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2009-12-21
16:37
quinty: Thanks Yiannis
I had thought I made the term "Communal Capitalism" up. But searching the web someone apparently beat me to it. And may have laid claim to it. And has a stake to it. But I think I'll keep it anyway ..
Communal Capitalism
2009-12-20
00:51
Yiannis@212.50.118.77: great stuff
Hi , i would like to express my truw admiration for this dialog . After watching " The corporation" by or with michael moor i was looking for the term communal capitalism as i thought it best describ..
Communal Capitalism
2009-11-19
00:32
quinty: Avast, leeches!
Creepy crawly slugs and night creatures are most unwelcome here. They slide and slither and climb up out of holes in the boarding to take their place. There they sit until the sun rises. Then they hid..
Writers Take Sides
2009-06-27
23:03
quinty: Deleted
Some lone wolf predators put their garbage on this site. There is enough garbage (including mine, perhaps) on this site without the addition of gratuitous garbage peddling greater garbage unrelated ..
Can We As a Society Respect the Truth?
2009-06-16
04:34
a-d: I just opened my e-mail,
after responding to your comment...and what do I find there!?... :-) D.K. "hard at work to keep us all abrest with "what most likely will happen", "what can happen in its wake", so to speak, etc! He..
Communal Capitalism
2009-06-16
04:21
a-d: There are already
cities /communities doing exactly this kind of Local Currency(officially only to complement the Official Currency -- and of course...that IS true! ... *!*) that I'm talking about and they are VERY hap..
Communal Capitalism
2009-06-15
23:31
quinty: Another approach
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." I like the idea of equal pay for all professions. Can we ever reach such a state, where individuals enter a profession sole..
Communal Capitalism
2009-06-15
21:36
a-d: IF we truly
choose the TRUTH/fulness as our Guiding Light... we very quickly (will) realize the idiocy to even use the word --let alone the CONCEPT of-- "Capitalism" at all!!!... methinks.coz in such case, we wou..
Communal Capitalism
2009-05-15
04:30
a-d: Here Quinty, here Vax!
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=3359
One Writer's Oddyssey
2009-05-14
09:37
vaxen: Thankyou...
Mr. Quintanilla... "And though the world told me over and over and over again that I had to work, had to support myself, bitterly I wondered at the quality of life this demand returned to me if its..
One Writer's Oddyssey
2009-04-04
22:57
Quinty@68.9.133.5: Israel on Trial
Published on Saturday, April 4, 2009 by The New York Times Israel on Trial http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/opinion/04bisharat.html?_r=2&ref=opinion by George Bisharat SAN FRANCISCO - Chi..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-02-20
23:54
Quinty@68.9.133.5: Self destruction?
Published on Monday, February 16, 2009 by The Independent/UK http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/16-9 Israel is Trapped, and the Chance of Peace is Ever More Remote by Bruce Anderson Whi..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-29
18:19
martha: Hamas torture
GAZA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A Palestinian man on Thursday accused Islamist Hamas militants in control of the Gaza Strip of torturing and killing his brother for publicly criticising them. Osama Atalla..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-28
18:24
martha: Egypt again
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt aired its grievances against Iran, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, saying they worked together in the fighting over Gaza to pr..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-24
16:00
quinty: Among
the self justifications and lies which support this offensive, the one of Hamas fighters “hiding” among civilians may be among the most repugnant. For as Englehardt says, the military strikes were..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-23
23:50
quinty: A current tally from Tomgram
Tomgram: Tony Karon, Obama's Gaza Opportunity http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175024/tony_karon_obama_s_gaza_opportunity for the entire piece. Here is Tom Englehardt's introduction, which perha..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-22
17:45
a-d: Israel is no more a Nation
... ONLY "on Paper" to deceive the People.... -just like United States of America, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Egypt etc etc.ALL are PRIVATE CORPORATIONS, OWNED BY PRIVATE "INTERESTS". PERIOD!!! ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-22
16:28
quinty: Well,
I wouldn't go that far a-d. Though if I understood what you said correctly you seem to question the legitimacy of any national borders (America should talk! Ask the original natives!) Israel is a stat..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-22
03:59
a-d: yeahhh right, b!
