A Project Humanbeingsfirst Document: December 2008

Tom Brokow: “Whoever is elected the President of the United States that first day in Oval Office on January 21st 2009 will face this. An American economy that's in near paralytic state at this time. We are at war in two different countries, Afghanistan and Iraq. We have an energy crisis. We have big decisions to make about healthcare, and about global climate change. The President of the United States and the Congress of the United States now have the highest disapproval ratings that we have seen in many years. In all your years in public service, have you ever seen an incoming President face such daunting challenges?” (Tom Brokow to Gen. Colin Powell on Meet the Press, October 18, 2008)

Colin Powell: “No. ...”

Tom Brokow: “Given the state of the American economy, can we continue our military commitments around the world at the level they now exist?”

Colin Powell: “We can. We have the wealth, we have the wherewithal to do that. [coughs] ”

Colin Powell: “The problems will always be there, and there's gonna be a crisis come along on 21st or 22nd of January that we don't even know about right now.”

See Project Humanbeingsfirst's analysis in Response to Financial Times Gideon Rachman's 'And now for a world government'! There are dozens of news clips on Youtube from mainstream television news reports where many a notable illuminary predictively echo the same mantras of global crises “testing” the new President in January 2009, regardless of whether they are on the Left or on the Right, Republican or Democrat. To understand how such a consistency of message is being manufactured as a common welcoming mat for inauguration of the new President, see: Not-Voting is a 'YES' vote to Reject a Corrupt System which thrives on the facade of Elections and Democracy! For it is well understood that “what is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times”!

The Israeli invasion and merciless bombing of Gaza civilians appears to be a part of this premeditated calculus of precipitating crisis upon crisis. In each crisis, fulfilling the local agenda, as in Palestinians Don't Bleed! And cumulatively, leading the world to the global solution-space of world-government under a common oligarchic management, as the only viable governance system to manage an increasingly irrational humanity, its wars, and its deprivation. For indeed, “the answer is simple. Deliberately create problems. And then offer only those solutions that result in the expansion of government.” See The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy For World Government.

Thus note the police-state that is rapidly being constructed in the United States as the proposed domestic solution for the manufactured war on terror, and Martial Law is continually being threatened as the only way to protect the American peoples.

And yet, Martial Law has still not been imposed. Why? This is essential to understand so that one may learn how to protect oneself rather than be perennially lost in various puppetshows enacted by the circus clowns of empire. See Why Bluff Martial Law?.

Terrorist rampage in GAZA, Palestine 12/29/2008

“I feel like dancing and singing this day” and “I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing”.

Watch for “Palestinian Population Transfer” mantra taking shape shortly, first in the Israeli press, and then in its surrogates worldwide. It is the Chanukah gift from the Torah to mankind by the god's chosen peoples, amidst much rejoicing and merriment among them!

It isn't about Gaza as far as Project Humanbeingsfirst can ascertain, but about deliberately wrecking civilian and children carnage to invite the expected retaliations (and the false-flag murder of “worthy victims” now that believable 'revenge-motive' has been re-established) in order to begin the discourse of all Palestinians pop-transfer anew just as Mr. Obama is being ushered in.

If one agrees with this forensic perception, sharp focussing-light must be brought to bear on that real-agenda of why babies are being put to the slaughter and Israelis rejoice with “I feel like dancing and singing this day” and “I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing” before that agenda gets into public relations high gear! Just as the world is merely watching with at best a few anemic vacuous words of condemnation, one or more false-flag carnage of a thousand Israelis dead would present a “mad dog” to the world before which the world will acquiesce to the final solution to the question of Palestine.

Mr. Obama is indeed planning to instrument many a “change” on planet earth during his watch – all with due justifications of course.

See Project Humanbeingsfirst's response in full context: GAZA: The final pretexts for Palestinian Population Transfer in the making! December 29, 2008.

'The Appropriate Response To Islamic Terror' by Lawrence Kulak, '5 Towns Jewish Times', 11/12/2008

“The Torah, however, preaches a doctrine which, if implemented by the West, could finally put an end to all Islamic terror: If somebody is coming to kill you, rise up and kill him first.”

