Israel's "Right" To Defend Itself

skip sievert said...

Israel is a client state of the U.S. obviously. It will be interesting shortly when the war expands to see who is going to line up with who.You notice the Russians are not saying much, and the Turks are poised on a close border ?Iran also has about 100 kilograms of enriched uranium. I would not put any money on the survival of Israel. As the operators of the largest concentration camp in the world (Gaza) they are going to be punished, not by god but by the local yokels.

Interesting point Skip. However, is Israel a client state of the United States or has this great nation been reduced to the big dumb bodyguard on steroids dancing to the tune of the Zionist state?

School Teaches Meditation

Jasai said ...
widespread, this will change the face of education.

In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind

By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN

OAKLAND, Calif., June 12 — The lesson began with the striking of a Tibetan singing bowl to induce mindful awareness.

With the sound of their new school bell, the fifth graders at Piedmont Avenue Elementary School here closed their eyes and focused on their breathing, as they tried to imagine “loving kindness” on the playground.

“I was losing at baseball and I was about to throw a bat,” Alex Menton, 11, reported to his classmates the next day. “The mindfulness really helped.”

As summer looms, students at dozens of schools across the country are trying hard to be in the present moment. This is what is known as mindfulness training, in which stress-reducing techniques drawn from Buddhist meditation are wedged between reading and spelling tests.

Mindfulness, while common in hospitals, corporations, professional sports and even prisons, is relatively new in the education of squirming children. But a small but growing number of schools in places like Oakland and Lancaster, Pa., are slowly embracing the concept — as they did yoga five years ago — and institutions, like the psychology department at Stanford University and the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, are trying to measure the effects.

During a five-week pilot program at Piedmont Avenue Elementary, Miss Megan, the “mindful” coach, visited every classroom twice a week, leading 15 minute sessions on how to have “gentle breaths and still bodies.” The sound of the Tibetan bowl reverberated at the start and finish of each lesson.

The techniques, among them focused breathing and concentrating on a single object, are loosely adapted from the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, the molecular biologist who pioneered the secular use of mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts in 1979 to help medical patients cope with chronic pain, anxiety and depression. Susan Kaiser Greenland, the founder of the InnerKids Foundation, which trains schoolchildren and teachers in the Los Angeles area, calls mindfulness “the new ABC’s — learning and leading a balanced life.”

ANOTHER BROTHER FALLS IN IRAQ - FOR WHAT?

Chief Warrant Officer Dwayne L. Moore

When Dwayne L. Moore was a kid, he didn't have just one G.I. Joe doll. He had all of them.

"He had the forts, he had the men, he had the stations, everything set up in his room, like on TV," said his nephew Dameian James, who grew up with Moore. "As little kids, we ate together, we slept in the same bed, we shared our dreams, we shared our feelings."

So it was no surprise to his family that Moore joined the Army after high school and steadily climbed the ranks. Moore, 31, a field artillery warrant officer assigned to the 10th Mountain Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, was killed April 19 when his base near Mahmudiyah, Iraq, came under attack.

Moore's sister Phyllis Thompson said Moore apparently was killed as he was trying to help comrades. "He cared about everybody," Thompson said. "Our kids, if he'd see one of them going this way or that way, he'd say, 'Boy, get your life straight,' and ask about the Lord and ask them what they wanted to do with their life."

Moore, the youngest of seven children, always seemed to know what he wanted, family members said. He married his high school sweetheart, Kelly, and they had a daughter, Aiyana, 5, who worshiped her father. The feeling was mutual. "Even if he went to the barbershop, she'd go along," said Sandra Wallace, another sister.

His family last heard from him April 10. "He had called on my father's birthday," said Moore's brother Gary.

Moore was a big man -- a wide receiver in high school, a father and a godfather, an Army officer. But now, his brother said, their grieving mother keeps saying, "That's the baby. That's the baby."

While Moore served in Iraq, Halliburton profited nearly $6 Billion dollars.

Should his wife and daughter share in any of those war profits?