Borders have come & gone on this planet many times around!... and will again! and no, Israel is NOT a NATION!...maybe a State (= a PRIVATE corporation, pretending to be there for the People!.... just ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-22
00:28
b: Israel is Israel
Israel exists. Israel is one of the nations of Earth. Israel has borders. There are stateless Arabs and new immigrint Shia is disputed territors. As of Jan 2009 there are no deals.
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-21
21:05
Quinty@68.9.133.5: I see that
George Mitchell will be special US envoy to the Middle East. I have always liked Mitchell, and he is an extremely serious fellow, who helped bring about a peace settlement in Ireland. Is this c..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-21
19:03
a-d: that's funny , quinty!
"...to make life miserable for...."
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-20
21:47
quinty: These Arabs
called Palestinians, just sprung up, don't ya’ know, to make life miserable for Jews. Why else would they be living there? The Jews being long persecuted by Europeans, and, yes, Americans too. In..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-19
21:58
a-d: ...and besides,
WHY IN THE WORLD are they reffered to as Palestinians IF such Land "never existed" /doesn't exist --at least in concept.The Land of Philistens, that Abram walked to and where he was welcomed --all acc..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-19
19:06
quinty: January 19 - About 1300 to 13 dead
We Must Demand a Just Peace for Palestinians http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/433414 by Judith Laitman and Tsela Barr As American Jews, we grew up learning to revere Israel, the "J..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-17
15:46
quinty: Thanks
for tipping me off to Ame. Yes, I'm familiar with the Refuseniks. Jewish Voice for Peace http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/ and others has done several things on them. We can dismiss the Refu..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-17
03:10
a-d: and then, check
who's supporting "Who" & "What" here on NCN!... "interesting" reading/observations -to say the least!...some reveal--or is it really that they are in a good position to truly solidify their true color..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-16
23:43
quinty: Avi Shlaim talks
to Amy Goodman..... http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/14/leading_israeli_scholar_avi_shlaim_israel It's a video interview and slightly more than forty minutes long. Shlaim's book, The Iron Wall..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-16
00:36
Quinty@68.9.133.5: Approaching Inauguration Day
Has an era of competence returned? Tonight an airline pilot and his crew expertly ditched a plane in the Hudson and saved all lives. An impressive and admirable performance, something we have n..
"Yes We Can"
2009-01-14
16:37
Quinty@68.9.133.5: There other maps
which are somewhat larger and clearer. So maps including the settlements in the West Bank are out there. Yes, I agree, those settlements, the land grabbing go far in explaining Israeli/Arab tensions. ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-14
01:10
a-d: This happens on InterNet
all the time.... has done so for years! This time it happended to be the MAP of Israeli land grabbing from the original deal to today's situation... I just found on the Net one site, where the Map --..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-13
23:54
quinty: Hmmm,
weird. And why would those blogs be blocked? Let's not get carried away though. We don't have the full picture before us. Or do we? Referring back to Hillary's confirmation hearing this morn..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-13
20:47
a-d: I just want you all to notice
that once again Someone has been cleaning up InterNet and the most incriminating links/site removed/blocked, whatever...but not accessed any longer. The first two I put there on my first comment; the ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-13
19:31
quinty: Oy vey! Oy vey!
Get a load of this rally in New York. Max Blumenthal is the guy going around asking questions..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FABqq_jjRRo Dig the lady who talks about cutting out a "cancer..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-13
18:22
quinty: Is change coming?
I watched Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing this morning, on good old C-SPAN.... Not only did Hillary break the Israel First taboo but informed the Senators that Obama and she herself are aware..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-10
16:43
quinty: On the other hand
if the Palestinians stopped rocketing Israel with only the exception of a few Jewish peace groups nobody would pay any attention to the brutalities (ethnic cleansing) Israel is inflicting on the Pales..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-10
16:17
quinty: BDS
Imagine that, the United States boycotting Israel? A worthy project forcing Israel to behave decently, but hardly likely. Unless there is a full blown sea change here. I’m hoping Obama at the very..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-10
13:12
jazzolog: For The Record, Naomi Klein
Hopefully, most readers have read this dispatch from Ms. Klein by now. Her personal involvement down at the end are particularly revealing. You may know that I am a major fan of Naomi Klein, not onl..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-09
07:49
vaxen: And...
especially when you consider the offshore natural gas fields http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gazas-offshore-gas-fields/ which would put the Palest..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-09
01:33
a-d: Devastation
--as it is called when the more equal pigs get "hit" -- in Israel by a Palestinian "rocket" http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-do-they-hate-the-west-so-much-we-wil..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-09
00:25
quinty: Richard Falk
A good piece by Falk...... “The recent developments in Gaza are especially disturbing because they express so vividly a deliberate intention on the part of Israel and its allies to subject an ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-08
23:21
vaxen: What Rough Beast...
