geoffff
As if to prove the point in a flash from heaven Richard links to Miko Peled and Kim goes into something that looks unpleasantly orgasmic..
"Thank you, Richard. Inspirational. The tipping-point will come; the paradigm will shift. That must be our prayer."
and then a poem
They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing, and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
From the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
I really cannot let this pass. Surely you blokes must see I have a point here?
Another link to another self flagellating Jew on the circuit. We all know who they are. They all have pretty harrowing personal histories. Why they do what they do has been well explained and in my experience Jews intuitively know what the problem is here.
It is disappointing that there are so many without the sensitivity to grasp what is going on with some Jews. We know about Miko Peled and there is nothing special about him. Do you have any idea how many generals' sons there are in Israel?
Neither do I but you see the point.
The psychology of people who have been subjected to constant stress occasioned by a long history of victimisation and terrible trauma can be somewhat damaged. You must have noticed this. These people need some understanding.
Do you think Jews are different?
Peled's niece was murdered by life hating religious fanatics because she was a Jew.
Half the world is shouting at you that these murders of your children are your fault . It is because of something in you that denies you the right to peace and personal sovereignty taken for granted by those who have it for themselves.
Then you look West and what do you see? Christians agreeing with the killers and blaming you for their crimes.
Kim is right. For many there is a tipping point and they can react in extraordinary ways. Some side with those who want them dead or dhimmified and they go to extraordinary lengths to get their minds around that. Because they live in liberal democracies like Israel they are free to do this in public.
They often reveal something about themselves that is unfortunate. .
The most interesting thing about the Miko Peleds of this world is that there are so few of them. Like I said you could name them all.
Read what Peled says in the interview on what is known and thoroughly recorded history. There are no conspiracies except in these peoples minds where they reign in jarring chaos like the lesser gods of Olympus. This is religion. Not history. None of what he says happened and no serious historian would give his account the slightest heed but that's not the point.
The point is what exactly do you pray for Kim? What paradigm shift do you want to see to sweep away the problems?
Please be specific.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Will Richard Hall Ban The Truth From This Thread Too?
geoffff
Well I did warn this is a case for indignation and self-righteousness
Perhaps Richard will
Even though I barely mentioned hardly anything anti - nonantisemitic there at all..
Richard is right though. I'm sure we will survive.
But just in case:
I was responding to this
Stand by for cross posts.
Update
I'm back in Methodist Purgatory I'm afraid. Awaitng moderation. Did I ever tell you about a Christian aunt I once had? A dear old soul who was always awaiting moderation. She was a Methodist I think.
Kim is talking like he's seeing Orcs again.
Anyway here it is.
Well I did warn this is a case for indignation and self-righteousness
Perhaps Richard will
Even though I barely mentioned hardly anything anti - nonantisemitic there at all..
Richard is right though. I'm sure we will survive.
But just in case:
I was responding to this
10.04.12 at 5:02 am
Yeah, but Mitt is a good friend of Bibi, right? And even the insane have a right to be represented at the centre of power, yes? “Christians-have-a-divine-mandate-to-support-Israel” Tea Party Madonna Michelle Bachmann might have been an even insaner, friendlier ally, but half a (white) loaf is better than a crypto-Islamist naan in the White House.
- 10.05.12 at 12:42 am
- Your comment is awaiting moderation.I don’t have a lot of time for the closed irrational religious mind of any stripe but some are much worse than others and I will tell you something true for nothing.Christians who believe they have a divine mandate to support Israel and a just peace for Jews and Muslims are infinitely preferable to Christians who believe they have a divine mandate to libel Israel’s elected leaders, wish her every ill and to fantasise about her demolition while poring over soft core low brow literature involving self flagellating Jews.At least there is no difficulty in recognising the former as Christians.
