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

Ok

All the things are packed, all my stuff is ready and my baggage is near to explode.

Yeah…I’m leaving. And this time it will be for a fuckin’ long time! I’ll be away for three fuckin’ weeks!! An I’ll be without my pc for all this time!!

 

Anyway, I’m so excited. This will be my first professional excavation and my first long period away from home! So I’m out of my self and I got to plan so many things my brain is burning!!

 

LOL

 

I’ll miss you all and I’ll try to find an internet point there, in this strange land that Sardinia is! HEYA!!

 

Love you all!!

 

Special Thanks to:

 

Lisa

Sonia

Daria

Brandnewhope

Rania

Blaqk Audio

All the fuckin’ cool people that talks to me everyday!

 

 

Love, Tessa.

Hamas's New Order Exacts Toll On Gazans

Party Cements Grip With Harsh Tactics

By Scott Wilson

Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, September 17, 2007; Page A01

 

 

GAZA CITY -- For years, the seaside Flower of the Cities resort was that rare place in the Gaza Strip where the dress code did not rule out bikinis. Now, with some of its cinder-block cabanas turned into prayer rooms, the beach club shows how Hamas is consolidating its hold here three months after seizing power.

Bushy beards and black head-to-toe cloaks for women have become common at the club, which the armed Islamic movement torched in June after routing the secular Fatah party on the streets. The facility has been rebranded the al-Aqsa Resort, with a new logo featuring the revered mosque complex in Jerusalem next to a beach umbrella. Hamas followers collect the $2.50 entrance fee.

Like the party it supported, the bikini crowd has disappeared, leaving the trash-flecked beach and murky swimming pool to Bassem al-Khodori and a half-dozen other Hamas supporters, who now have jobs at the resort.

"Before," said Khodori, 32, a cafeteria worker, "only the others were allowed."

Facing money shortages, a shrinking private sector and growing political resistance, Hamas leaders are increasingly imposing harsh interpretations of Islamic law and using brute force to bolster their isolated administration, which remains illegitimate in the view of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and his U.S.-backed government in the West Bank.

Reconciliation between the two largest Palestinian parties -- now running parallel governments in what had been envisioned as the two territories of a Palestinian state with a single government -- appears as distant as when Abbas dissolved the Hamas-led power-sharing government after the fighting in June.

Many of Gaza's almost 1.5 million residents, who celebrated Israel's withdrawal two years ago only to fall into civil war soon after, have seen their lives improve in some ways and suffer in others as the result of the political split within the Palestinian Authority and Hamas's brand of rule here.

While Hamas has imposed order on Gaza's lawless streets, gunmen from its Executive Force, a 5,000-member paramilitary unit, have employed repressive tactics against Fatah supporters and local journalists.

International aid is again funding Palestinian government salaries, helping revive parts of Gaza's economy. But the closure of the cargo crossings from Israel for all but emergency aid is depriving Gaza's small manufacturers of raw materials. An estimated 85 percent of the territory's manufacturing sector has been shut down since June and more than 35,000 workers have been laid off, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

"We blame Hamas, the reason for all of this," said Hamdi Badr, 49, who two months ago shut down the clothing factory his family has owned since 1969. "But we don't really know what to do."

The steel shutters of storefront factories along Badr's street are closed, and the only sign of life is dogs sniffing through pyramids of trash. Abbas's government in the West Bank has cut off municipal funds that Gaza once used for garbage collection.

Badr flipped on fluorescent lights over rows of empty sewing machines, ceiling fans suddenly stirring the musty air. He employed 50 people when he closed his doors, and earned $4,000 a month. Now the people and profits are gone.

"It's always the citizens, people like me and the ones who worked here, who pay for these political disputes," he said.

Gaza's streets have taken on an increasingly Islamic cast in recent months. The improved everyday security has brought people back to the markets, beaches and parks, many of them women wearing for the first time the full black gown, gloves and face covering favored by the most conservative Muslims.

Gunmen from the Executive Force are posted along the main avenues and at intersections. In Friday sermons, imams appointed by the Hamas-run administration accuse Abbas of collaborating with Israel and the Bush administration.

