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Last night PBS aired a program on NOVA that had to do with Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire.[1] The story has always been that he and his tiny band of intrepid adventurers had done it all by themselves. That has been the official story for 500 years. But actually, the official story is wrong. The Inca Empire was in the process of falling apart when the Spanish arrived and the Inca Empire was only a few hundred years old at the time. The conquered tribes were already looking for ways to get rid of the Inca when Pizarro showed up. So the truth is he and the Spanish had all sorts of help from the Indians. After they were in charge, the Spanish took all the credit. Well of course they did. What do you expect?
The non-official story has been around for 500 years too, but nobody was listening. The exact same thing is true in Mexico. There the Aztec were just not popular. I wonder why? All sorts of Indians rose up to get rid of the Aztec when the Spanish arrived. Actually, the Spanish in Mexico, themselves, acknowledged their partners long ago. They had to do that to keep their partners happy. But the upper class still kept most of the power for itself anyway. Well of course they did. What did you expect?
All sorts of things helped the Spanish: things like being 3,800 years ahead of the aboriginals in organization, weapons and other technologies. Horses. Smallpox. (The Europeans cannot be blamed for knowingly spreading disease because they didn't even know about germs until the end of the 19th century.) Credit where credit is due. Aboriginals fighting for their own freedom were the most important factor in the conquest. Numbers matter, but people with power like to keep power. What did you expect?
The Americans who founded the United States told everyone the revolution was for them. But they kept all the power for themselves. Well of course they did. Canada is not different, nor is any other place. What did you expect?
[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/inca/producer.html
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Prisoners of War
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If you bomb the enemy, you won't have any prisoners. If you march your prisoners to Siberia in February, you won't have many prisoners for very long. So the answer to the question, "Where were our concentration camps?" may be that we didn't have concentration camps because we didn't take prisoners. Still, we must have taken some prisoners. What happened to them?
The Germans captured vast Soviet armies in the beginning of Barbarosa. What did the Germans do with their prisoners? There were millions in the Soviet armies. It was summer so the Germans didn't have any help from the Russian freezer. Did the Germans kill all their prisoners? I haven't heard that. What happened to them?
Prisoners are a problem. Prisoners have to be cared for, like it or not. Prisoners are expensive. Prisoners have to be fed, clothed, protected from the elements. Sanitation needs to be looked after properly: disease can wipe out, in a few days, a population kept in close quarters. Anyone who keeps prisoners alive, however miserably, is humane. Is mass murder more humane?
Knowing these things casts events in a different light than we are used to seeing them. Killing people is easy. Keeping them alive is not easy and it is not cheap: prisoners take resources away from their captors. They take away things like fuel, shelter and food. Even if you kill them, prisoners take away bullets. Everything costs something.
I had a friend who just recently passed away at 83. Like most veterans with combat experience, he didn't talk about the war very much. But Larry [1] did tell me this: He spent the last years of the war in Stag Luft 3 [2]. My friend told me he had been shot down over The Netherlands on his way home one night. He became a prisoner of war a few months after "The Great Escape" (January 1943). He spent several years in the camp. Then one night, they were all rousted out of bed. They were not too happy about it. It was cold. They were sleepy.
The prisoners were assembled and marched west. They marched for several days until they came to a railway where they were loaded onto a train that took them to a large camp near Bremmen where they were liberated soon after by the British Army. Why had they been evacuated? The Red Army was coming. The Germans were fearful of the Soviets — for good reason.
My friend piloted Halifax bombers [3], the second largest heavy bomber in Bomber Command after the Lancaster. His job, he said, was to get the plane over a target where they would drop everything. Strategic bombing? The drop would be over a burning city which was easy to see at night. Finding the way there and back was the job of the navigator. "I just flew the plane. The navigator was the most important person on board. He got us there and back." How did the Halifax compare to the B-17? [4] "We were bigger, but they had more guns," Larry said cheerfully.
The Germans looked after the British and American airmen who were responsible for terror bombing that began in 1940 and ended in 1945. We don't usually think of it in those terms. Why would the Germans feed, clothe and guard these men? They had dropped bombs on Germany day and night for years. Why wouldn't they leave them for the Russians — just throw them to the wolves?
It's something to think about.
