I do what I want - You do what you're told

I’M LEAVING

I’ve had to much of all this life, of all this town, of all this people. So I finally took my decision. I’m leaving and probably I will never be back again!

So….Good Bye!!

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Ok….Now that I’ve scared the shit out of you….

I’m going to Valencia, I’m leaving tomorrow. We’ll leave in 17, so…I don’t think if it will be fair or not….just, kinda weird! And we all got the same t-shirt and the same straw hat so….wow…we will look as a group escaped from an asylum!!

We still don’t know if the fly company really exist and if they finished to built our house…so thing are all pretty scaring…..

I’ll miss you soooo much!! I mean: Valencia is absolutely not the place for me, there’s sun, there’s hot, there are discos, beaches and odd preppy people all around!! SOB

I’ll miss:

1.       My Lilla Lisetta and out conversations about stalking guys and her finnish bodyguard

2.    My mystical conversations about God, baseball bats, knives and creepy puppies with Sexypad!

3.     Brandnewhope and her frolics!!

4.    Someonewholovesfob's fabulous fan fic!

5.    Tessy & Benbell’s funny and awesome pics

6.     Agez7 and the HOT HOTTIE Tim Armstrong

7.    Everyone else, just because you fuckin’ rock!!

So…I’ll be back in a week with tons and tons of new pics so….go and get some training for comments and buzzer on all them!!!!

(Lisettaaa…I’ll take some extra pics of Giancarlo all for you!!)

IRAQ. SAHAR AL-HAIDERI: SLAVES

[ From the site of "Peacereporter" (www.peacereporter.net) we resume the following article, published with the title "No respect. The sexual slaves in Iraq tell their suffering ".

Sahar al-Haideri was a journalist who worked for "Institute for the War and Peace Reporting" to Mosul; has been assassinated in the june 2007]

The family of Asthma was crossing serious financial problems when a man on 60 years old proposed to the father a chance that he could not refuse: he said that he wanted to assume Asthma for 200 US dollars to the month to attend to his handicapped wife. * Painful history the mother of Asthma is blind and the father is invalid, always in fight in order to disembark the salar. The man assured to the brace that Asthma could go to find them and that he would have grown it with to its daughters. The indigent family do accept the offer but Asthma, 17 years, did not have idea of what the same ones waiting for. "my job did not consist only in attending to the kitchen; I was obliged to having sexual relationships with the son of the man who had assumed me and four or five of its friends ", tells after to be escaped from one life of sexual slavery. "I have left the house of my father virgin and now I am...". It is interrupted. Its father does not say a thing except "I give my confidence to God".

The situation of the emergency is being strength and the absence of laws has concurred that the sexual slavery is spreaded in Iraq. The dealers can sell their victims without fear of being punished. According to the relation of the Department of USA State for the traffic of persons, the girls, the young women and the coming from children from poor and uncultivated families are obligate to whore; sell in Iraq and to foreign country like Syria, the Jordan, the Qatar, the Emirati Arabic, Turkey and the Iran. In one of the north-west city, Mosul, neighbor to the border with Syria, the girls and the young women who come from indigent families and without a culture are particularly vulnerable to the sexual exploitation. * Like slaves many of them, employed for the domestic jobs, to the end become sexual slaves.

Khaled, 45 years, admits ready its involvement in the sexual business. It wears jeans and one yellow T-shirt, four or five rings to the fingers and a bracelet to the wrist. A witness has reported to have seen it to discuss with a customer if she preferred one enslaved of dark complexion or more clear. "I know some families that are disposed to maintain them selves through their daughters", it has said. "Some ask if (their daughters) can work exclusively in kitchen, while others close the eyes and say not to have idea that their daughters will be used like prostitutes". Other women try Khaled on behalf but not always they know well its job. Zaineb, 20 years, is a young fascinating woman with the olive complexion. She felt herself responsible for the maintenance of the family. Her father had been arrested from the police, her mother was sick and her smaller sisters had need of someone to take care of her. Zaineb found a job through Khaled but she found out with horror that had entered in the tunnel of the whoring. "I must have sexual relationships with various men every night", tells Zaineb, that has succeeded to put herself in contact with Iwpr. "my owner and his friends always carry me in a small farm, gets drunk and make sex with me. I cry, I ask aid my parents, but who che hear me ?". The victims of the sexual slavery in Iraq don’t have aid from the police or the courts. The iraqi law punishes exclusively the exploitation of the children.