The Hamas administration, led by deposed prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, is funding itself through utility, licensing and other taxes. Abbas has urged Gazans not to pay those bills to deprive Hamas of the money.

The taxes are generating enough to pay some of the roughly 30,000 government employees Abbas cut from the payroll because they were hired under the Hamas-led government. Many work for the Executive Force, now the main security branch in Gaza.

"We, for the first time, are operating a real security and justice system here," said Mahmoud al-Zahar, a Hamas hard-liner whose influence has grown since the June takeover. "Under the Fatah security forces, it was, A to Z, deeply corrupt."

Zahar, a surgeon who served as foreign minister in Hamas's first government, said the movement is unrepentant about routing Fatah in Gaza. He favors "military trials" for the former Fatah security officials who once persecuted Hamas followers in the strip, calling them "American-Israeli collaborators."

The Hamas-run television channel has popularized that characterization. One children's cartoon it aired recently depicted Fatah gunmen as mice, throwing dollars in the air, shooting children with U.S.-made weapons, unveiling Muslim women and firing at mosques before the Hamas "lion" comes to the rescue.

Zahar said Abbas's appointed government is "illegitimate," calling illegal the president's decision to withhold some funds from Gaza and his recent decree effectively banning Hamas from future elections. The Islamic movement, classified as a terrorist organization by Israel and the Bush administration, defeated Fatah in January 2006 parliamentary elections.

"How will he impose any of this in Gaza?" Zahar said. "He's a man that has lost all his credibility."

After Friday prayers in recent weeks, Fatah supporters have marched through Gaza's streets in protest against the Hamas administration. "Shia! Shia!" the demonstrators shouted, an insulting reference to the Sunni Muslim movement's inflexible Islamic character and financial support from the Shiite government of Iran.

Their numbers have swelled into the thousands, and Hamas's patience appears exhausted. The Palestinian Scholars League, an Islamic council dominated by Hamas clerics, issued a fatwa early this month prohibiting outdoor prayer.

The decree came days after members of the Executive Force beat and detained dozens of demonstrators, some of whom had tossed homemade noise grenades and stones at Hamas security compounds.

"All the mosques are controlled now by Hamas, so we said we would not pray in them but only outside," said Mohammed Yassin, 19, a Fatah supporter who works in a barbershop.

After he threw a noise grenade at Hamas forces one Friday last month, Yassin recalled, he ran away and hid near his house. But he said his neighbors told the Hamas men where he was hiding, and he was beaten with sticks and rifle butts. After being treated in the hospital, he was taken to jail.

"They told me, 'If you go to any more demonstrations, you are going to pay,' " Yassin said.

On the bulletin board in the Health Ministry's lobby hangs another recent fatwa, this one declaring that a partial strike by medical staff at Shifa Hospital runs counter to Islamic teachings.

For weeks, doctors at Gaza's largest hospital have been working only three hours each morning, leaving in limbo scores of patients needing post-surgery checkups, medications, examinations or signed permission to leave Gaza for treatment in Israel. Abbas has urged the doctors to stay off the job.

The dispute stems from the recent firing of the hospital's director and its longtime public relations officer because, the doctors say, they supported Fatah.

"They told me that if I stayed a bullet might enter my head," said Jumah al-Saqa, 49, the former spokesman, who was removed from his office by Hamas gunmen last month after two decades in the post. "They want Hamas in all those jobs."

But Bassem Naim, the Hamas health minister, said the argument is about which government -- the one in Gaza or the one in the West Bank -- has the right to appoint senior ministry officials. He said the decision to strike was made as medicine shortages loom and "hundreds of patients" are being prevented from continuing regular treatments in Israel.

"It is a political strike, but it has nothing to do with whether one man is Fatah and one man is Hamas," Naim said. "This situation is dangerous, though, especially since the strike is supported by the government" in the West Bank.

Just before 11 a.m. one recent morning, scores of men, women and children waited outside numbered rooms, bloody bandages lashed around fingers, makeshift slings on tiny arms, X-rays clutched in old hands. The doctors left minutes later, leaving Thamam al-Bes outside Room 23 with no one to conduct her follow-up exam after last month's open-heart surgery.

