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...A majestic human drama involving millions of human beings on three continents in the protracted and mighty struggle of greed and cruelty against liberation and dignity?
...Amazing Grace presents an English story of pretty people either having tedious tea-parties at various country estates or compromising with one another in boring rhetoric in that exclusive British men's club, the House of Commons.
...The steel workers of Sheffield opposed the slave trade in the 1790s; the United Irishmen did likewise.
These were the allies of the Jamaicans, the vast number of Afro-Americans, and above all the Haitian slaves.
These men and women waged near constant struggle in rebellion (1760s), in the War of Independence (1776), and in the Haitian revolution against slavery (1791-1803).
...This was the decade when English humanitarianism became warped by racialism beyond recognition.
Wilberforce was a leader of both a political and a cultural counter-revolution.
As the head of Society for the Suppression of Vice he opposed stage dancers, ballad singers, gingerbread fairs, nude swimming, and favored imprisonment for adultery. In 1802 alone the Society clocked 623 prosecutions for Sabbath-breaking.
Wilberforce was their magistrate in Yorkshire as well as Member of Parliament.
He approved of the burning in effigy of Tom Paine, and to suppress democratic urges he proposed a national day of fasting and humiliation.
He helped to draft the Sedition Act in 1795 making it treason to write or speak against the King or government.
Notice something similar today!!!
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A man who has placed his soul in the service of Fascism declares an evil and dangerous slavery to be the only true good.
Rather than overtly renouncing human feelings, he declares the crimes committed by Fascism to be the highest form of humanitarianism.
He agrees to divide people up into the pure and worthy and the impure and unworthy. Totalitarianism and Obedience SILENCE IS NOT ALWAYS GOLDEN |
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Gore's Other Global Warning: Iraq War
“Gore’s speech was one no decent politician could have delivered.” Washington Post, Sept. 25, 2002, Michael Kelly.
“I am deeply concerned that the course of action that we are presently embarking upon with respect to Iraq has the potential to seriously damage our ability to win the war against terrorism and to weaken our ability to lead the world in this new century.” Al Gore, Commonwealth, Club San Francisco, Sept, 23, 2002
“It was dishonest, cheap, low. It was hollow. It was bereft of policy, of solutions, of constructive ideas, very nearly of facts — bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies. It was breathtakingly hypocritical, a naked political assault delivered in tones of moral condescension from a man pretending to be superior to mere politics. It was wretched. It was vile. It was contemptible.” Washington Post, Sept. 25, 2002, Michael Kelly on Gore's speech
“Great nations persevere and then prevail. They do not jump from one unfinished task to another. We should remain focused on the war against terrorism.” Al Gore, Commonwealth, Club San Francisco, Sept, 23, 2002
“A pudding with no theme but much poison... It was a disgrace — a series of cheap shots strung together without logic or coherence.” Washington Post, Sept. 27, 2002, Charles Krauthammer
“He is telling us that our most urgent task right now is to shift our focus and concentrate on immediately launching a new war against Saddam Hussein... And the President is proclaiming a new uniquely American right to preemptively attack whomsoever he may deem represents a potential future threat.” Al Gore, Commonwealth, Club San Francisco, Sept, 23, 2002
“The Opportunist... bitter.” Salon.com, Andrew Sullivan on Gore's speech
“President Bush is demanding, in this high political season, that Congress speedily affirm that he has the necessary authority to proceed immediately against Iraq and, for that matter, under the language of his resolution, against any other nation in the region regardless of subsequent developments or emerging circumstances.” Al Gore, Commonwealth, Club San Francisco, Sept, 23, 2002
An administration source told the Washington Post, Sept. 24, 2002, that Gore was simply “irrelevant.” Robert Parry.
