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TOPIC: Israel Launches Starvation Campaign in Gaza
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Israel Launches Starvation Campaign in Gaza
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excerpted from Abunimah News - Mar 20, 2006
Haaretz - 18 March 2006
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/695549.html
IDF extends seal on territories as humanitarian state worsens
By Akiva Eldar
A closure on Palestinian areas, meant to end Thursday after Purim, has been
extended until at least next week, and the Israel Defense Forces is inclined
to continue it until after the March 28 elections.
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz extended the complete closure on the
territories and security forces are on high alert for fear of Palestinian
retaliation for the Tuesday raid of a Jericho prison holding Palestinians
wanted for the assassination of former minister Rehavam Ze'evi.
The closure bars Palestinian laborers from entering Israel, and also shuts
down Gaza's main cargo crossing, Karni. Israel, citing security concerns,
has closed Karni on and off for most of the past two months.
Karni's closure led the Palestinian Mill Co., which says it supplies about
60 percent of Gaza's flour, to idle last week because it used up its flour
stocks. On Friday, Palestinians flocked to bakeries in Gaza City, fearing a
bread shortage.
"People have been lining up to buy bread since the morning," said one bakery
owner, Mohammed Madhoun. "Some are buying more than they need, because they
are afraid we are going to run out of bread very soon. If Karni doesn't open
on Sunday, there won't be a single loaf of bread left in Gaza City." Madhoun
said.
The Palestinian National Economy Ministry said Friday it expects bakeries to
run out of flour within a few days because of the mill's shutdown.
Israel's tightening of security procedures has exacted a heavy humanitarian
toll in the territories since the Palestinian parliamentary elections in
January, according to a United Nations report obtained by Haaretz last
month.
The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs also warns that
Jerusalem's withholding of VAT and customs funds intended for the
Palestinian Authority would place the PA in danger of collapse, limiting its
ability to provide basic services such as health, education, water and
electricity, sewage and garbage collection, and policing to the population
in the West Bank and Gaza.
"The non-payment of salaries to [the PA's] 73,000 security staff could risk
a rise in criminality, kidnapping and protection racket," the report said.
"Dependence on PA salaries is greatest in some of the poorest governorates,
including Jenin, Tul Karm, Qalqilya, Tubas, Salfit, and the Gaza Strip."
Israel's three-week closure of the Karni crossing, the primary artery used
to transport commercial supplies to and from the Gaza Strip, resulted in an
estimated loss of
$10.5 million, the agency said.
The UN says the closure of Karni forced the Palestinians to shut down all
Gaza Strip flour mills and, as a consequence, led to the depletion of wheat
grain stocks.
The report also accused Israel of "accelerating its plan to separate
Palestinian and Israeli road systems within the West Bank" through a
combined use of checkpoints, selective issuing of movement permits, and
other road barriers. The UN says the Israel Defense Forces have erected more
"physical obstacles" in the territories. The current number of checkpoints
and roadblocks stands at 471, a 25 percent increase since August 2005.
The report predicts dire consequences should Israel carry out its threat to
cease the transfer of tax revenue to the PA. Due to the bloated public
sector in the territories, non-payment of salaries would leave over 150,000
Palestinians - wage-earners which the UN estimates support 25 percent of the
total Palestinian population - unemployed. As such, the poverty level in the
territories, which currently stands at 64 percent, would rise even further.
"Before the intifada, a PA salary was considered one of the lowest in the
territories," the report states. "It is now considered comparatively high."
***
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - 19 March 2006
http://pchrgaza.org
IOF Practice a Starvation Policy against the Palestinian People;
PCHR Warns of a Humanitarian Catastrophe in the Gaza Strip
PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High
Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, UN agencies and
all international humanitarian organizations, to take effective measures to
force Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) to allow the immediate flow of food,
especially flour and milk, into the Gaza Strip through al-Mentar (Karni)
crossing. PCHR also warns the international community of the consequences
of the policy of collective punishment practiced by IOF against the
Palestinian civilian population, which has peaked with the prohibition of
the flow of wheat, flour and other basic foodstuffs into the markets of the
Gaza Strip following the closure of al-Mentar crossing, which may lead to
food and health crises for at least 1.5 million Palestinians.
PCHR follows with utmost concern the deterioration in the economic and
social conditions resulting from the total closure imposed by IOF on the
OPT, especially the Gaza Strip. PCHR is concerned for the deterioration in
food and health conditions of the Palestinian civilian population as bread
and flour have almost run out in the markets of the Gaza Strip, where most
bakeries have stopped working due to the lack of flour. Hundreds of
Palestinians have been seen standing in long queues in front of some
bakeries, which have continued to work but with minimum capacity, to buy
bread for their families. This scene is unprecedented in the Gaza Strip.
According to information available to PCHR, since 14 January 2006, IOF have
closed al-Mentar (Karni) crossing for 47 separate days completely and for 4
days partially. During partial closures, IOF allowed the importation of
basic foodstuffs only into the Gaza Strip. Importation of construction raw
materials, medicines and others goods through the crossing has been banned.
As a result of the closure of the crossing, the local markets have run out
of some foodstuffs, especially milk, flour, sugar, dairy products and
fruits. Exportation of agricultural and industrial products from the Gaza
Strip has been banned. Palestinian farmers and traders have sustained large
losses due to the blockade of their products at the Palestinian side of the
crossing, as the closure coincides with the season of exportation of
strawberries, flowers, tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. Construction
projects in the Gaza Strip have also stopped due to the lack of construction
raw materials.
In addition, IOF have continued to close Sofa crossing, northeast of Rafah,
which is designated for the importation of construction raw materials into
the Gaza Strip, since 14 February 2006. They have also prevented
Palestinian workers from reaching their work places inside Israel through
Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the
Gaza Strip, including newly elected members of the Palestinian Legislative
Council, and especially those from the Change and Reform list of Hamas, have
been prevented from traveling through this crossing.
PCHR calls upon the international community, including governmental and
non-governmental humanitarian organizations, to immediately intervene and
pressure IOF to allow the immediate flow of medicines and food into the Gaza
Strip, implementing the provisions of international humanitarian law and
international human rights law. PCHR reminds the High Contracting Parties
to the international human rights and humanitarian instruments, including
Israel, of their obligations to ensure that:
"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health
and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing,
housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to
security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old
age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."
(Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
"2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural
wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of
international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual
benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its
own means of subsistence. 3. The States Parties to the present Covenant,
including those having responsibility for the administration of
Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories, shall promote the realization of
the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity
with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations." (Article 1 of
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
"1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of
everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family,
including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous
improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate
steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect
the essential importance of international co-operation based on free
consent. 2. The States Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the
fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take,
individually and through international co-operation, the measures, including
specific programmes, which are needed: .. (b) Taking into account the
problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an
equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need." (Article
11 of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
"1. Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited. 2. It
is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects
indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as
foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops,
livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works,
for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the
civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in
order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other
motive." (Article 54 of Protocol 1 of 1977 Additional to the Geneva
Convention)
"No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not
personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of
intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited. Pillage is prohibited.
Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited."
(Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949)
"To the fullest extent of the means available to it the Occupying Power
has the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population; it
should, in particular, bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and
other articles if the resources of the occupied territory are inadequate.
The Occupying Power may not requisition foodstuffs, articles or medical
supplies available in the occupied territory, except for use by the
occupation forces and administration personnel, and then only if the
requirements of the civilian population have been taken into account.
