Posts Tagged ‘Silent Majority’
Tidbits and notes. Part 410
Posted by: adonis49 on: September 13, 2021
Tidbits and notes. Part 410
The first priority of Lebanon mass demonstrators is to roam the streets and remove/tear all the portraits and banners of political figures. The politicians were supposed to remove themselves their portraits by law, and they failed to obey the law. This is good priority for the Iraqis, the Egyptians, the Tunisians, the Syrians…
An #Israeli soldier approached a 74-year-old #Palestinian woman Ghalya Abu-Rida. He gave her water, then took a photo with her and then he shot her in the head. And He watched her die
I say, every one must have his identity: Death has forced on us the I.
I say, what exists must be discovered: Death impressed on us to know.
I say, every feeling must be experienced: Death created stages for us to grow.
I say, there must be a meaning to life: Death did not leave us a choice in that.
I conjecture that all these frequent pre-emptive wars of USA overseas are meant to dissipate the prevalent racism spreading quickly and deeply, or manifesting itself too blatantly during the brief periods of US non-virulent active aggression on other countries.
I am reading “Mr. Gwyn” by Alessandro Baricco, a French translation. I don’t dare jump to the last chapter. Even if the ending is Not that satisfactory, I wouldn’t mind repeating the experiment, of creating portraits in words in the book, by changing the variables, in the timing, the luminosity, the music and the setting…
Aux moments difficiles, dire une connerie qui vient du coeur se pardonne volontier, mais pas un silence confortable
L’espoir fait surtout vivre ceux qui en tirent profit: les voyantes, les gourous…Des promesses qui n’engagent que ceux qui y croient.
Bournesh? In northern Albania, the tradition is to appoint a girl to become the head of the clan, given that the family could Not have a boy. Thus, the bournesh is to swear never to marry or have kids. The essential right is: “the bournesh will have the right to avenge the blood of a member of the clan...” Fortunately, this tradition is vanishing.
Quand on a mal, on ne trouve plus d’endroit pour se refugier: on est exproprie’.
Classification of pains, les douleurs. Celles qui rongent, qui dechirent, qui pressent, qui broient. La lancinante, l’ invasive, celle qui pulse, qui vous plie en deux, celles qui viennentt avec ses outilles d’ Inquisition, celle qui vous reveille, les viscerales, les osseuses, les nausees, essouflement, oppression, vertiges, les frissons, celle qui vous agacent comme une mouche, celles qui vous disloquent…
Wish a few houses open their salons to welcome functional elderly people, to meet for a couple of hours, to chat, re-group… before returning to their isolation at home. A paid administrator can coordinates the visits and the transport. And I am willing to contribute to that project.
It’s unclear if poor facial recognition causes introversion or if it’s the other way around. (Thus, AI facial recognition programs are certainly extroverts?)
Every demonstration, march… is a blessing. It keeps the government on tip toe, Not taking the citizens for granted.
In one longitudinal study, two brain areas associated with movement and learning were smaller in bullied teens. (Consequently, you could conjecture who was bullied, even if he refuses to admit it?)
Nazism adopted the USA racist classification that discriminated among the landing immigrants in the 1920’s. Even WWII didn’t change much in the rooted racism in the Silent Majority.
Actions speak louder: civil disobedience in Lebanon of driving private cars.
Let’s start a trend of stopping to drive to main cities one day in a week. Let’s select a Saturday. People might realize that taking taxis and service cars and sharing cars is much cheaper at all levels.
Let us promote this suggestion on social media. It will take some time for people to get moving, but persistence is key to any change
Moderate Muslims? Why! Most people live as Silent Majority: They make no waves
Posted by: adonis49 on: March 1, 2021
“Are there moderate Muslims?”
Posted on September 25, 2008 (and written in Oct. 26, 2207)
Note: This lengthy article was meant to be exhaustive. If you want me to split it in two articles, I will be ready to do it.
It coincided that I was reading chapters of two books concomitantly “Quand l’Amerique refait le Monde” by Ghassan Salameh (Salami) and “L’Apocalypse” by Oriana Fallaci when I realized that the topic of current Islamic fundamentalism is wreaking havoc on the disposition of many western people.
Mostly, the western people tended to be liberal in many issues but could no longer reconcile a liberal attitude toward Islam: Mainly the reality of the virulent traditional Islamic behaviors toward strict adoption of the Koranic laws that regulate the daily life for the Muslims and trying to circumvent the civil laws in Europe.
Ghassan Salameh has investigated the genesis of the new trend in the US ruling government toward Islam after the Twin Towers September 11 attack and which was based on the studies of a few “prestigious” American academics on Islam.
Salame stated that the neo-conservative elements in the Bush administration have adopted Bernard Lewis as their guru in matters related to Islam and the anti-Muslim movements.
Professor Lewis was fascinated and excited in the 1950s with everything related to Islam and then turned sour, negative and dissatisfied with the Islamic World: he repeatedly claimed in his studies that the Muslims have a rage and a strong tendency to hate the Western Nations as a product of their sense of inferiority complex toward the West and propagated the concept of an invasion to saw the grains of democracy in the Near East.
After the September 11 attack on the Twin Tower, the neo-conservatives like Perle, Wolfowitz, Abrams, and Gaffneys directed the debate toward the confirmation of pre-emptive offensive against the infantile specie of the political regimes in the Muslim World.
The spreading notion of an ineluctable conflict of Islam with the USA. Pipes went as far as eliminating any cause for using cultural instruments in the arsenal of the war.
