Nippon's Lanterns of Remembrance

Visitors walk past paper lanterns during the Mitama (Soul) Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, on 15 July 2009.

More than 30,000 lanterns donated by citizens are displayed on the grounds during the four-day annual summer festival to remember the souls of Nippon's (Japan's) dead, from US severe sanctioned oppression upon Nippon; that developed into World War 2.

Loving Your Fellow as Yourself*

Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk past Muslim street vendors selling fresh vine leaves at the landmark Damascus Gate in east Jerusalem upon their return from overnight prayers and Torah reading at the Western Wall on the occasion of the Jewish harvest holiday (1) of Shavuot, early on 29 May 2009.

The annual religious festival, which began at sunset on 28 May; marks the day Moses gave the Torah to the Jews (from Mount Sinai) after their exodus from Egypt.

A Jewish boy looks at a Muslim man reading the daily Arabic newspaper 'Jerusalem' early on 29 May 2009 as ultra-Orthodox Jews passed through the landmark Damascus Gate in east Jerusalem upon their return from overnight prayers and Torah reading at the Western Wall on the occasion of the Jewish harvest holiday of Shavuot.

This comes at a time that only yesterday, US President Barack Obama in Washington DC; was again trying to destabilize the peaceful unity between Muslims and Jews, due to the US war that has been ongoing for over a hundred and nine years towards Israel and her people.

This also comes under the old US foreign policy ( known originally, as the "The Wind and the Lion" War Campaign; started by then US President Theodore Roosevelt ) towards Israel with Obama's continued enforcement of the unacceptable two-state solution (using in collaboration with the non-citizen Canaanites under PLO global terrorist, Interpol fugitive Mahmoud Abbas and his terrorist organization), which is detrimental to all the inhabitants of the country and the further necessity for desegregated housing towards every one's benefit .

Which Obama himself, is just another old hand of the same tired US oppressive story; which has no future (Judges 5:31).

* Leviticus 19:18

(1) Harvest Holiday, Chag ha-Katzir (Harvest Festival); also Yom ha-Bikurim (Day of First Fruits) usually characterized here as being the end of the barley harvest.

The Only Solution: US Out of Pakistan

Pakistani citizens have a protest rally in Karachi on 27 May 2009 against the US and the military operation in the Swat, Buner and Malakand districts.

The military ordered the offensive under US pressure to crush alleged rebels in the northwest, which Washington said, 'threatened the very existence of the Muslim country and posed the greatest terror threat to the West.'

Around 2.4 million people have fled fighting as soldiers struggle to wrest back the northwest Swat and two nearby districts from alleged Taliban presence, since last month to within 100 kilometres (60 miles) of the capital Islamabad.

'Go America Go'

A Pakistani Muslim wear two slogans saying 'Go Taliban Go' and 'Go America Go' during a pro-Taliban and anti-US protest rally in Islamabad on 4 May 2009. Tensions are soaring between the Pakistani government, which is under US pressure to extend an offensive to crush the Taliban.A Pakistani Muslim wears a cap bearing the slogan 'Go Taliban Go' during a Pro-Taliban and anti-US protest rally in Islamabad on 4 May 2009.

While the above picture of just 'Go Taliban Go' appeared splashed all over the US media propaganda as an anti-Taliban rally was not so, but to the contrary; what has became much more prominent in Pakistan and across the globe is the ever increasing feeling of anti-US or just plain anti-America due to most people having had enough of oppressive mistreatment and outright cruelty by the US government.

Even now, after the US lied to the American public and assured across the globe with their media propaganda on this situation it stands to define of how far the US will go in their barbaric pressure and heavy hammer upon the whole of the world; that nothing is below of what they will proceed to do against the feelings of the countries they continue to attack.

Neither country, home nor family is safe globally; from the American arrogance, to even go so far as to destroy the US itself in every facet possible, with ill-regard or full destruction of their own country including the welfare of all American citizens to do so.

Further goes to show, even with the recent US attack and continued genocide of Iraqi civilians which occurred very recently; which is being once again high condemned, by the Iraqi government or the US bombing that just occurred as of yesterday evening, that has murdered upward to 120 Afghan civilians.

Which with the very recent US media propaganda that the US is on a mission from "God" to commit murder, especially with the recent attack in Afghanistan; it should be understood that Allah (Hashem, God) does not condone homicidal murder of other's, for any reason or has the US forgotten where Allah (Hashem, God) specified saying, "You shall not kill (Exodus 20:13)."

As a response, " (US) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration "deeply, deeply" regrets the loss of innocent life apparently as the result of a U.S. bombing in Afghanistan and will undertake a full review of the incident;" the sentiment while it is not believed, it will not bring back the over whelming amount of Jewish and Muslim martyrs the US has created in the last hundred and nine years or even yesterday caused by their hands alone.

As the US media propaganda dictates their view’s in the media, one can always be assured that it is better not to listen or read; but look towards the real truth of the matter.-HRM Deborah

Iraqi's Outraged Over Latest US Murder's

Family carry the coffin of a woman killed last Sunday during a US raid in the southern town of Kut on 26 April 2009. While the woman was killed four days ago, she was not allowed to buried by her family until today; which is a crime within itself according to Sharia law or Islamic law.

