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Friday, January 29, 2010 12:00:00 AM
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The reason for my id, "NonZionist": |
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I oppose ideology in general. I especially oppose ideologies that are grounded in ethnic supremacy or ethnic isolation. The idea that the human race must be forcibly divided into ethnic groups, with each group given its own little "homeland", seems defeatist, xenophobic, and cynical to me. Take the U.S.: Would it make sense to force Lutherans to live in one state, Baptists in another, Methodists in a third, Catholics in a fourth, etc.? Would it make sense to require all Lutherans to move to Maryland, say? And what of Catholics who are already living in Maryland: Would it make sense to terrorize them and bomb them and keep them under perpetual occupation? Of course not: It would be madness. Well, it is equally mad to impose such a violent division on the once peaceful people of the Middle East -- and that is just what Zionism does. This deadly ideology benefits no one and serves only to keep people divided and conquered. It has fostered one war after another, one holocaust after another, and takes us ever closer to the world war that the neo-cons are "hoping and praying for".
Modern Zionism was pioneered by anti-Semitic Christians looking for a way to "rid Europe of its Jews". Eventually, radical Jews -- notably Theodor Herzl -- joined in the call. The radicals were saying, essentially, "You can't fire me: I quit." Initially, the vast majority of Jews greated this radical capitulation with rejection. Zionism did, however, have a friend in the British empire: Zionism would induce Jews to serve as a spearhead for the empire, and would keep the Middle East divided. Ironically, cosmopolitan Jewish culture became the first victim of Zionism.
Israel, today, is not the only evil in the world. But it is central. When we learn the true history of Zionism, we learn the history of the empire that sponsored it, as well. That war-making empire of death and destruction is my real target here. As a human being, my loyalty is to the human race, not to the system of war and greed that is currently destroying much of the human race.
Zionism's status as sacred cow and golden calf is what prevents us from learning the sordid truth about the last sixty years. My id argues that we Americans should not be required to worship at the Zionist altar. We should have a choice! -- either to support Zionism or to reject it.
I could have called myself "Anti-Zionist", but opposing something so directly creates retrenchment and deadlock: Each force creates an equal and opposite reaction, as Newton said. So instead, I ask simply to be free of Zionism -- free of its wars, free of its domination, free of its victimology, free of its lies, free of its cynicism. I simply do not want to be a part of this hellish evil. That is what the "Non-" prefix signifies.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010 5:33:15 PM
irony, etheree, poetry
Most of the poems that follow are etheree -- simple, short ten-line poems, with each line containing one more syllable than the previous line. Usually, the last lines of the etheree poem are ironic -- they provide a novel or surprising resolution to the dilemma posed in the earlier lines.
Although there are some free-verse poems at the end, I am not a fan of free verse: I expect poetry to have structure. The etheree form provides that structure, but the structure is minimal, making the poems easy to write.Read more...
Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:26:07 AM
revolution, Oded Yinon, Syria, Clean Break
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At a Sep 1981 meeting at the White House, Ariel Sharon called for "regime change" throughout the Middle East.
Israel's 1982 "Oded Yinon plan" called for turning the Middle East into tiny feuding cantons.
To dissolve Iraq is even more important for us than dissolving Syria. In the short term, it's Iraqi power that constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. The Iran-Iraq war tore Iraq apart and provoked its downfall. All manner of inter-Arab conflict help us and accelerate our goal of breaking up Iraq into small, diverse pieces.
-- Oded Yinon, an official from the Israeli Foreign Affairs office, 1982, quoted by Michel Collon, "Washington Has Found The Solution", Questions Questions
The 1996 "Clean Break" plan developed by Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, et al., called for the U.S. to "reshape" the Middle East to suit Israel's tastes.
The "reshaping" began in Iraq, where a million were killed by Clinton's sanctions, then another million by Bush's war-making.
The "reshaping" then moved on to Libya, where NATO used the pretext of "Protecting Noncombatants" to make war and perpetrate regime-change.
Now the "reshaping" is poised to devour Syria, and turn what's left of Syria into a base for military aggression against Iran.
Truth is the first casualty in war, and the U.S. and Israel have been making war for 60 years or more, so very little of what we are told corresponds with reality, these days.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:52:02 AM
war, deceit, U.S., disinformation
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Remember
"Iraqi
WMDs"?