It is obvious that Oriana Fallaci has made up her mind that there are no moderate Muslims, unless they are Muslims by birth but No longer practicing believers: simply because the Koran is the Koran and there is no way to interpret the Sourates to coincide with civil laws in the western nations.
Actually, the late Oriana Fallaci was a staunch liberal but could not swallow the latest slaughtering of foreign prisoners by extremist Muslims and how Muslim immigrants are flaunting the civil laws in Europe.
Fallaci insists that the word “terrorism” is not good enough; the mass media should remain consistent and say “Islamic terrorism”; a term that would satisfy the terrorist Zionists immensely.
Fallacy relied on St. John’s apocalyptic vision where a Monster with seven heads and ten horns would emerge from the sea and then the Beast on land would execute all the Monster’s orders. Thus, the Monster is Islam and the Beast is represented by the European liberals and leaders who are trying to appease Muslims and exhorting them to moderation by dangling carrots instead of raising the heavy sticks.
I was surprised by the coincidence to read that Oriana Fallaci also adopted the views of Bernard Lewis on Islam and considered him as the ultimate authority for truth on Islamic matters.
Apparently, the then 80-years old Lewis and growing more senile by the by, gave an interview to a German daily where he lambasted the West for not believing that radical Islam is the main enemy, instead of the new fascists. Lewis is hammering the notion that all of Europe is going to be Islamist by the year 2100. (If mankind survive till then)
Thus, there is a disposition to fit theories that antagonize the Muslim World by accepting as evidence the many terrorist acts perpetrated by extremist Muslims.
The vehement attitude of Fallaci toward Islam stems from two premises:
First, all of the terrorist attacks in the World are perpetrated by Muslims, (obviously wrong and faked wishes) and
Second, the practices of Muslims’ behavior in the Western World are based on the teaching of the Koran which cannot be reconciled with the rational civil laws in the western countries they live in. (How these laws are biased to the privileged elite classes are Not broached)
The first premise may be true if we rely solely on the media accounts that, almost exclusively and consistently, show that the current terrorist attacks in the Western World, such as USA, Spain, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Holland where “terrorism had struck”, were done by Muslims. She focused on the terrible acts of slaughtering hostages by Muslim radicals in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Russia.
Fallaci forgot to mention that terrorism has also been striking in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Philippine, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Palestine, and Lebanon, Africa, to name but a few, in order to destabilize these States, where terrorism was carried by Hindu, Christians, and various Muslim sects against each other castes.
The hidden facts that terrorism is done by the western extremists are not widely publicized and mostly toned down and not taken up relentlessly by the media.
For example, the Oklahoma City bombing was first attributed to Muslim extremists and then the US had to admit that it was a purely US extremist act; not to mention the dozen of mass killings in the US schools and universities.
Moreover, most of the western terrorist acts are ordered by the states or committed by organizations supported by the states and consequently not divulged and buried as national security secrets.
Actually, all the terrorist acts of the Israeli settlers and the government on Palestinians and other adjacent States are coined as “individual actions by crazy people”
Fallaci should have recalled the many terrorist acts that ravaged Italy and Germany in the 60s and 70s and committed by the extremist left movements and done by non-Muslims; she also decided to forget the recent decade long terrorism and genocides that plagued former Yugoslavia and which was started by Christians among themselves in self cleansing mechanisms and then cleansing themselves with the blood of the Muslims in Kosovo and Serbia. (And current far-right parties terrorist activities)
Fallaci should have taken up also these terrorist occurrences of destabilizing many third world countries, and going on even today, by the US and Israel. She has indeed experienced these Western terrorist acts during her long career as a journalist, but she decided to focus her venom on Islam, thus satisfying the present Western propaganda strategy of misinformation and distortion.
As for the second premise, Fallaci poured her venom on those Muslims who claim to be moderate, simply because they didn’t join a radical group or didn’t commit a terrorist act but engage practically in “awful behaviors”.
For example, how can a Muslim claim to be moderate if he prevents his wives or daughters to be integrated in their new societies, ordering them to swim in their long robe “dishdasha/jalabiya”, even if this practice is tantamount to drowning, or having three wives and treating them as slaves, or beating his wives because it is permitted by “Al Shari3a”, killing his daughters because they refused to marry the men that he selected for them, lambasting school directors because they allowed their sons and daughters to be offered sweets containing hints of alcohol, and so on. (But many of these customs are practiced by many non-Muslims religious sects, and the Koran does Not encourage many of those imposed patriarchal privilege systems)
Fallaci claims that nine out of ten of the Islamic divine inspired laws are opposite to the Italian civil laws, and consequently, there is no possibility of coming to acceptable terms with Muslim believers. (Let Italy just carry out the civil laws on non-abiding Muslim citizens to encourage “moderate Muslims” to follow suit)
If we recapitulate the history of the world we can demonstrate that almost every religion encouraged terrorist acts throughout history when the goal was to establish a theocratic state, governed by the clerics, or to maintain the power of the religious hierarchy caste over the citizens and the other minority castes.
European history is packed with genocidal periods where the majority of a Christian sect tried to exterminate other secondary Christian sects in France, Spain, Byzantium, Russia, and Germany, to name a few, and labelled them “heretics” and their shed blood a duty.
The one main factor that permitted the western Christian societies to edge toward rational civil laws and weakens the Christian Orders was that the New Testament dealt only with spiritual doctrines: Christ died before his religion was firmly established and didn’t have to enact laws organizing society when the Roman civil laws were the law of the land.
The major problem with the Muslim religion and its inability to establish rational civil laws for the land is that the Prophet Muhammad vanquished his arch enemy the Koreish tribes in Mecca, while still alive and had to re-organize the tribal society with laws emanating from the “unique God” and the mainstream customs among the tribes.
