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"Global Justice" Moves Into North Beach? Confronting Planetary Tyranny
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Hal Womack 3-dan
2008-03-29 01:24:28 UTC
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"GLOBAL JUSTICE" MOVES INTO NORTH BEACH?
CONFRONTING PLANETARY TYRANNY

By Hal Womack 3-dan

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Words, those units of divine magic constituting our human
consciousness, like anything else get dulled by repetition and often
enough even absolutely perverted by institutionalization. Examples
from the American Federal experience leaping to mind in this regard =
"defense" and "justice", both of which have had their original
meanings diametrically reversed by being promoted to the upper case
and carved in stone on the fascia of imposing government buildings in
Washington DC.

OTOH rarer contemporary examples of authenticity in the use of
language by strong & successful forces include the late Ho Chi Minh's
leadership of Vietnam's heroic struggle for national freedom and
independence, Nelson Mandela's leadership for pan-racial democracy in
South Africa and the campaign led by Hugo Chavez for national
sovereignty and the interests of the popular classes in Venezuela.

These considerations arise at the moment because, as previously
announced in another thread, my local bookstore here in North Beach,
the venerable Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights, is sponsoring
tonight
the following program:
{The Future of the Global Justice Movement: A Public Forum
Friday, March 28, 2008, 8:00 pm
http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_id=291 \\
more details below in Appendix A}

So, as between the utterly corrupt U.S. Department of Justice
at the low end of the spectrum of the genuine vs. Uncle Ho's righteous
invocation of "freedom and independence" at the top, where does
tonight's meeting fall? We note the MC as Barry Gills, Professor of
Global Politics at Newcastle University (Northumbria)
in the U.K.

Having only a few minutes left to compose this note, I begin by
saying directly that in their choice of titles the featured speakers
Masters Bello, George & Danaher seem to have put on the wrong hat, so
to speak. Had they chosen instead to represent a movement "For a
Global Commonwealth", then subjects such as debt relief for poor aka
"Third World" countries or reforming the World Bank or the World Trade
Organization would seem appropriately to be high on the agenda.

As it stands, however, the single word most directly opposed to their
chosen one of "justice" = "murder", rather than the "poverty" which
they appear far more inclined to discuss. The offset in focus here is
also illustrated by the appearance of Ms.Susan George, a specialist in
economic issues, rather than of her colleague at the Transnational
Institue Phyllis Bennis, who attends to Iraqi matters. I mention Iraq,
of course, as the Planet's most egregious current locus of the crime
of mass murder, along with occupied Afghanistan.

When one bills oneself as an intellectual leader of a "Movement for
Global Justice", then should one be prepared properly to receive or at
least to redirect the complaints of those whose children, spouses,
parents or friends have been murdered by the mighty & notorious
imperial war machine? Either one can respond helpfully to the
anguished cries of those who have lost their loved ones to such
aggression or else one's claim to be such a leader for "Global
Justice" is revealed as fraudulent, eh what? By way of comparison,
we can note that during their time of struggle, the heroes named
earlier were indeed able positively to answer those who approached
them on behalf of their announced causes, the example of President
Chavez being still very much in the present tense, of course.

I will quote here remarks already posted for last night's speaker at
City Lights, Professor Micheline Aharonian Marcom, author of _DRAINING
THE SEA: A Novel_ which substantially concerns the Reagan-Bush counter-
revolutionary campaign in Guatemala in the 1980's:
"The author might be interested
in putting the suffering of the Mayans and other peoples of Central
America in an up-to-date global context. Therefore, I'll pop off with
the round figure that since 1990 WAR aka the WAshington Regime aka the
USGov has murdered in Iraq and in Afghanistan about 25 X the number of
its victims in all five stricken countries of Central America during
the 'Eighties.
My winging it calculation runs as follows: Estimated death
toll for
Guatemala = 250,000; for El Salvador 80,000; for Nicaragua
40,000; for Panama 5,000; for Honduras 2,000. Total for
Central America = ~380,000 murdered by USGov agents, both Federal and
local, mainly during the decade in question although the Guatemalan
total may include earlier fatalities.
Whereas, Dr.Gideon Polya of Melbourne, Australia, has
estimated ~6.2 million excess deaths in
Afghanistan due to the US invasion. In response to my question, former
Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Hans-Christoff Graff
von Sponeck estimated 2,000,000 civilians slain by the USGov in Iraq
in its continuous aggression against that country from 1990 to the end
of March 2006. It remains to add the killings for the last two years
there. We note again that Mr. von Sponeck also affirmed that we law-
enforcing people of Earth should unite to arrest and to prosecute the
criminals guilty of this
prolonged atrocity.

