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The blog has finally entered a phase of restructuring is necessary ... not be taken offline, but for the duration of this week could be seriously messed up and / or dysfunctional. E 'Progress, baby!
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Monday, June 22, 2009

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Freak III - Lieutenant, she is as beautiful as a horse

Freak Third, written by me and designed by Francesco Acquaviva , is now available in bookstores, after a troubled most creative phase of the Stations of the Cross. The audience welcomed him warmly: entro pochi mesi tutte le copie nei magazzini della casa editrice sono state vendute alle fumetterie. Che dire dell'albo?
Riporto il comunicato stampa della casa editrice, perché non se ne vedono molti di questo genere.
E' in corso una guerra segreta. Ha avuto inizio quando il sangue della prima popstar ha bagnato il palco, ad opera di un misterioso sicario. Da allora, altri celebri cantanti sono caduti, mentre loschi figuri si muovevano sullo sfondo di questo conflitto senza quartiere che ha messo sotto assedio la Cara Vecchia Canzone Italiana. Abbiamo visto intrighi, esecuzioni di animaletti esotici, cospirazioni ad opera di Donne Nude. E Roberto "FREAK" Antoni: sfuggente bohemien dal torbido past, sitting at the center of this web of events like a fat spider drunk. The showbiz calls revenge. You who would you deploy?

FREAK THIRD continues the successful comic book series that tells with humor surreal Life, Art and misdeeds of Robert Antoni, essayist, writer and voice Skiantos. The script of this episode was created by Massimo Spiga, and drawings by Francesco Acquaviva . FREAK THIRD know what that is right for you. In bookshops from April.
On the homepage of the designer, Francesco Acquaviva, there is a preview of a number of tables of comics: DevilAngel.biz .

Freak III - Lieutenant, she is as beautiful as a horse
Written by: Massimo Spiga
Designed by: Francesco Acquaviva
Publisher: SIE Ltd.

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Sunday, June 21, 2009

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The alleged masterminds of '11 / 9 'M'inventavo stories' - 18/06/09

( Articolo tradotto per Megachip )

di Devlin Barrett – Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Khalid Sheik Mohammed, accusato di essere il genio criminale dietro all'attentato dell'11 settembre, ha confessato di aver mentito profusamente agli agenti che lo torturavano per estorcergli la verità sulle sue attività eversive. Secondo quanto riferito in alcune sezioni dalle trascrizioni governative che sono state recentemente desecretate, Mohammed avrebbe orgogliosamente rivendicato la sua paternità more than two dozen terrorist attacks.

"I invented stories," said Mohammed in 2007, during the proceedings of a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay. In broken English, described the interrogation in which he was asked the location of the leader of al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden.

"The agent asked me" Where? "And I said," I do not know, '"says Mohammed. "Then he started to torture me. Then I said: "Yes, it is in this area ..." or "Yes, that guy is part of al-Qa'ida," even though I had no idea who he was. If you say no, they resumed with torture. "

Nevertheless, during the same hearing, Mohammed presented a list of 29 terrorist attacks that took part. The transcripts were made public, through a civil case, in which the American Civil Liberties Union has taken up hunting for documents and information on conditions of detention that the government has given to the accused for terrorism.

KSManga Previously, other documents were made public from hearings of the military tribunals, but the Obama administration is back on the topic and reviewed the sections remained secret then to consider that more could have been declassified portions.

Most of the new documents è incentrata sulle dichiarazioni che i detenuti hanno rilasciato a proposito degli abusi subiti durante gli interrogatori, mentre erano prigionieri in carceri extra-nazionali gestite della CIA.

Un detenuto, Abu Zubaydah, ha riferito al tribunale che «dopo mesi di sofferenza e di tortura, fisica e psicologica, non hanno nemmeno curato le mie ferite».

Zubaydah è stato il primo detenuto ad essere sottoposto alle tecniche di interrogatorio “avanzato”, approvate dall'amministrazione Bush, in cui avveniva una simulazione di annegamento (detto waterboarding), oppure l'indagato veniva sbattuto contro le pareti o era costretto a prolungati periodi di nudità.

Durante l'udienza, Zubaydah ha rivelato che queste pratiche lo hanno «quasi ucciso in almeno quattro occasioni».

«Dopo un paio di mesi, durante i quali ho quasi perso la ragione e la vita,» ha dichiarato Zubaydah, «hanno incominciato a prendere le misure necessarie per non farmi morire».

Ha inoltre affermato che, dopo essere stato trattato per molti mesi in questo modo, le autorità hanno concluso che non fosse il numero 3 di al-Qa‘ida, come avevano a lungo creduto.

Fonte: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1098707.html
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  • Choose your poison - Volume 2 - Theatre of Shadows (2009)
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Descartes at gunpoint

( Published theorem - Issue Sardinian film No. 4, November 2006 )

