Baby’s got a Nobel Prize | War is Peace or is it Peace is War? | Where have all the other Anti-Warriors gone? Part V & Final | grooveTEK.net
by BuddhaBoy on 01/07/10 at 11:23 am
Part V & Final
This will be the final part of this series.
There aren’t many things that I’m sure of these days and as I get older “sureness” becomes less clear. One issue that has repeated itself throughout my life and that I “am” sure about, is war; its impact on the peoples of the world. War is “Death.”
And again we see how, once thought of, respectable organizations, media or foundations have been co-opted. It is as plain as the “nose on your face” when a peace organization legitimizes war to suit it’s constituents (i.e. the Greedy Ones) desires.
Enlightenment on the other hand seems a transitional experience. It probably wouldn’t occur if good and evil didn’t exist together. There’s the rub; as well as the anti-warrior’s challenge.
So you say you want a revolution. All you need do is shake them off!
Here’s a couple of enlightenment tools for your enjoyment and use. 
Don’t forget to support the artists who brought these ideas to life in their music.
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Atom Bomb mix aon Christmas 09
1. Batman Theme – Link Wray
2. Atom Bomb (Chemical Brothers Remix) – Fluke
3. On The Screen – Government Issue
4. Bullet – Frank Black and the Catholics
5. Miles Away / The Truth Is – Depeche Mode
6. Cities In Dust – Siouxsie & the Banshees
7. 96 Tears – ? and the Mysterians
8. Hush Little Baby – The Horseflies
7. Sell My Soul – Midnight Oil
8. 20th Century Man – The Kinks
9. The Street and Babe Shadow – T. Rex
10. The Hard Way – The Kinks
11. Heads Will Roll – Thea Gilmore
12. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing – Garbage
13. This Old Town (Demo) – Tom Petty
14. How’s It Gonna End – Tom Waits
All tracks are the sole property of the artist
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Atom Bomb mix dó (Industrialized) Christmas 09
1. Atom Bomb (Atomix 1) – Fluke
2. California – Flash and the Pan
3. New World Order – Ministry
4. Man Made – A Flock of Seagulls
5. Super Bon Bon – Soul Coughing
6. Down In The Park (Sulpher version) – Gary Numan
7. Jerusalem – Sinéad O’Connor
8. Blow Up The Outside World – Soundgarden
9. Inertia Creeps – Massive Attack
10. Nirvana – Lounge Act
11. Gimme Shelter – The Sisters Of Mercy
12. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? – Moby
13. Kingdom – Dave Gahan
14. Save Yourself – Stabbing Westward
15. Wake Up Dead Man – U2
16. From My Hands – VNV Nation
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Part IV
First, let me apologize for being lax about updating this series. This is old but extremely important news, so please bear with me.
Old paradigms are always hard to shake and admitting one might have been fooled is a non-starter with most of us. I am concerned only with the truth as many of you are. If you are reading this series you know I don’t believe in or support any war. That is not to say that I will not defend myself but from my readings of the Founding Fathers , we – Americans – were warned about minding other people’s business.
Recently it was announced that Presdent Obama would be presented the Nobel Peace Prize. Alfred Nobel was a Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite and ballistite – explosives. The Peace Prize was to be administered in Norway.
According to Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who: during the preceding year [...] shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses
The video I’ve attached is ingenious (Rah Rah to its creators) There really is no need in trying to imitate its message with my words.
And Thorbjørn – “I’m sure you’re not totally responsible for this decision but you’re their front man and will have to take the heat. Don’t do our world any more favors by legitimizing bad behavior.”
A couple of notes:
1. I watched the Nobel Prize announcement on the BBC. I believe you can still find the clip on its website. There is a man behind Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee that seems to begin to laugh as Jagland announces President Obama’s prize. Was he laughing because he was happy for the President or because he knew what bullshit this really was. We’ll never know.
2. I’ve attached a link to George Orwell’s Newspeak Dictionary for those who would like to follow along with the Wall St / Washington program.
Part III
Not to be accused of partianship, I’ve attached a clip from former President Bush. Are these men and their supporters serious? Are these America’s best and brightest or have we been fooled again?
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George Bush on “getting fooled” again
Part II
Note: Someone continues to pull this video from You Tube. We can only imagine the reasons. Here’s the text; It’s just as effective to read!
“I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.”
Barack Obama Campaign Promise – October 27, 2007
Part I
Now that the Left in America has assumed power, has anything with respect to war really changed?
Left Right, Right Left – both wings on the same bird. The war goes on. Innocent peope die and if you’d ask most Americans, they wouldn’t know why – nor do I.