Subject to the provisions of other international Conventions, the Occupying
Power shall make arrangements to ensure that fair value is paid for any
requisitioned goods. The Protecting Power shall, at any time, be at liberty
to verify the state of the food and medical supplies in occupied
territories, except where temporary restrictions are made necessary by
imperative military requirements." (Article 55 of the Fourth Geneva
Convention of 1949)
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TOPIC: Weekly News Update #842, 3/19/06
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Weekly News Update #842, 3/19/06
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WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE ON THE AMERICAS
ISSUE #842, MARCH 19, 2006
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1. Ecuador: Indigenous Protest Trade Pact
2. Colombia: Army Murder in Peace Community
3. Colombia: Far Right Sweeps Congress
4. Bolivia: Court Rules Against Oil Company
5. Mexico: Wildcat Rocks Mines
6. Dominican Republic: 2 Haitians Burned
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*1. ECUADOR: INDIGENOUS PROTEST TRADE PACT
Early on Mar. 13, indigenous Ecuadorans began a national
mobilization against the Andean Free Trade Treaty (known in
Spanish as the TLC), which the Ecuadoran government has said it
intends to sign with the US, Colombia and Peru [see Update #841].
The mobilization is also demanding that the government cancel its
contract with the US oil company Occidental (Oxy), that Ecuador
not participate in the US-led "Plan Colombia," and that a
National Constituent Assembly be called to write a new
constitution. The mobilization was organized by the indigenous
organizations Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of
Ecuador (CONAIE) and the Confederation of the Peoples of Kichua
Nationality of Ecuador (Ecuarunari). In a joint Mar. 13
communique announcing the start of the mobilization, the two
groups called the TLC "a mortal weapon for the economy of
millions of indigenous people, campesinos and small
businesspeople."
"Now 50 of every 100 indigenous children suffers from chronic
malnutrition--that is, hunger--and with the TLC, which will
affect the production of foods from our fields, there will be
millions of children and adolescents who together with their
parents will suffer hunger and will have to migrate to the big
cities or to other countries," said the communique.
Mar. 13 began with actions in at least 14 of Ecuador's 22
provinces and in the capital, Quito. In Carchi, some 1,500 people
shut down traffic on the road leading from Tulcan to Quito.
Protesters also blocked roads in Imbabura, Pichincha, Cotopaxi,
Tungurahua, Canar, Loja and Zamora. In Canar, access roads to
nearly every town were blocked, and 3,000 indigenous Kanari
people blocked traffic in the village of Suscal along a road to
the coast. Ten busloads of protesters left from Imbabura to join
protests in Quito. In Latacunga, Cotopaxi, some 2,000 people took
part in a protest march. In Bolivar, protesters marched and
seized the governor's offices. In Azuay, thousands marched in the
city of Cuenca, and a roadway was blocked in Giron. Police
repression against protesters was reported in Ayora, Pichincha.
In Esmeraldas, some 200 people marched in the provincial capital.
>From the eastern provinces of Pastaza and Morona Santiago, some
500 people reached Banos de Ambato on a march toward Quito. In
Quito, some 100 members of Campesino Social Security seized the
cathedral. [CONAIE/Ecuarunari Communique 3/13/06]
On Mar. 14, the second day of the mobilization, protesters who
arrived that day from Imbabura joined local Quito residents in
marching past the US embassy to the cathedral. Police attacked
the marchers in the area around the provincial council, and at
the theater plaza. Protesters continued to block roads in Carchi,
Imbabura, Pichincha, Tungurahua, Bolivar and Chimborazo. Some
10,000 people marched in Latacunga, capital of Cotopaxi province;
hundreds of people also marched in Salcedo, another city in
Cotopaxi, before blocking a nearby highway. In Suscal, Canar,
police unleashed repression on protesters--mainly women and
children--and arrested several protest leaders. Despite the
attacks, protesters in Suscal are continuing to block the road
leading to Guayaquil. The march from the Amazon region continued,
with 600 people reaching the city of Ambato from Zalazaza.
[CONAIE/Ecuarunari Communique 3/14/06]
In a Mar. 15 communique signed by CONAIE president Luis Macas,
CONAIE condemned the repression faced by protesters. "At a time
when the Ecuadoran government and army are incapable of defending
the country from incursions by the Colombian armed forces, and
they have rather turned into security guards for the oil
corporations, they have sharpened their weapons against their own
people, causing numerous wounded, disappeared and persecutions
against peaceful, democratic and united mobilizations," said
CONAIE. CONAIE reported that in a meeting that morning with
Governance Under-Secretary Felipe Vega, its leaders had protested
the violation of human rights and questioned the government's
lack of transparency and democracy in the TLC negotiations, and
delays in the cancellation of the Oxy contract. CONAIE leaders
told Vega that the mobilization would continue until the TLC
negotiations are suspended, the government publishes everything
it has negotiated up to now, the Oxy contract is cancelled as
requested by the state prosecutor's office, and a Constituent
Assembly is convened. [CONAIE communique 3/15/06]
By Mar. 15, the protests were starting to affect the economy,
disrupting deliveries of corn, potatoes and milk in the central
provinces where traffic was blocked and preventing flower
exporters from transporting their shipments. [Al Jazeera 3/16/06]
In a televised speech on Mar. 15, Ecuadoran president Alfredo
Palacio criticized the protests and called on Ecuadorans to
"close ranks to protect democracy." Earlier in the day, Interior
Minister Alfredo Castillo had resigned after publicly stating
that the protesters "are right" to demand that the TLC
negotiations be "much clearer." [El Barlovento (Mexico) 3/15/06]
On Mar. 17, Oxy proposed an accord with the Ecuadoran government
in which the company would provide oil assistance and funds for
social projects, would give up legal claims and would renegotiate
its contracts in exchange for the cancellation of legal
proceedings threatening its current contract. It was not clear
whether the government has responded to the offer. [Reuters
3/17/06] Ecuarunari president Humberto Cholango responded by
warning Ecuadorans that Oxy was attempting to evade the legal
proceedings with the offer of $293 million in funding for public
works. [Ecuarunari/CONAIE Communique 3/18/06]
On Mar. 18, the indigenous mobilization continued into a sixth
day, with roads blocked in at least seven provinces, mainly in
the central Andean region, the north and the Amazon. In Riobamba,
capital of Chimborazo, wire services reported that some 4,000
people demonstrated before holding an assembly to plan subsequent
actions. (CONAIE and Ecuarunari reported that 10,000 people from
the surrounding areas attempted to enter Riobamba, and 5,000
eventually made it past police to the city's central square.) In
other provinces, indigenous organizations also called assemblies
to plan actions for the coming week, as the Ecuadoran government
prepares to hold its final round of TLC negotiations in
Washington on Mar. 23. [ANSA 3/18/06; Cadena Global/DPA 3/18/06;
Ecuarunari/CONAIE Communique 3/18/06] The provinces of
Tungurahua, Cotopaxi and Pastaza reportedly ended their strikes
between Mar. 16 and 17 after the government assigned more funds
for public works they were demanding. [Cadena Global/DPA 3/18/06]
In a Mar. 18 communique, Ecuarunari and CONAIE reported that
their respective presidents, Cholango and Macas, along with
provincial protest leaders, had been threatened with arrest if
they do not end the mobilization. They also reported more
repression: the march from the Amazon provinces to Quito was
detained for more than three hours in the area of Chasqui, though
marchers finally broke through police lines to continue their
trek; protester Alberto Cabascango lost his left eye in the area
of Cajas, between Imbabura and Pichincha provinces; and
protesters Rosa Cristina Ulcuango from Cayambe and Olga Alimana
from Chimborazo have been hospitalized after being injured by
police and army troops.