He keeps talking about Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's masterpiece that continues to recombine and become "versions" most up to date, as a software. Or a replicant. Projected world premiere at the 64th Venice International Film Festival, Blade Runner: The Final Cut is the third incarnation of the masterpiece that wrote the rules of the new science fiction, like a hammer hitting the unsuspecting public that, in 1982, still asleep under the spell of mainstream fiction. It is opposed to psychology and sleight of paperboard in CGI, projecting into a cyberpunk nightmare in which a high-tech value of life is almost nonexistent. Blade Runner is a tech-noir which tells the story of Deckard, a hunter hired by megacorporations androids to hunt down and "pick up" four replicating out of control. That in Newspeak del 2019 significa uccidere, se si può veramente uccidere quello che la percezione pubblica vede come un bene di consumo.
Parallelamente, il film racconta la storia degli androidi rinnegati, piagati da una vita artificialmente abbreviata ed un'ansia ossessiva di incontrare il loro Creatore: Tyrell, un incrocio tra Bill Gates e il dottor Frankenstein, produttore di schiavi sintetici a basso costo. Ma Blade Runner va molto oltre Mary Shelley: in questo film, la creazione di esseri umani artificiali è già massificata, banalizzata, commercializzata. L'uomo conosce da tempo “cose che non era destinato a sapere” ed é chiaro come l’esistenza di limiti sacri alla portata della tecnologia sia una semplice illusione. Il pensiero same in the post-computer process is a codified and replicated on an industrial scale.
On these bases, the surrogates assert their humanity, the motto of Cogito Ergo Sum (it is significant that the name of their nemesis, Deckard, the American pronunciation sounds identical to Descartes). Blade Runner brought science fiction to a more primary, fierce, psychic. E 'guerrilla ontology, plunged into a nightmare monumental urban and globalized. How would Frank Lloyd Wright, the Los Angeles film from "the illusion that Americans should be a great people for raising, and a similar level, this heavy barrage of commercial traps for humans." Especially in quel mondo, in cui il limite tra Dio ed il Capitalismo appare terribilmente sfuocato. Nel 1992, la produzione trovò opportuno realizzare un Director's Cut, per adeguare l'opera ad un gusto più moderno (il pubblico lo chiamava Blade Crawler,che significa “strisciante”). Troppo lento. Troppo retrò. Indigeribile per gli stomaci adrenalinici della nostra monocultura, che divora, assorbe e ricicla ogni universo esotico e lo risputa normalizzato alle regole del mercato. Ridley Scott supervisionò il progetto in maniera superficiale e la lavorazione fu piuttosto sbrigativa, ma non intaccò l'opera. La amplificò. Il Director's Cut aggiunse nuovi strati concettuali, maggiori ambiguità, più ritmo. Il nostro Descartes With gun was radically revised, suggesting that he might be a replicant. The bases on which it rested our interpretation of the film evaporated, leaving us lost in a sea of \u200b\u200bmirrors and ambiguity.
Which brings us to 2007, a year that gave much to the fringe lunatics of science fiction. After seven years of legal battles, Blade Runner: The Final Cut arrives in Venice and maintain, even if it were needed, as a possible starting point of thought pop in the 21st century. It 's a supercompressione of Badruillard, a quick dose of postmodernism cut with strong pulp. The Final Cut does not substantially alter the film, but corrects some distortions due to mounting construction precipitate of the previous version. I guess, seeing through the membrane of the cinema screen, this can only grin left with the passage of time more and more alike. One of its main pillars, on a narrative level, and the method VoightKampf. With this test, the hunter of androids are able to distinguish replicants from humans. Put them under stress with emotional questions and gruesome stories and then measure the emotional reactions: only human beings "inauthentic" do not feel empathy. The entire film leads us to identify in the androids and challenges our emotions. It 's a test VoightKampf. The guinea pig is you.
This kind of metanarrative, which is based direttamente al concetto di “iperrealtà” postmoderno, è la chiave di lettura privilegiata per chiunque voglia spingersi oltre il film e ricercarne le profonde radici. Quando, venticinque anni fa, Blade Runner si impose nell'immaginario collettivo, ci venne detto che era tratto da un oscuro e quasi sconosciuto romanzetto di un autore pulp. Un tipo strano, che scriveva opere con titoli come Gli Androidi Sognano Pecore Elettriche? (1965) e passò tutta la vita a descrivere le realtà artificiali di cui aveva paura. Parliamo di Philip K. Dick. Una veloce indagine nella mitologia personale dell'allora anonimo autore, ci mostra uno scrittore di science fiction popolare che sniffava speed quotidianamente ed era convinto che the FBI spying. He let the little notes in the garbage can in front of his home, in which he denounced his friends and acquaintances to the police alleged that they should withdraw the "hot material." He worked in a frenzy, with peaks of 4 books a year and writing session of 96 hours straight. When he left the planet earth, left behind five ex-wives, 121 short stories, novels and sixty a personal journal of 8000 pages, which were meticulously recorded the messages that God sent him through a pink laser beam. Or at least that's what he believed.
Philip K. Dick lived in a world of his creation, in which technological progress, market religion and mass media were mixed in an explosive cocktail that destroys any pretense of objective reality and eliminates any freedom. Let me be clear, he was a maniac. And that's why we like her. Philip K. Dick lived and commented on the 21 st century with fifty years in advance. The novel from which it originated Blade Runner contains the nucleus of all the problems that science fiction and modernity are still struggling to understand and overcome. As I write, technical zealous San Diego produce artificial chromosomes, leading eventually to the creation of real replicants. Anyone can connect to the internet and live your life in the virtual world of Second Life. E 'in a war of which we know nothing, except what we are shown through television by skilled manipulators embedded. All these topics, and a thousand others, are easy to find between the lines the writer's "crazy", he intuitively grasped today's postmodern anima mundi. We read in his personal diary, written together with God (or his): "The world is a hologram. We hypostasis of information, encoded in a language that we have lost the ability to decipher ". This idea, taken up obsessively in dozens of short stories and novels, is the new paradigm of science fiction, popularized by films like The Matrix . Throughout his life, Philip
Dick, as Deckard, attempted to distinguish reality from artificial ones profoundly human. Through literature, his personal method Voight-Kampf, found the spark of empathy as the only distinction between men and robots. Besieged by a lunatic reality empty and ephemeral, subject to the mental yoke of propaganda and marketing, we can only shake between us, socialize. And resist. Because, as he said in 1972, "in a totalitarian society where the caste is omnipotent, the fundamental values \u200b\u200bof the true human are: cheat, lie, evade, falsify, to be everywhere, scrubbing technology authorities with equipment made in his garage ". In 2007, coinciding with the projection of Venetian The Final Cut, The Library of America published for the first time the novels of Philip K. Dick, making him permanently into the pantheon of high literature. The mad prophet has wandered as a nomad between ontological divinity, power and individuality, looking for traps in the theater world. His wisdom is the search for knowledge, the relentless Cartesian doubt that dissolves the certainties in the search for truth. Dick loved the eighteenth-century poetry of the author Henry Vaughan. As Erik Davis points out, we can find it in the last verses of Man: "With its swirling research, man is the shuttle to which God imposed the bike, but not quiet."
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New details on anti-terrorism exercises in the July 7, 2005 London - 14/04/2009

( Article translated Megachip )


Power-Peter of Steve Watson - Infowars.com

In a pointed editorial comment Megachip .
Peter Power reveals the name of the company he worked with on the morning of the London bombings


Peter Power is the man who oversaw the tutorials on terrorist attacks in London during the morning of August 7, 2005 , just as it was in during a real attack. After a long silence three and a half games, the former head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism department, told more details of the background to these events with a statement that was the terminus in the comments section a blog. The site, at the time, was commenting on allegations that the Power had released to the BBC a week ago.
As we wrote earlier, the expert in crisis management has shown that some companies have taken advantage of the armor plating of London (which occurred on Wednesday, due to protests against the G20) to stage an exercise which had as its object a pandemic influence. When
blog Uncensored Magazine posted an article on the activities of Peter Power, he replied with a lengthy statement in which he reveals that the company he worked for 7 August was Reed Elsevier, the giant London-based information.
The company is mostly known for his legal database Lexis / Nexis, as well as have other sources of information: for example, produces a large number of scientific journals, including some of the largest and most respected. Reed is also a famous host of impressive exhibitions or events. Among other things, owns part of the Excel Centre in the port area of \u200b\u200bLondon, where last weekend was held on the G20.

Power-Peter Here is the full version of the declaration of Peter Power:
"Regarding the exercise of the July 7, 2005, and the parallels with the attack that day, have been said a bunch of nonsense. Since then, I have tried repeatedly to comment personally on numerous internet sites, more and more zealous of their conspiracy theories are avoiding any rational debate on the subject. It seems that those who are ready to enter any coincidence in an elaborate conspiracy theory are not inclined to dialogue with those who want to offer a different perspective. However, I have not lost all hope. So I hope, perhaps naively, that left some readers interested in reading an honest and factual account of the exercise that my company has done that day three years ago.
Unfortunately, in 2008 the BBC has postponed a television program (Of his series on conspiracies) that would shed light on these events. As the executive producer and his staff were very fair (many conspiracy theorists were invited to participate), three years ago our client has agreed to mention the name of his company in the documentary. We even granted to the BBC all the material on exercise in our possession. Unfortunately, in 2008, the broadcast was blocked, because it could interfere with an ongoing process. The broadcaster was forced to postpone it to 2009.
early 2005, Reed Elsevier, a company specializing in the world of journalism and information, which employs a thousand people in and around London, asked us to help them prepare a plan for crisis management and to conduct an exercise that put him in place. We have developed a variety of drafts for different scenarios and, finally, we set the exercise date: July 7 at 9:00.
The exercise that we developed was a series of procedures that six people (the management team of the crisis) would have to put in place. We put everything on PowerPoint. Our headquarters and location of the exercise, was an office near Chancery Lane, in the center of London. Since many staff members came to work on the subway, we chose to base the exercise su un attacco con esplosivi incendiari a tre vagoni della metro. Abbiamo usato come modello un vero attentato dell’IRA del ‘92 ed altri simili.
La metropolitana londinese è stata vittima di ben 18 attentati negli anni precedenti al 2005: sceglierla era una cosa logica, non chissà che precognizione. Se teniamo questo a mente, non ci stupisce constatare che la Deutsche Bank ha svolto un’esercitazione simile qualche giorno prima di noi e, ancora prima di questa, un’esercitazione interaziendale (e molto pubblicizzata) chiamata Osiris II ha simulato un attentato alla stazione Bank. Inoltre, nel 2004 ho partecipato a una puntata di BBC Panorama insieme a Michael Portillo, in cui abbiamo discusso di come Londra avrebbe potuto reagire certain terrorist acts (which in this case were fictitious, staged by the BBC).
In short, much of the research on which our practice was based had already been made. The scenario that we developed for our client began with a series of false news (taken from the above-mentioned transmission Panorama) and the events in question are developed only on the screen, as in any other exercise of this type. They were told by a facilitator, not external factors or actions that do not happen in our office. We have included in our scenario also the explosion of a bomb near the office of the magazine 'Jewish Chronicle': our imaginary terrorists were aware that this was the place where they would be passed through many of the commuters who were heading to their work, since some of the metro stations were to close. Of the eight metro stations which have been covered in the tutorial, we chose three. Just the three that have been affected by the tragic events of July 7, 2005. It was a confirmation of the validity of our scenario, although we would rather do without.
is not unusual for an exercise turns into a real crisis. For example, in January 2003, thirty people were injured when the derailment of a subway wagons has thrown against a wall. Meanwhile, the London police were doing a similar exercise, che il reparto vittime dovette interrompere per andare ad occuparsi dell’evento reale.
Un numero sorprendente di persone non riesce ad accettare queste coincidenze come tali. Credono che debba esserci dietro una cospirazione. Rifiutano di accettare che, se si svolge un’indagine approfondita per sviluppare il proprio scenario, si otterrà un’esercitazione i cui contenuti sono altamente probabili. Comunque, l’unico motivo per cui ho acconsentito a parlare in TV quel giorno, quando c’era ancora molta confusione sull’attentato, era quello di incoraggiare altre organizzazioni a pianificare nuove esercitazioni. Sappiamo bene che la minaccia del terrorismo è, e rimane, reale. Una conseguenza di questo è che, senza deserve it, Islam, a great Abrahamic and monotheistic faith (along with Judaism and Christianity), has become the object of hate for many people. "

