An Omen?
Fasten you seatbelts: it’s going to be a Bumpy Ride!
And to the Rich and Powerful out there that may be reading this: Thanks for f@#king this country up.
And to the poor and weak: what would you do without all these years of watching TV?
“My view is that the United States’ special relationship with Israel obligates us to be helpful to them in the search for credible partners with whom they can make peace, while also supporting Israel in defending itself against enemies sworn to its destruction.”
-Barack Obama.
If Obama would come out against Israel’s recent self-described “Holocaust” against Palestine, I might feel better about supporting him. But then again, saying anything against Israel is enough to ruin one’s political career in this country.
sigh…..So I guess we are all living through some kind of Steinbeckian Hell….Go Obama….if we are having a Depression he is the best man to have at the Helm…
I’ve been watching cnbc lately cause I’ve been following the markets. You want to see some cold conservatives, watch that channel. I used to watch them 8 years ago and I don’t remember them being that political. People like Larry Kudlow and another sick mother who’s name I can’t remember were defending executive compensation especially that of Countrywide’s CEO. Although he built a big company and created a lot of jobs, the worse the company did, the more compensation he received (and the more stock he sold). Some of the packages these CEO’s receive can be as much as 40% of the revenues of the company in one year!
“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success……And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot, must be forced to rot…..In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” Sixty nine years later and …..
If more farms convert to organic and bio-dynamic practices, and more communities support these smaller, family-owned farms, we may just be able to avoid another dust bowl.
Grapes of Wrath is a powerful reminder for all of us to know where our food comes from and support CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).
There will never be true social justice until progressives start to understand that knowing economics is the only way foster true justice. The recession is the fruition of Friedman Monetarism started by Regan, but no one on our side is articulating that. When conservative supply side economics only benefit those making over 200k, yet people making 50K think supply side economics is the way to go, it means that progressives have no clue how to explain how oppressive for 90% of America. There has been a vast redistribution of wealth over the last thirty years, consolidating the wealth at the top. Wake up progressives, and start speaking convincing the masses that supply side economics is the cause of the great wealth consolidation at the top!
Peace,
Alec
The nation’s leading financier, Warren Buffett, had warned years before that “derivatives,” whose value was balanced loosely on the real assets underneath, were the equivalent of “financial weapons of mass destruction.” But in the rush for profits, nobody listened.
Can you someone please tell me why the following story has not been reported on the United States news, but manages to make it to the front page of every Canadian newspaper and on the BBC? The rest of the world would like to know.
My sociology professor said the only reason Grapes of Wrath was so respected was because it featured white rural folk, and not the Mexican rural folk Steinbeck encountered. Anyhoo, speaking of racism, inequality continues. CEOs who profited off the housing crisis are upset that Congress is questioning their ethics. Troops are going deaf.
Bush hearts waterboarding.
Those rebates ironically cost $42 million.
HippyGourmet Says: If more farms convert to organic and bio-dynamic practices, and more communities support these smaller, family-owned farms, we may just be able to avoid another dust bowl.
Grapes of Wrath is a powerful reminder for all of us to know where our food comes from and support CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).
It’s also a reminder that the PEOPLE united in a cause cannot be defeated by the corporations and the ruling elites.
Can you someone please tell me why the following story has not been reported on the United States news, but manages to make it to the front page of every Canadian newspaper and on the BBC? The rest of the world would like to know.
Lou Dobbs is one mainline journalist talking about the economics disparity in this country. I wish more would follow suit. Thank you Crooks and Liars for preparing us, or giving us the opportunity to learn about this situation. We need it. Peace.
How weird that you would post this scene at this time. I just started reading Grapes of Wrath for the first time, and last night I read this very scene (which takes place in Chapter 5). I got terribly angry while reading it, because how the corporate system has been built into a machine where no one man is accountable for the things the system does, and nobody can be pinpointed as the source of exploitation — although there are certainly a few people at the top somewhere, and they’re getting filthy rich off other’s labor and misfortune. Steinbeck describes the banks as monsters that eat profit, and must always grow or die. It’s brilliant. I don’t know how anyone who buys into capitalism could read that book and come out still believing it’s a good system. And that’s just Chapter 5!
Orangutan@26 I like Lou Dobbs when he talks about the middle class and some of the other topics close to his heart. He’s been fairly consistent in his criticism of Bush’s economic policies. And he isn’t shy about blasting corporate misdeeds.
However, I hate his election coverage since he often seems to do his impression of an internet troll when discussing anything campaign related.
“My view is that the United States’ special relationship with Israel obligates us to be helpful to them in the search for credible partners with whom they can make peace, while also supporting Israel in defending itself against enemies sworn to its destruction.”
-Barack Obama.
If Obama would come out against Israel’s recent self-described “Holocaust” against Palestine, I might feel better about supporting him. But then again, saying anything against Israel is enough to ruin one’s political career in this country.
funny, many jews are afraid of what obama’s policies towards israel will be, thanks the bogus email
thousands of [Deleted. Polemicizing, flamebaiting-Sitemonitor] hate the fact that he said anything positve about israel
he must be doing something right
btw…terrorists enter a rabbinical seminary, filled with high school and college aged kids, killing 8, wounding dozens….there is dancing in the streets in gaza
during the operation in gaza, how many israelis were dancing in the streets?
sad to say but you people aint going to make it if things get like they were in the thirtys, thiers no more freight trains you can bo on , i saw the skinny starveing hopeless guys young and old hanging on to the boxcars in freezing and sweltering weather , watched the railroad dicks beat them up with clubs and throw them onto the rail beds cinders while the trains kept rolling down the tracks , went to the hobo jungle saw them makeing hobo stew out of anything they could beg or steal, back in thoes days your nabior raised chickens in his backyard ,had a vegitable garden , and if he liked you maby you had a little to eat, not anybody allowed to raise chickens in thier yards today, thoes were the days my friend!
sad to say but you people aint going to make it if things get like they were in the thirtys, thiers no more freight trains you can bo on , i saw the skinny starveing hopeless guys young and old hanging on to the boxcars in freezing and sweltering weather , watched the railroad dicks beat them up with clubs and throw them onto the rail beds cinders while the trains kept rolling down the tracks , went to the hobo jungle saw them makeing hobo stew out of anything they could beg or steal, back in thoes days your nabior raised chickens in his backyard ,had a vegitable garden , and if he liked you maby you had a little to eat, not anybody allowed to raise chickens in thier yards today, thoes were the days my friend!
Hi tyree! How you gonna get by (cause I know ya will, ya tough ‘ol bastid, lol)? Lookin’ fer tips here…
well proud i aint going to make it i came in this world dureing the depreshion looks like ive come full circle, i never thought it would happen again in my lifetime!
proud get some chickens and some vegetable seeds find a bridge and build a nice cardboard box house under it , you wont lack for company if you got them chickens!!!!!he he
sad to say but you people aint going to make it if things get like they were in the thirtys, thiers no more freight trains you can bo on , i saw the skinny starveing hopeless guys young and old hanging on to the boxcars in freezing and sweltering weather , watched the railroad dicks beat them up with clubs and throw them onto the rail beds cinders while the trains kept rolling down the tracks , went to the hobo jungle saw them makeing hobo stew out of anything they could beg or steal, back in thoes days your nabior raised chickens in his backyard ,had a vegitable garden , and if he liked you maby you had a little to eat, not anybody allowed to raise chickens in thier yards today, thoes were the days my friend!
we aint gonna make it because we have never known want
our parents and grandparents were made of sturdy stuff, and they wanted their kids to have it better
so they sacrificed
no one sacrifices anymore….not really
plus, thanks the the great depression, we moved to a manufacturing based economy…and now, that is all gone
i heard the heil one ranting about taxes again today…talking about the old world view of the american dream….someone needs to wake that fascist up to the fact that the dream is dead and buried
“My view is that the United States’ special relationship with Israel obligates us to be helpful to them in the search for credible partners with whom they can make peace, while also supporting Israel in defending itself against enemies sworn to its destruction.”
-Barack Obama.
If Obama would come out against Israel’s recent self-described “Holocaust” against Palestine, I might feel better about supporting him. But then again, saying anything against Israel is enough to ruin one’s political career in this country.
funny, many jews are afraid of what obama’s policies towards israel will be, thanks the bogus email
thousands of [Deleted. Polemicizing, flamebaiting-Sitemonitor] hate the fact that he said anything positve about israel
he must be doing something right
btw…terrorists enter a rabbinical seminary, filled with high school and college aged kids, killing 8, wounding dozens….there is dancing in the streets in gaza
during the operation in gaza, how many israelis were dancing in the streets?