“There’s no international law that can prevent the United States from taking action to protect our vital interests when it is manifestly clear that there’s a choice to be made between law and our survival... Indeed, international law itself recognizes that such choices stay within the purview of all nations. I believe, however, that such a choice is not presented in the case of Iraq.” Al Gore, Commonwealth, Club San Francisco, Sept, 23, 2002
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said he was unable to get to sleep after listening to Gore’s Sept, 23, 2002 address. Robert Parry.
Rather than welcome a vigorous debate on the merits and shortcomings of the so-called 'Bush Doctrine,' right-wing and mainstream commentators treated Gore as dishonest, unpatriotic and even unhinged.
Gore was slapped around by Beltway political analysts, hit from all angles, variously portrayed as seeking cheap political gain and committing political suicide. Robert Parry.
“...that has been squandered in a year’s time and replaced with great anxiety all around the world, not primarily about what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we’re going to do.” Al Gore, Commonwealth, Club San Francisco, Sept, 23, 2002
“Al Gore’s Political Suicide... made himself irrelevant by his inconsistency...an act of self-immolation... Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.” Wall Street Journal, Sept. 26, 2002, William Bennett
“The very idea that an American citizen can be imprisoned without recourse to judicial process or remedy, and that this can be done on the sole say-so of the President of the United States or those acting in his name, is beyond the pale and un-American, and ought to be stopped.” Al Gore, Commonwealth, Club San Francisco, Sept, 23, 2002
“...the vast majority of those who sponsored, planned and implemented the cold-blooded murder of more than 3,000 Americans are still at large, still neither located nor apprehended, much less punished and neutralized...” Al Gore, Commonwealth, Club San Francisco, Sept, 23, 2002
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ENCAMPMENT TO STOP THE WAR In Washington
Message to Congress:
Beginning March 12 in Washington DC
(Before the March on the Pentagon on Saturday - March 17)
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STAY IN WASHINGTON DC FOR THE
WHERE ? on the mall directly in front of the Capitol building (3rd street between Constitution and Independence)
ENCAMPMENT TO END THE WAR WHY NOW ? During the week beginning March 12, Congress will begin voting on Bush’s request for $100 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. If Congress votes to cut off funds, they can end the war now and bring the troops home. If they approve Bush’s war funds, the killing, and dying and occupation will go on…it’s as simple as that. This vote will be the most important war related vote since Congress voted to authorized Bush to invade and occupy Iraq in October of 2002.
The antiwar movement must be there to let Congress know that we won’t let them get away with it this time.
Right now, the Troops Out Now Coalition is working with local organizers, churches and mosques, unions, and community groups to prepare for a long-term occupation of Washington by the anti-war movement. Local organizers across the U.S. are organizing buses, vans, and car caravans.
We have a real opportunity if we act decisively — and we need your help. Please contact us — use the "comments" section of the volunteer form to let us know:
How You Can Help
— complete the volunteer form at http://troopsoutnow.org/feb17mar17volunteer.shtml
... and use the comments section to let us know when you can come to Washington DC, how long you can stay, what you can bring, and what tasks you can take on in the Encampment to Stop the War.
Volunteer .. and take them to your school, workplace, union hall, church or mosque, community center, etc. Donate
http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.shtml Please help with the enormous expenses of preparing for the Encampment to Stop the War. Contact
ttp://troopsoutnow.org/feb17mar1707orgcents.shtml your local organizing center and help organize your local contingent to the Encampment. |
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As Bush’s surge begins in Baghdad:
The daily humiliation of life under occupation
February 23, 2007 | Page 5
The U.S. and its puppet government in Iraq are claiming that the “surge” of U.S. troops into Baghdad is a “success,” but it is coming at a terrible price for ordinary Iraqis.
NICOLE COLSON looks at the toll of U.S. war on ordinary Iraqis.
A “FABULOUS success,” was how Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki described the “surge” of U.S. troops into Baghdad in a phone call to George W. Bush last week.
But whatever “success” is achieved by the U.S. and its puppet government will come at a terrible cost to ordinary Iraqis — in daily humiliations, such as raids of their homes by U.S. soldiers; growing deprivation, as food and clean water become even scarcer; and an even greater threat of indiscriminate violence, as the U.S. considers increasing its already punishing air war.