Richard Falk - Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming The ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-08
20:19
quinty: Yes,
the map of the West Bank looks like a Swiss cheese, what with all the settlements. Some Israeli government leaders like to call if the new or evolving "facts on the ground." After all, if Jewish se..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-08
18:42
a-d: this map says it all!
http://chet-justice.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-israel-wiped-palestine-off-map.html ...and here's how the Map came to look the way it does!.... and now "we are working on "the next part" of the Proj..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-08
17:19
quinty: As
Ellen says, "Wouldn't you know it.... " Israeli Militants Poised to Resettle Gaza After Assault By Linda Mamoun, AlterNet. Posted January 7, 2009. http://www.alternet.org/audits/117812?page=ent..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-07
23:49
Quinty@68.9.133.5: Warning leaflets and more....
This is not the first time Israel has dropped leaflets warning the civilian population below that they were about to bomb them. This slight of hand covers the barbarity which will follow for their a..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-07
21:22
quinty: Robert Scheer on the coverage
Why Do So Few Speak Up for Gaza? Posted on Jan 6, 2009 By Robert Scheer http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090106_why_do_so_few_speak_up_for_gaza/ Why are we so indifferent to the dea..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-01
18:01
quinty: January 1, 2009 Cont'd
Note to the reader - go to the link below. It is clearer, easier to read, and more attractive. The links to the footnotes, if interested, can be found there too. Thanks, Quinty http://www.muzzlew..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2009-01-01
17:47
quinty: January 1, 2009
A Hundred Eyes for an Eye Jan 01, 2009 By Norman Solomon Israelis and Arabs "feel that only force can assure justice," I. F. Stone noted soon after the Six Day War in 1967. And he wrote..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-31
16:30
vaxen: Having a discussion...
with Martha? Kidding, right? Quinty, to many of the Orthodox Yehudiim ...Goyiim(Nations)... are subhuman. The National Socialist agenda, and others, against Shtetl culture was, in fact, a reaction aga..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-31
00:26
quinty: What does it take
to crack through the nut? Jewish lives are important, valuable, and Jews deserve to live in peace. But so do the Palestinians. And they have rights, too, including the right to live. Why is that..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-31
00:16
quinty: Sderot
It seems to me, Martha, that you are being redundant. The answer to your repeated question has already been given above, numerous times. But once again, let’s ask: what is more precious, a Jewis..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
23:28
martha: rockets
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im4KE3nkGA0) And let me note that no one has been willing to even have a discussion about how hamas is not willing to even recognize Isarel.
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
23:24
a-d: This is CLEARLY
an acto of INTENTIONAL PROVOCATION to get civilians to react to the point of "ACTIONS" and then that will be the JUSTIFICATION Israel "needed" to attack /launch call it whatever you wish, to get the ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
21:43
vaxen: Operation Cast Lead
Haaretz reports on Israel's deceit in the latest outrage, in the aptly titled piece, "Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza offensive came about": http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/10504..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
20:26
quinty: Yesterday
I watched CSAN for awhile as a UN spokesman explained how they defined "civilan casualties." They were only counting the women and children since it was less clear if the men were belligerents or not...
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
19:38
a-d: People here
seem to be dangerously IGNORANT of TRUTHFUL FACTS and FACTUAL TRUTHS how the past REALLY occured... -not just what the Propaganda Machinations presented AFTER their CRIMES were --already-- committed/F..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
18:10
quinty: Wishful thinking.....
There are those whose contempt for Arabs is high enough to believe the Palestinians will continue to ask for what is happening to them now in Gaza. Which is what would occur if, following the establ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
17:09
martha: Let me ask you again
how is peace going to happen when the Palestinians have it clearly written that they want to destroy Israel?
