The following video is perhaps one of the most graphic examples of police brutality to come out of  Copenhagen over the last week or so.  I share it because I believe everyone needs to see this.   People need to look into what is happening in this video and others and consider it all a good deal further.

‘To Protect and Serve‘ or some variation thereof is the motto of police forces across the world.  Ask yourself what it is they are protecting and what it is they are serving.

I do not doubt that some join police ranks as per their career due to some altruistic motive to help their fellow man; to protect and serve their fellow man.   But the system is corrupt.  If these pure intentioned individuals do not get out, they get sucked in.  Their pure intentions quickly become sullied and they end up as corrupt as the rest of the fraternity.   I am sure there remain those with the moral strength to continue in uniform as a servant of the people but they are few and far between.  A great deal more become drunk on their position and confuse themselves as masters of the people.

Again, I urge you to watch this video and others like it.  What you are seeing from Copenhagen of late is peaceful protesters being subject to violent and criminal attacks by police and security forces.  You see a young girl for example, unarmed and merely sitting on the street by way of peaceful protest, being violently beaten by a police officer and you still consider the interests of  officers by and large to be in the favor of the people?  Think again.

Who hires police officers and for what purpose?

Look at this history.

Love and Prayers,

TG.

Uncle Rush talks about how students in Iraq march in a peaceful protest. Check it yall the government in Iraq shutdown the internet! Yes SHUT id DOWN!!!. All I’m saying is this if they can do it there, just imagine what the American Government is doing. Ever wonder why is it when yall are sneaking in chat rooms doing ish your not suppose to tryna meet somebody why is it they always seem to live on the other side of the country. I only say this cause when I worked as a flight attendant I met many of fools who were traveling long distances to meet some one they met in a chat room. How ever it more going in Iraq click the following link to see it from Uncle Rush’s perspective.

Through Incredible Sacrifice, The Students March On

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The speed of the awakening has equally matched the speed of wealth consolidation by the global elite. It is becoming more obvious by the day that vital industries such as banking, energy, water, food, medicine, military, and media are now provably controlled by cartels. It is now painfully evident that our government works for these cartels, that our armies provide the muscle for their efforts, and the public provides fuel for their engine.

The system relies on our willing servitude, and we will never defeat them with force (weapons) and anger. We must take a measured approach of removing our willingness to cooperate through peaceful resistance tactics. Now is the time to galvanize our knowledge and frustration to form alliances to defeat the tyranny and transform the world to our agenda.

Much of the Truth Movement has been focused on activism to awaken the general public. Although we have seen a huge awakening, the aware class is still the clear minority, so spreading awareness should always be our primary goal. However, it’s no longer okay for us to simply be against the New World Order without offering a pragmatic plan to defeat them. In addition, we must offer more ideas than “give me liberty” if we expect to be taken seriously.

The notion that we can defeat the all powerful NWO by ranting and raving with protest signs, or simply preparing for doomsday scenarios is not realistic. Certainly, having a cushion of supplies in the case of true collapse is recommended, and peaceful protests are beneficial, but we must get far more organized in our resistance. Indeed we need to form our very own One World Order — a resistance movement that is organized and provides the tools, tactics, and philosophy to our soldiers.

Admittedly, it is a daunting task, as the criminal machine seems to be an unbeatable Goliath. However, we, the people, have the power of numbers. In fact, it is encouraging that there is a noticeable alliance forming between the far left and the far right with LIBERTY providing the galvanizing truth. We have truth on our side and that is extremely powerful. We should not be afraid to join groups and form movements with the stated goals to reject the NWO agenda in pursuit of a better world.

People in the movement are hungry for direction, leadership, and organization to provide the tools and tactics to effect change. Clearly this starts with education and knowledge which is being delivered by multiple sources with Infowars leading the charge. New movements such as The Zeitgeist Movement are providing blueprints for what a better future may look like, but no one is saying how we get there.

Our goal is to gather ideas and provide direction to get from point A to point B. This starts with breaking down the criminal institutions that run the planet and enslave humanity. This can only be done through organized peaceful resistance. This means sacrificing some of the comforts they provide for us in order to defeat them. We have to resist purchasing their products and notify them why have stopped supporting them. We must alert elected officials of our awareness and demand clear action to restore liberty. We propose the following outline to start a resistance campaign.

