27 June 1948. The Palestine Post. Israel is Born.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Morning Papers - concluding
The Jerusalem Post
Teenager dies of wounds sustained in Beit Hagai attack
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Avihai Levy, 17, killed in Friday's shooting attack at the Beit Hagai intersection.
Location of Friday's shooting attack near Beit Hagai, in which a resident of the settlement was killed, and another two wounded
Aviad Mansour, critically wounded in Friday's shooting attack at a hitchhiking station near the Beit Hagai settlement in the South Hebron Hills, died Sunday morning at the Hadassah-University Hospital in Ein Karem – the second fatality of the attack.
Doctors said over the weekend that Mansour was fighting for his life. Both of his legs had already been amputated.
Mansour, 16, a resident of a the South Hebron Hills settlement of Otniel, had been repeatedly shot in the legs and abdomen when terrorists passing the hitchhiking post opened fire on the boys about to hop into a car from Beit Hagai.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752421467
Bethlehem handover to PA next week
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday ordered the army to prepare to handover additional West Bank cities to Palestinian Authority security control next week.
According to Mofaz, the security establishment should be prepared to hand over Bethlehem next week, followed by Kalkilya the week after.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119493344816
Egypt is playing with fire
By URI DAN
In the extensive maneuvers conducted by the Egyptian Army from time to time, Israel is not designated explicitly as the foe, but all the characteristics attributed to "the enemy" by the Egyptian General Staff are remarkably similar to those of Israel and its armed forces.
In fact, Egypt's land and air forces, equipped with the latest American weapons, constitute the greatest potential threat to Israel. It is therefore of vital importance not to change the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat at the White House in March 1979. The agreement guaranteed that the Sinai Desert given up by Begin would remain demilitarized; and that Egypt would be permitted to deploy a limited number of troops only, in the Suez Canal area far from Israel's border.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666017026
Israel apologizes to New Zealand
By JPOST.COM STAFF
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Sunday morning that Israel had formally apologized for a diplomatic ordeal that had upset the relations between the two countries, after Israeli officials admitted that Mossad agents had fraudulently obtained a "very small number" of New Zealand passports.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752420910
Hamas: We want piece of Gaza pie
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
GAZA CITY
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority could be headed toward a turf war over the Gaza Strip territory Israel is to evacuate later this summer, as PA officials have rejected Hamas demands for influence over the territory.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016805
Time's short for Gaza hothouses
Time is running out to find buyers for the Gaza settlers' hothouses. Israel wants to sell them to the Palestinians intact rather than dismantling them, warned Nigel Roberts, director of the World Bank in Gaza and the West Bank.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016958
Settlers in hotel: We reached a deal
By YAAKOV KATZ AND JPOST STAFF
Right-wing activists holed up inside the Palm Beach Hotel in Gush Katif claimed they had reached an agreement Saturday night with the IDF and the police allowing the sides to back down from a possible confrontation and raid of the compound.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752419683
PA arrests 10 Fatah gunmen in Jenin
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian police officers hold their guns as they take cover during clashes with gunmen in Jenin on Friday.
The Palestinian Security forces arrested 10 Fatah gunmen over the weekend on suspicion of participating in an armed attack on a PA police station in Jenin.
One policeman was killed when scores of Fatah gunmen launched an attack on their station on Thursday night, using automatic rifles and pistols. The victim was identified as Ziad al-Bazour, 26, of the village of Raba in the Jenin area.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016802
Stunning poll win for Iran hardliner
By ORLY HALPERN
A former Revolutionary Guard and hardline conservative won the Iranian presidential elections, causing shockwaves in his country and around the world.
Garnering the votes of the poor and disenfranchised, the 48-year-old Teheran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad steamrolled his rival, the pragmatist and politically savvy cleric, Hashemi Ali Rafsanjani, and won the presidency by a landslide on Friday. Announced on state television, the results gave Ahmadinejad 61.6 percent of the vote over Rafsanjani's 35.9 percent. The rest of the ballots were deemed invalid.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016140
Hillel tries to help Israelis celebrate Judaism
The University of Haifa will be the fourth Israeli campus with a Hillel branch.
