In our visit with Eli this weekend, we saw some animals.
Tasty Elk
What Are You Doing Sticking Your Nose in Other People's Business?
I Have This Funny Feeling I'm Being Watched...
I Just Can't Get Over This Feeling I'm Being Watched...
Monestary Lizard
Fast Fox
Fast Fox (detail)
In our visit with Eli this weekend, we had some real killer coffee.
If you are ever travelling 299 between Eureka and Weaverville, California, you will run across a place known as Big Flat. In the town is a coffee house known as the "Straw House." It is a straw bale coffee house. Here, you can get some realy killer coffee. We got some real killer coffee drinks, and I bought a pound of some real killer coffee. Give it a try if you are ever in that neck of the woods.
I have bought two computer chess games in which I am just starting to play. One is a handheld in which I am starting at the lowest level and getting my chops back. So far, I've won the four games that I've played, however, that doesn't really mean much, and I know it, as I found that I was surprised that I had won. The moves that I made to win were not intended to win as much as to defend a certain piece. Winning was a surprise. My brain wasn't stretching and strategising to find the defeat in which I gave my opponent. The defeats came as a surprise to me.
In having a discussion with Shusli about a personal issue last night, and continuing to think about it this morning, I realize that although I have ways in which I can see patterns throughout many areas of life, I have little knowledge of how to strategize and use the tools at my disposal to further that knowledge into something workable.
When I finally figured out how to play the computer on the Deep Fritz computer chess game I bought, I played at a very low level, but not the lowest, and in four games...I GOT MY ASS HANDED TO ME IN EACH ONE! That was when it hit me!
Yeah, sure, I can recognize patterns. I can recognize the patterns that go with the working poor in reading Barbara Ehrenreich's book, "Nickel and Dimed." I can recognize how people feel utterly defeated in mere attempts at survival. MASSES OF THEM! And I surrender to the idea that I can do nothing to change that. What a crock of f***ing sh**! What I think I will do is learn to recognize the tools I have and how to use them. Like in my personal issue, I have given in to utter defeat without playing the pieces I have on the board in which I choose to play.
Chess is a very important game to me. I haven't played since I was in junior high when I realized that I could recognize the patterns and strategize on the board to hand defeat to a handful of my fellow chess players back in the day. Sadly, all those three decades ago, for some reason, I gave up the game until a few years ago when I played Felicia some. I bought the book, "The Complete Chess Course" by Fred Reinhold (1953), and Felicia and I worked through some of the beginning chapters. But after a while, she didn't want to play anymore, even though she handed me my ass a few times, 2 of the 8 or 10 games we played. Again, I lost interest, and the book.
I decided to buy "The Complete Chess Course" again, as well "Play Chess: Deep Fritz Grand Master Deluxe" chess game for my computer, and Saitek's "Mephisto Travel Chess Computer" (a sweet little hand held), and have decided to REopen my mind to ideas and strategies I had completely IGONORED that I have.
And I take back what I said about Coos Bay not having chess players. In reading my chess book at work, I was surprised to discover that a fellow who works in maintenance played chess and wants to get back into it. Another fella, a resident, also wants to play a game or two. And when I bought coffee, I ran into the other fella I knew who played chess, though he doesn't reside in Coos Bay, and we had a few discussions about the game. SURPRISE!
In other game news, Shusli is an excellent Scrabble player. She has a great mind for words and is good at startegy in playing the game which has also undoubtedly exercised those tools in her mind that create strong thinking patterns. She is thinking of organizing a Scrabble Tourney in the area.
All this thinking about playing games has brought me to the importance of what it means to play games. Games are exercise of the mind. In this, the beginning of my rethinking Chess, I have already come to a new thought pattern in exercising my mind. I am a limited thinker. Sure, I can recognize patterns, but I could not recognize the simple tools at my disposal and how to use them that Shusli offered to me in her advice on my personal issue yesterday. And this morning, in recognizing patterns and remembering the importance of play (remember when you were a kid, if you aren't one right now), I have come to a new understanding of the importance of games, thanks to the game of chess and my sweet wonderful wife, Shusli.
Don't forget to play, folks. Playing and having fun is very important, useful, and GOOD! Don't worry about winning or losing so much. Afterall, it's a game, and you're gonna win and you're gonna lose. The most important part, in my opinion, is that you are exercising your mind. I've noticed that there isn't a whole lot of playing games going on in my neighborhood, and I think it is time to change that.
