Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Who owns the moon?
I personally think humans are FOOLISH to want to own everything!
"1:03:33 - 1 year ago
Steve Durst and William Marshall speak about property rights and ownership of Earth's Moon at a NASA CoLab Luna Philosophie. Presented on August 20, 2008 at the Yahoo! Brickhouse in San Francisco, California.""1:03:33 - 1 year ago
Monday, July 19, 2010
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Who is Che Gevara?? more stuff
Who was the real Che Guevara?
Saturday, March 6, 2010 - 11:00
In the process, the real legacy of Guevara's life has been obscured and diluted, especially in First World countries.
This symbol of socialist revolution has been watered-down and commercialised — turned into a symbol of vague rebellion. While people are familiar with the image of Che, many probably couldn't say who it is, let alone describe the politics of the man.
In recent years, the films The Motorcycle Diaries and Che have helped to popularise some aspects of his life, but there is still much confusion in popular consciousness about what he actually did and stood for.
Che is most famous for his role in the Cuban Revolution and his part in guerrilla insurrections in Latin America and Africa.
However, it is the period preceding this that shaped his thinking the most. As a young man on his famous motorcycle trip across South America, he witnessed the gross inequalities imposed upon people and the brutality used to maintain this system.
He identified imperialism as the main enemy of the people of the world. He saw the struggle for human freedom as global, which necessarily had to transcend borders to defeat the exploitative system imposed by the big capitalist powers.
He travelled to Guatemala to learn about and work with the progressive forces backing the leftist government of Jacobo Arbenz, who had introduced a series of land reforms and pro-poor policies.
Guevara could see the US was preparing to invade to protect its assets, as it had done many times before.
As the US began to destabilise the Arbenz government in preparation for a military coup, Guevara observed a number of mistakes made by the progressive forces which, influenced his thinking on how to make a successful revolution. He identified the most crucial mistake being an unwillingness to arm the people to allow them to defend — and extend — their gains.
A US-backed coup, combined with US airforce bombings, overthrew Arbenz and destroyed popular hopes for change.
From Guatamala, Che linked up with Fidel Castro's group of exiled Cuban revolutionaries in Mexico, and joined them in the struggle against the Batista dictatorship in Cuba. He understood the necessity of acting to create change and was able to put this into practice in Cuba, both before and after the triumph of the revolution. "The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall", he said.
Che insisted that "there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another". Human liberation was central to Che's thinking.
"The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration is to see human beings liberated from their alienation."
At a time when brutal and undemocratic Stalinist regimes were the main form of "socialism" in the world, Guevara's vision focused on the well-being of individuals in the context of broader society.
He speculated about the potential for the transformation of people and culture under socialism, where petty desires would be put aside and where people would be motivated to act for the common good.
The legacy of Che can be found today in the unfolding revolutions across Latin America, and in a wide variety of progressive struggles throughout the world. Fidel Castro once explained that "political work isn't reciting a catechism about Marx and Lenin to people every day, but rather being able to awaken human motivation and morality".
Powerful people today would love to see Che's legacy reduced to the level of a T-shirt, which they could then sell to people and call it "rebellion". But Che did not simply rebel ways harmless to those with power. He aimed to overthrow the corrupt old system and build a new one based on human needs and solidarity.
The fact that millions all over the world have seen through the commercialisation of Che's image and still embrace the real spirit of what he stood for is testament to the fundamental desire of people all over the world to live with dignity and freedom.
Who is Che Gevara?? - a question to ask the next person you see wearing a Che Guevara tee-shirt
Dr. Douglas Young, Professor from the Political Science & History at Gainesville State College has a question for you to ask the next person you see wearing a Che Guevara tee-shirt
Hollywood has dutifully churned out yet another cinematic agitprop paean to a leftist 'martyr', this time Ernesto Guevara. So let us recall the real 'Che' and try to discern why many supposedly democratic, civil libertarian liberals still swoon over this Stalinist mass-murderer.
The meticulous myth of Senor Guevara is of a handsome Argentine heroically helping Fidel Castro's guerrillas liberate Cuba from Fulgencio Batista's military dictatorship in 1959. Then he became a global revolutionary icon inspiring the downtrodden to rise up everywhere, even personally leading rebel warriors in the Congo before being executed doing the same in Bolivia in 1967. The (communist) party line says Che personifies the selfless humanitarian courageously fighting for 'social justice'. He is the Marxists' martyred Christ figure replete with pictures of his half-naked corpse riddled with bullet holes. And the classic poster of an angry young Guevara has scarred countless college dorm rooms for over 40 years, putting a face on the eternally young rebel for angry adolescents everywhere.
