I want to go home
CNN and Fox News say Iraqis are happily returning to Baghdad. The cover of the November 20 New York Times had a large photo of a happy wedding party in Baghdad. Inside the newspaper was a photo of smiling adolescents playing foosball, plus a banner headline "Baghdad Exhales As Security Improves."
Author John Ross says this is all a LIE. He says the streets of Baghdad and Mosul remain deadly killing grounds.
Ross says the lies began on November 7th when the Washington Post claimed that Baghdad was now so safe that that over 46,000 refugees had returned in October. The next day, New York Times correspondent Damien Cave wrote, "Iraq families are returning to Baghdad!" Days later, Cave had to admit that it was all lies. Iraqi refugees are living in hovels, or in tents in the desert. Those who “return” to Baghdad only do so to retrieve money, or to seek food or medical care, or to bury a relative.
Bush’s little puppet, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, claimed that in October,1600 families returned to Baghdad every day. In reality, it was 50 or less. Maliki had sent buses to get them, and the refugees took advantage of the free ride to go back to Baghdad for a few hours. Then they left again with all the other refugees that keep streaming out of the city.
Now refugees must sneak into Syria or Jordan or elsewhere. No more are allowed in.
The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) says 4.2 million Iraqis have fled Iraq, which is the largest forced displacement in the Arab world since Jews drove Palestinians out of Palestine in 1948. The Middle East now accounts for half the world's refugees - according to the Swiss-based International Organization on Migration (IOM). Yet the world only cares about places like Darfur, because the refugees there aren’t Arabs.
About 1.5 million Iraqis have fled to Syria; 750,000 to Jordan; and several hundred thousand more to the Gulf States, and to Arab capitals like Cairo and Beirut. If Israel succeeds in triggering a civil war in Lebanon, then Lebanese people will join the flood of misery.
The most vulnerable are not those who flee to other countries, but those who are internally displaced and are still in Iraq. Herded into ragtag desert camps where violence and disease are epidemic, they face a harsh winter with little resources. Half are children. About 4300 families became so desperate that they were forced to take Maliki's offer of $800 USD to return to Baghdad. As they try to find some place to live in Baghdad, many more people leave the city. A third of the returnees return to find someone else living in their homes. Many Sunnis have lost their homes to Shi’ite families.
Incredibly, the Maliki government has charged former CIA asset and convicted embezzler Ahmad Chalabi with addressing the problem of refugees.
The Iraqis in external exile put pressures on the cities and countries where they seek sanctuary. They exacerbate already debilitated infrastructure and precious resources like water. They drive up housing prices. They drive down wages. They are treated with hostility. Their children are not admitted into school. Work permits are impossible to obtain. Iraqi workers are exploited in the underground job market. Deportation back to Iraq is a constant threat. The refugees live in the shadows, constantly fearing they will be arrested and sent home. Deportation often splits families. Women are left alone to raise children in a strange land.
All refugees everywhere long to go home. They think about it nonstop. They dream about it at night. They fondly remember how things were in the past. They focus on memories of simple things like birds in the trees. They are obsessed with going “home” -- but they can’t when there is no food, no electricity, and nothing but violence and death.
"I want only to go to home," says Meha, a 14 year-old Iraqi girl who now sells pickles on the streets of Amman to make ends meet.
When asked what she would like to say to U.S. teenagers, Meha said America must leave her country. Then she can go home.
Here’s a relevant song from the sixties…
..the simple fact that Chalabi is not in jail for endless crimes, shows how hollow the puppet regime in Babylon is (and the world over!). His northern PKK rebels are likely supplied by the CIA.
..gee, i wonder why the Turks are attacking? could it be about the new pipeline they're gonna build to ziostan, that cuts out the Turkish pipeline?
..not to mention the PKK attacks; to what end? i know!
great post, great music.
How many more must suffer?
How much is enough to satisfy their greed?
What will it take for Americans to act?
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"Money" has no value - people do.
oh, the Americans will act alright
when the master-of-disaster
takes the-proverbial-soother
from the-baby's mouth..
