Joerie, joerie, botter en brood,
as ek jou kry, slaat ek jou dood
Friday, November 30, 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
NOG SO 'N KOMMENTAAR WAT SKRIK VIR NIKS
I think people are being a little
harsh with Mark Regev. He’s the leading stand up comedian for Israel, totally
straight faced, delivers a hilarious performance. You just have to appreciate
his nuanced style and ability to slip sarcasm and satire in right under the
radar. Humour drier than a dead dingo’s donger. I’ve seen him at the Melbourne
comedy festival – great show.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
ONS KOM ÁL NADER...
November 21, 2012
Nobel Prize winning physicists have proven beyond doubt that the physical world is one large
sea of energy that flashes into and out of being in milliseconds, over and over
again.
They have proven that thoughts are what put together and hold together
this ever-changing energy field into the ‘objects’ that we see.
So why do we
see a person instead of a flashing cluster of energy?
Think of a
movie reel.
A movie is a
collection of about 24 frames a second. Each frame is separated by a gap.
However, because of the speed at which one frame replaces another, our eyes get
cheated into thinking that we see a continuous and moving picture.
A TV tube is
simply a tube with heaps of electrons hitting the screen in a certain way,
creating the illusion of form and motion.
Think of television.
This is what all objects are anyway. You have 5 physical senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste).
Each of these senses has a specific spectrum (for example, a dog hears a different range of sound than you do; a
snake sees a different spectrum of light than you do; and so on).
In other words, your set of senses perceives the sea of energy from a
certain limited standpoint and makes up an image from that.
It is not complete, nor is it accurate. It is just an interpretation.
It is not complete, nor is it accurate. It is just an interpretation.
All of our interpretations are solely based on the ‘internal map’ of
reality that we have, and not the real truth. Our ‘map’ is a result of our
personal life’s collective experiences.
Our thoughts are linked to this invisible energy and they determine what
the energy forms. Your thoughts literally shift the universe on a
particle-by-particle basis to create your physical life.
Look around
you.
Everything you see in our physical world started as an idea, an idea
that grew as it was shared and expressed, until it grew enough into a physical
object through a number of steps.
You literally become what you think about most.
Your life becomes what you have imagined and believed in most.
The world is literally your mirror, enabling you to experience in the
physical plane what you hold as your truth … until you change it.
Quantum physics shows us that the world is not the hard and unchangeable
thing it may appear to be. Instead, it is a very fluid place continuously built
up using our individual and collective thoughts.
What we think
is true is really an illusion, almost like a magic trick.
Fortunately
we have begun to uncover the illusion and most importantly, how to change it.
What is your
body made of?
Nine systems
comprise the human body including Circulatory, Digestive, Endocrine, Muscular,
Nervous, Reproductive, Respiratory, Skeletal, and Urinary.
What are
those made up of?
Tissues and
organs.
What are
tissues and organs made of?
Cells.
What are
cells made of?
Molecules.
What are
molecules made of?
Atoms.
What are
atoms made of?
Sub-atomic
particles.
What are subatomic particles made of?
Energy!
You and I are pure energy-light in its most beautiful and intelligent
configuration. Energy that is constantly changing beneath the surface and you
control it all with your powerful mind.
You are one
big stellar and powerful Human Being.
If you could see yourself under a powerful electron microscope and
conduct other experiments on yourself, you would see that you are made up of a
cluster of ever-changing energy in the form of electrons, neutrons, photons and
so on.
So is everything else around you. Quantum physics tells us that it is
the act of observing an object that causes it to be there where and how we
observe it.
An object
does not exist independently of its observer! So, as you can see, your
observation, your attention to something, and your intention, literally creates
that thing.
This is
scientific and proven.
Your world is
made of spirit, mind and body.
Each of those
three, spirit, mind and body, has a function that is unique to it and not
shared with the other. What you see with your eyes and experience with your
body is the physical world, which we shall call Body. Body is an effect,
created by a cause.
This cause is
Thought.
Body cannot
create. It can only experience and be experienced … that is its unique
function.
