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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The Operative Word for a future Palestine is Demilitarized Zone
On Sunday while the Iranians were rioting and Bibi Netanyahu was giving his foreign policy speech at Bar-Ilan University, President Obama was enjoying a round of golf. The dye is cast. The Palestinians can have a state of their own provided they renounce violence and stop teaching hatred to their children. Concurrent with this, their new nation must cease being a launching pad for the Iranian goals.

Monday, June 15, 2009
Obama Speech: Pundits Erred; People Got It Right
Basic Obama: First, I acknowledge your history. Second, it's time each of you recognize the other side's history, that you stop thinking that somehow by admitting the other side's suffering you'll erase your own. And now that you've acknowledged history, stop holding on to it.

Sunday, June 14, 2009
Honor Killing an Ancient Curse Updated
(4 comments) For the past three weeks, Jordanian bloggers have been renewing calls against "honor killings," following a court conviction of a father and his two sons for beating his daughter to death for "going out with full makeup."

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Support Happy Birthday for Aung San Suu Kyi
It is the first political campaign to use twitter with an integrated website to harness the reach and influence of some of the world's most influential celebrities. Through replies and re-tweets, the campaign message reached an estimated 5 million people through Twitter alone in its first five days. One of those who tweeted support for Aung San Suu Kyi was Yoko Ono.

Sunday, June 7, 2009
How Did the Tiger Get into the Bath Tub?
(2 comments) "I am Sulaiman Ladwai. I swear by Almighty God that I knew and named my eldest daughter Walaa' [loyalty] as a premonition of allegiance to the state of Lieberman. My whole family and I will be loyal to the state. We will see you at Yarkon Park on Independence Day. Arabs are allowed to enter, right?" [Spoof loyalty oath mocking a proposal to institute a Loyalty Oath for Palestinian Israelis.]

Thursday, June 4, 2009
Tiananmen Square: Free Speech Crushed
(4 comments) 'Damn it, we have never really stood up before. We have always been crawling on the ground so why can't we just stand up occasionally to take a break? We submit to humiliation to our countrymen at home so that we have to hold our heads high to you foreigners. Or we will be suffocated by our simmering fury!

Monday, June 1, 2009
Does the US Treasury Dept Anticipate World Rule?
(3 comments) Almost daily the reports of Republican wrong doing mounted. Yet, the President went into denial. The worst was his backtracking on torture. Senior Republicans felt free to confess to acts they claimed not to be torture. When legal experts cited the examples as clearly torture and murder, those guilty fell behind the ancient national security defense. Abusing prisoners had kept us safe.

Monday, June 1, 2009
Live Free or Die Without Dignity
Freedom of speech is basic, but even more important is the ability for the readers to respond without fear of troll bashing, vilification and abuse. We are into three generations of fear mongering leaders who have bullied us into one disaster after another. More and more I see my articles and others challenged on the quality of our argument. These new members lack a long history, but they treat the issues with respect unafraid

Sunday, May 31, 2009
The Leftist Jihadist Alliance and Its Implications for Israel
"Leftist Jihadism is a threat that comes from profoundly undemocratic forces that don't have the same conception of human dignity or freedom, and which abuse Israel as a kind of representative of the broader West and Western liberal-democratic values," said Kenney. "I also very acutely understand the nature of the new anti-Semitism, and I think it's even more dangerous than the old European anti-Semitism."

Saturday, May 30, 2009
Queen Rania Wife and Mum with a "Real Cool Day Job"
(8 comments) First she establishes herself as a stylish elegant highly regarded Queen among the world leaders, then she creates a youtube channel to address the stereotypes against Arabs in the west and try to open a dialogue among the two sides, then she APPEARS on Oprah and gives a great interview and impressions about Jordan, and now she seizes the change of the Pope's visit of to Jordan to start her twitter account that instantly...

Saturday, May 23, 2009
Mira Awad and Noa Arab/Jewish Duo Sing for Peace
For over 50 years the Eurovision Song Contest has featured artists from 22 European countries plus Tunisia, Israel and Lebanon. This year Lebanon dropped out because the Israeli entry was a duet one Palestinian and a Jewess. Moreover, they had scheduled to sing a peace song. "There must be a way." This caused a furor particularly from Arab intellectuals. They said that Mira would be singing on a stage drenched in blood.

Saturday, May 23, 2009
Mark Twain, Bibi and Barack
(2 comments) The creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn visited the Holy Land in 1867. He hoped to realize one thousand and one nights of fantasies on his travels, but instead found himself in the company of dull middle-aged Americans, which made him describe the trip as "a funeral excursion without a corpse."