"I'm waiting for a doctor, and now there are none," said Bes, 54, who had traveled from her home in a refugee camp in central Gaza. "We just live in gloom and disease."

 

 

The Tribe in the Ivory Tower
by Gabriele Zamparini

The genocide of the Iraqi people is completely ignored by most of the state-corporate media through a propaganda campaign of colossal proportion that sees at its centre John Sloboda’s Iraq Body Count [IBC]. Most of the intellectuals and activists who have built a career in the anti-war business remain silent when not defending and endorsing IBC and its propaganda campaign with preposterous arguments.

On September 9, the powerful and prestigious Financial Times gave us another piece of that propaganda campaign, “Iraq Body Count, a group that monitors Iraqi deaths, estimates that 70,000 Iraqis have been killed”

To fully understand the grotesque absurdity of this propaganda campaign and its genocidal effects, one has just to compare the fiction above with the reality published by Uruknet:

40,000 unidentified corpses buried in Najaf since the beginning of the US-led invasion
Middle East Online
September 9, 2007

An Iraqi official made known that from the beginning of the US-led invasion in 2003, 40,000 unidentified corpses have been buried in the holy city of Najaf.

Ahmed Di'aibil, the Najaf Governorate’s spokesperson, said, "the official count of the unidentified corpses buried in the cemetery Wadi Al-Salam (Valley of the Peace) exceeded 40,000".

Ahmed Di'aibil stated that every week up to 200 corpses were brought to Najaf, even though the number is declining.

The Najaf Governorate’s spokesperson added that all corpses are photographed and numbered and the place where the corpse is found is registered to allow an eventual identification by the families.

For the unforgivable sin to have asked two simple questions, ZNet’s Michael Albert thundered against this blogger but didn’t reply the questions.

Why ZNet is still accepting IBC as a reliable source to document the Iraqi carnage? The fact that ZNet published a few critical articles on IBC, far from being a justification is an aggravating circumstance if it then keeps offering its space to IBC propaganda, making the war mongers extremely happy.

IBC has been spreading its propaganda to the four corners of the planet, it’s been welcomed and celebrated by the war mongers, offered space and time by the propaganda apparatus of the mainstream media. It’s shocking it’s still accepted by the alternative media as a serious source to inform about the carnage in Iraq. Shamefully shocking!

The other question I asked Albert was about ZNet’s frequent contributor Munir Chalabi’s article, Political Observations on Sectarianism in Iraq, published originally on ZNet on 24 January 2007. I started to ask ZNet and Chalabi where those numbers come from in my 30 January 2007 piece, Dissent this! - Part 1: ZNet between numbers and parallels. I reiterated this question on 17 July 2007 in Once upon a time in Iraq… A Nobel Peace Prize for the Anglo-American Peacekeepers?, on 20 August 2007 in Alice in Wonderland – ZNet and the art of numbers , on 28 August 2007 in The tip of the iceberg and finally again on 5 September 2007 in IBC and Munir Chalabi's numbers: ZNet and Michael Albert's reply

As for the IBC question, even this other question went unanswered and hidden by a smokescreen of preposterous excuses.

But the clap of thunder didn’t pass unnoticed by the tribe.

Alex Doherty of UKWatch, a website associated with ZNet, accused me of "9/11 conspiracies" and "absurd campaign against Z net"

Another friend from the ZNet’s tribe wrote me:

“I think the best thing you could do at this point is basically apologize in a public way to Albert and also to others to whom you have written... for wasting our time.”

When I asked if I could publish our exchange, he replied:

“No - please don't publish. I said what I had to say; it was private. And it's over.”

So the apologies to Albert should be “public” but the debate on these two important questions that affect millions of people must remain “private”. This is tribalism, not radicalism.

I have published on my blog some criticism I received from one of my readers. That criticism was very welcomed and very different from the arrogance and ignorance of the tribe.

But it’s not over. People in Iraq are still the victims of mass murdering and ethnic cleansing while Iraq Body Count is still spreading its shameful propaganda, welcomed by the warmongers, the state-corporate media and large sectors of the so-called anti-war movement and the alternative media. It’s not over because the victors’ art of rewriting history is shown all over, from the New York Times to ZNet.

