Showing posts with label genocide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genocide. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Happy National Genocide Day!

In 1637 the body of a white man was discovered dead in a boat. Armed settlers -- which we tell our children were God fearing, gentle, sharing, kind Pilgrims -- invaded a Pequot village. They also set the village, which included many children, on fire. Those who were lucky enough to escape the fire were systematically sought, hunted down and killed. While many, including historians, still debate what exactly happened this day, also known as the Pequot Massacre, it directly led to the creation of "Thanksgiving Day." This is what the governor of Bay Colony had to say days after the massacre, "A day of thanksgiving. Thanking God that they had eliminated over 700 men, women and children."

William B. Newell, a Penobscot Indian and former chairman of the Anthropology Department at the University of Connecticut stated, "Gathered in this place of meeting, they were attacked by mercenaries and English and Dutch. The Indians were ordered from the building and as they came forth were shot down, The rest were burned alive in the building. The very next day the governor declared a Thanksgiving Day. For the next 100 years, every Thanksgiving Day ordained by a Governor was in honor of the bloody victory, thanking God that the battle had been won."

So when you sit down to dinner this year, look at your family, serve the food and tell each other what you are most thankful for, think about the origins of Thanksgiving. Think about the countless Native Americans who lost their lives so you can carve a turkey and get the best deals on Black Friday. Say a prayer for them, especially the children, who died simply because of the color of their skin.

*Excerpt from Happy National Genocide (Thanksgiving) Day! 
by Nicole Breedlove
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicole-breedlove/thanksgiving-pequot-massacre_b_4337722.html


Tuesday, August 21, 2012

The Parasite (For Buffy) - Eugene McDaniels

 
Harry Whitaker - piano
Gary King - electric bass
Miroslav Vitous - acoustic bass
Alphonse Mouzon - drums
Richie Resnikoff - guitar

Carla Cargill - female vocals



Sunday, January 29, 2012

On Zionism

Lord Balfour addressed the Balfour Declaration to Lord W. Rothschild of the Zionist Federation. If one investigates deeper into who Lord Rothschild was, and the role that The House of Rothschild has maintained in the world throughout history and into current times, one might conclude that converting to Judaism and then stating you now have a right to land promised by God to the Jews seems like a very thinly veiled business plan, and a very underhanded attempt at playing on people's sympathies and emotions to manipulate ownership over a very key location in terms of geopolitics and economics.

On November 1918 a very large group of Palestinian Arab dignitaries and representatives of political associations addressed a petition to the British authorities in which they denounced the declaration. The document stated:

"...we always sympathized profoundly with the persecuted Jews and their misfortunes in other countries... but there is wide difference between such sympathy and the acceptance of such a nation...ruling over us and disposing of our affairs."

As mentioned in the above PowerPoint Presentation, Israel has a VERY strong lobby in the US. It has a powerful influence on American politics, economy, the military-industrial complex ($8.2 MILLION in military aid funnel from America to Israel PER DAY**), foreign policy, and of course The Media. This last element is the most important in terms of keeping the American people passively ignorant to their business in our affairs. After all, if the majority knew what an influence this foreign power has in us, and how much of our money supply is spent on Israel and the manufacture of their weapons (which include nuclear ones) - most would demand a change in policy.

There is a revealing short documentary on the manipulation of the American media by Israel titled "Peace, Propaganda And The Promised Land" and it is viewable free in its entirety here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2165626245072381061

Zionism has always been a topic that greatly interests me, primarily because it is a phenomenal example of the power of propaganda at its most powerful. The state of Israel has engaged in apartheid, colonialism, terrorism, and all types of genocide with the absolute support, protection and blessing of the United States. You and I support and pay for this, through our taxes and through the corporations we blindly hand our money to on a daily basis.

Israel has been successful in using sympathy of the Jewish diaspora and the holocaust in order to strike down critics and label them anti-semitic. But the fact is that Judaism is a religion and Zionism is a political movement. Church and State are important to see separately in the issue of a Zionist state, yet through very careful propaganda tactics this political movement has been successful in obtaining occupations that continuously spread and multiply.

As the journalist and documentarian John Pilger said, "Fascism is a difficult word, because it comes with an iconography that touches the Nazi nerve and is abused as propaganda against America’s official enemies and to promote the West’s foreign adventures with a moral vocabulary written in the struggle against Hitler."

More and more Palestinians are forced off their land over time, particularly in 1948, and again in 1967, but all the while there is less and less land and resources available for Palestinians. They have become refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the LONGEST MILITARY OCCUPATION IN MODERN TIMES. And when they rise up against Israel’s huge military regime, they are shown only as "terrorists" by Western media (although they, unlike Israel, have no army, no American tanks, no American planes and gunships or missiles).