Of course, to hear the Bush administration tell it, the surge in Iraq is already winning. Just three days after it began, the commander in charge of the security plan held a press conference to announce an 85 percent drop in attacks since the surge began on February 14.
He spoke too soon. On that very day, at least 56 people were killed and another 128 injured after two suicide bombs were detonated in a busy Shiite market in East Baghdad. Another bomb, exploded in a restaurant in the Sadr City neighborhood, killed two and wounded 11. Across the city, bombs, mortars and gunfights left at least another eight dead.
Increased violence in the wake of the escalation shouldn’t come as a surprise. The U.S. tried a similar surge last year, adding 14,000 troops to Baghdad as part of “Operation Together Forward II” beginning in June. Instead of ending resistance in Iraq, following an initial period of calm, attacks increased by 43 percent, according to the recent report by the Iraq Study Group.
Then, as now, ordinary Iraqis suffered the brunt of the violence. In addition, many Iraqis today are living on the edge — suffering unemployment at a rate of 60 percent or more, chronic shortages of electricity and fuel, and a lack of clean water and food.
In Falluja, where the U.S. twice destroyed the city and its infrastructure and created tens of thousands of refugees, cases of diarrhea among children rose 70 percent last year because of a lack of clean drinking water.
And according to a recent report from Inter Press Service, Iraqis today are forced to get much of their food from companies in Australia and other countries who assisted the U.S. during the invasion and occupation.
“Local agricultural production is almost nil,” Majid al-Dulaymi from the Ministry of Agriculture told IPS. “The limited loans given by the ministry to farmers and planters are misused simply because it is not possible to maintain the agriculture production for reasons well known to everybody here. Now the private sector is importing everything, and the prices are too high to afford.”
Aid workers who once could have helped are increasingly unable to deliver basic necessities — because of the violence caused by the U.S. presence.
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Luana Martiri, Iraq “I discovered I was made pregnant by a rapist”
February 2007
BAGHDAD, “I’m a 22-year-old Christian student in Iraq. Two months ago I was raped by an Iraqi soldier following a raid at my home.
“I thought very hard before agreeing to tell my story. But I cannot allow other girls to suffer the same violence I suffered. in addition to being discriminated against and lacking support.
“With the exception of my older brother, Khalil, all my family had left for Amman, Jordan and then for Sweden. I was waiting to finish my last year at university before joining them. Only I and Khalil stayed behind. One day, while he was at university, a group of Iraqi soldiers raided our home saying that they had information that there were insurgents in the area.
“When they were inside my home I saw them giving me strange looks. They asked me questions for about 15 minutes and then they left.
“Two days later, on the afternoon of 27 November last year, I was alone again in the house and I heard a sound coming from the living room. First, I thought Khalil had come home earlier and then I realised it was one of the Iraqi soldiers who had raided our home two days previously.
“I was surprised and was about to ask him if he was conducting another raid when he put his hand directly over my mouth and told me that if I made any sound, he would wait for my brother and kill him.
“He knew I was alone because of the answers I had given on the day of the raid.
“I tried to free myself from his arms and run but he was much stronger than me. He forced me into a bedroom and made me do what I had never done before in my life. He raped me while I cried and tried to bite his hand but each time I did this he hit my face with his other hand.
“When he finished he told me that if I told the police about it he would return and do it again with me and kill my brother so the house would be just for me and him.
“When my brother came home I told him everything. He got so upset that he forced me to go to the police with him. There we met a sergeant who asked for proof that it was an Iraqi soldier who raped me, saying that maybe it was not a soldier but only someone dressed like one.
“After two hours of humiliation, being looked at by the police officers as the latest girl who lost her virginity in Iraq, we went home. Khalil cried more than me because he couldn’t believe that his sister had suffered such abuse while he was away and the rapist would not be charged.