The real Guevara was a reckless bourgeois adrenaline-junkie seeking a place in history as a liberator of the oppressed. But this fanatic's vehicle of 'liberation' was Stalinism, named for Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, murderer of well over 20 million of his own people. As one of Castro's top lieutenants, Che helped steer Cuba's revolutionary regime in a radically repressive direction. Soon after overthrowing Batista, Guevara choreographed the executions of hundreds of Batista officials without any fair trials. He thought nothing of summarily executing even fellow guerrillas suspected of disloyalty and shot one himself with no due process.
Che was a purist political fanatic who saw everything in stark black and white. Therefore he vociferously opposed freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, protest, or any other rights not completely consistent with his North Korean-style communism. How many rock music-loving teens sporting Guevara t-shirts today know their hero supported Cuba's 1960s' repression of the genre? How many homosexual fans know he had gays jailed?
Did the Obama volunteers in that Texas campaign headquarters with Che's poster on the wall know that Guevara fervently opposed any free elections? How 'progressive' is that?
How socially just was it that Che was enraged when the Russians blinked during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and withdrew their nuclear missiles from the island, thus averting a nuclear war? Guevara was such a zealous ideologue that he relished the specter of millions of Cuban lives sacrificed on the altar of communism, declaring Cuba "a people ready to sacrifice itself to nuclear arms, that its ashes might serve as a basis for new societies". Some humanitarian!
Che was a narcissist who boasted that "I have no house, wife, children, parents, or brothers; my friends are friends as long as they think like me, politically". This is a role model for today's 'post-political' voters claiming we should get beyond partisanship?
Adding to the ridiculousness of the Che cult is that he was virtually a complete failure. As a medical doctor, he never even had a practice. When put in charge of the Cuban economy at the start of Castro's government, his uncompromising communist diktats ran it completely into the ground, from which it never recovered. Humiliated, and also angry that Castro was not fomenting enough revolution abroad, he then tried to lead such quixotic adventures in Argentina, the Congo, and Bolivia, failing miserably everywhere while sacrificing the lives of scores of naïve, idealistic young followers as deluded pawns in the service of his personality cult.
Another reason he fled Cuba in the mid-1960s was the complete mess he made of his private life. Though he preached sexual purity to his colleagues, he was a shameless adulterer who abandoned two wives and many children, some legitimate, others not. As a grandson put it, "he was never home". The public Che who supposedly had such great love for humanity privately could not stand most folks.
Guevara's promiscuous communist adventurism was the pattern of a terminal adolescent running away from his problems to get caught up in some heroic crusade against his eternal bete noir, 'Yankee imperialism'.
So why do so many well-heeled American libs still admire this thug? Are the young simply ignorant of his execrable record and drawn to the image of the dashing young rebel? Do older progressives feel guilt for their free market prosperity, and showing solidarity with Che absolves them? Do hippies-turned-yuppies get nostalgic for their youthful protests and rationalize that the symbolism of Che as a 'social reformer' eclipses his actual horrific human rights record? And are some American Guevaraistas truly dangerous leftists who seek to emulate their icon and destroy our free, democratic, capitalist society?
Ask that guy wearing the Che tee-shirt.
Hollywood has dutifully churned out yet another cinematic agitprop paean to a leftist 'martyr', this time Ernesto Guevara. So let us recall the real 'Che' and try to discern why many supposedly democratic, civil libertarian liberals still swoon over this Stalinist mass-murderer.
The meticulous myth of Senor Guevara is of a handsome Argentine heroically helping Fidel Castro's guerrillas liberate Cuba from Fulgencio Batista's military dictatorship in 1959. Then he became a global revolutionary icon inspiring the downtrodden to rise up everywhere, even personally leading rebel warriors in the Congo before being executed doing the same in Bolivia in 1967. The (communist) party line says Che personifies the selfless humanitarian courageously fighting for 'social justice'. He is the Marxists' martyred Christ figure replete with pictures of his half-naked corpse riddled with bullet holes. And the classic poster of an angry young Guevara has scarred countless college dorm rooms for over 40 years, putting a face on the eternally young rebel for angry adolescents everywhere.
