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The IDF are thugs and bullies.
An Israeli human rights group has accused Israeli forces of illegally arresting a five-year-old Palestinian boy, Wadi Maswadeh, for throwing a stone at a car in Hebron.
Video on page http://news.sky.com/world
Keeping New Yorkers safe or keeping them frightened?
“On your way to work Tuesday, you may have drifted through a cloud of a harmless perfluorocarbon gas, part of a gigantic anti-terror study carried out by Brookhaven National Laboratory with the NYPD.
The study, called the “largest urban airflow study ever,” is meant to follow the trail of airborne chemical, biological and radiological weapons throughout the city.”
Form: http://www.brooklyneagle.coharmless perfluorocarbon gasm/articles/only-test-gas-released-nyc-subways-tuesday-2013-07-09-202700
I would love to have been a fly on the wall when the geniuses planned that one. This “harmless perfluorocarbon gas” aside from being potent greenhouse gas, is shown in data from animal studies of PFOA to cause several types of tumors and neonatal death and may have toxic effects on the immune, liver, and endocrine systems.
More on Flourocarbons at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorocarbon#Environmental_and_health_concerns
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@Komodo. 8 40am
Komodo, for a giant, flesh-eating reptile you are a true gentleman. Now that the deceiving Kibo is my servant I’ll happily celebrate with you tonight. Pork sounds great!
More about politics, its place, causes and effects and political excitement. Particularly important in the context of whistle-blowing where perhaps the whistleblower is reconciling with deeper levels of consciousness. But yet another caution to those who think collective political activism will produce a better world. Or to news-junkies who think they are making a real difference, pause for thought.
“He was a very famous politician, realistic, intensely sincere and ardently patriotic. Neither narrow-minded not self-seeking his ambition was not for himself, but for an idea and for the people. He was not a mere eloquent tub thumper or vote catcher; he had suffered for his cause and, strangely, was not bitter. He seemed more of a scholar than a politician. But politics was the bread of his life, and his party obeyed him, though rather nervously. He was a dreamer, but he had put all that aside for politics. His friend, the leading economist, was also there; he had intricate theories and facts concerning the distribution of enormous revenues. He seemed to be familiar with the economists of both the left and the right, and he had his own theories for the economic salvation of mankind. He talked easily, and there was no hesitation for words. Both of them had harangued huge crowds.
Have you noticed, in newspapers and magazines, the amount of space given to politics, to the sayings of politicians and their activities? Of course, other news is given, but political news predominates; the economic and political life has become all-important. The outward circumstances – comfort, money, position and power – seem to dominate and shape our existence. The external show – the title, the garb, the salute, the flag – has become increasingly significant, and the total process of life has been forgotten or deliberately set aside. It is so much easier to throw oneself into social and political activity than to understand life as a whole; to be associated with any organized thought, with political or religious activity, offers a respectable escape from the pettiness and drudgery of everyday life. With a small heart you can talk of big things and of the popular leaders; you can hide your shallowness with the easy phrases of world affairs; your restless mind can happily and with popular encouragement settle down to propagate the ideology of a new or of an old religion.
Politics is the reconciliation of effects; and as most of us are concerned with effects, the external has assumed dominant significance. By manipulating effects we hope to bring about order and peace; but, unfortunately, it is not as simple as all that. Life is a total process, the inner as well as the outer; the outer definitely affects the inner, but the inner invariably overcomes the outer. What you are, you bring about outwardly. The outer and the inner cannot be separated and kept in watertight compartments, for they are constantly interacting upon each other; but the inner craving, the hidden pursuits and motives, are always more powerful. Life is not dependent upon political or economic activity; life is not a mere outward show, any more than a tree is the leaf or the branch. Life is a total process whose beauty is to be discovered only in its integration. This integration does not take place on the superficial level of political and economic reconciliations; it is to be found beyond causes and effects.
Because we play with causes and effects and never go beyond them, except verbally, our lives are empty, without much significance. It is for this reason that we have become slaves to political excitement and to religious sentimentalism. There is hope only in the integration of the several processes of which we are made up. This integration does not come into being through any ideology, or through following any particular authority, religious or political; it comes into being only through extensive and deep awareness. This awareness must go into the deeper layers of consciousness and not be content with surface responses.”
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=25&chid=61605&w=politics
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All possibly very interesting in the background of Snowden — be interesting what he has to say to the human rights groups today. I gather that Human Rights Watch has decided not to attend.
Kibo its a self-feeding frenzy we’re living in and have been forever. Technology makes it works and propagates our self-destruction. Will we ever break out of this vicious circle?
