Failure In Fallujah!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8549745.stm
Bush ordered Fallujah to be essentially destroyed in 2004.


Tens of thousands of children have died directly as a consequence of Bush's war; a war of occupation, thirst for world domination and greed that was based exclusively on lies and deceit. In addition to the spike in birth defects, a whole generation of Iraqi children will face a lifetime of physical and emotional wounds. Based on a survey of 10,000 primary school students 70% of children are suffering from trauma-related symptoms reports the Iraqi Society of Psychiatrists and the World Health Organization.

"We The People" in the United States, must recognize that a government that spoke in our name committed some of the worst atrocities in modern times. And it continues to do so! We cannot and must not remain silent! Our leaders failed us and continue to do so by not ensuring that Bush & Co. are brought to justice!
CBS News reports, “Doctors and parents in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are blaming a sharp increase in the number of birth defects on the highly sophisticated weapons U.S. troops have used in the city during the war.”
The BBC reported Thursday ” the staggering statistic from doctors in the city that the number of heart defects found in newborn babies is 13 times the number of similar birth defects in Europe.”
The CBS story states: “British-based Iraqi researcher Malik Hamdan told the news organization that one doctor compared the number of birth defects from before 2003 to today. Before the war began, she saw about one case every two months. Now she sees cases every day".
“Her research shows that as of January, the rate of congenital heart defects was 95 per 1,000 births or 13 times Europe's rate.”
Bush is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. How will “We The People” hold him accountable? Will we remain silent?

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu8Q7JmUfOk

BOYCOTT ISRAEL

Palestine: "Just like a mini Tuscany"- Mayor of Jerusalem today

Just today the mayor of Jerusalem says he intends to demolish 120 homes of Palestinians, and give them apartments, generous man that he is (he's a multi- millionaire by the way). He says, get this!...once the houses are razed, "the area will become a mini Tuscany"...

What a hypocrite, greedy, uneducated stupid man he is!
A mini Tuscany!!!...does he know anything? Who does he think will buy that unfounded, uneducated, insensitive and idiotic statement? Let's see:
- in Tuscany, the Olive trees smile and thrive at the hands of the locals who tend their ancestral land
- In Tuscany Olive trees and vineyards are sacred!
- in Tuscany generations and generations live happily on their ancient lands and hand made stone homes
- in Tuscany people don't ever have to worry about bulldozers coming in and destroying their homes
- in Tuscany, the fig trees are respected, revered and provide joy and income and are shared by all inhabitants
- In Tuscany anyone can visit and there are no checkpoints!
- In Tuscany there does not fly a flag that represents theocratic hegemony
- in Tuscany people come and go as they please
- in Tuscany children smile and can play everywhere
- in Tuscany the partisans rebelled and ousted the Nazi genocidal occupiers!
How dare he say that once he knocks their houses down, the Palestinians in Jerusalem will enjoy life as in a mini Tuscany!

Mr Mayor, what the Palestinians need is NOT a "Mini Tuscany"! They need a full fledged, wholesome, unoccupied, FULL PALESTINE!
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US GREED KILLS GREECE

US GREED KILLS GREECE

The entire economy of Greece is about to fall into an abyss of financial ruin craftily created by savvied financial wizards of Wall/War Street: the advisors and traders, the likes of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase.

Who will suffer? Naturally the hardworking people and the working poor!
Who will benefit? Traders and the financial advisors and rich investors

I’ll spare you the gory details and leave you with telling quotes which appeared today:

• “It’s the blind leading the blind,”
-Sylvain R. Raynes, an expert in structured finance at R&R Consulting in New York.

• “It’s like buying fire insurance on your neighbor’s house — you create an incentive to burn down the house,”- Philip Gisdakis, head of credit strategy at UniCredit in Munich.

