"Not only has there never been a revolution without violence, but there's never been meaningful social change without violence or at least the threat thereof." - Author Ted Rall

Read between the lies: death is a part of life

Israeli housing minister proves effectiveness of Palestinian armed resistance to theft of land:

Speaking to Israel Radio, Boim said the Givat Zeev construction initially began some eight years ago, but was suspended because of fighting with the Palestinians. "When violence subsided, demand grew again and contractors renewed their permits to build there," he said.
From: Israel approves West Bank construction, by Amy Teibel,, AP, March 9, 2008.

Qana Lebanon and Israel's use of Terror as State Policy

Israel attacked an apartment building and other housing in Qana Lebanon with repeated strikes on July 30, 2006 killing between 28 and 60 civilians, mostly women and children, as they slept in the basement. The munitions used in that strike were, not surprisingly, made in the United States as evidenced by the markings on the shrapnel found at the scene: "For use on MK-84 Guided Bomb BSU-37-B" as reported by veteran Middle East reporter Robert Fisk. It is now known that 15 of the children killed in Qana had physical or mental handicaps and that neither rockets nor Hezbollah forces were in the area to attract Israeli attack.

Qana had been a shelter because no rockets were being fired from there, survivors said. "When Hezbollah fires their rockets, everyone runs away because they know an Israeli bombardment will come soon," Abdel said. "That is why everyone stayed in the shelter and nearby homes, because we all thought we'd be all right since there were no Hezbollah fighters in Qana."

Lebanese Red Cross workers in the nearby coastal city of Tyre told IPS that there was no basis for Israeli claims that Hezbollah had launched rockets from Qana. From: IPS news August 1, 2006

Israel + U.S.A. = Qana

Despite official announcements by Israel, the massacre in Qana was not an accident. If Qana were really an accident we would see a series of events to substantiate that, such as a full and open investigation and a change in behavior afterwards. We will see neither in the case of the atrocity in Qana.

Nor was Qana even an original event, for it was the site of another Israeli massacre just 10 years earlier when Israel’s artillery was used against a UN base killing over 100 Lebanese refugees. The grisly aftermath featuring aid workers pulling dead children from the rubble outraged the world, just as it did in 1996.

Israel belatedly announced, but did not carry out, a two-day cessation in bombing Lebanon, responding to the global condemnation of an air attack on the Lebanese village of Qana, where 57 civilians were killed this past weekend and where 106 died from the same cause 10 years ago. As before there were expressions of "deep regret," a promise of "immediate investigation" and the explanation that dropped leaflets had warned families in the region to leave their homes. – Former President Jimmy Carter August 1, 2006.

Jimmy Carter has a memory, what’s Bush’s excuse?

But these people were refugees and obeying Israel’s commandments from the sky to flee the area is not easy or even possible because Israel bombed the bridges and infrastructure, fuel is scarce, and Israel’s aircraft attack anything moving in the open. Hiding in a basement was the only reasonable course of action. Israel knows this of course, just as they have the precision guided munitions to place their bombs within a few feet of the target they want to hit. The leaflets give Israel just enough cover to plead innocence, blame their victims, and convince the ever gullible public and support base back in what Gore Vidal so aptly calls the United States of Amnesia.

Qana was a message not a mistake

Qana forms a chain of repeated events and a very intentional strategy that Israel has used against their Arab neighbors for decades: raw terror. This is the same reason the IDF targets peace activists and media crews in the West Bank and the Gaza strip: kill a few ‘accidentally’ and the rest will flee in terror, problem solved no more objective eyes and ears to record Israel’s atrocities. Using terror tactics Israel sends a clear message: we are crazy, we don’t care about anyone else, and we will kill everyone in our path.

Such methods have been the stock in trade of the Zionist state from its foundation. Violence and terror against civilians have been repeatedly used to drive Arabs from their villages, farms and homes in order to increase the territory held by Israel. Following the November, 1947 United Nations General Assembly vote to partition Palestine, the Israeli political leadership and its military carried out a number of massacres of Palestinian villages in order to expel the inhabitants and expand Israeli territory beyond the borders laid down by the UN. From: The Qana massacre: Slaughter of innocents in Lebanon, July 31, 2006.

Terror and intimidation can be an effective tactical weapon but it's self-defeating as a tool of state strategy! State sponsored terror and violence has a nasty habit of returning to the sender in destabilizing and unpredictable ways. Israel is especially vulnerable in this regard because the terror and intimidation card is the only they have to play. Today the terror card has made Israel a pariah state in world affairs, backed solely by the United States government whose foreign policy is almost universally viewed as being directly manipulated by, and for, Jewish interests. 01.08.06 & 13.08.06

Precision Strike

July 2006

Rage of Impotence: Israel's Military Strategy of Failure

The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) operates on the belief that they must retaliate against enemies and neighbors with grossly disproportionate violence so that the other side will eventually find it too painful to fight back. This is a counterproductive and eventually self-defeating strategy for multiple reasons.