As Hillel prepares to open its newest Israel branch at the University of Haifa this fall, it has found itself answering the question of what an organization that promotes being Jewish does in an already Jewish land. The answer, says Rabbi Yossi Goldman, Associate Vice President for Israel, is easy: the very same thing.
"Our goal is always to maximize the number of Jewish students doing 'Jewish' with other Jews," said Goldman. "We are in a Jewish state but for many in our society Judaism has ceased to be meaningful."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016341
Philadelphia Inquirer
3 Boys Found Dead
By Dwight Ott, Adam Fifield and Kristen A. Graham
Inquirer Staff Writers
The father of one of the three boys missing since Wednesday in Camden discovered his son and two friends dead last night in the trunk of a car in the yard where they were last seen alive.
For two days, authorities from two states scoured the Cramer Hill section of the city and the banks of the Delaware River for Anibal "Juni" Cruz, 11; Daniel "Danny" Agosto, 6; and Jesstin "Manny" Pagan, 5. Relatives, neighbors, and people who never had met the boys joined the search, which drew national attention.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11981569.htm
Will they fit?
Simple math: Parkway has no room for 1 million people.
By Larry Eichel
Inquirer Staff Writer
It remains to be seen whether a million people will try to attend the Live 8 concert, as city officials have predicted.
But if they all show up at the same time, they won't fit.
There's simply no way that a crowd that size can be squeezed onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway between the Art Museum steps and JFK Plaza, also known as LOVE Park.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11985742.htm
Parents: School mishandled acts of violence
Valley Forge Military Academy says it did not, as the mothers claim, discourage them from going to police about attacks on their sons.
By Barbara Boyer
Inquirer Staff Writer
A former cadet at Valley Forge Military Academy said he was hit with the butt of a rifle in what other cadets called "butt hitting time" during repeated attacks over a four-day period in April.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11985769.htm
The New Zealand Herald
Israeli government apologises to New Zealand
Helen Clark
26.06.05 5.20pm UPDATE
Israel has apologised for the spy scandal and has promised it will take steps to ensure no similar incident happens again.
Prime Minister Helen Clark today said she was pleased New Zealand and Israel would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.
The relationship has been frosty since Israel refused to apologise for what Miss Clark described as "utterly unacceptable" behaviour surrounding two alleged Mossad agents, Uriel Zoshe Kelman and Eli Cara, who were arrested in March 2004 and charged with trying to fraudulently obtain New Zealand passports.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332767
Goff calls for united front to halt Zimbabwe tours
Phil Goff
26.06.05
By Jonathan Milne
The Government has sought Britain and Australia's support to stamp out the International Cricket Council's stubborn endorsement of the Zimbabwe regime.
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff expected to be in talks late last night with his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer and New Zealand Cricket boss Martin Snedden.
The question of whether the New Zealand team tours Zimbabwe is fast escalating into an international diplomatic stoush.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332741
Kerre Woodham: Cricket could be the key
26.06.05
Yet again, the New Zealand cricketers have been put on the spot over whether to tour Zimbabwe. Martin Snedden has told the players they will face no financial penalty if they bail from the tour, and Helen Clark is refusing, quite rightly, exhortations from the Greens that the cricketers be prevented from going.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332705
Mugabe unmoved by criticism
26.06.05
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe yesterday defended his Government's crackdown on what it calls illegal settlements - a drive that has left thousands homeless and drawn condemnation from the West.
Two children were crushed to death this month during the campaign critics say has exacerbated an economic crisis, marked by severe food and fuel shortages, unemployment of about 70 per cent and inflation of over 140 per cent. But Mugabe repeated it was part of a bid to fight crime and clean up cities.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332737
Iran's Ahmadinejad urges reconciliation after polls
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to his supporters. Picture / Reuters
26.06.05
TEHRAN - President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday urged Iranians to put aside their differences after winning a divisive presidential run-off which split the country broadly along class lines.
"Today is a day when we have to forget all our rivalries and turn them into friendships," Ahmadinejad said in comments broadcast on state radio, his first since being declared winner of yesterday's election.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332740
It's winter with a twist
26.06.05
By Adrienne Kohler
Tornadoes cut a swathe through Auckland yesterday, uprooting trees and lifting roofs off houses while torrential rain flooded properties and roads, and created havoc on Auckland's Southern Motorway.
