USA Debt Crisis

USA debt crisis

who controls the money supply to the USA Govt

how much will they squeeze the USA Govt and people for more control and profit

its about time the USA and rest of world put an end to it

Edward 1st kicked them out of the country

then they went to USA

Oliver Cromwell brought them back into the country

Edwards law said to be still valid but ignored

Its about time each country controlled and supplied and made their own money supply

Perhaps from gold or production

Maybe thats why Gold price is high

Will countries take this opportunitty to break the monopoly ?

Or will they get assassinated in the process ?

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	US Crude Falls on Debt Talks Impasse Crude oil prices rose this morning as the US struggled to reach an agreement on raising the debt ceiling to avoid a default.

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Debt Ceiling Intransigence: Unintended Consequences... By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

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Which party is responsible for intransigence on raising the debt ceiling?  Republicans say the Democrats are, and Democrats say the Republicans are.  One could blame both parties equally, as both have their positions, but as I see it, it is the Republicans who are the most intransigent.  The Democrats have shown more willingness to compromise, even offering cuts in Medicare and Social Security.  Moreover, the Republicans started the fight, whereas the Democrats were willing to just raise the debt ceiling routinely, as in the past, and to get on with things. The Republicans created the issue, so they are responsible.  In fairness to the Republicans, it is a more important issue for them than for Democrats. The Democrats have always been more relaxed about debt than the Republicans.  At the present time, the Democrats figure that if the financial crisis is reason enough for the Federal Reserve to lend $16.1 trillion, that is, $16,100  billion to private banks in the US and Europe--an amount $1.6 trillion larger than the Gross Domestic Product of the US, the US Treasury can afford to borrow another couple of trillion dollars. http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4be2-a753-62060dcbb3c3  Citibank alone received $2.5 trillion in government loans, an amount larger than the Gross Domestic Product of Great Britain and larger than the GDP of all but five countries in the world. If one bank can borrow this much from the Fed, the US Treasury should be able to continue borrowing as well. Nevertheless, one has to respect the Republicans for their concern with debt levels.  Fiscal discipline should never be written off as too much trouble. It is easier to spend money irresponsibly if the money can be borrowed, as many American consumers have learned. One should not denigrate Republicans for wanting to control the growth of the public debt, especially when the debt is consistently growing faster than the GDP. However, for many, and perhaps most, of the Republicans in Congress, the issue is not merely about debt.  It is about using a hyped “debt crisis” to slash the social safety net. The reason Republicans are intransigent is that they see in the “debt ceiling crisis” the opportunity to return the country to a moral basis by curtailing welfare, handouts, and “Ponzi schemes like Social Security.” Republicans believe, appropriately in my opinion, that people should support themselves and not be leeches on others or on society. Republicans believe that if given opportunities to become leeches, many will take them, and that the Democrats have created too many opportunities for Americans to abandon self-sufficiency and to become leeches. Aside from the moral issue, too many leeches mean higher taxes on the productive and/or more debt burdens for our children and grandchildren.  In other words, the moral decline from handouts and welfare leads to economic decline.  It would be a mistake to dismiss the Republicans concerns out of hand. It is a fact that Roman bread and circuses produced a large leech class at a time when desperately needed manpower and resources for the Legions was scarce.  The issue that I have with Republicans is not their valid concerns, but what Republicans do not take into account. One important fact that many Republicans overlook is that in a market economy large numbers of people can find themselves without resources through no fault of their own.  Ordinary run-of-the-mill business cycles can leave millions jobless.  Once jobless, people cannot make mortgage and car payments and become homeless.  Unable to pay credit card bills, they have no recourse to credit. No country can simply say, “OK, hard luck, go die in the streets with your wives and children.” These problems are more acute today, because so many American jobs have been moved abroad to increase profits, thus making the income distribution extremely unequal.  There are no longer family farms to which to return, as during the Great Depression of the 1930s.   In the 1930s Marxism was a force.  The new Soviet Union and its promises had raised hopes for workers and the poor, hopes that proved to be unfounded, but the prospect of revolt in America softened hard hearts, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress were able to put in place a social safety net to provide for those who were cast aside  by the crises of capitalism. Many Republicans believe that the “New Deal” was the undoing of the Republic.  I know this both because I have spent my life among Republicans and because I am a scholar. For Republicans, or many of them, everything started going wrong with the New Deal, which created “leechdom,” expanded by President Johnson’s “Great Society” three decades later.  