Project Humanbeingsfirst responds in its Letter to Editor 5 Towns Jewish Times: Of Emperors and Pirates, nothing more! December 17, 2008:

'The wonderful thing about the Great Holy Book Torah is that all can follow it! It is bizarre that “Muhammad's Sword” had never heard of this before. Thank you for informing us. Please be advised that Project Humanbeingsfirst fully cooperates with all law enforcement and other governmental agencies worldwide in rooting out Terrorism in all its nuanced shades and stripes in order to end its Neanderthal reign of terror upon all who are human beings first. Project Humanbeingsfirst does not distinguish between terrorists clad in turbans and those wearing suits, nor between the predatory rampages of the pirates vs. the emperors, albeit each is apportioned the measure of crime and guilt commensurate to their respective station of power and impact on their victims.'

Terrorist rampage in Mumbai, India 11/26/08

Watch for “Hindustan Patriot Act” being enabled shortly! The last bastion of democracy, the largest in the world, had to be converted into a police state as “World government could only be kept in being by force”. This isn't an isolated event. The monetary collapse, the Obama government, predictions of first year of horrible terrorist acts worldwide to be blamed on the manufactured 'Militant Islamists' – enablers of endgame. Stop blaming either the Indians, or the Pakistanis. This has been a mil-ops all the way – no different than the Marriott Hotel terrorist act in Islamabad. See Press Release WHAT'S TO BE DONE – Massive Bomb Blast in Islamabad Marriott September 20, 2008. The same applies to Mumbai. See Ali Baba in Mumbai – Eid 2008 Reflections and The Mumbai Terrorist Act: An International Chorus of Actors! December 08, 2008. Observe how this is being cleverly spinned as a “Muslim Revolution” by some 'circus clowns' of empire: Rebuttal to Paul Craig Roberts': 'Washington Arrogance has Fomented a Muslim Revolution' December 06, 2008 who would, apparently, like nothing better than to create further “revolutionary times” between India and Pakistan: Letter to Pak Alert Press December 05, 2008. The zero-sum endgame is only the creation of convincing pretexts to present “world-government” as the only solution to save mankind from itself: Response to Financial Times Gideon Rachman's 'And now for a world government'!

To perceptively understand that momentous 'current affairs' are indeed a calculated and orchestrated conspiracy, that 'militant Islam' is among its more egregious enablers, that the 'war on terror' provides the “doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment, and patriotic gratification” necessary to fuel the “clash of civilization” as otherwise “democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization”, and that these multivariate “revolutionary times” have nothing to do with Islam or Muslims per se, except as a source of convenient canon fodder towards constructing a world-government in a circuitous way because “an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault”, see The WAR on TERROR 2008 Omnibus Collection (PDF).

And to comprehend why the pundits across the board – both mainstream and dissentstream – choose to remain silent about these agendas as they continually parrot the 'war on terror', Bin Laden, Al Qaeeda, 'loose nukes' mantras, or at best, simultaneously critique the empire's barbarism as merely the imperialism of a “rogue state”, read Carroll Quigley's 1966 classic “Tragedy and Hope”. That book is all about a ruling-elite, their long-running global agendas, and their enormous power to co-opt, purchase, intimidate, or coerce all who matter into silence, or into becoming their 'circus clowns'. To understand the sophisticated political science driven dialectics which they subsequently develop to execute on those agendas, see Weapons of Mass Deception – The Master Social Science.

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Terrorism November–December 2008 'War on Terror' News Analysis in Context

GAZA: The final pretexts for Palestinian Population Transfer in the making! December 29, 2008

GAZA: The final pretexts for Palestinian Population Transfer in the making!

