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September 17, 2017 at 15:31 (War, War Crimes)
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April 14, 2017 at 11:34 (Afghanistan, Associate Post, Cartoons, Collective Punishment, Corrupt Politics, War Crimes)
BREAKING: U.S. drops the the largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan. It's the first time the GBU-43 bomb has been used in combat.
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Thursday that US forces dropped a GBU-43 bomb on a system of tunnels and caves in Afghanistan.
January 18, 2017 at 10:20 (Associate Post, Double standards, Syria, War Crimes, Yemen)
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October 25, 2016 at 12:37 (Activism, Associate Post, DesertPeace Exclusive, International Solidarity, Korea, Photography, War Crimes)
June 5, 2016 at 08:04 (Cartoons, Irony, U.S. Election, War Crimes)
October 28, 2015 at 15:26 (Israel, War Crimes)
First there was this ….. (Click on link to read report)
Then a reversal in Walmart's decision …..
On Tuesday evening, Walmart withdrew from sale two products that have generated widespread outrage and disgust: the Israeli soldier costume for children and the grotesquely racist "Sheikh Fagin Nose."
The Halloween costumes are no longer available on the company's website. The giant retailer has not responded to a request for comment.
Earlier, a host of groups, including the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the US Palestinian Community Network jointly called on Walmart and other retailers to stop selling the two items.
Robert Mackey has more details at The New York Times' "Open Source" blog.
Walmart, one of the world's largest retailers, has sparked outrage by selling an "Israeli Soldier Costume for Kids."
The Halloween outfit is particularly distasteful at a time when human rights groups are strongly condemningIsrael's policy of extrajudicially executing Palestinians forced to live under its decades-long military occupation.
The costume, seen above, includes a dark green uniform and red beret. The jacket includes the Hebrew abbreviation for "Israel Defense Forces." An Internet search shows that it is sold by other online retailers as well.
"When I first saw the Israeli soldier costume for kids I thought it was a joke," Gaza writer and editor Refaat Alareer told The Electronic Intifada. "The model boy used to promote this costume is probably the age of my niece, whose father Israeli soldiers murdered in Gaza in 2014 when they destroyed our family home."
In the summer of 2014 the Israeli army killed 551 Palestinian children during its assault on Gaza.
Many child survivors of Israel's attack now have lifelong injuries.
An independent UN Human Rights Council inquiry found extensive evidence of war crimes during the assault that killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, likely ordered at the highest level of the Israeli government.
Alareer's brother Muhammad, known as Hamada, was killed during the Israeli attack on the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Shujaiya, a devastating assault that destroyed the homes of thousands of families and killed dozens of people.
Hamada had played a beloved children's character similar to Big Bird on Palestinian TV, called Karkour. He left behind his wife, a young daughter and baby son.
"I am sure my orphan niece and nephew would be terrorized seeing the kid wearing the Israeli khaki uniform which is the reason for the death of their beloved dad," Alareer said.
"The Israeli soldier uniform will remain an ugly scar in the face of Walmart which by selling this outfit promotes death, destruction and occupation," he added. "As a Palestinian who lost many relatives to Israeli soldiers in a costume like the one Walmart is selling, I feel disgusted."
Alareer urged Walmart to "remove this revolting outfit and apologize for the 551 Palestinian kids Israel murdered in the summer of 2014."
He also called on American parents to "boycott this outfit and Walmart and not allow their kids to wear a costume of murderers."
AJ Plus producer Dena Takruri also pointed out other troubling and racist costumes for sale at Walmart.com.
These include this "Sheikh Fagin Nose" mask. The "hook nose" is regular feature of racist caricatures of Jews and Arabs. Fagin is the name of a villainous character in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, often criticized as an anti-Semitic stereotype.
The Israeli soldier costume has already generated negative media coverage for Walmart, including in The Independent, New York Daily News, Al Arabiya and The Jerusalem Post.
An inquiry has been sent to the company, but other media say the retailer has yet to comment.
Last summer, Walmart removed items bearing the Confederate flag from its shelves.
The move came after a gunman murdered nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on 17 June.
Dylann Roof, an avowed white supremacist who posted pictures of himself posing with the Confederate flag, has been charged with the killings.
While Walmart had profited from the racist symbol for years, it bowed to a wave of revulsion and decided to stop selling the flag.
It remains to be seen whether Walmart will show any such sensitivity to the child victims of Israel's occupation and war crimes.
October 22, 2015 at 12:50 (Humanitarian Aid Flotilla, Israel, Turkey, War Crimes)
The trial is a first in America and is also the first time an Israeli Prime Minister will be put on trial for reasons of international terrorism.
Ex-Israeli prime minister sued in US for attack on Gaza flotilla
A case has been opened against former Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister Ehud Barak in the US who is one of the responsible perpetrators for the attack upon the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and is the first person to carry the embargo upon Gaza into effect.
The family of Furkan Doğan, an American citizen who was martyred with the attack, has made a plea in the US for the attacks to the vessels including Mavi Marmara of Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was present in the US for a conference. He is the first person to decide, and to carry the embargo upon Gaza into effect. Barak is one of the responsible for the attack upon the Mavi Marmara flotilla. The attorney's of the Mavi Marmara case were able to get in contact with Ehud Barak to convey him the written notice with a file that was prepared earlier, even though Mossad agents had tried to hinder this attempt of communication. Ehud Barak who had suffered a shock with the notice will stand trial in the United States.
The lawsuit in the name of Furkan Doğan's family will be tried in the Central District of California. Ehud Barak will be tried for the crimes on the board of Mavi Marmara both to receive imprisonment and to pay compensation. Other plaintiffs and families of martyrs will also be able to join the case.
The case being heard in the United States is being looked after with the leadership of prosecuter Prof.Dr Geoffrey Nice QC who had put Serbian murderer Milosevic on trial. Within the team, Stoke&White is looking after the coordination within the case, Rodney Dixon QC who is the attorney of Mohammed Mursi, and American attorney's Hydee Dijsktal and Dan Stormer are also present.
Ehud Barak with the case to be heard at the Central District of California will be put on trial for murdering civillians and Furkan Doğan within international waters. Other reasons include"international terrorism", "Willful killing", "attempt of willful killing", "intentionally causing serious injury to body or health", "plundering", , "intentionally causing damage to property", "restriction of people's freedom and instigating violent crime". Barak will be tried for planing and leading these actions.
The trial is a first in America and is also the first time an Israeli Prime Minister will be put on trial for reasons of international terrorism.
Ehud Barak had just slipped in being arrested in France when going to a firearms expo in 2010 by hopping off the plane last minute with the trial opened against him by the wives of martyrs Cevdet Kılıçlar and Necdet Yıldırım in France.
The investigation is still continuing regarding all the perpretrators within the International Criminal Court (ICC). As it is also known, the ICC prosecuter had given the decision that the attack upon the Mavi Marmara Flotilla by Israel was a war crime. The red notice which has been issued by the 7th High Criminal Court in Istanbul is also been waiting to be sent to Interpol through the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Turkey to be put into practice.
October 9, 2015 at 08:40 (Afghanistan, War Crimes)
Those who already know that this was all a terrible mistake, that no U.S. personnel would ever purposely call for a strike on a hospital even if they thought there were Taliban inside, should be the ones most eager for the most credible investigation possible: namely, the one under the Geneva Conventions, which MSF this morning demanded, by the tribunal created exactly for such atrocities.
n Geneva this morning, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group's international president, Dr. Joanne Liu (pictured above, center), specified that the inquiry should be convened pursuant to war crime-investigating procedures established by the Geneva Conventions and conducted by The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission. "Even war has rules," Liu said. "This was just not an attack on our hospital. It was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated."
Liu emphasized that the need for an "independent, impartial" investigation is now particularly compelling given what she called "the inconsistency in the U.S. and Afghan accounts of what happened over the recent days." On Monday, we documented the multiple conflicting accounts offered in the first three days by the U.S. military and its media allies, but the story continued to change even further after that. As The Guardian's headline yesterday noted, the U.S. admission that its own personnel called in the airstrike — not Afghan forces as it claimed the day before — meant that "U.S. alters story for fourth time in four days." All of this led Liu to state the obvious today: "We cannot rely on internal military investigations by the U.S., NATO and Afghan forces."
An independent, impartial investigation into what happened here should be something everyone can immediately agree is necessary. But at its daily press briefing on Monday, the U.S. State Department, through its spokesperson Mark Toner, insisted that no such independent investigation was needed on the ground that the U.S. government is already investigating itself and everyone knows how trustworthy and reliable this process is:
QUESTION: The — so MSF is calling for an independent investigation of this incident by a neutral international body. Is that something the administration would support?
MR TONER: Well, we've got three investigations underway. Certainly, we've got our own DOD-led investigation. We obviously strongly believe that can be a very transparent and accountable investigation. Let's let these three investigations run their course and see what the results are.
I would say — and I know the White House spoke about this earlier — we have reached out to some of the leadership in Médecins Sans Frontières to express our condolences over this tragic incident. But as to whether there needs to be an independent fourth investigation, we're satisfied, I think, at this point that enough investigations are underway that we'll get to the truth.
QUESTION: You don't think that with the U.S., which is — which has an interest in how this investigation proceeds and what the outcome is, and being involved in all three investigations somehow affects the legitimacy of it?