The real Guevara was a reckless bourgeois adrenaline-junkie seeking a place in history as a liberator of the oppressed. But this fanatic's vehicle of 'liberation' was Stalinism, named for Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, murderer of well over 20 million of his own people. As one of Castro's top lieutenants, Che helped steer Cuba's revolutionary regime in a radically repressive direction. Soon after overthrowing Batista, Guevara choreographed the executions of hundreds of Batista officials without any fair trials. He thought nothing of summarily executing even fellow guerrillas suspected of disloyalty and shot one himself with no due process.
Che was a purist political fanatic who saw everything in stark black and white. Therefore he vociferously opposed freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, protest, or any other rights not completely consistent with his North Korean-style communism. How many rock music-loving teens sporting Guevara t-shirts today know their hero supported Cuba's 1960s' repression of the genre? How many homosexual fans know he had gays jailed?
Did the Obama volunteers in that Texas campaign headquarters with Che's poster on the wall know that Guevara fervently opposed any free elections? How 'progressive' is that?
How socially just was it that Che was enraged when the Russians blinked during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and withdrew their nuclear missiles from the island, thus averting a nuclear war? Guevara was such a zealous ideologue that he relished the specter of millions of Cuban lives sacrificed on the altar of communism, declaring Cuba "a people ready to sacrifice itself to nuclear arms, that its ashes might serve as a basis for new societies". Some humanitarian!
Che was a narcissist who boasted that "I have no house, wife, children, parents, or brothers; my friends are friends as long as they think like me, politically". This is a role model for today's 'post-political' voters claiming we should get beyond partisanship?
Adding to the ridiculousness of the Che cult is that he was virtually a complete failure. As a medical doctor, he never even had a practice. When put in charge of the Cuban economy at the start of Castro's government, his uncompromising communist diktats ran it completely into the ground, from which it never recovered. Humiliated, and also angry that Castro was not fomenting enough revolution abroad, he then tried to lead such quixotic adventures in Argentina, the Congo, and Bolivia, failing miserably everywhere while sacrificing the lives of scores of naïve, idealistic young followers as deluded pawns in the service of his personality cult.
Another reason he fled Cuba in the mid-1960s was the complete mess he made of his private life. Though he preached sexual purity to his colleagues, he was a shameless adulterer who abandoned two wives and many children, some legitimate, others not. As a grandson put it, "he was never home". The public Che who supposedly had such great love for humanity privately could not stand most folks.
Guevara's promiscuous communist adventurism was the pattern of a terminal adolescent running away from his problems to get caught up in some heroic crusade against his eternal bete noir, 'Yankee imperialism'.
So why do so many well-heeled American libs still admire this thug? Are the young simply ignorant of his execrable record and drawn to the image of the dashing young rebel? Do older progressives feel guilt for their free market prosperity, and showing solidarity with Che absolves them? Do hippies-turned-yuppies get nostalgic for their youthful protests and rationalize that the symbolism of Che as a 'social reformer' eclipses his actual horrific human rights record? And are some American Guevaraistas truly dangerous leftists who seek to emulate their icon and destroy our free, democratic, capitalist society?
Ask that guy wearing the Che tee-shirt.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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محطات في تاريخ فلسطين
Source : a friend's facebook page... you verify if you doubt..
27/1/1919 انعقد المؤتمر الفلسطيني الأول، والذي اعتبر فلسطين جزءاً من سوريا.
25/1/1935 انعقد مؤتمر علماء فلسطين الأول برئاسة الحاج أمين الحسيني في مدينة القدس .
4/1/1938 تلقى المندوب السامي البريطاني كتاباً من وزير المستعمرات يبلغه عن إرسال لجنة فنية إلى فلسطين تكون مهمتها محصورة في التأكد من الحقائق والنظر في تفاصيل إمكانات برنامج التقسيم .
6/1/1938 قوات الاحتلال البريطانية ترتكب مجزرة في قرية عتيل بحق النساء والأطفال وتنتهك حرمة المساجد وتمزق المصاحف .
18/1/1974 التوقيع على اتفاقية فصل القوات المصرية والصهيونية بعد حرب العام 1973.
شباط (فبراير)
7/2/1799 بدء الحملة الفرنسية بقيادة نابليون بونابرت لاحتلال فلسطين .
14/2/1947 أعلنت بريطانيا إحالة القضية الفلسطينية إلى الأمم المتحدة .
