Are you missing those days? Sometimes I do Doordarshan Logo Doordarshan’ s Screensaver Malgudi Days Dekh Bhai Dekh oRamayan Mile Sur Mera Tumhara Turning Point Bharath Ek Khoj Alif Laila Byomkesh Bakshi Tehkikaat He Man Salma Sultana DD News Reader Vicco turmeric,Nahin cosmeticVicco turmeric ayurvedic cream Twaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiingggggggWashin powder Nirma, Washing powder NirmaDoodh si safedi, Nirma se aayiRangeen kapde bhi khil khil jaaye I’m a Complan Boy(Shahid Kapoor) and I’m a Complan Girl (Ayesha Takia) Surabhi : Renuka Sahane and SiddharthThen were ‘Mungerilal ke hasin sapane’ and ‘karamchand’ …’Vikram Betal’, etc. How did one survive growing up in the 80’s and 90’s?We had no seatbelts, no airbags and sitting in the back of a truck was a treat…Our baby prams had the most gorgeous lead based colours…No such thing as tamper proof bottle tops…Opening kitchen cupboards was a breeze… as safety locks were unheard off…Cycling was like a breath of fresh air…No safety helmets, knee pads or elbow pads, with plenty of cardboards between spokes to make it sound like a motorbike…When thirsty we only drank tap water, bottled water was still a mystery…We kept busy collecting bits & pieces so we could build all sort of things … and we were fearless on our bikes even when the brakes failed going downhill…We were showing off how tough we are, by how high we could climb trees & then jumping down….It was great fun….We could stay out to play for hours, as long as we got back before dark, in time for dinner…We walked to school, or sometimes we even rode our bike.We had no mobile phones, but we always managed to find each other…. How? No one knows…We lost teeth, broke arms & legs, we got cuts and bruises and bloody noses…. nobody complained as we had so much fun, it wasn’t anybody’s fault, only oursWe ate everything in sight, cakes, bread, chocolate, ice-cream, sweet sugary drinks, yet, we stayed skinny by fooling around.And if one of us was lucky to find a 1 litre coca cola bottle we all had a swag from it & guess what? Nobody picked up any germs…We did not have Play Stations, MP3, Nintendo’s, I-Pods, Video games, 99 Cable TV channels, DVD’s, Home Cinema, Mobile phones, Home Computers, Laptops, Chat-rooms, Internet, etc … BUT, we had REAL FRIENDS!!!!We called on friends to come out to play, never rang the doorbell, just went around the back…We loved being let loose in the big bad world…without bodyguards…We played with sticks and stones, played cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, hide and seek, soccer games, over and over again…When we failed our exams we were given a second chance by simply repeating the same grade…without visiting psychiatrists, psychologists or counselors…Such were the days…We had freedom, success, disappointments and responsibilities. .. Most of all, we learned to respect others… Are YOU from that generation??

Well during last few weeks BOMBAY  has seen a lot of turmoil in relation to the apparent unwanted North Indians by the local Marathi residents of BOMBAY and in reply to this Shobha De has written an article which very clearly explains her sentiments

good article….written by

POLITICALLY INCORRECT

Me, Marathi

Correct me if I am wrong, Raj… but I consider myself an assal Marathi
manoos. Born in Maharashtra to Maharashtrian parents etc. Proud to be
Marathi (even though my language skills in my mother tongue are
embarrassingly dodgy). I don’t know how to make the perfect puran poli but
I do love aamti.

This is clearly not enough anymore. Going by the checklist, I could be
disqualified on several scores. I am married to a Bong, who has lived and
worked in Mumbai for over 30 years (but alas, has not been appointed
ambassador to the state of West Bengal yet!). He attends Durga Puja
regularly and prefers maacher jhol to vangi bhaat.

Fortunately, we don’t have a daughter-in-law to name a college after,
either in Kolkata or Mumbai. And our children (like yours) did not attend
Marathi-medium schools. We employ people based on their competence, not
caste or region. And I have never asked the vegetable vendor, breadwalla,
taxi driver, dhobi, sweeper, elevator attendant, security guard, pizza
delivery boy or any of the other people who make my life easier, which
part of India they come from.

