Friday, July 3, 2009

Bil'in . Anti violence capital of the world.... 26-6-09


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Bon, je vais maintenant vous l'avouer, j'ai un petit faible pour elle!:)
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  1. vJuly 3, 2009 at 7:41 AM

    She is on a roll TGIA, and once she sinks here teeth into something she does not let go.

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  2. thankgodimatheistJuly 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM

    Excellent..People like her are much needed and there are more joining every day...I read somewhere, maybe on Mondoweiss, that the word "Anti Zionist" used to sound very strange to American ears not long time ago. Not anymore!

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  3. thankgodimatheistJuly 3, 2009 at 7:52 AM

    once she sinks here teeth into something she does not let go.
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    Another pitbull with a lipstick..with brains!

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  4. JoeJuly 3, 2009 at 11:02 AM

    Off topic, but interesting: Rolling STone has an analysis of the economic crisis which you don't see very often in the corporate press:

    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_bubble_machine

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  5. vJuly 3, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    I guess it depends on who is beginning to get hurt by the "process" eh Joe?

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  6. MaracatuJuly 4, 2009 at 8:56 AM

    Sorry to interrupt the thread, but history has a way of repeating itself, doesn't it?

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  7. vJuly 4, 2009 at 11:33 AM

    Yes, thank you mara, I will repeat this on my site.

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  8. vJuly 4, 2009 at 12:19 PM

    "US diplomats worked closely with the Honduran opposition to Zelaya. A US official speaking anonymously confirmed to the New York Times that US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. and US Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens spoke to “military officials and opposition leaders” in the days before the coup. He explained: “There was talk of how they might remove the president from office, how he could be arrested, on whose authority they could do that.”"

    http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/pers-j01.shtml

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  9. vJuly 4, 2009 at 12:25 PM

    How history repeats itself in the short term -

    "The identities of the Obama administration’s point men on Honduras demolish claims that it is formulating a new US foreign policy. Shannon was special advisor to President Bush in 2003-2005, when he was also senior director for western hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council. From 2001 to 2002 he served at the State Department as director of Andean affairs—covering Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.

    Llorens was the National Security Council’s director of Andean affairs in 2002-2003, holding the post when the Bush administration backed a military coup in Venezuela that nearly toppled Chávez."

    Same link as above.

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  10. vJuly 4, 2009 at 12:27 PM

    "The official speaking to the Times complained, however, that the administration did not expect that the Honduran army would go so far as to carry out an overt military coup. The Obama administration was evidently seeking to engineer a de facto coup, but with a gloss of constitutional legality. Thus Washington’s main complaint about the Honduran coup is not that the army intervened in politics. Rather, it is that the Honduran army’s open intervention has exploded the democratic veneer that the bourgeois media tries to give to US foreign policy."
    ditto

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  11. vJuly 4, 2009 at 12:33 PM

    "Revelations of US complicity with Honduran coup leaders comes at an inopportune time for Washington. It is waging a campaign to weaken or topple Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wrapping itself in invocations of democracy and alleging that Ahmadinejad stole the June 12 election in Iran."

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  12. vJuly 4, 2009 at 12:40 PM

    "Seen in the context of Honduras’ historical role as a center of US-backed counterrevolution, the ouster of Zelaya constitutes a sharp warning to the working class in the Americas. Prompted by concern over the political ramifications of Zelaya’s links to Venezuela, a US-backed coup in Honduras could well be the signal for a broader regional campaign by US imperialism against Venezuela and allied regimes throughout the continent."

    Unfortunately Mara, I believe in the past, in regard to this subject, there was a three way converation between you, Moy, and myself on this issue. If you remember I said there would be no change in how the US deals with Central and South America - I believe you and Moy both disagreed with me, and were hoping for a better shake from the Obama administration. Well, here we are again, and I hate the fact that I was correct.

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  13. vJuly 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM

    I do not claim to be psychic, nor am I some sort of an insider - but the ability to predict what is going to happen in regard to the USA domestically and its foreign policy has been uncanny (cheack my blog and dates over the last four years).  It is the product of multiple sourcing and critical thinking, original documents and targeted world travel. It has done nothing but bolster my resolve to bring down the entire world order -

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Q3BVsIBzY

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  14. vJuly 4, 2009 at 1:09 PM

    History repeats itself long term -

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

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_sLNYDU1yQ

    But guess what?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6LFNCryryA

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  15. thankgodimatheistJuly 4, 2009 at 2:53 PM

    "Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales (1908–1971) served as President of Honduras from 1957 to 1963. Trained as a physician, Villeda Morales was a liberal who supported the democratization of Honduras after a long period of military rule. Following the military junta of the 1955, he was chosen by the country's constituent assembly to serve as president and oversee the transition to democracy. Villeda Morales immediately embarked on a campaign to help the poorer elements of society, introducing welfare benefits and enacting a new labor code that favored the country's large working class population. While these steps were popular with the masses, they enraged the traditional sources of power in Honduras: the military and the upper classes. When it seemed likely that he would win the 1963 election with an even stronger mandate to enact his social reforms, the military responded with a coup, just ten days before the election was scheduled to take place."

    Didn't know that..Thanks

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  16. vJuly 4, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    COUP IN HONDURAS: THE RETURN OF THE GORILLAS OR THE TACTICS OF ATTRITION?

    "The U.S. presence still exists in the physical form of a U.S. military base with at least 500 U.S. troops on Honduran soil. Under this social and political dynamic there has been nurtured a strong network of domination that incorporates an absolute oligarchy and colonial army imbued with the doctrine of national security."