- 10.05.12 at 1:08 am
- Your comment is awaiting moderation.Here is something else true for nothing.Bibi is certain of re election when he next faces his people.Gillard and Swan are certain to be dumped when next they do.Judging by his performance yesterday there is an excellent chance Obama will be dumped too.Perhaps there is a God.
Stand by for cross posts.
Update
I'm back in Methodist Purgatory I'm afraid. Awaitng moderation. Did I ever tell you about a Christian aunt I once had? A dear old soul who was always awaiting moderation. She was a Methodist I think.
Kim is talking like he's seeing Orcs again.
Anyway here it is.
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10.05.12 at 7:54 am- Must be counting on what someone called the Dopeler Effect: the illusion that stupid ideas seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
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10.05.12 at 10:45 am- Your comment is awaiting moderation.This is a public controversy Richard.I would like the comment here because I am interested in dialogue on an issue we share a strong common interest. Either way it will be published on my blog.I already have a dialogue with many others who share that interest in a passionate way. They see this as important. So do I. So presumably do you. Certainly Kim does.What’s the problem?
Antizionism Is The New Antisemitism -- Pondering The Christian Soul.
geoffff
This is a flow over post from an exchange on Connexions, the blog of Richard Hall a Methodist minister in Wales on a thread where I was banned for alleged anti non-antisemitism ( a bum wrap that I hotly, indignantly and self righteously deny),
The full thread together with the banned comments is here.
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| This is Christian antizionism. It is as clear an image of the new antisemitism as you can get. Do you get it? [hat tip image Daphne Anson] |
Here's the last comment about to be banned on the I don't want to hear this and I don't want my readers to either thread of Richard Hall.
10.03.12 at 11:04 pm
[comment deleted: You aren't listening. I did tell you that you'd made your last comment in this thread. I'm probably being unreasonable, but whatever you post here seems to arrive on at lat 3 other sites as well so I dare say you'll live. ~Richard]
I am listening Richard.
I'm ignoring you is all.
Not really.
Just not doing what you tell me to do is all.
I will join the conversation again on another thread probably if you will have me and the opportunity presents but for now allow me please to squeeze the last I can from the ban on this thread.
Thanks for that by the way. Nothing like a good ban to get the page views clicking..
I guess that's important for a political blog.
......
It's curious though how sacred it is to them -- the notion that at this stage of this old and ugly game it is alright to vilify Zionism while simultaneously holding that this is not antisemitism of the most vile kind.
What the hell do they think Zionism is?
It's as if their minds are warped in some place in history rather than in the here and now.
It's also as if nothing has happened in the last hundred years and that global Jewishness is not such a very different thing now in every sense to what it was in 1912.
What is that Orwell said about Doublethink? The ability to hold with equal conviction two diametrically opposing positions in the same time and space.
Maybe that was the Dr Who corollary. Anyway there's a lot of it about and in particular it seems on this remarkable and critical issue for humankind..
Whether Israel is worth it. Should Israel just.. you know .. go away.
It's a moral question for them because they must know Israel thinks Israel is worth it and there are enough others who think the same to make the issue the subject of a serious shooting war if Israel was not already serious enough on her own.. That should be the end of rational discussion.
It should be the end of any internal conflict as well you would think especially if they are Christians and therefore bound by religious conviction to be on the side of peace. That way lies war. This way lies the best chance for peace. Israel is here to stay. It would take a genocide to remove her. Accept it. Live with it. Celebrate it.
Maybe then the enemies of Israel will get the message.
And yet they go on and on.
Imagine for a moment that it was within their power to dismantle Israel. . You can be certain Western antizionists of all stripes do this or fantasise about it more likely. . No doubt while reading all those books by self flagellating Jews. You can almost see Antony Loewenstein drooling over the sadism it would entail. . It's quite disgusting, If it wasn't for Balfour and Oslo it would be about the biggest and dirtiest fraud since 1912.
