An uneven sense of grief.

updated: Mon 1 Feb 2010 (see article and links to tributes)

I’ve been so busy lately that I’ve not noticed until today (Saturday 30th January 2010)  that Howard Zinn has passed away a few days ago, Wednesday 27th January. A good man has left this earth. May Allah SWT have mercy on his soul.

I got to know of Howard Zinn (and Domocracy Now, DN, for that matter – the two are intertwined in my mind) around the time the ZUSUK’s killers rammed their way into Iraq – Yet another Occidental orgy of slaughter they consciously decided upon, slaughtering yet more innocent and fundamentally good people.

I was consumed with a feverish desire to know what has happening in Iraq and spent something like 5 hours a day (often more)  reading all sorts of news reports and commentray. Eventually I came across links to Howard Zinn and some  other prominent anti-warites. I came to really admire Howard Zinn – as much as one can from infront of a computer screen . My feelings of liking towards him were helped largely from speeches like this that he gave at Madison…

Howard Zinn – The Uses of History and War on Terrorism 1of2 (40m 18s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Fc5W8amYM

Howard Zinn – The Uses of History and War on Terrorism 2of2 (14m 40s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVwB8cS19KM

and I got to like DN too. DN is a shift towards my ideas as to what a News Organisation should be about.

Howard was a mainstream critic of rapacious neoimperial globalisation. The time he was afforded by the media (such as Democracy Now) was what one may expect for mainstream critic; occasional appearances on this ‘fringe’ (i.e. non-populist) media. That’s not being unkind to Howard Zinn or DN, but is merely a comment on the condition of global (read populist) media and its critics. The conventional is overpowering.

(Media and critic) Conspiracy? I don’t think so. At least not here, at this level. If one is only ever aware of blue light, then everything will appear as shades of blue. In such an environment there are actually other wavelengths but they are hidden. If the blue receptive eyes did ever happen to glance at these other colours, there simply isn’t the ability to fathom what it was that they are looking it. After a while, those eyes will flick back to the shades of blues of the world reassuringly familiar. And so it is with the media and the popular critics. That nobody in a position of power or influence has realised the peoples tendancy to want to coalesce to the percieved conformity or that these people haven’t exploited it for their own financial and philosophical benefit is laughable.  

Again don’t get me wrong, I respect DN and I respected HZ; For within the realm of conformity, life is often sweeter in the centre than at the fringe. The reason they are on the fringe is I’d say because their sence of morality/justice/humanity isn’t perverted like those in the centre populate by those for example killed 1,300,000+ Iraqi’s, eventually adopting the hideous lie that the Iraqi’s are thankful for it.

My assessment of the qualifications necessary to manage to appear on fringe media is that: the ceiling of ones criticism must end with the bankers, the global capitalists. There can not be any higher level of denouncement or exposee. Only the bankers can be the point source of evil in this world. Not Zionism*, not Cabalists, not Freemasonry, not the Jesuits nor the Illuminati, and of course ultimatley not Satanism. These secret societies do exist and do pull rank on ‘the bankers’ but definately not in the this barren secular world bruitalising us to accepts it’s senseless ways.

Zinn wasn’t into 9-11 conspiracy (a reasonably worthy debate in the modern era has sprung up on Craig Murray’s site: The 9/11 Post). I think accusation of ‘gatekeeperism’ were probably levvied at him, as they were about Chomsky when he stupidly said at Q&A (I think in Ireland?) something like ‘who cares’ or ‘what does it matter’ about who did 9-11. That was just a lapse of idiocy rather than gatekeeperism. I recently re-viewd an interview with Chomsky and the jolly Francine Stock of BBC Newsnight fame and my admiration for him identifying that self censoring journalists believed in what they said otherwise they wouldn’t be sitting where they were sitting.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=676452061991429040

This point has been mentioned by others before but it really hit home how Chomsky really got to the point of what the global corporate media is all about, it’s as if Chomsky was a scanner [ http://www.vureel.com/video/4338/Scanners-81 ] and scanned what Andrew Marr was all about but Marr was either in denial or just too dumb to think about it and wonder if it was true or not.