(emphasis mine.) funny that anyone critical of israel’s policies toward palestine gets labeled a jew hater. i noticed that 8 people were killed in jerusalem because it was all over the front page of every news site. if 123 israeli women and children were killed, can you imagine? nbc might even have to interrupt regular broadcasting for that breaking news.
how can any decent human being possibly defend israel’s actions against palestine? it makes me sick. i hope that someday my country cuts ties with israel. we are israel’s only ally in the world; if we stop supporting them, no one would come to their defense, and maybe they would stop the killing. goodnight now.
back in thoes days you ate potatos for breakfast if you could get them ,boiled fried, stewed , maby next day you had some eggs for one meal a day, mostly you went to bed hungry, then the fires went out in the coal stoves you ripped up the lenolium rugs threw them in if you still had a fire going then the furniture went finally you stoled coal off the freight trains and hoped the railroad cops didnt catch you , i saw my dads hands freeze to the condola rungs when it was so cold , it ripped the flesh off his palms , everybody who lived along the tracks threw coal off the trains in the darkness!
“My view is that the United States’ special relationship with Israel obligates us to be helpful to them in the search for credible partners with whom they can make peace, while also supporting Israel in defending itself against enemies sworn to its destruction.”
-Barack Obama.
If Obama would come out against Israel’s recent self-described “Holocaust” against Palestine, I might feel better about supporting him. But then again, saying anything against Israel is enough to ruin one’s political career in this country.
funny, many jews are afraid of what obama’s policies towards israel will be, thanks the bogus email
thousands of [Deleted. Polemicizing, flamebaiting-Sitemonitor] hate the fact that he said anything positve about israel
he must be doing something right
btw…terrorists enter a rabbinical seminary, filled with high school and college aged kids, killing 8, wounding dozens….there is dancing in the streets in gaza
during the operation in gaza, how many israelis were dancing in the streets?
I don’t know how you would feel after you’ve been starved, your kids murdered in cold blood in front of your eyes, you are unemployed, you have no place to go, no drinking water, no electricity and the sewer is running down the streets while you’re begging humanitarian relief organizations for food and medical help and medicine. I’ve just read an article that was published a few months ago where a Palestinian child who had cancer needed to get radiation therapy. Israel wouldn’t let him and his wheelchair across into Israel. His parents begged, his mom begged. Nothing became of it. A couple of weeks later the child was dead.
It’s too bad that Jews like you don’t speak out against the atrocities committed by the Zionist regime in Israel. And there is a difference between racist Zionism and the Jewish religion. It’s too bad that you’re willing to follow Israeli propaganda blindly just because the only thing you have in common with them is your religion. Israel loves gullible Jews who fight for it’s cause, but who don’t understand or prefer to look the other way just because Israel gives them a sense of belonging. Like I said, Israel gives Jews worldwide a bad name. Just like Al-Qaeda gives Muslims a bad name.
You cry foul when 8 Israelis are gunned down, but when 120 Palestinian were killed by Israel this last weekend alone, 40 of whom were children, you didn’t bat an eye. Did you?
By the way, did you know that the Holocaust survivors whom Germany compensated throughout the years haven’t seen a dime from all that money? It all went to your beloved Israeli government.
I grew up in Israel (unfortunately). I always thought to myself, how can a people who were persecuted in Nazi Germany and who have been victims of fascist policies turn around and do similar acts to others? I guess Israel can always play the victim card whenever it suites it.
PS: Rabbi Kook was the leader and founder of the settler movement. You know, those folks who stole land from Palestinians, uprooted their olive trees and kicked them off their land because of some passage in the Torah says that God gave them the land.
Food security and the rapid rise in food prices make up the “elephant in the room” that politicians must face up to quickly, according to the government’s new chief scientific adviser.
In his first major speech since taking over, Professor John Beddington said the global rush to grow biofuels was compounding the problem, and cutting down rainforest to produce biofuel crops was “profoundly stupid”.