MR TONER: I mean, frankly, I think we've proven over time that we can investigate incidents like these — like this, and as I said, hold anyone accountable who needs to be held accountable, and do it in such a way that's transparent and, I think, credible.
QUESTION: Just along those lines —
MR TONER: Please.
QUESTION: — MSF has said that this is a clear presumption of a war crime that's been committed here. Some have suggested that the ICC take it up. Is it a safe bet that the U.S. would vote against/veto any attempt in the Security Council to bring this incident for — up for an ICC investigation?
MR TONER: I don't want to answer a hypothetical. On the war crime question itself, we're just not there yet, and I don't want to prejudge any outcome of any investigation.
Please, sir.
QUESTION: What do you mean, "We're just not there yet"?
MR TONER: I mean we're conducting investigations, we're looking at this very closely, and we're going to, as multiple folks have said including the president over the weekend — that we're going to hold those accountable and it's going to be a credible investigation.
QUESTION: Does that mean —
QUESTION: So it's conceivable to you that this could have been a war crime?
MR TONER: I said we're not — we're letting the investigations run their course.
QUESTION: Well, regardless of whether or not you —
MR TONER: I'm not going to — I'm not even — yeah, please, Matt.
QUESTION: No, but I want to —
MR TONER: Sure, go ahead. Sorry.
QUESTION: Is it not — I mean, it's always been assumed, I think — and I just want to know if this assumption is still safe — that the U.S. would oppose an attempt to refer an incident involving U.S. troops to the International Criminal Court.
MR TONER: That's —
QUESTION: I mean, as it's — as it was being formed, you guys ran around signing these Article 98 —
MR TONER: That's a perfectly sound assumption.
Can anyone justify that? So predictably, American journalists have announced without even waiting for any investigation that this was all a terrible accident, nothing intentional about it. Those U.S.-defending journalists should be the angriest about their government's refusal to allow an independent, impartial investigation since that would be the most effective path for exonerating them and proving their innocent, noble intentions.
Many Americans, and especially a large percentage of the nation's journalists, need no investigation to know that this was nothing more than a terrible, tragic mistake. They believe that Americans, and especially their military, are so inherently good and noble and well-intentioned that none would ever knowingly damage a hospital. John McCain expressed this common American view and the primary excuse now accompanying it — stuff happens — on NPR this morning:
They're certain of this despite how consistent MSF has been that this was a "war crime." They're certain of it despite how many times, and how recently, MSF notified the U.S. military of the exact GPS coordinates of this hospital. They're certain of it even though bombing continued for 30 minutes after MSF pleaded with them to stop. They're certain of it despite the substantial evidence that their Afghan allies long viewed this exact hospital with hostility because — true to its name and purpose — the group treated all wounded human beings, including Taliban. They're certain of it even though Afghan officials have explicitly defended the airstrike against the hospital on the ground that Taliban were inside. They're certain of it despite how many times the U.S. has radically changed its story about what happened as facts emerged that proved its latest claims false. They're certain of it despite how many times the U.S. has attacked and destroyed civilian targets under extremely suspicious circumstances.
But they are not apparently so certain that they desire an independent, impartial investigation into what actually happened here. The facially ludicrous announcement by the State Department that the Pentagon will investigate itself produced almost no domestic outrage. A religious-like belief in American exceptionalism and tribal superiority is potent indeed, and easily overrides evidence or facts. It blissfully renders the need for investigations obsolete. In their minds, knowing that it was Americans who did this suffices to know what happened, at least on the level of motive: It could not possibly be the case that there was any intentionality here at all. As McCain said, it's only the Bad People — not Americans — who do such things deliberately.
But those who already know that this was all a terrible mistake, that no U.S. personnel would ever purposely call for a strike on a hospital even if they thought there were Taliban inside, should be the ones most eager for the most credible investigation possible: namely, the one under the Geneva Conventions, which MSF this morning demanded, by the tribunal created exactly for such atrocities.
September 9, 2015 at 10:14 (Activism, Associate Post, Britain, Cartoons, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Petition, War Crimes)
UK petition calling for Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes reaches 100,000 signatures
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On August 7, UK citizen Damian Moran posted a petition on the UK Government and Parliament E-petition website calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "be arrested for war crimes upon arrival in the U.K for the massacre of over 2000 civilians in 2014". The petition spread swiftly on social media and as of September 4th it has garnered over 99,000 signatures. The UK government has promised to respond to all petitions over 100,000 signatures including considering them for debate in Parliament.
August 28, 2015 at 11:35 (Activism, Associate Post, DesertPeace Exclusive, Gaza, Genocide, In Memoriam, International Solidarity, Photography, War Crimes)
August 26th 2015, one year after the brutal Israeli massacre in Gaza, Jewish Voice For Peace organized a memorial march through New York City from West 77th St. to Columbus Circle. 200+ people participated in the memorial. As the they marched with signs and banners they boldly called out "Free Gaza", "End the occupation" and "Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel's crimes". The group entered Columbus Circle in silence to honor the thousands murdered and injured in the attack which included children.
Photos © by Bud Korotzer
August 26, 2015 at 13:21 (Double standards, Gaza, Irony, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes)
Yesterday I posted about the wonderful lives dogs enjoy in Israel as compared to the lives of Palestinians …
Today there is a report of how 2 kittens were rescued from the war zone in Gaza last summer amidst the carnage of over 550 murdered innocent children.
Tzuk and Eitan were rescued from the fighting zone in the Strip during Operation Protective Edge by an IDF soldier, who is now the protagonist of a new optimistic and colorful book for children.
New children's book tells story of kittens rescued from Gaza
Meet the kittens Tzuk and Eitan, who were born in Gaza, found a home in Israel after Operation Protective Edge ("Tzuk Eitan" in Hebrew) and are now starring in a new children's book.
The cats, one white and the other ginger, were rescued from the fighting zone by one IDF soldier during Protective Edge. Their story has now been made into a children's book written by Nurit Sternberg.
The soldier who rescued the cats, Matan Meshi, who is studying industrial engineering at the Ben-Gurion University, is the main protagonist of the book, titled "Tzuk and Eitan Find a Loving Home."
Meshi, a fighter in the Ground Forces, was called for reserve duty at the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, and along with his friends went into the Gaza Strip for a series of missions in built-up areas in the central Gaza Strip.
"All of a sudden, a weak yowling was heard, and then another very weak, shaky yowling, and then a third. 'What is there in the corner?' Matan called with wonder. Two pairs of eyes sparkled in the darkness. Matan shone his light at the whispering, bustling corner, and then another weakling meow was heard. Matan saw two skinny, gaunt cats, and he felt sorry for the hungry and abandoned kittens."
Matan fed the cats with food from his battles rations and gave them some water.
The ginger and white kittens spent three days with the fighters, who became attached to them and decided to bring them back to Israel in a cardboard box.
Once out of Gaza, the fighters got to Doron Elbaz's refreshment station at the entrance to Moshav Maslul. Their next mission was to find the kittens a loving home.
Elbaz spread the story and the kittens were soon adopted by Kristina, a young woman from Tel Aviv. They have been living with her since.
And so the book describes it: "With a heavy bag on his back and his weapon on his shoulder, Matan marched with his friends along their journey, while the white and ginger cats were closed up in a cardboard box."
Elbaz spread the story and the kittens were soon adopted by Kristina, a young woman from Tel Aviv. They have been living with her since.
Author Nurit Sternberg from Moshav Sde Warburg, who is a friend of Matan's mother, decided to write a children's book about the operation and the kittens' adoption. Despite the fact the book takes place in war time, she wrote an optimistic and colorful book which makes for a light reading.
"I found the story really touching. It opens up a window into what went on in the soldiers' hearts, and how they did not lose their compassion and gentleness despite the difficult operation," Sternberg said.
August 17, 2015 at 09:47 (Gaza, Israel, United Nations, War Crimes)
Genocide was not good enough for him ….
Last year, Netanyahu fired Danon from the post of deputy defense minister after Danon publicly criticized Netanyahu for not taking firmer military action against Hamas during Israel's summer offensive against the group in Gaza. After his dismissal, Danon lambasted Netanyahu's "leftist flaccid attitude," as he termed it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Danny Danon, a hardliner from Netanyahu's Likkud party, as ambassador to the United Nations.
Danon's appointment, which was announced Friday, is meant to allow him to fight for the truth, Netanyahu said in a statement.
"The U.N. is an important forum right now and I am convinced that Danny will fight with all his power to present the truth in the international arena," Netanyahu's statement read.
Netanyahu and Danon – a firebrand who has called to reopen the Temple Mount to Jewish worship and has called boycotts against Israel "modern-day anti-Semitism" – have had a tense relationship.
Last year, Netanyahu fired Danon from the post of deputy defense minister after Danon publicly criticized Netanyahu for not taking firmer military action against Hamas during Israel's summer offensive against the group in Gaza. After his dismissal, Danon lambasted Netanyahu's "leftist flaccid attitude," as he termed it.
At the U.N. headquarters in New York, Danon will replace Ron Prosor, who is widely credited in Israel for his performance at the organization, where Israel is often singled out for criticism, but where it has recently clinched some precedent-setting roles.
