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"Under a law passed by the U.S. Congress, any democratic government that is the victim of a military takeover is to be denied U.S. military and economic aid. Obama still has not cut off the economic and military aid to Honduras as he is required to do under this law."
Michael Parenti, The Honduras Coup: Is Obama Innocent? - July 8, 2009.
"This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip. President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that's exactly what we tried to do."
Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman.
"The aid we were carrying is a symbol of hope for the people of Gaza, hope that the sea route would open for them, and they would be able to transport their own materials to begin to reconstruct the schools, hospitals and thousands of homes destroyed during the onslaught of Operation Cast Lead."
Mairead MaGuire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner for her work in Northern Ireland.
See Pirates of the Mediterranean: Israel Kidnaps Peace Boat Crew - July 1, 2009.
Also see The Free Gaza Movement.
THOUGHTS FOR JUNE
Yesterday, by a vote of 46 to 11, the Oregon House passed SB 676, a bill that permits production and possession of industrial hemp and trade in industrial hemp commodities and products.
"I am glad that Oregon has joined the list of states that have agreed that American farmers should have the right to re-introduce industrial hemp as an agricultural crop," says SB 676 sponsor, Sen. Floyd Prozanski. "By passing SB 676 with strong bi-partisan support, the Oregon Legislature has taken a proactive position to allow its farmers the right to grow industrial hemp, to provide American manufacturers with domestically-grown hemp, and to profit from that effort."
The Oregon Senate passed the bill by an overwhelming majority vote of 27 to 2 on June 19.
Vote Hemp is optimistic that Governor Kulongoski will sign the bill. Oregon would become the ninth state to authorize regulated hemp farming under state law.
See Oregon Passes Hemp Bill - Becomes Sixth State in 2009 to Take Action - June 30, 2009.
Also see Marijuana and Hemp Control.
"Certainly most of the automobile industry, the airlines, 37 out of 50 states, are bankrupt. The lending industry, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac are bankrupt. Insurance giant AIG, bankrupt. The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, or PBGC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, Social Security including Medicare and Medicaid are rapidly approaching insolvency. ...
In 1929 personal and corporate debt had risen to 365% of Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, before the Crash. We are now at 375% of GDP. ...
The worldwide market (if you could call it that) or value of CDS (Credit Default Swaps) is in the neighborhood of 600 trillion dollars, or 10 times the entire World's yearly economic output. How the banks and insurance giants are to clear their balance sheets of these toxins is no mystery. They cannot. ...
The TARP was a fraud from the start, but it has bought the powers that be some time. Time, time for what? ...
The Fed Chief, Treasury Secretary, Congress and the President are lying to us. We are bankrupt and they know it."
Roy F Grieder, The Coming Economic Apocalypse - June 28, 2009.
"Watching the protesters in Tehran, many Americans feel a strong sense of empathy, exhilaration and hope. I strongly share those feelings, especially since I know firsthand the danger the protesters face from government thugs on motorcycles, provocateurs and the secret police. But none of this should blind us to the likelihood that our own government is dangerously meddling in Iran's internal affairs and playing with the lives of those protesters."
Steve Weissman, Iran: Who's Diddling Democracy? - June 18, 2009.
Paul Craig Roberts, Iran falling to U.S. PSYOPS? and here - June 24, 2009
James Corbett, Soros, the CIA, Mossad and the new media destabilization of Iran and here - June 23, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts, Are You Ready for War with a Demonized Iran? - June 16, 2009.
"...getting through the noise, hoping to find snippets of interest in otherwise flat and formulaic programs, and having to endure the densely-packed relentless advertisements and product placements, and not knowing whether a news segment is canned from an industry consultant, invites a vacation from an already limited resort to my TV. There are so many other things to do and learn and evoke than watching screens."
Ralph Nader, Is TV Worth the Transition? - June 13, 2009.
Also see TV & Films
Digital TV: Mind Control by the Sound of Silence
TV-B-Gone.
"The World Health Organization declared the first flu pandemic of the 21st century (raising its pandemic flu alert to phase 6 on a six-point scale) on Thursday (06/11/09), urging countries to shore up defenses against the virus which is "not stoppable" but has proved mainly mild so far."
Reuters, WHO declares first 21st century flu pandemic - June 11, 2009.
See Virus Invasions.
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, about Chile prior to the CIA overthrow of the democratically elected government of socialist President Salvadore Allende in 1973.
"Our love of peace perhaps is greater than in the case of others, for we have suffered most from war. None of us wants to threaten anybody, but we all are determined to obtain the security and equality of our people. ...