The worst repression continued to be in the community of Suscal,
in Canar province, where on Mar. 18 army and police forces
attacked a march of some 500 people along the road leading to the
coast, beating, dragging and kicking the participants, including
many women, children and elderly people. Many people were
injured, including two pregnant women who had to be taken to the
health center in Suscal for emergency treatment. The military and
police patrols then continued their assault on the community by
violently invading homes, destroying doors and windows, firing
tear gas bombs, threatening people at gunpoint and carrying out
mass arrests. [Ecuarunari/CONAIE Communique 3/18/06]
*2. COLOMBIA: ARMY MURDER IN PEACE COMMUNITY
On Mar. 4, two witnesses saw Colombian army soldiers violently
take 18-year old Nelly Johana Durango from her home in the
community of La Resbaloza, in the Peace Community of San Jose de
Apartado, Antioquia department. The community reported Durango's
disappearance to the human rights defender's office, which in
turn questioned the army; the army responded that it had no
troops in La Resbaloza. A body matching Durango's description was
later found in the morgue in Tierra Alta, Cordoba department. The
army had turned in the body as an alleged guerrilla killed in
combat. On Mar. 15 the body was positively identified as that of
Durango. The Peace Community was preparing residents to return to
the communities of Mulatos and La Esperanza at the time Durango
was disappeared. [Comunidad de Paz de San Jose de Apartado
3/15/06; Amnesty International Canada 3/13/06]
Meanwhile, Embera indigenous authorities Regulo Uran and Criterio
Bailarin have been disappeared since Mar. 5, when they were last
leaving the home of the indigenous leader of Urrao to return to
their community, the Andabu indigenous reservation, in Antioquia
department. [OIA & ONIC Executive Committee Statement, posted on
Colombia Indymedia 3/17/06 by Red de Defensores No
Institucionalizados]
*3. COLOMBIA: FAR RIGHT SWEEPS CONGRESS
Rightwing supporters of President Alvaro Uribe Velez swept
Colombia's Mar. 12 legislative elections, winning 72 seats of the
100 seats in the Senate and at least 57% of the 167 seats in the
Chamber of Deputies. Abstention was nearly 60%. Center-left
sectors united in the Alternative Democratic Pole won 11 seats in
the Senate and now form the fifth largest force in the
legislature. Presidential elections are scheduled for May 28.
[Inter Press Service 3/13/06; AFP 3/13/06]
More than half the votes cast for the two Senate seats reserved
for indigenous candidates were left blank, so those elections may
be repeated. [IPS 3/13/06] Nasa indigenous leaders blamed a badly
designed ballot for the confusing results; they say that the
elections should not be repeated, and that the two candidates of
the Indigenous Social Alliance--Jesus Enrique Pinacue and Eulalia
Yagari--won the vote and should be able to take their senate
seats. [Asociacion de Cabildos Nasa cxhacxha 3/16/06]
A new organization, Daughters and Sons for Memory and Against
Impunity, had on Mar. 9 publicly called on Colombians to vote
against 13 candidates linked to rightwing paramilitary groups.
Six of those 13 candidates did win their seats. Among those who
didn't was retired general Rito Alejo del Rio, accused of
responsibility for massacres in 1997. Ivan Cepeda of Daughters
and Sons for Memory and Against Impunity said that for now,
"there are 17 or 18 legislators that come from highly doubtful
forces" linked to paramilitary groups.
Authorities did not report any major incidents during the voting
but "29 violent acts" were recorded. Blackouts took place along
the Atlantic coast and in Cauca department, and in Arauca, an
attack on an aqueduct left the town of Saravena without drinking
water. The attack was blamed on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC). [IPS 3/13/06]
*4. BOLIVIA: COURT RULES AGAINST OIL COMPANY
On Mar. 13, a court in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz
rejected a habeas corpus suit filed on behalf of two executives
of the Spanish-Argentine oil company Repsol-YPF. The company
announced it would appeal the ruling to Bolivia's Constitutional
Court. Andina, Repsol-YPF's Bolivian affiliate, had charged that
Andina president Julio Gavito, a Spanish citizen, and operations
manager Pedro Sanchez, an Argentine citizen, were being unduly
persecuted. Gavito and Sanchez are fugitives facing criminal
charges for the irregular sale of some $9.2 million worth of
crude oil between June of 2004 and July of 2005. The court
dismissed the habeas petition because the two executives are not
detained. Repsol YPF believes the charges against its executives
are "absolutely unjustifiable" because the original complaint
brought by Bolivian customs "refers to a hypothetical infraction
that should be discussed in an administrative setting." [El
Barlovento 3/13/06]
*5. MEXICO: WILDCAT ROCKS MINES
Tens of thousands of Mexican miners went on strike from Mar. 1 to
Mar. 3 at 70 companies in at least eight states--Hidalgo,
Coahuila, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Queretaro, Michoacan, Guanajuato
and Mexico state--in a wildcat action protesting local conditions
and government intervention in the National Union of Mine and
Metal Workers of the Mexican Republic (SNTMMRM).
As many as 250,000 workers may have participated in the strike,
one of the largest in Mexico's recent history, crippling
production at mines, metal refineries and steel mills. Silver and
copper prices jumped briefly on world exchanges as workers closed
the Fresnillo silver mine, owned by the world's leading refined
silver producer, Penoles, and the giant Grupo Mexico's Cananea
and La Caridad copper mines, where the miners charged conditions
were unsafe. The wildcat started less than two weeks after 65
coal miners, also members of the SNTMMRM, were killed in an
explosion at Grupo Mexico's Pasta de Conchos mine in San Juan de
Sabinas in the northern state of Coahuila [see Update #839].
[Mexican Labor News and Analysis Special Report 3/8/06; Reuters
3/2/06; La Jornada (Mexico) 3/2/06]
The wildcat followed a Feb. 28 decision by the government of
center-right president Vicente Fox Quesada to remove SNTMMRM
general secretary Napoleon Gomez Urrutia and replace him with
union dissident Elias Morales Hernandez, even though Fox's
government had recognized Gomez Urrutia's election in 2002. Gomez
Urrutia was known as a bureaucrat with ties to management and the
formerly ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), but
recently he had been more militant, opposing the Fox government's
labor "reform" package and attempting to replace Victor Flores
Morales as head of the PRI-dominated Congress of Labor (CT).
After the Pasta de Conchos disaster he accused Grupo Mexico of
"industrial homicide." [MLNA 3/8/06]
Some 30,000 unionists--principally telephone and electrical
workers, miners and Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS)
employees--marched to the central Zocalo plaza in Mexico City on
Mar. 7 to demand that the government "stop intervening in the
workers' movement." Fox's National Action Party (PAN) "will pay
in the ballot box the bill he owes to the working class,"
speakers warned, and raised the possibility of a national strike
if the government refuses to fire Labor Secretary Francisco
Javier Salazar Saenz. The demonstration was led by the National
Workers Union (UNT) and the Mexican Union Front (FSM), two
confederations of unions that are independent of the CT. The
independent unions' support for Gomez Urrutia is conditional,
however. In an interview on or before Mar. 14, UNT president
Francisco Hernandez Juarez called on Gomez Urrutia to give an
accounting for a $55 million fund Grupo Mexico gave the SNTMMRM
to benefit Mexicana de Cananea employees. The government is
currently investigating the union's use of the fund. [El Diario-
La Prensa (NY) 3/9/06 from identified wire services; LJ 3/6/06;
Tabasco Hoy (Mexico), some from Notimex]
*6. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 2 HAITIANS BURNED
Haitian immigrant Jako Medina died in Santo Domingo on Mar. 12 of
burns he received when a mob of Dominicans set him on fire along
with another immigrant on Mar. 6 in Yabonico community, near the
Haitian border in Las Matas de Farfan, San Juan province. The
other victim, Edison Odio, was still in intensive care as of Mar.
