Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela died peacefully at 8:50pm last Thursday, December 5, 2013, in his Johannesburg home. The South African President called him a son of Africa and father to the new nation of South Africa. Tributes are pouring in particularly from the western world so it is easy to forget what it thought of him even thirty years ago. He was the first Commander-in-Chief of ANC’s military wing, forced into this role by the South African government’s savage attacks on unarmed demonstrators engaged in peaceful acts of civil disobedience.

By Felicity Arbuthnot
 
Accusing politicians or former politicians of “breathtaking hypocrisy” is not just over used, it is inadequacy of spectacular proportions. Sadly, searches in various thesaurus’ fail in meaningful improvement.
The death of Nelson Mandela, however, provides tributes resembling duplicity on a mind altering substance.

 
by Adri Nieuwhof   - The Electronic Intifada
 

 
 
Paul Balles
 
Helen Thomas
 
When Helen Thomas told a Rabbi that the Jews should go back to where they came from, he asked where that would be.
 Her response was as honest and appropriate as it was direct: “Poland, Germany, America…” For that she lost her job as the best White House reporter America has had.

Accusing politicians or former politicians of “breathtaking hypocrisy” is not just over used.  It is inadequacy of spectacular proportions. Sadly, searches in various thesauruses fail in meaningful improvement.
The death of Nelson Mandela, however, provides tributes resembling duplicity on a mind altering substance.

Imagine a documentary film about the Holocaust which makes no mention of Nazi Germany.
Imagine a documentary film about the 1965-66 slaughter of as many as a million “communists” in Indonesia which makes no mention of the key role in the killing played by the United States.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
— Eduardo Galeano

What do you think of this as an argument to use when speaking to those who don’t accept the idea that extreme weather phenomena are man-made?
Well, we can proceed in one of two ways:

I was in federal court here Friday for the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a private security firm that works on behalf of the government, including the Department of Homeland Security, and corporations such as Dow Chemical. In 2011 Hammond, now 28, released to the website WikiLeaks and Rolling Stone and other publications some 3 million emails from the Texas-based company Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor.

ISRAELI HAWKS RESISTING DEALS
 
Paul Balles
 
To the Israelis, any deal made between the world powers and Iran would be a bad deal.
It’s obvious from Israeli reactions to the talks in Geneva that the only action acceptable to Israel would be to bomb Iran.
Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Ya’alon describes any agreement with Iran as “a historic mistake”.