Politics & Stuff

[Fulham Broadway 16,923]

Ever since the fall of the Ottoman empire theres been a grand plan to divide and rule separating sunnis and Shias

....and even now its often overlooked that the 9/11 Trade Centre hijackers were in the majority Saudis.

[Roquila 1,335]

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

F*ck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

- The legendary Banksy.

[Fulham Broadway 16,923]

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

F*ck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

- The legendary Banksy.

Funnily enough was thinking about that today, and how its perfectly legal(well in the UK anyway, dont know about where you are), to deface advertising billboards. I got my eye on 4 that are going to be 'rewritten' with spray paint anytime soon. Checkout Subvertise.

[Roquila 1,335]

Funnily enough was thinking about that today, and how its perfectly legal(well in the UK anyway, dont know about where you are), to deface advertising billboards. I got my eye on 4 that are going to be 'rewritten' with spray paint anytime soon. Checkout Subvertise.

Unfortunately my people doesn't care about these things. People here are like sheeps, they follow whoever is the leader(People with woney). BUT! Everytime something big happens(like the Serbia - Albania game or even a holiday) we all ignore the police and riot all night long and tear the cities down. I guess thats the real face of my people. If given the oppertunity everyone and their brothers will cause havoc.

When we got independant in 2008 i was 14 years old, i got drunk and puked on every policeman i could find in the streets, not that there were many left. Good ol' days.

[Fulham Broadway 16,923]

Unfortunately my people doesn't care about these things. People here are like sheeps, they follow whoever is the leader(People with woney). BUT! Everytime something big happens(like the Serbia - Albania game or even a holiday) we all ignore the police and riot all night long and tear the cities down. I guess thats the real face of my people. If given the oppertunity everyone and their brothers will cause havoc.

When we got independant in 2008 i was 14 years old, i got drunk and puked on every policeman i could find in the streets, not that there were many left. Good ol' days.

Yeah people need to act together to make change, following someone , like a politician who has money is usually a mistake.

[cosmicway 1,333]

After a few lagers, decided all religions are basically death cults, killing logic and reason and elevating superstition and wilful ignorance. Its fashionable for Western liberals to accept mainstream Islam, whatever that is. ISIS crucifies christians and slaughters shias, but theres no bleating about Christianphobia or Shiaphobia in the Middle East. A pox on all religion, its purveyors and defenders. of all stripes

Still, handy for the US to divide and conquer, depose Assad and push that pipeline through from Qatar to deny the Russians a fat chunk of the European energy market

Only the communists are against religion.

Why they do this ?

Used to look strange to me because throughout history there were countless numbers of rulers who installed their own bishops and lived happlily ever after.

Why then communists not do the same but sought to deny people the hope of salvation ?

The answer seems to be this:

Church represents a higher authority -or thinks it does. So even the bishop-party man at some point in time was likely to come forward and say "listen here tavarich Jozef Vissarionovitch, your policies are rubbish and the people are hungry".

To avoid this and make their rule absolute, they decided to attack the worlds religions.

The fanatics are a different kettle of fish, but they are basically heretics.

Religion teaches love-tolerance and wants us to live in peace, not the opposite.

[Fulham Broadway 16,923]

Only the communists are against religion.

Why they do this ?

Used to look strange to me because throughout history there were countless numbers of rulers who installed their own bishops and lived happlily ever after.

Why then communists not do the same but sought to deny people the hope of salvation ?

The answer seems to be this:

Church represents a higher authority -or thinks it does. So even the bishop-party man at some point in time was likely to come forward and say "listen here tavarich Jozef Vissarionovitch, your policies are rubbish and the people are hungry".

To avoid this and make their rule absolute, they decided to attack the worlds religions.

The fanatics are a different kettle of fish, but they are basically heretics.

Religion teaches love-tolerance and wants us to live in peace, not the opposite.