1. Awareness

• Educate yourself and others
• Know the enemy, know the system, and know your rights

2. Preparedness

• Acquire tools for surviving the transition (food, energy, tradable goods, security)
• Acquire tools for resisting (camera, computer, truth documents)

3. Resistance Plan

Establish legal council

• Provide contact information
• Post pending cases with updates

Refuse to support any NWO institutions

• Reduce energy use, buy local food and services, invest in tools and tangible assets

Carry your camera everywhere

• Film ALL misuse of authority and post it all over the Web

Announce your resistance

• o Write to politicians and corporations describing your disapproval
• o Boycott products that are misleading, dangerous, or exploitative

Form your own resistance squads

• Collaborate with local communities to support the resistance
• Form call lists to organize response teams
• Use web-based tools such as Meetup and Facebook

4. Provide Solutions

Propose alternative ideas for operating all facets of society

• Local barter systems to reduce the need for Federal banks and currency
• Local food and energy systems
• Coordinated health services
• Alternative transportation systems
• Policy initiatives that restore liberty

Above all we need a central repository for coordinated action.   We have established a site called RESIST FOR LIBERTY.  We believe that this can serve as a hub for the many fine blogs and sites already available.  Please support us in our endeavor and visit us now.  This is a work in progress; we welcome all ideas for how to make this a professional and focused online community that will engender real world results.

The speed of the awakening has equally matched the speed of wealth consolidation by the global elite. It is more obvious by the day that vital industries such as banking, energy, water, food, medicine, military, and media are now provably controlled by cartels. It is now painfully evident that our government works for these cartels, that our armies provide the muscle for their efforts, and the public provides fuel for their engine.

The system relies on our willing servitude, and we will never defeat them with force (weapons) and anger. We must take a measured approach of removing our willingness to cooperate through peaceful resistance tactics. Now is the time to galvanize our knowledge and frustration to form alliances to defeat the tyranny and transform the world to our agenda.

Much of the Truth Movement has been focused on activism to awaken the general public. Although we have seen a huge awakening, the aware class is still the clear minority, so spreading awareness should always be our primary goal. However, it’s no longer okay for us to simply be against the New World Order without offering a pragmatic plan to defeat them. In addition, we must offer more ideas than just “give me liberty” if we expect to be taken seriously.

The notion that we can defeat the all powerful NWO by ranting and raving with protest signs, or simply preparing for doomsday scenarios is not realistic. Certainly, having a cushion of supplies in the case of true collapse is recommended, and peaceful protests are beneficial, but we must get far more organized in our resistance. Indeed we need to form our very own One World Order — a resistance movement that is unified and provides the tools, tactics, and philosophy to our soldiers.

Admittedly, it is a daunting task, as the criminal machine seems to be an unbeatable Goliath. However, we, the people, have the power of numbers. In fact, it is encouraging that there is a noticeable alliance forming between the far left and the far right with LIBERTY providing the galvanizing truth. We have truth on our side and that is extremely powerful. We should not be afraid to join groups and form movements with the stated goals to reject the NWO agenda in pursuit of a better world.

People in the movement are hungry for direction, leadership, and organization to provide the tools and tactics to effect change. Clearly this starts with education and knowledge which is being delivered by multiple sources with Infowars leading the charge. New movements like The Zeitgeist Movement are providing blueprints for what a better future may look like, but no one is saying how we get there.

Our goal is to gather ideas and provide direction to get from point A to point B. This starts with breaking down the criminal institutions that run the planet and enslave humanity. This can only be done through organized peaceful resistance. This means sacrificing some of the comforts the NWO provides to us. We have to resist purchasing their products, and notify them why have stopped supporting them. We must alert elected officials of our awareness and demand clear action to restore liberty. We propose the following outline to start a lawful rebellion through a resistance campaign.