To recap: the afternoon of July 7, 2005, Power has revealed a BBC radio interviewer that his company was doing for an unspecified group of a thousand people a tutorial focused on the explosion of three simultaneous bombings in three Underground stations at the same time the attack real place.
Here is the transcript of the interview broadcast.
PETER POWER: "At half past eight this morning we were conducting an exercise for a company that has over a thousand people in London, where we considered an attack identical to the one happened this morning. I still have my hair straight with fear. "
BBC:" To understand: you were conducting an exercise to see how we should react to an attack that really happened then? "
POWER:" Precisely. We planned about nine o'clock, for a company that obviously I'd rather not mention, even though I know they're listening and they know everything. We had a room full of experts in crisis management that had just met for the first time and so, in five minutes, we realized that we had developed really was happening. We quickly decided to implement all necessary measures to contain the crisis. "

Such a coincidence is absolutely incredible and, for this reason, some believe that the plan of Power has been put in place in advance or used by people who already knew before the attacks took place.

The same thing happened on 11 September, when some exercises focusing on the hijacked planes were superimposed on real hijackings. Some think that the exercises could serve as a cover for the attack, when its leaders were captured.

Power has alluded to the nature of these simulations after July 7, in an attempt to dampen the significance of these coincidences.

Less than a week after the attack, but Power and consultants of your company (the Visor) received an avalanche of e-mails and questions on the exercise, resulting primarily from our articles on the subject, was released the following statement:

"In addition to this, we will not make other comments. Given the extraordinary number of messages that came from uninformed people, do not answer to anyone that can not certify a good reason to ask for further details (such as journalists or academics). "
The Power of possible involvement in the attack is highly unlikely, because exercise would announce a national radio a few hours after the attack? But his reaction to questions regarding the exercise revealed a discomfort in dealing with these issues.

Translation for Megachip by Massimo Spiga.
Original article: "Peter Power Reveals More Details of 7 / 7 Terrorist Bombing Drills"


In December 2007, Power has been approached by a group of members of the group We Are Change. With education, they've explained who they were and what they were doing. He refused to answer their questions in front of a camera. He said he would not tolerate similar approaches.

Watch video:





Another sensational video:
The impressive statements made by Peter Power on TV July 7, 2005 (translation and subtitles in Italian by of luogocomune.net):




Megachip Note:
Peter Power wants to tell us that the simulation exercises are routine and a fact that the exercise of 7 July did not come out of the ordinary , has just 'coincided' with the actual attacks. A no-brainer. In fact
the scenarios defined 'walk through' have nothing routine. Even the simulation exercise of the company's Power attacks was no coincidence isolated. Both
during the London bombings, both at 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States exercises that were being replicated scenarios very close to what really happened.
To justify the lack of preparedness of U.S. defense before the September 11 attacks, commentators well accredited to the mass media to spread wide and governments have talked about events 'unpredictable'.
But there are other facts that, far from accreditation unpredictability, precognitions seem exceptional. Similar exercises had been carried out. As you've read about " USA Today," in the two years preceding the September 11 attacks, "the command of the air defense of the North American region [North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, responsible for air defense of U.S. and Canada] has conducted exercises simulating what the White House has since qualified unimaginable [...]: the use of hijacked airplanes as weapons crashing into them on the objectives. "There is therefore the umbrella of a procedure that removes stains of suspicion the actions they are repaired. Who prepares an attack may include operations fragmented into many actions that are inserted in the framework of the exercises.
good representation of tables rich with historical and deeply disturbing interpretation of the many exercises of 9 / 11 is contained in a chapter of the book "ZERO". The chapter was written by Webster Griffin Tarpley and is called "Anatomy of a Coup d'Etat.
An article in The New York Times, just 20 days after the events in London reported the findings of many members of the police and intelligence measures to exclude that the four alleged terrorists had planned to kill himself, but because they were "duped up to a trap letale ». Lo scenario che emerge in quest’ipotesi è che i supposti attentatori siano stati in qualche modo coinvolti in un’impresa che però non controllavano.
Nel programma Day Side del canale FOX News del 29 luglio 2005 l’esperto di terrorismo John Loftus, già procuratore al Dipartimento USA della Giustizia, spiegò che la presunta ‘mente’ degli attentati londinesi, Haroon Rashid Aswat, era una risorsa dell’intelligence britannica .
Sono scenari che - quando il dibattito era più libero e perciò capace di approssimarsi alla verità – sarebbero stati definiti da “Terrorismo di Stato” anche nei media mainstream.
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A personal computer is not so personal - 03/30/2009

( This article was translated for Megachip )

of "Russia Today"

The personal computer could become a little private in the future, thanks to laws proposed by the United States and some European government. These measures, in fact, allow the state to access the contents of your hard disk.
The Obama Administration maintains an unusual level of secrecy on the details of this initiative, and this fuels the concerns of computer users and activists for civil rights.

now, almost all are in possession of an MP3 player and a laptop. But what would happen if the government, without any specific reason, you concedesse the power to access it?

The Obama administration, with an almost absolute confidentiality, is finishing an international treaty on copyright along with other European nations. Thanks

ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), governments will benefit from new, extended powers for what concerns the search and seizure of materials deemed in violation of copyright.

While the Obama label these secret plans with the label of "national security", Richard Stallman, a prominent activist for the freedom of information, calls them a "war sharing. "

"As if we knew them, we do not like you are engaged in a process of recycling legislation '" says Stillman. "So is bypassing democracy and they can do what they want. I imagine that the new legislation will be terrible, because if not, would not need to act so cautiously. "

So far, issues of copyright are in civil justice. Obama wants to make it a criminal violation.
And, although the most recent statistics confirm that on the average MP3 player of every teenager has more than 800 songs downloaded illegally, it is difficult to understand the problem in terms of "national security".

It is believed that one of the objectives of the Treaty is the peer-to-peer, ie one in which a user navigates the software to another user. But which direction will these new rules will be to let us keep an eye on Big Brother, this time to a completely different level.