The chaos was the result of an intense two-hour thunderstorm that hit around 11am, causing flash flooding throughout the city.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332770
continued. . .
Teenager dies of wounds sustained in Beit Hagai attack
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Avihai Levy, 17, killed in Friday's shooting attack at the Beit Hagai intersection.
Location of Friday's shooting attack near Beit Hagai, in which a resident of the settlement was killed, and another two wounded
Aviad Mansour, critically wounded in Friday's shooting attack at a hitchhiking station near the Beit Hagai settlement in the South Hebron Hills, died Sunday morning at the Hadassah-University Hospital in Ein Karem – the second fatality of the attack.
Doctors said over the weekend that Mansour was fighting for his life. Both of his legs had already been amputated.
Mansour, 16, a resident of a the South Hebron Hills settlement of Otniel, had been repeatedly shot in the legs and abdomen when terrorists passing the hitchhiking post opened fire on the boys about to hop into a car from Beit Hagai.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752421467
Bethlehem handover to PA next week
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday ordered the army to prepare to handover additional West Bank cities to Palestinian Authority security control next week.
According to Mofaz, the security establishment should be prepared to hand over Bethlehem next week, followed by Kalkilya the week after.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119493344816
Egypt is playing with fire
By URI DAN
In the extensive maneuvers conducted by the Egyptian Army from time to time, Israel is not designated explicitly as the foe, but all the characteristics attributed to "the enemy" by the Egyptian General Staff are remarkably similar to those of Israel and its armed forces.
In fact, Egypt's land and air forces, equipped with the latest American weapons, constitute the greatest potential threat to Israel. It is therefore of vital importance not to change the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat at the White House in March 1979. The agreement guaranteed that the Sinai Desert given up by Begin would remain demilitarized; and that Egypt would be permitted to deploy a limited number of troops only, in the Suez Canal area far from Israel's border.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666017026
Israel apologizes to New Zealand
By JPOST.COM STAFF
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Sunday morning that Israel had formally apologized for a diplomatic ordeal that had upset the relations between the two countries, after Israeli officials admitted that Mossad agents had fraudulently obtained a "very small number" of New Zealand passports.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752420910
Hamas: We want piece of Gaza pie
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
GAZA CITY
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority could be headed toward a turf war over the Gaza Strip territory Israel is to evacuate later this summer, as PA officials have rejected Hamas demands for influence over the territory.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016805
Time's short for Gaza hothouses
Time is running out to find buyers for the Gaza settlers' hothouses. Israel wants to sell them to the Palestinians intact rather than dismantling them, warned Nigel Roberts, director of the World Bank in Gaza and the West Bank.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016958
Settlers in hotel: We reached a deal
By YAAKOV KATZ AND JPOST STAFF
Right-wing activists holed up inside the Palm Beach Hotel in Gush Katif claimed they had reached an agreement Saturday night with the IDF and the police allowing the sides to back down from a possible confrontation and raid of the compound.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752419683
PA arrests 10 Fatah gunmen in Jenin
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian police officers hold their guns as they take cover during clashes with gunmen in Jenin on Friday.
The Palestinian Security forces arrested 10 Fatah gunmen over the weekend on suspicion of participating in an armed attack on a PA police station in Jenin.
One policeman was killed when scores of Fatah gunmen launched an attack on their station on Thursday night, using automatic rifles and pistols. The victim was identified as Ziad al-Bazour, 26, of the village of Raba in the Jenin area.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016802
Stunning poll win for Iran hardliner
By ORLY HALPERN
A former Revolutionary Guard and hardline conservative won the Iranian presidential elections, causing shockwaves in his country and around the world.
Garnering the votes of the poor and disenfranchised, the 48-year-old Teheran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad steamrolled his rival, the pragmatist and politically savvy cleric, Hashemi Ali Rafsanjani, and won the presidency by a landslide on Friday. Announced on state television, the results gave Ahmadinejad 61.6 percent of the vote over Rafsanjani's 35.9 percent. The rest of the ballots were deemed invalid.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016140
Hillel tries to help Israelis celebrate Judaism
The University of Haifa will be the fourth Israeli campus with a Hillel branch.
As Hillel prepares to open its newest Israel branch at the University of Haifa this fall, it has found itself answering the question of what an organization that promotes being Jewish does in an already Jewish land. The answer, says Rabbi Yossi Goldman, Associate Vice President for Israel, is easy: the very same thing.