1. Awareness

• Educate yourself and others

• Know the enemy, know the system, and know your rights

2. Preparedness

• Acquire tools for surviving the transition (food, energy, tradable goods, security)

• Acquire tools for resisting (camera, computer, truth documents)

3. Resistance Plan

Establish legal council

• Provide contact information

• Post pending cases with updates

Refuse to support any NWO institutions

• Reduce energy use, buy local food and services, invest in tools and tangible assets

Carry your camera everywhere

• Film ALL misuse of authority and post it all over the Web

Announce your resistance

• Write to politicians and corporations describing your disapproval

• Boycott products that are misleading, dangerous, or exploitative

Form your own resistance squads

• Collaborate with local communities to support the resistance

• Form call lists to organize response teams

• Use Web-based tools such as Meetup and Facebook

4. Provide Solutions

Propose alternative ideas for operating all facets of society

• Local barter systems to reduce the need for Federal banks and currency

• Local food and energy systems

• Coordinated health services

• Alternative transportation systems

• Policy initiatives that restore liberty

Above all, this is a work in progress; we welcome all ideas for how to make this a professional and focused online community that will result in real world changes. Please Send Us Your Articles and Ideas

Government police can longer get away with hit and runs as this recent Facebook post shows. Having investigators of their own, members of the opposition tracked down this member of the Pasdaran who apparently beat a woman left her in comatose after yesterdays protests.They posted his work and home address on Facebook. Keeping in line with a peaceful civil rights movement, “The aim of recognizing the assailants is not to encourage violence” notes the post. Rather, their goal is to shame and embarrass him.

The enemies of freedom have standard weapons at their disposal that they have used throughout history.  These principally include propaganda, whatever high technology of the time period (including science and medicine), legislative bodies cooperating with their agenda, and enforcers willing to enslave their own people.  Many tyrannies of the past came in full force without much subtlety.  What we see today, however, is a carefully measured, softer approach that is aided by advanced knowledge in social engineering and mass manipulation.  But, lately we are beginning to see the brutal elements being brought to the fore in order to set the stage for a physical crushing of any perceived resistance.  The tactic of physical intimidation works even better in our modern era, as very few people alive in America today have first-hand experience with physical violence, and are not trained for such encounters.  It is obvious that the firepower of The New World Order is impossible to match as they have now employed technological advances to create a stunning array of surveillance equipment and weaponry.  It does not make sense that The Second American Revolution should take place on a traditional battlefield.

The battlefield of today has been correctly labeled by Alex Jones as the “Infowar.”  Knowing that information is knowledge, and knowledge is power, the wielder of the pen over the mightiness of the sword has actually never stood a better chance of resistance to tyranny than we see today.  We the resistance have very powerful tools at our disposal, but we need to employ them in a massive, coordinated effort with a mission to work within the system and clog it with the tools the system itself employs.  Now that people have awakened, and the tyranny is more obvious by the day, now is the time for us to break through our passive natures and become active working to stop this growing oppression.  We have had our diversions for long enough:  we have watched enough soap operas and sitcoms; watched enough sports; read enough books; and have attended enough lectures.  There is no more time for hoping that all of this will just go away.  It will not; it only will intensify as we sit around and watch it happen.  The only people now who can deny what is taking place are the willfully ignorant, or the people that actually enjoy the oppression.  It is harsh to say, but these two groups can no longer be our concern.

Nearly every American has a camera.  The government now has us under constant surveillance by satellite, cameras in nearly all public places, and they even have suggested that cameras should be installed in homes “to protect the children.”  Fine, if we are going to be on camera 24/7, then so should they.  Everyone should be carrying their camera at all times — not to document our neighbors as TV has taught us to do, but to document authority.  When you are in front of a federal building, corporate headquarters, police department, or any place where you are now likely to be confronted by private or public security thugs; get it on camera (or preferably video).  Then, use it as evidence to file a law suit immediately for the violation of your civil rights.  Be sure to know your constitutional rights, quote them on camera, and ask the official why they are violating your rights under the Constitution.

Recently, a series of “checkpoint confrontation” videos have been released, started by Terry Bressi from CheckpointUSA.  Border control checkpoints are in fact constitutional.  The only problem is that most of them are up to 100 miles inland!  They can call this border control, but it is really an illegal checkpoint, Gestapo style, within the U.S. and must be resisted.  In these videos you will see him adopt a tone that is anything but acquiescent.  He knows his rights, states them firmly, refuses to give his name (as protected by the 5th amendment), and continues to ask, “Am I being detained?”  These agents have no authority to detain someone without probable cause.  Driving in your car and stumbling across a random checkpoint is NOT probable cause.  Know your rights, get it on film, and be strong. And do not allow them to enter your vehicle; make them do it forcibly and violate your 4th amendment rights.