This woman along with a policeman were shot dead during a (late night) US raid on a house in Kut, according to an Iraqi security official and a local medic. The Iraqi official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said US forces arrested five people illegally without validation in the raid, including a police captain and a tribal leader, all from the same family.

Iraqi's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki heatedly denounced the raid, which left at least two people dead, as a "crime" that violated the security pact with Washington and demanded that American commanders hand over those responsible for immediate trial.

This is just the latest reported incident of the ongoing oppression, genocidal occupation by the US towards the people of Iraq.

To furthermore, notwithstanding; the US speaks of peace in the Middle East when they where the originators of all the unrestful aggressions and there was not any problems in the Middle East until they imposed the initial attack over hundred years ago; to continue to do so with deceptive tricks, lies and a trail of martyrs that has become endless from US bloodied hands.

For their to be actually peace in any facet of the Middle East, would be due to all aggression by the US to be removed from every rock or grain of sand throughout this part of the world. - HRM Deborah

Obama‘s Foreign Policy: US Troops from Iraq to Afghanistan

US President Barack Obama pledges 4,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, for his self-imposed Islamophobic genocidal, global domination war.

Japan’s Sanctions and US War of Occupation

For the Honorable People of Nippon

Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989)

In Japanese mythology, the origins of the imperial family are believed to be a direct descendant of the sun goddess, Amaterasau.

In 1946, as a term for peace with the US, Emperor Hirohito had to declare that he was not a god or relinquish according to Shinto teachings of being a living spirit (Kami).

According to Shinto belief’s, the emperor is considered a living god, was seen as the symbolic and literal father of the family of the Japanese people.

US Occupation in Government

From 1945 until 1952 under US President Harry S. Truman, Japan was occupied by the US formally; which they where further forced to change the Japanese government system, with a democratic constitution to gain some resemblance of Independence; also creating limited power to any emperor.

6 August 1945, Hiroshima

Hiroshima was hit by the US with the dropping of an atomic bomb where most of the city was destroyed and while the estimated death toll varies it is estimated at 140,000 civilian deaths.

Then on 9 August, a second US atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, which with this bombing the death toll was estimated at 80,000 civilian deaths.

The health effects of these two atomic blast’s are still causing numerous health conditions within the generations and with these two atomic blast’s where the first recorded use of any type atomic bomb.

War and US Sanctions

What brought Japan into war to begin with was a severity of sanctions imposed on them by the US government under then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Which in 1940, US banned the sale of fuel (oil), iron and steel from entering Japan; extending to a total ban by 1941.

These imposed sanctions on Japan especially towards oil supply caused Japan an overwhelming concern over the very survival of their country. Within this sever situation, General Tojo Hideki made a decision to go to war; on 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked, sinking the American fleet there.

From here Japan spread out to what became known as the entering of World War 2.

US Continued Imposed Occupation and Cultural Changes

As to the first US or Western changes to the Japanese culture occurred during the formal occupation between 1945 until 1952, with the influx of overbearing, morally uncouth US GI’s and this occupation system is still informally occurring even today; with continued oppressive injection by the US government.

It should be further expressed, while the English word of occupation for this country is Japan; the actual name of this country is called, Nippon in the language of the country.

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The Atomic Bomb Factor

The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 rose some 18 kilometers (11 miles) above the bomb's hypocenter.

When the US was in collaboration and financing Nazi German, they also where receiving certain technology; especially by scientist’s in creation of Atomic factors. With one Nazi German scientist in particular, who was borrowed from Germany into the US, the creation of the atomic bomb came about.

The first test explosion and just prior to the attack on Japan occurred at a location 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what is now White Sands Missile Range, headquartered near Alamogordo; on 16 July 1945 and the test was named "Trinity."

The Japanese Protest Iraq’s Sixth Anniversary with Respect to Palestine

Japanese activists hold the State of Palestine flag in respect of the genuine inhabitants of Palestine, with further appreciation of the people of Palestine during a peace protest march in Tokyo, Japan (Nippon) on 20 March 2009; to mark the 6th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.

Iraq on 20 March marks the sixth anniversary of the US-led imposed war that toppled US executed Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein; but triggered an Iraqi resistance to occupation, with the US murderous Islamophobic rage with such atrocious atrocities as US genocide, occupation and oppression, to virtual type of slavery towards the Iraqi people and further violence of the same nature in Afghanistan.

The US Finger of Oppression Around the Globe

“Hey, get off of me!” said the Ant (World).

Obama’s Stimulus Bill

This historic 'Major Milestone' for American domestic dissention and economic implosion.

US Foreign and Domestic Policy

“Can’t quite reach it, without keep falling down!”

Iraqi Shia Muslim Widows and Orphan Children Receive Eid Zakat (Charity)

Shia Muslim children and women gather at a school in the impoverished Sadr City district of eastern Baghdad, on 6 December 2008.