I started reading "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich. Shusli just read it and suggested I do as well.
I have spent a lot of my time recognizing patterns. That is why I want to "relearn" to play chess. A common pattern here in Coos Bay is that there are few people who play chess. So I have bought myself a hand held chess game as well as I have a book and computer chess game coming in the mail (thanks to my "hush money").
Patterns I like to follow are things that stimulate my mind, things that give me pleasure. I want to live beyond survival, and "Nickel and Dimed" is about survival.
Survival is something that Shusli and I do, but we also do more than survive. We Love each other. We Love each others company. We communicate well. We do things that stimulate our minds (which is why Coos Bay is becoming RAPIDLY not the place for us to live). We lounge together. We walk together. We do our best to expand our consciousness.
Our friends, Jerry and Jessica of "Colette's" fame, have started a spiritual center called "The Catalyst." They have just started a news letter and are doing many classes and other things to help stimulate the community of Coos Bay/North Bend for folks who want to look beyond the White Racist Christian ethic that founded this town. There is a thirst, a need for this type of stimulation. This exercise in humanity and thinking. Imagination beyond "survival." "Nickel and Dimed" is about survival. Survival doesn't require such things a spirituality. Survival requires that one stay alive.
My "hush money" has expanded my "purchasing freedom." I can't buy a member of congress and run protesters out of Minneapolis for exercising allegations of freedom of speech, freedom of gathering, etc., but I can buy this nifty chess game by Mephisto. It's endorsed by one of the greatest Chess players ever! Gary Kasparov. I have played two games at the lowest level and thus far won, but honestly, I recognize the pattern that my chess is not very good. But I am stimulating a memory of chess patterns and noticing that I am, indeed, not a good chess player. I use the lowest level to exercise my brain, to remember those patterns, to see the vast interconnectedness of the patterns of the pieces and the board. Defend! Attack! Develop! How does one get there? What does one do when one gets there?
I am only on page 45 of "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich, a must read by one and all according to Shusli, and according to me after just 45 pages. It is about survival. Survival of the working poor. Survival of you and me. And in this book, I realized a pattern that gives me a greater understanding of American humanity and why there will not easily be a Revolution that will lead to real change (do not, under any circumstances, believe that Obama will bring change when he becomes president, or at least prepare yourself for some serious disappointment [at least he's a democrat]). A large portion of America is simply struggling to survive. This is called "freedom." Many have the freedom to just survive, a few have the freedom to benefit from those whose survival is FORCED to depend on the owning class. When one is in simple survival mode, that is, staying alive, which requires; eating, some form of shelter, clothing; and these human rights come at a struggle, that is a majority of what a person sees in their lives.
Since the U.S. has had poverty FORCED upon its citizenry by the owning class, and since the owning class has structured public education to dumb down the masses so they won't rise up against their destructive behaviors that are required for their amassing wealth, it is a pattern amongst the poorer folks to struggle mostly for survival and not to disturb the owning class for fear of the retribution they may purchase against them.
Thus, when in the smoking area of work, where I tried to change the course of the conversation to the varied analysis of Russia's war with Georgia, where some stimulation of thought was going through the mind of one of the elderly residents, one of the younger less intelligent folks immediately regurgitated what she had been told to regurgitate (without thought, of course) by the news: "Russia is trying to be another Hitler." Ahhhh! The deep analytical minds of the folks in Coos Bay in action. Revolution? Not gonna happen.
However, with a little history, a person can learn that W has more connections to Hitler than the Russians who fought off his invasion. W's grand-daddy, Prescott Bush, helped fund the Nazi's and even participated in the attempted fascist overthrow of the U.S. government under FDR. (He still became a U.S. senator). Prescott, it came out in recent documents, even profited off of slave labor from Auschwitz during WWII. Do you know what it said above the doorway to the entrance of Auschwitz?
I figured it out. The reason why women are in the military getting raped in Iraq by their comrades in arm; the reason why the U.S. military is slaughtering and displacing millions of Iraqi's and Afghani's and soon Iranians; is FREEDOM! And what does freedom look like?