I’m suggesting that this type of journalism be termed “resistance journalism.”  Groups like We are Change are engaged in “ambush journalism” which is a nice thorn in the side to the specific targets of this type of disruptive questioning during public appearances, but the group has a name, and their tactics are isolated.  What I’m suggesting, is a loosely organized, grassroots group of people that is essentially “on call” to respond when someone encounters blatant tyranny.  For instance, imagine not one car with a video camera documenting abuse at a checkpoint, but 100 cars arriving at the same time armed with cameras — non-violent and completely legal.  This would clog the system as they are forced to respond with more personnel.  Imagine one hundred pieces of evidence, and 100 simultaneous law suits to follow.  This group, in fact, should have a civil rights attorney on call to respond to any questioning by authorities.  This will be a real show of resistance that will spread as people see real action and courage.  Since the group will have no formal name, it will be difficult for government to infiltrate and disrupt the movement.

The other weapon we have is the computer, or at least the pen.  Instead of screaming at one another, and preaching to the choir, we must be writing letters to all levels of the system telling them not that we are upset, but that we are resisting and will absolutely not cooperate with their illegal legislation.  In the case of products we don’t like, write and tell them you are not buying it, and tell them exactly why.  The new vaccine?  Tell law makers and anyone involved in production and distribution that you will not take that vaccine under ANY circumstances — even if it becomes mandatory.  We have to tell them that none of their contingency plans will work.  Now we have our airports becoming medical facilities — testing for disease, power to quarantine, power to inject people.  Write to your airlines and tell them you are no longer traveling due to these policies.  They don’t often listen to arguments based on morals, ethics, or human rights, but they WILL answer to money.  Hit them where it hurts.  Write to the American government; tell them you are no longer traveling due to their illegal restriction of your rights.  Tell them you are not afraid of terrorists, you are afraid of the loss of freedom and the destruction of the Constitution.  And above all, when they spew their propaganda to your children, like in the recent episode of Sid the Science Kid, tell the show creators and PBS Teachers just how inappropriate it is that vaccines should be portrayed in a good light to children who are not able to separate fact from fiction, or to research the mountain of evidence that shows the dangers of this H1N1 vaccine.  If you don’t care about your own freedom, at least stand up for the freedom of your children and future generations who are going to be forced to live in a world where they are managed like animals.

Now is the time for action.  Our greatest weapon is non-cooperation in all of its forms.  It is time to finally take Nancy Reagan’s recommendation:  JUST SAY NO.

Yesterday we reported that the police tried to illegally ban our mass protest against the new Gugulethu Square Mall. After failing to ban our protest, they shot at us even though we were peaceful and the media saw that we were peaceful. Since then, a few details have emerged:

1. They brought in an entirely new police team on Thursday. From Monday through to Wednesday, Captain Brink and his team from the Gugulethu SAPS was accompanying us and protecting us during our march and peaceful protest against the mall. On Thursday, Captain Brink and his team was removed from working with us. Instead, a police team from Bellville South was brought in. These police officers were aggressive from the very beginning. They refused to talk to us. They refused to work with us. Instead the worked against us.
2. When we left the mall site at that morning after staging our protest, the police followed us. As we were crossing NY1 main road, they ordered us to disperse or they will shoot. Instead, we staged a civil disobediance sit-in on NY1. We sat right down on the road and continued our peaceful protest. Police immediately opened fire on us in full view of other journalists. Many people were shot with rubber bullets including many women and older people.
3. Residents ran for cover. We did not fight. We did not even throw stones in retaliation. But as we ran, police ran after us. They shot us as we hid in neighbour’s houses. When we came out, they shot us again. Dozens were injured. Dozens were arrested. Many had to go to hospital when they were shot in the face, in the neck, and in the back.
4. We also now know that the new group of police officers from Bellville came at the insistence of Mzoli Ngcawuzele and councillor Belinda Landingwe who have close connections with the police and have ordered attacks on our movement in the past.

This story is the truth. The police are lying when they say that we were violent and that there was no one hurt and no one arrested. Anyone who doubts this story can speak to any of the protesters themselves. We will be holding a mass meeting on Thursday at 17h00 and we will make time for the victims to be interviewed at this meeting. Anyone is welcome to contact us to attend.

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The Gugulethu police interrupted a peaceful protest by the Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign this afternoon.  Without warning residents at all, they shot at us with rubber bullets injuring dozens and arresting many others.

