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Ferre
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The Heart of “Terror”
By: Bill Noxid
09/22/06 "Information Clearing House"
It’s unfortunate that we are still subjected to non-news in this country. I have no question it is a temporary condition that is running out of time faster than I could have imagined. The world at this point is evolving exponentially. “Revolution” is breaking out all over the planet and our media is as usual focused solely on the plight of one white child.
Without a doubt, everyone in this country should be watching the U.N. General Assembly. You can be sure the rest of the world is. This is just another example of why people in this country can’t understand why the rest of the world doesn’t “agree” with us. In order to have any kind of dialogue or “understanding” at all is it necessary to at least hear the other perspective before you conclude it must be wrong or “insane”. Americans tend to have considerable resistance to such logic.
However the rest of the world is not resistant to this logic and never has been. In fact it’s the only explanation for the current state of the world. Americans have always been given the opportunity to speak and have been given the benefit of the doubt.
As a direct result of the world’s openness and forgiving nature, the United States has been able to maneuver itself ( certainly not by honorable means ) into what “appears” to be the sole position of power on the planet.
Again, this is pure self delusion and the only reason it can and continues to exist is by the deliberate and consistent effort to avoid seeing anything else. Coverage and commentary on the speeches over the last two days is a prime example.
If you’re American, the only thing you know about this two-day event is that George Bush spoke for twenty minutes. He reminded us that 9/11 happened within the first twenty-one seconds of his address ( in case you had forgotten ) and then proceeded to tell us the same thing he has said from the moment this campaign began. The mainstream media’s coverage of this United Nations event has consisted of the same clip of George Bush dozens of times.
What you don’t know if you are an American is that a great many others are speaking as well. In fact as what can be construed as another example of disregard for the International Community as a whole, the president’s tardiness precluded him from being the first speaker as was originally scheduled.
As a result, the first speaker was the representative from Brazil. For those of you who haven’t seen it, I strongly recommend you visit CSPAN and watch it for yourself. It was a beautiful speech to open the new U.N. session with. He made a statement replete with the wishes of the world and offered simple and plausible resolutions to the sufferings of the planet. He spoke of the world’s unified desire to live without oppression and in harmony and was met with a standing ovation when he left the stage. In the first ten minutes of the new session, the U.N. spoke for the world… And then came George…
I won’t regurgitate what George said. He does it just fine for himself and Lord knows he gets enough coverage… But you know what he said. He spoke of the “terrorists” coming to get us. He spoke to the “people” of the countries we have invaded and told them not to believe the “propaganda” that the U.S. is terrorizing them. He told them that “terrorists” live amongst them. He explained that the “peace” they had before they were invaded was not “real peace” and that somehow we were bombing them for their “freedom”.
If you are American, what you don’t know is that George Bush is the only one who holds this opinion. Almost without exception, every other speaker from every other country had a message of peace and unity and freedom from oppression.
The reason for this global disparity in “opinion” is easy to understand. While we in this country continue to cry “terror, terror, terror,” the rest of the world has figured out that they are the “terrorist”. Every time America is in fear of loosing it’s “freedom”, they are the ones who are punished for it. What makes it impossible for Americans to understand is that we have never ( without exception ) been in that position.
The world is tired, and with good reason. We never see it in this country, but the world has been at war for as long as anyone can remember. Oppression has existed for as long as Man has, and we in this country are intentionally oblivious to that fact. We stay oblivious to that reality because to accept it would radically change our way of life and our false opinion of ourselves. Our entire economy is based on slave labor and that should be obvious to anyone who takes five minutes to look. In the event you weren’t aware of it ( for example ), the beans for that five dollar cup of Starbucks coffee you drink were picked by slaves who make two dollars a week. If you have doubts about this reality, I encourage you to look up the things you use on a daily basis. If you find yourself surprised by who, how, and where they are made, it is only because of the denial of which I speak.
So while we in this country continue to defend a false reality, the actual reality of our actions and “way of life” is no longer acceptable to the rest of the world. They have already decided… We as Americans just don’t know it yet. The world is quite tired ( and rightfully so ) of being told the only answer to any problem is bombs… Particularly when American problems are the only ones ever addressed and the bombs are always pointed at them.
This is not a struggle… it is already done. The World has decided. The World is self-aware and has already decided what the future is. We, as Americans, have to graciously accept that. No war will change the nature of this reality. Bombing one more country’s infrastructure will not make us one more friend and it’s time we accept and understand that.
This is not all bad news for the American Dream. As I said before, the World is remarkably forgiving. The World does not want revenge on us. The World doesn’t want to kill us. The World only wants to Live Free. We ( not as Americans but as Global Citizens ) have as much right and are as welcome to this new reality as anyone one else. But certainly it is something that we must join as opposed to demanding as we always do that the rest of the world join us.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15069.htm
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Great article Brother Ferre. Thank you for posting that!