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  17. vJuly 4, 2009 at 3:31 PM

    "The libertarians, along with all consistant revolutionaries position ourselves unequivocally on the side of the forces that oppose the coup. We can not allow the gorilla head to lift in any country in our region which has already suffered enough from dictatorships nor sit back and declare ourselves "neutral" even before the specter of a new one. But to put our position in a clear and categorical way.

    The gorillas should be extirpated at its roots and we believe that this can not happen from above, from the bureaucratic point of the "international community", as claimed by sections of the bourgeoisie and reformism. The only one who can remove the root of the gorillas putschist are the people mobilized in the streets, in the fields, in workplaces, schools and universities to stop this military adventure. Within the post-coup scenario is the possibility that the people can become a player that definitely alters the balance of forces in Honduran society to achieve substantive changes. This people, overcoming fear, have begun to mobilize, from one hundred demonstrators outside the government palace in the morning to several thousand at this moment, and it starts to move en masse across the capital Tegucigalpa and other places inthe country. "

    Above link

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  18. MaracatuJuly 4, 2009 at 4:52 PM

    There is more to the story, as Abraham F. Lowenthal explains:

    In the past, one U.S. administration after another has trumpeted a new policy, but more often than not, these new approaches have faded away: resisted by career bureaucrats, special interests, or both, and overwhelmed by regional realities or by other concerns. That is what happened, for example, in 1963 when elected President Ramón Villeda Morales was overthrown in Honduras, testing the resolve of the Kennedy administration to implement its announced policy that it would not recognize governments established by force. Washington suspended diplomatic relations immediately after the coup, but restored them less than two months later, recognized and accommodated itself to the anti-Communist military regime. This sequence contributed to the so-called Mann Doctrine of 1964, dropping the U.S. insistence on democracy.

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  19. MaracatuJuly 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM

    V, take note of this, too.  The connection to Rostow is enlightening:

    By measuring the ratio of investment to national income, Rostow could calculate when a nation would reach takeoff and how much aid it could usefully absorb. Within a few years the National Security Council used "absorptive capacity" as its principle criterion for aid.
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    The United States own level of development provided another imperative for action. Rostow concluded that the United States had reached the terminal stage of the modernization process, the stage of high mass consumption, but its position there was insecure. High population growth, a deficit of social overhead capital, and the cost of the arms race created drags that might cause it to lose altitude. A steady flow of raw materials was essential.
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    Rostow assigned an important role to soldiers during the transitional period. Assembling the preconditions for takeoff, he believed, required the efforts of an elite coalition of landowners, merchants, and politicians who favored centralization and were "prepared to deal with the enemies of this objective." Military men were the natural leaders of this movement, and throughout his career Rostow argued that military regimes could supply the stability and administrative competence needed for development. The Mann Doctrine of 1964, which made stability rather than democracy the prime goal of U.S. policy in Latin America during the Johnson administration, would later echo Rostow's reasoning.

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  20. vJuly 4, 2009 at 7:42 PM

    "Stability" is the ideal condition for exploitation, they try to accomplish this by the complete envicerate the people. Servile existance is supposed to be "a way of life," either through force and harsh tyranny through foreign policy or debt and a class structure domestic.

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  21. vJuly 4, 2009 at 8:03 PM

    It is like the word "insurgency" in the context of foreign domination

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  22. vJuly 4, 2009 at 9:59 PM

    How do you go from the glorious height of Machupicchu to squalor below?  You cannot look down from the rarefied air and not cry, but it must turn to rage and direction for change to transpire.

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  23. vJuly 4, 2009 at 10:00 PM

    How do you go from the glorious height of Machupicchu to the squalor below?  You cannot look down from the rarefied air and not cry, but it must turn to rage and direction for change to transpire.

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  24. vJuly 5, 2009 at 12:21 AM

    "The United States is Honduras' chief trading partner, with two-way trade in goods increasing to over $7 billion in 2006. U.S.-Honduran trade is dominated by the Honduran maquila industry, which imports yarn and textiles from the United States and exports finished articles of clothing. Other leading Honduran exports to the United States include coffee, bananas, seafood (particularly shrimp), minerals (including zinc, lead, gold, and silver), and other fruits and vegetables. Two-way trade with Honduras in 2006 was $7.4 billion, up from $7.0 billion in 2005. For 2007 through October, Honduran exports to the United States increased 6%, and U.S. exports to Honduras increased 18% when compared to the same period in 2006.
    U.S. investors account for nearly two-thirds of the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Honduras. The stock of U.S. direct investment in Honduras in 2005 was $402 million, up from $339 million in 2004. The overall flow of FDI into Honduras in 2005 totaled $568 million, $196 million of which was spent in the maquila sector. The United States continued as the largest contributor of FDI. The most substantial U.S. investments in Honduras are in the maquila sector, fruit production (particularly bananas, melons, and pineapple), tourism, energy generation, shrimp aquaculture, animal feed production, telecommunications, fuel distribution, cigar manufacturing, insurance, brewing, leasing, food processing, and furniture manufacturing. Many U.S. franchises, particularly in the restaurant sector, operate in Honduras."

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  25. anandJuly 5, 2009 at 1:05 AM

    TGIA, how would you define the term zionist? Might one definition be that Jews have the right to live in the holy lands? If this is the definition, then this definition is consistent with a one state solution a la Hamas or a two state solution similar to the 1948 UN Partition plan. Can a zionist strongly believe in the right of both Jews and Palestinians to live in and prosper in the holy lands?

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