Có ai giải thích được tại sao phe nhóm KHUYNH HỮU lại thường là bọn đần độn ngu dốt, cuồng tín, tối dạ như cái gọi là “Ủy Ban Khoa Học Không Gian và Kỹ Thuật Hạ Viện” của Nhà Nước Mỹ !
Monday, November 28, 2016
Luật Pháp là Gì: Quyền Lực Bạo Ngược Nhà Nước Nô Lệ Hóa Con Người
Chúng ta đã và đang chứng kiến nền “Luật Trị” và “Pháp Quyền” của Nhà nước, từ nhà nước độc tài, quận phiệt, Cộng sản, cho đến Dân chủ tự do… Tất cả là quyền lực nhà nước.
Chúng ta đang chứng kiến luật cướp tiền, luật thuế hình bóng, thuế “không gian”, thuế “không khí”, luật rình mò đời tư, luật cùm mồm, luật bắt đi chết (động viên, nghĩa vụ), luật cấm hút thuốc; luật cấm uống rượu, luật cấm hứng nước mưa, luật cấm nuôi gà chó, luật cấm không được làm người đồng tính v.v … đủ mọi thứ “luật” đè cổ con người theo qui định của tín lý quyền lực.
Nhất cử nhất động của con người đều bị kiểm soát và cần sự cho phép của Nhà nước. Mọi “tài sản: kể cả thân xác đời sống của con người là sở hữu tài sản của nhà nước. Từ sự kiện CHÀO ĐỜI đến lúc TẮT THỞ…. Đồng ý hay không, tùy bạn, cứ thử QUYỀN TỰ DO LÀM CHỦ của bạn, sẽ thấy kết quả nhãn tiền. Chẳng cần dài dòng lý luận.
Thêm một điển hình về luật với tín lý tôn giáo:
Một phụ nữ xảy thai, (hay ngay cả phá thai) đã bị kết án 20 năm tù. Ai là chủ nhân của thân xác, đời sống phụ nữ này?
Purvi Patel is taken into custody after being sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of her fetus.
An Indiana Court Just Said Women Can't Be Jailed for Ending Their Own Pregnancies
Purvi Patel had been sentenced to 20 years for feticide and neglect of a dependent.
Pepe Escobar: Những Điều Trong Thấy mà Đau Đớn Lòng
Những điều mắt thấy tai nghe của nhà báo độc lập Pepe Escobar sau khi đến quan sát tận nơi các tỉnh phía đông Ukraine – Donbass: Hôm qua là “đồng bào, cùng tổ quốc, quốc gia” nay đã thành kẻ tử thù bắn giết không tương nhượng, chỉ vì muốn sống tự trị.
By Pepe Escobar
Người ta thường cứ phải xem những loại phim xã hội băng hoại tương lai (dystopia) để thấy rõ tính bạo ngược bất nhân của hệ thống nhà nước quyền chính và những giảo thuyết chính trị băng hoại, trong khi nó xảy ra hàng ngày trước mặt.
Pepe Escobar đến tận nơi đề thấy những cái “từ tâm” của bọn nhà nước hội đoàn Âu Mỹ LHQ chỉ là những tổ chức tay sai của quyền lực: không một bóng dáng những tổ chức chính qui nhân đạo quốc tế này có mặt để giúp đỡ dân chúng đang bị khủng bố bắn giết bởi chính nhà nước Ukraine của họ, ngoài trừ sự trợ giúp lương thực giới hạn của nhà nước Nga, cũng từng là nhà nước của họ.
Khi đối diện với một sự thật hãi hùng và ghê tởm, người ta không còn lời để nói, chữ để diễn đạt. Nhưng cuối cùng ký giả này cũng phải quát lên sự phẫn nộ bi hài:
“Cuối cùng, bọn chúng là “văn minh” phương Tây- đặt để xúi bẩy những tên hèn mạt mà chẳng bao giờ dám chường bộ mặt trang điểm của chúng để đối diện với người dân Donbass” Cho nên đây là quà tặng của tôi cho chúng. Chỉ là một tiếng hống phẫn nộ và sự khinh bỉ tận cùng. (After all, they are Western “civilization”-enabled cowards who would never dare to show their manicured faces to the people of Donbass. So this is my gift to them. Just a howl of anger and unbounded contempt)
2-4-2015
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Pepe Escobar in Eastern Ukraine: Howling in Donetsk
By Pepe Escobar
Asia Times’ roving correspondent Pepe Escobar just returned from a reporting trip to the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the pro-Russian enclave in the Donetsk Oblast province of eastern Ukraine. The area’s been the scene of heavy fighting between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian military.
March 31, 2015 “ICH” – “Asia Times” – I’ve just been to the struggling Donetsk People’s Republic. Now I’m back in the splendid arrogance and insolence of NATOstan.
Quite a few people – in Donbass, in Moscow, and now in Europe – have asked me what struck me most about this visit.
I could start by paraphrasing Allen Ginsberg in Howl – “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”.
But these were the Cold War mid-1950s. Now we’re in early 21st century Cold War 2.0 .
Thus what I saw were the ghastly side effects of the worst minds of my – and a subsequent – generation corroded by (war) madness.
I saw refugees on the Russian side of the border, mostly your average middle-class European family whose kids, when they first came to the shelter, would duck under tables when they heard a plane in the sky.
I saw the Dylan of Donetsk holed up in his lonely room in a veterans’ home turned refugee shelter fighting the blues and the hopelessness by singing songs of love and heroism.
Quite a few people – in Donbass, in Moscow, and now in Europe – have asked me what struck me most about this visit.
I could start by paraphrasing Allen Ginsberg in Howl – “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”.
But these were the Cold War mid-1950s. Now we’re in early 21st century Cold War 2.0 .
Thus what I saw were the ghastly side effects of the worst minds of my – and a subsequent – generation corroded by (war) madness.
I saw refugees on the Russian side of the border, mostly your average middle-class European family whose kids, when they first came to the shelter, would duck under tables when they heard a plane in the sky.
I saw the Dylan of Donetsk holed up in his lonely room in a veterans’ home turned refugee shelter fighting the blues and the hopelessness by singing songs of love and heroism.
The Dylan of Donetsk
I saw whole families holed up in fully decorated Soviet-era bomb shelters too afraid to go out even by daylight, traumatized by the bombings orchestrated by Kiev’s “anti-terrorist operations”.
Soviet-era bomb shelter
I saw a modern, hard-working industrial city at least half-empty and partially destroyed but not bent, able to survive by their guts and guile with a little help from Russian humanitarian convoys.
I saw beautiful girls hangin’ out by Lenin’s statue in a central square lamenting their only shot at fun was family parties in each other’s houses because nightlife was dead and “we’re at war”.
I saw beautiful girls hangin’ out by Lenin’s statue in a central square lamenting their only shot at fun was family parties in each other’s houses because nightlife was dead and “we’re at war”.
Donetsk girls by Lenin’s statue
I saw virtually the whole neighborhood of Oktyabrski near the airport bombed out like Grozny and practically deserted except for a few lonely babushkas with nowhere to go and too proud to relinquish their family photos of World War II heroes.
Bombed out Oktyabrski neighborhood
I saw checkpoints like I was back in Baghdad during the Petraeus surge.
I saw the main trauma doctor at the key Donetsk hospital confirm there has been no Red Cross and no international humanitarian help to the people of Donetsk.
I saw the main trauma doctor at the key Donetsk hospital confirm there has been no Red Cross and no international humanitarian help to the people of Donetsk.
Oktyabrski neighborhood, bombed hospital
I saw Stanislava, one of DPR’s finest and an expert sniper, in charge of our security, cry when she laid a flower on the ground of a fierce battle in which her squad was under heavy fire, with twenty seriously wounded and one dead, and she was hit by shrapnel and survived.
I saw orthodox churches fully destroyed by Kiev’s bombing.
I saw the Russian flag still on top of the anti-Maidan building which is now the House of Government of the DPR.
I saw the gleaming Donbass arena, the home of Shaktar Donetsk and a UFO in a war-torn city, deserted and without a single soul in the fan area.
I saw Donetsk’s railway station bombed by Kiev’s goons.
I saw a homeless man screaming “Robert Plant!” and “Jimmy Page!” as I found out he was still in love with Led Zeppelin and kept his vinyl copies.
