The impact of closure and attacks on the Gaza Strip

The following is the introduction to a new report from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights entitled "23 Days of War, 928 Days of Closure: Life One Year after Israel's Latest Offensive on the Gaza Strip":

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has released this report in order to highlight the reality of life in the occupied Gaza Strip, and to illustrate the dramatic deterioration in the human rights situation brought about by 928 days of continuous illegal closure, as well as numerous offensives, incursions and attacks.

Over the course of 42 years of occupation, Israeli occupation forces have consistently violated international law. These violations have been well documented and reported, yet despite a significant level of media and political attention, the international community has continued to grant Israel impunity, a fact recently illustrated by the international reaction to the publication of the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Goldstone Report). This impunity, which has been a consistent feature of the occupation, has resulted in continuous and escalating violations of international law, and the denial and violation of Palestinian civilians' fundamental human rights. This reality was graphically underlined by Israel

It is evident that if the rule of law is to be respected -- if it is to prove capable of protecting civilian populations -- then it must be enforced. Victims' rights to the equal protection of the law, and an effective judicial remedy must be upheld, Israel and individual Israeli officials and soldiers must be held to account for their actions.

International human rights law and international humanitarian law form the core bodies of law referenced in this report. However, PCHR wishes to emphasize that the international community may also be in violation of their own legal obligations. Common Article 1 of the Four Geneva Conventions requires all High Contracting to respect and ensure respect for the Conventions in all circumstances; there is no valid pretext, legal or otherwise, for not respecting the Conventions in their entirety. Article 16 of the International Law Commission's Articles on State Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts places an obligation on the individual states of the international community not to aid or assist the commission of an internationally wrongful act. Such aid and assistance includes, inter alia, financing the wrongful acts in question. Article 41 explicitly prohibits States from rendering aid or assistance sued to maintain the situation created by a serious breach of international law. By continually covering the financial cost associated with Israel's illegal actions in the occupied Palestinian territory, individual States are in breach of their own international obligations, and complicit in the occupation's violations of international law.

“If everything is anti-Semitism, then there is no anti-Semitism at all.”

Posted on December 24 2009 by Cecilie Surasky under Anti-semitism , BDS.

Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney .

“If everything is anti-Semitism, then there is no anti-Semitism at all.”
The (Israeli) Alternative Information Center’s Michael Warschawski has this to say on the use, and the empyting of all meaning, of the charge of anti-Semitism:

Every time the State of Israel is confronted with substantial international criticism for its political behavior and its violations of basic international standards, it counter-attacks by using the infamous tool of accusations of anti-Semitism. One remembers the campaign on anti-Semitism launched by Ariel Sharon and his friends throughout the world, Jews and non-Jews, after the murder of Muhammad al-Dura in Gaza in September 2000, in order to create a diversion (in the very words of Roger Cukierman, then chairman of the French Jewish umbrella organization—CRIF) and to transform the victim into a victimizer and the victimizer into a victim: for more than two years, western media “exposed” the anti-Semitism of the critics of Israel instead of denouncing the massacres committed by the Israeli military in Gaza and the West Bank.Sixty five years after the end of WWII, the ashes of the victims of Nazi genocide have not yet disappeared from the sky of Poland, and the accusation of anti-Semitism remains connected to one of the bloodiest crimes of the twentieth century; as French journalist, Daniel Mermet, one of the targets of this campaign, pointed at, “no accusation can be worse, and even after you are proved not guilty of charge, the bad smell of such an accusation will be with you forever.”

The massacre in Gaza, a year ago, provoked a world-wide outrage, bigger even than in 2000-2002. The U.N. was forced to appoint an inquiry commission, and its report—the Goldstone report—is devastating for Israel. Moreover, for the first time since the establishment of the State of Israel, an international campaign calling for sanctions against Israel for its innumerous violations of international law, has been successful in drawing huge public attention and initiating a great number of mobilizations and initiatives around the world.

For the Israeli government and its friends, the time has come to take from the shelf the rusty old weapon of anti-Semitism accusations, a message that was heard loud and clear by the Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney. At the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, held in Jerusalem on 16 December, the Minister stated: “We have articulated and implemented a zero tolerance approach to anti-Semitism.” So far so good, but he continued: “We have defunded organizations, most recently like Kairos, who are taking a leadership role in the boycott (against Israel).”

Accusing Kairos, an umbrella organization that includes most of the Christian churches in Canada, of anti-Semitism is ridiculous and pathetic. Ridiculous, because the record of Kairos is crystal clear on that issue of BDS and it its position is not the one that Minister Kenney accuses it of, and pathetic, because it is a re-heated dish that will not work a second time.

Already in 2004, there were signs indicating that the instrumentalization of anti-Semitism by Israeli propaganda machine was losing its efficiency and even becoming counter-productive; no doubt that, five years later, only a few people will accept to be blackmailed by such an outrageous false-accusation.

Worse, however, is that this old/new maneuver by “friends” of Israel like Kenney, is a symptom of the banalization of anti-Semitism. If everything is anti-Semitism, then there is no anti-Semitism at all. But, unfortunately, anti-Semitism has not disappeared from our world, and manipulating it for goals that have nothing to do with it, is playing right into the hands of the real anti-Semites.

To Jason Kenney, one must say very clearly “stay out of our struggle against anti-Semitism, and do not try to manipulate it for causes totally foreign to the anti-racist values which are motivating it. It is too important and too serious to be instrumentalized by your political agenda.”

We are proud of the success of the international BDS campaign. Minister Kenney may disagree with it, but hands off of any accusation of anti-Semitism concerning our campaign. Anti-Semitism is a dangerous threat to the public health of our societies and so are accusations that are manipulated for a political agenda that has nothing to do with it.

Winning prize for peace while advocating war

Sayed Dhansay, The Electronic Intifada, 11 December 2009




United States President Barack Obama has just accepted the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo. His nomination had been controversial, not least because he is continuing and escalating two illegal wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also because it was awarded to him at the beginning of his term, before he has proven a genuine willingness to promote peace.

Though his eloquent and moving speech in Cairo last June spoke of "peace," "mutual respect" and "new beginnings" with the Arab and Muslim world, his administration's foreign policy has thus far proven otherwise. The glaring contradiction between his words and actions are nowhere else more obvious than in his dealing with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

In his acceptance speech yesterday, President Obama quoted former US President John F. Kennedy's advice on attaining peace: "Let us focus on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions."