He told the Govnet Sustainable Development UK Conference in Westminster: “There is progress on climate change. But out there is another major problem. It is very hard to imagine how we can see a world growing enough crops to produce renewable energy and at the same time meet the enormous increase in the demand for food which is quite properly going to happen as we alleviate poverty.”
He predicted that price rises in staples such as rice, maize and wheat would continue because of increased demand caused by population growth and increasing wealth in developing nations. He also said that climate change would lead to pressure on food supplies because of decreased rainfall in many areas and crop failures related to climate. “The agriculture industry needs to double its food production, using less water than today,” he said. The food crisis would bite more quickly than climate change, he added.
But he reserved some of his most scathing comments for the biofuel industry, which he said had delivered a “major shock” to world food prices. “In terms of biofuels there has been, quite properly, a reaction against it,” he said. “There are real problems with unsustainability.”
…
Can you someone please tell me why the following story has not been reported on the United States news, but manages to make it to the front page of every Canadian newspaper and on the BBC? The rest of the world would like to know.
This is the worst Machiavellian-style political maneuver I have ever witness in my entire life. And it makes sense to me because after all Clinton was the former president, so he would have more a reason to maintain contact with a foreign government such a Canada.
…Later, I decided search youtube to get more information, and I found that the story was being posted and removed within minutes. Certain members of youtube community complained that they had to re-post the story over and over again because the Clinton camp complained and had it removed. This really surprised me. It also surprises me that this is such a big story but no major US news company is reporting it. I am beginning to suspect that our votes and our voices don’t count, and this makes me sick to my stomach.
#17, not just what would John Steinbeck do, but don’t forget who made the movie, (which, by the way, Steinbeck loved). What would John Ford do? Or better yet, what would Tom Joad, or Ma, or Pa, or Muley, and maybe most of all, what would Reverend Casey do?
My guess is that none of them would know until it happened. But that’s okay.
And #15, you ain’t all wrong. But you gotta lot of learnin’ to do. Sometimes a movie made right at the same time (sorry, I’m too lazy to try to spell contemp. Whatever), after just gettin’ through it, is more valuable and more relevant than any romanticized recreation even just a decade later.
And one more thing Uncle Joe McCarthy, I don’t care how many Israelis were dancing in the streets. Israelis lead a normal life, barring the occasional “attack”. They go to the beach, they go to work and they lead a normal life. The Palestinians on the other hand are in a prison, unable to leave, unable to move without being beaten or turned back and are unable to go to school and lead any normal life by any stretch of the imagination. The separation wall that is 24 feet high that Israel built to “prevent” “attacks” has closed off the Palestinians to the outside world and has divided families and villages. So, in the long run, Israelis are dancing in the streets while they treat Palestinians like animals at a zoo.
Do you remember who cried and whined about the Gulags and the Ghettos of Europe? That’s right, the same people who are now applying the same strategies onto the Palestinians.
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You had to Choose Grapes of Wrath?
Dooooooh
The next movie is ‘Campaigns of Wrath’: Obama Comments on the ‘Monster’ Remark
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1578
An Omen?
Fasten you seatbelts: it’s going to be a Bumpy Ride!
And to the Rich and Powerful out there that may be reading this: Thanks for f@#king this country up.
And to the poor and weak: what would you do without all these years of watching TV?
I got to move…
it’s going to be worse than the 30’s
the american public is totally inept and stupid….at least the people in the 30’s could grow food.
idiot americans don’t know how to do anything…..they couldn’t feed themselves if they tried.
you’re going to feel the grapes of wrath alright…..it will come from years of forrest gumping your way through life.
ooh Joady
“My view is that the United States’ special relationship with Israel obligates us to be helpful to them in the search for credible partners with whom they can make peace, while also supporting Israel in defending itself against enemies sworn to its destruction.”
-Barack Obama.
If Obama would come out against Israel’s recent self-described “Holocaust” against Palestine, I might feel better about supporting him. But then again, saying anything against Israel is enough to ruin one’s political career in this country.
Unfortunately , the same guy probably would’ve vote for Bush.Keep em’ stupid( uneducated) and controll by fear. Big red telephone.Go Obama.
sigh…..So I guess we are all living through some kind of Steinbeckian Hell….Go Obama….if we are having a Depression he is the best man to have at the Helm…
I love you Bluegal on Friday March 7, 2008!
of mice and mean……..
