Some thoughts about Israel and the massacre at Gaza

1. Gaza is nothing more than a large concentration camp, and now Israelis are killing the innocent and defenseless inmates with the most advanced military technology of the age. It is like Nazi germans invade Aushwiz with tanks and air raids. Palestinains don't have a government and a military and they can't defend themselves.

2. Is it an honor to kill a defenseless people and claim victory? It is not a war, it is pure massacre and genocide and yet Israelis are going to claim victory cheerfully after killing thousands of women and children. What victory? It is an eternal shame in the history of Israel. But what am I talking about, the history of Israel is written with cruelty and shame.

3. There is no difference between the crushing of the Warsaw ghetto by Nazis and the invasion of Gaza. Both were encircled and virtually cut off from the world for a prolonged period, and when people rose at last against the inhuman tyranny of the occupiers all of them were massacred cold bloodedly.

4. As long as Palestinians were content to live in unsanitary and inhumane conditions in refugee camps without opposition, Israelis let them live. Now that a younger more educated generation of Palestinians have risen against the oppression they all are going to be wiped out by Israelis.

5. Israel is the only government in the world established on a religion, and a religious book. This we can consider a purely racist regime as their book claims openly that Jews are better than all the other races. In fact, in that book, god has a covenant with the Jews. They are his chosen people and they can do whatever they want to do to other nations. Other nations are not human, they are subhuman. This is a pre-modern tribal world view projected into 21st century. In our age and time, we call it racism.

6. Just because an imaginary god, in a mumbo jumbo book 3000 years old has given the land to you does not mean you come after 3000 years and knock on these people’s doors and claim the land belongs to you and when they ask what is your proof, you show them your Torah???

7. Israel was founded by terrorist groups like Hagana. The leaders of those groups like Begin later became the prime ministers of Israel. Did anybody then asked why a terrorist is the prime minister of that country that now they are asking that question about Hamas. If Israeli people voted for Begin and he could be the prime minister, people of Palestine also voted in a free elections in 2006 for Hamas and so Hamas is their representative.

8. Hagana and groups like that did a huge amount of terrorist acts before the foundation of Israel. Who can forget the bombing of the British personnel hotel, or the massacre in Ghana. What can you expect from a government which has its roots in blood and terror?

9. Unfortunately the only part of the world that media are so partial towards Israel is north America. In other parts of the world, like Europe, middle east, etc, people see more of the reality but here the Jewish lobby is so powerful and it owns so many interests in the media that nobody dares talking about the massacre in Gaza and the politicians alike don’t dare even to mention it.

Somalia same story again

When two years ago Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia to overthrow the Islamic government, I predicted this is not the end of the story. Yes, the Islamic government vanished, it just left Mogadishu overnight and left it open for the Ethiopian troops, but it did not mean they disappeared. They just bided their time and started the smart option of a prolonged guerilla war. It bugged down the Ethiopian troops and exhausted them and now they are retreating. Nothing has changed, if anything, it is worse for US now because the Islamists have now become more experienced and vicious.

So again, and again, and again, and again, and again, US makes the same mistake. The right way to deal with the situations was when the Islamic militias took over Mogadishu a few years ago, to come to terms with them. To accept that in the situation in Somalia, they are the only group who can bring stability and rule of law back to the country after decades of lawlessness and warlordism. But no, US could not have any of it. It blamed them to harbor Alghaede and just being Islamic was enough for the evangelical government of George Bush to write them down. Us should have got into negotiations with the group. They should know that the natural ally of the religious governments anywhere in the world is US, not the left wing groups. They should start having normal relations with the government and that is the best way to have any impact on those governments. And this is good for people also as these governments are the only ones who can bring stability to a war torn country after decades of chaos. In due time, after a period of stability, people themselves will get rid of the government if it does not change its colors and does not mellow down.

Iraq and American Withdrawal

5 years ago when the Americans invaded Iraq, I said that the invasion will be quick and victorious, but the aftermath will be a quagmire for the American troops. It happened exactly as I had predicted. Now Americans are happy that the violence rate has dropped in Iraq last year and that soon they will be able to hand over the reins to the Iraqi government. Here is my forecast, the moment the Americans leave for good, it won't be better than Vietnam. The whole country will fall into chaos. With a Kurdish population who wants independence, a Sunni group who are not happy with the system now, and the shi-ites who are in the power now, it is impossible to imagine any other outcome.

Increase other workers' salaries, don't decrease the 3 giants' salaries

Thanks George Bush. The salvation package for the 3 big auto giants came with strings attached: reduce the salaries of their workers to the level of the salaries foreign owned manufacturers pay their workers. How about asking them to pay their workers Indian or Chinese salaries???