"Our goal is always to maximize the number of Jewish students doing 'Jewish' with other Jews," said Goldman. "We are in a Jewish state but for many in our society Judaism has ceased to be meaningful."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016341
Philadelphia Inquirer
3 Boys Found Dead
By Dwight Ott, Adam Fifield and Kristen A. Graham
Inquirer Staff Writers
The father of one of the three boys missing since Wednesday in Camden discovered his son and two friends dead last night in the trunk of a car in the yard where they were last seen alive.
For two days, authorities from two states scoured the Cramer Hill section of the city and the banks of the Delaware River for Anibal "Juni" Cruz, 11; Daniel "Danny" Agosto, 6; and Jesstin "Manny" Pagan, 5. Relatives, neighbors, and people who never had met the boys joined the search, which drew national attention.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11981569.htm
Will they fit?
Simple math: Parkway has no room for 1 million people.
By Larry Eichel
Inquirer Staff Writer
It remains to be seen whether a million people will try to attend the Live 8 concert, as city officials have predicted.
But if they all show up at the same time, they won't fit.
There's simply no way that a crowd that size can be squeezed onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway between the Art Museum steps and JFK Plaza, also known as LOVE Park.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11985742.htm
Parents: School mishandled acts of violence
Valley Forge Military Academy says it did not, as the mothers claim, discourage them from going to police about attacks on their sons.
By Barbara Boyer
Inquirer Staff Writer
A former cadet at Valley Forge Military Academy said he was hit with the butt of a rifle in what other cadets called "butt hitting time" during repeated attacks over a four-day period in April.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11985769.htm
The New Zealand Herald
Israeli government apologises to New Zealand
Helen Clark
26.06.05 5.20pm UPDATE
Israel has apologised for the spy scandal and has promised it will take steps to ensure no similar incident happens again.
Prime Minister Helen Clark today said she was pleased New Zealand and Israel would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.
The relationship has been frosty since Israel refused to apologise for what Miss Clark described as "utterly unacceptable" behaviour surrounding two alleged Mossad agents, Uriel Zoshe Kelman and Eli Cara, who were arrested in March 2004 and charged with trying to fraudulently obtain New Zealand passports.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332767
Goff calls for united front to halt Zimbabwe tours
Phil Goff
26.06.05
By Jonathan Milne
The Government has sought Britain and Australia's support to stamp out the International Cricket Council's stubborn endorsement of the Zimbabwe regime.
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff expected to be in talks late last night with his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer and New Zealand Cricket boss Martin Snedden.
The question of whether the New Zealand team tours Zimbabwe is fast escalating into an international diplomatic stoush.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332741
Kerre Woodham: Cricket could be the key
26.06.05
Yet again, the New Zealand cricketers have been put on the spot over whether to tour Zimbabwe. Martin Snedden has told the players they will face no financial penalty if they bail from the tour, and Helen Clark is refusing, quite rightly, exhortations from the Greens that the cricketers be prevented from going.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332705
Mugabe unmoved by criticism
26.06.05
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe yesterday defended his Government's crackdown on what it calls illegal settlements - a drive that has left thousands homeless and drawn condemnation from the West.
Two children were crushed to death this month during the campaign critics say has exacerbated an economic crisis, marked by severe food and fuel shortages, unemployment of about 70 per cent and inflation of over 140 per cent. But Mugabe repeated it was part of a bid to fight crime and clean up cities.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332737
Iran's Ahmadinejad urges reconciliation after polls
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to his supporters. Picture / Reuters
26.06.05
TEHRAN - President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday urged Iranians to put aside their differences after winning a divisive presidential run-off which split the country broadly along class lines.
"Today is a day when we have to forget all our rivalries and turn them into friendships," Ahmadinejad said in comments broadcast on state radio, his first since being declared winner of yesterday's election.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332740
It's winter with a twist
26.06.05
By Adrienne Kohler
Tornadoes cut a swathe through Auckland yesterday, uprooting trees and lifting roofs off houses while torrential rain flooded properties and roads, and created havoc on Auckland's Southern Motorway.
The chaos was the result of an intense two-hour thunderstorm that hit around 11am, causing flash flooding throughout the city.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332770
continued. . .