17. The incident occurred after the Yabonico mayor, Manuel
Bolivar Lopez Mora, was murdered with machetes and clubs on his
farm. According to his wife, he had hired four Haitians who
murdered him for his revolver when he was alone. After the murder
was discovered, a mob seized Medina and Odio, apparently because
of their nationality, poured gasoline on them and set them on
fire. The victims were taken to the Luis E. Aybar Hospital in
Santo Domingo, while dozens of Haitian who had been working in
the area fled.
This is the latest incident in a wave of violence against Haitian
immigrants since May 2005. Three Haitian immigrants died in
August after being set on fire in Haina, near the capital, in an
apparent robbery attempt [see Updates #812, 813]. "Since I've
been living in the country, I've never seen acts of this type,"
former Haitian consul general Edwin Paraison, who has been in the
Dominican Republic for 23 years, told the New York daily El
Diario-La Prensa. [AlterPresse 3/17/06; ED-LP 3/9/06 from
correspondent]
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TOPIC: Islamic terrorists have carried out 4500 deadly attacks since9/11
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/1517c699247ea1d0
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 8:28 pm
From: Hunter01
Neil Boss wrote:
And lets not forget the Hindus, thousands of years of subjugation and
persecution of the native people of India, and many genocides only in
the short period since India achieved independence. Your shit stinks as
bad as everyone else's, if not worse.
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TOPIC: Australia to de-program & re-program islamic militants
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/3a13b96d93f9a9b3
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 8:46 pm
From: Hunter01
Neil Boss wrote:
> Hunter01 <hunter01@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
> news:44184850$0$23306$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>> Where as India has an addiction of having terrorists run their
>> government, they were recently voted out. Strangely dozens of their
>> former "esteemed" leaders are now up on charges over their complicity in
>> the rape/torture/murder genocide in Gujarat... How fucking civilised....
>
> Does that not show the justice system works?
It shows that when your nazis (those you support) were in that it did
not work, and now that sane Indians (those you oppose) are running the
country that they at least are trying to fix the problem as much as they
can. Most civilised countries would never have been in that position in
the first place.
> How "civilised" is Australia
> let us not forget the sargar of the wheat board giving bribes to Sadam.
Lets not forget the saga of India feeding nuclear technology to Iran. I
know which sounds worse to me.
> How
> about the genocide of aboriginal?
Long dead history at the hands of the poms, India on the other hand has
continual genocides in the present at the hands of Indians aimed at
Sikhs, Christians, Dalits, Muslims and whoever else... Like I said, I
know which sounds worse to me.
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TOPIC: "There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one's nativeland.
"- Euripides 431 B.C.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/bf84be57e3096b9a
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 8:31 pm
From: Hunter01
Neil Boss wrote:
It's interesting that nelly kashmiri/nelly boss and the rest of the
hindutva nazi gang try to hide the truth about the oppression of the
native people of India, the natives of India will support much of what I
have said and you will notice...
http://www.geocities.com/athens/parthenon/2104/scripts.html
"The Brahmins for centuries have degraded the original inhabitants of
India with the intention of self elevation, preservation and oppression.
These ancient dwellers in India were Dravidian, and in fact, their
culture had developed a highly sophisticated way of life which compares
favorably with that of contemporary urban civilizations in Egypt and
Mesopotamia."
And lets not forget, that unlike other civilised countries that have
grown up and no longer murder the native population, India is at it all
the time!
http://www.dalitstan.org/holocaust/bharat/idxbhar.html
Atrocities: 2001
Dalit woman, 5 kids burnt alive (April 8, 2001) (link)
Dalit leader murdered (March 13, 2001) (link)
Atrocities: 2000
Harijan woman raped (March 30, 2000) (link)
Dalit woman gang-raped, paraded naked (May 31, 2000) (link)
Neighbour held for raping Dalit girls (June 26, 2000) (link)
Dalit girl gang-raped in Punjab (Aug. 31, 2000) (link)
15-year-old Dalit girl raped (Nov 10, 2000) (link)
Dalit women tortured as witches (Nov. 11, 2000) (link)
Dalit alleged tortured to death by Indian police (Aug. 31, 2000) (link)
Dalits showered with acid, 2 lose sight (Oct. 23, 2000) (link)
5 Dalits tortured for 2 years (July 9, 2000) (link)
Relentless Attacks on Dalits (July, 2000) (link)
Dalit Farm Worker killed in Caste Conflict (18 May, 2000) (link)
Dalit widows branded witches, one dies after `torture' (Sept. 14, 2000)
(link)
Bihar minister accused of torturing Dalit (July 14, 2000) (link)
Two blinded as Upper Caste Men throw Acid on 6 Dalits (Oct. 23, 2000) (link)
Outspoken Dalit widow murdered (April 2000) (link)
Dalit burnt to death (Dec. 15, 2000) (link)
In Rajasthan one Dalit woman is raped every 60 hours (May, 2000) (link)
4 Dalits burnt alive in Rajasthan (September 26, 2000) (link)
4 Dalits shot in Tundla (May 5, 2000) (link)
Dalit tortured by Indian Policemen (Sept. 11, 2000) (link)
Death of a Dalit (Dec 12, 2000) (link)
5 Dalits hacked to Death in Andhra (July 27, 2000)
Dalit boy killed for plucking Rose (Aug. 8, 2000)
Bhojpur Massacre : 5 Dalits Killed (Oct. 15, 2000)
Miapur Massacre : 34 Dalits Killed (June 17, 2000)
Hasanpur Massacre : 11 Dalits Killed (May 11, 2000)
Sonebars Killings : 3 Dalits Killed (March 28, 2000) (link)
Dalit Woman stripped, killed (March 17, 2000)
7 Dalits burned Alive in Kolar (March 11, 2000)
Atrocities: 1999
Sexually exploited Dalit widow set ablaze (Feb 21, 1999) (link)
Dalit girl raped, burnt to death near Jaipur (Dec 17, 1999) (link)
Dalit woman gang-raped for 6 months (March 8, 1999) (link)
One Dalit killed every nine days in Rajasthan (11 July, 1999) (link)
Dalit suicides (April 24, 1999) (link)
Dalit beating is a way of life here (May 30, 1999) (link)
Dalit woman gangraped, burnt alive (July 9, 1999) (link)
Zahirbigha Massacre : 12 Dalits Killed (April 21, 1999) (link)
40 Million Dalit Slaves : Daily Star (1999)
2 Dalits Killed Per Day : P.Justiae (1999)
Narayanpur Massacre : 11 Dalits Killed (Feb. 10, 1999)
Shankarbigha Massacre : 22 Dalits Killed (Jan. 25, 1999) (link)
Atrocities: 1998
Bihar: Rapistan for Dalit Women (Nov. 2, 1998) (link)
Dalit Girl blinded (Dec. 15, 1998) (link)
Dalit Boys tortured for Dating High-caste Girls (1998) (link)
Dalit Woman burnt alive in Himalayas (July 20, 1998)
Hands of 7 Dalit children burnt (December 28, 1998) (link)
Dalit houses burnt by Marathas (September 18, 1998) (link)
Nagribazar Massacre : 10 Dalits Killed (May 11, 1998) (link)
Atrocities: 1997
Laxmanpur-Bathe Massacre : 61 Dalits Killed (Dec 1, 1997)
Atrocities: 1996
Haibaspur Massacre : 12 Dalits Killed (Dec 24, 1996) (link)
Bathanitola Massacre : 21 Shudras Killed (July 11, 1996)
Atrocities: 1995
Dalit girl blinded for using Cup (August 1995) (link)
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TOPIC: India - Land of Government Corruption and persecution of thosewho tell
the truth
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/125260cfa30f8c7
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 8:45 pm
From: Hunter01
Neil Boss wrote:
Extracts from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE
by Scott Newman
NEW DELHI--A news team that nearly bought down India's government last
year with an explosive expose' of corruption in politics is now itself
on the verge of collapse-a victim, some media watchdogs and journalists
say, of a new eagerness of Indian authorities to stifle critical journalism.