Thanks to the United States, Israel is now one of the largest military powers in the entire world. Yet, when we hear about weapons of mass destruction, and "brutal terror regimes," and the "spreading democracy" in the world from our news sources and politicians - how often do they remain silent on Israel? ALWAYS. This is incredibly ironic considering the apartheid in Palestine and the very obvious genocide that is happening everyday. If Iran is a danger because of the development of nuclear weapons, how can the fact that Israel (who continuously ignore UN resolutions time and time again and even have violated several of the Nuremberg Principles,*** as well as the principles of the Geneva Conventions) is constantly receiving funding and support from the United States?

It has been time and time again by many, that there can never exist Peace in the World, until there is Peace in Palestine. By continuous evidence through the UN it seems that while most of the nations in the world wish to see that Peace manifest through a two state solution, the United States wishes to find peace only through the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people and the emergence of one single State of Israel, whose borders will continue to grow across the Middle East, through its steady abundance of American funding and weaponry.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine

** The source for US military aid to Israel during Fiscal Year 2011 is the Congressional Research Service’s “U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel,” written by Jeremy M. Sharp, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs, updated September 16, 2010.

*** The source for these violations are outlined in the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/specialsession/9/factfindingmission.htm


More info here:

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/settlements.html

Norman Finkelstein's documentary:

http://www.americanradicalthefilm.com/

If Americans Knew:

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/trailerq.html


PLO/Fatah's Nazi training was CIA-sponsored:

http://www.hirhome.com/israel/cia-fatah.htm

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Censorship by Omission

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict provides much clear evidence that the media game is rigged against Arabs in the United States. This video illustrates how (aside from the vast abundance of financial and military support (by way of weapons) the United States showers onto Israel in aid of the Palestinian genocide) PERHAPS THE MOST CRITICAL AID is the one-sided spin of misrepresentation that American mainstream media dishes out to keep citizens here ignorant and complacent.

After all, if the majority of Americans knew the atrocities and war crimes being committed constantly by Israel onto the Palestinian people, they might have a problem with things - like for example ,the U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel for fiscal 1997 was $5,525,800,000.

Shirl McArthur wrote in the May 2003 issue of Washington Report.*

McArthur's article, "A Conservative Tally of Total Direct U.S. Aid to Israel: $97.5 Billion - and Counting" tallies the hidden costs, such as interest lost due to the early disbursement of aid to Israel and funds hidden in other accounts. For example, Israel received $5.45 billion in Defense Department funding of Israeli weapons projects through 2002, McArthur says.

Loans made to Israel by the U.S. government, like the recently awarded $9 billion, invariably wind up being paid by the American taxpayer. A recent Congressional Research Service report indicates that Israel has received $42 billion in waived loans. "Therefore, it is reasonable to consider all government loans to Israel the same as grants," McArthur says.

Support for Israel has cost America dearly - well over than $10,000 per American.*


This seems to play out as a major motive for Israel to manipulate and distorts American public perceptions. The United States has been considered Israel's most powerful and supportive ally and accounts for around 25% of Israel's military occupation (and genocide) of Palestine.

Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied territories appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one.

If you don't have time to watch the entire film, at least take a careful look at 48:08 - 50:05 in the film. This is one instance (amongst many others in the film) very clear picture of how Israel's American PR Campaign works their magic in our media and therefore understanding of the situation:
48:08 - 50:05




Further info:
* http://wrmea.org/component/content/article/245-2008-november/3845-congress-watch-a-conservative-estimate-of-total-direct-us-aid-to-israel-almost-114-billion.html

Watch free on Google Videos: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2165626245072381061

Monday, June 6, 2011

Israel will be spilling over into Syria next. There was talk of this during one of Chomsky's more recent lectures. When I see stories like this bullshit piece published it only seems that much more certain. If Israel is so concerned about "dangers" on their borders, they should stop expanding them daily!

I heard a fluff piece on NPR a couple months ago how Syria is being violent towards its protesters and how the US is vigilantly watching this scenario as the tensions build. I wonder how much longer until NATO starts bombing the Syrians in the name of democracy. There has been escalating propaganda on these stories over the past few months as the U.S. uses sanctions to squeeze the country, creating higher and higher tensions and more and more protests.

Speaking of which, what would the US Government do if true protests and civil disobedience sprang up here in the US? Would rubber bullets, tear gas and police brutality count as violence by the government against protesters? If so, would NATO begin airstrikes on DC?

Thanks to GMO foods, media brainwashing, and psychotropic drugs running rampant here in emerica - we will probably never know...