Germany has solemnly guaranteed France her present frontiers, resigning herself to the permanent loss of Alsace-Lorraine. She has made a treaty with Poland and we hope it will be renewed and renewed again at every expiry of the set period.
The German Reich, especially the present German Government, has no other wish except to live on terms of peace and friendship with all the neighboring States."
Adolf Hitler on May 21, 1935 - speaking to the German people two years and four months after becoming Chancellor.
THOUGHT FOR MAY
"The Israel Lobby apparently succeeded in convincing the Obama Justice (sic) Department that it is anti-semitic to accuse two Jewish AIPAC officials, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, of spying. The Israel Lobby succeeded in getting their trial delayed for four years, and now Attorney General Eric Holder has dropped charges. Yet, Larry Franklin, the DOD official accused of giving secret material to Rosen and Weissman, is serving 12 years and 7 months in prison.
The absurdity is extraordinary. The two Israeli agents are not guilty of receiving secrets, but the American official is guilty of giving secrets to them! If there is no spy in the story, how was Franklin convicted of giving secrets to a spy?
Criminalizing criticism of Israel destroys any hope of America having an independent foreign policy in the Middle East that serves American rather than Israeli interests."
Paul Craig Roberts, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel: The End of Free Speech? - May 7, 2009.
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Eighteenth century American revolutionaries have devolved into our current breed of citizens: American delusionaries. It actually makes perfect sense. Now that we're the American Empire, we must live in a constant state of denial about what our government really does. Otherwise, we'd either go crazy (if we had a conscience) or we'd feel the need to do something about it. It's much easier (and safer) to pretend that our government is not thoroughly corrupt - even when there's overwhelming, contrary evidence staring us directly in the face.
An example of this evidence can be found in a particular unresolved issue. Its glaring contradictions continue to haunt us, and it explains the mindset of our thoroughly corrupt duopoly.
"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."
Arundhati Roy, Come September - September 29, 2002.
Since the end of WWII, the U.S. has bombed China (1945-1946), Korea (1950-1953), China (1950-1953), Guatemala (1954), Indonesia (1958), Cuba (1959-1960), Guatemala (1960), Congo (1964), Peru (1965), Laos (1964-1973), Vietnam (1961-1973), Cambodia (1969-1970), Guatemala (1967-1969), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), El Salvador (1980's), Nicaragua (1980's), Panama (1989), Iraq (1991-1999), Sudan (1998), Afghanistan (1998), Yugoslavia (1999), ... and none of these "democratic" intrusions has resulted in a democratic government respectful of human rights.
William Blum, A Brief History of U.S. Interventions.
"The United States maintains 737 military bases in 130 countries across the globe. They exist for the purpose of defending the economic interests of the United States, what is euphemistically called 'national security.'"
Dan Hamburg, Why There Was No Exit Plan, April 30, 2007.
"The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain ...Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia were the top buyers."
U.S. Is Top Arms Seller to Developing World.
Also see Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1999 - 2006
Bush's Global Arms Trade and Unchecked Arms Trade Fuelling Conflict, Poverty.
"Saddam had his big castles; they symbolized his power and were places to be feared, and now we have the castle of the power that toppled him."
Iraqis See Red as U.S. Opens World's Biggest Embassy - April 24, 2008.
"The federal government has gained approval to build a new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security in the nation's capital.
The Washington Post reports the 3.4 billion dollar facility would be one of the largest construction projects in the DC area since the building of the Pentagon back in the 1940s.
Supporters say it will bring economic activity to one of the poorer sections of the city, while providing a safe workplace for 14,000 Homeland Security workers.
Approval Won for New Homeland Security Headquarters - January 9, 2009.
Also see H. R. 645: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations - January 22, 2009.
"Taxpayers will get a see-through Berlin Wall right here in America and the city that stands for freedom and democracy the world over will be transformed into a gated community."
Editorial, Gated America - September 4, 2001.
"Local landowners realized that the fence's location had everything to do with politics and private profit, and nothing to do with stopping illegal immigration."
Melissa del Bosque, Holes in the Wall - February 18, 2008.
Also see U.S.-Mexico "Virtual Fence" Ready
Spy Towers on U.S. Border
Virtual Fence Along Border to Be Delayed
Environmental Rules Waived For Mexican Border Fence
Challenges Arise to Border Fence Project
The Twisted Logic of the Border Wall
"Neither Israel nor the United States are willing to countenance a serious political solution to either occupation, which would entail addressing the core political issue that is driving each insurgency: ending the foreign occupation. ...Like the Palestinians, Iraqis will be sequestered within walled enclaves so that the political and economic occupation can remain in place. ...One of the great ironies in all of this is the willful failure of both Israel and the United States to learn the fundamental historical lesson of the French in Algeria: that they could have negotiated a withdrawal far earlier and spared all this bloodshed and violence."
