Anonymous - William Shakespeare A Fraud?

Ever wondered how farm kid William Shakespeare was able to grow up and write some of the world’s most celebrated literature and plays that take place in royal courts of England, Italy and France?

Of course, there wasn’t Internet back then available for a man of humble beginnings to acquire such secular knowledge without actually partaking in travels and higher learning. It’s only a claim, but for years scholars known as Oxfordians have strongly supported the notion that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, a nobleman and patron of intellectual assets, was the true author behind Shakespeare’s work.
Anonymous, which takes place during the period of Queen Elizabeth I’s ending reign, follows Edward de Vere (Rhys Ifans) and his ordeals as a courtier and possible son/lover of the supposed Virgin Queen (Vanessa Redgrave), and giving birth to Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton, who is supposedly the subject of Shakespeare’s sonnet Fair Youth of the Sonnets.
All of the court-fiddling and incestuous relations among royals isn't taught in high school AP English, but we’re interested to see how a subject argued by scholars for more than a century will be adapted into a high-scale historical thriller.
Though director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012) has never struck us as a filmmaker of much clout in terms of drama without rampant CGI, we’re intrigued enough to mark our calendars for the film's September 30 roll-out.




Secret Behind Number 2012 & 11:11

The Occult Numerology of 2012 | The Illuminati Deception


By : Shawn



Most people around the earth still view the disasters of 9-11, the earthquakes, airplane deaths, the death of popular people such as Michael Jackson as a part of life, it just happens. The Terrorists did it—9-11, “God” is causing the earthquakes—Haiti, an airplane malfunction—AF447. However, very few people are aware, nor do people consider the numerology behind the Illuminati of the Occult and the usage of Black Magic.

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Please note: this article is not about the belief in the Occult, it is about the numerology and how the combined powers of the darkness use the numerology of the Occult to accomplish its agenda. The Occult does exist and is a very powerful entity for the governments and its agencies, secret societies, masonry, and all offshoots of the powers of the darkness. This can scare many people, but just understanding that the Occult uses numerology and symbolism all over the world can assist to comprehending the agenda of the NWO.
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From researching the prime numbers of the occult in relation to 2012, there is a paramount reason why the world is popularizing the date of 12/21 2012 and the time 11:11. Without understanding the number system of the occult religion, the numbers of 2012 look innocent, we indeed don’t view the number 666 within the date. Well, this post will analyze the numbers of 12/21 2012 11:11.



The Numbers of the Serpent Occult Religion.


The most venerated occult numbers are: 3, 6, 9, 11, 13, and multiples thereof, especially 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77. A triplication of numbers is also considered sacred (possibly even more sacred) to the occultist: 111, 222, 333, and so fourth. The number 5 is the number of Death; also, an extremely scared number is the double 11, as in 11:11, or 11/11/11.
The number 7 and 12 are also an extremely important number universally. Seven is a number of complement and is considered a Divine number. Seven days in a week, seven colors to the rainbow. The occult will also use this number 7, but their favorite numbers are 11 and 6. The occult avoids using the numbers and multiplications of 4, 8, 10, and 12, unless they correlate with their numbers.

The 2012 Numerology?

The winter solstice in 2012 will occur 12/21 2012 and at 11:11 universal time.
The time is 11:11 that adds to 22.
The entire date: 12/21/2012 = 1+2+2+1+2+0+1+2= 11!
The date according to the Occult is really 11:11:11.
WOW, that means the date and time correlates with the triple power sacred number of 11:11:11.
The number 11 correlates with the letter K as in KKK = 11:11:11.
1+1+1+1+1+1 = 6; 11+11+11 = 33.
Also, 6+6 = 12, 3×7 = 21; the day and month 12/21 or, = 1+2+2+1 = 6 which adds 666 to the mix, from the month of 12.
The day of 21 is a multiple of 7×3 that signifies a time of complement.
2+1+2 = 5, the number of death; the year 2012. But, not the “end of the world” but the death of an old age into a new—the new world order.

All the numbers of the Occult are related to 2012; 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 22, and 33 = 11:11:11.
So the day and month relate to 6 and to 666 (covertly), the year relates to 5 (death), and the time of the solstice relates to the power number of 11 doubled (activation). And, the day relates to 7 (time of complement). And, most importantly the entire dates adds to 11 that creates the triple 11:11:11 and adds to 33 (Illuminati Mason Pyramid of the 33*).

