How it once was under Arafat!

Can the two sides reconcile their differences and become unified?

Israel and the U.S. hope not!

Friends, I regret to announce that the U.S. and Israel have suffered a calamitous catastrophe. It is one that is so far-reaching that the effects will probably be felt for centuries.

I refer of course to the seeming reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas which, though it is fraught, brings to a potential end the bitter conflict between these two Palestinian organizations.

When Fatah refused to accept their defeat to Hamas and began to seek to curry favour with the Israelis and their subjects: the Americans, the Palestinians suffered a huge reversal in fortunes. They became split and, as everyone knows, ‘divided we fall.’

The Israelis and the Americans did triple somersaults to encourage the split and Fatah, renouncing everything they had fought for for decades, began to make deals with the Israelis, collaborating with them with disgusting ardor.

The result of this has been that the Palestinians have gone backwards and backwards and perhaps have reached the stage where they have no chance of achieving their own State or any sense of independence.

While the capitulation of Fatah has continued, the Israelis have furthered their land-stealing and the building of illegal settlements in the West Bank. Fatah, as if to reward this illegality, have worked with Israeli security forces against their own people. Israel has also worked to ensure the siege of Gaza was perfect and guaranteed that the Gazans suffered mightily.

But, despite all this collaborating and bribing, it appears that the Palestinians have finally realized that they have been played for suckers, that the actions of the U.S. and Israel were directed towards making the split between Fatah and Hamas as wide as the Grand Canyon.

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Most Americans are growing in the dark!

Friends, a case could be made that most Americans are suffering from serious mental delusions, delusions which may be verging on insanity. How do I arrive at this conclusion, you ask? Please consider the following:

1. Americans, in the main, still believe that they live in a democracy when it is obvious that their Congress is controlled by Corporations, AIPAC, and the MSM. Many still think that Hanging Chad was a movie!

2. After the tribulations of George W Bush and Obama, they are again lining up to get involved in the farce that is the Presidential election whereby some hirsute stooge of the military/industrial/plutocratic Oligarchs will be elected and ensure that the rich get richer.

3.  American Idol is getting 51 million votes and is the highest rating show in America. It shows that the priority of Americans is not world affairs or the loss of workers’ rights and conditions but trivia.

4. Americans, 60% of them, don’t believe in evolution but accept that the Garden of Eden and an apple was how the world began. How many of them still believe in the tooth-fairy is unknown.

5. Americans still believe that they have a two-party Government when it is obvious to the rest of the world that the Republicans and the Democrats are almost identical and serve the interests of the rich and infamous and the Rifle Association!

6. Most Americans can’t understand why the world dislikes them even though they think they are fighting wars all over the world to set people free. They can’t get their heads around the fact that their Government supports most of the dictators that oppress their people and their Government is engaged in glaring imperialism, a word which most Americans don’t comprehend the meaning of.

7. Most Christian Americans believe in supporting Israel even though it was the Jews that organized the death of Jesus who they believe is their Saviour and it is the Jews who claim they are the Children of God and everyone else is an inferior gentile.

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“The United States will be destroyed, land and people, by atomic bombs and radioactivity. Only the Hopis and their homeland will be preserved as an oasis to which refugees will flee. Bomb shelters are a fallacy. It is only materialistic people who seek to make shelters. Those who are at peace in their hearts already are in the great shelter of life. There is no shelter for evil.

Those who take no part in the making of world division by ideology are ready to resume life in another world, be they Black, White, Red, or Yellow race. They are all one, brothers.”

Hopi legend has it that the above will be the fate of the the United States.

History tells us that when the white men came to the Brave New World, they slaughtered most of the indigenous population as well as the bison. They even used their army, which had rifles, cannons and machine guns, against native people who fought only with bows and arrows and spears. The results were predictable and America from its inception was deeply covered with Indian Blood.

One wonders whether elitist America, one day, will suffer the same fate as they visited upon the American Indians; whether, one day, white Americans will pay the ultimate price for the Indian blood they spilled on the American mainland as well as the blood they later spilled in other lands that were and are far removed from their homeland.

