Just how many innocents have to be murdered before you consider it a crime Drewski?
Here's what the President of the United Nations has to say about the situation.
UN President calls for sanctions against Israel Thursday November 27, 2008
The President of the United Nations General Assembly today called for international sanctions to be imposed on the state of Israel.
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann said that the international community should engage in a "boycott, divestment and sanctions" campaign against Israel, similar to those enacted against South Africa two decades ago.
"Israel has engaged in a military occupation of the Palestinian territories since 1967, with an increase in military presence since the year 2000. The people of Palestine continue to live under martial law, with no control of their land, sea or water."
Escoto said that Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are "similar to the apartheid of an earlier era, a continent away."
He said that the United Nations "should not be afraid to use the term apartheid to describe what is happening in occupied Palestine." And Brockman's speach was before the recent massacre if 1500 Palestinian civilians.
I think that the general assembly would send troops to occupy Israel today were it not for the US veto in the security council.
That reminds me of an old song by the Geezinslaw brothers
I was going down the mountain doin' 90 miles an hour when the chain on my bicycle broke I was lyin' in the grass with a sprocket up my elbow and my feet tangled up in the spokes
I had a kidney stone about the size of a lentil when I was 27. I was asleep when it broke free from the kidney and entered the ureter, I woke up thinking someone had stabbed me. The pain was so intense that I immediately threw up everything in my digestive system, right down to the bile.
My wife called nearby relatives and they took me to the hospital. At first they were afraid it might be appendicitis so they couldn't give me anything for the pain for about an hour while they did some tests.
Then they gave me something but it didn't even phase the pain. Finally they gave me intravenous demerol, and suddenly everything was just fine. I was hospitalized for 4 days, continulally on strong pain medecine. It took nearly a week to pass the stone.
A nurse at the hospital who had had one herself said she would rather have a dozen babies than to ever have another kidney stone.
Children up to the age of about 10 learn languages much easier than adults. And they can learn a second language with no accent.
So there is definitely a sort of barrier at that age.
But beyond that, for adults, there doesn't seem to be a generalized barrier for everyone. But some people have a lot more difficulty learning than others.
I taught english in 4 different Asian countries and here in France. Altogether I taught for 16 years. Most of my students were adult professionals.
The biggest handicap I found for adults is the "Cartesian" personality (named after DesCartes). DesCartes taught that one must never accept what one doesn't understand.
That may be a good philosophy for some things but it really interferes with learning a language.
Also, as we get older, (50 and up) our short term memory can start to go. (mine for example). That interferes with learning.
There is also the question of motivation. With age we tend to have less patience for things like language learning.
The best method for learning a language as an adult is to (as they say in Asia) "go to bed with the book". In other words, find a girlfriend who only speaks the target language, and spend a lot of time with her in all sorts of situations.
Memorizing songs in the target language is a real good trick as well. I used to teach some classes using only music. It was fun and the music actually serves as a retrieval cue to help jog the memory for the words.
I can still sing songs I learned in Japanese 25 years ago. Even though my spoken Japanese is really rusty now. The songs are still perfect. That's the magic of music.
A demonstration in support of the Idea of the State Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates was organised by the movement “Bead Artzein” (“For the Homeland”), headed by rabbi and historian Avrom Shmulevic from Hebron.
So for those who claim that Israel does not have expansionist plans, here's proof that, among the rightwing religious extremists who actually control Israel politically, the concept of "Eretz Israel" (the land of Israel) extends from the Nile to the Euphrates.
This claim is not based on historical ownership. Jews never really controlled anything beyond the province of Judea. They didn't even control the west bank, (Galilee, and Samaria,) or Gaza. But on the basis of one verse (of unknown origin at that) Jewish zealots claim to have the right to seize by force all land between the Euphrates and the Nile and to expel (or worse) the inhabitants. Essentially they claim the entire "fertile crescent".
Certainly Gaza is a smokescreen as you say. All regional conflicts are smokescreens nowadays. The only real issue is the rising globalist order.
But I don't think the US is about to withdraw from Iraq just yet.
The globalists spent trillions and trashed the US economy in order to secure control of mideast and Caspian Sea oil.
They're not going to ever turn those oilfields back over to the locals.
The US won't leave until a globalist military presence is in place to control the oil once and for all.
And "bringing peace to Palestine" would be a more attractive and acceptable way of introducing the new global military force, rather than "controlling the world's resources".
An old song sung by many artists I know it from Asleep At the Wheel
Lucky Old Sun
Up in the mornin' Out on the job Work like the devil for my pay But that lucky old sun ain't got nothin' to do But roll around heaven all day.
Fuss with my woman, toil for my kids Sweat till I'm wrinkled and gray While that lucky old sun ain't got nothin' to do But roll around heaven all day
Dear Lord above, can't you see that I'm pining, cause I got tears and they're falling from my eyes Why don't you send down that cloud with a silver lining, and take me to Paradise
Show me that river, lead me across Wash all my troubles away Like that lucky old sun, I won't have nothing to do But roll around heaven all day
No, America doesn't really vote anymore. People push buttons and a machine says thank you for voting.
The outcome was decided in advance and programmed into the Diebold machines.
It's no more valid than voting in the polls at CS. Less in fact, because the poll authors don't have any way of cheating at CS and we can't say the same for those running the elections in the US.
Socialism is just as totalitarian as rightwing dictatorship. Only because its ideologically based instead of being based on the personality of its leader, it's more subtle, tenacious and dangerous.
Masquerading as a movement "of the people" it sets up a strong totalitarian central government and then uses it to systematically destroy all opposition and close off every avenue of economic, political, and intellectual independence.
All activity, and all thought is chained to the state.
Here in France I used to lead a Western-Swing music group that also played a good deal of Cajun-esque music: - Diggy Liggy Lo - Cajun Moon - La Porte d'en Arrière - Bayou Jubilee - Lousiana Man - Down at the Twist & Shout - Lousiana Saturday Night - Jolie Blonde etc.
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RE: WHO IS OPPOSING PEACE IN GAZA ??
Yep, that's the sad truth.And it's nearly always the US that casts that veto whenever Israel is involved.
But keep watching, Obama has appointed a new UN representative.
Things are going to have to change sooner or later.
A revamping of the UN charter to render it less subject to vetos may be coming up soon. Part of the globalist takeover of authority.