Rumors from our sources tell us, for example, that the Border Patrol will have unprecedented powers to search without a warrant, and exciting.
They can browse, copy and seize any material digital laptop in public. Music, movies, games, as well as personal data.

For some, il computer ed i suoi contenuti sono paragonabili ad un cassetto della biancheria e sono convinti che il governo non dovrebbe metterci le zampe. O, almeno, dovrebbe avere un buon motivo per farlo.

Altri commentatori aggiungono che il processo di creazione di questa nuova legge va contro tutto ciò per cui Obama si è candidato alla presidenza, specialmente la trasparenza.

È anche stato sottolineato che le nazioni impegnate in questo trattato non includono importanti attori internazionali, come la Cina, la Russia ed il Brasile.

Articolo originale : http://www.russiatoday.com/Sci_Tech/2009-03-26/A_not-so-private_PC.html
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shirts that show the mind set that led to war crimes in Gaza - 24.03.2009

( Questo articolo è stato tradotto per Megachip )

di Adam Horowitz – da Mondoweiss

«Ha'aretz» prosegue con la pubblicazione delle testimonianze dei soldati impiegati a Gaza. L'articolo completo si trova qui . È interessante perché mostra senza riserve il fervore messianico che alimentava la politica di punizione collettiva perseguita dal governo israeliano durante l'Operazione Piombo Fuso. Non lo commenterò ulteriormente, andate a leggerlo.

1 Voglio parlare di un altro articolo, pubblicato proprio oggi da «Ha'aretz». Il pezzo è firmato da Uri Blau ed è intitolato " Se non lasciate vergini non ci saranno attentati ". Si incentra sull'abitudine dei soldati israeliani di farsi stampare maglie personalizzate che recano il logo della loro unità insieme a slogan di vario tipo. Di seguito, potete vedere qualche esempio di queste magliette e della grafica che le adorna. Queste immagini sono comparse solo sull'edizione in lingua ebraica del sito di «Ha'aretz»:

- Una T-shirt per cecchini di fanteria reca la frase “Meglio usare Durex” vicino al disegno di un bambino palestinese morto, con accanto sua madre in lacrime ed un orsacchiotto.
- Un'altra maglietta per cecchini della Brigata Givati mostra una donna palestinese incinta con un mirino stampato sul ventre e lo slogan, written in English, "one bullet, two deaths."
- After Operation Lead Time, the soldiers of the same battalion have begun to wear a shirt that shows the prime minister of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, which is anal penetrated by a vulture.
- T-shirt dedicated to the soldiers who have completed the course sniper: you see a Palestinian child who grows into a teenager and then an aggressive armed adult. The slogan: "No matter how it starts, we will conclude."
- There are shirts from spodoratamente sexual content. Lavi Battalion, for example, has issued a T-shirt that shows a soldier standing next to a girl bruised and sentence "I bet you were raped!"
- Some of the images highlight the actions that the army has officially denied, as the practice of confirming the Dead "(shot in the head of the corpses, to ensure their actual departure), or damage to places of worship, or to kill women and children.

T-shirt with the slogan "Make sure that every Arab knows that the future mother of his son is in my hands!" has recently been banned. However, a soldier in the Givati \u200b\u200bBrigade, said that in recent months in magliette ell'anno last, his platoon has printed dozens of shirts, sweatshirts and pants, with the text.
"It was designed as a soldier was the Angel of Death, standing next to an Arab city ed un'arma da fuoco." dice un soldato "Il messaggio era molto forte. La cosa più divertente è che quando uno dei nostri è andato a ritirare le magliette, l'uomo che le aveva stampate era un arabo. Il soldato si è sentito in colpa ed ha chiesto ad una ragazzina al bancone di portargliele."
Nel 2006, i soldati che avevano partecipato al corso "Carmon Team" per cecchini d'elite hanno stampato una T-shirt che mostrava il disegno di un arabo armato di coltello e la frase "Dovrai correre molto, molto, molto veloce prima che sia finita”. Sotto, il disegno di una donna araba che piange su una lapide e lo slogan: "E dopo piangerai, piangerai." [Queste frasi sono prese dal testo di una canzone pop.]
Un'altra maglia per cecchini mostra un ennesimo arabo nel mirino e l'annuncio: "Lo facciamo con le migliori intenzioni."
Una T-shirt stampata dopo l'Operazione Piombo Fuso per il Battaglione 890 dei paracadutisti mostra un soldato con le fattezze di King Kong in una città sotto attacco. Il messaggio non lascia spazio ad ambiguità: "Se credi che si possa aggiustare, allora convinciti che si può distruggere!"

Queste magliette, prima di essere stampate, devono essere approvate dai comandanti dell'esercito. Sono una tradizione militare, anche se la loro natura esplicita è per certi versi nuova. Orna Sasson-Levy, sociologo dell'Università di Bar-Ilan, afferma che le T-shirt “fanno parte di una radicalizzazione del processo that the whole nation is going through: the soldiers are only the vanguard. " The Israeli activist Sergeiy Sandler, engaged for years in campaigns against militarism association with New Profile , sent us this article by e-mail, explaining that the shirts are "an enduring tradition of Israeli military units, can be found everywhere , stalls, even though they generally have less offensive slogans. A picture is worth a thousand words, is not it? "

do not think this type of T-shirts are exclusive to Israel. I bet they were created for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. But the loops indicate an environment where it is allowed, if not encouraged, the making of war crimes. They reflect a mindset that Palestinian life is viewed with disdain and often not even recognized as such. One of the soldiers has made it clear, during testimony in which he described the murder of a mother and her two children: "... the general atmosphere, for what I understand from most of the colleagues with whom I spoke ... I do not know how to describe it ... let's say that the lives of Palestinians have much, much less important than the lives of our soldiers. For what concerns them, thus justifying their every action. "

Original article: http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/03/racist-and-sexist-military-shirts-show-the-fruits-of-israeli-militarism.html
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SPP: how are you on the militarization and annexation of North America - 16/03/2009

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police di Stephen Lendman – GlobalResearch.ca

Il titolo si riferisce alla Partnership del Nord America per la Sicurezza e la Prosperità (il cui acronimo in inglese è SPP), conosciuta anche come North American Union. Questa organizzazione ebbe origine il 23 marzo del 2005 a Waco, in Texas, durante una conferenza a cui parteciparono George Bush, il presidente messicano Vincente Fox e il premier canadese Paul Martin. Il suo obiettivo è la promozione di un accordo che stimoli l'integrazione economica e politica delle nazioni involved and the cooperation of the respective security services. Its activities are carried out without publicity in the media, through government groups that engineered binding policy directives bypassing the public and the normal parliamentary debate.



In summary, it is a corporate coup d'etat backed by the army, which undermined the sovereignty of the three partner nations, their people and their legislative bodies. It 'a dagger stuck in their heart of democracy, even if the public is largely unaware of its activities.

The last SPP summit was held in New Orleans last April. Since then, his action was largely hampered by the severity of the global economic crisis, which requires the full attention of the leaders involved. Nevertheless, the decisions taken so far will be reported in the following lines, along with some additional information.

Last September, the 'Army Times reported that the Third Brigade of the First Team Assault (while deployed in Iraq) would be transferred to American soil by October 1, to enter into a "federal force ready action in case of emergencies or natural disasters or man-made, including terrorist attacks. "

'E' the first time an active unit is put under the command of NORTHCOM, a joint command established in 2002 to coordinate and control the defense of federal initiatives and actions to support the defense of civil authorities. "
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Then, on Dec. 1, the Washington Post said the Pentagon had deployed 20 thousand soldiers on American soil by 2011, with the aim of "helping state and local officials in case of nuclear attack or other disasters '. You have set three combat units capable of rapid reaction. Two more could be added to the project. 80 units will be integrated with the National Guard, trained to respond to attacks of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, with high explosives or other attacks of a terrorist nature. In other words, you plan to use platoons trained to kill and take to militarize the United States.