Some 192 women whose husbands were killed and children who lost both parents in the violence that has racked this city since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, gathered to receive a parcel of clothes and some money donated by Islamic charities for the up and coming Muslim Eid al-Adha.

US President Bush Attends Saban Forum 2008

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 5, 2008

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THE PRESIDENT: John, thank you very much. I thought for a minute you were going to say I was your favorite rabbi, but -- (laughter.)

I appreciate you giving me a chance to come. I, too, want to thank Mr. Saban for his vision and for sponsoring this forum. I am honored to be with you. Madam Secretary, thank you for joining us. Justice Breyer, I am pleased to see you yet again. I thank Ambassador Indyk. Minister Mofaz, it's good to see you, sir, and I appreciate you being here for this Forum

I want to thank the members of Congress who have joined us, members of the diplomatic corps, and of course, the distinguished guests.

The Saban Forum is one of the world's premier venues for discussion on the Middle East. I thank you for the debate you provoke, and the differences you have made. And I'm honored to be with you.

Over the past eight years, I have had the privilege to see the Middle East up close. I have stood on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and I've hiked the cliffs of Masada. I've enjoyed dinner in the desert of Abu Dhabi, and prayed at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. I have looked into the eyes of courageous elected leaders from Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories. I have been convinced that no region is more fundamental to the security of America or the peace in the world than the Middle East.

This evening, I'll share some thoughts on our policies in the region these past eight years, and our vision for the future -- a Middle East where our friends are strengthened and the extremists are discredited, where economies are open and prosperity is widespread, and where all people enjoy the life of liberty that is the universal gift of an Almighty God.

From our earliest days as a nation, the Middle East has played a central role in American foreign policy. One of America's first military engagements as an independent nation was with the Barbary pirates. One of our first consulates was in Tangiers. Some of the most fateful choices made by American Presidents have involved the Middle East -- including President Truman's decision to recognize Israel 60 years ago this past May.

In the decades that followed that brave choice, American policy in the Middle East was shaped by the realities of the Cold War. Together with strong allies in the Middle East, we faced down and defeated the threat of communism to the region. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the primary threat to America and the region became violent religious extremism. Through painful experience, it became clear that the old approach of promoting stability is unsuited to this new danger -- and that the pursuit of security at the expense of liberty would leave us with neither one. Across the Middle East, many who sought a voice in the future of their countries found the only places open to dissent were radical mosques. Many turned to terror as a source of empowerment. And as a new century dawned, the violent currents swirling beneath the Middle East began to surface.

In the Holy Land, the dashed expectations resulting from the collapse of the Camp David peace talks had given way to the second intifada. Palestinian suicide bombers struck with horrific frequency and lethality. They murdered innocent Israelis at a pizza parlor, or aboard buses, or in the middle of a Passover Seder. Israeli Defense Forces responded with large-scale operations. And in 2001, more than 500 Israelis and Palestinians were killed.

Politically, the Palestinian Authority was led by a terrorist who stole from his people and walked away from peace. In Israel, Ariel Sharon was elected to fight terror and pursue a "Greater Israel" policy that allowed for no territorial concessions. Neither side could envision a return to negotiations or the realistic possibility of a two-state solution.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, Saddam Hussein had begun his third decade as the dictator of Iraq -- a reign that included invading two neighbors, developing and using weapons of mass destruction, attempting to exterminate Marsh Arabs and many Kurds, paying the families of suicide bombers, systematically violating U.N. resolutions, and firing routinely at British and U.S. aircraft patrolling a no-fly zone.

Syria continued its occupation of Lebanon, with some 30,000 troops on Lebanese soil. Libya sponsored terror and pursued weapons of mass destruction. And in Iran, the prospect of reform was fading, the regime's sponsorship of terror continued, and its pursuit of nuclear weapons was largely unchecked.

Throughout the region, suffering and stagnation were rampant. The Arab Human Development Report revealed a bleak picture of high unemployment, poor education, high mortality rates for mothers, and almost no investment in technology. Above all, the Middle East suffered a deep deficit in freedom. Most people had no choice and no voice in choosing their leaders. Women enjoyed few rights. And there was little conversation about democratic change.

Against this backdrop, the terrorist movement was growing in strength and in ambition. Three decades, violent radicals had landed painful blows against America -- the Iranian hostage crisis, the attacks on our embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103, the truck bombing of the World Trade Center, the attack on Khobar Towers, the bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the strike on the USS Cole.

And then came September the 11th, 2001, when 19 men from the Middle East carried out the worst attack on the United States since the strike on Pearl Harbor 67 years ago this weekend. In the space of a single morning, 9/11 etched a sharp dividing line in our history. We realized that we're in a struggle with fanatics pledged to our destruction. We saw that conditions of repression and despair on the other side of the world could bring suffering and death to our own streets.

With these new realities in mind, America reshaped our approach to the Middle East. We made clear that we will defend our friends, our interests, and our people against any hostile attempt to dominate the Middle East -- whether by terror, blackmail, or the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. We have carried out this new strategy by following three overriding principles.

