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SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF WAR/PEACE REPORTING

. . . . SO, INVESTIGATE ! | 23.08.2006 16:09 | Anti-militarism | Education | Free Spaces | World

!! Odd gaps, missing background, a bias that seems further "pro-war" than in favour of israel or palestine, patriot or internationalist, is the strange "odour you dont see" that comes from pretty much ALL the press in the last couple of weeks - regardless of its alleged position in the "spectrum of opinion" - - - - as odd events in the middle east seem to try to blow any peace chance, -"immigration" buttons!!

DISTRACTION : FRONT PAGES : COLUMNS : TALK PROGRAMMES . . . .
but it ISNT current news - it ISNT a current "threat" - its YEARS away - the "report" its all about could have come out ANYTIME - FOR MONTHS.

THESE FEW DAYS, THESE FEW WEEKS - ARE KEY
FOR THE MIDDLE EAST. THE "MIDDLE EAST" IS KEY
TO A N Y FUTURE FOR THE WORLD - FURTHER KEY
THAN "ITS THE WORLDS POWDER KEG/ FUSE" - EVEN IF ALL THE "BIBLICAL / ENDTIME WRITINGS" WERE EITHER WARNINGS - TO PREVENT DISASTERS - OR - IN FACT - ABOUT THE "FIRST CENTURY A.D." - THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE ALLEGED TRIGGER IN THE "CLASH OF CULTURES" THAT SOME PEOPLE SEEM TO TRY TO USE AS A "FULCRUM" TO SWING THE WORLD INTO THE ERA OF THE "WAR OF ERRORISM" - THEN - DISASTERS - INFOWAR DESIGNS - PERHAPS - BUT THEN - BIGTIME
. . . .- F*** - *PS - - - - BUT- - - - IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- PEACE WAS HAPPENING - - - - EVERYBODYS KEY (!)
THEN WE CAN COMMENCE A FOUNDATION FOR LOTS
OF THE REST OF THE WORLD TO HAVE NEW CHANCES
- IN THE REGION AROUND ISRAEL - AT PEACE - WITH
PALESTINE, A TWO STATES "PLUS" SOLUTION - THAT
IS THE "MOTHER OF A HUNDRED OTHER SOLUTIONS"
- to reinvent some old phrase in a different way.

Apologies for the capitals - but - in its own way its trying to redress the balance. Looked at again - its at least a judgement in tune with everything we got told as the bombs rained over cities. Its hard to argue against - as a reason to have very serious debates - perhaps the sort of time everybody discovers we have all got updated about, say, the promises of some western "diplomacy" offered then broken to jews about the place (also in 47 - hence that terrorism), then to arabs too - several times - or, say, the democratically elected government in iran - of the 1950s (!!!!) - then the way - ALL records agree - it was undermined the brought down in a coup engineered by US operators at UK instigation - for the oil company - then replaced with somebody that DID support the "fascists" in the second world war - as a dictatorship. The WORLD has some "redressing of the balance" to do - but - it is a fact that peace in this "friction point" unlocks the "war-bucks" that we can use to sort the rest of our problems out with.

The $numbers are immense - too large to "see" - but a comparison assists.
The costs to the world to ensure all that are hungry are fed, all that thirst have clean water, all without schools have them, all that lack hospitals have them . . . . plus some . . . . is the equivalent to two weeks of the worlds arms spend.
( c heck with the UN or "Campaign Against Arms Trade" for exact quotes )
(- perhaps, hence some cold war slush fund addicts have such a fear of peace)
( misplaced, of course - security without the stress is good for them too - even the "corporate" citizens might discover that transitions to something THAT good could cushion any "bad" effects - if they unlock the present to the extent of stopping letting "tail wag dog"- infowar manipulations shake THEM down - the world can look up to a future that uses its sentience further than it twists its "tech" to get us all to "look the other way".

FORGET TO WATCH THAT, WATCH THIS . . . .

