I hope we've not passed the last exit on this road of no return. It
is a road that leads to a dead end. When we get to the end, we'll all
be dead.
Meanwhile, keep on keeping on.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/16/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You know, I'm reading The Assassination Complex. Aside from the fact that a
scanned book omits the photos of the actual documents which have been
leaked
by the new whistle blower, the documents that show every detail of how the
kill list is compiled and of how the drone war is implemented, the
narrative, in and of itself, much of which I've read on line from The
Intercept, is horrifying and mind boggling. It is all done by computers.
People are suspected of being terrorists now, or of possibly being
terrorists in the future. They are often found by finding their cell phone
signals. But theym ay not be carrying their cell phones. Someone else may
be
carrying the phone, or it might be lying somewhere on a table in the midst
of a crowd of people. It is the target. Whoever is near it, is killed. We
are doing this in at least 6 countries. We have bases in other countries
which receive the signals and other bases from which the drones are
launched. Whoever is killed, if they are men in a certain age range, are
classified as enemy combattants unless proved to be otherwise, after the
fact. These drone attacks are being made without war having been declared
on
the countries where they take place. There's no congressional debate on
them. They are the purview of the administration, the C A I, and the
Military. Apparently, it doesn't occur to anyone that what we are doing to
people in other countries might cause them to do similar things to us,
right
here at home. Just imagine as more and more corporations get permits to fly
drones and more and more people become angry and radicalized.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: No, Bill Clinton Didn't 'Kill' Himself
Trying
for a State of Palestine (Video)
Who was it said, "The Great White Father speaks with Forked Tongue"?
Double talk, double dealing, it has always been the method used to advance
world control by the American Industrial/Military complex.
While we lap up the slop fed to us by the Ruling Classes propaganda media,
believing that we send our loving troops, our best young men and women, out
around the world to promote democracy and independence, we become confused
by the numbers of wars that break out, the regimes that topple and are
replaced by tyrants, the growing numbers of homeless people driven from
their homelands by war and famine. What would appear to be a totally
incompetent effort, keeps on going on.
If Peace and Freedom were truly the goal of the American Empire, then it
would be best advised to bring home all troops and close all military bases
around the Globe, and allow the nations of the world to solve their own
problems.
Oh yes, we would also need to call off the greedy international banks who
hold entire national treasuries captive. But of course, we've been
deceived
by that Great White Father's forked tongue. As the worlds last Super
Power,
the American Empire is highly successful in defending the right of its
Corporations to rape and plunder at will.
And by the way, we, here at home, are not immune to that rape and plunder.
Our Great American Dream, a job, a home and a family, are becoming so
eroded
that the dream is actually no longer the hope of millions of Americans. We
have gone from those days when Dad went off to work while Mom cared for the
home and the children. One income earned by Dad could sustain the family.
Now both Mom and Dad work, often at two jobs, just to hang on by their
fingernails. Streets and overpasses filled with homeless. Side streets
filled with cars being used as homes for entire families. As our nation
crumbles and decay sets in, we still suck up the poisoned nectar of the
Empire.
The question seems to be, Which will get us first, the Forces of Nature, or
our own Stupidity?
Carl Jarvis
On 5/16/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jerusalem."
No, Bill Clinton Didn't 'Kill' Himself Trying for a State of Palestine
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Former President Bill Clinton on Saturday claimed "I killed myself to
give the Palestinians a state," and maintained that he secured an
agreement, which the Palestinians turned down. In fact, no such text
was ever presented to the Palestinian side, and then Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak kept flaking out on commitments previously made,
leaving the Palestinian negotiators with nothing to agree to.
Negoatiator Aaron Miller later admitted, "There was not a formalized,
written proposal that covered the four core issues. There was no deal
on the table. None of the issues were explained enough in detail to
make an agreement, though the Israelis made an interesting argument on
No time here to go into the paternalist and colonial language aboutConventions if 1949.
"giving"
the Palestinians a state. They are a stateless people because they
are unrecognized; they would get a state by recognizing them as such,
not giving them anything.
Here are signs Clinton didn't put himself out that much:
1. From the time Clinton presided over the handshake between Israeli
PM Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in 1993 to
the end of Clinton's term, the number of Israeli colonists on the
Palestinian land from which Rabin had pledged to withdraw just about
doubled. In 1993 there were between 95,000 and 116,000 Israeli
squatters in the West Bank and Gaza. By
1996 there were 147,000. By 2000 there were about 200,000. These
numbers do not include the squatters in East Jerusalem, which Israel
has illegally annexed in contravention of the UN charter. This stab
in the back by the Israelis of the Palestine Authority undermined the
possibility of a Palestinian state. Did Clinton kill himself stopping
this vast expansion of Israeli squatters on Palestinian land? No.
Did he do anything at all about it? No.
2. Israel agreed to withdraw its troops from the West Bank by the end
of 1998. It did not. Its troops are still there, guarding sometimes
murderous or vandalizing Israeli squatters who are trying to displace
the Palestinians from their homes. Did Bill Clinton kill himself to
get the Israeli troops out of Palestine? No. Did he do anything at
all about this collapse of Oslo process commitments on Israel's part?
No.
3. Donald Neff writes that in
"March, 1995 . . . President Clinton invoked the [UN Security Council]
veto after all 14 other members approved a U.N. Security Council
resolution calling on Israel to rescind a decision to expropriate 130
acres of land in Arab East Jerusalem.23 The Clinton administration
exercised two more vetoes in 1997, both of them on resolutions
otherwise unanimously supported by the
14 other Security Council members. The draft resolution was critical
of Israel's plans to establish a new settlement at Har Homa / Jabal
Abu Ghneim in East Jerusalem in the midst of Palestinian housing."