The pretext is security. These units will be operational in the event of a terrorist attack, genuine or not, and even in case of riots by the people, proven by the economic crisis. Considering the extent and severity of the crisis, there is a reasonable probability that someone, sooner or later, you decide to react. In this case, armed patrols of soldiers will join the local police (already militarized) as soon as the declaration of martial law or the order came to carry out repressive security measures.

According to the document "Being ready for the next disastro catastrofico”, pubblicato nel 2008 dalla DHS/FEMA, dono state sviluppate procedure di “Emergenza Catastrofica” per reagire a situazioni “naturali” o “causate dall'uomo”. Se le condizioni lo richiederanno, si parla di sospensione della Costituzione e legge marziale. Si propone anche di militarizzare gli Stati Uniti per proteggere il mondo degli affari.

Lo scorso primo ottobre, in conseguenza all'annuncio che l'amministrazione Bush intendeva dispiegare pattuglie di soldati sul suolo americano, con un budget di “100 miliardi di dollari (di bailout)”, il Partito d'Azione Canadese ha pubblicato un post intitolato "ALLARME: GOLPE NEGLI USA".


Probabili esiti

Gli sforzi dell'SPP si sono arrestati durante il periodo di transizione da Bush a Obama, ma il progetto di “integrazione profonda” rimane in piedi.
Il 19 gennaio, il Centro per la Politica Commerciale dell'Università di Ottawa ha tracciato le linee direttrici per un progetto di approfondimento dei rapporti tra Canada e USA. Il loro documento afferma che una «cooperazione repentina e sostenuta nel tempo» in questo periodo di crisi globale, avrebbe dovuto includere le forze di sicurezza e di difesa, il commercio e la competitività.

Il testo, inoltre, sostiene «che l'argomento cruciale è la necessità di ripensare l'architettura di gestione degli spazi Economic Community of North America, including trade liberalization. " The language used is full of expressions like "rethink (s) to modernize the border" and their meaning in context seems to allude to a cancellation of the same. Is that the Mexican and Canadian. Similarly, the document recommends that "integrate regulatory regimes into a single system that can be applied to both sides of the border." He argues that the arrival of a new administration in Washington is "golden opportunity" to forge a "program leading to a mutually beneficial and redraws the U.S. and global governance in the years to come."

Send waving the specter of protectionism and the need to avoid it, given the current economic climate. Fosters a "more ambitious US-Canada partnership," which exceeds the NAFTA, in agreement with Mexico.

Another document produced by the Center for North American cross-border studies from Arizona State University, entitled "North America Next," calls a "sustainable competitiveness in the security" and a greater integration between the U.S., Canada and Mexico through ' sustainable security, a business and an efficient transport system "to make" the three North American nations are more secure, more functional and economically more prosperous. "

Both the project of the University Arizona to Carleton initiatives aim to strengthen the SPP with the help of the new administration in Washington, especially in a climate of global economic crisis that brought the problem to the fore.


Other issues under discussion

journalist Mike Finch, in an article entitled "North American Union Watch," published in the newspaper 'The Canadian', there are reports that U.S. and Canadian organizations whose goal is to end the free flow of information on the Internet. Quote
the discovery of a "project for the elimination of freedom on the Internet by 2010 in Canada" and by 2012 worldwide, effettuata da un «gruppo di attivisti a favore della neutralità della rete».

Secondo la sua ricostruzione dei fatti, i due più grandi ISP canadesi, la Bell Canada e la TELUS, intendono limitare il browsing, bloccare alcuni siti e rendere a pagamento la maggior parte degli altri, in un'iniziativa articolata dal SPP che avrà inizio nel 2012. Reese Leysen, del servizio di web hosting I-Power, lo definisce un progetto «oltre la censura: vogliono uccidere il più grande ecosistema di libera espressione e libertà di parola mai esistito nella storia dell'uomo». Cita fonti interne a grandi aziende, che l'hanno informato su «accordi di esclusività tra gli ISP e i grandi fornitori di contenuti (come le TV and publishers of video games) to decide which sites will be included in the standard package offered to users, while the rest of the network will be unreachable except upon an additional charge. "

For Leysen, its sources are" 100% reliable " . Rather, it indicates that a similar picture emerged from an article published in Time magazine by Dylan Pattyn. The sources of the latter would be internal to Bell Canada and TELUS. According to these, is expected to cover only 100-200 of the most visited sites in the basic subscription package, in all likelihood, will include news agencies most popular and held out the entire circuit of the alternative press. "The Internet will become a playground for billionaires content creators "such as cable TV, unless it is put in place measures to stop this process.

Leysen think that the United States and ISPs worldwide have similar ideas on limiting the freedom of speech and invasions of privacy. If he is right, the stakes are high. But the profit margin is substantial, and therefore friendly governments could agree. There is also talk of using "deceptive marketing tactics and terrorism" (as, for example, waving the threat of child pornography) to get the public support to these rules liberticide masked by the rules for network security. You must stop immediately.


Projects to rename the SPP / NAU

Last March, the Canadian Fraser Insist has brought in a article titled "Saving the North American Partnership for Security and Prosperity" because the wave of criticism provoked by the organization. Suggests to discard the symbol SPP / NAU, opting for Nasri (North American Standards and Regulatory Area) to hide his real objective. According to the article, the 'SPP brand is now muddy, then it must be replaced to continue the initiatives that NAFTA has left orphans: integrating security issues concerning the quality of life, such as food safety, riscaldamento globale, il cambiamento climatico e le pandemie. Reclama anche un maggiore sforzo comunicativo per blandire la pubblica opinione. Vogliono ingannare il maggior numero di persone possibile, finché non sarà troppo tardi per intervenire.


DOMINION Malcontento in America a livello statale

Il 23 febbraio, obiettando al concetto di “integrazione profonda”, il giornalista Jim Kouri di «News with Views» (NWV) ha pubblicato un articolo intitolato: “Che i singoli stati dichiarino la propria sovranità”. Il testo ripropone le parole dello stratega politico Mike Baker, quando disse: «Gli americani sono sempre più disillusi dalla mancanza di prospettiva long-term evidence from the federal government on issues such as illegal immigration, crime and economic chaos. The federal government will even creep into the private lives of citizens through laws controlling the movement of firearms and other initiatives, "issues that the Founding Fathers' relegated to the discretion of individual states."
is also worrying that the states fail to fund their projects because of budget too tight and are forced to make cuts. In addition to this, even the intrusion of Washington in the administration of local justice is worrying.

So far, nine states have declared their sovereignty and another dozen are considering to do so. The laws already approved or proposed rights ranging from general to selective, such as controlling the movement of firearms and abortion.

On 30 January, the state of Washington has sided with them and passed the Law HJM-4009, which states:
"The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that" the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution and not prohibited by them, shall be reserved for individual states or the people. " The same amendment defines the total scope of federal power, stating that it is limited to what is explicitly written into the Constitution. "
early January, even New Hampshire adopted a similar rule, the HCR-6, "which affirms the rights of States based on Jeffersonian principles." Other states, in part or totally, agree on this line are California, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia. Besides these, the following states are currently debating such measures: the Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Arkansas, Idaho, Alabama, Maine, Nevada, Hawaii, Alaska, Wyoming and Mississippi.

addition to the debate on the rights of individual states, the main themes of this movement are:
- the economic crisis;
- the pest control that Wall Street exerts on the political
- its effect on the system of Checks & Balances;
- the bailout excessive given to an insolvent banking system and corrupt at the expense of budgets of individual states and their rights;
- shameless and unsustainable public spending. The public debt that is bringing the federation into bankruptcy, putting an intolerable burden on the shoulders of the states.