I saw a row of books which never surrendered behind the cracked windows of bombed out Oktyabrski.
I saw the fresh graves where the DPR buries their resistance heroes.
I saw the top of the hill at Saur-mogila which the DPR resistance lost and then reconquered, with a lone red-white-blue flag now waving in the wind.
I saw orthodox churches fully destroyed by Kiev’s bombing.
I saw the Russian flag still on top of the anti-Maidan building which is now the House of Government of the DPR.
I saw the gleaming Donbass arena, the home of Shaktar Donetsk and a UFO in a war-torn city, deserted and without a single soul in the fan area.
I saw Donetsk’s railway station bombed by Kiev’s goons.
I saw a homeless man screaming “Robert Plant!” and “Jimmy Page!” as I found out he was still in love with Led Zeppelin and kept his vinyl copies.
I saw a row of books which never surrendered behind the cracked windows of bombed out Oktyabrski.
I saw the fresh graves where the DPR buries their resistance heroes.
I saw the top of the hill at Saur-mogila which the DPR resistance lost and then reconquered, with a lone red-white-blue flag now waving in the wind.
Top of the hill at Saur-moglia
I saw the Superman rising from the destruction at Saur-mogila – the fallen statue in a monument to World War II heroes, which seventy years ago was fighting fascism and now has been hit, but not destroyed, by fascists.
The superman statue rising from the destruction at Saur-mogila
I saw the Debaltsevo cauldron in the distance and then I could fully appreciate, geographically, how DPR tactics surrounded and squeezed the demoralized Kiev fighters.
I saw the DPR’s military practicing their drills by the roadside from Donetsk to Lugansk.
I saw the DPR’s Foreign Minister hopeful there would be a political solution instead of war while admitting personally he dreams of a DPR as an independent nation.
I saw two badass Cossack commanders tell me in a horse-breeding farm in holy Cossack land that the real war has not even started.
I did not see the totally destroyed Donetsk airport because the DPR’s military were too concerned about our safety and would not grant us a permit while the airport was being hit – in defiance of Minsk 2; but I saw the destruction and the pile of Ukrainian army bodies on the mobile phone of a Serbian DPR resistance fighter.
I did not see, as Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe international observers also didn’t, the rows and rows of Russian tanks and soldiers that the current Dr. Strangelove in charge of NATO, General Breedhate, sees everyday in his exalted dreams invading Ukraine over and over again.
And I did not see the arrogance, the ignorance, the shamelessness and the lies distorting those manicured faces in Kiev, Washington and Brussels while they insist, over and over again, that the entire population of Donbass, traumatized babushkas and children of all ages included, are nothing but “terra-rists”.
After all, they are Western “civilization”-enabled cowards who would never dare to show their manicured faces to the people of Donbass.
So this is my gift to them.
Just a howl of anger and unbounded contempt.
Copyright 2015 Asia Times. All rights reserved. http://www.atimes.com
I saw the DPR’s military practicing their drills by the roadside from Donetsk to Lugansk.
I saw the DPR’s Foreign Minister hopeful there would be a political solution instead of war while admitting personally he dreams of a DPR as an independent nation.
I saw two badass Cossack commanders tell me in a horse-breeding farm in holy Cossack land that the real war has not even started.
I did not see the totally destroyed Donetsk airport because the DPR’s military were too concerned about our safety and would not grant us a permit while the airport was being hit – in defiance of Minsk 2; but I saw the destruction and the pile of Ukrainian army bodies on the mobile phone of a Serbian DPR resistance fighter.
I did not see, as Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe international observers also didn’t, the rows and rows of Russian tanks and soldiers that the current Dr. Strangelove in charge of NATO, General Breedhate, sees everyday in his exalted dreams invading Ukraine over and over again.
And I did not see the arrogance, the ignorance, the shamelessness and the lies distorting those manicured faces in Kiev, Washington and Brussels while they insist, over and over again, that the entire population of Donbass, traumatized babushkas and children of all ages included, are nothing but “terra-rists”.
After all, they are Western “civilization”-enabled cowards who would never dare to show their manicured faces to the people of Donbass.
So this is my gift to them.
Just a howl of anger and unbounded contempt.
Copyright 2015 Asia Times. All rights reserved. http://www.atimes.com
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Crimes against Humanity: Ukraine President Poroshenko Keeps his Word: “We’ve Bombed the Schools”, Donbass Children Don’t go to School
This article by investigative reporter Olga Luzanova provides photographic and video evidence of the impacts of Kiev regime bombings directed against residential areas and schools in Donbass.
Civilians have been deliberately targeted.
These war crimes have been ignored by the mainstream media. They been not been acknowledged by the UN Human Rights Commission.
The fundamental rights of children have been blatantly violated by the US sponsored Kiev regime in derogation of international law.
(M. Ch. GR Editor)
Photos and video footage by Olga Luzanova
We recall that last October, President Petro Poroshenko contrasted the prospects for Ukrainians with those of the people from the Donbass region during a speech in Odessa. In particular, the President promised:
Civilians have been deliberately targeted.
These war crimes have been ignored by the mainstream media. They been not been acknowledged by the UN Human Rights Commission.
The fundamental rights of children have been blatantly violated by the US sponsored Kiev regime in derogation of international law.
(M. Ch. GR Editor)
Photos and video footage by Olga Luzanova
We recall that last October, President Petro Poroshenko contrasted the prospects for Ukrainians with those of the people from the Donbass region during a speech in Odessa. In particular, the President promised:
“Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, while theirs will be holed up in basements!”
Thus far, the Ukrainian government has been doing its best to keep its word. Here is one of the children sitting in a basement in accordance with the Ukrainian President’s will.
Photos and video footage by Olga Luzanova
Article edited by @GBabeuf
The Acting Commander of the Perevalsk Command offered me a short tour of a little town which just happened to be in the immediate vicinity of the front-line. The Ukrainian forces had been firing towards the residential district of the town right up until the day when the Militia had mopped up Debaltsevo. We took the road which I knew very well. We drove through the town where I could see the consequences of the shelling all around. We approached the school from its rear and saw there a football pitch with a huge crater in the middle of it. Then we saw another crater from an Uragan missile near the school.
A third missile evidently reached the building.
We found quite a large shell fragment, resembling a crumpled aluminium pail, inside the building, but the distinct marking number it bore proved that it was part of an Uragan missile.
Photos and video footage by Olga Luzanova
Article edited by @GBabeuf
The Acting Commander of the Perevalsk Command offered me a short tour of a little town which just happened to be in the immediate vicinity of the front-line. The Ukrainian forces had been firing towards the residential district of the town right up until the day when the Militia had mopped up Debaltsevo. We took the road which I knew very well. We drove through the town where I could see the consequences of the shelling all around. We approached the school from its rear and saw there a football pitch with a huge crater in the middle of it. Then we saw another crater from an Uragan missile near the school.
A third missile evidently reached the building.
We found quite a large shell fragment, resembling a crumpled aluminium pail, inside the building, but the distinct marking number it bore proved that it was part of an Uragan missile.
The school had not a single window left intact on the side facing towards Debaltsevo. Evidently, it had not been random fire—we could see that all the strikes on the school were direct hits.
We walked round the school—its façade, which faced the direction of territory controlled by the Militia, remained almost undamaged. Incidentally, this school used to be one of the most beautiful in the Perevalsk region: it had won a grant for renovation two years ago and was then completely refurbished.
We walked round the school—its façade, which faced the direction of territory controlled by the Militia, remained almost undamaged. Incidentally, this school used to be one of the most beautiful in the Perevalsk region: it had won a grant for renovation two years ago and was then completely refurbished.
Now, the image of the book with hammer and sickle and the engraved phrase “Peace to the World” adds more sadness to the whole scene.
The condition of the building inside was no less terrible: overthrown pieces of furniture, broken window frames. splinters of glass and crumbled plaster on the floor, fragments of wood and brick everywhere, everything slashed and holed.
In a half-ruined corridor there were stands with portraits of the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War, “killed” once again by Ukrainian bullets. “Nobody has been forgotten, nothing has been forgotten.”
In a half-ruined corridor there were stands with portraits of the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War, “killed” once again by Ukrainian bullets. “Nobody has been forgotten, nothing has been forgotten.”