So did Bill Clinton kill himself stopping Israeli large scale theft of
Palestinian land while he was supposedly being an honest broker
between Israel and the Palestinians? No.
Clinton was the most partisan President for Israel in our country's
history, and was anything but even-handed in his approach to the
Palestinians. The Palestinians complained that they'd get an Israeli
proposal, reject it, then get the same one from the Americans; there
wasn't really any difference between the positions of those two.
Clinton also defended the brutal Israeli assault on defenseless little
Gaza in 2014, blaming it on Hamas and suggesting that they had
craftily manipulated world media into blaming the Israelis for killing
nearly 2000 Palestinians. Mr. Clinton did not address the issue of
proportionality, the key one for critics of the assault. Nor did he
address the Occupation, the displacement of Palestinian families to
Gaza by the Israelis, or the siege of Gaza, contravening the Geneva
Conventions if 1949.
Bill Clinton's partisanship for the Israeli side and refusal to act as
an honest broker, refusal to stop squatter settlements, refusal to let
the UN Security Council demand of Israel that it stop contravening
international law, and failure to get an actual text to which
Palestinian negotiators could assent, all these defects doomed the
Oslo process and doomed the world to more turmoil coming out of this
interminable conflict. It also encouraged the Israeli side to think
they could get away with anything and so warped them into a Likud
far-right regime and an Apartheid state.
Bill Clinton didn't kill himself getting a Palestinian state. His
one-sided approach to the negotiations ensured that there would be
none. Ever.
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Former President Bill Clinton on Saturday claimed "I killed myself to
give the Palestinians a state," and maintained that he secured an
agreement, which the Palestinians turned down. In fact, no such text
was ever presented to the Palestinian side, and then Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak kept flaking out on commitments previously made,
leaving the Palestinian negotiators with nothing to agree to.
Negoatiator Aaron Miller later admitted, "There was not a formalized,
written proposal that covered the four core issues. There was no deal
on the table. None of the issues were explained enough in detail to
make an agreement, though the Israelis made an interesting argument on
Jerusalem."
No time here to go into the paternalist and colonial language about
"giving"
the Palestinians a state. They are a stateless people because they are
unrecognized; they would get a state by recognizing them as such, not
giving them anything.
Here are signs Clinton didn't put himself out that much:
1. From the time Clinton presided over the handshake between Israeli
PM Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in 1993 to
the end of Clinton's term, the number of Israeli colonists on the
Palestinian land from which Rabin had pledged to withdraw just about
doubled. In 1993 there were between 95,000 and 116,000 Israeli
squatters in the West Bank and Gaza. By
1996 there were 147,000. By 2000 there were about 200,000. These
numbers do not include the squatters in East Jerusalem, which Israel
has illegally annexed in contravention of the UN charter. This stab in
the back by the Israelis of the Palestine Authority undermined the
possibility of a Palestinian state. Did Clinton kill himself stopping
this vast expansion of Israeli squatters on Palestinian land? No. Did
he do anything at all about it? No.
2. Israel agreed to withdraw its troops from the West Bank by the end
of 1998. It did not. Its troops are still there, guarding sometimes
murderous or vandalizing Israeli squatters who are trying to displace
the Palestinians from their homes. Did Bill Clinton kill himself to
get the Israeli troops out of Palestine? No. Did he do anything at all
about this collapse of Oslo process commitments on Israel's part? No.
3. Donald Neff writes that in
"March, 1995 . . . President Clinton invoked the [UN Security Council]
veto after all 14 other members approved a U.N. Security Council
resolution calling on Israel to rescind a decision to expropriate 130
acres of land in Arab East Jerusalem.23 The Clinton administration
exercised two more vetoes in 1997, both of them on resolutions
otherwise unanimously supported by the
14 other Security Council members. The draft resolution was critical
of Israel's plans to establish a new settlement at Har Homa / Jabal
Abu Ghneim in East Jerusalem in the midst of Palestinian housing."
So did Bill Clinton kill himself stopping Israeli large scale theft of
Palestinian land while he was supposedly being an honest broker
between Israel and the Palestinians? No.
Clinton was the most partisan President for Israel in our country's
history, and was anything but even-handed in his approach to the
Palestinians. The Palestinians complained that they'd get an Israeli
proposal, reject it, then get the same one from the Americans; there
wasn't really any difference between the positions of those two.
Clinton also defended the brutal Israeli assault on defenseless little
Gaza in 2014, blaming it on Hamas and suggesting that they had
craftily manipulated world media into blaming the Israelis for killing
nearly 2000 Palestinians. Mr. Clinton did not address the issue of
proportionality, the key one for critics of the assault. Nor did he
address the Occupation, the displacement of Palestinian families to
Gaza by the Israelis, or the siege of Gaza, contravening the Geneva
Bill Clinton's partisanship for the Israeli side and refusal to act asEver.
an honest broker, refusal to stop squatter settlements, refusal to let
the UN Security Council demand of Israel that it stop contravening
international law, and failure to get an actual text to which
Palestinian negotiators could assent, all these defects doomed the
Oslo process and doomed the world to more turmoil coming out of this
interminable conflict. It also encouraged the Israeli side to think
they could get away with anything and so warped them into a Likud
far-right regime and an Apartheid state.
Bill Clinton didn't kill himself getting a Palestinian state. His
one-sided approach to the negotiations ensured that there would be none.
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