Church uses billboard to "trash" rap music

June 19, 2007 01:20 PM

Members of a church in Chicago are using billboards to protest demeaning lyrics used in rap songs.

On Monday, St. Sabina Church put up 20 billboards across the city that target recording artists who they believe produce negative music.

The billboard reads, "Stop listening to trash," and lists ten current rappers whose lyrics they believe demean women and endorse violence.

The pastor of St. Sabina Church says the only way to end violence and disrespect towards women is to confront every form of negativity, including the music industry.

All of a sudden some "Church group" has money for billboards. LOL. GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE.

Reverend Such N. Such suddenly dips INTO HIS POCKET to put up 10 billboards, which are in turn broadcast on 10 media Networks and 10 million blogs.

Sicking Obedient Negros on less Obedient Negros. This is called supporting the "opposition party". Using one set of black people to completely discredit another set of black people.

Ever since Kanye said something after Katrina it's been Open Season on Rap.

BALLIN'? Hip Hop 1930's Style

James Van Der Zee. Harlem 1932

Robyn said...

We cant help it, being fly is in our blood!

Letter From A Birmingham Jail

Written while imprisoned after the Birmingham civil rights march, King's eloquent Letter from Birmingham City Jail responded to white and Jew liberals who urged him to moderate his civil rights activities.

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant 'Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Should Jasai's Budha Card Be Revoked?

jasai said...

no judgement. just preference. again, he will do what he wants.and BTW, if a man is gay i certainly would not sanction him marrying a woman just to make those who are uncomfortable with the reality of homosexulaity happy. Even if the man were my son.

as a matter of fact, I would kick his asscause i don't know a single woman, black or white that would rather a gay man marry her than marry or "be with" another man.

when arab families assert that they want their children to marry within their culture they are called proud.

same with

mexicans

asians

jews

i could care less what the peanut gallery thinks.

i'm a brown girls for brown girls.



Uh Oh. Wait till Justin Timberlake hears that.

Didn't I tell you to stop fucking with me?!
Didn't I tell you to stop fucking with me?!
Oh! You sorry now huh?! You was just playin' huh?!
Too late for that shit Pedro!
Por favor Senor Bull my ass!

"Daddy. Do You Like Tiger?"

Yes son. "Why?" Well, he's great at what he does. He practices very hard. He's disciplined and focused. He's got heart. "But daddy, he's married to a white girl."

Well ... uh ... yeah. That's his business. "Well when I get big. I'm marrying a black girl like mommy." LOL. Well OK. That's your business, but I don't blame you.

8 years old and dealing with race and politics already.

Healthy and realistic navigation of the culture or anachronistic and racist group think?

OBSCURE BULLSHIT ISSUE DU JOUR

Michael Fisher said...

DV.

Put This one up on your site, please. I'd like to see what your friend II has to say about it.

Black Egyptians
Kola Boof
About a year ago, one of my uncles wrote to me from Egypt, quite bitterly. He said: People are so busy discussing and fighting over whether or not the ancient Egyptians were "black"---that they forgot we're still here.

We still exist. The Arabs who claim to be Egyptians have not exterminated ALL of
us yet. Kola, you live in America, you're somebody over there. Why don't you say something?

You're only claiming SUDAN. But that's not right. Your father was an Egyptian.

And he's right. Because of my own bitterness...my hatred and loathing for my father's country...I have been remiss to mention anything about the country.
Intellectual Insurgent said...

Fisher,

"I read through it. I don't know what to tell you and I don't know what you want me to say. It's obvious this woman is in a lot of pain and that there are many sources of that pain." ...

"I know how racist Arabs are and I've witnessed it first hand. The word "abd" means slave (like in the name Abdallah, i.e. slave of God). When Arabs in America refer to Blacks in Arabic, they refer to them as "abeed" (plural of slaves). ...

I want to understand why, throughout the world, dark is seen as bad and white as good."

Denmark Vesey said ...
Au Contrare Mon Frere -

I can not agree with your characterization of the Light v Dark phenomena. In fact. I've experienced and witnessed the exact opposite of what you describe.