This is Mumbai, meri jaan! Who cares where anyone comes from? Dhanda is
all that matters. Mumbai is India’s most powerful magnet. Once you get
here, you never leave. Don’t believe me? Ask those innocent bhajjiwallas
and doodhwallas who were beaten up and stoned by your men last week. Even
with blood-soaked bandages around their heads, and broken hearts, they are
staying put. As they should.

Aaah, the natak of your dramatised ‘arrest’ was not lost on anybody. Had
Rakhi Sawant’s slapping stunt not grabbed those eyeballs on Valentine’s
Day, viewers would still be stuck with the image of a nattily dressed you
(mmmm…loved the styling), clambering in and out of the police van. If
Rakhi cleverly stage-managed the incident, what should one say about your
brilliant coup? Overnight, Raj Thackeray was elevated from being the
discarded Thackeray to a national figure. In one well-orchestrated move,
you went from being a neglected nephew of an ageing tiger, to a
sharp-clawed, teeth-baring cub with an independent act of his own. The
circus acquired a brand new star attraction — you!

It was never easy being a Thackeray. Ask Balasaheb. If he targeted south
Indians in the ’60s, you smartly headed north. Same agenda, diametrically
different directions. By questioning the bona fides of those who have made
Maharashtra their home, both of you tapped into the vulnerabilities of the
average Marathi manoos. It is worth asking the very people whose interests
you are protecting, whether they really want to do the dirty work
currently being handled by the northies.

Will the Marathi manoos agree to put in 18 hours a day plying taxis,
selling veggies, washing clothes and so on? Who’s stopping them from
turning into vendors of milk, food grains, and other commodities? Perhaps,
the Marathi manoos considers such occupations demeaning? The truth is,
these jobs have always gone abegging, and there have been any number of
hungry, unemployed people from other states ready and willing to grab
them. Kick the ‘outsiders’ out at your own peril, and see what happens.
Why do farmers commit suicide in such numbers only in Maharashtra? The
answer, dear Raj, may surprise you.

In your defence, let me say you received the worst press — biased at best,
and shrill to boot. Most of the semi-hysterical reporters from prestigious
news channels were embarrassingly ill-informed as they blabbered
incoherently each time a leaf moved outside the magistrate’s court!

Surely, you are not complaining? Everything seems to be going according to
the master plan. You have ‘made it’ in one swift move. And women are
finding you kinda cute in that sleeveless baby blue pullover. Great copy,
great photo ops. What more does a neta want? To keep Mayawati and Lalu out
of Maharashtra? Now, that’s a tall order!

the following feelings have been expressed by Vaihayasi P Daniel at this link.

I and most bombayites like me will share the grief, sorrow, pain and the feelings expressed by Vaihayasi. This is just a way of spreading such excellent view points through my web site.

They are calling it India’s 9/11,” my sister remarked on the phone to me from California the other day.

No.

It was not a 9/11.

We did not have a bone-chilling 3,500 deaths over those three days. Nor did two of the world’s largest buildings fall. And Mumbai [Images] was not wrecked like the World Trade Centres and its surrounding areas were in September 2001.

But Mumbai’s 62 hours of terror had aspects that have been as dreadful as 9/11. Aspects that makes overcoming the horror of these terrible strikes rough and daunting.

I have lived through the bloodshed, butchery and tears of the city’s previous attacks in trains, buses and at city landmarks. And Mumbai’s riots. I have seen people, who were alive moments ago, be carted off to the hospital and then to the morgue. I have seen a leg come out of a bomb site minus its owner. I have seen what hate does to human beings.

But I have not experienced the fear of having terrorists enter your home. That has now become real. The building in which Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg lived is known to the world as a Jewish centre. But do people understand it was also their home? It was a simple residential building deep inside a crowded neighbourhood full of other residential buildings, some of them a few feet away from Nariman House. And when the Holtzbergs moved to this friendly Indian city they must have felt quite safe; attacks on Jews on Indian soil are pretty much unheard of.