Morning Papers - concluded
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Cloudy
-23.0°
Updated Sunday 26 Jun 8:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
48 °F / 9 °C
Clear
Humidity:
82%
Dew Point:
43 °F / 6 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
29.91 in / 1013 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Clear -
end
Scott Base
Cloudy
-23.0°
Updated Sunday 26 Jun 8:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
48 °F / 9 °C
Clear
Humidity:
82%
Dew Point:
43 °F / 6 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
29.91 in / 1013 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Clear -
end
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Who is the Enemy?
Who is the Enemy?
The USA has enemies outside it’s borders as well as within and it does not need political parties who see the people of this country as a commodity, ‘voters’ rather than those they serve.
The enemies of the USA have finite definition and they are primarily the terrorist networks of the world. Those terrorists seek any avenue that will bring the USA or any other major nation of the world to it’s knees.
What do I mean, to it’s knees?
Weak.
Impoverished.
Psychologically depleted due to internal strife and fear through the very ‘idea’ of loss of safety in day to day life.
Due to the priorities of the Bush/Cheney White House these directives have been achieved by one terrorist attack on the USA orchestrated on September 11, 2001. The Political Machine of the Repuglicans saw the opportunity to ‘rise’ to the occasion and has made the trauma of September 11th the center of everything they do. They have attempted to demoralize this country by moralizing in a manner that has become so obviously political and not religious they are becoming laughable at every turn. The most dramatic example is ‘Terri’s Law’ which served no purpose except as a ‘hot topic’ political issue to their ‘base’ constituency.
The current administration has completely depleted the Treasury surplus, sent the USA into insoluble debt while lavishing images of grandeur by changing the face of USA dollar bills impregnated with gold. They have proposed incredible changes to USA entitlements without first returning the Treasury to a balance whereby the people of this nation can once again enjoy the surplus Bush took away. Bush has replaced Patriotism with greed and rewards anyone who sees it the same way.
The USA has realized a doubling of it’s military budget while it is ‘strapped’ for methods to deal with it’s correct place in Iraq. A doubled budget which defies Non-Proliferation with Don Rumsfeld planning for Nuclear Research while the multi-billion dollar MDS has failed miserably. The USA is so weak militarily due to the quagmire in Iraq that it has pulled troops from South Korea for the first time in fifty years. The USA military still serves in places around the world but are not respected in countries like Indonesia where they are made to take a back seat to pursuits of terrorist networks because of atrocities as realized in Abu Ghraib following the fact the USA disregarded the UN Security Council and the USA Legislative Branches when it entered into an illegal invasion into Iraq.
The weakened nation we now are is a direct result of political greed with an unresponsive economy built on the false promise of ‘real estate’ wealth rather that expanded expertise in the nation’s ‘Brain Trust.’ Bush/Cheney has sought to weaken the economic resolve of this country to force unemployed and underemployed into the military to serve their false agenda of hope through global democracy. At a time when technologies should be growing through the roof of every major economic venue the USA has regressed into deeper and deeper understandings of religious fundamentalism rather than reaching for the ‘Capitalistic’ Brass Ring in genetic research, space exploration, new venues of energy and transportation while new breeds of crops can be found to grow with less water and still have higher yields. At one time the USA fed the world and now our harvests sit in fields waiting for Climate Change events to pass long enough for the soil to dry and support the weight of combines and grain trucks. At a time, when we could be realizing economic growth in making our country safe we are being promised more border guards sometime in 2006 if we are lucky.
In Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden is still at large, the poppy culture is still flourishing to the point Russia is identifying it as a national security issue and we may see Russia move into that still unstable nation after four years of USA influence.
In Iraq, due to the USA’s inability to secure the people’s safety and loyalty mostly because those same people know first hand the problems of Iraq while it takes months and only when media companies like CBS turn on the government to expose the ‘w’rongs of Iraq do we know the truth. The people are unprotected by our military and have formed ethnic militias to protect their hamlets. Those militias have come to be known as benevolent to the people of Iraq and approval of the Iraq Central Government has come as a surprise but a correct one. The USA Coalition has been unsuccessful in developing an Iraqis Military and Police so the people have solved their own problems. The USA military is now running into problems with these militias as demonstrated by confrontation of the Fallujah militia left record numbers of USA women soldiers dead and injured. There is no place for the USA in Iraq anymore as their raids are actually upon government sanctioned militias the people approve of. By running raids on innocent civilians the USA is causing insurgency and not eliminating it.