Instead of asking the foreign owned companies to increase their workers salaries to the level of the union workers, the US government expects the big 3 to reduce their workers' salaries. Now that is the government of people for people and by people. How about asking the management class in these big 3 to cut their salaries to the level of their workers' salaries and then distribute the huge amount that is gained through that cut through the workers??? But no, of course, that is sacrilege. The only way to save the big 3 is to cut the meagre salaries of union workers.

Let the big three go bankrupt

I don't believe in capitalism. But in the situation that now the three big auto find themselves, I think the best road to pursue is bankruptcy. Let them go bankrupt. Out of the ashes of these corrupt slow monsters will rise small and efficient and powerful new companies with new ideas for the future of transportation. They should not sustain these giants on their death beds and let them live artificially.

capitalists trying to disband the unions under the guise of fighting the crisis

Capitalists are at it again. So the reason for the falling of the house of cards in the automobile industry is only the unions, not the stupidity and greed of the bosses who awarded themselves multi million dollar bonuses.

Even in the middle of such a huge and devastating crisis, they are still after their nemesis, the proletariat and the wage earners. I say:

1. We have to thank Unions. Without the strong unions in auto industry, that can gain good benefits and salaries for the workers, the other industries will be more aggressive in cutting wages and benefits. At least with these unions, other workers can always point at their benefits and ask for the same from their bosses. That is the reason the whole capitalist class hates the big unions and wants to get rid of the auto workers unions.

2. General public, instead of hating and being jealous of the auto workers salaries and benefits should ask for the same from their own industries. This is the name of the game for the capitalists, make other workers angry about why they are getting that high salaries and push them to demand that "they" should get as low as us. While the rational thing is to ask that "we" have to receive as much as them, not that they have to be like us.

Thoughts on the capitalit crisis

The governments all around the world have interfered heavily in the markets to save the system. They have bought shares in banks and effectively nationalized some big financial institutions. The libertarians and Republican right calls it the advent of socialism. Nope, it is not. It is socialism for the fat cats and the rich. Because when things calm down and the good times arrive again, all this nationalized institutes will be returned to the capitalist owners, not the people who paid with their taxes to save them.

Again, the so-called invisible hand of the market was given the invisible finger. Again and again and again it is proved that the markets can’t regulate themselves and lassaiz fair economy does not work.

We regulate driving. We regulate food producing. We regulate construction and building. We regulate health care. We have regulations for how to make chocolate and baby foods and clothes and beds. But when it comes to economics, they say no, we don’t need regulation, we have to deregulate and let the invisible hand take over. Well, sorry, everything needs regulation and without that things run amok. An important affair like economy needs regulation and if it is deregulated the greedy financial institutions will drive it into gutter.

Thoughts on the current caplitalist crisis

The Republicans in US are howling about socialism. As if the American government is turning into a socialist government. Yes, it is true that however they put it, they have effectively NATIONALISED the mortgage firms and the AIG and other firms they are bailing out, but no, this is not socialism, because the moment the markets improve and there is a whiff of profit in the air, they are going to sell them back to the private sector, to the same fat cats that bankrupted these institutions.

What happens is: They socialize when they lose, they privatize when they gain. Socialise to spread the loss to the general public, privatize when the institutions are profiting.

The question is: Why should the average American pay for the mistakes of the fat cats? Let them die over their own mistakes. Why should they be bailed out by the tax payer money? The economy won't get worse if they pay for their own mistakes!

Yes, they want us all to believe that this is the end of civilization, the disaster of the century, etc. And the media are always happy to oblige and make a mountain out of a mole hill. Not only because most of media belongs to them anyway, but also because this is the business of the media, to make mountains out of mole hills, otherwise they won't sell.

If they manage to convince us all that this is the end of the world and the greatest disaster in the human history, yes, then we will ask our politicians and representatives to vote for the bailout. So it is in their interest to paint a really gloomy picture, whilst it is not as bad as they want us to believe it is. I would say, no, let them sink in their stinking ships, they brought it upon themselves, and now they have to pay. They should not be saved by the taxes of the poor people who have not had any responsibility in the this fiasco.

I would say, just for once, don't believe in their lies. Yes, it is bad, but bad for THEM, not bad for us. Let them pay for their greed.

Wall Street Saved by poor taxpayers money, business as usual

Well, well, well, Republicans and Democrats both voted to save Wall Street firms again. Did we expect anything else? Not me. It is business as usual in the heart of capitalist world. Taxpayers money is used as usual to foot the bill for saving the bungling big firms. They are allowed to gamble with other people's money, to lose billions of dollars, to pay themselves hefty bonuses, and whenever they push the firms over the brink and into the abyss because of their intense greed, the government is there to save them. So, why should they care? Why do we expect them not to repeat the same mistakes again and again. When there is no punishment, when there is always government waiting there to be called to save you, why should you care how much money you lose through your greedy acts, especially that it is other people's money, not yours.

