28 posts tagged “america”

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.

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.

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Gunman killed (cnn)
2 fatal shootings (nytimes)

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.

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

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)

1. Why did the US media put you under so much pressure to prevent Mr. Ahmadinejad from delivering his speech at Columbia University? And why have American TV networks been broadcasting hours of news reports insulting our president while refusing to allow him the opportunity to respond? Is this not against the principle of freedom of speech?
2. Why, in 1953, did the US administration overthrow the Iran’s national government under Dr Mohammad Mosaddegh and go on to support the Shah’s dictatorship?
3. Why did the US support the blood-thirsty dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-88 Iraqi-imposed war on Iran, considering his reckless use of chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers defending their land and even against his own people?
4. Why is the US putting pressure on the government elected by the majority of Palestinians in Gaza instead of officially recognizing it? And why does it oppose Iran ’s proposal to resolve the 60-year-old Palestinian issue through a general referendum?
5. Why has the US military failed to find Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden even with all its advanced equipment? How do you justify the old friendship between the Bush and Bin Laden families and their cooperation on oil deals? How can you justify the Bush administration’s efforts to disrupt investigations concerning the September 11 attacks?
6. Why does the US administration support the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) despite the fact that the group has officially and openly accepted the responsibility for numerous deadly bombings and massacres in Iran and Iraq? Why does the US refuse to allow Iran ’s current government to act against the MKO’s main base in Iraq?
7. Was the US invasion of Iraq based on international consensus and did international institutions support it? What was the real purpose behind the invasion which has claimed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives? Where are the weapons of mass destruction that the US claimed were being stockpiled in Iraq?
8. Why do America’s closest allies in the Middle East come from extremely undemocratic governments with absolutist monarchical regimes?
9. Why did the US oppose the plan for a Middle East free of unconventional weapons in the recent session of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors despite the fact the move won the support of all members other than Israel?
10. Why is the US displeased with Iran’s agreement with the IAEA and why does it openly oppose any progress in talks between Iran and the agency to resolve the nuclear issue under international law?

Iranian Chancellors Questions - Fanonite Blog

Iranian lawmakers called on the UN to deal with American torture and illegal holding facilities at Guantanamo Bay and other secret locations. They labelled the US troops and the CIA as terrorists.

"They (the U.S. army and the CIA) support Israel's state terrorism in its crackdown on Palestinian and Lebanese people, trained Al-Qaida and Taliban and established secret prisons in Europe, torture prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib,"

Sept 29, China View

Inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, or the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Monday visited a sensitive Iranian heavy water nuclear reactor in Arak, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran has blocked inspections from the IAEA to its nuclear sites since January this year after the UN Security Council imposed sanctions over the country's controversial nuclear program.

July 31st, People's Daily Online

Related Sites:

• Torture in the USA (a posting on this blog)
• IAEA - Iran in Focus
• IRCR - Guantanamo
• IRCT - Guantanamo
  

We all hold these truths to be self evident.. The New World Order of fear and oppression, in which the interpretation of rights, the suspension of rights to some, does not alter this fact. Mankind, not exclusively Americans, hold these as self evident. That means, these TRUTHS require no argument in their support.

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Further Education:
Black Consciousness, anti-racism, and variants of neo-imperialism and neo-racism

It is interesting to see what different results reporters end up with, starting from a different perspective.

The lady here of course, is dear Zelda Herzl who in her zenith, like lady luck, received a gift from the thief who had no right to be the giver in the first place. And that, her father, the mean Theodor, who punted the foul idea that a God in whom he had less than little faith, on the contrary, whom he denied the very existence of, had promised the land be given the lady by the thief who had stolen it. No wonder then, he had no friend who scholarly at that time in 1917 would stand with him, the podium to uphold by scriptures leaned against it so as to support thereupon the speaker, Theo our dear father of Zelda. Now the harlot protests much. "I knowest enough" sayeth she, "and want not more to hurt my delicate frame, with cold hard memory". Of course, she knows a lot, and we forget less than she.

Such argument, made by pimp intellectual de Columbia Universal Scientiae, of late. So eloquently unconvincing an argument to those who had ears to hear, if any there had been there, by Earl of Bollocks Bollinger in his treatise de character suicide. "'is the most researched thing in all history" or something of this kind, now how my weak and ghastly severed mind serveth me feebly, most inaccurately, I'd ask of my readers that ye do me the kindness of granting me pardon. And for his conclusion then, "no more needs to be said nor observed by any other". Again, most inaccurately volleyed he, yet caught i the gist of yon pale line of reason, most tangengial findeth the one who seeks to wander in a forest or maze on sunny afternoon, with parasol to as succour from unkindly sunlight [mp3]. Is it Denmark this time of year, for hear I the geese. Is it so, pray tell me. It reeks foul. Perchance the inhabitors of more eastern regions that seek out the foul this mid-autumn festival to annoint their tables, and make sacrifices to the elders, ancestors? Nay, surely, it be Denmark's fate as well? Nay, ye are the learned ones. The relative of the Hun hath a tradition to impart to all humanity. One of subtle depth, and refin'ed tact. When employee is about to be dismissed, at dinner table, in audience of the entire workforce, he is presented a foul, whose head faceth the benefactor (not so much the benefactor as the foul, for he is most least held so by the employer). In fact, he that receives the foul, glaring squint at him, is the one who next receives the chop, most ungraciously not from the chef, but from the host of such a banquet. It stares at him, his own pageant, such as Bollinger did prepare, and laughs him all the way out of town. Does what the dear Zelda received, this equate: intellecual wanton revelry? For her earlier setting up of the, cause, the terror and the solution most bizarre, the billions in profits that came in coffers galore, and the blood in coffers most macabre. Cry foul! Foul! Yes, foul for sure, we all are in the know. You cry foul and so did we.

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Ahmadinejad Interview on CBS - 60 minutes (location: Tehran Sept 2007)

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