Thought
cannot experience … it can only make up, create and interpret. It needs a world
of relativity (the physical world, Body) to experience itself.
Spirit is All
That Is, that which gives Life to Thought and Body.
Body has no
power to create, although it gives the illusion of power to do so. This
illusion is the cause of much frustration. Body is purely an effect and has no
power to cause or create.
The key with
all of this information is how do you learn to see the universe differently
than you do now so that you can manifest everything you truly desire.
...EN LÉÉS OOK DIE KOMMENTAAR!
by craig on November 21, 2012 in Uncategorized
I was trying to come up with a witty and apposite
acronym for BBC to describe what I have just seen on TV, but all I could manage
was Beyond Belief Cunts.
Watching BBC World News here in Accra, I have just seen forty minutes of
intense and non-stop Israeli propaganda. A live press conference by Netanyahu
and Ehud Barak followed by a long, long interview with Mark Regev in which the
most searching BBC question could fairly be paraphrased as “How can you be
certain that those dastardly Palestinians will not break the ceasefire and
start firing rockets again?”
No attempt whatsoever to give a Palestinian a chance to put over their
viewpoint. Now fifty minutes of solid coverage around the ceasefire without a
single Palestinian view or pro-Palestinian or pro-peace view. And in that
entire fifty minutes not one mention of Palestinian dead.
Beyond Belief Cunts. Actually, it’s not a bad effort.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
UITSTEKENDE KOMMENTAAR
R4 > Witafrikanerboerseun • 4 days ago −
My suster het in die VSA geswot. Sy wou geklassifiseer word as n African American aangesien so n persoon dan finansiele voordele kry(affirmative action daar). daar was toe n hewige debat in die klas en sy het aangehou argumenteer dat sy in Afrika gebore is(elfde generasie), haar taal is "African" en kom net in Afrika voor teenoor die swartes daar in haar klas wat net Engels praat(net-net) en nog nooit in Afrika was nie. Nodeloos om te se, sy kon nie regkom nie. Maar nou ja ons het nie spesiale reels nodig nie, ons kan op ons eie voete staan!!!!
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
HELAAS
I apologize for what you’re about to read
November 6, 2012,
Dallas, Texas.
Dallas, Texas.
It’s really hard to ignore what’s happening today; the election phenomenon is global.
Over the last several weeks, I’ve traveled to so many countries, and EVERYWHERE it seems, the US presidential election is big news. Even when I was in Myanmar ten days ago, local pundits were engaged in the Obamney debate. Chile. Spain. Germany. Finland. Hong Kong. Thailand. Singapore. It was inescapable.
The entire world seems fixated on this belief that it actually matters who becomes the President of the United States anymore… or that one of these two guys is going to ‘fix’ things.
Fact is, it doesn’t matter. Not one bit. And I’ll show you mathematically:
1) When the US federal government spends money, expenses are officially categorized in three different ways.
Discretionary spending includes nearly everything we think of related to government– the US military, Air Force One, the Department of Homeland Security, TSA agents who sexually assault passengers, etc.
Mandatory spending includes entitlements like Medicare, Social Security, VA benefits, etc. which are REQUIRED by law to be paid.
The final category is interest on the debt. It is non-negotiable.
Mandatory spending and debt interest go out the door automatically. It’s like having your mortgage payment autodrafted from your bank account– Congress doesn’t even see the money, it’s automatically deducted.
2) With the rise of baby boomer entitlements and steady increase in overall debt levels, mandatory spending and interest payments have exploded in recent years. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office predicted in 2010 that the US government’s TOTAL revenue would be exceeded by mandatory spending and interest expense within 15-years.
That’s a scary thought. Except it happened the very next year.
3) In Fiscal Year 2011, the federal government collected $2.303 trillion in tax revenue. Interest on the debt that year totaled $454.4 billion, and mandatory spending totaled $2,025 billion. In sum, mandatory spending plus debt interest totaled $2.479 trillion… exceeding total revenue by $176.4 billion.
For Fiscal Year 2012 which just ended 37 days ago, that shortfall increased 43% to $251.8 billion.