My conclusion from this data = That we artists and
intellectuals
of Earth have the duty to organize the masses of our Seven Billion
utterly to defeat the tyranny of DiCTATA aka the District of Columbia
Tel Aviv Terrorist Axis. Further, we living in the USA and
particularly the OSA aka Old Stock Americans whose ancestors were here
already at the time of our Civil War have the particular
responsibility to disarm the Pentagon, which has long threatened our
entire human race with annihilation. This strategic POV has some
current operational relation to our preferring Ralph Nader among
the official candidates for the Presidency but also to favoring
Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton where- and whenever during the next
six months that particular gruesome choice may be forced on the U.S.
electorate."

So IMHO the best thing that could happen tonight (gee, maybe I should
start thinking of that opening more often) would be for
our famous visitors either to point out to us their existing War
Crimes Office or else agree to promote the expeditious creation of one
in their "Global Justice Movement" or else thirdly to change the name
of their effort as mentioned above.
In the spirit of forward thinking, I would further propose that the
meeting agree to publish a joint statement along the lines of:

"We find here assembled find that A) The U.S. empire in the last two
decades has murdered some 10,000,000 [ten million] or more victims in
the countries of Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Colombia.
We use that dread verb within the strict meaning clearly dictated by
existing world positive law. B) Consequently, we law-enforcing Seven
Billion people of Earth have the urgent duty to unite in order to
defeat the tyranny presently exercised by the DICTATA previously
named. C) After establishing justice under law over our whole Planet,
we look forward to constituting the world democracy, to ensuring
Peace, to enjoying Freedom and to organizing the Commonwealth of our
species.

In the instant phase of our struggle in particular we mean to use the
well-documented cases of the Jews' murders of Palestinian children
such as Iman al-Hams, Bushra Bargis, Akaber Zaid and Safah Abu Seif to
help us all fully to realize the enormity of the U.S. offenses against
the grievously injured nations of Iraq and Afghanistan whose plight we
have here mentioned so briefly.

In our hi-tech & globally integrated present, the inflamed collective
guilty conscience of the kabal involving names such as those of
Kissinger,
Sulzberger, Bronfman, Metzger, Clinton, Bush & McCain presents an
acute threat to the survival of all humanity. Thus fate challenges our
generation. In the names of all our gods and ancestors and for the
dreams of all our children, we pledge to meet it."

Well, how say you, Dear Reader? We expect FX to answer for
the kiddie-killers, Walter Shorenstein being otherwise occupied.
Ahoy there, GGM ! How're the old whores doing tonight?
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APPENDIX A:

The Future of the Global Justice Movement: A Public Forum
Friday, March 28, 2008, 8:00 pm

Presentations and discussion exploring new vectors in the
literature on globalization and its academic and popular
understanding.

Speakers:

Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange
Susan George, Transnational Institute

Chaired by Barry Gills, editor of the journal Globalizations

Followed by open discussion from the floor.

The International Studies Association (ISA) was founded in 1959 by
a group of academics and practitioners seeking to pursue mutual
interests in world affairs through the organization of a professional
association. The ISA's interdisciplinary focus, worldwide membership,
and vigorous promotion of international research and education have
made it the most respected and widely known scholarly association in
the field of International Studies.

RETHINKING GLOBALIZATIONS: This book series is designed to break
new ground in the literature on globalization and its academic and
popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to
the economic understanding of globalization, this series seeks to
capture the term and broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of
issues and disciplines and convey a sense of alternative possibilities
for the future.
Light food and refreshments will be served.
Meet the authors of the Rethinking Globalizations book series.

Sponsored by:
-Routledge
-Globalizations
-ISA International Political Economy section
-Global Exchange

261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133
phone: (415) 362-8193 * fax: (415) 362- 4921 * Open daily 10 am to
midnight

vs. the Global Establishment:

http://www.wto.org/
http://www.notre-europe.eu/en/
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From the Oxford English Dictionary (accessible on-line via
the public library): "justice"