* An incubus infinitely many women come catched and reduced in slavery in Iraq with the promise of one new life in the Gulf. Khaled has convinced the family of 18 year old Alia that a man in the Gulf was expectant to marry her and he has bought the passport to her and new dresses. "Like every other spouse, I was happy", tells. "But after arrived in the Gulf, I have uncovered that the spouse was a manager of a nightclub that took advantage of many other women for whoring. They have succeeded to escape after ten humiliating months. I screamed while one of they made sex with me; they dealt to me like one enslaved that they had bought. I have lost my dreams, hopes and future ". The document of the Department of State finds that the iraqi government has not pursued those cases this year, has not offered protection to the victims or effort in order to prevent or to document the traffic. Also it has documented the efforts necessary "to hold to brake the complicity of the public officials in the traffic of the women".

IN ORDER TO SAVE THE PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY OF SUSIYA

Help us to stop the forced, unjust and illegal evacuation of the Palestinian inhabitants of Susiya. The 25  September 2001 the case of the inhabitants of the Palestinian village of Susiya, more times came capacity to the attention of the High Israeli Court takes people away from the own earth. The appeal introduced to the Court (number 7530/01) asked to stop the systematic destruction of the Palestinian houses. The Supreme Court pronounced denouncing the illegal of the repeated expulsions and imposing the army to guarantee a sure coming back of the Palestinian in own lands. In January 2007 it has had audience, always near the High Israeli Court, the petition signed from the Palestinian inhabitants of Susiya against perpetrating itself of the evictions. The 6 past june the High Israeli Court is pronounces granting 30 days of time to the inhabitants of the Palestinian village of Susiya in order to introduce other maps of the lived one, beyond to those already existing, to Israeli Civil Administration (DCO), otherwise the village will come destroyed for the fifth time. In fact the Court seems to have accepted the reasonings of the Israeli government who defines the residents of Susiya illicit occupants, even if owners lawyers of the earth. Evacuated from the Israeli army repeatedly, the inhabitants of Susiya are always returned reconstructing without "allowed" their houses, than in the meantime they had been demolished. The 21 and the 25 june official of the DCO has not concurred neither with the inhabitants (and owners) of the earth neither with the engineers assumed from the village, the access to the property in order to carry out the necessary surveys for being able to produce to new maps to subject to the office "Sottocomitato for the Supervision of the Constructions" Israeli. From years the Israeli army pursues the destruction of the Palestinian village officially in order "to guarantee the emergency" of the Israeli colony that rises to 500 meters from stretches of the Palestinian village of Susya. In truth it is to the damages of the Palestinian community that constantly takes place beating of women, old, shepherds and collected tree and, agriculturist destruction of ulivo, killing of sheep, illegal deprivations of the access to the precious water sources, to the fields they cultivate and to the pastures. All this is hidden from the mass medium, but it comes watched and denounced from years from the Israeli pacifists of Ta' ayush and from the Rabbis for the Human Rights. From August 2004 the volunteers of Operation Dove are constantly present in the area living to flank of people with to the nonviolent group ecumenico "Christian Peacemaker Teams", supporting the nonviolent resistance of the civil population of the area, giving them greater visibility and guaranteeing, with the own presence, a greater freedom of movement and one strongly lessening of the violence from part of the coloni and the Israeli soldiers in the comparisons of the Palestinian civil population.

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While politicians in Beirut continue their bickering, blaming each other for the continuing governmental crisis, there were several ominous developments at the frontiers of the country in recent weeks -- the terrorist attack on the Spanish contingent of the UNIFIL in the south, the expected decision of the Security Council to put UN observers to monitor smuggling of arms across the Lebanese-Syrian border in the east, the closure of transit points between Lebanon and Syria in the north.

These developments did not have to happen for one to be reminded of the dangerous deterioration in relations between Lebanon and Syria, but they certainly make it more compelling to ask: Has the time not come to finally step back from the brink and to consider initiatives that would set relations between the two countries on a new, mutually-beneficial course? Since independence from French colonial rule in the 1940's, the two countries have experienced a violent breakdown in relations at least twice. The first time was at the onset of the 1975-1990 civil war when Syrian troops entered Lebanon; Syria thus became a direct party in the internal conflict, which abruptly put an end to a three-decade old arrangement between the two countries. The second time was in 2005, when the withdrawal of Syrian troops ended an arrangement that had prevailed during the previous decade and a half.

The two countries have each caused the other to bleed enough, far more than they can each sustain. The government in Damascus is not any nearer to being toppled today than it was two years ago, nor is it any more capable of reimposing its hegemony on Lebanon, contrary to what some may still imagine. Pursuit of these two divergent goals, by opponents and allies of the Syrian regime, has mired the two contending camps in Lebanon in a debilitating gridlock, which has made them bet increasingly on the intervention of external forces and favorable regional changes. Lebanese opponents of Syria are under the illusion they can safely rely on Western intervention and protection because of Syria's fears of an international tribunal that will implicate Syrian officials in the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri; they view the conflict between the two countries as one that can be limited to putting in place appropriate security measures for policing the borders. But the conflict is more than a matter of deficient security measures. The issue of renewed Syrian influence in Lebanon will be unavoidably taken up in negotiations that the Syrian government has been so eager to start with the United States and the European Union; if such negotiations succeed, Syria will certainly have to concede something for being allowed to exercise anew some influence in Lebanon, just as Syria's Lebanese opponents will have to concede something for this renewed influence. Under the circumstances, if concessions are to be made by both countries, is it not preferable that they make these concessions to each other directly rather than be obliged to make them by external intervention?