First, we took the offense against the terrorists overseas. We are waging a relentless campaign to break up extremist networks and deny them safe havens. As part of that offensive, we pledged to strengthen our partnership with every nation that joins in the fight against terror. We deepened our security cooperation with allies like Jordan and Egypt, and with our friends in the Gulf. Saudi Arabia, long a breeding ground for radicalism, has become a determined partner in the fight against terror -- killing or capturing hundreds of al Qaeda operatives in the Kingdom. We dramatically expanded counterterrorism ties with partners in North Africa. And we left no doubt that America would stand by our closest ally in the Middle East -- the state of Israel. (Applause.)

Second, we made clear that hostile regimes must end their support for terror and their pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, or face the concerted opposition of the world.

This was the approach we took in Iraq. It is true, as I've said many times, that Saddam Hussein was not connected to the 9/11 attacks. But the decision to remove Saddam from power cannot be viewed in isolation from 9/11. In a world where terrorists armed with box cutters had just killed nearly 3,000 of our people, America had to decide whether we could tolerate a sworn enemy that acted belligerently, that supported terror, and that intelligence agencies around the world believed had weapons of mass destruction.

It was clear to me, it was clear to members of both political parties, and to many leaders around the world that after 9/11, that was a risk we could not afford to take. So we went back to the United Nations Security Council, which unanimously passed Resolution 1441 calling on Saddam Hussein to disclose, disarm, or face serious consequences. With this resolution, we offered Saddam Hussein a final chance to comply with the demands of the world. And when he refused to resolve the issue peacefully, we acted with a coalition of nations to protect our people and liberated 25 million Iraqis.

When Saddam regimes -- regimes fell -- when Saddam's regime fell, we refused to take the easy option and install a friendly strongman in his place. Even though it required enormous sacrifice, we stood by the Iraqi people as they elected their own leaders and built a young democracy. When the violence reached its most dire point, pressure to withdraw reached its height. Yet failure in Iraq would have unleashed chaos, widened the violence, and allowed the terrorists to gain a new safe haven -- a fundamental contradiction to our vision for the Middle East.

So we adopted a new strategy, and deployed more troops to secure the Iraqi people. When the surge met its objective, we began to bring our troops home under the policy of return on success. Yesterday, building on the gains made by the surge, the democratic government of Iraq approved two agreements with the United States that formalize our diplomatic, economic, and security ties and set a framework for the drawdown of American forces as the fight in Iraq nears its successful end.

After 9/11, we also confronted Libya over its weapons of mass destruction. The leader of Libya made a wise choice. In 2003, Colonel Ghadafi announced that he would abandon his weapons of mass destruction program. He concluded that the interests of his people would be best served by improving relations with America, and Libya turned over its nuclear centrifuges and other deadly equipment to the United States.

The defeat of Saddam also appears to have changed the calculation of Iran. According to our intelligence community, the regime in Tehran had started a nuclear weapons program in the late-1980s, and they halted a key part of that program in 2003. America recognized that the most effective way to pursue -- persuade Iran to remove its nuclear weapons -- renounce its nuclear weapons ambitions was to have partners at our side, so we supported an international effort led by our allies in Europe. This diplomacy yielded an encouraging result, when Iran agreed to suspend its uranium enrichment.

Sadly, after the election of President Ahmadinejad, Iran reversed course and announced it would begin enriching again. Since then, we've imposed tough sanctions through United Nations resolutions. We and our partners have offered Iran diplomatic and economic incentives to suspend enrichment. We have promised to support a peaceful civilian nuclear program. While Iran has not accepted these offers, we have made our bottom line clear: For the safety of our people and the peace of the world, America will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

Third, America identified the lack of freedom in the Middle East as a principal cause of the threats coming from the region. We concluded that if the region continued on the path it was headed -- if another generation grew up with no hope for the future, and no outlet to express its views -- the Middle East would continue to simmer in resentment and export violence.

To stop this from happening, we resolved to help the region steer itself toward a better course of freedom and dignity and hope. We're engaged in a battle with the extremists that is broader than a military conflict, and broader than a law enforcement operation. We are engaged in an ideological struggle. And to advance our security interests and moral interests, America is working to advance freedom and democracy as the great alternatives to repression and terror.

As part of this effort, we're pressing nations across the region -- including our friends -- to trust their people with greater freedom of speech, and worship, and assembly. We're giving strong support to young democracies. We're standing with reformers, and dissidents, and human rights activists across the region. Through new efforts like the Middle East Peace Partnership Initiative and the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative, we're supporting the rise of vibrant civil societies.

We're also advancing a broader vision that includes economic prosperity, quality health care and education, and women's rights. We've negotiated new free trade agreements in the region, supported Saudi Arabia's accession to the World Trade Organization, and proposed a new Middle East Free Trade Area. We have signed Millennium Challenge agreements with Jordan and Morocco to grant American assistance in return for anti-corruption measures, free market policies, and investments in health and education. We're training Middle Eastern schoolteachers, translating children school books into Arabic, and helping young people get visas to study here in the United States.

We're encouraging Middle Eastern women to get involved in politics, and to start their own businesses, and take charge of their health through wise practices like breast cancer screening. Efforts like these extend hope to the corners of despair, and in this work we have had a lot of help, but no finer ambassador of goodwill than my wife, Laura Bush. (Applause.)