3. Conformity (of an action or thing) to moral right, or to reason,
truth, or fact; rightfulness; fairness; correctness; propriety...
[a. OF. justise, -ice (jostise) uprightness, equity, vindication of
right, administration of law, jurisdiction, court of justice,
infliction of punishment, gallows, judge, etc. (= Pr., Sp. justicia,
Pg. justiça, It. giustizia), ad. L. j{umac}stitia righteousness,
uprightness, equity, f. j{umac}stus JUST. Sense 4 was the first to be
adopted from Norman Fr.]
c1340 Cursor M. 8748 (Fairf.) Alle loued salamon for his Iustise. 1387
T. USK Test. Love III. i. (Skeat) l. 73 Vertues of soule.. whiche been
Prudence, Justice, Temperaunce, and Strength. 1470-85 MALORY Arthur I.
vii, Ther was he sworne vnto his lordes & the comyns for to be a true
kyng, to stand with true Iustyce fro thensforth the dayes of his lyf.
1531 ELYOT Gov. III. i, The auncient Ciuilians do saye iustice is a
wille perpetuall and constaunt, whiche gyueth to euery man his right.
1600 E. BLOUNT tr. Conestaggio 265 A certaine person..said that in
iustice they should burne these priests. 1613 SHAKES. Hen. VIII, III.
i. 116 If you haue any Iustice, any Pitty. 1733 POPE Ess. Man III. 280
Forc'd into virtue thus by Self-defence, Ev'n kings learn'd justice
and benevolence.

[a. OF. juste, juiste, juyste, ad. med.L. justa (sc. mens{umac}ra)
right measure (of drink); the vessel holding this (Du Cange).]

A large-bellied pot with handles, used for holding wine or
beer....

[NBelow this line only for the scholar with some time on her hands.]

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{
The Global Politics of Justice 2006

Barry K. Gills
Abstract

This is the introduction to the Special Issue of the journal
Globalizations, entitled ' Global Poverty or Global Justice?', edited
by Barry K. Gills....
The imperative to alleviate global poverty is directly related to the
idea of and the prospects for the realization of greater 'global
justice'.}
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/research/publication/41725
........................................................
The Clash of Globalizations: 'Empire' or 'Cosmopolis'? 2007
Barry K Gills
Abstract

This is the reprinted book version of the special issue of the journal
Globalizations, Vol 2 No. 1 May 2005, edited by Barry K Gills, with
the assistance of Jerry Harris

* Rethinking Globalizations
* Pagination: 200
* Publisher: Routledge
* Place Published: LOndon
* Short Title: The Clash of Globalizations
* Original Publication: Special Issue of Globalizations 'Empire'
or Cosmopolis'?, Vol 2 No. 1, May 2005
Prof. Barry Gills
=====================================
Earlier post of mine:
Dec 19 1995, 1:00 am
I consider myself to be politically a
man of the center, as in the center of the 6 billion stong Human Race
or
the center of species transformation. WRT to social stratification I
would
call myself a left semi-revolutionary. I mean that the oligarchs for
the
last half-century have used their terror weapons to constipate the
system.
We have a super-abundance of Rockefellers, Quayles, Bushes and the
likelocked in a secret police state who have promoted the careers of
lackeys like Gingrich, Limbaugh, Clinton et al. Today, for the most
part,
one will find the native talent in the streets rather than in the
offices.
In the U.S. the mental gravitational field of the $ trillions flowing
over
the last 54 years through the Pentagon has skewed the political-
propaganda
spectrum terrifically to the right. Those who commit murder pass
beyond
the right-wing into simple criminality. We can regard politicians such
as
Jerry Brown and Tom Hayden as right-wing because they keep silence
about
such crimes as the Clinton Administration's genocidal embargo of Iraq
and
its continuation of the neo-prohibitionist tyranny with its hundreds
of
thousands of prisoners.
Since Jim Glass raises the question, though, I see the future
Kozmopolis or Government of Earth raising its revenue from a value-
added
tax on the private sector.
Dec 19 1995, 1:00 am
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc, alt.activism,
alt.politics.usa.republican, soc.culture.usa, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,
alt.politics.libertarian, alt.dear.whitehouse, tx.politics,
alt.motherjones, alt.politics.clinton, talk.politics.theory,
ba.politics, ca.politics, alt.feminism
From: ***@netcom.com (Hal Womack)
Date: 1995/12/19
Subject: Re: Glorify Welfare! A Brief Intro. to Mothers' Pay
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CNN) -- Former Liberian President Charles
Taylor appeared in court Monday at the resumption of his war crimes
trial, six months after boycotting the opening session and calling the
trial a "charade." Monday 080107.
http://tinyurl.com/yrp923 OR
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/07/taylor.trial/index.html?eref=rss_latest
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1.) From HIGH NOON (1952, directed by Fred Zinnemann):
Martin Howe (Lon Chaney ) to Marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper):
"People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do
anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just
don't care."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Grace Kelly played Amy Fowler Kane, the Marshal's bride.
Katy Jurado (who was deservedly billed above Grace Kelly) played Helen
Ramírez, the Marshal's Mexican former flame who put some much-needed
iron into GK's white Quaker spine.
================================
My Hot Links:

Abir Aramin, age 9, murdered by the Jews
on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, her picture:
http://tinyurl.com/2l6ogh
An Israeli mother, a Jewess, comments on the story:
http://tinyurl.com/3amvos
http://www.rafahtoday.org/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html

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Here's the link to what I wrote on the eve of SonnaBush's (fronting
for Aerial Shaboom) invasion of Iraq:
http://tinyurl.com/2xcvdo

(The tag end of the piece was stuck on rather roughly by the HANDSTAND
editor & could profit from a bit of pruning.)

If any reader can find another article from that critical moment which
has better stood the test of time, will she please be so kind as to
tell me about it?
...........................................................................
For Susan Abulhawa's new novel of Palestine, SCAR OF DAVID (2006)
http://www.scarofdavid.com/blog/index.php?page_id=5
OR
http://tinyurl.com/2n77bo
...................................................................

http://www.americanfreepress.net/

FINAL JUDGMENT by Michael Collins Piper, first published in 1994 and
now in its 6th edition, lays out the Jewish background to the JFK hit
in >600 fascinating pages (which badly need editing, evenso --attn:
M&W).

(See the AFP site above also for the moving letter of 29 November 2006
from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, directly addressed to
"Noble Americans" --maybe your local jewspaper forgot to pass it along
to you?)

On the AFP site linked above I just now (Tuesday 071211)
found the following Michael More out-take from Sicko about a certain
northern country:
http://tinyurl.com/23zgxu
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Five Principal Joojingo or "JJ" resources:
1. http://www.aipac.org/
2. The Bronfmen @ http://www.acbp.net/
3. http://www.jinsa.org/home/home.html
4. http://www.adl.org/
5. http://www.hasbara.co.il/

Four Righteous Jewish Antidotes:
1. http://www.ostrovskyfineart.com/index.htm
2. http://www.nkusa.org/index.cfm
3. http://www.israelshamir.net/
4. http://tinyurl.com/3c9jm8 OR
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/18/136217
........................................................

US Alliance Afghan Genocide -
Six Million Excess Deaths?

By Dr Gideon Polya

08 November, 2007 Countercurrents.org

http://tinyurl.com/36ylq2 OR

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya081107.htm

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All rise,

http://www.counterpunch.org/dolby04032007.html
This clip was the first time I ever saw Marvin Gaye perform. The word
in my mind = "composure".
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Kidz Today:
A) Iron Maiden The Trooper By Gauchos

B) The Impeach Bush Club Parade
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4606006427048738351
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http://www.counterpunch.org/
Flag of USrael:
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http://www.ussliberty.org/
http://www.aztlan.net/women_martyrs.htm
http://www.jewwatch.com/
http://margaritaville.com/
[cartoon panel]
http://tinyurl.com/2kyyc9 OR
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http://www.hizbollah.org/
http://tinyurl.com/2r3stp
Loading Image...
http://tinyurl.com/3dlhhb
http://www.currentissues.tv/
http://www.waco93.com/
("Nadine Eats Pizza in Ramallah")
http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Contributor47.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yqd75d (Akaber Zaid)
http://www.counterpunch.org/levy03272006.html
http://vcnv.org/
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=1
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=491
http://www.americanempireproject.com/index.asp
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
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http://www.nelsonmandela.org/
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http://www.sf911truth.org/
http://www.documentaryphotographs.com/
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://www.aztlan.net/
http://www.valleyofthewolvesiraq.com/high/main.html
http://www.johnkaminski.com/
http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/index.php
http://antiwar.com/
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
http://www.infowars.com/
http://english.wafa.ps/default.asp
http://www.araboo.com/site/arab-aaug-asq-9777
http://www.al-awda.org/
http://www.imemc.org/
http://www.vcnv.org/
http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/3301/58/
http://antiwar.com/
http://www.cnionline.org/
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=
http://www.honestmediatoday.com/index.htm
http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
http://www.thankyoult.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
http://www.deiryassin.org/index1.html
http://www.marwenmedia.com/index.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://www.thehandstand.org/
http://www.malaysiasun.com/
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
http://tinyurl.com/79t3d
http://tinyurl.com/yt4tym ("Let It Be!")