Thursday, May 21, 2009
Howard Zinn's Three 'Just' Wars
(5 comments) Unless a nation is attacked directly, her leaders have many alternate options to consider before the war card is even on the table. Too many American leaders have fallen into an easy trap. If they can find a popular excuse to attack [a just cause], they will. The military/industrial complex is prepared for perpetual war. Their profitability depends on it. Other options are woefully underfunded and untested.

Sunday, May 17, 2009
The Funny Side of Porn Censorship
(19 comments) Censoring pornography is akin to stopping a river with a broom. It's a joy to see the stuffed shirts try. On the other hand nobody dares laugh at political censorship in Egypt. It's the one-way path to a dungeon. So, it is a little game we play. We disguise our angst letting it out as farce. The mullahs have their gin and tonics. We have ours. Nobody talks about it.

Friday, May 15, 2009
It Takes Generations to Get That Dumb
(2 comments) Pakistan is one of the recipients of the nuclear secrets and has built an arsenal. The irony is the regime is highly unstable and could fall to the Taliban. As their leaders have threatened to nuke the USA that government has escalated her military efforts in the AfPac region.

Friday, May 15, 2009
Miss India World Raised by Heroic Single Mom
(6 comments) When the Miss India came down to the final five, the question involved God and Man. The other girls answered in cosmic terms, but Pooja Chopra spoke glowingly of her mom. She faced the awful choice of killing her child or leaving the security of her husband's home. She walked out on him never looking back.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Defusing Citizen Outrage
(2 comments) When Americans protest -- and they're not protesting very much (on the eve of the Iraq war, the French had more people in the streets than did the whole of the citizenry of the United States) -- the system today isn't geared to listen, or, rather, is geared more handily to ignore the noise.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Surviving in the Post Nuclear Proliferation Age
Do you ever have the feeling your life is not in your hands. During the early years of the Cold War era, that notion was never very far from mind. The media pounded hatred and fear into us with the fury of a jack hammer. The information control remained, but it was vastly more subtle. Now, with nuclear proliferation, one nut can explode 50 nukes in a remote corner of the world and destroy it in a day. One woman may save us.

Sunday, May 3, 2009
The Audacity of Torture; the Audacity of Prosecution
(8 comments) They have continued to propagate the idea of a New American Century national ideology, despite the notion's totalitarian and fundamentally anti-democratic nature, precluding any form of debate and introspection. Torture was a natural outgrowth of the immense gathering of power.

Saturday, May 2, 2009
The Republican Death Wish for America
(1 comments) The Republicans have contaminated much of what was good about America. They did it for the money. They manipulated the public attitude with fear tactics and with appeals to racism and bigotry.To have their way with us, they refined the crimes such as extortion, fraud, torture and murder into a form of Machiavellian statecraft.

Friday, May 1, 2009
In Defense of Jewish Survival
(135 comments) Frequently, people go out of their way to challenge Israel's right to exist. These challenges range from philosophical/academic debate to the clash of armed forces. In whatever form, the discussion ends with the demise of all Jewish human beings. The Antagonists always assume they have a justification to rob Jewish men, women and children of life. In the abstract they discuss the ultimate blow to Jewish survival.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
What Goes Around Comes Around Like Torture
(6 comments) This week the FOX personalities have joked about torture, as if the victims don't suffer at all. They mock the Muslims, because they think of them as subhuman incapable of feeling pain or humiliation.

Monday, April 27, 2009
Middle Eastern Bloggers React to Durban II
(2 comments) The Iranian regime was attacked NOT for oppressing their people in this Summit; despite these crimes being mentioned, that was barely the focus. They were attacked for threatening to "destroy Israel," that was the premise of every criticism against Iran, even though Israel also threatened to nuke it! "Oh, but that was in retaliation." It's no different. Both governments are equally dangerous with disregard for human rights.

Monday, April 27, 2009
Must We Lose Both Our Parents, Liberty and Justice?
(2 comments) We Only Obeyed Orders... FOX news has met the flood of torture publicity by ridiculing it. They laugh at putting insects on detainees. How bad can water boarding be if the guy survived 183 dunks in a month. This works for FOX because there is not one bleeding heart among them. They are banking that the white Americans don't care what happens to people of color particularly Muslims. They do care if the elite are punished.