Response from Project Humanbeingsfirst to 'Obama paying his debt to Zionists'

Dateline December 29, 2008 at 7:43 PM

“Why should only Israel have the right to self-defense? What about Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine?” (dictatorshipwatch, December 28, 2008)

Indeed. The ‘ubermenschen’ are always beyond good and evil. “It is not about right or wrong” as the Minister emphasized to M in the latest James Bond movie, but about “imperatives”. In this light, no appeal to moral-equivalence, such as the editor’s:

“Let us agree with Condi Rice and say: ‘We hold Hamas responsible for breaking the ceasefire, for violence.’ Let us agree with Zalmay Khalilzad that Israel has the right to self-defence. By this definition and this standard, let us see what response and to what extent does the US deserve for lying to the world through its teeth, launching a war of aggression on Iraq and butchering at least 1,305,837 Iraqis”

can ever work.

Thank you dear editor of dictatorshipwatch.com for collecting all these references related to the on-going Israeli atrocities in Gaza, after scanning of which, the only inescapable conclusion that is rationally reached is the one also reached by President George Bush on his birthday-visit to Israel in May earlier this year.

In response to the effusive welcome laid out for the President of United States by Shimon Perez: “Welcome to the new Israel: Three thousand years old, and going on sixty”, Mr. Bush had accurately summed up the entire global context of the Zionist State and its relationship to the United States leaving no further room for any further moralizing:

“Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded. And our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us succeed. We built strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to us by an Almighty God”.

God has given the ‘chosen peoples’ that land to settle in the analogous manner that the 'New World' was once settled. The Israelis are merely implementing their mandate, their heavenly imperative, and

“neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, … We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle”.

And lest one may forget that this self-righteous ‘ubermensch’ attitude of ‘god’s chosen peoples’ feeling entitled to forcibly and brutally occupy another’s lands even while blatantly recognizing that

“the country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country”

only existed pre-founding of ‘the Jewish State’ in Palestine, a reminder has to be periodically interjected into the global consciousness lest the world forgets who is the real boss:

“We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimetre of Eretz Israel… Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours”.

And therefore, the barbarism being experienced in Gaza as I write this, is just an unholy reminder:

“When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.”

And the grotesque outburst of pious rejoicing being witnessed by the silent world at the merciless slaughter of the 'children of a lesser god' already made homeless multiple times: “I feel like dancing and singing this day” and "I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing" while “sipping Pepsi”, is merely 'divine imperatives' being fulfilled. Indeed, only children of the 'lesser goy' mercilessly murdered by a 'superior god's chosen peoples', can be termed a “wonderful Chanukah gift” to humanity.

Incidentally, I have yet to encounter a similar description of the Nazis rejoicing at their killing their own 'lesser goy' in the tons of transcripts I have read of the Nuremberg Trials, as well as its detailed footnoted unraveling in 'Nuremberg, The Last Battle'. The Nazis apparently did not have as superior a divine mandate as the 'god's chosen peoples'.

How will any non-cowardly human being react seeing his and her children and loved ones so butchered, and their murderers grotesquely rejoicing? Predictably.

Thus,

“more Qassam (rocket) fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves”.

The tortuous reality behind “all our might to defend ourselves”, is the first imperial principle upon which many an empire has been constructed since time immemorial. As already succinctly expressed by Project Humanbeingsfirst in its Modernity Simplified exposition, and explained further in its humble letter to the American peoples, it is the quintessential First Principle of Conquest:

“If we don’t have real enemies then we have to create or imagine some and yell ‘we are being attacked’” in order to a) justify one’s hegemonic barbarianism upon others; and b) motivate an unwilling plebeian peoples into sacrificing for the conquests of the ruling elite.

Israel is fortunate to have real enemies so they have to spend less time convincing the world that “we are being attacked”, compared to their sponsors who have had to diligently construct the elaborate dialectics of “Clash of Civilizations” and “Bin Laden” and “Al-Qaeeda” in order to fully exploit the opportunity of going from “Balance of Terror to Unilateral Terror” for the same purpose.

The population of Gaza is a million-humanity in a square congested mile of narrow strip of land. Some rightly call it the outdoor concentration camp of modernity. For Israel to kill a few hundred civilians even in this most barbaric “shock and awe” hardly makes any difference to its statistics – and thus one must ask why are the Israelis on this terror-binge that has no overt efficacy towards their own overarching goal of Eretz Yisrael?