“We called our family in Sweden the same day and told them what had happened. Since then, they have been trying to get us visas to join them.
“Two weeks ago, I discovered that I was made pregnant by the rapist. Khalil took me to a doctor who did an abortion and since then my neighbour has been taking care of me.
“I hope my story will help girls who are raped in Iraq to decide to tell their story even though it is hard in a traditional Muslim country such as Iraq. But if we remain silent, there will be more girl victims and more girls will lose that so precious thing that God gave them, their virginity.”
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Issue for Feb. 14 - 20, 2007. BAR is published every Wednesday.
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Barack Obama: The Mania and the Mirage
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford
After two years of distancing himself from progressives, Barack Obama is ‘exploring’ a run for the presidency.
The marketing of the Obama ‘mirage’ reflects deep contradictions in both the Black and white manifestations of the ‘mania’ surrounding the Senator.
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Barack Obama: The Mania and the Mirage
“ The Black aspect of Obama-mania is as caught up in historical contradictions as is the white side of the phenomenon.”
“Mirage” is the best metaphor for Barack Obama. He shimmers on the horizon, a promise of…something. But as one draws closer, Obama dissipates into nothingness — which is his purpose.
Like a mirage, Obama floats as an illusion in the political intersections between hot and cool air.
It is the place he seeks: the deliberately chosen — yet ever-shifting — layer between other forces that are themselves constantly moving across the landscape.
As the Illinois Senator this weekend announced his intention to create a presidential “exploratory committee,” corporate pundits pegged him as nestled in the Democratic niche between Hillary Clinton, to his right — based her relatively “hot” air on Iraq — and the much cooler, if not frigid, temperatures at the base of the party.
That’s Obama’s intermediary comfort zone — a place of ever-interpretable impressions.
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"I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics,” said Obama in a video posted on his website. “So I spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress we so desperately need.”
Ahh, so that’s what the period between now and February 10, when he will make his presidential intentions official, is all about: thinking time.
Obama is known for choosing his words very carefully.
His admirers say that’s a sign of his conscientious nature, that he doesn’t want to inadvertently say the wrong thing, to speak irresponsibly.
The truth is, Obama is determined to say next to nothing substantive at all, unless it is designed to position himself in some mellow region between opposing forces.
“ Obama is determined to say next to nothing substantive at all.”
Obama claims, "I didn't expect to find myself in this position a year ago.”
Amazing. I suppose that’s why he has been so careful to navigate to the right of his fellow Democratic senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin; why he spent 2005 and 2006 mouthing “mush” on the Iraq war, and still continues to do so; why he told me point-blank, three weeks before being sworn in as U.S. senator, that he would not push for universal health care — the very issue that had made him a darling of progressives as a state senator, but which had burned Hillary Clinton when she was First Lady.
Obama runs from even the flicker of a flame.
"The decisions that have been made in the past six years have put our country in a precarious place," he said.
What the hell does that mean? Exactly what it is supposed to: next to nothing.
By February 10, Obama will have crafted a catch-phrase that captures some vague mood of distress among the electorate. But he needs the time to measure the barometer, temperature and wind flow, and situate himself accordingly — the perfect mirage.
Barack Obama is a lawyer by training, but could easily have made a career on Madison Avenue, where “impressions” are the holy grail.
The most effective commercials are those that provoke the consumer to provide her own impressions of the product, through word and image association.
Obama’s special genius is to elicit self-generated positive impressions from a wide range of consumers/observers — most dramatically, from consumers across the color line — while saying nothing of substance.
“ Obama could easily have made a career on Madison Avenue.”
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Corporate media, an extension of Madison Avenue, eats this crap up.
Barack Obama has “wide appeal” and is, therefore, a “saleable” product.
But what are they selling, and to whom?
They (and Obama) are certainly not selling an end to U.S. wars of aggression, or universal health care, or the right to housing, education, and a minimal standard of income.
Most insidiously, Obama-mania does not even market substantive measures toward racial justice.