1. By always being, or appearing to be, the most violent aggressor Israel loses the crucial public perception of moral superiority in the conflict creating a classic symbol of colonial dominance and assault against independence seeking rebels.

2. The escalation strategy also makes it increasingly easy for the opponent to make the dominant military power appear a foolish and impotent beast by simply re-attacking despite the threat of massive military reprisals and thus demonstrating the ineffectiveness of the reprisal / escalation strategy.

3. By degrading the well-being of their neighbors the Israelis are creating an asymmetrical conflict where the enemy side is reduced to a position where they have nothing left to lose in prosecuting armed insurrection while the insulated Israelis, so much higher on the ladder of industrial development, have everything to lose!

4. This same tactic of attacking civilian infrastructure to make the lives of the citizens in an enemy nation as miserable as possible to sow dissent and thus direct their anger at themselves has already been attempted before with fantastic failure resulting. During World War II England and the United States conducted a massive aerial bombardment campaign on Germany. Many of these raids used incendiary bombs that were intentionally designed to cause large-scale loss of civilian life, Dresden being the most infamous example, with the intent of ruining the public support for the German leadership. Subsequent studies after the war concluded without doubt that these strategic bombing campaigns had no effect on public support and in fact they achieved the opposite effect. People living in fear seek security through stability, not through regime change of their own government!

Despite severe depravation amidst a chronic threat of sudden violent death the solidarity of the Palestinian people is stunning. This is a fact that Israel must take notice of for despite their lengthy military occupation of the Gaza strip, and Lebanon too, the desire to continue collective resistance to Israel has not waned in the least but has in fact grown and strengthened. Palestinian solidarity is on clear display in the documentary Death in Gaza, by James Miller and Saira Shah (2004), for example.

A 'militant' in the occupied territories is anyone that shoots back.

Israel doesn’t have a strategy for success in Palestine and Lebanon, they have a strategy for failure. If they want to have peace and prosperity for themselves they need to invert their failure strategy and instead do everything they can to make their neighbors fat, soft and happy, not lean, tough and angry. Instead of vainly trying to erode the will of their neighbors to fight they need to erode their reason to fight!

Contrary to the biased propaganda on the issue saturating western mass media, Israel holds all the cards. Israel physically controls nearly all the entry and exit points into the Gaza strip and West Bank, they control nearly all the funding that is meant for the Palestinian government, through their influence of the United States political machine they can stop all effective UN censure actions, all the while collecting billions in financial and military assistance from that same country every year.

Instead of shelling the beaches in Gaza Israel should be helping the Palestinians to turn their beach into Mediterranean resort. Instead of bombing the power plant in the Gaza strip and Lebanon’s international airport, Israel should be donating development aid and assistance to their neighbor’s so they can rebuild and upgrade their territorial infrastructure.

The more everyone involved has invested in peace and stability they less likely anyone is to risk armed conflict.

But hey that’s just me, all I have is logic, common sense, objective analysis and history on my side while Israel has a revenge obsession and the IDF has the firepower of a major NATO nation.

Corrupt politicians profit from perpetuating public fear and they will continue to get away with it in Israel until the public recognizes the real threat isn’t a random kidnapping or a few homemade rockets that can barely get across the Israeli border. The real threat is their own political and military machine that has a vested interest in sabotaging regional peace and prosperity and endangering the lives of everyone involved! 13.07.06

So Far Away

The latest news headlines trumpet over 1000 American military casualties in Iraq since the end of conflict officially announced by the President. Yet this number pales in significance to the number or Iraqis killed at the same time, a figure not even being tracked by the American government! The United States under the auspices of the Bush administration has killed at least 10,000 Iraqis but factoring in deaths from pollution, accidents, disease, and so on, all caused by the current conflict, over a 100,000 dead bodies is a reasonable figure. Surprisingly many Americans could not care less about the Iraqi dead and indeed would mark it as a sign of success! Some call this racism but I’m willing to give the benefit of the doubt and call it ignorance, the inability to conceptualize consequences removed from immediacy by time and distance. The world becomes a very confusing place for these people because cause is not connected to effect. But when American soldiers kill two parents in front of their son it doesn’t just create two more casualties to add to the total, it creates a future ‘terrorist’.

Terrorism is simply a rhetorical term used by a government to describe politically motivated violence it doesn’t sanction. Terrorism is the other side’s freedom fighter. Put it in perspective: from wars to executions the state remains the most prolific and potent source of violence, a violence that is made especially pernicious because it is an institutionalized violence where responsibility cannot be traced to a specific source.