Finally, to advance all the principles that I've outlined -- supporting our friends, and pressuring our adversaries, and extending freedom -- America has launched a sustained initiative to help bring peace to the Holy Land. At the heart of this effort is the vision of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. I was the first American President to call for a Palestinian state, and support -- and build support for the two-state solution has been a top priority of my administration.

To earn the trust of Israeli leaders, we made it clear that no Palestinian state would be born of terror, we backed Prime Minister Sharon's courageous withdrawal from Gaza, and we supported his decision to build a security fence, not as a political border but to protect the people from terror.

To help the Palestinian people achieve the state they deserve, we insisted on Palestinian leadership that rejects terror and recognizes Israel's right to exist. Now that this leadership has emerged, we're strongly supporting its efforts to build institutions of a vibrant democratic state.

With good advice from leaders like Former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Generals Jones, Dayton, Fraser, and Selva, the Palestinians are making progress toward capable security forces, a functioning legal system, government ministries that deliver services without corruption, and a market economy. In all our efforts to promote a two-state solution, we have included Arab leaders from across the region, because we fully understand that their support will be essential for the creation of a state and lasting peace.

Last fall at Annapolis, Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab leaders came together at an historic summit. President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert agreed to launch direct negotiations on a peace agreement. Nations around the globe, including many in the Arab world, pledged to support them. The negotiations since Annapolis have been determined and substantial. Secretary Rice has encouraged both sides by hosting a series of trilateral meetings. And while the Israelis and Palestinians have not yet produced an agreement, they have made important progress. As they stated to the Quartet, they have laid a new foundation of trust for the future.

On this issue -- and on our overall approach to the Middle East these past eight years -- America has been ambitious in vision, we have been bold in action, and we have been firm in purpose. Not every decision I've made has been popular, but popularity was never our aim. Our aim was to help a troubled region take the difficult first steps on the long journey to freedom and prosperity and hope. Some have called this idealistic, and no doubt it is. Yet it is the only practical way to help the people of the Middle East realize the dignity and justice they deserve. And it is the only practical way to protect the United States of America in the long term.

As with any large undertaking, these efforts have not always gone according to plan, and in some areas we've fallen short of our hopes. For example, the fight in Iraq has been longer and more costly than expected. The reluctance of entrenched regimes to open their political systems has been disappointing. There have been unfortunate setbacks at key points in the peace process -- including the illness suffered by Prime Minister Sharon, the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections, and the terrorist takeover of Gaza.

Despite these frustrations and disappointments, the Middle East in 2008 is a freer, more hopeful, and more promising place than it was in 2001:

For the first time in nearly three decades, the people of Lebanon are free from Syria's military occupation. Libya's nuclear weapons equipment is locked away in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Places like the UAE and Bahrain are emerging as centers of commerce. The region -- the regime in Iran is facing greater pressure from the international community than ever before. Terrorist organizations like al Qaeda have failed decisively in their attempts to take over nations. They're increasingly facing ideological rejection in the Arab world.

Iraq has gone from an enemy of America to a friend of America, from sponsoring terror to fighting terror, and from a brutal dictatorship to a multi-religious, multi-ethnic constitutional democracy. Instead of the Iraq we would see if a Saddam Hussein were in power -- an aggressive regime vastly enriched by oil, defying the United Nations, bullying its Arab neighbors, threatening Israel, and pursuing a nuclear arms race with Iran -- we see an Iraq emerging peacefully with its neighbors, welcoming Arab ambassadors back to Baghdad, and showing the Middle East a powerful example of a moderate, prosperous, free nation.

The most vexing problem in the region -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- there is now greater international consensus that at any point in modern memory. Israelis, Palestinians, and Arabs recognize the creation of a peaceful, democratic Palestinian state is in their interests. And through the Annapolis process, they started down a path that will end with two states living side by side in peace.

In fits and starts, political and economic reforms are advancing across the Middle East. Women have run for office in several nations and been named to important government positions in Bahrain and Oman and Qatar, the UAE and Yemen. Trade and foreign investment have expanded. Several nations have opened up private universities, and Internet use has risen sharply. Across the region, conversations about freedom and reform are growing louder. Expectations about government responsiveness are rising. And people are defying the condescending view that the culture of the Middle East is unfit for freedom.

There are still serious challenges facing the Middle East. Iran and Syria continue to sponsor terror. Iran's uranium enrichment remains a major threat to peace. Many in the region still live under oppression. Yet the changes of the past eight years herald the beginning of something historic and new. At long last, the Middle East is closing a chapter of darkness and fear, and opening a new one written in the language of possibility and hope. For the first time in generations, the region represents something more than a set of problems to be solved, or the site of energy resources to be developed. A free and peaceful Middle East will represent a source of promise, and home of opportunity, and a vital contributor to the prosperity of the world.