Let's ask the Minneapolis, Minnesota Police! Freedom, it turns out, means for the wealthy who own the Republican Party to be free of protesters. So, in what is clearly a violation of the U.S. constitution, the Minneapolis Police are leading sweeps on protesters all over the city. That is what freedom is, folks. Freedom of speech? It's only free if you can afford it. Will there be outcry about these acts of terrorism lead by Minneapolis' criminal class behind the badge? Probably not. There were similar things done at the Democratic National Convention (but at least they're democrats), and I didn't hear anything about that until I read this article about the RNC. But that's OK. That's FREEDOM! That is what freedom looks like. That is why Iraqi's and Afghani's and soon Iranians are being slaughtered for...freedom.
I was just reading TruthOut and found an interesting little article about an act of terrorism that will pretty much slide by the rest of fascist loving America.
"Police Break Down Doors in Night-Time Raid on Anarchist Meeting" is the title of the article by Marc Truck. The police claim to have had a search warrant, which they don't seem to be able to show anyone. They are, however, taking photographs and gathering information on some 2 dozen or more folks in a wonderful act of state sanctioned terrorism. What's gonna get done about this? Probably nothing, like usual. It is like cops getting away with murder. It happens often, and no one is gonna do a thing about it, really. I, and many others, however, can't keep our big mouths shut in an attempt to bring about an end to terrorism, especially state sanctioned terrorism by folks who claim to be our friends. Cops are not our friends. They are in place to keep the elite safe from us lowers (or "beasts" as founding father James Madison would call us). I would like to believe bringing our attention to this act of terrorism would actually get something done about it, but it won't. Folks will be busy praying that Obama wins the presidency, and then something will be done about this. But it won't.
John Trudell said in his speech at Lane County Community College that the democrats will win. He claimed that the elite have to get some horrific legislation passed that couldn't get done if the Republicans are in power. You see, like with Bill Clinton, a genocidal maniac who made the blatant governmental disrespect of the Bush administration possible with his decisions, some serious twisted shit is gonna happen under the dems. And, as I've heard throughout the Clinton administration putting restriction after restriction on civil liberties, it will be said, "well, at least he's a democrat."
You know, I know that nothing will be done about the illegal raid on the anarchists in St. Paul. I know nothing will be done about destroying the illegally acquired information on this group by the cops. I know the cops act of terrorism will not enact any form (or very little at best) of protest by any folks, even though this is indeed an act of terrorism. Few, or none, will stand up to meet the challenge of the terror enacted by the U.S. government against its own people. Writing this will only frustrate the fuck out of me, so, I've learned to keep myself mentally protected so I don't wind up having stroke.
By the way, anyone who has been watching this type of crap enacted by the cops KNOWS that this is not the first time, and will not be the last, and knows that nothing will be done by it and the people won't rampage in the streets to regain their rights. They will stay home watching their favorite TV shows or doing whatever entertains them. You know...enjoying their freedoms.
Me...I'll be playing video chess and bitching a lot, like on this blog.
I found this photo on the internet of police protecting and serving the people by beating and torturing them. Good job, boys.We have successfully moved. Things went fairly well. I probably won't be writing all that much for the next week.
I am getting tired of hearing and reading about the great Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barak Obama...These people are genocidal. These folks decisions have and will kill thounsands and make thousands more suffer. They are not great people, they should be measured by the lives effected by their decisions. If we did that, we would all describe them as pieces of shit. Them, and so many more in the U.S. government.
...and wealthy people will recreate on them.
In an article titled, "Do Native Americans Have First Amendment Rights?" by Leslie Thatcher, we learn that the Ninth Circuit Court has decided that yes, indeed, the U.S. government says it is OK to rub treated sewage all over indigenous sacred sites so wealthy and semi-wealthy folks can ski down them. The U.S. knows what is really sacred, and their god is flat, green, and has the faces of genocidal maniacs on them.
This is not surprising to me. This is nothing new. This is a clear and consistent pattern of the U.S. If it produces capital, it is sacred and holy. If it is natural, then god fucked up and it has to be made sacred and holy (aka, produce capital). That is the way it has been for quite a few centuries. That is also why I look forward to the collapse despite any consequences I may pay when it happens.
Shusli, Rachel, and I are moving about 8 miles North. Oddly, you would think that since this is a trailer park and we are moving into a single wide, that it would be a "trailer trash" type of neighborhood. Such is not the case.
We live in a "trailer trash" neighborhood, in a nice house. We have a next door neighbor whose dog barks every night and day. We have a neighbor across the street that SCREAMS at the top of her lungs at her kids...often. And basically, Coos Bay is the city of "The People of the Big Truck." Although they aren't driving up and down the street as often as a Trimet bus by your bedroom window, they are around often enough and you always know when they are passing by.