In March last year, the Indian news Web site Tehelka.com blew the lid
off of corruption at the very top levels of government in India with
hidden camera sting operation. The Web site's journalists posed as arms
dealers who were ready to pay for help in securing military contracts.
Numerous senior army officers, top politicians and government
bureaucrats were caught on tape either accepting bribes or
discussing the details of payment.
Amid the public outrage that ensued, senior members of the government of
Prime Minister Atal Biharj Vajpayee and its coalition parties resigned.
Among them: Defense Minister George Fernandes and the chief of Mr.
Fernandes' Samata Paraty, Jaya Jaitley.
But a lot has changed in a year: Mr Fernandes has his old job back, and
Ms Jaitley remains a senior leader of the Samata Party. Meanwhile, two
of Tehlka's journalists have been arrested, and police and other
authorities have raided its offices and those of its financial backers
several times. The first raid, by income-tax agents, came 10 days after
Tehelka released its story.
One of the Tehelka journalists, who is still being held, has been
charged with illegal poaching of animals. Tehlka denies the charges and
says the reporter was working on an investigative report into the
illegal trade in animal skins..........
Tehelka's editor, Tarun Tejpal, characterizes the actions taken against
his group and its backers as "a massive vendetta campaign" that has hit
them hard financially. He says the Web site's staff has shrunk to about
20 people from 120. "Of those [who] are left, not one has been paid a
salary in six month." he says.
No doubt, the bursting of the Internet bubble may have contributed to
Tehelka's financial troubles, but many fellow journalists see more to it
than that.
"It's gotten to the stage where no journalist in this country can sit
back and allow them to do what they're doing To Tehelka," says Vir
Sanghvi, editor of the leading English-language daily, the Hindustan
times. "The level of persecution is phenomenal."
This major scandal in India and now the persecution of investigative
journalists should be a red flag for us all. When is SSB going to clean
up his own backyard? Has not SSB left a leagacy of many broken promises?
Isn't it pass time to realize our delusion?
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TOPIC: Australian Immigration department caught out again
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/89297cee4b8fd7b0
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 8:48 pm
From: Hunter01
Neil Boss wrote:
> Look who is talking!
A movie that fits your childish intellect....
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TOPIC: who will put the bell on the cat?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/3d538d9c70b9eeaf
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 3:17 pm
From: "LongmuirG"
donquijote1954 quoted someone (Christian Science Monitor) saying:
> "The biggest hole in our [US] policy today is fuel taxation," he [Lee Schipper]
> adds. "Tax increases are something Americans should do but don't know how
> to do, and I wonder if they will ever be able to.
Dangerous and stupid talk! Look at this from the point of view of an
oil exporting country -- and all the beautiful people agree that the
bargaining position of the oil exporters is getting progressively
stronger. They sell crude oil for about $1.50 per US gallon. Shipped
to Britain and refined, that yields gasoline costing $1.97/gal (per the
article). The poor Brit consumer actually pays $6.06 for that gallon
of gas.
To review, the OPEC government pays for all the costs of exploration,
drilling, and production --- and gets $1.50 for its trouble. Brit Gov
does almost nothing and gets $4.09 for allowing its drones (sorry,
citizens) the privilege of buying vehicle fuel. The OPEC government's
conclusion is obvious -- the price of oil needs to be a lot higher, so
that the OPEC government gets a big piece of the $4.09 that BritGov is
pocketing.
So why has that not happened yet? There are a number of theories, but
one of them is the complication of the presence in the global market of
low fuel tax regimes like the US. If the US ever decides to follow in
the Euro footsteps and stick high taxes on motor fuels, that market
complication will be removed, and OPEC governments will use their
bargaining power to reclaim the taxes being seized by greedy EUnuchs.
Now, the true 17th Century Greenie should not care whether the price of
motor fuel is high because of high oil prices or high taxes --
environmental impact is much the same. But the Watermelon Greenies
will be concerned, because they really want those high taxes so they
can control other people's lives.
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TOPIC: US Wars: Mainly bombing wars and hiring natives to fight other natives
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/85aaaa36168c87db
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 11:15 pm
From: Chip Anderson
Defendario <Defendario@netscape.com> wrote in
news:486nleFip4dmU1@individual.net:
> Chip Anderson wrote:
>> "B.T.World" <btrworld@yahoo.com> wrote in
>> news:1142821052.689514.191500@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>
>>>(As in Vietnam, it is the same fallacy of more bombing and
>>>killing and setting up one group in an invaded nation to fight another
>>>group. Kill, divide and conquer?
>>>
>>>It will all be in vain, and Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Blair will go
>>>do down in history as mass murderers and war criminals. They
>>>started a war of choice and killed over a hundred thousand in a
>>>country they invaded illegally and immorally.
>>>
>>
>> -->snip<--
>>
>> Nice opinion and an interesting prognostication. It's too bad that it
>> doesn't jibe with the facts.
>>
>
> WTF would a deluded Kultie like you know about facts?
>
> IOW, you have no response to the facts outlined in the article, so you
> snip them all away to focus on a point of opinion. Many reasonable
> people have concluded that Bushler is a murderer and war criminal. The
> proof of these fact has been made abundantly clear, to those who have
> eyes to see. You are either a fool or a shill, Chippie.
First of all, the name is Chip. Secondly, many otherwise reasonable people
are, and have been, dead wrong. Please be kind enough to present some
"proof" for your case and I'll be happy to refute it for you, if possible.
Who knows, you may present some incontrovertible evidence that sways me in
your direction.
Also, I truly resent the fact that you call me a "Kultie" as it represents
nothing more than a fantasy on your part. As for your "Bushler" reference,
it is nothing less than solid proof that you suffer from Bush Derangement
Syndrome.
--
---
Chip
Oderint dum metuant
-Lucius Accius
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TOPIC: Afghan Man Sentenced to Death for Converting
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/bd295e44b8e99935
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 6:19 pm
From: Nathen Watts
harmony wrote:
> let it be known that afgahnistan is bush inspired democracy for which
> american taxpayers have paid a pretty penny. with waht face bush smiles and
> says to america that millions voted in elections in afghanistan? some
> democracy. can you ever teach old mommedan dogs new tricks?
Whoreformoney, the fermented mango sause yer getting from jay stevens is
too powerful for you.
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TOPIC: Nonproliferation Issues Raised by U.S.-India Nuclear Deal.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/a10b296276bbcfca
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 6:28 pm
From: "Intelli Gent Design"
"captain." <spammersmustdie@now.net> wrote in message
news:1QtTf.3624$nQ6.1207@clgrps13...
>
> "stuart" <swilkes@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:1142647119.102949.116010@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
>> Ajanta wrote:
>>> Mike <yard22192@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Nonproliferation Issues Raised by U.S.-India Nuclear Deal.
>>> > Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of
>>> > International Studies. http://www.cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/060302.htm
>>>
>>> No "proliferation" issues are raised by the deal itself, they are only
>>> raised by such "centers" and other "experts" who know their own
>>> irrelevance and hope to attract attention if not donations with noise.
>>>
>>> History will move on, so should we.