Steve Niva, The New Walls of Baghdad - April 28, 2008.
"Asked to name two countries that, in their view, posed the "biggest threat" to them, a whopping 95 percent and 88 percent of respondents named Israel and the U.S., respectively. That compared to 85 percent and 72 percent, respectively, in late 2006.
By comparison, the sense of threat posed by Iran appears to have diminished over the same period. While 11 percent of Arab respondents named Iran as one of the two greatest threats in late 2006, only seven percent did so in the most recent survey."
Jim Lobe, Attitudes Toward U.S. Worsen in Arab World - April 15, 2008.
"The fact is: There is an alliance between America and Israel in the war on Islam. They are both determined to establish Israeli control over Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple where the Dome of the Rock now stands - and the Palestinians are in the way. This is the core issue behind the current 'War on Islam' disguised as a 'War on Islamic Terrorists' and more recently, 'War on those who hate our civilization.'"
Laura Knight-Jadczyk, The Most Dangerous Cult in The World - July 30, 2005.
"In June 1967, we had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that [Egyptian President] Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him."
Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1982, describing the start of the Six-Day War - the armed conflict between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
See USS Liberty Vet Awarded the Silver Star - June 2, 2009.
"Never before in the history of the United States Navy has a Navy Board of Inquiry ignored the testimony of American military eyewitnesses and taken, on faith, the word of their attackers."
Captain Richard F. Kiepfer, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy (retired), USS Liberty.
Also see: Declaration of Ward Boston, Jr., Captain, JAGC, USN (Ret.)
The American Ship They Just Couldn't Sink: A Photographic Essay of Israel's Treachery.
"The Jewish state has been treated by the USA as a holy land beyond criticism, and often beyond rational thought. The Palestinian people were thrown out of their homeland, into refugee camps, or forced to live in Israel as second-class citizens, maligned and forgotten souls who had done nothing to incur the vengeful wrath that was visited upon them, and has grown worse over the years."
Frank Scott, Israel: Time to boycott, divest and sanction - March 26, 2008.
Also see Should the U.S. End Aid to Israel? - April 4, 2008.
"So there is a problem and that problem is that the United States is just not a functioning democracy. Public opinion does not matter, and among articulate and elite opinion that is a principle -- it shouldn't matter. The only principle that matters is we own the world and the rest of you shut up, whether you're abroad or at home."
Noam Chomsky, We Own The World - January 1, 2008.
"I wouldn't go to war again, as I have done, to protect some lousy investment of the bankers.
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket."
Major General Smedley Butler (1881-1940), Smedley Butler on Interventionism.
"Years ago, I declared that there was only one war in which I would enlist -- and that was the war of the workers of the world against the exploiters of the world. I declared moreover that the working class had no interest in the wars declared and waged by the ruling classes of the various countries upon one another for conquest and spoils."
Eugene V. Debs, convicted in 1918 under the Espionage Act and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
See The Canton, Ohio Speech - June 16, 1918 and The Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive.
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears, upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who
run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
Mario Savio, U.C. Berkeley, December 2, 1964.
"The normal legislative process that should accompany a monumental proposal (Treasury Secretary Paulson's $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008) to bail out Wall Street has been shelved. Yes, shelved! Only a few insiders are doing the dealing. These criminals have so much power they can shut down the normal legislative process of the highest lawmaking body in this land. All the committees that should be scanning every word that is being negotiated have been benched. And that means the American people have been benched. We are constitutionally sworn to protect this country against all enemies foreign and domestic, and yes, my friends, there are enemies.... The people who are pushing this bill are the very same ones who are responsible for the implosion on Wall Street. They were fraudulent then; and they are fraudulent now. We should say 'No' to this deal".
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), September 29, 2008.
"The obligation is not to be personally pure. The obligation is to effect a measurable change."
Ward Churchill, The Satya Interview, April 2004.
"There is only one group effecting a measurable change in this country: The Bush Cabal."
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Thomas Paine
"The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America."
Thom Hartmann, The Real Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt - April 15, 2009.
"If the framers of the Declaration of Independence - if Jefferson or Henry or the others - if they could look down upon the country and see what their offspring has done to it, how they have outraged it, how they have robbed it, how they have polluted it - why, my friends, they would turn in their graves. They would rise again, and they would
cleanse this country from its internal enemies, and that is - the ruling class of the United States."
Emma Goldman,
Speech Against Conscription and War, June 14, 1917.
The Emma Goldman Papers
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ...That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
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