http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com/
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,150 for "free your mind, the rest will
follow".
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Protocol: Top posting in follow-ups 'cause that way makes most sense
to me
and placing the reply at the bottom of the thread as it appears on my
Google newsreader. BTW does some friendly expert want to recommend a
better newsreader aka Usenet access tool,
especially for posting, then I'm all ear.
xeno
2008-03-29 20:46:44 UTC
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...we artists and intellectuals
of Earth have the duty to organize the masses of our Seven Billion
utterly to defeat the tyranny of DiCTATA aka the District of Columbia
Tel Aviv Terrorist Axis.
since there's no such thing, the masses would do well to organize
themselves against artists & intellectuals with delusions of grandeur
& misinformation.
Further, we living in the USA and
particularly the OSA aka Old Stock Americans whose ancestors were here
already at the time of our Civil War have the particular
responsibility to disarm the Pentagon, which has long threatened our
entire human race with annihilation.
this OSA business is silly romanticism at best or just plain
chauvinism. at any rate, the quagmire in iraq may end up showing the
US to be a paper tiger.
xeno
2008-03-29 23:18:33 UTC
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Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
In the instant phase of our struggle in particular we mean to use the
well-documented cases of the Jews' murders of Palestinian children
such as Iman al-Hams, Bushra Bargis, Akaber Zaid and Safah Abu Seif to
help us all fully to realize the enormity of the U.S. offenses against
the grievously injured nations of Iraq and Afghanistan whose plight we
have here mentioned so briefly.
perhaps you mean to say either that the israelis & IDF deliberately
kill civilians or that possibly these killings are
collateral damages as the result of a civil war. unser kampf is
arguably *your* struggle with making incendiary remarks.
xeno
2008-03-29 23:44:24 UTC
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      OTOH rarer contemporary examples of authenticity in the use of
language by strong & successful forces include the late Ho Chi Minh's
leadership of Vietnam's heroic struggle for national freedom and
independence, Nelson Mandela's leadership for pan-racial democracy in
South Africa and the campaign led by Hugo Chavez for national
sovereignty and the interests of the popular classes in Venezuela.
surely, the great womack realizes that the resultant so-called pan-
racial democracy in SA leaves much to be desired since the position of
the black majority has not vastly improved at all. & surely, the great
womack realizes that chavez may make a show of standing up to the US
but he is supportive of his own national bourgeoise, which beats down
on the lower classes in venezuela.
Hal Womack 3-dan
2008-03-30 17:27:57 UTC
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CHECKING IN, EVENTS OF INTEREST

By Hal Womack 3-dan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/halwomack/
http://www.myspace.com/halwomack

The "great Womack", sez FX ? That does have a certain ring to it,
much better than tacking on one of those odious "-isms" which are to
the mind as "-itis" to the body.
Perhaps FX's thought is evolving? Faint hope of that so far, eh? In
any event, before I will allow FX to throw any more flowers at my
feet, it must sincerely repent
its many previous criminal statements supporting the Jews mass murders
of children and other innocents, which question of precision in
language raises a point to which in due time we may come again.

Let us now pause to note the absence from this thread, newsgroup and
Usenet of three prominent figures of the mentioned program at City
Lights Books, the only featured names
who displayed eddresses. I stress the contrast here between real, well-
known people with pretensions to leadership who fail to reply to my
invitation to broad public discussion of the issues vs. the
pseudonymous jootool FX making itself more ubiquitous & obnoxious than
gum on the sidewalk. Age of Bush & all that.

Herewith the parties to whom (on Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:14 AM) I sent
the message which read in part:

{First, do the organizers of this program wish to stimulate a broad
public discussion of the matter
with a view towards mobilizing a world-wide mass movement? If so,
would it be logical to encourage
the use of Usenet newsgroups for this purpose? Given the location of
this meeting, one obvious
choice therefor would be "ba.politics"* [ that's "Bay Area"].
Officially sponsored resort to the Usenet
would break two bottlenecks: First, the time-bound jam at the
microphone line for Q & A and, second,
the editorial control of the organizers over the conversation.
Otherwise what meaning have words like
"democracy" and "parliament" in the Age of the Internet ?}

Barry Gills <***@ncl.ac.uk>,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti <***@citylights.com>,
Kevin Danaher <***@globalexchange.org>,

As noted already, Professor Barry Gills of the UK chaired the event.
We must regard Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the site host, at the most
respectable age of 89 years as sitting somewhere up in the clouds
white & fluffy like his beard, beaming genially down on us.
Presumably, however, the world-famous poet-entrepreneur has staff at
his publishing house & store who review his email? Kevin Danaher aka
"Mr.Medea Benjamin" enjoys the very considerable resources of his
millionaire Jewess wife's
politicized travel company "Global Exchange".