Those who ask what this future will look like need only look around. We see the new story of the Middle East in Iraqis waving ink-stained fingers, with Lebanese taking to streets in the Cedar Revolution. We see it in women taking their seats in elected parliaments, and bloggers telling the world their dreams. We see it in the skyscrapers rising above Abu Dhabi, and living --thriving Middle Eastern businesses that are now connected to the global economy. We see it in a Saudi king sponsoring an interfaith dialogue, Palestinian reformers fighting corruption and terror, and Israelis who love their ancient land, but want to live in peace.

These are striking images, and they do point the way to a brighter future. I believe the day will come when the map of the Middle East shows a peaceful, secure Israel beside a peaceful and democratic Palestine. I believe the day will come when people from Cairo and Riyadh to Baghdad and Beirut, to Damascus and Tehran, live in free and independent societies, bound together by the ties of diplomacy and tourism and trade. The day will come when al Qaeda and Hezbollah and Hamas are marginalized and then wither away, as Muslims across the region realize the emptiness of the terrorists' vision and the injustice of their cause.

Earlier this year, I laid out this vision in my address to the Israeli Knesset, and then in my address to the World Economic Forum in Egypt. It was not a Jewish vision, or an Arab vision, or an American vision. It is a universal vision. It unites all who yearn for freedom and peace in the Middle East. And if we lead, and if we persevere, and if we keep faith in our ideals, that vision will become a reality someday.

Thanks for letting me come, and God bless. (Applause.)

END

Oppression: Standing Behind the Fence

Guantanamo Bay (Detention) Concentration Camp

by HRM Deborah

As a valuable resource of history shadowed into modern times is the accusations of Nazism being accused by those who are actuality guilty of this act of barbarism towards certain facets of humanity, which did started before the Jewish Holocaust of the 1930’s and 1940’which is still occurring to this very day; the only difference which is not much, is the more wide spread attacks on the Islamic community or as before, anyone who opposing the Nazi ideology.

It is a well known fact the U.S. President George W. Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush, along with certain other financers where the major contributors of funding to Adolph Hitler and with Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’ what thought to be throttled as of 1945; one truly need’s to understand this is not the case, but something that is a more sinister continuation within US.

All the US secret camps, the ones that have been built within the US and especially for example the most famous Guantanamo Bay Detention Center; which in all reality has all the earmarks of a Concentration Camp right down to what may never be fully known of as the numbers of dead that are mysteriously buried there.

People speak of AIPAC and people within the US being Pro-Israel which in actuality it is being found to actually be a cover for US Nazism and while one may ask if Nazism occurred after World War 2 the answer is actually, NO. One may find reference to this with the American Nazi Bunds’ which while some will say they where executed for Nazism, this is actually not quite the case.
Pro-Nazi German American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden. New York, United States, 20 February 1939. It is estimated that 50,000 American’s attended this rally and not necessarily of German descendent; but to support the Nazi ideology. It is said that one of the attendee’s at this rally was then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt* (FDR [1933 to 1945 ]), which may be a further understanding of why Roosevelt was not so quick to enter into the European war and help the Holocaust detainee’s.

Up until this year, with the ending of the war in Palestine the Jewish people where slaves with the extension of the ‘Final Solution’ by the US’s part during World War 2 and what may not be readily known accept for references I have made previously that the true Palestinians have always been with the Jewish people as apart of this extermination solution.

Who may very well be behind this very old ‘Final Solution’ fence, anyone! But the main target’s have been true Palestinians and the Jewish people along into our more modern times, is anyone that is Muslim; which came with the ideological birth of Islamophobia.

Within Palestine itself the US collaborators towards aiding in this 'Final Solution,’ is global terrorist Interpol fugitive Mahmoud Abbas and his organization; on the outside is the main bulk of the US itself towards the whole of the global community to finalize this goal and to remove anyone as in World War 2 for example that get’s in the way. This is why some dignitaries for example have received death threats or other types of illegal attacks from something that may seem small to court litigation in some cases stemming from the US, with front men such as the case that occurred towards Jewish PM Ehud Olmert and that Olmert was never guilty of the charges posed against him; but it was an attempt to remove him from office because of him helping all those within Palestine and helping to end the war. Which there been references within previous writing of mine, that I too have been maltreated because of trying to do good for everyone, especially within my country; not withstanding of my part in ending the war.

As to in many cases the US Nazi party that works heatedly in the field of media propaganda, to out right pointing fingers at innocent people, the bird will eventually fly over and lay a cake on the US’s clean hair.

But the major problem is after this many years, when will these type of heinous crimes be over and everyone can breath again without standing behind the fence of oppression and death?

Further Reading

Guantanamo Bay (Detention) and Concentration Camp's:

Concentration Camps in America?

The Children in Guantánamo

U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000

Note:

*There where a handful in the US military during this time period that wanted to enter the European war for two years to help the Holocaust detainee’s, but where told to stand down and where refused to go by Roosevelt. This was explained by a first hand account of one of the former US military veterans, many years ago. It is further thought by the one that gave the first hand account, that many people in the concentration/extermination camps could have been saved if they had been allowed to go in; within this two year period.