The one sensible and commonsensical answer that might occur to any un co-opted ordinary person on the planet is that it is for the same reason that bombing of the pristine areas of FATA and WANA is continuing in Pakistan.

The only efficacy of killing civilians and their children under the most barbaric “shock-and-awe” is to manufacture the self-fulfilling materialization of Matan Villnai’s dream quoted above, of Palestinians providing the pretext of bringing a “bigger holocaust” upon themselves because “we will use all our might to defend ourselves”.

This is going to be the final (or almost final) excuse for commencing the discourse of massive population transfer into Jordan/Egypt/Lebanon shortly – the “reservations” of the Palestinians – a vast majority of the displaced since 1948 already ensconced there in various refugee camps for over 60 years.

Therefore, given this unvarnished view of reality as also blatantly admitted to by the most powerful President in the world to whom god is reputed to speak personally to convey its imperatives, the only self-defense left a peoples under the jackboots of such gods, is to revert back to the ‘Balance of Terror from Unilateral Terror on the Grand Chessboard’.

Such a ‘balance of terror’ is nowhere in sight today. See: http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/04/balanceof-terror-tounilateral-terror.html

That, and not moral-equivalencing, nor sermonizing, nor platitudes, can alter the destiny of the people of Palestine for surely Palestinians 'don't bleed' [1]. See “Reclaiming Palestine” http://humanbeingsfirst.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/reclaiming-palestine-2008-omnibus-june042008.pdf.

Perhaps accurately predicting this pre-planned solution of 'population transfer' which will be presented to the world shortly by Israel and all its sympathetic exponents, before it is presented, may demonstrate its premeditation to the disingenuous maestros as well as to the bespectating morons of the world. Watch for the shrill cries of “population transfer” once again erupting in the Israeli press, but with much greater force this time as it being high-time that Israel's security problem was solved once and for all, and to be dutifully picked up by the NYT, Time, and Newsweek. “Jordan is Palestine” is going to be revived!

There is no other rational explanation for this brutal barbarian assault on an already starving and strangulated population – except as a baby-step public-relations pretext towards the pre-planned, long time in the making, Zionist 'population-transfer' agenda for the remaining Palestinians from Palestine. Under Mr. Obama's watch, this appears to be the final solution, among many other final-solutions. The 'change' President-elect has much more than the Zionist-hand at his helm. See “Mr. Obama – The Post Modern Coup” and “Mr. Obama's New Deal”.

In this dire straights, one may only conclude this missive in the powerless scream of all victims:

“I still curse the killers, their accomplices, the indifferent spectators who knew and kept silent, and Creation itself, Creation and those who perverted and distorted it. I feel like screaming, howling like a madman so that that world, the world of the murderers, might know it will never be forgiven.”

Zahir Ebrahim

Project Humanbeingsfirst.org

Footnote January 06, 2009:

[1] Palestinians don't bleed http://tinyurl.com/9sta9r, only the Jews do:

“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

If you prick us, do we not bleed?

if you tickle us, do we not laugh?

if you poison us, do we not die?

and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.

If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge.

If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

Why, revenge.

The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.” (Shylock in Merchant of Venice)

The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org. Verbatim reproduction license at http://www.humanbeingsfirst.org#Copyright.

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GAZA: The final pretexts for Palestinian Population Transfer in the making! December 29, 2008.

A Project Humanbeingsfirst response to mantras and BS on Gen. Alavi's Murder. December 24, 2008.

A Project Humanbeingsfirst response to mantras and BS on Gen. Alavi's Murder

Letter to Editor,

December 24, 2008.

I believe that the spin being put on General Alavi’s murder in Islamabad is a poor-man's psyop. But that's all that is needed in modern times, apparently, for decimating any nation. The next in line is Pakistan, and an "Iraq" is in the making at an accelerated pace with Pakistan's famous military's fate to be no different than the Republican Guards'. The Pakistani people will shortly be needing a shock-and-awe “saving” from themselves.