For maybe esthetic reasons, the Sourats of the Koran were organized according to length and not chronologically as logic would dictate; otherwise, the Muslims would have realized that the sourats in the first 13 years of Islam were purely spiritual and not deviating far from Jesus’ teaching.
Actually, whatever variations there are in Islam and Christianity, are identical to the views of the different schisms in Christianity in the early centuries (mostly based on Jewish customs sect) and which provoked mass extermination of the smaller Christian sects by the dominant Christian sects.
For example, the status of the Virgin Mary, the duality of Jesus, the Holy Ghost and a multitude of other differences that Byzantium was famous with splitting hair were points of contention among the Christian sects and still are.
If the Koran was divided into two volumes, the spiritual volume related to the first 13 years of its formation and the second volume related to the earthly laws governing the City-State of Medina and then society in the Arab peninsula among the tribes, then communication among the two cultures would have been possible and the Muslims would not have reverted to rigid dogma forced upon them by 10 centuries of domination of Central Asian tribes (Mongol Empires) and culminating by their close associated tribe the Ottomans.
As is common among all religions, the religious orders emphasize the earthly concepts that can be impressed upon the believers by attaching heavy burdens on their daily life for total subjugation.
Ironically, Christianity created daily burdens of religious obligations that were Not included in the “Bible”, just to impose its hegemony over the soul of its believers.
Jesus strongly denounced the Jewish Order for the daily heavy burdens they encumbered the Jews with and lambasted the order as a hypocritical order.
Nevertheless, Christianity, whether Roman or Lutheran or Protestant, feverishly created religious obligations that were not in the New Testament but dug up from the Jewish religious books or from the proclamations of the saints and religious leaders to subjugate their members into a tight closed caste.
In general, Christianity is an open religion and the Western Nations in their zest to proselytize their respective dominant religion endeavored to invade the “barbarous” people for the proclaimed purpose of indoctrinating these people into the Christian values; most of these people were subjugated into changing religions nominally but kept their “pagan” traditions.
However, the Christian Maronite sect in Lebanon has reverted to a closed religion and adopted the caste system since the independence of Lebanon in 1943.
The Maronite sect has agreed on a tacit pact with the non-Christian castes not to allow non-Christian members from the other castes in Lebanon to be baptized Maronites; I can testify that even Lebanese living overseas were not permitted to change religion: the Maronite Order made it clear that the process of changing religion is not feasible.
This Maronite Christian sect has sold out its soul to preserve its supremacy as a caste in Lebanon local politics and ended up losing its supremacy in 1989 at the Taef Conference in Saudi Arabia.
Consequently, the divergence between the western societies and the Muslim societies are the result of types of revealed Books; the main Christian Book that basically does not contain earthly laws but were created later by the dominant Christian orders, and the Muslim Book that does specifically include earthly laws for governing societies.
The western societies have succeeded in establishing rational, though debatable, civil laws created by men (women had not yet fully participated in most of these laws); and they don’t have to bend their laws to accommodate Muslim immigrants who are stuck with divine laws to run their daily lives.
This is not to say that the Western World has to adopt pre-emptive strategies of conquering Muslim and Arab countries on the flimsy crusading abstract notion of spreading democracy and the international civil laws, when the geo-political reality is clear and is meant to control energy resources and stopping the expansion of China in world politics.
As for the Moslem World, if the purpose of all these upheavals is catching up with the technology of the western societies then the burden resides mainly on accepting the premise that the spiritual doctrines should be separated from the rational civil laws.
Otherwise, if the Muslim World wants to survive under its own set of divine obligations and be ruled my mullah, and sheikhs, and muftis then let it be proclaimed openly and unite under this purpose and let the world live as separate entities; societies that instituted civil laws and those insisting on man-made “inspired divine laws”.
In either case, there is no basic need for forced hegemony of one civilization over another if the human mind cannot device a method for human communication and entente: forced hegemony has never worked or lasted in history, and all the evidences are leading to the fact that the current western forced hegemony is failing, unless partitioning the Arab World into cantons is viewed as a definite success of the new pre-emptive “war” strategy, which has nothing to do with cultural differences.
Islam is carrying an insurmountable burden of awkward traditions, not just because of the 5 centuries of Ottoman domination, but 11 centuries of Muslim Sunni of Central Asian tribes that dominated most of the Muslim World, from Mongolia, to Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Azerbaijan, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Turkey. These hordes have established empires and the local vassals adopted the rigid dogmas and tribal customs of their caste systems.
Any recent reforms undertaken in the Middle East were thwarted by the Western powers to divide these nations and establish theocratic States and dictators most amenable to their creators. Our inability to change and communicate, even internally among ourselves, is related fundamentally to our autonomous caste structure.
Fallaci was sensing right, but she was fighting cancer. Anyway, rational behavior is not the rule in this somber period within the Bush Administration, even if many of its leaders seem physically fit, aside of Dick Cheney.
Note 1: The proposition that the Sourates of the first thirteen years were spiritual in nature was investigated by Antoun Saadi in the 1940s and published in a book “Al Islam fi ressalataih al Massihiyat wa al Mohammadiyah” translated liberally as “Islam (Message of Peace) by its two messengers Christ and Mohammed”
Note 2: Antoun Saadi is the founder of the Lebanese-bases Syria National Social party in 1936. A secular party , wanting to separate the religious sects dominance in the political and social structure and the government civil laws and regulation. This party was attacked by the sectarian parties encouraged by the mandated colonial powers of France and England on the Near-East region. This party claimed that we are one people in Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq and was the preadhead of confronting the Zionist plans that were backed by the colonial powers and the USA and Russia.