Its not only communists who dont believe in religion. There are fascists, liberals, rational people, humanists, anarchists an endless list. There are also communists who are religous. To me its fine if people want to believe in supernatural entities, just not for me, and organised religions like all cults can be dangerous.

[cosmicway 1,333]

Its not only communists who dont believe in religion. There are fascists, liberals, rational people, humanists, anarchists an endless list. There are also communists who are religous. To me its fine if people want to believe in supernatural entities, just not for me, and organised religions like all cults can be dangerous.

There were endless television debates in Greece in the years 2002-2003 over the issue of id cards, whether to include the holder's religion or not.

Those who were in favour of omitting religion were 90% communists, 8% who called themselves dodecatheists -the ancient religion- and 2% muslims-catholics-Jews.

[Fulham Broadway 16,923]

There were endless television debates in Greece in the years 2002-2003 over the issue of id cards, whether to include the holder's religion or not.

Those who were in favour of omitting religion were 90% communists, 8% who called themselves dodecatheists -the ancient religion- and 2% muslims-catholics-Jews.

Interesting. I would be opposed to any idea of id cards. Ken Bates wanted one for Chelsea fans

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Israeli-American political crisis? Nah, I don't buy it. It's just that the Israeli government's actions, particularly in Al Quds, have become inexcusable even for the the shifty US regime that can justify almost anything. They'll get the UN to 'condone' Israel (I bet that has them shaking in their boots!) and the stealing of land, burning of olives, killing of protesters...etc. will continue.

[Fulham Broadway 16,923]

Israeli-American political crisis? Nah, I don't buy it. It's just that the Israeli government's actions, particularly in Al Quds, have become inexcusable even for the the shifty US regime that can justify almost anything. They'll get the UN to 'condone' Israel (I bet that has them shaking in their boots!) and the stealing of land, burning of olives, killing of protesters...etc. will continue.

Exactly we've heard the huff and bluster before on Capitol hill. 'Seen to be doing something' about the Palestinian ''problem'' and actually adressing the slaughter and discrimination is something else. Empty rhetoric is cheap.

[twobanger 13]

Is there a post missing? The only thing they're talking about here is that someone in the Obama administration called Netanyahu a "chicken shit".

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Ex-CIA director, James Woolsey, talking about the "Arab Spring"....in 2006!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Re the 'apparent' Israeli-American political crisis, this simply brilliant article by Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery is a must read for anyone remotely interested in American politics, particularly foreign, the middle east and the Israeli-American relations:

WHEN A high-ranking official of one country calls the leader of another country "chickenshit," it may be assumed that the relations between the two countries are not at their best. In fact, they may be considered somewhat less than cordial.

This week, It happened. An unnamed very high-ranking US official said this in an interview with the respected American journalist who bears the very Jewish name of Jeffrey Goldberg.

No high-ranking official would use such a term for publication without the express permission of the President of the United States of America. So here we are.

HISTORY HAS seen many strange relationships between nations. But I dare say none stranger than that existing between Israel and the US.

On the face of it, no two states could be closer to each other. Just a minor example: the day the memorable Chickenshit remark made headlines, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution calling upon the US to put an end to its 50-year old embargo on Cuba. 188 countries, including the whole spectrum of EU and NATO countries, voted in favor. Two states voted against: the US and Israel.

Two countries against the entire world? No, not entirely. Micronesia, Palau and the Marshal Islands abstained. (These three mighty island nations generally support Israel, too, though few Israelis could place them on the map.)

Throughout the years, in hundreds of UN votes, Israel has stood loyally with the US, and vice versa. An unshakable alliance, so it seemed. And now they call our valiant Prime Minister chickenshit?

THE OFFICIAL based his uncomplimentary remark on Binyamin Netanyahu's disinclination to bomb Iran, as threatened repeatedly, as well as on Netanyahu's unwillingness to make peace with the Palestinians.