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In 2002, the U.S. began a disinformation campaign against Iraq. U.S. politicians insinuated an Iraq connection to 9/11 and told the world that Iraq was loaded with WMDs. The Downing Street Memos demonstrate these these lies were deliberately concocted.
The U.N. was used as a stage for broadcasting these lies. Remember Colin Powell's 05 February 2003 dog-and-pony show? Remember his "satellite photos" and his "intercepted communications"?
Most security council members played along with this charade, hoping that the U.S. would eventually come to its senses. U.N. inspectors conducted the most intrusive inspections in history, and Iraq further disarmed, while the U.S. assembled an invasion force on the Iraqi border. Iraq, desperately suing for peace, offered drastic concessions -- e.g., new elections, U.S.-run inspections -- in back-door diplomatic channels.
When it became clear that the inspectors would validate Saddam's inventory and refute U.S. claims, the U.S. defied the U.N. and launched the "Shock and Awe" blitzkreig.
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-- ignominious admission by Bush advisor David Kay, when a year-long search failed to turn up the imaginary "Iraqi WMDs" used to scam us Americans into creating the trillion-dollar holocaust in Iraq. See "David Kay: We Were Almost All Wrong", 28 Jan 2004
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Same
lie,
recycled
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Our politicians must think that we Americans have short memories, because they are now trying the same scam again, with "Iranian Nukes" in place of "Iraqi WMDs". Nine years ago, they claimed to know just where the WMDs were stored. They realize that they cannot make that claim again and still be believed, so now they are hoping to use Groundless Suspicion as the pretext for making war.
A huge charade is underway, with debates about who should take-out Iran, while our masked media studiously avoid the fundamental question:
Once again, we are being primed to shoot first, and ask questions later, or, even better, never.
Now is the time to ask questions. Now is the time to expose the lies. Now is the time to admit that "we were almost all wrong". Admit it now -- before we start the slaughter. We do not need to have more blood on our hands.
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Friday, November 26, 2010 4:23:16 PM
corruption, deceit, war, empire
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Hijacking
truth
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When someone steals $100 from a convenience store, the police investigate. They collect evidence, they ask about motive, etc.. Even when they find a prime suspect, they ask whether the suspect had help. E.g., they ask who left the door open, who left the cash register unlocked.
But when 3,000 Americans are murdered, the neo-con Authorities simply named the guilty party. Then they quickly dismantled the crime scene and disposed of the evidence. Cheney blocked attempts to investigate, and, more than a year later, stalled even the underfunded congressional whitewash. To prevent truth from coming out at trials, the neo-cons did away with the judicial system and substituted an untried system of military tribunals -- i.e., kangaroo courts. The neo-libs went along with this farce.
There was no attempt to determine whether the guilty party had help from inside. NORAD's failure to intercept or even escort the allegedly hijacked planes was not explained; instead, Richard B. Myers, the head of NORAD, was promoted to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Is it normal to promote the guard who sleeps while the bank is being robbed?
No American has been held accountable for dereliction of duty in what was the worst breech of security in U.S. history. Instead, informed patriotic Americans who call for an honest investigation into 9/11 are denounced, reviled, and ridiculed. Even Americans who lost loved ones are attacked when they seek the truth about 9/11.
What's wrong with this picture?
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010 6:46:46 PM
U.S., history, appeasement, Israel
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History
repeats
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In the 1930s:
* Financiers and war profiteers pressed for war between Germany and the Bolsheviks
* Germany was falsely seen as the Bastion of Democracy in the East
* Britain kept its naval treaty with Germany and derided efforts to contain Germany
* Reports of German attacks on minorities were ignored
* As a Victim of Versailles, Germany got a pass
* It was fashionable to hate Jews
* Hitler's Beer Hall Brawlers drowned out critics
* Hitler uses state terror under the guise of a "War Against Terror"
* Neville Chamberlain, the lead appeaser, led the Conservative Party
* The appeasers gave Hitler everything he asked for, without a fight
* Hitler thus came to seem like a god
* Result: a world war, genocide, the loss of 55 million lives
Today,
* Financiers and war profiteers lobby for war between Israel and the Muslims
* With millions under perpetual occupation, Israel poses as "The Only Democracy"
* Criticism of Israel is all but forbidden in a country that once valued freedom
* Reports of Israeli atrocities go ignored
* It is fashionable to hate Muslims
* Israel's Hasbara Army floods the Internet and drowns out critics of Israeli fascism
* Israel uses state terror under the guise of a "War Against Terror"
* The neo-cons take the lead in appeasing fascist Israel
* The appeasers give Israel everything it asks for, and more
* Israel thus comes to seem like a god
* The likely result: a world war, genocide, nuclear suicide, the loss of several billion lives
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Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:40:16 PM
war, peace, nuclear-free zone, surprise
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Nuclear
free
zone
No WMD's!