It’s not difficult to argue that America is the most violent regime in world history having supported endless coups and insurrections, used cluster munitions, chemical weapons, napalm in blatant violation of international laws, the only country to use atomic weapons in combat, America even tested nuclear, biological and chemical weapons on its own troops, and that's just during the 20th century! This doesn't justify violence within or without American society but it does fit it into a context that helps to explain why it seems so endemic.

Violence is easy to deal with when you don’t have to be in it.

Violence pervades America because the source is usually insulated from the consequences. When you napalm a village it’s a 5 second news clip from 10,000 miles away and when you bomb a power plant that cuts air-conditioning during 54° C / 130° F heat it’s just a problem for some slob 10,000 miles away. Americans are simply too divorced from the harsh realities that typify Iraqi life, they support the external violence of the status quo because they cannot visualize anything beyond it. Americans can’t imagine 80% unemployment, raw sewage in their tap water, unexploded cluster bombs littering the playground, and random searches and violent home invasions from armed soldiers that don’t even speak your language. ‘Viva Bush, four more years, four more tax cuts!’ 10.09.04

Programmed For Self-Destruction

Death doesn’t just need to be analyzed today, it needs to be totally reevaluated. Contemporary morality is not just outdated it’s dangerously out of touch and the unpleasant consequences are everywhere to see. It used to be that a person would die, and without medical assistance such as surgery or drugs to prolong their life, nothing could be done about it. People lived, they died and it was all a steady progression.

Today death is feared because it is strange and unusual. Death must be avoided at all costs. Death is defied but the consequence becomes a devalued life. The longer people live the less they have to live for.

But stop for a moment, why stop people from dying? Why prevent the living from killing themselves? Think of all the famous pop-stars who are dying like flies at 50 having lived the hedonistic, burn-up lifestyles. If people want to live that way and die early, let them, better to die young and make way for a new crowd than die slowly and stifle the next generation.

It’s ironic given the savings on medical costs that young deaths provide, that society through its value system exerts so much effort to prevent them and prolong life to the point people live to be 90 or more hooked up to life-support systems be they drugs or machinery or both; and the mind rots away long before the body does!

Take smoking for instance. It used to be back during the first half of the 20th century that many, many people smoked and it was so common as to be reflexive, and of course the dangerous health effects were well known but for various reasons that didn’t stop them. I think many people didn’t realize the long-term damage. Anyway the point is all those heavy smokers are dying today. The ones that drop dead or get an incurable cancer are the most desirable because they are by far the cheapest deaths from a medical and probably psychological standpoint; a few linger on for years.

Drug abuse, dangerous sexual activity, risk taking sports – programmed for destruction. Isn’t it amazing how human nature can subvert morality and cultural goals? It’s time to face the facts that some people are just programmed from the beginning to die young (usually a combination of predilection for addiction and lack of self-discipline) and no matter what kind of laws are enacted to protect them from themselves they will find a way to self-destruct. Society and thus everyone else is far better served by not preventing their deaths but by hastening them. 10.03

It's ironic the fear and outrage that dictatorial regimes generate if one stops to think about it. All the elements of Pol Pots Khmer Rouge regime exist within the "peaceful", "democratic" nations of the world just disassociated and hidden from the public conscious. Think of life in Sao Paulo, the free streets of endemic violence, rampant corruption, starvation and sickness. Or the unfree, overcrowded prisons breeding pernicious disease, violent behavior and warped minds; places rife with brutality and torture that would make Pol Pots prison guards queasy.

The difference is that despotic regimes use fear and intimidation through violence to secure order, while the democratic ones use it to nullify opponents by keeping society in a perpetual state of destabilized equilibrium. The 'democratic' regimes last longer because significant portions of the population can remain nearly unaffected by the damage, pretending nothing is wrong. 27.12.01

Violence has been intricately associated with human nature and human events from time immemorial and until this is properly recognized I don't believe the issue of violence will ever be anything but hollow rhetoric, political posturing and pointless hand-wringing by moralizing fools. If the general public did not suffer from the inexcusable handicap of gullibility and historical ignorance they would instantly respond to challenges of social saturation of violence with reflections of The Iliad - hundreds of pages of blood, gore and war, or the Norse sagas, or even the Old Testament in the Bible replete with rape, revenge, torture and incest. Are we now to censor history and classic literature simply for the sake of exorcising violent suggestions from contemporary discourse?

One would think that the vicarious pursuit of cathartic violence through games and entertainment would be preferable to the actual thing. Isn't it better to 'kill' animated characters than have gladiators fight wild animals and each other to death in public arenas, or draw and quarter condemned criminals in the town square? Where were the vouchers of anti-violence then, and why must they plague our era?