So what's keeping them from the cyber-party? The FTF
do @ Larry's premises on Fri-night looked quite jolly, with a tempting
buffet table which I was able to see without being able to touch
through the crowd packed into the tiny poetry room at the top of the
stairs. Did Larry's crew even consider
using the far larger space on the ground floor? Times like this are
almost enough to make a man want to go to church,
like the neighboring one of St.Francis across the street which
presumably has plenty of room to accommodate such crowds which are big
for the literary left but small for the local Roman ritualists.

http://www.citylights.com/

NorCal readers will please note that the emminently liberal LEWIS
LAPHAM, baron of HARPER'S magazine, appears at City Lights this
Wednesday, April 2nd @ 19:00 o'clock. The following week on
Thursnight, April 10th also @ 19:00 hrs comes TOM HAYDEN, famous both
for having helped righteously to wind up the US war against Vietnam
and also for having hung for a while with a slick chick.

The authority who did quickly reply to my email was Gideon Polya PhD
of Australia, who has now generously donated a copy of his book _BODY
COUNT: Global avoidable mortality since 1950_ to the Mechanics'
Institute Library.

http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/

This morning I have severe time pressure from other duties
and the following urgent notice from the excellent Alison Weir has
just appeared in my Inbox:

{
Alison Weir <***@gmail.com>
to
date Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:51 AM
subject Tues 7pm Debate on Israel-Palestine at SF Commonwealth Club

I have been invited to take part in a debate on Israel-Palestine this
Tuesday evening, April 1, at 7 pm in San Francisco.

It would be excellent to have people attend. In addition, during the Q
& A period, even though many of us are tempted to challenge speakers
with whom we disagree, this merely gives them more time to convey
misinformation. It is usually far more valuable to bring up your point
through a question to one of those whose information you find
valuable, to give them more time to speak.

Following is the announcement and the line-up of panelists:

The meeting will start promptly at 7pm, Tue April 1st. - We recommend
you
arrive half an hour early.

The location is :
Commonwealth Club of California
595 Market St, 2nd Floor
San Francisco

The Motion for April 1st will Be :
"This House would tie US Aid to Israel to progress in the Peace
Process"

More specifically, the proposition will propose the US should stop
giving
military aid & support to Israel, until a peace agreement has been
reached
with 'the Palestinians' in the West Bank & Gaza.

We have six speakers lined up for this event.

For the motion :
5mins - James Dilworth (INFORUM)
8mins - Alison Weir, Founder, If Americans Knew
8mins - Dr. Stephen Zunes, Professor, University of San Francisco;

Against the motion :
5mins - Jonathan Foerster (INFORUM)
8mins - Dr. Mitchell Bard, Author, Myths & Facts : Guide to the Arab-
Israeli
Conflict
8mins - Dr. Uri Bar-Joseph, Author & Snr. Lecturer Pol-Sci-,
University of
Haifa

Moderator : Jon Haron-Feirtag
Chairwoman for SFDebate (Opening & Closing) : Caroline Moriarty-Sacks

After the table speakers have spoken, the debate will open up to the
audience. Audience members may make their own statements of up to two
minutes in length, or may direct questions at the panelists.

We will take a vote before the meeting, and another at the end of the
meeting. It is fun to see how minds change during the course of the
discussion.

More information on this debate is available at www.sfdebate.org -
Please
feel free to forward this on to people you know who are also
interested in
this issue.

INFORUM is the Young Persons (under 35) division of the Commonwealth
Club.
Our SFDebate format encourages people to participate in political
discussion. The meetings operate in similar fashion to a town-hall
debate;
the panelists form the main points and then the audience is invited to
join
in.


Alison Weir
Executive Director
If Americans Knew
415.847.1782


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Pending my return, I will also pass along the link below
to works by two of my Jewish friends, Israel Shamir and Joachim
Martillo.

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http://novakeo.com/?p=1378

It is not only about Palestine

March 29, 2008

Israel Shamir about a new paper by Joachim Martillo...

Joachim Martillo wrote an important paper called Judonia Rising: The
Israel Lobby and American Society, purporting to explain, "What the
Israel Lobby Really Is". He spoke with Stephen Walt, of Walt and
Mearsheimer fame, he followed the discussions of Philip Weiss, he
corresponded with Noam Chomsky and Joseph Massad, he had read Israel
Shamir's Pardes and James Petras, he knows MacDonald. An American
scholar Martlllo has some Polish background, and he reads Yiddish and
Polish, as well as some Hebrew. In his view, understanding the Israel
Lobby can be based only on a thorough hardnosed ("non-exceptionalist")
analysis of Eastern European Jewish history. This is a heretical view,
very close to ours.