There are No Lambs in Lebanon to silence, Not even the Silent Majority
Posted by: adonis49 on: February 24, 2021
- MAHA YAHYA Feb. 4, 2021
The assassination of Luqman Slim underlines that the scope for dissent in Lebanon is rapidly narrowing.(More like widening with the increase of calamities that are Not resolved by any institution)
The killing of Luqman Slim is another bad omen for Lebanon. Luqman was not just any activist. (Very few Lebanese have heard of him, mostly the embassies were dealing with him and funding his institution Umam)
He was a vocal critic of Hezbollah (for over 25 years and he visited Israel too), who chose to continue living in his family’s home in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut, an area controlled by those whom he criticized harshly. (And lived in security and safety)
I met Luqman in 2004 with the late journalist Samir Kassir and Samir’s wife Giselle Khoury. (Late Kassir was assassinated by the Druse civil war leader Walid Jumblatt, as a matter of female jealousy )
Luqman, with his wife Monika Borgmann, had invited us to watch a private screening of a movie they had produced on the Sabra and Shatila massacres of 1982.
The debate that ensued was as harrowing as it was enlightening. It was the first of many interactions over the subsequent two years around the memory of the civil war, questions of accountability, and commemoration of the victims, and their importance for Lebanon’s future. These debates dissipated after Samir’s assassination on June 2, 2005.
Luqman was also a harsh critic of Lebanon’s political class, of the repression of the uprising in Syria, of Iran’s regional involvement, and of much else. (What about US invasion of Iraq? Of Israel successive pre-emptive wars on Lebanon…)
But he was also more than that. With Monika, Luqman went on to establish the UMAM documentation and research center in his family home. UMAM aims to inform the future (generation?) by addressing past atrocities.
Since 2005, the center has been collecting information and establishing a database for all those killed, or who disappeared, during the fifteen-year Lebanese civil war. It has also made documentaries and organized discussions on some of the most painful episodes of that conflict.
Their work is critical if Lebanon is to come to terms with the war’s legacy and is essential in determining accountability for the crimes committed during that time. (The Lebanese parliament decided to absolve all the civil war leaders and those who committed crimes against humanity. And these “leaders” are still controlling and ruling Lebanon since 1992)
This work carried out by Luqman and Monika was vital in a country where the political leadership is largely made up of those who fought during the war. Lebanon’s conflict ended with the mantra of “no victor and no vanquished.”
In 1991, parliament passed an amnesty law covering most of the crimes committed during the conflict. Militia leaders moved from the streets into government to occupy the state and its institutions. The history of the civil war was never integrated into school curriculums. Knowledge of the war has largely been defined by individual points of view, not by a collective Lebanese effort to remember the war to better transcend it.
To understand the killing of Luqman one must also look at Lebanon’s broader context.
Since October 2019, when the Lebanese took to the streets to protest against the corruption of their political parties and leaders, the country has been facing an economic collapse that has impoverished more than half the population and decimated the middle class. (Bankrupt State at all levels, politically, economically and financially)
Rather than addressing the sources of discontent, the leadership has remained unwilling to implement the reforms needed to unlock international financial aid, for fear that this would undermine their influence over their constituencies.
Lockdown measures associated with Covid-19 have only hastened this economic breakdown. Without outside financial support Lebanon will continue to sink into the abyss.
Ironically, by protecting their system and continuing with a business-as-usual approach the political parties have also signed its death warrant. That may not be a bad thing, but in the meantime millions of Lebanese will suffer terribly.
The catastrophic (electromagnetic pulse bomb) explosion in the port of Beirut last August 4 further increased the anger of the Lebanese and their vocal criticism of the political leadership.
Six months later, no one has been held accountable for what happened and the official investigation is going nowhere. For many Lebanese there was no question as to who was responsible, when protestors hanged effigies of their political leaders on gallows set up at a demonstration in Martyrs’ Square last year.
Luqman’s killing underlines that the space for dissent is closing fast in Lebanon. Over the past year or so, the political leadership’s tolerance for criticism has been decreasing as more and more journalists and critics have been taken into custody by the authorities.
Yet Luqman’s killing went much further. It heralded a return to political assassinations as a means of silencing those in opposition.
The crime has sent shock waves across Lebanon and beyond, especially among opposition groups and, more so, among most of the 19 officially recognized religious sects.
For many this brought back memories of 2005 and the years that followed, when Samir Kassir, Gebran Tueni, (Communist secretary general Georges Hawi, Mohamad Chatah, Pierre Jr. Gemayel, and many security officials… Pierre Jr. Gemayel was assassinated by agents who were dispatched from the US embassy and returned to the embassy. And why was Pierre Jr. assassinated? Because he expressed his opinion during the government meeting of valuing Hezbollah resistance during the 33 days pre-emptive Israel/US in 2006)
One wonders whether Luqman Slim would have been killed had Kassir and Tueni killers been brought to justice. (Lebanon never brought to trial Israel, US, France, England… perpetrator of assassinations, Not even lesser States such as Jordan, Saudi Kingdom or the Emirate..)
That is why we should have serious doubts as to whether those who assassinated Luqman will themselves be brought to justice.
Can any laws protect the depositors of their hard earned money from the Legal swindling of Banks and financial institutions?
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 7, 2020
Have the Depositors no recourse to edit the coerced contracts?
People have been indoctrinated that “Banks are safe haven to deposit your money. When you need your money back, you can get it without any hassle.”
So, no need to save your earning under your mattress or a secret location but the bank vault.