In principle, there are concerns that Washington is complicit in the crisis that is gripping the country and who wants to get rid of its responsibilities or, at least, tend to behave like this. If this movement grows stronger, it will serve to slow the process of integration deep "or lock for a considerable period, but is unlikely to stop it altogether. The corporate America wants, and usually gets what he wants.

may take longer, much longer, because of the global crisis and the period necessary to overcome it. Some experts announce soon another Great Depression and even worse than the previous worst of the "lost decade" of Japan, since 1990.
The priority in the world of high finance and the boards of large companies is to escape the crisis, if possible. Except for reasons of "national security", everything else is secondary.

Article originale : SPP: Updating the Militarization and Annexation of North America .

Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net
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Gaza wounds and new weapons - 22/02/2009

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di Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah e Dr. Swee Ang – «The Lancet»*

Il dottor Ghassan Abu Sittah ed il dottor Swee Ang, due chirurghi inglesi, sono riusciti a raggiungere Gaza durante l’invasione Israel. This article describes their experiences, share their views and draw the inevitable consequences: the population of Gaza is extremely vulnerable and totally helpless in front of a possible Israeli attack.

Gaza's wounds are deep and layered. We speak of the massacre in Khan Younis in 1956, in which 5 thousand people lost their lives? Or execution of 35 thousand prisoners of war by the Israeli army in 1967? And the first Intifada, in which civil disobedience of a people under occupation is answered with an incredible number of injuries and hundreds of deaths? Even more, we can not disregard the 5,420 wounded in southern Gaza during hostilities 2000. But despite all this, in this article we will only invasion that took place from 27 December 2008-18 January 2009.
It is estimated that in those 23 days, have been spilled over the Gaza Strip and a half million tons of explosives. To give a rough idea of \u200b\u200bwhat you are talking about, you should specify that the territory in question covers an area of \u200b\u200b360 square kilometers and is home to 1.5 million people: it is the most densely populated area of \u200b\u200bthe world . Before the invasion, has been starved for 50 days by a trade embargo but, in fact, since the election of the current government has been under trade links. Over the years, the embargo has been partially or totally, but never absent. Employment
opened with 250 victims in one day. Each police station was bombed, causing heavy casualties among the security forces. After sweeping away the police, the Israeli army is dedicated to non-government targets. Apache helicopters and F-16s have caused it to rain death from above, while the guns of the Navy conducted an attack from the sea and artillery took care of the earth. Many schools have been reduced to rubble, including the American School of Gaza, 40 mosques, some hospitals, a number of UN buildings and of course 21 thousand houses, which are 4 thousand were razed. Approximately 100 thousand people have suddenly become homeless. The Israeli weapons



armaments used in addition to bombs and conventional high explosives, also include non-conventional types. Have been identified at least four categories:

phosphorous bombs and bullets
Eyewitnesses say several bombs exploded at high altitude, releasing a wide range of micro-phosphorus bombs that were distributed over a large area. During the invasion by land, the tanks were accustomed to break down the walls of ordinary houses with bullets and then firing at them with phosphorus shells. This method unleashes terrible fire in the building, and a large number of charred bodies were found covered with particles of phosphorus glow. One area of \u200b\u200bconcern is posed by the fact that the residues found mixed with a stabilizing agent seem special, which gives it the ability to not completely burn up to extinction. The residues of phosphorus still cover the countryside, playgrounds and apartments. It rekindled when curious children collect them, or produce toxic fumes when farmers watering their contaminated land. A family returned to his garden after the hostilities, has watered the ground and was incorporated by a blanket of smoke emitted from the ground. The simple inhalation produced epistaxis. These compounds of phosphorus are treated with a stabilizer, in a sense, a similar anti-personnel mines. Because of this constant threat, the population (especially children) have difficulty returning to a normal life.
From hospitals, surgeons tell of cases where, after a primary laparotomy for relatively small wounds with minimal contamination, a second surgery showed increasing areas of necrosis after a period of 3 days. Subsequently, the patient's general health deteriorated and, within 10 days, require a third intervention, which highlights a massive liver necrosis. This phenomenon is sometimes accompanied by profuse bleeding, collasso renale, infarto e morte. Sebbene l’acidosi, la necrosi del fegato e l’arresto cardiaco improvviso (dovuto all’ipocalcemia) siano tipiche complicazioni nelle vittime di fosforo bianco, non è possibile attribuirle alla sola opera di questo agente.
È necessario analizzare ed identificare la vera natura di questo fosforo modificato ed i suoi effetti a lungo termine sulla popolazione di Gaza. È anche urgente la raccolta e lo smaltimento dei residui di fosforo sulla superficie dell’intera regione. Queste sostanze emettono fumi tossici a contatto con l’acqua: alla prima pioggia potrebbero avvelenare tutta la Striscia. I bambini dovrebbero imparare a riconoscere ed evitare questi residui pericolosi.

Heavy Bombs
The use of bombs DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosives) is evident, although it has not been clearly determined whether it was used depleted uranium in the south. In urban areas, the survivors show amputations due to DIME. These wounds are easily recognizable because the stumps do not bleed and the cut is clean, a guillotine. The shell casings and shrapnel of DIME are extremely heavy.

bomb implosion
Among the weapons used, there are also the bunker-buster bombs and implosion. There are cases, such as the Science & Technology Building, or the Islamic University of Gaza, in which a building eight-story property has been reduced to a pile of debris no bigger than five feet.

silent bomb
The population of Gaza has described a new type of weapon from the devastating effects. Comes in the form of silent projectile, or at least preceded by a whistle, and vaporizes everything that is in large areas without a trace consistent. We do not know how to categorize this technology, but it can be assumed to be a new weapon to make particles of experimentation.

Executions
Survivors tell of Israeli tanks that, having stopped in front of the apartment, telling residents to leave. Usually, the first was to obey the children, the elderly and women. That, just as quickly, they were lined up and shot them. Dozens of families have been disrupted in this way. In the past month, the deliberate murder of unarmed women and children was also confirmed by human rights activists.

Deleting ambulances
least 13 ambulances were victims of shootings. The drivers and nurses have been fired while recovering and evacuating the wounded.

Cluster bombs
The first victims of cluster bombs were admitted to the hospital Abu Yousef Najjar. More than half of the tunnels of Gaza were destroyed, rendering useless much of the infrastructure suitable for the movement of commodities. Contrary to popular belief, are not deposits in these tunnels for weapons (though they may have been used to smuggle arms), but for food and fuel. The excavation of new tunnels, which now takes up a good number of Palestinians, has sometimes triggered cluster bombs on the ground. This type of bomb was used at the Rafah border and already five severe burns were taken to hospital after the explosion of these traps.

count of the dead
At January 25, 2009, the death toll has reached 1350. The number is constantly rising due to the amount of serious injuries that continue to die in hospitals. 60% of deaths è costituito da bambini.

Feriti gravi
Il numero dei feriti gravi è di 5.450, con un 40% di bambini. Si tratta in massima parte di pazienti ustionati o politraumatici. Coloro che hanno subito fratture ad un solo arto e coloro che, pur avendo riportato lesioni sono ancora in grado di camminare, non sono stati inclusi in questo conteggio.
Nelle nostre discussioni con infermiere e dottori, le parole “olocausto” e “catastrofe” sono state spesso menzionate. Lo staff medico al completo porta i segni del trauma psicologico dovuto al lavoro frenetico dell’ultimo mese, passato a fronteggiare le masse che hanno affollato le camere mortuarie e le sale operatorie. Molti dei pazienti sono deceduti nel Reparto Incidenti ed Emergenza, ancor prima della diagnosi. In un ospedale distrettuale, il chirurgo ortopedico ha portato a termine 13 fissazioni esterne in meno di un giorno.
Si stima che, tra i feriti gravi, 1.600 sono destinati a rimanere disabili a vita. Tra questi, molti hanno subito amputazioni, ferite alla colonna vertebrale, ferite alla testa, ustioni estese con contratture sfiguranti.