As a first step toward achieving that evolution, Obama advised that "all nations -- strong and weak alike -- must adhere to standards that govern the use of force." Those standards -- international humanitarian law -- were however not applied by Obama to Israel in its devastating attack on the Gaza Strip last winter.

Though the UN-commissioned Goldstone report accused Israeli forces of committing war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in Gaza, Obama's representatives at the UN Human Rights Council voted against a resolution that adopted the report's findings. In addition, his government attempted to discredit the report by claiming that it was biased against Israel and flawed from the outset. This is hard to believe considering that its author is a jurist of international acclaim, not to mention a Jew with strong ties to Israel.

Obama also advocated that "Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure." Yet when it comes to Israeli intransigence, Obama appears unwilling to demand the same level of accountability or exert any pressure at all.

Israel has flouted international law with impunity for 42 years with its settler-colonial project in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem. Israel's illegal wall continues to annex Palestinian land, while home demolitions in East Jerusalem occur now almost on a weekly basis. Here, Obama has not "exacted a real price." Instead he has rewarded Israel with billions of dollars of continued military assistance, and caved in to pressure by backtracking on his original policy that a comprehensive settlement freeze be a prerequisite for resumed peace negotiations.

Though US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell hailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ten-month freeze as an "unprecedented step to achieving peace," facts on the ground showed otherwise. Netanyahu declared openly that settlement construction would resume at full pace after the elapse of the ten-month period.

This week, the Israeli Peace Now movement reported that construction in West Bank settlements currently outweighs that within Israel's pre-1967 borders. Journalist Gideon Levy hit the nail on the head when he described this freeze as "just another scene in Israel's masquerade" in the Israeli daily Haaretz.

Obama also warned those who violate international law by "brutalizing their own people." He said that there must be consequences for genocide in Darfur, systematic rape in Congo or repression in Burma. He failed however to mention the brutalization of Palestinian citizens of Israel, the slow genocide in Gaza or the repression in the occupied West Bank.

A recent report by Israel's Interior Ministry revealed that 4,577 Palestinians were stripped of their right to live in East Jerusalem in 2008, an all time record in 42 years of occupation. Residency revocation in Jerusalem last year was 21 times higher than the average over the last 40 years. Israel treats native Palestinians in East Jerusalem as if they were foreign residents whose presence can be revoked at will, even though these Palestinians did not come to Israel. Rather, Israel came and imposed itself on them with its internationally unrecognized annexation and occupation of the city from 1967 until present.

An Amnesty International study published in October accused Israel of denying Palestinians the right to access adequate water. While Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank have lush gardens and sparkling swimming pools, some 180,000 Palestinians have no access to running water. The report states that Israelis use up to four times more water than Palestinians, while the settler population alone uses more water than the entire West Bank Palestinian population of about 2.5 million.

Though his presidency terminated in January of this year, Mahmoud Abbas and his collaborationist Palestinian Authority (PA) continue to be propped up by the Obama administration. Obama preaches the value of democracy, yet his government fails to recognize the democratically-elected Hamas government. Instead, the US continues to endorse Israel's siege on Gaza which has resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe of such proportion that some Gazans have even resorted to faking cancer in the hope of escaping the isolated coastal territory.

President Obama also stated in his speech that "I believe peace is unstable where citizens are denied the right to speak freely or worship as they please, choose their own leaders or assemble without fear." Perhaps he should have then taken the opportunity to mention the systematic repression of any outward opposition to the PA or Israel by PA security forces. Then again, if he did so, he would be forced to acknowledge that these very police are trained in their art by none other than US General Keith Dayton and funded by US taxpayers.

While he champions the right to freedom of worship, Obama avoids the fact that his "loyal and true friend," Israel, routinely denies Palestinians the right to freely access the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. He criticizes Burma for its religious repression, but is silent on the continuous incursions into one of the world's holiest sites for Muslims by the Israeli army and extremist settlers.

Obama claimed as a centerpiece of his foreign policy the need to "prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, and to seek a world without them." He reminded his audience that it was incumbent on all of them to ensure that Iran and North Korea do not "game the system."

While his administration is leading the efforts to increase sanctions against Iran, we hear no mention of Israel's nuclear arsenal, even though it has demonstrated time and again its brazen willingness to use grossly indiscriminate, deliberate and massive firepower on civilian targets, as witnessed in the 2006 Lebanon war and during last winter's assault on Gaza.

The most disturbing aspect of President Obama's speech however was its unabashed justification of war. The leader of the liberal, democratic free world was accepting the world's most coveted peace prize. And the overarching theme of his address was that it was impossible to eradicate violent conflict. Obama's colleagues in the Knesset may well have been pleased to hear this.

"There will be times when nations -- acting individually or in concert -- will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified," Obama said. This fatalistic attitude lends itself more to a Rumsfeld-Cheney "bombing for freedom" ideology than that of someone accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.

Furthermore, it sends a very dangerous signal to the Israeli government who know that they have America's protection in institutions tasked with upholding international law. It provides no impetus for Israel to end its occupation, lift its draconian siege of Gaza or embrace the only viable option that it has left -- peaceful transition that will protect the rights of Palestinians and Israelis within the framework of a secular, bi-national, democratic state.

In fact, it only further emboldens Israel to accelerate its process of ethic cleansing and colonization, and use military force to achieve these ends. Indeed, many Zionists believe that it is after all morally justifiable to use violence to rid "Greater Israel" of anyone who is not Jewish. The comments of Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi that the Israeli military's "next round of hostilities will be even more intense" is quite revealing in this regard.

What is surprising, is that President Obama seems to realize the folly of his very own "just war" doctrine. Quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., he states that "Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem. It merely creates new and more complicated ones."

If any modern conflict has proven this to be incredibly accurate, it is that of the Israelis and Palestinians. No amount of arrest raids, land confiscation, home demolitions or massacres can bring about peace. These do not solve the social problems of dispossession, statelessness and disenfranchisement. Nor do they quell the desire for freedom and self-determination. Indeed, they only serve to create new and more complicated problems.

By Obama advocating war as an acceptable foreign policy, he is only serving to create new, more complicated problems in the Middle East. Instead of promoting the dead two-state solution with a moribund puppet regime, he should acknowledge the fundamental root cause of this conflict -- that of the dispossession of a people from their native homeland. Without this, there will be no practical, attainable peace.

Billboard Against Military Aid to Israel

Posted on December 5 2009 by Cecilie Surasky under Free speech.