The economic system needs “fresh money” to be infused into the internal market to expand and sustain the “survival” of a community.
What if your hard earned money is re-exported/transferred overseas in order to expand other nations and other multinational companies?
You methodically sign sheets of paper of a contract to deposit your money, ream of them, and more small prints paragraphs at the end that barely can be read.
It never occured to you to say: “Hola, these are plenty of paper to read. I am a slow reader. I’ll get back to you next week for pertinent questions”
Occasionally, you feel sorry for the long time the clerc on her computer is trying to figure out how to input the many dozens of information you provided, and to check if you are an “appropriate” customer to get rid of you money into others’ people coffers.
You feel kind of ashamed how you are going to blurt it out: “I just have a couple of $ hundred. Is that sum cover the minimum required to open an account?”
Sure, you have been told that the bank invest your money in other “businesses”.
You assumed that investments do not involve shady companies, like professional snipers, weapon merchants, mafia activities, selling human organs, selling girls for prostitution bordellos…
Sure, this bank has the same moral standard that you have, and investment are re-routed to companies enjoying “Moral Entity” of government laws and judicial systems…
And then, you discovered that you have been a “Haircut” candidate and whatever money you still have in your account has been reduced drastically, while food prices have skyrocketed.
The job of Central Bank chief is to put your worries to rest: the financial situation is under total control.
Is it a valid assumption that the Silent Majority has been following the process of the incoming Bankruptcy calamity, Not of a single bank, but of an entire government, of a central bank and all the private banks…
Is it highly doubtful that Silent Majority has been reflecting on any Ponzi scheme by a party in the financial system? That the first depositors at high interest rate are the one encouraging the remaining depositors to be swindled of the saving?
This Majority wholeheartedly trust the government, the politicians and the public institutions.
By the time this Majority shakes off its apathy, mentally and physically, it is already too late.
The guillotine has fallen, and they have to lick their bruised ego and world view.
What are the laws that can protect the depositors from their hard earned money?
How can you investigate that the bank has been reshuffling your deposit into many accounts that serve the interest of the board directors?
How can a government investigate banks and central bank if they insist on the “privacy” of major depositors?
And how after every international financial crisis the boards of multinational banks meet in Bale, Switzerland, in order to clear and clean shady accounting registers? And restarting their businesses as if nothing happened?
In memoriam for the slain in Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila: Poem
Posted by: adonis49 on: September 21, 2020
In memoriam for the slain in Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila: Poem
(With a few editing, my style)
Luis Lázaro Tijerina. September 18, 2019
Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony
comes to mind this night, this cold September air
receding into the terrible morning,
As Israel armor and bulldozers
Drive through our lives with impunity,
Death, the talisman of their fury,
They and others kill Palestinians (and downtrodden Lebanese living there)
as if harvesting leaves falling
And burning on an autumn night.
How many sheaves of horror, how many dead
reported at Sabra and Shatila?
We count your heroic dead
as we count the aimless years
of our hypocritical lives.
We the spectators (the Silent Majority)
who did nothing here in America or abroad.
How many dead, how many dead,
Their fingers broken,
The young men’s faces slashed
because they refused
to sell-out their lives to the Phalangist thugs,
and their Israeli puppet-masters pulling the strings
In this macabre play of horror,
In the Lebanese night.
Haddad, the butcher, and his Israeli henchmen,
Boastful brutes
Their insidious laughter
coming from their snarled mouths
on a bitter Friday night,
Others in the world slept in self-satisfied beds.
The Shostakovich symphony of disaster echoes
like the rumble of dark thunder,
How many dead, I ask myself.
Hundreds, thousands? Those rivers of blood
spilled across the earthen floor of the camps.
On television screens
We still see the horror
In a tragic mural painted in more blood—
Those butchered, shot,
and thrown into piles of garbage (in a mass burying ground in the Sport Stadium by Israeli bulldozers).
The women raped
And hung, their screams like the screeching of violins
In this Soviet symphony I hear on a night
in loveless September.
The cinder block houses stormed
by dark monsters with machine-guns—
Israeli Uzis, not unlike the Nazi troops
who searched for defenseless, quarry at Leningrad…
Now at Shatila and Sabra,
Old men and women lay
In a shattered sleep—
bullets in their heads
against the walls.
The camps of Shatila and Sabra,
those Goya nightmares— our nightmares
on a September night,
There you are—
families gunned down.
See the smiles
on the Phalangists and Israeli faces?
They never cared about life,
For they feared death.
Cowards against a defenseless people,
The only passion they knew
on a heartless September night.
Sharon, the bloated,
stubby-fingered general,
planned the massacre with glee
in the privacy
of his wobbling, arrogant head.
Cover your dead with our grief,
Those of you who survived the bloodshed,
Remember the Palestinian dead
on this Crystal Night massacre.
The wailing and screaming tears the bitter skies.
Bullet-proof vests, Phalangists in shorts
They scurry like rats from cinder-house
to cinder-house.
At Akka Hospital,
Maimed and wounded, carried away,
Nurses raped and beaten
by Christian militia, professing innocence
in their sordid wet dreams
at Shatila and Sabra.
The refugee streets stink with death
Our lives stink with death.
Hypocrisy, our makeshift plumbing,
in our nightmares.
I hear the horns, the violins, the flutes singing
In the September night wind.
What song do they sing?
We have lived for centuries
of the old denial, the blood-walls of hate.
Identification papers handed-out
At a sport stadium; Zionist troops interrogate
the dead whose skins are pale like manikins,
and then we ask why—
Why so many dead in the streets
at Shatila and Sabra?