In other words, they could cut the entirety of the Federal Government’s discretionary budget– no more military, SEC, FBI, EPA, TSA, DHS, IRS, etc.–and they would still be in the hole by a quarter of a trillion dollars.
4) Raising taxes won’t help. Since the end of World War II, tax receipts in the US have averaged 17.7% of GDP in a very tight range. The low has been 14.4% of GDP, and the high has been 20.6% of GDP.
During that period, however, tax rates have been all over the board. Individual rates have ranged from 10% to 91%. Corporate rates from 15% to 53%. Gift taxes, estate taxes, etc. have all varied. And yet, total tax revenue has stayed nearly constant at 17.7% of GDP.
It doesn’t matter how much they increase tax rates– they won’t collect any more money.
5) GDP growth prospects are tepid at best. Facing so many headwinds like quickening inflation, an enormous debt load, and debilitating regulatory burdens, the US economy is barely keeping pace with population growth.
6) The only thing registering any meaningful growth in the US is the national debt. It took over 200 years for the US government to accumulate its first trillion dollars in debt. It took just 286 days to accumulate the most recent trillion (from $15 trillion to $16 trillion).
Last month alone, the first full month of Fiscal Year 2013, the US government accumulated nearly $200 billion in new debt– 20% of the way to a fresh trillion in just 31 days.
7) Not to mention, the numbers will only continue to get worse. 10,000 people each day begin receiving mandatory entitlements. Fewer people remain behind to pay into the system. The debt keeps rising, and interest payments will continue rising.
8) Curiously, a series of polls taken by ABC News/Washington Post and NBC News/Wall Street Journal show that while 80% of Americans are concerned about the debt, roughly the same amount (78%) oppose cutbacks to mandatory entitlements like Medicare.
9) Bottom line, the US government is legally bound to spend more money on mandatory entitlements and interest than it can raise in tax revenue. It won’t make a difference how high they raise taxes, or even if they cut everything else that remains in government as we know it.
This is not a political problem, it’s a mathematical one. Facts are facts, no matter how uncomfortable they may be. Today’s election is merely a choice of who is going to captain the sinking Titanic.
Monday, November 5, 2012
DIE EINDE VAN "VERTEENWOORDIGENDE DEMOKRASIE"/THE END OF "REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY"
Anger boils over at lack of US storm relief
Global Research, November 04, 2012
By Fred Mazelis
With the death toll from Hurricane Sandy climbing towards 100, and several million people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut facing a fifth day without electricity, heat and, in many cases, food and water, anger and frustration has boiled over at the failure of the federal, state and local governments to provide adequate relief.
The storm, like Hurricane Katrina seven years ago, has laid bare the immense social inequalities that saturate every facet of American society, nowhere more starkly than in New York City, among the hardest hit areas on the US Eastern Seaboard.
Discontent among residents of the city’s predominantly working class outer boroughs as well as of those in public housing developments in lower Manhattan has grown daily, with many charging that those who run the city were concerned only with the needs of Manhattan’s stock brokers and multi-millionaires and had no problem seeing working class and poor people living in hunger, cold and darkness for days on end.
These popular sentiments—and the concerns that they had provoked within ruling circles—broke to the surface of political events Friday night with the sudden announcement by the office of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg that the city’s annual New York City Marathon scheduled for Sunday, November 4 had been cancelled for the first time in 40 years.
A statement issued jointly by City Hall and the New York Road Runners club stated: “The marathon has always brought our city together and inspired us with stories of courage and determination. We would not want a cloud to hang over the race or its participants, and so we have decided to cancel it.”
The announcement came just hours after Bloomberg had held a press conference at City Hall insisting that the marathon would go on and would not divert any resources from providing relief to the victims of the storm. While discussing how restaurants that he frequents were just as full as ever and selling even more wine, he insisted that the race would “give people something to cheer about.” He invoked as a precedent the decision of his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani, to hold the marathon in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Outrage had quickly built amid news reports that generators were being set up in Central Park to power media tents and other amenities for the runners, while food and water was being trucked in for them as well. Meanwhile, in the city’s public housing, residents were forced to fill jugs and buckets from fire hydrants and lug them up as many as 17 floors.