Republicans have been trying to rescue the Republic ever since. In the early 1980s when I, as Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, was tasked with getting the Reagan tax rate reduction out of his administration and into law, I encountered  more opposition from some Republicans than from Democrats. The Democrats could see that something had to be done about stagflation and that they had no solution, so they, or a number of influential ones, got on board.  The Republicans, however, or too many of them, opposed the Reagan tax rate reduction on the grounds that it would enlarge the deficit and the national debt.  To bring a number of Republicans onboard, the Reagan administration resorted to a non-economic argument that the tax cuts would starve the government of revenues and force the desired Republican shrinkage of government.  I opposed this tactic. I argued that it would confirm the claim that Republicans wanted to take the tax burden off the rich and place it on the poor by curtailing the services from government. I pointed out that House Speaker Tip O’Neil and the Senate Democrats were prepared to pass the Reagan tax rate reduction and that there were enough House and Senate Republicans and Democrats to carry the vote.  But the White House Chief-of-Staff would have none of it. He wanted a Republican “victory” over the Democrats. Thus, a necessary economic policy was misrepresented as a crusade against “big government.”   To summarize, the Reagan tax rate reductions were designed to cure stagflation, and they succeeded. However, in order to garner enough Republican support, Reaganomics was sold to congressional Republicans as a way to shrink the government by denying it revenue.  This was not the purpose, and denying the government revenue has nothing whatsoever to do with supply-side economics. Our purpose was to enable the economy to grow without having to pay for the growth with a rising rate of inflation. Having illustrated the folly to which Republicans can be driven by their obsession with debt and “leechdom,” let us now consider possible unintended consequences of the debt ceiling impasse.  This brings us to the most important aspect of the debt ceiling “crisis” that the Republicans are ignoring.  If Republicans become obsessed with their agenda and refuse a reasonable deal, and the Democrats do not cave, the executive branch will be faced with an inability to continue its operations.  This could mean, for example, that the troops in the various wars could not be supplied or paid, that air traffic controllers could not be paid, that the US government could not roll over the debt that comes due or issue the new debt that pays for 43% of federal budget expenditures. Unlike during  the Newt Gingrich government shutdown in the 1990s, today “nonessential government” does not total 43% of federal expenditures unless we include the wars, which, of course, the Republicans don’t. The US dollar could plummet in exchange value and lose its role as world reserve currency. The US would no longer be able to pay its oil bill in its own currency, and as its balance of payments is heavily in the red, the US has no foreign currencies with which to pay its oil import bill.  Or its manufactured goods import bill, or any other bill.   We are talking about a crisis beyond anything the world has ever seen. Does anyone think that President Obama is going to just sit there while the power of the US collapses?  He doesn’t have to do so.  There are presidential directives and executive orders in place, put there by George W. Bush himself, that President Obama can invoke to declare a national emergency, suspend the debt ceiling limit, and continue to issue Treasury debt.  This is exactly what would happen.   The consequences would be that the power of the purse would transfer from Congress to the President. It would be the end of the power of Congress.  Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, have already given away to the President Congress’ Constitutional right to decide whether the country goes to war. Now Congress would lose its power over debt, taxes, and the budget itself. Republicans need to decide whether the advantage of delivering a blow against “leechdom” is worth such extreme risks.   Some readers will say “this could never happen.”  But Congress is already emasculating itself as a result of the Republicans’ intransigence over the debt ceiling increase. Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Harry Reid have come up with a proposal for a committee of Congress, called a Super Congress, that could fast-track legislation by prohibiting amendments. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/23/super-congress-debt-ceiling_n_907887.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%7C80603  In other words, the few members of the Super Congress could bypass any citizen opposition that might still be represented in the ordinary old Congress.  The more likely outcomes would be an end to the mortgage interest deduction and the deductions for retirement savings. Legislation to gut the social safety net could not be amended.  A Congress that is willing to destroy its remaining power over a debt ceiling increase that is less than a Federal Reserve loan to one US bank is a Congress moved to folly by Republican intransigence.   The Honorable Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was appointed by President Reagan Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and confirmed by the US Senate. He was Associate Editor and columnist with the Wall Street Journal, and he served on the personal staffs of Representative Jack Kemp and Senator Orrin Hatch. He was staff associate of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, staff associate of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, and Chief Economist, Republican Staff, House Budget Committee. He wrote the Kemp-Roth tax rate reduction bill, and was a leader in the supply-side revolution.  He was professor of economics in six universities, and is the author of numerous books and scholarly contributions.  He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.