They keep on going back to the same ring of names. You could name all the antizionist intellectuals who present as Jews and who present in English from memory and probably a few others as well.They keep on popping up all the time. They keep on keeping on. There has to be a market for the pictures. Maybe that's what U-Tube is about.
It does not impress in the slightest that many of the men and women who vilify Israel and talk of its removal are Jews. Why should it. Does it impress you? Why is it that they behave as if it should impress anyone. Why does it impress them?
Haven't we moved beyond that. What are they thinking? That the Jews are a tribe? That some how they are different?
In most cases these Jews are committed Communists or other party line political extremists anyway. Israel and the Jews are not even the start of what they would push under a passing bus if they could. A fair sprinkling of the remainder are fringe religious lunatics with no place in politics and since they don't even vote should count not at all.
Why are they so fascinated by Jews attacking Israel and the Jews? They have been pondering the Jewish soul for evidence that it does not include Zionism at Connexions and I reckon that's fair enough..
But to take some kind of comfort in the fact that many in the Israel is evil and must go camp are Jews, something beyond Schadenfreude, is to not only not get modern Jewishness as it is in the here and now but frankly is to exhibit something pretty creepy.
Which is enough for a separate post . I'll leave this here and send it to Richard on the banned thread where I'm being punished for anti non-antisemitism.
I may as well take advantage of this banned thing while I can so here goes:.
Shut up you guys. That kind of talk is banned in polite circles.
cross posted Israel Thrives
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Christians Pondering The Jewish Soul -- Again
geoffff
Ah dear. They are at it again at Connexions.. Read the post and the comments.
Is Zionism integral to Judaism?, they ask.
If they spent a fraction of the time pondering the Christian soul it might be healthier for both them and Jews.
"From its inception Zionism had been always one of a variety of Jewish narratives of identity. Anti- or non-Zionist narratives always existed, both in Europe and the U.S., from Bundists, Yiddishists, German nationalists, universalist and internationalists of various stripes, Marxists, American assimilationists (i.e. classical Reform Judaism), ultra-Traditionalists from Aguddat Yisrael, to Habad, to various communities of Hungarian Orthodoxy now largely coalesced around Satmar Hasidism."
It really is so sad. The point?
If they want Israelis to be robbed of their nationhood and submit to some form of inferior station, alone of all free people, then you would think they would muster the courage to say so. Instead they resort to dhimmified Jews or Jews in the grip of Oslo Syndrome to do it for them.
My comment:
Funny.
I was just going to write a post at the Joint about how antizionist and antisemitic Christians and secular anti-Western leftists always, ... and its got to the point that it is very nearly always ... , use Jews as proxies to deliver their true inner thoughts about Israel and therefore about Jews.
The post was to be inspired by Richard's post here and I just came back for another look and behold:
Point proven.
Kim. Silly him.
Do they really need Jews to formulate and enunciate their thoughts for them? No matter how brilliant, audacious and hugely humane they are?
I don't think so.
There's something else at play here.
There must be something in the European soul that thrills at the sight of a Jew attacking the Jews. Could it be the Christian part of that soul?
I can think of no other case where this happens.
At the beginning of the 20th century over 90% of the world's Jews lived as sub-citizens with special laws in Christian and Muslim lands with no civil liberties or human rights least of all freedom of expression.
By the end of the century all but a handful live in secular liberal democracies where they can pretty much say what they like just like everyone else. So they do.
And just like all people who are free they say all sorts of things and sometimes they say the most appalling nonsense . Just like all other people. Or are you suggesting there is some different standard here?
These books exist because there is a market. Part of that would be the push market of the universities but can there be any doubt that there is a thrill market out there for Jewish self flagellation?
Could part of that market be Christian? After all there is a history. Not all that distant either. Any perversion is possible.
It's got to the point where there is a market in being a "Jew" and really it is now beyond what would be funnier than Abbott and Costello if it wasn't so scary.
I blogged recently about something I saw on Mondoweiss while amusing myself there one evening.