Israel's Channel 2 this week reported that Netanyahu is considering appointing Mark Regev, a spokesperson of the Prime Minister's Office under Netanyahu, to serve as ambassador in Britain.
August 17, 2015 at 08:30 (Associate Post, Britain, Cartoons, Corrupt Politics, Israel, War Crimes)
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August 9, 2015 at 08:04 (Activism, Associate Post, DesertPeace Exclusive, Hiroshima-Nagasaki, International Solidarity, Palestine, Photography, War Crimes)
See below for report from Palestine
On August 6th the New York City Granny Peace Brigade held a Hiroshima / Nagasaki day memorial event in front of the New York City Public Library at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. The memorial was held during the rush hour as people were leaving work returning home. This way the memorial would have the greatest public visibility. There were numerous tourists also passing by. People stopped to take pictures and many took the yellow leaflets the grannies were handing out.
Photos © by Bud Korotzer
Mazin Qumsiyeh. PhD adds the following from Palestine and Hiroshima
70 years ago, on August 6 and August 9, the US government of Harry Truman
dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here is from my visit and
speech on that anniversary August 6, 2013 in Hiroshima.
This is the same Truman that pushed successfully to create nuclear armed apartheid state of Israel that is terrorizing Palestinians and has committed hundreds of massacres. Today Saad Dawabshe died of his severe burns. He is the father of 18 month old martyr Ali who was burned alive in the attack by racist Jewish colonial settlers on their family home. The mother and second child still in critical condition. And the world leaves a group of "pyromaniacs led by an egalomaniac" running a tinderbox (not my words but words of an ex-Director of Israel's security service, see below). But the struggle goes on. Today Saad Dawabshe died of his severe burns. He is the father of 18 month old martyr Ali who was burned alive in the attack by racist Jewish colonial settlers on their family home. The mother and second child still in critical condition. And the world leaves a group of "pyromaniacs led by an egalomaniac" running a tinderbox (not my words but words of an ex-Director of Israel's security service, click on link below). But the struggle goes on. Click HERE
August 6, 2015 at 06:56 (Activism, Associate Post, DesertPeace Exclusive, International Solidarity, Photography, War Crimes)
Photos © by Bud Korotzer
Chippy Dee adds ….
Several people were invited into the consulate to present a letter of apology from the American to the people of Japan for the bombings. The failure of the American government to issue an apology in these seventy years was duly noted. Numerous peace organizations participated in organizing the event. On the street the participants engaged in speeches, singing and giving out leaflets explaining the meaning of the event.
And Carlos Latuff added the following image
The immortal Pete Seeger was there in spirit entertaining the participants …
August 2, 2015 at 08:06 (Collective Punishment, DesertPeace Editorial, Extremism, Hate crimes, Israel, Never Again!, Occupied West Bank, Palestine, Settler Violence, War Crimes)
All my life I opposed the death penalty and have written about its evils ….
In Israel, capital punishment is allowed only during and only for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes against the Jewish people, treason, and certain crimes under military law during wartime. The current Arab-Israel conflict is considered a war, and the committing of any of the crimes can result in the death penalty. Israel inherited the British Mandate of Palestine code of law, which included the death penalty for several offenses, but in 1954, Israel abolished the penalty for murder. (FROM)
When an 18 month old is brutally burnt to death by rampaging settlers in the Occupied West Bank, is there any other punishment that fits the crime?
President Mahmoud Abbas called for an investigation by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, while senior PA official Riyad al-Maliki rejected Israeli condemnations of the attack as hollow.
"We refuse to accept any official Israeli condemnation of the terrorist crime; they hold direct responsibility for the crime by their ongoing silence and deliberate ignoring and rejection of labeling these groups as terrorists," al-Maliki said.
The United States Consul Donald Blome also expressed condolences to the Dawabsha family, referring to the arson as a terrorist attack and condemning what it termed a "crime of hate."
While the US State Department's 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism included "price-tag" attacks — attacks by extremist Israeli settlers — for the first time, it noted such attacks were "largely unprosecuted."
Full report HERE
Well …
The time has come for these crimes to be prosecuted, and as I see it there is only one punishment that fits such crimes, the death penalty!
Khaled Amayreh adds ….
In fact, there is a striking similarity between the various aspects of Jewish Nazism and Aryan Nazism. The Germans had the Mein Kampf, the Judeo-Nazis have the Talmud, the Chesront Shas and the Tanya, and the Germans had the Ubermenschen and the Untermenschen while Jews have the goyem concept, which dehumanizes non-Jews in a nefariously shocking manner. The Germans had the Lebensraum concept and the Zionist Jews have the settlements. The German Nazis taught that non-Aryans were lesser or infra-humans, while synagogues in Israel and around the world shamelessly teach that the lives of non-Jews have no sanctity.
Needless to say, this evil Talmudic indoctrination functions as the ideological underpinnings of the genocidal crimes being perpetrated by the Nazis of our time, the Israelis. This is the reason that makes thousands of Israeli Jews, gleefully and sadistically, celebrate the mass murder of Palestinian civilians.
I don't know when the world can ever call Israel "Nazi" after all that Israel has done and is doing.
The unspoken words of many Zionist Jews would suggest that the world must refrain from calling Israel Nazi unless Israel murders six million Palestinians?!!!!
But this is an expression of absolute evilness by every standard of imagination. In the final analysis, if Israel were to suffer even a fraction of what it has inflicted on the Palestinians, Israeli leaders would not hesitate to call it a holocaust and pathological Jewish liars like Binyamin Netanyahu and Elie Weisel would immediately invoke Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Dachau and Mauthauzen.!!!
In fact, they are already doing this although less than ten Israeli settlers have been killed.
In light, it is perfectly legitimate to call Israel the Nazis of our time, if only because Israelis are thinking, behaving and acting in Nazi-like manner.
As victims of Jewish Nazism, we Palestinians are not going to die quietly in the uninterrupted Jewish holocaust against our very existence. We are not going to behave meekly at the Jewish slaughterhouse in deference of Jewish feelings.
Let the shipyard dogs of Jewish Nazism, from California to Sydney, let them bark as rabidly and uncontrollably as they could, but they won't be able to suppress our voices.
Don't tell us Israel has many Nobel Prize winners and talented doctors and scientists. So what? The Nazis, too, had many talented doctors and scientists! We all know the rest of the story.
Here is his full report
"The Nazis of our time won't be able to silence the voices of truth"
I have been receiving of late several email messages, especially from North America, all critical of my propensity to compare the manifestly genocidal Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip with Nazi atrocities in the course of the Second World War.
Many of these messages came from recalcitrant Zionist supremacists who think the entire world must move according to the Zionist compass.
Other messages, however, were sent by apparently ignorant and naïve non-Zionists, seemingly brainwashed by protracted Zionist-Jewish propaganda. As we all know, Zionist-Jews more or less tightly control the media discourse in North America and to a lesser extent in Europe and Australia. This is one of the main reasons behind the unrestricted and often blind backing of the evil Zionist enterprise by most western governments, especially that of the U.S.
One of the critics of the Zionist-Nazi analogy wrote: "You call the Israelis the Nazis of our time. You clearly have no knowledge of history. Let's take one example; at Barbi Yar in the Ukraine the Nazis slaughtered 30,000 Jews in one operation. 100,000 over a period of time. If the Israelis were the equivalent of Nazis neither you nor any other Palestinian would exist in what you call Palestine. If ever there was the big liar, like the Nazis, it is you. I hope the PA comes for you again and puts you back in a deep hole."
Palestinians don't have to lie to promote their cause
Well, as Palestinians we don't accuse Israel of murdering six million Palestinians, although Israel would have annihilated (physically) our entire people a long time ago had the circumstances been more "conducive" to the perpetration of such a genocide.
It is for this reason that instead of committing a single-event mega-genocide, the Zionist entity resorted to carrying out a series of genocidal atrocities, spread out overall several decades. This way the Zionists calculated the genocidal episodes would look less dramatic and world reactions would be muted and desensitized.
None the less, the ultimate Jewish-Zionist goal remained unchanged, namely the obliteration and physical annihilation of the native Palestinians in order to take over their country.
So the Palestinians are not inventing a "holocaust industry" to voice their plight and incriminate Israel. In fact, Israeli behaviors and actions are more than sufficient to condemn Israel. To put it very simply, the Palestinians don't need to lie to expose Israeli Nazism and evilness.
Israel, its Talmudic doctrine, and the Zionist ideology in general do exude a clear mental willingness to embark on such a diabolical crime. Any honest observer can easily reach this inevitable conclusion by merely thoroughly examining any religious edicts, statements, lectures and speeches by numerous Israeli politicians and religious leaders.
So we are by no means making any hyperbolic or far-fetched claims here.
In fact, genocide by Jews against non-Jews is perfectly compatible with Orthodox Judaism, Talmudic doctrine and Jewish history. In any case, what is practiced in reality remains more eloquent an expression of Jewish Nazism than all the books and edicts.
Here is a testimony by Nurit Peled, daughter of Matti Peled, an Israeli Major-General, a celebrated Israeli military commander and war hero who describes Gaza as a concentration camp.
Numerous rabbis, past and present, made unequivocal and unmistakable statements enthusiastically supporting the notion of genocide against the Palestinian people. A few years ago, a Jewish settler leader affiliated with the messianic Jewish movement "Gush Emunim" was quoted as saying that "the proper way to deal with the Palestinians is the Biblical way," an allusion to genocide.