The following passage in the December 14, 2008 UK Sunday Times On Line article carried on Islamabad Observer “General Faisal Alavi’s Assasination: British Journalist Carey Schofield claims to posses Alivi’s letter!” shows it to be a disinfo campaign with an agenda:

“Alavi believed he had been forced out because he was openly critical of deals that senior generals had done with the Taliban. He disparaged them for their failure to fight the war on terror wholeheartedly and for allowing Taliban forces based in Pakistan to operate with impunity against British and other Nato troops across the border in Afghanistan.” (Carey Schofield, UK Times On Line, Sunday, December 14, 2008, emphasis added)

How can one tell? Very simply. When one does not know all the details of any matter, look for the core-axioms in the topic at hand and compare them with the core-axioms of power. That often conveys far more intelligence-insight than any other source of comprehension, including self-serving confessions, written documents, pink-panther gloves, manufactured narratives of history, et. al., and this is especially true when deception is the first-principle of the art of war. Being skeptical of axioms of power is the hallmark of any thinking person, let alone of genuine Ben Franklin style honest journalism, and there is nothing more profound to be skeptical of in these times, than the “war on terror” and its devilish incantations of conquest.

In this instance, the Times news report retains the same core-axioms of “imperial mobilization” as the Pentagon and the White House. Namely, that the war on terror is real, not fabricated. And its corollary, that al-qaeeda is real, not a fabricated black-ops asset to manufacture a “World War IV” that is intended to last a lifetime in order to self-perpetuate the “war on terror”. Associativity in the quoted passage is further extended to the “Talibans”, lumping in both manufactured terrorism, as well as any self-fulfilling genuine resistance by the Afghani peoples to foreign occupiers of their nation. Thus with imperial falsehoods as the core-axioms, which are also continually perpetuated by the Pakistani government itself as well as by the Pakistani military and of course the gallant Pakistani media, any plausible BS can be spinned upon them as per the ‘dialectics of deception’, the ‘technique of infamy’ – all political science concepts crafted along the banks of the Potomac which run modernity.

To glean evidence of this, if one is interested, please review the following:

“Ali Baba in Mumbai” http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/12/ali-baba-in-mumbai-eid2008-reflections.html

and

“The War on Terror 2008 Omnibus” http://humanbeingsfirst.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/the-war-on-terror-2008-omnibus-may112008.pdf

A people deserve the rulers they get – or so I am reliably informed by my Pakistani friends who have become American citizens. I don't believe so. No people deserve the fate that has befallen Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, or for that matter, the native American Indians upon whose blood the lofty creed for mankind was thusly written:

“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...”

In the world-government under construction, after the 'children of lesser gods' have all been similarly dispensed with, perhaps an even profounder creed will be re-constituted for the remaining new ruling elite and their subjects. It remains unclear to me what fate will be enjoyed by the mercenaries du jour participating in suiciding their own nations. What possible bribe, payoff, reward, intimidation, coercion, or force might compel one to suicide? To deliberately seek the fate of Iraq and the Republican Guards? Even a lowly Buffalo herd can muster more courage against its hectoring hegemons ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM ).

Thank you

Zahir Ebrahim

Project Humanbeingsfirst.org

http://humanbeingsfirst.org

United States of America

A Project Humanbeingsfirst response to mantras and BS on Gen. Alavi's Murder. December 24, 2008.

A Tapestry: From suffering God and Tyrants to Hope and Servitude December 23, 2008.

A Tapestry: From suffering God and Tyrants to Hope and Servitude

Project Humanbeingsfirst's Response to a Letter from a thinking Muslim.

Dateline California, Christmas Holidays, Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 1 PM.

Dear Ms. S.

Thank you for sharing so many aspects. I felt like responding to the following key perspective by sharing my own modest conception of these matters since I have already written about it (albeit only superficially and only peeling the most apparent layer of the 'onion'):

“Honestly, I still don't understand agnosticism experientially, only theoretically, and it was learning about Islam that made me realize the need to question the existence of God even just to that extent rather than to accept it on blind faith and the needs and desires of the heart. What I do understand experientially, however, (and wish that I didn't?) is questioning the justice and mercy of God. I'm still wrestling with that one and I refuse to stop wrestling until I have a satisfactory answer, one way or the other.”