When we were first at this new place, we noticed...no barking dogs, no screaming neighbors, nobody was trying to prove their status in the world by the size of their pick-up truck. There is also space between the trailers and we actually have a front and back yard.
We will be completely moved in by the end of August.
I was just watching Al Jazeera video's of the ethnic cleansing of Georgians is South Ossetia. And we Indians were told we practiced human sacrifice. Millions of us were sacrificed to the empire that is now known as the U.S. Now Georgians are being sacrificed it what only can be described as a war designed by King Dick and co-King George. They provoked this, they wanted it, they have sacrificed South Ossetians and Georgeans and what is their scheme? What is their plan? Yes indeed they Love mass slaughter becuase it is a means to an end for them. That is they way empires are. With war comes ethnic cleansings, racism, rape, etc. Why did King Dick and co-King George want this to happen? They did want it to happen. It is always part of the design. Don't think they didn't know it would come to this. Why? Oil is part of the reason, but they are losing control over an important pipeline. Why are they willing to sacrifice it? Humans mean nothing to them. Heck Robert and John Kennedy were willing to sacrifice up to 25,000,000 Americans on the eastern seaboard with the possibility of going to war with Cuba/Russia. The kings and queens don't care about human life. They care about profits and glory. Thus, why Georgia? I feel like I'm missing something.
PS Note that there are no negotiations with Russia. Very provocotive. Note the new determination for Georgia to gain membership in NATO in order for the U.S. empire to have a missile placement there as well as there sweet little oil pipeline. Note that there is no historical context of the U.S. provocations in Georgia that led to this whole humanitarian mess to begin with.
PPS Just read a great article on TruthOut by Michael Dobbs called ""We Are All Georgians Now?" Not so Fast." It is excellent analysis from a man who has lived in the region. This also brings in another possibility, it could have been a complete U.S. blunder on the part of the U.S. empire. The U.S. empire has also been looking to Russia as an ally in there soon genocidal war against Iran for Iranian oil. The U.S. military being bogged down in Afghanistan, Iraq, and soon Iran creates little space for a military conflict with Russia. Russia is no innocent participant either. Not only is there question about U.S. backing of Kosovo independence and not South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but why does Russia support these regions independence and not Chechnya? This could have been one serious fuck up and the ones who are suffering are those who live in the region.
I'm beginning to think the U.S. empire and its allies are deliberately trying to provoke open war with Russia over the issue of Georgia. The break away regions that have declared their independence with the use of war back in the early '90's, are now being told by the U.S. empire and its allies, like Angela Merkel of Germany, that they belong to Georgia so they can just shove whatever independence they think they have up their asses and bend over and take it from Georgia like some nation that isn't Georgia told them to. Well, Georgia told them also.
So, therefore, Kosovo confuses me. Kosovo broke away from croatia and declared its independence. Why isn't it considered to be part of Croatia, yet South Ossetia and Abkhazan are considered part of Georgia even though they declared their independence? I'm confused. Could someone clarify this for me, because as it stands for me, this is what I think.
The U.S. is losing its war in Iraq. The empire is starting to crumble. War is a great money maker. War is great in order to control the populace. In war, one can impose a feircely fascist state where any dissent is not tolerated. The wealthy will get wealthier and the poor will pay for it. Therefore, the U.S. and Germany seem to be provoking Russia into what I can only see as two possiblilities: 1) high profits and high population control via Cold War. 2) Or maybe the Bush family still has their Nazi ambitions and want to bring Russia to its knees through warfare but can do anything without provoking the bear, and thus the situation in Georgia.
What do you all think?
Yesterday after making my post about Georgia and reading that the president of Poland singed a missile agreement with the U.S. empire I realized THIS IS ANOTHER COLD WAR!
Why do I believe this is another cold war?
I thought the co-King was up to something ever since he started wanting to get missile projects going in nations close to Russia: the Czech Republic, supporting the independence of Kosovo in order to start another missile project there, his kissing the ass of Shaakasvili to encourage him in his failed attempt to invade South Ossetia, etc.