I should like to note that respect to the values of memory has always been a very important part of our school education. In the light of Ukraine’s conflict, one of the main tools currently employed in Ukrainian schools is the misrepresentation of history—in particular, replacing the names of Soviet heroes with the names of Banderites. Yet people in Donbass do remember their true history: we learned it not only at school, but also from our grandparents, who saw this history with their own eyes and retold it to us again and again, and we shall never forget it.
I heard a child’s voice outside—a little girl was coming up with a few adults, pointing in the direction of the worst damaged part of the school, saying: “My class was there.” Seven year old Vika was very sad about her school; almost all her friends have left the town, and now, she and her family may have to leave too:
I entered the classroom where Vika and the other first form pupils used to study. Again, the usual scene: pieces of broken glass everywhere, destroyed windows, smashed furniture, holed walls… Books left in a bookcase…
I entered the classroom where Vika and the other first form pupils used to study. Again, the usual scene: pieces of broken glass everywhere, destroyed windows, smashed furniture, holed walls… Books left in a bookcase…
Someone had written on the blackboard “Death to the fascist invaders.”
Donbass children don’t go to school…
Tại Sao cứ PHẬP PHỒNG CHỜ cái dúm Chính Phủ Quyết Định Vận Mạng của Chúng Ta?
Trong tuần này đã có ít nhất hai (2) biến cố xảy ra rất đáng chú ý. Thứ nhất là cuộc thương thảo giữa Âu Mỹ và Ba Tư về vấn đề “kỹ thuật và kỹ nghệ nguyên tử” của Ba Tư, Kết quả thương thảo đã đưa đến một số “quyết định” có điều kiện- hủy bỏ tất cả những cấm vận có liên quan đến nguyên tử đối với Ba Tư từ trước đến nay.
Kẻ vui người mừng và những đứa tức giận… nhưng tất cả mừng vui, tức giận của hàng trăm triệu cuộc đời, nhân mạng v,v, đều ủy thác vào sự trao đổi toan tính của dăm ba tên “quyền lực”, những tên “quyền lực” này sẽ ra đi, nhưng cái hệ thống quyền lực còn đó và nó xoay hơn cả chong chóng cho quyền lực của nó, bất chấp hàng trăm triệu cuộc đời.
Ba Tư và cái “Hồi Giáo” có DẦU HỎA cũgn như định chế nhà nước của họ còn đó; tham vọng quyền lực, “tín lý ngày phán xét” của Ky Tô- Do Thái Giáo còn đó…sự đe dọa hòa bình và viễn cảnh chiến tranh vẫn lù lù trước mặt… Và dân chúng vẫn cứ TIN, cứ CHỜ một dúm băng hoại tâm thần lo toan cho họ, dù bao cuộc chiến, đàn áp, mất mát, khủng hoảng, âu lo, bất ổn v.v đã và đang tiếp diễn không ngưng nghỉ!
Tùy độc giả theo dõi và suy ngẫm theo hiểu biết và “ao ước” của mỗi người. Riêng người viết, ghê tởm những bộ mặt “đại diện” đầy sát khí, băng hoại đang nắm toàn quyền sinh sát an nguy, hạnh phúc đau khổ của hàng trăm triệu sinh mạng, nói cười ung dung diễn tuồng một cách đểu cáng trong sự “chiêm ngưỡng” và “phập phồng” của quần chúng đôi bên!!!
Tùy độc giả theo dõi và suy ngẫm theo hiểu biết và “ao ước” của mỗi người. Riêng người viết, ghê tởm những bộ mặt “đại diện” đầy sát khí, băng hoại đang nắm toàn quyền sinh sát an nguy, hạnh phúc đau khổ của hàng trăm triệu sinh mạng, nói cười ung dung diễn tuồng một cách đểu cáng trong sự “chiêm ngưỡng” và “phập phồng” của quần chúng đôi bên!!!
Biến cố thứ hai: Nhà nước Hy Lạp đã chính thức “BẮN TIẾNG ” sẽ rút khỏi khối tiền tệ Euro và tái phát hành đồng tiền Hy lạp” drachma. Nhà nước Hy Lạp “BẮN TIẾNG” DỌA rằng:
Chúng tôi là chính phủ Tả khuynh, nếu chúng tôi phải chọn lựa giữa một việc “quịt nợ” với IMF và một việc quịt nợ với dân chúng của chúng tôi, sự chọn lựa này không phải là điều băn khoăn gì hết”Họ muốn đặt chúng tôi vào những nghi thức sỉ nhục và buộc chúng tôi vào cầm cố nợ nần. Họ đang cố gắng đặt chúng tôi vào vị trí mà chúng tôi phải quịt nợ dân chúng tôi hay phải ký kết một thỏa hiệp chính trị hủy hại cho chúng tôi. Nếu đây là mục tiêu của họ, họ sẽ phải thực hiện không có chúng tôi trong đó”
Chúng tôi sẽ đóng cửa và quốc hữu hóa các ngân hàng, và sẽ phát hành ngân chứng “Tôi Nợ Bạn” (I Owe You) (một chứng từ để trao đổi dịch vụ hàng hóa không qui định bằng “tiền”), nếu chúng tôi cần phải làm, và chúng ta tất cả đều biết điều này có nghĩa là gì. Điều mà chúng tôi sẽ không làm là trở thành một đất nước bị thuộc chính của Liên Âu (EU)“We are a Left-wing government. If we have to choose between a default to the IMF or a default to our own people, it is a no-brainer,”
“They want to put us through the ritual of humiliation and force us into sequestration. They are trying to put us in a position where we either have to default to our own people or sign up to a deal that is politically toxic for us. If that is their objective, they will have to do it without us,”
“We will shut down the banks and nationalise them, and then issue IOUs if we have to, and we all know what this means. What we will not do is become a protectorate of the EU,”
Tả hay Hữu cũng là Nhà nước. Dù là nhà nước loại nào, như Nhân Chủ và nhiều trang độc lập đã khẳng định rằng trong tình thế này BƯỚC ĐẦU TIÊN của giải pháp tốt nhất là RỜI KHỎI EURO để tái lập bản vị drachma để chủ động tiến trình điều tiết thúc đẩy kinh tế nội địa. Đây chỉ là bước ĐẦU TIÊN NỀN TẢNG chưa phải là giải pháp toàn diện.
Phần còn lại là người Hy Lạp có ý thức và hiểu được GIÁ TRỊ THẬT của nền kinh tế và của đồng drachma nằm ở ngay chính họ, chính nhận thức và sức sáng tạo, sản xuất của họ, không phải của chính phủ nhà nước QUI ĐỊNH hay TẠO RA (hy vọng riêng người Việt và Hoa đã hiểu ra điều này, ít nhất trong 20 năm qua).
Nhưng vấn đề không đơn giản khi tập đoàn nhà nước và tài chính EU không muốn có một kẻ “phản kháng” thoát khỏi EU mà lại mạnh khỏe vui vẻ, phơi phới ăn nên làm ra. Điều này sẽ không chỉ là TẤM GƯƠNG TỐT cho các xứ khá noi theo, mà nguy hại hơn, còn là một cái TÁT MẠNH vào mặt của chúng cũng như MỘT CÁI ĐẠP chí tử đánh đổ hoàn toàn cái gọi là “tam đầu chế tập quyền” Âu Châu (Troiska). Có nghĩa rằng chúng sẽ có thể phải “chơi”: hai đòn cân não:
1- Tìm mọi cách tương nhượng hoặc gài thế đánh xập chính phủ “tả” hiện tại – dựng một bọn “hữu” để “giữ” Hy Lạp lại trong guồng máy.
2- Để Hy Lạp ra đi nhưng với những đòn tấn công kinh tế tài chính, để tái “thuộc chính” Hy Lạp trở lại tuân thủ chặt chẽ hơn.. như một cái gương cho các nơi khác (Ý, Tây Ban Nha v.v) :” Đã bảo không có chúng tao, chúng mày sẽ thế”.
Giải pháp nó rõ ràng trước mặt, nhưng liệu dân chúng có được vận động và giải thích ý nghĩa đơn giản của “tiền” và giá trị của “dồng tiền Nhà nước” nằm ở đâu để tự tin và tự trách nhiệm điều khiển nó cho tiến trình kinh tế của chính họ tương quan với quốc tế.
Hy Lạp tách ra khỏi EURO thì cũng vẫn là Hy Lạp, một Hy lạp như đại đa số các “quốc gia” đang hành xử tương tác kinh tế với nhau bằng BẢN VỊ của riêng họ như trước khi vào EURO. Hy Lạp có SẢN PHẨM, DỊCH VỤ trong nhu cầu của người ta, người ta sẽ thi nhau vào mua bán trao đổi. Dân Hy Lạp có khả năng mua (effective demand) người ta xếp hàng tranh nhau vào bán chẳng thiếu thứ gì. Hiện nay Hy lạp có dư điều kiện hơn nhiều xã hội khác về một căn bản nền tảng kinh tế: của xã hội: sẵn có một thị trường của chính họ. Hy Lạp đâu cần phải tốn thời gian xây lại thị trường nội địa như Trung Quốc, Việt Nam đang trải qua, hay chưa xây được như nhiều quốc gia Nam Mỹ. Chuyện chẳng có gì ầm ĩ. Sao lại chần chừ kéo dài cho đến nay, và cũng chưa dứt khoát? Cái gì ĐÃ và ĐANG níu chân người Hy Lạp và đám cầm quyền “Tả và Hũu” của Hy Lạp cho đến nay? Hay nói cách khác, cái gì đã khiến đám quyền chính “Hũu -Tả” của Hy Lạp cắm đầu gian lận để đút đầu vào EURO ngay từ đầu, điều mà bọn Anh quốc dứt khoát không muốn lọt vào? Tùy quí độc giả tham khảo suy ngẫm lý giải, tự thuyết phục để có câu trả lời riêng.
EU sẽ phá hoại họ ư? Dĩ nhiên, chắc chắn phải xảy ra như đã và đang xảy ra với những quốc gia nào chưa và không chịu lọt vào qui trình của “tập doàn quyền lực toàn cầu! này. Nhưng nhìn Băng Quốc, Ái Nhĩ Lan, nhìn Nga và nhìn Ba Tư để thấy việc CƯỠNG và CHỐNG TRẢ không dể dàng nhưng KHÔNG KHÓ KHĂN đến mức không thể như đang tuyên truyền, nếu người dân có sản xuất dịch vụ SẢN PHẨM. Dĩ nhiên trường hợp Nga và Ba Tư may mắn hơn, ngoài những thứ khác như nguyên tử năng v.v còn có sẵn dầu hỏa.
Cuối cùng thì, dùng “giấy” nào cũng là “giấy” cả, cũng chẳng có giá trị gì, nếu như sức sản xuất hàng hóa dịch vụ yếu đuối ngay đối với NỘI ĐỊA và thiếu phẩm chất đáp ứng nếu dối với ngoại thương. Người Hy Lạp nên tự hỏi là họ có ĐƯỢC và MUỐN tạo điều kiện để TỰ DO SÁNG TẠO SẢN XUẤT hay không? Khi họ MUỐN TỰ CHỦ TRÁCH NHIỆM SẢN XUẤT không bị ràng huộc kềm hãm, thì giẻ rách, cọng cỏ của họ cũng là “tiền” có giá trị, chứ chẳng cần phải chờ nhà nước ấn ký. Nhìn đồng Bitcoin thì hiểu.
Tùy quí độc giả tham khảo thêm và nhận định theo những kiến thức thông tin mỗi quí vị có sẵn vậy.
3-4-2015
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Greece Said To Prepare “Grexit”, Drachma, Bank Nationalization Plans
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2015 22:55 -0400
On Thursday morning, we took an in-depth look at what the progression of events is likely to be in the event a cash-strapped, negotiation-weary Greece finally, for lack of will or for lack of options, fails to scrape together enough cash to pay its creditors. As BofAML notes, a missed IMF payment and/or failure to make interest payments to either the ECB or private creditors over the coming weeks would likely lead to default within 30 days, at which point “mark-to-fantasy” becomes mark-to-market and then “mark-to-default” in very short order.
Although Greek officials came out midday with a “categorical” denial of reports that the country was set to run completely out of cash in just 7 days, it now appears Athens may be prepared to chance a missed IMF payment and all that comes with it if it means saving face and preserving Syriza’s campaign promises to the beleaguered Greek populace.
More, via The Telegraph:
Although Greek officials came out midday with a “categorical” denial of reports that the country was set to run completely out of cash in just 7 days, it now appears Athens may be prepared to chance a missed IMF payment and all that comes with it if it means saving face and preserving Syriza’s campaign promises to the beleaguered Greek populace.
More, via The Telegraph:
Greece is drawing up drastic plans to nationalise the country’s banking system and introduce a parallel currency to pay bills unless the eurozone takes steps to defuse the simmering crisis and soften its demands.Sources close to the ruling Syriza party said the government is determined to keep public services running and pay pensions as funds run critically low. It may be forced to take the unprecedented step of missing a payment to the International Monetary Fund next week.Greece no longer has enough money to pay the IMF €458m on April 9 and also to cover payments for salaries and social security on April 14, unless the eurozone agrees to disburse the next tranche of its interim bail-out deal in time.“We are a Left-wing government. If we have to choose between a default to the IMF or a default to our own people, it is a no-brainer,” said a senior official…“They want to put us through the ritual of humiliation and force us into sequestration. They are trying to put us in a position where we either have to default to our own people or sign up to a deal that is politically toxic for us. If that is their objective, they will have to do it without us,” the source said.Going into arrears at the IMF – even for a few days – is an extremely risky strategy.No developed country has ever defaulted to the Bretton Woods institutions. While there would be a grace period of six weeks before the IMF board declared Greece to be in technical default, the process could spin out of control at various stages.Syriza sources say are they fully aware that a tough line with creditors risks setting off an unstoppable chain-reaction. They insist that they are willing to contemplate the worst rather than abandon their electoral pledges to the Greek people. An emergency fall-back plan is already in the works.“We will shut down the banks and nationalise them, and then issue IOUs if we have to, and we all know what this means. What we will not do is become a protectorate of the EU,” said one source.It is well understood in Athens such action is tantamount to a return to the drachma, even though Syriza would rather reach an amicable accord within EMU.
As a reminder, here is Goldman’s take on what redenomination would mean for Greece:
Secluded from international capital markets, Greece would not be able to issue a globally traded currencyWith senior liabilities outstanding, Greece would be secluded from international capital markets. This would not just hold for the Greek government. It is likely that the implications touch the Greek private sector too, with Greek exporters and importers not being able to rely on letters of credit provided by Greek institutions.In such a case, Greek trade would collapse to the level that can be sustained by cash businesses in Euros.Should a Greek currency be introduced following failure to pay, it would likely have very limited convertibility into Euros outside Greece. It would purely be a means of internal transactions, in all likelihood.But is this an equilibrium solution for Greece? No. Because in such an event, it would be hard to convince even the Greeks to hold any drachmas. Put simply, while public sector employees, pensioners and government supply providers would be paid in drachmas (and be expected to pay part of their tax liabilities in the new currency), they would not be able to use that currency to buy imported goods.Exported goods would also become too valuable to be bought in drachmas, as they would correspond to hard currency receivables. Anticipating this, even providers of domestic services (taxi drivers, hairdressers etc) would avoid receiving payments in drachmas if possible.If at all, the drachma would trade at a huge discount to the Euro. The economy would remain largely euro-ised but without a natural source of Euro-liquidity…Ultimately as we discuss in our note with Huw Pill, it would be very hard for Greece to introduce a viable new currency unilaterally. Baring the complications of actually printing a new note, such a move would likely lead to a collapse in Greece’s international transactions and trade (both for the government and the private sector), would expose the country to litigation risks and trigger a significant destabilization of the banking system.The only function of such a new currency would be to “tax” parts of the population that would not naturally receive hard currency as part of their payments structure. But that tax would not lead to a natural increase in government receivables as the economy (both the internal and the external economy) would shrink in a downward spiral.
So now, just as we predicted two weeks ago, Goldman (and anyone else who had effectively ruled out the possibility that Greece would finally reach a breaking point and fire up long-dormant national printing presses) may have to revise and rethink their assessment as the final curtain looks set to fall on the long-running tragicomedy that is the Greco-Euro standoff.