Rubble, death, medical wives,
Sisters kissing reporters’ arms
Because they want to know
“Who killed my brother?
Where is my father?
When will it all end!”
Shostakovitch symphony comes to its heroic end
on this September morning,
The slumber, my sleep, in our history,
Half-dream, half nightmare,
As the first autumn leaves begin to fall…
The revenge of cymbals, of the militant drums,
I hear in this morning dawn…
The tiers of the stadium wet with blood,
Palestinian blood,
Our hands are caked with their blood,
and the blood of others
We left behind in the gutted street
of retribution.
Note 1: I was in Lebanon at that period and we knew about this monster massacre 3 days later, after Israel allowed journalists and reporters to visit the camp.
Israeli bulldozers unloaded tons of chalk on the dumped bodies, one layers after the next ones.
Israeli troops lighted the sky for 2 nights so that the murderer mercenaries could achieve their macaber task thoroughly.
Note 2: I posted on my blog several articles on that events from various eyewitnesses and reporters.
Note 3: The camp had no fighters or weapons. All the fighters were shipped out of Beirut to Tunisia a few ago back with US guarantees that the helpless Palestinians in camps will be safe and secure. Even the Lebanese army stationed close by failed to intervene.
Luis Lázaro Tijerina, Burlington, Vermont
This pseudo Lebanese citizens are the plight of how the State was transformed into a pseudo-State
Posted by: adonis49 on: August 15, 2020
This pseudo Lebanese citizens are the plight of how the State was transformed into a pseudo-State
I should have said that… But I did said it in the last 30 years.
When the (militia/mafia leaders) got their hands on public resources and bribes for decades
I didn’t say anything
I was counting my bank interests (And this is true for 18 officially religious sects)
When they looted the electricity and cut the power
I didn’t say anything
I was plugging into a private generator (Parliament chief Berri is the lead Capone)
When they made their useless wars and destroyed the country
I didn’t say anything
I always found refuge abroad
When they drowned the streets of trash to share commissions
I didn’t say anything
Garbage was always those of other denominations (Problem Not yet resolved in the last decade)
When they confiscated my bank deposits to keep their money safe
I didn’t say anything
I was scared to destroy the banking sector (A ponzi scheme that lasted 30 years, no production and sustained deficit)
When my dollars turned out to be lollars (Lebanese based on $. Though No correlation whatsoever: the US $ can devalue to nothing, and the Lira will continue to devalue)
I didn’t say anything
I was being humiliated in front of the banks to beg for what was left of my savings
When they stocked ammonium nitrates next to my house (in the port of Beirut) ravaged what was left of my life
I didn’t say anything
I had nothing left to say
One moment my world was there; the next moment it disappeared forever
I didn’t know what to say, what to talk about
Death or hope? Or it’s equal…
What? Hope? There is no hope for us while they are here…
(This Silent Majority was the staunchest most vocal Silence ever.
The least any citizens to earn his citizenship is to voice his opinion loudly and with determination)
Tidbits #59
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 28, 2020
Tidbits #59
Not every member in a political/ideological movement who read all the works of His leader/founder necessarily comprehend the entire principles and conjectures/assumption behind the “dogma”.
If you didn’t do your due diligence to acquire vast general knowledge and the causes of current marches/demonstrations… around the world, and didn’t confront injustices and indignities heaped on minorities…, you implicitly sided with the Silent Majority and are basically a racist in one way or another.
Too much outflow of cash in US and Europe in a dwindling market consumption and decrease in internal market expansion means future steep inflation. The Lebanese currency no longer correlate with $, and is irrelevant to how the $ fluctuate
There’s a playbook in Washington that Presidents are supposed to follow. It’s a playbook that comes out of the foreign-policy establishment. And the playbook prescribes responses to different events, and these responses tend to be militarized responses.
I looked at detailed map of the Silk Road and connecting rail transport. Turkey and Iran are mightily in. Syria and Iraq are totally out of it. So why USA, France and England had to destroy and ruin Iraq and Syria? No economic benefit to be generated from this destruction.
A Palestinian kid girl slapped a soldier for invading her home and killing her brother. She is in jail.
A Jewish settler made a Palestinian kid swallow kerosene and burned him alive. He is walking free. Why?
L’ Amérique Blanche est un syndicat, déployé’ pour protéger son pouvoir exclusif de domination et de control sur les corps Noirs et Latine. Sinon, les Blancs cesseraient d’ exister.
The main phases of western colonial powers wealth accumulation. 1) slave trades, 2) first industrial revolution and child labor, 3) second industrial revolution and mass infrastructure and transport and exploitation of their colonies, 4) the 30 years of China internal instability, famine and inequities, 5) The fall of Berlin Wall and invasion of multinationals of world markets. And what now? China is in the forefront at all levels. The colonial powers have to dig into its “reserves” of sovereign funds of centuries of looted wealth in order to fend off mass revolts of serious decrease in standard of living
How to contain Covid-19? Taiwan’s relative success was no accident—it began its journey with a functioning health-care system and fresh memories of SARS. Robust testing, contact tracing, and isolation methods were supported by an existing system that used centralized, real-time, electronic health data recorded on each individual’s health card. Holding steady with only 0.03 deaths per 100,000 people
England refuses to open its eyes and ears. Britain has reportedly given up on a US-UK trade deal this year. Officials blame the pandemic for the delay,. As if Barack Obama didn’t warn the British voters before the Brexit referendum Not to expect much from the US to cover Britain budget deficit or bolster any special dual trade deal if it withdrew from the EU. Now the EU has decided on a $800 bn package to alleviate Covid-19 meltdown, and Britain is Not part of the beneficiaries.