Sunday, April 26, 2009
Holocaust Memorial Day Under Threat
(4 comments) Syrians, Palestinians and Israelis share the same Y-chromosome. All three group ancestries date back thousands of years in this area. Please, let us abandon the silly talk about racism and Jews not belonging here. Palestinians in Israel enjoy more human rights and respect than they receive anywhere in the Arab World. Too long we have wasted our energies and resources on useless wars. After the oil revenues vanish...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Freedom from Fear: Being a Stand-up Human Being.
Today, I spare you my usual tirade about the government support of torture in the USA. The editors have become shell-shocked from the outrage expressed all over the world. So, I have a personal statement followed by a Chinese blogger. Perhaps, the editors will be pleased to know they are not alone in humiliation.

Sunday, April 19, 2009
Do Unto Others as They Do Unto You
(2 comments) Article 4 of the UDHR forbids torture in all its forms. Anybody who votes to fund torture, or to continue the practice or to forgive those who do is a war criminal. A wrongful death in the course of a felony [torture] is murder in the first degree. The full charge is crimes against humanity and murder. The proper penalty is death by injection and should apply to all government employees, elected or appointed.

Friday, April 17, 2009
Rwanda Genocide Fifteen Years Later
Exactly 15 years ago hundreds of thousands of people (refugees) poured into the Democratic Republic of Congo. This date brings back the appalling images of women and children weakened by hunger on the streets of Goma. I remember having seen human corpses in the Kivu lake, thrown from the Rwandan side of the lake and brought by the waves to the Congolese side. At the time I had seen garbage trucks transporting human bodies...

Monday, April 13, 2009
Mommie, Why Can't We Have Such Online Scandals?
Politics has succumbed to Issues and Answers. Dull economists prate about the national debt. Has everyone taken an oath of abstinence? What has happened to rumor, gossip and hearsay? How many blonds have been been found in a tryst lately? Exactly, what is a tryst?

Sunday, April 12, 2009
How Goes the Revolution in Iran?
(1 comments) Simon Columbus, a researcher studying the cases of jailed bloggers around the world (article forthcoming), estimates, in an email to me, that the number of Iranian bloggers who have been arrested solely for their blogging activities comes to about 20. He has counted a total of 30 Iranian bloggers who have been jailed for political activity, which may not be directly linked to their blogs.

Saturday, April 11, 2009
Worldwide Depression is a Matter of Attitudes
The various nationalities are reacting to the economic crisis in remarkably different ways. In Britain, many investors are in despair, their high lifestyle in jeopardy. In Kyrgyzstan the major concern is the price of bread. With price control, the citizens are confident they can weather the storm. In Bolivia the national football team has won 6 to 1 over the Argentinian side. They remain in the World Cup race.

Friday, April 10, 2009
How Goes the Revolution in Moldova?
(2 comments) Natalia Morari, a Moldovan journalist and activist who was famously barred from entering Russia last year, has been involved in organizing some of the protests and has posted photos from a peaceful protest by some 15,000 people on Monday and an account of how it was initially organized - by six people, organizing everything using only tools available on the internet, under the slogan "I'm not a Communist!"

Sunday, April 5, 2009
We Elected Obama but Failed to Remove Deadwood
(24 comments) The citizen function is to be uncomplaining consumers of material goods and corporate lies. If Madison Avenue failed to control information available to the public, the government filled the void with hand-out sheets to the media reporters.

Thursday, April 2, 2009
How to Beat Swords into Plowshares
(19 comments) The wannabe peacemakers usually have it backwards. They encourage individual reform to personal salvation. This leads to a few mumbling monks at the bottom rung of the ladder while the bulk of society claws over one another to get to the top.

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Will We Sacrifice Our Country on the GOP Altar?
(3 comments) The media developed these techniques for marketing shows and products for sponsors.Since the public is numerically too large for mass brain washing, the masters of the universe used disinformation and information control on radio and TV audiences to disastrous effects. This explains many events over the past forty years.

Sunday, March 29, 2009
Karma Counselor: Toxic Lubricants Cause HIV Symptoms
(2 comments) Well, if China has little regulation on toxic toys, then the sky is the limit on what they can do with the toxic amount of benzene as a sexual lubricant. See the following research article, which explains other toxic ingredients and links benzene to HIV symptoms.

Saturday, March 28, 2009
Why Do Israeli Doves Fly with Hawks?
(22 comments) The Pact between Israel's Two Most Hated Men Ari Shavit, Haaretz Netanyahu and Barak's immediate mission is Iran. The designated prime minister and defense minister do not have much time. Within a few months they must do what hasn't been done for years.