According to Syrian vice-president Farouk al-Sharaa, the "March 8 coalition" of opposition parties allied with Syria is stronger than the "March 14 coalition" that supports the Fuad Siniora government. If this is indeed the case, it is all the more reason for the Damascus government to encourage its Lebanese allies to be the first to make concessions. In doing so, the Lebanese public will hear for once that Damascus has taken a positive initiative towards a settlement of the internal crisis, an initiative to counter the policy of the "stick" that has been used so far to threaten people's livelihoods by closing trading routes between the two countries.

Put differently, in the interest of all concerned, can't there be a different way to resolve the crisis -- a way that will avoid a logic of boycott and quasi-racist incitement (against Syria and the Syrian government) from one side, and a vengeful determination to reimpose a diktat (on the Syrian government's Lebanese opponents) from the other side? Media campaigns and verbal attacks may be less painful than violent reprisal, but the continued policy of betting on the neo-cons in Washington in order to topple the regime in Damascus has shown itself to be illusory and has already exacted a heavy price that the majority of Lebanese, from all sides, are no longer willing to pay. Here are the neo-cons, like the failed and corrupt Paul Wolfowitz and others like him, who have been forced to depart from the political scene. (And Noam Chomsky remains steadfast in the face of the empire!) The history of this region is replete with situations when Western powers, faced with a choice between Syria and Lebanon to safeguard their interests, have time and again chosen the first over the second.

Away from the logic of mutual destruction, enmity and revenge, is there still a way to launch a Lebanese or Syrian initiative that will rectify relations between the two countries? Little matters which party will take the first step in such an initiative. All that matters is that it will serve common interests of both countries, accepting their complementarity not their identity, and respecting the differences in their political and economic systems. Such an initiative must be launched, and it will have to start with a truce between both sides, suspending the relentless campaigns of incitement against each other and putting an end to all security breaches between the two.

Who will rise up to the challenge? Who will have the courage to declare both sides made mistakes? Who will publicly admit that revenge only begets revenge, and blood only blood? Now that the International Tribunal has been formed, which side will have the courage to extend a friendly hand to the other? Such tolerance should in no way undermine the investigation to uncover the truth in the assassination of Rafiq Hariri and to bring its perpetrators to justice. The investigation should be pursued, and pursued without allowing the US to exploit it in pursuit of its own political agenda in the Middle East.

The question is addressed to both camps in Lebanon differently. To the parties supporting the government: Will you propose something to resolve the crisis other than a US-European "protection" that does not protect? To the opposition parties: Will you break out of a puzzling silence on all pending issues between the two countries (as if such issues do not exist)?  As Syria's self-declared friends and allies in Lebanon, will you advance your vision of friendly relations between the two countries?

Who will rise up to the responsibility of offering a historic compromise between Lebanon and Syria? Indeed, is there anyone there listening?

Right now there is a political prisoner in Damascus who is paying the price for the enmity between the two countries.  This is Michel Kilo, who has been in a Syrian jail for more than a year now for wanting to rectify the relations between the two countries. May Kilo's release be a sign that someone in Damascus is finally listening!

A Deepening Humanitarian Crisis

Making Gaza "scream" is same kind of scheme the Nixon administration planned for Chile after social democrat Salvador Allende won a plurality of the votes in September, 1970. Before the Chilean Congress confirmed him as president in October, an infamous Nixon CIA Director Richard Helms handwritten note read: "One in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile! ... not concerned with risks involved ... $10,000,000 available, more if necessary...make the economy 'scream.' " By it, he meant saving the country from a socially responsible leader, like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, using his nation's wealth equitably and not just for its privileged elites. "Scream" it did through Nixon's "soft line" scheme "to do all within our power to condemn Chile and Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty," in the words of his Chilean ambassador Edward Korry.

It lasted three years until a "hard line" one replaced it on another September 11 Chileans won't soon forget in 1973. It was when a CIA-orchestrated military coup ended the most vibrant democracy in the Americas, replacing it with the brutal 17 year reign of General Augusto Pinochet.