These two men from hell entered the home of an ordinary, closely-knit family, one dark November evening, and killed them. They or their fellow conspirators must have scouted around beforehand and discovered this oddly-located home, that I never knew existed, which had foreigners living it and then cold-bloodedly targeted it.

That is extremely traumatising. I wonder tomorrow if they will enter the home of any foreigner. I have foreigners living in my building. Can they enter my building? Is that really an exaggerated thought? Children in Mumbai are asking their parents, “What will you do, Mom, do if a terrorist enters our home?”

Three nightmarish days of sustained grenade attacks, explosions and gunfire inflicted by unknown terrorists — no one had any idea in those three days how many of them there were and if they were loose elsewhere in the city — became three days etched on your soul. More, you will remember platoons of soldiers marching in your city to take control of a situation that the city’s local forces could not solve and helicopters rumbling overhead dropping commandos from the sky. Those were enduring images and haunting sounds.

Now every remotely comparable noise/sight — a firecracker, a burst tyre, a fire truck parked in a strange place, a policeman wandering with riot gear, an ambulance’s urgent siren, a strange-looking car/driver moving fast, a late-night phone call, navy exercises at sea — has new meaning. My children still have nightmares. I am too. And so is my neighbour.

Unfortunately, thanks to the carelessness of the city’s caretakers, Mumbai is one of the most attacked cities in the world. I have sifted through the statistics available on the Internet and I cannot find any other city that has faced so many terrorist attacks except certain cities in Israel and Colombo.

In this ordinary city — that hums with the cycles of everyday life — one cannot help but now live with the grim belief that another attack could be around the corner. Mumbai, today like Baghdad, sits in the middle of a battlefield of a war without frontiers.

How do you put gruesome, terrifying strikes that happened three weeks ago behind you when you are worried that there could be fresh attacks just months hence?

Or that RDX left somewhere may go off — like maybe in the taxi you plan to take to go home?

The police insist there were just 10 terrorists. But where are the other 300 they trained with?

Where are the people who discovered Nariman House for Imran Babar and his partner? Do you know what it feels like to live in a city so vulnerable to terrorism? Or to vaguely and uneasily wonder when your lucky relationship with kismet — or your child’s — will run out?

Living with this mixture of fear, anxiety, horror, anger and grief is testing. In the middle of all this you must move ahead — you are supposed to, expected to. And bring in birthdays, host dinners for out-of-town guests, celebrate Christmas. And new year. Even in grim times when you are closer to tears than joy.

I remember a woman I knew in New York who was totally traumatised by the 9/11 attacks. She did not live anywhere near Manhattan and was not there when it happened. But post traumatic stress prevented her from resuming her job in Manhattan at a major publishing house and she finally quit. I cannot be like her, can I? I must get on with it. Ignore the forbidding shadows and bury the ghosts and move ahead.

But I have a certain dull sorrow in addition to my fear. Sorrow, of course, for the people who died, like the young Israeli couple who lived a few streets away from me and for their golden-locked orphaned child or for the simple but brave Marathi policeman at Chowpatty. But in a larger sense there is inextinguishable sorrow for my battered city, my Bombay, my life.

If they had to keep attacking a city over and over again, why does it have to be this fine city? Why Mumbai with its chutzpah, its can-do spirit and warm heart. A place that offers lessons in unbelievable humanity… and always has a generous welcome for everyone from its multi-ethnic residents. You can be from anywhere in the world, but you can, if you wish to, live your life belonging to Mumbai.

What will happen to Mumbai if it continues to be attacked mercilessly? It is easy to say that Mumbai is unstoppable. But with each attack our city is finding it more difficult to pick up its pieces — the rally at the Gateway of India [Images] this time was evidence of that. We go through the motions or resuming our daily life, pushing fear away — getting back into our local trains, selling eggs, washing cars, sweeping the streets, hawking souvenirs, sitting at our desks, going to school — but it is nevertheless a wounded city. It has gaping wounds, deeply scarred.

Can this city break? If it breaks what will happen? Will there be schisms that pit people against each other? Will the very fabric of the city change? Will its people become less like Bombaywallahs? Can it become a dark city like Baghdad?