The much of the crowd was made up of old women and there were a lot of children also present.  A 17 year old lady was shot in the face by the police and is now seriously injured and at the hospital.

At the moment we are not sure how many people have been shot and arrested.  We do know, however, that today the police attempted to illegally ban the public protest which has been going on since Monday.  From Monday through Wednesday, the police behaved respectuflly and helped escort us when we marched towards the mall.  Today, they would not let us march.  So a delegation of AEC activists went today to the Civic Centre in Cape Town to get a permit but we were prevented by police from entering the Civic Centre.

Why this sudden shift today in the way the police are treating us?

What we do know is that business tycoon Mzoli Ngcawuzele and councillor Belinda Landingwe have deep political connections and close friends within the Gugulethu Police.  They have oppressed our movement in the past and shot at us before.  They have arrested members of our movement and even physically threatened them through the use of local ANC thugs.

We believe that the police banned our march and then attacked us because we to big of a thorn in Mzoli’s side.  We believe that the police attack was orchestrated by Mzoli and Belinda to prevent us from exposing the truth about the corruption and nepotism at the Gugulethu Square Mall.  We believe that the police were ordered to attack us because we refused to work with the ANC’s Gugulethu Development Forum which plays party politics with our lives.

We believe that the attack on our movement corresponds with a dangerous trend in South Africa where the police are being militarised and being given political sanction to attack outspoken critics of the goverment such as the Anti-Eviction Campaign and Abahlali baseMjondolo (see Kennedy Road attacks).

Contacts: Malibongwe at 074 639 9551 and Mncedisi at 078 580 8646

Building on what I posted yesterday, even the criminal Fed is denouncing the criminal credit card issuers. All irony aside, the Bloomberg article below is a great one to have on hand when you call your credit card company and ask them to adjust your rate down to a normal level that can actually enable you to pay off the debt. Now is the time to get aggressive with these people: first be polite and tell them that you would like to get your balance paid off; secondly, tell them that it is simply not possible with the current rate they are offering and that you fear you cannot continue to pay even the minimum payment. If they do not cooperate with reason, or a solid payment plan, then I suggest that you cite this article which refers to them as criminals. Tell them that you have tried to be reasonable and they are not cooperating. You might even suggest that a law suit is coming against their blatant worse-than-loansharking rates. If nothing works:  don’t pay, just walk away.

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — None of the credit cards offered online by the 12 largest U.S. banks would meet requirements of new federal curbs on the industry’s rates and fees, a report from the Pew Charitable Trusts said.

All of the cards surveyed used practices considered “unfair or deceptive” by the Federal Reserve, according to the report released today by the Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization. The study examined almost 400 cards advertised by banks and credit unions and compared terms for cards offered in July 2009 and December 2008.

The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, which takes effect in stages, will require banks to apply payments to higher-rate balances first, limit rate increases and ban practices such as “universal default,” or raising rates based on a missed payment with another lender. Most of those rules are scheduled to begin Feb. 22; others such as limits on gift-card fees are set to start Aug. 22.

“Our research shows the most harmful practices the card act targets remain widespread,” said Nick Bourke, manager of Pew’s Safe Credit Cards Project, which began studying how the industry treats consumers in 2007.

Cardholders haven’t benefited from historically low interest rates, even though the Fed lowered the federal funds rate to near zero to ease lending for banks, the report said. Credit cards became more costly for American families in the first half of 2009, which makes them a potentially dangerous part of most Americans’ financial lives, according to the report.

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Be afraid, be very afraid! We should all be skeptical when the government is selling fear.  Swine flu does not warrant a National Emergency.  Which begs the question why declare it one?  There was surprisingly little coverage of this “Emergency” on the news stations who call a weather balloon “Breaking News”. And there was absolutely NO coverage on what a National Emergency means except for fluff about health professionals being able to move quicker to “help” people.

It always starts as a voluntary measure until authorities make it so painful to resist that all must comply.  And now they have the authorization through the Federal Emergency Management Agency to force action with military use.  It smells like another “mushroom cloud” FEAR moment and the consequences for Americans may be far more dramatic than an unprovoked war for oil.  This is about quarantine power, Martial law power,  travel restrictions, profits for Big Pharma, and the blatant poisoning of you and your children.  This is a false flag event to to implement a “benevolent” war against your liberty to make choices about your own health.  Refuse the vaccination!