The point that doesn’t get talked about is surely this applies to Chomsky himself?

The other day, the very respected Zahir Ebrahim of http://humanbeingsfirst.org/ gave a critique of someone posted about recently – Dr Chandra Muzaffar [ see: https://lwtc247.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/a-beautiful-mind-dr-chandra-muzaffar/ ] Zahir misrepresented my admiration for Dr Chandra to the point that he seemed to think I was a doting disciple. I’m not. I respect him for him speaking out and it matter not whether other do it better or that they may supposedly earn a living from it. BUT I did get his point that it’s still permitted dissent – Dr Chandra, Howard Zinn, Chonksy, Naomi Klein, George Galloway.  My position is in fact beyond theirs. As I’ve said they are mainstream – to them, “it’s the bankers stupid” others like myself are obviously racists,  anti-semitics, and conspiraloon nutters. I’ll never break into the fringe of acceptable dissidence, I don’t think I want to.  I got laughed at not so long ago by someone who projects himself to be an intellectual. the reason he laughed? Becuase he discivered I believed in God. But I still respect the Howard Zinns of this world because they do carry and important message. The fist step of a thousands miles for the terrible comatose middle class who “beliefs of non-belief”, bar capitalism, sickens me.

I respect Media Lens but disagree in their stance on anthropogenic global warming, as I don’t accept Dr. Chandra’s stance on it as I don’t agree with Zinn’s stance on 9-11. While I’m on AGW, these people have nrtunately conflated pollution with environmental rape with CO2. Given their obvious distaste (putting it mildy) for the global corporations, I can understand why.

In this life almost everyone we come across is gonna believe in something that’s the near opposite of our stance. That doesn’t \negate the respect one can have for men of honour and morality.

Zinn was such a man who believed passionately about the lets say conventional viewpoint. He criticised the powers that be while Mr and mrs Joe bloggs, idiots by another name, complacent to crimes against humanity sat on their chairs, shruggesd their shoulders and tricked themselves into believing they can vote it out in x years time, thinking about their pension schemes in Haliburton, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, BAE, etc. Fools. Self-intoxicated accomplaces to mass global tryanny and death.

Howard Zinn you will be missed.

right now I don’t really care about the rubbish spelling, typos or grammatical mistakes. I’m tired. I need to go to bed. This world continues to suck big time! I don’t care if I’m not communicating this post out in a literarly purists fancy.

I feel we should forge alliances – or at least give some support to at least the fringe. The exo fringe is uttterly divided and too busy squabbling if it’s the Zionists, illuminati, Jewsuits, Freemasons behind it all, while – and I’m repeating this for good reason – SATAN play alss sides and does whatever it takes to pull you from God. WHATEVER IT TAKES.

Zahir, If you’re reading this, I’m confident you will understand it and not take any offence. I’ll try and reply to your e-mails on the previous thread time permitting. I am very short on time right now. 20 stories a day go whizzing past my eyes which infuriate me and make me feel like I must reveal it for the rubbish it is, but I am v.v.v.v.tired and just as busy. Blogging (I’m exo-fringe) is achieving noting. Nobody other than those beyond the fringe are listening. Nobody that can make any difference really cares. The critical mass of people to overthrow this repulsive global guff will not be reached.

Dear Howard, I will miss you.

* I am discussing Zionism in the sence that I can come to conclude is actually quite ancient an dNOT simply a late 19th century call for Jewish nationalism. That of the perversion of God’s covenant to those that believe in him which morphs into a form that the convenant comes with no conditions. From Cane Able, the Inversion of the sacrifice of Ishak and Ismail, Jacob(Yacoob), the sale of Yusrf(Joseph) to the Egyptians, The rebellion of the the Hebrews against Haroun(Arron) and Musa(Moses) The defiance of Gods wisdom to Samuel for the people not to have a King. The slurrs against Sulaiman(soloman) as a user of black magic. The plots of Jeroboham, The idoloty of Ahab and Jezebel and their prophet killing, the Pharisees slandering the virgin Mary, the killing of Jesus(Isa) and the talmudic depiction of him waste high in boiling human excriment in Hell and every similar thing that has transpired since not least from the white Euro Jews in deriliction whose perversion of the covenant took on much greater dimensions.