8/2/1976 محكمة صهيونية تقرر حق اليهود في الصلاة على "جبل الهيكل" في منطقة الحرم القدسي الشريف .
7/2/1983 لجنة كاهان للتحقيق في مجازر صبرا وشاتيلا تقدم تقريرها، وتتهم أرئيل شارون بالمسؤولية عن المجازر. وعلى أثر ذلك يستقيل شارون من وزارة الحرب لكنه يبقى في الحكومة .
2/2/1988 سلطات الاحتلال الصهيوني تغلق المدارس والجامعات الفلسطينية .
آذار (مارس)
11/3/1948 قام الشاب الفلسطيني أنطوان داود الذي يعمل سائقاً عند السفير الأمريكي بنسف الوكالة اليهودية وقتل 36 يهودياً وجرح المئات .
10/3/1949 احتل الصهاينة قرية أم الرشراش المصرية (إيلات) بعد احتلال منطقة النقب .
14/3/1957 استكملت القوات الصهيونية انسحابها من قطاع غزة بعد فشل العدوان الثلاثي على مصر .
21/3/1968 وقوع معركة الكرامة، والتي تصدت فيها القوات الأردنية والفلسطينية للقوات الصهيونية التي هاجمت الأردن وكبدتها خسائر فادحة .
6/3/1991 أعلنت الولايات المتحدة عن مبادرة عقد مؤتمر السلام في الشرق الأوسط لحل الصراع العربي – الصهيوني .
نيسان ( إبريل)
4-10/4/1920 اندلاع ثورة النبي موسى (ثورة العشرين)
9/4/1948 استشهاد القائد عبد القادر الحسيني في معركة القسطل .
17/4/1948 وافقت الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة على قرار الهدنة بين الدول العربية والعصابات الصهيونية في أعقاب حرب العام 1948 .
19/4/1988 نساء مستعمرة كريات أربع يحتللن بيت هداسا في مدينة الخليل، لإحياء الحي اليهودي في المدينة .
10/4/1988 بداية استقالات العاملين الفلسطينيين في الشرطة لدى الحكم العسكري في الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة .
أيار (مايو)
16/5/1916 توقيع اتفاقية سايكس بيكو بين بريطانيا وفرنسا لاقتسام الإمبراطورية العثمانية .
1-15/5/1921 ثورة يافا بين الفلسطينيين واليهود والتي انحازت فيها الشرطة البريطانية لليهود في تصديهم للفلسطينيين .
28-29/5/1946 انعقد مؤتمر الملوك والرؤساء العرب في أنشاصي بمصر لبحث القضية الفلسطينية .
9/5/1948 قبول العرب بشروط الهدنة مع العصابات الصهيونية .
15/5/1948 اعترفت الولايات المتحدة بالدولة اليهودية .
18/5/1948 اعترف الاتحاد السوفييتي بالدولة اليهودية .
11/5/1949 أصبحت "إسرائيل" عضواً في الأمم المتحدة .
حزيران (يونيو)
26/6/1953 نقل العدو الصهيوني ملكية كل أراضي الفلسطينيين الغائبين تحت سلطة أملاك الغائب للدولة إلى سلطة التطوير واعتبر الثمن قرضاً لهذه السلطة .
5/6/1967 أغارت الطائرات الصهيونية صباحاً على عشرة مطارات مصرية وهاجمت الأردن وسوريا ولبنان .
7/6/1967 احتلت قوات العدو الصهيوني الغازية كامل الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة وشبه جريرة سيناء ومرتفعات الجولان .
28/6/1967 أعلن حاييم موشيه شابيرا وزير الداخلية في الكيان الصهيوني ضم أحياء القدس العربية في القدس الشرقية لتوحيد المدينة .
6/6/982 بدأت قوات الاحتلال الصهيوني بغزو لبنان تحت اسم "عملية سلامة الجليل" والتي أسفرت عن تدمير البنية التحتية العسكرية لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية .
تموز (يوليو)
15/7/1099 احتل الصليبيون بيت المقدس، وقتلوا بالمسجد الأقصى ما يزيد عن سبعين ألفاً من المسلمين .
6/7/1921 عصبة الأمم المتحدة تعلن مشروع الانتداب البريطاني على فلسطين .
24/7/1922 أقرت عصبة الأمم المتحدة صك الانتداب البريطاني على فلسطين .
