in that belly, the one which is the beast, we are by-products of their perverse diet of hell, murder, theft, lies, and of course, coveting thy neighbor’s child!
“There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”
― Norman Mailer
Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.
—Eduardo Galeano
There is a creation story at the center of every culture. For the Nez Perce, the story of their people begins at the “Heart of the Monster.” As the story goes… A monster was eating all of the animals. Coyote fooled the monster into swallowing him. Using a set of stone knives that he had brought with him, Coyote cut apart the monster from the inside to release all of the animals that were trapped in the monster. Upon emerging from the remains of the monster, Coyote cut it up and threw the pieces all over the land, creating the Indian people who inhabit the land. Fox asked Coyote about the land around the monster, it had no people, what was he to do? As Coyote washed the blood of the monster off his hands, the drops became the Nez Perce.
And so, the monster(s) is/are the cabal(s), the money changers, the money hoarders, the arrogant data hoarders, the greedy book holders/writers, all those fucking people with happy face families and endless airline mile bonuses. They are your friends and your enemies.
Note — The case for genocide against the Jewish State of Jews in Occupied Palestine could DRAG ON FOR YEARS!@#$%
South Africa’s 84-page filing says Israel’s actions, including killing Palestinians and causing serious mental and bodily harm, “are genocidal in character.” It says Israeli officials have expressed genocidal intent.
The case will likely drag on for years. But South Africa’s filing includes a request for the court to urgently issue legally binding interim orders for Israel to “immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.”
They lawyer up, now don’t “they”? Oh, fuck, another boy in the striped pajamas?
Israel chose Aharon Barak — a mainstay of the country’s legal world for decades — to join the panel of international judges. A former attorney general and peace negotiator who served as chief justice of Israel’s highest court from 1995-2006, Barak has ruled in cases related to Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.
The internationally renowned 87-year-old has received honorary degrees from multiple universities, including Yale and Oxford.
He is also a Holocaust survivor who was sent to Lithuania’s Kovno Ghetto at age 5, where he has said he repeatedly evaded death. That personal detail could be significant in his discussions with the other judges.
Note the Devil/Satan Israel calling the kettle black:
Eylon Levy, an Israeli government spokesman, criticized South Africa, saying it was giving Hamas political and legal cover.
“We are appalled that South Africa has chosen to play advocate for the devil,” he said.
Big duh, and listen to Owen Jones — he just can’t get over how great and powerful and all-knowing the “Jewish” people are, but still, worth a listen to:
Israeli Politician Backs Genocide Investigation – Now They’re Trying To Silence Him w/ Ofer Cassif
And, that murdering penal colony people, celebrating their aborigines? Nope:
Read this PR pap! “Independence Day in Israel is a joyous event on the annual calendar, with large energetic gatherings in the streets and loads of music, dancing and flag waving, as Israelisrevel in the revival of Jewish self-determination in the land where the Jews became a people. This year, Israel’s 75th Independence Day, which falls on April 26, should be especially boisterous, and we have indeed been seeing seas of Israeli flags out early, amidst crowds measured in the hundreds of thousands. Unfortunately, though, these have not been celebrations, but rather demonstrations by large and significant mainstream segments of Israeli society protesting against the controversial judicial reforms being advanced by PM Binyamin Netanyahu’s Government.
This is not the place to discuss the substance of the Government’s plans, or the objections of opponents. Rather, it’s worth instead noting the level of democratic and pluralistic engagement of both detractors and supporters of the plans. There is no question that this debate has been fraught and angry and divisive, and the sinews of Israeli democracy have been placed under severe strain. Yet paradoxically, many of the admirable qualities which have made that Israeli democracy such a success story have also been on display – patriotism, commitment, engagement and productive political passion have been expressed from virtually every sector. Both sides insist their quest is to uphold Israel’s national charter as laid down in its Declaration of Independence – that Israel should remain a Jewish and democratic state “based on the ideas of liberty, justice, and peace… [that will] uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed, or sex.”
4 Reasons Why Israel is a Rogue State — Youth Oriented, TikToky, but send to your parents!
A real hero — R.I.P. LINK.
What a difference backbone, spirit, ethics, passion and socialism does for a Royal Subject, John Pilger!
Versus —
And the Inbred Queendom, again, Rhoses and Oxford and City of London still have U$A’s underwear out there hanging. So, they flip-the-script. China as aggressive? Coming from this syphilis producing flogged empire ?