It is said, those who live by the sword, die by the sword.

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Friends, these two people live in the same world. One person is obviously negatively affected by it while the other has managed to find something in it that brings a smile of happiness.

The happy person does not allow the infinite number of problems the world has to impact her life. This is not to say that she isn’t aware of them but she doesn’t allow them to cloud her life. Look at her eyes, see how they sparkle. They are alive, filled with optimism. Her face is relaxed as is her body.

The man is very upset by something. He might have missed out on a promotion or another driver may have pinched his parking spot or he may have seen his wife walking with another man or one of his kids might have failed an exam or his shares have just dropped in value or he’s just spilled hot coffee in his lap! Whatever, his blood pressure is high and his body is stressed, a damaging state. Look at his hands!

These two photographs show how we can choose to be. We can either react negatively or positively to everything happening around us, life’s ups and downs which we all experience everyday.

The choice is yours! Choose wisely. Your longevity depends on it.

“And this is how you repaid my sacrifice! Begone, you nest of vipers!”

“DAVID GRAYLING: The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said that humans are naturally diabolical and corrupt. Juan Donoso, a medieval catholic realist priest, said that humans are naturally corrupt, diabolical, and driven to absurdities and sexual perversions, that they can only behave under an iron fist. And Machiavelli said that the human passions all thru history are all the same: envy, greed, corruption and evil.”

Friends, the above was part of a reply written by Tennessee Maoist to a comment I made on ICH which mirrored my despair about humans and the current world. The quotes he used seem to suggest that  he agrees with me that we humans are deeply flawed and getting worse.

Given that it is Easter, I wonder how Jesus would feel if he returned today and saw what the world had become. Perhaps a better question would be how he would feel if he saw that nothing had changed, that humans were the same as they were 2011 years ago, when, after he spent his life trying to convince people to put aside their ‘envy, greed, corruption and evil and chose love’, he was put to death in an incredibly cruel way.

As Jesus came down the stairs from heaven or peeped out of his tomb, I wonder what he would make of Guantanamo and water boarding or the use of cluster bombs and napalm and phosphorous shells and landmines and depleted uranium explosives or the urging of Christians to nuke Iran so as to initiate the Second Coming.

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Friends, Easter is a time for bunnies. Bunnies can have two or four legs. The two-legged ones can be found over the Easter period sitting in large stone buildings that have steeples and loud, clanging bells.

Inside the buildings are Head Bunnies who dress in robes and speak to the congregation about many things, none of which are supported by any evidence other than an old book. The congregation does not care that there is no evidence because the Head Bunny is offering them life everlasting, life where there is no trials and tribulations, life in heaven with angels. Who wouldn’t want to believe that?

Lots! There are lots of non-bunnies who don’t want to believe that, who think religion is unreal, a fabrication. These non-bunnies feel sorry for the believing bunnies because they know there is no such thing as life after death. So they spend their lives enjoying the here and now while they can.

Regardless, there are billions of believing bunnies in the world. They visit temples, synagogues, mosques, all manner of edifices built to glorify the god that doesn’t exist. Different groups of believing bunnies fight other groups who worship different gods. Blood is spilled but each believing bunny believes they are the ones who follow the one true god, the one that doesn’t exist.

The non-bunnies can’t understand why the believing bunnies all talk about loving their neighbor while they engage in killing them. It is a complete mystery to them, perhaps a triumph of wishful thinking over intelligence.

Which ever group you belong to, may peace be yours this Easter.

UPDATE: One of the world’s biggest bunnies, Bunnikins Obama, has sent drones to Libya in a generous Christian Easter gesture. I sure hope all Libyans, whether pro or anti-Gaddafi, take note and cancel all weddings, baptisms, birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, etc.

Those good old boys operating the drones in California will blow up anything that moves!

Exhaustion is chiseled into the face of this Libyan Rebel Fighter.

The carnage goes on and on!

Friends, the U.S. maintains its very unusual position of not getting too involved in Libya (but who knows how much it is involved behind the scenes) and this can only mean that either it is trying to clean up its black imperial image or it has finally accepted that its ‘borrow and spend’ splurge is over (which means it is close to bankruptcy). Of course, both scenarios might be true!