Violent Equality

It seems odd that historically, and still today in some darker regions of the planet, when populations were so much smaller and survival so tenuous, that human life was treated with remarkably less value than now. With over six billion people, the overtaxing of resources, and the surfeit of unemployment, it would seem that we need fewer people not more. Think of the trash scavengers in the putrid piles of Philippine garbage or a typical day in sub-Saharan Africa. If you couldn't feed the kid when you didn't have orphanages or adoption agencies, abortion meant throwing the unwanted infant off a cliff. But today the same killing is OK because it's done in a sterile room by a surgeon, while state sponsored executions are acceptable because a few jury members and a judge approved it in a courtroom.

Torture, executions, wild animals tearing apart the condemned in front of a festival crowd, it used to be all just cheap entertainment. But today Wiley coyote getting crushed under a falling cliff overhang is controversial violence. And when not derided, violence is plagued by a profound double standard for while entertainment is vilified, violence at the behest of government, police or any authority is not just acceptable but deemed socially necessary, why?

Is it perhaps because we've banished suffering to the terminally ill and constructed great fortresses of security with cities and protective authorities then deprived individuals of self-protection means and rights? Has civilization so weakened and dehumanized the individual that they fear their own actions and internal machinations? Are we now not afraid of ourselves, of natural manifestations of primal violence and what we know we're all capable of doing in survival situations and that now we increasingly rely upon paid civil servants to protect us from ourselves? Is this civilization a healthy outcome and a stable plateau or a dangerous precipice? Human nature remains unchanged, instead the violence has been mostly vested within the powers of authority. The violent offender is the force of law and the power-pimps behind it.

I think the real value of life has significantly degraded but this is masked by artificial contemporary perceptions. What's happening is the deficit spending of individual human value, I mean we are holding it up with erroneous ideas and myths until it collapses into mass conflict and bloody resolution when the artificial price controls become unsustainable, i.e. when the weak and the invalids of mind or body outnumber the strong and when collective delusions finally implode under the force of contrary evidence. The dominant morality abhors excess violence in words and deems every life, be it moron, invalid, or intellectual genius, as equally valuable because underneath that skin we all visit the same judge with the same Jesus lovin' soul! Being equal in this moral milieu means being the same as the worst element, the most vile nefarious degenerate and the most useless parasite because, remember, we're all each of us just the same feeling human being waiting for divine salvation!

Every individual has the inborn power to define their own character. So damn the recrimination, damn that morality, and damn all the trash that adhere to it because I am not equal, I'm better than trash. Truthfully you're only as "equal" as you allow yourself to be. 10.07.01

An Easter Message

From Freemasons to the Rothschilds to space-alien abductions it's always something else. The futility of demons and demonization. The popular consistent streak of abstract paranoia in the collective bleatings of complaint and random accusations. Oh our suffering is always the fault of devious enemies and insidious devils yet it's never due to one's own ineptitude and foolish judgments and failing to hold those in positions of responsibility accountable.

A pain riddled populace so lost in fantasy and fictional villains they miss the real ones. They support mindless wars with patriotic fervor, demand waste, bankrupt their countries and beg the moneychangers for loans, then complain when they find themselves slaves to enemies and usurers! As if the world is supposed to be nice and forgiving and when it isn't, clearly the entire universal order is at fault! Send a mystical saviour and cleanse our reeking shit stained, mistake-laden bodies!

Sympathy is the greatest enemy of peace, the greatest enemy of everything wholesome and worthwhile while stupidity is the sickly cousin. No greater evil exists than sympathy for the sick and the weak coupled with misguided altruism. For once make them fight for life and let them die trying. Damn them all and may they burn alive and their infants in front of their eyes. GOD DAMN - destroy this Christian sick sympathy system! Start with the proponents and end with the sympathizers. Empty the prisons, lock up the churches turn the whole world into a Johannesburg! 14.04.01

Raze

Sometimes it seems as if humans are like fissile uranium, you put too much together and they become a bomb. Cities are a testament to that being nothing but open sewers spewing forth endless flaming rivers of waste, degeneracy and filth. Collections of human debris and perverted rabble interbreeding and negatively evolving into ever more pernicious forms of lower life. A shining, metallic monstrous monument to everything wrong with the human species. Cars, wrecks, asphalt, concrete, pollution, overcrowding, violence, animosity, friction, waste, sickness, giant black spreading cancerous melanoma upon the green surface of the earth. Every city should be raised to the ground, burned out sterilized and bulldozed beneath a thick layer of clean fill-dirt. The sooner the better.