Will the American government ever put a penny into public health care or free education in the university? NO, of course not. It is a free market man! Government is not supposed to help the public in a free market, it only helps the fat cats. But when the fat cats need money, yes, we are there to pay you a trillion dollar out of the same poor people's money. So it is only free market for the poor people, who are left to drawn without any help.

The fall of Lehman-Brothers and the stupidity of the so called financian geniuses of Wall Street

Lehman Brothers joined the other giants of wall street falling one after the other after the mortgage crisis, and yet, you think these rocket scientist geniuses of the financial markets will never make a mistake. What is the difference between these and every other Joe in the street then. They were taken by the same market exuberance in the mortgage markets and before that in the tech bubble like any other person. And yet, they keep rewarding themselves with seven figure bonuses and play these risky games with other people's money and each time it is the small shareholder and mortgage taker that has to pay the price.

Wall Street is all a sham, there is not an ounce of brain in that whole corner of the street in New York.

Internal Opposition, US and Rome

Christianity was the internal opposition against Imperial Rome's excesses and corruption. Not all Romans approved and supported the imperial order. There was always a great opposition inside Rome and by some Romans against the imperial order. Christianity was one form this opposition expressed itself. Gradually, when the Imperial power was waning, this internal opposition helped to collapse Rome. We see the same thing now in US. It is not that all Americans support the vehement capitalist-imperialist policies of their country. A great number of open minded and intellectual Americans oppose their government's policies. Blacks, university intellectuals, writers, artists, many Hollywood celebrities, and many other groups are among the opposition. They are not yet strong enough to challenge the powers to be, but sooner or later, the story of Christianity and Rome will be repeated in US.

CAPITALISM, OR GOVERNMENTAL CORPORATE WELFARE SYSTEM

Bear Stearns downfall and purchase by JP Morgan proves again the hollow claims of capitalists about Laissez-faire economy and the rule of government in it. At times of prosperity when the greed rules supreme, their economists claim that the government should be as small as possible. It should not interfere in the affairs of the market and must let capitalists shave the public as much as they want to fill up their pockets and own 10 estates instead of only 1. Any attempt at wealth redistribution is faced by hollers of interference. NO, it is not good for economy. NO, the government should not interfere at all and should let the economy run its course.

But look at Bear Stearns comedy now. The moment the excess greed turns into the economic storm and the ships start sinking left and right and centre, then the same capitalists turn to the government, with caps in hands, for survival. The same government which was "BAD" and was not supposed to touch their pockets, now has to save them out with "tax payer's" money. The same people, who were not worthy enough as human beings to share in the prosperous times, are now expected to pay out of their pockets and through their taxes to save out the capitalist's companies and corporations.

HUGE MARKETS BEGET DICTATORSHIP AND CORRUPTION

In a country with a huge population, the market is huge. In such a country, the capitalist system can reach the height of its power because of the size of the market. The money and consequently power tends to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands and in the long-run the political system becomes a corrupt plutocracy and democracy dies. In Such a society the gap between rich and poor becomes wider and wider until the system collapses from within. A very good example of such a system is ancient Rome, or the successive empires in China built on the back of millions of peasants. Each empire ruled for a few hundred years and was thrown into anarchy and chaos and fell in a peasant revolution. A modern version is US, where the capitalist and corporation lobby has become so powerful that the legislature just can't pass any laws to narrow the gap and the poor become poorer everyday despite the huge wealth of the country.

If a country is small and has smaller population, the market in not large. As a result, the capitalists in that country can never gather enough money to be able to influence the political system at will. An example of such a country is Canada, or Scandinavian countries, or Switzerland. Democracy in such countries lasts longer and is more vibrant because there is not enough concentrated money to influence it. The lobby power of small capitalists can never compete against the will of the people. These countries tend to have a more just and socialist system and the gap between rich and poor is smaller.

McCaine Killing Innocent Vietnamese

Everyone these days mentions Senator McCain and his heroic spell in Vietnamese jails. But nobody, not even one person that I know, not even one journalist, asks the very simple question: ‘Senator, why did you end up in Vietnamese prisons in the first place????’

Did they come to the US and snatch you from your cozy big house? Did they invade your country and arrest you while you were fighting against their invasion? Did they kidnap you from your military base? Or were you bombarding innocent civilians—Vietnamese children, women and men, when they shot your plane down and captured you as a war criminal? What were you doing over Hanoi? Were you defending democracy and human rights against fascism, or were you expanding American imperialism by bombarding the civilian population in Hanoi?

If I were present at one of the campaign speeches, I would stand up and ask these questions, instead of asking about what happened to McCain in the Hanoi Hilton.