• “…traders who own these swaps stand to profit” –NYTimes today

• “In common parlance, these bankers are rats. They gain your trust, you share with them your confidences and they sell you out to the highest bidder .Anyone who has seen Goodfellas knows what happens to rats” .
-Saranac 21s UES February 25th, 2010 7:00 am in the NY Times comments section

Bottom Line: GREED KILLS

Italian Poem & Translation: Esistere e' Resistere/ To Exist is To Resist

Esistere e' resitere

Resisto perche' esisto
Mi disse Mahmoud
Nel pianeta che ci vorrebbe morti
All'ombra del muro che cementa
L'odio e divide l'anima di ogni
Giorno trivellata dall'ingordigia del
Capitalista pancione mangione
Resistere e' esistere
Anche nel ruscello inquinato
Che non abbevera piu'
Gli escrementi del genocidio
Visibili a tutti.
Il mondo si volta e ci lascia alla putrefazione
Del giorno che vorrebe penetrare anche i nostri
Antichi scudi di cuoio umano che
Resiste, sanguina, si rimargina, sanguina, resiste
Resistere e' esistere
Nel vecchio uliveto violentato
Dalla ruspa dell'odio
Discriminatorie pale d'acciaio fuse nel Texas e DC
Vorrebbero sradicare anche I nostri cuori
Frammentati ma non spezzati nell'arido deserto delle nostre speranze
E rivedo il vecchio Comanche che mi saluta e scompare, ormai solo, in un recinto Bianco
Di nuova vernice che sgocciola e tinge anche la terra
Il pozzo dei sogni e' ormai dall'altra parte dell'uliveto fantasma
E dormire e' solo un movimento di spartiti di vita incompiuti
Esisto un altro giorno mi disse Mahmoud
Perche' forse oggi scrivero' una canzone per Gaza
Resisto un altro giorno mi disse Mahmoud
Perche' anche se non voglio piu’ rime
Vorrei vedere il sorriso di un bimbo che esiste

TRANSLATION

To Exist is To Resist

I resist because I exist
Told me Mahmoud
In the planet that would see us dead
In the shadow of the wall that
Cements hate and slices the soul
Daily target of greed to feed the big belly capitalist
To Resist is To Exist
Even in the polluted stream
That no longer quenches,
The excrements of genocide
Visible to all
The world turns the other way and leaves us to the
Daily putrefaction that would want to penetrate our
Ancient shields of human hide,
Which resist, bleed, heal, bleed, resist
To Resist is To exist
In the old olive orchard raped
By the bulldozer of hate
Discriminatory shovels from the foundries of
Texas and DC would like to uproot
Even our hearts
Fragmented but not broken in the arid desert of hopes
I see once again the old Comanche who waves at me and disappears, now alone, behind A white fence of
Fresh paint that drips and covers the ground
The font of dreams is now on the other side of the phantom orchard
And sleeping becomes just a movement
Of unfinished music sheets of life that should have made sense
I exist another day told me Mahmoud
Because even if I gave up on rhymes that make sense
I haven’t given up on seeing a child who exists

Mm (durante un bianco mattino in autobus; during a white morning on a bus)

Flushing Terrorists and Doubting Thomas

Call me cynical, a doubting Thomas or even incredulous...
But today's headline in most papers to the effect: "Guilty Plea Made in Plot to Bomb New York Subway"...has tickled my cynical incredulous fancy.
Not that I don't wan't terrorists or war criminals to be brought to justice and punished! Of course. One should only know my disappointment at our law enforcement authorities for letting George the minor & Co. go free. But I guess it must be much harder to extract confessions from the Colonial Criminal in Crawford Comfort, than from a self-described suicide bomber (with bomb making beauty products)who attended Flushing High School,who gave up and confessed because he was scared to be under surveillance.

Here's what fuels my suspicion. Only one uncomfortable fact:
The fact that Eric Holder felt necessary to accompany the recent triumphant news of this confession with this statement:
"This is not some kind of partisan political attempt to try to shape an election ".
Fascinating statement. Even if my suspicion is wrong (which I hope it is...) At the very least It proves that while Mr Holder firmly assures us that this is "not a partisan political attempt", it suggests unequivocally that, sometimes (not this time) "partisan political attempts to shape elections" do take place. So I would ask Mr Holder and illuminated colleagues to then either teach us the finer points of recognizing which are the politically driven, election shaping, attempts and which are not, OR lacking the teaching credentials or pedagogical skills to hold class... OR... at least from now on, just tell us which are "Politically Driven, Election Shaping" news reports and which are not; simply code each headline by placing the acronym next to the headline: PDES or NOT PDES this way we'll have transparency we can believe in and we'll be safer...