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Here’s what Greece owes to who and when…
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James Corbett: HY Sinh Chết Sống vì Giẻ Rách và Tổ Cò
“ Cờ quạt quốc gia chỉ là những miếng giẻ mầu mà bọn Nhà Nước Chính Phủ dùng trước là để bó nhỏ đầu óc người dân lại, và sau đó dùng làm khăn liệm xác để chôn những xác chết thôi” (Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”
Và văn hào, triết gia Jiddu Krishnamurti cũng nhận định thẳng như thế:
“Chúng ta rất bao biện chống chế, cho nên hung hăng hiếu chiến, khi chúng ta bám vào một niềm tin nhất định, một giáo điều nào đó, hay khi chúng ta sùng bái cái quốc tịch đặc biệt của chúng ta, với cái tấm giẻ rách được gọi là quốc kỳ” (We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
Âu Mỹ Úc Do Thái và Lò Thiêu Sống Người Trung Đông
Không biết đã có cơ quan chính qui nào làm thống kê những vụ bắn giết “nhầm” được chính thức tường trình, cũng như các báo cáo số người bị bắn chết được gọi là “tình nghi phiến quân” hay không, dù không có chứng cớ rõ rệt.. để tổng kết số lượng người dân Trung Đông nói chung và dân Iraq, Afgan nói riêng đã bị tàn sát trong hơn 10 năm qua. Nhưng cơ quan Clarity Press và một giáo sư Úc, Gideon Polya, đã cố gắng đúc kết… tạm thời cho đến nay 2015, với KẾT QUẢ cả một Lò Thiêu Sống hiện ra: HÀNG TRIỆU NGƯỜI VÔ TỘI ĐÃ BỊ GIẾT! Đây chỉ mới nói qua về số lượng tổng hợp các báo cáo. Dĩ nhiên không kể những nạn nhân bị ám sát, thủ tiêu tang chứng như vụ tàn sát Haditha hay như Mỹ Lai, No Gun Ri Massacre v.v vẫn luôn được dấu kín, phải đợi những ký giả chân chính can đảm, hay những tên sát nhân còn chút lương tâm dằn vặt cung khai… còn không phải đợi vài chục năm sau may ra được giải mật mới được biết đến..
(*)Có một điều “lạ lùng” cần ghi chú và suy ngẫm ở đây, rằng tại sao những nạn nhân sống sót trong những vụ tàn sát này có thể sống im lặng cho đến khi được các phóng viên điều tra tìm đến, nhiều khi phải đưa bằng chứng rõ rệt để nhắc nhở họ chính là nạn nhân, như vụ Thanh phong? Có phải tâm thức chiến tranh chém giết đã làm họ chai lì với mất mát? Hay nhận thức về “mất mát” của họ có khác biệt? Cá nhân Tôi cho rằng vấn đề là tầm nhận thức nhân bản khác biệt. – vì có lẽ chỉ trong đám những tên quân lính cảnh sát an ninh tình báo sát nhân ở Âu Mỹ mới có những trường hợp tỉnh thức dằn vặt lương tâm và cung khai sự thật; hoặc cũng chỉ ở những xã hội này mới thấy có những “công dân tố cáo”. Thậm chí ở những khía cạnh xã hội cũng có khác biệt như trường hợp bà Le Ly Hayslip, bà chỉ được người Âu Mỹ trân trọng quí mến nhắc nhở, còn những thằng, những con “đồng bào” của bà, nếu không lợi dụng thì tìm đủ lý cớ cá nhân ấu trĩ, bất nhân và lưu manh vặt để hạ thấp hoặc chối bỏ nỗ lực con người nhỏ bé của bà. Bằng chứng qui kết này khó chối bỏ.
Có lẽ nếu bất cứ ai trong chúng ta, còn một điểm lương tâm công chính nền tảng và một bộ óc chất vấn, hẳn sẽ chẳng cần những báo cáo đúc kết chuyên môn này để biết người Trung Đông đang bị thiêu sống. Kẻ còn sống thì căng thẳng khốn cùng bấp bênh, dĩ nhiên trừ bọn cầm quyền tướng lãnh vua chúa “lãnh đạo”, những kẻ chủ đạo của định chế quyền chính nhà nước.
Tuy nhiên, vấn đề không chỉ nhìn về số phận bi thảm và bi kịch Trung Đông, mà nếu chúng ta chất vấn và nhìn ngay lại đời sống hiện tại của chính chúng ta, dù bất cứ đang ở đâu, cũng sẽ thấy ngay chúng ta đang nằm trong “lò sát sinh” của bọn cầm quyền. Chỉ cần một chữ ký trong phòng kín của các tên “thủ tướng, bộ trưởng” là chúng ta bị buộc làm sát nhân hoặc nạn nhân thảm tử.
Bạn bật cười, mỉa mai, không tin, cho là hoang tưởng và đa nghi yếm hóa thế nhân ư? Cuộc chiến Việt Nam mà Tôi, người viết này trực diện kinh qua, ai quyết định nó? Tôi biết rõ Tôi không có quyền quyết định. Tôi biết bạn bè tôi, và bao nhiêu người thân quen, hoàn toàn bị động. Nhưng thôi đây là chuyện quá khứ, chẳng mấy độc giả trang này biết về nó.
Hãy nói hiện tại! Giả thiết “quyết định chiến tranh giữa Việt Hoa lại tái bùng nổ như đã từng bùng nổ. Ai quyết định nó? Ai sẽ phải đưa thân mạng “thực hiện” quyết định chiến tranh? Có được hỏi ý kiến và chọn lựa hay không? Dù là Tầu hay Việt.
Cũng trong hiện tại này, nhưng nhìn qua trời Âu, nếu chiến tranh bùng nổ như đang diển ra tại Ukraine, những kẻ nào quyết định? Và chúng ta có thể lượng được phần trăm số người chết, và xác suất những ai nơi vùng nào sẽ “hy sinh” trong phút đầu tiên.
Cả thế giới đang phập phồng chiến tranh. Tại sao phập phồng? Vì tất cả chẳng có quyền quyết định và không giành lại quyền quyết định, mà chỉ thập thò chờ một dúm nhỏ quyết định cho họ. Họ gọi bọn dúm nhỏ này là “chính phủ của chúng tôi”
Người ta không chỉ bị thiêu sống ngẫu nhiên, mà thường lượng trước được sự việc. Nhưng nhắm mắt đưa chân ủy toàn quyền vào tay “lãnh đạo” những tên băng hoại tâm thần gọi là “chính trị gia”.
Nhân loại này đã trải dài “lịch sử văn minh” của họ bằng các cuộc chiến. Chỉ riêng thể kỷ 20 thôi, đã có hàng trăm triệu thảm tử với hai cuộc chiến lớn nhất gọi là “thế chiến”, và chiến tranh vẫn tiếp diễn càng ngày càng tàn bạo. Quần chúng cứ phất cờ, cầu nguyện chiến thắng và gào thét giết nhau một cách bầy đàn… theo lệnh của tên “đầu đàn”.
Nhìn ở một khía cạnh khác, đám đông bị mù lòa không nhận ra được rằng họ chỉ là những “công cụ kinh tế” của giới “lãnh đạo” và công cụ của định chế nhà nước, chứ không phải là MỤC TIÊU PHỤC VỤ như lý thuyết sách vở rao giảng cho họ. Họ chỉ thoát được lò lửa sát sinh của nhóm thiểu số quyền bính, khi nhận thức tách ra được tính bày đàn, dù là bầy đàn quốc gia, chủng tộc hay tôn giáo, những loại bầy đàn mà cho đến nay đại đa số vẫn hăm hở kết nhập bản thân họ vào những cái khung đàn bầy nhỏ bé đó để bị biến thành công cụ tự nguyện. Hay nói một cách thực tiễn hơn, một nửa trách nhiệm của lò lửa thiêu sống là từ chính sự tự nguyện nô lệ của họ, của “con người xã hội” chúng ta.
