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Merry Annapolis and a Surreptitious New Year

nobody@vox.com(Yahya'Bene'Dicere) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:07:45 +0200

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More money will soon be approved for spending on housing in an illegal occupation of a disputed area in Jerusalem. All the while, a cease fire continues to evade residents in the disputed areas.

This is according to a report in the New York Times published this Christmas Eve and written by Isabel Kershner entitled Israeli Housing Plan Casts Pall Over Peace Talks.

Lisbon - Trinkets, Trade Deals, Silent Winks and Secret Handshakes

nobody@vox.com(Yahya'Bene'Dicere) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:51:05 +0200

At the end of the Africa-Europe talks in Lisbon, President of Senegal had this to say concerning the much touted agreements between "equals" (E.P.A.'s)

“It’s clear that Africa rejects the E.P.A.’s,” President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal said at a news conference, claiming the support of the president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki. “We are not talking any more about E.P.A.’s; we’ve rejected them.” [nytimes]

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Reading this statement gives me renewed hope that Africa is on her way to recovery. It doesn't surprise me that Mbeki himself didn't have the testicular wherewithal to say this himself, leaving it instead to his Senegalese counterpart to do the honours alone. To his credit, he IS making headway in as much as the British experiment with independent Zimbabwe is being made to flounder. It is time our leaders acted provocatively. Their statements need to court controversy, instead of secret winks in board rooms. The electorate need to be involved in the dialogue. Hearing our leaders make statements abroad and face the music when they do so, will be the first step in raising public awareness to issues such as these. I am doubtful if the Senegalese president's statement will make the domestic papers (in Azania), and even if it does, it will not capture the audience as much as the same statement would have, had it been made by Mbeki himself. To his further "credit", Mbeki does face significant domestic pressure. This pressure comes as part of the package, being a "leader" with the kind permission of his zionist benefactors. He can only continue his engagements in Harare, due to the more or less independent security team that comes with the office of president. He and his cabinet are some of the few who can engage in foreign affairs in this way and get away with their lives. I continue to wonder if even they know the dangers posed to them by the gangsters who effectively run the stock exchanges in Johannesburg and Tel Aviv.

Concerning the Lisbon affair, it is obvious to anyone who is not a pathetic victim of the pro zionist African Nationalist propaganda machine, that we are not equals to the one's who effectively run our economy from London, New York and other neo-colonial economic centers.

There can be no freedom without equality. And no deals between a master and slave can be equitable. Equality begins with genuine autonomy. And sadly, such autonomy can only come after open conflict and when the nation can defend itself from military attack. It would place African people in good stead to strengthen trade partnerships with friendly governments, as well as to acquire military capabilities of the their own and to secure reliable international alliances of the kind that would offer military support if we are attacked by Europe or America. These are the prerequisites to signing any deals with gangsters. Who goes to gang land unarmed is a fool.

It would be better if no deals were signed to begin with. Sanctions are in effect an open arrangement that display the real undercurrents to our dealings with thugs. Sanctions are a blessing; free trade deals are a curse. By disguising their true purposes, FTA/EPA's, lull the public into acquiescence, whereas hostile policies like sanctions, promote domestic policies that confront the enemy and deal with the situation by the horns. Of course, such a domestic situation will be complex to begin with. We see open conflict in Zimbabwe. There are some who will be misled into partnerships, believing as they do, the promises made to them by a middle class elite who lead the way in such deals. Even the current situation of the tip toeing regime in Pretoria is testimony to the nature of this dynamic. I would argue that Zimbabweans are more fortunate than Azanians, due to the fact that they are more mature and politically organised than their southern brothers. Not least of all, it is far safer to walk the streets of Harare than it is to walk in Johannesburg by day.

Reading about these E.P.A.'s reminded me of a protest I witnessed here recently. The noble citizens of the nation of South Korea were all in a flurry, rising up to oppose the Free Trade Agreement being touted by their colonial masters. The agreements went through all the same, but some head way was made by having at least raised the pitch of the public outcry. Out of this, perhaps the public will organise further organs to put their concerns forward. The political immaturity of Africans under nationalist rule in places like Johannesburg, on the other hand, result in the large majority continuing blissfully to plan the next soccer world cup tournament. Such are worthy distractions. As much as the legendary trinkets they sold us on the sandy shores of the Cape of Good Hope were worthy distractions too.