Excising Violent Interactions

If excising violence from our body of society is more than just a passing fancy but rather a serious goal worthy of our collective effort, then it will inevitably implicate male behavior with consequences that may be less than welcomed by certain sectors of that reinvented society. We already know that violence is primarily a male product, and going even closer to the root it is a hormone based problem - testosterone. We all know that hormones are very powerful chemicals, even more powerful than say illegal and abused drugs. And since we already medicate for even the most trivial socially aberrant behaviors example childhood mental incoherence commonly known as attention deficit disorder, the precedent has already been set. Given the seriousness of crime and antisocial behavior prevalent throughout our country, in the interests of greater social harmony the need for hormone treatment for violent and aggressive elements of society is imperative. Not only that but it may well reduce prison populations among other benefits. If the physical treatment for aggressive behavior caused by testosterone is culturally unpalatable, the non-invasive and painless medical application of counteracting hormones should not be an insurmountable medical or ethical issue but indeed may well be a favorable and compassionate option.

You put him on parole, gave him a tracking bracelet, now slap the patch on 'em doctor! 30.11.00

Dangerous Minds & The Craving for Revolution

Too many conservatives 'wake-up' to the magnitude of the modern world's ills and feel the hour so late while they so unique in their feelings and comprehension of the situation that action must be desperate and imminent just as it must be violent and emphatic. They seem to believe that war and marshal law are just around the corner. The ones on the verge of blowing up federal buildings in the vain hope of awakening the rest of the populace. And the paranoids that think FEMA is set to run the country, maybe even, gasp! revoke flood insurance policies! "Sale at the gun show. Better stock up yer gun's now cuz the gummint just gonna ban 'em all in a few months anyway". Hmmm, wonder who spreads that rumor?

Both the placid conservative majority and violent reformed-conservatives have a distinct feeling of anger coupled with the need for direct action and a total lack of abstract reasoning. This lack of non-linear analysis too often leads to the erroneous belief that guns, bombs, rope and vigilante justice generate valid social solutions. It's simply irresponsible to use those ideas for public homilies or recruiting messages but to actually believe in it is lunacy. However as I mentioned earlier these people are not often adept at complex thought, just blunt and direct. Dull as a hammer and generally about as bright. So assured of their own brilliance but really so 'smart' they only destroy themselves! Like the reformers of every age, the Martin Luther's that want to save the Empire so it can go on to perpetuate its evil dominance for another millennia. A Band-Aid is far worse than a final solution for a terminal case of cancer. This is the danger of violent revolution, it only returns everyone back to the start more battered and bloody.

Now I can empathize with the desire for shock to dissolve the complacency. But I think if we study the situation form a historical perspective we'll see that revolution and violence really don't guarantee success of a cause and indeed usually make the situation worse. Certainly jaded spectators and weakness in mind and body are always collective hazards but that isn't an insurmountable obstacle, one just has to push the right buttons, you know?

But I don't really want to talk to conservatives, they're not my constituency and are dead to the world anyhow. They're nobodies constituency except the status quo. And people who believe blunt force is the only way to rule the world; people that think nihilism is the source of the world's woes rather than a product. The immature school yard boneheads that believe fists and guns are the only way to solve problems. So go ahead start your war and get yourself killed. Maybe you can be a martyr, that is if anyone is around to remember you.

Another Method

If the idea is to change minds the best medium to conduct such an operation is during times of peace when people have the time and luxury of rational discussion and argument. When people can be swayed by ideas rather than fear and panic. Any thorough reader of the Social Engineering Notebook will realize that in our little game of life influence is more important than control and ideas do have consequences. It's not enough to just know what you want, one must plan but also take into account REALITY and HUMAN NATURE. A panicked herd of refugees is not going to believe anything, they will only follow the belligerent bellows of whoever provides them with a plastic tent and a bag of bread. And if your cause requires the populace being broken-down into hungry refugees you probably aren't too concerned about righteousness or ideological validity anyhow. And how would one command or communicate with the people under marshal law, covert short wave radio? or no, how about one-time code pads. Now that will make for some convincing dialogue!

My point is that bludgeoning the populace with the sledge hammer of enlightenment doesn't create a loyal constituency merely a herd even more debased and fearful than what you had before! I can think of a good example, remember the Gulf War? Saddam's Republican Guard? Yeah they didn't quite live up to their dreaded expectations even though they had effective equipment and good training. The American troops turned them into hamburger. The Guard fought only out of fear of Saddam. Hell, he had their tanks buried in the sand so they couldn't even surrender like the rest of the Iraqis. The Allied troops believed in their cause and had little doubt of their moral superiority or their eventual victory. As a PsyOps proponent might say: It's all in the mind man ... and Christianity conquered the greatest Empire the world had ever seen despite torture and oppression without a sword or an arrow.
Bovine conservatives started it, now they will burn in it.
And thus I say unto you, nihilism will be a fire under their feet, and the more they attempt to stomp it out the more scorched will be their soles. They will dance the dance of death as they are consumed alive by the flames of the blaze they began.
Watch the kernels pop. 15.11.00

Resurrecting the Dead

The USSR is not just sorely missed by aged Central Committee members but also from some unlikely corners of society. Israel and the Christian right are two seemingly unlikely groups that need the old USSR and bipolar politics back. Most of us have gotten beyond the paranoid stasis of the Cold War and moved on to new plateaus of misguided jingoism and fear. But are these groups doing more than waxing nostalgic, could they be actively attempting to resurrect the dead?