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	In our 580th issue: UPDATES MINILINKS ANNOUNCEMENTS Don't Let Congress Order Internet Companies to Spy on You The U.S. House of Representatives is currently considering H.R. 1981, a bill that would order all of our online service providers to keep new logs about our online activities to help the government identify the web sites we visit and the content we post online. This sweeping new "mandatory data retention" proposal treats every Internet user like a potential criminal and represents a clear and present danger to the online free speech and privacy rights of millions of innocent Americans. Act now and tell your Representative to oppose this dangerous bill, before this week's critical vote! Fragmenting the Internet Is Not a  Security Solution In light of the recent spate of high-profile hacking campaigns, NextGov.com reports that parts of the U.S. government are advocating for a separate, "secure" Internet. The idea calls for segmenting "critical" networks (not yet fully defined, but presumably including infrastructure and financial systems) and applying additional security mechanisms to these networks. The trouble is that this " .secure" Internet doesn’t make much technical or economic sense: the security mechanisms are simply not powerful or cost-effective enough to warrant re-engineering an Internet. Patent Trolls Drive App Developers from U.S. Market Platforms such as iOS and Android allow small software developers the ability to widely distribute their work, which is good for both developers and consumers. This has created a robust new economy of mobile apps. But just as these developers were finding new audiences, patent trolls started sending cease-and-desist letters demanding license fees and even suing app developers. Not surprisingly, we're now seeing reports of software developers pulling their apps out of U.S. app stores. This provides yet more evidence that the patent system, which is intended to promote innovation, is being used to hurt creators. EFF Updates EFF Campaign Increases the Number of Tor Relays by 13.4% Tor is software that individuals can use to mask their IP addresses and proxy out to uncensored networks, helping them dodge network surveillance and elude online censorship. But Tor isn’t merely software it’s also a network of volunteer computers, each donating bandwidth and acting as a router so that people can bounce their requests through the network. On May 31st, we launched a campaign with the goal of starting 100 new Tor relays. Thanks to the contributions of supporters around the world we're now finishing our campaign with 549 new relays. The “Graduated Response” Deal: What if Users Had Been At the Table? Several major Internet access providers struck a deal with big content providers to help them police online infringement, educate allegedly infringing subscribers and, if subscribers resist such education, take various steps including restricting their Internet access. But the memorandum of understanding they've developed fails to consider the needs of Internet subscribers and fails to do anything substantial to help artists get paid for their work. Righthaven Ordered to Pay $5,000 in Sanctions for Its Misrepresentations to Court A federal court in Las Vegas ordered the notorious copyright troll Righthaven to pay $5,000 in sanctions and to file the court transcript containing its admonishment in hundreds of other copyright cases. EFF represents Democratic Underground in this case. miniLinks Activist Indicted for Alleged Computer Crimes Aaron Swartz, activist and co-founder of Demand Progress, was arrested and indicted in relation to allegedly downloading millions of documents from the academic archive JSTOR. Kickstarter Succcessfully Funds Over 10,000 Projects The online platform Kickstarter.com is celebrating its 10,000th successfully-funded project - and over 3,000 of them are music-related. Patent Troll Lodsys Sues Rovio Over Angry Birds Lodsys has sued several small and large mobile developers claiming they are infringing on patents it wns that cover in-app purchasing methods, among other things. The newest target: Rovio, best known for the game Angry Birds. 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Remember to add ewg@ewg.org to your contact list. Dear Friend, In recent years I've been more aware of how much my food choices impact our planet. I was introduced to the Meatless Monday campaign and realized that eating a little less meat makes a big impact, both when it comes to losing weight and getting healthier, as well as relieving some of the tremendous burden on our environment. And I'm talking about a big impact. According to EWG's Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change + Health, if everyone in the U.S. skipped eating meat and cheese just one day a week for a year, it would be like pulling 7.6 million cars off the road. At the same time, people -- especially kids -- would be less likely to develop health problems such as obesity and heart disease. That's why I am such a big fan of EWG and the Meatless Monday movement in their work to get people to eat less meat and more fruits and vegetables. So will you join me and pledge to go meatless just one day a week? Click here to sign EWG's pledge that you'll skip meat one day a week. EWG is trying to get 100,000 supporters to take the pledge. My restaurants were already very vegetable heavy, but I came to realize that vegetables did not have to be only a condiment or a side dish, and we've added more veg-centric entrée-type options. I wanted to make it easier for other people to cut back on meat, so we began promoting Meatless Monday and offering alternating veggie specials every week! This issue is particularly important to me  because it so profoundly affects children. Studies have found that young kids are eating triple the currently recommended amount of protein, mostly from meat, yet few eat enough fruits and vegetables. If we don't take action now and teach our kids how to eat less meat, more and more of them could face serious health conditions such as heart disease, stroke and even some types of cancer as they get older. You can help your family eat healthier by  serving them a tasty meatless meal once a  week. And if we all do it together -- cutting down on the chemical fertilizers, fuel, pesticides and toxic chemicals that harm the environment -- we'll make a huge difference! Click here to sign a pledge that you'll go meatless at least once a week. EWG wants to get 100,000 people to join us. You'll still have plenty of great options, such as beans, nuts,  eggs, vegetables and whole grains! What I love about this campaign is that you don't have to be a vegetarian to eat healthier. That's not realistic for everyone, but you can make a lasting impact on your health and on our planet by making even small changes to your diet! Sincerely, Mario Batali Chef and Author UNSUBSCRIBE |  CHANGE OPTIONS The Environmental Working Group is a non-profit, non-partisan research  organization dedicated to  using the power of information to protect human health and the environment. The EWG Action Fund is a legislative advocacy organization that uses EWG research to promote healthy and sustainable policies.