The first accusation is unfounded, since Netanyahu never seriously considered an attack on Iran. Some of my readers may remember that from the first day I assured them that such an attack would not happen, without even leaving myself a loophole in case I might be wrong. I knew that such an attack was quite out of the question. And not only because the entire Israeli defense establishment was against it.

The second accusation is even more groundless. Netanyahu did not chicken out of making peace. This would presuppose that he wanted peace in the first place. If the Americans really believe so, they should read a few good articles (especially mine).

Netanyahu never entertained even for a moment the idea of making peace. His entire upbringing makes this quite impossible. His late father, Ben-Zion, was such an extreme and rigid nationalist, that compared to him Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Zionist right-wing leader, looked like a leftist pacifist.

Every word Binyamin Netanyahu has ever uttered in favor of peace and the Two-State solution was a blatant lie. For him to advocate a Palestinian state is like the Chief Rabbi advocating eating pork on Yom Kippur.

Any American diplomat who does not know this should be transferred at once to Micronesia (or Palau).

LATELY IT seems that Netanyahu has been doing everything in his power to provoke a quarrel with the US government.

At first sight, this looks like an act of lunacy, an act so dangerous that any competent psychiatrist would commit him to the closed wing of an asylum.

Israel is totally dependent on the US -- not 99%, but 100%. On the very same day as the publication of the Chickenshit statement, the US agreed to sell Israel a second squadron of F-35 fighter planes, after the sale of the first 19 planes (which costs 2.35 billion dollars). The money comes from the yearly tribute the US pays to Israel.

Without the automatic US veto on all UN Security Council resolutions not approved by the Israeli government, there would have long been a State of Palestine as a full-fledged member of the UN. A cornerstone of our foreign relations is the belief of many countries that in order to gain entrance to the favors of the US Congress, they first need to bribe the gatekeeper -- Israel. And so on.

Literally every Israeli is convinced that our relationship with the US is the lifeline of the state. If there is anything at all on which Israelis of all age groups, communities, beliefs and political orientations are unanimous, it is this conviction.

So how come our prime minister is working full-time on destroying the relationship between the two governments?

When our Minister of Defense, Moshe Ya'alon, visited Washington DC this week, all his requests to meet US cabinet ministers and other high officials were categorically refused, except for a meeting with his colleague, Chuck Hagel, who could not very well object. It was an unprecedented, open insult.

Ya'alon, a former Chief of Staff of the army, is not considered a genius. Some believe that it would have been better if he had stayed at his former profession -- milking cows in a kibbutz. When he declared that John Kerry suffered from an "Obsessive Messianism" in his efforts to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine, both Kerry and President Barack Obama were deeply offended.

But such statements by Israeli cabinet ministers have become routine. So have the sharp rebuttals of official US spokesmen and spokeswomen. These are ignored by the Israeli public.

BINYAMIN NETANYAHU is no fool. Chickenshit or not, unlike Ya'alon he is considered smart and intelligent. So what is he doing?

There is method in his madness.

Netanyahu grew up in the United States. When his father was boycotted by Israeli academia, which refused to take him seriously as a historian, the family moved to a suburb of Philadelphia. Binyamin prides himself on having an intimate knowledge of the US.

What is he thinking about?

He knows that Israel controls the US Congress. No American politician could possible be reelected if he voiced even the slightest hint of criticism of the "Jewish State." AIPAC, the most powerful lobby in Washington (apart from the National Rifle Association) will see to that. The powerful grip the Jewish lobby has on the media is a further guarantee.

In Netanyahu's view, in any confrontation between Congress and the White House over Israel, the President is bound to lose. So there is nothing to be afraid of.

NETANYAHU, IN FACT is playing roulette with all the capital of Israel in the vast casino called the USA. Perhaps he has been infected by his mentor and protector, the Casino Czar Sheldon Adelson, who has a hand in conducting Israeli policy in the US.