>>
>> Don't bother with Mike Yared, he just trolls the group occasionally,
>> usually with links to some story in the Moonie Rag (AKA the Washington
>> Times).
>>
>> His latest troll is especially amusing in light of the recent
>> agreements Bush reached in India.
>>
>> Stuart Wilkes
>>
>
> nice to see (read) you again mr. wilkes.
> keep on fighting the good fight.
>
>
Is he starting soon?
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TOPIC: Dartmouth University Mesmerized By Holocaust Speaker
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/4d796c07f393542a
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 3:38 pm
From: "hal"
Mc1 wrote:
> How Dartmouth college allowed this Misha to speak to it's student
> body, is beyond me.
Considering some of the other looney tunes who speak, and are taken
seriously, on college campuses, why are you suprised?
> She claims to be a holocaust survivor who at 7 yrs old walked 3000
> miles,
If it was over a period of 4 years as she seems to claim, that's just a
bit over 2 miles per day. Quite possible and the most likely part of
her story. Let's assign it a probability of say 90%
> was guarded by wolves,
There are documented cases of similar things but they are rare. I
think we'd be generous to assign that a 5% probability, assuming there
actually were wolves in Europe at that time. I don't know about that.
> had a love affair at nine,
Don't know what she means by that. Nine year old girls do get
infatuated with older men and if she happens to fall for a pedophile it
might be reciprocated. Maybe we can give her a 50% probability on that
one.
> and killed a SS Nazi in a knife fight at ten.
Well, she might have knifed an SS guy by stealth but the probability of
her doing it in an actual knife fight, with him fighting back, is very
small. Let's be generous and assume she meant she knifed him without
necessarily doing it in a fight where he was fighting back. Call it
70%.
> Her survival was only made possible by the companionship of a pack
> of wolves that helped to feed and shelter her along her journey.
See above.
> She cared for their cubs while the wolves hunted, ate the raw meat of
> their kill, and felt true happiness for the first time in her troubled
> life.
See above.
> Pity the poor students that are forced to listen to some 'Holocaust
> survivor' tell her story of being a seven year old, walking 3000 miles
> over four years, and living with wolves.
No worse than other stuff they are forced to listen to.
> She survived four years eating bugs, grass and rabbits the wolves
> brought her.
Grass is not nourishing to humans. Insects and rabbits are assuming we
believe her story about the wolves.
> Who the hell would invite this nut as a college speaker, and pay her
> $10,000 fee? Who at Dartmouth booked her?
Probably someone like the loonies who pay people like Ward Churchill to
speak.
> The real question is: ~ Did the students actually believe this story?
Probably depends on how good a story teller she is. If she spins a
good yarn she might actually get them to believe. This appears to be
an attempt at something like what the cognitive psychologists call
"reconsideration under suitable scripts." Tell a good enough story and
people tend to believe it. The story usually includes several things
that in and of themselves are not very probable, but the overall effect
makes it believeable. If we take my probabilities above for each part
of the story, the whole thing has a probability of about 1.5%. However
the effect psychologically of each part of the story is to induce
belief.
The sad aspect of this is that the broad is probably setting up
(deliberately or otherwise) a straw man that those who deny the
holocaust can use to claim that it was all as phony as her tale appears
to be.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 3:48 pm
From: "zara"
"hal" <hlillywh@juno.com> wrote in message
news:1142897885.483247.248420@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> Mc1 wrote:
>
>> How Dartmouth college allowed this Misha to speak to it's student
>> body, is beyond me.
>
> Considering some of the other looney tunes who speak, and are taken
> seriously, on college campuses, why are you suprised?
>
>> She claims to be a holocaust survivor who at 7 yrs old walked 3000
>> miles,
>
> If it was over a period of 4 years as she seems to claim, that's just a
> bit over 2 miles per day. Quite possible and the most likely part of
> her story. Let's assign it a probability of say 90%
>
>> was guarded by wolves,
>
> There are documented cases of similar things but they are rare. I
> think we'd be generous to assign that a 5% probability, assuming there
> actually were wolves in Europe at that time. I don't know about that.
>
>> had a love affair at nine,
>
> Don't know what she means by that. Nine year old girls do get
> infatuated with older men and if she happens to fall for a pedophile it
> might be reciprocated. Maybe we can give her a 50% probability on that
> one.
>
>> and killed a SS Nazi in a knife fight at ten.
>
> Well, she might have knifed an SS guy by stealth but the probability of
> her doing it in an actual knife fight, with him fighting back, is very
> small. Let's be generous and assume she meant she knifed him without
> necessarily doing it in a fight where he was fighting back. Call it
> 70%.
>
>> Her survival was only made possible by the companionship of a pack
>> of wolves that helped to feed and shelter her along her journey.
>
> See above.
>
>> She cared for their cubs while the wolves hunted, ate the raw meat of
>> their kill, and felt true happiness for the first time in her troubled
>> life.
>
> See above.
>
>> Pity the poor students that are forced to listen to some 'Holocaust
>> survivor' tell her story of being a seven year old, walking 3000 miles
>> over four years, and living with wolves.
>
> No worse than other stuff they are forced to listen to.
>
>> She survived four years eating bugs, grass and rabbits the wolves
>> brought her.
>
> Grass is not nourishing to humans. Insects and rabbits are assuming we
> believe her story about the wolves.
>
>> Who the hell would invite this nut as a college speaker, and pay her
>> $10,000 fee? Who at Dartmouth booked her?
>
> Probably someone like the loonies who pay people like Ward Churchill to
> speak.
>
>> The real question is: ~ Did the students actually believe this story?
>
> Probably depends on how good a story teller she is. If she spins a
> good yarn she might actually get them to believe. This appears to be
> an attempt at something like what the cognitive psychologists call
> "reconsideration under suitable scripts." Tell a good enough story and
> people tend to believe it. The story usually includes several things
> that in and of themselves are not very probable, but the overall effect
> makes it believeable. If we take my probabilities above for each part
> of the story, the whole thing has a probability of about 1.5%. However
> the effect psychologically of each part of the story is to induce
> belief.
>
> The sad aspect of this is that the broad is probably setting up
> (deliberately or otherwise) a straw man that those who deny the
> holocaust can use to claim that it was all as phony as her tale appears
> to be.
I resent that - I have a 3.998 Grade Average - Her story was compelling - I
loved when her eyes glistened and she wiped a tear.
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TOPIC: 24 homosexual-rights activists arrested at Falwell university
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Date: Tues, Mar 21 2006 10:43 am
From: "Dolf Boek"
It isn't possible for "Frank Arthur" <Art@Arthurian.com> to really and
truthfully being Christian--as you can see he doesn't comply with the two
Categorical Imperatives of the Gospels, Law and Prophets:
"For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted
of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have
tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they
shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to
themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." [Hebrews
6:4-8]
- dolf
- http://home.iprimus.com.au/telos/
"Tock" <tock@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:HXpSf.61040$dW3.15199@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
"Frank Arthur" <Art@Arthurian.com> wrote in message
news:lz%Qf.1455$TB1.1299@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> "Pastor Bluskie" A true Christian "let's kill the queers"!
Well, that IS what the Old Testament calls for.
Truth is that the Christian Bible is a horrible book, those who scrupulously
comply with its teachings are no better than thugs. Pious thugs, but thugs
nonetheless.