The US has a notorious record of imposing economic or political sanctions against any nation daring to operate outside of Washington Consensus political and market rules. It's also quick to levy trade sanctions for corporate friends whose notion of "free trade" is the one-way kind benefitting them. The Clinton administration was a frequent abuser of these practices imposing them unilaterally against 35 or more countries during its eight years in power. They were also in place against the Soviet bloc during the Cold War and other nations aligned with it. The Bush administration currently has them in place against such countries as Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Burma, Belarus, Sudan, and Venezuela. It's our way of saying we're boss, what we say goes and no outliers are tolerated even when they only wish to govern independently from us or are targeted by a close ally we support.

That's the plight of the Palestinians who've been "screaming" for six decades following Israel's "war of independence" they call al-Nakba, the catastrophe. In May, 1948, they were deprived of four-fifths of their former land and the remainder for the past 40 years. Conditions then became especially harsh after January 25, 2006 when they rejected ruling Fatah's institutionalized corruption and willingness to be Israel's enforcer for the benefits it afforded its leaders. They defied predictions and democratically elected a majority of Hamas members to Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) seats because they promised to do what Fatah wouldn't--serve their own people, not the state of Israel against them.

Ever since, they've paid dearly for their choice. Israel, the US and West ended all outside aid, imposed an economic embargo and sanctions, and politically isolated the ruling Hamas government. Repressive Israeli rule was tightened and harsh intervention and daily attacks in the Territories followed. It included fomenting internal conflict on Gaza streets leading up to Hamas defeating the heavily US and Israeli-armed opposition Fatah insurgent forces, regaining control of its own territory in a surprising show of strength.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, in league with Israel and the US, then declared a "state of emergency" June 14 and illegally dismissed Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh and his national unity government. On June 15, he appointed former IMF and World Bank official Salam Fayyad prime minister (whose party won 2% of the 2006 election votes), and on June 17 swore in a new 13 member illegitimate "emergency" cabinet with plans for future elections excluding Hamas. On June 16, the US said it would lift its ban on the Abbas government and did it formerly on June 18.

On July 1, Israel began releasing frozen Palestinian tax funds transferring $120 million in a first installment to Abbas in the West Bank. The amount is one-sixth what Palestinians say they're owed (around $700 million) from tax revenues Israel illegally withheld beginning February 1, 2006 after Hamas' election January 25. Hamas is denied all aid from Israeli and western sources in a continuing effort to keep its Gaza-led government isolated, economic sanctions on it in place, and its people kept in desperate need of help not forthcoming.

More on that below. In the meantime, Israeli prime minister Olmert spokeswoman Miri Eisin said "Israel is committed to working with the new Palestinian government. We hope that together they (meaning the Abbas West Bank self-imposed government) will be able to build a strong administration which will give them a better capability to enter into full negotiations."

She neglected to mention Abbas' "emergency" government has no legitimacy, its US and Israeli funded and supported action was a brazen coup d'etat against a democratically elected government, and by "full negotiations" she means bowing to Israeli demands and abandoning the rights and needs of the Palestinian people.

Hamas called Israel's disbursement to Abbas "financial bribery (and) political blackmail" meant to keep Gaza and the West Bank divided and Palestinians in a state of internal conflict saving Israel some of the bother of stirring it up itself. Prime minister Ismail Haniyeh says the Palestinians' only recourse is "resistance. The Americans won't give us anything. Israel won't give us anything. Our land, our nation will not come back to us except with steadfastness and resistance" against what Israeli prime minister Olmert calls "cooperation (from Abbas in the West Bank that) will....enable us to make progress on the diplomatic track." Of course, it's to benefit Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people who aren't likely to accept the fate its quisling president and Israel have in mind for them.

Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Deepens

Here's how several concerned NGOs headline Gaza's deepening crisis. It won't improve as long as Israel, the US and West continue their war against the democratically elected Hamas government most Palestinians still strongly support.

Oxfam Great Britain is a member of Oxfam International, a development and relief organization working to alleviate poverty, human suffering and injustice worldwide, currently operating in over 30 countries. It highlights the crisis in Gaza in its June 19 article titled "Locked in Gaza" describing the "increasing desperation of Gazans as shortages of fuel, water and food are reported." Israel keeps people there "locked in Gaza," unable to move even for those desperately needing medical care in Israel for what's unavailable at home.

It mentions two Palestinians were shot dead June 18 trying to cross the checkpoint separating Gaza from Israel, almost a daily occurrence in the Territories. It says water in Gaza is a major problem as there's little electricity to pump it. Food is running out as well as all of it comes from outside Gaza city. Markets are empty, people have little or no money, borders are closed, the threat of starvation for many is real. Israel allows no international NGOs to operate in Gaza so the people aren't being helped when their need is greatest.