I am not a religious person. Religious people have easier ways to ride these kinds of crises. But I fervently hope, with probably childlike innocent idealism, for a few things:

·  I trust that this wonderful city continues to be resilient and keeps its strength, courage and humour, which are its strongest weapons. That it never breaks. It is a demanding aspiration. But if you join me, by educating everyone you know, for the need for us to remain strong — be it your peon or your driver or your colleague or your bus companion or your bread man or our reader — we can do it.

·  I wish for continued understanding that we as a city are one community. We are all Mumbai-ites, united by our place of residence and by the city we love. We are not divided and we have a common enemy that we must fight together. We cannot/must not let any disharmony find control. We must stamp out any signs of it. No loose talk, rumours, resentment or ugliness. If our energy is frittered away by having to deal with narrow barriers we will not be prepared for the big fight/s.

·  That the anger that manifested itself at Gateway of India gathers force and brings a huge positive outcome. We have to reach for the stars when we demand change and good governance/ management of this city and of course the country. And as part of the media I believe we owe it to Mumbai/Bombay to constantly profile the people struggling for change and ourselves highlight the need for change constantly.

Not only did more than 200000 people turn up for the peace March at the Gateway of India yesterday but they were loud and clear of what they wanted….. “A Change & Action not bhashan”     This is what the people of Mumbai felt about our so called babus and netas(  local terrorists )  …..Please forward this  to each and every Indian  so the message reached out to our politicians …

Dear Mr. Prime minister

I am a typical mouse from Mumbai. In the local train compartment which has capacity of 100 persons, I travel with 500 more mouse. Mouse at least squeak but we don’t even do that.

Today I heard your speech. In which you said ‘NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED’. I would like to remind you that fourteen years has passed since serial bomb blast in Mumbai took place. Dawood was the main conspirator. Till today he is not caught. All our bolywood actors, our builders, our Gutka king meets him but your Government can not catch him. Reason is simple; all your ministers are hand in glove with him. If any attempt is made to catch him everybody will be exposed. Your statement ‘NOBODY WOULD BE SPARED’ is nothing but a cruel joke on this unfortunate people of India.

Enough is enough. As such after seeing terrorist attack carried out by about a dozen young boys I realize that if same thing continues days are not away when terrorist will attack by air, destroy our nuclear reactor and there will be one more Hiroshima.

We the people are left with only one mantra. Womb to Bomb to Tomb. You promised Bombayites Shanghai what you have given us is Jalianwala Baug.

Today only your home minister resigned. What took you so long to kick out this joker? Only reason was that he was loyal to Gandhi family. Loyalty to Gandhi family is more important than blood of innocent people, isn’t it?

I am born and bought up in Mumbai for last thirty four years. Believe me corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar. Look at all the politician, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal Thackray , Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are rolling in money. Vilasrao Deshmukh is one of the worst Chief minister I have seen. His only business is to increase the FSI every other day, make money and send it to Delhi so Congress can fight next election. Now the clown has found new way and will increase FSI for fisherman so they can build concrete house right on sea shore. Next time terrorist can comfortably live in those house , enjoy the beauty of sea and then attack the Mumbai at their will.

Recently I had to purchase house in Mumbai. I met about two dozen builders. Everybody wanted about 30% in black. A common person like me knows this and with all your intelligent agency & CBI you and your finance minister are not aware of it. Where all the black money goes? To the underworld isn’t it? Our politicians take help of these goondas to vacate people by force. I myself was victim of it. If you have time please come to me, I will tell you everything.

If this has been land of fools, idiots then I would not have ever cared to write you this letter. Just see the tragedy, on one side we are reaching moon, people are so intelligent and on other side you politician has converted nectar into deadly poison. I am everything Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Schedule caste, OBC, Muslim OBC, Christian Schedule caste, Creamy Schedule caste only what I am not is INDIAN. You politician have raped every part of mother India by your policy of divide and rule.

Take example of former president Abdul Kalam. Such a intelligent person, such a fine human being. You politician didn’t even spare him. Your party along with opposition joined the hands, because politician feels they are supreme and there is no place for good person.