If the next Depression occurs, this time the people just might use those shotguns.
I’ve been watching cnbc lately cause I’ve been following the markets. You want to see some cold conservatives, watch that channel. I used to watch them 8 years ago and I don’t remember them being that political. People like Larry Kudlow and another sick mother who’s name I can’t remember were defending executive compensation especially that of Countrywide’s CEO. Although he built a big company and created a lot of jobs, the worse the company did, the more compensation he received (and the more stock he sold). Some of the packages these CEO’s receive can be as much as 40% of the revenues of the company in one year!
Gotugye @ 10:
No doubt. Unlikely people are going to sit around this time. Not after this screwing.
But wait.
Where ever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat…
Where ever there’s a cop beatin up a guy…
I’ll Be There
It’s just somethin I been thinkin about…
I love old movies…but I like new movies about old subjects better: LEARN ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ
There will be a test……we’re living thru it right now!
“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success……And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot, must be forced to rot…..In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” Sixty nine years later and …..
What would John Steinbeck do?
If more farms convert to organic and bio-dynamic practices, and more communities support these smaller, family-owned farms, we may just be able to avoid another dust bowl.
Grapes of Wrath is a powerful reminder for all of us to know where our food comes from and support CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).
There will never be true social justice until progressives start to understand that knowing economics is the only way foster true justice. The recession is the fruition of Friedman Monetarism started by Regan, but no one on our side is articulating that. When conservative supply side economics only benefit those making over 200k, yet people making 50K think supply side economics is the way to go, it means that progressives have no clue how to explain how oppressive for 90% of America. There has been a vast redistribution of wealth over the last thirty years, consolidating the wealth at the top. Wake up progressives, and start speaking convincing the masses that supply side economics is the cause of the great wealth consolidation at the top!
Peace,
Alec
The nation’s leading financier, Warren Buffett, had warned years before that “derivatives,” whose value was balanced loosely on the real assets underneath, were the equivalent of “financial weapons of mass destruction.” But in the rush for profits, nobody listened.
Can you someone please tell me why the following story has not been reported on the United States news, but manages to make it to the front page of every Canadian newspaper and on the BBC? The rest of the world would like to know.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OOLEK2lr3CM
My sociology professor said the only reason Grapes of Wrath was so respected was because it featured white rural folk, and not the Mexican rural folk Steinbeck encountered. Anyhoo, speaking of racism, inequality continues. CEOs who profited off the housing crisis are upset that Congress is questioning their ethics. Troops are going deaf.
Bush hearts waterboarding.
Those rebates ironically cost $42 million.
HippyGourmet Says: If more farms convert to organic and bio-dynamic practices, and more communities support these smaller, family-owned farms, we may just be able to avoid another dust bowl.
Grapes of Wrath is a powerful reminder for all of us to know where our food comes from and support CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).
It’s also a reminder that the PEOPLE united in a cause cannot be defeated by the corporations and the ruling elites.
and, in other news, igor resigns after calling frankenstein “hillary clinton”…
18 Alec Timmerman
Are you hep to Thom Hartmann? He is one of the best on economics!
http://books.google.com/books?.....&hl=en
http://www.thomhartmann.com/
Renee @ 20:
Maybe something to do with the whole Clinton/Murdoch thing…
Lou Dobbs is one mainline journalist talking about the economics disparity in this country. I wish more would follow suit. Thank you Crooks and Liars for preparing us, or giving us the opportunity to learn about this situation. We need it. Peace.
How weird that you would post this scene at this time. I just started reading Grapes of Wrath for the first time, and last night I read this very scene (which takes place in Chapter 5). I got terribly angry while reading it, because how the corporate system has been built into a machine where no one man is accountable for the things the system does, and nobody can be pinpointed as the source of exploitation — although there are certainly a few people at the top somewhere, and they’re getting filthy rich off other’s labor and misfortune. Steinbeck describes the banks as monsters that eat profit, and must always grow or die. It’s brilliant. I don’t know how anyone who buys into capitalism could read that book and come out still believing it’s a good system. And that’s just Chapter 5!