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All the numbers of the Occult are involved with the 2012 syndrome. But, what is the meaning, and the deception behind 2012?
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11:11

11:11 signifies the activation of a “new beginning”. Aquarius is associated with the astrological 11th house, the “water bearer”, a possibility of entering into the “Age of Aquarius”. The current age of Pisces, the two fish, possibly representing the battle between the darkness and the light of the last two thousand years. The Occult Serpent religion views a “death” and a new beginning as very important. Throughout the centuries the fertility worship of the spring equinox has held in place that dates all the way back to Sumer of 3500 BCE. Considering this history, the death of an old age, into a new age is extremely important, and this age will be the age of the dominance of the New World Order and the rise of the occult agenda. So considering the occult numerology about 12/21/2012 11:11, or more importantly, 11:11:11, we can be assured that startling events will take place around this time.

2012 and 666


Using the numbers of 2012 dividing by 666, the number is 3.021021021021. 2+1 = 3, the prime numbers of the Occult.
2012 divide 6 = 335.33333333.
2012-666 = 1346; Interesting, the date when the black death plague began. In Europe the date of the Black Death is said to have commenced between 1346 and 1348 from many different sources. Even of the plague started in Europe in 1347, the virus migrated from the East.
Let’s go back further, 1346-666=680.
October 10 680 CE: or 22nd Safar, 61 Hijra [680 CE].
Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w), was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi’a Muslims as Aashurah. The event caused a division of Islam.
10/10=11, 6+8=14 a multiple of 7, 22nd Safar = a double 11, and 61 Hijra 6+1=7, which signifies a completed agenda.

QUR'AN & The 2012: 31 4-day Meteorite Showers


Prime numbers are used for secret writings (cryptography) and God uses them in the Quran to hide secret messages behind the main text. God even gave mankind a chapter called The Key that has 7 verses, 29 words, and 139 letters. All are prime numbers and even 729139 and 139297 are primes too.
The Quran contains all past, present, and future knowledge and God has showed Peeple a link to year 2012 (1433 Islamic year) in chapter #55 that has 31 repetitions of the verse:
فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
Then which of the bounties of your Lord do you both (Man and Jinn) still belie?
at verse numbers:
13, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77
The sum of these verse numbers is 1433 which is a prime number too but more importantly as we are now in the Islamic year 1431 (2012), God could be pointing to the Islamic year 1433 (2012)?
And YES indeed God is pointing at an Islamic year because the chapter has exactly 355 words which is the same as the number of days in an Islamic year (lunar calendar)!

Each word maps to a day in the Islamic year 1433 and because the above verse has 4 words (“Fabiayee aalaee Rabbikumaa tukathibaan?”) and is repeated 31 times, then we should watch out for 31 events each lasting 4 days in 2012.
If the events are meteorite showers then it is easy to find the locations since each shower lasts 4 days, then it will sweep the Earth along a complete latitude 4 times while the Earth spins 4 times in 4 days.
So which latitudes? God provided 31 numbers that sit exactly in the middle of the range 0 to 90 suggesting that these are latitude numbers. They are the same numbers as the repeated verse numbers:
13˚ 16˚ 18˚ 21˚ 23˚ 25˚ 28˚ 30˚ 32˚ 34˚ 36˚ 38˚ 40˚ 42˚ 45˚ 47˚ 49˚ 51˚ 53˚ 55˚ 57˚ 59˚ 61˚ 63˚ 65˚ 67˚ 69˚ 71˚ 73˚ 75˚ 77˚
[from 0 to 13 = from 77 to 90]

The first event of latitude 13˚ will happen on the 44th day of the Islamic year 1433 which maps to 2012-01-07 and the last event will happen on the 349th day of 1433AH which maps to 2012-Nov-07.

And further yet: 680-666=14.
14 CE is the year the Augustus died, the Roman Ruler of 40 years (possibly murdered) on 8/19, 14 CE
8+1+9=18 which correlates with 666.
14 CE = 1+4=5, the number of death, or 1-4=3. It is said he died at 3.00pm which is 1500 = 3×5=15 or 1+5=6, but we don’t know if that was universal time.
The people of the Roman Empire worshipped Augustus as a god, including after his death.