Just a few days ago, the Polish president signed an agreement to house missiles for the U.S. This, of course (should it pass the Polish Parliament), will make Poland a sattelite for the U.S. empire and they will sacrifice their independence (as it were) to the King and co-King. Instead of Russian control, they will be under U.S. control. We all know that the Polish Prez, Lech Kaczynski, signed this agreement because of the Russian war with Georgia to stop the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia. It may be true that he didn't sign the agreement because of this war, but he most likely knew (being much more intelligent than the co-King) that his people would not allow missiles to be housed for the U.S. empire unless Russia got in a war with a neighboring naiton. Good thinking, Lech. You and some of your corporate owners stand to make billions!
But the clincher was when co-King George announced yesterday that this was not another "cold war." Knowing that co-King George is a LIAR ("weapons of mass destruction" and so many others), we now know that rumors of his desire for a cold (and profitable) war are TRUE!
The "sacrificial pawn" has been the nation of Georgia under Mikheil Saakashvili. Now the U.S. is preparing to castle with the Czech Republic, Poland, Kosovo, and probably others.
Increasing the tensions is the co-King's concubine, Condeleeza Rice. She has jumped in to protect the U.S. pawn of Georgia and shows disdain toward Russia, increasing tensions between the two super powers. Why? Because it is GREAT in creating a highly profitable cold war.
What else is a cold war good for besides high profits for the military industrial complex who owns the U.S. government? Oh, Yeah! Amassing fear into the populace of the U.S. citizenry. After the world trade centers in New York were brought down, the U.S. had mass fears to enact horrific and illegal legislations, make stupid Americans back illegal wars with Afghanistan and Iraq to steal their oil under the guise of protecting the citizenry from terrorists, etc. Since most of the citizenry of the U.S. that have been stupid are now questioning the genocidal and highly profitable intentions of King Dick, co-King George, and their corporate owners (like Exxon), staging another terrorist attack just might bring into question their empirical desires and would probably wind up back firing. Thus, COLD WAR! Cold War will amass fears into the populace necessary to keep them under control to move forward the highly profitable empirical intentions of the U.S. corporate ownership...aka...FASCISM!
The U.S. using the heavily corporate controlled media just has to make it look like Russia, NOT GEORGIA was the aggressor in this conflict, and not even mention that the U.S. did this as a pawn move on the "grand chessboard," and stupid Americans will not even know that this was designed by their own government and will beleive that the Russians are being aggressive.
With Zbignew Brzinski in Obama's corner, and McCain being a war mongering corporate whore, ain't nothing gonna change after the next election, either.
Co-King George, under the ever watchful eye of King Dick, has been courting the nation of Georgia for the last couple of years, even building them a pipline for Caspian Sea oil so U.S. corporations can bypass the nations of Iran and Russia to acquire it.
In order for the corporate owned U.S. government to aquire the and or control the vast oil wealth in the region, commit horrific violations of human rights, commit horrific war crimes, commit genocide, and so many other violations of international law (aka "freedom"), they know the only force they have to stay aware of is the nation of Russia. Russia is a rather formidable force. So what does the U.S. want to do? Control Russia. How does one control Russia? Surround them by heavily arming nations that surround Russia: Kosovo, Poland, Georgia...
The U.S. under King Dick and co-King George, according to all the reading I've been doing on the subject, has been courting Georgia for years. Georgia has a U.S. pipeline running through it. Georgia has a formidable military force built by the U.S. and Israel.
South Ossetia and Abkhazan have been struggling for their independence from Georgia and allying themselves with Russia for years. Georgia and its president Mikheil Saakashvili has had great desires in reuniting the breakaway regions of the nation back into the fold. Now with a new military might, they tried to do so via invading South Ossetia.
Russia has known this would happen especially since the alliance between Georgia and the corporate owned U.S. empire. Russia knew it was coming and was ready to help their allies, as it were. After Georgia invaded, Russia has fought hard and nasty in order to back the Georgian military down. They have basically razed a good portion of Gori and Poti. From the city of Poti, reports are coming out saying the Russian military has sunk Georgian Coast Guard ships.
The U.S. ally of Georgia has only sent in aid via the military. This, of course, could be to make it look like the U.S. really gives a shit about this alliance they created so that Saakashvili doesn't get deposed for this horrific blunder, or it could be some sort of communique or actual military aid was sent in. I don't believe it was military aid, however. The U.S. probably doesn't want any further provocation of Russia. Might disturb their illegal ill gotten gain in the Middle East.