Dear Mr Prime minister you are one of the most intelligent person, most learned person. Just wake up, be a real SARDAR. First and foremost expose all selfish politician. Ask Swiss bank to give name of all Indian account holder. Give reins of CBI to independent agency. Let them find wolf among us. There will be political upheaval but that will better than dance of death which we are witnessing every day. Just give us ambient where we can work honestly and without fear. Let there be rule of law. Everything else will be taken care of.

Choice is yours Mr. Prime Minister. Do you want to be lead by one person or you want to lead the nation of 100 Crore people?

Google to Release Open-Source ‘Chrome’ Browser
by Chloe Albanesius

Are Internet Explorer and Firefox ready to do battle with Chrome? Google announced Monday that it has been hard at work on an open-source browser known as Chrome, a beta version of which will be released in 100 countries on Tuesday. New features will included “isolated” tabs designed to prevent browser crashes and a more powerful JavaScript engine.

“Why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web,” Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, Google engineering director, wrote in a blog post.

Google was apparently looking to keep news of Chrome under wraps until after the holiday weekend. A 38-page, online comic book that provided details about Chrome hit the blogosphere Monday morning, but Pichai and Upson said in their blog post that Google had “hit ’send’ a bit early” on the web comic. The comic depicts various Google engineers describing Chrome’s features, including the isolated tab idea.

“By keeping each tab in an isolated ’sandbox’, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites,” Pichai and Upson wrote. Having a number of tabs open in a single browser eats up memory. If a browser is running slow, a user’s natural inclination is to close a few tabs? In some cases, however, little bits of the closed tabs remain, which eats up space and requires the operating system to grow the browser’s address space, according to Google. With Chrome, there will be a different tab for each process, including plug-ins.

“When a tab is closed in Google Chrome, you’re ending the whole process,” according to the comic. “You can look under the hood with Google Chrome’s task mananger to see what sites are using the most memory, downloading the most bytes and abusing your CPU” so you can place “blame where blame belongs.”

Google also promised “improved speed and responsiveness across the board.”

“We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers,” Pichai and Upson wrote.

Like OpenSocial and Android, Chrome will be an open source initiative.

“We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we’re committed to continuing on their path,” they wrote. “We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others — and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.”

The team selected Webkit because it uses memory efficiently, was easily adapated to embedded devices, and it was easy for new browser developers to learn to make the code base work, according to the web comic. “Webkit keeps it simple.”

Google recently extended its financial deal with Mozilla until 2011, according to a blog post from Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation.

Tuesday’s beta release will be available for Windows users. “We’re hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust,” Pichai and Upson wrote.

“This is just the beginning — Google Chrome is far from done,” they wrote. “Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.”

Last week, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, which includes improved security and new browsing aids.

Earlier this summer, Mozilla released Firefox 3, which garnered 8 million downloads in 24 hours.

A fresh take on the browser
9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.

This is just the beginning — Google Chrome is far from done. We’re releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We’re hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we’re committed to continuing on their path. We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others — and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

p.s. - I have just downloaded and installed the same, more updates later after using it.

What If Israel Had Never Been Created?

What If Israel Had Never Been Created?

What If Israel Had Never Been Created?

What If Israel Had Never Been Created?

What If Israel Had Never Been Created?

What If Israel Had Never Been Created?

William Hughes

July 11, 2006

William Hughes

William Hughes is a Baltimore author, attorney, educator and professional actor. He has been writing political commentaries for over 40 years. His latest book, “Saying ‘No’ to the War Party,” is a collection of his essays, and photographs. It targets the Bush-Cheney Gang, along with the powerful “Special Interests,” such as: the Neocons, Big Oil and the Military-Industrial Complex, which have helped to drag the U.S. into the Iraq War. The book also makes current history come alive.