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has claimed that China has become more “aggressive and assertive” in the years since he headed the UK government and tried to build warm relations with Beijing.
Speaking in front of the UK Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Cameron, who was prime minister from 2010 to 2016, said that while there had been a lot of incentives for the UK to develop business relations with China in the previous decade, “a lot has changed” since then.
YEARS winding through the FUCKING courts!
Dr Anat Matar, one of the petition initiators, told The New Arab that she is filing the petition to the ICJ in The Hague on Tuesday.
“I initiated this petition first of all because I wanted to show that there is part of Israeli citizens who agree with South Africa’s move”.
Dr Anat Matar holds a senior lecturer position at Tel Aviv University, where she teaches political philosophy. In addition, she advocates for ‘draft refusers’, a small segment of Israelis who refuse to serve in the Israeli army because they oppose the occupation.
“What I know for sure is that this war must be stopped immediately. Every moment that passes is a crime”.
Israeli member of Knesset Ofer Cassif from the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality-Jabha announced that he’s also supporting the initiative.
“My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all of its residents, not to a government whose members and its coalition are calling for ethnic cleansing and even actual genocide”, Cassif wrote on the social media platform X.
[Israeli soldiers stationed just outside Gaza overlooking the destruction of the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City, December 29 2023. (Photo: © Atef Safadi/EFE via ZUMA Press APAimages) ]
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To a Poor Old Woman BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
munching a plum on
the street a paper bag
of them in her hand
They taste good to her
They taste good
to her. They taste
good to her
You can see it by
the way she gives herself
to the one half
sucked out in her hand
Comforted
a solace of ripe plums
seeming to fill the air
They taste good to her
Óscar Romero— “The God We Hardly Knew”
No one can celebrate
a genuine Christmas
without being truly poor.
The self-sufficient, the proud,
those who, because they have
everything, look down on others,
those who have no need
even of God—for them there
will be no Christmas.
Only the poor, the hungry,
those who need someone
to come on their behalf,
will have that someone.
That someone is God.
Emmanuel. God-with-us.
Without poverty of spirit
there can be no abundance of God.
+—+
“The Poor Old Lady,” by the Colombian poet and fabulist, Rafael Pombo
There was one an old lady
Who had nothing to eat,
Only meats, fruits, sweets,
Cakes, eggs, bread, and fish
She drank broth, hot chocolate,
Milk, wine, tea and coffee,
Yet the poor one could not find
What to eat or what to drink
And this old lady did not have
Even a little ranch in which to live
Save a large house
With its vegetable plot and garden
No one, no one cared for her
Except Andrés and Juan and Gil
And eight servants and two pages
Dressed in livery and bow-tie
She never had something to sit on
Except chairs and sofas
With foot stools and pillows
And support for her back
Neither another bed, except a big one
More gold than an altar,
With a mattress of soft feathers,
Plenty of silk and plenty of frills.
And this poor old lady
Every year until her end
Had another year of age
And one less to live
And upon seeing herself in the mirror
She was always frightened there
By an old lady with glasses,
a hat and a wig
And this poor old lady
Didn’t have anything to wear
Except dresses of a thousand cuts
And thousands and thousands of fabrics
And were it not for her shoes,
Sandals, boots, and pumps
Barefooted on the floor
Would walk the unhappy one
She never had an appetite
Upon finishing her meals,
Nor enjoyed her total health
When she wasn’t feeling well
She died from the ills of wrinkles,
Now stooped over like a tree,
And never again complained
Of neither hunger nor thirst.
And this poor old lady
Upon dying left nothing more
Than money, jewels, lands, houses,
Eight cats and a troupial bird.
Sleep in peace, and God permit
That we may one day enjoy
The hardships of that poor one
And to die of the same cause.
Pombo’s stories possess a similar tone to those of the Grimm Brothers, since the ending leaves us feeling uneasy. Still, the message is essential, and one can’t help but wonder if Saint Romero had this little story in mind when he was writing his own poem (he would have likely read Pombo’s story in his youth). The message of both Romero’s words and Pombo’s story goes beyond criticizing material wealth. Poverty is a necessary state of mind and spirit in which we recognize that we are not complete, regardless of what we have. Sure, the “poor” old lady should have been grateful for what she had, but the deeper message of being grateful—and the greater spiritual impact that gratitude has—is tied to a recognition of poverty, which we can (and should) always find in our lives. (source)
Paul Haeder, Author 