More to the point, there is more to Jewish Nazism than just the sheer number of its Palestinian victims, although the numbers are not small by any means. Take for example the 2000 Palestinians murdered and the estimated 11000 maimed in the ongoing Judeo-Nazi blitzkrieg against Gaza so far. In proportion to the size of population, this would be like having about a million Americans murdered and maimed, and this happens during just "one military operation."
Besides, Nazism, whether Jewish or Aryan, is not only about the sheer number of victims. It is also about a mental depravity, a criminal mindset, an evil intent, a barbarian value-system and a satanic ideology. Just watch how Judeo-Nazi Israelis are now celebrating the mass murder and mass destruction of Gaza.
In fact, there is a striking similarity between the various aspects of Jewish Nazism and Aryan Nazism. The Germans had the Mein Kampf, the Judeo-Nazis have the Talmud, the Chesront Shas and the Tanya, and the Germans had the Ubermenschen and the Untermenschen while Jews have the goyem concept, which dehumanizes non-Jews in a nefariously shocking manner. The Germans had the Lebensraum concept and the Zionist Jews have the settlements. The German Nazis taught that non-Aryans were lesser or infra-humans, while synagogues in Israel and around the world shamelessly teach that the lives of non-Jews have no sanctity.
Needless to say, this evil Talmudic indoctrination functions as the ideological underpinnings of the genocidal crimes being perpetrated by the Nazis of our time, the Israelis. This is the reason that makes thousands of Israeli Jews, gleefully and sadistically, celebrate the mass murder of Palestinian civilians.
I don't know when the world can ever call Israel "Nazi" after all that Israel has done and is doing.
The unspoken words of many Zionist Jews would suggest that the world must refrain from calling Israel Nazi unless Israel murders six million Palestinians?!!!!
But this is an expression of absolute evilness by every standard of imagination. In the final analysis, if Israel were to suffer even a fraction of what it has inflicted on the Palestinians, Israeli leaders would not hesitate to call it a holocaust and pathological Jewish liars like Binyamin Netanyahu and Elie Weisel would immediately invoke Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Dachau and Mauthauzen.!!!
In fact, they are already doing this although less than ten Israeli settlers have been killed.
In light, it is perfectly legitimate to call Israel the Nazis of our time, if only because Israelis are thinking, behaving and acting in Nazi-like manner.
As victims of Jewish Nazism, we Palestinians are not going to die quietly in the uninterrupted Jewish holocaust against our very existence. We are not going to behave meekly at the Jewish slaughterhouse in deference of Jewish feelings.
Let the shipyard dogs of Jewish Nazism, from California to Sydney, let them bark as rabidly and uncontrollably as they could, but they won't be able to suppress our voices.
Don't tell us Israel has many Nobel Prize winners and talented doctors and scientists. So what? The Nazis, too, had many talented doctors and scientists! We all know the rest of the story.
My addition ….. and we all know the penalty they received!
July 28, 2015 at 07:03 (Boycott Israel, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes)
The Palestinians are poor. They are powerless. They have no voice or influence in the halls of power. They are demonized. They do not have well-heeled lobbyists doling out campaign contributions and pushing through pro-Palestinian legislation. No presidential candidate is appealing to donors—as Hillary Clinton did when she sent a letter to media mogul Haim Saban denouncing critics of Israel—by promising to advance the interests of the Palestinian people. Palestinians, like poor people of color in the United States, are expendable.
By Chris Hedges
The Palestinians are poor. They are powerless. They have no voice or influence in the halls of power. They are demonized. They do not have well-heeled lobbyists doling out campaign contributions and pushing through pro-Palestinian legislation. No presidential candidate is appealing to donors—as Hillary Clinton did when she sent a letter to media mogul Haim Saban denouncing critics of Israel—by promising to advance the interests of the Palestinian people. Palestinians, like poor people of color in the United States, are expendable.
Justice for Palestine will never come from the traditional governmental institutions or political parties that administer power. These institutions have surrendered to moneyed interests. Justice will come only from us. And the sole mechanism left to ensure justice for Palestine is the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Sanctions brought down the apartheid regime of South Africa. And they are what will bring down the apartheid regime of Israel. BDS is nonviolent. It appeals to conscience. And it works.
All Israeli products including Jaffa citrus fruits, Ahava cosmetics, SodaStream drink machines, Eden Springs bottled water and Israeli wine must be boycotted. We must refuse to do business with Israeli service companies. And we must boycott corporations that do business with Israel, including Caterpillar, HP and Hyundai. We must put pressure on institutions, from churches to universities, to divest from Israeli companies and corporations that have contracts with Israel. The struggle against apartheid in South Africa was long and hard. This struggle will be too.
Gaza, a year after Israel carried out a devastating bombing campaign that lasted almost two months, is in ruins. Most of the water is unsafe to drink. There are power outages for up to 12 hours a day. Forty percent of the 1.8 million inhabitants are unemployed, including 67 percent of the youths—the highest youth unemployment rate in the world. Of the 17,000 homes destroyed by Israel in the siege, not one has been rebuilt. Sixty thousand people remain homeless. Only a quarter of the promised $3.5 billion in aid from international donors has been delivered—much of it diverted to the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli puppet regime that governs the West Bank. And no one in Washington—Republican or Democrat—will defy the Israel lobby. No one will call for justice or stay the Israeli killing machine. U.S. senators, including Bernie Sanders, at the height of the Israeli bombardment last summer voted unanimously to defend the Israeli slaughter of a people with no army, navy, air force, mechanized units, artillery or command and control. It was a vote worthy of the old Soviet Union. Every senator held out his or her tin cup to the Israel lobby and chose naked self-interest over justice.
Israel, like the United States, is poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It too is governed by a corrupt oligarchic elite for whom war has become a lucrative business. It too has deluded itself into carrying out war crimes and then playing the role of the victim. Israeli systems of education and the press—again mirrored in the United States—have indoctrinated Israelis into believing that they have a right to kill anyone whom the state condemns as a terrorist. And Israel's most courageous human rights campaigners, intellectuals and journalists are slandered and censored in their own country, just as American critics such as Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal and Noam Chomskyare in the United States.
Those who become addicted to the wielding of the instruments of war, blinded by hubris and a lust for power, eventually become war's victims. This is as true for Israel as for the United States.
Israel's goal is to make life a living hell for all Palestinians, ethnically cleansing as many as it can and subduing those who remain. The peace process is a sham. It has led to Israel's seizure of more than half the land on the West Bank, including the aquifers, and the herding of Palestinians into squalid, ringed ghettos or Bantustans while turning Palestinian land and homes over to Jewish settlers. Israel is expanding settlements, especially in East Jerusalem. Racial laws, once championed by the right-wing demagogue Meir Kahane, openly discriminate against Israeli Arabs and Palestinians. Ilan Pappecalls the decades-long assault against the Palestinian people "incremental genocide."
In Gaza, Israel practices an even more extreme form of cruelty. It employs a mathematical formula to limit outside food deliveries to Gaza to keep the caloric levels of the 1.8 million Palestinians just above starvation. This has left 80 percent of the Palestinians in Gaza dependent on Islamic charities and outside aid to survive. And the periodic military assaults on Gaza, euphemistically called "mowing the lawn," are carried out every few years to ensure that the Palestinians remain broken, terrified and destitute. There have been three Israeli attacks on Gaza since 2008. Each is more violent and indiscriminate than the last. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that a fourth attack on Gaza is "inevitable."
During its 51-day siege of Gaza last summer Israel dropped $370 million in ordinance on concrete hovels and refugee camps that hold the most densely packed population on the planet. Two thousand one hundred four Palestinians were killed. Sixty-nine percent—1,462—were civilians. Four hundred ninety-five were children. Ten thousand were injured. (During the attack six Israeli civilians and 66 soldiers were killed.) Four hundred Palestinian businesses were wiped out. Seventy mosques were destroyed and 130 were damaged. Twenty-four medical facilities were bombed, and 16 ambulances were struck, as was Gaza's only electrical power plant. Israel tallied it up: 390,000 tank shells, 34,000 artillery shells, 4.8 million bullets. Most of the civilians who died were killed in their homes, many of the victims torn to shreds by flechette darts sprayed from tanks. Children were burned with white phosphorous or buried with their families under rubble caused by 2,000-pound iron fragmentation bombs. Others died from dense inert metal explosive, or DIME, bombs—experimental weapons that send out extremely small, carcinogenic particles that cut through both soft tissue and bone. The Israel Defense Forces, as Amira Hass has reported, consider any Palestinian over the age of 12 to be a legitimate military target. Max Blumenthal's new book, "The 51 Day War," is a chilling chronicle of savage atrocities carried out by Israel in Gaza last summer. As horrible as the apartheid state in South Africa was, that nation never used its air force and heavy artillery to bomb and shell black townships.
A report by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) found Israel killed and injured more civilians with explosive weapons in 2014 than any other country in the world. Hamas' indiscriminate firing of wildly inaccurate missiles—Finkelstein correctly called them "enhanced fireworks"—into Israel was, as a U.N. report recently charged, a war crime, although the report failed to note that under international law Hamas had a right to use force to defend itself from attack.
