For shame, even Castro's at it

Castro: Swastika has become Israel's banner

Former Cuban president slams Israeli raid on Gaza-bound flotilla, says Israel 'would not hesitate to send 1.5 million Palestinians to crematoriums'

AFP
Published: 06.11.10, 21:36 / Israel News

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro slammed Israel on Friday and compared its policies to those of Nazi Germany. He said Israel seems to have taken the swastika as its banner, and that it would "not hesitate" to send the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza to "crematoriums".

The former communist leader published an article in local press in which he said, "The State of Israel's hatred towards the Palestinians is such that it would not hesitate to send 1.5 million men, women and children to the crematoriums in which millions of Jews of all ages were killed."

Israeli has recently come under harsh criticism from many countries around the world over its takeover of the Gaza-bound Marmara ship, in which nine activists were killed.

Castro added in his article that, "The swastika would seem to be the flag of Israel today." He emphasized that his words were not "born of hatred", and noted that his country assisted persecuted Jews during the Second World War.

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The Israelis have "only" had 60 years to do it? If they had wanted to accomplish it they surely could have done it by now. They haven't. The Final Solution ran fewer than 5 years. Surely this difference isn't all down to fabled German efficiency? Ridiculous. Shame on Fidel.

WRH -- excusing rocket attacks on (Israeli) civilians

Usually hit empty fields? Usually?

That the rockets in HAMAS' possession are inaccurate is not a reason to excuse them. In fact it makes them worse, it means they're indiscriminate. Indiscriminate rocket attacks on civilians......excused. The Goldstone report called such attacks "war crimes". WRH calls them fireworks......

WRH - clever anti-Israel propaganda

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Here's the thing. I just got off a radio interview. One of the things that distresses me is the extent to which Israel has been successful in, for example, getting Americans to ask questions as to why the passengers on that big Turkish ship attacked the Israeli soldiers.

My emphasis. So, simply asking questions means one has fallen for Israeli manipulations - one has fallen under their spell and become a mouthpiece for Israel. Israel makes people ask questions. How dreadful. What pernicious corruption.

Don't ask questions - don't expose yourself as a dupe for Israel! Mad.

Lot's being said at the moment on the order of events around the Mavi Marmara situation. At least this article admits "the passengers on that big Turkish ship attacked the Israeli soldiers" - most everywhere omits this definite fact and claim it was the other way around.

There are so many suggestions that passengers were killed before the Israelis boarded and were attacked. There is no direct evidence for this at the moment, but people believe it. That's what I find interesting - that it's an objective fact we don't know what happened -- and yet people speak as if they already know. And how do their assumptions go? Well, there's an obvious keen-ness to reach conclusions which condemn Israel. Every detail reflects the same urge....all unknowns are simply assumed and - it seems to me - they unfailingly condemn Israel. That's my impression of the general reaction.

Moreover, raise a voice against it, and expect to get shouted down. Viciously too. A frightful climate. yuck.

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The rhythm? wow. love-me....long.....ding dong

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A working class hero.........is something to be.....

BA chief Willie Walsh turns down £334,000 annual bonus

small fucking beer to John Lennon, even in the 19 fucking 70s. Nevertheless.



You want to be a hero, then just follow me. Shucks.

QUITE

American and English use of "quite" is apparently quite different.

Quality degrees should be more widely available, the government says

"Quality degrees should be more widely available, the government says." - BBC

Hmmm. Are some degrees rubbish then? How come?

And "(quality) degrees should be more widely available"? The emphasis there must be on quality because in fact the UK Government is set to reduce numbers of undergraduates, and raise the costs for those that remain.

The cost of degree courses is a "burden on the taxpayer" and the system of funding is in need of "radical change", the universities minister has said.
BBC

I don't remember this in the election.........who voted for this? Did anyone say this would happen? Where is it in the manifesto(s)?

Current fees are £3,225 a year and graduates only pay the money back when they earn a salary of £15,000 or more.

Until not so recently it didn't cost a thing for working class kids to go. Of course, one was never swamped with money, being a student implied a condition of poverty, but it could be done, without necessarily having to pay for anything. About as cushty as it gets......for working class kids. About as cushty as it has ever gotten for working class kids?

But what happens when we lose that cushtiness? If economic "efficiency" demands that things can't be so cushty for working class kids, then let's admit it? If THIS is the material reality that your ideological position generates - let's admit it? You are? Ok - so stop telling me your ideology is so great, that you're right and that it's the only way that we can provide all the great liberal successes like.......a university education! Liberalism can't provide it's own conditions. Oh dear. Shit.

Conservative Mr Willetts said....students should see repaying tuition fees - which they must begin to do when they earn a salary of £15,000 or more - "more as an obligation to pay higher income tax", than as a debt.

Well, yeah.... When the issue of instituting fees came up (in the 90s?) I felt graduates should pay more tax because graduates earned - it was claimed - £100,000 more over a lifetime. So a graduate tax? But.....that's dumb? Just make the income tax do all the work? Why is there any other sort of domestic personal tax, really, other than to try to tweak behaviour? There's no need. The goal should be to get everyone to a degree level education level. It's a largely pointless goal in ways, and of course it will never happen soon. There really isn't any strict economic need to demand 50% of school leavers attend university, as NewLabour set as the goal. There's an argument to be had whether there's "efficiencies" available through preferring to have graduate engineers working at McDonalds, rather than mushroom-ologists.

Anyway, it seems to me we're seeing that graduating has not proven to be the boon they assumed. Else we would be able to afford to pay for it? No?

And of course, we don't really need a degree when the only work available is......errr.....hmmm. We should be lucky to have a job....in a factory employing 270,000 people......where toilet breaks are timed and suicide is preferable.

ETA ---- here's the Tory Manifesto version from before the election: