,” he said. “Nobody has helped us.”
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The roof of Rinvil Jean Weldy’s modest one-story brick house is broken off, resting at an angle on top of a kitchen table covered in dust. The rear wall crumbled, spilling onto the cracked ground. His wife remains at a nearby hospital nursing an injury from the quake.

“We need a tent, we need food and water, all the normal things,” Weldy said, pointing at his sons, who were hammering together scraps of wood to build the frame of a tent. “To the U.N., I say, I need help now.”

Weldy has been expecting compensation from the U.N. since Nov. 10, when he and numerous witnesses say part of a bullet fired by U.N. peacekeeping troops hit his shoulder. Four days before the earthquake, the U.N. said an internal investigation into the incident cleared the soldiers of any wrongdoing.

Witnesses told IPS the troops fired into the ground in an attempt to control a curious crowd, not into the air, as the U.N. maintains.

The U.N. peacekeepers are roundly dismissed by many Haitians as a source for relief in the country. “We have been living with the U.N. for many years, but now we see them very little,” Mayor Salam said matter-of-factly.

In Leogane, on the route back from Grand Goave to Port-Au-Prince, 500 families from a tent city in a field lined up in an orderly queue to receive food packages, in contrast to chaotic aid dispersals seen in Port-Au-Prince. Individuals walked into a clearing to grab a box each time a young Haitian man called out numbers through a megaphone.

“For us, it was very important to do this without military,” said Dolores Rescheleit, an aid worker with a German NGO called Arche Nova that provided the food. “Because the people in the camp are very strong. When you give the responsibility to the people in the camp, they will do it better than we will with the military.”

A committee of Haitians, with sub-committees to handle security, hygiene, and aid distribution, is governing the camp without problems, Rescheleit said. Women smiled as they walked back to their tents, balancing boxes of food on their heads.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50144

The Sojourner

www.sojo.net

A Progressive Christian magazine.
That’s the way Christianity needs to go in America.

Candice Miller, do Justice in the morning

http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/201002030003

I have a message from the LORD for you, Candice Miller and all right-wing plutocrats like you, filled with covetousness for other countries’ wealth, that you want to rob, and filled to overflow with impious vanity of nationalism, that gush out of your mouth like stench out of a grave, full of death and rottenness inside:

“O House of David! Thus says the LORD:
Execute justice in the morning
and deliver from the hand of the oppressor
him who has been robbed,
lest [God's] wrath go forth like fire,
and burn with none to quench it,
because of your evil doings.” Jeremiah 21:12

I think nearly all Republicans claim to be Christians.
Christians are of the House of David, because Christians are brothers to Jesus (but not equal to God, of course).

The Republicans are all dedicated to do injustice, by advocating free-trade (sweatshops), by funding 700 foreign military bases in 117 foreign countries, by training torture-squads (Jordan, Egypt, Chile of Pinochet…), by militarily occupying countries to rob their wealth (Haiti in the 1920s, Philippines 1901-1992, various countries in Central America, Iraq and Afghanistan now), by propping up evil dictators using the CIA (Haiti 1915-1934, Duvalier of Haiti 1957-1986, Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatemala, Juan Melgar Castro in Honduras, Somoza of Nicaragua, Noriega of Panama, Pinochet of Chile, Argentina, Emilio Garrastazú Médici of Brazil, South Vietnam, Park Chun-hee and Chun Doo-Hwan of South Korea, Ferdinand Marcos of Philippines, Sukarno of Indonesia, Mubarak of Egypt now, King Abdullah of Jordan now, Saddam of Iraq, Shah of Iran…)
and oppressing the poor.

For this reason, all Republicans are going to hell (with perhaps a handful of exceptions).

Woe to him (and in your case, her) who builds her house by unrighteousness,
and her upper rooms by injustice;
who makes her neighbor serve her for nothing
and does not give [her neighbor] his wages
(NAFTA, CAFTA, free-trade, sweatshops, the robbing of the wages from the poor people in most of the countries south of Rio Grande)
who says, “I will build myself a great [empire]
…
Do you think you are a king because you compete in [luxurious living standards and excessive wealth ownership]?
Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness?
Then it was well with him.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy
then it was well.
Is not this to know [the LORD]? says the LORD
But you have eyes and heart only for dishonest gain,
for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.
Jeremiah 22:13-17

That was the most accurate description of the Republican Party, the right-wing, the militarists, the nationalists.
And when they talk histories, they like to hang on their mouths the words: “America was founded by Christians”… implying that their fathers were Christians. Thus, they also imply that the right-wing people are justified and correct in whatever they do, because they descend from … previous Christians.

Well, the Puritans did not go colonize people to steal their lands and wealth. In fact, the Puritans did not covet wealth of other people, and they were careful to not own excessive wealth, lest they forget God (proverbs 30:8-9). They were just and fair and did not open sweatshops, or own slavery plantations.

The prototype (or, archetype) of the Republican Party and the right-wing in the United States are those who owned slaves about 100 years after the Puritans. The slave-owning States to this day have not apologized about slavery and segregation, and some of them still keep pieces of the Confederate flag designs on their state flags. The slave-owning States were full of people who chewed God-words in the mouth, while grievously oppressing slaves. The chewing of God-words in the mouth is not out of love for God, but hold God-talk as a “do-everything scepter”为所欲为， because they are “affiliated with God” by talking about him, the way that gangsters would mention that they are related to some powerful mafia boss, so that they are made more daring in committing crimes and oppressing people with impunity.
To this day, the slave-owning States are called “the Bible Belt” and form the core of the right-wing movement in America. “Bible belt” as in, the way that the slave-owners talked about the Bible.

The Puritan areas, the New England States, Puritan Christianity has gone extinct there, however, there is a strong presence of compassion for the poor, expressing itself in human-rights movements and opposition to imperialist actions and propping up dictatorship in foreign countries. Even though they at times confuse homosexuals with poor/oppressed people, what they do about the poor and oppressed is in according with the teachings of God, and the intents of God.
They are seeking Justice, lifting oppression, defending the fatherless and pleading for the widow (in other words, the poorest and most defenseless people in society, and usually the most oppressed by the rich and greedy).

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean [in deeds];
remove the evil of your doings from before [God's] eyes;
cease to do evil, learn to do good;
seek justice, correct oppression;
defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1:16-17

Your ways are dedicated to be contrary to the Way of the LORD!
You love wealth, and the conservation of wealth (hence conservatives) in the hands of the richest few! And you with desperate effort always prevent it from being distributed to the poor.
You oppose raising taxes on the rich.
You are dedicated to empower the largest Corporations, which are merely money-vacuums for the richest 1% of the nation.
You use de-regulations to empower the Corporations, so that they can lawlessly increase in wealth and oppress the poor.
You have made it so that HALF the wealth in this country is owned by the richest 1% (including the Fortune 500 Corporations).
And you gloat in having opportunities to oppress people poorer than you!

And out of vanity, you refuse to admit any of this wrong.

How the faithful city (America in the era of Puritans)
has become a harlot (with pre-emptive covetous war against Mexico in 1848, Corporation Personhood in 1886, colonization of Hawaii/Puerto Rico/Philippines in 1898, creating Federal Reserve in 1913, creating CIA as organized-crime in 1947, unhooking the value of dollar from gold/silver in 1973)
She that was full of justice!Righteousness lodged in her
but now murderers (Republicans, CIA, Pentagon, right-wing think tanks)
Your silver has become dross
your wine mixed with water
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves
Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts (so far, none of you have written an Amendment to repeal Corporation Personhood and thus ban lobbying)
They do not defend the fatherless,
And the widow’s cause does not come to them.
(orphans and widows are expressions used to refer to “poor and oppressed people”)
Isaiah 1:21-23

You refuse to admit Bush&Cheney and their ideology wrong, because you are so filled with vanity. For that, God Himself is against you, all you right-wing conservative wealth-mongers and militarists, oppressors of the poor, politicians and spies who love and practices a lie (Revelations 22:15), and all those who assist you and do not actively oppose American Imperialism.

Note:  God’s standards for people, is that they seek Justice.
Attorney general Eric Holder’s duty is to uphold Justice (which is neither Republican nor Democrat, neither American nor foreign).   So, in situations where United States pervert justice, then he is with Justice against United States.   In situations where United States do justice, he is with justice for the United States.
In the same way that,  should a Highway Patrol person stop an American while speeding,  the Highway Patrol is not either pro-Americans or anti-Americans,  he is merely doing a higher standard according to traffic justice.   It’s not because an American is speeding, that the Highway Patrol person should refrain from upholding an absolute standard of traffic justice.

The United States is signatory to Geneva Conventions and UN Conventions against Torture.

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution also make it clear that natural rights are born to all persons.   They are pre-existing even without the Constitution.   The Constitution merely prohibits the US government from denying  those natural rights.

Also,  by the Ninth Amendment,  the Declaration of Independence makes it clear that they are innumerable natural rights, not merely those ennumerated in the Constitution.
Therefore, there is a natural right against being labeled “enemy combattant”,  there is also a natural right against being put under massive surveillance,  there is also a natural right against being broadcast without permission,  there is also a natural right against being implanted with electronic devices without permission.
There is also a natural right against being held without trial (but I think that’s already written in the Constitution AND the Geneva Conventions).

Each one of these is as valid as the free-speech rights.   Each one of these can be established by the States and the People,  added to the law, and guaranteed by the Ninth Amendment.

You, Candice Miller and your fellow Republican thugs,  have been part of the oligarch fascist Party (the Republicans) for too long,  you have lost your ability to appreciate your responsibilities to the population in a Democracy,   you have been too habituated to running a dictatorship on behalf of the richest 1%,  against the other 99% of the population.   That’s exactly what happens  with the Republicans (and the Blue-Dog Democrats,  New Democrat Coalition,  and Joe Lieberman and that Nelson creep)

As much as the Republican Party wishes, and often acts in assumption,  that the United States is already a Third World dictatorship,  it is forbidden by the Constitution that the Founding generation  wrote  just to defend against later thugs  like the Republicans.

Republicans are on the side of terrorists, and against democracy when it’s not remote-controlled by America

As for the Bush doctrine; the US has long been a sanctuary to a rogues’ gallery of people whose actions qualify them as terrorists and whose presence undermines U.S. proclaimed principles.

In 2001, the so-called Cuban Five, Cuban nationals who were convicted in Miami, made interesting reading about the U.S. commitment to fighting terror.

This case is mired in the sordid history of the US-Cuba relations, phenomenally characterised by the crushing, decades long US embargo that continues to stand in violation of UN General Assembly Resolutions in which the US is virtually isolated.

Despite President Bush’s zealous crusade of spreading the anti-terror campaign, the United States has engaged in large and small scale terrorist attacks against Cuba since 1959, that including the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bizarre assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, and far more serious attacks in Cuba and against Cubans abroad.

In the J.F. Kennedy years, his brother Robert Kennedy directed the terror on Cuba and Kennedy Junior’s highest priority was to bring “the terrors of the earth” to Cuba, according to Arthur Schlesinger, the historian and advisor to Robert Kennedy, and also his biographer. This priority ranking is ominously mirrored by Henry Kissinger’s desire to see the economy of Chile “scream”, a term that has been borrowed by Chester Crocker in describing the US foreign policy on Zimbabwe.

The Kennedy terror on Cuba was briefly halted by Lyndon Johnson and later resumed by Richard Nixon, with the US government’s direct participation in terrorist attacks on Cuba ending in the seventies – at least officially.

In 1989, George Bush senior pardoned Orlando Bosch, the notorious anti-Castro terrorist who orchestrated the bombing of the Cuban airliner in 1976, together with Luis Posada Carriles. The pardon was blissfully oblivious of the fact that the Bosch-Carriles bombing claimed seventy-three innocent lives.

Bush senior arrogantly overruled the Justice Department, which had refused any asylum request from Bosch, the Department rightly concluding “The security of this nation is affected by its ability to urge credibly other nations to refuse aid and shelter to terrorists, whose target we too often become.” Bush did not think so and his son does not look any different.

Cuban intelligence realised that the US was going to blatantly harbour anti-Cuba terrorists and Cuban agents decided to infiltrate the terrorist networks in Florida and Miami. To show their competence the Cuban intelligence unit decided to prove what was going on to FBI officials in 1998. The US sent high-level FBI operatives to Havana and they were shown kilometres of videotape and thousands of pages of documentation about terrorist actions organised by cells in Florida and Miami.

In apparent embarrassment the FBI reacted by arresting the people who provided the information, including a group known as the Cuban Five. The arrests were followed by a travesty of justice that came with the show trials in Miami. The five were convicted, three to life sentences – for espionage; and the leader, Gerardo Hernandez, also for conspiracy to murder.

These show convictions stand in sharp contrast to the fact that people regarded by the FBI and the Justice Department as dangerous terrorists live happily in the United States, where they continue to plot and implement heinous crimes.

Among the long list of terrorists resident in the United States is Emmanuel Constant from Haiti, nicknamed Toto, a founder to the Front for Advancement of Progress in Haiti (FRAPH). This group was the paramilitary group used by Duvalier to oust President Aristide, and later to carry out state terror under the Duvalier military junta.

In 2005, Toto was living somewhere in Queens, New York, and the US adamantly refused Haiti’s request for extradition. The assumption by many observers is that the reason for refusal is that Constant would most likely reveal ties between Washington and the military junta that killed 4000 to 5000 Haitians.

This is largely believed to be the same reasoning behind the refusal by Britain to hand over Augusto Pinochet to Chile or Spain – all the way until the death of the brutal US installed dictator in 2006. A trial for Pinochet was likely to taint the image US-UK alliance if deliberations would ever venture into the 1973 era.

For the United States, Cuba continues to present “a successful defiance of the United States, a negation of our whole hemispheric policy of almost a century and a half” according to a 1964 declassified document from the State Department.

This kind of thinking is in line with the Monroe doctrine that declares that no challenge to U.S. dominance would be tolerated globally.

Venezuela now stands in triumphant defiance and as the Wall Street Journal put it in February 2004, “Fidel Castro has found a key benefactor and heir apparent to the cause of derailing the US’s agenda in Latin America: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.”

Venezuela has so far failed to secure an extradition for two former military officers who are seeking asylum in the United States. The two took part in the June 2002 military coup, which, before its reversal and popular overthrow by a mass uprising, had disbanded Parliament, the Supreme Court, and all other vestiges of democracy – all with the tacit support and backing of Washington, endlessly lauded for its religious dedication to “democracy promotion”.

When the coup leaders who briefly overthrew Chavez in 2002 were disbanding Parliament, the Supreme Court and other democratic structures, Washington and the Western press called it the dawn of democracy in Venezuela.

Whoever will disband the land reform programme and the Indigenisation Empowerment Act in Zimbabwe will undoubtedly be lauded as bringing back democracy to the country – notwithstanding the fact that many will see this as democracy at the expense of the people.

There are reports that the confrontational clashes between the US diplomats and authorities in Zimbabwe are increasingly becoming more frequent and such clashes can only be described as defiance in the White House circles.

Of course they are nothing but provocations in as far as the Zimbabwean government is concerned.

Outrage over defiance is deeply ingrained in US history. When France was holding to New Orleans, which Thomas Jefferson coveted, he warned, “France character is placed in a point of eternal friction with our character, which though loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is also high minded.

These words may as well be incisive for Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Iran and Cuba – countries that currently command characters placed in a point of eternal friction with the US imperial character.

The role of fighting for democratic space in Zimbabwe by US Ambassador, James McGee might be noble in principle but such a role stands tainted by the history of the United States – a history so littered with the innocent blood of many nationalities, together with a series of US-propped dictatorships that terrorised their own people with the complicity of Washington.
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repost from:
http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/news/130/ARTICLE/2656/2008-06-12.html

Dear US Senate, please be a government for the people (the common many), not for the oligarchs (a few rich)

Here is a Congressional letter that is worth reading.

http://keepamericafree.com/?p=27
January 27, 2010

The Honorable Harry Reid
Office of the Majority Leader
United States Senate
S-221, The Capitol
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Majority Leader Reid:

As the Senate continues to work on health reform legislation, we strongly urge you to consider including a public option.

Here are the reasons for this request:

1) The public option is overwhelmingly popular.

A December New York Times poll shows that, despite the attacks of recent months, the American public supports the public option 59% to 29%. And a recent Research 2000 poll found 82% of people who supported President Obama in 2008 and Scott Brown for Senate last week also support the public option. Only 32% of this key constituency is in favor of the current Senate bill – with more saying it “doesn’t go far enough” rather than it “goes too far.”

Support for health care legislation started to fall as popular provisions like the public option were stripped out and affordability standards were watered down. The American people want us to fight for them and against special interests like the insurance industry, and it is our responsibility to show them that their voices are being heard.

2) The public option will save billions for taxpayers, speaking to the fiscally-responsible sensibilities of our constituents.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the public option will save taxpayers anywhere from $25 billion to $110 billion and will save billions more when private insurers compete to bring down premium costs. The stronger the public option, the more money it saves.
By including the public option, we can simultaneously reduce tax increases and the deficit. This is a common-sense way to temper the frustration of Americans who question whether Congress is spending their money wisely and fighting for the middle class.

3) There is strong support in the Senate for a popular public option.

It is very likely that the public option could have passed the Senate, if brought up under majority-vote “budget reconciliation” rules. While there were valid reasons stated for not using reconciliation before, especially given that some important provisions of health care reform wouldn’t qualify under the reconciliation rules, those reasons no longer exist. The public option would clearly qualify as budget-related under reconciliation, and with the majority support it has garnered in the Senate, it should be included in any healthcare reform legislation that moves under reconciliation.

As Democrats forge “the path forward” on health care, we believe that passing the public option through reconciliation should be part of that path. We urge you to favorably consider our request to include a public option in the reconciliation process.

Sincerely,

Jared Polis
Member of Congress

Chellie Pingree
Member of Congress

Text above as published here: The Public Option may live again!

Nancy Pelosi, please be on the side of average Americans, rather than the oligarch Republicans…

I didn’t know much about you.
But seeing this, I officially start to dislike you (unless you start pushing for Public-sector health care, of course)

The Polis/Pingree Public Option letter is rapidly gaining signers, now more than 100. 51 Senators support the public option, a fact Pelosi acknowledges. The House has of course already passed the public option. And they could pass it in the Senate through reconciliation….[yet Pelosi pretends to not know about the 51-vote mechanism]

The Senate doesn’t need 60-vote to do everything.
The Senate can pass something with 51-vote,  by a mechanism called “reconciliation vote”.    This, Pelosi surely knows.
This means, the US Senate can immediately pass public-sector European-style healthcare for all Americans. They can do it today with the 51-vote option in the US Senate. California Senate has already passed the public-sector healthcare. So what are you waiting for?

To wait for spies to stop false-accusing, it’s like waiting for rabid dogs to stop drooling

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss
Yesterday, I had a chance to question General David Petraeus about President Obama’s Afghan timetable. From the transcript that follows, you’ll note that Petraeus, who repeatedly interrupted my questioning to preempt where I was trying to go, doesn’t even acknowledge that the president’s deadline for beginning the withdrawal of US forces is July, 2011. It leads one to suspect that if Petraeus, McChrystal, and Co. are ever going to leave Afghanistan, they’ll have to be dragged out kicking and screaming.

And that’s exactly what I have come to realize about the spies and the dogs who love to trample me in a condition of slavery.

Therefore, perhaps I should do as the widow in the case with the unjust judge, and go live in New York, and camp outside the Center for Constitutional Rights, and ask them once everyday to help me.
The only thing is:  I am not sure there is free parking in New York, and I am not sure there is a 99 cent/Dollar Tree,  and I am not sure there is a library to read in.

Iraq should stop (imperialist) privatization, build a Social Democracy with strong public sector.

I think the Iraqi Parliament should also govern America, and all the Americans. Suddenly this country will be such a better place: all the Reagan-privatizations will be rolled back, the public-sector would thrive, the average American worker suddenly will be treated as a human being and not be oppressed by Fortune 500 CEOs, the wealth would be far better distributed.

If Maliki is bright, he should call up Eva Morales of Bolivia and Luis de Silva of Brazil, and talk about how to build a robust public sector, and how to resist American market-imperialism (not the local market where peasants go sell vegetables and carpets, the Corporation “market” where they sell stocks and privatize Iraq’s wealth, so that a few American oligarchs can control it all. That is the true purpose of invading Iraq. To make it into another Mexico: 50% unemployment, and HALF the wealth of the land is privately owned by richest 36 individuals, all controlled by United States. The purpose is to make Iraq into a fiefdom of America, with its wealth, especially its oil, controlled by America, to enrich America’s aristocrats, and to use Iraq as a gas station to “fuel” the military funds of America, so that it has the funds to build more weapons and hire more troops and invade more countries.

There is a far more powerful insurgency/resistance in Iraq: the Iraqi Parliament.
The Iraqi Parliament can give gigantic setbacks to the American colonization plan, in such a way that insurgent fighters could not do. Plus, the Americans would respect the democracy in Iraq because that was their supposed excuse in the beginning, and they have brought it up as their “purpose”.

The plan should be this:
- drop all American economic advisers.
- drop all American-educated economic advisers.
- drop all plans of privatization and free-market and free-trade
- end de-Baathification.   Hire anyone regardless of previous Baath membership.   You have to recognize, the Americans have brought far more devastation in 7 years than the Baath Party has done in 40 years.
There should be a de-Americanization.
- here are countries that are safe to take advice from, those with strong public sector and have European-style socialism (not Communism! European-style socialism is: caring for the poor first, rather than the wealth of the richest):
Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Norway, Spain, Denmark
- ask Brazil’s World Social Forum for advice on creating employment
- restore all public sector as it was under Saddam Hussein (the public sector had nothing to do with him, it’s merely the best way to manage a country)
- negotiate water-for-oil with Syria
- negotiate oil-for-desalinization plants with Japan or China. Japan mainly get its oil from ships, and it has extremely high tech knowledge.
- (the above two points are for water, so that there is cultivation of food in Iraq, and employment as fishermen and farmers)
- drive out all foreign oil Corporations, if not now then eventually. Especially, drive out Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco, and any American oil Corporation. This would result in less nationalist attacks on oil pipelines.
- declare all oil of Iraq to be national property, commonly owned by all Iraqis, and none of it privatized. The same way that Uruguay declared all its water to be national property.
- require all foreign Corporations doing business in Iraq to have 80-90% Iraqi employees, paid by a minimum wage set by Parliament.
Else, such foreign Corporations will be expelled.
- Be nice to the insurgents, tell the Iraqi army to fire in the air when “fighting”.
(they have been fighting for Iraq, please recognize that)
- release all currently detained Iraqi prisoners, because the percentage of non-insurgents must be same as Guantanamo and Bagram (70%-80%). The Americans did same thing in Iraq, grabbed as many people as possible, and then refuse to release the non-insurgents. Most of the detained prisoners are random Iraqis hauled away in the middle of the night.
- recognize that the American troops in Iraq  ARE the problem.   They ARE the reason for which the security problem is so bad.   Drive out the American troops.    That’s half the American occupation.
Drive out the other half of American occupation:  their control of Iraq’s wealth,  namely,   the privatization.   Stop it.
Nationalize the biggest enterprises.   Stop the privatization.
Rebuild the public sector,  and the unemployment problem will be gone,  along with all that anger against the Americans and the Iraqi government.
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Chinese enterprise in foreign land must be considered important diplomacy

(I wrote an earlier version of this, that was much better to read.
This is merely my second attempt at writing, and it may be of less quality than my first attempt)

The Chinese enterprises in Iraq are squandering opportunities to build friendship with Iraqis. That must be immediately reversed. Friendship with the Iraqis, that is worth more than all the precious minerals in the world. What the Americans throw away as utterly useless, the Chinese must not do the same.

Chinese enterprises must go into a foreign (poor) land as a careful diplomatic opportunity. The objective should be to improve local lives in employment, health and labor conditions. Every attempt should be made to be better than an American-run Corporation, to make a huge contrast with American occupation.

Chinese enterprises must not go in as money-vacuums and profit-predators, with the attitude of “merely another business to make money”.

The current government should not waste away opportunity that later Chinese may need, friendship with the Iraqis for the next 100, even 200 years. Please don’t ruin it now.

The diplomatic relations are not merely done from embassies, that’s merely the official paperwork. Diplomatic relations are done from what consequences/results are caused by the presence of an enterprise from China.
Currently, enterprises from America, everywhere they go in poorer countries, they leave pollution, unemployment, and underpaid workers with no job security. Essentially, enterprises from America are plunderers, they go to foreign countries to extract the wealth, then they go to another country.

The Chinese enterprises much do better.

Recommend that an ambassador is attached to each Chinese public-owned enterprise or large private-owned Corporation that does business in a foreign (poorer) country.
The ambassador would be like a “political commissar”, except he would make sure the enterprise’s actions are not harming the local population, and results in better employment, better healthcare and better labor conditions than those provided by American occupation.
Each ambassador would bring with him a team of social workers, who would do survey about unemployment and the health of the region, and would also have translators fluent in the local language.
Each ambassador would also bring with him 500 medics and surgeons of the PLA (doesn’t have to be medics, could be civilian volunteers) with a field hospital and plenty of medicine, with readiness to order more from neighboring countries. And this would be used to provide for free medical care for all the Iraqis working for a Chinese enterprise and their families.

Essentially, the objective should be to hire EVERY unemployed Iraqi from miles around, and then provide free health-care, and a living wage for ALL the families from miles around.
So that wherever a Chinese enterprise goes in a poor country, it brings income and goodness to any many local people as possible… something that American sweatshops never do.

The Iraqis have 50% unemployment.
It is immoral to bring Chinese workers from China, when the Iraqis have 50% unemployment caused by the horrible privatization of the Americans (meant to destroy the public-sector, and concentrate all Iraq’s wealth in the hands of a few richest Americans and Iraqi stooges….just like in Mexico).

To build a good relations with the people of Iraq, is worth more than all the minerals in the soil of Iraq or anywhere else.

It is not merely employment, health care and labor conditions that matters. America has been using free-trade agreements to invade and control poorer countries’ wealth, and siphoning the wealth of those places to add to the octopus of the American Empire.

It should be the foreign policy of China in this century to pry off those countries, one by one, from the claws of the American Empire, with diplomacy (WITH providing employment, healthcare and good wages/labor conditions to the local population. Bribes should be out of question, because it only affects a few officials and bring no good to the local population).

The aim is not to make China replace America as the global hegemon. That is not only immoral, it would rouse the wrath of God, who will bring down severe punishment against imperialism and imperialists.
The aim is to make those poorer countries no longer allow American to siphon off their wealth, using it to empower and maintain the American Empire. To make those countries adopt the current stances of Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia.

This needs to be done with the African countries and the Arab countries.

Once all those countries are pried off the claws of American Empire, it will shrink back to its appropriate size, since it will no longer be able to maintain such a huge military and spy organization. It will revert back to merely being a piece of the Americas, about the same as Brazil, as it should be.

And the funds put into such diplomacies, would accomplish what 100 years of militarization would not. And such diplomacies are far cheaper, the results are also far better.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175199/tomgram%3A_michael_schwartz%2C_will_iraq%27s_oil_ever_flow___/#more
Members of parliament immediately demanded that all contracts be submitted for their approval, which they declared would be withheld unless ironclad protections of Iraqi workers, technicians, and management were included. Iraq’s own state-owned oil companies demanded guarantees that their technicians, engineers, and administrators be trained in the new technologies the foreign companies brought with them, and given escalating operational control over the fields as their skills developed.

The powerful Iraqi oil union opposed the contracts unless they included guarantees that all workers be recruited from Iraq. Local tribal leaders voiced opposition unless they guaranteed a full complement of local workers, and subcontracts for locally based businesses during the development phase. Then there were the insurgents, who continued to oppose oil exports until the U.S. fully withdraws from the country, and expressed their opposition by the 26 bombing attacks they’ve launched on pipelines and oil facilities since September 2009.

Some of these same groups have successfully blocked previous oil initiatives. Unless they are satisfied, they may frustrate the government’s latest bid to make oil gush in Iraq. One warning sign can be seen in the fate of a contract signed with the CNPC in early 2009 that called for the development of the relatively small (one billion barrel) Ahdab oil field near the Iranian border. The language of the original contract met conditions demanded by local leaders and workers, but the work, once begun, generated few local jobs and even fewer local business opportunities. The Chinese instead brought in foreign workers, following the pattern established by U.S. companies involved in Iraqi reconstruction. Eventually, equipment was sabotaged, work undermined, and the project’s viability remains threatened.

Canada, please request repatriation of Omar Khadr

Either he committed a crime in Afghanistan by supposedly throwing a grenade (how do people know who threw a grenade in the middle of the night?), in which case he should be given a trial in Afghanistan by Afghans.

Or he is a POW in a war, in which case he should be released, because the war between the then-Afghan government (Taliban) and the United States have ceased after the toppling of the Taliban.
What is called “Taliban” now is a different group of people, under Hakim-allah Mehsud, and is no longer waging war as the government of Afghanistan.

By the way, I hardly think he committed a crime (or all deployed American soldiers should be immediately arrested), since he was participating in the national defense of Afghanistan. The Taliban was the national government and Omar was part of the national defense army.

Also,  Al-Qaeda was a militia in Afghanistan.   It was not the government of Afghanistan, and the government of Afghanistan did not attack the United States on 9/11.
America did aggression on Afghan government in 2001,  aggressive war illegal by the United Nations since 1945.
There is no reason to hold any Taliban fighter as “criminals” or “terrorists”.  They were merely fighting for the defense of their country, against an invading force.    Since they were part of the regular army (Taliban was the government),  none of them can  by the laws of war   be charged with a crime for fighting  (or all American soldiers should be arrested).

Since the US detained Omar as a criminal and not as a POW,  it has no reason of detaining him, because Omar is no criminal by the same standard that America judges its own soldiers.   Omar should be returned to Canada.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/01/29/canada-demand-return-ex-child-soldier-guantanamo
(New York) – The Canadian government should immediately request the repatriation of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr from Guantanamo even though Canada’s Supreme Court did not order it to do so, Human Rights Watch said today. Khadr, who was 15 years old when the US military took him into custody in Afghanistan, has been held at Guantanamo since 2002.

The Canadian Supreme Court today unequivocally condemned Canada’s participation in Khadr’s interrogations at Guantanamo as violations of Khadr’s human rights, Canada’s constitution, and “basic Canadian standards about the treatment of detained youth.” The court declined to order the Canadian government to seek Khadr’s repatriation because doing so would intrude upon the executive’s discretion in foreign affairs. However, the court held that the effects of US and Canadian violations continue into the present and that the Canadian government must, in exercising its foreign affairs powers, take this into account.

“Canada was complicit in some of the abuse Omar Khadr faced at Guantanamo” said Andrea Prasow, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch. “Canada’s Supreme Court today condemned Khadr’s treatment in the strongest terms. The Harper government should now work to bring Omar Khadr home to Canada.”

Please prosecute. Please pitch a tent.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/02/01/chad-habr-knew-deaths-his-jails
Under international law, individuals can be found criminally responsible for serious human rights violations if they knew or should have known that forces under their authority or control were committing crimes and failed to act to prevent the crimes or punish those responsible.

Great.

(Dakar) – A new study shows that Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad, was well-informed of the hundreds of deaths in prisons operated by his political police, a coalition of human rights organizations said today. The announcement came on the eve of the 10th anniversary of his indictment in Senegal.

The study by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) is based on thousands of documents generated by the Documentation and Security Directorate (DDS) – the state security force that pursued opponents and operated notorious prisons during the Habré regime. The files were discovered by chance by Human Rights Watch in 2001 at the abandoned Security Directorate’s headquarters in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital.

“The evidence shows that Habré was not a distant ruler who knew nothing about these crimes,” said Jacqueline Moudeina, president of the Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, who is also a lawyer for the victims. “Habré directed and controlled the police force, which tortured those who opposed him or who simply belonged to the wrong ethnic group.”

Good to uncover all that.
However…

Senegal has said that it will not move forward with the case until it receives full international funding for all the costs of the trial. Senegal’s estimate of €27.4 million includes €8 million to reconstruct a courthouse. The European Union, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland have publicly or privately agreed to help finance the trial, but are waiting for a “credible” budget. Chad has offered €3 million as an “initial” contribution. In December 2009, a joint team from the European Union and the AU visited Senegal and is expected to propose a revised budget for finally bringing Habré to trial.

In July 2006, the AU mandated Senegal to prosecute Habré “on behalf of Africa.”…

8 million Euro for a new building, that is ridiculous!
If you had 8 million Euros,  you should distribute it to the poor!
What justice, what justice is done if 8 million euros are used to lavish on a sumptuous building, while the population live in dire poverty?    Shouldn’t the 8 million Euros be used to build housing for ten thousand poor people,  rather than a mansion for one dictator…even in guilt of trial, he is having a mansion built for him?
What type of spoiled people run Senegal’s government?
How could you not remember the poor people of the land?

Really, you should move forward with the trial, and pitch a tent for the tribunal.   It is simple, and it would highlight how much poverty has been caused by this dictator to all the people of the land!
Why, are you plutocrats from Hollywood?  Are you filming a lavish movie instead of getting on with a trial?    Do you love vanity of a few Senegalese officials   more than justice for the people of the land?

If you need money,  borrow it at 1% interest from China.
But please go on with the trial!

Democratize Jordan (crucial to peace in Middle East)

Democracy in Jordan is crucial to peace in the Middle East.
Without a democratic Jordan, there cannot be a real Palestinian homeland. The Arab Palestine Republic should be West Bank + Jordan.
There should be no more constitutional monarchy in Jordan, but a true democracy.

America is the biggest stumbling bl0ck to Peace in the Middle East, by arming Israel and directing Israel to wage aggressive wars, by funding dictatorship in Jordan with $3 billion a year.

Really, it’s the insistence of American government that keeps the monarchy dictatorship in Jordan. American government knows well the abysmal human rights record of Jordanian dictatorship. Jordan has the most cruel torture centers in the region (other than Egypt). But America props up the dictatorship, because America doesn’t want a Republic of Palestinian Arabs. It would rather have a brutal dictator that can be controlled/cajoled to be in the role of Iran’s Shah (America’s mercenary thug) in the region, than to have a democracy of Palestinian Arabs in West Bank and Jordan (because then, the native Arabs would be in charge of governing their country, and not a tyrant who is a satrap of American empire).

Jordan dictatorship is deliberately diminishing the number of Palestinians inside Jordan, because it fears a Palestinian majority in Jordan (about 70%-80% of Jordanians are Palestinians. The Bedouin Arabs are in minority).

America should stop funding such a dictatorship.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/02/01/jordan-stop-withdrawing-nationality-palestinian-origin-citizens

(Amman) – Jordan should stop withdrawing nationality arbitrarily from Jordanians of Palestinian origin, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Authorities stripped more than 2,700 of these Jordanians of their nationality between 2004 and 2008, and the practice continued in 2009, Human Rights Watch said.

The 60-page report, “Stateless Again: Palestinian-Origin Jordanians Deprived of their Nationality”, details the arbitrary manner, with no clear basis in law, in which Jordan deprives its citizens who were originally from the West Bank of their nationality, thereby denying them basic citizenship rights such as access to education and health care.
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A Third-World dictatorship in Sri Lanka

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/01/29/sri-lanka-end-indefinite-detention-tamil-tiger-suspects
(New York) – The Sri Lankan government should end its indefinite arbitrary detention of more than 11,000 people held in so-called rehabilitation centers and release those not being prosecuted, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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“The government has been keeping 11,000 people in a legal limbo for months,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “It’s time to identify who presents a genuine security threat and to release the rest.”

The government has denied detainees the right to be informed of specific reasons for their arrest, to challenge the lawfulness of the detention before an independent judicial authority, and to have access to legal counsel and family members, Human Rights Watch said.  It is unclear whether any have been formally charged with crimes or what acts they are accused of committing that led the government to detain them.

While the government has the right and responsibility to protect public safety, it also has to do so in a lawful manner that respects basics rights, Human Rights Watch said.
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the government confined nearly 300,000 people displaced by the conflict in what the government called “welfare camps” in the north. Since early 2008 virtually all civilians fleeing the fighting had been confined in these camps.  At checkpoints and in the camps, the authorities separated the more than 11,000 individuals with suspected ties to the LTTE and sent them to “rehabilitation centers.” More than 550 children were among those transferred to these centers.

While the government contends that many of those being held have surrendered to rehabilitation voluntarily, the lack of access to the detainees by humanitarian agencies and other independent monitors makes it difficult to know how many surrendered, how many of this group did so voluntarily, and how many were arrested.
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As documented by Human Rights Watch in a 2008 report, “Recurring Nightmare: State Responsibility for ‘Disappearances’ and Abductions in Sri Lanka,” enforced disappearances have been a longstanding problem in Sri Lanka, and thousands of people remain unaccounted for.
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In an illustrative case, the army detained 32-year-old Jeganathan on May 15, 2009, after he crossed into government-controlled areas with his wife, Aanathi, and their one-year-old son. The military insisted that Aanathi continue to the camp and she heard nothing about her husband for several weeks. “I lost all hope,” Aanathi told Human Rights Watch. “I thought that I would never see him again.”

A relative of Aanathi eventually located Jeganathan in one of the rehabilitation centers, and Aanathi has been able to visit him on occasion. Months after he was detained, the government has not informed him how long he is supposed to stay in the center. He has not had access to a lawyer and he has not been able to contest his detention before a court. During Aanathi’s last visit to see her husband he told her that the authorities continue to interrogate him and that they had started beating some of the other “surrendees.”

The Sri Lankan government has asked international donors to provide financial support for the “rehabilitation centers.” Human Rights Watch said that donors should not support the centers unless and until the rights of the detainees are fully respected.

“In the absence of due process guarantees, support for these centers is support for the government’s illegal detention policy,” said Adams. “No donor should be associated with that.”

Why wish that I am “in agreement” with injustice?

Mere because I am not physically fighting (there is no such situation, because this is false accusation situation),  the CIA (or whatever evil organizations) would send people to wish me “chill”?
Really, your God-damned anti-Christ psychology makes you never think about Justice,  but only about comfort and vanity (and wealth),   alternately referring to one of these to keep people distracted,  so that they temporarily forget their lack-of-justice.

Really, I am pursuing Justice every second of every day,  even every second I am sleeping if I could do so.

The only thing is, I am awaiting a reply from someone to put me in contact with a lawyer about my habeas corpus situation.   That’s all.
Merely because I am not physically fighting, the CIA would assume that I have given up on my humanity, and forgotten about Justice (and the lack thereof in my life?)

If I am ever “chill”, it’s not because I have forgotten about justice,  and it’s not because you war criminals have become “safe” in my distraction (into pursuing wealth/vanity/comfort),  it’s merely because I am temporarily tired and am resting.    As long as I am alive on this earth, the war criminals will never be safe,  not from public prosecution (I really don’t care what happens after that, it’s the ideology that must be prosecuted).

It’s amazingly shallow and contemptuous towards justice that the CIA wishes me to be “chill” and really wishes that I have ceased resistance to injustice.

I am a Christian.   It’s my God-given duty to resist injustice and to uncover the evildoings of the rich.

Tell you what, I would run several miles per day and exert lots of force and carry lots of things and smash down walls,  if that’s what it takes to bring down injustice in my life.   I would do that now.   I will do that everyday until this case goes to trial, even if I smash through rockpiles higher than the pyramids and run around the earth.

I am deprived of the ability to do anything about my case, until  someone replies to me and I get a lawyer.

Else, if by exerting physical labor I could get the work on,  myself,  I would have done exceedingly great physical labor by now.

But I am condemned to be in slavery,  for no crime of mine at all,  except that some pastor thought that I took $200 thousand from my workplace, Quia,  when I had opportunity to.    I did not.    He loved money, probably, and thought that I did.

I have been condemned to slavery because I refused to extort my workplace over a joke that I wasn’t even offended at,  but they were worried that I may sue them, so people at lunch mentioned $200 thousand dollars.    I told that to my pastor in 2007 and said I wouldn’t take it.  And I did not.   But he thought I did, and he probably told the police that I was hiding money, and likely adding things to dramatize me as someone dangerous,  so as to increase the likelihood of the police getting interested in finding money (which I did not have)  and forbidding me from coming to church (because he thought I was not only hiding money,  but also interested in his wife.  Neither of which is true, and the second part I didn’t even find out until later when I thought about double-speakings.)
Someone started doing surveillance on me in Berkeley in April 2007.   And since there were problems with the pastor, I started going to different churches.   The pastor was really self-conscious about me telling him to other pastors,   since he was really mean to me in forbidding me to come to church.   So he probably contacted churches all around, telling them that “someone with $200 thousand is looking for a church”,  so the money rumor went all around the greedy Christian organizations in the area.
And people probably added the amount while spreading it.

Soon, probably in May 2007, I noticed that everywhere I went, people took notice of me, and huge amount of traffic with advertising followed me.    Whichever new church I went,  the pastor inevitably talked about “money” and people expected me to give money.
I was quite poor then (and even poorer now),  so that was very strange.

And it only got worse, as the surveillance of me was put online.   The FBI (or CIA) agents followed me around, pretending to speak on their cellphones.   They also pretend that I took $200 thousand from my workplace.   When I explained that in writing,  they merely pretended that I have money,  by any way possible.    I asked repeatedly that they come speak to me face to face,  none of them spoke to me face to face.   None of them ever explained the reason for surveillance.    They were dedicated to false accuse me about being rich.

Until the stock crash of 2008.
After November/December 2008,  no one wanted to false accuse me of being rich anymore.

But they still wanted to false accuse me of being female, and of being older than my age (they were obsessed with adding years to my age,  that they may false accuse me of being ex-military or ex-spy,  like the devils that they are).   They also false accused me of being of different religions, and their false accusation of my nationality switched day by day, often several times a day,  depending on what’s the last thing I bother to look at.

It’s extremely painful to be buried alive, in existence, by thousands of people surrounding who really wish me dead and that I were someone else,   and they were dedicated to disregard/ignore any words of mine.   They were dedicated, devils that they are,  in false accusing me of … something, anything,  anything except accepting my testimony about myself.     They had no reason to,  then they were dedicated to fabricate a reason.   Each false reason was successively proven wrong, even several times a day (even by their own new decision to try other false accusations),   and they would go on false accusing,  and eventually, maybe after a few days,  they would forget, or pretend to forget,  that a false accusation had already been used-and-proven-wrong  and they would go back to that one again.

November 2008 was the vengeance of God for all the false accusations between April 2007 and then.    And also the use of me in slavery, so that crooked merchants of phone Corporations could sell more phones!

I have no doubt that more vengeance against America will be done by God, either now or in the future,  because of the continued false accusations (it’s maybe 1/2 or 1/3 or even 1/4 the attempts of how it was in 2007/2008,  but nonetheless it’s still being done).

God, Jesus Christ,  the one that Republicans (whose god is wealth) like to imagine “blesses America” unconditionally, regardless of how many Africans enslaved, Native Americans dispossessed, Filipinos colonized 1905-1992,  Arab dictatorships installed, Latin American democrats overthrown and bloodthirsty dictators installed,  secret jails funded in Cuba and Afghanistan with at least 70-80% innocent people in them for months and months and months.

The details of how this started (all the exact details with the pastor problem and the money rumors of $200 thousand and the early observations about the surveillance),  I typed out while sitting  in the Channing apartment, in May 2007.
I should like to have it again, and post it here as additional testimony.

Being 26, I truly abhor the idea of wasting my youth.
I have been brutally held for 3 years by vicious people  in slavery and false accusation.    They don’t have one crime that I ever committed (because, I never committed a crime, what would be commonly considered a crime, that is.   I have never even shoplifted once.   Things like driving in carpool lane once in the morning or lying about my grades,  I don’t consider to be crimes.)
They don’t have any reason to false accuse me, they merely wish to.    I am being held in slavery because people WISH to be malicious and cruel towards me.
Even today, the devilish people they wish I were of a different race.   My entire family is 100% Chinese, including on the cousins’ side,  and the servants of the devils,  they wish I were of a different race.

I don’t have the intent of WASTING MY LIFE IN SLAVERY FOR EVEN ONE MORE DAY.  And it is truly abhorrent to me that the CIA evil people mistake my being-temporarily-tired  and sleeping a bit,  to be “me being chill about getting slavery”.     In other words,  merely because I am not hacking at something with a machete (or whatever else they think would be “serious”),   the CIA would  tell the world that I am some type of “Samba” who enjoys being enslaved!

Even if I laugh, I do enjoy being enslaved.
I am enduring great oppression against me, by the grace of Jesus Christ.
There is not a day that I am not struggling against injustice.
There is not a day that I want to do something about my situation.
I tell you, if I had a machete (or a sword) and I was held by a mile of bars, I would have hacked through them all by now, and gained my freedom.

But I am held in slavery!
I am surrounded by vicious people!
If I could run away, I would have!
But this has to do with false accusations!   You “run away” from false accusations by facing the false-accuser head on!   All of them!  All of them!   Not some minion in daily life who hides in the shadows and denies that the slavery is done against me.     All of them in court!   All of them in court!

And I can do nothing about my case, until someone gets me into contact with a lawyer!
I have requested help from the Center of Constitutional Rights.   I have requested help from Andy Worthington.   I have requested help from Ban-ki Moon the head of the UN.   I have requested help from the European Court of Human Rights (later I learned that their jurisdiction doesn’t extent to the US).   I have requested for help from one of the Guantanamo attorneys (Elizabeth Ainslie).
Am I supposed to send a request to a specific place, and a person would reply to me?

Then COULD I BE TOLD ABOUT THAT PLACE?   Because I will send a request now,  I will go there personally!

But so far, I think the CIA and other devils have been doing obstruction of justice.   They are either preventing me from my First Amendment (and… Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Thirteenth!),  or they are preventing the First Amendment of  those lawyers I contacted!

I can do nothing about my case until I get a reply from a lawyer.
If it were only myself,  if I could do something to be done with this situation, I would be done by now!!!!!!!

I am condemned to all this suffering for nothing, and I have to wait for a reply from a lawyer.

And the CIA evil people assumes that merely because I am not crying everyday,  that I really like and want to be held in slavery!

I tell you that Auschwitz people (not to compare living conditions) did not cry every day either and neither did the African slaves cry everyday!   Maybe they find humorous things to think about at times,  but they do NOT want to held in slavery!

The CIA evil people thinks “he has decided to do nothing about his situation…he is quite comfortable and in-accord with his no-reason imprisonment”

I am NOT comfortable and in-accord with my no-reason imprisonment.   And it’s NOT that I have decided to do nothing.   I have waited for 3 years for the false accusations to stop,  they haven’t.    Each day I waited for the false accusations to stop,  they haven’t.    That  is,  I waited for justice to be done by the US government.   It hasn’t.   It refuses to do justice,  it refuses to admit Bush administration wrong.     Yes,  Bush administration started this and continued it.
So I sent request to lawyers about half a month ago, when I realized that the US government does not want to do justice,  so I should not wait upon the US government.
Now I am waiting for the lawyers to get back to me.

The point is, I have all the desire in the world for justice,  but someone has to lift a little finger to help me.    It’s nothing but a very slight gesture,  the telling to me about my imprisonment, and where/how do I appeal?    I only need that very slight gesture, but it has to come from someone else!  Someone other than me!
I do not want to waste my life in this for even more than one day!
The spies,  they are horrendous people.  They are nothing but government-organized   organized crime.    Just like an organized crime, they know nothing but lie, insult, think the most evil out of anything, and destroy people’s lives!     There is no one innocent in their lives, and they refuse to accept anyone is innocent.    They are dedicated to destroy the lives of anything they come into contact with.     I do not want to waste my life in proximity to these spies for even one more day!
(and that necessitates challenging them in court!   Then, like dogs on the leash of their disgruntled masters,  they will go elsewhere.   But while they are all around me,  they refuse to understand my human-language words,   they insist on biting me because that’s all that they know!   They don’t receive and don’t intend to receive one word of my testimonies!)

I have a life to go on!    The spies block me from getting jobs!
I have friends to meet with finally without false accusation following me!    I want to finally continue to go to church,  without God-damned cameras following me (and making that entire meeting an infidel action, because while pronouncing God in the mouth,  they lie in pretending that all is well and they do not expel the evil camera in their midst, and they even show off for the cameras   rather than stop the slavery against me!)    I haven’t had communion (the ritual thereof) since 3 years, and I am not going to have communion with a church, any, until they speak of my slavery or don’t deny it!   Else, how can I be yoked with people dedicated to be dishonest and evil?
I have vocations I would like to learn and get on with life!   Not with the evil people projecting things into me at night!     I want to learn programming, but with the machinery in my head, and the spies projecting codes into it on several nights,  how do I know they aren’t trying to overload my brain?    I am tired of being grieved  (there is such grief that I am tired of being grieved and my soul’s grief-part is weary to move like legs during a marathon)   about people being flippant and even laughing while spying on me,  while using me as merchandise!

Where is the “liberty and justice for all” that I was so eager to recite every school day for 3 years?
Why should my life be sacrificed for Bush’s vanity?   Why should 3 years of my life be sacrificed in such misery, because there are people who don’t want to criticize Bush?
I don’t even want Bush to go to jail,  I merely want to overthrow the ideology that is keeping innocent people imprisoned for no reason,  and even that injustice is tucked away and  not spoken about,   because it would criticize Bush.    And there are people in Washington, the Republicans mainly, who love the vanity of Bush  so much they would without hesitation trample over thousands of innocent lives, over and over again.

Why should my life be sacrificed and dragged in vain like this, merely so that Bush could enjoy a “not-criticized” status?

What is more important?    My basic human-rights at not being falsely accused for fun, and displayed for circus,     or Bush’s rights at not being criticized?   Is there even such a thing?   Is it even comparable?     Is such a smug type of aristocratic comfort for one person   worth the trampling of hundreds of brown people in Guantanamo, and thousands of brown people in Afghanistan,  and also me?

Aren’t people created equal?   That is the foundation of the nation.

Then why should I (and many other innocent people) endure so much misery,  merely so that one person is not criticized and his ideas not criticized?       His ideology has led to all these terrible situations,  why is that his personal comfort and a false sense of never-wrong  should be worth  the
wrongful-suffering of so many people?
Aren’t our lives all equal?

A message to Christians of all lands, on behalf of Christ the King

Dear Christians, my elders, brethren and sisters:

I would like to pass on a message:
Any church organization, any ministry, any minister, any person   who tries to imitate what is “cool” and popular and marketable,  in the style of things  displayed on a screen (TV, movies, phones) or in advertisements,  or brands of Corporations,    that place/person has its spirit cut off from Christ.

When in America, whenever you hear the words “It’s OK”,  Satan is, most likely, directly in those words.   Those words are the essential happening of Genesis chapter 3, and really, those words are what happens in each evildoing,  when Satan says “it’s OK”.    The Americans, those with the spirit of Satan or susceptible to Satan’s control,  like to say “it’s OK” to any evil thing,  to dictate some Satanic standards that make such evildoing permissible.

Back to the main message:
Any church organization, any ministry, any minister, any person   who tries to imitate for-profit (for wealth-profit)   Corporation  methods (business “success”,  marketing,  advertising) and  work-environment (“positive attitude” “positive thinking” psychology)   and  products (brands, brand-logos, TV shows, movies characters, videogames, the latest fashions and fads and celebrity styles and gossip and the latest consumerist/shopping preferences and that type of “knowledge”)   in doing any supposedly-Christian  endeavor,   their spirit  is  a spirit that is cut off from Christ.

You are not to follow such a person/organization,  for they will  lead you astray.

Any Corporation in the “Fortune 500″ has a work environment and existence cut off from Christ.
And nearly all schools of economics in the world, because they teach American-style economics (yes, the study of economics in college, it’s demonic, it instructs you into a way of thinking that places money first above all,  denying the value of human beings.)
Same with anything affiliated with Wall Street
Any very-rich Corporation, really.

If possible, you are to not work in such a work environment.   You should have different jobs,  preferably in a non-profit (like, Doctor without Borders)  or  a  low-profit  public-enterprise  (like, public transportation, public education, a state-owned Corporation), or  a for-profit small enterprise  mid-size enterprise.

This does not preclude Christians from starting small Corporations, and perhaps have a brand.  But it must remain small (total assets  under $10 million) or the Christian soul will be lost.

Add: any “Christian” organization that advocates for right-wing politics and support for right-wing political parties  in governance,   that organization has lost its Way,  and turned a blind eye to the suffering of the poor,  and has been led astray by the love of wealth.

This message is mainly to address those who want to copy what is “cool” by the crowd-standards of the unbelievers.   What is highly regarded by men is abominable to God.  They have strayed away from Christ, their spirits have gone astray from Christ, any person who builds or works “Christianity” based on attracting people by
- what is “cool”,
- what is “cozy” and comfortable (the spiritual environment equivalent to physically sitting in a couch all day)
- what does-not-stray-from-crowd-standards (such a person thinks anything that differs from crowd standards is “too extreme”, and therefore cares about conforming to the way of how this world lives,   rather than conform to the Way of Christ,  which is always different from the way of how this world lives)
- what reminds of entertainment or Corporation-products, especially TV and movies and popular music
(pop music, rock, heavy metal… automatically has an evil me-first spirit with it.  Rock and heavy metal is clearly ancient-pagan religion of violence and brutal chaos   expressed through sounds.   Whoever listen to these things, such a person’s spirit and heart will not stay with Christ.)
(rap…in America,  rap has all this exaggerated gesture and swagger and lyrics full of violence and vanity and desire to oppress other people.    Therefore, as far as America is concerned, there is no “Christian rap”.   Rap immediately brings a spirit of self-vanity and show off in front of other people, and violence.   Those who listen to it…their lives demonstrate the result.)
(I have heard that rap is not violent in Africa.  Perhaps it is less consumed with vanity as well.  I have yet to hear rap from Africa, so I am not sure.   But in America, anyone who try to imitate rap style,  does not stay with Christ.    The very rhythm of the music is not with Christ,  but with the vanity of people.)
(whichever “Christian artist” tries to imitate popular music sounds  -  I heard that many try to make their music sound like “Coldplay” because that’s popular -  they have surely strayed from Christ and their spirits are shallow and unfruitful,  as far as Christ is concerned.
You are not to listen to such Christian artists.
You are to listen to www.cyberhymnal.org and the songs on it, all these songs written from ancient times until the year 1900.   These are the good Christian songs.)

with love in Christ

A common Christian

Finally! Iraq sues US/UK war criminals for depleted uranium

Wow, finally there are men in Iraq!

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/34/Iraq-to-sue-US-Britain-over-depleted-uranium-bo.html

To do justice for the Church fathers

There is a “golden age” of Christianity, and that was the Early Church.
From 33 AD (the death and resurrection of our LORD) till 311 AD (the legalization of the Early Church by Constantine).

At that time, it was merely The-Church.

There was no “Catholic Church” until 800 AD, when The-Church split.

The original Church remained as Orthodox Church (later split into Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox).
In 800 AD, a renegade church split out of the original Church, and it was called Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church became apostate and exceedingly corrupt,  so that later in 1507 AD, another Church split out of it,  and that was the Protestant Church.

The best years of Protestant Christianity was with the Puritans, 1600-1700.
And in the 1800-1880 era,  some descendants of the Puritans still held the flame.

The most pious Christians ever, as far as the Western Hemisphere is concerned,  was the Early Church (33 AD – 311AD  containing all the apostles) and the Puritan Era (1600-1700, with some remnants 1800-1880).

These are to be emulated/imitated.
Paul told Timothy to imitate what he (Paul) does.
This necessarily imply that the apostles are good examples.    It can be correctly assumed that the examples of the apostles was transmitted among the Early Christians.   Therefore, the practices of the Early Church are to be researched and imitated,  to better attain godliness and live a pious life.
Same with the teachings of the Puritans.

All these people (including the apostles) are FAR MORE godly,  than anything the current “Christians” in America have known personally.

The Early Church Christians  are not the “Catholic Church fathers”,  they are  The-Church   fathers.        There was no Catholic church back then,  it was the-Church.    Whoever denies the Early Christians  denies  our entire Church, period.

There are certain Americans,  perhaps puffed in the pleasures of the flesh and creature comforts,  who want to deny the godly lives  of the Early Christians as “ascetic”.     That word is used as if it was synonymous with “poisonous”.    This is because the godly lives of the Early Christians  is evidence of the guilt of the Americans, how far they are from the authentic Christianity of the Early Christians.
The Early Christians have been directly taught by the apostles (from Matthew till Barnabas).   They ate with the apostles, walked with the apostles,  died with the apostles.    Since the apostles are the best Christians there has ever been on the face of the earth  (who dares claim to be a better Christian than the original eleven?),   then it can be correctly assumed that the Early Church, which was directly taught by them,  is a far more godly example to follow than any contemporary American fad or teachings or objections.

In other words,  if the Early Church is more godly in some way or other,  then it is more correct.    If the Early Church practices something, and the Americans today don’t,  then the Early Church is more correct.

What some fleshly Americans  -  perhaps too proud to admit they have been ungodly compared to the Early Church -   label  “ascetic”  is nothing but  standard practice of holiness   by  the better Christians of Early Church,  those who are far closer to Jesus  than any American  (except the Puritan generation…and maybe a few in the 1800s).

Some Americans are also against “monasticism”.
There is nothing wrong with being in a monastery (as long as you don’t stay there for the rest of your life)  for a while  to get away from the things of the world:  no TV/movies/radio/music/advertisements/magazines/fashion/crowds/traffic …   to distract from the pursuit of God.

As long as you don’t join in the Catholic Church           (it uses demonic doctrine of no-marriage for priests,  it prays to Mary(!), it teaches that Christians must confess to Catholic priest rather than to Jesus,  many of them pray to angels (!), it has a church-emperor-with-a-palace who of-course is against wealth distribution)                  you can look at the various practices in the 2000 years of Christianity, and see which ones you think is appropriate for you to take or try,  to get closer to God, and to live more godly lives.

As Paul wrote, if one person thinks one day is holier than others,  the person does it for the glory of God.   If one person thinks that way about food,  the person eats it for the glory of God.    Same with different ways of honoring God,  or to approach God,  or to “discipline my own body”(as Paul wrote)   to achieve godliness,   or to meditate upon the Word of God (Psalm 119,  actually nearly all the Psalms).

As long as you don’t get denominational about it  (some other people may use other methods,  you shouldn’t think your method is a requirement for getting into heaven),   I really don’t see why American Christians shouldn’t look at the different practices of Christianity since 2000 years,   and not only in Western Hemisphere,  but also the Syriac Church, the Armenian Church, the Coptic (Egyptian) Church, the Russian Orthodox Church,   the African churches.

The Chinese House Church,  which… as far as God is concerned,  is the representative of Christianity on Earth.    They have godliness and love-towards-God that cannot be matched by any person in the Western Hemisphere.

I personally still have to find out about how Christianity is practiced by the Chinese Church,  because I am nearly an infidel compared to how they are, and I would like to learn to seek God like they do.   How to pray, for instance, or how to fast, or how to read the Bible.

The point is,  Americans are so spoiled and so lavishing themselves in luxury everyday,   that anything even remotely resembling  a true-repentant heart seeking godliness        would make Americans shout  “ascetic”!     Well, that’s not the problem of Christ,  that’s the problem of Americans.     They have a life of Consumerism that they mislabel “Christianity”,   and their nature is so fleshly and so worldly and so unregenerated,   that when faced with a real life of regeneration and David-like seeking God,   their fleshly soul  balk   “ascetic” !
For they prefer the creature comforts of Egypt,  rather than step out and follow  the cloud-by-day and pillar-of-fire-by-night    in harsh conditions,  together with the actual People of God.

I tell you the actual People of God live in harsh conditions while following God.

And, the Americans are so habituated to having things instantly-made at their whim,  that they have no patience for hard-work.    They have a push-button idea of life,  that things should be like a TV-remote,  and once they push the “ask” button,  God should run over like a waiter and hand over their desire for entertainment.      They have no concept of working hard at something.    Moreover,  the Americans love the “American way of life’,  they don’t love the “Christian Way of life”.    The “American way of life”  is  broad,  even a fool can live the “American way of life”.   It consists of eating/drinking with abandon, wearing famous-brands and jeering at people who don’t, drive the biggest most wasteful car possible,  waste as many other things as possible,  going shopping for things that are totally unneeded, doing the least physical labor as possible, entertain the most, know the least knowledge possible about anything, never try to be excellent at anything   only the least required to not fail,  sitting on couches all day, fill head with trash music rather than expend the effort of thinking anything worthwhile,  never create anything  only imitate something in the magazine or the movies,  fill eyes with TV or movies  rather than creating something different,  when needing to pick up something from the ground    lazily bend over at the waist with legs standing   rather than expend the effort of squatting down  and then standing up.
The Americans are so enamored at their creature comfort that any David-like pursuit of God  is immediately  balked at as “monasticism!”

The “American way of life” is broad,  and any person can live the American way of life, and most people want to live the American way of life.
But the “Christian Way of Life” is narrow,  and not many people want to live the Christian Way of life.

The Christian Way of Life is at enmity with these things:  love of wealth, love of vanity, and love of comfort/pleasure.
The American way of life is … pursuit of these things, the “things of the world”  as spoken of by Apostle John.    But whoever loves “the world”, the love towards the Father is not in him.

Whatever method is helpful in getting the heart away from the things of the world,  and more towards God,    to whoever uses that method,   that is fine (as long as the person doesn’t make it into a denomination).

And concerning “monasticism”,  I do think it is not a good idea to remain in a monastery,  for then you are not fulfilling the Great Commission.
It is also a terrible idea to join the Catholic Church.  Do not!    Do not get yoked with an organization that uses demonic doctrine exactly as warned by Paul.
Episcopalian  is  the American branch of Catholic Church. (same thing)
Anglican is England branch of Catholic Church  (I think they are probably similar).
This is not to say people can’t be godly in the Catholic Church…there are some, once in a while.    C.S. Lewis is probably the best Catholic,  but that’s despite being in the Catholic Church,  rather than because of it.

It is fine to be in a monastery situation, if you want to get away from the worldly things for a while.    Just don’t join a monk order, or the Catholic Church, or stay in a monastery for years.   You should only do it for a time of dedicated study to the Word of God,  like what the prophets and some apostles did when they went to the desert for some time.
You can even do it yourself by going to a mountain cabin or merely go camping for a few days.  Yourself, other people.   You can even go to the actual desert for camping (just make sure you go with an outdoor hiking specialist).

Other than that,  in 2007 someone “Christian”  called me ascetic when I made it clear that I did not want to be excessively rich.
That is how American “Christians”  use the word “ascetic”.    In other words,  a trait of correct-Christianity   would be “ascetic” to them *.    How far is their nature then, from our LORD God!   Their soul’s taste is conditioned to the distractions of this world, and not to the holiness of our LORD.

*  this is not to arrogantly claim that I am “correct-Christianity”.   Far from it.
This is merely to say  -  and I am certain of this, in Christ, -  that “being excessively rich” is guaranteed destruction  of   “following God”.
How much is “excessively rich”?
On the safe side, however much each Apostle had (for they are the best Christians ever),  that.
On the less-than-safe side … the median wage in each society (maybe $40000 a year in America).
And closely above that would be “excessively rich”.

So, I am rather very skeptical when some American people use the word “ascetic” or “monasticism”,  considering that the Americans are all very ungodly and undesiring of the pious life of the Early Church or the Puritans.

Finally, justice is catching up to contracted-criminals

…

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45009
…Kuwaiti company acting as a subcontractor to the U.S. firm KBR, was accused this week of holding approximately 1,000 men from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka for one to three months without pay in crowded warehouses near the Baghdad airport waiting to begin the jobs they were brought to Iraq to perform. The jobs evidently never materialised.

Najlaa International Catering Services, the Kuwaiti company that hired them to work in Iraq, agreed to pay the men and repatriate them following their raucous protest last week outside the warehouses.

KBR is a former subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation, the largest and arguably the most notorious of the U.S. private contractors in Iraq. It is widely accused of multiple instances of waste, fraud and abuse in implementing the wide range of services it carries out for the U.S. military in Iraq.

In a related development, 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers are suing KBR for knowingly exposing them to a toxic chemical in Iraq in 2003. The soldiers, who were providing security for KBR during repairs of a water treatment plant in southern Iraq after the U.S. invasion, claim the site was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, “one of the most potent carcinogens”. It alleges that KBR knew the plant was contaminated but concealed the danger.

U.S.-based contractors working in Iraq have been the subjects of numerous lawsuits brought in U.S. courts. In one such suit, filed last May in Los Angeles federal court, Emad Al-Janabi, a 43-year-old Iraqi blacksmith, alleged he was wrongly imprisoned, beaten and forced from his home by people in U.S. military uniforms and civilian clothing in September 2003. He was released from Abu Ghraib without charge in July 2004.

The defendants are contractors CACI International Inc. and CACI Premier Technology, Inc., of Arlington, Va.; L-3 Communications Titan Corporation, of San Diego, Calif.; and former CACI contractor Steven Stefanowicz, a Los Angeles resident known at Abu Ghraib as “Big Steve”.

The suit charges that the contractors subjected Al-Janabi to physical and mental torture in sessions where the defendants acted as interrogators and translators. It alleges the contractors transported him to a detainee site in a wooden box and covered with a hood; scarred his face when his eyes were clawed by an interrogator; exposed him to a mock execution of his brother and nephew; hung him upside down with his feet chained to the steel slats of a bunk bed until he lost consciousness; and repeatedly deprived him of food and sleep and threatened him with dogs.

In October 2003, during a surprise inspection of Abu Ghraib, the International Committee of the Red Cross reportedly discovered Al-Janabi naked, chained and bruised in a cell in the “hard site” of the prison. The lawsuit says he was a so-called “ghost detainee” who was intentionally hidden from the Red Cross on subsequent inspections and held without appearing on the prisoner lists.

The suit noted that CACI provided interrogators used at Abu Ghraib and that L-3 employed all translators used there. Stefanowicz was linked to Abu Ghraib abuses in military court martial proceedings and was said to have directed low-level U.S. military personnel in detainee interrogations.

García administration of Peru: please destroy the no-taxation contracts

The people in Peru are poor.
And the ultra-rich are not paying taxes!

Raise the taxes sky-high on the richest Corporations!
90% taxes on any mining projects by enterprises that are not Peru’s public-owned enterprises!
Amend the Peruvian Constitution,  so that the Peruvian government has command/control of any contract with any foreign Corporation.
Don’t bother negotiating with a foreign Corporation.
Amend the Constitution and then destroy the contracts.
Without foreign Corporations, it’s better.   Because, the state-owned Corporations of Peru can have all the profits, and the wealth would go to the population of Peru.
(as far as I understand it,  Peru has a Social Democracy…or something resembling a Social Democracy.    Then why do you let the fascist oligarchs from outside of Peru  rob the wealth of the population?   Why do you let the oligarchs rob the population?   Tax them!  Tax them!   Tax them 90%.  Destroy those no-taxation contracts.    Back out of NAFTA and CAFTA…if dictator Fujimori was terrible enough to sign away his population’s wealth… through either.)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50184
One example of the losses … for government coffers was the 270 million dollars in taxes and royalties that Antamina SA – a joint venture between Swiss-British mining company Xstrata, Anglo-Australian BHP Billiton, Canada’s Teck Cominco Limited and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation – will not have to pay this year.

The government of Alan García recently approved Antamina’s new expansion plan, allowing it to reinvest 900 million dollars in profits tax-free under a legal stability contract, which was signed in 1998, went into effect in 2001 and expires in 2015, according to the Ministry of Energy and Mines.

The Compañía Minera Antamina SA was established in 1996 to mine zinc, copper, silver and molybdenum in the northwestern Andean department (province) of Ancash.

Economist Humberto Campodónico estimates that the company, which operates the world’s largest combined copper and zinc mine, took in earnings of over six billion dollars in the 2006-2009 period.
…
Around half of the contracts…have already expired. But 11 are still in force, benefiting the biggest mining corporations in Peru, including Xstrata, Teck Cominco, the U.S.-based Newmont Mining, and Canada’s Barrick Gold….[and] Yanacocha, the largest gold mine in Latin America and second largest in the world, operated by Newmont.
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“The country ties its hands legally with these contracts signed with mining companies,” said Campodónico, who pointed out that the constitution stipulates that business contracts can only be modified through mutual agreement, not unilaterally by the government.

“This is not the case in any other Latin American country, and it infringes on our sovereignty,” he added
…
42.5% of the population of [a Peruvian mining-province] was living in poverty in 2008.

Nigeria is being colonized by Fortune 500 and Wall Street banks and free-trade

This is re-colonization of Nigeria!
Before WWII and the loss of India/Vietnam/Algeria as colonies, the European and American colonizers/militarists   sought to use troops and weapons to do colonization.
After it became clear that native guerilla movements would defeat armed occupation,  the European and American colonizers/militarists,  since perhaps 1970s(?), became far more sly.   They now use free-trade agreements (NAFTA, CAFTA in Latin America,  Economic Partnership Agreements in Africa,  WTO/IMF/World Bank  in Asia and Middle East)   to devastate the lives of the local people,  and extract the wealth from those countries without paying the people who live there.
They now use Corporations (Fortune 500… Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco, Shell, Wal-Mart, PEPSI, Coca-Cola, AT&T, Verizon, Motorola, SONY-Ericsson, Nokia, Aetna, Pfizer, Halliburton, Rio Tinto, JP Morgan, CitiBank, Goldman Sachs…)  to occupy poorer countries.

The result is the same:   wealth is robbed from those countries,  and looted by the richest rich from America/Europe,   and when those items are sold for profit,  only pennies  are given to the people of the poor countries,   nearly all the money is kept in the pockets of the rich thieves.

It’s same as some thieves coming into a poor man’s house,  take away furnitures without paying the poor man,   sell the furnitures for profit,   and keep almost all the money,  except toss some pennies to the poor man.
That is colonization.    Whether the thieves are called “colonial army”  or “Corporations”  doesn’t matter.   Whether the thieves enter through  colonial-war,  or through “Economic Partnership Agreement,  or free-trade agreement”  that they bribe/deceive the poor country’s government into signing…  doesn’t matter.

The result is the same!   Wealth is robbed from underneath the feet of poor people who have lived there for hundreds of generations.   But the poor people are not the ones selling their own wealth and getting the profit  (which would help build schools, hospitals, and better lives…pull them out of poverty into a decent life of clean healthy living),    but not, the wealth is forcible stolen by the rich Corporations, and got to enrich a few thousands merchants in America/Europe.

Same thing happen with slave labor or sweatshops.
Except, it’s the value of the poor man’s labor that is stolen, not the minerals from the poor man’s homeland.   Either way, the rich men from America/Europe steal what is valuable from the poor many  in Africa (and elsewhere),  without compensating them for what it is worth.

Isn’t this the gravest injustice?
The poor men, many, are kept in poverty.
The rich few, very few,  accumulate excessive wealth, turning them even more evil.   Those Fortune 500 people, those Wall Street people,  and those people who advocate for free-trade.

I tell you, that the most evil people in the world… are in the Oil Corporations.   Not the average workers,  but the CEOs, shareholders, and board of directors.
They are the SAME type of people as the most bloodthirsty dictators, as the worst of war criminals and oppressors of mankind.

Same with the biggest private-owned banks… that is,  Wall Street.
Same with Fortune 500 Corporations,  really,  any (private-owned) Corporation that has assets above a hundred million dollars,  it is almost completely evil.
Nearly all the Corporation crimes are committed by large Corporations, richest Corporations.

Small Corporations (assets less than 10 million dollars)  almost never ever commit crimes.

This commentary was written in response to the colonization of Nigeria by Oil Corporations…Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco, Shell… you rob the Nigerian people daily!  You rob the minerals from underneath the poor people’s feet!  (Oil = minerals)    That is their property.     It should only be sold by a Nigerian  national-community-owned  oil enterprise (meaning,  profits are shared equally among all Nigerians,  one Nigerian,  one portion).     It should NOT be sold by any foreign non-Nigerian Corporation.      Or, if such thing is done,  then there should be a 90% tax on such activities,  so that 90% of the profits would go to Nigerian nation,  and the barbarian American/European greedy (ultra-rich) merchants  keep only a small portion.

The Nigerian government seems too corrupt and too insensible to the sufferings and poverty of its own people!
There needs to be a peaceful revolution in Nigeria, with a Social Democracy in the style of Brazil!   The first priority of the government would be to care for its poor people, and not let richest Corporations ruin their lives and keep them in destitution and rob the natural wealth of the land.

Do not merely be content with a few pipelines.
You need to seize the entire government!   Seize the government,  and use the law to drive out all foreign Oil Companies  (and then convert to Green energy so you don’t need the oil).
Do not merely be content with a few pipelines.    The Oil Corporations remain in the land because of a “free-trade agreement”  with the government.    Seize the government and expel the Oil Corporations!    Make a Brazilian government!   Follow the example of Evo Morales in Bolivia, how he governs his country…thinking of poor people first.   Follow the example of Zapatero in Spain,  how he governs his country…thinking of poor people first.   Follow the example of Luis de Silva, how he governs his country… thinking of poor people first.

Form a political party and run for elections and seize government for the sake of the poor people.
That brings lasting change, and is 10000 times more powerful than continuous sabotage of pipelines.
Wake up all of Africa  to stand against America’s Fortune 500 Corporations, and Europe’s economic-partnership-agreements,    which are the new methods of colonization.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50176
A key complaint in the Niger Delta is that proceeds from five decades of oil exploitation have not improved the lives of local communities. Instead the profits are divided between the Nigerian government and the oil companies operating in the region.
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Livinus had a warning for western oil companies operating in the Niger Delta. “We, the 15 commanders with our soldiers, we shall go back to the creeks, and continue to destroy the pipelines and other oil installations. I tell you Agip will have no peace, Shell will not have peace, Chevron will not have peace. No company will have peace in the creeks.”

Timothy Geithner gave $85 billion to a few rich, but not even $1 billion to Haiti?

Timothy Geithner gave $85 billion for free to a few thousand ultra-rich people.
Really,  Barack Obama gave $85 billion for free to a few thousand ultra-rich people.

But… 300 thousand people are dead in Haiti  and  tens of millions are in terrible poverty.
And what has Barack done?
- He hasn’t even given $1 billion to Haiti.
- He is keeping the MLK of Haiti,   Jean-Bertrand Aristide,   in exile in South Africa.     Aristide was elected by 75% of the Haitian people, before Bush overthrew him in 2004, in a terrible action of militarist imperialism.
Barack is such a puppet of the Republicans,  that he doesn’t even want to mention this great evil done by Bush.   And Barack hasn’t mentioned once  the name of Aristide…the true leader of the Haitian people.
Before Aristide was overthrown by Bush, the Haitians had 70% of the kids in school.
After Aristide was overthrown by Bush,  the Haitians fell into poverty (because Bush installed a plutocrat regime that serves the richest few),  and only 30% of the kids in school by 2009.
(these figures are accurate, from UN censuses.  read them earlier in the day)

Also, Barack hasn’t even handed over $1 billion  to all this many poor people.
But $85 billion  was handed over to a few thousand rich people.

Where is justice?
Relevant article is here (about why America owes assistance to Haiti … in the form of grants, not loans):  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/31/west-haiti-bailout-reimbursed-brutality

Russian gov., please don’t be Stalinist and respect basic Constitutional guarantees

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/31/russia-protests-police-detain-demonstrators

Germany should go back to Deutsche Marks, drop the Euro

Germany should go back to Deutsche Marks.
European Union should be a common peace-pact,  but not a super-empire that dissolves the national sovereignty (particularly the monetary sovereignty) of its members.

Why?  Because it is very dangerous to have a few bankers holding power over such a large piece of territory.    It easily leads to imperialism by the richest few against the many poor.
Also, each country should do protectionism and create jobs within its own borders.   This “free movement of people” and “free movement of merchandise” is based  on Milton Friedman’s wrong and evil doctrines  of  dissolving the national communities,  even dissolving national citizenships,   replacing it with  consumerism  and the feudal relationship between  consumer and big-Corporation,  between borrower and  big-banks.

Germany, Greece, Spain, Portugal… should get out of Euro, and have separate national currencies.
The Scandinavian countries should have their combined-Scandinavian currency, but not the Euro.
The Eastern Europeans should have a Pan-Slavic currency, perhaps.

Repost: Voice of the Martyrs: Burmese dictators have been deliberate massacring Christian villages

If this would result in even saving one life, then having been held hostage until now…has been worth it.
What is needed:  some really-daring investigative journalist to film footages of this genocide.   It would hit back at the military dictators really hard.
How much do UAVs cost, and how much is the cost of UAV maintenance, and what is the range of an UAV?   It should probably come last in priorities, but I think it’s about time that independent journalists get their own UAVs.   Uncovering the evildoings of the rich evil men (Ephesians 5:11) is not directly preaching the Gospel,  but it is working for the intent of God, and it does a lot at preventing the demolition of the planted-Gospel.

There is a military genocide going on in Burma.
The systematic wiping-out of a minority group, the Karens.

http://www.persecution.com/public/newsroom.aspx?story_ID=MjIy

Burma: Not My Backyard

“The world needs to know about the genocide that is happening today in Burma.”
— Patrick Klein, Vision Beyond Borders

The Burmese army is carrying out a massive killing campaign against its people, and the world is unaware, Patrick Klein of Vision Beyond Borders told VOM staff.

According to Patrick, who recently returned from Burma and Thailand, more than 500,000 people have been killed in Burma (also known as Myanmar) in the last 30 years. More than 3,300 villages have been burned to the ground by the Burmese military, and thousands of children have lost parents from brutal attacks by Burmese soldiers. About 1 million Burmese refugees have fled across the border to Thailand, where they wait in uncertainty. At any moment they might be sent back to Burma to face certain death.

Even refugee camps in Thailand are not safe from Burmese soldiers. They frequently cross the shallow river separating Thailand and Burma to poison water supplies and kill or kidnap refugees, whom they sometimes use as human mine sweepers. The Thai generals who rule the area work hand in hand with Burma’s ruling military junta regime and grow rich through the illegal drug trade that profits them both.

Patrick said the genocide is both an ethnic cleansing and a reaction against pro-democracy movements in Burma, but it also has a specifically anti-Christian agenda. When the head of a monastery asked soldiers if he should warn Buddhist monks to leave a conflict area, the soldier replied, “No, we are not going to harm the Buddhists. We are only against the Christians.”

One heavily targeted Burmese minority group is the Karen people. Historically Christian, today about 40 percent of the Karen people are Christians. A Burmese official boldly stated recently, “Soon there will be no Christians in this nation. You will only be able to see a Karen person in a picture in a museum.”

In the midst of this horror, God is at work in Burma. Many people are trusting their lives to God. One of the believers went so far as to tell Patrick, “Without this genocide, maybe this worship would not be happening, and people would not be coming to Christ.”

Patrick said he was saddened and horrified by conditions in the Burmese refugee camps he visited. He heard many stories of suffering, but what affected him most was an enthusiastic worship service by a group of 86 orphans who are cared for by a Baptist pastor. “We had a worship service from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. Then at 10 p.m., the kids came back and asked if we could go on worshiping! They have little happiness in their lives, but what they do have is the joy of the Lord,” Patrick said.

Cartoon: fascism in America (if Corporation Personhood isn’t repealed by an Amendment)

http://www.caglecartoons.com/viewimage.asp?ID={2D3AEC33-C1BB-44BC-BDDE-41062A224EF2}

Some racist, devilish Republican plan, to destroy public education in Mississippi

Thomas Caldwell Jackson was a Confederate military officer.   Regardless of his personal qualities,  he fought for slavery.

He fought for slavery.

This white-supremacist governor is trying to memorialize Jackson by merging all 3 black-Universities in Mississippi  under the name of Jackson University.   That is forcing the descendants of slaves to forget their heritage and be branded with the name of a slavery-advocate  everywhere on their diploma,  even after striving a lifetime for racial equality by reaching higher education.

I tell you, there is MORE THAN ENOUGH funds for public education in Mississippi,  in the excessive wealth of the richest 1%  in the state,  that this plutocrat governor is refusing to tax.

Why did you elect a right-wing person to be governor?   That’s cruelty to the poor and discrimination against average people.    It’s a favor only to the richest 1%.

I tell you, the richest 1% in America hold about HALF the wealth in the country.
There is more than enough excessive wealth in the richest 1% to fund public education.   It is completely unacceptable to destroy the black Universities.

This move by the white-supremacist governor must be strenuously opposed.
And there should be a recall of the governor over this.
Put a Progressive-Green person in his place.  Whoever Cynthia McKinney would recommend, that is the correct candidate.

Furthermore,  this horrible plutocrat is cutting funds to the poor.
But he is not raising taxes on the rich!
The richest 1/5 in Mississippi  has yearly income above $150000!  (+ $39000 since Reagan)
The poorest 1/5 in Mississippi has yearly income of  $14000!  ( – $3000 since Reagan)

And it’s mostly poor people who use public services.
And this plutocrat, this servant of the richest rich,  is cutting funds to the poor.   Yet, there is more than enough excessive abundance in the hands of the rich!   But this evil Republican,  he is not helping the poor.   He is conserving wealth in the hands of the richest rich! (hence,  conservative).

NEVER vote a conservative into office!

Mississippi’s income inequality is one of the worst among the 50 states.
This lack of wealth distribution  IS   segregation.
It IS segregation!
I can guarantee you, that nearly all the black people in Mississippi are in the poorest 1/5 or the poorer 1/2 of the population, and they are descendants of slaves.
I can guarantee you, that nearly all the richest 1/5 of Mississippi are rich whites, descendants of plantation owners.

The segregation,  it was never meant to have different drinking fountains, or different bathrooms.   That was the really-irrelevant detail  that was included in the textbooks… to confuse people as to the core-objective of segregation.

The core objective of segregation,  is to conserve wealth in the hands of the richest few!   The core objective of segregation, is to have a situation where the richest 1% in the region controlled HALF the wealth, and the poorer people are squeezed to share the other half.

The spirit behind it, is the love of wealth (root of all evil  1 Timothy 6).
Slavery  was/is done for the love of wealth!   To steal the free-labor of African slaves, to enrich the richest merchants (today they are called Wall Street, and Fortune 500).
Segregation was/is done  for the love of wealth!   To keep wealth from distributed to the many poor.   To keep wealth concentrated in the hands of a few rich.

The same type/group of people,  they did slavery for hundreds of years,  then they did segregation 1865-1968 (when MLK died),  and then,  they did Republican Party (1968-now).

The same group of people are behind Wall Street, the oil industry, Fortune 500, the militarists who like to use CIA and soldiers to prop up dictatorships in poor countries  so that Wall Street can rob their wealth.

They are called … large Corporation businessmen.
Their words are… pro-business,  free-market, free-trade, pro-growth, conservative,  fiscal conservative, anti-tax,   low-tax (for the rich),    deregulation,   …

They are dedicated to do evil against the poorer 99%,  to enrich the richest 1%.
That is the core activity of the Republican Party.

Segregation is well-alive in the South.
FIGHT AGAINST IT.

overthrow all Republicans in office, elect Progressive Democrats (leftist Democrats)  and Green Party   (as much as possible, pick those who are not actively pushing for homosexuality.)
The wealth distribution… is far more important than the homosexuality issue  by a factor of 1000 to 1.

Repost: the Bankruptcy of the United States

About a decade later, the man became corrupt and was sent to jail.
But this speech was made when the man wasn’t yet corrupt, and when he was denouncing the richest 1%.

The Bankruptcy of The United States
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303

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Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:

Mr. Speaker, we are here now in Chapter 11. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise.

It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress in session June 5, 1933 — Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause — dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.

The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: “The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States.”

Gold and silver were such a powerful money during the founding of the united states of America, that the founding fathers declared that only gold or silver coins can be “money” in America. Since gold and silver coinage were heavy and inconvenient for a lot of transactions, they were stored in banks and a claim check was issued as a money substitute. People traded their coupons as money, or “currency.” Currency is not money, but a money substitute. Redeemable currency[0] must promise to pay a dollar equivalent in gold or silver money. Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) make no such promises, and are not “money.” A Federal Reserve Note is a debt obligation of the federal United States government, not “money.” The federal United States government and the U.S. Congress were not and have never been authorized by the Constitution for the united states of America to issue currency of any kind, but only lawful money[1], “gold and silver coin”.

It is essential that we comprehend the distinction between real money and paper money substitute. One cannot get rich by accumulating money substitutes, one can only get deeper into debt. We the People no longer have any “money.” Most Americans have not been paid any “money” for a very long time, perhaps not in their entire life. Now do you comprehend why you feel broke? Now, do you understand why you are “bankrupt,” along with the rest of the country?

Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) are unsigned checks written on a closed account. FRNs are an inflatable paper system designed to create debt through inflation (devaluation of currency). when ever there is an increase of the supply of a money substitute in the economy without a corresponding increase in the gold and silver backing, inflation occurs.

Inflation is an invisible form of taxation that irresponsible governments inflict on their citizens. The Federal Reserve Bank who controls the supply and movement of FRNs has everybody fooled. They have access to an unlimited supply of FRNs, paying only for the printing costs of what they need. FRNs are nothing more than promissory notes for U.S. Treasury securities (T-Bills) — a promise to pay the debt to the Federal Reserve Bank.

There is a fundamental difference between “paying” and “discharging” a debt. To pay a debt, you must pay with value or substance (i.e. gold, silver, barter or a commodity). With FRNs, you can only discharge a debt. You cannot pay a debt with a debt currency system. You cannot service a debt with a currency that has no backing in value or substance. No contract in Common law is valid unless it involves an exchange of “good & valuable consideration.” Unpayable debt transfers power and control to the sovereign power structure that has no interest in money, law, equity or justice because they have so much wealth already.

Their lust is for power and control. Since the inception of central banking, they have controlled the fates of nations.

The Federal Reserve System is based on the Canon law and the principles of sovereignty protected in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In fact, the international bankers used a “Canon Law Trust” as their model, adding stock and naming it a “Joint Stock Trust.” The U.S. Congress had passed a law making it illegal for any legal “person” to duplicate a “Joint Stock Trust” in 1873. The Federal Reserve Act was legislated post-facto (to 1870), although post-facto laws are strictly forbidden[2] by the Constitution. [1:9:3]

The Federal Reserve System is a sovereign power structure separate and distinct from the federal United States government. The Federal Reserve is a maritime lender, and/or maritime insurance underwriter to the federal United States operating exclusively under Admiralty/Maritime law. The lender or underwriter bears the risks, and the Maritime law compelling specific performance in paying the interest, or premiums are the same.

Assets of the debtor can also be hypothecated (to pledge something as a security without taking possession of it) as security by the lender or underwriter. The Federal Reserve Act stipulated that the interest on the debt was to be paid in gold. There was no stipulation in the Federal Reserve Act for ever paying the principle.

Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial[3] title to property, free and clear of any liens or mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913) “hypothecated” all property within the federal United States to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, — in which the Trustees (stockholders) held legal title. The U.S. citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a “beneficiary” of the trust via his/her birth certificate. In 1933, the federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties, assets and labor of their “subjects,” the 14th Amendment U.S. citizen, to the Federal Reserve System.

In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend the federal United States corporation all the credit “money substitute” it needed. Like any other debtor, the federal United States government had to assign collateral and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan. Since the federal United States didn’t have any assets, they assigned the private property of their “economic slaves”, the U.S. citizens, as collateral against the unpayable federal debt. They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations, as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers.

Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution, feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property. Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign[4] in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the people have exchanged one master for another.

This has been going on for over eighty years without the “informed knowledge” of the American people, without a voice protesting loud enough. Now it’s easy to grasp why America is fundamentally bankrupt.

Why don’t more people own their properties outright?

Why are 90% of Americans mortgaged to the hilt and have little or no assets after all debts and liabilities have been paid? Why does it feel like you are working harder and harder and getting less and less?

We are reaping what has been sown, and the results of our harvest is a painful bankruptcy, and a foreclosure on American property, precious liberties, and a way of life. Few of our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. have dared to tell the truth. The federal United States is bankrupt. Our children will inherit this unpayable debt, and the tyranny to enforce paying it.

America has become completely bankrupt in world leadership, financial credit and its reputation for courage, vision and human rights. This is an undeclared economic war, bankruptcy, and economic slavery of the most corrupt order! Wake up America! Take back your Country.

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[0] “Federal Reserve notes are not redeemable in gold, silver or any other commodity, and receive no backing by anything This has been the case since 1933. The notes have no value for themselves, but for what they will buy. In another sense, because they are legal tender, Federal Reserve notes are ‘backed’ by all the goods and services in the economy.” (U.S. Treasury)

[1] “No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.” (Article 1, Section 10, U. S. Constitution)

[2] “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.” (Article 1, Section 9, U. S. Constitution)

[3] Allodial: land ownership that is unfettered, outright and absolute. It is the opposite of the feudal system and supposes no obligation to another (ie. a lord).

[4] “It is a man’s demensne, dominicum, or property, since it belongs to him and his heirs for ever: yet this dominicum, property, or demesne, is strictly not absolute or allodial, but qualified or feudal: it is his demesne, as of fee; that is, it is not purely and simply his own, since it is held of a superior lord, in whom the ultimate property resides.” (Blackstone, Book 2, Chapter 7, “Of Freehold Estates, of Inheritance”)

The BEST article! Constitution doesn’t give any rights to anyone

This is the best article of the month.
Actually, this is the best article of the year, of two years, of three years!
Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas need to read this.   And there is no arguing against it either!

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What I found interesting and revealing was a comment by military prosecutor White. He stated that constitutional rights are reserved for U.S. citizens.While such a sentiment is undoubtedly common within the U.S. military and, indeed, in conservative circles, it is both ridiculous and false.

What White fails to understand is that the Constitution doesn’t give anyone, including Americans, any rights, nor does it purport to. Instead, the purpose of the document is to prohibit the federal government, including the U.S. military, from infringing upon or interfering with people’s preexisting rights.

In other words, people’s rights don’t come from government or from documents that bring government into existence. They come from nature and God. They exist independently of government and the Constitution. That is, even if there were no federal government and no Constitution, people would still have their natural, God-given rights. Such rights preexist government.

So, an obvious question arises, especially in the context of White’s assertion to the court: Are only Americans born with natural or God-given rights? The answer was provided by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, a document that should be read in conjunction with the Constitution. He observed that all men were endowed with such rights. Not just Americans. Not just Chinese. Not just Englishmen. Every individual is endowed at birth with fundamental, inherent, natural, God-given rights.

Some of such rights are enumerated in the Bill of Rights, but the rights enumerated there aren’t exhaustive. That’s what the Ninth Amendment is all about — it points out that no one should assume that just because some important rights are listed in preceding eight amendments doesn’t mean that people don’t have many more natural, God-given rights.

But a point bears repeating here: Note carefully the specific language, for example, of the First and Second Amendments. Notice that the language does not give people the rights of free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, or the right to keep and bear arms. Instead, the language prohibits the federal government from infringing upon or violating such preexisting, natural, God-given rights.

Thus, prosecutor White is wrong. Everyone, not just Americans, is born with fundamental rights, including those enumerated in the First and Second Amendments.

The question then arises: Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to infringe upon or violate the rights of foreigners. It does not. Since rights are universal in nature and adhere to all men, the Framers recognized that it would be illegitimate to grant the federal government the power to infringe upon or violate anyone’s rights.
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http://www.fff.org/blog/index.asp

Trials of terrorists and “terrorists” belong in Federal Courts (not secret military tribunals)

This entire article has been reposted from:
Hornberger’s Blog Index

All Terrorist Cases Belong in Federal Court
by Jacob G. Hornberger

As I have argued ever since 9/11, there was absolutely no reason to let the Pentagon hijack America’s criminal-justice system in the area of terrorism. Terrorism is a federal criminal offense, not an act of war. That’s, in fact, why many, but certainly not all, terrorism cases are still prosecuted in federal district court. The federal-court prosecutions for the federal criminal offense of terrorism include those of Zacharias Moussaoui (one of the 9/11 terrorist conspirators), Jose Padilla, the Detroit terrorism cases, the Dallas terrorism case, and several more. Some of the accused have been convicted and others have been acquitted.

Thus, it is refreshing to read an op-ed published in the New York Times today entitled, “How to Try a Terrorist,” which contends that terrorism cases rightly belong in federal district court, where the terrorist suspect is accorded all the traditional rights and guarantees accorded criminal defendants.

Significantly, the op-ed is written by a current federal district judge, John C. Coughenour.

Coughenour writes:

“In 2001, I presided over the trial of Ahmed Ressam, the confessed Algerian terrorist, for his role in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport. That experience only strengthened my conviction that American courts, guided by the principles of our Constitution, are fully capable of trying suspected terrorists.”

After the 9/11 attacks, the Pentagon announced that it was establishing a prison camp and an alternative “judicial” system for suspected terrorists in Cuba. Why Cuba? The Pentagon didn’t like the idea of federal judges and criminal-defense attorneys meddling with its “war on terrorism.” In the eyes of Pentagon officials — indeed, in the eyes of many federal officials — the Constitution was nothing more than a piece of paper containing “technicalities” designed to let terrorists go free.

Thus, 9/11 produced two systems for handing terrorists, without even the semblance of a constitutional amendment. One was the traditional federal-court system. The other one was the Pentagon/CIA system that was designed to operate outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

The reason I put “judicial” in quotes when I refer to the Pentagon-CIA system is because their system is actually no “judicial” system at all. Instead, the Pentagon-CIA system makes an absolute mockery of the term “judicial.” There are no speedy trials — detainees have languished in the Gitmo prison for years without a trial. At first, detainees were denied attorneys and even now, attorneys’ relationships with their clients are severely restricted. Detainees are prohibited from filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, a right that stretches back to ancient England. Detainees have no protection against cruel and unusual punishments, and therefore are subjected to torture and sex abuse, even without even being convicted of anything. Trial by jury is denied, with detainees being subjected to kangaroo military tribunals that hardly ever meet. Due process of law is non-existent. Proceedings are held in secret. There is no right to bail. Hearsay is permitted. Decisions are sometimes based on politics. Detainees are held for years and then released, without explanation. Detainees under CIA control have disappeared, without any explanation as to what happened to them.

As Judge Coughenour puts it,

“Consider the fact that of the 598 people initially detained at Guantánamo Bay in 2002, 267 have been released. It is likely that for a number of the former detainees, there was simply no basis for detention. The American ideal of a just legal system is inconsistent with holding ‘suspects’ for years without trial.”

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Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. Send him email.

Repost: Need special Prosecutor to investigate killing of innocent Arabs

Time for a Special Prosecutor

Citing the Seton Hall report on the June 9, 2006 deaths, as well as “The Guantánamo ‘Suicides,’” the St. Louis Post Dispatch assesses the situation perfectly and draws exactly the right conclusions:

Enough is enough. Prisoner abuse and botched investigations undermine national security, handing America’s enemies a devastating recruiting tool. Mr. Obama should appoint an unrelenting career prosecutor to the case, someone of the caliber of Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, to dig deeper. He must follow where the evidence leads.

The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan noted the deafening silence from the Obama Administration about this matter:

In Iran, when prisoners are turned into corpses after interrogation, even the Khamenei junta feels it necessary to respond. In America, not so much.

He was the first to call for appointment of a special prosecutor. Investigating the deaths in Guantánamo has been complicated by the Justice Department’s suspicious complicity in the cover-up, starting only hours after the deaths. Because of its demonstrated inability to deal with the matter in a fashion consistent with prosecutorial ethics and the requirements of law, the next steps are just those noted by the Post Dispatch. Of course, the special prosecutor should be named by Eric Holder rather than the White House, since this is what law technically contemplates. But Congress must also assert its oversight responsibilities here, and the key initial queries need to focus on the embarrassing failings of the Department of Justice.

This article has been from Scott Horton’s blog at:

http://www.harpers.org/subjects/NoComment

Wow, by imitating Republicans, the Democrats are propping-up organized crime as leaders

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/01/30/il-sen-if-this-becomes-the-face-of-the-democratic-party-say-goodbye-to-the-democratic-party/
There needs to be Progressives and Greens, to overthrow these corrupt Democrats.
All Republicans are corrupt by definition (except Ron Paul and John McCain). Because Republicans’ core duty is to only serve the wealthiest 1%.

So are all the Democrats from Chicago. And the “centrist” Democrats like Lieberman and Nelson.

台湾应该从法国, 德国, 印度, 俄罗斯 买军火

Wang Baodong, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, said Beijing will lodge a formal protest against the U.S. decision. Asked if China would halt military talks, he said, “Let’s wait and see.”

“We strongly request that the U.S. side correct the wrong action, so as to avoid further damaging Chinese-U.S. relations,” Wang said. “The Taiwan question and the arms sale issue bear on China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, so this is a very serious problem.”

No, the arms sale is not really a serious problem.
To label Taiwan as a “question” (rather than what it is, a country)  and to claim “China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” over Taiwan,   that is a very serious problem.

台湾为中华民国，一九一一年建国。

是共产党在1949年从中华民国分裂出去的，没有改变中华民国的存在。所以，把台湾称为是“台湾问题”，而不是“中华民国”， 是错误。

还有，既然中华民国的主权跟中华人民共和国的主权是分开的， 那么反对军事贸易只能是出于地区和平和与邻国友好, 而不是傲慢的认为中国理当就因该管辖台湾.
台湾跟日本和菲律宾是什么关系, 台湾就跟中华人民共和国是什么关系.

不要以为我出生在武汉, 就以为我会忽略公平, 忽略道理, 而盲目的凭拉帮结派.
当我关心人民的时候, 那是爱人如爱己.   不要以为那是追求虚荣(也就是致命的), 追求国家集体的虚荣, 以扩大国土和扩大国家的军国统治来给与自己自豪和炫耀.   美国的军国统治我已经看够了.   我为什么要支持任何国家搞军国主义?

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致台湾, 就是中华明国:

不要跟美国勾结, 因为美国喜欢殖民其他的国家.
要争取是像印度, 不跟哪个帝国勾结而导致成为其他国的军事基地, 成了人家的”满洲国”.

买 军火,  因该不要依靠美国.  因该从法国, 德国, 印度, 俄罗斯,  那里买.   美国每次卖军火是想同时占领土地!   我问: 这次的军火包不包括美军驻扎?  就连军事顾问也算.   法国, 德国, 印度, 俄罗斯, 卖军火的时候, 是没有要占领人家土地当军事基地的企图的.

跟美国的态度因该是一般的友好和在军事上不敌对, 但是要防着, 因为美国有很邪的军国主义政府.  凡事不得做到依赖美国的地步.
因该把任何驻扎的美军和美国的国安局窃听站 (NSA listening stations)都揣出去.  不准任何外国军队在台湾的领土上(除了每个大使馆的看守), 包括大陆中国的军队.

至于这次, 可以跟中国提出: 公开在发言里用”中华民国”指台湾, 承认台湾海峡为国界, 签百年和平条约, 就停止这次的军售  (因为国家就没有了被威胁的处境).
否则, 中国就是拒绝放弃侵略台湾…

还有,这次的军火, 包括”爱国者”导弹.  所以大陆中国讨厌.
应该买下, 做个发言.  因为有那个”国”字.

至于, 有哪个王八昨天要是又认为(凭什么? 凭什么?)我不是26岁, 而是毛鬼子的人,  让那个人傻眼去吧.

The female should wear dynamite vest and threaten to detonate. There will be no rape then.

A better way, is to wear several M-18 Claymore mines: some on the chest, some on the abdomen, some on the back. The Claymore mine only detonates in its frontal direction. When surrounded by gang-rapist, reach into pocket and click-click-click three times very fast. Each Claymore mine will detonate 2000 steel-bearing balls in a 120 degree arc, thus all around the body except where the arms are. So only the rapists will be hit. Those who survive will not rape again or think of raping people again for years or decades.

It will be huge advancement of respect for females in Zambia.

Another method:
carry at least two flashbang grenades.
When surrounded by gang rapists, pull pin, drop flashbang grenade, then very fast: close eyes, turn away from grenade and stick both fingers in the ears. After two seconds, the flashbang will detonate (without shrapnels). A huge flash of light will blind everybody. A huge banging sound will breach the eardrums of everybody around, plus all the noses will be bleeding (except probably yours). All the rapists will be stunned for at least a few seconds, and absolutely deaf for a while.
Open eyes, get fingers out of ears. Run. (or, drop a second flashbang while running).

Third method:
A medium-length electrified baton that you practice martial-arts with.
The type that you should carry should have battery-content as to be able to electrocute and knock down successively at least a dozen people. Perhaps there is such a thing in existence, probably. Ask around.
When surrounded by rapists, activate baton.
Strike at the neck and head.

No mercy for rapists. (not while you haven’t ended the rape situation)

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26611056-5012779,00.html

Zambia politician threatens to ‘gang rape’

January 20, 2010 03:13am

THE youth leader of Zambia’s ruling party has threatened to “gang rape” a female politician unless she stops criticising the President’s leadership.

The threat was allegedly made in defence of President Rupiah Banda’s leadership ahead of next year’s elections.

The Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) youth chairman Chris Chalwe today singled out Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) leader Edith Nawakwi for attacking Banda’s leadership.

“`We are going to gang rape Nawakwi if she continues attacking the president,” said Chalwe.

Nawakwi supported Banda’s candidacy in the 2008 elections but has lately criticised his leadership as a “total failure.”

“The president was elected by the people of Zambia and deserves respect from all citizens and whoever insults him, we will make sure we gang rape that person,” Chalwe told a crowd of people who had defected from opposition parties to join the MMD.

The youth leader currently faces charges of assault for beating journalists covering Banda’s return from a visit to Uganda on July 29 last year.

Severe and deliberately planned psych-attack on British kids

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26648746-5005962,00.html

The biggest Corporations and richest 1%  want to destroy public education.   Especially, they want to exterminate any education that would lead to kids learning about wealth distribution, and realizing that the pursuit of wealth/vanity/pleasure in the advertisements   is a lie,   and Hollywood “celebrities”  only exist as propaganda towers   to  brainwash them into a consumerist lifestyle,   to keep them buying brand products,   so that the population donates money to the richest 1% who own those brand stores.

A transfer of wealth from the poorer many,  to the richest few.

In order to keep the population paralyzed, ignorant from knowing this,  the biggest Corporations want to make the kids,  at a very young age,  to think of the Hollywood “celebrities” as the role models to follow,    and not the humanitarian workers and investigative journalists,  those who have compassion on the poor and uncover the evildoings of the rich.

The Hollywood “celebrities” are stooges of the richest 1%,  they would do whatever it takes to get people to venerate the richest 1%, and also spend money pursuing that lifestyle.

And Hollywood “celebrities” sometimes purchase orphans.
But the lifestyle that they life, the extra consumption,  the propping up of the oligarchs,    results in the orphaning of millions and millions, and the impoverishing and the colonizing of countless countries.

The purchasing of orphans may be a personal conscience-easer,  and perhaps publicity-stunt,  but it really doesn’t do a think to alleviate the poverty in the world,   NOR does it alleviate the despising of the poor  in industrialized societies.

Really, the very life advocated by the Hollywood “celebrities” despise the poor, and makes it so that people don’t want to have compassion on the poor.   And while chasing after famous brands and extra luxury,  they completely ignore poverty in the world.

That IS ALSO THE ENTIRE GAMING INDUSTRY,  to manufacture a virtual world where people can have fake adventures  and look at colorful things,   and not lifting a finger to help the poor in Africa, or in New Orleans,  or in South London (or is it East London?)… entire British families living on foodstamps.

And the game features, as main characters,  such deviantly perverse people such as Stefania Germanotta (who in her whoredoms calls herself “lady”) and Madonna.   All those people’s lives are dedicated to the pursuit of wealth, vanity and pleasure.

The aim, of course,  is to make young kids useless to resist against fascists in the future.   So dedicated to believing the advertisings (all produced by fascists of the richest 1%) ,   so desiring to follow the instruction of the advertisings (in seeking wealth/vanity/pleasure),  that they don’ t realize,  half the wealth in the country is owned by the richest 1%,   and the poorer 99% is squeezed into the other half.
No, they are too busy seeking entertainment and laughing like idiots  to realize the fascism,   and resist it.
They spent so much effort in seeking vanity in shopping and gaming,  that they have no effort to lift a finger to have compassion on the poor.   They love comfort so much,  they keep talking about how they feel,  and never want to talk about justice.

The Fascists are preparing the take-over of Britain,  by destroying the minds, and the ability-to-resist,  of the future generation,  now.

That’s really some diabolical planning.

本人给中国消费主义青年的评语

我评的帖贴在 http://bbs.news.163.com/bbs/society/164506187.html

这个黄皮的美国鬼子，她一天的零食就可以给我们四川的乡亲们半个村子的盒饭。(如
果盒饭还是一块钱的话)。还有，此人是美国商业鬼子(和他们的中国商业走狗)以电
视电影尤其是种种广告和杂志教出来的，下地狱的材料(路加福音十六章)，此人宁
愿自己大鱼大肉，也不给一点给中国70%的穷人。
你？ 你支持这个美国鬼子殖民我们的中国老百姓!

全世界六十亿人口。
美国鬼子的生活= 以全世界五十亿穷苦人的劳力，制造过剩的消费商品给十亿的少
爷们(包括三亿美国居民的大部分，和欧洲几亿的大部分，还有世界其他大城市的)，
然后世界上最富的几万，几十万富豪们，控制所有最大的公司，尤其是广告公司和
电视电影杂志公司，利用图像画面和音响来针对“消费者”(就是，少爷们和想学着
美国鬼子时髦的人) 作神经心理攻击， 诱惑和煽动他们画大笔钱，流入富豪开的连
锁店和名牌产品， 保持和增加富豪的钱财！导致小群富豪们控制世界上一半的钱财！

中国急需停止城市扩展，以高税没收富豪的多余，拿来给百姓创造就业和免费教育

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(此贴在此网页的中部)

2010年1月16日14点 江苏省常州市大学城 淘我喜欢服装店一位自称老公是当地[土匪]老大的女子，到店里滋事，双方发生肢体上的冲突，
店里报了“110 ”

就在民警处理过程中，大概七、八个30岁左右的男人，为首的是那女人的老公[土匪老大]，到了店里不分青红皂白对两位店员就是一顿拳脚，顿时都被打得鼻青脸肿，整个打人过程中，多位警察一直站在边上，其中与一位警官还与施暴一伙人笑谈，在他们发泄完后“110”的民警们在众人指责下，把两位店员与滋事女子带到所里做笔录。（当时出警110民警为常州武进市鸣凰派出所 警号：055942 姓名：周宏）

在录口供时，作为受伤者家属全部被隔离在派出所外，而这伙人当着多位警官面大摇大摆进入公安局录口供现场，整个过程他们都在监听，听到对事实陈述时，还当着一屋警察的面手指着我姐（受害者）破口大骂，还扬言等着瞧晚上要你好看“砸你店断你腿”，整个过程戏剧性的发生在威严的公安机关，一屋子人民警察的面前，然而竟然没一名警察敢作声的。真想不明白威严的公安机关做笔录是这样。
录完笔录，姐妹俩便向警官诉说他们“砸你店断你腿一事”，该所一位领导呵责：“他们砸你店吗？断你腿了吗？（常州武进市鸣凰派出所 副所长陈XX 警号：0055931）让人匪夷所思！进来时他们和警察之间还有说有笑的开玩笑， 种种迹象表明他们和警察就像是结识好久的朋友。
2010年1月16日17：30
街上人很多，店里正在做生意，突然冲进一伙头戴长檐帽手持砍刀男子，推倒货架见人就砍，当时我妻子（店员），手里抱着熟睡的小孩，在柜台后面，见如此阵势，吓坏了，出于母性的天性与本能，将孩子用手推向后面，腿漏在外面被他们连砍数刀，.一位店员躲得快被捅中一刀深6厘米，我妻子伤更重，左小腿多处刀伤，近关节处骨头被砍断，经脉断裂，右小腿被砍伴有骨裂，其它部位多处有轻伤………歹徒对手无寸铁怀抱婴儿女人下次毒手，行径令人发指。（案发地处大学城商业街，与常州武进市鸣凰派出所一墙之隔）
2010年1月16日 17：35
接到报警的常州武进市鸣凰派出所来到现场，众多业主（商业街业主）和多学子请求“110”民警们履行职责抓人，其中一名警官轻描谈些的说：“我们查过了，刚才在所里做笔录的女子，是外地娘家户口，没办法抓人”，再说这是否属于同一起案件，还得慢慢调查。”便简单的拍了些照片，（拖延时间、很多人都知道这伙人的当时住处）；受害人家属连同在大学城附近做生意的业主都很愤怒，要求民警履行职责，铲除这帮有“背景”老大。警察是这样说的：“我们也轻易不惹他们，我做警察6年了，见过不少这样的事情，我们同行有的被报复现在还在医院里躺着，我们也不容易呀”
2010年1月19日
我与几位受害人家属再次来到所里，询问案件进展情况，接待我们的是所里的陈所、吴所两位所长，据两位所长讲：“因上午发生的纠纷滋事女子系外地娘家户口，且晚上砍人的时候她又不在场，没有足够的证据抓她，所里的案子很多，每年常州发生近十多万起案件，能破其中20%就不错了，我们会管这件事，需慢慢来；可怜的姐妹俩还躺在医院里，每日以泪洗面，没想到这社会是这么黑。
真想不通老百姓安分守己做生意尽落得如此下场，更不可思议的是事发地点离派出所不足30米！人民警察为人民，人民警察的职责是保一方平安难道这就是人民警察展示给人民的警察风采吗？
以上内容是发生在我身上的真实事情，内容如有半点虚假，我愿承担相关法律责任，恳求爱好美好生活、有良知、有正义感的朋友，将此贴发给您的朋友，在下感激不尽！
用我们的良知与正义来唤醒那些与黑势力很“铁”的人民公仆们，是你们的放怂才给这个社会带来太多的伤害！！！！
附：本件事如在春节前仍无回复，本人将会将此事译成英文、法文发英BBC、每日邮报、太阳报、大公报等国际和台港媒体
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这样的事，既然在全国到处都有，那么就需要大规模的政策，否则一个案子一个案
子搞不完。
而且，绝大部分社会问题，要是只用警察和武力，办不了，只能做到一个不怎么样
的地步，然后没完没了 (写电影和电视剧和武侠小说军事小说的都是蠢货)
中国利用警察出力解决问题现在已经达到了最出力，又不怎么样的地步。

转告中南海和人民大会堂：

• 请允许报道社会问题的独立媒体，至少是地区媒体，使居民们可以关注自己周围的问题，互相沟通，这样就不会对邻居的事情莫不关心。
  犯罪：社会街上要是很多犯罪，根源都是富豪贪婪，夺走太多的公共财产， 导致财产分配不均 (几个富的，太富。其他的穷，太穷)。 富豪的公司搞垄断，逼迫小企业倒闭，富豪利用城管逼迫街上的小贩个体户， 也导致 人民的就业远低于100%，使老百姓贫穷。
• 提高最低工资为一个小时可以至少买三碗盒饭的钱。
• 请给富豪加税。股市上的大公司，加税50%。 年薪一百万(人民币)以上的，加税91%。
  纳来的税用来创造就业，由此救济穷人，大大地减少失业的人以买毒品，参加帮派勒索地盘钱的情况。
  纳来的税也用来免费给所有人上到大学毕业，创造高知识社会，使年轻人白天都有事情做。
• 请停止市区扩展，农村犯罪少，而且贫富均匀，一家一家生活, 有家庭的基本爱心支持；城市挤得一大砣，犯罪多，贫富差距拉得太大，而且一个人一个人的孤单生活，年轻人容易落到加入帮派来寻找一个孤单人可以属于的团体。而且，太多的广告，铺天盖地的描绘吹嘘一个在旧社会几个地主和大商人才能达到的挥霍生活，但是在这样的不平等的财产制度里，中国大多数人只能工作长时间还赚不了多少钱 (提高最低工资 = 总裁和董事长的工资要降低，富豪们贪婪，所以故意给工人低工资)
  广告教导人们要追求虚荣，但是广告又故意制造达不到的梦幻泡影，所以导致想追求虚荣的年轻人利用可以欺压他人的能力来达到虚荣。 还有，中国原来有少先队，我们经常为老百姓和社区做打扫清洁。实际上，免费的为他人服务是很甜蜜的一件事。中国在“西方化”的时候，把好的东西也丢了。相信，现在没有组织有年青人给社区服务，有“为他人着想”的活动。 广告(美国式的广告为比苏联和纳粹还出格的铺天盖地的向百姓作神经心理攻击 的战术) 是一天到晚鼓吹人们要“之为自己想”，不管他人。

  人内心自然的有这个想为他人服务的愿望。 中国没有多少创造为他人服务的工作，那么这些年青人就为帮派“服务”。 还有，城市住密了，搞太大了，就很多人失业。农村，每个人都有工作。城里，大家都住在大家的头顶上，一小块地住得那么密集，那里可能有那么多的工作？

  也就是说，中国的城市发展已经到顶了，该马上停止了。就是已经发展了的城市，都造成重重社会问题，而且工作没有。 城市的发展，完全不是人民的需求，而是开发商房地产公司的贪婪，像上瘾的吸毒犯要吞噬中国郊区农民的土地。 所以，这样的疯狂发展，完全是纵容极小群人的贪婪，根本没有顾着在绝大多数人生活里造成的社会后果。

• 还有，引进巴西(好政府！社会民主路线，正确的左翼，社会主义减马列主义加民主，如挪威) 经济学家讲的话：“Unemployment has such enormous social costs that it would be worth giving unemployed people in cities work in environmental clean-up operations”

  换句话说，有年青人犯罪，给社会和人民造成太大的损失 (被罪犯害的人的医疗费，偷的东西，搞坏的东西，雇用警察的工资，运转监狱的费用，还有被败坏的警察，还有人民对败坏的警察的不满，还有罪犯召入帮派的年青人，也算是社会的损失)。

  要是抓入狱，他们大部会跟监狱里的罪犯学更坏。还不如给他们工资，让他们工作，可以给社会服务，也免麻烦，也免弥补损失的开支。

  这样他们有为人服务的感觉，也有属于一个团体的感觉，觉得过得有意思，也有稳定的收入，就不参加帮派了。
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
  可惜此页还没有翻译成中文。

转发：请广州任何于耶稣有关的(就是三自会的也好)，联络此人(要先看望此人的老 母，查身份证和医疗情况，才出手帮忙)

http://bbs.news.163.com/bbs/society/164504330.html

我女本科生，无奈渴望被包养

相信朋友们肯定对我嗤之以鼻，请你们耐心听我讲讲我的故事。。。

我出身于一个农民家庭，家境十分贫寒，父母都是农民，我在山里长大，有着乡下人土包子的朴实和纯良，有个姐姐很早嫁了，在县城打工，也只刚够 她家糊口。有个弟弟现在刚上了广州一所大学，我弟没上大学时家里省吃俭用，我自己贷款读书，平时打个兼职，可以应付的来，，现在我弟上了大学，贷款只能交 学费，在广州那个地方消费十分高，家里连他的生活费都供不起，，本来向亲戚东借借西借借的，还勉强熬过来。

可是，上个月妈妈突然检出来患了乳腺癌，，需要一大笔手术费，，亲戚都是乡下人，借不了几块钱，，，，高中的时候在县城读书，有一个很好的异 性朋友，一齐考上同一间大学后，成了我男朋友，，但是他也是在农村的，帮不了我，，，我妈妈已经做了手术，在村居委会报销了30%，还欠医院1万多元，现 在医院已经催交钱了，再不给就停止帮我妈治疗，，实在不能再拖了，，我痛苦了很久，想退学出去打工，可是同学老师都劝我不能退学，说这样不值。所以、、、 除了这种低俗的做法，我没其它办法在短时间内赚多的钱，我不得不这样来出卖自己。。。我相信风雨过后有彩虹。

有哪个好心愿意支助我，将感激不尽。。。需要的话，说明一下，我在广东一所大学念大三，本人身高并非很高，但样貌也还算漂亮，有好心愿意帮我妈还了治疗费用，我愿意陪伴一个星期。。毕业后若有好的发展将知恩图报。。

此人在bbs.news.163.com 论坛上的调号是lbwlyw。
应该先联络此人来教堂(那么最好是三自会的教堂)，然后问问情况，就是说，哪个
医院。然后去看看老母，比长相和身份证，然后帮忙。 这是算，爱人如爱己。
要查看，是因为这个年头，有人骗钱。
而且，此人的调号怎么音像“流不流？”

Oligarchs in Exxon and TransCanada are already sabotaging Alaskan State’s budget

Exxon, TransCanada [extort Alaskan State's public budget]

By Joe Carroll

Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. and TransCanada Corp. said a proposed pipeline to carry Alaskan natural gas to U.S. markets will cost 23% to 58% more than originally expected.

The 1,700-mile (2,700-kilometer) conduit from Alaska’s North Slope to a network of pipelines that connect Alberta, Canada, to the Midwest will cost $32 billion to $41 billion, the companies said today in a statement. In June, they pegged the price tag at $26 billion.
…

Recommendation to Alaskan legislature:  fire Exxon.    Never do business with Exxon, they’ll certainly extort you.
Hire the Chinese, they’ll do it for cheaper.   Have a bidding war between CNOOC and TransCanada  to lower the price,  then hire them both (including TransCanada merely to be on OK terms with Canadian government, for the moment controlled by right-wing wealth-crats.).
You can even hire the Russians.

Alaska is already short of public budget for schools,  it can’t just get extorted some $15 billion, into the pockets of over-paid excessively-wealthy businessmen.

Second Recommendation (assuming you already fired Exxon):
if TransCanada is really extortionist as an Exxon-puppet  (Canadian wealth-crats would not extort an American state without encouragement from Exxon and Wall Street), then export gas to Japan instead, from Alaska to Japan by ship.
Japan import a lot of gas,  transported in liquefied form in container ships.

Third Recommendation (assuming you already fired Exxon):
Build a short gas-pipeline over the Bering Strait,  with either CNOOC or Gazprom.   Then use the existing pipelines of the Russians.  Even with rental fee for using Russian pipelines, over many decades it will still be far cheaper than getting extorted by Exxon and TransCanada.
Export gas to China (via northwest China), Japan (via Vladivostok), North Korea (via Dandong), South Korea (via… Vladivostok?), and even Central Asia.

D.C. should be District of California! California should govern all the other 49 states!

http://www.ethiopianreview.com/health/28750

It would do sooooooooo  much good for the humanity, if the California Senate made policies for the entire nation.

How do I love you!  Our Social-Democratic  Norway-on-the-Pacific!

Overthrow all Republicans!  (except Ron Paul and John McCain)
Overthrow all Blue Dog Coalition!  Overthrow all New Democrat Coalition!
Get rid of all moderate “centrist” Democrats!

Vote in  Progressives and Green!   Vote in leftists!

Obama’s lynching squads

Even if inherited from the Bush administration, the Afghan night raids, the accompanying killings, disappearances, incarcerations, and abuses, as well as the secret military detention centers are now, after a full year in office, Obama’s.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175197/tomgram%3A_anand_gopal%2C_afraid_of_the_dark_in_afghanistan/
…
U.S. officials say that Bagram is in the midst of a war zone and therefore U.S. domestic civil rights legislation does not apply. Unlike Guantanamo, inmates there do not have access to a lawyer. Most say they have no idea why they have been detained. Inmates do now appear before a review panel every six months, which is intended to reassess their detention, but their ability to ask questions about their situation is limited. “I was only allowed to answer yes or no and not explain anything at my hearing,” says Rehmatullah Muhammad.
…
“We were all happy when the Americans first came. We thought they would bring peace and stability,” says former detainee Rehmatullah. “But now most people in my village want them to leave.” A year after Rehmatullah was released, his nephew was taken. Two months later, some other villagers were grabbed.

It has become a predictable pattern: Taliban forces ambush American convoys as they pass through the village, and then retreat into the thick fruit orchards that cover the area. The Americans then return at night to pick up suspects. In the last two years, 16 people have been taken and 10 killed in night raids in this single village of about 300, according to villagers. In the same period, they say, the insurgents killed one local and did not take anyone hostage.

…

One of these former detainees is Noor Agha Sher Khan, who used to be a police officer in Gardez, a mud-caked town in the eastern part of the country. According to Sher Khan, U.S. forces detained him in a night raid in 2003 and brought him to a Field Detention Site at a nearby U.S. base. “They interrogated me the whole night,” he recalls, “but I had nothing to tell them.” Sher Khan worked for a police commander whom U.S. forces had detained on suspicion of having ties to the insurgency. He had occasionally acted as a driver for this commander, which made him suspicious in American eyes.

The interrogators blindfolded him, taped his mouth shut, and chained him to the ceiling, he alleges. Occasionally they unleashed a dog, which repeatedly bit him. At one point, they removed the blindfold and forced him to kneel on a long wooden bar. “They tied my hands to a pulley [above] and pushed me back and forth as the bar rolled across my shins. I screamed and screamed.” They then pushed him to the ground and forced him to swallow 12 bottles worth of water. “Two people held my mouth open and they poured water down my throat until my stomach was full and I became unconscious. It was as if someone had inflated me.” he says. After he was roused from his torpor, he vomited the water uncontrollably.

This continued for a number of days; sometimes he was hung upside down from the ceiling, and other times blindfolded for extended periods. Eventually, he was sent on to Bagram where the torture ceased. Four months later, he was quietly released, with a letter of apology from U.S. authorities for wrongfully imprisoning him.
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Regular, even infamous, abuse in the style of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison marked Bagram’s early years. Abdullah Mujahed, for example, was apprehended in the village of Kar Marchi in the eastern province of Paktia in 2003. Mujahed was a Tajik militia commander who had led an armed uprising against the Taliban in their waning days, but U.S. forces accused him of having ties to the insurgency. “In Bagram, we were handcuffed, blindfolded, and had our feet chained for days,” he recalls. “They didn’t allow us to sleep at all for 13 days and nights.” A guard would strike his legs every time he dozed off. Daily, he could hear the screams of tortured inmates and the unmistakable sound of shackles dragging across the floor.

Then, one day, a team of soldiers dragged him to an aircraft, but refused to tell him where he was going. Eventually he landed at another prison, where the air felt thick and wet. As he walked through the row of cages, inmates began to shout, “This is Guantanamo! You are in Guantanamo!” He would learn there that he was accused of leading the Pakistani Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (which in reality was led by another person who had the same name and who died in 2006). The U.S. eventually released him and returned him to Afghanistan.

Former Bagram detainees allege that they were regularly beaten, subjected to blaring music 24 hours a day, prevented from sleeping, stripped naked, and forced to assume what interrogators term “stress positions.” The nadir came in late 2002 when interrogators beat two inmates to death.

The U.S. Special Forces also run a second, secret prison somewhere on Bagram Air Base that the Red Cross still does not have access to. Used primarily for interrogations, it is so feared by prisoners that they have dubbed it the “Black Jail.”

One day two years ago, U.S. forces came to get Noor Muhammad, outside of the town of Kajaki in the southern province of Helmand. Muhammad, a physician, was running a clinic that served all comers — including the Taliban. The soldiers raided his clinic and his home, killing five people (including two patients) and detaining both his father and him. The next day, villagers found the handcuffed corpse of Muhammad’s father, apparently dead from a gunshot.

The soldiers took Muhammad to the Black Jail. “It was a tiny, narrow corridor, with lots of cells on both sides and a big steel gate and bright lights. We didn’t know when it was night and when it was day.” He was held in a concrete, windowless room, in complete solitary confinement. Soldiers regularly dragged him by his neck, and refused him food and water. They accused him of providing medical care to the insurgents, to which he replied, “I am a doctor. It’s my duty to provide care to every human being who comes to my clinic, whether they are Taliban or from the government.”
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District of Columbia is using Pentagon to colonize Colombia

District of Columbia is using Pentagon to colonize Colombia
As a result, the right-wing Colombian President Uribe, is imitating the right-wing President Obama, who is in nearly all things imitating Bush and the Republicans, who love to enrich the rich and oppress the poor.

As a result, Colombia does to its poor brown-skinned people what Barack does to his brown-skinned people. It dispossesses them and impoverishes them, while increasing the wealth of the richest rich.
It’s because of the lack of wealth distribution (and the richest 1% owning so much wealth)  that is the root cause of all the social problems.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50158
COLOMBIA: Who Cares About the Victims of Forced Displacement?
By Helda Martínez

BOGOTÁ, Jan 29 , 2010 (IPS) – “Why is the government, which is so generous towards the richest sectors of the economy, so stingy towards the displaced?” asked activist Marco Romero at the presentation of a new report on the dire situation faced by the millions of Colombians who have been forced out of their rural homes by the country’s nearly half-century old armed conflict.

Romero, the director of the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES), was alluding to things like a recent scandal over 113 million dollars in tax-free farm subsidies handed out over the last three years to wealthy business families, some of whom are not even involved in agriculture, under the government’s Agro Ingreso Seguro programme.

Many of the beneficiaries have made sizeable campaign contributions towards the re-election of right-wing President Álvaro Uribe to a third term in office. The Ministry of Agriculture is one of the focuses of the investigation by the Attorney General’s Office.

The activist was also referring to recent tax cuts for the tobacco industry adopted by the Uribe administration and the huge tax breaks it offers foreign investors.

But Romero’s criticism, voiced during this week’s release of the report “¿Salto estratégico, o salto al vacío?” (“Strategic Leap, or Leap into the Void?”), an overview of forced displacement in Colombia between 2002 and 2009, also alluded to society’s indifference towards the throngs of poor peasant farmers trying to scratch out a living as street vendors or manual labourers in the cities.

Indifference to the plight faced by the nearly five million people forcibly displaced in Colombia over the last 25 years, including 2.4 million displaced from 2002 – when Uribe’s first term started – to 2009.

The report by CODHES, one of Colombia’s most respected human rights groups, says 49 percent of the displaced have been forced off their land during the Uribe administration, whose controversial “democratic security policy” has drawn criticism from human rights groups.

Based on data from Colombia’s Catholic Church and bishops’ conference, the public prosecutor’s office and the government department in charge of providing aid to the internally displaced, Accion Social, as well as daily monitoring of the media, CODHES estimates that 290,000 people were displaced in different regions of the country in 2009, “as a result of the conflict and other expressions of violence.”

In this South American country, which has one of the largest populations of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the world, along with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq and Sudan, people have been forcibly displaced in 69 of the total 1,119 municipalities.

But the hardest hit areas are the northwestern province of Antioquia, a paramilitary stronghold (45,800 IDPs), and the war-torn southwestern province of Nariño (26,000 IDPs), where coca crop spraying has been stepped up in the last few years.

The largest numbers of IDPs have fled to Bogotá, whose reputation as a relatively safer city and the fact that it is the largest city in the country make it the biggest magnet for those seeking safety and a way to make a living.

And although the latest CODHES figures point to a 24 percent drop in the number of people displaced in 2009 compared to 2008, the situation remains serious.

The report says it is appalling that “civilians in Colombia are still forced to flee from the constant aggression from illegal armed groups, and in many cases from agents of the state who due to action, omission, incapacity or complicity fail to guarantee the basic rights to life, honour and assets as the constitution stipulates.”

Rural populations of black and indigenous people are the most heavily affected by forced displacement, especially in areas where oil palm plantations are expanding.

“It’s true that there have been advances for some segments of society, but not for everyone, which casts into doubt the democratic component of (the government’s) security policy,” says the report.

The humanitarian and human rights crisis caused by displacement will lead to “a leap into the void” unless there is some change in terms of “the internal conflict, theft of land, emergence of new armed groups, increase in illegal drug crops, fragmentation of drug cartels, and a rural development model that accentuates inequality and deepens social injustice in the countryside,” it adds.

Between 1999 and 2007, some 5.5 million hectares of land were seized from 380,000 peasant families, according to the Encuesta Nacional de Verificación, a national survey that periodically follows up on the government’s compliance with a landmark 2004 Constitutional Court ruling.

In its unprecedented legal decision, known as T-025, the Court ruled that there were massive violations of the constitutional rights of those displaced from their land by all parties to the conflict – far-right paramilitaries, leftwing guerrillas, and government forces – and that the government is legally bound to guarantee respect for IDPs’ rights to health, education, housing, emergency humanitarian aid, and food security.

However, in 2009, public policies once again failed to live up to the Constitutional Court order, said CODHES president Jorge Rojas.

That was borne out by the fact that the rural population shrank by one million people over the last five years, to 9.3 million people.

“Under the current administration, the rural population has declined by at least nine percent, due to causes attributed to the violence and armed conflict and, to a lesser extent, the predominant rural development model,” said Romero.

Among the causes of the rural exodus, the report mentions the resurgence of “demobilised” paramilitary groups seeking to consolidate control over land taken from peasant farmers.

In addition, the paramilitaries “control the drug trade, take over the local institutions, and impose guns and money as forms of political control,” said Romero.

In second place in terms of numbers of IDPs are disputed areas where the state is carrying out a military offensive against the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and smaller ELN (National Liberation Army) guerrillas, which are trying to regroup after the setbacks suffered in the past few years.

The third cause of displacement is aerial spraying and forced manual eradication of drug crops by the military, reports CODHES.

The only options available to IDPs are joining one of the illegal armed groups, fleeing to Bogotá or some other city or to a neighbouring country, or trying to find land to grow coca or opium poppies, thus becoming part of the weakest link in the drug trafficking chain.

But people are also fleeing growing levels of urban violence, especially in Antioquia’s provincial capital, Medellín, Valle del Cauca’s capital Cali, and Bogotá.

In the meantime, the constant threats against activists and organisations working on behalf of the IDPs, including CODHES, continue. (END)

Forget about Davos (serves richest 1%), go to Brazil for Social Economy (serves poorer 99%)

Forget about World Economic Forum in Davos, it’s about how to conserve and increase the wealth of the richest 1% in each country.
That harms people.

Go to World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It’s about how to increase the life quality and wealth distribution of the poorer 99% of each country.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50150
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Delivering free public goods to which everyone has a right, like access to health, water, education and other basic services, is the state’s duty, said Bolivian Dr. Nila Heredia, head of the Latin American Social Medicine Association (ALAMES).

The “mercantile logic” which makes “sick people feel guilty for not having looked after themselves properly” must be fought, as well as the pharmaceutical industry “that creates illness” in order to sell more medicines, she said.

French philosopher Patrick Viveret, author of a report titled “Reconsider Wealth,” also condemned “mercantile fundamentalism” which he said leads to “privatisation of money, a public good in the service of exchange.” But he highlighted the difficulties faced by freeconomics* in the context of “relations of dependency and rivalry.”

*Note!  freeconomics is a new word!   It is enemy of free-market and free-trade
unfortunately, English is a word-poor language.   So “free” in English is used to refer to more than one thing.    Other languages are better.

The word “free” in freeconomics of this article refers to “no payment from the poor” “gratuit” (in French),  “gratis” (in Spanish),  免费救济 (in Chinese)

The word “free” in free-market and free-trade (horrible things!)  refer to “no restraint upon the extortionist”, “sans-contrôle” (in French), “libre” (in Spanish), 放纵和自由(in Chinese)

Because this conference was held in Spanish,  there was no difficulty in distinguishing the words.   In fact, held in any other language, there would be no difficulty in distinguishing the words,  except in English.   English is poor in vocabulary and lacks words compared to other languages.

A good example of the solidarity economy, which is not-for-profit but does not exclude payment, was presented by João de Melo Neto, the coordinator of Palmas Bank, the first community microcredit organisation in Brazil, which was founded in 1998 in a poor neighbourhood in Fortaleza, the capital of the northeastern state of Ceará.

The Palmas Bank helped to organise and promote the local economies of many poor neighbourhoods in Brazil’s impoverished semi-arid Northeast region, each of which issue “their own coin, so that local wealth circulates within the community.” It has also inspired other such projects. At present, 52 community economies of this kind are operating all over the country.

On Jan. 26 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva addressed the WSF and criticised the shortcomings of international aid to Haiti, where the capital, Port-au-Prince, was devastated by an earthquake on Jan. 12. He announced he will be paying a visit to the Caribbean country Feb. 25, to extend his solidarity.

Luiz also remarked that the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland had “lost its glamour” since 2003, the year he took office.   [The IMF and World Bank and "central bank" people, nearly all dedicated to sucking blood from the poor,  wanted to lure Luiz da Silva to attend the rich men's meeting and ignore the poor men's meeting,  even luring him in vanity] with a “Global Statesman” award at a special ceremony Friday.  [However, Luiz da Silva loves compassion for the poor majority of the world more than he loves gaining vanity for himself and has refused to attend.]

Pentagon and US military is colonizing Haiti

This article is accurate in every word

US Marines in Haiti: Back to colonialism

27 January 2010

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When the Marines first invaded Haiti 95 years ago it was also presented as a rescue mission, aimed at protecting American lives and saving Haitians from German domination. Declaring martial law, the invasion force seized control of Haiti’s treasury and customs houses, while armed Marines were sent into the country’s parliament to ensure that it installed Washington’s choice for president.

Over the next two decades, some 3,000 Haitians were killed by the occupiers, while the Marines themselves suffered just 16 fatalities.

The initial years of the occupation saw a campaign to suppress opposition from the so-called cacos, a peasant-based rebel movement led by a former Haitian army officer, Charlemagne Peralte. The movement gained broad support from Haiti’s most oppressed layers, in large measure because of the brutal methods of the American occupiers, who seized peasants off their land and pressed them into chain gang-style labor.

As the USA Today article suggests, the Marines introduced innovative “counterinsurgency” tactics that would be repeated from Vietnam to Afghanistan, including the US military’s first use of aerial bombardments to support ground assaults on the cacos and the peasant population that supported them. As in the current US wars, prisoners were beaten and tortured to extract information and, in many cases, subjected to summary execution.

Peralte himself was captured and murdered by the Marines in 1919. His corpse, nailed crucifix-style to a door, was placed on public display in an attempt to intimidate the population.

Washington pushed through changes in the Haitian constitution giving foreigners the right to own land for the first time since a slave revolt secured the country’s independence from France in 1804.

The US set about building up a Haitian repressive force, commanded by Marine officers, known as the Garde d’Haiti. The creation of this force was part of what the press referred to at the time as the “Haitianization” of US colonial domination of the country.

It was growing popular resistance that forced the US military out of Haiti. The decision to withdraw was hastened by mass unrest sparked by the economic crisis that gripped the country in 1929, with the collapse of coffee prices. A student strike was joined by workers, and peasants staged risings in a number of areas.

In Cayes, in the southwest, thousands of peasants carrying stones, clubs and machetes confronted Marines armed with automatic weapons on December 6, 1929. The Marines opened fire, killing 24 and wounding 51 Haitians. One Marine was reported injured. The unit’s commander was subsequently awarded the Navy Cross for directing the massacre.

In 1931, Smedley Butler, the Marine officer who led the initial intervention and headed the Haitian security forces for two years, provided a candid assessment of his mission: “I was a racketeer for capitalism,” he declared. “I helped make Haiti…a decent place for the National City boys to collect revenue in.” National City, the precursor of Citibank, controlled Haiti’s railroads and largest bank. After the US invasion, it took over the Haitian treasury.

The Marine occupation left behind a powerful US-dominated military which effectively controlled the country’s political life for decades, and in 1957 brought to power the Duvalier dictatorship, which would rule Haiti through savage repression for 30 years.

This deadly legacy played a decisive role in subjecting the Haitian people to poverty and oppression and creating the social and economic conditions that allowed the January 12 earthquake to claim such a staggering toll in human life.

That today’s Marine commanders invoke the occupation of the early 20^th Century as a precedent for their current mission constitutes a warning. Behind the humanitarian mask, Washington’s intervention in Haiti is part of an attempt to assert US imperialist interests in the Americas and across the globe by use of military force.

In Haiti, the US military has been deployed to assert Washington’s hegemony over the lands to its south, where American imperialism got its start and where it now faces ever greater challenges from powerful economic rivals in Europe and China.

As in the intervention that ended in 1934, US guns will inevitably be used against the resistance of Haitian workers and oppressed to poverty, starvation wages and extreme social inequality.

Bill Van Auken

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j27.shtml

Bush overthrew the MLK of Haiti; Barack the Bush-stooge hasn’t restored him yet

http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-03-05/opinion/17416505_1_aristide-american-aristide-s-lawyer-president-jean-bertrand-aristide/2

Bush always planned to oust Aristide

March 05, 2004|By Jeffrey D. Sachs

Ominously before this week the most recent such episode in Haiti came in 1991 during the first Bush administration when thugs on the CIA payroll were among the leaders of paramilitary groups that toppled Aristide after his 1990 election.

Some of the players this time are familiar from the first Bush administration including Powell and Vice President Dick Cheney. Also key is U. S. Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega — a notorious Aristide-hater — thought to be central to Aristide’s departure. He will find it harder to engineer the departure of gun-toting rebels who entered Port-au-Prince this week.

Rarely has an episode so brilliantly exposed Santayana’s famous aphorism that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

In 1991 when Congressional Black Caucus members demanded an investigation into the U.S. role in Aristide’s overthrow the first Bush administration laughed them off just as this administration is doing in facing new queries from Congressional Black Caucus members. Aristide is being smeared with ludicrous propaganda and most cynically of all is being accused of dereliction in the failure to lift his country out of poverty. In fact this U.S. administration froze all multilateral development assistance to Haiti from the day George W. Bush assumed office squeezing Haiti’s economy dry and causing untold suffering for its citizens. U.S. officials surely knew that the aid embargo would mean a balance-of-payments crisis a rise in inflation and a collapse of living standards all of which fed the rebellion.

Another tragedy in this episode is the silence of the media when it comes to asking questions. Just as in the war on Iraq’s phony WMD major news organizations have refused to go to the mat over the administration’s accounts on Haiti. The media haven’t had the gumption to find Aristide and in failing to do so to point out that he is being held away from such contact.

With a violence-prone U.S. government operating with impunity in many parts of the world only the public’s perseverance in getting at the truth can save us and others from our own worst behavior.

Jeffrey D. Sachs director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University is a former economic adviser to governments in Latin America and around the world. This op-ed is reprinted from the Los Angeles Times.

Prisoners for Christ in different countries, please remember to free them

Location: Pakistan Arrested: June 2009 Print Fact Sheet 10/30/2009 Update Asia Bibi, a 37-year-old Pakistani woman from the village of Ittanwali, was arrested by police on Friday, June 19, and faces possible blasphemy charges. Asia is the wife of 50-year-old Ashiq Masih, and their family is one of only three Christian families in a village of more than 1,500 families. Many of the local women work on the farm of Muslim landowner Muhammad Idrees, including Asia. During their work many of the Muslim women have pressured Asia to renounce Christianity and accept Islam. In June, the pressure became especially strong. On Friday, June 19, there was an intense discussion among the women about their faith, with the Muslim women telling Asia about Islam. Asia responded by telling them about her faith in Christ. Asia told the Muslim women Christ had died on the cross for our sins, then asked them what Mohammed had done for them, according to VOM sources. She told them Jesus is alive, but Mohammed is dead. “Our Christ is the true prophet of God,” she reportedly told them, “and yours is not true.” Upon hearing this response the Muslim women became angry and began to beat Asia Bibi. Then some men came and took her and locked her in a room. They announced from mosque loudspeakers that she would be punished by having her face blackened and being paraded through the village on a donkey. Local Christians informed the police, who took Asia into custody before the Muslims could carry out their plan. She is currently being held at the police station in Nankana city. Christians there urged the police not to file blasphemy charges, but police claimed that they must go forward due to pressure from local Muslim leaders. The Voice of the Martyrs urges Christians around the world to pray for Asia Bibi and her family. Further, we call on the Pakistani government to insure that the rights of Christians like Asia are protected.

Location: China
Arrested: November 2007

Print Fact Sheet

On June 10, a Chinese court sentenced Christian bookstore owner, Shi Weihan,38, to three years in prison for “illegal business operations,” and imposed a US$21,975 fine, according to China Aid Association.
Shi Weihan operated a legal bookstore and only sold books with the government’s approval. His Holy Spirit Trading Company printed Bibles and Christian literature and distributed then freely to local house churches.
Weihan was arrested in November 2007 for printing and distributing Bibles and other Christian literature. He was released in January 2008 due to insufficient evidence, but was arrested again in March and held indefinitely. China Aid reported his sentence will run from November 2007 to November 2010. Believers hope that Weihan could appeal his sentence because of medical reasons. While in prison his diabetic condition worsened.

Location: China
Arrested: February 2009
Days Imprisoned: // <![CDATA[
// 359

Print Fact Sheet
08/24/2009 Update

On Feb. 4, Gao Zhisheng, was abducted by Chinese secret police from his hometown. Since 2005, Gao has been repeatedly arrested, imprisoned and severely tortured by Chinese authorities, mostly for his work defending Chinese Christians. In 2006, he and a group of prominent human rights lawyers created the Association of Human Rights Attorneys for Chinese Christians. In 2007, he was arrested and spent over 50 days behind bars where he was tortured. “I was beaten so badly that my whole body began shaking uncontrollably on the floor,” Gao writes of his torture in an open letter.The Chinese government does not acknowledge that Gao is in one of their prisons, as a result his letters of encouragement are being mailed to the Chinese embassy in Washington DC.

Location: China
Arrested: January 2008

Print Fact Sheet

In September 2007 Chinese government officials closed Alimujiang Yimiti’s business and accused him of using it as a cover up for “preaching Christianity among people of Uyghur ethnicity.” He was later arrested in January 2008 and accused of “subversion of the national government and endangering national security,” a crime punishable by death. Alimujiang, a former Muslim, became a Christian more than 10 years ago and has been an active Christian in the growing Uyghur church. On May 27 Alimujiang’s case went to trial. His case was referred back to the Chinese Public Security Bureau’s prosecutors due to “insufficient evidence.” He remains in custody.

Location: Eritrea
Arrested: May 2005

Print Fact Sheet

On May 11, 2005 Evangelist Girmay Ambaye, was arrested by security police in Eritrea for witnessing about Christ to people on a city bus. It is the third time Ambaye has been imprisoned for his faith in the last few years.
Please send a letter of encouragement and let Evangelist Ambaye know that you are praying for him and other persecuted believers in Eritrea. Let your friends know about the suffering Christians in Eritrea and encourage them to pray and write to Ambaye.
Your letters make a difference sometimes resulting in shorter prison sentences. Write to Ambaye today and let him know you are praying for him.

Location: Vietnam
Arrested: March 2007

Print Fact Sheet
12/03/2009 Update

On February 19, 2007, Father Nguyen Van Ly was arrested in Hue, Vietnam for distributing material “harmful to the state.” In March, he was sentenced to eight years in prison. He has issued statements criticizing the government’s confiscation of church property, lack of seminary training and the influence of the state in church teachings.

Location: Vietnam
Arrested: March 2007
Days Imprisoned: // <![CDATA[// 1064
Print Fact Sheet

In May 2007, Le Thi Cong Nhan, a Vietnamese Christian and lawyer, was sentenced to four years in prison followed by three years of house arrest. Nhan was arrested and sentenced alongside Nguyen Van Dai, a Protestant church leader and lawyer. They are accused of a wide range of crimes; such as “conspiring with terrorists, in their efforts to promote human rights efforts, including religious rights and democracy.” They are also accused of compiling “evidence of Vietnam’s suppression of the Protestant religion and providing it to the U.S.-based Committee for Religious Freedom in Vietnam and the U.S. embassy.” Following Nhan and Dai’s sentencing, the Vietnamese state news agency accused the lawyers of “posting information on the internet … [and] painting biased and distorted pictures of the country and its internal affairs.

Location: Vietnam
Arrested: March 2007

Print Fact Sheet

In May 2008, Nguyen Van Dai, a Vietnamese Protestant church leader and lawyer, was sentenced to five years in prison and followed by four years of house arrest. Nguyen was accused of a wide range of crimes, including “conspiring with terrorists, in their efforts to promote human rights efforts, including religious rights and democracy.” He was also accused of compiling “evidence of Vietnam’s suppression of the Protestant religion and providing it to the U.S.-based Committee for Religious Freedom in Vietnam and the U.S. embassy.”

Location: China
Arrested: July 2007
Days Imprisoned: // <![CDATA[// 928

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In July 2007, 42-year-old Li Mei and nine house church leaders were arrested, when they were discovered having a Sunday worship service. They were charged with singing Christian hymns to villagers, showing the JESUS film in a nursing home and praying for healing for a disabled elderly man. The nine were sentenced to re-education through labor for 12 to 18 months. Li Mei served part of her one-year sentence in a hospital with both hands chained to her bed. Repeated beatings and torture caused her to require a hysterectomy. She is currently serving the remainder of her sentence at home under house arrest.

And, please always remember to pray for me last, because the physical conditions of my detention are far better than the prisoners outside of America.   I do suffer, but I think those in prison in China, in Vietnam, in Eritrea, suffer much worse.

So are those innocents in Guantanamo and Bagram airbase who are tortured and detained for years without having done anything.   Please pray for them as well, out of having compassion on the poor.   Please pray for overthrow of the brutal plutocrats/militarists/fascists in American government,  so that there would be a government friendly to the poor, that would not torture.

Lazy spoiled Americans…who want to colonize women

two men crying out “Iron My Shirt” at a Clinton (the wife) speech.

A short letter to Hillary,
suggestion for answers (and answer hard for all similar situations):

You have been around the world in difficult places and seen many poor and oppressed people.
You have to call any such Americans “shamelessly lazy” and then talk for a few minutes about the poorest places you have been, the most repressed poor people you have met, and how they are destitute and labor hard by their own hands everyday,   and yet these lazy Americans haven’t lifted a finger to help all these poor people,  they even want a servant to iron their clothes!   You can ask when it’s the last time they have done something for other people in poverty,   rather than living in luxury and asking for more servants to make them even lazier.

Another comment is, you can mention the fact that when people are so spoiled that they want to command other people to cater to them (not help them,  cater to them), then they are already the same type of people as dictators.   And you are not going to make the country more dangerous by helping the training of dictators,  by encouraging their vanity,  lest they go on to oppress other people.

Another comment is, you can say:  you ask the wrong person, ask Barack to iron your shirt.
Barack has funneled 14 trillion to the Wall Street and still does Bush’s bidding to torture innocent people in jail.     Barack is still speaking of cooperating with the Republicans,  essentially being the servant-boy of the wealthiest 1% plutocrats.   Barack would probably iron your shirt  and cater to rich and lazy people living in luxury.    But you Hillary wouldn’t do that.

(note: to Barack’s credit:  he has done one major Progressive thing:  the Consumer Protection Agency.
He has another major Progressive thing that he can do, which would go a great way to decrease the Middle Class people’s resentment against him:   he can follow Alan Grayson and Progressives  in pushing for the reconciliation-vote inthe Senate,  so that public-sector health-care would be added to the reforms.    Then it would be real reforms,  and it would be in-line with the average Americans, 99% of the population.

Without stopping the torture (especially of me),  the Middle Class’ resentment against Barack will go on and on.

It’s exasperating to have to count the Progressive things that Barack does.   Were Ralph Nader in power,  he would do innumerable Progressive things – that is, thinking about the poorer 99%  rather than thinking about the richest 1%.)

Christians should vote for Progressive and/or Green candidates

Most in the Progressive and Green are not Christians, in fact, they have deep suspicion of anything Christian, because of the perversion of the Christian church in America associating itself with the right-wing.

The supposed “Christians” in America have turned a blind eye to the cries of the poor, ever since before 1900.
I ask you, the “Bible Belt” of the South, isn’t it the place where they deliberately segregated the Black people and the poor people as inferior and mistreated them for 100 years even after the end of slavery? So are there any Christians in the South? Rare. They are all nationalists, conservatives (those who want to conserve wealth in the hands of the richest few), not Christians.

I ask you, the “Bible Belt” of the South, isn’t it the place where the Civil Rights Movement started? Why then, were there only Black people in the streets? Very few Whites helped them. Very few. If the Whites were the majority in the South, and it was the “Bible Belt”, then there would have been many Christians. Where were the White Christians then? There weren’t many at all. But most of the South opposed the de-segregation, and abhorred at the idea that they had to consider black people to be their equal.

The “Bible Belt” of the South is a place of nationalism (pride in being member of an ethnic group), and a place of conservatism (greed, conserving wealth for the richest few, preventing wealth distribution to the poor).

It is not a place of Christianity. It’s a place where nationalism (vanity) and conservatism (greed, root of all evil) has mixed with Christian language, so that

They profess to know God, but in works (in the results of their lives) they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.
Titus 1:16

That is description of the conservatives and right-wing.

What happened since Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Bush?  That is, what happened since 1969-2009?

It used to be that, an American CEO’s pay was only 20-40 times that of the lowest employee.    Now the American CEO’s pay is several hundred times that of the lowest employee.

It used to be that, the richest 1% did not hold so much of the country’s wealth.
Now, the richest 1% hold HALF of the country’s wealth.
The richest 1% hold more wealth than the poorer 90% of the country.

Poverty has increased.  Crime rates has increased.  Wages have decreased (not in numbers,  but in absolute value compared to price of items.  The average worker actually made more income in the 1970s than now)
.   Social problems have increased (drugs and homosexuality).

People are far more rampantly evil, in pursuing after greed, vanity and pleasure.
People also hate going to school and take pride in knowing nothing.   They don’t care for the plight of the many poor, but care about the vanities of a few rich.    They don’t seek after justice for the oppressed,  but care about their own pleasure and fun.

Who taught them?
Answer:  the biggest Corporations,  and  the Republicans,   the right-wing

For the simple minded,  you probably have been fooled into thinking that the Republicans are the “moral Party”.
Because they pretend to oppose homosexuality and every-once-in-a-while, but rarely,  make some complaints about obscene contents on TV.

Let me inform you that during FDR’s time,  all TV stations were public-owned, and there was strict censorship of morality done by the Democrat government.    But what really kept morality,  was the lack of rampant advertising,  and the lack of wealth-concentration  in the biggest Corporations.

In the 1940s and 1950s,  the richest weren’t so rich,  the poorest weren’t so poor,  and the TVs weren’t saturated with advertisings teaching people to seek after consumerism.

That was all destroyed by Nixon and Reagan.
Reagan privatized nearly all the TV stations.   They came to be owned by the richest merchants,  and became propaganda towers whose contents were not controlled by the public,  but controlled by the richest 1%.
In order for the richest 1% to accumulate wealth,   a lifestyle of pursuit after wealth, vanity and pleasure  was advocated.    This is what perverted morality.    The advertisings, the TV shows, the movies…all made by the richest 1%.

The right-wing is the government-stooge of the richest 1%.

Without the wealth-concentration in the richest 1%,  the morality would not have been destroyed in America.    Rampant sexual activity, corruption in teenagers,  people loving wealth and not loving justice,  homosexuality and sexually-deviant behavior,   all this was taught by the TV stations, movies, magazines,  advertisings.

Who made those?    The richest 1% !    I tell you, nearly all the TVs, movies, magazines and advertisings are owned and command/controlled by 6 of the richest men in America.

Ever since Reagan (and wasn’t it from that time that morality in culture really started breaking down?),  Corporation media has been used as psychological-warfare  against the American population,   seeking to destroy people’s decency,
- causing people to go on wild spending sprees  (the poor man loses money,  the stores funnel the money into the hands of richest CEOs),
- causing people to despise the older generation  (yes, that’s definitely taught by the richest 1%  through the media,  this is meant to break respect for any remainder of Christianity, by breaking respect for any person who may have memories of older eras when there was more Christian tradition)    and instructing people to despise parents and teachers as role models,  but instead follow after  merchant advertisements   as   model of how-to-live.   And of course, all the merchant advertisements are designed by the richest 1%,   meant for people to pursue consumerism
-  causing people to not love justice,  but love pleasure.
lots of sex in advertisements and movies and TV.   Who made them?   The richest 1%  .     They own the Corporations that make the advertisings (TribalFusion,  New York’s Madison Street),  the magazines,  the movies, the TV.     Why the sex?    It invokes pleasure,  and also is a scheme for people to look at advertisements.   By associating sex with merchandise, they hope to cause people to spend money on the merchandise, having been fooled into associating it with sex.
-  causing homosexuality in society
The richest 1%  use the media to cause people to be more and more perverted.   It takes more and more perversion in order for people to seek new ways of pleasure,  and thus buy more merchandise, more brands.    The by-product, is to expand homosexuality, because of the encouragement to perversion.

The empowerment and enrichment of the richest 1% and the Fortune 500 Corporations has been the core activity and main activity of the Republicans.

Really, the Republicans and the right-wing are directly responsible for the moral breakdown and the family breakdown of the American society.

Do not be deceived by their talk of family values and decency and morality.

If you really believe in those things,  vote for Progressives and Green  (ignore the fact that some of them don’t have the correct view on homosexuality).

Once wealth is redistributed,  it would scale down consumerism,  and lack of consumerism (really, the greed of the richest 1% dictating against the 99% of the population) … lack of consumerism      would greatly reduce social problems and break-down of American family.

Israel is doing fascist persecution of the poor

I am talking about the group of people in the Israeli government, not the Jews as an ethnicity.
International Criminal Court needs to stand firm against America’s deliberate ignorance of Israeli war-crimes,  and prosecute Netanyahu and Israeli military officers in committing crimes against Arabs.
The brutality of Israeli government towards the NGOs who criticizes it,  suggest that Israel is being run as an American military base,  and governed as a franchise of the Pentagon.

In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the power of his position rather than the law to attack the funding base of a key human rights group. In August, he publicly urged European governments to cut their funding to the Israeli veterans’ group Breaking the Silence, shortly after it had issued a highly
critical report on the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct in Gaza. The report included the testimonies of 26 soldiers who had participated in the Gaza military operation.

A senior official in Netanyahu’s office stated publicly, “We are going to dedicate time and manpower to combating these groups; we are not going to be sitting ducks in a pond for the human rights groups to shoot at us with impunity.”

page 35, Human Rights Watch report of 2010

By the way, my sincere thanks to government of Spain, and to the President of Spain, Luis Zapatero, a wonderful Social Democrat. Thanks for sympathizing the poor and donating to NGOs that helps the poor and reports on war crimes.

Thanks to the Spanish government for opposing fascism, a total break with Franco.   And also, thanks for removing Franco statues.   Please demolish them all.

Recent revelations about foreign government funding for local NGOs involved in political activity have triggered discussions by senior Israeli officials about the possibility of making such aid illegal, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The senior officials are looking into whether it might be possible to ban donations from foreign governments to political NGOs, just as it is forbidden for foreign residents, let alone governments, to contribute to Israeli political parties.

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The discussion follows Post revelations that foreign governments are funding of Breaking the Silence, which last week added its voice to a number of NGOs that have issued scathing reports of the IDF’s activities in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.

Israel has already contacted the Dutch and British governments about their funding of the organization, and is expected to soon take up the matter with the Spanish government as well.

The Spanish Foreign Ministry’s agency for international development cooperation budgeted 80,000 for Breaking the Silence in 2009. It allocated 100,000 for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and another 80,000 for the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, a group led by far-left activist Jeff Halper.
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Breaking the Silence issued a statement earlier this week accusing the Foreign Ministry of a “witch hunt” in raising the issue with foreign governments, saying this testified to the erosion of the “democratic culture” in Israel.

“Attempts to silence voices in Israeli society are dangerous,” the group said. “It appears that the Foreign Ministry is getting ideas from the darkest regimes where anyone who points to failures is considered a traitor.”
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1248277938265

Israel persecutes the poor people, and takes revenge on those independent reporters who reported on war crimes, by forbidding foreign NGOs from working.

This is as bad as Omar Al-Bashir  chasing all the NGOs out of Sudan, to prevent them from helping the refugees of Darfur!

Israeli media is reporting that the Ministry of Interior has made the decision to stop issuing work permits for internationals working for non- governmental organizations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Palestinian NGO leaders

This leaves many workers in the position where their only option to remain with their organizations is to try to obtain tourist visas, and continue with their work, although this is illegal.

In furtherance to the illegality of this action, the tourist visa is valid for a maximum of 3 months, and often issued for much less time, meaning that any international working for an NGO would have to leave, and then re-enter Israel under the auspices of tourism, putting them at risk of denial of entry, or deportation if they manage to pass through immigration services and continue their work.
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http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57698

Obama’s government is propping-up the oppression in a nation of hatred and violence

Why is Egypt so repressive against its own people?
Because America gives $3 billion per year to Egypt, to train its military, fund its torture centers, and give weapons to the Egyptian regime, so that it has plenty of weapons against its own poor people.
Egypt has the most notorious and worst torture regime in the region (other than Jordan), and democracy activists are imprisoned and tortured by Egyptian authorities.
Why is Barack still propping up this brutal dictatorship with $3 billion a year?
Is it because the dictator’s name is Mubarak? And Barack loves advertising more than he loves poor people?

So far, that has proven true in his entire near-fascist year towards Americans. So I wouldn’t be surprised if that were true in Egypt as well.

“Mr. President Obama,” she begins her letter, “we are a minority in Egypt. We are treated very badly…”

Joseph Mayton
27 January 2010 in Egypt, Featured, News, United States

CAIRO: Western Christian organizations and news website are continuing their calls for greater American intervention in what they have called a nation of hatred and violence. The most recent case is of a 15-year-old Coptic girl who sent a letter to American President Barack Obama, asking him to intervene to end the “persecution” against Coptic Christians in Egypt.

…Dina Gowhary, who allegedly converted from Islam to Christianity and has taken the mantle of Christian rights in Egypt to Washington.

“Mr. President Obama,” she begins her letter, “we are a minority in Egypt. We are treated very badly. You said that the Muslim minority in America are treated very well, so why are we not treated here likewise? We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the government has set for us a new prison, we are imprisoned in our own country.”

International Christian organizations, such as Baptist Press, AINA and Christian Press, have launched a stalwart campaign to address issues of sectarianism in Egypt, which reached a head earlier this month when gunmen opened fire on Coptic worshipers as they were leaving a Christmas Eve service on January 6. They are demanding that Obama follow through on his promises of religious tolerance and freedom he called for in his June speech in Cairo….

Others, such as George Ishaq, a leading opposition and pro-democracy figure and Coptic scholar, says that Egyptians must begin to understand they “are in this together.” He has repeatedly called on both Muslim and Christian organizations to end the use of pointed language when discussing sectarianism. “They have to understand that we are all living under a repressive regime and nobody is treated well,” he said. “Copts have problems with the government, but so do Muslims and we have to demand our rights as Egyptians first and foremost.”

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Even still, Ishaq agrees that much of the responsibility must fall on Islamic clerics, a small number he admits, “who continue to call for things that are counter to humanity and life.”

Confiscate the excessive wealth of richest few, and assist the many poor! Let’s do it, in all 50 States!

http://www.alternet.org/economy/145459/public_is_ready_to_raise_taxes_on_corporations_and_the_rich%2C_oregon_vote_shows

Conservatives have been crowing loudly about their victory in last week’s special election in Massachusetts, but voters in Oregon also “sent a message,” when? approving two measures that imposed progressive taxes on earners making more than $250,000 per year and on large corporations.

The measures are expected to raise the $733 million dollars needed to close the state’s budget gap.

…measure 67 raised the minimum corporate tax to $150 per year, most companies operating in Oregon paid only $10 per year into the state coffers. Under 67, only 10,000 of the state’s 34,000 corporations will pay more than the minimum. Measure 66 will increase taxes for 38,000 of Oregon’s wealthier households, while giving a tax break to 270,000 jobless Oregonians.

Measure 66 is great.
Recommend a 91% tax on any income equal or above $1 million per year.
Yes, 91% on the excessively rich.    It was done in America not so long ago, by FDR.

but the Measure 67’s minimum Corporation tax is scandalously low.
At the same time, you don’t want to discourage small businesses (like family-owned restaurant) by charging too much. So the minimum Corporation tax should be 2% of the Corporation income, ONLY for the tiniest Corporations, say those with less than $100000 a year of revenue.

Any Corporation larger than that would not qualify.

For the big Corporations, like any Starbucks operating in Oregon (Starbucks has a $9000 million per year revenue, because it robs jobs from the small family-owned coffee shops), the Corporation tax should be 50% of income.
Starbucks is a monopoly and part of Fortune 500.

Any Wal-Mart store must also pay 50% tax for its revenue.
Same with any Nike, Adidas, McDonald, KFC, Safeway, Albertson’s…etc.

Any Corporation that is part of Fortune 500 is definitely excessively rich, and even its existence means destruction of hundreds of thousands of small-business jobs. Therefore, that excessive wealth needs to be taxed by 50% each year, both to take back the money robbed from the population, and to curb the growth/expansion of the largest businesses.

Cambodia: Close Compulsory Drug Detention Centers

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/01/25/cambodia-close-compulsory-drug-detention-centers

“[A staff member] would use the cable to beat people…On each whip the person’s skin would come off and stick on the cable…” – M’noh, age 16, describing whippings he witnessed in the Social Affairs “Youth Rehabilitation Center” in Choam Chao
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People who use drugs in Cambodia are at risk of arbitrary detention in centers where they suffer torture, physical and sexual violence, and other forms of cruel punishment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Detention centers, mandated to treat and ‘rehabilitate’ drug users, instead subject them to electric shocks, beatings with electrical wire, forced labor, and harsh military drills.

In the 93-page report, “Skin on the Cable,” Human Rights Watch documents detainees being beaten, raped, forced to donate blood, and subjected to painful physical punishments such as “rolling like a barrel” and being chained while standing in the sun. Human Rights Watch also reported that a large number of detainees told of receiving rotten or insect-ridden food and symptoms of diseases consistent with nutritional deficiencies.

“Individuals in these centers are not being treated or rehabilitated, they are being illegally detained and often tortured,” said Joseph Amon, director of the Health and Human Rights division at Human Rights Watch. “These centers do not need to be revamped or modified; they need to be shut down.” According to the report, people are frequently arbitrarily arrested without a warrant or without reasonable cause, often on the request of a relative or as part of periodic police round-ups of people considered “undesirable.” They are often lied to – or simply not informed – about the reasons of their arrest. They have no access to a lawyer during their period in police custody or during the subsequent period of detention in the centers.
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Raul Castro, why does your government oppress the poor?

Human rights defenders are defenders of the poor from oppression.
Cuba has a government that believes in Marxism.
Supposedly, Marxism’s priority (and objective) is so that poor people are not oppressed. Whoever persecutes a human rights defender is oppressing the poor.

Could Raul Castro and his government stop oppressing the poor?
Could Raul Castro also abandon Marxism, and run the government as a leftist Social Democracy  like Norway?

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/01/27/cuba-stop-harassing-human-rights-defender-and-family
(Washington, DC) – The Cuban government should immediately cease its harassment of the blind human rights defender Juan Carlos González Leiva, a leader of the Council of Human Rights Rapporteurs, and his family, Human Rights Watch said today.

In recent weeks, Cuban authorities have repeatedly threatened to force González Leiva and his wife and fellow rights defender Tania Maceda Guerra to leave Havana and move elsewhere on the island. The authorities have pressed for the move under a draconian law that restricts freedom of movement.”The harassment of González Leiva offers further proof that the Raul Castro government is willing to do everything within its power to prevent human rights monitoring, including forcibly displacing the monitors themselves,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch.

González Leiva and Maceda Guerra have lived in Havana since May 2007, when they were granted permission to live with and care for a blind friend. Under a law known as Decree 217, all Cuban citizens from outside of Havana must obtain government permission before moving to the capital.
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González Leiva and Maceda Guerra have also been the victims of death threats and public acts of repudiation. Over the past several months, the email account of their organization has been hacked into and terminated, their movements monitored, and their family members threatened, González Leiva told Human Rights Watch.

“The international community needs to send a clear message to the Cuban government that such attacks on human rights defenders are completely unacceptable,” Vivanco said.

A recent report by Human Rights Watch – “New Castro, Same Cuba: Political Prisoners in the Post-Fidel Era” – found that Raul Castro has kept Cuba’s repressive machinery fully active, quashing virtually all forms of political dissent. The report documents the government’s continued use of Decree 217 to restrict the freedom of movement of journalists, human rights defenders, and other members of civil society who criticize the government.

Monsieur le President Sarkozy, aillez compassion pour les innocents (plus que la poursuite de l’argent)

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/01/28/france-le-pr-sident-sarkozy-devrait-faire-pression-sur-le-chef-d-tat-turkm-ne-pour-m

in English http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/01/28/france-press-turkmen-leader-end-rights-abuses

Le président Gurbanguly Berdimoukhammedov est attendu le 1er février 2010 pour une visite de trois jours en France.

Le Turkménistan est l’un des pays les plus répressifs au monde. Un nombre indéterminé de prisonniers politiques languit dans ses prisons, et les droits à la liberté d’expression, d’association, de réunion, de circulation et de religion sont soumis à des restrictions draconiennes. La société civile et les médias indépendants ne peuvent travailler au grand jour, quand ils n’en sont pas complètement empêchés. Le gouvernement menace, harcèle et arrête ceux qui remettent en cause sa politique, à quelque niveau que ce soit.

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« La position de l’UE sur les droits humains au Turkménistan a jusqu’à ce jour été très décevante par sa faiblesse, mais la France tient aujourd’hui une opportunité à ne pas manquer pour rectifier cela », a déclaré Souhayr Belhassen, présidente de la Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l’Homme.

La Ligue française des Droits de l’Homme, Human Rights Watch, la Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l’Homme et Reporters Sans Frontières ont appelé la France et les autres gouvernements européens à faire pression sur le dirigeant turkmène pour entreprendre les actions explicitées ci-dessous :

• Libérer toutes les personnes emprisonnées pour raisons politiques, parmi lesquelles les défenseurs des droits humains Annakurban Amanklychev et Sapardurdy Khajiev ainsi que le dissident Gulgeldy Annaniazov;

• Etablir une procédure transparente à l’échelle nationale pour examiner tous les cas d’emprisonnement politique et déterminer le nombre réel de prisonniers détenus pour des chefs d’inculpations aux motifs politiques, et garantir réparation aux victimes d’abus;

• Lever les interdictions de voyager pour les étudiants, les activistes et les proches de membres de l’opposition, et en finir avec le système qui permet d’empêcher les citoyens de quitter le Turkménistan et d’y revenir;

• Permettre aux activistes, aux organisations citoyennes et aux journalistes de travailler librement et sans crainte de persécutions;

• Donner accès au pays, y compris aux lieux de détention, aux contrôleurs indépendants des droits humains et étendre les invitations à tous les contrôleurs des Nations unies qui ont fait une demande d’accès.

Maliki government: stop occupying your own people

Dear Maliki, President of Iraq (only by permission from the people):

Hopefully, you have not been led astray by the vanity associated with your own name: Maliki.
Really, in a democracy, the top leader should never be named Maliki, Malik, Melek (or any other variation), Khalif, Sultan, Abbas, Uthman…

Why? Because in medieval times, the top-leader, the king, lived sumptuously in palaces, alongside the richest few thousand people, while the millions of others, the average people, live in poverty and shacks. The rich people commit crimes with impunity, and are not punished. The poor people do nothing, and get punished, even imprisoned and tortured.

This is what happens when there is a king, and there is no real democracy.

The world has progressed out of that era.
There should not be dictatorial powers to rig elections by banning candidates for “secret reasons”. Your government is trying to run a Shia dictatorship over the Sunni Arabs and the Kurds.

Please allow for free elections in Iraq, and allow those 500 people to participate. They were not banned because they had Baathist connections (everyone had to have a Baathist connection in Saddam’s time in order to have a job), they were banned because they were not Shia, because they are independent thinkers who would challenge your one-party dictatorship.

Please do not have a one-party dictatorship in Iraq, let the people express their opinions by allowing all candidates to participate, and disqualify that Commission, which has obstructed with free elections.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/01/26/iraq-candidate-ban-jeopardizes-election
The Commission revealed that it had disqualified 511 candidates but did not provide even a minimal level of transparency [about whether it even has any evidence that those people are Baathists]. The Commission also did not list all the barred candidates or set out the exact criteria it has used to bar them.

“We documented atrocities under Ba’ath Party rule, and support Iraq’s efforts to hold those responsible for these crimes accountable and to bar them from public service,” Whitson said, “But we do not support the use of vague and secret powers to keep the government’s political opponents from participating in an election.”
While the Commission has not published an official list of the barred candidates, it reportedly includes Saleh al-Mutlaq, a Sunni lawmaker who took part in drafting Iraq’s Constitution, and Abdul-Kader al-Obeidi, the defense minister. It has also reportedly disqualified large numbers of candidates from secular groups expected to fare well in the election against Shi’ite-led parties that have governed Iraq since 2005. The Commission apparently targeted candidates from the two largest secular coalitions, barring 72 from Iraqiya and 67 from Iraq Unity. Barred candidates have only three days to appeal the decision.

On January 22, 2010, President Jalal Talabani questioned the legality of the Commission’s disqualifications, asking the Supreme Court for a ruling…

As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Iraq is obligated to allow its citizens equal opportunity to compete as candidates in an election, without being subject to “unreasonable restrictions.” The Covenant requires elections to guarantee the “free expression of the will of the [population].”

Dear Hugo Chavez, please don’t do a personality cult

(Washington, DC) – The Chávez administration should not abuse its authority to compel broadcast of presidential speeches that promote the government’s political agenda, Human Rights Watch said today.

On January 23, 2010, the Chávez government threatened to take action against cable providers that aired channels that did not comply with Venezuelan regulations, including the requirement to interrupt regular broadcasting to broadcast presidential speeches. The following day, the country’s cable providers stopped broadcasting seven channels, including TV Chile, Chile’s public TV channel, and RCTV International, the cable channel that was created after RCTV—Venezuela’s oldest television channel and a constant critic of President Hugo Chávez—was taken off the public airwaves in 2007.

“For years, Chávez has sought to intimidate and punish broadcasters who criticize his government,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “Now he’s also going after those who refuse to promote his own political agenda.”

Since taking office in February 1999, Chávez has used the government’s legal authority to compel radio and TV stations using public airwaves to transmit almost 2,000 presidential speeches live. The speeches are not limited to extraordinary circumstances in which the government would need to reach the entire Venezuelan audience. In 2009, Chávez forced stations to transmit live 141 speeches, including one that lasted seven hours and 34 minutes
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http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/01/26/venezuela-stop-abusing-broadcast-powers

Dear Hugo Chavez,

You have veered off-course from Social Democracy the moment you proclaimed that you want to follow Marxism. The result of Marxism (just like the result of right-wing bankers-first doctrine) is oppression of the poor, and excessive vanity in the leader (which results in the leader oppressing the poor and average people). Everybody, including you, is worse-off by pursuing Marxism.

I am glad you never veered off in the direction of right-wing richest-men-first governance method.
But you should also not go with Marxism.

I greatly applaud your decision to do nationalization of all large businesses, that is wonderful way of evening the wealth-distribution, so that merchants don’t become excessively rich, and thus evil.
This is in-line with Jesus Christ, with compassion on the poor, and with Social Democracy.

However, I am obligated by conscience and by common solidarity with humanity to criticize and oppose your closing of the independent TV station of Guillermo (I may or may not agree with the person, I don’t even know what his channel is broadcasting).

Note:
I am a Social Democrat,  which is the correct  left-wing and best
method of governance for all humanity.
I am a Christian, caring for the poor by the teachings of Jesus Christ.
which means I am center-left in politics
(to distinguish from far-left Marxism)
which means I am a Social Democrat in governance.
I support Norway-style socialism (caring for poor,
high tax on rich, free education, free health-care,
low gap between richest man and poorest man,
small military, democracy at national and local level
clean environment, no wasteful consumerist lifestyle,
strong public sector,  Corporations limited to small and mid-size
no monopoly, lots of small businesses, near 100% employment
no Marxism, no atheism, no violent revolution,
no uncontrolled-by-government capitalism)
I am not a Marxist,  which is the towards-the-cliff  left-wing.
I am not a Conservative or right-winger, that’s pursuit of wealth
for richest few, extorting it from the poor and average people.
It is most unjust when many are robbed, for a few to live in luxury.
It is important for a country to have independent media not-owned, not-command/controlled by the government.

It is important for the poor people, for the average people, and for the rich people or government officials.

Why? Because government can make mistakes.
For example, in China, all broadcast media is owned by the government. As a result, no broadcast media would bother criticizing their own boss. So no social problems are reported, even when they are dire and oppressive to many, especially to the poor.

This means that government has failed its duty to take care of the poor.

You are leftist – whether Marxist (which is proven to fail the poor) or Social Democrat (which is proven to help the poor and have the best healthiest living standards, in Norway) – your supposed intent is to help the poor and to be sympathetic to the poor. That is the meaning of being leftist (rather than conserve the wealth of the rich and squash the poor…which is the right-wing).

Since your supposed intent is to help the poor and to be sympathetic towards the poor, please understand that your government…any government, can make mistakes.

If there is no independent media, if your government controls all the media, then there will be hardly anybody who reports on any government mistakes (which usually happens when rich people or government officials oppresse the poor and average people).
Lack of independent media doesn’t help the poor, it doesn’t help the average people. It also doesn’t help the rich, because it encourage them to be bad people, since their evil actions would not be reported. It also doesn’t help the government officials, since they would not know about problems in the country, and they would fail their duty in taking care of the poor and average people.

I have noticed that the TV channel refuses to interrupt their regular broadcasts to air Presidential speeches, contrary to all the government channels.
I think this is too much. Your speeches can be printed the next day in the newspapers, it doesn’t have to be heard live by all. It is evocative of tyrants, when a person desires that much power, desires to be the center of attention.

On behalf of all the poor peasants of Venezuela (or, as a Marxist would understand it: on behalf of all the working class) : I think you have been led astray by vanity, O Hugo the Venezuelan man. You have been sitting in a palace for too long, and gotten habituated to many people bowing to you and saluting you and hailing you as someone more important than the poor.

Really, if you are a man who cares for the poor (as a leftist should, since that’s the very definition of being a leftist in governance method), if you really want to spend your life caring for the poor, then it’s the poor people in Venezuela who should be the center of attention.
Not you.

You have been so led astray by vanity, that you need criticism more than ever. Yet you are trying to silence any criticism by attempting to shut down the only independent TV station in Venezuela.

Please remember that your rhetoric (I never heard any of your rhetoric, but I suppose that you talk about solidarity with the poor) mentions solidarity with the poor. So please don’t demand that your speech should interrupt all other broadcasts, it’s too self-important. It’s dangerous for the poor people in a country, when a leader becomes too self-important.

Please always remember the poor in your country.
Please encourage Human Rights Watch to have a permanent office in Venezuela and diligently report on any social problems that they see. Human Rights Watch is an excellent independent media, very dependable and reliable on caring for the poor and advocating for the oppressed.

Please keep independent media in Venezuela (just don’t allow them to become huge Corporations owned by tycoons), it’s like have a good immune system for the body, it detects all the problems, especially all the problems that affects the most weak and defenseless parts of the body.

Ideally, in a healthy Social Democracy, half the media should be government-owned public-broadcasting, half the media should be independent of government (Many non-profits existing by donations, and many regional for-profit Corporations, small/mid-size Corporations, that are not allowed to become large or to expand out of their region, or to purchase other Corporations).

When most or all media are owned by government, then it’s tyranny because the government doesn’t get to hear any of its mistakes, and the poor/average people are surely getting oppressed.

When most of all media are owned by large Corporations, then it’s tyranny because the richest 1% control the airwaves, rarely reporting on mistakes made by the richest rich, and uses the airwaves as brainwashing mechanism to keep the rich people in power, oppressing the poor/average people.

Sincerely,

A advocate for the poor and the common person, anywhere.

Tough in doing medieval tyranny… America and Yemen

This is probably the most important article of the day.
Also the saddest of all.
It’s the meaning of “Change”, when Obama gang-up with the right-wing, bringing “Change” to people’s lives.

Tough on Terror?

Case of Mistaken Identity Shows Perils of Partnering with Yemen

by Letta Tayler, terrorism and counterterrorism researcher

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The Huffington Post

January 26, 2010

The Yemeni government’s arrest of an alleged al Qaeda member appeared to be a great success. As the suspect was receiving an award at Al Eman University in the capital, San’a, state security agents entered and grabbed him without firing a shot. “One of al Qaeda’s most dangerous members arrested,” Yemeni media proclaimed.

But the man security forces seized in April 2008 was not the notorious al Qaeda fugitive Abdullah al-Raimi, as Yemeni Defense Ministry officials asserted. Rather, he was Abdullah Sa’d Ghazi al-Raimi, a religion student, who was a decade younger than the al Qaeda member, with a different middle name.

“I thought it would be easy to get him out because he obviously wasn’t the right person,” the student’s brother, Abd al Basit, told me in Yemen a year ago. But Yemen’s Political Security Organization – which reports to the president – held Abdullah Sa’d for 20 months without charge, despite three letters from the Yemeni attorney general’s office requesting his release.

Abdullah Sa’d and his relatives declined interview requests after he was quietly freed in December 2009. Reliable sources told Human Rights Watch they had received information that Yemeni authorities beat him, forced him to stand in stress positions and held him for the first 40 days in solitary confinement in a dark, windowless dungeon – even though they had the fingerprints and photographs of the fugitive al-Raimi on file.
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In recent years, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has rounded up hundreds of alleged militants on little or no evidence
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the US and its allies will have difficulty assessing whether the Yemeni forces – trained/funded by the US – are killing or capturing … ordinary Yemenis whom officials later brand as militants. The US will be similarly handicapped in determining whether the attacks are being used to take out political opponents and critical journalists.
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Abdullah Sa’d, the student arrested in the case of mistaken identity, is a testament to the dangers of that trap. He is a devout Muslim who was receiving an award for memorizing the Quran when he was arrested, and sources said he had been optimistic that he would teach religion upon graduation and had intended to use his award money to pay for his wedding. Now, stigmatized as a terrorist, he can’t find a job and his fiancée’s father has called off the marriage. He spends his days at home in San’a, fretting about his future.

“His life has been destroyed,” one source said.

Unless Washington and its allies ensure their assistance is not used for abuses that sow bitterness and alienation, they will never succeed in rallying popular support

Organized crime make huge profits, while 99% of the country is impoverished

In America, it’s called Wall Street (JP Morgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, CitiGroup).

In Italy, it’s called the mafia.

Same thing.
And Barack has spent his entire year catering to the organized crime in Wall Street.
He finally is about to fire Timothy Geithner,  but that’s only a small part of things that need to be done.

请给在中国作买卖的公司加税, 拿来救济穷人

在管理国家的中国政府官员们:

请给在中国作买卖的公司加税, 拿来救济穷人.
这个公司, 我非常喜欢它的环境保护 (我们中国不做环境保护, 我们的国就没了).
但是, 中国政府现在居然给这个公司纳税是0%   也就是, 没有收一份钱的税.

而, 这个公司是大公司（任何可以在股市上有名字的公司都是大公司）．而且，这个公司不是国营企业，是私人拥有的企业．

而且，这个公司有很多的赚钱的机会．
那么，这个公司的利润就因该交税，至少交个２０％，　（中国最富豪的５００家公司需要交税至少５０％）　因为我们中国有很多的穷人需要帮助．
至于，作环境保护本来就是该的．本来就是任何人在中国做买卖的职责，做生意的最基本条件，　而不是什么政府还需要以不收税　来讨好的．怎么，那么警察是不是需要在街上每天给小偷一把糖，为了鼓励小偷不偷东西？　本来就因该做的事，为什么还要政府来讨好？还要以政府丢失收入的代价．
我们中国本来教育经费就缺，孩子们在山区，作业本，笔，学校，什么都缺．　缺经费的学校导致他们偷工减料造豆腐房子．　要是在富人和上了股市的公司　（任何上了股市的公司就是大公司，就是有钱吃饱了撑着的组织）　　那里多纳税，政府有更多的收入，　我们中国的教育部就不缺经费救济内地的地区了．
中国的医疗经费，　一样的道理．

现在管理国家的党，党旗是说要优先＂农民＂和＂工人＂，　也就是说，　共产党对自己做的广告是说要优先顾着穷人和老百姓，　而不是优先讨好富人．

据我估计，我们中国７０％是穷人，２０％是过的比较好的，９％是城里的吃饱了撑着的．
在剩下最富有的１％内，　０．９％是小商人　　０．１％是富豪和大商人。

我们中国的绝大部分人是需要分配财产的，　是工人和农民．
一个公正的政府是因该优先顾着最穷的７０％－８０％的居民．

现在的中国政府，要么因该自己符合自己的优先穷人的＂广告＂，
要么就改革变为欧洲左派（挪威式）的社会主义，　那是完完全全做到了优先穷人的政府，　既有分配财产，也有民主．　做到了穷人不受苦．　怎么做到？　　富豪要交高税，　使财产分配平均，　导致富豪不是太富而吃饱了撑着，　　穷人不是太贫穷而饱受苦难．

中国作保护主义, 真是太好了!

亲爱的作保护主义的中国政府官员们：

作为一个 关心中国人民（尤其是穷人和一般人）过好日子的 爱华青年， 我非常荣幸的看到，我们中国的政府在管理中国上做出非常恰当的事情！我们的国家在保护中国人的企业，抵制外国控制的企业蔓延！ 这是天大的喜事！ 我们中国没有变成美国和欧洲富豪的“新式”殖民地！
我们人民的国土，我们人民的物资，我们人民的能源，我们人民的企业, 都在被保护, 在防止以华尔街为核心的 英美欧富豪们 利用钱财和”市场”劫持. 这样的劫持就是”新式” 殖民方法. 原来鸦片战争, 是以军队和枪炮达到霸占一个国家财产和一个人民的劳力. 自从计算机发明以来(1970/80)和自从电网普及以来(1990), 英美欧富豪们开始利用股市, 利用金融贸易, 利用计算机计算的金融数据, 来抢夺和霸占一个国家. 他们先要把一个国家全部私人化, 摧毁国营企业, 摧毁公众拥有的财产, 然后把财产集中在小部分富豪商人的手里. 然后再以贪婪和经济合作(一起赚钱)来拉拢和控制这个国家的富豪, 由此控制这个国家的大部分财产, 达到跟军事占领一莫一样的目的.

“For several years, the Chinese government has been implementing indigenous innovation policies aimed at carving out markets for national champions and increasing the locally owned and developed intellectual property of innovative products,”

…China has pursue aggressive “indigenous innovation” programs aimed at promoting high-tech national champions and excluding “a wide array of U.S. firms from a market that is vital to their future growth and ability to create jobs here at home.”

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new rules issued by China in November to establish a national catalog of products eligible for significant preferences when Chinese government agencies are making purchases.
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The regulation requires any product listed in the catalog to contain intellectual property developed and owned in China, making it “nearly impossible” for American companies to qualify unless they are prepared to establish Chinese brands and transfer their research and development of new products to China,” the groups said.

“This directive targets some of our most innovative and competitive manufacturing and service industries, including computers, software, telecommunications and green technology. Once this system is in place, it is expected to be expanded to other industries,” the groups said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60Q08Q20100127?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r4:c0.041096:b30073510:z0

好!好!好!好!好! 真是好!
希望做这个政策的官员们继续扩展到每一个领域, 每一个产品!

共产党,希望早日跟着西班牙社会主义党 的道路, 放弃马克思主义(无神论,阶级斗争,一党专制), 只搞救济穷人和分财产, 也就是欧洲式的社会主义, 从共产主义 Communism 改道到社会民主 Social Democracy.

改道到社会民主, 这样的政策继续, 因为是极好的政策, 不管政府叫什么, 都因该这样做保护主义!