The fair-weather anti-warriors have all disappeared, now that their guy is in, with the exception of one, Cindy Sheehan; still fighting, still speaking the truth.
Good on you Cindy! – Great Job. – BB
Editor’s note: The story below Cindy’s is not for the squeamish. It reveals the “horrors of war.” It clearly depicts the extremely dangerous situations the American People place their young service men and women in. And not to forget the innocent people who are also killed. The questions I ask is, “Is it worth their lives?”
NOW HEAR THIS: Cindy’s Internet broadcasts continue!
On Sunday (September 6th), this week’s guest is former Green Party V.P. Candidate AND Hip-Hop Scholar, brilliant Rosa Clemente! Cindy and Rosa chat about everything from Mumia to Federal Electoral Politics. Be sure to listen in.
By the way, President Obama: Where’s the change? Maybe we’ll find out on Wednesday, when you speak to both Houses of Congreee on health care reform. Are you going to change your position? (What the *bleep* do I know anyway? Should I change my mind about supporting you?)
The show will be ready this Sunday. Click here to listen or download, beginning at 2:00 PM San Francisco time.
It is a graphic image of the harsh realities of war: the fatally wounded young marine lying crumpled in the mud, his vulnerable face turned to the camera. And it is one the US defence secretary would rather you did not see.
Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard, pictured being tended by comrades in southern Afghanistan, died of his injuries soon after. Now the release of this record of the 21-year-old’s last moments has divided America, prompting furious debate over the sanitisation of war at a critical time for the military offensive.
The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, condemned the decision by the news agency Associated Press to publish. “I cannot imagine the pain and suffering Lance Corporal Bernard’s death has caused his family. Why your organisation would purposefully defy the family’s wishes, knowing full well that it will lead to yet more anguish, is beyond me.
“Your lack of compassion and common sense in choosing to put this image of their maimed and stricken child on the front page of multiple American newspapers is appalling.”
However, AP, whose photographer Julie Jacobson took the shot after being caught in the middle of an ambush while accompanying marines on patrol, said it had acted only after a “period of reflection” and argued that the picture illustrated the sacrifice and the bravery of those fighting in Afghanistan. “We feel it is our journalistic duty to show the reality of the war there, however unpleasant and brutal that sometimes is,” said Santiago Lyon, the director of photography for AP.
The row reflects rising tensions over the impact of the death toll on an already wavering American public, with support for the war dwindling and President Barack Obama warned this weekend by leading Democrats that any attempt to send more troops is likely to meet resistance in Congress.
It also recalls the controversy four years ago when the Pentagon finally released pictures of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq, overturning a ban imposed in 1991 on the US media photographing military caskets in transit.
In that case, the concerns of families were also repeatedly cited as justification for suppressing images of the dead, and they were only published after a freedom of information request by a professor of journalism, who argued that they were a matter of public record. By contrast, the British media has regularly covered the return of coffins.
In extracts from her journal published by the US website huffingtonpost.com, Jacobson described the moment when she watched a marine lose his life “for the second time in my life”. “He was hit with the RPG which blew off one of his legs and badly mangled the other… I hadn’t seen it happen, just heard the explosion.” She described how she heard Bernard calling out that he could not breathe, and his friends telling him he was going to make it.
About 20 American newspapers and some websites used the image, sent out alongside photographs of Bernard’s life in uniform and his memorial service, last week, but it was taken on 14 August when Bernard’s patrol in the village of Dahaneh was ambushed. He was airlifted to the US base at Camp Leatherneck but died there of his wounds, the 19th American to lose his life in Helmand that month at the height of the fighting.
AP said the images had been shown to his family in advance, but said that reporters had not specifically asked the family’s permission to publish, admitting that his parents had not wanted the photographs to be used.
The son of a retired marine, Bernard, from New Portland in rural Maine, was described as a devout Christian, an Iraq war veteran, a keen snowboarder and an avid hiker. His father, John, described him as a “humble, shy, unassuming” man who did not smoke or drink and whose main friends were from his church group. Three weeks before Joshua died, Bernard Snr had written to his congressman expressing frustration at what he said was a change in the rules of engagement to spare civilians, calling the move “disgraceful, immoral and fatal” to American forces in combat.
Asked to sum up his son, John Bernard suggested the words “service and personal honour”.
But as America continues to debate the use of his image, Joshua Bernard has now come to symbolise something more: the suffering inflicted on America’s sons and daughters in uniform, and the unease of fellow citizens forced to confront the grim truth about their deaths.
Pictures of dying marine bring war home to America The Guardian