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Is it another murderous spree in Colorado Springs?

nobody@vox.com(Yahya'Bene'Dicere) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:57:05 +0200

CNN -- A gunman attacked worshippers at a Colorado Springs, Colorado, megachurch Sunday afternoon, killing one person and wounding four others before being killed by a security staff member, the city's police chief said.
NYTIMES -- A gunman and three people were killed and five others wounded yesterday in two apparently unprovoked shootings that unfolded about 12 hours and 70 miles apart at a missionary training center and a church in Colorado, law-enforcement authorities reported.
[..] in Colorado Springs, an hour’s drive to the south of Arvada, a gunman also clad in dark clothing invaded the grounds of the New Life Church, a 14,000-member institution founded by the Rev. Ted Haggard, who resigned in disgrace last year after acknowledging a three-year sexual relationship with a male prostitute.
Wearing combat boots and carrying an assault rifle and at least one pistol, the gunman, apparently without provocation, opened fire in a parking lot and shot four people, one of them fatally, as bystanders dashed for cover. There were about 7,000 worshipers inside the church when the shooting erupted, a church official said.

Terrible news about more violence in the United Free States of America.

A gunman (or gunmen), disgruntled at the world no doubt, vents his anger on folks who seem to have it together. Is this home-grown terrorism? Well, we need to know if the gunman did a stint in Iraq, in which case we can safely say he was home brewed, then grown to maturity in Iraq. My comments (uneducated and rude as usual) is that this represents total breakdown of a normal and humane social fabric due, in no small part, to the US war raging foreign and domestic policies, poor social services and general mayhem.

America should really take out the log from it's own eye, before exporting violence to the rest of the world in its so called "war on terror". It's time to define that concept "terror". A long overdue task.

Full article:
Gunman killed (cnn)
2 fatal shootings (nytimes)

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What does a house full of rats smell like?

nobody@vox.com(Yahya'Bene'Dicere) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:25:16 +0200

By lying to the federal court (in the Mossaoui case) as well as to the the September 11 commission, the CIA effectively broke the law and obstructed justice. According to the New York Times (Dec. 6)

"The C.I.A. in 2005 destroyed at least two video tapes documenting the interrogation of two [alledged] Al Qaeda operatives [...] Current and former government officials said [the destruction of the tapes] had been approved at the highest levels of the agency. (NYT)

In 2003 and 2005, the C.I.A., then headed by Porter J. Goss

"told federal prosecutors in 2003 and 2005, who relayed the information to a federal court in the Moussaoui case, that the C.I.A. did not possess recordings of interrogations sought by the judge in the case (NYT)

The C.I.A. said [Dec 6, 2007] that the decision to destroy the tapes had been made “within the C.I.A. itself,” and they were destroyed to protect the safety of undercover officers and because they no longer had intelligence value.

Mr. Moussaoui’s lawyers had hoped that records of the interrogations might provide exculpatory evidence for Mr. Moussaoui — showing that the Al Qaeda detainees did not know Mr. Moussaoui and clearing him of involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, plot.

Porter J. Goss, replying through a spokesperson, declined to comment.

What remains in question is, how is the term "safety of undercover officers" defined? Of course, the agency wished the public to understand this term in the sense that phantom operatives would use the tapes to identiffy then attack officers. In fact, the destruction of the tapes was to protect the officers from legal scrutiny. The decisioon to videotape the interrogations in the first place, was to prevent teh use of coercion and torture.

I am no legal expert, but it would seem that the agency can no longer be seen as reliable in any case. The claims that many defendants are using, that they are being coerced into illegal confessions, appears to be valid in at least some of the cases. If the Hollywood blockbusters are anything to go by, then any testimony or even involvement by the C.I.A. should cause the exoneration of any alledged "terrorists". This particularly when the agency beings to emply the secrecy clauses in its defense when placed under scrutiny or cross examination about people in their custody.

This is genuine madness. God forbid that any of the readers ever find themselves in an American court room. A house full of rats. A shameful abuse of power.

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Press TV - Independent United Kingdom Media

nobody@vox.com(Yahya'Bene'Dicere) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:14:49 +0200

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This business must end. End the occupation.

nobody@vox.com(Yahya'Bene'Dicere) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:02:24 +0200

US Christians Apologise [read]
A Call to repentance and resistance (Feb. 2003) [read]
Warcast for Catholics [listen]
Pastor Steve Brown [read]

Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"

The war [..] is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find ourselves organising … committees [like this] for the next generation (Dr. King)

The featured address is based on the speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam, at Riverside Church in New York City. [read text]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” (J.F.K., 1962)

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Indonesian Parliament Speaker in Tehran

nobody@vox.com(Yahya'Bene'Dicere) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:32:28 +0200

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Indonesia Emphasizes Justice as Pre-requisite to Peace
Speaking at the 2nd General Assembly of the Asian Parliament Assembly (APA)
November 19th, 2007
Tehran

The Indonesian Parliament Speaker welcomed the Iranian President's emphasis on justice in international affairs during his inaugural speech today morning in Tehran at the 2nd General Assembly of the Asian Parliament Assembly (APA), as the cornerstone of maintaining peace in the world. Agung Laksono said that like Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad he believed that without justice peace is impossible.