Certainly it was easier to justify American carte blanc handouts to the "mini-state" under the pretense of being a democratic ally in a sea of near-eastern red flag wavers. That hasn't stopped the Clinton administration but clearly it's an uphill battle for Israeli interests in a decentralized and unstable multi-polar world. A revived and potent Russian bear would make life easier in many ways, especially given that back then the nuclear tipped missiles weren't aimed at Israel, just their dupe benefactor.

The second faction in favor of a revived USSR is the Christian right and to an overlapping extent the Reaganite conservatives of old. Clearly Reagan made his name through confrontation of the 'evil empire'. Deficit spending was a cinch and the military industrial complex never had it better. Fundamentalist Christian doctrine long relied on Revelation based pseudo-prophecies invoking the Reds, USSR and Armageddon. The sudden dissolution of that empire not only made Pat Robertson and friends lose face but it also made a slavish support of Israel in the chimaeric name of religious war-politics all the more difficult.

From reading the news media's angle it seems Putin is being held up as the new Stalin or something equally sinister. A dark spectre building a nuclear empire whose sole goal is the obliteration of America and its popular Christian capitalist way of life. This is simply absurd, the Russians are an authoritarian (meaning lazy) lot and their humiliated nation only has one power-play card left - those nuclear tipped missiles. What else would any proud people and leadership do but rebuild and aggrandize, it's an issue of national pride if nothing else. The Republican right-wing much like all political parties is quite adept at constructing enemies and turning the issue into a political platform. The Russians like the Islamic nations or anyone else are only enemies if forced into a corner and consistently alienated from common dialogue. This is the danger of allowing simpletons and monomaniacal activists to determine foreign policy.

Still I'm not worried about nuclear war or a new Soviet union, nor should any serious analyst of the modern economic / political topology. The real plan is to diverge the global interests into a neo-bi-polar realm of east and west, third world versus G20, junkie-users and arms suppliers. Sell weapons to both sides, loan them money, start a war, bankrupt and buy-up at foreclosure prices. Traditional warfare has never in world history been less profitable to the masses and more profitable to the financial elites than it is today. I mean I don't want to sound like a peace-activist here because armed conflict is an inevitability associated with human nature and overpopulation, but war is not (if it ever was) a noble or god-fearing task. War is a mechanized slaughter and mutilation of capable and contributive members of society, and I mean who really wins after the dead are buried and the (remaining) troops come home? 09.06.00

Rumble II

Oh yeah now that the police have turned central Seattle into a prison on full lock-down mode and the President and WTO goons are protected, now the national news media feels it safe to cover the story - retroactively of course. Although I still haven’t heard them talk about the rubber bullets injuring people or the mass, blanket use of chemical weapons; spraying pedestrians in the face with pepper spray and choking the city now with the much stronger CN gas that contains cyanide. Yes Seattle is a much safer place, as long as you’re a VIP and don’t have to live or work there.

Of course police rule is easier when you can make up the rules as you go, banning and confiscating gas masks and placing restrictions on Constitutionally sanctioned actions such as freedom of movement and assembly. Yeah evidently self-defense against poison is illegal now too. The city of Seattle is not going to recover from this failure to uphold civil rights, nor will the people who live there – the ‘protestors" by virtue of the fact they don’t like police dictating their lives and swarming everywhere. The city has made two serious mistakes, the first was being poorly prepared for the huge influx of people both peaceful and rowdy and secondly for over-reacting, turning the city into a police state.

As for me? Maybe I’ll just move to Oregon; I’ve had more than enough of this over-policed, over-taxed, Seattle-centric hole. 02.12.99

Finally here's yet more enlightened brilliance courtesy of GW Bush:
Speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington, D.C., Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush said the protesters "got it wrong out there in Seattle, Washington. Those protestors ought to be protesting against barriers and tariffs instead of trying to create barriers and tariffs."

Rumble in Seattle

Madeleine Albright, Fidel Castro and Bill Clinton show up along with several hundred industrial mega-money representatives from around the world, Seattle riots, the mayor and our illustrious Chinese (Korean?) governor declare a state of emergency and a curfew is imposed on the central district of the city. Yet oddly enough even with the National Guard called in the national news media seem to have largely ignored the entire event. The nightly news gave it the standard 120 seconds usually reserved for a minor third world happenstance, and CNN devoted its attention to anti-capitalist violence in London while forgetting to mention the sympathetic nature of those riots towards the anti-WTO events in Seattle! Evidently we’re supposed to think the London rowdies are merely an isolated group and not to draw conclusions of any worldwide anti-global-trade sentiment.