 

A friend passed this to me today, and other friends all thought it was great:

 

American historian, playwright and social activist Howard Zinn died January 27, 2010, aged 87. His light will shine bright into the far off future. A new socially just world will owe a great debt to Howard and others like him who gave so much of themselves for us. — ZNet Staff 

Below is an excerpt from his recent book A Power Governments Cannot Suppress published by City Lights Books, www.citylights.com.  At the bottom of this commentary are links to various ZNet obituaries remembering Howard.

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A Marvelous Victory
– By Howard Zinn

In this world of war and injustice, how does a person manage to stay socially engaged, committed to the struggle, and remain healthy without burning out or becoming resigned or cynical?

I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.

There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people’s thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible.

What leaps out from the history of the past hundred years is its utter unpredictability. A revolution to overthrow the czar of Russia in that most sluggish of semi feudal empires not only startled the most advanced imperial powers but took Lenin himself by surprise and sent him rushing by train to Petrograd. Who would have predicted the bizarre shifts of World War II-the Nazi-Soviet pact (those embarrassing photos of von Ribbentrop and Molotov shaking hands), and the German army rolling through Russia, apparently invincible, causing colossal casualties, being turned back at the gates of Leningrad, on the western edge of Moscow, in the streets of Stalingrad, followed by the defeat of the German army, with Hitler huddled in his Berlin bunker, waiting to die?

And then the postwar world, taking a shape no one could have drawn in advance: The Chinese Communist revolution, the tumultuous and violent Cultural Revolution, and then another turnabout, with post-Mao China renouncing its most fervently held ideas and institutions, making overtures to the West, cuddling up to capitalist enterprise, perplexing everyone.

No one foresaw the disintegration of the old Western empires happening so quickly after the war, or the odd array of societies that would be created in the newly independent nations, from the benign village socialism of Nyerere’s Tanzania to the madness of Idi Amin’s adjacent Uganda. Spain became an astonishment. I recall a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade telling me that he could not imagine Spanish Fascism being overthrown without another bloody war. But after Franco was gone, a parliamentary democracy came into being, open to Socialists, Communists, anarchists, everyone.

The end of World War II left two superpowers with their respective spheres of influence and control, vying for military and political power. Yet they were unable to control events, even in those parts of the world considered to be their respective spheres of influence. The failure of the Soviet Union to have its way in Afghanistan, its decision to withdraw after almost a decade of ugly intervention, was the most striking evidence that even the possession of thermonuclear  weapons does not guarantee domination over a determined population.

The United States has faced the same reality. It waged a full-scale war in Indochina, conducting the most brutal bombardment of a tiny peninsula in world history, and yet was forced to withdraw. In the headlines every day we see other instances of the failure of the presumably powerful over the presumably powerless, as in Bolivia and Brazil, where grassroots movements of workers and the poor have elected new presidents pledged to fight destructive corporate power.

Looking at this catalogue of huge surprises, it’s clear that the struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who have the guns and the money and who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, patience-whether by blacks in Alabama and South Africa, peasants in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Vietnam, or workers and intellectuals in Poland, Hungary, and the Soviet Union itself. No cold calculation of the balance of power need deter people who are persuaded that their cause is just.

I have tried hard to match my friends in their pessimism about the world (is it just my friends?), but I keep encountering people who, in spite of all the evidence of terrible things happening everywhere, give me hope. Wherever I go, I find such people, especially young people, in whom the future rests. And beyond the handful of activists there seem to be hundreds, thousands, more who are open to unorthodox ideas. But they tend not to know of one  another’s existence, and so, while they persist, they do so with the desperate patience of Sisyphus endlessly pushing the boulder up the mountain. I try to tell each group that they are not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.

Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment (beware of such moments!) but as an endless succession of surprises, moving zigzag toward a more decent society. We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power that can transform the world.