Cứ giả thiết thế chiến 3 xảy ra ngày mai. Tôi và bạn cũng buông tay “chờ thi hành sắc lệnh chiến tranh” của cái dúm cầm quyền bằng tài sản và ngay cả mạng sống của chúng ta. Bởi hôm nay, chúng ta đã chẳng hề lên tiếng phản đối hay nỗ lực giành lại quyền tự chủ Con Người của mình, hay nhận thức dám quay lưng với định chế.. dĩ nhiên với hàng triệu lý cớ viện đẫn. Lò thiêu sống không chỉ đang cháy ở Trung Đông! Tất cả chúng ta, loài người này đã và đang sống trong những lò thiêu sống đủ loại do chính chúng ta góp phần xây dựng và bảo vệ những lò thiêu sống này.
Có lẽ có thể tạm qui kết rằng chỉ có Con Người mới thật sự yêu hòa bình chán ghét chiến tranh, còn loài vật người cũng chỉ là con vật với bản năng hoang thú tàn bạo nhất trong các hoang thú mà thôi. Con vật có bản năng vô thức tự chia những vùng lãnh thổ, ghét kẻ khác và đàn khác đe dọa loài khác giống. Con vật người chẳng khác gì, nó còn ý thức vạch rõ biên giới hơn loài vật và mưu toan lấn chiếm độc hữu… và không chỉ có một loại biên giới lãnh thổ, mà đủ các loại biên giới phần chia do chính nó đặt ra trong chính nó cũng như giữa đồng loại.
Như thế, cũng có lẽ Hòa bình chỉ có thật khi có nhiều con vật người muốn nhận thức làm Con Người thật (human being)! Bởi Con Người thật theo đúng ý niệm giá trị nhận thức, nó không có biên giới gì hết, bất cứ thể loại nào để phải “bảo tồn, bảo vệ” ngoài sự sống tự nhiên không chỉ của chính nó, mà của tất cả môi sinh chung quanh nó. Hy vọng là vậy!
2-4-2015
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A Middle East Holocaust
— Paul Craig Roberts
Posted By pcr3 On March 30, 2015 @ 6:48 am In Articles & Columns
A Middle East Holocaust — Paul Craig Roberts
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I have been around for a long time and have experienced more than most. The current situation in my experience is the most dangerous time of all for humanity.
Nuclear weapons are no longer restrained by the Cold War MAD doctrine. Washington has released them into pre-emptive first strike form.
The targets of these pre-emptive strikes–Russia and China–know it, because Washington proudly proclaims its immorality in public documents describing its war doctrine.
The result is to maximize the chance of nuclear war. If you were Russia and China, and you knew that Washington had a war doctrine that permits a surprise nuclear attack, would you sit there waiting while Washington cranks up its anti-Russian and anti-Chinese propaganda machine, demonizing both countries as a threat to “freedom and democracy”?
The fools in Washington are playing with nuclear fire. Noam Chomsky points out that in a less dangerous time than currently exists, we came very close to nuclear war. https://philosophynow.org/issues/107/Noam_Chomsky_on_Institutional_Stupidity [1]
Harold Pinter, one of the last Western intellects, understood the danger in Western arrogance. He denounced the West’s crimes and called for the crimes to be subject to established law before it is too late for humanity.
“We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice.” Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
“An Iraqi Holocaust” by Gideon Polya http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230315.htm [2] and “Genocide In Iraq” http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150315.htm [3]provide abundant evidence for convicting Bush and Blair.
Dr. Gideon Polya is a professor of science in one of Australia’s leading universities. He has a moral conscience, something increasingly rare in the Western world.
His articles are based largely on the just published by Clarity Press two volume heavily documented Genocide in Iraq by Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Tarik Al-Ani. Abdul-Haq Al-Ani is a British-educated lawyer with a Ph.D. in International Law and a Ph.D. in electronics engineering. Tarik Al-Ani, is an architect, translator, and researcher.
Dear Friends: We have had a satisfactory response to our request for your support. As long as you support this site, I will as well. Without your support the website would not exist.Foundations and corporations do not support truth-tellers. American foundations underwrite war and US imperialism. Foundations support subversion of countries that are not Washington’s puppet states. Your website has no foundation support, no corporate support; it only has your support.
I have been around for a long time and have experienced more than most. The current situation in my experience is the most dangerous time of all for humanity.
Nuclear weapons are no longer restrained by the Cold War MAD doctrine. Washington has released them into pre-emptive first strike form.
The targets of these pre-emptive strikes–Russia and China–know it, because Washington proudly proclaims its immorality in public documents describing its war doctrine.
The result is to maximize the chance of nuclear war. If you were Russia and China, and you knew that Washington had a war doctrine that permits a surprise nuclear attack, would you sit there waiting while Washington cranks up its anti-Russian and anti-Chinese propaganda machine, demonizing both countries as a threat to “freedom and democracy”?
The fools in Washington are playing with nuclear fire. Noam Chomsky points out that in a less dangerous time than currently exists, we came very close to nuclear war. https://philosophynow.org/issues/107/Noam_Chomsky_on_Institutional_Stupidity [1] Harold Pinter, one of the last Western intellects, understood the danger in Western arrogance. He denounced the West’s crimes and called for the crimes to be subject to established law before it is too late for humanity.
“We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice.” Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
“An Iraqi Holocaust” by Gideon Polya http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230315.htm [2] and “Genocide In Iraq” http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150315.htm [3]provide abundant evidence for convicting Bush and Blair.
Dr. Gideon Polya is a professor of science in one of Australia’s leading universities. He has a moral conscience, something increasingly rare in the Western world.
His articles are based largely on the just published by Clarity Press two volume heavily documented Genocide in Iraq by Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Tarik Al-Ani. Abdul-Haq Al-Ani is a British-educated lawyer with a Ph.D. in International Law and a Ph.D. in electronics engineering. Tarik Al-Ani, is an architect, translator, and researcher.
Currently I am reading the two-volume work and intended to review it. But Professor Polya’s articles suffice as an introduction to Genocide in Iraq. Washington has committed a terrible crime in our name. Washington not only murdered Iraq, Washington has murdered the Middle East. Washington and its despicable vassals–”the Coalition of the Willing”–are responsible for a Middle East Holocaust.
For people in the Anglo-American world who have a moral conscience, the facts are soul-wrenching. The populations of the countries whose governments comprised “the Coalition of the Willing” are contaminated with war crimes committed by their governments in the Iraq Genocide. A progressive modern state was obliterated, and 2.7 million Iraqi people were murdered.
The crime was covered up with propaganda that demonized Saddam Hussein and created fear of nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.
The Iraqi genocide was based on a lie, and both Bush and Blair knew it. The two satanic leaders simply decided to destroy a people who they first demonized and marginalized.
Cheney and the neocons continue to justify the genocide and the illegal torture regime that they created in order to produce fake “terrorists” as a justification for their war crimes. The Western media, especially the New York Times, is also complicit in the Iraqi Genocide as are the insouciant Western peoples themselves who stood by cheering while millions of people were destroyed on the basis of a blatant and transparent lie.
What does the West represent? Greed? Lies? War? Torture? War Crimes? Selfishness, Intolerance? Destruction of life on earth?
The “Christian” West is a master at propaganda and self-deception. Look at the evangelical churches. They support a criminal, inhumane regime while professing to be followers of Christ.
Look at American “conservatives.” They support the militarized police state. They support the routine police murders of dark-skinned American citizens. They support every war Washington dreams up and even more. Indeed, there are not enough wars for the satisfaction of Congressional Republicans who now want war with Russia and with Iran.
Look at the Republicans in Congress and in state governments. They hate the environment. They love polluters. They worship Israel and Israel’s destruction of the Palestinians and the ongoing theft of the Palestinians’ country, a 60-year old activity. Just look at the map of shrinking Palestine. More is stolen each day.
Washington has supported this theft of an entire country. Yet, Washington is able to masquerade as a great defender of human rights. Whose rights? Washington’s and Israel’s. No one else’s rights count.
How does the world survive the American-Israeli aggression? Probably it will not. The evil is now directed at Iran, Russia, and China. These countries cannot be bombed year after year after year with no consequences to the bombers.
Iran is limited in its destructive ability. But Iran could destroy Saudi Arabia and Israel. Russia and China can destroy the US and all of Washington’s vassal states. The intensity of Washington’s propaganda war is driving the world to destruction.
How can it be stopped when Putin himself says over and over that Washington continually ignores every thing that the Russian government says. Putin is the peacemaker. Every peace proposal he brings is ignored by Washington whose response is to beat the drums of war louder.