I would pick up the mike and ask him, ‘Senator McCain, would you please explain to me what you were doing at the time they shot you down? Senator McCain, what were your feelings when your bombs burnt, maimed and killed innocent children and civilians? Senator McCain, as a practicing Christian, have you ever asked for God's forgiveness for the crime of killing these people? Senator McCain, have you ever, even once in your life, woken up at night sweating and thinking of the innocent people who were killed with your bombs? People who had not attacked US, who were sleeping and working in their own country, while you had invaded theirs!

Buy, Buy, Buy ... to save the capitalist system

A recession is looming, and what does Mr. McGunity tell us to do? To buy! Two days ago he advised all Ontarians to go to malls and buy, buy cars, buy houses, buy stuff.

This is capitalist system. Pure and simple. A system based on consumption, not on taking care of real human needs. Buy, buy, buy until you consume the whole planet, and turn it into plastics and metals and junk. Like a virus that attacks the body of its host and destroys it. This is a system that is based on planned obsolescence, a system that loathes merchandise that last for a long time. Any product in this system should not last more than a few years, otherwise the whole system will crash. They have the "Fashion" in everything, in clothes and cars and computers, etc. They change it every year so that the last year's merchandise is ugly this year and you have to replace them.

Is a system that will collapse if people stop heavy consumption a reasonable and rational system? Of course not. The production system should not be based on greed, but on real human needs, without excesses of totally unnecessary consumption.

And remember: George Bush told Americans the same thing after 9/11. People were scared and not shopping, and he told them to go and shop, otherwise the system will collapse, and right now he is going to legislate laws to pay every American some money to go to the store and buy stuff.

Don't they see how crooked and unstable the system is? Of course they see it, but greed is a stronger motive than reason in human beings.

Warning by Warren Buffet about low taxes for the rich

Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world, has warned against repealing estate-tax in US. Tax cutting by Bush and cronies has reached to a point that even the rich are complaining:

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Capitalism, immigration and alienation

Capitalism in North America needs immigration and feeds on it. Immigrants, especially uneducated non-skilled immigrants are willing to do the dirtiest jobs, with minimum wages, without any complaints, and actually are thankful to be in North America. They are the epitome of the slave labour which is a necessary requirement for capitalism. The native labour force can never be treated as badly as immigrant labours and stay quiet, they know more about their rights, feel more secure in their "own" country and unionize and object to the abuse.

The alienation of the immigrant labour force brings about another outcome. Immigrants never feel attachment to their new homeland, as much as a native. They don't demand better services. Hundreds of years of experience with capitalism proves beyond doubt that a capitalist system never delivers services without pressure by masses. In countries like Switzerland and Japan, which have a lower level of immigration, and most people are natives with generations of entitlement to the country behind them, the level of services are much higher, because people are not alienated, they feel they belong and they demand better services. In countries like US or Canada, as a large number of people are immigrants, the demand for better services is lame and weak and as a consequence, the services are only provided for the upper classes and not for the masses of the populations.

The modern election bribe

In the simpler times of yore, they used to bribe people directly to vote for a candidate. They took them to lunch, paid a small amount, etc, and got the vote they wanted. Nowadays, it has become a little more sophisticated, now they promise you a "TAX CUT". If you look at it closely, it is no different then the other bribes they used before.

Lobbyists

In the middle ages we had Faust who sold his eternal soul to Satan for fame and money. In our own age we have the lobbyists. The most despicable group, who sell their soul to big corporations to push their agenda at congresses and parliaments. These totally anti-democratic personalities are willing to slaughter the whole planet for a few pennies more for their miserable lives. For them global warming, public health care, social assistance for the poor, environment, etc. is nothing.

I deeply believe if these people were living in another era, under Stalin or Hitler, they would be the henchmen at Gulag or Aushwitz. Poor things, now they have to be happy just to be lobbyists.

Contradictions in US

People always wonder why there is such a huge contradiction in US. On one hand they are so advanced in science and technology, on the other hand the general public, apart from a small educated minority are on average ignorant, backward, still in 19th century when it comes to religion and their other beliefs. It seems you have cut an advanced part of a European country and pasted it on a background of 16th century Europe, with all the fundamentalists, etc. The explanation is simple.

US is a land of immigrants. The huge mass of the immigrants during the 19th and 20th century were composed of the poorest most ignorant groups of the socieites they immigrated from. Wealthy and educated citizens of European countries don't need to escape to another country for a better life. It is the most downtrodden and desperate and poor groups that escape to another world for a better life. So this huge mass emigrated to US and they brought the whole backward beliefs and social structure with them to the new country.

On the other hand, because of the riches of the country and its democracy, top scientists like Einstein and writers like Salman Rushdie are attracted to the the land. So here we have the root of this contradiction, a general public who are still pretty backward and ignorant, still behind the average industrial European or Asian countries, and a minority elite, who are the top brains of the world in science and literature and arts.