Seattle is usually a lot cleaner than this.

I might be fooled too except for the fact that, living in the region I was able to watch several hours of live coverage from Seattle’s KIRO 7 TV news. Not surprisingly they focused on Tuesday’s violent aspects and not the swarms of peaceful demonstrators. But hey what can I say, I don’t blame them - trashing a McDonalds is infinitely more amusing anyhow. Much like in Athens during Clinton’s visit parts of the city were completely unguarded, creating a consequence free environment for youthful aggression and vandalism which was well utilized. By 7pm everyone in the curfew zone which was hundreds of people, were physically forced out by riot police using rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray. Whoever had the brilliant idea to host the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle – disgruntled environmentalist central, really needs to be fired. But besides that, just about every other aspect of the meeting was botched, indeed my November 28^th news headline ‘Doomed from the start’ turned out to be pretty accurate. From paranoid security to the simple logistics of getting the WTO people to the convention center seemed profoundly ill planned. Then to have riot police gassing the entire downtown area, well it will not be fondly remembered by Seattle citizens and merely adds to the grievances of the demonstrators.

So what is the lesson to be learned from this, or rather why did the news media choose to mitigate the significance of the Seattle demonstrations? It seemed to me they were trying to make it appear as if anti-WTO and anti-capitalist sentiment in general is both an isolated and unpopular concept relegated to the likes of violent hoodlums. And in some cases it was just mindless destruction. Certainly as long as the violence is disorganized and unplanned it makes future meetings for WTO and similar groups more convenient because then it’s merely a police issue. However most of the tens of thousands of demonstrators in Seattle were peaceful and also well organized – much more so than the WTO, ironically. This is what the power-politicians and multi-national corporations like the ones that own the news networks don’t want to see or deal with: well-organized, issue-oriented groups that will continue to follow the globalists wherever they meet and will gain support through success and media exposure. 01.12.99

Recent violent protests in Athens Greece were quite peculiar in that no police were present to stop the rioters! Instead they were all guarding President Clinton and the U$ embassy which the Communists threatened to storm.

"I put my life's savings into this shop. I had just finished the Christmas decoration on the display window. It was smashed and all the jewelry stolen. There wasn't a single policeman to stop these vandals, not a single one,'' she said.
"Who is going to pay for all this?'' asked Nikos Papadopoulos in front of his blackened shoe shop. "Police did a good job protecting Clinton but they are invalids when it comes down to protecting the property of Greeks.''
"Thank God he (Clinton) is leaving and we can return to our normal lives,'' said Eleftheria Moraiti
All quotes from Reuters article Headlined: Athens Cleans Up After Clinton Visit Violence

I wonder if the Greek people get the message? Seems they have a government with a priority problem, hint - it isn’t with the Greek people. Being brighter than the average American I would imagine they figured it out; perhaps they need a good riot more often? 21.11.99

Every war is a bloody testament to masculine stupidity.
If you want to stop the violence, eliminate the source - the human male sex.

"I want to grow, up to be, be a debaser, debaser!"

There are few institutions I hate more vociferously than the nightly news. It is nothing but pure puke from beginning to end. Nothing but false emotion, insincere empathy, misreporting, half-truths, condescending speeches, and egotistical personalities. Sensationalized doom saying never proved so profitable, and the audience keeps buying it! I can’t tell the difference between Hard-Copy, Entertainment tonight and the local nightly news!

Who would have known that all of life's problems could be so easily distilled into black and white then packaged into simplistic diatribes? Just because someone is a doctor doesn’t mean they know any more than the next schmo, especially when they’re being interviewed on a topic not even related to their field of doctoral science! "Just ask this scientician..."

I've had enough, haven't you? Let’s learn to be debasers, destroy what you see and deny what you’re told. 1999

Who Are The Real Terrorists?

The U$ has little if anything to worry from terrorism on domestic territory, but to hear it from the media and government it sounds like oblivion is just around the corner. The U$ government has more departments and sub-departments on the topic than could ever possibly be justified by past or present precedent or even full scale war, just do a quick Internet search and see what I mean. It seems to me that all these studies on information warfare, infrastructure warfare, Armageddon groups etc. are just ways for bureaucrats to keep getting a paycheck in some bogus "bureau of such and such" when they would otherwise be out on the street without any marketable skills. That and a convenient way to keep tabs on unpopular ideologies and politically 'questionable' organizations to be audited by the IRS or assaulted by Delta Force commandos.