On July 6, Oxfam issued an updated press release. Its assessment of conditions in Gaza was grim warning "thousands of refugees across Gaza will face imminent cuts in water and sewage services if more fuel is not provided in the coming days and weeks." It said the Gaza Coastal Municipality Water Utility (CMWU) had to cut its water supply in half from eight to four hours a day because of fuel shortages affecting 65,000 people in the Strip's largest camp. Fuel is also running out for sewage drainage pumps in the Saflawi neighborhood. Without it, "sewage (may spill) into the streets....in days, contaminating the remaining water supply....spreading life-threatening disease (in) the densely-populated camp."

It continued saying other parts of Gaza face the same problem, affecting its entire 1.5 million population. Fuel may be exhausted in days at the hottest time of year when water demand is highest. In the face of this impending crisis, the Abbas government in the West Bank is doing nothing to alleviate it. Gaza is totally dependent on outside help unable to do its job because Israel closed border crossings and sealed off the entire Territory from the outside world.

A UN report is no more encouraging from an article on Media for Global Development June 15. It says the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees was forced to scale back its work while Gaza was in conflict. It "severely limited its ability to (bring in vitally needed) humanitarian supplies" to the 80% of Gazans dependent on them. It calls 40% of the population "food insecure" meaning they could starve without help. It explained even in the absence of street fighting there are critical shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fuel and other essentials. Outside help is critically needed, but Gazans aren't getting it because Israel closed the entry points between Egypt and the Strip stopping critically needed supplies from entering.

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'Tselem, raised its alarm as well June 17 with an article titled "Urgent Appeal from Israeli Human Rights Groups to Israeli Defense Minister: Open Gaza's Borders to Prevent a Humanitarian Crisis." It says hundreds of refugees are trapped between the sealed Erez crossing and Hamas inside Gaza, including the sick and injured from recent events in the Territory. It also cites critical food and medical supply shortages and urgently says: "The state of Israel cannot stand idly by at a time when the fundamental human rights of Gaza residents are being violated and the right to life is being threatened."

It mentions eight Israeli human rights organizations warning of a crisis that will worsen as long as Israel "continues to close borders and isolate Gaza from the outside world by preventing the supply of essential goods, trapping residents inside the Gaza Strip, and preventing Gaza residents who traveled outside the Strip from returning home" including the chronically sick and injured.

With essential border crossings closed, supplies aren't coming in. Fresh food, such as meat, fruit and dairy products are disappearing. The World Food Program warns of dangerous food shortages. B'Tselem calls Israel's border closings and disconnect of Gaza's electricity and water grid an act of collective punishment against all Gazans in violation of international law. The Israeli human rights organization calls on the state of Israel to end these actions.

The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) is a Jerusalem-based NGO "dedicated to fostering democracy and good governance within Palestinian society." It aims "to serve as a Palestinian platform for global dialogue and cooperation guided by the principles of democracy, human rights, gender equity, and participatory governance."

That said, MIFTAH's article June 23 headlined "Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza." It warns of a major humanitarian disaster being inevitable unless Israel eases its border crossing restrictions and allows in vitally needed supplies. At present, only a two to four week supply of food remains. Essential food and other supplies "are waiting to enter Gaza" but have been denied entry by Israel since Hamas' takeover in June. It mentions the German chapter of UNICEF reporting on the "deteriorating condition of Gaza's children (from) lack of proper sanitation." It heightens the risk of diseases and contagion from some of them with limited medications on hand. So far, Israel is adamant citing "security considerations" for keeping border crossings closed. By that it means it intends to keep punishing all Palestinians collectively for having elected Hamas its government.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) offers the most detailed and harrowing account of how desperate conditions now are in Gaza. It says how "gravely concerned" it is since Israel tightened its siege by closing all border crossings, including the Rafah International Crossing Point on the Egyptian border. It urgently calls on all states, UN agencies and all international humanitarian organizations "to immediately take steps to pressurize (Israel) to allow the normal flow of basic supplies, including foodstuffs and medical supplies, into the Gaza strip to avoid an imminent crisis that threatens" 1.5 million Gazans. Three-fourths of them live in poverty and nearly as many are unemployed and have no other source of help. Gaza is the most densely populated place on earth. It's also the world's largest (Israeli-imposed) open-air prison. It's more locked down than ever with all border crossing points closed and sealed and Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacking the Strip daily.

As long as Israel is unwilling to open them, food, medicines, fuel and other essential supplies can't get in. Palestinians desperately needing medical care outside the Strip can't travel to get it. Gaza hospitals and health centers can't provide essential medical services. PCHR lists the site closures:

-- the Rafah International Crossing Point on the Egyptian border through which Palestinians travel back and forth;

-- the Karni commercial crossing gravely affecting food and other essential deliveries. Mentioned is the shortage of wheat with mills running out and having to shut down. Gaza needs 600 tons of wheat daily;

-- the Sofa crossing through which raw materials enter halting most construction projects;

-- the Kerem Shalom crossing through which food and medicines come;

-- the Erez crossing affecting international and local organizations, patients and commercial traders; and

-- the Nahal Oz crossing through which fuel transits.