Now their have been mass exoduses of Georgians out of South Ossetia for fear of ethnic cleansing. Their have also been mass exoduses from cities within Georgia for fear of the Russian military. And who's to blame for all of this? King Dick and co-King George. They knew that this was a possible outcome. They probably wanted to see how far they could provoke their only real enemy in the region, Russia, and thought that Georgia was a sweet sacrificial pawn.
This is what "freedom" looks like at the Democratic National Convention. That's right! These cages were built to house "detainees" who protest at the DNC at the end of this month instead of "freely" taking it up the ass by a U.S. political party like they are supposed to. This, my friends, is what "freedom" REALLY looks like in the U.S. It isn't chemlawns and plastic picket fences with weekend barbeques etc. Those things are fine...as long as you enjoy your privilege and keep you big mouth shut and allow the U.S. empire to continue its horrific illegal actions worldwide. And don't think Barak is gonna save you. Those sweet speeches he was making before getting the nomination are GONE! Now he is looking like "business as usual" and any thoughts the people may have had about real change should be gone by now. Denial, however, is a powerful addiction and helps in getting many folks elected.
I've talked about racist advertising in previous posts on this blog like; Umpqua Dairy products, Chetco Bank, Seneca products, Jeep Cherokee, Nike N7, etc., which just goes to show you that Indians can be easily exploited and taken advantage of without having to send any of that corporate money to the little red savages...WOO HOO! Profits from Red Nig...uh...haha...Native American logos; or do you prefer to be called Indians?
First, to me, the olympics have become one great big fat capitalist veture. They may already have been, but they definitely are now. Yeah, athletes, physical feats, challenges and triumphs...Now there are advertising opportunities, profits, endorsements, etc. The olympics is a profession, a business, and not what it originally was allegedly intended to be, a sporting event to bring folks together from many nations in peace and physical ability. At least that is what I heard they were originally set up for.
What better nation to host a hardcore capitalist venture like the olympics than a nation that has rapidly become one of the most powerful and hardcore capitalist powerhouses in the world, China.
Under capitalist civilized dictates, many people must suffer to maintain the levels of wealth disparity, and they will usually suffer violently. So, I am not a great lover of capitalist ventures, I just know they exist and the conditions of life are horrific for those who don't manage to be among the wealthy elite, among the protective services of the wealthy elite, or the middle class should a middle class exist in the capitalist nation. I am no fan of capitalism.
Now, there are massive protests against China (a capitalist nation) being the host of the most globally capitalist sporting events, the olympics. Why? For a couple of reasons, I've heard. Number one being the occupation of Tibet. You know, that allegedly once great and peaceful nation that was oppressive to women and owned slaves and wanted to use Nazi power to build a military to fight China. Also because of China's human rights abuses. Yes, China is an occuping nation, and yes, China does violate human rights, however...
To the said protesters: Once MOST of these protesters get their "I've Protested the 2008 olympics Hosted by China" badge, most will no longer make a peep about Chinese human rights violations and occupations. They will however polish their badges anytime some sort of personal glory might get them some sort of personal gain. Meanwhile, the occupation will continue and the human rights abuses will continue. But wait, said occupations and human rights abuses won't just be continuing at the hands of China, but also at the hands of the U.S., France, Spain, The Netherlands, Canada, etc., etc., etc. Will the passion and ferverent self-righteous behavior continue the fight against global occupations and human rights abuses...FUCK NO! Now that folks will have their Chinese protest badges, and when the olympics are over, there will be a deafening silence about not only Chinese occupations and human rights abuses, but those led by pretty much ALL capitalist style nation states.
OK, OK, OK...How many of you protesters have read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? ...one...two.......... OK, 2. As stated previously on this blog, belonging to and forming unions is a human right. Their are commercials on television about union busting firms and in at will employment, discussion of forming a union can get you fired. Any protests? OF COURSE NOT! For some reason, folks here in the U.S. don't understand that the U.S. is the greatest violator of human rights ever to have existed. They, however, believe most if not all of the propaganda set forth by the U.S. Massive protests? ...All I hear is silence... That's what I thought. Got your badge, that's all you need.
The United States is an occupied nation. The U.S. occupies my land, my wife's land, our childrens land, the lands of all indigenous folks within the borders of what is currently known as the U.S. Any protests? Any speaking out? ...silence... But China! You'll get your Chinese Olympics protest badge, and then you'll be silent about not only Chinese occupation and human rights violations, but about all other occupations and human rights violations. Again...FUCK YOU!
But wait! There's more!