Vote for me, and I’ll set you free
Quite the opposite: it presents an Obama presidential candidacy as a palliative — a soothing potion — that on its face serves as an historical benchmark showing how far “America” — meaning white America — has come.
Such is Obama’s carefully orchestrated message: Vote for me, and I’ll set you free — free like me! — from any obligation to reverse centuries of past wrongs or current crimes against African Americans; free to abandon universal health care as a national priority; free to warn Iraqis that there will be “no more coddling” of them, as if 600,000 Iraqis have died from excess coddling; free to threaten “surgical missile strikes” against Iran in early 2006, and free to later back away from the warmongers’ bully pulpit when the political winds changed.
Free!
Commercialization is the great diversion in U.S. society: the creation of false realities that are “sold” far beyond conventional points-of-purchase.
For decades corporations (and their two political parties) have been marketing an empty package labeled “new, improved America,” a product that miraculously cures the nation’s ills without the trauma of relinquishing white privilege and forging a real social compact among Americans, or of abandoning an imperial foreign policy.
Barack Obama has cynically signed on as the beaming face on the package of that product.
In Obama’s mind, the game is all about “impressions” — ephemeral things that are very much like mirages.
Having no substance — poof! — in a minute, they are gone, leaving us to anxiously await the appearance of the next illusions of light and temperature, or messages that seem to solve ancient ills, but actually promise…nothing.
Barack Obama has methodically created the impression that he feels no special obligation to African Americans (“There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.”) — the source of his meteoric rise.
It matters not what he feels inside, or what he wrote in a decade-old biography.
Hillary whom I suspect he will eventually team-up
Obama has eagerly signed on as a candidate of the center-right of the Democratic Party — a hair’s-breadth from Hillary Clinton, with whom I suspect he will eventually team-up.
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And what do African Americans get out of the deal?
Far less than nothing.
Obama — participant in the Great Diversion
By assisting white Americans to believe that painless absolution of collective responsibility for the past and current national sins can be achieved by looking kindly on an ingratiating Black man’s presidential candidacy, Obama has become an active participant in the Great Diversion.
He repeatedly reinforces the notion that noisy “partisan politics” is what’s wrong with America, rather than rapacious corporations, structural and overt racism, and rampaging militarism.
“ He has eagerly signed on as a candidate of the center-right of the Democratic Party.”
Dennis Kucinich blackest candidate
As BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon has written, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the announced presidential contender whose name is seldom uttered in the corporate media, is the “blackest candidate in the ring.” Kucinich’s voting record “matches the best of the Congressional Black Caucus across the board” and is far more in tune with the historical Black Consensus on issues of peace and social justice than Sen. Obama’s over the past two years.
However, African Americans will certainly flock to Obama’s candidacy, both emotionally and — if he doesn’t shift his weight to the Clintons before the primaries — with their votes.
Despite the passage of four decades since the Black Freedom Movement defeated official apartheid, a Jim Crow mentality continues to haunt Black politics, one that celebrates every prospect of a Black face in a high place.
The presidency is, of course, the ultimate brass ring. African Americans yearn to vicariously grasp it — even if the candidate has labored mightily to distance himself from them.
It is true, as Francis Kornegay wrote in the January 10 issue of BAR, that Black (and white) progressives must come to grips with “the unfolding Obama-mania.”
In many ways, the Black aspect of Obama-mania is as caught up in historical contradictions as is the white side of the phenomenon. We will have to wrestle with both. |
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The Flip Flopping Of George Monbiot
First hand witness testimony tells of strange occurrences in bombing aftermath
Steve Watson Infowars.net Wednesday, February 21, 2007 After incurring the wrath of 9/11 skeptics the world over two weeks ago, George Mobiot has returned for more with the publication of a scathing attack in the London Guardian that is tantamount to a toddler's over the top tantrum that perfectly highlights the problem with the ineffectual left.
Epidemic of gibberish?