(because he needs to cork his shait)
I am becoming more and more convinced that in the past 300 years, the vast majority of wars did not have local reasons. (A turning point in world history?) Somebody somewhere else needed that war. A grain of truth in this, makes it that much harder to watch locals' sufferings. I wish there was a way to make this principle look like an established fact around the world.
On the subject of refugees…if the USA bordered Iraq, would you deny refugees a chance to escape the war zone?
When war breaks out, poor people are hit hardest, and are the first to become refugees.
NAFTA and other measures are economic war against workers in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Who on average are the poorest people in those three countries? Mexicans.
Shall we therefore complain when illegal aliens come to the USA?
Mexicans take jobs, burden hospitals, and often cause crime, but for the most part they are refugees. I speak Spanish. I talk to Mexican nationals almost every day. They say they have no choice but to come to the USA. It’s either that or starve to death.
Why can’t they get their own government in order? Why do they come to the USA? Well, the same question can be asked of Canadians and Americans. Why can’t they get their government in order?
The “enemy” is not Mexicans. It is rich “free market globalists,” who want to sell us ALL down the river for their own personal gain.
Right wing radio talk show hosts love Bush and Zionists, but condemn Bush for the illegal alien factor.
Again, shall we blame Mexicans for this? The fault lies with right-wing hypocrites.
Most nations today (including Canada and the USA) are war zones. Economic wars do not produce rivers of blood, but in terms of overall human suffering (statistically, when we look at the big picture) they are the worst of all.
Here's an analogy...what's the worst form of natural disaster? What statistically causes the most suffering and death? Hurricanes? Epidemics? Tsunamis? Earthquakes? Tornados? Floods? No, the worst natural disasters by far are droughts. With droughts, we don't see bodies pile up right away. We don't see flattened houses, flooded towns, and so on...but the overall death rate is the highest.
It's the same with economic warfare.
Although you answered your question and I agree with that,
" Shall we therefore complain when illegal aliens come to the USA? "
Yes, we should; but not 'to' illegals, rather to administration and hold congress responsible for letting this happen. Blaming illegals is like blaming the whole fiasco of losing your wallet on the street on some one who found it later and decided not to return it, because he had more serious immediate needs.
12-? million illegals in US is a conspiracy at the highest level not a simple oversight. It didn't happen over a few years and those in the government agencies, including congress, who should have raised the flag years ago, were gagged or bribed to stay quiet. Needless to say individuals like Lantos and Lieberman need neither to be gagged nor bribed. Destroying goy societies is their mission in life.
It is also important to know that this is not happening only for manual laborers. It is happening at higher degreed professions as well.
If you put an ad for a lab technician with a BS (bachelor of science) degree today, you can bet you will get some 30% PhD resumes alongside. 10-15 years ago, you would call your secretary and ask to make sure the ad mentioned the BS degree. Today it is an accepted fact that those 30% are foreign born PhD candidates.
And if your ad asks for a PhD, you can bet you will get 70% foreign born candidates. If you are an american PhD with 15 years of experience, you will be competing with foreign born fresh PhDs who won't negotiate for a better compensation package, work harder and longer, complain less, ask less for promotions, and when fired inappropriately they will not sue the company. They will just disappear in the crowd. Now you tell me who in the right mind is going to hire a whining american who demands his worth!
Now why none of these radio dog show hosts complain about foreign born PhDs? I bet its because they think PhD stands for Piled higher and Deeper of BSing (that is their profession).
We must solve this problem thru making those responsible for causing it pay the price proportionately. Globalists, North American Unionists, Bankers are the real (conceptual) perpetrators but you can never see them. They alway act thru local actors who must be cut loose first.
I agree with economic wars going on in north america, but its an elective war. When large corporations lay off thousands of workers, its not for cutting losses, but to keep profit margin of the upper management and main investors intact. In other words turfing off the losses on the vulnerables. It is possible only if the government is corrupt. Corporations evade $70b tax payments annually by just registering their companies in a foreign country (mainly Caribbean islands). It is possible only if the government is corrupt.