An American who was born and raised Jewish had left the religion and become an atheist and Communist in the 1950's while a Yale student had just converted to Christianity in an Anglican Church in Harlem on American Independence Day.
It was the funniest thing I had seen all year until you think about it a little. Then it gets a little scary.
Before his conversion he was as Jewish as Karl Marx or Leon Trotsky. Now he's a Christian. He's still a Communist of course. Given that he's an Anglican he could still be an atheist for all I know but get this.
He still identifies as a Jew.
Oh I almost forgot. He has published a few Israel bashing books. Sigh.
There has to be a market for these books. It has to be a thrill market. You couldn't be surprised if they have ones with pictures under the counter.
At the end of the day you either accept that people have the right to live in their own free liberal democracies, starting with the Israelis, or you do not. You either are a supporter of human rights or you are not.
Israel is the only remaining homeland for Jewish refugees from Muslim lands in the Middle East and who comprise half the county's Jewish population. They are free because it is a secular state. It is not perfect but any thought of submitting by duress of state to God's law at this stage of the ascent of man is abhorrent.
An abomination.
As it would be in every other Western country.
Now that the Arab Muslims have finally said no to another Muslim state along side the secular Jewish national home it is the only question to answer. "Palestine" is dead. There is no reason to suppose it wasn't a lie from the very start.
Do you really think surrendering Israel and the Jews to them will appease them even if they were yours to surrender?
Do you seriously believe that would ease the grievance? Do you think the world would be better off without them? What else would you surrender?
If that is what you think then why are you so coy about saying it? Why do you appear to be using Jews to say it for you? Or at least think it for you?
hat tip Daphne Anson
cross posted Israel Thrives
update
This Christian minister thinks this is an allegation of antisemitism. Go figure.
I think it has finally got to the point that a clear indicator of the presence of antisemitism is the pre emptive denial of it.
Further update
Richard's comment
"geoffff - I deleted your comment because I can read and understand english. There was nothing pre-emptive about it. I have never said directly or indirectly that challenges the existence of the state of Israel. I do question that state’s policies and actions."
My modest reply
So do all Israelis question the state's policies and actions at one time or another Richard. You know this. There is no no one who has ever suggested this is antisemitism. Pre emptively or not. That is however incessantly denied.
If you do not challenge Israel's legitimacy or right to exist then may I suggest you make that very clear especially when you link to those who most certainly do and in fact have made a career of it . If you link it you own it. Otherwise repudiate it.
Like you would any other racist site and let me be clear about this. Perhaps even as late as 1947 antizionism could not necessarily be construed as antisemitism but by 2012 it most certainly is and increasingly many of us can see this and are saying so. That way lies terrible war.
If the word "Zionism" means anything at all in 2012 then antizionism is just another form of antisemitism.
There can be no escaping this.
Are you having difficulty making these basic moral distinctions ? Like Stephen Sizer?
Further And Very Last Update!!!
I've been banned.
From A British Methodist tea party. Story of my life.
Ah well. Can't complain I suppose.. I wasn't invited in the first place.
From A British Methodist tea party. Story of my life.
Ah well. Can't complain I suppose.. I wasn't invited in the first place.
I've been banned for anti non-antisemitism or something but I like to think it was for being impolite.
geofffffff: “If the word “Zionism” means anything at all in 2012 then antizionism is just another form of antisemitism” is just plain silliness. You’ve made your last comment on this thread.
Six "f"s.?
This fella is not stuffing around. That's more "f"s than there are "s"s in supersessionism Even I have only got up to five and that was after a particularly bad night.
Anyway we persevere :
My comments on his blog have read by Richard and now by you but have been shielded from his readers.
It's odd isn't it?
It's odd isn't it?
Antizionism is the new antisemitism.
The notion is so offensive to them that they ban it.
Or at least condemn it to what I guess is Methodist purgatory. The "awaiting moderation" box. I had a Christian aunt like that. A lovely old lady.