DOLF:
A comment needs to be made, as to the purpose, function and differences
between the traditional DAOIST/TORAH (Pythagorean) A-U-M worldview of the
religious/political Mysteries associated to both the Tetragrammation of
Number (Sephirot) obtained from yarrow sticks/stones {ie. According to Yang
Hsiung's (53 BCE to 18 CE) tetragram system, each four-line glyph has 3
possibilities {ie. 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = #81} whose component parts are read from
top to bottom, comprising either:
(3) an unbroken line correlated to YANG/FATHER {+ 0, 27, 54};
(9) a line broken once representing YIN/MOTHER {+ 0, 9, 18}; and
(27) a line broken twice symbolising ZHUN/SON {+ 0, 3, 6}
(81) as its culturing as that which organises {ie. within its sphere/ONE
within FAMILY: + 0, 81, 9(9²+1)/2 = #369} the myriad of individual phenomena
(WAN WU): + 1, 2, 3} = Tetragrammation hierarchy value.
"The Mystery gives birth to two divine images. The two divine images give
birth to the spherical [universe]. The cosmic sphere gives birth to Three
Models [of Heaven-Earth-Man]. The Three Models give birth to the Nine
Positions. The Mystery in having the model 'One' {ie. YANG/FATHER {+ 0, 27 -
Paradoxes of the Greatest Skill/ Function of Skill, 54 - Culturing
Perspectives/ Cultivation of Intuition}} attains to Heaven. Therefore, we
say of it that it 'has Heaven [in it].' The Mystery in having the model
'Two' {ie. YIN/MOTHER {+ 0, 9 - Inconstancy of Achievement/ Practising
Placidity, 18 - Origin of Ethical Concepts/ Palliation of Vulgarity}}
attains to Earth. Therefore, we say of it that it 'has Earth [in it]'. The
Mystery in having the model 'Three' {ie. ZHUN/SON {+ 0, 3 - Prescriptions
for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet, 6 - Superiority of the Female/
Completion of Form}} attains to Man. Therefore, we say of it that it 'has
Man [in it]'.
The sage investigates changes in the moon's appearance and location, as well
as departures from its orbit {ie. The term TS'E NI means 'to lose the
regular course' where for every 19 years there must be 7 intercalary months
(Heaven's Compensation) and presumably may include irregularities such as
eclipses:
"Heaven and Earth face each other. Sun and moon are in conjunction. Mountain
and valley flow into one another. Light and heavy float on one another. Yin
and Yang succeed one another. High and low rank do not defile one another."
}. He only finds a norm in the constant sequence of sun and moon, and in the
order of male and female. He makes them the canonical model for all
eternity. Therefore, the Mystery in grand fashion comprises Heaven's
Origins, binding and securing it to what is to come.
The Mystery works with multiples of six and nine. The divining stalks use
three times six (ie. 18). The Priniciples of Heaven and Earth uses two times
nine (also = 18). The Mystery certainly does use eighteen as a base then!
The Grand Accumulation Sum begins with 18 - 'Origin of Ethical Concepts/
Palliation of Vulgarity' divining stalks and ends with 54 - 'Culturing
Perspectives/ Cultivation of Intuition'. If we add the numbers that
correspond to the beginning and end of the stalks, 18 + 54 = #72 -
'Self-Love/ Holding Oneself Dear', we halve it to make the Grand Centre {=
36 - Natural Reversals/ 'Secret' Explanation; Tallying the vertical axis
produces:
#1 - To Guide with Names/ Reason's Realisation,
Categorical Imperative: (#27 - Paradoxes of the Greatest Skill/ Function of
Skill + #9 - Inconstancy of Achievement/ Practising Placidity + #3 -
Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet + #2 - Contrast of
Terms/ Self-Culture) = #41 - Playing with Reversal/ Sameness in Difference
(Septet form 9(9²+1)/2 = #369 as Centre = 13 to 17 September; with the new
moon 18 September 2001 = 1 Tishri 5762 as 122J3W2D) ,
Categorical Imperative: (#54 - Culturing Perspectives/ Cultivation of
Intuition + #18 - Origin of Ethical Concepts/ Palliation of Vulgarity + #6 -
Superiority of the Female/ Completion of Form + #3 - Prescriptions for
Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet) = #81 - Making the Essence Clear/
Propounding the Essential (Telos ('achariyth) = Arch (re'shiyth) + c² : 22/7
as 3W1D with an implied Wednesday 20 March vernal equinox/new moon 21
March/1 Nisan as 'oth 294 year [24 x 7 x 13] cycle {ie. 294 x 364 = 293 x
365.2425 days}
#1 as Partial Solar eclipse Monday 25 December 2000 (122J3W1D) = 20 x 6J +
2J + 3W1D (22 years) + #41 as Total Solar eclipse 21 June 2001)
It is these two imperatives, which both the Torah [Deuteronomy 6:5;
Leviticus 19:18] and Jesus of Nazareth affirm are the essential substance of
the Law and the Prophets: "Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a
question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment
in the law? Jesus {He is saved; a deliverer; a saviour} said unto him, Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second
is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two
commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
While the Pharisees {ie. within the contemporaneous Dead Sea Scrolls as
Flattery Seekers} were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What
think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David
{well beloved; dear}. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call
him Lord, saying, The LORD-YHWH said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right
hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? {
"Now David the son of Jesse {gift; oblation; one who is} was wise and shone
like the sun, a scribe and man of discernment, blameless in all his ways
before God and men. The LORD gave him a brilliant and discerning spirit, so
that he wrote: psalms, three thousand six hundred; songs to sing before the
altar accompanying the daily perpetual burnt offering, for all the days of
the year, three hundred and sixty-four; for the Sabbath offerings, fifty-two
songs; and for the New Moon offerings, all the festival days, and the Day of
Atonement, thirty songs." [Apocryphal Psalms of David, 11Q5 Col. 27:2-8]
"All these he composed through prophecy given him by the Most High." [11Q5
Col. 27:11]
"And being let go, [Peter {a rock or stone} and John {the grace or mercy of
the Lord}] went to their own companions {ie. evidently JEWISH CHRISTIANS}
and reported all that the chief priests and elders {ie. evidently JEWS} had
said to them. So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with
one accord and said,
'Lord, you are God, who made the heaven {YANG-FATHER}, and earth
{YIN-MOTHER} and the sea {ZHUN-SON, ABYSS}, and all that is in them, who by
the mouth of your servant David have said, 'Why did the nations rage, and
the people plot vain things? The kings of the earth took their stand, and
the rules were gathered together against the LORD and against his Christ.'
[Psalm 2:1-2]
For Truly against your holy servant Jesus {He is saved/A savior; a
deliverer} [of Nazareth {ie. SOVEREIGNTY; one chosen or set apart;
separated; crowned; sanctified}], whom you annointed-CHRIO {ie. he was the
Christ}, both Herod {son of a hero} and Pontius {marine; belonging to the
sea} Pilate {armed with a dart}, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel
{he that sees God; he that prevails with God}, were gathered together."
[Acts 4:23-27]
} If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to
answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any
more questions." [Matthew 22:35-46] (KJV circa 1611 CE)
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TOPIC: Editorials Dither While Iraq Burns
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Date: Mon, Mar 20 2006 3:51 pm
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Editorials Dither While Iraq Burns
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Editor & Publisher - 19 March 2006
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002199236
On 3rd Anniversary: Editorials Dither While Iraq Burns
Anyone who hoped that this landmark would inspire the country?s leading
newspapers to finally editorialize for a radical change in war policy has to
be disappointed, again. Calling for "urgent diplomacy" is about as strong as
the proposals get.
By Greg Mitchell
(March 19, 2006) -- Anyone who hoped that the third anniversary of the U.S.
invasion of Iraq would inspire the country's leading newspapers to finally
editorialize for a radical change in the White House's war policy has to be
disappointed, again. From this evidence, the editorial boards of The New
York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the Knight Ridder
collective and others appear to be as clueless about what to do as are Mr.
Bush and Mr. Rumsfeld.