PCHR calls on Israel to reconnect Gaza to the outside world and avoid a humanitarian disaster. It wants the "economic siege" on Gaza ended; human rights to be respected; and international law obeyed, including the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention (GCIV--ratified and accepted by 194 countries as of June, 2006) relating to the rights and protections of civilians in times of war "in the hands" of an enemy and under occupation by a foreign power.

It further calls for increasing essential aid from international humanitarian organizations to relieve the deteriorating conditions in the Territory and human suffering. It asks that the rights of all Palestinians be respected and that all efforts be made to ensure them.

PCHR also publishes daily reports and a weekly summary of events on the ground in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). They always center on Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) "continue(d) systematic attacks on Palestinian civilians and property." Its latest weekly summary runs through July 4 and cites the following violence in Gaza and Fatah-run West Bank from daily Israeli incursions in both areas.

In Gaza and the West Bank:

-- 10 Palestinians, including 6 civilians, were killed by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), 3 by extra-judicial assassination in Khan Yunis;

-- 27 Palestinian civilians were wounded by IDF gunfire;

-- IDF conducted 31 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 others in Gaza;

--IDF conducted a 2-day incursion into Nablus and neighboring refugee camps;

-- IDF arrested 92 Palestinian civilians, including 19 children, in the West Bank;

-- IDF continued imposing a total siege on the OPT;

-- 12 Palestinians trapped on the Egyptian side of the Rafah International Crossing Point died for lack of attention to their medical needs;

-- A Palestinian wounded in a car died as IDF obstructed his evacuation to a hospital; ambulances attending the sick and wounded are routinely attacked;

-- IDF arrested 6 other Palestinians at various checkpoints; and

-- In addition to a strict siege on Gaza discussed above, IDF tightened a similar one on Fatah's controlled West Bank isolating Jerusalem from the rest of the Territory. Severe restrictions on movement are in place and additional checkpoints have been erected on main roads and at intersections. These events are part of daily life imposed on Palestinians by their Israeli occupiers making life for them intolerable and the reason they resist.

-- After this report was released, IDF killed at least 11 Palestinians and wounded 25 others on July 5 in what Israeli military officials dismissively called "a routine operation." In response, Hamas officials accused Israel of provoking conflict while they're trying to end it and maintain law and order.

The Palestinian people have endured unbearable hardships and suffering like this for nearly six decades, the result of cruel unremitting Israeli repression of them. Yet they endure, resist and continue working for what they want most--to live freely and securely in peace in their own unoccupied land ruled by governments they elect to serve them. It's the dream of all oppressed people--to one day have the equity and social justice they deserve. By now, Israeli and western governments should know Palestinians won't ever stop struggling for the rights no nation has the right to deny them. One day they'll prevail because they won't give up resisting until they do.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Ah, I’m lucky I’m not an Afghan.

But if I was Afghan no, that wouldn’t be right for me being bombed ‘till 30 years, and if I try to protest against, they tell me I’m the terrorist.

If I was Afghan no, I’d never say that the bomb you bring are giving us civilization and democracy, as the Red Army didn’t bring us socialism or tomorrow, but neverending massacres, those yes, and if I try to protest against, they tell me I’m the terrorist.

If I was an Afghan no, I wouldn’t look in favour of the river of money spent for keeping on torture, mutilate, massacre, and I’d never find something to laugh about and nothing to clap hands for in international conferences, where you glorify yourself for what you’ve done and what you’re going to do, and if I try to protest against I’m tell I’m the terrorist.

Ah, I’m lucky I’m not an Afghan.

Me, thanks the sky, I’m Italian.

I’m on the side of the ones who are bombing. I am of the planetary butchery’s party, of global persecutors, of imperial razzists, of the legal terrorists party. I’m on the side of the commander in chief Bush and of him italici pages Prodi and Berlusconi.

I’m not dumb, I’m not!

Free translated by Asherah, originally wrote by Carogno Mozzarecchi on Minime n. 148.

International Support for Women’s Campaign

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Iranian women’s rights activists are initiating a wide campaign demanding an end to discriminatory laws against women in the Iranian law. The Campaign “One Million Signatures Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws” is a follow-up effort to the peaceful protest of the same aim, which took place on June 12, 2006 in Haft-e Tir Square in Tehran

We the undersigned, representing international women’s groups and activists, human rights organizations and activists, university and academic centers, and social justice initiatives, would like to express our support for Iranian women in their effort to reform laws and achieve equal status within the Iranian legal system.