Back in April, after gaining approval for text and design, anti-occupation activists in New Mexico signed a contract with Lamar Advertising to display 10 billboards (pictured at left) for 8 weeks. But after only 3 weeks, and a pressure campaign on Lamar that included personal threats, the billboards all came down. Billboard critics did not like the call for no military aid, and some said that the “Stop Killing Children” message, which referred to the death of some 300 children in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, was evocative of anti-Semitic blood libel myths. Yet, repeated efforts to alter the text and design to meet the changing standards of Lamar were unsuccessful.

The Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel, a multi-ethnic, multi-religious coalition working to “end to the ten year commitment of $30 billion in U.S. taxpayer-funded military aid pledged to Israel in 2007 by the Bush administration,” reports they have a new set of billboards (below) with a new company and slightly altered message. Seventy-five percent of US military aid to Israel is, by law, given to US arms manufacturers.

Monde de FOU ! fin des temps .....

Resistance without Reservation; The Indigenous in Canada (part III)

David Dennis was one of the Keynote speaker at the Resistance without Reservation event as part of Indigenous Sovereignty week. Event Organized and hosted by the No One Is Illegal on Thursday October 29, 2009.
David Dennis a Nu-Chan Lith Nation and President-Elect of the United Native Nations. David was instrumental in the formation of the Native Youth Movement and has been active in indigenous land struggles and urban indigenous issues for decades.

Resistance without Reservation; The Indigenous in Canada (part II)

Kat Norris was one of the Keynote speaker at the Resistance without Reservation event as part of Indigenous Sovereignty week. Event Organized and hosted by the No One Is Illegal on Thursday October 29, 2009.
Kat Norris; founder of indigenous Action Movement and survivor of the Kuper Island Residential School and member of the American Indian Movement. Most recently she has been organizing against police abuses and her biggest success is the Frank Paul Inquiry.

Scahill and Olbermann on Blackwater: Murderous Crusaders for Christ

Armed criminal units are let loose on the civilian population of Iraq death by rape and murder are all on the agenda. This private army is Americas eternal shame it has been involved in murder and killing people for sport in Iraq thereby taking over from Saddam Hussein in killing  and abusing unharmed civilians trying to go about their daily lives . SHAME ON THE U.S.A.

Resistance without Reservation; The Indigenous in Canada (part I)

Dustin Rivers was one of the Keynote speaker at the Resistance without Reservation event as part of Indigenous Sovereignty week. Event Organized and hosted by the No One Is Illegal on Thursday October 29, 2009.
Dustin Rivers: a young and outspoken Skwxwú7mesh-Kwakwakawakw activist, artist, and writer.He's had an obsession with history from a early age, but also raised in a time of cultural re-generation, he uses his ancestors legacy of political uprising to accomplish his vision of decolonization.

The elephant in the room: Israel's nuclear weapons

(Nidal El Khairy)

At a White House press conference on 18 May 2009, US President Barack Obama expressed "deepening concern" about "the potential pursuit of a nuclear weapon by Iran." He continued:
"Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon would not only be a threat to Israel and a threat to the United States, but would be profoundly destabilizing in the international community as a whole and could set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East."
By his side was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In the room with them, there was an elephant, a large and formidably destructive elephant, which they and the assembled press pretended not to see.
I am, of course, referring to Israel's actual nuclear weapons systems, with which Netanyahu is capable of doing to numerous cities in the Middle East, including Tehran, what the US did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Obama's remark that "Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon" would be "profoundly destabilizing" and "could set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East" is profoundly dishonest. In reality, the race started in the early 1950s when Israel launched its nuclear weapons program.
The significance of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons is not that Iran would become a threat to Israel and the US, but that Israel and the US would no longer contemplate attacking Iran. Nuclear weapons are the ultimate weapons of self-defense -- a state that possesses nuclear weapons doesn't get attacked by other states.
David Morrison, The Electronic Intifada, 29 June 2009

Canwest’s Global War on Satire

Riz Khan - Amira Hass: Covering the other side- 22 Oct09

Amira Hass (Hebrew: עמירה הס‎; born 1956) is a prominent left-wing Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz. She is particularly recognized for her reporting on Palestinian affairs in the West Bank and Gaza, where she has also lived for a number of years.

Hass was the recipient of the Press Freedom Hero award from the International Press Institute in 2000, the Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award in 2002, the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in 2003, the inaugural award from the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund in 2004 and Hrant Dink Memorial Award in 2009

Torch Relay Kick off

Victoria; Friday, October 30, 2009



The anti-olympic festivities commenced with speakers and performers that addressed
a big crowd of people wearing costumes and halloween masks at the Centennial square. Hundreds of people converged to the square to make their voice heard; their issues were related to poverty, environmental destruction, native rights, and other injustices .
Dancers, musicians, zombies and demonstrators snake marched through downtown victoria for several hours blocking an intersection in front of the the RBC, disrupting traffic, and occupying a part of the olympic torch route. The crowd remained peaceful while engaging in civil disobedience, and successfully opposed the multimillion dollar Olympic security apparatus.

Fighting Fascism

From Submedia.tv

1.What?
2. Crispy Pigs
3. Hot in Roch City
4. Olympig Harassment
5. Vienna Occupation
6. Old school bank robber
7. Coal River Blast
8. 350 or 250
9. Modest Mouse
10. Torch Hypnosis

THE EMPIRE OF "THE CITY" (World Superstate)

City of London + City of Vatican + City of columbia are the 3 independant states within states wich composes the empire of the city. The first is financial control over earth economy, the second is religion control over the earth and the third one is military control over the earth. Together they make the very unholy trinity which forms the egyptian pyramid that we can see on the back of the privately owned federal reserve note that is used as american dollar to maintain the colony in debt and under the Queen. Many people realize that this mystifying situation, in which an alleged democratic and self-governing nation is actually controlled against the will of the people, is a clear indication that there must be a very powerful and well-financed occult organization which plans and directs world affairs, and for lack of a more specific identification thie suspected secret organization is popularly referred to as the International Financiers, Banksters cartel or "The Crown corporation".

End Game

A World Without Islam By Graham E. Fuller

What if Islam had never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: No clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists. Would Christianity have taken over the world? Would the Middle East be a peaceful beacon of democracy? Would 9/11 have happened? In fact, remove Islam from the path of history, and the world ends up pretty much where it is today.

Graham E. Fuller is a former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA in charge of long-range strategic forecasting.