The threat of a credit downgrade seems to have had a strong  effect on the nation that was once the world’s richest and fierce arguments are going on in Congress about whether borrowing limits can be breached or not.

Obama is seen as a failure when his achievements are measured against his pre-election promises and this could prove important during the next eighteen months as the farcical Presidential battle rages. That Donald Trump is being touted as a possible contender gives it the Three Stooges look. If Frump gets in I swear I’ll sell my television set! His hair is an obscenity!

It seems that France and Britain are now the American proxies and they, looking back into their colonial past, are beating the war drums although they are stopping short of putting boots on the ground but instead are sending advisers to try to form the rebel rabble into some form of cohesive force.

Perhaps that will change in the near future as Gadaffi seems to be in the ascendancy at this point in time and is getting petrol for his tanks in spite of the U.N. sanctions. The rest of NATO seems to be reluctant to get involved in what many are calling a civil war.

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Fan dancing is very popular in China and Korea!

The Pope seems to have been caught up by it!

Friends, this photograph of the Pope caught my eyes this morning. I was astonished. Has the Pontiff gone crazy, I thought? Has wearing that heavy hat finally caught up with him?

Of course, fan dancing is popular all around the world. It features in many musicals and is very traditional in China and Korea to name but a few countries. It is very good for your health and requires a lot of energy as well as lots of sinuous moves and erotic gestures.

So why was the Pope out there with his fan? Was he going to dance across the front of the Church, waving his lemon fan with gay abandon while his robes flared up around his knees (sorry, the word ‘gay’ is not appropriate I know but it goes with abandon like bacon goes with eggs)?

Were the congregation going to be issued with fans which they would wave while singing Ava Maria? Were the choir boys going to tap dance the fandango accompanied by drumming guitars and castanets?

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The Kiwi nation got top marks for its low homicide rate and the level of respect for human rights. It replaces Iceland, which has seen an increase in violence and violent demonstrations following the banking collapse that engulfed its economy in September.

Nordic nations dominated the top of the chart, with Denmark, Norway and Iceland coming second, third and fourth, followed by Austria and Sweden. Australia came in at 18th.

Professor Clements, director of New Zealand’s National Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, said the index was a pretty good reflection of countries people want to live in. “If you look at the top 20, they are all small nations based on strong welfare principles, all with good and relatively non-corrupt governance,” Prof Clements said.

At the the bottom of the list was Iraq, which was ‘saved’ from catastrophe by the U.S.. It sits below Afghanistan, Somalia and Israel, followed by Sudan, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Pakistan, Russia and Zimbabwe. The position of Russia is rather curious!

Britain made 35th place, a slight improvement on the previous year, while the United States came in 83rd, six places up the ladder from 2008. Given its involvement in countless wars, how it is not further down the list is something we’ll never know!

Anyway, the point of this post is that being the world’s most peaceful nation should be the major aspiration of every country in the world. And what about the prize?

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This rocket launcher is mounted on a pickup truck!

This untrained rebel fighter had a grenade go off in his hand.

Friends, according to Reuters this morning, the U.S. and its Allies believe that neither side can win in Libya, not Gaddafi or the untrained, leaderless Rebels. All that will happen is that hostilities will continue forever.

Now just imagine how the people who make weapons  must feel about this good news. It means that demand for their products will increase and continue into the future. Break out the champagne!

We now have wars in Iraq (it’s not finished there yet), Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen,  etc, and battles for freedom in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, Somalia and many other places.

War and battles require weapons and people control systems. This will make the U.S., Britain, France, China, Russia, Israel and countless other countries who make weapons delirious.

It clearly shows just how sick our world is, how insidious the idea of war and violence is, how accepted it is by most people in the world. The reason why is obvious.

We are all brought up with the idea that war is necessary, that to die in war is patriotic, that soldiers are heroes (not killers), that war and massacres solve problems (but not for the losers).

Even normally intelligent, gentle and well-educated people hold this view, so strong is the indoctrination, so well have we been groomed to worship the insatiable God of War.

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