 

 

“Imagine there’s no countries…Nothing to live or die for…Imagine all the people living life in peace.” - John Lennon

Thanks mostly to U.S. President Harry S. Truman and his “susceptibility to Zionist influence,” Israel came into existence in 1948. (1) Humanity, and in particular, the Palestinians, have paid dearly for his decision. The land on which the Palestinians had been living for centuries, in peace, with a minority Jewish population, has been gradually transformed into an Apartheid state by the machinations of the Zionist Movement. That Apartheid state, in turn, is today dominated by Israel’s Death-Mayhem-and- Occupation Machine. (2)

One wonders: What would the world look like today, if the state of Israel had not been created in 1948? Its improvident formation seems to have set in motion a chain of events, mostly negative, in the affairs of Mankind. In the movie, “Click,” the lead character finds a “universal remote” that allows him to rewind to different parts of his life and to change what had happened. If I possessed such a “universal remote” and could stop President Truman from aiding and abetting the establishment of an Israeli state, then, it is my speculation, (a theory), that the following 25 propositions would probably be our present day reality. They are:

1. The U.S. would not have any enemies in the Islamic World.

2. There would be no Al-Qaeda Terrorist Network.

3. Gasoline would be selling for less than $1 a gallon.

4. There would have been no 9/11.

5. There would be no USA Patriot Law.

6. There would be no Homeland Security Agency.

7. The Israeli Lobby’s “unmatched power” over the U.S.’ foreign policy, for over four decades, would not had existed. (Its support for the Iraqi War was deemed by the experts to be “critical.”) (3)

8. There would also not have been any Neocon ideologues; like Paul Wolfowitz, William Kristol, Richard Perle, et al, to help, (along with other “Special Interests”), to push the U.S. into an illegal war with Iraq. (4)

9. Iran would not be the next target for U.S. aggression. (No Israel. No “A Clean Break” document. No Israeli Lobby. No Neocons. No need for the U.S. to attack Iran.) (5)

10. The Zionist fink, Jonathan Pollard, wouldn’t be in prison for stealing U.S. military secrets and hawking them to Israel.

11. The three million-plus Palestinians, who were forcefully dispersed from their homeland, since 1948, by the Israeli Occupation Forces, (IOF), would, instead, be living happily there today, in a free and independent state of Palestine. There would be no Apartheid Wall, or as a corollary, a Hamas organization. (6)

12. Jerusalem would have a vibrant Christian population. (7)

13. Rachel Corrie of Olympia, WA, would be alive and well. (8)

14. The 2,544 Americans who have died in Iraq would be alive; and the 18,777, who have been seriously wounded there, would be fully participating in our Republic. U.S. taxpayers would have an additional $295 billion, (the cost of the war), in the treasury to use to serve the social needs of the people. Universal Health Care would be a real possibility and Social Security would not be in jeopardy. Iraq would be at peace. There would be no Gitmo Bay detention center, or an Abu Ghraib Prison, or a reason for the Bush-Cheney Gang to gut Habeas Corpus. No need for it to also employ torturers, or chemical weapons, or hold detainees without charges or trial. The Geneva Convention would be respected. The tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis, who have died as a result of the war, would instead be alive today. (At the following footnote, see horrific photos of some of the Iraqi dead.) (9)

15. The battle to save our planet, its fragile ecosystem, its fast vanishing animal life and plants and to combat global warming, would be issue “No. 1.” (10) Instead, we are perpetually bombarded with propaganda about defending “Israel’s security.”

16. If there was no Israel, then the “five dancing Israelis” on 9/11 wouldn’t have been arrested. They were nailed after “celebrating” in NJ, while watching the Twin Towers collapsed. (11)

17. U.S. taxpayers would be $140 billion richer! This is the staggering amount they have shelled out over the last 58 years to support the ultra-greedy interests of the Zionist Cartel. (3)

18. The 34 Americans onboard the USS Liberty, who were slaughtered by the IOF, on June 8, 1967, would be alive today; and the 174 others who had suffered injuries that day would not have had to endure their horrific experiences. The shame the U.S. carries for not having quickly defended the men of the Liberty, and retaliated against the Israelis for their deliberate attack on the vessel, would have been avoided. (12)

19. On June 13, 2006, the IOF killed ten Palestinians, including three medical workers and two children, in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, labeled the missile attack an example of “state terrorism.” Only God knows how many Palestinians the Israelis have actually wasted since 1948; or exactly how many refugees it has created, or how many homes, a la Oliver Cromwell, the IOF have demolished. None of this would have been possible without the dubious “state of Israel.” (13)