[1] http://www.kiwanisregina.org/In%20Memoriam/Larry.pdf
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_3
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_bomber
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Fortress
If you bomb the enemy, you won't have any prisoners. If you march your prisoners to Siberia in February, you won't have many prisoners for very long. So the answer to the question, "Where were our concentration camps?" may be that we didn't have concentration camps because we didn't take prisoners. Still, we must have taken some prisoners. What happened to them?
The Germans captured vast Soviet armies in the beginning of Barbarosa. What did the Germans do with their prisoners? There were millions in the Soviet armies. It was summer so the Germans didn't have any help from the Russian freezer. Did the Germans kill all their prisoners? I haven't heard that. What happened to them?
Prisoners are a problem. Prisoners have to be cared for, like it or not. Prisoners are expensive. Prisoners have to be fed, clothed, protected from the elements. Sanitation needs to be looked after properly: disease can wipe out, in a few days, a population kept in close quarters. Anyone who keeps prisoners alive, however miserably, is humane. Is mass murder more humane?
Knowing these things casts events in a different light than we are used to seeing them. Killing people is easy. Keeping them alive is not easy and it is not cheap: prisoners take resources away from their captors. They take away things like fuel, shelter and food. Even if you kill them, prisoners take away bullets. Everything costs something.
I had a friend who just recently passed away at 83. Like most veterans with combat experience, he didn't talk about the war very much. But Larry [1] did tell me this: He spent the last years of the war in Stag Luft 3 [2]. My friend told me he had been shot down over The Netherlands on his way home one night. He became a prisoner of war a few months after "The Great Escape" (January 1943). He spent several years in the camp. Then one night, they were all rousted out of bed. They were not too happy about it. It was cold. They were sleepy.
The prisoners were assembled and marched west. They marched for several days until they came to a railway where they were loaded onto a train that took them to a large camp near Bremmen where they were liberated soon after by the British Army. Why had they been evacuated? The Red Army was coming. The Germans were fearful of the Soviets — for good reason.
My friend piloted Halifax bombers [3], the second largest heavy bomber in Bomber Command after the Lancaster. His job, he said, was to get the plane over a target where they would drop everything. Strategic bombing? The drop would be over a burning city which was easy to see at night. Finding the way there and back was the job of the navigator. "I just flew the plane. The navigator was the most important person on board. He got us there and back." How did the Halifax compare to the B-17? [4] "We were bigger, but they had more guns," Larry said cheerfully.
The Germans looked after the British and American airmen who were responsible for terror bombing that began in 1940 and ended in 1945. We don't usually think of it in those terms. Why would the Germans feed, clothe and guard these men? They had dropped bombs on Germany day and night for years. Why wouldn't they leave them for the Russians — just throw them to the wolves?
It's something to think about.
[1] http://www.kiwanisregina.org/In%20Memoriam/Larry.pdf
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_3
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_bomber
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Fortress
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Questions about WWII
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There are zillions of unanswered questions about World War II. Here is one:
Were there any Allied POW camps for captured German and Japanese soldiers, airmen and sailors? I've never heard of any. Did the Allies capture no prisoners? Why not?
Okay, that's three questions, not one.
Everyone knows the Germans and Japanese had concentration camps where they interned captured Allied military personnel. We have been watching movies and TV shows about them for decades. "The Great Escape" and "Hogan's Heroes" were two of the most popular. We have been told of the Bataan Death March [1] and the Thai-Burma railroad [2] that was built by prisoners of the Japanese. So what did we do with the Germans and Japanese?
The Germans lost 800,000 men (not including their allies) when the entire German Sixth Army was captured in February 1943 at Stalingrad [3]. The Soviets launched their prisoners on a death march to the Gulag archipelago. Some survived the march to Siberia. Almost none ever returned from oblivion. Surely we didn't do anything like that? Did we?
Yet, I can find no reference to our own concentration camps except for the Japanese-American and Japanese-Canadian civilians whose property was stolen when they were put into concentration camps in Canada and the United States. Oddly, while some Germans and Austrians (and even Ukrainians) went to concentration camps in Canada and the United States in WW I, none were incarcerated in WW II. Why not?
The thing we know most about ourselves is that we are so darn decent. Isn't that right? I'm decent. You are decent. Decent. We sure are! Maybe we put our prisoners up at the Plaza in New York City or the Savoy in London.
"From infancy, by every possible means — class books, church services, sermons, speeches, books, papers, songs, poetry, monuments — [we are lead to be] stupefied in the one direction." - Tolstoy
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Railway
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
There are zillions of unanswered questions about World War II. Here is one:
Were there any Allied POW camps for captured German and Japanese soldiers, airmen and sailors? I've never heard of any. Did the Allies capture no prisoners? Why not?
Okay, that's three questions, not one.
Everyone knows the Germans and Japanese had concentration camps where they interned captured Allied military personnel. We have been watching movies and TV shows about them for decades. "The Great Escape" and "Hogan's Heroes" were two of the most popular. We have been told of the Bataan Death March [1] and the Thai-Burma railroad [2] that was built by prisoners of the Japanese. So what did we do with the Germans and Japanese?
The Germans lost 800,000 men (not including their allies) when the entire German Sixth Army was captured in February 1943 at Stalingrad [3]. The Soviets launched their prisoners on a death march to the Gulag archipelago. Some survived the march to Siberia. Almost none ever returned from oblivion. Surely we didn't do anything like that? Did we?
Yet, I can find no reference to our own concentration camps except for the Japanese-American and Japanese-Canadian civilians whose property was stolen when they were put into concentration camps in Canada and the United States. Oddly, while some Germans and Austrians (and even Ukrainians) went to concentration camps in Canada and the United States in WW I, none were incarcerated in WW II. Why not?
The thing we know most about ourselves is that we are so darn decent. Isn't that right? I'm decent. You are decent. Decent. We sure are! Maybe we put our prisoners up at the Plaza in New York City or the Savoy in London.
"From infancy, by every possible means — class books, church services, sermons, speeches, books, papers, songs, poetry, monuments — [we are lead to be] stupefied in the one direction." - Tolstoy
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Railway
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
Friday, July 11, 2008
Dianne's Medical Emergency
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Morley Evans February 3, 2007
Map of South East Saskatchewan
from Regina to Manitoba border
showing Madge Lake 1, Kamsack 2, Regina 3&7, Glenavon 4, Wolseley 5, Broadview 6
A. Principal Characters:
0.1 Dianne: patient (home - Wolseley, Sask.)
0.2 Brad: Dianne's boyfriend (home - Glenavon, Sask.)
0.3 Dr. M. Heroux: emergency, Regina General Hospital
0.4 Dr. Bella: Wolseley Hospital (Wolseley, Sask.)
0.5 Dr. DeWit: Broadview Clinic (Broadview, Sask.)
0.6 Dr. E.J. Smith: surgery, Regina General Hospital
B. Events:
1. Saturday 25th Feb 2006: Dianne was cross country skiing on a trail at Madge Lake, Saskatchewan
1.1 She fell between 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm and broke her right humerus just below the ball in the shoulder socket, it was later determined.
1.2 She was rescued by a fellow skier who immediately went for help.
2. Dianne was put on a stretcher back board and evacuated by ambulance to the nearest hospital in Kamsack, Saskatchewan.
2.1 She was strapped onto a board because the ambulance people were afraid she might have a spinal injury.
2.2 At the Kamsack hospital, X-rays were taken. The hospital said they couldn't provide a complete picture of the injured area because they were unable to position the patient properly because she was strapped to the board and she had excruciating pain in her right arm.
3. Dianne was taken by ambulance to the Regina General Hospital (RGH) — 300 kms (about 3 hours)
3.1 At RGH, Dr. M. Heroux looked at the X-rays from Kamsack and said Dianne had two hairline fractures in her humerus (upper arm bone).
3.2 The doctor said her spine and neck were not injured.
3.3 Dianne insisted she had a broken arm or shoulder — because she could feel it crunch when she moved it, even slightly — and that they should X-ray the arm and shoulder again. Dianne suspected, but was uncertain, that she had osteoporosis at this time.
3.4 Dr. Heroux refused to take an X-ray of the arm and shoulder.
3.5 Sunday 26 Feb 2006: Dianne was discharged from RGH in her son's care in the early morning hours. She was wrapped in a bed sheet with paper slippers in the cold of winter. Her winter clothes and shoes had not been sent with her in the ambulance at Kamsack. Instead they were given to Brad who returned to Glenavon from Kamsack to await a call from RGH. Dianne was in great pain and discomfort. What if something had happened to the vehicle enroute?
3.6 Regina General Hospital (RGH) only prescribed STATEX (Morphine) 5mg before discharging Dianne with a broken shoulder.
4. Brad drove Dianne to his residence in Glenavon from her son's home on Sunday afternoon. She spent a terrible night in pain there.
5. On Monday morning Brad drove her to Wolseley hospital where more X-rays were taken of her arm and shoulder. No mention of a major problem was made by Dr. Bella who was the attending physician in Wolseley.
6. With nothing done in Wolseley hospital, Brad drove Dianne to Broadview medical clinic with the Wolseley X-rays for another opinion of the injury. After one look at the X-rays, Dr. DeWit phoned Regina and booked an appointment in RGH for 9:00 am the next morning (Tuesday).
7. Early Tuesday morning, Brad took Dianne back to Regina for her appointment at the RGH. She was kept in the hospital and booked for surgery that day.
7.1 Tuesday 28th Feb 2006: Surgery was done by Dr. E.J. Smith late that evening. He had to use a plate to reattach the body (shaft) of the humerus to its head (ball). http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Humerus
7.2 The operation at RGH went well. The pain was intense a few hours later as the anaesthetic wore off.
7.3 Thursday 2nd March 2006: Dianne was discharged into Brad’s care.
7.4 Dianne started therapy 3 weeks later in Grenfell, Sask.
8. Dianne was very happy with the care she received once she got some care.
C. SUMMARY of emergency treatment for Dianne’s broken shoulder
• Total distance travelled seeking treatment - over 700 kms
• Total days before treatment was received - 3.5 days
• Total hospitals visited - five hospitals
• Total medical staff involved - emergency, nurses, doctors, support . . .
• Dianne lost over 4 months from work.
Why didn’t they take Dianne to the hospital in Yorkton? 80 km (about 1 hour). They could have gone to Winnipeg 472 km (about 4.5 hours) They could have gone to Minot, ND which is closer than Winnipeg!
So many questions. So few answers. Why?
Morley Evans February 3, 2007
from Regina to Manitoba border
showing Madge Lake 1, Kamsack 2, Regina 3&7, Glenavon 4, Wolseley 5, Broadview 6
A. Principal Characters:
0.1 Dianne: patient (home - Wolseley, Sask.)
0.2 Brad: Dianne's boyfriend (home - Glenavon, Sask.)
0.3 Dr. M. Heroux: emergency, Regina General Hospital
0.4 Dr. Bella: Wolseley Hospital (Wolseley, Sask.)
0.5 Dr. DeWit: Broadview Clinic (Broadview, Sask.)
0.6 Dr. E.J. Smith: surgery, Regina General Hospital
B. Events:
1. Saturday 25th Feb 2006: Dianne was cross country skiing on a trail at Madge Lake, Saskatchewan
1.1 She fell between 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm and broke her right humerus just below the ball in the shoulder socket, it was later determined.
1.2 She was rescued by a fellow skier who immediately went for help.
2. Dianne was put on a stretcher back board and evacuated by ambulance to the nearest hospital in Kamsack, Saskatchewan.
2.1 She was strapped onto a board because the ambulance people were afraid she might have a spinal injury.
2.2 At the Kamsack hospital, X-rays were taken. The hospital said they couldn't provide a complete picture of the injured area because they were unable to position the patient properly because she was strapped to the board and she had excruciating pain in her right arm.
3. Dianne was taken by ambulance to the Regina General Hospital (RGH) — 300 kms (about 3 hours)
3.1 At RGH, Dr. M. Heroux looked at the X-rays from Kamsack and said Dianne had two hairline fractures in her humerus (upper arm bone).
3.2 The doctor said her spine and neck were not injured.
3.3 Dianne insisted she had a broken arm or shoulder — because she could feel it crunch when she moved it, even slightly — and that they should X-ray the arm and shoulder again. Dianne suspected, but was uncertain, that she had osteoporosis at this time.
3.4 Dr. Heroux refused to take an X-ray of the arm and shoulder.
3.5 Sunday 26 Feb 2006: Dianne was discharged from RGH in her son's care in the early morning hours. She was wrapped in a bed sheet with paper slippers in the cold of winter. Her winter clothes and shoes had not been sent with her in the ambulance at Kamsack. Instead they were given to Brad who returned to Glenavon from Kamsack to await a call from RGH. Dianne was in great pain and discomfort. What if something had happened to the vehicle enroute?