No such resources as those made available for the Marathon were provided to city hospitals forced to shut down and evacuate their patients under dangerous conditions for lack of generators, or to the many thousands of residents of devastated neighborhoods in Staten Island, the Rockaway section of Queens, Coney Island in Brooklyn and elsewhere. In these areas, people have been left stranded amid devastation, without means of transportation or communication.
Residents in Staten Island, the borough where the New York Marathon was set to start and where the majority of the city’s over 41 storm fatalities have taken place, put up a hand-lettered sign reading “F.U. Mayor and your Marathon.” People standing on long lines waiting for food and water from FEMA erupted in anger against Bloomberg and the subordination of the relief efforts to the interests of the most privileged layers of society.
While some 40,000 people had reportedly already come to the city to participate in Sunday’s marathon, approximately a third of them from other countries, opposition to holding the race surfaced among the runners themselves.
Penny Krakoff, a social worker from Crown Heights, Brooklyn who was set to participate in the marathon, wrote, “I cannot start a 26.2 mile run in Staten Island—people are missing, stranded, in need of resources. Brooklyn and Queens have equal devastation. Parts of Manhattan are without electricity, water, major hospitals are closed.”
She said she would catch the marathon bus to the starting point at the Staten Island end of the Verrazano Bridge on Sunday, where she would turn in her official bib and instead volunteer and gather resources to help the people suffering in that borough, the hardest hit by the storm. Other runners promised to break off from the race at different parts of the city to deliver supplies to areas without power.
City sanitation workers, who have been putting in shifts of 12 hours and more, also protested at being assigned to clean up after the marathon rather than participating in the recovery work in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens, where many of them live.
A Staten Island hotel manager announced that he would not honor 160 advance reservations from marathon runners, as rooms were already occupied by some 700 people made homeless by the storm.
Meanwhile, a number of city Democratic politicians, some of them seeking to run to succeed Bloomberg as mayor, voiced opposition to the decision to go ahead with the race and there were suggestions within the financial press that ING, the Dutch-based investment bank that sponsors the marathon, was beginning to see the bitter denunciations of the marathon as a “branding disaster.”
Underlying these concerns are real fears within ruling circles that the deprivation caused by Hurricane Sandy and its illumination of the stark divide between New York’s financial aristocracy and the city’s working class majority could lead to social upheavals.
Anger has also erupted in other areas of the East Coast. In Bridgeport, Connecticut’s largest and one of its poorest cities, United Illuminating crews were pelted with eggs by residents amid charges that the electrical utility had concentrated its efforts on restoring electricity to Connecticut’s wealthy suburban communities at Bridgeport’s expense. The electrical firm pulled its crews out of the city, demanding greater police protection. South-Africa revisited.
The feeling of millions that they have been abandoned in the face of the disaster is well-founded. After barely two days of Obama making ritualistic speeches about “neighbors helping neighbors” and Romney staging phony food drives, the campaigns returned to their normal lies as both big business parties prepare for far deeper attacks on the working class after the election is over. Bloomberg took time out to endorse Obama, whom he sees as a faithful defender of his and his fellow billionaires’ interests.
The class divide in New York found glaring expression in the ability of the New York Stock Exchange to open for business on Wednesday morning, just hours after Bellevue Hospital, also in the area that had suffered the loss of electricity, was forced to evacuate more than 700 patients under dangerous conditions because of a lack of power. One doctor told the New York Times that water could be heard pouring through the elevators “like Niagara running through the hospital. The phones didn’t work. We lost all communications between floors. We were in the dark all night. No water to wash hands—I mean, we’re doctors!”
Mass transit and electricity has returned only slowly to the New York-New Jersey area four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall. Most of Lower Manhattan had power restored by late Friday, but many thousands of families in the outer boroughs and in other areas of New York and New Jersey will have to wait at least another week, if not until the end of November, to have their electricity back. Temperatures are dipping down into the 30s, with a real threat that the death toll from the storm will be augmented by more deaths caused by government and corporate negligence and criminality.