Unless European governments recognize the danger in Washington’s aggression and dissolve NATO, planet earth hasn’t long to live.
The American public needs to understand the consequences of Washington’s illegality and criminality. On the one hand it means that those subject to Washington’s aggression have to endure war crimes, but on the other hand it means a growing hatred for America. As Washington’s easy targets are used up, Washington engages countries that can reply to force with force.
Unless the neoconservatives are ejected from the Obama regime and banned from inclusion in any future American government, mushroom clouds will go up over Washington, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago. The American mid-west, which hosts the ICBM silos, will become uninhabitable except by cockroaches.
Americans, and the populations of the American puppet states, desperately need to understand that Washington is incapable of speaking the truth about anything. Washington is an evil force. Washington is Sauron. Washington is Satan.
Look at Iraq. Look at Afghanistan. Look at Libya. Look at Syria. Look at Somalia. Look at Ukraine. Nothing but destruction comes from Washington. Will life on earth be Washington’s next victim?
For people in the Anglo-American world who have a moral conscience, the facts are soul-wrenching. The populations of the countries whose governments comprised “the Coalition of the Willing” are contaminated with war crimes committed by their governments in the Iraq Genocide. A progressive modern state was obliterated, and 2.7 million Iraqi people were murdered.
The crime was covered up with propaganda that demonized Saddam Hussein and created fear of nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.
The Iraqi genocide was based on a lie, and both Bush and Blair knew it. The two satanic leaders simply decided to destroy a people who they first demonized and marginalized.
Cheney and the neocons continue to justify the genocide and the illegal torture regime that they created in order to produce fake “terrorists” as a justification for their war crimes. The Western media, especially the New York Times, is also complicit in the Iraqi Genocide as are the insouciant Western peoples themselves who stood by cheering while millions of people were destroyed on the basis of a blatant and transparent lie.
What does the West represent? Greed? Lies? War? Torture? War Crimes? Selfishness, Intolerance? Destruction of life on earth?
The “Christian” West is a master at propaganda and self-deception. Look at the evangelical churches. They support a criminal, inhumane regime while professing to be followers of Christ.
Look at American “conservatives.” They support the militarized police state. They support the routine police murders of dark-skinned American citizens. They support every war Washington dreams up and even more. Indeed, there are not enough wars for the satisfaction of Congressional Republicans who now want war with Russia and with Iran.
Look at the Republicans in Congress and in state governments. They hate the environment. They love polluters. They worship Israel and Israel’s destruction of the Palestinians and the ongoing theft of the Palestinians’ country, a 60-year old activity. Just look at the map of shrinking Palestine. More is stolen each day.
Washington has supported this theft of an entire country. Yet, Washington is able to masquerade as a great defender of human rights. Whose rights? Washington’s and Israel’s. No one else’s rights count.
How does the world survive the American-Israeli aggression? Probably it will not. The evil is now directed at Iran, Russia, and China. These countries cannot be bombed year after year after year with no consequences to the bombers.
Iran is limited in its destructive ability. But Iran could destroy Saudi Arabia and Israel. Russia and China can destroy the US and all of Washington’s vassal states. The intensity of Washington’s propaganda war is driving the world to destruction.
How can it be stopped when Putin himself says over and over that Washington continually ignores every thing that the Russian government says. Putin is the peacemaker. Every peace proposal he brings is ignored by Washington whose response is to beat the drums of war louder.
Unless European governments recognize the danger in Washington’s aggression and dissolve NATO, planet earth hasn’t long to live.
The American public needs to understand the consequences of Washington’s illegality and criminality. On the one hand it means that those subject to Washington’s aggression have to endure war crimes, but on the other hand it means a growing hatred for America. As Washington’s easy targets are used up, Washington engages countries that can reply to force with force.
Unless the neoconservatives are ejected from the Obama regime and banned from inclusion in any future American government, mushroom clouds will go up over Washington, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago. The American mid-west, which hosts the ICBM silos, will become uninhabitable except by cockroaches.
Americans, and the populations of the American puppet states, desperately need to understand that Washington is incapable of speaking the truth about anything. Washington is an evil force. Washington is Sauron. Washington is Satan.
Look at Iraq. Look at Afghanistan. Look at Libya. Look at Syria. Look at Somalia. Look at Ukraine. Nothing but destruction comes from Washington. Will life on earth be Washington’s next victim?
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12th Anniversary Of Illegal Iraq Invasion – 2.7 Million Iraqi Dead From Violence Or War-imposed Deprivation
By Dr Gideon Polya
23 March, 2015Countercurrents.org
Those with consciences recently marked the 12th anniversary on 19 March 2015 of the illegal and war criminal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq in 2003 that was based on false assertions of Iraqi possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction, was conducted in the absence of UN sanction or Iraqi threat to the invading nations, and led to 2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence (1.5 million) or from violently-imposed deprivation (1.2 million). The West has now commenced its Seventh Iraq War since 1914 in over a century of Western violence in which Iraqi deaths from violence or violently-imposed deprivation have totalled 9 million. However Western Mainstream media have resolutely ignored the carnage, this tragically illustrating the adage “History ignored yields history repeated” [1].
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-subverted and perverted Western Mainstream media utterly ignore expert assessments of how many people the US Alliance has killed in Iraq and resolutely ignore the crucial epidemiological concept of non-violent avoidable deaths (excess deaths, avoidable mortality, excess mortality, deaths that should not have happened) associated with war-imposed deprivation (for detailed analysis see [2]). Thus, by way of example, on the occasion of US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 the Australian ABC (Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC) reported that “The withdrawal ends a war that left tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4,500 American soldiers dead” [3]. In contrast, the expert and eminent US Just Foreign Policy organization estimates, based on the data of expert UK analysts and top US medical epidemiologists, 1.5 million violent deaths in the Iraq War (2003-2011) [4-7] and UN data indicate a further 0.8 million Iraq avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation in this period [2]. Violent deaths and avoidable deaths from violently -imposed deprivation in the Gulf War (1990-1991) and Sanctions period (1990-2003) total 0.2 million and 1.2 million, respectively [1]. Accordingly, Iraqi deaths from violence (1.7 million) or war-imposed deprivation (2.9 million) since 1990 total 4.6 million [1].
However Western violation of Iraq commenced with the British invasion in 1914. Assuming excess mortality of Iraqis under British rule or hegemony (1914- 1948) was the same as for Indians under the British (interpolation from available data indicate Indian avoidable death rates in “deaths per 1,000 of population per year” of 37 (1757-1920), 35 (1920-1930), 30 (1930-1940) and 24 (1940-1950) [8]), one can estimate from Iraqi population data [9] that Iraqi avoidable deaths from deprivation under British occupation and hegemony from 1914-1950 totalled about 4 million. Thus ignoring Iraqi deaths associated with the US-backed Iraq-Iran War, one can estimate that about 9 million Iraqi deaths from UK or US violence or imposed deprivation in the century after the 1914 invasion of Iraq by Britain, this constituting an Iraqi Holocaust and an Iraqi Genocide as discussed below.
Holocaust is the destruction of a large number of people and 9 million Iraqi deaths from Anglo-American violence or violently-imposed deprivation certainly constitutes an Iraqi Holocaust. The term “holocaust” was first applied to a WW2 atrocity by Jog in 1944 [11] in relation to the “forgotten” man-made Bengal Famine (Bengali Holocaust) in which 6-7 million Indians (many of them Muslims, and hence the term WW2 Muslim Holocaust) were deliberately starved to death by the British in 1942-1945 (Australia was complicit in this atrocity by withholding grain from its huge wartime wheat stores from starving India) [11-14]. The term “holocaust” was subsequently applied to the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation according to the recently deceased, pro-Iraq War, and Iraqi Genocide-ignoring British Zionist historian Professor Sir Martin Gilbert [15]), noting that the WW2 Jewish Holocaust was part of a vastly greater WW2 European Holocaust in which 30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies were killed [2].
Genocide is very precisely defined in International Law as “ acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”, as set out by Article 2 of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention: “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” [16]. Any argument that the British and Americans did not “intend” to kill 9 million Iraqis is belied by the remorseless slaughter over 101 years interrupted only by the period between the overthrow of the British-installed monarchy in 1958 and the commencement of Sanctions in 1990.