The disparity of firepower in the 2014 conflict was vast: Israel dropped 20,000 tons of explosives on Gaza while Hamas used 20 to 40 tons of explosives to retaliate. Israel's wholesale slaughter of civilians is on a scale equaled only by Islamic State and Boko Haram. Yet Israel, in our world of double standards, is exempted from condemnation in Washington and provided with weapons and billions in U.S. foreign aid to perpetuate the killing. This is not surprising. The United States uses indiscriminate deadly force in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia that outdoes even Israel, leaving behind civilian victims, refugees and destroyed cities and villages in huge numbers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who during his last election campaign received 90 percent of his money from U.S. oligarchs such as Sheldon Adelson, has internally mounted a campaign of state repression against human rights advocates, journalists and dissidents. He has stoked overt racism toward Palestinians and Arabs and the African migrant workers who live in the slums of Tel Aviv. "Death to Arabs" is a popular chant at Israeli soccer matches. Thugs from right-wing youth groups such as Im Tirtzu routinely beat up dissidents, Palestinians, Israeli Arabs and African immigrants in the streets of Tel Aviv. It is a species of Jewish fascism.
Israel is not an anomaly. It is a window into the dystopian, militarized world that is being prepared for all of us, a world with vast disparities of income and draconian systems of internal security. There will be no freedom for Palestine, or for those locked in our own internal colonies and terrorized by indiscriminate police violence, until we destroy corporate capitalism and the neoliberal ideology that sustains it. There will be no justice for Michael Brown until there is justice for Mohammed Abu Khdeir. The fight for the Palestinians is our fight. If the Palestinians are not liberated none of us will be liberated. We cannot pick and choose which of the oppressed are convenient or inconvenient to defend. We will stand with all of the oppressed or none of the oppressed. And when we stand with the oppressed we will be treated like the oppressed.
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July 20, 2015 at 08:09 (Collective Punishment, Gaza, Genocide, War Crimes)
As Israel continues to whine about the prospects of peace with Iran, the people of Gaza continue to suffer from the war last summer ….
Documenting Israel's military assault on Gaza last summer, I witnessed what can only be called atrocities: hospitals and morgues, overwhelmed by the constant flow of casualties; nights of terror under widespread and indiscriminate bombing; attacks on hospitals, ambulances and United Nations schools used as shelters; entire neighborhoods destroyed.
Of all the horrifying statistics, one is particularly shocking: 142 families lost three members or more in single Israeli strikes. I started the project #ObliteratedFamilies — now available for download and exhibitioning all over the world — to document such loss. It began as a project about the victims, but soon became also a project about the survivors. How can one cope with loss on this scale?
With the support of the Gaza-based human rights group Al Mezan, I met more than 50 families profoundly affected by Israel's deadly attacks. I have never been exposed to such pain. Months after the end of the attacks, many Palestinians I met were still traumatized and in deep grief. Many also expressed their doubt of any prospect for justice for the crimes committed against their loved ones.
Some broke down and cried during our interview, others expressed their anger or were still in shock and unable to comprehend what had happened to them.
When I visited the homes of these mourning families, the memory of their lost kin was always present, though in varying ways. In some homes, their photos were displayed atop TV sets or on the walls. Sometimes, the victims' clothes and belongings were as they left them, months after their death, as if they would soon return. In other homes, family members constantly looked at photos and videos of their loved ones on their mobile phones.
This collection of photographs contributes to the effort to remember Gaza's victims, and to promote the calls for justice of the survivors.
Anne Paq is a French freelance photographer and member of the photography collective ActiveStills.
July 19, 2015 at 07:54 (Gaza, Israel, War Crimes)
Um Bilal al-Ghoul found it difficult to celebrate the Eid holiday this year, after she lost most of her family to Israeli air strikes a year ago during last summer's devastating Gaza war.
Last summer's war was the third in Gaza in six years, and by far the deadliest and most destructive of the three.
Um Bilal al-Ghoul found it difficult to celebrate the Eid holiday this year, after she lost most of her family to Israeli air strikes a year ago during last summer's devastating Gaza war.
A single attack on her home in Rafah's densely populated Yibna refugee camp on Aug. 3, 2014 left 10 of her family members dead and 20 more injured.
Um Bilal lost her husband Wael and three of their children.
Wael's mother, father, brother, and two sisters were also killed in the attack.
Um Bilal's youngest child, Ibrahim, lost his twin brother, Mustafa, just days after the two were born toward the beginning of the Israeli offensive.
Asmaa al-Ghoul, a journalist based in Gaza City and a relative of Um Bilal, wrote in a post on Facebook after their birth: "In Gaza, there is always hope and new life. A door of light and happiness in the middle of this war."
This year, however, the grieving mother refused to celebrate Ibrahim's first birthday without his twin.
Her older son Bilal attempted to persuade her otherwise, telling her that "her wound would still be bleeding even if the children's wounds had healed."
Um Bilal told Ma'an: "Ibrahim does not feel the suffering we feel, but Eid this year has still come heavy and difficult, as his twin Mustafa, his father, his brother Ismail, and his sister Malak are gone."
Um Bilal'd last memory of her husband was him coming home with "Ringa" fish, upon their children's request.
She said the children had stood waiting anxiously for him at the front door.
"They won't be with us this year," she said.
Um Bilal told Ma'an that she knows she will spend much of her future time introducing one-year-old Ibrahim to his father and siblings through photographs.
Following the attack last year, Asmaa wrote an article for Al-Monitor lamenting the death of her relatives, none of whom had anything "to do with Hamas," she wrote.
She said that the house "was one story with a roof made of thin asbestos that did not require two F-16 missiles to destroy."
"Would someone please inform Israel that refugee camp houses can be destroyed, and their occupants killed, with only a small bomb, and that it needn't spend billions to blow them into oblivion?"Asmaa wrote that throughout the war bodies lay everywhere, with the appearance of having left their personal lives behind.
"Most importantly, they left the fear of war behind."
Last summer's war was the third in Gaza in six years, and by far the deadliest and most destructive of the three.
The commissioner general of UN relief agency UNRWA, Pierre Krahenbuhl, warned earlier this month that the root causes of the conflict remain unaddressed.
"The despair, destitution and denial of dignity resulting from last year's war and from the blockade are a fact of life for ordinary people in Gaza," he said.
Large swathes of Gaza remain in ruin and work has not yet begun on the reconstruction of some 18,000 homes that were totally destroyed during the war.
July 17, 2015 at 11:35 (Gaza, Oppression, Poetry, War Crimes)
To the children who lost their lives, and the parents who had to bury them.
Bring your camera.
Bring your candles and spotlights to highlight.
Bring your focus to hashtag anniversary.
Everyday Gaza.
Bring your reporters, your journalists, your moving infographics.
"Abu Muhammad sits on the balcony, cradling the head of Muhammad.
"The photo of the head of Muhammad."
Talk about bomb shelters and war sirens in Sderot and Tel Aviv.
Call it "Neutrality"
Talk about your 5 dead and your iron dome.
Call it "Objective Reality"
Bring your billion dollar pledges and your aid caravans
Your excel sheets, monitoring reports and donor requirements.
Call it "Accountability"
"Abu Muhammmad sits on the balcony hopelessly smokes a hopeless cigarette talks about lack of hope."
This one is human interest story.
And when we invite you into our rubble homes for tea and bread you call it "Generosity."
And when we are strong about our suffering you call it "Resilience."
51 days.
2,000 dead.
10,000 wounded.
Abu Muhammad says:
My boys took a ball to the beach.
Came back bodies.
How can we remember what we can't forget?
Jehan Bseiso is a Palestinian poet, researcher and aid worker currently based in Cairo.


text: In hopes of learning more about our Japanese heritage, this site contains everything available about the surname Mochizuki. This is a personal site of mine that I originally started with no intention of making it nothing more than a personal family website, until I received many emails from all over the world asking about the website and how they could get more information about their genealogy. Now it has become a meeting place for Mochizuki's from all over the world!

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Healthy Waist Size
Waist size has been linked in the past with heart disease and diabetes. Yet few studies have considered the link between waist area and threat of death from any type of source around various groups of BMI or for the significant waistlines that are coming to be increasingly typical. It shows up a large waist almost doubles an individual's risk of a sudden death from many causes, such as cancer, heart problem, and breathing health problem and the threat is improved even among individuals that aren't obese. In shorts, by packing on only a few added pounds, you can dramatically improve your threat of premature death.
As a matter of fact, for ladies, the organization when comparing a plus-size waist and better threat of early death was greatest in those with a regular body mass index, or BMI, baseding on a study involving greater than 100,000 individuals.
It should be kept in mind that waist area is strongly connected to the quantity of fat cells deep in the abdominal areas which is an especially bad area to have fat. This deep layer of fat, called visceral fat, coils internal organs in the abdominal areas. It's thought about far more "pathogenic," or a lot more most likely to trigger illness than subcutaneous fat (fat simply beneath the skin that a person can squeeze). Some researchers state visceral fat is so metabolically active, it should be thought about an organ unto itself. Visceral fat is linked with higher distributing levels of cholesterol levels, insulin and substances that cause irritation.