"Why do I bother with these morons? Because they are destroying the movements some of us have spent a long time trying to build. Those of us who believe that the crucial global issues... are insufficiently debated in parliament or congress, that corporate power stands too heavily on democracy, that war criminals, cheats and liars are not being held to account, have invested our efforts in movements outside the mainstream political process. These, we are now discovering, are peculiarly susceptible to this epidemic of gibberish."
Monbiot's ranting here highlights a great problem with modern day political activism, division.
Actions serve those really ruining our planet behind scenes
As an iconic figurehead of lefty thought in the vain of Chomsky and Vidal, Monbiot underscores the problem with the ineffectual left in his commentary. That is they simplify world politics to the point where their actions only serve to aid those that are really ruining our planet behind the scenes by encouraging a focus on the puppets out front.
Monbiot states:
"you must believe that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their pals are all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful, despite the fact that they were incapable of faking either weapons of mass destruction or any evidence at Ground Zero that Saddam Hussein was responsible. You must believe that the impression of cackhandedness and incompetence they have managed to project since taking office is a front. Otherwise you are a traitor and a spy."
As part of their debunking critics such as Monbiot routinely use this tactic, asking "do you really think an administration as incompetent as the Bush regime could pull off such a sophisticated operation as 9/11?"
Of course we do not believe George Bush was mastermind
We answer "do you really believe that George Bush runs anything?" The ineffectual left loves to snicker on and on about how dumb and incompetent he is but still do not have the wherewithal to realise that the man is not in charge of anything. He takes three naps per day and cannot structure sentences, no of course we do not believe George Bush was the mastermind behind 9/11, no more so than we believe a man dying of kidney failure in a cave in Afghanistan masterminded it.
US government run by heads of top corporations
The ineffectual left is more confused and misguided than it says the "conspiracy loons" are. They know that the US government is run by the heads of the top corporations who make up the think tanks and non-elected globalist policy makers such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral commission, yet they stay obsessed with attacking the figurehead Bush and the right who, only in their minds, are the root of all that is wrong. It's a displacement activity, something you do because you feel incapable of doing what you ought to do.
Many within the ineffectual left focus their attention on America as the evil empire, while ignoring the fact that American foreign policy is dictated by international cartels, foreign bankers and the heads of corporate global institutions.
Monbiot directly attacks the 9/11 truth movement as cowards:
"The obvious corollorary to the belief that the Bush administration is all-powerful is that the rest of us are completely powerless. In fact it seems to me that the purpose of the "9/11 truth movement" is to be powerless. The omnipotence of the Bush regime is the coward's fantasy, an excuse for inaction used by those who don't have the stomach to engage in real political fights."
Play directly into hands of elite
The ineffectual left does not understand our movement because they cannot neatly fit us into the political categories they so dearly love to associate with on the one hand, and oppose on the other. Not caring enough to attempt to understand our outlook in a mature way, they label us as "loons" "idiots" and "morons". In this sense they play directly into the hands of the elite who wish to keep the underclasses at each others throats so as not to be faced with one central oppositional movement — The People.
When Mr Monbiot raves on about how we are a "mortal danger" to popular oppositional campaigns, he fails to take this into account. His assertion that he is a part of a REAL political fight and we are somehow admitting powerlessness, and are thus cowards, smacks of immaturity and sounds like self important snobbery.
9/11 conspiracy theories displacement activity?
Monbiot declares that "9/11 conspiracy theories are a displacement activity. A displacement activity is something you do because you feel incapable of doing what you ought to do." I have already presented how Monbiot himself can just as validly be shown to be guilty of the same label. What is it exactly that we ought to be doing according to the great activist George Monbiot?
Monbiot has a comfortable weekly column in a fashionable establishment lefty newspaper and spends his time jumbo jetting around the world complaining about how we're destroying it with carbon emissions.