Reading the editorials, which mainly call for more of the same, puts you in
a time warp: They could have been, perhaps were, written one year ago, maybe
two. There's always a "turning point" to count on, from the transfer of
power to the coming this-time-we-mean-it-we-are-
really-forming-a-unity-government.
Reviving a Vietnam era phrase (always dangerous nowadays), it is the
nation's editorial voice that is the "pitful, helpless giant," even as the
American and Iraqi public, alike, call for the start of a withdrawal.
On the other hand, the same newspapers--and many others--produced for the
third anniversary on Sunday tough-minded and vital war coverage likely to
make any thinking reader cry out in the direction of Washington, "Enough!"
But that's nothing new. Reporters for most papers long ago revealed that the
U.S. presence is Iraq is doing some good, but more harm. Then the editorial
side proclaims: Let's stick around for more.
As with their news coverage, the editorials are often harshly critical of
the war and the administration. They inevitably say the right things. Yet,
after all that, they claim, despite no real evidence, that things will only
get worse if we started even a very slow pullout or, gosh-- after three
years with no end in sight--set some kind of timetable for same.
The New York Times, for example, cogently lays out everything that has gone
criminally wrong, with little hope for improvement, but concludes with this
ringing call for&hellipwhat? "The Iraq debacle ought to serve as a humbling
lesson for future generations of American leaders
- -- although, if our leaders were capable of being humbled, they could have
simply looked back to Vietnam," the Times declares. "For the present, our
goal must be to minimize the damage, through the urgent diplomacy of the
current ambassador and forceful reminders that American forces are not
prepared to remain for one day in a country whose leaders prefer civil war
to peaceful compromise."
Urgent diplomacy and forceful reminders: In other words, leave it to the
incompetent gangs in Washington and Baghdad that the editorial has just
eviscerated.
Here is what the Times wrote on the first anniversary of the war in 2004:
"Right now, our highest priority is making the best of a very disturbing
situation." The "possibility" of "an Iraq flung into chaos and civil war,
open to manipulation by every unscrupulous political figure and terrorist
group in the Middle East, is too awful to contemplate." Two years later,
we've got it.
The Washington Post, for its part, did not run an editorial on the war at
all on Sunday. It did offer an Op Ed by Donald Rumsfeld. "Turning our backs
on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar
Germany back to the Nazis," he wrote.
What about The Los Angeles Times? No help there. It boasted that it "will
resist the temptation to be fashionable and will take this opportunity to at
least concede that the Bush administration's actions were rooted in a strain
of American idealism most often identified with Woodrow Wilson." And: "Much
of the mocking by Bush critics about the supposed absurdity of the
administration's claims about weapons of mass destruction is revisionist
nonsense."
Thing about all that for a minute. Then ponder that while the L.A. Times
calls Iraq a "quagmire," says U.S. leaders are completely out of ideas, it
concludes with this unconscionable call to inaction: "As it enters its
fourth year, the war in Iraq defies simplistic characterizations from both
ends of the political spectrum. The heroism of U.S. forces and of ordinary
Iraqis going about their daily lives is inspiring. But the future of Iraq
remains shrouded in gray uncertainty." And that's it.
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Nev.) said today on ABC: "And this mindless kind of
banter about, well, if we leave, the whole place falls apart; we can't
leave; we can't even think about leaving. Wait a minute: You just showed on
your screen the cost to the American people of the last three years. It's
helping bankrupt this country, by the way. We didn't think about any of that
and not just the high cost of lives and the continuation of that but our
standing in the world."
Chuck Hagel said that, and The New York Times and L.A. Times can't?
Even the folks at Knight Ridder, the chain which produced some of the
toughest pre-war and war coverage, prove toothless in an editorial published
in many of its papers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, today. Like
others during the past two years, it puts off any phased pullout until
another "turning point" to come: "We helped make this mess; we have a moral
obligation to try to leave Iraq in one piece. It is not an endless
obligation, though. By the summer, it should be apparent whether Iraqi
leaders can form a unity government that shuns violence."
And what of Knight Ridder's likely new owner, McClatchy? That chain's
Caliifornia papers offered their own pointless assessment: "Bush has painted
himself and this country into a dangerous corner from which no exit is in
sight, save more years of bloodshed and misery in Iraq on the one hand or,
on the other, a hasty U.S. departure that would dishonor America and leave
Iraqis to cope with the tragedy visited upon them. It's been a long three
years. How many more await?"
Plenty more, if newspaper editorial pages (with a few brave exceptions) have
anything to say about it.
Greg Mitchell is editor of E&P.
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The Independent - 18 March 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article351969.ece
Palestinians may sue Britain over storming of Jericho jail
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
The British government is facing possible legal action over its decision to
withdraw monitors from the Jericho prison that was stormed by Israeli forces
this week.
British lawyers representing Ahmed Sadaat, the leader of the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine who is accused by Israel of ordering the
assassination of its Tourist Minister Rehavam Ze'evi in 2001, will discuss
options for action under the Human Rights Act next week. They are
considering a case against the Foreign Office, arguing that it failed in its
duty to ensure Mr Saadat was safely released from "arbitrary" detention.
Unlike four of the other five prisoners who surrendered with him to the
Israelis after a nine-hour armed siege on Tuesday, Mr Saadat was never
subject to legal proceedings over the killing.
Britain and the US have been strongly criticised by the Palestinians for
paving the way for the Israeli raid on Tuesday. But British sources say
there were explicit threats to the security of the monitors and that they
had complained about the prison's lax regime.
The initial focus of the legal consultations in the UK - and with the
Palestinian lawyers in touch with Mr Saadat in the Israeli interrogation
centre in Jeru-salem - is Article Five of the European Convention of Human
Rights. It deals with the proper treatment of prisoners in detention.
Part of a case, if it went ahead, would be that the British government knew
of the dangers facing Mr Saadat if the monitors left the jail. Mr Saadat and
the other five prisoners eventually obeyed persistent orders to surrender
alive, though two other Palestinians, a guard and a prisoner, were killed in
a gun battle.
Daniel Machover, of the London solicitors Hickman and Rose, which represents
Mr Saadat in the UK, said last night his client would have to agree to
initiate any action. He added that Mr Saadat had said the monitors had
indicated several times in the past that they would withdraw and had made
clear that if they did there was a real threat the prisoners would be
killed."
Mr Saadat's legal team had been about to notify the Foreign Office that they
were contemplating legal action against them over their shared
responsibility for the detention of their client in defiance of a
Palestinian High Court decision ordering his release.
Mr Saadat was imprisoned under a deal struck with the Palestinians, Israelis
and the US in 2000
Meanwhile,Ishmael Han-iyeh, the Hamas Prime Minister designate of the new
Palestinian Authority suggested he could in the long term envisage an
agreement with Israel in return for a Palestinian state in Gaza, the West
Bank and East Jerusalem.
Mr Hanieyh, who denied he had ever ordered a suicide bombing, said when
asked if he could ever envisage making peace with Israel said: "I hope so."
But with Hamas seeking to present a new Cabinet to the Palestinian
parliament on Monday, the exiled head of its political bureau Khaled Meshaal
sounded a more belligerent note saying power was only a "means to an end".
He said:"We and the Zionists have a date with destiny. If they want a fight,
we are ready for it. If they want a war, we are the sons of war."
Criticising the Jewish settlements in the West Bank - while also condemning
suicide bombings - the former US President, Jimmy Carter, said in an article
in the Israeli daily Haaretz yesterday that the, "pre-eminent obstacle to
peace is Israel's colonisation of Palestine".
* Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 10-year-old Palestinian girl yesterday
during an arrest raid in a West Bank village.
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