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geofgray

I'm in the online medical informatics healthcare business--whatever that is.

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  • The MSM tries to distinguish between Manning and Snowden. Don't let them
    • geofgray June 11, 2013 at 3:15 pm with 3 replies

      another thought--i am in a business where i employ a number of young twenty somethings doing cloud programming. they have a certain set of values--"information wants to be free," is one of them. they all celebrate snowden, no equivocation. is there a new and different civil rights movement afoot? i think so.

    • geofgray June 11, 2013 at 3:08 pm with 1 replies

      both assange and manning have been demonized pretty successfully as sexual deviates, narcissists, you name it. i wonder if there isn't some guilt, especially in view of their subsequent treatment. it looks to me that there is an uprising, a civil disobedience movement coming, and the disobeyers are young kids--our kids. it gets harder and harder to dis your own kids--cognitive dissonance.
      assange and manning paid the price for opening the door.

  • Islamophobia is as widespread and acceptable as anti-Semitism used to be
  • Shared values?
    • geofgray May 7, 2013 at 10:32 am with 4 replies

      Bob Jones University is not Catholic. I don't think Catholic institutions have ever been open to segregation in the US. Georgetown University was founded by a partly black Bishop of the Church. Catholics, in fact, have founded many black schools, e.g. Saint Elizabeth Drexel founded scores of schools for blacks in the South, and the Jesuits founded the black Jesuit college Xavier in New Orleans.
      The Catholic Church has much to be defensive about, but Bob Jones University is not one of them--thank god!

  • Teachers’ Union of Ireland endorses academic boycott of Israel in unanimous vote
    • geofgray April 5, 2013 at 1:25 pm with 3 replies

      Ireland's experience of colonial occupation is similar to Palestine's: the lack of civil rights, the right to self determination, anti-Catholic discrimination, etc. The memory of British occupation is raw in much of Ireland. When I was in Balinamore--close to the Northern Ireland's border--I was told by Irish people I knew that "there are killers around here." They were referring to Irish terrorists--IRA men. My landlord was one of them! A statue in Ballinamore celebrates Castro and a local Irish patriot (some would say terrorist) whose son ran a local bar. I'd play golf at the public course ($60 for a year's membership). One day playing in a foursome with a judge I was told: "everybody around here knows who blew up Lord Mountbatten's yacht; he lives here."
      Now so called Irish politicians like Peter King shill for Israel. I guess assimilation can kill the soul.

  • The reviews are in: 'Zero Dark Thirty makes me hate muslims'
    • geofgray January 17, 2013 at 3:52 pm

      i saw the movie. my reaction was different than the tweeters: i was more appalled by the depiction of the americans than i was by the cartoonish depictions of the muslims. the muslims were over the top and reminded me of one of those 30's movies e.g. gungha din: wild-eyed swarthy, dressed in diapers--a hoot. the americans were humourless, obsessed, smug, flag-pinned, supercilious. the star--chastain (like the other americans)--was flat, one-dimensional. but this was quality was celebrated. so while the muslims to me were a joke, the americans were scary in their self-congratulatory rapture.
      it was a movie about killing in cold blood an unarmed man in his bedroom in his pajamas. i walked out 10 minutes before the end; first time i have left a movie early in years.

  • Michael Moore says Palestinians have gotten a 'raw deal'
    • geofgray September 11, 2012 at 7:05 pm

      small point--michael moore's agent is i believe rahm emmanuel's brother. getting a film produced means not getting blackballed by an almost fanatically pro-israel hollywood crowd. the guy's got enough problems--he has to have full time security because he has been attacked by rabid right wingers. i think his caution is due to 1) his interest in continuing to stay alive; and 2) his interest in continuing to make movies. so i take his small contribution with a great thank you.