This design of raising risk with boosting waist size seems to be real in every classification of weight, including regular weight, overweight and obese. Even if your weight is considered normal for your height, and you have not seen a large weight gain, if your waist dimension is starting to enhance; if you're having to move in to a bigger pant dimension; that's a vital indicator that it's time to start consuming better and exercising a lot more.
The waist-to-hip dimension
According to analysts, the most effective means to anticipate cardiovascular disease risk and other obesity-related diseases is a measurement that divides the circumference of your midsection by your hips. If you're a woman, the waist-to-hip ratio ought to appear as no greater than 0.8. Guys have a little more shake room: a healthy and balanced waist-to-hip proportion for them is 0.95.
This implies, if your stomach has actually bulged out enough to reach the dimension of your hips, you must start stressing over your heart, experts point out. Simply puts, fat on a woman's hips doesn't appear to raise danger, whereas a beer belly does. This fat stored in the stomach is the most harmful sort of fat in our bodies.
The waist-to-hip dimension is likely to capture people in jeopardy for fat-related conditions who may otherwise think they went to a healthy and balanced weight, based on their BMI scores. It's quite possible to have an acceptable BMI and still have some belly paunch.
For that reason, you can be thin and still have excessive fat!
Act now prior to it's too late!


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Systems Director running on a NIM Server & how many CPUs?
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Hi, Rob McNelly, the esteemed POWER7 Champion, sent me a really good questions and I thought would make a good blog as I get asked this about once a month. I have cut down the questions a but but it is a two parts: His customer is thinking about putting Systems Director on to their NIM server. Rob remembered me commenting on this but wants the details. They are planning to give it 1 dedicated Power7 core and 12G memory. What do I think about that? Answer 1: 2 years ago this combination (NIM & ISD) was not allowed ( I think it was just not... [More]
Systems Director for Power - 10 Useful Tips & Updated Links
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I may have written about these in previous blogs but these have been updated and added too them. They are in my regular Systems Director presentation but I thought they should be shared to a wider audience - no sense is sitting on good information. These are very much my thoughts and opinions for POWER and mostly AIX systems. These are not official IBM statements. 1) Quick Introduction . If you want a 12 minute look at how Systems Director can benefit Power and AIX system administrators in eight ways then watch my 12 minute movie. After... [More]
URGENT: Recent AIX 6 & AIX 7 Day Light Saving Time Fix for this weekend
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Many countries switch to Daylight Saving Time (DST) next weekend March 25th - unfortunately you may need to apply a fix to AIX 6 and AIX 7 before the change or programs can get inconsistent time from various time function and systems calls. This could have a major impact on many tools, for example, make, logs and databases ... well just about anything that uses a time value. There was an earlier temporary fix available but now there is a fully details final fix. Please got to the bellow website for all the details :... [More]
Warning: FixCentral about to require an IBM ID to download AIX & VIOS updates
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The officials words I was sent: Starting on November 13, 2011, each IBM client accessing Fix Central (whether through their employees or other authorized representatives) will require an individual IBM ID to download fixes for a limited number of additional product areas (including AIX and VIOS). This requirement will be expanded to additional products in the future.This requirement will be expanded to additional products in the future. The registration process will be quick and simple and will provide users with a customized experience to... [More]


text: With a moving, memorable melody, Craig Curry offers this beautiful anthem for communion. Easy to learn, yet deep in its impact it will become a favorite of both choirs and folks in the pews. The rich harmonies and broad melody bring freshness to one of our most important liturgical observances. Related Scripture: Matthew 26:26-30; John 12:32; 1st Corinthians 11:25


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VINTAGE SOLVIL et TITUS CALPYSOMATIC STEEL DIVER - SOLD!
Sold out
Here's a cool vintage Titus Calypsomatic ... jet black dial, red lollipop seconds hand.
So cool.
A slab of steel, 38mm wide, excluding the signed, screw-down crown...by
46mm from lug to lug.
The 17-jewel automatic movement keeps excellent time. Quick set day and date works fine.
Strap it on.


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Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Someone made a hentai anime of Cornelica, Town of Succubi
(these hentai sites tend to be iffy on things - make sure adblock is on and virus shield is fully deployed! :) )
It's a hentai anime of Dieselmine's Cornelica, Town of Succubi game.
This was a game I ended up skipping. If you're wondering why I don't cover Japanese succubus/monster girl H-games as much as I used to, the main reason is because successive Windows updates have completely borked most of the hooking and machine translation tools. Unless I get around to learning to read Japanese, I can't really play these. I did try doing a walkthrough of Monmusu Conquered World blind, but the results were a bit shit to be honest.
(although some have had translation patches - I really need to write about Shrift and Lust Grimm at some point)
Cornelica looked interesting, but Dieselmine did their typical Dieselmine thing of having the random encounters have the nice pseudo-animated (basic Photoshop puppeting at a guess) scenes while the main, named characters all had static-image Bad End scenes. They did get this right with the following game, Monster Girl Labyrinth, which did have some delicious Bad End scenes, including the lovely boob monster girl who inspired the current story I'm working on (No, I haven't forgotten about it).
I did like the setting. A town of succubi seems a fun location to work with and it's nice to see someone make an anime using the location and characters. The big-boobed innkeeper succubus, the big-boobed temple succubus and the cat-eared shopkeeper succubus all get to fuck the hapless protagonist, much to the disgust of his succubus girlfriend.
Maybe I'll try the game out if I can ever get hooking and translation to work again (or get a new laptop with a non-shit version of Windows).
(As an aside, yes I know I went AWOL for a couple of weeks again. This is what happens when you effectively live two lives and the other one has to take precedence for a short while. Rather than post yet another not-update post I thought I'd post links to some sexy succubus snu-snu instead.)
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- Anonymous20/12/2018, 04:25
If you haven't played it, Dieselmine's latest game: Your Sweet House ~Succubus Mama & Eldritch Mansion~ also had a Boob Monster Girl as wellReplyDelete
While the one in Labyrinth was a pit trap, the one in Sweet House was hiding in a large box, and would use her gigantic boobs to pull the player character in if he wandered too closeReplies
I saw it, but the age regression theme doesn't really hit any of my fetish buttons.Delete
- Anonymous20/12/2018, 17:36
There's a translation project for it that's slowly being chipped away at.
Not sure what the quality is like, though.Replies
Nice that someone's working on it.Delete
A RPGMakerMVGame Hook patcher does also exist and works fairly wellReplyDeleteReplies
Only with the right games. Monmusu Labrynth, for instance, likes to spam the monster name in the code of the combat, and the hook picks that up and ruins the translation. In combat, ofc, meaning post-combat scenes as well.Delete


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NEW YORK — A shortage of cash sometimes proves beneficial. A small exhibition put together on a dime at the Metropolitan Museum on the theme of Eros might otherwise never have seen the light of day — certainly not in its compact format in a single room on a mezzanine floor.
Drawn from the museum's own collections, the exhibition had no transportation or insurance costs. Two loans from private collections would hardly have added much to the financial burden.
The focus on the ancient Greek deity of love was an excuse to organize the show around a bronze statue of the sleeping Eros cast in the third or second century B.C. Said to have been found on the Greek island of Rhodes, the exceptionally large sculpture was acquired in 1943 and is seen as the finest bronze "Sleeping Eros" on record.
Smaller bronzes representing Eros, ceramic vessels painted with scenes featuring the deity, and occasional marble fragments and jewelry taking up the theme are displayed on stands and in cases around the center piece or in vitrines set along the walls.
One of the points of the exhibition is that it reveals the insistence with which a given theme was dwelt upon in the ancient world, and therefore, how important it was to society.
While we appear to know a great deal about antiquity, we also miss an awful lot. The moment questions are raised about meaning that go beyond simple characterization and, more delicately still, about variations of meaning over time and across space, the limitations of our understanding of ancient cultures becomes painfully apparent.
Perhaps the great merit of this small-format show is that it allows the viewers to ponder complex issues raised by works of art that once were familiar to the cultivated classes of the Western world but now seem remote. This requires a level of attention that cannot be sustained when the eye roams over scores of objects.
Queries begin with the notion at the heart of the show, Eros the god of love. Just what the word "god" meant to the Ancient Greeks is rarely discussed from the perspective of personal relationship to the divine. The learned commentary printed on the label of the large bronze "Sleeping Eros" notes that numerous replicas of the type were made in antiquity, but does not submit reasons for this multiplication in the centuries that followed the world conquest attempted by Alexander the Great until his death in 323 B.C.
The author of the label tantalizingly remarks that the conception of the god Eros "brought down to earth and disarmed [is] considerably different from the powerful, often cruel and capricious being so often addressed in Archaic [Greek] poetry." No explanation, however, is put forward for this transformation. For example, could there be any correlation with the Near Eastern trend toward the love of the divine that eventually culminated in Christian theology?
The show makes it clear that societies in the Roman empire were haunted by the memory of ancient Greece, making the conceptual metamorphosis the more intriguing.
A statuette of the mother of Eros, Aphrodite (or Venus to Latin-speaking Romans), cast by a Greek bronze maker around 150-100 B.C., reproduces in miniature the fourth century B.C. "Aphrodite of Knidos" carved by Praxiteles, the most admired Greek sculptor in antiquity. More than 200 years after its execution, the historian Pliny the Elder still celebrated the original as "the finest statue in the world."