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| Great post. Many thanks. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject: Capitol Hill Blue - Wow! |
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The terrorist who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
September 25, 2006 6:04 AM | Rant | 19 Comments .
By DOUG THOMPSON
In George W. Bush's perverted, pathetic, partisan view of the world, anyone who disagrees with his lunacies is not only wrong but unpatriotic - a traitor who cannot be trusted and a voice of dissent that must be silenced.
In recent weeks, a growing number of Republicans have joined the loyal opposition, telling the President, mostly in private, he is dead wrong to wage his illegal invasion of Iraq while refusing to appear with him in public because they are scared shitless that his escalating unpopularity will rub off and end their miserable careers in elected office.
Now Bush has a new set of "enemies," ones that are neither partisan nor political in their assessment of his failures but provide a sobering look at just what a miserable failure his Presidency has become and verifies what many have known for months - that the actions of this madman has placed this country in harm's way more than any acts of terrorism that have been waged on our shores or elsewhere in the world.
The National Intelligence Estimate, a compilation of information from seasoned professionals in the many spy agencies that now exist in this country, concludes that Bush's war in Iraq has increased the threat of terrorism against the United States and the world, putting to bed the President's longstanding lie that he has made the world a safer place by waging war against those who had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Completed in April, the NIE is the first intra-agency assessment of the terror threat worldwide since the invasion of Iraq and it concludes that Bush's dirty little war there has spawned a new generation of terrorists bent on revenge against the United States and those who support our war mongering.
"It's a very candid assessment," one intelligence official told The Washington Post, "It's stating the obvious."
Obvious, apparently, to everyone except George W. Bush and the lemmings who follow him. The Bush administration continues to claim, falsely, that the war in Iraq has reduced the threat of terrorism against the United States.
It's a lie, like just about all the verbal diarrhea that spills out of the mouth of Bush, destined to become the most despised, most venal and most rights-robbing President of modern times if not in the entire history of the American democratic republic.
"Together with our coalition partners, we've removed terrorist sanctuaries, disrupted their finances, killed and captured key operatives, broken up terrorist cells in America and other nations, and stopped new attacks before they're carried out. We're on the offense against the terrorists on every battlefront, and we'll accept nothing less than complete victory," Bush claimed earlier this month.
"Bullshit, total bullshit," says a friend who works in the intelligence community. "It doesn't take a code-level security clearance to know the President is lying when he claims we have reduced the threat of terrorism. We've increased it by quantum leaps and we add new enemies every day in Iraq, in Afghanistan and in the rest of the Mideast because of our failed and flawed policies. When the next major attack comes - and it will come - it will be planned and financed by those who had no real beef with America before we invaded Iraq."
The White House, spinning the conclusions of the report the best way it can, says the conclusions support the President's position that America cannot withdraw from Iraq because doing so would open the door for terrorists who exist there. Such spin, of course, ignores the fact that we created the environment for these terrorists and now use their existence to justify our original illegal actions based on false information.
The military has an acronym for this: FUBAR, which stands for "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition" (or "Repair" depending on the branch of military involved). In Bush's case it should be changed to "Fucked Up Beyond All Reality."
The reality is that America is less safe today than it was on September 10, 2001, and that decline in our security stems from a threat that lives not in a cave in Afghanistan but in a suite of rooms on the second floor of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
© Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill Blue
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Truth is elegant in it's simplicity.
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I agree Mystic. What you say reminds me of when I learned to do magic working at a magic shop. Sometimes the truth is so simple people wouldn't believe you if you said it.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Good article indeed.
I just posted something similar to this in another thread before reading.
Keep in mind things may be changing here as well.
I'm no fan of the Democrats, first off.
But, if they take the elections here, in 2006, it is going to scare the Republicans shitless.
Why, you ask?
Because the chances of the Democrats pushing ahead with war crimes charges against the Bush Administration is a very, very strong possibility.
Have no doubt, why Bush is scrambling like a pig in the mud, to change the language of Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
I do not trust those who are bought off with corporate dollars, whether democrat, republican, or independent, but this is certainly a start. |
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With Republicans, we get EMPIRE.
With Democrats, we get Empire-lite.
But, with Empire-lite, we might be able to begin, again, to start to make some changes.
The Repubs need to be stopped now.
We can fret over the Dems later. And we WILL. They suck too.
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Ya know it seems like everybody who is not an American has a lot to say about how we think. For me I like to see some facts as opposed to opinion. I read a lot all over the net about "Bush the Devil" and how Americans are stupid cattle. Correct me if I'm wrong in this but this is my perception. Ever stop to think we might be pissed off too. I don’t like being afraid of getting shot or put in jail for my belief in freedom. So I am a quiet little calf grazing around so I don’t get et. So to give you something to read ..... Something that is facts and not opinion. This shows that the real danger is not the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. They are just puppets of the more powerful. Bush will be gone in a few months and we will have a new puppet in there that will be just as bad in a different way. We are still f*ck$d. Well...on to the reading.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17142
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