3.6 Regina General Hospital (RGH) only prescribed STATEX (Morphine) 5mg before discharging Dianne with a broken shoulder.
4. Brad drove Dianne to his residence in Glenavon from her son's home on Sunday afternoon. She spent a terrible night in pain there.
5. On Monday morning Brad drove her to Wolseley hospital where more X-rays were taken of her arm and shoulder. No mention of a major problem was made by Dr. Bella who was the attending physician in Wolseley.
6. With nothing done in Wolseley hospital, Brad drove Dianne to Broadview medical clinic with the Wolseley X-rays for another opinion of the injury. After one look at the X-rays, Dr. DeWit phoned Regina and booked an appointment in RGH for 9:00 am the next morning (Tuesday).
7. Early Tuesday morning, Brad took Dianne back to Regina for her appointment at the RGH. She was kept in the hospital and booked for surgery that day.
7.1 Tuesday 28th Feb 2006: Surgery was done by Dr. E.J. Smith late that evening. He had to use a plate to reattach the body (shaft) of the humerus to its head (ball). http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Humerus
7.2 The operation at RGH went well. The pain was intense a few hours later as the anaesthetic wore off.
7.3 Thursday 2nd March 2006: Dianne was discharged into Brad’s care.
7.4 Dianne started therapy 3 weeks later in Grenfell, Sask.
8. Dianne was very happy with the care she received once she got some care.
C. SUMMARY of emergency treatment for Dianne’s broken shoulder
• Total distance travelled seeking treatment - over 700 kms
• Total days before treatment was received - 3.5 days
• Total hospitals visited - five hospitals
• Total medical staff involved - emergency, nurses, doctors, support . . .
• Dianne lost over 4 months from work.
Why didn’t they take Dianne to the hospital in Yorkton? 80 km (about 1 hour). They could have gone to Winnipeg 472 km (about 4.5 hours) They could have gone to Minot, ND which is closer than Winnipeg!
So many questions. So few answers. Why?
More Medical Mishaps
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My sister-in-law, Denise, lost her first baby:
After looking after herself and seeing her doctor faithfully, everything looked fine. They did take measurements and decided the baby might be too big to get through the birth canal. Then Denise went into the hospital to discover her doctor had gone fishing. A doctor she had never met looked after her delivery. She was in labour for hours and hours, but the baby could not get out. Then the doctor performed a caesarian section and delivered the baby. Tragically, the little girl's head was damaged from the hours of bashing that it had suffered. A day later, the baby died. "Just as well," the doctor observed. "She would have been brain damaged anyway." This guy probably was asleep when they discussed compassion at medical school.
My brother was going to sue, but he was talked out of it. (And now we know Canadians can't sue doctors, thanks to the CMPA). The doctor who had gone fishing (or was it golfing?) returned to life as it had been before. The attending physician was not affected either. He eventually moved on to Vancouver where he is practising medicine.
This happened in 1982 when I was living on Millstream Road in West Vancouver. Subsequently, Denise has had four baby boys by caesarian section. They turned out pretty well.
Regina has some good doctors, but it certainly has some bad doctors. I have had some of Regina's worst doctors, myself. I have had decades of clinical experience with them. Regina has some of the stupidest doctors in the world. People just let bad doctors get away with murder here. I would put Regina's health care system at the bottom of the list for quality. It is completely unresponsive to feedback.* The people who run the health care system should be flogged.
Public flogging: It might be time to resurrect the practice.
* Things that are "completely unresponsive to feedback" are usually considered to be dead.
My sister-in-law, Denise, lost her first baby:
After looking after herself and seeing her doctor faithfully, everything looked fine. They did take measurements and decided the baby might be too big to get through the birth canal. Then Denise went into the hospital to discover her doctor had gone fishing. A doctor she had never met looked after her delivery. She was in labour for hours and hours, but the baby could not get out. Then the doctor performed a caesarian section and delivered the baby. Tragically, the little girl's head was damaged from the hours of bashing that it had suffered. A day later, the baby died. "Just as well," the doctor observed. "She would have been brain damaged anyway." This guy probably was asleep when they discussed compassion at medical school.
My brother was going to sue, but he was talked out of it. (And now we know Canadians can't sue doctors, thanks to the CMPA). The doctor who had gone fishing (or was it golfing?) returned to life as it had been before. The attending physician was not affected either. He eventually moved on to Vancouver where he is practising medicine.