Orangutan@26 I like Lou Dobbs when he talks about the middle class and some of the other topics close to his heart. He’s been fairly consistent in his criticism of Bush’s economic policies. And he isn’t shy about blasting corporate misdeeds.
However, I hate his election coverage since he often seems to do his impression of an internet troll when discussing anything campaign related.
mo_dem @ 6:
funny, many jews are afraid of what obama’s policies towards israel will be, thanks the bogus email
thousands of [Deleted. Polemicizing, flamebaiting-Sitemonitor] hate the fact that he said anything positve about israel
he must be doing something right
btw…terrorists enter a rabbinical seminary, filled with high school and college aged kids, killing 8, wounding dozens….there is dancing in the streets in gaza
during the operation in gaza, how many israelis were dancing in the streets?
[Knock off the generalizations-Sitemonitor]
sad to say but you people aint going to make it if things get like they were in the thirtys, thiers no more freight trains you can bo on , i saw the skinny starveing hopeless guys young and old hanging on to the boxcars in freezing and sweltering weather , watched the railroad dicks beat them up with clubs and throw them onto the rail beds cinders while the trains kept rolling down the tracks , went to the hobo jungle saw them makeing hobo stew out of anything they could beg or steal, back in thoes days your nabior raised chickens in his backyard ,had a vegitable garden , and if he liked you maby you had a little to eat, not anybody allowed to raise chickens in thier yards today, thoes were the days my friend!
tyree @ 30:
Hi tyree! How you gonna get by (cause I know ya will, ya tough ‘ol bastid, lol)? Lookin’ fer tips here…
;-}
well proud i aint going to make it i came in this world dureing the depreshion looks like ive come full circle, i never thought it would happen again in my lifetime!
proud get some chickens and some vegetable seeds find a bridge and build a nice cardboard box house under it , you wont lack for company if you got them chickens!!!!!he he
tyree @ 30:
we aint gonna make it because we have never known want
our parents and grandparents were made of sturdy stuff, and they wanted their kids to have it better
so they sacrificed
no one sacrifices anymore….not really
plus, thanks the the great depression, we moved to a manufacturing based economy…and now, that is all gone
i heard the heil one ranting about taxes again today…talking about the old world view of the american dream….someone needs to wake that fascist up to the fact that the dream is dead and buried
uncle joe mccarthy @ 30:
(emphasis mine.) funny that anyone critical of israel’s policies toward palestine gets labeled a jew hater. i noticed that 8 people were killed in jerusalem because it was all over the front page of every news site. if 123 israeli women and children were killed, can you imagine? nbc might even have to interrupt regular broadcasting for that breaking news.
how can any decent human being possibly defend israel’s actions against palestine? it makes me sick. i hope that someday my country cuts ties with israel. we are israel’s only ally in the world; if we stop supporting them, no one would come to their defense, and maybe they would stop the killing. goodnight now.
back in thoes days you ate potatos for breakfast if you could get them ,boiled fried, stewed , maby next day you had some eggs for one meal a day, mostly you went to bed hungry, then the fires went out in the coal stoves you ripped up the lenolium rugs threw them in if you still had a fire going then the furniture went finally you stoled coal off the freight trains and hoped the railroad cops didnt catch you , i saw my dads hands freeze to the condola rungs when it was so cold , it ripped the flesh off his palms , everybody who lived along the tracks threw coal off the trains in the darkness!
uncle joe mccarthy @ 29:
I don’t know how you would feel after you’ve been starved, your kids murdered in cold blood in front of your eyes, you are unemployed, you have no place to go, no drinking water, no electricity and the sewer is running down the streets while you’re begging humanitarian relief organizations for food and medical help and medicine. I’ve just read an article that was published a few months ago where a Palestinian child who had cancer needed to get radiation therapy. Israel wouldn’t let him and his wheelchair across into Israel. His parents begged, his mom begged. Nothing became of it. A couple of weeks later the child was dead.
It’s too bad that Jews like you don’t speak out against the atrocities committed by the Zionist regime in Israel. And there is a difference between racist Zionism and the Jewish religion. It’s too bad that you’re willing to follow Israeli propaganda blindly just because the only thing you have in common with them is your religion. Israel loves gullible Jews who fight for it’s cause, but who don’t understand or prefer to look the other way just because Israel gives them a sense of belonging. Like I said, Israel gives Jews worldwide a bad name. Just like Al-Qaeda gives Muslims a bad name.