Fattori speciali
Durante l’invasione, il numero dei morti e dei feriti è stato particolarmente alto a causa dei seguenti motivi:

* Nessuna via di fuga: Gaza è stata sigillata dalle truppe israeliane, che hanno impedito a chiunque di fuggire dai bombardamenti e dall’invasione terrestre. Simply, there was no escape. Even within the borders of Gaza to travel from north to south have been made impossible by the Israeli tanks that have cut off all avenues of communication. Unlike the war in Lebanon and 82 of '06, in which people could move from areas of heavy bombardment to those of their security, such an option was foreclosed in Gaza.

* The density of the population of Gaza is exceptional. E 'disquieting to note that the bombs used by the Israeli army are "high precision". Their success rate in downtown buildings crowded, is 100%. Other examples? The central market, stations police, schools, UN buildings (where the inhabitants were merged to escape the bombing), mosques (of which 40 were razed to the ground) and the homes of families, convinced they are safe because of their non-combatants were afflicted. In condominiums, a single implosion bomb is enough to wipe out dozens of families. This tendency to target civilians makes us suspect that the military objectives are considered target side, while the objective the population.

* The quantity and quality of the ammunition described above and how they were used.

* The lack of defenses that Gaza has been shown against modern weapons Israel. The region does not have tanks, warplanes, no anti-aircraft system to be deployed against the invading army. We have witnessed firsthand the exchange of bullets from an Israeli tank and AK47 Palestinians. The forces were, to say the least, you learn.
The absence of functional bomb shelters available to the civilian population. Unfortunately, even if there were no match against the Israeli bunker-buster.

Conclusion
If you take into consideration the following points, it is obvious that a further invasion of Gaza would cause catastrophic damage. The population is vulnerable and helpless. If the international community wishes to avoid personal injury and mass killings in the near future, will have to develop some defense force for Gaza. If this does not happen, civilians continue to die.


Original article: The Wounds of Gaza, "The Lancet - Global Health Network," February 2, 2009.

* ' The Lancet' medical journal is the most authoritative in the world.
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Visions of Crisis / The Ship of Fools - 02/16/2009

( This article, published in collaboration with Milena Finazzi, was released on Megachip )

of Paul Craig Roberts - vdare.com

Esiste vita intelligente a Washington, DC? Neanche un briciolo.
L’economia statunitense sta implodendo ed Obama si lascia traghettare verso il pantano dell’Afghanistan dal suo governo di neocon e agenti israeliani, evenienza che probabilmente causerà uno scontro con la Russia e forse anche con la Cina. La quale, non bisogna scordarlo, è il maggiore creditore degli Stati Uniti.

Le cifre dei libri paga di gennaio rivelano circa 20mila licenziamenti al giorno. In dicembre, la situazione era anche più nera del previsto (dai 524mila licenziamenti preventivati ai 577mila reali). Questa correzione fa arrivare l’ammontare di posti di lavoro perduti in due mesi a 1.175.000. Se si continua così, i 3 milioni di nuovi impieghi promessi da Obama saranno controbilanciati e cancellati dai licenziamenti di massa.

Secondo John Williams (esperto di statistica e curatore di Shadowstats.com ), queste titaniche cifre sono una sottostima della reale proporzione della crisi. Williams fa notare che gli errori di valutazione, intrinsechi nei fattori di correzione stagionali, hanno fatto sparire 118mila licenziamenti dai resoconti di gennaio: la cifra reale per quel mese raggiungerebbe i 716mila posti di lavoro perduti.
Ma le ricerche basate sui libri paga contano il numero di posti di lavoro, non il numero delle persone occupate. Queste due cifre non sono equivalenti, perché alcuni cittadini potrebbero avere più di un lavoro.

Al contrario, l’Household Survey ( NdT: un enorme resoconto sulle condizioni economiche della nazione, condotto dall’equivalente americano del nostro ISTAT ) conta il numero degli impiegati effettivi. Mostra che 832mila persone hanno perso il proprio lavoro a gennaio e 806mila a dicembre, per un totale di 1.638.000.
Il tasso di disoccupazione sciorinato dai media statunitensi è, quindi, un falso plateale. Williams spiega che negli anni dell’amministrazione Clinton, la categoria dei lavoratori "scoraggiati" (coloro che neanche cercavano più un lavoro) è stata ridefinita, in modo da entrare nelle statistiche solo quando lo "scoraggiamento" aveva una durata inferiore ad un anno. Questa limitazione temporale ha spazzato away from official records, most of them unemployed, without hope. This segment of the population re-aggregated to current statistics, we realize that the actual unemployment in January was 18%, an increase of 0.5% over the previous month.

savejobs-1 In other words, if we remove from the official data manipulation of a government that lies to us every time he opens his mouth, we see that the level of U.S. unemployment is enough to declare our economy in a state of depression.
And it could not be otherwise, given the huge amount of jobs that have been transferred abroad. A government is unable to create new jobs, if its companies moving production facilities abroad for goods and services for the domestic market. Moving production processes abroad, "ceded" to other states of the slices of the national GDP. The resulting shortfall in exports has, over the past ten years, brought down the U.S. GDP of 1.5 trillion dollars. Translated: a lot of jobs.

for years talked of the graduates have to be a waitress or bartender to survive. As the population continues to exponentially indebted to lose jobs, will be less inclined to frequent bars and restaurants. And that means that U.S. graduates fail to find even those jobs that involve cleaning di piatti o la preparazione di cocktail.
I legislatori hanno ignorato il fatto che, nel ventunesimo secolo, la domanda dei consumatori è stata principalmente alimentata dall’aumento dell’indebitamento, e non degli introiti. Questo fatto basilare ci mostra come sia inutile tentare di stimolare l’economia con vagonate di dollari dirette ai banchieri (per convincerli a prestare più denaro, s’intende). I consumatori americani non sono più nella condizione di chiedere prestiti.

Se sommiamo il crollo del valore dei loro principali asset (vale a dire le loro case), la distruzione di metà dei loro fondi pensionistici e la minaccia di un futuro di disoccupazione, ci rendiamo conto che gli americani non possono e non vogliono spendere.
Quindi, che senso ha offrire un ‘bailout’ a gruppi come la General Motors e la Citibank, che fanno il possibile per trasferire all’estero il maggior numero di operazioni?

È vero che gran parte delle infrastrutture statunitensi sono in pessime condizioni e hanno un gran bisogno di ristrutturazione, ma i lavori in questo settore non producono beni e servizi che possano essere esportati. L’impegno massiccio nel settore delle infrastrutture non cambia di una virgola il mostruoso deficit d’esportazione statunitense, il cui finanziamento inizia a rappresentare un grosso problema. Ancor di più, i posti di lavoro nel settore delle infrastrutture durano esattamente quanto la realizzazione them.
At best, the "stimulus" the economy advocated by Obama will only temporarily reduce unemployment, provided that the majority of new jobs in the building are occupied by Mexicans.
Unless U.S. corporations are not obliged to employ local labor to produce goods and services targeted to domestic markets, the U.S. economy has no future. No staff member of Obama is smart enough to realize it. So, the economy will continue to implode.

As if this were not enough disaster incubation, Obama has done even duped by his advisors neocon and military. Decided to expand the war effort in Afghanistan, a large mountainous region. The President intends to exploit the reduction of troops in Iraq to double those in Afghanistan. Despite this, 60 thousand soldiers would not be expected in any case sufficient. After all, less than half of those involved in the failed occupation of Iraq. The army estimated that it would take at least 600 thousand soldiers to accomplish the mission.

