the LIE is that this country is a “democracy”; the LIE is that the people in THIS country are free; this nation has NEVER lost the PEOPLE MUST PAY & as one senator in the 50’s stated: it’s easy; we run it just like a big plantation; it is NOT left/right/conservative/progressive/democrat/republican; the Truth is this: not 1 Indian tribe ever got what was promised to them; not 1 vet has ever gotten what was due him; chemicals are used to harm the people in the food chain in the USA for “medical” Pharma’s to get 600,000 xs the cost of each med & the Gov takes a portion of it & all the Corps; there has NEVER been a need to tax the people except to abuse & harrass them; it is a dictatorship with “shell” fronts to siphon trillions of dollars thru for years; & the LIE is “this is the way democracy’s work”; it is the way of dictatorships, criminals & crooks; millions have died now in every country for THIS country’s abuse; including in this country; shamefully the # of infants deaths HERE have been #1 for years; due to the chemical warfare on the people; homeless folks are given $20-$40 for “medical” procedures & the docs take the $ & it is all okayed by our lawless dictatorships that run from the Pentagon; to the Congress, to St, to county, to city; the “courts” call to ASK how they are to “rule”; & sadly, they have military bases in 132 countries or more; tried to overthrow Bolivia & Venezuela; & now are going to attack Russia; they have gotten away with slavery in the USA for so many years they want to take this “globally”; THIS is the TRUE HISTORY of the USA;

In Solidarity Shift,

Reverend Martin Luther King proclaimed and I believe that, “Peace is not some distant goal we seek, but a MEANS by which we achieve that goal.”

But, how to get all the daughters of Zion and all of Abraham’s sons to put down their weapons of destruction and make amends?

There is plenty of blame to go around, and as a tax paying American, I am responsible and connected to the over 100 billion USA dollars have been sent to Israel since 1948, so I speak out for dissent is what keeps democracies healthy…

What we need is the desire that is inflamed by hope that peace can be reality and in solidarity pursue peace by working for justice.

The indigenous wisdom of the American Indian inspires and inflames:

“Hopi” means Peaceful People, and the truest and greatest power is the strength of peace. Because Peace is the Will of the Great Spirit. But do not think that just because the True Hopi People have been told by the Great Spirit never to take up arms that the True Hopi People will not fight, even die for what we know to be the right way of Life.

“The True Hopi People Know how to fight without killing or hurting. The True Hopi People Know how to fight with Truth and Positive Force In The Light Of the Great Spirit. The True Hopi People Know how to educate by clear thoughts, good pictures and by carefully chosen words.

“The True Hopi People Know how to show to all the world’s Children the True Way of Life by setting an example and by working and communicating in a way that reaches the minds and hearts of all people who are truly seeking the methods of a simple and spiritual Life which is the only Life that will survive.

“The true Hopi People preserve the sacred knowledge about the way of the earth because the true Hopi People know that the earth is a living, growing person and all things on it are her children.”

Nonviolent solidarity as an international movement throughout the world is a most powerful tool and is the only weapon people of good will have to deflate the hate that breeds terrorism and spins the cycle of violence.

Peace needs bridges not walls and human rights only exist for any, when all do indeed have them.

-Excerpted from Memoirs of a Nice Irish American ‘Girl’s’ Life in Occupied Territory, by me

e http://www.wearewideawake.org/

Osiyo tohitsu Eileen (hello how are you)

