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Comment Re:Calling Obama a Socialist (Score 1) 21

It was not that for Eugene Debs or Kurt Vonnegut.

I agree that it has been used as such. Just like Christianity and Buddhism and "Human Rights Advocacy", the Declaration of Independence and the alleged "war on Christmas". "Western Civilization" and "Holiness of the Sacrament"... "A world free from War".... Make a fucking list!

Socialism has no special or uniquely insidious distinction in that department.

Comment HIS NAME IS "GEER" NOT "GREER" (Score 2) 118

He's wicked smart, and has blind spots the size of a subcontinent.

One of which is this: He works for the Gestapo, and thinks they're the "good guys". Reminder to smart guys from the best Universities: The Secret Police are the problem, not a solution. If you want examples of where the CIA bought up all the issues and made them "assets" look at the Afghan Mujaheddin. The CIA equiped them with organizational database technology that quickly produced an "Al Qaeda" as one of its effects.

Bruce Schneier could hand Geer his lunch on the sociological, political and life-quality implications of the proposal. Bruce also has +5 charisma, while Dan is lucky to register +1.

Comment Re:IDF Uses Palestinians as Human Shields (Score 1) 868

I would not accept Israeli Propaganda, distributed by Zionist organs like Wiesenthal. They have consistently conflated opposition to Zionist "slaughter and settle" policy with "antisemitism". They are an actor in the play - and received this "material" from the IDF itself. What is the budget and resource of the IDF for "cointelpro" style productions, vs. that of Hamas?

Thought so.

Donatella Rovera is a disinformation source, and well-known war propagandist, using the language and guise of Human Rights to justify military campaigns that target civilians and "regime change" as well as other International war crimes.

Several AI chapters connected with universities in the U.S. have been taken over by groups with their own agenda. Their interest is to block criticism of certain countries, and to create a false impression that AI favors their position. There have been instances where manipulators sent "news releases" using AI letterhead (of the local group) to push their agenda. On Oct. 2002, AI-London stated that it is not their business to censor these groups (statement by Donatella Rovera when she was asked about this).

In July 2, 2004, AI called for the suspension of weapons sales to
Sudan. On February 16, 2005 it called for a suspension of weapons
sales to Nepal. However, although AI has shown that while it is
willing to issue such calls regarding several countries, it is not
willing to request an embargo of weapons sales to Israel. Donatella
Rovera, the chief researcher on Israel-Palestine offered the following
explanation:

“The situations in Sudan and in Israel-Occupied Territories are
quite different and different norms of international law apply, which
do not make it possible to call for an arms embargos on either the
Israeli or the Palestinian side. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are
under Israeli military occupation (not the case for the Darfour region
in Sudan). Hence, certain provisions of international humanitarian
law, known as the laws of war (notably the 1907 Hague Convention and
the Fourth Geneva Convention) apply in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories (and not in the Darfour region).” (email
communication July 5, 2004).

AI is couching its double standards in dubious legalese, but consider
what Prof. Francis Boyle (Professor of International Law at Univ. of
Illinois Champaign) has to say about Rovera's statement:

This is total gibberish. When I was on the Board of Directors of
Amnesty International USA near the end of my second term in 1990-92,
we received the authority to call for an arms embargo against major
human rights violators, which Israel clearly qualified for at the time
and still does—even under United States domestic law. Of course
no one at AI was going to do so because pro-Israel supporters were
major funders of Amnesty International USA, which in turn was a major
funder of Amnesty International in London. He who pays the piper calls
the tune—especially at AIUSA Headquarters in New York and at AI
Headquarters in London.[4]
(http://www.counterpunch.org/rooij10132004.html)

Amnesty was hijacked by interests of the US Dept of State, and NATO governance, using grassroots efforts of its original vision to pervert the intention behind the organization's original foundation:

UNAC urges antiwar and community activists across the U.S. to condemn a sharp change in the direction and character of the campaigns of Amnesty International USA, especially since the hiring in January, 2012 of Suzanne Nossel as Executive Director. Nossel is a former State Department official and aide to former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrook. She coined the term “Smart Power,” which embraces the United States ’ use of military power as well as other forms of “soft power,” an approach which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced at her confirmation as the new basis of State Department policy.

Amnesty International has been well-known for its and its support for human rights and its campaigns to free political prisoners around the world. However, Amnesty International USA’s top two campaigns at the moment openly support U.S. foreign policy and U.S. military propaganda.

http://nepajac.org/amnesty.htm

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