Extract from the article
"In the West's focus on terrorism in the name of Islam, memories are short. Jewish guerrillas used terrorism against the British in Palestine. Sri Lankan Hindu Tamil "Tigers" invented the art of the suicide vest and for more than a decade led the world in the use of suicide bombings--including the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Greek terrorists carried out assassination operations against U.S. officials in Athens. Organized Sikh terrorism killed Indira Gandhi, spread havoc in India, established an overseas base in Canada, and brought down an Air India flight over the Atlantic. Macedonian terrorists were widely feared all across the Balkans on the eve of World War I. Dozens of major assassinations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were carried out by European and American "anarchists," sowing collective fear. The Irish Republican Army employed brutally effective terrorism against the British for decades, as did communist guerrillas and terrorists in Vietnam against Americans, communist Malayans against British soldiers in the 1950s, Mau-Mau terrorists against British officers in Kenya--the list goes on. It doesn't take a Muslim to commit terrorism.

Even the recent history of terrorist activity doesn't look much different. According to Europol, 498 terrorist attacks took place in the European Union in 2006. Of these, 424 were perpetrated by separatist groups, 55 by left-wing extremists, and 18 by various other terrorists. Only 1 was carried out by Islamists. To be sure, there were a number of foiled attempts in a highly surveilled Muslim community. But these figures reveal the broad ide-ological range of potential terrorists in the world.

Is it so hard to imagine then, Arabs--Christian or Muslim--angered at Israel or imperialism's constant invasions, overthrows, and interventions employing similar acts of terrorism and guerrilla warfare? The question might be instead, why didn't it happen sooner? As radical groups articulate grievances in our globalized age, why should we not expect them to carry their struggle into the heart of the West?"

Source: SNUFFYSMITH'S BLOG

It's the ENd of the World as We know it And I feel Fine Season 3 Episode 15

UN inquiry finds Israel guilty of Gaza war crimes

Israel "punished and terrorised" civilians in Gaza in a disproportionate attack in its three-week offensive on the territory earlier this year, a United Nations report has found.
Judge Richard Goldstone, who led the inquiry, said on Wednesday that he found evidence Israel targeted civilians and used excessive force in the assault, which was launched on December 27, 2008.
"The mission concluded that actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly in some respects crimes against humanity, were committed by the Israel Defence Force," Goldstone, a former South African justice, said.
More than 1,400 Palestinians - about a third of them women and children - were killed in the offensive. Thirteen Israeli died during the same period, mostly due to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip .
The US state department reacted to the report, telling Al Jazeera that they had "concerns about some of the report's recommendations", without giving specifics.
Washington said that the mandate given for the report had been "one sided and unacceptable" but that Goldstone had attempted to broaden the scope of the report "to cover abuses on all sides of the conflict".
Goldstone's report, which came at the end of a six-month inquiry and will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council later this month, said Israel deliberately attacked civilians, failed to take precautions to minimise loss of civilian life and cited strong evidence that Israeli forces committed "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions.
He said: "In the months since the end of the war, various rights groups both domestic and international have provided evidence of Israel’s war crimes."
Goldstone said the evidence included accounts of "the shooting of civilians holding white flags ... the deliberate and unjustifiable targeting of UN shelters ... and the killing of over 300 children whilst the Israeli Army had at their disposal the most precise weaponry in the world"

Source: Al Jazeera and agencies

Super Soak THE OLYMPIC TORCH

Under The Volcano 09

Festival of Art and Social Changes; Day of Workshops, Artisan market, Info fair, and more......

Hip Hop & Media Against Displacement, Colonization & Gentrification Vancouver

No One is Illegal with the support of W2 Flack Block Gallery presented the acclaimed and award winning; Invincible.
Invincible; a Detroit based MC and Activist known for her creation of media that resist displacement, gentrification, colonization, occupation, obstruction of movement, and denial of right of return.
She Screened and discuss her hybrid docu-music-video "Locus" and "People Not Places", both videos show the relationship between gentrification and colonization and ways that people are dealing with them.
At the end of the screening, Invincible lead a participatory workshop about local organizing strategies and ways to bring new people and energy into the local anti-displacement projects in Vancouver and surrounding area.

NEW WORLD DISORDER DELAYED TILL 2012

New world disorder delayed by credit crunch say beefy wankers er wealthy bankers- Holocaust in Gazza, but nothing like the Jewish one says camp commandant - In the UK new Identity passport cards for babies embryos fetus and Students - Hello catatonic cattle people.

Hip Hop Vs Terror

Mc Dollar

Documentary sparks uproar at Jewish film fest.

THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
by Matthai Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer






The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has come under siege after deciding to show a documentary about Rachel Corrie, a Washington state 23-year-old killed in 2003 while trying to prevent an Israeli military bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian’s home.

Whether Corrie naively put herself in harm’s way in support of terrorists or was intentionally killed by the Israeli military is the nexus of the controversy.

Compounding the issue, festival organizers invited Corrie’s mother, Cindy, to speak after today’s showing at the Castro Theatre of the film “Rachel”. It is one of 71 films at this year’s festival, which includes two films profiling kidnapped Israeli soldiers.

The reaction has been outrage. The festival board’s president stepped down from her role, opening-night ceremonies were boycotted by some, and Israel Consul General Akiva Tor said it was a “big mistake to invite Mrs. Corrie”.

At the core of the debate are questions about how broadly Jews can discuss Israel within their own community – and how Jews represent Israel to the broader world. It is also overlaid with accusations of the “new anti-Semitism,” prejudice that is disguised as particular criticisms of Israel, the only Jewish state.

“The furor is much larger than this one film or this one speaker,” said Peter L. Stein, the festival’s executive director. “It reveals a rift in our community that we all need to help understand and hopefully heal”

Ska-p - Intifada

SKA-P

is a Spanish Ska group formed in Vallecas (a neighborhood of Madrid, Spain) in 1994. Most of their songs feature an infectious and energic vibe and feature lyrics about non-conformity, criticism of capitalism and racism, and their defense of equal justice, plus taking part in various multicultural, alternative and anti-globalization festivals.

The Other Arars Where the Exception is the Rule

The Other Arars Where the Exception is the Rule from Driss Abassi on Vimeo.

Adil Charkaoui one the five men in Canada living under a security certificate.
He was in Vancouver on June 26, 2009 for an event sponsored by No One Is Illegal-Vancouver, BC Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Muslim Union, Council of Canadians - BC / Yukon Region, Canadian Islamic Congress, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

CHARKAOUI spoke on Security Certificates and Secret Trials and the Canadian state’s complicity in the torture of Maher Arar.