Your comments are alays thought-provoking, and I thank you for them.
”Yes, we should complain about illegals, so long as we direct our comments to the government that allows it to happen. Blaming illegals is like blaming the whole fiasco of losing your wallet on the street on some one who found it later and decided not to return it, because he had more serious immediate needs.”
I agree completely. Yes, we should complain about illegals, just as we should complain about Iraqis being made into refugees. And yes, I agree that one facet of the illegal alien problem is by Zionist design. Illegals help break up solidarity among non-Jews.
”It is also important to know that this is not happening only for manual laborers. It is happening at higher degreed professions as well”
Oh yes. H1B visas are a major crisis. The government is using EVERYTHING to replace American workers.
“If you put an ad for a lab technician with a BS (bachelor of science) degree today, you will get some 30% PhD resumes alongside. 10-15 years ago, you would call your secretary and ask to make sure the ad mentioned the BS degree. Today it is an accepted fact that those 30% are foreign born PhD candidates.”
Paul Craig Roberts over at Counterpunch has repeatedly noted that there is no lack of advance-degreed-graduates coming out of U.S. schools. The problem is that there are no jobs for them, or that foreigners are hired for the jobs.
“Why don’t these radio dog show hosts complain about foreign born PhDs? I bet its because they think PhD stands for Piled higher and Deeper of BSing (that is their profession). We must solve this problem thru making those responsible pay the price proportionately. Globalists, North American Unionists, Bankers are the real (conceptual) perpetrators, but you can never see them. They always act thru local actors who must be cut loose first.”
Agreed.
“I agree that North America is in the midst of an economic war, but its an elective war. When large corporations lay off thousands of workers, it’s not to cut losses, but to keep the profit margin of the upper management and main investors intact. This is possible only if the government is corrupt. Corporations evade $70b tax payments annually by just registering their companies in a foreign country (mainly Caribbean islands). It is possible only if the government is corrupt.”
Yes. Corrupt as in “bought and paid for.” The mass-layoffs of American workers is not to cut “losses,” but to cut expenses, which makes a company more attractive to Wall Street, thus bringing bigger bonuses for CEOs. Even if a CEO tries to resist this and do the right thing, he or she must please Wall Street, or the CEO will be fired.
Hugo Chavez has commented on this. He concedes that poverty in Venezuela remains a severe problem, and that it cannot be eliminated overnight.
Therefore his first goal is to try and restore a sense of personal dignity among workers. Improvements in worker morale leads to improvements in productivity, and thus to improvements in the overall economy.
By contrast, the American model with its mass layoffs and rumors of layoffs is designed to keep workers frightened, depressed, lonely, and helpless. That’s economic warfare. It’s a war on the middle class.
Iranian Jews deal a blow to Zionists
Iranian Jews, Yousefabad Synagogue, Tehran
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:00:34---The attempts by a Zionist organization to persuade Iranian Jews to leave the country and receive $10,000 in return have failed.
The organizers of the project in Israel and the United States have voiced their disappointment after they were given the cold shoulder.
Evangelical Christians in the US started the project in January 2007; however, after a frosty reception, they were forced to increase their incentive from $5,000 to $10,000.
According to a report by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), of some 25,000 Jews living in Iran, only 125 accepted the money during the course of the one-year project.
Iran's Jewish community leaders denounced the IFCJ attempts in a statement saying “Iranian Jews will not abandon their identity for any amount of money.”
“We love our Iranian identity and culture, so threats and enticements would not persuade Iranian Jews to give up their identity,” the statement added.
Iran is home to the second largest Jewish community in the Middle East.
In five years time I'd like to hear from the 125 Iranian Jews who took up the offer. They'll probably be treated like shit in Israel.
This article explains that Israel wanted Jews to move from Iraq to Israel in the 1950s.
When Iraqi Jews refused, the Israelis bombed them.
When Arab Jews did move to Israel, they were treated like dirt. The article is written by an Iraqi Jew who was once a Zionist.
Only the Khazars (Ashkenazis) can be the Master Race.