20. Paul Bremer, a coat holder for Henry “Iago” Kissinger, would have never been appointed Viceroy for an Occupied Iraq. No Israel. No Iraqi War. No Zionist Bremer as Viceroy of Iraq. (14)

21. One of the reasons the Warren Commission failed to properly investigate the murder of JFK was because of Arlen Specter (R-PA), a card carrying Zionist. He was then a “Special Counsel” to the Commission. He concocted the preposterous “Magic Bullet” theory, which shut down any real conspiracy-type probe. It is also interesting to note, that Jacob Rubenstein, aka, “Jack Ruby,” Lee Harvey Oswald’s murderer, had close ties to Meyer Lansky’s National Crime Syndicate. I believe the answer to who really plotted JFK’s killing, died with Oswald. In any event after JFK’s death, Israel’s nuclear weapons program, which he had opposed went ahead. U.S. aid to Israel also increased dramatically. (15)

22. There would have been no reason for a French Ambassador to refer to Israel as “that shitty little country.” (16) In fact, the Jews of the world would have been liberated to fulfill their deepest spiritual quest, as embodied in their religion - Judaism. According to the highly respected Orthodox Rabbi, Dovid Yisroel Weiss, “Zionism has hijacked Judaism.” The courageous Rabbi insists that, “Zionism creates anti-Semitism…And we know…Zionism is the root cause for the pain, suffering and bloodshed of the Jewish people…and, they, (the Zionists), are the greatest factory of anti-Semitism worldwide…Judaism and Zionism is not one and the same. They are diametrically opposite…We should not be mistaken one for the other. And, we shouldn’t be responsible for the actions of what the Zionists do…Now, another of the problems that emanate actually from the Zionist Movement is the fact that they are encroaching upon the rights of the Palestinian people, the indigenous people, who are living there. And, this is terribly wrong. It is against every concept of the Torah…So, whatever they are doing is totally wrong!” (17)

23. Thousands of Israelis have died attempting to build a nation in a land, Palestine, which belonged to another people, the Palestinians. Their deaths would have been avoided. (18)

24. The widespread spying on Americans, without a court order, by operatives of the Bush-Cheney Gang, would have never happened. (No Israel. No 9/11. No spying on U.S. citizens.)

25. On April 4, 2003, a European Union (EU) poll named Israel as the “greatest threat to world peace.” (19) On June 27, 2006, the IOF proved the EU right by reoccupying Gaza, savagely terrorizing the civilian population, blowing up their electric/water generating facilities, conducting a mass arrest of their elected officials, and also, without just cause, provoking the Syrians. In response to the repeated shelling by the IOF of Gaza, Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, wisecracked, “Nobody dies from being uncomfortable!” When he addressed a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, on May 24, 2006, Olmert received 38 breaks of applause and 18 standing ovations from that entity of mostly lapdogs. This is also the same Israeli leader, who, paraphrasing George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” said that he had a “deep regret” about the effects of some IOF’s operations which had killed 14 innocent Palestinians in just nine days, but that the lives of Israeli citizens were “even more important.”(20) Finally, if there wasn’t a Zionist-created Israel, there also wouldn’t be any need for a commentary like this one!

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Notes:

1. http://www.counterpunch.org/clark06032006.html

2. http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/index.htm

3. http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011/%24File/rwp_06_011_walt.pdf; and, http://www.counterpunch.org/christison06162006.html

4. http://batr.net/neoconwatch/archives/2004_12_01_neoconswatch_archive.html; and http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/offtowar.html

5. Chalmer Johnson’s “Sorrows of Empire.”

6. http://www.ameu.org/index.asp

7. http://hcef.org/hcef/; Scott McConnell’s “Divided & Conquered,” TAC, 07/03/06; http://woodstock.georgetown.edu/publications/column_Feb2001.htm; and http://www.icahduk.org/documents/SupportSabeel.htm

8. http://www.rachelcorrie.org/

9. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/uncensored

10. http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/448

11. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html

12. http://www.ussliberty.org/

13. http://www.pchrgaza.org/

14. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1522983,00.html

15. Peter Dale Scott’s “Deep Politics and the Death of JFK” and Stephen Green’s “Taking Sides: America’s Secret Relationship with a Militant Israel.”