  • P.S. Romney omitted Ramadan
    • geofgray August 2, 2012 at 9:07 am with 5 replies

      Obama's remarks are commendable. But when are they not? His positions are nuanced, but what difference does that make? He's all avowal but not action. As Bromwich writes this morning:

      "Let us recall some of the actions. In response to the onslaught on Gaza in December-January 2008-2009, in which 1,300 Palestinians were killed and 13 Israelis, Obama observed a silence which he has never broken. When, in November 2010, Netanyahu balked at the proposal of a 90-day partial extension of the freeze on West Bank settlement expansion, Obama offered twenty F-35 fighter jets if he would change his mind; Netanyahu refused, and Obama gave him the jets anyway. Only a week ago, the president donated another $70 million, on top of U.S. assistance already given, to build up the Israeli "Iron Dome" defense against rockets. "

      Let us also remember that Obama came into office offering a new policy in the middle east and immediately initiated cyberwar, conspired to murder Iranian scientists, rejected a peace initiative to end the nuclear impasse, and has actively demonized that country in order to stoke the winds of war.

      Romney's rhetoric is offensive and crude, but Obama's actions do not invite confidence.

  • Democratic Congressman's aide who said there are no Palestinians says he wasn't speaking for his boss
    • geofgray July 6, 2012 at 9:05 pm with 1 replies

      Evelyn Garcia is receiving a ton of hate mail. I emailed her and then posted on her website a message of support. You should too. Here is her email address
      http://www.evelyngarciacampaign.com

      Here is the Palm Beach County Democratic Party's website. You might think of sending an email to Mark Alan Siegel asking him to stop with the bullying and remind him this is America.

  • Rebranding Israel
    • geofgray June 17, 2012 at 11:51 am with 6 replies

      did i miss something? hasn't the US turned into a fascist country that has been israelified? a president running death squads, assassinating american citizens, bombing countries with which we are not at war, repressing dissent, surveilling the populace?
      the only dissent i see is on the blogs. the mainstream media serves up propagandistic confections. at least in the old USSR most russian people knew that they were being lied to; americans don't.

  • Breaking report: US/Israel military drill cancelled, after US tells Israel to back off
    • geofgray January 15, 2012 at 7:20 pm with 2 replies

      Perhaps Obama is heeding this warning made yesterday by Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s deputy prime minister and former envoy to NATO: ­“Iran is our close neighbor, just south of the Caucasus. Should anything happen to Iran, should Iran get drawn into any political or military hardships, this will be a direct threat to our national security.” Perhaps Obama doesn't want WW III on his watch, might tarnish the Nobel bona fides.

  • The New Yorientalist Times
    • geofgray March 26, 2010 at 10:36 am

      Note also Bronner writes that the 1600 housing units are for "an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood." What reasonable person would disagree with that? Of course, no mention of the 20 new units in the Palestinian neighborhood.

      Bronner is really a master of obfuscation. His use of the passive voice is one thing but also his canny use of details and focus. Here is the angry arab on bronner: "If an Israeli is killed by a Palestinian, the NYT leaves no doubt that the Israeli was killed by a Palestinian. But when Palestinians are killed by Israeli terrorists, the story is buried under such layers of details and various accounts and Israeli propaganda claims, that you are left confused not knowing what happened even when it is clear what happened."

  • Ban says settlements are 'illegal'
    • geofgray March 21, 2010 at 1:36 pm

      The NY Times in their effort to sequester Americans from the truth avoid using the word illegal, although Isabel Kershner this morning seemed to express mock horror by putting quotes around "illegal." Also, this morning Bronner called the new settlements in Jerusalem "problematic." Thomas Friedman usually calls the settlements "disputed" and Ms.Clinton has called them "unhelpful."
      However, as anyone who reads the European press knows: Every settler in every settlement in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights is illegal under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

      By all international standards—the U.N. Charter, the Fourth Geneva Convention, the rulings of the International Court of Justice—East Jerusalem has been indisputably recognized as occupied territory since the 1967 Six-Day War.

      U.N. Resolution 252 “considers that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, including expropriation of land and properties thereon, which tend to change the legal status of Jerusalem are invalid and cannot change that status.” It also reaffirms “... that acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible.”

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