Signatures:

Background Information

Campaign Description:

Iranian law considers women to be second class citizens and promotes discrimination against them. It is noteworthy that legal discrimination of this type is being enforced in a society where women comprise over 60% of those being admitted to university. It is generally believed that laws should promote social moderation by being one step ahead of cultural norms. But in Iran the law lags behind cultural norms and women’s social position and status.

Without a doubt, women of lower socio-economic status or women from religious and ethic minority groups suffer disproportionately from legal discrimination. On the other hand, these unjust laws have promoted unhealthy and unbalanced relationships between men and women and as a result have had negative consequences on the lives of men as well.

On the other hand, the Iranian government is a signatory to several international human rights conventions, and accordingly is required to bring its legal code in line with international standards. The most important international human rights standard calls for elimination of discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, religion, etc.

The Campaign aims to collect one million signatures in support of changes to discriminatory laws against women. It will provide education on legal issues to the public and especially to women, raise public awareness, promote collaboration between groups demanding equality between men and women, and document experiences. The Campaign will be implemented through the following means:

1. Collection of signatures through door-to-door contact and dialogue with individual women;

2. Collection of signatures in places and events in which women gather, and where dialogue and discussions with groups of women can be carried out;

3. Implementation of seminars and conferences with the intent of raising the profile of the campaign, promoting dialogue, identifying supporters and collecting signatures;

4. Collection of signatures through the internet. The internet will be utilized to share information about the Campaign, including legal educational materials, and those interested in supporting this effort can sign petitions related to the Campaign.

Contact Information: • For more information on the Campaign please visit: www.we-change.org; or write to the Campaign Organizers at: forequality@gmail.com

Description de la campagne :

La loi Iranienne considère les Femmes comme des citoyennes de deuxième classe, et entretient une discrimination contre elles. Il est de notoriété publique que les discriminations légales de ce type sont encore pénalisantes dans une société où les Femmes sont plus de 60% à être admises à l’université. Il est généralement admis que les lois devraient promouvoir une modération sociale en étant en avance sur les normes culturelles. Au contraire, en Iran, la loi reste en de ça des normes culturelles comme des positions sociales et du statut des Femmes. De plus, les Femmes d’un statut social inférieur, les Femmes de groupes minoritaires tant d’un point de vue religieux ou ethnique souffrent encore plus de la discrimination légale. Par ailleurs, ces lois injustes ont développé des relations malsaines et inégales entre les hommes et les femmes. Avec pour résultat des conséquences néfastes sur la vie des hommes.

Par ailleurs, le Gouvernement Iranien est signataire de plusieurs conventions internationales sur les droits humains. En conséquence, il doit mettre ses lois en conformité avec les standards internationaux. L’exigence la plus vitale en matière de droits humains est la suppression de toute discrimination basée sur le sexe, l’ethnie ou la religion, etc ... La campagne a pour objet de rassembler UN MILLION de signatures pour obtenir des changements dans les lois discriminant les Femmes. Elle diffusera de l’information sur les questions légales dans le grand public en informant tout spécialement les Femmes, favorisera la prise de conscience, développera la synergie entre les groupes oeuvrant pour l’égalité entre hommes et femmes et diffusera les expérimentations.

La Campagne sera réalisée avec les moyens suivants :

1. Récolte de signatures par un contact direct en "porte-à-porte" et des dialogues avec les femmes individuellement, 2. Récolte de signatures aux endroits et durant les événements qui rassemblent beaucoup de femmes, et où les dialogues et discussions peuvent avoir lieu, 3. Organisation de séminaires et de conférences dans le but de faire connaître cette Campagne, de promouvoir le dialogue, de repérer les sympathisants et sympathisantes et de récolter des signatures *, 4. Récolte de signatures au moyen d’Internet. Qui sera utilisé pour partager l’information sur la Campagne, et diffuser le matériel d’information sur les lois. On pourra signer la pétition en ligne.

Contact

Pour plus d’information, voir le site (en anglais et en farsi) www.we-change.org

forequality@gmail.com

Nestlé’s responsabilities

“Hiding behind the wall of free market is ridiculous and absurd: with the same justification the Third World has been changed into an enormous trash can of developed countries. In the case of dry milk is worst: the Nestlé sells off for “helps” it’s flawed marketing strategies”.

(Dijbril Diallo, UNICEF’s special counsellor)

In this century has been rampant the use of aliments for newborns. An example comes from Cile: the share of newborn breastfeed has slump from 95% to 20% in the years between 1950-1970. Another example is Nigeria, where babies were breastfeed ‘till four years old, with the advent of artificial aliments, the breastfeed ended, in the 70% of the cases, at the age of 4 months. In both cases mother believed firmly to the advantages of dry milk and said they were advised by medical staff. This change into usual costume is caused by the influence exercised by dry milk producers. In fact they promote dry milk not as a substitute of mother’s milk in extreme situations (dead mother, ill mother or abandon), but as progress sign and prior healt. Other than distribute advertising signs with images of healthy and rotund babies into hospitals, the companies contact directly the local doctors. They organize courses and seminars for the medical personal to let their product enter into hospitals. The salesmen of companies even come to pretend themselves as nurses to persuade pregnant women to buy the product. Doing this they’re advantaged by the fact that there’s a big lack of medical information (and often the only information is the one that comes from the same salesmen).