Friday, March 27, 2009
Dump Geithner, Rahm the Senate and Up the Economy
Failing this, the first order of business is to re-institute the Glass-Steagall act of 1933. This would sever the ties between banking, investment and insurance subsidiaries. Then, the regulators could fire management, break up the bank operations into salable pieces and bankrupt the section that held toxic securities.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Passing Through the Graveyard of Liberty
Desperately, we need the labor unions to restore lost wages and jobs for the consuming backbone of the country. We won't begin any recovery until the Employee Free Choice Act comes into law. Fat chance! Americans have been duped to despise organized labor. While the AMA and the doctors bribe the politicians, you can whistle for proper medical care.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
How the Working Class Lost the Class War
(12 comments) The Glass-Steagall Act was enacted during the Great Depression. It protected bank depositors from the additional risks associated with security transactions. The Act was dismantled in 1999. When the working class lost that financial protection, the predatory politicians and corrupt corporate vultures swooped down to rip the public carcass to the bone.

Saturday, March 21, 2009
We Got Angry; Now What?
We Got Angry; Now What? Banker sentiment and social philosophy: If we do not allow people to fail, then there is no incentive to succeed.Banks are too big to fail. Corporate America has mobilized the media and the Republicans to make sure we don't recover from the Depression. They bombard us with lies, as if a racist Herbert Hoover was directing them. They have all the marketing and manipulative tools to take us for saps.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
As an Economist...
(4 comments) When I had a client, my first job was to understand his viewpoint and to feed it back to him with a more sophisticated slant. Usually, this justified my fee. Since I have some scruples, my report would include a modicum of straight thinking sugar-coated so as not to offend him.

Friday, March 13, 2009
America Should Tend to Her Own Devilments
(6 comments) The Employee Free Choice Act is key to restoring the buying power of the middle class [consumer]. For 30 years employers used racism and propaganda to foil middle class progress. Most recent production rots at dockside--consumer durables that will never see the inside of a home. Americans who think the nation can recover without an EFCA are dreaming.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Let's Talk About the Rape and Murder of Our Nation
The Employee Free Choice Act President Obama has held back this legislation. It enables workers to choose to join a labor union and thus is a first step to loosen the 30-year stranglehold the corporations have held on workers. The Republicans have vowed to fight to the death to neutralize this Act as well they should. It puts the ordinary American in the proper position to take back his country.

Sunday, March 8, 2009
Can Undue Stress Lead to Armageddon?
(7 comments) Under severe tension, a person is more likely to develop a disease or a debilitating condition. Past hurts can emerge much more damaging. My weak point is in my spine between my second and third lumbar. When my son was kidnapped, I was flat on my back for 8 days.

Saturday, March 7, 2009
Worldwide Depression Best Hope for Peace
Scowcroft and Brzezinski do not disclose the full information. Turkey and Saudi Arabia believe Ahmadinejad is mad and will launch everything he has. They doubt America's promise to defend them and want to build their own nuclear deterrence. Four more Middle Eastern nations have also expressed interest and this has spread to 30 nations worldwide.

Friday, March 6, 2009
Leftists Never Miss an Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity
(2 comments) Humbly, I suggest that jobless and homeless sit on the juries that try the financiers who have wrought the worldwide depression. In the course of their felonies, wrongful deaths have occurred. Under New York law, wrongful death in the course of a felony is first degree murder.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Suggestions to Recover Our Economy and Our Liberty
(2 comments) Expect the right-wingers to rely on phony arguments. Remember some of their whoppers during debate on the President's economic recovery package?

Monday, March 2, 2009
Whistling Through the Graveyard of Liberty
Desperately, we need the labor unions to restore lost wages and jobs for the consuming backbone of the country. We won't begin any recovery until the Employee Free Choice Act comes into law. Fat chance!

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Free Choice Act Marks the Way to Economic Recovery
(2 comments) Workers have lost their power to bargain for decent pay and benefits. They have lost their ability to be the national economic engine and to provide health care for the family. No amount of deficit spending or company bail-outs can restore the economic order.

Monday, February 23, 2009
As Obama Fails to Punish Evil Doers, the US Goes Down
(4 comments) Of course, there will be an outcry from the Bush Administration and its hangers on. They will claim partisanship, but as Willie Stark in "All of the King's Men" affirmed. "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs."

Sunday, February 22, 2009
Living in a Subsidized Concentration Camp
(40 comments) Israeli parents teach their offspring not to volunteer for anything. When the guards called for a show of hands for a work detail, the inmates never knew if it was genuine or a ruse to select the healthy for extermination.