The helpless pregnant sheep and young lambs are now following fear orders and flocking to “health” centers to get their multi-dose inoculation.  When the government makes vaccines mandatory, which is all but certain, we will officially be in a fascist country.  Be sure and get your tattoo as well to prove to authorities that you have been protected so you don’t get rounded up in the coming raid.

I opened my mouth and said that I wanted to be a part of fighting racism in America. Soon enough, I was given articles about hate crimes to read.

It was nightmare material. Never-sleep-again material. Prescription for tranquilizers material. Give-up-on-humanity material.

I did not have the stomach to read it cover to cover. There were mug shots of immensely ugly men with pock marks and wall eyes. Those mugs were juxtaposed with the picture of a beautiful little girl. The little girl was dead. The little girl was one of the victims of the hate crimes described in the article.

The men who looked like monsters, were the monsters responsible for such crimes.

But what am I supposed to do with this? If I know that evil exists, what can I do against it? What can I do to stop it? The short answer is, I don’t know.

In the mean time there are jerks in traffic, there are ordinary run-of-the mill pigs with lewd comments. There are the innocuous expressions of hatred and ill will all over.

In short, there is evil all around.

The surrounding question to me is this: When faced with evil, what must one do?

Superhero comics would have us believe that we must vanquish evil. So too would the lore of American culture with its love affair with struggle and combat.

When faced with evidence of unspeakable crimes, it makes me want to do unspeakable things to the criminals. But when defenses escalate, it becomes difficult to trace what is offense and what is defense.

Defense is clearly called for, but at a certain juncture, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

When violence is unpacked and deconstructed, it resides first within and begins from language. The crime of assault includes verbal assault. There is indeed a thin-as-a-smoketrail beginning to violence. And so, every word and every action matters.

When faced with evil, is it better to do as the self-help gurus and new age philosophers would have us do? Should we put on a happy face, focus only on the positive and wish the bad energies away?

I don’t think so.

Pretending something is so doesn’t make it so. It only makes it seem so.

Pretending that hate crimes do not occur does not make them go away.

If I take refuge in the local health food store and spritz myself with lavender and chamomile and think only happy thoughts domestic violence does not cease to exist. Nor does violence against Black people, Hispanics, Arabs, Muslims, Immigrants, Gays or Lesbians.

Spritzing myself with obliviousness doesn’t change reality. The reality is that America is one of the most violent countries on earth. Americans are responsible for the largest number of deaths on earth. No amount of positive thinking will make that untrue.

When and where does it become possible for peace to exist?

Well, there are some measures that include no violent by-products, collateral damage or moral dilemmas. When responding to evil, violence or hatred, you must first speak out. Secondly, you must speak out (even if your voice shakes). Thirdly, you must speak out. And finally, you must speak out again.

Hatred and violence must be opposed in order to be reduced. And so, the conundrum becomes: how do we fight violence without actually fighting?

I would like violence to simply stop. Globally. Is this so much to ask?

I know. You can’t always get what you want.

But in the short time that I have on earth (and any amount of time turns out to always be too short) maybe I can stem the flow of hatred and violence in America a little. I don’t know how. But I will try. I will fail. I will become tired. And then I will try again.

I would rather go to bed knowing that I tried and failed rather than not having tried at all.

What I want to see I will likely not see in my lifetime. But if I can speak out, then I mark for others that I am here. Like this, I signal that others will be heard by me.

Maybe not in my lifetime, but in the future I believe that violence against women and people of color must stop.

Mahatma Gandhi said:

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always.

The Zen Kensho wrote:
When you are tired, rest. When you see a hungry person, give him food. When you see someone sad, you are also sad. Only this. Moment to moment, you must keep your correct situation. All your actions are for other people. Put down I, my, me.

Tomorrow we can go back to fighting evil, one page at a time. I don’t know what it takes. But I think it begins with rest, and water, and food. And then waking up in the morning again and beginning again, however we can, with what we have at hand.

Laura Hartmark is a writer and is glad you took the time to read this blog.