Left facile target of convenience for Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Michael “Savage” Weiner, Sean Hannity
As Kurt Nimmo so succinctly puts it:
For all his effort and that of his pals, Monbiot has managed to make the machine of progress, as he gauges it, turn in reverse. It is not the 9/11 “morons” destroying Mr. Monbiot’s “movements,” but his own enervated struggle, his own inability to understand reality and deal with it, even as he has made a career out of complaint minus substantial result.
In fact, Mr. Monbiot and his ilk are part and parcel of the “mainstream political process,” especially considering the degree of foundation funding and support his cherished “movements” receive, from the likes of the Ford, Schumann, Rockefeller, and MacArthur foundations, to name but a handful.
Monbiot’s “progressive” left was long ago sold down the river. In effect, the foundation oiled “movements” so dear to Monbiot’s heart are completely and utterly ineffectual, having accomplished dreadfully little over the decades, and instead serve as a facile target of convenience for Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Michael “Savage” Weiner, Sean Hannity and the neocon fascists dominating the corporate media.
BBC hit piece — the labeling of truthers as 'idiots'
Monbiot's rants, the BBC hit pieces, the labeling of truthers as "idiots" — this all shows that 9/11 is the core issue in modern society. 9/11 questions are the key to unlocking understanding of the ongoing usurpation of the free democratic Western world by the old school elite and the way in which they use theatrical political divisions to achieve their own aims at the expense of everyone else on the planet.
As a matter of fact, it wasn't so long ago that George Monbiot was asking a great deal of his own 9/11 questions.
In a piece written for the London Guardian on September 25th 2001, just after the attacks, he raised many questions regarding the real perpetrators, analysed evidence and wrote:
"When presented with material like this, I can't help suspecting that intelligence agents have assembled the theory first, then sought the facts required to fit it...For these reasons and many others (such as the initial false certainties about the Oklahoma bombing and the Sudanese medicine factory, and the identification of live innocents as dead terrorists), I think we have some cause to regard the new evidence against Bin Laden with a measure of scepticism."
Has Monbiot forgotten that he asked us to question the events of 9/11? Seemingly he has and has also attempted to memory hole any evidence of this fact.
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Here is a screenshot from Monbiot's website. Note that he writes one article per week. (Also note that he calls us do-nothing cowards when we write multiple articles per day compared to his one per week). Also note that there is two week gap where the above mentioned article should be. Why has this one been removed when all his other weekly ones are intact? Methinks Mr Monbiot has done a little flip flop here and tried to cover his tracks huh? but then again I would say that because I am a "conspiracy moron".
Why is it that Monbiot now accepts the official conspiracy theory? Has he seen some evidence that we haven't? Maybe the fat nosed Bin Laden confession that multiple experts have denounced as a fake was evidence enough for Monbiot to remove his earlier article that highlighted similar questions he now so bitterly fears are ruining "real political fights".
What is Monbiot doing?
Monbiot needs to have a long hard think about what he is doing by decrying our movement and those like it as a mortal danger to those he associates himself with. It is time for all the popular oppositional movements to wake up and stop the bickering, it is time to start respecting each other and rationally debating each other's opinions and outlooks. Only this way can we ever hope to achieve a defeat of the "new world order", the "corporate elite", the "new empire".
Whatever you and your movement wish to call it, it is the same thing, it is very REAL, and we are fighting the same fight. George Monbiot's flip flopping bears this out, and highlights the fact that if we all stick to the same course we will prevail in the end, if we deviate, divide, bicker and rant we may fail.
Exactly Mr Monbiot, exactly.
Mr Monbiot ends his attack piece by stating "If I were Bush or Blair, nothing would please me more than to see my opponents making idiots of themselves, while devoting their lives to chasing a phantom."
Exactly Mr Monbiot, exactly.
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| February 19, 2007 Al Jazeera Arabic just broadcast an exclusive interview with an Iraqi girl who said she was repeatedly raped by Iraqi soldiers during the oh-so-great-lauded-by-the-harlot-Condi security operation. She covered her face as she fought back tears and then begged the interviewers to stop because she could not go on from her hospital bed. |
February 15, 2007
We were asked to send the next of kin to whom the remains of my nephew, killed on Monday in a horrific explosion downtown, can be handed over. The young men of the family, as was customary, rose to go.