It should be further understood, that not all American’s at this time knew Nazism was on US soil, but some of these same men later joined this ideology to further initiate the same tactic’s on US and foreign soil that occurred during the 1930’s Holocaust as is seen today. Some of the method’s of torture for example, I understand that has been used on myself and was explained in the above article.

To not further forget the untold extensive numbers of Islamic, Jewish martyrs and Christian (Helpers) that many are also martyrs for trying to save Muslims and Jews, which one was a very pious old Church of Christ minister (when I was four years old, he was murdered for saving the life of my mother and myself); since 1945, that is still occurring to this very day.

For example, the American Commandos not of Indian nationality; who stormed across Mumbai, India murdering Jews in there wake, reported today and apparently including also the murders of 22 foreigners — two of them happened to be Americans (A former Brooklyn Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi and his wife). Which the Jewish people where not allowed to render aid to the victims nor stop the American Commandos from there further killing spree, it was further reported; in this further extent of the Holocaust and not to ever forget these new martyrs along with those who came before.

Nevertheless, what comes to mind and I understand about respecting the laws of other countries, but I contend I do not understand why the Jewish people or any true Palestinian citizen (excluding the criminal illegal Canaanites)could not help those who where being slaughtered in India or to help capture the perpetrators of this heinous crime? Hopefully in the very near future, this type of situation can be rectified; as is allowed of those from other countries when there people are in trouble especially this type and I am very adamant on this and should be set right immediately.

Update:

The estimated count of the victim’s of the Mumbai, India American commando terrorist attack (not people from Pakistan as claimed by the Americans) are those killed at least 195 people, with 610 people rescued from the two hotels and also Nariman House. The main targets of this attack, where people who where of the Jewish religion.

Obama Inheriting Bush’s Nursery

Obama a Future Extension of Bush’s House

US President George W. Bush makes remarks on the presidential transition as Vice President Dick Cheney (R) listens at the South Lawn of the White House, on 6 November 2008; in Washington, DC. It appears that Alcoholism has taken more of a toll on Bush; then his terrorist, criminal activities have; while in the White House.

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 8, 2008

Audio
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Earlier this week, more than 120 million Americans went to the polls and voted for a new President and Congress. No matter how we cast our ballots, all Americans have reason to be proud of our democracy. Our citizens have chosen a President who represents a triumph of the American story -- a testament to hard work, optimism, and faith in the enduring promise of our Nation.

When I called President-Elect Obama to congratulate him on his historic victory, I told him that he can count on my complete cooperation as he makes his transition to the White House. Ensuring that this transition is seamless is a top priority for the rest of my time in office. Our country faces economic challenges that will not pause to let a new President settle in. This will also be America's first wartime presidential transition in four decades. We're in a struggle against violent extremists determined to attack us -- and they would like nothing more than to exploit this period of change to harm the American people.

So my Administration will work hard to ensure that the next President and his team can hit the ground running. For more than a year now, the White House and agencies throughout the Federal government have been preparing for a smooth transition. We've provided intelligence briefings to the President-Elect, and the Department of Justice has approved security clearances for members of his transition staff. In the coming weeks, we will ask Administration officials to brief the Obama team on major ongoing policy issues, ranging from the financial markets to the war in Iraq. I will keep the President-Elect fully informed on important decisions during this critical time for our Nation. Taken together, these measures represent an unprecedented effort to ensure continuity throughout the executive branch.

A successful transition is just one of the many important tasks remaining for my Administration. Yesterday we learned that America's economy lost jobs in the month of October, and I will continue working hard to return our Nation to the path of prosperity and growth. To help address the global financial crisis, my Administration will host an historic international summit in Washington on November 15. We will also keep urging Congress to approve America's free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama and South Korea. We will continue working to defeat the terrorists and extremists abroad, to keep the American people safe here at home.

Americans expect their President to conduct the people's business. I will continue to uphold this solemn obligation for as long as this office remains in my trust. In the meantime, I join the American people in wishing President-Elect Obama every success. Laura and I wish the Obama family as much joy and happiness as our family has found in this wonderful house.

Thank you for listening.

Shia Prayers for Occupation Freedom

A Shia Muslim lifts his hands up during Friday noon prayers in the southern holy city of Karbala, 120 kms south of Baghdad; on 7 November 2008.

Several prominent Shia Sheikhs in Iraq gave fiery Friday sermons warning against the signing of a new security agreement which would keep US forces in the country for up to another three years.

Bushonomics: Government selling $55B in bonds next week

5 November 2008

By MARCY GORDON

WASHINGTON – The government will sell $55 billion in bonds next week as part of a massive borrowing to pay for its financial rescue programs.

The Treasury Department said Wednesday it is bringing back its three-year notes, selling them monthly to help cover the increased borrowing needs, and will auction $25 billion of them on Monday. The government also will offer $20 billion in 10-year notes next Wednesday, and $10 billion in 29 3/4-year bonds on Thursday.

The government plans to borrow a record $550 billion in the last three months of the year to help pay for the various financial rescue packages put into effect in response to the global crisis. Officials project that the government will need to borrow an additional $368 billion in the first quarter of 2009, putting a sea of red ink in front of the incoming president, Barack Obama.