So please permit me to weave a quick poor-man's tapestry through it – your mileage may of course vary.

1) Yes, at times, it also appears to me that ignorance is blissful. Most of my friends enjoy that state and are quite happy in the pursuits of their respective 'American Dreams' the world over. That's quite forgivable, to my mind. Live and let live is a worthy motto.

2) What isn't forgivable however, again only to my mind, is the apathy – the 'banality of evil' as Hannah Arendth so eruditely put it, the 'looking from the side' as John Pilger once put it, 'sitting on the fence' as a worthy mathematician once wrote me – and the 'uncle toms' and the 'native informants' are the worst among these on-lookers. For, in addition to 'looking on', they also apologize for the crimes of their new masters by denigrating their own kith and kind. And I have discovered that many a 'people of the cloth', especially the well-off Muslims living comfortably anywhere, but especially in the West, are the worst offenders here. They might delight in proselytizing and remembering 'Allah' (if they are religious), but will not lift a finger to come to the aid of their fellow man let alone protest tyranny. The United States Muslims, mainly the first generation immigrants, are the most pathetic in this regards. Perhaps they might be forgiven by the victims of tyranny someday for all their 'piety' in their mosques – I don't know. See: http://prisonersofthecave.blogspot.com/2007/04/chapter-8.html

3) This leads to your point “questioning the justice and mercy of God”. The topic that has bedeviled mankind since it invented fire. See my own personal narcissistic reflections in 'My Little Jihad' http://zahirebrahim.blogspot.com/2007/04/about-me-and-my-little-jihad.html, and my take on this matter of why the existence of God is philosophically mandated as a reflection of human condition. That this existential necessity for postulating god is of no less significance and measure than the 'out of body experience' of physicist Richard Feynman noted in my letter to the godless Dawkins (which you already read) http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/02/letter-dawkins-god-delusion.html

In other words, regardless of the 'reality' of whether or not some 'creator' really exists, the existential human condition and sufferings – wherein, even though man is born free and yet finds itself in chains everywhere – requires postulating the existence of a 'merciful and just' god who will administer the said virtues to compensate matters at some future times. The evolution of this doctrine among mankind is elegantly explored in the voluminous work “The Great Transformation” by Karen Armstrong. A must read book, a first of its kind tracing the relationship of the evolution and history of religion across the various landscapes on earth.

4) This 'justice and mercy' question naturally leads to the conception of 'hope' http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/09/happy-happy-in-hope-voluntary-servitude.html

And as the reflections in this essay ponder, the abundance of hope is also what prevents rectifying the same servitude and bondage which mandates the existence of the axioms of 'justice and mercy of God' which lead to such hope.

A rather circular self-fulfilling positive feedback loop which feeds upon itself to create further bondage waiting and living for the future, leading to further reinforcement of the axiom of “the justice and mercy of God”.

5) So has Islam addressed this aspect?

If one dissociates oneself from being a member of this religion (and all religions and 'systems of living'), moves oneself to Mars so to speak, and rationally peers through a microscope-telescope at the earthlings to understand them and their 'systems' (including those of obfuscations and Machiavellis which isn't the topic here), it becomes easier to uncover these matters by bringing at least some degree of dis-associativity and thus, arguably at least, some objectivity.

So if one studies Islam as a 'system' and tries to uncover its first-principles of operation (and by this I do not mean corollaries and derivatives, but its fundamentals), one actually finds that items 2 through 4 noted above are quite elegantly addressed. In my limited view, that is this conception of 'Ashraf-ul-Makhlooqat'. It is only pointed to in the 'happy-happy' essay mentioned above, which also references (but only in passing) the pithy and beautiful Surah Asr of the Qur'an. It is an empowering prose worthy of considerable reflection by any person, Muslim and non, in the context as weaved in this humble tapestry.