16. http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/french-ambassador.html

17. http://www.nkusa.org/index.cfm and http://usa.mediamonitors.net/headlines/rabbi_weiss_rips_ariel_sharon_zionism and http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/5200/index.php

18. http://wrmea.org/

19. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1022127,00.html

20. Ravi Nessman’s “Israel Steps Up Offensive,” AP, 07/03/06; Boston Globe’s “Agony of Gaza,” 07/07/06; and http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1095841.ece

William Hughes 2006.

William Hughes is the author of “Saying ‘No’ to the War Party” (IUniverse, Inc.). He can be reached at liamhughes@comcast.net.

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Source :- http://www.americanchronicle.com http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/11391

The next time your husband turns up drunk at home but behaves as if he’s not, just observe his speech and walk to make out whether he’s lying or not.

Bureaucrats in Australia have drawn up an official list of 39 intoxication symptoms, so that pub owners can tell when patrons are drunk.

Among the 39 steps towards drunkenness are: ‘Bumping into furniture’, ’sleeping at a bar or table’ and ‘inability to find
one’s mouth with a glass’.

The intoxication guidelines, drawn up by the New South Wales Office of Liquor and Gaming, were distributed to club and pub managers last week.

Number one on the list of 39 signs of intoxication is slurred words, followed by rambling or unintelligible conversation, reports News.com.au

Bar staff are also urged to be on the lookout for patrons fumbling change, being rude, argumentative and aggressive, and those who cannot stand or who fall down.

Club patrons seen as ‘overly friendly’ or exuberant could also soon find themselves shown the door, as will those who vomit.

If a patron fails to leave, managers have been advised to contact police in order to avoid being fined.

The department said the guidelines were drafted to help bar staff form a reasonable belief that a person is intoxicated. However, it warned that the list was neither exhaustive nor conclusive.

The 39 signs of drunkenness are:

1. Slurring words
2. Rambling or unintelligible conversation
3. Incoherent or muddled speech
4. Loss of train of thought
5. Not understanding normal conversation
6. Difficulty in paying attention
7. Unsteady on feet
8. Swaying uncontrollably
9. Staggering
10. Difficulty in walking straight
11. Cannot stand or falling down
12. Stumbling
13. Bumping into or knocking over furniture and people
14. Lack of co-ordination
15. Spilling drinks
16. Dropping drinks
17. Fumbling change
18. Difficulty counting money or paying
19. Difficulty opening doors
20. Inability to find one’s mouth with a glass
21. Rudeness
22. Agression
23. Belligerent
24. Argumentative
25. Offensive
26. Bad tempered
27. Physically violent
28. Loud or boisterous
29. Confused
30. Disorderly
31. Exuberance
32. Using offensive language
33. Annoying or pestering others
34. Overly friendly
35. Loss of inhibition
36. Inappropriate sexual advances
37. Drowsiness or sleeping at a bar or table
38. Vomiting
39. Drinking rapidly

1. Learn to take criticism.

2. Basic car maintenance.

3. Know how to invest

4. Acquire the skill of communicating assertively.

5. Know how to use power tools.

6. Take a self-defense class

7. Practice your poker face

8. Learn to smile to show joy or amusement, not to please others.

9. Learn to delegate.

10. Bounce right back after a hard fall.

11. Be informed.

12. Resist the urge to gossip.

13. Be passably good in at least one sport

14. Be able to talk intelligently about the environment.

15. Know when, how, and how much to tip

16. Be able to grow and care for something in the plant family

17. Have a favorite author and know why he/she is your favorite.

18. Be able to do something artistic with your hands

19. Learn to sell yourself.

20. Have a stress management strategy.

21. Don’t simply accept what you’re told, go see for yourself.

22. Hold other people’s gaze.

23. Stop worrying about what others think of you.

24. Have a reasonable knowledge of history.

25. Protect Your Computer.

The list can go on and on. All you people out there who are reading this , please feel free to add to this list. In a way you will be contributing towards a good cause