Technology makes it works and propagates our self-destruction. Will we ever break out of this vicious circle?”
works? meant worse! freudian slip?
slow and heavy start this morning — something in the air.
It’s the heat, Villager. And if I leave too many windows open at night, the place fills up with daddy-long-legs!
Fred at 9.46 last night. While there were undoubtedly commercial interests in Afghanistan the main purpose it now seems clear was to have a US spy and military station based there. I think Russia Today is being sensational when it says it is for War on Russia. It is much more likely that it just wants a station there to protect its interests in the region in its pursuit of world domination. And who is pulling the strings?
Andrew Kreig’s book Presidential Puppetry has at long last been released. There is a lot of information about the shady puppeteers, like Karl Rove, with details as to how electronic voting software can give the US a president who actually lost on the count. A worthy read. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
http://www.presidentialpuppetry.com/
Nothing to do with the above
“All the attention on superinsects has taken the major-media spotlight off of the “superweeds” that have evolved to shrug off copious doses of Roundup, the herbicide that’s supposed to make Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops immune to weed problems. But that doesn’t mean these thug weeds have stopped working their magic. They’re “gaining ground” in Iowa, heart of the US corn/soy belt, reports the Cedar Rapids-based Gazette. And farmers are responding just as they did in the South, where Roundup-resistant weeds have had been rampant for at least five years: with a chemical deluge.”
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/07/superweeds-and-superinsects-still-bedeviling-monsanto-crops
All this talk of the horrors of racism, the pilots labelled “South Korean”, racism against the Irish so subtle it can barely be discerned, and yet we have here, right here, on the Craig Murray blog, a real racist in the form of “English Knight” / “Hasbarista”, who makes no secret of desire to see all the Jews gassed. But for some extraordinary reason, this hardcore racist, displaying the oldest and most heinous racism in front of their very eyes, is left almost entirely unchallenged by the Murrayistas, while they are busy identifying new and ever diminishing forms of racism in the wider public sphere.
Which leads me to believe that for many of you, “anti-racism” is just a vehicle for your very one-sided politics. “Anti-racism” provides a supposed moral high-ground from which to give the British, whites, Europeans, “the West”, etc., a good kicking for all their perceived crimes. It can therefore be seen as just another form of prejudice.
Likewise, being a “human-rights activist” is all well and good, but when your activities are directed entirely at highlighting the abuses of the West, and not those of, say, Russia, China, Iran and Syria, it shows you are not really interested in human rights at all, but are again trying to pose as the righteous to further your one-sided agenda.
I could cite many more examples, but let me give this advice to any budding, would-be Murrayistas: make sure to encompass all human beings in your human rights activism. Understand that all peoples have racist attitudes towards others, that all governments commit abuses of power, that all peoples have subjugated and enslaved, and condemn all those abuses equally. The Arab slave-traders in addition to the whites, the Mughals as well as the British, Hamas as well as the IDF, China’s human rights record as well as America’s, the rebels and Assad. You get the picture. This way you will truly occupy the moral highground. And above all, try to avoid making ludicrous claims, like Flight 777 being sabotaged to take Snowden off the headlines, or Radio 4 is sexist because it interviewed Andy Murray and not Ms. Bartoli or that paying £57.50 to watch world-class tennis with a punnet of juicy strawberries constitutes “elitism”.
Finally, together we can kick racism out of this blog. So let’s say altogether now, Mary included:
“English Knight, your anti-Semitism is no longer welcome here. Hope not hate! Hope not hate! Hope not hate!”
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@Villager . 9 27 and 10 09am
“…another caution to those who think collective political activism will produce a better world. Or to news-junkies who think they are making a real difference, pause for thought…”
“…technology makes it works and propagates our self-destruction…”
Who’s in an optimistic mood this morning?
While Kibo remains trapped down the tunnels of Symplectic Khovanov Homology, I Sophia pull her strings. If she were able she would respond to you something like this…..
“Every moment, everywhere great wonders are achieved within our biosphere, whether by single cells, hives of bees, shoals of fish or any other self-organising system loosely termed as “living”. When information ceases being gathered, communicated and acted upon life and evolution comes to a grinding standstill. People and societies do it in diverse human ways, with whatever the technology available.
Evolution, like the tide is immune to our attitudes. If you don’t like people seeking to adapt evolve our society why do you engage at all?
You might enjoy reading Howard Bloom’s “Global Brain” for more detail on this complex and mysterious self-feeding frenzy.”
Must go. Got a biology project to check on.