Or at least condemn it to what I guess is Methodist purgatory. The "awaiting moderation" box. I had a Christian aunt like that. A lovely old lady.
10.03.12 at 10:49 pm
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Perhaps it might help to clarify your thinking if you defined what you mean by “Zionism”.
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10.03.12 at 11:04 pm
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Is antizionism the new antisemitism?
Of course it is and I’m in good company in believing this.
“St. Paul’s Church is a historic site. Here, not only Martin Buber and Ernst Bloch, but also Alexander Mitscherlich and Thomas Mann, Amos Oz and Boualem Sansal were honored with prizes – each a worthy recipient. And today: Professor Judith Butler.
“But what happens? Frankfurt’s mayor takes to his heels and not only the Jewish community in Frankfurt, but also the Central Council of Jews in Germany boycott the ceremony. And even those who have supported Professor Butler with a petition, have thereby simultaneously signed a text which takes its distance from her. And with good reason!
“Prof. Butler openly says what she wants. Her most recent book, Parting Ways. Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism, concerns the Middle East conflict. In it, she makes it clear that she thinks the world would be a better place if there were no longer a Jewish state. Prof. Butler does not call for a Palestinian state next to Israel, but a bi-national, Muslim-dominated state instead of Israel.”
Matthias Kuntzel
10.03.12 at 11:04 pm
[comment deleted: You aren't listening. I did tell you that you'd made your last comment in this thread. I'm probably being unreasonable, but whatever you post here seems to arrive on at lat 3 other sites as well so I dare say you'll live. ~Richard]
I am listening Richard.
I'm ignoring you is all.
Not really.
Just not doing what you tell me to do is all.
I will of course join the conversation again on another thread if you will have me and the opportunity presents but for now allow me please to extract the last from the ban on this thread.
Thanks for that by the way. Nothing like a good ban to get the page views clicking..
I guess that's important for a political blog.
......
It's curious though how sacred it is to them -- the notion that at this stage of this old and ugly game it is alright to vilify Zionism while simultaneously holding that this is not antisemitism of the most vile kind.
What the hell do they think Zionism is?
It's as if their minds are warped in some place in history rather than in the here and now.
It's also as if nothing has happened in the last hundred years and that global Jewishness is not a very different thing now in every sense to what it was in 1912.
What is that Orwell said about Doublethink? The ability to hold with equal conviction two diametrically opposing positions in the same time and space.
Maybe that was the Dr Who corollary. Anyway there's a lot of it about and in particular it seems on this remarkable and critical issue for humankind..
Whether Israel is worth it. Should Israel just.. you know .. go away.
It's a moral question for them because they must know Israel thinks Israel is worth it and there are enough others who think the same to make the issue the subject of a serious shooting war if Israel was not already serious enough on her own.. That should be the end of rational discussion.
It should be the end of any internal conflict as well you should think especially if they are Christians and therefore bound by religious conviction to be on the side of peace. That way lies war. This way lies the best chance for peace. Accept it. Live with it. Celebrate it.
Maybe then they will get the message.
And yet they go on and on.
Imagine for a moment that it was within their power to dismantle Israel. . You can be certain Western antizionists of all stripes do or fantasise about it more likely. . No doubt while reading all those books by self flagellating Jews. You can almost see Antony Loewenstein drooling. . It's quite disgusting, If it wasn't for Balfour and Oslo it would be about the greatest fraud since 1912.
They keep on going back to the same ring of names. You could name all the antizionist intellectuals who present as Jews and who present in English and probably a few others as well from memory. They keep on popping up all the time. They keep on keeping on. There has to be a market for the pictures. Maybe that's what U-Tube is about.
It does not impress me in the slightest that these men and women who vilify Israel and talk of its removal are Jews. Why should it. Does it impress you? Why is it that they behave as if it should impress anyone. Why does it impress them?