Judging from the Roman period "Sleeping Eros" statuettes inspired by the fourth century B.C. original, an astonishing transformation took place some time between the fifth and the fourth century B.C.
No monumental fifth century B.C. bronze statue of Aphrodite survives. Failing that, a fifth century B.C. bronze mirror supported by a handle in the form of a draped woman gives some idea of what it might have looked like. A woman stands full front, extending the palm of her right hand to allow a dove to rest on it. The bird was "sacred to the goddess Aphrodite," the exhibition label observes, without attempting to explore the metaphysics behind the formal symbol, let alone its emotional charge.
Yet the gravity of the figure, which stands in a posture of attention, seems to indicate the awareness of some unseen reality. It is difficult to escape the feeling that the mirror must have been loaded with deep significance stemming from the religious character of the figure. That aspect of it is not touched upon, possibly because religious attitudes in Ancient Greece are poorly apprehended. We know the names and the myths, but these tell us little about the living faith.
Why and even how Greek society veered from the gravity of the Classical age to the alacrity frequently seen in Hellenistic sculpture of the third and second century B.C. remains an enigma.
The merry laughter of the golden winged fellows wrought in miniature size as a pair of earrings is irresistible. The jewels, reportedly found around 1902 at Rhodovani in Crete, entered the Met in 1930. Discussions concerning jewels of this type concentrate on style and authenticity. They leave us none the wiser about what the laughing Eros figures may have meant to the woman from the uppermost strata of society who would have been wearing them.
If anything is more intriguing than the nature of religious attitudes in the ancient world, it is the irresistible attraction that Europe suddenly felt to its artifacts when extensive digs began to be carried out in the 15th century in Tuscany, the land of the ancient Etruscans.
It was a great idea to bring together some of the Renaissance bronzes and later drawings and prints that bear witness to this enduring fascination.
The strictly descriptive labels suggests that the organizers' purpose was not to prompt a debate about this confrontation of Renaissance men with the early past.
The mix of Ancient Greek or Roman pieces and Renaissance items may have been dictated by the simple need for a sufficient number of artifacts to fill a small room — even the Met does not own hundreds of Eros and Aphrodite figures from the ancient world.
Visitors are left to their thoughts, free to formulate their own questions in a space where they are not overwhelmed under an avalanche of exhibits with outlandish names.
The attention with which Italian artists scrutinized ancient sculpture long after the first discoveries of underground caches in the Renaissance is highlighted by drawings like the "Sleeping Eros" by Giovanni Angelo Canini. The 17th-century craftsman was clearly looking at a marble sculpture of the first century B.C. that has yet to be discovered. He sketched the "Sleeping Eros" in pen and brown ink, lightly toning it with his brush laden with brown wash. Canini, who specialized in drawings of Classical antiquities, published a book on the subject.
But artists were not content with gazing at ancient art. They adopted its themes. In 1496, Michelangelo carved a marble group of Eros, sleeping on the lion skin of Hercules. The Renaissance master wanted to demonstrate his ability to rival the sculptors from the Ancient World. Michelangelo's monumental original, which is lost, so appealed to art patrons that bronze makers cast smaller versions of it: A North Italian bronze made in the early 16th century after the missing Michelangelo is in the show.
It is not just the iconography of Western art that changed. Admiration for Greek and Roman sculpture set Western Europe on an entirely new course, and altered its aesthetics for the next three centuries. Late Medieval stylization made way for naturalism.
The Baroque age, with all its imagination, invoked antiquity even as it innovated. Guido Reni's "Sleeping Cupid" was reproduced, or rather interpreted, by Bartolomeo Coriolano in a woodcut that resembles neither Roman works, nor Reni's paintings. His print provides an impeccable anticipation of Pop Art, making it one of many unexpected sequels to the 15th century European rush on excavated antiquities.


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DC Comics' 2011 company-wide relaunch saw the reshuffling of creative teams on many titles, including fan-favorite series "Birds Of Prey." When the New 52 relaunch happened in September 2011, artist Jesus Saiz tayed onboard for the relaunched monthly series, but writing duties changed from Gail Simone to Duane Swierczynski, a crime novelist and comic book writer best known for his comics work for Marvel, from "Cable" to "Deadpool" and more.
Swierczynski has used the relaunch to introduce readers to his new "Birds Of Prey," pitting the characters against a brand-new villain named Choke in his very first story arc. Marking a shift in the team's long-running dynamic, the new Birds are composed of Barbara Gordon as Batgirl, super villainess Poison Ivy and the death-dealing heroine Katana. Led by Black Canary and another brand-new character named Starling, the series has also seen a large tonal shift as the Birds are now firmly on the wrong side of the law, whether by accident or design, attempting to fight crime in Gotham while being hunted themselves.
As the Birds are pulled deeper into conflict with their invisible antagonist Choke, Swierczynski stepped forward to speak with THE BAT SIGNAL about the title, touching on everything from why he passed on using ex-teammate Lady Blackhawk to his conversations with "Batgirl" and previous "Birds Of Prey" writer Gail Simone.
CBR News: You've made a name in comics mainly writing for Marvel, but you're even more well known for your crime novels. Was the allure of bringing some of that crime writing sensibility to comics one of the reasons you wanted to tackle "Birds of Prey" and this specific team?
Duane Swierczynski: Definitely. Two editors at DC approached me, and I was interested because, for one thing, it was set in Gotham City and I've been a huge Batman fan since I was a kid. To me, the Batman world in Gotham is actually the perfect crime world in comics. I had written a sort of illustrated novel involving Batman for DC and Quirk Books, maybe five years ago. So it wasn't my first time in Gotham City, but it was my first time working with the Birds. I saw so much potential with them having fun being the outlaw group running around town and the group dynamics. I was a big fan of Gail Simone's run and just to have all these characters, that was the appeal to me. I really hadn't done a team book before, and I thought it would be fun to explore.
The idea that you wanted to start them off on the wrong side of the law was part of the original pitch, something you had been thinking about for a while?
It's funny -- they already had the line-up. My editors said, "We have these characters, what would you do with them?" The one thing I noticed about their back stories is that they all have an outlaw feel to them. They all don't really fit in, especially Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy was kind of the surprise team member. When I first saw her I thought, "What?" [Laughs]
I thought about how cool it is to wonder why would she join a team of do-gooders, and what her primary motivation might be. So it kind of evolved out of the list of characters' outlaw status. Then I thought it would be fun to show them as trying to do the right thing but also being hunted down by other forces, other agencies or other people. Black Canary is accused of murder; Starling is being hunted by four or five different intelligence groups and Katana is being pursued by the Yakuza. This one team is, to me, the classic hero team where they try to do the right thing despite the world trying to knock them down and make their life miserable. That's kind of a cool thing.
So, DC came to you and said, "We want her on the team." As a writer, how did you go about deciding what role she would play in the new Birds?
I thought about her motivation, mostly. Why would she join? What does she want most out of this world? It's hard -- I can't really discuss too much of that because it'll be coming up in the next issues, what her true motivation is and what she's all about. I hope it's surprising. It's not black and white. I don't think she's a bad guy, I think she straddles both worlds. I think she's genuine in her wanting to help this team, but also has her own agenda. Once I figured that out, it informed her entire character and I saw where it was going. I started at a certain endpoint and backtracked. Her journey is a big part of the [team's story].
One of the standout characters in "Birds Of Prey" is the new hero, Starling. What was the idea and inspiration behind her?
It was funny, we wanted a new character on the team. Originally we were thinking about having Lady Blackhawk appear, but it seemed kind of weird having her [in "Birds of Prey"] with a book called "The Blackhawks" [also being published.] There's sort of a lot to explain -- her backstory is great, but it's almost too much. So when she dropped out of the line-up, the editors said, "Ok, come up with a new character." I thought, "Who would be a good counterpoint to Black Canary?" and then I just had fun with her. I made this little, short backstory for her and it kind of snowballed from there. Every issue so far has been more and more about her. I almost have to hold myself back, because if I could, I'd do a Starling spinoff comic in a heartbeat! [Laughs] I think she's fun! But it's a team book, so I can't let her grab too much attention. Again, she's an outlaw, she's had a weird upbringing. You're going to meet her Uncle Earl in a future issue, who's a big influence in her life and sort of how she developed into who she is.
While Batgirl is in the book, the defining friendship of your "Birds Of Prey" is between Starling and Canary. What are the differences between the way Starling and Black Canary operate and personally relate to each other versus the old Black Canary/Oracle dynamic?
In previous runs, Oracle was definitely running the show. She was the center of this team and all things flew out from her. I approached it where Black Canary and Starling are kind of equals; they kind of joined up out of friendship and necessity, how any friends meet up. It just sort of becomes enmeshed in its own weird way. It's often interesting when you have two very different people who become friends and compliment each other. I thought that would make a different dynamic for this team to have, these two being the core and then the others joining in. Even though Batgirl joined in, she didn't become the core. I feel they keep each other honest. Starling's a loose canon but she cares deeply about Dinah and vice versa. In a world where they can trust no one I think they trust each other.
The new Batgirl, as you said, she's almost an outlier of the group. Was this partly because you're waiting for Gail Simone to fill in the blanks of her past before you used her as a core character, or is she always going to be a side character, part of the group but not the focus?