Bangladesh (160 million) goes digital, and more effectively delivers social services to those who need them. An accurate census was the first step to expand technology use across one of the world’s most populous countries.
What I have been doing in the last 18 years is considered by the community as “haram” for males to do. Like taking care of my old parents, changing their diapers, maintaining the house, cooking, washing, doing the dishes, moping… And yet, I’ m no longer young and Not even married. I have been shocking many in the silent majority who cannot perform anything if Not aided by “servants” and “professional” cleaners.
What? A great-looking ergonomic solution? Are we into fashion design or mainly into minimizing aches, pains, safety and health in bad design of products and environment?
When all the US liabilities are accounted for, US national debt amount to $135 trillion, Not the official $26 trillion. The US printed (balance sheet) over $10 trillion. Mind you that during the financial crisis of 2007, US printed less than one trillion
China’s outsize banking losses reflect the sheer size of its mammoth banking sector which, in terms of customer loans, is as big as the US, Japanese, German, and UK systems combined, say S&P analysts.
On an average, India’s states and union territories collected about $2 billion in monthly taxes from the sale of liquor in 2019
What Einstein equation has to do in a long life?
Of what a long life is constituted from?
I classified this article under “lucubrations” assuming that not many readers will select this category from among the other most interesting 45 categories in my blog.
In my daydream, I managed an association between Einstein equation for defining energy and my definition for life.
The details and clarifications of my equation were the products of my conscious state.
Einstein defined the energy of an object as the product of the “mass” of the object by the square of the speed of light C.
My definition of life is the simple sum of elementary tasks by the speed of light (No square involved). Obviously, this equation needs plenty of clarifications.
First, the equation needs not be a product/multiplication or an integral function.. and we can consider many other relevant functions after the definition of a task is understood.
Let us consider that any simple activity is constituted of hundreds of infinitesimal tasks, carried successively or in parallel, in order for an activity to be accomplished.
For example, in line production, every activity is subdivided into smaller tasks with computed standard time to finish an activity. The idea is to train workers to be skilled, within the standard time for each task, and even be paid accordingly to efficiency.
Mind you, acquiring skills and talent in any profession demands lots of repetition, investment of boring time and energy and plenty of musculoskeletal problems in the long run.
Well, every repetition of any task is counted in the equation. You can imagine how much life has been wasted just to be accredited as a professional or a skilled worker!
If our brain and limbs could master a skill by simply “getting it” from the first trial of exposure then, imagine how much life we would have saved for another interesting things.
We would feel that life is stretching so long that it seems ageless.
Repetition of a task include the thousands of times that we copy, paste, reclassify, review, re-dust off our productions and memories.
Can you imagine how much life has been wasted by going back to long past activities?
Night dreaming is an activity with thousands of takes to constitute a movie.
Even the recurring dreams, mostly the unwanted ones, are counted.
The second time we experience a “deja-vu” dream is Not as bad as the first projection: we tend to sit and watch as one of the audience, instead of being part of the movie. We just wait for this bad film to finish since we feel helpless to stop it or even press “Pause”.
Listen, this is a long story and a long article and I will get to you later for further clarifications and details.
Okay, I am back and I revisited my formula and revised it drastically.
Evidently, very few tasks go as fast as light C.
For example, the movements and reactions of limbs are pretty slow compared to light.
Brain reactions are at best as fast as electrons or 20 thousands km per second.
One of the rare tasks is as fast as C such as in the case when someone says: “I fell in love from the first look.” This performance has high value rating in life.
Since my math equation doesn’t factor in coefficient of quality or honesty, then there is no difference between “Falling in love from the first sight”, repeated a hundred times a day with same person; or with one hundred different women/person. The equation is neutral.
For example, if you are endowed with a vivid imagination and can recapitulate “the moment” in your mind ad infinitum, then you can summarize the best that life can offer and very efficiently.
My position is that it is the first occurrence counts the most, and recollecting this miraculous/happy “moment” over and over again beats all other kinds of tasks in whatever criteria system you adopt.
Life equation clearly shows that there are many sorts of activities that ruin quality of life.
What is your quality of life when you commute to work? Repeating so-called automatic reactions in driving a car, a donkey, or a bike for hours a day… is definitely cases that worsen the impact and mock my formula.
For example, how often you regurgitate worries left over from yesterday when you commute?
How often you re-enact the clownish acting drama for the current day difficulties?
How often you ran a red light and ran over a lousy living person? All these tasks count in the equation and should be eliminated the sooner the better.
Think of algebra and how to cancel out redundant variables so that your life equation looks much simpler and beautiful.
So, how did you decide to commute in order to “save time” in congested metropolis?
One small problem remains to be resolved before we set our mind to change our lifestyle to maximize the life equation and its many constraint equations: How many tasks and activities can fill a lifetime without being repeated again?
Are we indulging in repetitions simply because we lack the imagination to figure out plenty of activities?
Are traditions the main hurdle for our lack of imagination because it dangerously reduced licit or legitimate activities to be experienced?
How about getting on this wonderful job of revisiting taxonomies of tasks and activities that could excite you (or not) after retirement?
How about you fine tune the many tasks that constitute professional line fishing?
We dwell on routine tasks to lengthen our life span. The case of the Silent Majority.
We die early on under the enormous stress of inventing and creating new tasks, activities and excitement: feeling restless confronting all the indignities and inequities done to others.
My backpack is no longer ready: To head where, anyway?
Freedom to where again?
Many souls are fleeing;
From where and to where? What for?
Many souls are immigrating to die
In open seas, in closed containers, and on barbed wires.