Haven't we moved beyond that. What are they thinking? That the Jews are a tribe? That some how they are different?
In most cases they are committed Communists or other party line political extremists anyway. Israel and the Jews are not even the start of what they would push under a passing bus if they could. A fair sprinkling of the others are fringe religious lunatics with no place in politics and since they don't even vote should count not at all.
Why are they so fascinated by Jews attacking Israel and the Jews? They have been pondering the Jewish soul for evidence that it does not include Zionism at Connexions and I reckon that's fair enough..
But to take some kind of comfort in the fact that so many in the Israel is evil and must go camp are Jews, something beyond Schadenfreude, is to not only not get modern Jewishness as it is in the here and now but frankly is to exhibit something pretty creepy.
Which is enough for a separate post . I'll leave this here and send it to Richard on the banned thread where I'm being punished for anti non-antisemitism.
I may as well take advantage of this banned thing while I can so here goes:.
Antizionism is the new antisemitism.
Shut up you guys. That is banned in polite circles.
I'm ignoring you is all.
Not really.
Just not doing what you tell me to do is all.
I will of course join the conversation again on another thread if you will have me and the opportunity presents but for now allow me please to extract the last from the ban on this thread.
Thanks for that by the way. Nothing like a good ban to get the page views clicking..
I guess that's important for a political blog.
......
It's curious though how sacred it is to them -- the notion that at this stage of this old and ugly game it is alright to vilify Zionism while simultaneously holding that this is not antisemitism of the most vile kind.
What the hell do they think Zionism is?
It's as if their minds are warped in some place in history rather than in the here and now.
It's also as if nothing has happened in the last hundred years and that global Jewishness is not a very different thing now in every sense to what it was in 1912.
What is that Orwell said about Doublethink? The ability to hold with equal conviction two diametrically opposing positions in the same time and space.
Maybe that was the Dr Who corollary. Anyway there's a lot of it about and in particular it seems on this remarkable and critical issue for humankind..
Whether Israel is worth it. Should Israel just.. you know .. go away.
It's a moral question for them because they must know Israel thinks Israel is worth it and there are enough others who think the same to make the issue the subject of a serious shooting war if Israel was not already serious enough on her own.. That should be the end of rational discussion.
It should be the end of any internal conflict as well you should think especially if they are Christians and therefore bound by religious conviction to be on the side of peace. That way lies war. This way lies the best chance for peace. Accept it. Live with it. Celebrate it.
Maybe then they will get the message.
And yet they go on and on.
Imagine for a moment that it was within their power to dismantle Israel. . You can be certain Western antizionists of all stripes do or fantasise about it more likely. . No doubt while reading all those books by self flagellating Jews. You can almost see Antony Loewenstein drooling. . It's quite disgusting, If it wasn't for Balfour and Oslo it would be about the greatest fraud since 1912.
They keep on going back to the same ring of names. You could name all the antizionist intellectuals who present as Jews and who present in English and probably a few others as well from memory. They keep on popping up all the time. They keep on keeping on. There has to be a market for the pictures. Maybe that's what U-Tube is about.
It does not impress me in the slightest that these men and women who vilify Israel and talk of its removal are Jews. Why should it. Does it impress you? Why is it that they behave as if it should impress anyone. Why does it impress them?
Haven't we moved beyond that. What are they thinking? That the Jews are a tribe? That some how they are different?
In most cases they are committed Communists or other party line political extremists anyway. Israel and the Jews are not even the start of what they would push under a passing bus if they could. A fair sprinkling of the others are fringe religious lunatics with no place in politics and since they don't even vote should count not at all.
Why are they so fascinated by Jews attacking Israel and the Jews? They have been pondering the Jewish soul for evidence that it does not include Zionism at Connexions and I reckon that's fair enough..