I think the latter. I think she's always going to be a part of the team, insomuch as she has a friendship with Dinah, and that is always going to be there. But she is an essential part of this team, so it's kind of back and forth. In issue #1, she was very standoffish. She sees this group as, "You guys are outlaws, no way! I'm not going to join your team." She's motivated by friendship to join the team and help out. You see that more in issue #5 and #6. But again, she has her own solo title and she's the center of that universe, I didn't want to make her the center of this one as well. I kind of wanted to explore these different characters, Black Canary and Starling, and what they're all about. Plus, Batgirl is not fond of Poison Ivy by any stretch, so that kind of strains things. That's a wrench in the works for the whole team. I feel like Katana sometimes gets short shrift, but she's so much fun to write and plot and think about because the big question for her is, is she sane or is she really crazy?
Is her husband's soul in the sword, or is she just talking to it?
Exactly! [Laughs] There is probably evidence both ways. I want to believe her, but it sounds kind of goofy.
Are you interested at all in answering that question, or are you going to leave it ambiguous?
You know, it's funny. We're going to be playing with it on both sides in coming issues. At some point, I think we're going to focus on her a little more and focus on her backstory, but for the moment, a lot of the next arc will be on Black Canary, on her backstory. I'm going to tease it along, probably! [Laughs]
It sounds like a big cop-out, but I honestly kind of wait for characters to reveal themselves to me as much as I actually plot. When I'm writing, they kind of lead me in certain directions. A lot of the fun and surprises I get out of things, and this is true of novels as well, is when I relax a little bit and let the characters run for a little while and they surprise me with where they want to go. I try to apply that to comics as much as possible even though in comics you plot out things, you run it by editors, it's a collaborative effort. I still try to preserve a sense of surprise when I can about these guys.
The first villain they're tackling in this big starting arc is the mind-controlling Choke. What does Choke bring out in the Birds, and how does it set the tone for the sorts of adventures they'll have in the next arc?
That's a great question; in fact, the whole motivation for Choke being the big bad is that I thought for a team of outlaws the biggest enemy would be paranoia. You're always wondering who's chasing after you, always looking over your shoulder. If there was an enemy who did that to the nth degree, it really makes you question everything, makes you question who is around you. I love the fact that we haven't seen his or her face yet; my whole pitch to the editors was that we aren't going to show this person until deep into this arc. It's what we want to do with the series because I think a lot of the most fun villains are the ones that keep you guessing, keep you on top of your game. The arc to follow this first seven issue arc will be, I think, surprising [in terms of] who becomes the antagonists. I don't want to say too much, but I like the idea that there's one thing about having an enemy in front of you that you can see, they're wearing a mask and you can beat the crap out of them, but then there's the enemy you can't see. You're wondering where they'll strike next, which is a lot of fun!
You're also playing with their memories, so there's that uncertainty as well.
Yes, exactly; you'll see a lot of that false memory stuff going on, and that's the worst. You kind of have an idea of how things went down and your best friend says, "No, you are so wrong, that's not what happened last night." That's fun to explore.
On the art side, you're working with pre-relaunch "Birds" artist Jesus Saiz. He's obviously already got experience with this kind of story and cast, but in what ways have his sensibilities lined up with your approach to the Birds as outlaws?
He is a thrill to work with. It's funny, I don't work with him directly. We go through his agent David Macho, so we've never had a conversation -- we email through David, but we get along great. He is sort of oddly tuned to what I'm going for all the time, down to facial expression. I can see it in my head and there's only so well I can describe what I'm going for, and he nails it somehow. He guesses what I'm going for, which I think makes him psychic or super-talented -- probably both! The small things like facial expressions always impress me; the pages come in and I think, "This is it, this is great!" What's funny is, when we first started, I plotted the first issue, wrote the script even, and then we had a conversation through David about what [Jesus] likes to draw, what he's into. One thing he says is, "What I'm not crazy about is drawing guns and cars." I'm thinking, "Oh, issue #1 is full of guns and cars! This poor guy!" But beyond that it's been pretty great. I think he does some great dynamic stuff. His Poison Ivy impresses the hell out of me. Jesus is really great at the organic thing, the flowing suit with the tendrils, all the plant stuff -- he's just super cool and it's fun to let him go crazy with it.
Finally, with you two having the same character in your books and Gail being the last one to write "Birds Of Prey," have you had conversations with Gail about Batgirl or the approach to the team as it stands?
Well, you know, we did have this pretty serious knife fight in an alleyway early on. Gail cut me deep -- she's brutal and merciless! [Laughs] No, we have talked through email, and even through Twitter, a lot. We're not trying to push too much of what we're doing on each other, but she's just been super-cool to me and really supportive and fantastic about everything. I'm sure it wasn't easy for her to leave the Birds behind to pursue these other things, but she's been fantastic. We've been talking quite a bit about how Batgirl can fit in both worlds, so I'm very grateful. She's even cooler than I thought she was before!
"Birds Of Prey" issue #6 hits shelves February 15.


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Indigo Batman: Leviathan Prime
February 6th, 2012
1. Endtroducing
Flashback to 2011 and the world is ending. Again. The signs are easy to interpret now, when they require any interpreting at all: a news anchor blathers away on TV, building up so much expectation that the large hadron collider, suffering from a fit of performance anxiety, unravels and takes reality with it; meanwhile, under the sea in a parallel Earth, an archaic supervillain announces that he has "hung a deadly necklace of deadly meta-bombs around the world like precious pearls"; on the internet, or rather in a dated parody of cyberspace that resembles nothing so much as X-Box live for "edgy" business folk, a rapidly mutating program tries to take over everything.
Responses to this are equally typical: standing in a futile crowd beside a fatbalding awkwardman, a disinterested woman holds up a sign informing everyone that "THE END is NIGH!"; a bloodied hero crawls forward, trying to save the world again, knowing that all he has to do is push a button, but that even this might be to much for him now; elsewhere, tough men decide to make tough decisions with predictable results.
I'm talking about Batman Incorporated and Indigo Prime here, because they were the two garish fantasies that played best for my (semi-informed, heavily solipsistic) sense of panic throughout 2011, that end of season finale of a year.
After all, if you feel like everything's falling apart, sometimes it helps to be able dress these feelings up in twisted words and garish costumes instead of focusing on the garbled socio-economic truth.
Spacetime becomes jelly.
The walls of reality buckle and fold.
Higher Dimensions intrude into the supersymmetry.
Dark Matter condenses as worlds collide.
Mmmmm, yeah, that's the stuff.
The neonomicon rereviewed via Swamp Thing
September 1st, 2010
the sleep of cthulhu, aeons deep.
i'm not sure this is a really straight ahead argument, so much as it is a series of reflections and ruminations, and i'm sorry it's all in lower case. it's a bad habit, one of which zom, probably quite rightly, does not approve.
he would want you to know that, i'm sure.
Rogue's Review #6: Poison Ivy
August 11th, 2008
Yes, that's not the poster – I'm not sure British television in the 80s did posters. Especially not for a series as outright miserable and cheap as Day of the Triffids. Instead what we got were real suburban streets, sets hungover from the seventies, and parochial British accents. The show was so bloody scary because the world it inhabited looked and sounded so depressingly like our own. The triffids were like some vile full stop on the end of contemporary British life – we were defined by the moment of our extinction and we turned out to be parochial, small, insignificant and suffering. The fact that mankind was to meet its fate blind (after a freak meteorological event) just served to underline the point that the universe is merciless, uncaring, uncompromising, and alien to all human feeling. What better monster to take on the role of apocalyptic deathbringer than one which has no anthropomorphic qualities: that skitters along on it's roots, and feeds on blood, that, as a consequence of its inhuman nature, negates the value of culture, thought and emotion?


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Etsy Treasuries played a large part of the startup of this team, and a few of our members are quite good at coming up with collaborations of team and non-team members.
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We had an amazing 9 days meeting new friends and welcoming old ones into the shop for the festivities, and we sure did love giving away those skeins of MJ Yarns for our daily drawings. Thank you again to Jonathan for sending us some of his lovely, squishy, fun yarn!
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Psalm 36 Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB)
To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David the slave of the LORD.
36 ¶ The rebellion of the wicked saith to my heart that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes until his iniquity is found to be hateful.
3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit; he has left off to be wise and to do good.
4 He devises iniquity upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.
5 ¶ Thy mercy, O LORD, reaches unto the heavens, and thy truth reaches unto the clouds.
6 Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; thy judgments are a great deep; O LORD, thou dost preserve man and beast.
7 How excellent is thy mercy, O God! therefore the sons of Adam cover themselves in the shadow of thy wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
9 For with thee is the fountain of life; in thy light shall we see light.
10 Extend thy mercy unto those that know thee and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen; they are cast down and shall not be able to rise.
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A rare red silk ground brocade robe of state (chaopao). Kangxi Period.. Photo Bonhams
The upper section of the pieced robe woven with a quatrefoil reserve filled with two opposing four-clawed dragons at front and back striding toward a flaming pearl beneath a narrow lishui border, the motif woven in polychrome silk threads and repeated in the woven band to the pleated skirt and matching rectangle sewn with other pieces that comprise the two long sleeves; 48 1/2in (123cm) long. Estimate: US$20,000 - 30,000
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