Comments on: Moment of Silence at Olympics

By: fool me once...

fool me once... — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:21:01 +0000

Chunky Mark hits the big time with advice for post Olympics;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQDh7Hm0kHA&feature=b-cat-activism

By: Laura Stuart

Laura Stuart — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:12:54 +0000

Not really trying to defend Saudi Arabia but if you read this http://www.feminist.com/antiviolence/facts.html
you may get a different perspective on abuse against women.

Has feminism really stopped women being victims?

By: Roy Bard

Roy Bard — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:53:47 +0000

what happened next

By: who_me

who_me — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:35:15 +0000

think of the bad press!

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=32092

“The kingdom has up to now never permitted its women to participate in the Olympics because of its draconian application of Islamic Sharia law, which forbids women to be present in public gatherings of both sexes. But the real issue is not the Saudi rulers’ desire to cover up their women – it’s the need for the Western powers and their Arab proxies to cover up ongoing imperialist aggression in the Middle East.

Only in the last few weeks – before the 9 July deadline – did the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee rescind its decades-long moratorium on sending female athletes to the Olympics – a ban that has been in force ever since the kingdom first began participating in the Games in 1972.

As a result, some Western mainstream media are now talking up the occasion in glowing terms as a “breakthrough for women’s rights”.”

By: who_me

who_me — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:34:21 +0000

tweet from max keiser listed at deliberation:

“Israel just won a gold medal for whining. Congrats. By the way, Britain and US were kidding, they want you to back to pre-1948 borders.”

By: etominusipi

etominusipi — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:33:54 +0000

i am sure you are right to suggest my conception of gasbara is naive. at some later point of his life, La Rochefoucauld wrote the only thing that astonishes me is that i still have the capacity to be astonished.

my education continues, however, albeit slowly

By: who_me

who_me — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:11:53 +0000

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/olympics-ioc-rules-out-public-commemoration-of-1972-munich-killings/

“The IOC has ruled out marking the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre at the London Olympics opening ceremony but will visit the airfield where some Israeli team members were killed, it said on Saturday.

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge rejected calls for an official commemoration of the 1972 Munich Games attack during Friday’s curtain raiser, a standing request of the families of the 11 Israeli Olympic team members who died.”

expect claims of anti-semitism spammed about the ioc now.

By: Ariadna Theokopoulos

Ariadna Theokopoulos — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:54:06 +0000

You provide the last piece of the puzzle, Barb. Now it all fits together: who_me’s info on the decision on gold and silver medals, the Presidential medals of Honor given to Peres: THAT’s what it was all about. A way of saying Thanks you, Righteous Jews!
I confess I didn’t see this one coming. I did’t think they had it in them to give it all back: land, buildings, country and invite the refugees to return home.
Amazing. So help me I am so elated I could even swallow some Manischewitz to celebrate now.
Thanks, again!

By: Barb Weir

Barb Weir — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:34:31 +0000

Thank you Ariadna. My sources tell me that Israel has just decided to invite all Palestinians to return home, to dissolve the Israeli state and to return all lands and property confiscated from Palestinians in the last 150 years.

Let us see if these tactics are sufficient to suppress the moment of silence at the Olympics. If there is no such moment we will know these measures have been implemented and that Israeli tactics have prevailed yet again.

By: Ariadna Theokopoulos

Ariadna Theokopoulos — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:12:02 +0000

“if Koestler could be so easily proved wrong by genetic studies, why was such an operation against his memory deemed necessary?”

In biology it is called “redundancy,” in business it is called “insurance policy.”
I think your stumbling block, which I think I detect in your thinking, lies in considering hasbara a two-dimmensional thing, a text on paper that people recite and spread. While it starts as that, hasbara itself is a live organism that obeys darwinian laws — witness the many different species of the same genus that appear, some of which thrive and multiply, others with short legs or inefficient wings, perish and are only remembered in old and yellowing copies of newspapers.