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Credit Union Australia Lobbies Fed Govt Treasurer -Who Is said to Be A Member

Credit Union Australia Lobbies the Fed govt treasurer-who is said to be a member of credit Union Australia.

other credit unions should lobby the fed govt and fed govt treasurer to ensure the safety of small credit unions from  being taken over by larger credit unions

Credit Union Australia 157th takeover , of Maleny credit union FAILED-due to mcu members fighting back to save their communitty credit union

It appears members of CUA have no say to voice their opinions  -whether they want to takeover other credit unions, and create a MONOPOLY

After all 156 takeovers is a LOT

Cause they HAVE NO VOTE-NO VOICE

Management of MCU may  have changed the direction and performance of MCU against the members wishes

Maybe trying to make it just another takeover of CUA-and REDUCE competition and service to the GREATER Maleny area

and destroy 25 yrs of communitty effort of members

such board/directors have been told NO GO

but so far have not apologised or resigned

MCU members are trying  to rescue MCU from the present board control and restore MCU to its original communitty values and functions

with directors selected and approved by members

Directed by members and not a hostile board opposed to members wishes

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MalenyCU Friends – Open Session

When: Saturday 30th July at 10:00 to 11:30 am

Where: RSL Hall Maleny

Come along to our public information session to meet some of the
candidates and the Maleny CU Friends! Be involved in a renewed vision
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ECHELON: The Global Eavesdropping Scheme Dwarfs Murdoch's "News of the World" By Sherwood Ross

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As eavesdroppers go, next to Uncle Sam and John Bull, Rupert Murdoch, the moral force behind Fox News, is an amateur. That's because a global eavesdropping scheme being run today by the United States and Great Britain dwarfs anything that Rupert Murdoch's editors at The News of The World (TNTW) ever dared attempt. British Prime Minister David Cameron may well deny he knew TNTW was tapping the phones of members of UK's Royal household or those of American 9/11 victims. But he can't claim he doesn't know his country is a partner in ECHELON, which, according to Washington journalist Bill Blum, is a “network of massive, highly automated interception stations” that is eavesdropping on the entire world. "Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the National Security Agency (NSA) sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex...satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links, voice, text images (that are) captured by satellites continuously orbiting the earth and then processed by high-powered computers," Blum writes in his book "Rogue State" (Common Courage Press). Calling it the greatest invasion of privacy ever, Blum says the ceaseless, illegal spy system sucks up perhaps billions of messages daily, including those of prime ministers, the Secretary-General of the UN, the pope, embassies, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, and transnational corporations and that "if God has a phone, it's being monitored." Blum also said that during the countdown to its invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. listened in on the conversations of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the UN weapons inspectors in Iraq, "and all the members of the UN Security Council...when they were deliberating about what action to take in Iraq." Launched in the 1970s to spy on Soviet satellite communications, the NSA and its junior partners in Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand operate ECHELON, which is a network of massive, highly automated interception stations covering the globe at the expense of American taxpayers. Today, Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour opposition, is blasting PM Cameron on grounds that, according to The New York Times of July 19, “the recent scandals in British life were caused by a lack of accountability among those in high places.” Across Britain, Miliband said, “there is a yearning for a more decent, responsible, principled country.” What makes the British public recoil is the sort of conduct by former TNTW reporter Clive Goodman, who pleaded guilty in Jan., 2007, to hacking the voice mails of aides to the royal family. Pardon me, but how does that crime begin to compare with ECHELON, an organ of the U.S. Government, spying on the Secretary-General of the United Nations or the Pope? Or stealing, as it has, confidential business information and passing it along to favored firms? I'll say this for Mr. Murdoch: he's closed down his biggest newspaper; he's fired top editors and reporters for their part in the scandals. He's gone before the public and begged forgiveness. By contrast, what have high U.S. officials done about the crimes committed via ECHELON? Zip, and they have no announced plans to do so. They continue to operate ECHELON unashamedly. Rupert Murdoch's TNTW was only attempting to do in a small way what the governments of the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are doing big time every day. ECHELON is a criminal operation in violation of international law and terminating it might make America, too, “a more decent, responsible, principled country.” Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based public relations consultant who operates the Anti-War News Service. To contribute to his service or comment reach him at sherwoodross10@gmail.com

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Gaza: The Blockade Runners Pro-Palestinian activism to break the illegal siege By Julie Lévesque

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Global Research, July 18, 2011

Global Research Editor's Note The following article by Julie Lévesque is Part I of a review of  the lone humanitarian ship to Gaza, "The Spirit of Rachel Corrie" which reached Palestinian territorial waters before being brutally intercepted by The Israeli Navy. The mission was organized by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF) based in Kuala Lumpur. For several years now Global Research has been actively collaborating with the PGPF in a broad initiative to  criminalize war. It is in this context of continued  collaboration that Global Research's Julie Lévesque participated in this important endeavor.  Contrary to the Freedom Flotilla, which was the object of active media debate and discussion, the planning of the "Spirit of Rachel Corrie" mission was not made public. The Israeli authorities were taken totally by surprise. The  Spirit of Rachel Corrie was within less than one kilometer of the Gazan coastline. The Israeli navy acted in a totally improvised fashion, firing at the  crew and the passengers until the Spirit of Rachel Corrie retreated into Egyptian territorial waters. In an act of tremendous courage and determination, the Spirit of Rachel Corrie led by PDGF's Matthias Chang challenged the legitimacy of the Israeli government. It  managed "to put a hole" in the blockade of Gaza as  well as deliver by land, its humanitarian cargo. Part I of  this report focusses on two courageous Irish activists, Derek and Jenny Graham, who played a central role in leading both last year's "Rachel Corrie" and this year's "Spirit of Rachel Corrie". Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, July 18, 2011 PART I At the end of April 2011, I was asked to be part of the Spirit of Rachel Corrie mission to Gaza organized by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation, a Malaysian non-governmental organization promoting world peace founded by former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad. It was the first attempt to break the siege after last year’s  violent assault of the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos who murdered 9 activists. So far this year, it is the only mission that reached Palestinian  waters. It was forced to turn around at gunpoint by the Israeli  navy. It then became stranded in Egyptian territorial waters off the port of El Arish for seven weeks. The cargo, UPVC sewage pipes to help restore the sewage system destroyed  by the Israeli army, has now reached Gaza. The second part  of this article will focus on the mission and its implications. The Spirit of Rachel Corrie mission as well as the latest events surrounding the Freedom Flotilla II's failed attempt to break the  illegal siege of Gaza has shed light on the importance of international activism dedicated to the Palestinian struggle. The UN as well as most Western governments have supported the Israeli government, claiming that attempts to break the siege are "useless" and "provocative". The  "international community" has caved in to Israeli demands to dissuade their nationals from engaging in such endeavors. This raises a crucial question. International activism pertaining  to Palestine must now actively challenge the so-called  international community. “Until you found something worth dying for, you’re not fit to be living.”   -Martin Luther King The Blockade Runners They have been called the “Suicide boat people” and the “Peace pirates of the Mediterranean”. In 2008, husband and wife Derek and Jenny Graham traded their cozy, quiet life in Ireland for the Mediterranean high seas and the Israeli jails.  We met at the end of April in the green city of Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia, where the couple was recruited as advisors to the Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF) in the context of a project to break the illegal siege of Gaza. The latter conisted in coordinating  the Spirit of Rachel Corrie Mission (SRC a.k.a MV Finch), a cargo ship carrying UPVC pipes to restore the sewage system in Gaza destroyed by the Israeli army. “So, what do you guys do for a living?” I asked the Irish couple as we were having a typically Irish “cup’a tea” in their KL apartment. To this casual question Jenny Graham replied this unusual answer: “This is what we do!” Wow. Who does that? Give up everything to fight someone else’s battle?   “When people ask me what I do for a living, I says I'm a blockade runner”, said former electrician Derek Graham with a crooked smile and a sense of pride. “This is what we live for, this is what drives us”, added Jenny. “We were very comfortable in Ireland, but I wasn't happy. I wasn’t healthy either. One night I told Derek I says 'This is nice. We have a house, two cars, two businesses. But I'm so bored. This is not for me'”.  Derek Graham, Jenny Graham and Alan Lonergan from Sedaka, The Ireland Palestine Alliance. Alan was part of the land team for the Spirit of Rachel Corrie mission. They took a globe, spun it and pointed randomly at a country : Cyprus. They sold their house and their businesses for a pittance and moved to the Mediterranean island, where they unexpectedly became full time pro-Palestinian activists.  “We were already pro-Palestinian, but it's in 2008 in Cyprus that we heard of boats going to Gaza. I had sailed all my life. I thought, ya I wanna do that.” Since then, Derek has challenged Israel's illegal blockade six times. He succeeded on three occasions.  “And here we are, running boats to Gaza and I've never been happier and healthier in my life”, added the tiny lady with sparkling blue eyes. During their 9 month stay in Malaysia  the couple was often asked why they were devoting their lives to the Palestinian cause. “A question that we’ve been asked repeatedly is: ‘You’re not Muslim, why do you do this?’ This is not a religious issue. It’s a humanitarian issue. That country is war-torn. These people have nothing! Most kids in Gaza don’t even have shoes”, Jenny explained. Derek added: “Women have to cut diapers to make sanitary towels. How humiliating is that?” Jenny went on: “Over there you have drones flying over your head constantly. If we get there you will see the desolation. The worst thing is that it is not a natural disaster, it's manmade. But the greatest thing is the welcome you get. It is such a warm welcome! Tons of people come to you, touch you and kids want to hold your hand. Gazans are so happy to see that there are still people in this world who care about them.”    Pro-Palestinian activism: Fighting and dying for justice   The Spirit of Rachel Corrie (SRC) was Jenny’s second attempt to break the siege. She was with her husband on the Rachel Corrie last year, along with Matthias Chang, leader of the SRC mission, as well as, among others, Denis Halliday former UN Assistant -Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire. Jenny remembers: “We were in international waters and were asked to turn around by the Israeli Navy. We refused. The Israelis boarded the ship screaming. They cannot talk, they can only scream to your face. They took Derek, put him on his knees and put a gun to his head. At that moment I thought I’d never see him again. I was strip-searched. They wanted to hide me behind some sheet and I said: ‘No, I want everybody to see what you’re doing to me.’ And I took my clothes off in front of everyone. The soldiers were stunned.” They all ended up in a detention center in Ashdod, Israel and were banned for ten years for "illegally" entering Israel. The fact of the matter is that they never entered Israel illegally: they were brought by force to Israel by the Israelis. But it’s been demonstrated many times, when it comes to Israel-Palestine, justice could not care less for facts and logic. “Arbitrary detention is common in Israeli jails. Many people have been detained for years without even knowing why!” said Derek. The ship named Rachel Corrie, carrying humanitarian aid such as cement, educational and medical supplies, was taken to the Port of Ashdod and wrecked by the Israelis. To this day, the goods have not been delivered. Cement, just like steel, concrete and asphalt, only to name a few, are allowed in Gaza only “for PA-authorized Projects Implemented by the International Community”. (Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gaza: Lists of Controlled Entry Items, July 4, 2010) Matthias Chang, a Malaysian barrister, one of the architects of Freedom Flotilla I and leader of the PGPF mission, has dedicated his life to the causes of peace and justice, for over 40 years. He explained why the two ships sponsored by PGPF were named after the American activist: “Rachel Corrie symbolizes what motivates people other than religion. The first ship was hijacked, but her spirit lives on. Her courage and determination are an inspiration which goes beyond religious issues.” (Here is Matthias Chang’s account of the 2010 Rachel Corrie mission: Merging with Rachel Corrie  - A Dedication to Non-violence) Matthias Chang “When they were talking to the captain before they arrested us, the Israeli Navy would not even say the name of the ship. They kept calling her MV Linda, her previous name. They never called her Rachel Corrie,” Jenny said. In 2003, at the age of 23, American activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while protesting peacefully to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. She was unfairly demonized as an “extreme left-wing American activist” (Jacob Shrybman, Debunking the Gaza Siege Myth , May 3, 2010) “interfering with a military operation to legally demolish an empty house used to conceal [a tunnel] .. . used by Palestinian terrorists to illegally smuggle weapons from Egypt to Gaza.” (Mitchell G. Bard, Myths and  Facts Online. Online Exclusives, Jewish Virtual Library) Her parents sued the State of Israel and are expecting the ruling in April 2012. Rachel Corrie Rachel Corrie after she was run over by an Israeli army bulldozer. Rachel Corrie interview, 2 days before she was killed. Pro-Palestinian Activists Portrayed as Terrorists Pro-Palestinian activists are regularly portrayed as terrorists, supporters of terrorism, Hamas partisans, anti-Semites, etc. George Galloway, a British MP who delivered humanitarian aid to Gaza with Viva Palestina in 2009, was banned from entering Canada that same year. According to Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Mr. Galloway had “publicly and overtly handed tens of thousands of dollars to the leader of a banned anti-Semitic terrorist organization called Hamas”. (Cathryn Atkinson, National security claim rejected by judge in bid to redact Galloway emails, rabble.ca, April 20, 2011) Galloway brought the Canadian government to court. He won his case. The judge concluded that the Conservative government had banned him from Canada “because they disagreed with his political views -- not because he presented any threat to Canadians”. (John Bonnar, George Galloway returns to Canada this weekend, rabble.ca September 30, 2011) Like Rachel Corrie and many others, Derek and Jenny Graham, far from being advocates of terrorism, devote and risk their lives to provide humanitarian aid and essential goods to the victims of the illegal Israeli occupation. Death threats, dead friends -- being a pro-Palestinian activist is not easy. “Oh we received death threats, but we don't care”, said Jenny raising her shoulders with indifference. “They can threaten us, it's not gonna stop us.” Do you not fear for your life? “Ya! But the plight of the Palestinians is what drives us. If Derek dies, I'll survive. And I'll keep on going. It's gonna hurt, but I'll survive. Same thing for him.” This perilous humanitarian stance and commitment has claimed the lives of many. In addition to the numerous Palestinian journalists and activists killed in their own struggle, several foreign activists have either been killed by the Israeli military, the Mossad or by hired gunmen.    Thomas Hurndall, a British photography student, was shot in the head in 2003 while trying to save children from Israeli snipers. He died at 22 in January 2004, after nine months in a coma. Like Rachel Corrie, he was a member of the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian -led organization. Thomas Hurndall Thomas Hurndall shot by Israeli snipers Derek and Jenny’s Italian friend, Vittorio (Victor) Arrigoni, was tortured and killed under strange circumstances. Derek describes his late friend: “He was a gentle giant. He had the biggest arms I had ever seen, but he wouldn't have hurt a fly. And everybody loved him, especially the women. Oh they loved him!” Vittorio Arrigoni with a Palestinian girl   Vittorio Arrigoni while he was held hostage, tortured and strangled to death. The murder was allegedly commited by a Salafist group, which denied being responsible for his death. And he goes on with this harrowing tale. “Before he was killed, the Israelis took him while he was acting as human shield on a Palestinian fisherman's boat and they locked him up for days in a toilet that hadn't been cleaned for years. He was eaten by maggots and he had blisters all over his body when he came out.” Video directed by Vittorio Arrigoni showing the daily Palestinian life under Israeli fire. Victor, 36, was allegedly killed by an obscure Salafist group, supposedly in retaliation to the capture of one of their leaders by the Hamas. Some who knew him, as well as Hamas leaders, rather hint his murder was the work of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and that it was intended to "intimidate other foreign activists hoping to sail to Gaza as part of the next flotilla". (The Associated Press and Haaretz Service, Hamas official hints Israel killed Italian activist to intimidate future Gaza flotilla members, Haaretz.com, April 15, 2011)  Regarding the Mossad, Jenny admits: “Oh we know they're watching us. They took pictures of us while we were in Ireland. When they were interrogating me in jail I saw the pictures, and I told them: ‘These were taken in Ireland!’ They denied it. I replied: ‘I know they’ve been taken in Ireland, the sweater I’m wearing in that picture, I never took it with me, I left it at home'.” She adds: “I remember one time, Victor and I were having coffee on a terrace in Gaza and one of them was in his car on the other side of the street. Victor looked at him and pointed his cup saying, 'You want coffee'? But the ones you see are not a threat. It’s the ones you don’t see who are.” Unfortunately, those deaths don’t draw much media attention. Most people don’t know about Rachel Corrie or Vittorio Arrigoni. If a dead Palestinian isn’t considered newsworthy, why would a dead pro-Palestinian be? Last year’s brutal attack on the Mavi Marmara was an exception. Although it put Israel in a bad light, the killing of the 9 activists on board has served the purpose of discouraging activists who challenge to the illegal siege of Gaza.  The number of activists who joined the 2011 Freedom Flotilla, however, shows how ineffective last year’s bloodshed was in discouraging activists from attempting to break the siege. In a bitter irony, however, Israel has succeeded in persuading the United Nations as well as Western governments to condemn such attempts and discourage their nationals from challenging Israel’s blatant violation of international law.   The insiduous Role of the United Nations Secretary  General With Ban Ki-moon’s support, Israel's violation of international law has been rubber-stamped by the UN. In an utterly absurd statement last May, the UN Secretary General has managed to "turn realities up side down", presenting the illegal siege of Gaza as legitimate. According to Ban Ki Moon,  “assistance and goods destined to Gaza should be channeled through legitimate crossings and established channels”.  It is worth noting that several UN envoys such as Desmond Tutu, Navi Pillay and Richard Falk have explicitly condemned the Israeli blockade, underscoring the fact that it violates both the UN charter and the basic tenets of humanitarian law: U.N. envoy Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Wednesday called the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip illegal [and], "a siege" and a "gross violation to Human  Rights", echoing rights groups which accuse Israel of collective punishment. (U.N. envoy Tutu calls  Gaza blockade illegal, Reuters, May 28, 2008. Emphasis added.) Pillay said the blockade is illegal under international human rights and humanitarian law, and "must end now." (UN rights chief urges Israel to end 'illegal' Gaza  blockade, Ma'an News Agency, November 18, 2008 . Emphasis added.) “Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories [...] said the blockade is “a deliberate policy of collective punishment which is legally indefensible and  morally