You cry foul when 8 Israelis are gunned down, but when 120 Palestinian were killed by Israel this last weekend alone, 40 of whom were children, you didn’t bat an eye. Did you?
By the way, did you know that the Holocaust survivors whom Germany compensated throughout the years haven’t seen a dime from all that money? It all went to your beloved Israeli government.
I grew up in Israel (unfortunately). I always thought to myself, how can a people who were persecuted in Nazi Germany and who have been victims of fascist policies turn around and do similar acts to others? I guess Israel can always play the victim card whenever it suites it.
PS: Rabbi Kook was the leader and founder of the settler movement. You know, those folks who stole land from Palestinians, uprooted their olive trees and kicked them off their land because of some passage in the Torah says that God gave them the land.
The uss liberty!!!
Thank you Israel.
nuff said!
Guardian UK: Food crisis will take hold before climate change, warns chief scientist
Food security and the rapid rise in food prices make up the “elephant in the room” that politicians must face up to quickly, according to the government’s new chief scientific adviser.
In his first major speech since taking over, Professor John Beddington said the global rush to grow biofuels was compounding the problem, and cutting down rainforest to produce biofuel crops was “profoundly stupid”.
He told the Govnet Sustainable Development UK Conference in Westminster: “There is progress on climate change. But out there is another major problem. It is very hard to imagine how we can see a world growing enough crops to produce renewable energy and at the same time meet the enormous increase in the demand for food which is quite properly going to happen as we alleviate poverty.”
He predicted that price rises in staples such as rice, maize and wheat would continue because of increased demand caused by population growth and increasing wealth in developing nations. He also said that climate change would lead to pressure on food supplies because of decreased rainfall in many areas and crop failures related to climate. “The agriculture industry needs to double its food production, using less water than today,” he said. The food crisis would bite more quickly than climate change, he added.
But he reserved some of his most scathing comments for the biofuel industry, which he said had delivered a “major shock” to world food prices. “In terms of biofuels there has been, quite properly, a reaction against it,” he said. “There are real problems with unsustainability.”
…
mo_dem @ 26:
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I am beginning to believe that we truly live a a fascist society. Last night I ran across the following article:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com.....38264.aspx
This is the worst Machiavellian-style political maneuver I have ever witness in my entire life. And it makes sense to me because after all Clinton was the former president, so he would have more a reason to maintain contact with a foreign government such a Canada.
…Later, I decided search youtube to get more information, and I found that the story was being posted and removed within minutes. Certain members of youtube community complained that they had to re-post the story over and over again because the Clinton camp complained and had it removed. This really surprised me. It also surprises me that this is such a big story but no major US news company is reporting it. I am beginning to suspect that our votes and our voices don’t count, and this makes me sick to my stomach.
#17, not just what would John Steinbeck do, but don’t forget who made the movie, (which, by the way, Steinbeck loved). What would John Ford do? Or better yet, what would Tom Joad, or Ma, or Pa, or Muley, and maybe most of all, what would Reverend Casey do?
My guess is that none of them would know until it happened. But that’s okay.
And #15, you ain’t all wrong. But you gotta lot of learnin’ to do. Sometimes a movie made right at the same time (sorry, I’m too lazy to try to spell contemp. Whatever), after just gettin’ through it, is more valuable and more relevant than any romanticized recreation even just a decade later.
And one more thing Uncle Joe McCarthy, I don’t care how many Israelis were dancing in the streets. Israelis lead a normal life, barring the occasional “attack”. They go to the beach, they go to work and they lead a normal life. The Palestinians on the other hand are in a prison, unable to leave, unable to move without being beaten or turned back and are unable to go to school and lead any normal life by any stretch of the imagination. The separation wall that is 24 feet high that Israel built to “prevent” “attacks” has closed off the Palestinians to the outside world and has divided families and villages. So, in the long run, Israelis are dancing in the streets while they treat Palestinians like animals at a zoo.
Do you remember who cried and whined about the Gulags and the Ghettos of Europe? That’s right, the same people who are now applying the same strategies onto the Palestinians.