Even when we don’t “win,” there is fun and fulfillment in the fact that we have been involved, with other good people, in something worthwhile. We need hope. An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not being foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of competition and cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places-and there are so many-where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Tributes:

Howard Zinn
http://www.democracynow.org/tags/howard_zinn
Howard Zinn (1922-2010): A Tribute to the Legendary Historian with Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein and Anthony Arnove  http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/28/howard_zinn_1922_2010_a_tribute

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Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered‎  http://www.truthout.org/howard-zinn-a-public-intellectual-who-mattered56463

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The Real News Network
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=247
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Howard Zinn, Historian who Challenged Status Quo, Dies at 87
By: Mark Feeney
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/216547

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A Life Well Lived: Remembering Howard Zinn. People’s Historian – by Raymond Lotta   http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17294

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I think I’ve just found Howards last public article. Strangely it was about Haiti… Extract: from http://www.truthout.org/howard-zinn-the-people-speak-supreme-court-and-haiti56402

Howard Zinn on “The People Speak,” the Supreme Court and Haiti

Tuesday 26 January 2010

by: Joan Brunwasser  |  OpEdNews

Joan Brunwasser: Howard Zinn is a historian, author, social activist, and American icon. His book “A People’s History of the United States” has sold over two million copies. Welcome back to OpEdNews, Howard. The dust has had a chance to settle a bit since last month’s airing of your documentary “The People Speak.” What kind of feedback have you gotten so far?

Howard Zinn: We’ve received lots of nice messages on “The People Speak.” The History Channel tells us that eight million people have seen part or all of the film, and two million on the first night it was shown (apparently they have no way of telling if a viewer cuts out on the program). It will be on the History Channel again February 22nd and March 1st.

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Wanted! Dead or Alive?

PLEASE HELP the http://www.arrestblair.org website become viral!

There’s a bounty ready to be paid for the person that arrests Tony blair.

Read about it on the best website of 2010…

http://www.arrestblair.org 

Thanks to Paul J. Lewis for letting me know about this site having posted about it on Craig Murray’s site.

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A beautiful mind, Dr.Chandra Muzaffar

This man, Dr.Chandra Muzaffar, has a beautiful mind. Indulge yourself…

The Media Education Foundation presents American Empire: Globalization, War & Religion

Dr. Chandra Muzzafar is a Malaysian human rights activist. He is the president of the International Movement for a Just World and serves on the board of directors for the International Movement Against all forms of Discrimination and Racism. He is the author of “Human Rights and the New World Order.”

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar: American Empire (1 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTfvqyogR8Q

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar: American Empire (2 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o5dDw3kESM

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar: American Empire (3 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0OYUD0A3aU

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar: American Empire (4 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwEDr1mGM-Y

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar: American Empire (5 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTxv0-0dEs

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As ever, with all non-lwtc247 words/videos that appear here, they are not my words, although by virtue of the fact that they do appear here, means it’s safe to say I usually agree very strongly. Dr. Chandra runs an organisation that welcomes international members. Their monthly newsletter makes good reading (a couple of the articles are sometimes choice articles from the web) 

regards…
lwtc247.

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Celente Blasts Obama Bank Tax Plan – Calls Financial Crisis Commission, a Hearing for the ‘Deaf’

There’s the usual media dribble reviewing Obombers 1st year in office. Screw that crap! Here’s the REAL REVIEW:

First and formost it was was about the murder of Afghans, Pakistanis, Sudanese, Somalis, Yemenis, Iraqis and Palestinians. – as it was ALWAYS going to be, and WILL BE in the future. It was also about the suffering of the American people let us not forget.

Secondly, It was about the massive scam that he’s continuing lumping unimagineable debts onto the American people.

MUST-WATCH VIDEO: Celente Blasts Obama Bank Tax Plan – Calls Financial Crisis Commission, a Hearing for the ‘Deaf’ (19/1/10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUU7SUpLpZA

Thanks to the excellent Matthais Chang’s Future Fast Forward website. http://futurefastforward.com/

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Tinpot tyrant ain’t seen nothing yet

By George Galloway on Jan 11, 10 07:01 AM in

I have been in a few dangerous places in my life. In the mid 80s along with an ITN news crew I was bombed by the Ethiopian air force.