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
17:07
martha: Thank you quinty
for making it clear that you do want Israel to exist. i guess i was confused and appreciate your clarification. And I do hope that no bombs are ever used on either side. i didn't mean to physically d..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
17:04
quinty: From Haaretz
Everyone familiar with Gideon Levy, of Haaretz? (Thanks to Ellen, that perpetually self-hating Jew, for offering this.) Last update - 00:22 29/12/2008 The neighborhood bully strikes again ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
16:47
quinty: Hi Martha
There is nothing in anything I have said that says Israel should not exist. In fact, the Vatican - ie the Catholic Church - is a good example. Having once visited, and having been profoundly impr..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
14:43
martha: Peace
There can never be peace in Israel with the above covenant. Article 15: The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imp..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
14:42
martha: Palestinian National Covenant
Below is the Palestinian National Covenant, the official charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The text is the English version published officially by the PLO, unabridged and unedite..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
12:20
jazzolog: May We No Longer Be Silent
Episcopalian Bishop John Bryson Chane's sermon, referred to in the following article, can be heard at http://www.columba.org/listen/sermon/sermon2008-10-05JBCau.mp3 . I don't know if it appears onlin..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-30
12:15
martha: No Israel
So quinty do you feel that the state of Israel should not exist? What about the vatican? The atrocities of the catholic church for many centuries is well documented. What about the 20 or so muslim cou..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-29
23:53
quinty: The problem is
the Palestinians live in degradation in Palestine. Though Arabs are not all that much better off in Israel, where, according to some sources, they are treated as second class citizens. For they are no..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-29
22:53
martha: New mindset
I look at war, trying to find a new way of thinking for this problem. Obviously the old mindset isn't working. And though history can teach, history reminds us that we need a different approach to sol..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-29
22:02
Quinty@68.9.133.5: Agreed,
the Israeli children should be able to play in peace. And lobbing rockets into Jewish towns is horrific. But how many Palestinian lives equal one Jewish life? Or how many Jewish lives equal a Palestin..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-29
21:30
martha: Questions
I agree quinty that what is happening in Israel and Gaza is horrific. No arguement there. My question: If over 3,000 rockets have been fired into Israel this year by Hamas, who refuses to recognize Is..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-29
20:21
quinty: December 29, 2008
Leaders Lie, Civilians Die, and Lessons of History Are Ignored Posted on Dec 29, 2008 By Robert Fisk Editor’s note: This article was originally printed in The Independent. http://www.trut..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-28
00:12
Quinty@68.9.133.5: This is
a poem Nahida posted on Common Dreams Look at me I would love to write poetry about love, Paint rainbows and butterflies, Smell the scent of rose buds, And dance; Dance with the melody of ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-27
21:27
quinty: December 27, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwZoAziUFLY A film clip on Youtube today from Gaza....... This is known as "collective punishment." Could we forget thinking in terms of Israelis and Palestinian..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-26
23:52
quinty: As my partner
just said, "Every time archeologists dig up something contradicting accepted Jewish history they have a collective shit fit." Ie, the Israel Firsters here and there.... Schlomo Sand, she tells me, ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-26
18:30
quinty@68.9.133.5: Israelis reopen Gaza's crossings
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7799915.stm Israelis reopen Gaza's crossings BBC December 26, 2008 Israel has reopened crossings into the Gaza Strip to allow the delivery of humanitarian..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-26
03:49
vaxen: Take...
a look, sometime, at what is referred to as 'Egypt.' We are talking 'Sinai Desert' here. The Sinai desert is huge. The "tunnels" go there. The Beduins inhabit the Sinai and while many of them consider..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-12-16
23:48
quinty: News coverage
of what's happening in Gaza is hard to find. Our MSM focuses on one "big" story, as a rule, and stays there. The tragedies elsewhere in the world may not sell pharmaceuticals or luxury cruises so, in ..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-11-29
16:26
Quinty@68.9.133.5: This from Al-Ahram
offers an Arabic perspective....... Holding Gaza hostage Gaza's humanitarian crisis escalates as the world watches in silence. Dina Ezzat reports from Cairo, Saleh Al-Naami from Gaza HOPE UND..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-11-28
18:21
quinty: When one and a half million people
are facing starvation and a loss of all the basics for a minimally decent life someone should at least talk about it. One of you asked me off-line why I was dwelling on this? Why bother when there are..
Not Peace but Apartheid
2008-11-28
18:02
quinty: Desmond Tutu on Gaza
Published on Thursday, November 27, 2008 by The Capital Times (Wisconsin) Media Silence Doesn't Mean All's Well in Gaza http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/316208 by Amy Goodman As Pre..
Not Peace but Apartheid

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