Looking beyond the caste system connotations, historic media distortion and popular myth, one can see a world fascinated by and drawn to dark.

Especially women.

If you're already good looking. Dark is a plus.

As far as Arabs using derogatory words for blacks - So what?

All people have derogatory words for others. Arabs don't hold a monopoly on racism. You should hear my cousins in East Baltimore talk about Arabs.

Brother Fisher. Why the lame group identity politics? Why the foot stomping outrage regarding a spin-doctored non-issue like the "Plight of Egyptian Blacks?"

You had to skip over the plight 300 Million other Africans before you got to them. What's next, the "Plight of Tall Black Chinese Midgets"?

"People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people. "

"Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality. "

"Tell the children the truth. "

"The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory. "

"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall. "

"The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead. "

"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. "

SIZZLA - This Generation's Bob Marley

Emerging during the latter half of the '90s, the enormously prolific Sizzla was one of the leaders of the conscious dancehall movement. Along with Buju Banton and Capleton, he helped lead dancehall back to the musical and spiritual influence of roots reggae, favoring organic productions and heavily Rastafarian subject matter. A member of the militant Bobo Ashanti sect, he sometimes courted controversy with his strict adherence to their views, particularly his aggressive condemnations of homosexuals and white Western oppressors. Yet overall, his music was generally positive, advocating faith, compassion for poor black youth, and respect for women. He remained something of an enigma to the public at large, rarely granting interviews and keeping his concert appearances to a minimum. Nonetheless, he still ranked as arguably the most popular conscious reggae artist of his time, thanks to a normally high standard of quality control -- all the more impressive given the frequency with which he recorded. A versatile singjay-style vocalist with a gruff, gravelly tone, he was capable of both rapid-fire chatting and powerful, melodic singing, and his best backing riddims were among the strongest in contemporary dancehall.

HOW MANY BROTHAS MUST DIE IN IRAQ?

332

Has a single NeoCon lost a son in Iraq?

WANT TO BE A CITIZEN? FIGHT IN IRAQ, AND THEN MAYBE.

A senior defense official expressed hope today that a provision in the stalled immigration bill that would have allowed some undocumented aliens to join the military won’t fall off the radar screen.

The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM, provision in the immigration bill was expected to help boost military recruiting, Bill Carr, acting deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel policy, said today during a telephone conference with veterans’ group representatives.

The DREAM provision offered a way for high-achieving children of undocumented or illegal residents to join the military and, ultimately, become citizens, Carr explained.

“In other words, if you had come across (the border) with your parents, yet you were a minor child and have been in the U.S. school system for a number of years, then you could be eligible to enlist,” he said. “And at the end of that enlistment, then you would be eligible to become a citizen.”

Certain non-citizens have been eligible to enlist in the military since the Revolutionary War. Today, about 35,000 non-citizens serve in the military, and about 8,000 permanent resident aliens enlist every year, said Marine Maj. Stuart Upton, a Pentagon spokesman.

African Madonna

Adetoye Adewole

Ms. Jamaica 2006

Assault On Jamaica Continues

Time Mag Warns of 'The Most Homophobic Place on Earth'

NewsBusters
Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias

Greg Sheffield
It's not clear what writer Tim Padgett is hoping to accomplish by the article, although it's possibly meant to put pressure on Jamaica and drive down tourism. Recently the BBC did a report claiming Iraqi homosexuals were better under Saddam. Now Time has an article sounding the alarm about Jamaica with the title: "The Most Homophobic Place on Earth?"

Perhaps Padgett hopes he can start a movement to boycott Jamaica as a tourist location. Starting a new drumbeat or a new consensus is the dream of all journalists. "How many drumbeats have you started in your career?" is the ultimate benchmark of journalistic accomplishment.

Members of the MSM are practicing imperial liberalism. Not only must left-wing principals be upheld in West, but in the rest of the world as well. Jamaica has a high crime rate, but more important than that to Time is the country's high homophobia rate, which surely must represent a worse threat to the country's security.

Michael Fisher said...

Man. Take that pic down. That shit is disgusting.