Native Americans lived quite well in the America’s for some say twenty five thousand years.  Our sacred beliefs taught us to live in right relation with all things.  We did not need the introduction of the Hebrew literature known as the Bible to know how to live and respect all life.  Nor did we need it to understand the importance of reciprocity. cooperation and community.  The Bible was forced upon us by the Christian European invader occupiers.  Convert to our way or die the Christians demanded.  Over one hundred million died while our land, resources, culture, and lives were stolen by Christians rooted in Hebrew beliefs.  Even today American neo-Zionists practice policies of genocide against Indigenous Americans.  Israeli neo-Zionists practice genocide against Indigenous Palestinians.  The time has come to end Christian and Jewish dominion.  Christian and Jewish dominion kills for profit and are false religions cloaking the underlying purpose of power and wealth.  Do not read the words of the Bible for they are for fools.  Genocide is the tool and wealth and power are the goals. The words of the Bible continue to be soaked in the blood of Indigenous Peoples across Mother Earth. I reject the right of Christianity to suggest that I cannot be saved outside of Christianity and I further reject the United States right to tell me I am Naive, my ancestors, my people, culture, language, traditional sacred beliefs, sacred places and ceremonies, land, and Creator make me Native as they always have and always will.  I remain unconquered just as the Indigenous Palestinians remain unconquered.

Dear Shift,

Chaos is creativity in action.

Anarchy is best understood as Rebellion against UNJUST laws. The Yang/male force of anarchy resists authority and causes disorder and is socially and politically incorrect by the norms of the status quo for it seeks the higher ground of justice.

The Yin/feminine force of anarchy births a new order out of the chaos and chaos is creativity in action.

I wrote the above before I knew there were Christian Anarchists [Dorothy Day, Tolstoy] I was inspired by secular Israelis, Palestinians and international Anarchists Against the Wall.

On Dec. 7, 2008, in Berlin, the International League for Human Rights in the spirit of Carl von Ossietzky, honored the Anarchists Against the Wall for “Their exemplary activities – in the age of globalization - of great significance for the realization of the ideals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - well beyond Israel/Palestine.”

Israeli AAtW, Jonathon Pollak stated:

“We believe that, as with Apartheid South Africa, Americans have a vital role to play in ending Israeli occupation - by divesting from companies that support Israeli occupation, boycotting Israeli products, coming to Palestine as witnesses, or standing with Palestinians in nonviolent resistance.

“We are confident that Israeli occupation will one day be defeated, as were other US government supported repressive regimes - Apartheid South Africa, Pinochet’s Chile and racial segregation in the United States. There is no price too great to pay for freedom, and nothing will deter us from achieving this goal.”-“Memoirs of a Nice Irish-American ‘Girl’s’ Life in Occupied Territory” Chapter 5: Anarchists Against the Wall, by eileen fleming

Jesus envisioned a society based on love and tolerance, which is completely incompatible with war and all violence.

When Jesus was mocked, whipped and nailed to a cross and remained NONVIOLENT he was over throwing the status quo of violent retaliation and eye-for-an-eye mentality.

Not many of his followers have been able to drink from that cup of The Prince of Peace, which is another name for Jesus Christ who commanded his followers to LOVE all people and to forgive in order to be forgiven.

Tolstoy understood that the command “Thou shalt not murder” meant that all governments who wage war are directly affronting the Christian principles that should guide all life, and shouldn’t being pro-life really be about honoring the sacredness of every life that already is?

Eileen Fleming, Author, Founder WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Producer “30 Minutes With Vanunu” and “13 Minutes with Vanunu”

Dear Cyrena,

Vanunu’s parents disowned him for his Christian conversion; an act considered by many Jews to be treason from the tribe.

V told me:

“The Dimona is 46 years old; reactors last 25 to 30 years. The Dimona has never been inspected and Israel has never signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty but all the Arab states have…Twenty years ago when I worked there they only produced when the air was blowing towards Jordan ten miles away. No one knows what is happening now.

“The Israelis have 200 atomic weapons and they accuse the Palestinians and Muslims of terrorism. The world needs to wake up and see the real terrorism is the occupation and the Palestinians have lived under that terror regime for 40 years.

“Israel propaganda portrays all Palestinians as Muslim extremists and Hamas terrorists and neglect that Palestinian Christians are following the true message of Jesus Christ with nonviolent resistance. We need all Christians to come and see the truth for themselves.