11 Correlates with the letter K.

Before 12/21 2012 11:11 occurs, the date 11/11/11 will present itself. Correlating with the letters KKK.
Thus, while 11 is very important, multiplication’s are also important, such as 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, and 99. If you multiply 1111 by 1111 you get 1234321, representing a pyramid, and number 11 is a sacred number of the pyramid with the proportions of the great pyramid being of the ratio 7:11. So 11/11/11 which in on a friday will occur, and 12/21 2012 11:11, which correlates with 11:11:11 which is also on a friday the 6th day of the week according to the western calendar.
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The Occult Satanists believe that a carefully planned event must be carried out according to the correct numbers, or it may not be successful. They go to great lengths to make an event occur according to the correct numbers. 11 is the essence of all that is sinful, harmful, and imperfect.
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9-11 caused dramatic change and initiation of a war 11-01 = 111. It also transpires that 111 in numerology is a ‘power number’ related to fresh modes of thinking applied to new cycles in life‘s play. 111111 maybe a super power number doubling 111. 11/11/11 = KKK.

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Take note, possibly nothing will occur on 11/11/11, although something occurring around this date is possible. Nothing occurred on 6/6/6. Occult behavior is based on deception and covert action
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November 1st is called “all saints day” or All Hallows, just after the Halloween (Hallows Eve) celebration where people put on masks, which is the celebration of the master (Baal) of the Lower Entities.

10/31 = 1+3+1 = 5, five is the number of death that correlates to Baal’s death of the spirit, and demotion (or new life) into the darkness. November 1st is a major day for the Occult, 11/1 = 111.
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Understanding the importance and perception of how the Occult values “Death” and “New Life” is pivotal to understanding the agenda of the combined powers of the darkness.
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The number 11 is extremely significant in 9-11; you can visit the Cutting Edge.org for more information on the numerology of 9-11.

2018: The Complete of 70 years of Jewish Exile.

With so much focus on 2012, the date of 2018 is pushed into oblivion. 2018 is the 70 year complement of the Jewish exile—defining as—possessing a nation but no temple. For more information on this subject you can visit Time Table of the Antichrist.

May 14, 1948 the Jews proclaimed independence. 5 can stand alone, 1+4 = 5; 1+9+4+8=22, or add the entire date 5+5+22 = 33.

33 and 22 are the power numbers of 11. So two power numbers that relate to 11 from the date Israel proclaimed Independence.
The month of 5 may signify death—defining as death of the old and the 11′s signifies activation of a new birth.
The day 14 is a multiple of 7 that signifies a time of complement.May 14, 1948 the Jews proclaimed independence. 5 can stand alone, 1+4 = 5; 1+9+4+8=22, or add the entire date 5+5+22 = 33.
33 and 22 are the power numbers of 11. So two power numbers that relate to 11 from the date Israel proclaimed Independence.
The month of 5 may signify death—defining as death of the old and the 11′s signifies activation of a new birth.
The day 14 is a multiple of 7 that signifies a time of complement.
 

Israel’s flag is the six pointed star, or two pyramids, one standing upright and the other facing downward, the symbolism of the Occult such as the back of the American One Dollar Bill.
1948-2018 = 70 a time of complement correlates with exile of 586 BCE.
2018 = 2+1+8 = 11; The year of 18 = 6+6+6
2018 divide by 666 = 3.03003003003.
2018 divide by 6 = 336.33333333, instead of a 5 as in 2012 divide 6, there is the 6 with all 3′s.
Counting 2013 through 2018 = 6 years.




2018 is more of a significant date than 2012, but since 2012, possibly, is the death of an old age and birth into a new age, the occult is popularizing the event. In doing so, 2018 is pushed aside. The movie, The Terminator that debuted in 1984, and since then created three more movies, coined 2018 as judgment day. Yet, within the context of the movie “the judgment day” was only a beginning, this context may correlate with 2012.
From 9-11 destruction 9/11/2001 to 12/21/2012 = 11 years and 101 days, From 9/11/2012 to 12/21/2012, began counting on the 9/12 equals 101 days. 11 years and 101 days = 11:11 the power number of 22.
1111 days before the 2012 solstice is the date 6-12-09. The fact that 6, 9, and 12 are sequential multiples of 3 of perhaps the most highly regarded number of the date is 3 can be a notable fact or the power number of 33 = 11:11:11 the occult date of 12/21/2012 11:11.
The number 11 link returns when we divide 33 by 3 which of course give us 11 once again.


In 1991/1992 the number 11:11 was issued to humanity as an activation number. The 9-11 destruction of the twin towers in New York activated the preparation era pointing the activation of the New World Order—the new age.
When we review the way in which the attacks of 9/11 occurred by the “11′s” and review the significance of “11″ in history there should be no doubt that 12/21 2012 11:11 is a significant date. The Twin Towers symbolized the number 11.

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9-11 activated the preparation stage of the New World Order. 11 years and 101 days = 11:11, to 12/21/2012. 2012 is the activation key to the reality of the New World Order.
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The Possibilities of Deception and the Reality?