The Sutikalh Camp june 20 / 09

On May 2, 2000, members of the St'at'imc nation and their allies established a permanent camp near Melvin Creek, located off Highway 99 between Mt. Currie/Pemberton and Lillooet, in the southern Interior region of BC.

Known as Sutikalh, the St'at'imc winter spirit of the area, the camp was set up to stop government and corporate plans to build a $500 million all-season ski and recreation resort in an untouched Alpine mountain area.

Car - Free Vancouver Day 2009 Commercial Drive

June 14, 2004 was Car Free Vancouver day

This year it was enjoyed in Kitsilano, Main Street, the West End, and Commercial Drive.

The Car Free Day on Commercial Drive was a day of Joy, fun, connections, and discover for some.
It was also an open platform to the several local activist groups to communicate they concerns to the community.

Eight Reasons to Oppose the 2010 Olympics

Resist 2010: 8 Reasons to Oppose the 2010 Winter Olympics documents the negative impacts of the 2010 Games to be held in Vancouver, Canada, and chronicles the ongoing resistance by Indigenous & other social movements.

Magic is powerless to stop censorship of Harry Potter actress

JINSA advocates censorship, military strikes on “partisan” media outlets

JINSA is the hard-line, Likudnik Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. They boast a pretty powerful line-up of present and former advisors including Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle. If you’re looking for groups to blame for helping to get us into the endless war and now occupation of Iraq, JINSA is certainly a great place to start.

The new edition of their house organ includes this remarkable gem, Wishful Thinking and Indecisive Wars, from retired US army officer Ralph Peters who says openly what we all suspect to be true every time an Al Jazeera office accidentally gets blown up in a war with the US, or the Israeli Defense Forces accidentally shoot a reporter. Revealing both constitutional contempt and the creepy linkages between right-wing Jews and fundamentalist Christian Zionists, Peters actually calls the media godless “neo-pagans” and advocates not only censorship but military strikes. The media, he insists, are a “hostile third party” in war, and must be treated as such.

by Cecilie Surasky
Muzzlewatch

Quote of the week

I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Attempted Censorship of Play Seven Jewish Children

From the "MuzzleWatch" news

B’nai Brith Canada has asked Toronto’s mayor to “use his good offices” to prevent the staging of a controversial play at a city-owned theater.

The Jewish human rights group says “Seven Jewish Children” by British playwright Caryl Churchill is “blatantly propagandist” and “aimed at delegitimizing not only Israel but its Jewish supporters worldwide.”

The good news is that you can watch Caryl Churchill’s Play, Seven Jewish Children, right now. It’ll take under 10 minutes. Make sure you have your box of tissues with you.

Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon, who call Churchill “one of the most important and influential playwrights living,” recently wrote in The Nation about the play’s UK production:

While some British critics greatly admired the play, which was presented by a Jewish director with a largely Jewish cast, a number of prominent British Jews denounced it as anti-Semitic. Some even accused Churchill of blood libel, of perpetrating in Seven Jewish Children the centuries-old lie, used to incite homicidal anti-Jewish violence, that Jews ritually murder non-Jewish children. A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews told the Jerusalem Post that the “horrifically anti-Israel” text went “beyond the boundaries of reasonable political discourse.”

We emphatically disagree. We think Churchill’s play should be seen and discussed as widely as possible.

Though you’d never guess from the descriptions offered by its detractors, the play is dense, beautiful, elusive and intentionally indeterminate. This is not to say that the play isn’t also direct and incendiary. It is. It’s disturbing, it’s provocative, but appropriately so, given the magnitude of the calamity it enfolds in its pages. Any play about the crisis in the Middle East that doesn’t arouse anger and distress has missed the point.

Israel-based human rights activist Rebecca Vilkomerson wrote in a letter, also in The Nation:

I’ve read Caryl Churchill’s play, “Seven Jewish Children—A Play for Gaza” three times, and cried through each reading. As a mom and an activist, living in Tel Aviv and raising two daughters, I found the play to be devastating and true. Beyond that, it is remarkably compassionate and clear in its historical consciousness and the awareness that our deepest urges, to protect our children, can have terrible moral consequences. There’s not an anti-Semitic word in it.

As my Israeli husband said, “she captured exactly how it really is to live here.”

We constantly struggle with the questions of when and how and what to tell our children about what is happening all around them. That’s why, for example, I take my older daughter to events
supporting the shministim, the highschoolers refusing to be drafted into the army. Perhaps, as Solomon and Kushner write, “this girl will grow up to work for justice.”

That ability to open peoples’ eyes, not anti-semitism, is what is so scary to those who attack Churchill’s play.

Churchill was inspired to write the play after Israel’s terrible invasion of Gaza this winter which killed nearly 1,500 Gazans and injured thousands more. As the mother of a 6-year-old myself, I would have been among the first of the thousands who did leave Sderot because of the Qassam rockets. And before that, had I or other Gazans been allowed to leave– I would have been the first in line to get out of Gaza, grasping my son’s hand tightly at the checkpoint, so we could get food and medical care.

But the Israeli military’s endless pounding of some 1.5 million Gazans, half of them children, with literally no place to go, made the army look more like a vicious and out of control drunkard, than a smart tactitian. Once again, the attitude that “we’re going to teach them a lesson,” through bombing Gaza into oblivion didn’t bring real safety but did ensure an entire new generation of deeply traumatized Palestinian children.

While there are numerous exceptions, Churchill investigates what exactly happened not just to the Israeli but to the entire Jewish (institutional) collective which by and large has either defended or actively support this kind of uncontrolled violence brought down on the heads of another people. How does our profound trauma as Jews, which lives with all of us and surfaces often at the strangest of times, transform into the callousness about Palestinian and Arab lives that has become commonplace at so many Jewish dinner tables?

Don’t look for any understanding from Frank Dimant, a leader with Canada’s B’nai Brith, who wants to shut down Seven Jewish Children. He obviously hasn’t spent much time at Israeli dinner tables lately.

“The City of Toronto should not allow a venue that it funds to be the staging ground for a divisive play that promotes anti-Jewish hatred,” Frank Dimant, the organization’s executive vice president, said in a statement. “As its name denotes, ‘Seven Jewish Children’ does not even pretend to target Israel exclusively. It is clearly aimed at maligning Jews, depicting them as oppressors of Palestinians, blood-thirsty aggressors and child killers. It disturbingly inverts history, using Holocaust imagery to allege that the Jews, once the victims, are actively teaching their own children callous disregard for the suffering of others.”

Apartheid, more alive than ever

Excerpts from the speech of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Durban Review Conference on racism in Geneva on April 20.

Over the last centuries, humanity has gone through great sufferings and pains. In the Medieval Ages, thinkers and scientists were sentenced to death. It was then followed by a period of slavery and slave trade. Innocent people were taken captive in their millions and separated from their families and loved ones to be taken to Europe and America under the worst conditions. A dark period that also experienced occupation, lootings and massacres of innocent people.

Many years passed by before nations rose up and fought for their liberty and freedom and they paid a high price for it. They lost millions of lives to expel the occupiers and establish independent and national governments. However, it did not take long before power grabbers imposed two wars in Europe which also plagued a part of Asia and Africa. Those horrific wars claimed about a hundred million lives and left behind massive devastation. Had lessons been learnt from the occupations, horrors and crimes of those wars, there would have been a ray of hope for the future.

The victorious powers called themselves the conquerors of the world while ignoring or down treading upon rights of other nations by the imposition of oppressive laws and international arrangements.

Ladies and gentlemen, let us take a look at the UN Security Council which is one of the legacies of World War I and World War II. What was the logic behind their granting themselves the veto right? How can such logic comply with humanitarian or spiritual values? Would it not be inconformity with the recognized principles of justice, equality before the law, love and human dignity? Would it not be discrimination, injustice, violations of human rights or humiliation of the majority of nations and countries?

The council is the highest decision-making world body for safeguarding international peace and security. How can we expect the realization of justice and peace when discrimination is legalized and the origin of the law is dominated by coercion and force rather than by justice and the rights?

Coercion and arrogance is the origin of oppression and wars. Although today many proponents of racism condemn racial discrimination in their words and their slogans, a number of powerful countries have been authorized to decide for other nations based on their own interests and at their own discretion and they can easily violate all laws and humanitarian values as they have done so.

Following World War II, they resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering and they sent migrants from Europe, the United States and other parts of the world in order to establish a totally racist government in occupied Palestine. And, in fact, in compensation for the dire consequences of racism in Europe, they helped bring to power the most cruel and repressive racist regime in Palestine.

The Security Council helped stabilize the occupying regime and supported it in the past 60 years giving them a free hand to commit all sorts of atrocities. It is all the more regrettable that a number of Western governments and the United States have committed themselves to defending those racist perpetrators of genocide while the awakened-conscience and free-minded people of the world condemn aggression, brutalities and the bombardment of civilians in Gaza. The supporters of Israel have always been either supportive or silent against the crimes.

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World Zionism personifies racism that falsely resorts to religions and abuses religious sentiments to hide its hatred and ugly face. However, it is of great importance to bring into focus the political goals of some of the world powers and those who control huge economic resources and interests in the world. They mobilize all the resources including their economic and political influence and world media to render support in vain to the Zionist regime and to maliciously diminish the indignity and disgrace of this regime.

This is not simply a question of ignorance and one cannot conclude these ugly phenomena through consular campaigns. Efforts must be made to put an end to the abuse by Zionists and their political and international supporters and in respect with the will and aspirations of nations. Governments must be encouraged and supported in their fights aimed at eradicating this barbaric racism and to move towards reform in current international mechanisms.

There is no doubt that you are all aware of the conspiracies of some powers and Zionist circles against the goals and objectives of this conference. Unfortunately, there have been literatures and statements in support of Zionists and their crimes. And it is the responsibility of honorable representatives of nations to disclose these campaigns which run counter to humanitarian values and principles.

It should be recognized that boycotting such a session as an outstanding international capacity is a true indication of supporting the blatant example of racism. In defending human rights, it is primarily important to defend the rights of all nations to participate equally in all important international decision making processes without the influence of certain world powers.

And secondly, it is necessary to restructure the existing international organizations and their respective arrangements. Therefore this conference is a testing ground and the world public opinion today and tomorrow will judge our decisions and our actions

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I also want to lay emphasis on the fact that Western liberalism and capitalism has reached its end since it has failed to perceive the truth of the world and humans as they are.

It has imposed its own goals and directions on human beings. There is no regard for human and divine values, justice, freedom, love and brotherhood and it has based living on intense competition, securing individual and cooperative material interest.

Now we must learn from the past by initiating collective efforts in dealing with present challenges and in this connection, and as a closing remark, I wish to draw your kind attention to two important issues:

Firstly, it is absolutely possible to improve the existing situation in the world. However it must be noted that this could be only achieved through the cooperation of all countries in order to get the best out of the existing capacities and resources in the world. My participation in this conference is because of my conviction to these important issues as well as to our common responsibility of defending the rights of nations vis-à-vis the sinister phenomena of racism and being with you, the thinkers of the world.

Secondly, mindful of the inefficiency of the current international political, economic and security systems, it is necessary to focus on divine and humanitarian values by referring to the true definition of human beings based upon justice and respect for the rights of all people in all parts of the world and by acknowledging the past wrong doings in the past dominant management of the world, and to undertake collective measures to reform the existing structures.

In this respect, it is crucially important to rapidly reform the structure of the Security Council, including the elimination of the discriminatory veto right and to change the current world financial and monetary systems.

It is evident that lack of understanding of the urgency for change is equivalent to the much heavier costs of delay.

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Vancouver City; guilty of Social Cleansing

Sunday April 19, 2009, the City of Vancouver was put on trial because of it’s disinterest in the well being and it's persecution of the poor and the homeless.
The City of Vancouver is voting bylaws to clean the parks and the streets of the undesirables; the poor and the homeless, to take them out of the public eyes in the city east end,
The City doesn’t want their rich and tourist to look at the indigenous people of that area, so the best way and legal way to do it is to vote new laws to clear all these people from their homes and the streets.
These people are the most vulnerable one in the society we live in, they are already suffering and straggling, some of them have more problems with addiction, they are the first victim of this bad economy with all Social cut.
The City is creating tremendous stress on it’s more vulnerable people, not only by voting new bylaw to kick them out of the streets, but but also by not doing anything against the increasing real estate prices that throw them on the streets.
The number of people on the street grow every day and the city is doing nothing for them, instead of helping them by building more low income housing and more shelters, the City is ticketing them just for being alive and there.
The City doesn’t feel as obligated to the poor people of the east side, as she feel obligated to uphold it’s contractual obligation to the IOC, and the 2010 Olympics.
The people have realized that the Colonial and Capitalist; the government court at what ever level wont give a fair justice to the poor and the homeless, so they realized that only a people court would look at the facts and lesson to the more vulnerable and traumatized and give them a fair trial.
The people court is the only one on the people side, the only one that looked into the people interest.
It was time for the people to come out to voice their dissent and anger.

The new empire

The end of the big war saw the emergence of a new kind of conquerors acting under the American flag. They’re more powerful than republican or democrat; the big corporations.
They have managed to build an empire, the first world empire built mostly without the military or an emperor. For the most part, it’s been built by economics backed by the American military when negotiations fail.
A fairly small group of men ran most of these corporations and through them they ran the American government and practically every other government in the world. They are the equivalent of the empire and they’re in control regardless of who is in power in the white house or congress, they are in power.
This new conquerors identify a third world country with a valuable resources, on behalf of that country, the corporation arrange for a loan from an organization like the world bank. The loan is not given to the country but is instead used by the corporation to build infrastructure in that country, the kind that only benefit the very rich that is in collaboration with the new conqueror but not the poor. The country is left with a huge debt, so huge they can’t repay it. Their only solution is to sell their resource for really cheap to the corporation, which also enslaved the big majority of the country; the poor. They became the new era slave working for nearly nothing while the corporation made all the money. The corporation doesn’t only use the poor as slave, make the riche and the corrupt richer, but the leader become their puppet and use his or her voice on the geopolitical scene for their own benefit.
But a broken financial market induced by a poorly planned war and more people mobilizing around the world against these conquerors will brink this world powerful empire to his knees.

When Existance and Resistance are one

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The five Cockrings of Death

When does a man have right to fight without being called a Terrorist.

Terrorist is a powerful word, label placed on violence that can never be accepted in a civilize society.

It uses to be said that one man terrorist is another man freedom fighter.

American have listed dozens of organizations and labelled them as terrorist but 9/11 has changed everything, you’re either with the foreign American policy or you’re a part of the axes of evil, you’re with the terrorists.

9/11 marked a new phase in human history; the US introduced a new doctrine that aimed to eradicate anything it considered terrorism. An ideological world wind swept through the west political institution media think tanks. An attempt by neocon politician to redefine the world; they called it the global war on terror. Word used in order to escalate the conflict beyond simply the perpetrators of 9/11. The war on terror phrase was used to provide a moral basis for a conflict that have only purpose to secure western interest in the East for generations, but how does this war on terror unfold in countries where these western army are seen as the occupation.

There is no global consensus on terrorism; the pro American governments define it, as the deliberate targeting of civilians, excluding bombs dropped on population centers during war times, arguing dishonestly that the killing of civilians is never the intent in war time. For peoples being bombed, it doesn't matter if it was intended or not, action by state actor or not there is something else defined by the west as state terrorism.

Americans decide who is a terrorist and who is freedom fighter; all the government that help in the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan had their despot and unconstitutional rulers legitimized and turned to heroes by the west. But the resistance that wants to stop the killing, the destruction, the corruption, and the occupation are labelled terrorist.

The world nation can't agree on workable definition, as the right definition should include the terrorism caused by the west, so the difficulty that causes problem to the intellectuals and politicians, the struggle to find and graft a workable definition that won't be restricted to the west definition of terrorism. A definition restricted to the terror against the US but exclude the US terror against others.

Despite the lack of agreement within United Nations or consensus among academics and politicians; it is very easy in the US to tell who is a terrorist, they have the list. After 9/11 several groups and individuals were added to the list, individuals and groups that are heavily scrutinize. Anyone linked to these organizations was investigated, those suspected of providing funds or aids were arrested, most of the time without the necessary proof. Most of them were tortured or even killed without legal proceeding, but not on a western soil, the suspected terrorists were packed and shipped to some allies countries where torture is still a normal practice.

It seemed that terrorism according to the west definition is the only one dictating the world rules, but there is lot of inconsistency, it seems that some terrorist organizations are more accepted than others. Some listed organizations are more useful to the neocons plans than other. They're far from being investigated or persecuted, congress pass resolutions praising this groups and the CIA provide them covered funding. The enemies of my enemies are my friends even if they're on the list.

The US has constructed it first new military doctrine without a clear definition of who is the enemy. The west seems locked in a conflict based on a borderless, timeless, and unsuccessful war on terror.

Goverment of Occupation.

 

“”If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”.

2009 Poverty Olympics

On Sunday, I attended the 2009 Poverty Olympics that took place in the Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The theme this was "End Poverty. It's not a game".

The event started with the Torch Parade that left the VANDU office, 380 E Hastings, the parade was formed of about 200 peoples accompanied by the big sound of band's drums and other instruments.

The parade walked down to Main where the symbolic torch was passed to another person under the chanting and applause of the audience formed by the parade participants and some onlookers. Then everybody walked and danced in circle in the intersection at Main and E Hastings for while under the sound of the music. The parade heated back on E Hastings to Dunelevy for another torch pass. From Dunelevy the parade walked to Alexander, everybody was chanting, dancing, and having fun. On Alexander the parade marched to the Japanese Language School, where the second annual Poverty Olympics' events were planned to take place.

Inside, the events started with the opening ceremonies hosted by the mascots Itchy the bed bug and Chewy the rat. There was the unveiling of the End of Poverty Torch with the Poverty Olympics Choir, followed by an Aboriginal spiritual song.

All a long, during the opening and the games, the host voiced some interesting facts;

Did you know?

- That just a few blocks from the luxury condos of the Olympics' athlete's village were bunch of our money are spend on bailouts, the HIV is as high as in Botswana;

- That the highest rate of child poverty in Canada is found in British Columbia;

- That 32% of the homeless in the lower mainland are Aboriginals while they only form 2% of the population;

- That in the last six years homelessness went up to an outrageous 373%;

- That billions are spent on the Olympics venues while small change is spent on housing the homeless;

- That you and me will be paying over 6 billion dollars that will spent by the end of the coming Olynpics, money that could built lot of new unit for social housing, raise welfare, lower the barriers that keep people in real needs from getting the aid they desperately need.

Like all Olympics, the event ended with the medal ceremony, but there was no looser in this one they were all winners.

The event was concluded by a cakes, snacks, and a pictures with the mascots.