As I wrote to that friend who invited me to “apologize in a public way to Albert and also to others” for “wasting our time”:

Albert, you and others have had very strong words against me for asking questions and pointing out an objective situation that’s been going on for too long. When will Albert, you and the others start to focus on the issues I pointed out? Zamparini was an easy target. Will you now be able to speak out about IBC and its pernicious propaganda? It’s maybe time to take a look outside the Ivory Tower.

 

From: http://www.thecatsdream.com

 

OMG!!

Guys!!

I just met my idol!! My mentor! My master!! My hero!! My role model!!

OMG OMG OMG OMG

I’m still too excited to write something with sense!!

OMG!!!

 

……………………….

 

Ok….is not that I met Billie Joe Armstrong!

I met Giorgio Perreca! And, you know, if Billie Joe is my hero in music, Giorgio is my hero in sports!

He’s kick boxing and full contact world champion and now….OMG OMG….he will be my trainer!! OMG!! Yeah….again….OMG!!

 

The gym’s opening was really amazing and they made those match as demonstration for the people who came here, I was totally flipped out with all those kicks, they were so fuckin’ fast!! How amazing!!

Now I can’t wait to come back to the gym and to talk with him again! Daniele and Andrea told him that me and Alessandra were the best pupils of the old gym and that we’re going to be the best in the new!! I was melting with those comments!! OMG!! OMG!!!

They were perfect, they were beautiful.

They met in the middle of nowhere,

in the middle of nothing,

and kissed where everyone could see.

No words.

No before.

No after.

They kissed and it was perfect.

It was beautiful.

It was everything.

It was nothing.

AFI, Decemberunderground

Tessy tagged me….I knew of this Celebrity Crush thing goin’ around and I hoped I was safe!! But then…it came from the most unespected person!

 

Ok…Rules first of all:

 

Remember the "8 Random Facts About Me" thing? Yeah, it's basically the same
thing, so here are the rules:

1. You post your top 10 fantasy guys/girls.
2. You tag 10 people.
3. You CANNOT tag someone who has already been tagged.
4. You have to let the people you tagged know that they've been tagged.
5. These are the rules that must be repeated every time.
6. THERE MUST BE PHOTOS! AT ALL TIMES!

Ok…mine are not goin’ to be that great as Tessy’s choice but…here we go!

1)

NUMBER ONE, now and always……BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

It’s not that I find him sexy or anything…he’s just my myth, my first and only, the only one that never fail to surprise me. My first life example, my guide…and ok…I’ll stop before I get lame.

2) SID VICIOUS

 

When I was younger I really had a crush for this guy. And I still love him so much, even if he was a complete asshole at life.

 

3) JOHNNY ROTTEN

To me is a LEGEND, the true incarnation of punk, THE ONE WHO NEVER SOLD OUT!

 

4) TIM ARMSTRONG

 

 

Another punk giant, another myth, another example for my life

 

5) PEPPINO IMPASTATO

 

My HERO!

Peppino Impastato was killed by Mafia in 1979 because with his action he was shaking consciences in this little town called Cinisi.

 

6) PEPPE SINI (not really a celebrity)

 

I haven’t a photograph of him but he’s my mentor, he’s the one that opened my mind and that taught me to watch thing from both sides, even if it is hard as fuck.

 

7) PRIMO LEVI

 

Primo Levi survived to Aushwitz-Birkenau and came back to tell the world all the horror he has been throught. He wrote some of my favourite books and poems. He killed himself in 1987 because he couldn’t take the shame of being a survivor while hundreds of people died.

 

8) DAVEY HAVOK

 

To complete the list of my fav singers….here comes Davey. I love his voice and I really admire his behaviour in life.

 

9) wiL Francis

 

 

I must admit…I think he’s fuckin’ hot. Thanks for Daria that let me watch him for more than five seconds!!

 

10) LUIGI LO CASCIO

 

He’s my fav actor, he’s Italian and he played Peppino Impastato in the movie I cento Passi, that is one of my all time fav movie.

 

 

Ok so…..come on…the people I tag are:

 

Lisa(wickedgirl666), Sonia (sexypad), Daria (dariald), Agez7, Brandnewhope, Mercedez, Sprite269, themoon, bloodywidow69 and Driu.