My face pressing into the dirt, with no cover around, I saw the shrapnel tear and kill small children and watched others die on a wooden table in a grass hut after they bombers had gone.

I have been bombed by Israel in Beirut and held with an Israeli machine gun at my chest in Nablus during the first Iraq war.

Involuntarily, I put my hands up and the blue-eyed blonde “Israeli” said that if I didn’t put my hands down he would kill me.

I’ve never, however, been in a more dangerous situation than last week in the tiny Sinai port of Al Arish to which the Egyptian dictatorship had insisted we bring our convoy.

Five hundred foreigners from 17 different nationalities with 200 vehicles were crammed into a compound without water, food or toilet facilities. They included 10 Turkish MPs one of whom was the chairman of Turkey’s foreign relations committee.

We captured on film from a third floor office the thugs of the Mukhabarat (Intelligence) piling stones and sharpening their sticks behind the backs of several ranks of riot police with helmets, batons and shields. Then mayhem.

We may have complaints about our police, but I tell you, when you see policemen hurling half-bricks into a crowd of women and men who’d come to deliver medicine to desperate people under siege, you thank your lucky stars we don’t live in such a state. Fifty five of our 500 were wounded and, but for the shocking effect on Arab public opinion (our own media didn’t give a damn) of the live footage (all on Youtube now), we might still be there yet.

Next day, the dictatorship wanted us on our way. We refused to leave without our wounded comrades and the seven of our number who had been taken prisoner. After another stand-off our demands were met and we proceeded to a tumultuous welcome in Gaza our numbers complete. Word came to me from inside the Egyptian tyranny that I was to be arrested when we came out. Had that happened while I was surrounded by 500 pumped up convoy members there would have been serious trouble.

So I sent them the message that I would come out in the dead of the night before and face the music alone but for my old friend Scots journalist Ron McKay.

McKay is a thriller writer these days but what happened next would have taxed even his imagination.

We emerged into the hands of a grim phalanx of mainly plain clothed secret policemen, none of whom could speak English. They tried to keep our passports but we refused to budge without them – even though there was menace in the air, or perhaps because of it.

They bundled us into an unmarked van which they refused to let us climb out of, at one stage man-handling us.

An Egyptian gumshoe journalist from the Daily News tried to interview us but he was battered away.

We were driven off at speed. I knew we were not going to be killed as we were able to make the necessary calls – well at least the call to the Press Association which makes all the difference in these situations.

We made the formal call to the British Foreign Office but it wasn’t worth the money. During the five-hour journey to Cairo the British diplomats did nothing but tell us to co-operate.

That co-operation was difficult as the police could speak no English and were saying nothing.

Word came from London that Nile News, a mouthpiece of the dictatorship, were reporting in the morning the seven convoy prisoners we had released at al Arish were to be re-arrested on emerging from Gaza.

Thus the bloodbath we sought to avoid now looked inevitable. We demanded to return to the Gaza-Egypt border but were refused. At Cairo airport we refused to enter the terminal and tried to hail a taxi to take us back.

Security forces goons pushed us physically into the airport building and gave close quarter attention to both of us, even in the toilet. They followed us everywhere and when McKay took a picture there was nearly a serious incident. They ushered us up to the entrance of the BA plane and the first English speaker of the night stepped forward to declare me persona non grata in Egypt.

I made my own declaration to him which was that he and his fellow torturers would one day face the wrath of the Egyptian people, who had queued up at the airport in full view of the goons, to shake hands with us. Later, his department stated I had been banned from Egypt because I was “a trouble-maker”. Mr Tinpot tyrant 99.99 of the vote Mubarak, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Source:http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/georgegalloway/2010/01/tinpot-tyrant-aint-seen-nothin.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyRecord%2FGeorgeGalloway+%28The+Daily+Record+-+George+Galloway%29

Bachman Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJmBPCYt5LY

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The Antagonist helps publicise –THE STEP FORWARD– in the INDICTMENT IN THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT OF ANTHONY CHARLES LYNTON BLAIR (TONY BLAIR)

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5892105&postID=1193292830454352460

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BREAKING NEWS…Viva Palestina convoy attacked by Egyptian forces.