“I really had no clue what I was doing by getting baptized a Christian; I just felt like I had to do it. It was my way to become a new being. It wasn’t until after my trial that I started to read the New Testament. While I was in prison, I would read aloud for a half hour, twice a day. I would read the entire New Testament and begin it again when I finished the Book of Revelation. I did this for myself, as well as for my captors—not so much the prison guards, but the ones who watched me on camera twenty-four hours a day.

“Once I covered up the camera that spied on me and was punished with one month in solitary, without any books or radio; no contact with anyone anywhere was allowed. It was just them, the Shen Beet, you know, like the FBI and the Mossad, like your CIA— they were watching me.

“They tortured me by keeping a light on in my cell constantly for two years. They told me it was because they were afraid I would commit suicide, and the oppressive camera was for my safety. They recruited the guards and other prisoners to irritate me. They would deprive me of sleep by making loud noises near my cell all night long.
“I chose to read them 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8, instead:

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with THE TRUTH! It always protects, it always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails.

“For the first five years, twice a day I would loudly pray by reading Bible verses. I would also read the Anglican service from the Book of Common Prayer. I did it twice a day, everyday, for five years. I began to see I had become like a machine. I knew if I continued I would lose my mind. So after that, I only prayed in silence. Although I knew I was driving them nuts with my loud praying, it was driving me nuts, too. I changed my routine.”-

“Memoirs of a Nice Irish-American ‘Girl’s’ Life in Occupied Territory” Chapter 7: Brother V, Eileen Fleming

http://www.wearewideawake.org

“But it will now take the actions of those millions, heeding these echoes of the past and transforming them into their own voices, to effect real change.”

Amy Goodman too is behind the change curve and fails to understand the dynamics of change.  It is not the voices of the past that will effect real change.  Decentralized creativity is the currency of the present and future.  It takes all of our voices operating in a decentralized dynamic where the walls of power have been lowered thus allowing communication in all directions.  Out of this dynamic a vision is born among the participants and that vision is fluid and changes increasingly rapidly.  Speed spikes complexity.  Complexity spikes chaos.  Chaos is best managed by the utilization of creative decentralized talent, in this case via the internet.  In a decentralized change dynamic power flows from the center (the old paradigm) to the extremities (the people) as everyone now can participate in problem solving and decision making.  As the vision evolves it begins to take hold and is reflected in positive change when the majority of participants understand and apply the vision.  It is like stair-stepping.  The horizontal step is progress, the vertical step is chaos, once the chaos is understood and the new vision is applied, another horizontal step is taken as progress is made.  No centralized organizational structure is capable of effectively dealing with rapid change successfully.  The pace of change is too rapid for the ideas of the few to cope with and a derailing or collapse will result.  Only with decentralized participation will creativity be rich enough to manage hyper-change effectively.

eileen fleming,

Thanks for your post @eileen fleming, December 31, 2008 at 7:38 pm

Specifically in reference to Vanunu. I would only disagree with his certainty on this:

“..I suffered here 18 years because I am a Christian, because I was baptised into Christianity. If I was a Jew I wouldn’t have all this suffering here in isolation for 18 years. Only because I was a Christian man…”

I respect that he may certainly feel that this persecution is due ONLY to his Christianity, but having studied the Israeli Military Court System, (that presides only over the Arabs in Palestine and the West Bank) in comparison to the Judicial System in place for Israelis, I don’t think it’s just Christians that Israel persecutes in this manner. They’ve held thousands upon thousands of men, women and children for decades as political prisoners. Nearly all Arab Muslims of course, but they wouldn’t hesitate to do the very same thing to a Jew in a situation like this. The ‘crime’ (at least in terms of those who control Israel) is far to great to be ignored.

That’s the same reason why Israel recently detained and roughed up the UN Special Rapporteur to the Israel-Palestine crisis, Richard Falk. And then they deported him without ever allowing him access, required by his UN position as their Human Rights envoy. He’s a Jew.

