"The image of a lone man standing in front of a row of tanks remains an enduring image of the incident.
So is the image of the tank driver who with compassion and humanity refused to run him over.
Now imagine if you're an Iraqi and standing in front of an American tank, what do you expect to happen?"
kw9751 (Independent Minds - user)
Posted on: May 16, 2009, 05:16:37 PM
"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring."
-Alder
"God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?
-Dr. Johnson
Before the Mugabe Government started uprooting the white farmers in 2000, this Government kept inflation at 5 percent, 8 percent (or 11 percent in difficult years.) How, then, does a country with all the same factors and leaders from 1980 to 2000 suddenly (because the white commercial farmers have been uprooted) see inflation soar to world record levels in a space of just six years starting in 2000? And how is it that a stable Zimbabwe has an inflation rate 1 500 times higher than Somalia, a country without a government since 1991?
--Timothy Kalyegira
The second option, and I speak very candidly, is to work through all appropriate channels for a change in power in Zimbabwe, recognizing that perhaps it is destined to become Africa's Romania and that Mugabe is destined to become Africa's Ceausescu. It was, though, even in Romania, the people of Romania who made the change ultimately, not Americans.
So if we were to decide to try and work for change in power in Zimbabwe, I would hope that we would have the wisdom to be discrete, to be low-key and to avoid giving those in power there the excuse that foreigners are out to get them.
— Chester Crocker
106th Congress House
Hearings - Zimbabwe: Democracy on the Line - Tuesday, June 13, 2000
As it happens, I have been to Egypt, also to
Greece (India and China also but that's beside the point right
now). I remember having the same reaction that Ben-Jochanan
has spoken of. "But these Egyptians were black people!" I
had absorbed a Western education which told me first came the
Egyptians, who btw were white, then came the Greeks. The Egyptians
developed empirical methods of geometric mensuration because
the Nile flooded every year, and that served as a spur for
the methods developed. But it was the Greeks who took it to
a higher level, conceptually and theoretically. Well, the
first lie that was exploded was that the Egyptians were white.
By the overwhelming evidence of statuary and paintings that
I could see with my own eyes, it was clear that they were black
people, certainly what would count as black in the United
States or the Caribbean. The second was the expectation
that the glory of Greece would somehow surpass Egypt. Not so
at all. Not even by a long shot. You have to stand within
the temple, say, at Karnak, then go to the Acropolis, to very
quickly realize that the latter is first of all a copy, and
*much* less impressive in scale. And if you walk around the base
of the Great Pyramid at Giza, and contemplate the sheer
vastness of that structure, you quickly realize that this, and the
other pyramids, were built by men who knew what they were doing.
It was a matter of plan and execution -- calculation -- rather than
of general idea followed by a lot of empirical muddling through.
To see it is to be convinced that these master builders knew their
geometry, trigonometry, and statics. Geometry is to the pyramids
as climbing Mt. Everest is to building a Hilton Hotel atop it.
The first, impressive though it is, is as nothing compared to
the latter; and the latter may be taken as proof that you had
truly mastered the former. Nothing I saw in Greece came even close to
matching the Egyptian accomplishment. Which is why I have very
little difficulty crediting the Egyptians by inference from
indirect evidence. And I too do not feel the need for the
"smoking gun" direct evidence that would remove all doubt.
I do suspect, however, that the disparagers of a black ancient
Egypt would do the dance of distortion and denial even if there were
direct evidence.
> Paul Kekai Manansala
Black Athena - Internet Debate
Voltaire said, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
More so, he ( Wabun-Inini) felt Nelson Mandela should have been using his stature as an internationally acclaimed freedom fighter to both defend Zimbabwe and insist South Africa do the same thing for its people.
Obi Egbuna
Not only do "Carbon Footprint" groups not care, they are reducing our carbon footprints successfully. The CFL bulbs contain enough Mercury to contaminate 6,000 gallons of water. Walmart alone has enough to wipe out the USA. China is also the ONLY country that makes them.
a controversial memo that was leaked from the World Bank–this was when Lawrence Summers, now the chief economic adviser, was the chief economist at the World Bank–in which it said, "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable, and we should face up to that. I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted." He said he was being sarcastic.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
"For every man who retraces his steps to find God, there is a great celebration among the angels. They actually appear and receive that returning soul in great joy."
*~*~* Paramahansa Yogananda *~*~*
Says Margaret Newsham: “Even then, ECHELON was very big and sophisticated. As early as 1979 we could track a specific person and zoom in on his phone conversation while he was communicating. Since our satellites could in 1984 film a postage stamp lying on the ground, it is almost impossible to imagine how all-encompassing the system must be today.”
Posted on: June 21, 2009, 01:50:58 PM
More importantly, Israeli outrage is a proof that - despite approval for it by radical Cabbalists and neoliberals - transplantation of human organs is an immoral dreadful thing, too close to cannibalism, and we all know that. Yes, it is awful if Israeli soldiers tear kidneys out of Palestinians and kill them afterwards. But it is equally awful, if a kind doctor removes a kidney out of a Detroit mechanic whose house was repossessed by a gentle banker, or out of a Ukrainian worker who was sacked by a polite oligarch, or out of an Indian farmer who has to pay his debt to Monsanto. Every poor man on the planet is a Palestinian though the means of his dispossession may vary. This kind of thing should be stopped. The human body is sacred. These operations are too expensive and can't be justified. Mankind should overcome its fear of death. We live and we die. There is no reason to waste thousands of dollars prolonging a life by expensive operations if this money can be used for feeding the starving.
The Body Snatchers Are Back
By Israel Shamir
8-24-9
http://www.rense.com/general87/body.htmPosted on: August 24, 2009, 07:02:28 PM
nigrum nigrius nigro - black blacker than black
"In the Hebrew language, if you ever take the time to study the Old Testament, you will learn that the word 'holocaust' is shorthand for 'a burnt sacrificial offering to Hashem (the god of the Jews) in return for certain favours.' It's neatly defined as such in the Jewish encyclopaedia."
The Palestinian Representative's Speech at the UN
'Before beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Moses. When he struck the rock and it brought forth water, he thought, 'What a good opportunity to have a bath!'
He removed his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water.
When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished.
An Israeli had stolen them.'
The Israeli representative jumped up furiously and shouted, 'What are you talking about? The Israelis weren't there then.'
The Palestinian representative smiled and said:
'And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech.'
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
There was apparently no one in the Saudi Royal family that had a problem at all with this quote from a known Zionist Jew Neocon Edward Luttwak about why Iraq had to be destroyed in 1991:
http://www.rense.com/general87/stillnot.htm "Saddam is not like the Saudi Princes who spend the bulk of their lives outside of their country, and who fritter away the Kingdom's oil profits on prostitutes and bottles of champagne in Paris. No, Saddam is building railways! Creating electrical networks! Highways and other important elements of a serious State infrastructure! After eights years of war against the Iranian regime of Khomeini, he desperately needs to demobilize his Republican Guard, which incorporates so many of this technical elite, in order to rebuild the war-devastated country. These people are his technicians, his engineers. If they are put to work in the way Saddam wishes, they will rapidly make Iraq the most advanced power in the region, and we cannot allow this to happen."