But to take some kind of comfort in the fact that so many in the Israel is evil and must go camp are Jews, something beyond Schadenfreude, is to not only not get modern Jewishness as it is in the here and now but frankly is to exhibit something pretty creepy.
Which is enough for a separate post . I'll leave this here and send it to Richard on the banned thread where I'm being punished for anti non-antisemitism.
I may as well take advantage of this banned thing while I can so here goes:.
Shut up you guys. That is banned in polite circles.
I've Seen The Future, Brother -- It Is Murder
geoffff
Give me back my broken night
My mirrored room, my secret life
It's lonely here,
There's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
Over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
That's an order!
Give me crack and careless sex
Take the only tree that's left
And stuff it up the hole
In your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother
It is murder.
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it has overturned
The order of the soul
When they said repent repent
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent repent
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent repent
I wonder what they meant
You don't know me from the wind
You never will, you never did
I'm the little Jew
Who wrote the bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
But love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
Any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
It is murder.
Things are going to slide
There'll be the breaking of the ancient
Western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
And the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
Hanging upside down
Her features covered by her fallen gown
And all the lousy little poets
Coming round
Tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
And the white man dancin'
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
Or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby
It is murder.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
As If The Poor Bastards Haven't Been Through Enough...
geoffff
... Antony Loewenstein has been to Haiti
"I travelled around Haiti to investigate the role of the American government, NGOs, foreign corporations and the Haitian authorities in keeping the country deliberately on its knees, dependent on outside forces, economically weak and politically insecure.
"After seeing Papua New Guinea, Pakistan and Afghanistan this year, Haiti defines the toxic reality of disaster capitalism. It’s an ideology that operates largely out of the public eye and with stunning efficiency. The political and media elites sell it as "development", a helping hand for poor nations that just happens to enrich multinationals.
"What I saw in Haiti I also witnessed in the other places: the uncanny ability of NGOs to exaggerate a situation to ensure a never-ending flow of donor aid and weak, local politicians who are still adjusting to a quasi-democratic reality after decades of US-backed dictatorship." [my bold]
The toxic reality of disaster capitalism?
It may be he is talking about those speculative bio-med start-ups I bought in a few years back.
My comment:
Oddly, Antony has missed an opportunity to celebrate a great example of the better angels of our nature that always shows at times of horrible disaster even though he is uniquely placed to do this.
He has to I suppose so as the portray the simple human urge to lend a neighbour a hand at a terrible time as something sinister. At least US AID was and is there. At least Clinton was and is there.
None of Loewenstein’s friends were there when the people badly needed help on the ground and it is not a good sign if they are showing up now.
For one little country, not even a particularly close neighbour, the relief effort was huge and stout. Israel was among the first to respond on a scale big enough to make a difference.
Within days the IDF and civilian agencies were able to deploy:
A field hospital, the only hospital in operation, with 40 doctors, 25 nurses, paramedics, a pharmacy, a children’s ward, a radiology department, an intensive care unit, an emergency room, two operating rooms, a surgical department, an internal department and a maternity ward. The hospital can treat approximately 500 patients each day
A search-and-rescue team, which has rescued people from under the rubble
.
Dozens of truckloads of medical and logistical equipment
220 personnel in total
.
Dozens of truckloads of medical and logistical equipment
220 personnel in total
For this, the Israelis were libelled in the usual racist ways by the usual racists. This is largely because of the culture of hate and dumb pointless grievance that so many have devoted meaningless careers to spreading.
I suppose it pays the rent and apparently the travel is good for those who like travel.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Perilous Times
geoffff
Your President threatens us all as surely as Neville Chamberlain did in 1938.
It is a celebration of the ascent of civilisation that in a few weeks American Jews will have the opportunity to help vote him back in or out of office even as a new one thousand year Dark Age descends on the Middle East like an ocean fog.
Please vote him out of office for the sake of us all. Not because you are Jews but because you are Americans.
hat tip Shirlee
cross posted Israel Thrives
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