Free Provender

One of the most profitable tactics used is to offer dry milk and other artificial aliments for free to the hospitals and maternity wards. Frequently they provide as much milk that every child in the ward can be feed with feeding bottle. To the mother is often given as present a pack of milk to carry home. Giving dry milk to newborn causes a gradual decrease of mother’s milk and breastfeed can’t be done. As a consequence the baby became addict to dry milk. Once at home, mothers don’t receive the free milk, but they have to buy it. From this it comes the multinational’s profit and, on the other side, illness and malnutrition with their frightening consequences on newborns.

Irresponsible Marketing Techniques

Freebies for hospitals are simply the way for giving babies dry milk and let them be addict to it.

We hope that our campaign will compel companies to stop using this tactic. Anyhow, Nestlé and many other companies use a lot of other techniques to persuade mothers and doctors to use dry milk; like the promotion of dry milk to medical personal: companies know that with persuading doctors to suggest dry milk to mothers, they gain an important support. This is more useful than persuade mothers one by one: a doctor, with his confidence, influence a lot mothers behaviour, so persuade a doctor means to gain all the patients. Moreover doctors time is wasted by appointments with salesmen instead of being used in more useful ways. Companies often give doctors slanted informations, and those are the only one that many of them can have.

Advertising into hospitals

Pratically every mother can breastfeed his baby if she receive the right advices and helps. But their trust into breastfeed is undermined by the aggressive advertising of dry milk. Dry milk advertising into wards or through throwaways imply the complicity of medicals.

Influence over governments that want to protect breastfeed

Multinationals are really powerful and they can exercise a big influence over governments. The pressure exercised by companies has delayed and weakened the legislation of many governments and persuaded other companies that they can act regardless of governs’ constitutions.

Why Nestlé?

Many companies that product dry milk like: Nestlé, Gerber, Milco, Nutricia, Milupa, Humana, Abbot, Plasmon, Mellin, Mead Johnson and Wyeth violate the International Code. The number of violations reported for each company doesn’t mean their evil, but the trade share they own in each country. Nestlé is the multinational more powerful of the world in alimentation, it sells the 25% of it’s products in the Sud of the world and control the 35-50% of the global market of the food for children, and they point marketing tendencies. Nestlé uses irresponsible marketing techniques, violating the International Code made by UNICEF and OMS, more often than any other concurrent.

Font: www.ribn.it, translated by Asherah.

300 WHAT A ORRIBLE MOVIE

People told me to watch this movie…because “you will love it…it’s wonderful!!!!”

Well….this is another proof of the fact that I shouldn’t do what people tell me to.

I always hate historical movie because in every case I know the story and the history better than the director of the movie.

But this movie goes a bit to over!! Really!! It’s worst than Alexander (that at least has Jared Leto in it) and Troy.

Wanna talk about it? I got some questions!!

1. Why Persians are all ugly and deformed?? For my experience they were a lot more beautiful than greeks!!!
2. Why are Spartiates all fuckin’ awesome??
3. Why is Serse an afro all covered in jewelry that is absolutely not Persian??
4. Why Persians use monsters??
5. Why the only Spartiate that betrayed is deformed to? For what I know it was a Spartiate like everyone else!
6. Why do Spartiates jumps?? What the hell….it’s a “falange” not a Luna Park!!
7. There are a lot of other things but…mmm…it’s to long to write here.

So…maybe it’s just me and maybe a lot of things will not be noticed by a normal mind that’s not obsessed with archaeology and history….maybe. I don’t know…for me…this movie sucks!

HEY FRIENDS!!

SORRY FOR THE LACK OF UPDATES AND THE DELETED VIDEOS THING!

I’VE BEEN A BIT OVERWELMED BY EXAMS, NOT FINISHED YET BUT..WHATEVER!!

TODAY I HAD THE PHOENICIAN ARCHEOLOGY EXAM (for the ones who doesn’t know what it is….go and buy a dictionary…I don’t wanna talk about Phoenician for long time!!!) AND I PASSED IT WITH A SCORE OF 30/30!!! And a little panic attak…………

AND THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE THEY’LL TAKE ME FOR EXAVATIONS IN SARDINIA THIS SEPTEMBER!!!!

I’M SO FUCKIN’ HAPPY I HAD TO TOLD YOU!! XDDDDDD

KISSES!

TESSA.