Damien

Keep it up DV. It's an extreme way of showing what the MSM wants Jamaica to happily embrace. Gayness is what it is.

Robyn said...

That shit is nasty.

AMEIRCAN GANGSTER ...

Originally titled: The Return of Superfly:

"Everyone, Goldfinger Terrell, Willie Abraham, Hollywood Harold, was talking about this big guy, this Tango. About six five, 270 pounds, quick on his feet . . . He killed two or three guys with his hands. Had this big bald head, like Mr. Clean. Wore those Mafia undershirts. Everyone was scared of him. So I figured, Tango, you're my man.

"I went up to him, asked him if he wanted to do something, some business. I gave him $5,000 worth of merchandise. Because I know he was gonna fuck up. That's the kind of guy he was. Two weeks later, I go talk to him. 'Look, man,' I say. 'Hey, man, when you gonna pay me?'

"Then, like I knew he would, he started getting hot, going into one of his gorilla acts. He was one of them silverback gorillas, you know, you seen them in the jungle. A silverback gorilla, that's what he was.

"He started cursing, saying he was going to make me his bitch and he'd do the same to my mama too. Well, as of now, he's dead. No question, a dead man. But I let him talk. A dead man got a right to say what he wants. Now the whole block is there, to see if I'm going to pussy out. He was still yelling. So I said to him, 'When you get through, let me know.' "

"Then the motherfucker broke for me. But he was too late. I shot him. Four times, right through here: bam, bam, bam, bam.

"Yeah, it was right there," says Frank Lucas, 35 years after the shooting, pointing out the car window. "The boy didn't have no head. The whole shit blowed out back there . . . That was my real initiation fee into taking over completely down here. Because I killed the baddest motherfucker. Not just in Harlem but in the world."

But Then Again ...

Do we really need scripture to tell us some things just aint right?

Gay aint the "New Black". It's still the "Same Ol' Homo".

Jamaica Strikes Back At The Gay Lobby

Jamaica has been under attack for some time. The government is being pressured via boycotts and negative media campaigns to compel the people of Jamaica to "accept" homosexuality.

Unlike the frightened conformists of America, the Jamaicans have drawn a line in the sand and refuse to be intimidated by the gay lobby. They insist their attitudes and opinions are not a product of "homophobia" but a product of their Christian culture.

The Jamaica Observer

"First of all, the global homosexual lobby must be told unequivocally and unapologetically that Jamaica is not a homophobic country - we are a Christian country. The fact that many Jamaicans are bad Christians is a completely different matter altogether. For Jamaicans, the issue of homosexuality is a deeply cultural and spiritual matter.

In the eyes of Jamaicans, to say that homosexuality is right, is to say that God is wrong, and that will never happen.
Homosexuality is not merely an issue of a different value system, or issues of "preference" or "choice". It is an issue that strikes at the very core of a belief system that is rooted in the Bible, and one that Jamaicans have valued since time immemorial, and a belief system that defines and calibrates who we are.

One of the most effective strategies of the homosexual lobby (with the help of its local agents) is to force you into a corner by saying that if you dislike the behaviour you automatically dislike the person. That's a trick that hasn't worked with me. Some of the nicest, kindest, brightest and most creative people I know are homosexuals, and some of the meanest and most obnoxious human beings I know are heterosexuals, and vice versa. The issue is sin, not sexual orientation, and all of us, both gays and "straights" are guilty in the eyes of God even when we don't even know it. The wonderful thing is that God's grace is sufficient for all of us.

Cash Rules Everything Around Me

Brothers in Brooklyn and Memphis Fight Over Street Corners To Sling Drugs. Brothers in Africa are starting to kill over the right to hustle that other drug - Oil.

Death Rules Niger Delta in
Battle to Control Oil

KEN WIWA / The Observer

Kidnappings and ethnic war in Nigeria have one root cause - oil. The power struggles and corruption that flow from it have claimed thousands of lives. Eleven years after his own father was killed there, Ken Wiwa reports from the Niger Delta on the persistent conflict that is tearing the country apart.