Ayaz Latif Palijo President Awami Threek

Kandhkot: Awami Tahreek (Peoples Movement’s) national Long March started from Kandhkot on 8th October and reached at Karampur. The march is organized against ongoing unemployment, price-hike, terrorism, lawlessness and acute shortage of water in Sindh. Renown intellectual and Awami Tahreek’s chief, 80 year old cardiac patient, Mr. Rasool Bux Palijo, newly elected Central President of the party and Human Rights lawyer Ayaz Latif Palijo, General Secretary Muhammad Khan Bhurgri, Syed Alam Shah and former central president Qadir Ranto are leading the 46 days long protest long march. Thousands of brave women and men passing through the tribal no-go-areas of Kandhkot, Ghouspur and Karampur raised slogans for complete provincial autonomy, major share in NFC an implementation on 1940 resolution and against tribalism, jirga system, lawlessness, KARO KARI, SANG CHATTI, water shortage and discrimination against Sindhis in Karachi. Hundreds of workers of JSQM, Tarqi Pasand PArty, Jamait Islami and PPP Shaheed Bhutto also joined the workers of Awami Tahreek.

Addressing the crowd at Kandhkot Mr Rasool Bux Palijo said that people of Sindh are fighting for their survival. He said this is time to mobilise people for issues like Greater Thal Canal, unemployment, recovery of various taxes and water shortage. He said PPP led government is betraying the cause of Sindh and they will have to face the consequences. He demanded that Sindhis must be ensured their due share of jobs in the provincial and federal governments, semi-government & autonomous agencies including civil, military and foreign services. He criticized the present govt for continuing the ongoing work on Thal Canal and said that the people of Sindh will not accept the construction of greater Thal it was the unanimous opinion of over 45 million people of the province that the canal was an anti-Sindh project and should be shelved without any further delay.

The President of Awami Tahreek Ayaz Latif Palijo condemned the forcible taking over of the coal, oil, lands, islands and fishing areas of Sindh by the Federal and City government. Ayaz said that Awami Tahreek would not only contest the next elections but the leaders would visit various cities and towns of Sindh and inform the landless and jobless people about what’s happening with them and who is responsible for this. He said in past few months several activists of STP, SUP and JSQM have been brutally murdered, SNF chief was arrested and humiliated and JSQM chief was attacked but none of the culprits has been arrested so far, which shows the criminal negligence of the Provincial and federal Govt. He said that Awami Tahreek is not against any groups or nation but it opposes those who perpetuate atrocities on the Sindhis and other working classes of Pakistan. He lashed out at Wapda, IRSA and the establishment for withholding water supply to Sindh and opposed the construction of greater Thal canal.

The protesters will march through various cities and reach at Karachi on March 22 November where they would stage a sit-in in front of the Mazar-e-Quaid and Press Club. Today on Ghospur to Karampur roads thousands of men including hundreds of tribal women of Bijarani, Bhaya, Teghani, Jakhrani, Bapar, Malik, Noonari and Jattoi communities led by their village heads came on roads, welcomed the participants and blocked the main highway. While addressing them Ayaz Latif Palijo said when you soem times ignore the directions of your GOd and sometimes forget about the wishes of your parents then why can’t you disobey the illegal and inhuman commands ofyour sardars. He took oath of thousand of people thet if their Sardar would direct them to attack an innocent man of opponent tribe or to kill a women in the name of honor killing you will refuse to obey such orders.

Some emotional scenes were observed under the scorching sun when hundreds of peasant bagri women appeared from ghospur to join the marchers. The Sindhiani Tahreek activists chanted slogans of Namanzoor Namanzoor Jirga system, Namanzoor, Namanzoor Namanzoor Karo Kari Namanzoor, Band Karyo Band Karyo Dahshatgardi Band Karyo. Darya Khatir Jhero aaa, Panee khatir jhero aaa. The marchers would walk 20 to 28 km daily, and after holding rallies and peaceful sit-ins at Shikarpur, Sukkur, Ranipur, Kandiaro, Noshehro Feroz, Moro, Dolatpur, Qazi Ahmed, Panj Moro, Hala, Bhit Shah, Hyderabad, Tando Mohd Khan, Shah Karim Bulri, Bathoro, Sujawal, Thatto, Gharo, Bhanbhor, Landhi will ultimately reach at Karachi after 46 days and a grand peaceful protest rally will be held in front of Press Club Karachi, Sindh.

For anyone still in denial about who the government is really after, this Department of Homeland Security video lays it out:  everyone.  Good ol’ boy John Elway quarterbacks the video.

Happy Monday possums! It’s especially happy for me given the power is out in my office building which means an unexpected long weekend pour moi. Wha wha.