Insights gained through one's own reflections and study are far superior to those acquired by reading about someone else's insights and merely nodding one's head in agreement. Which is what typically happens when one reads a commonsensical book or a paper. Thus I would like to stop weaving this tapestry here and leave the rest to one's own search for the “River of the Arrow” (from Kipling's 'Kim'). But I would like to observe in conclusion in response to another aspect from your letter, that a self-reliant life, whether in the outback, or in the cities, is indeed worthy of emulation in these times! Much worse times are to come upon us, all of us, and more one is self-reliant, living off the soil, able to sustain oneself without losing one's sanity and humanity, able to make a living being self-employed, and able to raise the next brood with values one cherishes, that is the best one can do. These hungry children are even denied that (pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4):

The last pic above is pathetically in my own neck of the woods, surrounded by palatial homes and millionaires aplenty. As any rational person can attest, these deprivations have nothing to do with being a 'test from god' and/or absence of 'god's justice and mercy' in this world and therefore, having the victims to wistfully wait for it until the next life. But that is precisely what the survival instincts, as well as philosophers, or perhaps the most devilish Machiavellis, have led us to believe since time immemorial. In fact – and surely only coincidentally of course – since the time when 'hegemony' was discovered by man. And Zbigniew Brzezinski glibly asserts that “hegemony is as old as mankind” as justification for further perpetuating it. It is these usurpers and tyrants who create the conditions of deprivation for “full spectrum dominance” and conquest, as amply documented by Project Humanbeingsfirst and others.

And these are indeed the prime-movers who actually beget the false issue which all mankind seems to have been forced to struggle with since time immemorial: “questioning the justice and mercy of God”. A very clever red herring. Mankind's attention is nicely deflected from the Tyrant, King, Emperor, Feudal Lord, President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Treasury, Banksters, Federal Reserve System, World Bank, IMF, CIA, to karma, predestiny, philosophy, and god! But since god was killed off after the Renaissance in the West, its replacement has been necessitated by the invention of the dialectics which in these times reside between Orwell and Huxley, between manufactured consent, and manufactured dissent.

And in my view, Islam, as a system, irrespective of the question of god (and that might seem like a nonsequitur), empowers, nay sanctions, one to rectify these matters in its bold conception of 'Ashraf-ul-maklooqat' – the best of creation! Whence such a beautiful man, and beautiful woman, today?

Salaam O Alekum.

Zahir Ebrahim

Project Humanbeingsfirst.org

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A Tapestry: From suffering God and Tyrants to Hope and Servitude December 23, 2008.

Letter to Editor DW: The sounds of silence can be deadlier than the roar-and-thunder of F-16s! December 20, 2008

Letter to Editor DW: The sounds of silence can be deadlier than the roar-and-thunder of F-16s!

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Letter to Editor, Dictatorshipwatch – The sounds of silence can be deadlier than the roar-and-thunder of F-16s!

December 20, 2008. 1:00 PM PST. (An earlier version published Dec. 21st, 2008 @4:33AM )

The article “An Appeal to Silent Academics on the illegal Afghan war” is of much philosophical as well as practical interest, especially its opening gambit:

“It is always the academic circles, which pave the way and provide final legitimacy to acts of aggression on the part of politicians and military leaders or pave the road for peace. In the present day world, most of the academic experts in international relations and political science are either silent or have put Afghanistan on the back-burner in the sense that they have accepted its occupation perfectly legitimate.”

Project Humanbeingsfirst would like to respond to the more un-apparent aspect of this matter.

If one recasts the "military-industrial" complex to its truer but still minimalist manifestation: "military-industrial-academe-media" complex, all matters become crystal clear as to the role of academics, among others, in the greater scheme of things.

Based on this understanding is why I have reached the disturbing and rather uncomfortable conclusion that all have eaten to their fill, hollow pretenses at dissent notwithstanding. See “Responsibility of Intellectuals – Redux”

When one reads the following two 'must-read' books cover to cover (as opposed to merely reading about them, or reading random snippets on the internet), matters become even more crystal clear:

Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley, and

The Naked Capitalist by W. Cleon Skousen.