The latest estimates of economic damages from the storm were some $50 billion, double what had been estimated a few days earlier. It is believed that only about one-third of losses will be covered by insurance. The estimate places Hurricane Sandy among the most destructive storms in US history, and significant additional losses would bring it close to the devastation of Katrina, which caused $157 billion in damages.
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Portraying an army boot resting on the Palestinian flag, with FoI Hague depicted as a two-dimensional cutout in a blue (like some of the Israeli flag) suit, is blatantly antisemitic: Israel has a perfect right to defend itself by bombing civilian areas and shooting children, if no-one else does (and they don’t). Many of us remember the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto, and enjoy emulating them on someone else. And don’t forget the Holocaust.
Vivian Wineman – President, Board of Deputies of British Jews & Chairman, JLC
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks – Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner – Movement Rabbi, Movement for Reform Judaism
Rabbi Danny Rich – CEO, Liberal Judaism also on behalf of Liberal Judaism Rabbinic Conference
Jon Benjamin – CEO, The Board of Deputies of British Jews
Jeremy Newmark – Chief Executive, The Jewish Leadership Council
Frank Baigel – President of Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester & Region
Kate Bearman – JLC Political Oversight Group & Former Director of Labour Friends of Israel
Bill Benjamin – Member, JLC
Linda Boxer – Chief Executive, WIZO UK
Alex Brummer – Vice-President of Board of Deputies (Chair International Division)
Paul Charney – Chair, Zionist Federation
David Chinn – Member, JLC Political Oversight Group
Sir Trevor Chinn CVO – Vice President, JLC & Chair of JLC Political Oversight Group
Adrian Cohen – Chair, London Jewish Forum & Member of JLC
David Cohen – Vice President, JLC
David Dangoor – President, Board of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews’ Congregation
Alan Finley – President, Federation of Synagogues
Lord Stanley Fink – Vice-President, JLC
Judith Flacks – Campaigns Director, UJS
Nick Gendler – Co-chair, Masorti Judaism
Jonathan Goldstein – Chair, PaJeS
Lord Young of Graffam – Chairman, Jewish Museum & Member, JLC
Alex Green – Chair, Union of Jewish Students and Member, JLC
Henry Grunwald OBE QC – Vice President, JLC & Past President, Board of Deputies
Robert Halfon MP
Andrew Heller – Chairman, Executive Board of Conservative Friends of Israel
Lucian J Hudson – Chairman, Liberal Judaism
Jeremy Jacobs – CEO, United Synagogue
Lord Janner of Braunstone – Vice-President, JLC
Isaac Kaye – BICOM & JLC Political Oversight Group
Dermot Kehoe – CEO, BICOM
Brian Kerner – Co-chair, Fair Play Campaign Group & Member of JLC
Dr Eli Kienwald – CEO, Federation of Synagogues
Debbie Klein – Chairman, JCC for London
Douglas Krikler – Political Oversight Group, JLC
Nigel Layton – Chairman, LEAD
Howard Leigh – Vice President, JLC
James Libson – Trustee, JLC
Howard Miller – CEO, Spanish & Portuguese Jews’ Congregation
Edward Misrahi – Vice Chair, BICOM & Chairman, ‘We Believe in Israel’
Leo Noé – Vice President, JLC
Stephen Pack – President, United Synagogue
Jenny Pizer – Chair, Movement for Reform Judaism
Stuart Polak – Director, Conservative Friends of Israel
Ben Rich – CEO, Movement for Reform Judaism
Jo Rosenfelder – Board Member & Trustee, Tzedek & Member of JLC Political Oversight Group
Jill Shaw – Chair, WIZO UK
Clive Sheldon – Co-chair, Masorti Judaism
Rebecca Simon – Board Member, Labour Friends of Israel
Gavin Stollar – Chairman, Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel
Nick Viner – CEO, JCC for London
Michael Weiger – Chief Executive, UJIA
Joy Wolfe MBE – Chairman, StandWithUs UK & President, Manchester Zionist Central Council
Poju Zabludowicz – Chairman, BICOM