LATEST: 139 Vehicles are crossing into Gaza. 17:00 GMT 6th Jan 2010. Due to stupid Egyptian officials people got injured here and people died. Yet more blood on Egypts hands.!

 Update: George Galloway in convo to a Viva Palestina regional head Secretary relayed message of “massive violence” by Egyptian police. Stones, tear gas, beatings. Some hospitalised and some arrested. Trucks and all other volunteers are in safe possession of VP UK. Currently 10 Turkish MP’s are negotiating with two Egyptian officials. GG confident the convoy will be allowed to proceed into Gaza on 6th Jan (today). [lwtc247: I think this is unrealistic]

Right now 10,000 protestors are outside the Egyptian embassy in Ankara. Demanding Egypt allows the convoy to proceed. Egypt has just proven to the world there is indeed a siege on Gaza.

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  Yes up to about 2000 Riot police have rioted against a peace convoy.

To all friends of Palestine

 

Our situation is now at a crisis point! Riot has broken out in the port of Al- Arish.

 

This late afternoon we were negotiating with a senior official from Cairo who left negotiations some two hours ago and did not return. Our negotiations with the official was regarding taking our aid vehicles into Gaza.

 

He left two hours ago and did not come back. Egyptian authorities called over 2,000 riot police who then moved towards our camp at the port.

 

We have now blocked the entrance to the port and we are now faced with riot police and water cannons and are determined to defend our vehicles and aid.

 

The Egyptian authorities have by their stubbornness and hostility towards the convoy, brought us to a crisis point.

 

We are now calling upon all friends of palestine to mount protests in person where possible, but by any means available to Egyptian representatives, consulates and Embassy’s and demand that the convoy are allowed a safe passage into Gaza tomorrow!

 

 

Kevin Ovenden

Viva Palestina Convoy Leader

 

Here is some tweets from the niece of Malaysian Ex-Prime Minister Dr. Mahatir Mohammed:

Tweet timeline: Tweets were posted about Midnight Wed (morning) 6th Jan 2010.

Injured convoy member http://tweetphoto.com/8087112 about 1 hour ago from UberTwitter

@InezaRoussille Poop, am okay ya. Doa for us too please :[ about 1 hour ago from UberTwitter in reply to InezaRoussille

1 person just got rolled out on a stretcher. about 1 hour ago from UberTwitter

Arrested are from GRB, USA, Msia and Kuwaiti. about 1 hour ago from UberTwitter

Window almost injuring TUR MP. High level nego now being done by TUR gov. Convoy still determined to enter Gaza. about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

Galloway says Viva has video taken from meeting room to show special police starting violence. Police then threw stones at meeting room about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

EGY negotiator left meet room after Viva rejected demand to surrender 59 vehicles to Israel. Soonest he left the riot police closed in on us about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

59 vehicles = 25% of our convoy which includes 2 big trucks from GBR and TUR. This contradicts written agreement EGY gave to TURs in Aqaba about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

Galloway here with TUR MPs to negotiate movement of convoy since 530pm local time. EGY asked for 59 of our vehicles to give to Israel. about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

For Gaza siege. We have bend over backwards to come to Elarish cause EGY said we’d be welcomed here, instead welcomed with violence about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

Calm now. Galloway speaking to us, explicitly named EGY regime as instigator of violence. Said now the world can see who is responsible about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

Wisma, a Msian student has been detained by EGY police in Elarish. Please help. @adlynmughni about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter in reply to adlynmughni

Some people are missing including a Msian student who came on his own from the UK. We are trying to find him. He may be arrested about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

Sitting on the ground when shouts from police lines started and then wham, hell. Just helped bandage a friend’s head about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

Instigators started moving in from within the police lines and moved on the inside of the police side of the barricades. Convoy mbers were about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

All hell has broken lose at the port. Shit flying around and police spraying and gassing. We’re in the gates about 3 hours ago from UberTwitter

We have been told there are protests going on right now in Istanbul, London, Chicago and at EGY ambassies elswherte about 5 hours ago from UberTwitter

Standoff with autho in Elarish port @meeshly

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Al-Qaeda’s in the plug hole.