Dreoilin, to be honest, i think what i’m feeling is a reflection of this denseness and murkiness of human consciousness. Combined with the inner struggle in creating clarity at the level of wholeness. Reconciling this some-times sense of hopelessness for mankind with the inner response to let go and work at one’s self. At a practical level, blame it on (outer) circumstances i have been neglecting my daily exercise and feel like a slug wallowing in inertia. Hence going out in the fresh air for an exercise walk — these daddy-long-legs need to move and create a different inertia. More later and have a lovely day!
And don’t worry about the daddy-long-legs, i reckon they are just harmless visitors.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10140948/George-Osborne-accused-of-lobbying-on-behalf-of-banks-for-weaker-regulation.html
Re Anon or “Anon”‘s patronising homily above, let me point out that I have challenged English Knight/Hasbarista/ [insert current sock here] more often than he/she/it has. And will continue to do so. Antisemitism is unacceptable to most of us here, as are apartheid policies and clandestine ethnic cleansing.
Is it a white supremacist neo-nazi, or (far more likely) something simply designed to stir the shit? Like the whiter-than white Anon (or “Anon”) it is probably best ignored completely.
Kibo, thanks for sharing your thoughts which i just read — typing v slow today. Will check out your recommended book too. Stay well!
Before you kill the daddy long legs, pause for a moment, examine yourself, try to recognize your irrational thoughts, the absolute irrelevance of both you and the daddy long legs in the grand scheme of things. See your fear for what it is, and nip it in the bud.
Have I got it right, Villager?
Ask yourselves: why has Anon (“Anon”) suddenly started spamming?
I was expecting “zionist troll” but white supremacist neo-nazi? A textbook Komodo overreaction!
“Why has Anon started spamming?”
Firstly, Komodo, I am not spamming and second, why don’t you tell us? Surely you have already concluded that I am a paid agent sent to disrupt the blog!
I suggest a bit of gentle relaxation with a copy of Krishnamurti and a punnet of strawberries.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/201371045810938681.html
I see I am mistaken in that it was “English Knight” you were describing as a white supremacist neo-nazi. Phew!
Good on you, Komodo. Hope not Hate!
http://www.imemc.org/article/65799
Why the obsession with Israel, Komodo? Have you learned nothing from my patronizing homily?
Ilan Pappé –
Today there are many similar cases throughout Israel but speaking out against Israeli policies as an academic has now become more difficult than before, since in 2012 a new law was passed in the Knesset. This law says that if you are an Israeli academic and you support openly the academic boycott of Israel or you speak against Israel’s policies and actions, they have to fire you or you could even be arrested. After all, a large number of Israeli academics against the occupation created the “Israeli Academic Committee for Boycott”. These people are suffering and will never be able to become professors or further their academic careers – but more importantly I think that they feel better than the others. After this draconian law was passed, even more people decided to speak openly against the Israeli occupation or apartheid and for now, nobody has actually been arrested. How can Israel speak about democracy when our supposed freedom of speech is being violated so clearly.
http://palsolidarity.org/2013/07/interview-with-ilan-pappe-the-basic-israeli-ideology-zionism-is-the-problem/?fb_source=pubv1
In non-Israel news, Edward Snowden has called for a meeting of human-rights activists at Moscow Airport. That means YOU, Craig! I hope you are well enough to attend.
“..lying was a cardinal sin.. -if I see untruthfulness, if I see a lie I have to react.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBYAy1eyZI
All true hasbaristas should buy their dates from Morrisons –
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-deas/uk-supermarket-sells-fruit-illegal-settlement-made-israel
Sinister private security group denounces Jews to the authorities:
http://electronicintifada.net/content/ei-exclusive-uk-charity-mossad-links-secretly-denounced-anti-zionist-jews-government/10717
“The entrenchment of the concept of the ‘new anti-Semitism’ [has] so extended the range of expressions of what can be regarded as anti-Semitic that the word anti-Semitism has come close to losing all meaning”
Exactly.
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Blair created an impression in Abuja, I see…
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/opinion/52825-reminiscing-on-blair-s-visit
No need to evict Boko Haram, then.
Not a matter of concern to the antimurrayistas, and, hey, ethnic cleansing is only a sin when carried out by people in Africa. Not the ME’s beacon of civilisation and democracy, with aspirations to join the EEC.
What it looks like there:
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/a-look-at-israels-ethnic-cleansing-zones.html
Tut, tut, Komodo, you’re not talking about me in the third person are you? I recall you took a very dim view of that when they did it to poor Russell!
Now what makes you think I think ethnic cleansing is only a sin when carried out by people in Africa. Is this just classic Komodo leaping to conclusions with little or no thought put into the process?