The Poverty Olympics used good humor to portray the big corporations and their hunger for profits on the backs of the poor and the distressed, it also showed how the coming Olympics are the wrong way to spend public money while homelessness and poverty are growing at an alarming level in our beautiful province, apparently the best place in the world. 

The latest Victims of the 2010

The BC Supreme Court has ruled for the removal of the Falun Gong protest billboards and hut outside the Chinese Consulate on Granville Street. The city was granted an injunction under the pretext that the group breached some street structure bylaw.

The Falun Gong has maintained that hut and those billboards for over seven years to protest their consistent persecution and torture by the Chinese government.

Their values and beliefs were perceived by the Chinese government as a distinction from the Marxist-atheist ideology and a challenge to the party rule. They were banned from practice in 1999. Since then a massive crackdown begun on the group; criminalization, torture, illegal imprisonment, and psychiatric abuse were used to persecute practitioners. Several human right investigators reported the ongoing practice of systematic organ harvesting from living Falung Gong practitioners in China. The terror campaign doesn't stop there, the party uses everything they could to persecute the group, the education system, the workplace, family members, and a large scale of media propaganda.

During the past seven year, the dismantlement of the billboards and banners was ordered only once in 2006, by the former mayor after major pressure from an important economic partner; the Chinese government. Then, the freedom of expression prevailed, but today they are fighting against more powerful forces; the Olympics.

Not only the Canadian Government failed them in doing nothing against the human rights violation in China, but now because of the upcoming of the 2010 Olympics, the BC government and the city have raised some concerns that were absent for seven years and under the pretext of some kind of bylaw they are depraving this group of one of the most fundamental rule of a democratic society; the freedom of expression.

The Silent War

While surfing the net, I stumbled on a call out for people to come speak at City Council against the proposed City Bylaw Changes for the coming 2010 Olympic and the Olympic Village. 

The Call out was only publicized on the "NO 2010 Olympic on Stolen Native Land" www.no2010.com

Curious I looked bit deeper into it and find out that the reasons this web page's host resisted the 2010 Olympic made lot of sense to me and he have ten good reasons, and they all looked legit to me.

The Olympics are a global industry worth billion and billion backed by the western elites, to make more money and force their way on the world. Throughout history the Olympics were a way to strengthen colonialism, fascism, and help legitimate state terror under the cover of the athletic excellence.

I attended the debate at City Council thinking that the chamber will be full of people prep to talk against the violation of civil liberty, the housing problems in the east side, and the hundreds of millions from the tax payers, that will end up in some fat corporations pockets. But to my deception there were more reporters and City Councilors than the hand full of people willing to speak their mind and call for the legitimate truth.

The hand full of speaker presented their arguments, they spoke about past experiences with big event and the police comportment, the violation of civil liberty, the police riots, the massive arrest, the right to protest without fear of arrest or sanctions, the housing crisis, and more.

At the end of the debate the city councilors, all voted to bail out the Olympic village by borrowing more money that the tax payer will have to pay, as if they were not there during the debate.

All arguments presented didn't change anything, the councilors did what they assembled to do and no legitimate argument was gone change their decision, it was all a lies.

The colonial powers waging war on the peaceful people of the Middle East are waging a different kind of war on the natives, the poor people, and the homeless of Vancouver. The war here is not done bombs and rockets but it's a smarter one, a silent one, with the same result at the end to push people out of their houses and land. We must do something.

   

Obama is no Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King spent his life warning about militarism, materialism, and racism. He fought his whole life against all economic exploitation and forces of militarism. 

In the mist of this global economic collapse, Dr King would of have confronted the military responses, and actively resisted the diversion of public wealth to the banker and the merchants of death.

Obama is empowered by the same people Dr King  confronted and fought against for the duration of his life, of his battle to end the long night of racial injustice; the bankers and the militarist.

Obama is part of a black American elites, a hallow shell, a clay in the hand of the white elites that will do anything for a buck and nothing for their own people fate or well being.

Obama silence in the face of the purposely inflicted human right catastrophe perpetrated on the besieged people of Gaza is sign of his upcoming politic of change and racial justice. He was glorified by the Zionist media for his support of the terrorist, racist, and occupying Israeli forces.

Hating Arabs is not anymore just a Jewish thing, since the US invaded Iraq and killed millions of Arabs fully supported by the white gentile America.

Obama is committed to putting another hundred thousand marines and army men on the ground of Afghanistan/Pakistan and a bigger US military footprint on the planet. His silence and support of the genocide in Gaza is a shameful complicity in war crimes.

New testing Ground for Israel`s Weaponry

Contrary to the international law, Israel is using unconventional weaponry on civilian's population. They are clear evidence that the Israeli forces are not only using cluster bombs and phosphorus shell, but they are testing a new type of very high explosive weaponry similar to DIME(Dense Inert Metal Explosive). The American version is still at the testing stage and had apparently not been used on the battlefield yet. The Israel version is over the testing stages, and the poor civilian's population of Gaza is used for the field test. 

This new weaponry is made of a tungsten alloy; it produces lower pressure but increased impulse in the near field with a lethal footprint tuned to precision. Physicians in the Gaza Strip reported abnormally serious physical injuries: an unusual pattern of wounds, severed body parts showing signs of severe heat at the point of amputation but no metal shrapnel.

Although at this time this kind of weaponry is not yet declared illegal, it is highly carcinogenic and highly armful to the environment. If the Palestinians of Gaza survive the enormous power and strength of this new king of explosive, they will develop a cancer effect, more than a probable risque of cancer.

It is all happening in Gaza now, the genocide of the Palestinian population of  Gaza by the Jewish state, with the full support, approval, and benediction of the American government. It doesn't matter to them if it against the so called international law, against the international community, against humanity, and very much against what it means to be a descent person.

Civilian population; innocent men, women, and child shouldn't be treated like this, did we learn anything from history.

The Slaughter Continues

                                                                                                                                                   Jan 02, 2009; More than 430 Palestinians were killed and around 2200 wounded, 500 of them are in critical condition since Israel lunched the airstrikes  on the Gaza Strip.                                                                                   Israel is targeting houses, mosques, and schools under  the pretext that they are used by Hamas operatives.

This war is not against Hamas, as they claim, Israel is carrying out awful war crimes against innocent civilian.

 This war is against the entire population of the Gaza Strip, against unarmed innocents.   

 The Isreali occupation is punishing the people of the Gaza Strip for refusing to reverse and take over their legitimately elected leadership.