Saturday, February 21, 2009
Will Congress Vote to Become Extinct?
Most Congressmen supported the institution of torture and continued to fund it. They never thought they could face prosecution for murder. This is exactly what the public desires. They don't mind the torture and death of dozens of detainees, but they care very much about a Congress that brought the country to economic ruin.

Friday, February 20, 2009
Guide to the Perplexed Prosecutor
(2 comments) The UDHR is the most revolutionary document ever written. If the Articles were enforced, they would transform every nation to a home for liberty and justice. Of course, the existing elite oppose the UDHR at every turn. They promote government from the top going down benefitting them and not the people. Although every UN member nation had to ratify the UDHR to join the organization, the Articles are ignored in most countries.

Friday, February 20, 2009
Casting Off the Shackles of the Mind
(10 comments) In this folly the Muslims are cheapskates compared to the Americans. Spending more on the military than all the other nations combined, the $trillion budget is an unproductive dead weight loss that does nothing to defend the country.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Call Me Names, but Don't Dare Fry My Computer
Being Hacked is a Badge of Honor We OEN Members Must Defend Our Site

Monday, February 16, 2009
A Personal Note on Depression and War
From these hard knocks, my family developed a theory, a philosophy of life if you will. Instead of courage, Americans have the ability to endure. Perhaps, this is a legacy from our long-suffering peasant forebearers.

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Few Lefties Realize the Scope of the Problem
The common people applaud 15-minute solutions. They lose patience too quickly. Uncommon people realize it takes a bit longer. That is why they are on top.

Thursday, January 1, 2009
Nuclear Proliferation Could Lead to World Peace
(5 comments) The suitcase atomic bomb trumps the traditional war methods. Massive air and naval fleets of today are ineffectual and superfluous. The USA slaughtered 7.4 millions human beings in the course of three wars, which she lost. Instead, imagine that these hapless nations had secreted atomic bombs in 300 major US cities. The USA would have opted for peaceful pursuits.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Under Bombardment in Beer Sheva
(3 comments) The Iranians use the Palestinians as surrogates. America bribes Israel to test weapons. These games became out-of-date with nuclear proliferation. Our future depends upon the sanity of elected officials, tyrants, fanatics and anyone with $20 millions and a gripe.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Grow Your Own
Seize the time to gain control over your life. The old regime is totally discredited and on the run. Beware, the brain washers and the obstructionists are waging a vigorous rear guard action.

Saturday, December 27, 2008
Overturning Bush's 'Midnight Rules'
(2 comments) In a last ditch effort to ruin the USA, Bush has pushed over 100 'Midnight Rules' that bypass the Congress to become law. Taken together these measures will bring Obama's proposed Recovery Program to a grinding halt. But Congress has a remedy, if not the will, to stop Bush.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Uncle Sam Doesn't Need Your Personal Income Taxes
(4 comments) Once upon a time a human being was king so long as he was a consumer. Merchants disdained cash as the instrument of the poor and the thrifty. They preferred a maxed out credit card, so they could increase the limit and the interest rate. Now that banks quit loaning us funds, we must ask the USA to abolish the personal income tax. Uncle Sam has no productive use for our cash. He's in worse shape than we are.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Enemy Combatants Rule America
The Depression could well last beyond 2012. Can we endure more than a couple of years without homes,jobs and Starbucks? The paid media pundits say our economy will rebound in 2009. If you believed Iraq would be a cakewalk, you probably won't be ready to live in your car in the local Wal*Mart parking lot. I intend to survive the Depression by being fat, dumb and happy. I have a rocket scientist job waiting for me in China.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Alexander Hamilton and the United Auto Workers
(10 comments) The Republican Senators refused the Big3 bail out to crush the United Auto Workers. At the beginning of Depression, they want to add 3,000,000 workers to the unemployment total. These Senators are enemy combatants.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Senate Seats and Obama Inaugural Dinner Plates
After the Senate Office Building is dismantled, I'll be looking for Collectables in the Tidal Basin debris. If they can rip off mountaintops in West Virginia looking for coal, turning Washington into rubble won't bother anyone. Wasted bits of gravel fill the ravines of West Virginia. The hill and gully country resembles a suburban parking lot. Covering them with rusted gas guzzlers may be a proper final touch.

Monday, December 8, 2008
Can a Limousine Liberal Find Happiness on Welfare?
The quality of life lies mostly in the timing. Since 1992 the limousine liberal has been all the rage. He had his chance to balance the budget. Then, the ruinous trolls descended into power. They have given the liberal ample time to sit on the sidelines blogging darts at the scoundrels. Obama asks liberals to emerge from the wings with innovative ideas. We rage. This was not in the script.