He reiterated that in line with this viewpoint, Asian countries should comply with their commitments to maintain peace in the world, especially in the Middle East region by resolving the issues of Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq.
The Indonesian parliament speaker said traces of poverty are evident in Asia, similar to the experiences of the African nations, which warrants Asian countries to come up with due investment projects to tackle the social problems gripping this resourceful continent.

The 2nd APA General Assembly began work in Tehran with speeches by President, Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel.
MPs from 39 countries, including speakers, are attending the meeting to study ways of more convergence among Asian countries. [text source: irib]

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Also in Tehran, Venezuelan President Chavez headed a five minister delegation to Iran. The Venezuelan president is to review the latest regional and international developments as well as further expansion of economic and political relations between the two countries with Ahmadinejad. Both Chavez and Ahmadinejad had been attending the OPEC summit in Riyadh, where Chavez warned oil could hit $200 a barrel if the US was "mad enough to launch a military attack on Iran".

Iran has strongly been cultivating its ties with Non-Aligned allies like Belarus, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Syria and Venezuela. [text sources: irib & alalam]

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My Country My country - a film by Laura Poitras (2006) - Iraq

nobody@vox.com(Yahya'Bene'Dicere) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:11:36 +0200

My Country My Country (2006)
Direction & Cinematography, Laura Poitras
Music title, OH MY COUNTRY composed & performed by Kadhum Al Sahir
Violin, Kais Salman.
Film - In Memoriam, Dr Riyadh's nephew assassinated january 12th 2006

Aluta continua. This movie is dedicated to Dr. Riyadh's nephew who was assassinated in January of 2006. I am always aware of our martyrs in Azania.. the lesser known ones, who died under a blaze of bullets, called terrorists then, forgotten today: Ashley Kriel, Anton Fransch, Hector Peterson, and on all the others in minor streets, and in fields of blood and grenades and bullets under Apartheid. The ones who noone remembers anymore.

We should never forget that a nation that is not vigilant, will pay the price. Perhaps Iraqi's are paying that price today. They allowed that bastard American agent Saddam to reign over them. Now the chickens have come home to roost. I mean no contempt for any nation. But this view is one I heard expressed by an Iraqi participant in this film. I pray each day that Americans stop paying the price as well, for their own sakes, and for their victims. Indeed, the ones who do not fear God, are the least vigilant. I was told this weekend, I am loosing my mind. Do I really think there is a fight on the internet? No way. The fight is on every street. It is in every heart and mind. Beginning with my own.

Related links:

War After The War: What Washington doesn't see in Iraq by George Packer New Yorker, 2003 [Letter from Baghdad]
My Country My Country [official site]
Media brief concerning a film by Eugene Paramoer [UWC presentation]

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Some fools said I was rude, so I am living up to their expectations

nobody@vox.com(Yahya'Bene'Dicere) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:06:52 +0200

F_ck you all who say I am rude. I am a polite a boy. A believer in the last day, unlike many of you sons of beaches.

What you need to understand about this blog is researchable. Like the spider on the banner, much of what this rude boy does in the centre is nothing but a decoy for what is happening to the right and left.

That reminds me of this video. A comedy? Perhaps. Thing is, Azanian life, education in particular, is anything but "applicable". The reason Casper De Vries is so loved and watched all over the world, is because his stuff is satirical. Of course, his audiences may sometimes leave much to be desired, coming from years of racist dominated education and now facing neo-racism, the chickens have come on home. But be that as it may be, Casper is on the spot. The audience may need a bit of guidance, but they are not far off from getting to the solutions either.
My kids just love this video clip. They repeat the line "What is this? It's a f_cking parrot. But it is not applicable".

Here's Casper's video clip. Enjoy. Or else, f_ck off and die, you sons of beaches.

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Do the insane embrace & deal with their insanity?

nobody@vox.com(Yahya'Bene'Dicere) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:41:39 +0200

My short answer is that, if someone embraces his illness, he has made the first step toward recovery.
The question of this post is easy to answer of course. If he knows he's insane, he is hardly insane. If he doesn't, well...
But who are the "enlightened few" to whom I refer?

The FULL post has been PRESSED at WORD
it ends, thus:

Withholding medical treatment and preventing professionals from continuing to do research on such issues is a human rights issue. This is as true as the case of depriving the right of choice of "life" over "death" from the unborn child [Charter of the Rights of the Family]. To those who are searching for a way out of an affliction, there is medical help out there, though the current predominance of politics over science prevent you from easily accessing such help [treatment]. I pray that this post will be of some help to all who read it.

On the issue of the enlightened, the decrepit philosophical underpinnings of such word usage, faithful readers shall be rewarded in coming posts with further "enlightenment". Keep the faith. I'm on a role.

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