The Anglo-American Iraqi Genocide since 1990 has been associated with 2 million under-5 year old infant deaths comprising 1.2 million (1990-2003) and 0.8 million (2003-2011), 90% avoidable and due to gross violation of Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War which demand that an Occupier must supply their conquered Subjects with food and medical requisites to “the fullest extent of the means available to it” [17]. The Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide was also war criminal mass infanticide and mass paedocide.
The appalling legacy of a quarter of a century of Western violence against Iraq (1990-2015) – for oil, US hegemony and Apartheid Israeli hegemony – is summarized below, with much of the data being found in “Iraqi Holocaust Iraqi Genocide” [1], “Genocide in Iraq” volumes I and II by Iraqi scholars Dr Abdul-Haq Al-Ani & Tariq Al-Ani and reviews of these works [18-21] and noting that about half of the Iraqi population of 30 million are children :
(1). 1.7 million Iraqi violent deaths.
(2). 2.9 million Iraqi avoidable deaths from violently -imposed deprivation.
(3). 2 million under-5 year old Iraqi infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to gross violation of the Geneva Convention by the US Alliance.
(4). 7,700,000 Iraqi refugees.
(5). 5,000,000 Iraqi orphans.
(6). 3,000,000 Iraqi widows.
(7). 1,000,0000 Iraqis missing.
(8). 4,000 Iraqi women (20% under 18) missing and presumed “trafficked”.
(9). 3.5 million Iraqi children living in dire poverty.
(10). 1.5 million Iraqi children are undernourished.
(11). Iraqi cancer cases in cases per 100,000 people were 40 (1990), 800 (1995) and 1,600 (2005).
(12). 40% of Iraqi professionals have left since 2003.
(13). 34,000 doctors (1990) declined to 16,000 doctors (2008).
(14). More than 2,200 doctors and nurses killed.
(15). The Iraqi health budget dropped from $450 million pa (1980-1991) to $22 million (2002),
(16). Most of Iraqi children are traumatized by war.
(17). From high literacy pre-1990 to 74% illiteracy in 2011.
Iraq has been substantially destroyed a modern state by US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism, Apartheid Israeli state terrorism and Australian state terrorism and the same state terrorists have been variously involved in the similar destruction of Libya and Syria from formerly being modern, socially progressive states (albeit under authoritarian governments). . These are unforgivable crimes and the US Alliance war criminals must be brought to account by the world through international law and through application of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the war criminal Western states responsible for the Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide.
Summary.
The anti-racist Jewish British writer Harold Pinter declared in his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech: “We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice” [22]. 1990-2011 Iraqi deaths from US Alliance violence (1.7 million) or violently-imposed deprivation (2.9 million) total 4.6 million and one can in 2015 paraphrase this great humanitarian: “How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? 4.6 million? More than enough, I would have thought.”
Unfortunately the International Criminal Court (ICC) as currently operating is a racist, cowardly, partisan, genocide-ignoring, genocide-complicit organization that strictly confines its war crimes attention to war criminals that the US Alliance doesn’t like (e.g. non-European and Serbian war criminals) (for discussion see “The Politics of Genocide” by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson [23, 24]). The ICC has repeatedly ignored complaints over the Iraqi Genocide (e.g. [25, 26] and that means the world must accept recourse to eminent, ICC-independent international tribunals to assess the war crimes of the US Alliance in Iraq and elsewhere.
US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism, Apartheid Israeli state terrorism and Australian state terrorism have variously combined over the last 25 years to destroy Iraq as a united, sovereign, modern state. In the face of endless war against Iraq and an ongoing Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide, what can decent people do? Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people must (a) circumvent the lying and ignoring by the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-subverted Mainstream media [27] by resolutely attempting to inform everyone they can about the Iraqi Genocide, and (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) – of the kind successfully applied against Apartheid South Africa and currently being applied against US Alliance-backed, nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel – against all people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries involved in the Iraqi Genocide and the Zionist-promoted Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide of which it is a part [28]. History ignored yields history repeated. We cannot walk by on the other side.
References.
[1]. “Iraqi Holocaust Iraqi Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ .
[2]. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web : http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ .
[3]. “US military marks end of its Iraq war”, ABC News, 16 December 2011: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-15/us-military-marks-end-of-its-war-in-iraq/3733982 .
[4]. “Just Foreign Policy”: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq .
[5]. ORB (Opinion Research Business), “January 2008 – Update on Iraqi Casualty Data”, January 2008: http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=88 .
[6]. Les Roberts, “Les Roberts: Iraq’s death toll far worse than our leaders admit”, Uruqnet: 14 February 2007: http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=30670&s2=16 .
[7]. G. Burnham, R. Lafta, S. Doocy and L. Roberts, “Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey”, The Lancet 2006 Oct 21;368(9545):1421-8: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17055943 .
[8]. Gideon Polya, “Economist Mahima Khanna wins Cambridge Prize”, MWC News, 20 November 2011: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/14978-economist-mahima-khanna.html .
[10]. “Iraq Population”: http://www.populstat.info/Asia/iraqc.htm .
[11]. Jog, N.G. (1944), “Churchill’s Blind-Spot: India”, New Book Company, Bombay.
[12]. Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability”, G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 1998, 2008, now available for free perusal on the web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/2008/09/jane-austen-and-black-hole-of-british.html .
[13]. Gideon Polya, “Australia And Britain Killed 6-7 Million Indians In WW2 Bengal Famine”, Countercurrents, 29 September, 2011: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya290911.htm .
[14]. Madhusree Muckerjee, “Churchill’s Secret War. The British Empire and the ravaging of India during World War II” (Basic Books, New York, 2010).
[15]. Gideon Polya , “UK Zionist Historian Sir Martin Gilbert (1936-2015) Variously Ignored Or Minimized WW2 Bengali Holocaust”, Countercurrents, 19 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190215.htm .
[16]. UN Genocide Convention: http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/genocide/convention.html .
[17]. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War: https://www.icrc.org/ihl/INTRO/380 .
[18]. “Genocide in Iraq Volume I . The case against the UN Security Council and member states” by Dr Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Tarik Al-Ani (foreword by Professor Joshua Castellino; Clarity Press, Atlanta).
[19]. Gideon Polya ““Genocide in Iraq, The Case Against UN Security Council And Member States”. Book review”, Countercurrents, 8 February, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya080213.htm .
[20]. Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Tariq Al-Ani, “Genocide in Iraq Volume II. The Obliteration of a Modern State” (Clarity Press, 2015).
[21]. Gideon Polya, “Review: “Genocide in Iraq Volume II. The obliteration of a modern state” By Abdul-Haq Al-Ani & Tariq Al-Ani”, Countercurrents, 15 March 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150315.htm .
[22]. Harold Pinter, “Art, Truth and politics”,Countercurrents, 8 December, 2005: http://www.countercurrents.org/arts-pinter081205.htm .
[23]. Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, “The Politics of Genocide”.
[24]. Gideon Polya, “Book Review: “The Politics Of Genocide” By Edward Herman And David Peterson”, Countercurrents, 05 December, 2011: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya051211.htm .
[25]. SEARCH Foundation, “ Australia’s former Prime Minister Howard accused of war crimes before the International Criminal Court in The Hague”, Countercurrents, 7 June 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/searchnew2.pdf .
[26]. “9 January 2010 Formal Complaint by Dr Gideon Polya to the International Criminal Court (ICC) re US Alliance Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Muslim, Aboriginal, Biofuel and Climate Genocides”: https://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/9-january-2010 .
[27]. “Mainstream media lying”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/ .
[28]. “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ .
Dr Gideon Polya has been teaching science students at a major Australian university for 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London , 2003). He has published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ); see also his contributions “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/australian-complicity-in-iraq-mass-mortality/3369002#transcript
) and “Ongoing Palestinian Genocide” in “The Plight of the Palestinians (edited by William Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html ). He has published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998 book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (see: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ) as biofuel-, globalization- and climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed 6-7 million Indians in the “forgotten” World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent BBC broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/social-economic-history/listen-the-bengal-famine ). When words fail one can say it in pictures – for images of Gideon Polya’s huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/and http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/ .
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