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Any budding musicians out there with a camcorder?

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

ori lyrics

With your sleeper cells throughout the free world
The fear of you is why Obama’s hair is curled

Al Qaeda’s in my backbone
Mullah Omar’s down my knee bone
Yeah Zarqawi’s in my thigh bone
Al Qaeda’s all over

Because of you we kill where and whom we like
Afghani couples married just the other night

Al Qaeda’s in my laptop
Al Qaeda’s in the Tiptop
Al Qaeda made that pitstop
Al Qaeda’s all over

Al Qaeda’s in the local bank
Al Qaeda’s in that ham shank
Al Qaeda’s in my table lamp
Al Qaeda’s all over

Well, you be fake but so few know it, baby
Imposter Sheikh on blurry video, baby
Well, shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake
(see the story below)

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The torrents of pro-war pimping coming from the BBC of late is as
spectacular as the Dubai tower is a hideous use of (fake) money.

I refer to this latest piece of dreadful crap the BBC cheerfully parrots without scrutiny.

The spineless and nauseating soap-box pile of crap the BBC “news” and current affairs department is at it again. Before I give details of the BBC (f)article, here’s a snippet covering the same topic from The TruthSeeker’s website.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/link.asp?ID=11923&URL=
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=115378&ionid=351020206

Here’s the BBC (f)article…

http://news.bbc.co.uk
/2/hi/middle_east/8439201.stm

(‘heal the URL yourself by combining the two lines)

In case you missed it, look at the devilish opportunism of phanto-muck raker John Brennan.

This bastard Brennan is trying to demonise and frame Al Awlaki – a Muslim scholar held in DEEP respect and admiration by many, a man who one of my friends said about a month or so ago was put in prison by the Yemeni authorities.

Note also what the the BBC spy correspondent in Yemen says in the side box. i.e. only questioning the risk element of possible UK aggression. Again I ask DOES THAT ATTACK ON YOUR SENSE OF REASON NOT OFFEND YOU? Isn’t it the journo’s responsibility to take the Hawkishness and be critical of it. E.g. report something like this:

“There is no meaningful British connection to claimed acts of terror the US says it has been the target of. Yet the British government have issued numerous statements over the last few days indicating it will involve itself in acts of warfare in Yemen, acts that will assuredly kill yet more innocent people in persuit of US claims that Al Qaeda activity. Given this stance the British government involves many risk factors not least those involving legality….”

But of course the BBC is not going to do that.

Once more we have proof of the BBC acting as a channel for pure lies and hate and as a cheerleader for war. My disgust at the BBC “news” and current affairs department is oceanic. Any journalist with the slightest degree of professionalism would ask these USUKZ pieces of trash for PROOF of what they were saying or at the very least report them as claims should proof not be forthcoming.

BBC supports scorched earth

The media has a massive responsibility to challenge and be critical of EVERYTHING those in positions of power say, and it should be done responsibility, and not (obviously) for ulterior motives. The existence of a characteristic in national media is a very strong sign of a healthy society. Its absence is a sign of a society in deep trouble that’s speeding down the road to collapse, with a blossoming of despotism along the way.

And so I ask ALL of you to REALLY think about what the media is telling you because it has become increasingly politicised and is feeding you enormous amounts of tosh. Please, if you can {I’m going to restate a recently made plea} stop watching the BBC and these foul craft(y)smen  who are busy shaping a hideous world. Get your news from sources (mostly) independent of corporate funding and political subversion. 

It’ll be the death of us, sooner rather than later.

Salam.

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Viva Palestina Convoy 3 – great Stuff

The convoy members are flying their way to their vehicles that have arrived in El-Arish.

Alhamdulillah

This is a still image of the livemap which you can find here:  http://readingpsc.org.uk/convoy/ I’m putting the still as I like the sight of the convoy in El-Arish and the ‘convoy aeroplanes’ flying there too.

InsyaAllah they will soon be able to deliver much needed humanitarian aid that Israyhell want to deny them. The Zionist filth making up much of the Israyhelli establishment don’t consider the Palestinians (nor likely you and me) human you see.

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