The Deception of 2012 is propaganda of an ideology from the occult that the world media is teaching. The truth to unravel is the occult definition of “end-of-the-world saga”, or an “awakening”. The occult definition is the old system of government duality into the beginning of the New World Order, and possibly the Age of Aquarius—the reference is of death and rebirth. The mind-set to to cause fear and panic and deluded humanity from the true agenda. From the numerology that is presented—the occult is using 2012 as an beginning to their “New Age” of fascist domination of the New World Order, however; the illuminati could cause a false reality that perceives that the world will end, but then generate a “savior” and strong possibly of an alien presence.(You should lookup and decipher hollywood movie called "independence day" which was released at 1996).

Producing an alien savior, then causing manipulation between the aliens and humans that generates are war is highly possible—then the Antichrist can arrive and save the world from the alien war, although the entire situation is staged. Then in 2018, the end of the 70 year exile, the Jews can build their temple (or possibly before), because the aliens will have bombed the temple area. The New World Order will be in full swing establishing their “One God” the antichrist, and possibly the complement date could be 2020.

A Possible Theory of 2020: Time of Complement?
2020 = 22—a power number of 11.
By counting 2013 through 2019, but not counting 2020 = 7.
2020 divide 6 = 336.666666
2020 divide 666 = 3.033033033033

Defining the Numerology of 2012

There should be no doubt that 12/21 2012 11:11 is a doorway to the beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the New World Order. The Delusion of the New Age Movement was designed to deceive spiritual seekers from the truth. The truth of the matter is that “the change of age” will be the powers of the darkness dominating and enslaving humanity. It is a New Age for the Illuminati and the combined powers of the darkness. The New Age perception of “ascending or awakening” is a delusional form of deception; the awakening will be the separation of the light from the darkness. The ideology of the New Age syndrome is deceptive falsehood. The Age of Aquarius is negative for this earth, however; for the people that are truly spiritually awake this change is positive because it means freedom from the clutches of the darkness. The separation of the light from the darkness will require death for people with a disposition to the light, but through that death the person will be saved from the enslavement of the darkness and enter the kingdom of the light: the only requirement is Faith.


The Latest Earthquakes

2010 = 3
  • Haiti Earthquake: 1/12 at 21:53 UTC
    Most likely they didn’t want to make it that obvious to have it occur on 1/11.
    Date, 1+12 = 13, Time,  2+1+5+3 = 11, adding the year of  3 = 15 which correlates with 3×5 = 15; the number 5 is of death.
  • Chile Earthquake: 2/27, 2010, at 06:34:14 UTC
    Date, 2+2+7 = 11, Adding the year,  2010 = 3 = 11:3 or 1+1+3 = 5.
    Time, 6+3+4 = 13 or adding the seconds, 6+3+4+1+4 = 18 = 6+6+6 = 666.
  • Turkey Earthquake: 3/8 at 2:32:35 UTC
    Date, 3+8 = 11, Time,  2+3+2 = 7, adding the seconds, 2+3+2+3+5 = 15, 15 is a multiple of 3×5 = 15 and 5 is the number of death.
    The number 7 can be used, but it seems like the preference is 11.

This earthquake list continues and the correlation with the numbers of the Occult.

The Numerology of Michael Jackson’s Death.
6/25 2009,   6 can stand alone, 2+5 = 7, or 6+2+5 = 13. The year 2+9 = 11
Michael Jackson was pronounced dead at 21:26 UTC.
2+1+2+6 = 11. MJ was a summer solstice sacrifice for the darkness. The combined powers of the darkness thrive and gain energy from the emotional energetic attachment of humanity. It was the same case with Princes Diana; a major outcry of grief, sorrow, depression, sadness, and anger of the collective consciousness of humanity sends emotional energy to the powers of the darkness.



Try deciphering the Numbers of Apollo 11.

Departure Date: 06/16 1969 Time: 09:32 GMT.
Landing Date: 06/24 1969 Time: 12:50:35,
Flight Time: 8.14 days.
Craft: Apollo 11.
D-Day: 6/6/1944 = 1+9+4+4 = 18 which is a multiple of 6 = 666
Leo, over at Leonoury puts together the Occult numbers and the crash of Air France Flight 447 that killed 228 people.









