02.28.06
Posted in ...ism schisms, Stop the f--king madness! at 7:07 pm by daMan
okay — lemme get this one straight:
"You cannot have one foot in the camp of terror and
the other foot in the camp of politics… [y]ou have to renounce violence." Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, in Cairo last week.
this sound pretty ridiculous, coming from the nation that endorses unilateral pre-emptive war as foreign policy…
the European Union has, again, broken ranks with ameriKKKa’s hard line reflex action, and decided to give nearly 150 million in short term relief. Hamas speaks out of both sides of its collective mouth, but thus far maintains it’s "Israel must die" rhetoric…
one has to wonder what the fuck is going on in the mind of anyone involved in this mess. Hamas seems willing to destroy it’s own people to maintain it’s "fuck Israel" attitude. Israel, meanwhile, seems poised to do everything in its power to live up to the image as heartless occupier that feeds Hamas’ popularity.
the U.S., so cornered by the bullshit that has passed for diplomacy since September 11th, 2001, fails to appreciate the hypocrisy of insisting that the Palestinians vote, and then punishing them for having actually done so.
unlike the past two U.S. Presidential elections, noone dispute the election results… the clearest evidence of legitimacy is that not even Hamas expected to win. so the question remains: what exactly does ameriKKKa mean by "nation building"?
is it empowering oppressed peoples to finally have truly democratic governments? or is it our way to tell put upon nations to bend over, so we can shove a hand up the ass of another puppet regime?
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02.14.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 12:03 am by daMan
so… instead of talking about the Katrina report, and how everybody – local, state and federal — got their asses handed to ‘em…
or, how Scooter Libby is clearing his throat loudly in the direction of ratting out his former boss… you remember Scooter Libby, dont’cha?
and hey — who would be talkin’ about the U.N. report flat-out accusing the U.S. of torture in it’s treatement of prisone – oops; detainees in Guantanamo….
no: instead, everyone’s talking about how Dick Cheney "accidentally" shot somebody while hunting quail. R-r-r-right… priorities…
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02.12.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, View points at 4:29 pm by daMan
…the publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in the European press was a planned action by the U.S. whose aim is “to provoke a row between Europe and the Islamic worldâ€?. “It will all end with European countries thanking the United States and paying, and giving soldiers,â€? said Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
Zhirinovsky is a senior Russian parliamentary official and leader of the Liberal Democratic party. He claims that "a U.S. attack on Iran is inevitable… The date for the strike is already known — it is the election day in
Israel (March 28 ). It is also known how much that war will cost�
His words, not mine… but if we’ve got troops in Iran come April, I just wanna be on the record…
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02.09.06
Posted in ...ism schisms, Stop the f--king madness! at 10:02 pm by daMan
a young Iraq war veteran was shot several times after a car chase in California…
if it weren’t for two things, most of us would never have heard of this: that Elio Carrion was an Iraq war vet… and that the incident was videotaped…
[Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Cindy Beavers said] "We cannot make judgments on this shooting yet. It is not crystal clear, and if there’s any question left open, we can’t say whether Carrion or the deputy is wrong." The deputy’s conversation with Carrion in the seconds before the shooting is "critical," she said.
the lessons learned here are twofold:
- carry your cameras, folks — having the graphic truth on your side is the only way left to hold the power of the state in check
- the "shoot first, questions later" has spread from air marshals to cops chasing suspected car thieves…
"I found the images very disturbing," said Supervisor Gary Ovitt, whose
district includes Chino. "It did not appear that the passenger had done
anything to provoke the shooting, so I can understand why people are
demanding answers."
watch your back…
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02.06.06
Posted in ...ism schisms, View points at 7:05 am by daMan
damn — if i were a Muslim, i’d start to feel like a conspiracy theorist:
there are riots in Denmark… outraged Muslims have taken to the streets, reacting to "a cartoon of the prophet mohammed" — this is how the Western press is portraying it: in lockstep, karlrovian, terms of disinformation…
notice that no description of the cartoons in question is mentioned — as if to imply "those crazy f—in’ muslims: there they go again"… even if we ignore the fact that this full page of cartoons portray the single most important (human) person in the Islamic faith in a variety of, well… extremely disparaging ways
unless you’re completely ignorant of the tenets of the Islamic faith, you would realize that the basis for this outrage is the blasphemous nature of any graphic representation of "The Prophet"… you yourself may eat pork and shellfish, but if you invited an Orthodox Jew over for dinner, would you offer these dishes as sign of your hospitality?
this "cartoon controversy" is being portrayed as an issue of freedom of speech vs. fanatical intolerance — with Hamas elected in Palestine, the Muslim Brotherhood outlawed yet still emerging as the dominant opposition party in Egypt, Iran being set up to dance the Iraq two-step, and cries for the U.S. to leave Pakistan — is this really the time for the West to fan the flames, and pretend not to see the fire spreading?
Israel talks of withholding the… taxes they withhold "on behalf of " the Palestinian people unless… wait a damned minute: unless what, dammit?
like Hamas or don’t… hold fast to the belief that "once a terrorist, always a terrorist"… whatever you feel, the moneys in question belong to the Palestinian people… is this really the way to convince a group sworn to destroy Israel to change its mind? and to damn the entire Palestinian people… even due to an understandable fear of Hamas’ potential… is to stereotype them all as terrorists….
are all whites racist? are all jews rich? are all blacks criminals? everyone would admit that these statements are the grossest of stereotypes… but somehow… its okay to not only portray all Muslims as terrorist – but to therefore regard them as deserving of our violent, "pre-emptive" responses — and to feel free to disrespect their religion, and blaspheme their prophet….
which part of this doesn’t look like a crusade?
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02.02.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 2:31 pm by daMan
"2,245 Dead. How many more?"
i guess if you ask embarassing questions, then the terrorists win…. or if you even wear a T-shirt that does… you’ll be forcibly ejected from hearing the main who alleges to be protecting your freedom — because you passively exercised your freedom of speech
arguing with the cops, calling one an idiot, will get you… politely asked to leave…??? yeah, well… if your T-shirt is party-line toting "Support the Troops - Defending Our Freedom." but i guess you get asked to leave anyway, so things can appear non-partisan… of course, the fact that that T-shirt was worn by Beverly Young, wife of U.S. Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla., may have had something to do with the preferential treatment…
and — it doesn’t help if you’re Cindy Sheehan, and your T-shirt is simply an aspect of your remaining on message, speaking out against what you feel was the waste of your son’s life….
Young said she argued with the cop who kicked her out. "I said, ‘Read
my shirt, it is not a protest,’" she told the St. Petersburg Times.
"They said, ‘We consider that a protest.’ I said, ‘Then you are an
idiot.‘"
doesn’t matter, apparently, that you’ve been invited, or that you were merely taking off your jacket, and not unfurling a banner, or whatever other bullshit the Tweedle-D.C. progandameisters may have spun to the press…
jeeZUS, people, what are you waiting for? public book burnings???
shit: y’all probably are waiting for that….
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