The USA has exposed itself to a Evangelical Bigot in the White House who would seek to ‘sell’ democracy to countries globally with nothing to offer in the way of economic assistance. Bush and Rice have become the Bully Pulpit for democracy seeking unrest in any country with an oil pipeline such as Georgia.
The people of this country should no longer flounder in any confusion as to whether they are patriotic. To oppose a false agenda of hope through nationalism is wrong and they need to realize putting America First rather than Iraq is the patriotic nature of who we have become under leadership who would seek to make us weak and impoverished.
Enjoy the Fourth of July. Be Patriotic. Oppose Nationalism. Bring the troops home.
The USA has enemies outside it’s borders as well as within and it does not need political parties who see the people of this country as a commodity, ‘voters’ rather than those they serve.
The enemies of the USA have finite definition and they are primarily the terrorist networks of the world. Those terrorists seek any avenue that will bring the USA or any other major nation of the world to it’s knees.
What do I mean, to it’s knees?
Weak.
Impoverished.
Psychologically depleted due to internal strife and fear through the very ‘idea’ of loss of safety in day to day life.
Due to the priorities of the Bush/Cheney White House these directives have been achieved by one terrorist attack on the USA orchestrated on September 11, 2001. The Political Machine of the Repuglicans saw the opportunity to ‘rise’ to the occasion and has made the trauma of September 11th the center of everything they do. They have attempted to demoralize this country by moralizing in a manner that has become so obviously political and not religious they are becoming laughable at every turn. The most dramatic example is ‘Terri’s Law’ which served no purpose except as a ‘hot topic’ political issue to their ‘base’ constituency.
The current administration has completely depleted the Treasury surplus, sent the USA into insoluble debt while lavishing images of grandeur by changing the face of USA dollar bills impregnated with gold. They have proposed incredible changes to USA entitlements without first returning the Treasury to a balance whereby the people of this nation can once again enjoy the surplus Bush took away. Bush has replaced Patriotism with greed and rewards anyone who sees it the same way.
The USA has realized a doubling of it’s military budget while it is ‘strapped’ for methods to deal with it’s correct place in Iraq. A doubled budget which defies Non-Proliferation with Don Rumsfeld planning for Nuclear Research while the multi-billion dollar MDS has failed miserably. The USA is so weak militarily due to the quagmire in Iraq that it has pulled troops from South Korea for the first time in fifty years. The USA military still serves in places around the world but are not respected in countries like Indonesia where they are made to take a back seat to pursuits of terrorist networks because of atrocities as realized in Abu Ghraib following the fact the USA disregarded the UN Security Council and the USA Legislative Branches when it entered into an illegal invasion into Iraq.
The weakened nation we now are is a direct result of political greed with an unresponsive economy built on the false promise of ‘real estate’ wealth rather that expanded expertise in the nation’s ‘Brain Trust.’ Bush/Cheney has sought to weaken the economic resolve of this country to force unemployed and underemployed into the military to serve their false agenda of hope through global democracy. At a time when technologies should be growing through the roof of every major economic venue the USA has regressed into deeper and deeper understandings of religious fundamentalism rather than reaching for the ‘Capitalistic’ Brass Ring in genetic research, space exploration, new venues of energy and transportation while new breeds of crops can be found to grow with less water and still have higher yields. At one time the USA fed the world and now our harvests sit in fields waiting for Climate Change events to pass long enough for the soil to dry and support the weight of combines and grain trucks. At a time, when we could be realizing economic growth in making our country safe we are being promised more border guards sometime in 2006 if we are lucky.
In Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden is still at large, the poppy culture is still flourishing to the point Russia is identifying it as a national security issue and we may see Russia move into that still unstable nation after four years of USA influence.