reprehensible” UN Expert Prof. Em. Richard Falk calls for immediate lifting of Israeli blockade of Gaza, UN News Center, June 23, 2011 Emphasis added.) It is worth noting that the UN Secretary-General in violation of his mandate presented the flotillas as "potentially violent": “The Secretary-General called on all Governments concerned to use their influence to discourage such flotillas, which carry the potential to escalate into violent conflict” (United Nations, Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General on Letters by the Secretary-General about Possible Flotillas to Gaza, May 27,  2011) Yet, in September 2010, the fact-finding mission established by the UN Human Rights Council concluded it was Israe which had used excessive and unnecessary violence against unarmed civilians: -  Israel demonstrated “totally unnecessary violence” -  The conduct of the Israeli military and other personnel towards the passengers on the flotilla was “disproportionate and excessive” -  "They demonstrated levels of totally unnecessary violence” -  No arms or weapons of an offensive nature were taken on board any of the vessels of the flotilla except for a few catapults -  Six of the deceased were the of summary executions, two of whom were shot after they were severely injured and could not defend themselves, -  "Passengers were assaulted by being kicked and gun-butted. Passengers on three of the other vessels were also subjected to unnecessary violence by Israeli forces as they took control,” -  When they finally disembarked at the port of Ashdod , attempts were made to get them to sign confessions that they had entered Israel illegally – some of those who refused to sign or give their fingerprints were further beaten. -  The treatment on shore was a continuation of the treatment onboard ship after the military had taken control,” he reported, adding that, at the end of the ordeal, passengers had to endure further violence including beatings prior to deportation at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv. (UN rights probe  into Gaza flotilla incident rebukes Israel for ‘unnecessary’ violence, UN News Center, September 27, 2010. Emphasis added) The fundamental issue is the undemocratic nature of the UN Security Council. While the UN General Assembly , which is truly representative of the international community has condemned Israel, actual decision making lies in the hands of the Security Council, which consists of the 5 permanent members (U.S., UK, France, Russia China), who can veto any resolution, plus ten non -permanent members. In regards to resolutions critical of Israel, the number of vetoes from th U.S. is impressive and has kept the UN from doing it s duty, which is: to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war... to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and  to establish conditions under which justice and respect   for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained [...] (Preamble of the Charter of the United Nations) The Necessity of Pro-Palestinian Activism Recently, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared the following: “We do not believe that the flotilla is a necessary or useful effort to try to assist the people of Gaza... It’s not helpful for there to be flotillas that try to provoke  actions by entering into Israeli waters and creating a situation in which the Israelis have the right to defend themselves.” (Remarks With  Philippines Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario  After Their Meeting, U.S. Department of State, June 23, 2011. Emphasis added) In a bitter twist, Israel the oppressor, is portrayed as the victim: Israel is threatened and has "the right to defend itself". In addition, Clinton claims that the flotillas “provoke actions by entering into Israeli waters”, when in fact, they never have and never will. These waters do not belong to Israel: they are either international or Palestinian waters, which Israel illegally controls through its military. On the ground however, such efforts to break the illegal siege are not seen as unnecessary and useless: Despite the chorus [which states profusely] that “the flotilla is not necessary”, reality on the ground shows that it is non-violent direct action that has been the only effective power to make change in the lives of Palestinians. The pressure applied by the flotilla effort has led to three main changes — in terms of the policy of the siege applied by Israel to Gaza; in terms of the media coverage and public attention to the crime scene that is Gaza; and in terms of compelling governments and institutions to take a position on the blockade. (Adam Shapiro, Gaza flotillas have made a difference, Gulf News, July 6, 2011. Emphasis added.) As long as the UN violates its own charter and does not challenge Israel for its violations of international law and basic human rights, pro-Palestinian activists will continue relentlessly in the pursuit of justice and dignity. In  this regard,  hope IS useful and necessary. Julie Lévesque is a journalist and researcher at Global Research, Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). Related Articles BREAKING NEWS: Humanitarian Ship to Gaza Running out of Food and Water - by Michel Chossudovsky, Julie Lévesque - 2011-05-23 After being attacked by Israel and stranded in Egyptian waters for 8 days, The Spirit of Rachel Corrie has become a floating prison. It is running out of water and food. SPREAD THE WORD Breaking the Blockade on Gaza: Lone Humanitarian Vessel Confronts the Egyptian Military Government - by Michel Chossudovsky, Julie Lévesque - 2011-05-21

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