Whoever has the ability to cough up the $40 plus $30 respectively to purchase these two essential books, will find a treasure trove of comprehension denied the plebeian world due to what has been deliberately made to “look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.” (CFR 1974)

See the Monetary Reform Bibliography on how to acquire these rare books in these times:

The academics have all too shrewdly played their role and continue to do so, both of the mainstream and of the much lauded dissentstream, and whether they may reside and work in the alleyways accessed through the 'Infinite Corridor' at MIT (a passageway through which I journeyed almost daily for what seemed like an eternity at the time), or through the hallways of the thousand and then some foundations and thinktanks along the Potomac, the Hudson, all the way to the Hoover Tower at Stanford. I.e., from sea to shinning sea.

The clue that I will drop here and leave the curious to purchase those books before they disappear entirely from the planet:

'The real value of Tragedy and Hope ... [is the] bold and boastful admission by Dr. Quigley that there actually exists a relatively small but powerful group which has succeeded in acquiring a choke-hold on the affairs of practically the entire human race. Of course we should be quick to recognize that no small group could wield such gigantic power unless millions of people in all walks of life were “in on the take” and were willing to knuckle down to the iron-clad regimentation of the ruthless bosses behind the scenes. As we shall see, the network has succeeded in building its power structure by using tremendous quantities of money (together with the vast influence it buys) to manipulate, intimidate, or corrupt millions of men and women and their institutions on a world-wide basis.' (W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Capitalist, pg. 6)

If what Prof. Carroll Quigley expands upon in 'Tragedy and Hope' is actually true, and it's not merely his fertile imagination at play, then the silence of the academics on key matters, the core-axioms, is explainable.

That silence transcends the silence on Afganistan which this article is mainly focussed on, whereupon, in point of fact, many of the same peoples I indict have actually been quite outspoken about it.

I have felt it is rather trivial to be a critic of the overt crimes of empire, the so called 'rogue state' phenomenon. Many a book has been written, and many an author become millionaire, rehearsing what is already visible to all and sundry, what is already documented publicly aplenty. Many a historian and academic have actually been quite vocal about it – from Arundhati Roy to Noam Chomsky to John Pilger to Tariq Ali to William Blum.

And yet, the same people are silent on the core-axioms which actually enable the “imperial mobilization” in the first place. That in turn causes the abhorrent crimes against humanity to occur as an effect. It is easy to focus on the effect, not the cause. Or to obfuscate the cause to generalities, such as 'capitalism', 'corporate greed', etc. For to focus on the true agenda and its exponents, such as the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, the Federal Reserve System and the practice of private central banking controlling the Western nations' destinies towards centralized 'communism' style governance, would most assuredly unveil the hidden hands.

Unless I am mistaken – and I would be delighted to eat crow – none of these dissent-chiefs have noted that 911 was an inside job, or that world-government is the overarching agenda through systematically manufactured crises, or even alluded to the fact that in the minute books of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, there occurs a statement, circa 1909-1910, to the effect that there is no more efficient method than war to change the habits of an entire peoples (according to Congressional Investigator for the 1954 Reece Committee, Mr. Normon Dodd – see MRB).

It is apparently permissible, in the greater scheme of things, to boldly challenge what is already visible, so long as one leaves alone the prime axioms unchallenged – the 'manufactured dissent'. It is as necessary a part of “imperial mobilization” itself as “doctrinal motivation and intellectual commitment” which form the core basis of 'manufacturing consent'. I have tried to explain these concepts, which is entirely of the Hegelian inspired 'dialectics of deception' nature, in the report “Weapons of Mass Deception - The Master Social Science”.

For those who stay silent – whether academic, or ordinary plebeian, scholar or student, man or woman, Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu, atheist, or any biped who claims to belong to the human race – one has the eloquence of Elie Wiesel to be eternally guided by, for that is the un-silenceable scream of all victims, everywhere:

Thank you.

Zahir Ebrahim

Project Humanbeingsfirst.org

http://humanbeingsfirst.org

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