"NO!" cried his mother. "Isn’t my son enough?? Must we lose more of our youth?? You know there are unknowns who wait at the Morgue to either kill or kidnap the men who dare reach its doors. I will go."
So we went, his mum, his other aunt and I.
I was praying all the way there.
I never thought a day would come when it was the women of the family, who would be safer on the roads. All the men are potential terrorists it seems, and are therefore to be cut down on sight. This is the logic of today, is it not? To kill evil before it even has a chance to take root.
When we got there, we were given his remains. And remains they were. From the waist down was all they could give us. "We identified him by the cell phone in his pants’ pocket. If you want the rest, you will just have to look for yourselves. We don’t know what he looks like."
Now begins a horror that surpasses anything I could have possibly envisioned. We were led away, and before long a foul stench clogged my nose and I retched. With no more warning we came to a clearing that was probably an inside garden at one time; all round it were patios and rooms with large-pane windows to catch the evening breeze Baghdad is renowned for. But now it had become a slaughterhouse, only instead of cattle, all around were human bodies. On this side; complete bodies; on that side halves; and EVERYWHERE body parts.
We were asked what we were looking for, " upper half" replied my companion, for I was rendered speechless. "Over there". We looked for our boy’s broken body between tens of other boys’ remains’; with our bare hands sifting them and turning them.
We found him millennia later, took both parts home, and began the mourning ceremony.
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Aborigines in UK to stop bone tests
Australian Aboriginal leaders are travelling to London to give evidence in a High Court case aimed at stopping UK scientists carrying out tests on the skeletal remains of their ancestors.
Victorian scientists were fascinated by Aborigines and stole or seized skulls and skeletons from graves and mortuaries in the 19th and early 20th century.
Clyde Mansell, chairman of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, said before flying out of Australia on Tuesday:
"I wonder how they would feel if we dug up the bodies of their grandparents and started drilling into their skulls and taking out their teeth, pretty upset I'd imagine."
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Tasmanians to battle museum in British court
Monday, 12 February 2007
By Amy McQuire
UNITED KINGDOM, February 12, 2007: The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) will today go before the High Court in London and seek an urgent interim injunction against a British museum planning to undertake scientific testing on Tasmanian Aboriginal remains.
The Natural History Museum in London last year agreed to repatriate the remains, which have been part of the museum's collection for over 150 years.
The move was described as a "landmark" decision and the remains were the first to be handed back after a new British law was put in place allowing the repatriation of ancestral remains.
But although the museum will hand back the remains, it is still refusing to refrain from conducting tests on them.
This comes despite a successful action taken by the TAC last Friday in the Tasmanian Supreme Court.
The refusal has angered the Tasmanian Aboriginal community who were planning to cremate the remains according to local customs.
TAC Legal Director Michael Mansell said the consequences of interfering with the remains would be significant.
Spiteful
"This is just spiteful," Mr Mansell said.
"The spirits of our dead cannot be settled in the ceremony we will conduct when we bring them back to Tasmania if parts of the remains are hacked and images taken.
"The spirits will be tormented forever."
Mr Mansell also said it showed the disrespect the museum has shown towards Aboriginal people and culture and described them as "racist" and "vindictive".
"These mad scientists think they are a law unto themselves," Mr Mansell said.
Hurtful, vindictive and racist behaviour
"We want to bring them into the real world where their hurtful, vindictive and racist behaviour can be judged by an independent body.
"NHM is smug about disrespecting our traditions toward the dead only because NHM has the remains in its possession.
"These remains were grave robbed, at a time when whites were killing our people in the bush to steal our lands, rape our women and treat us with racist disdain.
"We thought that attitude belonged in the bad past. We have had to re-think that since dealing with NHM."
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