This happened in 1982 when I was living on Millstream Road in West Vancouver. Subsequently, Denise has had four baby boys by caesarian section. They turned out pretty well.
Regina has some good doctors, but it certainly has some bad doctors. I have had some of Regina's worst doctors, myself. I have had decades of clinical experience with them. Regina has some of the stupidest doctors in the world. People just let bad doctors get away with murder here. I would put Regina's health care system at the bottom of the list for quality. It is completely unresponsive to feedback.* The people who run the health care system should be flogged.
Public flogging: It might be time to resurrect the practice.
* Things that are "completely unresponsive to feedback" are usually considered to be dead.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Wrong on Russia?
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Wrong on Russia? Steven F. Cohen of the International Herald Tribune thinks we are.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/01/opinion/edcohen.php
It is not merely the current candidates for POTUS who are wrong on Russia. In fact, the current incumbents merely appear to be aberrations if one believes we used to be the good guys before these guys.
When was that? Oh sure, there was The Good War. We'll deal with The Great Victory of 1945, in another piece. Suffice it to say now that what we have all been told over and over for sixty years deserves scrutiny.
The current political leaders are not aberrations. Start to peal the onion. Examine George W. Bush and then Dick Cheney and then the rest. Then examine William Jefferson Clinton and then the rest. Go all the way back to George Washington. And it is not merely the Americans.
After you look at the Americans, look at the British. You could look at the record as far back as James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625). But it would be instructive to go back to William I of England (1027 – 9 September 1087). You will see an almost unbroken chain of war and high crimes. You will see a thousand years of aggression.
"Everybody does this," you say? Do they really? Who is really the aggressor, now and in the past? Take a look. Then ask yourself if you want to be part of this. Are you a criminal?
Maybe we are just the most successful criminal empire since the Romans (9th century BCE - 15th century CE). Could be. But we still are not the people we think we are and that could be the problem, if you are wondering why we live in a dangerous world filled with evil.
Wrong on Russia? Steven F. Cohen of the International Herald Tribune thinks we are.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/01/opinion/edcohen.php
It is not merely the current candidates for POTUS who are wrong on Russia. In fact, the current incumbents merely appear to be aberrations if one believes we used to be the good guys before these guys.
When was that? Oh sure, there was The Good War. We'll deal with The Great Victory of 1945, in another piece. Suffice it to say now that what we have all been told over and over for sixty years deserves scrutiny.
The current political leaders are not aberrations. Start to peal the onion. Examine George W. Bush and then Dick Cheney and then the rest. Then examine William Jefferson Clinton and then the rest. Go all the way back to George Washington. And it is not merely the Americans.
After you look at the Americans, look at the British. You could look at the record as far back as James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625). But it would be instructive to go back to William I of England (1027 – 9 September 1087). You will see an almost unbroken chain of war and high crimes. You will see a thousand years of aggression.
"Everybody does this," you say? Do they really? Who is really the aggressor, now and in the past? Take a look. Then ask yourself if you want to be part of this. Are you a criminal?
Maybe we are just the most successful criminal empire since the Romans (9th century BCE - 15th century CE). Could be. But we still are not the people we think we are and that could be the problem, if you are wondering why we live in a dangerous world filled with evil.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
A Forecast for The Holy Land
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In this brief essay, Jonathan Cook has encapsulated the 130-year-long history (which began with the first Rothschild colony) of the Zionist project in The Holy Land. Cook forecasts its probable conclusion, possibly coming soon.
Missing only is the significant fact that today a majority of Jews in the State of Israel are beginning to question the paranoiac racist junta that has always ruled "Israel" and has set the Israeli political agenda all these years. Most people are not monsters, though, sadly, most of their leaders usually are. Power does affect what people think and what they do.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=13058
In this brief essay, Jonathan Cook has encapsulated the 130-year-long history (which began with the first Rothschild colony) of the Zionist project in The Holy Land. Cook forecasts its probable conclusion, possibly coming soon.
Missing only is the significant fact that today a majority of Jews in the State of Israel are beginning to question the paranoiac racist junta that has always ruled "Israel" and has set the Israeli political agenda all these years. Most people are not monsters, though, sadly, most of their leaders usually are. Power does affect what people think and what they do.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=13058
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