May 22, 2013

Scientists: "Stop repressing your anger!"

The Hulk only gets mad at people who invade his space.

Article by Alexander Besant: "Expressing your anger is good for your longevity, says new study: Researchers at the University of Jena in Germany found that getting your anger out and being hot-tempered is actually helpful in extending one's lifespan."

Title: Scientists: "Stop repressing your anger!" YouTube Video Description - [Channel: AutonomistVoice. Uploaded on Feb 15, 2012]:
"Staying positive" while you're surrounded by injustice can kill you.

What America And Iran Have In Common: Only Approved Candidates Are Presented To The Public

"The decision on Tuesday to bar the presidential candidacy of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a founding father of the revolution and a former president, shocked Iranians, particularly among the 70 percent of the population that is under 35 and grew up when he served in many leading positions." - Thomas Erdbrink, "A Founder of the Revolution Is Barred From Office, Shocking Iranians," The New York Times, May 21, 2013.
America is an oligarchy; Iran is a theocracy.

Actually, it isn't that simple. Iran's system of government has oligarchical elements, and America's leadership is more theological than most people like to think.

The elections in both countries are also very similar. The Guardian Council in Iran approves a list of candidates, but at least it does it publicly so people know who is really in charge. America's equivalent of a Guardian Council is in the shadows, and it operates through transnational oligarchical organizations like the Bilderberg, making it more difficult for well-meaning voters to look behind the curtain and realize that the people's voice doesn't matter at all. 

So, which system is better? Neither. America and Iran are both tyrannies wherein the people's opinions are not considered by the elites. The only difference is America is an aggressor and it spreads its tyranny through war and economic means.

May 21, 2013

Edward Dorn - Wait till the Christians Hear About This

The IRS should like this poem.

Allying With Jihadists In Syria Is A Surefire Way To Creating Instability For Decades

 Obama and Erdogan say Assad must leave Syria. The civilized world says Al-Qaeda must leave Syria. Source for photo: Charles Dharapak/AP.

Establishing a timeline to determine the origins of Washington's support for the Jihadist terrorists in Syria is difficult because of its covert nature. But, what we do know for certain is that leading neoconservative figures in the Bush administration such as Paul Wolfowitz had their eye on Syria since the end of the first Gulf War in 1991.

General Wesley Clark confirmed Washington's anti-Syria agenda in numerous media interviews and lectures that he gave in the mid to late 2000's.

"Some hard-nosed people took over the direction of American policy and they never bothered to inform the rest of us," said Gen. Clark in October 2007 at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, adding, "This country was taken over by a group of people with a policy coup. They wanted us to destabilize the Middle East, turn it upside down, make it under our control."

A year or so ago, USrael's alliance with Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria was kept off the public radar. It just didn't look good from a public relations perspective. But, with Israel bombing Syria in the last couple of weeks to help out its Jihadist comrades who are in trouble, the narrative is rapidly changing.

It is no longer taboo to praise Al-Qaeda or raise the flag of Jihad in the capitals of Tel Aviv, Washington, Paris, and other European capitals. Jihadists are romanticized by the mainstream media.  They are referred to as "rebels" and "revolutionaries." Never mind that all they do is destroy, rape, burn, and pillage.

One of these days an ambitious author will write a novel about the heroics of Al-Qaeda terrorists in their holy war against Assad, and it will probably sell millions. But what about Al-Qaeda's past? Who cares, says Obama. "We must look forward," he said. 9/11 was so yesterday. Three thousand innocent people were killed on 9/11? That's so old news.

The supporters of Al-Qaeda's campaign of terror against Syria in Washington don't dwell on little things like victims of terrorism, whether they be Syrian or American. It's a new day. Now, Al-Qaeda is officially on the side of America and Israel. Islamic radicals are even cheered on by Fox News and company.

What are the consequences of Washington's cold-blooded policy towards Syria? Instability and sectarian conflict for decades. Coincidentally, these are also the aims. Why? Because current American leaders are insane and evil.

It is a mistake to describe them as American because they do not reflect the American character or stand up for American values. I don't know what they are, but what's clear is that they have turned their backs on humanity, peace, law, justice, God, and everything good. They believe that if you can't rule the Middle East then the next best thing to do is to destroy it and ruin it. And this also goes for the majority of European and Gulf Arab leaders, who understand that the political awakening in the Arab world means the end of their dreaded rule. 

At least there are some countries left where the leaders are sane and humane, such as Russia. They are not crazy with power. Read this excerpt from the article by Julia Ioffe called, "The Cold War Heats Up in Syria: Why Russia won't allow an intervention":
“Moscow understands that something has to be done because the war has been going on for two years and it has to stop,” he explains. “But if Assad’s opponents win, there will be a bloodbath. Shiites and Alawites will be slaughtered.” Moreover, he adds, echoing the official Russian position, that the successors to Assad will likely be the ones flying the black flag of jihad and sponsoring terrorism outside Syria’s borders. Lukyanov points out that Syria has long been home to those displaced by the upheavals in the Caucasus, which has become a hotbed of terrorism and Islamist insurrection. “Getting rid of a dictatorial but secular regime, and replacing it with an Islamist regime creates yet another support network for the terrorists in our backyard,” Lukyanov explains. Yusin makes a starker analogy. “Assad does not want to target America, but these guys do,” he says. “These are thousands of potential Tsarnaevs, and France and Britain want to arm them!”
The biggest difference between America and Russia at this moment in time is that Russia doesn't want instability near its borders because it is sane and America does want instability near its borders because it is insane.