(It was Adelson who appointed the Israeli ambassador in Washington, Ron Dremer, a prominent activist of the Republican party, who is detested by the White House.)

In order to appreciate the magnitude of Netanyahu's gamble, with us as chips, one has to visualize the state of the union.

The US is now a dysfunctional democracy.

In a normal democracy -- say the UK or Germany -- there are two central parties, or party coalitions, which face each other. They are both "mainstream" and the differences between them are minor. They succeed each other from time to time without much ado. The citizens hardly notice.

Not in the US. Not anymore.

The American public is now deeply divided between two camps, which hate each other from the bottom of their hearts (if they have any). This hatred is abysmal. One is the party of the ultra-rich, who defend their privileges, the other belongs to the moderately wealthy and serves their interests.

The ideologies of the two camps are diametrically opposed. Therefore, they cannot agree practically on anything. Anything the Democrats do is considered almost treason by the Republicans, anything the Republicans advocate is considered by the Democrats as stupid, if not crazy

The Republicans, who control Congress (and may do so even more firmly in a few days time) are out to immobilize the administration. Once they even stopped all federal payments, making the running of the state impossible. A consistent joint foreign policy is out of the question. I am not sure that the situation on the eve of the great Civil War was much worse.

INTO THIS crazy situation Netanyahu has plunged. He has placed all his chips (us) on the Republicans.

During the last presidential elections, he almost openly supported Mitt Romney, the opponent of Obama, thus practically declaring war on the present administration. The radical anti-Obama statements made now by Israeli leaders are used -- and designed to be used -- by Republican candidates against their Democratic opponents.

The Democrats make strenuous efforts to woo Jewish voters and donors by flattering Israel in the most outrageous terms, promising to support each and every action of the Israeli government, now and for all eternity, be it what it may. Inadvertently, they stick knives into the back of the Israeli peace forces, making the fight for peace even more Herculean.

But even if the mid-term elections make the House and the Senate even more subservient to the Israeli right-wing, Obama will be around for two more years. In a way, having no more elections to fear, he will be freer than before to obstruct Netanyahu.

I wish he would. But I do not entertain too much hope. Even as a lame duck, he will still have to consider the interests of the next Democratic candidate for the White House.

OBAMA COULD still do a lot for peace between Israel and Palestine, a peace supported by the entire pro-American Arab bloc -- something clearly in the US national interest, not to mention ours.

For that, courage is needed. And -- yes -- a little more Obsessive Messianism.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Chickenshit-by-Uri-Avnery-Congress_Israel-Firsters_Israel-Lobby_Israel-Runs-Washington-141101-731.html

Absolutely spot on all accounts

[Fulham Broadway 16,923]

Re the 'apparent' Israeli-American political crisis, this simply brilliant article by Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery is a must read for anyone remotely interested in American politics, particularly foreign, the middle east and the Israeli-American relations:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Chickenshit-by-Uri-Avnery-Congress_Israel-Firsters_Israel-Lobby_Israel-Runs-Washington-141101-731.html

Absolutely spot on all accounts

he is so right, Netanyahu is so confident of Israel control of US decisions he can play advocate, criticise with imnpunity

[CHOULO19 24,332]

he is so right, Netanyahu is so confident of Israel control of US decisions he can play advocate, criticise with imnpunity

They AIPAC are more powerful than Obama himself in Washington. He knows that.

[Fulham Broadway 16,923]

They AIPAC are more powerful than Obama himself in Washington. He knows that.

Same as Friends of Israel in the UK parliament, which are cross party members

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Same as Friends of Israel in the UK parliament, which are cross party members

Similar maybe but not the same. Because in the US, those lobbying groups are the ones who create the legislations and make the decisions and basically run the country. Neither party would ever dare piss off either or all the money goes to the opposing candidates. For example, someone like George Galloway would NEVER get elected in the US. I feel there's more room for diversity in the UK. The democracy is not nearly as dysfunctional as in the US.