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http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/09/20/does-anti-nuke-mean-anti-israel/
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In a rare vote, the UN General Assembly passed a UN atomic watchdog resolution calling on all Middle East nations to renounce atomic weapons. Since the US and the West have been pushing to stop nuclear proliferation in the region, especially Iran, you would think they would have supported and applauded the vote.
Not so. The US, Israel, and most of the EU either opposed or abstained on the vote. On the other hand, most Arab nations and Iran supported it.
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Iran and
Arab countries
support it;
U.S. and Israel
oppose it
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If "Iranian nukes" were a real concern, why would the U.S. and Israel oppose turning the Middle East into a nuclear-free zone? Isn't it interesting! -- the war-making rulers who scream the loudest about "Iraqi WMD's" and "Iranian Nukes" stand opposed to U.N. efforts to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction. Could it be a case of the thief misleading the police by pointing to the victim and shouting "Thief!"?
And yet, according to a recent CNN poll, 70% of Americans have swallowed the WMD/Nuke kool-ade once again. 70% are now ready to fall in line behind the Zionists and inflict another trillion-dollar holocaust on a Middle East country. These Americans are ready because the corporate masked-media have told them exactly what the racketeers of war want us to hear. Few Americans know about the Iranian efforts, since 1996, to normalize trade and relations with the U.S., or the 2003 Iranian offer for a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. Instead, we're fed the usual brain-dead comic-book pap -- "Good Guys" and "Bad Guys" -- and while we're sucking up this poisonous garbage, the war corporations are stealing another trillion dollars from of our wallets.
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Iran
surprises
the
war-makers!
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But it's not a done deal yet. Iran has just thrown another monkey wrench in the spokes of the war-machine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/world/middleeast/27iran.html?ref=world
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So imagine the surprise of international inspectors almost two weeks ago when they watched as Iran moved nearly its entire stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to an above-ground plant. It was as if, one official noted, a bull’s-eye had been painted on it.
Why take such a huge risk?
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-- "Another Puzzle After Iran Moves Nuclear Fuel", David E. Sanger, New York Times, 26 Feb 2010
Perhaps the latest Iranian surprise will cause a few more American lemmings to awake from the hypnosis induced by our steady diet of war propaganda. Maybe a few more Americans will now begin to realize that the banksters and war-profiteers have lied to us yet again: There really is no need for the U.S. and Israel to inflict yet another trillion-dollar holocaust on the Middle East.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:40:40 AM
ignorance, Bill of Rights, freedom, First Amendment
Tonight, on the Alex Jones shortwave radio program, I heard people on the street interviewed by a petitioner who pretended to seek the repeal of the First Amendment. Incredibly, most of the people interviewed signed the petition. Some did not even know what the First Amendment is.
Even I am shocked by this. While people in other countries are desperately seeking freedom, many people in America are desperately trying to throw freedom away.
The First Amendment is the most important amendment in the Bill of Rights. It guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The petitioner told people that abolishing the First Amendment would get rid of disagreement, criticism and "Hate Speech". Most thought that this would be a good idea! Most people in this "liberal" Democrat district thought that Americans should have no right to criticize authorities and no right to disagree with Obama! Now we know who "Hates Us For Our Freedom": Americans.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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-- Jefferson, letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 06 Jan 1816
After hearing this appalling interview, I decided that we need to return to basics. Here, then, is a list of the rights that the Americans who signed the petition want to abolish:
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Sunday, January 24, 2010 11:17:16 AM
Iraq, war, false-flag terror, terror
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Let us do something radical, something that is just short of illegal, something that has not been done in the last eight years: Let us think about our lucrative glorious trillion-dollar "War on Terror".
But first, let's define "warism":
* the ideology of war-making
* the addiction to the war racket
* the belief that death and destruction makes people "Free" or "Democratic"
* the system based on war-making and war-profiteering
http://www.fas.org/man/smedley.htm
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War is just a racket.
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-- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Smedley Butler, USMC Major General and two-time Medal of Honor winner.
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