Fleeing to freedom from hunger, oppression, ignorance, or limiting opportunities?
Time to ponder what kind of freedom is it you are expecting:
Is it freedom to get chained to chain operations?
Is it freedom toward sweat prison shops?
Is it freedom to live third class human?
Denied human rights and human dignity?
Before seeking freedom you have got to ask yourself: “To where?”
There is no freedom in Africa to return to.
There is no freedom in Israel to go to.
There is no freedom in Europe or the USA to hope for:
Video cameras are watching you in the privacy of toilets.
Blacks in the US have been chanting “freedom” forever;
Freedom from slavery to emancipation;
Are they still chanting for freedom?
Freedom to go back to Africa?
Freedom to bunk in squatters?
Freedom to live in hurricane ravaged States?
Whites have also been fleeing to freedom.
Freedom to learn surviving in the wild;
Freedom to sleep under green canopies of old trees: decapitated;
Freedom to drinking from clean and clear springs: contaminated;
Freedom to breathing fresh air: suffocated, even on Mount Everest.
The rich are after a different sort of freedom: prepping;
Prepping storing food, fresh water,
Spare parts for older cars, and tools
In anticipation of the next calamity;
Learning to barter unused modern consumer products
To substitutes that can be repaired and maintained at home
Waiting for
The next dirty terrorist bomb,
The coming of Armageddon.
(This stupid “Second Coming” that all religious sects claimed for their members)
Developed Nations have been prepping too;
Hoarding oil, rare minerals, and copper;
Gardening fresh produces in their backyard continents they selected to be Africa.
People are fleeing a merciless God
Petrified in desert laws
Many centuries ago.
People are fleeing a merciless God: Green money;
Wiping out original Indians for free lands;
Shipping in slaves,
First, of the white kind slaves, the Irish
And then of black colored: more accommodating;
For free labor to cultivate the “freed lands”;
Then contracting out products and services
For cheaper slaves: Global slavery.
Freedom to live where?
To live in megalopolis City-States democracies
Denied political rights and political identity?
To live at night and sleep at days
Fearing their two feet predators?
There is no Egypt to flee from to any kind of freedom.
There is no freedom in Afghanistan to grow opium;
There is no freedom in the wild to grow marijuana.
There is no freedom within you for shelter:
You have got to act normal: schizophrenic of what comes handy.
There is no homeland to visit:
God hates freedom of opinion.
God of the Silent Majority loves equality in miseries, ignorance, and servitude.
Adonis Diaries 
Tidbits #92
Posted by: adonis49 on: January 21, 2021
Tidbirts #92
Men have far more difficulties to convince themselves that they are a value-added member for humanity. If a man does Not receive an award or a badge of honor, he would be hard pressed to have any confidence in his value. Women have a ready potential to materialy know that they added value once they give birth, as long as no one of their children dies: Otherwise, a woman would have to overcome the barrier of figuring out what alternative is meant to add values to humanity.
“This is Not democracy plus occupation. This is apartheid between the river and the sea.” Israel Human rights group
You have got this tiny bird Colibri: it can fly in all directions, backtracking and even flying still (du sur place) to suck the nectar from red flowers. Do you think nature red flowers would have been eradicated without the colibri?”
“After the facts“: Many universities cancelled the “honorary degrees” they bestowed on Donald Trump. If the insurrection prevailed, they would Not even had to consider their decisions.
Funny. The UK-China trade bill could include a genocide amendment. Lawmakers vote on a measure that would give UK courts the power to determine if a genocide is underway in China’s Xinjiang province—and allow parliament to reject a trade deal with Beijing based on such a determination. The question remains: How much should the UK pay in reparation for destroying China economy and social structure on during centuries of Opium trade?
The latest Trump insurrection into the Capitol might slow down the wildefire of nationalist racism spreading around the world.
You voted for a candidate who turned to be dishonest and incompetent. You didn’t vote on Election Day, mainly for laziness and “neutral politically” of the “Silent Majority”. Which citizen is more responsible for the State of Affairs?
Israel is an implanted colonial State by the colonial powers (including Russia), and inherited all the colonial laws and practices. Worse, Israel intends on destroying all the vestiges of civilizations in the Middle-East because they had no civilization to show to the world. It has been carrying out the erasing all vestiges since its inception and ordered ISIS (Daesh) to systematically do this job.
Martin Luther King told NBC’s Sander Vanocur in 1967: “I think the biggest problem now is we got our gains over the last 12 years at bargain rates. Now, we’re confronting issues that cannot be solved without costing the nation billions of dollars… this is where we’re getting our greatest resistance.”
Professor Philip Salem said, as you lose the sense of smell, take Dexamethasone (A cortisone designed for the lungs infection of non-bacterial inflammation) and Coumadin (instead of aspirin) to thin the blood since most the dead end up in heart blood blockage. Then, go get tested and rest in your confined quarter.
I don’t believe in luck but good fortune isn’t always an accident. How well prepared we are to catch and grab an opportunity, which we are passionate about, is a lucky fortunate accident that life always dangle to the well prepared people, and more than once.
For instance in matter of believing in Luck:
Napoleon believed that some generals were just Not lucky persons. If the failure is a successive trend with the general, then luck has nothing to do in this case
Jay Elliot met Steve Jobs in the waiting area of a restaurant after leaving Intel for a job at a startup. The start-up failed. And Jay had no job. Andy Grove, Intel’s president and Jay’s former boss, gave Jay this parting message, “You’re making a big mistake – Apple isn’t going anywhere.”
Jay became a V.P. at Apple and Jobs’ right hand man. Steve was twenty-five. It was just months before Apple went public.
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