The Treasury also said it will offer 10-year notes in December and January.

The balance of financing requirements will be met by offering weekly Treasury bills, monthly 52-week bills, monthly two-year, three-year and five-year notes, and 10-year and 20-year securities, the department said.

The borrowing is needed pay for the array of government initiatives: The $700 billion rescue program enacted in early October; efforts by the Federal Reserve to bolster banks' balance sheets which have required it to use Treasury's borrowing resources; and the need of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for funds to deal with a rising number of bank failures.

"Over the last several months, changes in economic conditions, financial markets and fiscal policy ... have contributed to an increase in Treasury's marketable borrowing needs," Karthik Ramanathan, the department's acting assistant secretary for financial markets, said in a statement.

In May 2007, shrinking deficits and smaller borrowing needs led the government to cease sales of the three-year notes. Now the financial rescue programs will force the government to borrow unprecedented amounts as the budget deficit climbs to record heights.

The Bush administration in July forecast that the deficit for the current budget year, which began Oct. 1, would hit a record $482 billion. But that forecast didn't include all the government's efforts since then to deal with the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Budget estimates all the government economic and rescue initiatives, starting with the $168 billion in stimulus checks issued earlier this year, total an eye-popping $2.6 trillion.

Supporters of the government rescue packages argue that the ultimate cost to taxpayers should end up being a lot smaller, partly because the Federal Reserve is extending loans to banks that should be paid back.

And in the case of the $700 billion rescue package, the government is buying assets — either bank stock or distressed mortgage-backed assets — that it hopes will rebound in value once the crisis has passed.

But the government still needs to borrow massive amounts to buy the assets, an effort that has driven up borrowing costs.

Bushonomics: Bush in the Militarized Flying Zone

US President George W. Bush, onboard Marine One with two extra security helicopter gun ships, arrives back at the White House from a weekend spent at the Camp David, on 2 November 2008; in Washington, DC.

While Bush has put on a front of all is good in Washington, the economic protests have became increasingly heated; especially closer the elections come.

Apparently, Bush must be getting extremely afraid of the American economic protestors, to order flying security gun ships; which is more long the line of Bush threatening to murder Americans.

Nevertheless, this current situation with Bush reminds me of another leader long ago in Rome; and his name of Nero.

Be it ever so crumbly, there's no place like Rome.
Nero, he was the emperor, and the palace was his home.
But he liked to play with matches and for the fire yearned;
So, he burned Rome to ashes and fiddled while it burned.

Roman Emperor Nero (54to 68) was in Rome when it burned for five days and some old historical writings did assert that Nero did start this famous fire and played the fiddle while it burned.

Nero's rule is often associated with tyranny and extravagance, with a number of executions; including his mother and adoptive brother.

He was also known as an early persecutor of Christians before the coliseum.

Nero in numerous respects was not only dysfunctional in the whole scope of his life, but was a great warmonger with intentions at global conquest. When Nero was facing execution after a military coup within his own government, he committed suicide; which is to often the case with these type of people.

Notwithstanding, Nero will always be known as the crazed emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned.”

The only wonder is does Bush know how to play a fiddle, for in a manner of speaking; America is already alit.

Americans Stand up for Your Human Right’s, for You can make the difference!

I will change the world

2 November 2008

New York-Barack Obama has promised to "change the world" if he is elected US President.

With just two days to go he and his opponent John McCain are touring key states in an effort to woo undecided voters.

Senator Obama is still almost seven points ahead in the Real Clear Politics poll of polls, but the gap has narrowed slightly.

At a rally in Henderson, Nevada, he warned his supporters against complacency.

"At this defining moment in history, you can give the country the change we need," he said.

At the same time Senator McCain was rallying his followers in Newport Beach, Virginia.

In a usually safe Republican state, which is threatening to go to the Democrats, he asked for help on the home stretch.

He said: "Let me state the obvious again, we need to win Virginia on the 4th of November and with your help we're going to win and bring real change to Washington.

My friends I need your help in the next three days. Volunteer, knock on doors - with your help we can and will win.

Commentary:

This bit of news while it is horrible and the picture is also a bit humorous, but nevertheless, of the two men being Obama and McCain being qualified for the office of US President; the answer is no, they are both more qualified for a jail cell at Leavenworth.

Towards either of them making the US better, actually one can more see from how both handled the election, as well as Hillary Clinton, that it would be four to eight years of worse then what the US has now and the global community has already seen from this particular country.

As to actually anyone running at this time for this particular office of government qualified, sorry to say, I do not think I have met one.

Let’s take a shorter look at the big picture, Obama has been charged with numerous felonies (high) crime’s not withstanding, terrorism. McCain, it is most assured has been charged with numerous and similar crimes and is being investigated for tax evasion from my understanding, at this time and not forgetting Clinton, it is assured she doesn’t have a clean under slip nor lives within the ideal’s that should actually be offensive to any moral person on the planet.

Bottom line, it would be same story, just new face or worse; if this is possible and most assured, a yes; especially from personal experience, which I do not think this the time or place to elaborate.