PS. In place of the adverts . . . . MEXICO. The elections DID get rigged. The small proportion of votes already rechecked have meant the PROOF of that isnt doubted
"er . . . yes, somegot added up wrong, but . . . err . . " - the "authorities" refuse a proper check of all the votes. Here, the media seem to have forgotten to ask why - yet refer to the centrist, swindled voters as "the left" - despite the fact that "the left" in mexico - as a new coalition - are a very different - interesting - colourful - encouraging twist of the recent past too - but - IN FACT - they boycotted the election of the centrist! ( - google the "Other" campaign, uk indymedia). . . .

. . . .SRI LANKA. Most of the worlds "suicide bombers" came from here. They were "secular". They dont do that these days - they try to get a peace deal - a different sort of recognition - but whenever they seem near to a mutual peace, SOMETHING seems to screw it up . . . . as it seems that somebody is trying to "radio rwanda" con - flicts into much of asia. . . .


BACK TO "THAT". . . .
A "BIGGER PEACE" CAN WORK. . . . IT WAS WORKING, prior to the tragic series of escalations . The attention of the world, thus the chance that the "outside" world could offer a FAR bigger, good
"IF PEACE, THEN WHAT ?"
to the situation - in this "aftermath/ new "peace-or-disaster" energising moment.

Friends need to investigate some of the odd things happening in israel, as much as are happening in lebanese cabinet discussions. Strange disruptions have coursed into meetings as if they had got sudden electric charges or something - that pro-peace israeli interior minister "forced" to resign after what seems might have involved some unwitting female soldier in that ancient "honeypot-sting/smear" ploy (HE publicised it by reporting that somebody was trying to blackmail him, after all!) , then even a bumbled attempt, it seems, to smear the PM into the smallscale equivalent of the old sixties tyneside "assisted downfall" of T.D. Smith with the unwitting use of the local developer Poulson. The idea of these sortsof thing is the "if you invent lots of smears, some sticks" - but, in fact, the press - even the public - have gotten wise to the game, then tend to wonder what the . . . .

Good thing too.
If Irans softening of position in relation to "holocaust denying" -see his recent appearance ( + full transcript) at CBS - ( yes, THAT CBS ) - ( ie, to ".... yes, but why did the palestinians have to suffer so much" a paraphrase ) doesnt get a mention the next time YOU see a piece about him in YOUR PAPER - (eg - daily Ms strange "bogey the bogeyman" bit today) - you could ask for YOUR bit of the cash they - or the person manipulating them - got from the messers Warbux, Minderbinder, Whoops Apocalypse Ltd. OR the journalists salary they HAVENT earned.
TICK, TICK, TICK, TICK.

PEACE DOES MEAN THINKING , AFTER ALL!

IN ADVANCE - is good.


- also worth a google. . . .
"remember the big peace"
"remember the bigger peace"
"what its happening"
"does it help to remember"

. . . . SO, INVESTIGATE !

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yes, mexico's Tianmen square-style coverage is . . . .

23.08.2006 18:42

very lacking. LOUD in its absence. They found flaws in the adding up of the small bit of the ballot they rechecked but they refuse to look at all of them????
HMMMM

details, details


yes. i agree. you cant smear the iranians as puritanical, with "corrupt" as the

23.08.2006 18:47

word next to it. Somebody is trying to stir up ww3 - it seems the facts dont matter - - - - but they do. "In advance", too.

DAILY MAIL PERUSER


puzzled - re a couple of israeli tactical ops that affect strategy

23.08.2006 18:58

a peace without hamas might have got sabotaged or rescinded -
but - as luck had it - against expectations -
1: hamas leaders - the most respected leaders they had - in prison, even, as "fighters", instead of "soft" types - had worked out a peace process - WITH fatah leaders in prison (!) that, in effect, recognised israel, paving the way to a 2 state solution -
2: then - won the internal debate -
3; then, got people to agree the referendum
kidnappings.... ????

good - worth pushing past the capital letters - cheers


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