To take out the Bush regime, the Iranians have taken the reins to their Shiite allies, convincing them to use the elections to gain power and use it to expel the Americans. It is for this reason that, in Iraq, le truppe statunitensi hanno dovuto fronteggiare "solamente" l’insurrezione della minoranza sunnita. Ciononostante, gli occupanti sono riusciti a vincere (si fa per dire) non sul piano militare, ma a suon di banconote, sganciando dollari su dollari per convincere i rivoltosi a non combattere. L’accordo di ritiro delle truppe è stato dettato dagli sciiti. Non è quello che Bush avrebbe voluto.
Ci si aspetterebbe che l’esperienza della "passeggiata" in Iraq avrebbe reso gli Stati Uniti più cauti. Ed invece no, perché si sono gettati con maggior vigore nel tentativo di occupare l’Afghanistan, un’impresa che richiede inoltre la conquista di aree del Pakistan.
Per gli USA è stata dura mantenere 150 thousand soldiers in Iraq. Obama needs another half a million soldiers to pacify Afghanistan, to be added to those already allocated. Where he intends to go fishing?

One answer is the massive U.S. unemployment rising rapidly. The Americans will put their signature to go abroad to kill rather than be homeless on an empty stomach at home.

But this is only half a solution. From where to get money to support the field an army of 650 thousand units, more than four times the U.S. contingent in Iraq, a war that has cost us three trillion dollars worth of living expenses and is already generating future costs? This money would add up to three trillion dollar budget deficit, produced by the rescue of the financial sector operated by Bush, the Obama's stimulus package and the economy in rapid decline. When economic systems come into crisis - as is happening in the U.S. - tax revenues collapse. Millions of unemployed Americans do not pay social security contributions, bills for health insurance and income taxes. The commercial activities and businesses that close do not pay state taxes and federal taxes. Consumers without money or without access to credit does not take out the sales tax.

The Idiots of Washington, because they are idiots, they have not thought for a moment how to finance the budget deficit 2009 accounting year, amounting to about two to three trillion dollars. The virtually non-existent savings rate can not be funded. The balance of trade surplus of our partners such as China, Japan and Saudi Arabia can not be funded.
Therefore, the U.S. government has two possibilities to cope with its deficit. The first consists of a further collapse of the stock market, which would lead investors survivors and their remaining resources to the Treasury "safe" . The other would be the monetization of Treasury debt by the Federal Reserve .

The monetization of the debt would involve the purchase by the Federal Reserve Treasury bonds if anyone wished to buy or be able to do so. This would be done through the establishment of bank accounts on behalf of the Treasury.

In other words, the Federal Reserve "print money" with which to buy treasury bills.
When you experience such an occurrence, the U.S. dollar would no longer be the reserve currency.
In addition, China, Japan and Saudi Arabia, countries that hold large portions of the debt the U.S. Treasury and other U.S. dollar assets, sell them immediately, hoping to escape before the others. The U.S. dollar

perderebbe ogni valore, al pari di una valuta da repubblica delle banane.
Gli Stati Uniti non sarebbero in grado di pagare le proprie importazioni, un problema questo particolarmente grave per un paese che dipende dalle importazioni per l’energia, i manufatti e i prodotti high-tech.

I consiglieri keynesiani di Obama hanno appreso con solerzia la lezione di Milton Friedman per il quale la Grande Depressione fu causata dalla Federal Reserve che permise una contrazione dell’offerta di valuta e di credito. Nel corso della Grande Depressione i debiti virtuosi furono azzerati dalla contrazione monetaria. Oggi i crediti inesigibili sono protetti dall’espansione della moneta e del credito ed il Tesoro USA sta mettendo a repentaglio la propria solvibilità e lo status di valuta di riserva del dollaro con aste trimestrali di ingenti quantità di bond all’apparenza interminabili.

Nel frattempo i russi, straripanti di energia e di risorse minerali e privi di debiti, hanno appreso di non potersi fidare del governo USA. La Russia ha osservato i tentativi dei successori di Reagan di trasformare le ex-repubbliche dell’Unione Sovietica in stati marionetta in mano agli americani ed alle loro basi militari. Gli USA stanno cercando di accerchiare la Russia con missili che neutralizzino il deterrente strategico russo.

Putin ha guadagnato terreno nei confronti del “compagno lupo” [1].
Grazie alle manovre del presidente del Kirghizistan è riuscito a sfrattare dall’ex-repubblica sovietica la base militare statunitense, di vitale importanza per gli approvvigionamenti ai soldati di stanza in Afghanistan.

Per bloccare l’ingerenza americana nella sua sfera di influenza, il governo russo ha creato un’organizzazione per il trattato di sicurezza collettiva comprendente Russia, Armenia, Bielorussia, Kazakistan, Kirghizistan, Tagikistan. L’Uzbekistan partecipa in modo parziale.
In buona sostanza, la Russia ha organizzato l’Asia Centrale contro la penetrazione americana.

A chi deve rispondere il Presidente Obama? Stephen J. Sniegoski, che scrive sulla versione inglese del settimanale svizzero Zeit-Fragen , riferisce che le figure chiave della cospirazione neocon – Richard Perle, Max Boot, David Brooks e Mona Charen – sarebbero in estasi per le nomine effettuate da Obama. Non vedono alcuna differenza tra Obama e Bush/Cheney.
Non soltanto i consiglieri di Obama lo stanno conducendo verso una guerra allargata in Afghanistan ma la potente lobby filoisraeliana starebbe spingendo Obama verso una guerra con l’Iran.
L’irrealtà nella quale il governo USA sta operando è da non credersi. Un governo in bancarotta che non può pagare i propri conti senza stampare nuova moneta si sta buttando a capofitto nelle guerre contro Afghanistan, Pakistan ed Iran. Secondo il Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis , the cost to American taxpayers must support to send a single soldier to fight in Iraq amounted to $ 775,000 a year.
The world has never seen such a total recklessness. The invasion of Russia by Napoleon and Hitler were rational acts unreasonable when compared to the stupidity of the American government.
Obama's war in Afghanistan is like the Mad Hatter's tea. After seven years of conflict, there is still no well-defined mission or an ultimate goal for the U.S. contingent in Afghanistan. Asked about the mission, a U.S. military official told NBC News : "Frankly, we do not have one." NBC reports that "there stanno lavorando».
Durante il suo discorso del 5 febbraio ai Democratici della Camera, il presidente Obama ha ammesso che il governo USA non conosce il motivo della missione in Afghanistan e che, per evitare «che la missione proceda a tentoni, senza parametri chiari», gli Stati Uniti «hanno bisogno di una missione chiara».
Cosa ne direste di essere mandati in una guerra il cui scopo è sconosciuto a tutti, ivi compreso al comandante in capo che vi ha spedito a uccidere o ad essere uccisi? Che ne pensate, cari contribuenti, del fatto di sostenere ingenti costi per inviare soldati in una missione non definita mentre l’economia va a rotoli?

Paul Craig Roberts è stato assistente del ministro del Tesoro durante il governo Reagan. È coautore di The Tyranny of Good Intentions . Può essere contattato al seguente indirizzo: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

Articolo originale: Paul Craig Roberts, Ship of Fools, vdare.com
Link: http://www.vdare.com/roberts/090208_fools.htm .
Traduzione di Massimo Spiga e Milena Finazzi per Megachip

[1] L’autore fa riferimento ad una citazione di Putin , il quale a sua volta richiama una vecchia storiella russa: «Rabinovich e la sua pecorella vagano per i boschi. Improvvisamente cadono in a deep pit. A moment later a wolf also falls into the same pit. The sheep, terrified, he began to bleat. "What's all this bee bee bee?" Asks Rabinovich, "Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat."
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