7/7/1936 أوصت لجنة بيل البريطانية بتقسيم فلسطين لدولتين عربية ويهودية .
31/7/1988 أعلن الملك حسين فك العلاقة القانونية والإدارية بين الضفة الغربية والأردن بعد وحدة اندماجية دامت 38 سنة .
1/7/1994 دخل ياسر عرفات رئيس م.ت.ف إلى غزة وتسلم منصب رئيس سلطة الحكم الذاتي .
آب (أغسطس)
21/8/1969 قام يهودي أسترالي بإحراق المسجد الأقصى، بتواطؤ مع حكومة العدو .
6/8/1982 دخلت القوات الصهيونية إلى غرب مدينة بيروت .
30/8/1982 خروج ياسر عرفات مع رجاله من بيروت عن طريق البحر على ظهر الباخرة أتلانتس التي تحمل العلم اليوناني .
2/8/1985 تبنت حكومة العدو الصهيوني سياسة القبضة الحديدية في تعاملها مع الاحتجاجات الفلسطينية .
18/8/1988 صدور ميثاق حركة المقاومة الإسلامية (حماس) .
14/8/1994 قوات سلطة الحكم الذاتي تشن أول حملة اعتقالات بحق حركة (حماس) والقوى المعارضة للعملية السلمية .
أيلول (سبتمبر)
6/9/1260 انتصر المماليك على التتار في معركة عين جالوت .
29/9/1923 وضع نص الانتداب البريطاني على فلسطين موضع التنفيذ والإجراء .
17/9/1948 اغتالت العصابات الصهيونية وسيط الأمم المتحدة للسلام الكونت فولك برنادوت .
19/9/1963 تعيين أحمد الشقيري ممثلاً لفلسطين في الجامعة العربية .
19/9/1970 بداية فتنة أيلول بين الجيش الأردني والفدائيين الفلسطينيين .
17/9/1982 ارتكب الصهاينة وبمعاونة قوات الكتائب اللبنانية مجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا ضد الفلسطينيين العزل ليلاً، وقتل فيها أكثر من 200 رجل وامرأة وطفل .
تشرين الأول (اكتوبر)
2/10/1937 بدء الثورة الكبرى مرة ثانية واستمرت حتى نهاية عام 1939 .
1/10/1948 صدور إعلان استقلال فلسطين عن الهيئة العربية العليا .
14/10/1974 وافقت الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة على القرار رقم 3210 والذي ينص على دعوة التحرير الفلسطينية للاشتراك في مناقشاتها .
28/10/1974 القمة العربية في الرباط تقر بالإجماع منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية ممثلاً شرعياً وحيداً للشعب الفلسطيني .
30/10/1990 افتتاح مؤتمر سلام الشرق الأوسط في مدريد بحضور أطراف الصراع، ورعاية الولايات المتحدة والاتحاد السوفييتي كراعيين للمؤتمر .
تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر)
2/11/1917 أصدرت بريطانيا وعد بلفور الذي يدعو إلى إقامة وطن قومي لليهود في فلسطين .
11/11/1936 وصول اللجنة الملكية البريطانية (لجنة بيل) إلى فلسطين للتحقيق في أسباب الثورة الكبرى .
22/11/1967 أصدر مجلس الأمن الدولي القرار رقم 242، والذي يدعو "إسرائيل" إلى الانسحاب من جميع الأراضي التي احتلت في حرب العام 1967.
27/11/1973 القمة العربية في الجزائر تصدر قرار الاعتراف بمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية ممثلاً شرعياً ووحيداً للشعب الفلسطيني .
10/11/1975 تبنت الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة القرار رقم 3379 الذي يساوي الصهيونية بالعنصرية .
كانون الأول (ديسمبر)
7/12/1931 افتتاح المؤتمر الإسلامي العام في المسجد الأقصى، وكان من أهدافه العمل على حماية بيت المقدس .
18/12/1947 إنشاء الهيئة العربية الكبرى أثناء انعقاد مجلس الجامعة العربية المنعقدة في بلودان بسوريا .
8/12/1949 أصدرت الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة قراراً يقضي بإصدار الوكالة الدولية لإغاثة اللاجئين الفلسطينيين وتشغيلهم (الأونروا) .
9/12/1987 انطلاق الانتفاضة الفلسطينية المباركة .
14/12/1988 الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية تقرر إقامة حوار مع منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية .
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