Before learning of this delicious news, I was making my way to work and noticed four people standing in front of the HMV on Robson holding up cardboard signs. These were regular folk who looked like they should be on their way to work, yet each one of them was holding a cardboard sign with a different message. Messages like ‘I had a warm place to sleep last night’ and ‘I have hope’.

After turning about face and heading back home, I stopped to ask these folks what the fuss was all about. They explained to me that it’s Gratitude Week.

Gratitude Week is a vehicle for ordinary people in Vancouver to make something happen to end homelessness now. It is a way to enable individual citizens to do something tangible in the fight against homelessness. Our Provincial Government and the City are making enormous strides in providing long-term solutions to the problem. A number of non-governmental agencies and charitable organizations are also doing amazing work towards the same goal.  We commend them for their work and support their efforts.

I was so moved by their powerful messages, I decided to go home and blog about it and hopefully pass on this important message to you. Check out their website at www.gratitudeweek.org or follow them on Twitter twitter.com/gratitudeweek for more information on how you can help.

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – J.F. Kennedy

The obvious drawback to building a bomb, is the needing of somewhere (or someone) to test it on — Martin Walkyier, Skyclad, from the song Bombjour!

The science and technology of The New World Order has always been an integral component for the overall control system; if hearts and minds cannot be won, then hearts and minds just have to be eliminated all together.  What has been labeled The Military-Industrial Complex is often referred to as a money-making partnership.  But the story goes much deeper than that.  This marriage has borne a wicked and illegitimate offspring that sees humanity not as worthy of protection, but rather as an obstacle to be overcome.  This offspring, which I would call (no matter where one lives) The Police State, is a global force with complete disregard for civil rights, individuality, free expression of ideas, or cultural identity.

The Police State has always been around:  The Praetorian Guard used by Roman emperors, and Hitler’s Gestapo, are history’s most notorious examples.  It is important to note that every secretive group has had its enforcers (i.e. The Ninja, Mafia hitmen, and private military contractors), but when power becomes powerful enough, they unleash their enforcers into the open to become the examples that direct the future of nations and the world.  It is a very bad sign when the attack dog representatives of elite power can actually be seen; it is a clear indication that those in control no longer see a reason to keep their plans for domination and control hidden.  In fact, the fear factor serves to discourage future peaceful resistance.

The sick display at the G20 in Pittsburgh, USA, was an announcement to the American people that the enforcers of totalitarianism are now on American soil — and they are armed to the teeth.   This group of protesters was overwhelmingly peaceful, as many on-the-ground accounts document.  In America, free speech is a first amendment right that has continually been eroded by degrees through legislation, but this was the first instance of physical, flat-out assault from a well-armed, high-tech, military machine that was designed for Middle East-style unrest.  We can never discount the atrocities committed in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, but those countries do not have a history of constitutional democracy.  The treatment of American protesters exercising their Constitutional rights by a military force is a harbinger of things to come, and cannot be overstated in its barbarity.  The reports of tear gassing, high-tech LRAD weapons, arrests without charge (yet digitally fingerprinted nonetheless), intimidation, torture, sexual harassment, and abuse of every stripe is too voluminous to discount as conspiracy theory, or attention seeking.  This is treason by the perpetrators, and the mainstream media completely ignored it, of course, which will be the subject of our next article.  We all should be reminded from time to time that the first amendment reads as follows:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Private and international security forces don’t seem concerned with this “quaint” concept:  they are not answerable to the laws of the land where they commit their openly criminal activities, nor are they obligated to national loyalty; they are corporations with deep pockets, a stable of lawyers, and hired guns with a bulls-eye stamped on anyone who can add to their bottom line.  These private security forces want to use the tools of their trade, and their handlers are like pimps of violence seeking a money source.  These forces prey upon unrest; they do nothing to help solve the reasons for it.  Americans had better realize that all of the high-tech equipment that seemed cool to use in far-off lands — and to view on their plasmas TV’s — has finally blown back to America.

We believe that The G20 display was a testing ground to see what Americans, and the American system, is willing to accept.  This event has ultimately resulted in legal action taken by the State against people like Luke Rudkowski from We are Change.  The outcome of this legal action could very well solidify what is deemed acceptable or unacceptable on American soil.  Now is the time to redouble our efforts and insist upon freedom, not ask for it.

..or the difference between British and American protests.