Many folks blindly follow the Dalai Lama. Yet, the Dalai Lama was a Nazi supporter and was great freinds with Nazi war criminals. Plus, Tibet was oppressive to women and held slaves. Is that what the folks protesting the occupation of Tibet want Tibet to return to?
I first questioned the Dalai Lama's intentions when I heard he was on the CIA payroll at one time. I also remember him making a speech in Portland, Oregon stating how great the United States was. "The greatest nation on earth," is what I beleive he said. Odd! The greatest jailer, the greatest violator of human rights, the most genocidal nation ever to have existed...is stated to be the greatest nation on earth by a man who alleges peace.
Mind you, I am no supporter of nations who violate human rights. I live within the borders of one. However, I know the protests will become silent, or virtually silent again, when the olympics are over and the protesters have their Chinese olympics protest badges firmly in hand. They will no longer be caring about human rights violations in China, let alone their own nations, such as Frances genocidal actions in Rwanda. That is somehow different and acceptable to most of these said protesters. And when the olympics and protests are over, it will be business as usual for the violating nations and the protesters will be busy polishing their badges instead of continuing the fight for human rights.
I will not be watching the olympics, nor will I be participating in the protests. The olympics are a capitalist venture taking place in a capitalist nation. Captalism requires violence to maintain its status quo. The protesters will fall virtually silent after the olympics are over like they think their job is done.
Meanwhile, in Canada, the Canadian government is violating the human and indigenous rights of the Indians in Canada in order to host the winter olymics in Whistler, BC. Any protests? Nope! Silence, other than from the Indians struggling against this violation of indigenous and human rights violations by a nation that has and continues to violently suppress Indians within that nation. Hello! Anyone there?
Photo on [left] is a Tibetan slave in leg-irons, under the "enlightened" rule of the Lama class before the Dalai Lama was forced out of power in Tibet. Under the Lama class, run away slaves could expect to have their eyes gouged out, and tongue cut out, and limbs amputated by the Lama class "enlightened", and "compassionate", and "peaceful" priests.
What kind of world is it you all want? This kind? Why not figure out the kind of world you want and FIGHT for that? Yeah, China violates human rights, but why are your voices virtually silent about the human rights violations of your own nations and other nations? Where is you passion for those struggles? Are they not as pretty or public as China's? In the words of Dr. Evil..."throw me a friggin' bone, here!" Throw me a bone. Give me a reason to believe you have a genuine desire for human rights worldwide. Give me a reason to believe I want to stand side by side with you in your struggle. Are your voices gonna be as passionate and powerful when Canada starts its ceremonies for the winter olympics as Canada continues its violation of human and indigenous rights in their occupation of indigenous land?
Now, the French are being accused of participating in the genocide. The French are not denying the participated, they are basically saying Rwanada has no authority to accuse them.
I remember reading somewhere (probably in "The Phoenix Program," by Douglas Valentine), and correct me if I'm wrong, that the Vietnamese had arrested a bunch of French soldiers in the '50's. I believe the U.S. helped get these folks free, and the French soldiers went on a killing and raping rampage. You see, that is what soldiers are trained to do. Take control through violence and terror, which includes killing and raping. The U.S. soldiers raped lots of Vietnamese women during their murderous rampage in that nation.
It is not uncommon for these types of crimes to be committed by empirical nations such as the U.S. and France.
So, here is an idea for Turkey: Why, instead of denying the genocide against Armenians, tell other nations, such as France and the U.S. that you'll admit your crime of genocide if the U.S. and France and all the other nations within the UN body admit their genocides and crimes against peace and humanity.
One more interesting point, folks are heavily protesting the Chinese Olympics, mostly because of the occupation of Tibet. Occupations are forceful and violent, yes, but one has to question what was there before. For example:
I found on James Craven's website interesting pictures of the Dalai Lama with Nazi war criminals. One doesn't hear much about Tibet prior to the occupation by China. I have often heard that they were very oppressive toward women. Does anyone out there have any more solid information.
I also find it ironic that the citizenry of one of the most genocidal nations ever to have existed on this earth think that it is some kind of good work to protest China since they are hosting the Olympics. There is, afterall, zero to no call out for justice for the genocide of indigenous folks in this nation. Afterall, all those citizens benefit greatly from the genocide and occupation of the indigenous citizenry in this nation. It is nice they want human rights honored by China, but what about right here at home, assholes!