In Iraq, due to the USA’s inability to secure the people’s safety and loyalty mostly because those same people know first hand the problems of Iraq while it takes months and only when media companies like CBS turn on the government to expose the ‘w’rongs of Iraq do we know the truth. The people are unprotected by our military and have formed ethnic militias to protect their hamlets. Those militias have come to be known as benevolent to the people of Iraq and approval of the Iraq Central Government has come as a surprise but a correct one. The USA Coalition has been unsuccessful in developing an Iraqis Military and Police so the people have solved their own problems. The USA military is now running into problems with these militias as demonstrated by confrontation of the Fallujah militia left record numbers of USA women soldiers dead and injured. There is no place for the USA in Iraq anymore as their raids are actually upon government sanctioned militias the people approve of. By running raids on innocent civilians the USA is causing insurgency and not eliminating it.
The USA has exposed itself to a Evangelical Bigot in the White House who would seek to ‘sell’ democracy to countries globally with nothing to offer in the way of economic assistance. Bush and Rice have become the Bully Pulpit for democracy seeking unrest in any country with an oil pipeline such as Georgia.
The people of this country should no longer flounder in any confusion as to whether they are patriotic. To oppose a false agenda of hope through nationalism is wrong and they need to realize putting America First rather than Iraq is the patriotic nature of who we have become under leadership who would seek to make us weak and impoverished.
Enjoy the Fourth of July. Be Patriotic. Oppose Nationalism. Bring the troops home.
Rove's Remarks
This is nothing more than an inflammatory event to CONVERT the nation to 'one mind' and supposedly trying to ostracize 'liberals' from ANY Mainstream Political Party.
No one in the Repuglican Party could get away with saying these horrible things except Karl Rove. No one will criticize a failing White House to try at any cost including the pandering, jailable media to 'redirect' a national conversation to further victimize the people of academia, people who would see children have rights of privacy rather than viewed as a national pentagon register, people who see Global Warming and Climate Change as an eminent directive, a national emergency.
This is horrible use of the media to promote hatred of people who believe in peace.
Rove's remarks
June 25, 2005
Liberals woke up yesterday morning wondering what happened to their Democratic Party. Literally overnight, the Democrats had become the President's staunchest supporters in the war on terror. As much as we welcome the party's change of heart, we were surprised to see that it was precipitated by the architect himself, Karl Rove. The White House Deputy Chief of Staff, speaking at a dinner Wednesday night of the New York State Conservative Party, had a few words on "state of liberalism." In particular, Mr. Rove compared the conservative reaction to September 11 to the liberal reaction. "Conservatives saw the attacks and prepared for war," he said. "Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." Pretty much sums up the last four years for us. Michael Moore, George Soros and MoveOn.org would certainly agree.
No one in the Repuglican Party could get away with saying these horrible things except Karl Rove. No one will criticize a failing White House to try at any cost including the pandering, jailable media to 'redirect' a national conversation to further victimize the people of academia, people who would see children have rights of privacy rather than viewed as a national pentagon register, people who see Global Warming and Climate Change as an eminent directive, a national emergency.
This is horrible use of the media to promote hatred of people who believe in peace.
Rove's remarks
June 25, 2005
Liberals woke up yesterday morning wondering what happened to their Democratic Party. Literally overnight, the Democrats had become the President's staunchest supporters in the war on terror. As much as we welcome the party's change of heart, we were surprised to see that it was precipitated by the architect himself, Karl Rove. The White House Deputy Chief of Staff, speaking at a dinner Wednesday night of the New York State Conservative Party, had a few words on "state of liberalism." In particular, Mr. Rove compared the conservative reaction to September 11 to the liberal reaction. "Conservatives saw the attacks and prepared for war," he said. "Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." Pretty much sums up the last four years for us. Michael Moore, George Soros and MoveOn.org would certainly agree.
Patriotism vs. Nationalism
Patriotism is the love for or devotion to one’s country.
Nationalism is loyalty to a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.
Patriotism is limited to loving the country you were born or you have come to be a citizen. Nationalism is an aggressive act of promoting one culture, one nation’s interests, one nation’s authority throughout the world.
To Stand Against Nationalism Is Patriotic.
Nationalism is loyalty to a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.
Patriotism is limited to loving the country you were born or you have come to be a citizen. Nationalism is an aggressive act of promoting one culture, one nation’s interests, one nation’s authority throughout the world.
To Stand Against Nationalism Is Patriotic.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"
I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the
U.S.A.Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking
Daddy in the U.S.A.
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"
I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the
U.S.A.Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking
Daddy in the U.S.A.
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