The real terrorists are the politicians like Clinton and Blair that start wars and lie about every facet of the conflict to suit their immediate aims. Kosovo is a perfect and current example. Not only did they lie about the massacres done by Serbian's, but they lied about the number of Serbian military targets destroyed and then trumped up phony charges to indict Milosivec and make themselves out to be the moral vanguards of western justice.

And the worst part is that these government terrorists already have the weapons at their disposal and unlimited funding to do whatever they want. These are the people to be afraid of! Yet last time I looked at the terrorist groups listing it was nearly all Arab and Islamic groups, the U$ State department wasn't on the terrorist group list despite the fact they have been directly responsible for more civilian deaths than say Bin Laden is even potentially indirectly responsible for!

Alice Mahon, the Labour MP who chairs the Balkans committee, said yesterday that the deaths were tragic but did not justify the military action taken by Nato. "When you consider that 1,500 civilians or more were killed during Nato bombing, you have to ask whether the intervention was justified," she said. The Sunday Times, UK 31.10.99

How many did the U$ government kill in the Sudanese medicine factory attack, the one that has been completely discredited as ever having anything to do with radical groups by every legitimate organization who has studied it?

Ideological terrorist groups are just a useful distraction from the ongoing campaigns of state sponsored war and subversion, but it seems to be working. Scary news headlines about biological and nuclear terrorist plots are much more exciting to the public than the real stories of the dead Serbian peasants from NATO cluster bombs and the lingering cancer deaths from depleted uranium shells. After all, if the senseless killing is done by a 'legitimate' government how can it be terrorism? 01.11.99

If leftist government and certain special interest groups are so excited to ban guns for private citizens then why do they never have a problem with police having guns? The way I see it if a private citizen can't have a weapon then why should the police get them? I mean have you ever known a cop that instills you with a sense of safety knowing these guys can have any weapon they want and simultaneously have a license to shoot to kill whenever they see it necessary? From what I've seen the answer is a resounding NO. So think about it, there are many more gun-toting cops out there than criminals. Even the smallest town has at least two or three police with shotguns, pistols, probably even sniper rifles, not to mention the equipment a city like L.A. has!

I don't own any guns and never have but it seems to me that in the real world I'm equally likely to be killed by the weapon of a police officer as a petty thug.  I get pulled over for speeding and reach for the glove compartment a little too fast and next thing I know I've got four slugs in my head and no witnesses to refute the cops story when he goes to court. 

Destruction can be rational, for instance if a machine is making you sick then pull the plug and kill it, don't keep it powered! Unpleasant, anti-social behaviours are a normal reaction to unhealthy environments and socially destabilizing input and suggestions. People aren't acting 'stupid' they aren't unpredictable or irrational but quite the contrary, they're veritable robots of ingrained initiative and impulses. What they do is a direct result of what surrounds them. Some individuals, and groups too are better at digesting the mental pollution better than others or blocking it out.

Kill the wealthy take their money! Kill all police and take their weapons! Kill everyone you can, kill them now!

If my wish came true this would happen now. I'm sick of civilization, lets start over with a new one based on incivility. Why do we still obey the long disproved idols? Why do minorities allow cops to brutalize, intimidate and kill their brethren? The WASP should thank his Jehovah the dark races have so little racial solidarity. No ethnic group or race should ever be forcefully controlled by another even if the rewards seem worth it. Economic imperialism will end in yet another bloody lesson to the imperialists: gains by domination are short lived.

I want to see a nation of Balkanized Somalis a place where the weak and powerless die and the worst types thrive. It's Darwinian communism and its a 'Mazatlan' for reality lovers, the rare few who love the chronic suffering, the torment of self creation in a hostile biome.

Police, firemen, politicians and humanitarians are dysgenic and the greatest evils to healthy natural living. someday they will die violently as the symbols of abiological humanistic evil that they are.

This day may come tomorrow or next century but until then all I can do is be a no-one like every other no-one. Death by violence is the epitome of reality love; it is the struggle to live one more day that makes a living entity tangible and substantive and even immortal spiritually. And what an inglorious life to live without taking more lives with you through pure hatred and violence against all competitors for survival?

Today we use the weapons of words and writing and the tools of planning but tomorrow we use the weapons of hate and unmitigated life lust.

Justice can never be codified in written law because it thusly defies human biological nature of intellectual irrationality and the logic of survival. justice is only what the individual can force upon reality.

No race, no ethnic identity, sham government, ephemeral wealth and ill health - we are the Americans; the soul sick degenerates dying in our own bile of self-delusion. like a mad-scientist's hideous experiment gone awry, the show is just beginning. The lightning bolt has awakened the corpse of US; just wait for the part where it runs amok! 02.12.96

"It is clear that where there is suppression there is also violence."
VI Lenin, The State And Revolution