Funding Jihadist terrorist groups in Syria can at least be explained on a strategic level. But U.S. leaders are also funding Mexican drug cartels in their backyard for the sole purpose of creating instability on the border with Mexico in order to create a greater demand for Homeland Security and other U.S. government agencies. That's why people are saying that U.S. leaders have gone insane. They create instability not just on the other side of the world but even inside their own borders. It's completely crazy. U.S. leaders need therapy or pain medications or something. They are making America crazy along with the rest of world.

Video: Jeremy Scahill Speaks About His Book "Dirty Wars"


YouTube Video Description - [Channel: jeannekyle. Published on May 20, 2013]:
Jeremy Scahill is an author and self-taught journalist. He is the National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and has reported from four continents.
Scahill gave a talk in San Diego, California, on 2 May 2013, based on his newest book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield.
Jeremy Scahill Part 1: Iraq

Jeremy Scahill Part 2: Yemen

Jeremy Scahill Part 3: Abdulrahman

The Peace Process: Is It A Cynical Enterprise That's Set Up To Crumble?

Does the peace process lack credibility? Is it a cynical enterprise that is set up to crumble? Do both sides want peace?

No, not the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the Turkish-Kurdish one.

Two months ago, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan said that the Kurdish movement for freedom and autonomy in Turkey will leave the battlefield and fully enter the political arena. Ocalan ordered his troops to withdraw from Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Kurdish cities for the celebratory occasion.

The PKK's decision to declare a ceasefire was a historic turning point. But is Turkish Prime Minister Erodgan seriously interested in meeting the demands of the PKK and ending the long and bloody war with the Kurds? There are still many doubts about Erodgan's sincerity to make the peace process work and his ability to deliver on his promises, especially among the high command in the PKK. The Kurdish organization, which has been fighting the Turkish state for nearly three decades, has refused to disarm. Its fighters have begun to enter Northern Iraq.

The timing of the reconciliation between Erodgan's government and the PKK is also very suspicious. Erodgan is locked in an adventurous war of choice with Assad, and neutralizing the PKK in northern Syria would give Turkey greater leeway to put pressure on the Syrian government.

This Turkey-PKK peace deal has to do with the foreign-fueled conflict in Syria more than anything else. So we can be sure that long-term peace was not the main objective for Erdogan's government in its dealings with the PKK. Also, Erdogan didn't suddenly have an epiphany and finally recognized the existence and rights of the Kurds in Turkey. He will not uphold his end of the bargain.

There are so many reasons why this peace deal smells fishy. It's too good to be true. Will it last, or will the war restart? Read the articles below for analysis from a variety of perspectives.       


Jonathan Spyer - Behind the Lines: Erdogan’s Kurdish gambit.

Michael Rubin - Turkey-PKK Peace Will Fail.

Dorian Jones - Turkish Peace Initiative with Kurds Meets Resistance.

Isabel Coles - First Kurdish rebels reach Iraq under Turkish peace plan.

Lale Kemal - Turkey’s Military Uneasy Over Peace With PKK.

Related: Light Reading: Articles About The Tentative Turkish-Kurdish Peace Deal.

There Is No Civil War In Syria

There were no WMDs in Iraq and there is no civil war in Syria. To say that there is a popular revolution taking place against Assad is to turn reality upside down.

Obama and Erdogan both want Assad to step down, but it doesn't matter what they want for Syria's future because political and social reality is going against their wishes.

Obama is not God. The White House can't shape and manipulate the reality in Syria. Saying Assad is a butcher doesn't make it so. Washington has lived in a fantasy world for so long that it doesn't know how to adjust to reality. It is foreign to them. They are like spoiled children who for the first time in their lives can't get what they want.

Washington's machinations and the media's deceptions cannot destroy the reality on the ground. The response of the Syrian people to the war of aggression waged by Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, EU, US, and Israel has been heroic. 

This is the response of the Syrian people to the thugs Obama and Erdogan: Welcome to the real world. In the real world, Syria is not in a civil war, it is fighting a foreign-led Jihadist insurgency. Syria is doing what America and Israel won't: defeating Al-Qaeda.

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Below is a short article called, "Syria: it’s not a ‘civil war’, it’s an imperialist war," that was published by the blog 'Agent of Change' on May 20:
‘Civil war’ is a totally inaccurate label for what’s going on in Syria. I think we should start calling it what it is: an imperialist war of destabilisation, where the aggressors’ fighting has been outsourced to sectarian religious terrorists. This outsourcing follows the same logic as any other type of outsourcing: it’s cheaper. The political and economic cost of pushing thousands of Iraqi, Libyan and Saudi (etc) terrorists in Syria’s direction is extremely low, at least in the short term. Imagine if it was European and North American soldiers coming home in body bags - there might actually be a viable anti-war movement in the west! And people the world over would know exactly who was to blame for the shameful destruction of a beautiful nation - for the needless deaths of thousands, for the forced migration of hundreds of thousands, for the reversal of decades of progress, for the brutal attack on thousands of years of civilisation.

And of course the ‘civil war’ narrative has another very important function: it contributes to our general prejudice that “these Arabs” (much like “these Africans” and “these Asians”) are inherently barbaric people who simply can’t get along. And it sends out a message that any attempt by a third world nation to follow a path of resistance to imperialism and zionism will inevitably end in murderous in-fighting - for which the civilised, sophisticated, modern imperialist states of course cannot reasonably be blamed.

So to call it a civil war is to take part in a vast deception.
Video: Calling Syria A Civil War Is A Vast Deception - Carlos Voice Over. Morris of '108morris108' reads the article above for his YouTube channel audience.