It is heretical, because the very far away border of permitted
antizionist discourse still remains short of discussion: whether Jews
did similar things before Zionism, or do we have a temporary
aberration connected with the state of Israel. The moment one
integrates modern Jewish behaviour with the pre-modern Jewish
behaviour, the moment one notices continuity of pre-Zionist and
Zionist Jewish politics, the moment one leaves the safe ground of
condemning occupation, - one crosses into totally forbidden
"antisemite" territory. Martillo dared and ventured there, and came
with strong and startling conclusions: the real issue is not
Palestine. Unless they are neutralized, Israel lobbying groups, Israel
advocates, Zionists, Neoconservatives, and Friedmanites will steal
America and effectively abolish the Constitution in all but name to
create a society of servitude for all Americans except for those
belonging to the hyper-wealthy transnational Zionist political
elite....
Israel Shamir is a regular columnist for Novakeo.com
A native of Novosibirsk, Siberia, a grandson of a professor of
mathematics and a descendant of a Rabbi from Tiberias, Palestine, he
studied at the prestigious School of the Academy of Sciences, and read
Math and Law at Novosibirsk University. In 1969, he moved to Israel,
served as paratrooper in the army and fought in the 1973 war. After
his military service he resumed his study of Law at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, but abandoned the legal profession in pursuit
of a career as a journalist and writer. He got his first taste of
journalism with Israel Radio, and later went freelance. His varied
assignments included covering Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the last
stages of the war in South East Asia. In 1975, Shamir joined the BBC
and moved to London. In 1977-79 he wrote for the Israeli daily Maariv
and other papers from Japan. While in Tokyo, he wrote Travels with My
Son, his first book, and translated a number of Japanese classics.

Email at: ***@israelshamir.net
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My Hot Links:

Abir Aramin, age 9, murdered by the Jews
on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, her picture:
http://tinyurl.com/2l6ogh
An Israeli mother, a Jewess, comments on the story:
http://tinyurl.com/3amvos
http://www.rafahtoday.org/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html
http://youtu.be/_h3P7POHnJc
...............................................................

Here's the link to what I wrote on the eve of SonnaBush's (fronting
for Aerial Shaboom) invasion of Iraq:
http://tinyurl.com/2xcvdo

(The tag end of the piece was stuck on rather roughly by the HANDSTAND
editor & could profit from a bit of pruning.)

If any reader can find another article from that critical moment which
has better stood the test of time, will she please be so kind as to
tell me about it?
...........................................................................
For Susan Abulhawa's new novel of Palestine, SCAR OF DAVID (2006)
http://www.scarofdavid.com/blog/index.php?page_id=5
OR
http://tinyurl.com/2n77bo
...................................................................

http://www.americanfreepress.net/

FINAL JUDGMENT by Michael Collins Piper, first published in 1994 and
now in its 6th edition, lays out the Jewish background to the JFK hit
in >600 fascinating pages (which badly need editing, evenso --attn:
M&W).

(See the AFP site above also for the moving letter of 29 November 2006
from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, directly addressed to
"Noble Americans" --maybe your local jewspaper forgot to pass it along
to you?)

On the AFP site linked above I just now (Tuesday 071211)
found the following Michael More out-take from Sicko about a certain
northern country:
http://tinyurl.com/23zgxu
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Five Principal Joojingo or "JJ" resources:
1. http://www.aipac.org/
2. The Bronfmen @ http://www.acbp.net/
3. http://www.jinsa.org/home/home.html
4. http://www.adl.org/
5. http://www.hasbara.co.il/

Four Righteous Jewish Antidotes:
1. http://www.ostrovskyfineart.com/index.htm
2. http://www.nkusa.org/index.cfm
3. http://www.israelshamir.net/
4. http://tinyurl.com/3c9jm8 OR
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/18/136217
........................................................

US Alliance Afghan Genocide -
Six Million Excess Deaths?