So, Israel doesn’t care. In fact, the 18 years that this poor man has suffered is comparatively light compared to many others, specifically Arabs convicted under the Israeli Military Criminal Court system that operates specifically for the Palestinians. It’s the biggest farce in the history of anything even remotely connected to a criminal justice system.

I swear. The systems in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran are less barbaric than what the Israelis operate on ‘behalf’ of the Palestinians, and call it ‘democratic’.

One thing that I noticed apparently occurred at the same time that Prof. Falk was being harassed and then deported is that allegedly, some 294 prisons were released by Israel at the time. I only read this in one article, and never saw it again.

IF that is in fact true, then Falk’s trip there as UN envoy may not have been the total failure that I’ve previously viewed it.

It would be interesting to ask him if he had any input on that decision to release those prisoners. Maybe there will be an opportunity after the new academic term kicks in.

That was really just a passing thought more than anything, since there was little information of the details of that prisoner release.

In 1996 Harold Pinter wrote:

There is the question of human rights. I myself don’t believe in the relativity of human rights…In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a ‘siege situation’ imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true. But equally apologists for Israeli actions have also stressed a siege situation brought about by external threat. Mordechai Vanunu is a dissenting voice in Israel and was sentenced to 18 years solitary confinement for disclosing Israel’s nuclear capacity to the world

On April 21, 2004, upon release from prison Vanunu stated:

I’m not speaking in Hebrew. If Israel doesn’t let me speak to foreigners I am not speaking in Hebrew. I am Mordechai Vanunu, the man behind the Sunday Times article from 5 October 1986. The article about Israel’s nuclear weapons…

All this bullshit, blah blah blah, about secrets, is dead. My case is dead. The article was published. There are no more secrets. All the secrets were published and is in the hand of the whole world. All the world, every state, 180 states received these secrets. I am now ready to start my life.

I am not harming Israel. I am not interested in Israel. I want to tell you something very important. I suffered here 18 years because I am a Christian, because I was baptised into Christianity. If I was a Jew I wouldn’t have all this suffering here in isolation for 18 years. Only because I was a Christian man.

In 2004, Amy Goodman interviewed Vanunu after his release from 18 years in jail for telling the world the truth that Israel was nuclear in 1985.

Amy’s interview was major testimony against Vanunu in the first ever FREEDOM OF SPEECH TRIAL in the ‘democracy’ of Israel.

On July 8, 2008, Israel convicted Vanunu on 14 counts-from over a hundred interviews he gave foreign journalists in 2004.

His Supreme Court appeal has been put off until 2009.

The Global Face Book effort: The Times They Are a’Changin’- FREE Vanunu Mordechai! Was established on November 15, 2008.

Excerpted from the Groups Description introduction by VANUNU MORDECHAI JC:

“…a man of peace, a symbol. KIDNAPPED IN ROME SEP’ 30 th.1986…AFTER 18 YEARS IN ISRAEL PRISON… still a prisoner of fear and revenge. VANUNU…is waiting in East Jerusalem to leave;…be really free-to live…group objective is to help VANUNU… to enjoy in full his human right and to promote confrontation and a new mental approach toward the Palestine tragedy. Open your minds, stop hate.”

Coordinator of Global V Day, Angeleo Fanton wrote:

“A day will be dedicated in defense of Human Rights in general and in support of individuals being victimized by governments in particular, all in the name of Vanunu being as he is an archetype of the problem. But this problem is universal. It involves all governments, from Vanunu to Guantanamo to Darfur, all the way to Gaza…”
The Times They Are a’Changin’- FREE Vanunu Mordechai! Now!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52776865024#/group.php?gid=52776865024

A local US California newspaper, part of a larger press group of course, on yesterday’s front page, top of page, large letterings:

”Hamas Fires rockets deep into Israel”

and the article is subtitled:

”Four Israelis are killed as militants continue attacks”

Yet; the TRUTH is in here, see it with your own eyes:

http://palestinian.ning.com/forum/topics/the-other-sid e-of-the-story