Hello! It's amazing what one can learn just by talking to strangers who
can become acquaintances. I want to get this out there because I was
stunned when my waitress made the comment as I was complementing her on
her cheerful attitude, her pretty eyeshadow, and other small talk. She
announced that she was really not that cheerful about the fact that her
sister, in the U.S. military, had just received her orders to report to
Syria and that her sister would be shipping out very soon.
Imagine that. U.S. troops headed to Syria. Did our President make that announcement to the people of this country?
U.S.forces now reportedly all over the oil-producing areas of Libya
and in the desert reportedly spying on the other countries of the region
from a secret drone base. View the video here:
http://www.algeria-isp.com/actualites/politique-libye/201112-A7555/libye-une-base-militaire-secrete-americaine-francaise-libye-katroune-video-voir-decembre-2011.html
U.S.combat troops currently roam throughout central Africa having
been deployed by our President to Uganda, Central African Republic,
Democratic Republic of Congo, and every other country that received the
message loud and clear from our President's previous Africa
deployment--Libya--about what could happen if the leadership of that
country refused cooperation with the Obama military and hence, says
"yes" to the presence of foreign troops on their territory. Of course,
this offensive deployment was made under an appropriate cover story
that, for those familiar with the region, is clearly only a cover story
and a not-very-credible one, at that. Watch this video at:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/10/20111014174712102972.html.
Drone bases are in Kenya, Djibouti, Seychelles, Ethiopia; and the
Obama Africa policy has succeeded in ensuring that Kenyans now fight and
kill Somalis on the ground while drones fire missiles from the sky (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-building-secret-drone-bases-in-africa-arabian-peninsula-officials-say/2011/09/20/gIQAJ8rOjK_story.html).
This is going to continue, folks, until the people of this country
say no. Please let our President know that he must act immediately to
bring all of our troops home, stop the CIA drone bombings, and adopt a
military policy of non-intervention in other countries. Please send
that message now:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments.
Now, about Chamak and those 100 miles.
Chamak
is the name of my new bicycle. Chamak means beauty in Urdu and
according to Vernon Huffman of Bike4Peace, she is a beauty. You
see, Vernon put her together. Vernon conceived of her and chose each of
her parts based on my abilities (or lack of abilities)! And because
the Public Interest Law Center agreed to host a panel for Bike4Peace to
discuss sustainable living, we decided to bike from Corvallis to Eugene,
attend our panel, and then bike back to Corvallis. All in all, with
the extra tooling around town, I have now been declared a WEEKEND
CENTURION!! Maybe one day, I will graduate up to doing a century in one
day only--yep, that's right, some bikers can actually complete 100
miles in one day! During Bike4Peace, we encountered many centurions
along the way from California to the White House. (I tried to send this earlier with photo!! but it didn't work for some strange reason. Let's see if this message goes out as it should.)
Finally, if you're in the Atlanta, GA area, please plan to come to
see/hear Gilad Atzmon whose commentaries have shaken the ground beneath
the Zionist foundations of U.S. policy. Gilad is also the author of
"The Wandering Who." Here's the event info:
The
American Grass Roots Tour
Saturday
March 10th, 2012 - 6:30 to 8:00pm
and
Joining
Hands for Justice in Israel and Palestine - Greater Atlanta
Presbytery
Villa
International Atlanta
1749
Clifton Road NE
Atlanta,
GA 30329
Join us
for an evening with the infamous Gilad Atzmon, the man, his sax, and
his social justice causes, on his current book tour -
www.wanderingwho.com
Gilad
writes on political matters, social issues, Jewish Identity and
culture. His papers are published by many press outlets around the
world. His new book, The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity
Politics, has gained praise and controversy as he stands against
injustice in occupied Palestine.
Born
in Israeli-occupied Palestine in 1963, he had his musical training
at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, where he studied
composition and jazz. A multi-talented instrumentalist Gilad plays
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Baritone saxophones, as well as clarinet
and flute. His album Exile was the BBC Jazz Album of the Year in
2003.
Come
learn why the Israeli Lobby tried to suppress The Wandering Who, and
was unsuccessful in blocking the publisher, the distribution, and
then lastly his music performance events using what professional
propagandists and psychologists call Ritual Defamation.
Harvard
Professor Alan Dershowitz, on a John Stossel TV show, actually asked
students and faculty at the University of Chicago to shun Prof. John
Mearsheimer for writing a blurb for the book. Come see what the
Israeli Lobby folks are so afraid of...something called the Truth.
Here
is a sample of what they don't want you to hear.
And
here is Gilad in Trondheim, Norway with his group.
Limited
seating is available for this event. Please RSVP jimw...@aol.com
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"The biggest weapon in the hands of the oppressors is the minds of the oppressed." Steve Biko
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