By Dr Gideon Polya

08 November, 2007 Countercurrents.org

http://tinyurl.com/36ylq2 OR

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya081107.htm

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All rise,
http://youtu.be/QRvVzaQ6i8A
http://www.counterpunch.org/dolby04032007.html
This clip was the first time I ever saw Marvin Gaye perform. The word
in my mind = "composure".
..........................................................................
Kidz Today:
A) Iron Maiden The Trooper By Gauchos
http://youtu.be/s_4aGXTHo7w
B) The Impeach Bush Club Parade
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4606006427048738351
...............................................................
http://www.counterpunch.org/
Flag of USrael:
http://www.nogw.com/images/inminds.jpg
http://www.ussliberty.org/
http://www.aztlan.net/women_martyrs.htm
http://www.jewwatch.com/
http://margaritaville.com/
[cartoon panel]
http://tinyurl.com/2kyyc9 OR
http://www.miqel.com/images_1/random_image/r1/get-your-war-on2.gif
.............................................
http://www.hizbollah.org/
http://tinyurl.com/2r3stp
http://peyote.com/gardening-pictures/peyote.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/3dlhhb
http://www.currentissues.tv/
http://www.waco93.com/
("Nadine Eats Pizza in Ramallah")
http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Contributor47.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yqd75d (Akaber Zaid)
http://www.counterpunch.org/levy03272006.html
http://vcnv.org/
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=1
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=491
http://www.americanempireproject.com/index.asp
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
http://www.rense.com/1.imagesD/dbaby4.jpg
http://www.nelsonmandela.org/
http://www.parnasse.com/gaia.jpg
http://www.sf911truth.org/
http://www.documentaryphotographs.com/
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://www.aztlan.net/
http://www.valleyofthewolvesiraq.com/high/main.html
http://www.johnkaminski.com/
http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/index.php
http://antiwar.com/
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
http://www.infowars.com/
http://english.wafa.ps/default.asp
http://www.araboo.com/site/arab-aaug-asq-9777
http://www.al-awda.org/
http://www.imemc.org/
http://www.vcnv.org/
http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/3301/58/
http://antiwar.com/
http://www.cnionline.org/
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=
http://www.honestmediatoday.com/index.htm
http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
http://www.thankyoult.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
http://www.deiryassin.org/index1.html
http://www.marwenmedia.com/index.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://www.thehandstand.org/
http://www.malaysiasun.com/
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
http://tinyurl.com/79t3d
http://tinyurl.com/yt4tym ("Let It Be!")

http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com/
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,150 for "free your mind, the rest will
follow".
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Protocol: Top posting in follow-ups 'cause that way makes most sense
to me
and placing the reply at the bottom of the thread as it appears on my
Google newsreader. BTW does some friendly expert want to recommend a
better newsreader aka Usenet access tool,
especially for posting, then I'm all ear.

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Post by xeno
Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
OTOH rarer contemporary examples of authenticity in the use of
language by strong & successful forces include the late Ho Chi Minh's
leadership of Vietnam's heroic struggle for national freedom and
independence, Nelson Mandela's leadership for pan-racial democracy in
South Africa and the campaign led by Hugo Chavez for national
sovereignty and the interests of the popular classes in Venezuela.
surely, the great womack realizes that the resultant so-called pan-
racial democracy in SA leaves much to be desired since the position of
the black majority has not vastly improved at all. & surely, the great
womack realizes that chavez may make a show of standing up to the US
but he is supportive of his own national bourgeoise, which beats down
on the lower classes in venezuela.
xeno
2008-03-30 19:58:38 UTC
Permalink
Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
The "great Womack", sez FX ? That does have a certain ring to it,
much better than tacking on one of those odious "-isms" which are to
the mind as "-itis" to the body.
would you be saying the same thing if "great womack" & "great satan"
were synonymous epithets?
Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
Perhaps FX's thought is evolving? Faint hope of that so far, eh? In
any event, before I will allow FX to throw any more flowers at my
feet, it must sincerely repent
its many previous criminal statements supporting the Jews mass murders
of children and other innocents, which question of precision in
language raises a point to which in due time we may come again.
Let us now pause to note the absence from this thread, newsgroup and
Usenet of three prominent figures of the mentioned program at City
Lights Books, the only featured names
who displayed eddresses.
your lack of precision & your malignant race baiting is the issue. i
don't support the oppression of the palestinians so your strawman is
just more of your self-serving nonsense.
xeno
2008-03-30 21:20:11 UTC
Permalink
...Unless they are neutralized, Israel lobbying groups, Israel
advocates, Zionists, Neoconservatives, and Friedmanites will steal
America and effectively abolish the Constitution in all but name to
create a society of servitude for all Americans except for those
belonging to the hyper-wealthy transnational Zionist political
elite....
if the world was made up of womack clones but the world kept the same
socio-economic system under capitalism, imperialism would still exist.
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