Startling Review Of Use Of “11″ In History

Common Themes: War, Violence, Struggle.
The below information is copied and edited from the Cutting Edge.org.
When the Illuminati ended the First World War, they had just successfully completed the first war of the occult plan to produce the Antichrist. Thus, they deliberately ended World War One on the 11th Month [November], the 11th Day, at the 11th hour. The signing of the Armistice agreement was thus undergirded by three elevens!
When the Illuminati assassinated President Kennedy, he was killed according to the occult number signature of eleven [11]. He was killed in the 11th month, on the 22nd day, and on the 33rd parallel. He was also killed in the Masonic Dealey Plaza.
  1. September 11, 1609 — The explorer Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbor and discovered Manhattan Island and the Hudson River, the very location on which the Twin Towers were constructed!
  2. September 11, 1941 — Construction officially began at the Pentagon. [Ibid.] Thus, 60 years later to the day, the Pentagon is attacked. The number “6″ is an important number to the occultist. The number of man is “6″; the number of man’s “perfect” government is “66″ and the number of the perfect leader of all time is “666″.
  3. September 11, 1972 — The world was introduced to terrorism at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. . There were 121 participating countries (11X11=121), and 11 Israeli athletes were killed. Exactly 29 years (2+9=11) after this terrorist horror ended, another more despicable horror occurred – the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
  4. September 11, 1772 — About 300 Indians and 50 British soldiers began the siege of Fort Henry. Researchers and historians of this siege are puzzled by the meaning of a comment in a document describing these events. It was recorded in a letter written by Lydia Cruger (11 letters), and it seems a fitting comment to this section. She wrote, “The siege commenced about sun an hour high, Monday, 11th, at all events, the 11th.” [Ibid.]
  5. September 11, 1776 — A failed peace conference with the British was held. The war that had begun on April 19, 1776 [the first day of the 13-day Satanic celebration, "The Bloody Sacrifice of the Beast"] continued. [Ibid.] After the fall of New York to the British, a Peace
Conference was held between General Howe and three prominent representatives of the Continental Congress – Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge. After taking the Americans key city, Howe thought he was entitled to a peace settlement. The Americans, having declared independence in July, considered separation from England as non-negotiable. The conference of Sept. 11, 1776, ended and the war continued for seven years.
  6. September 11, 1777 — The first day the American flag was used in battle at the Battle of Brandywine. [Ibid.] The British defeated the Americans, led by George Washington, but Old Glory flew for the first time!
  7. September 11, 1922 — Despite Arab protests, a British mandate is proclaimed in Palestine on September 11, 1922. The mandate came into effect at the end of September 1922. [Ibid.] Not only was this proclamation made on a September 11, but the year formed a twice “11″ — (11×2)
  8. September 11, 1941 — The US 1st Army crosses the border into German territory. Also, the Quebec Conference was held between England’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. [Ibid.]
  9. September 11, 1973 — Chilean President Salvador Allende is killed in a brutal, violent military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. [Ibid.] Henry Kissinger was strongly implicated in this attack, and if he were to ever stand trial in an International Court, he would be charged with masterminding this coup and ordering the assassination of Allende. [" The Latest Kissinger Outrage: Why is a proven liar and wanted man in charge of the 9/11 investigation?", by Christopher Hitchens, November 27, 2002]
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The Film "KNOWING"


Something fishy ! with this Hollywood Movie?can you      
decipher it?Some interesting facts!!









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Finaly, I'll leave The rest to YOU.

THE HOUSE IN WINDSOR (PG)

Source : prettypeoplepictures

THE HOUSE IN WINDSOR is a documentary short uncovering the story of Henry Olsen: Colorado's most vicious serial killer.  During the 1960s, Olsen kidnapped, raped, and murdered 13 female college students with the help of four others.  Even though these crimes were horrific and gruesome, they have been all but forgotten.
Find out why you've never heard of The Windsor Five.  See what was discovered the day police raided the house and what still remains there to this day.
Directed by Jimmy Weber and produced by Annie Baker, THE HOUSE IN WINDSOR is a story that will never be forgotten again.

About the film

I love horror films so, of course, I love haunted houses during Halloween season.  My friend Josh and I were at a haunted house in Windsor that was supposedly the real thing.  We had a good time but didn't think much of it until a couple weeks later I heard it was shut down because it actually was formally a crime scene and the city didn't like the exploitation.  I did a little digging and found one of the craziest serial killer stories I've ever heard.
We don't make documentaries here at Pretty People Pictures, but this was too good to pass up: rape, murder, cults, suicide pacts, haunted houses, police cover ups!  Count us in!

Making the film

Making a documentary about something no one has ever heard of is pretty tricky, so we had to go right to the source.  Robert, the owner of the house was really cool.  He wanted his side of the story to be heard so he let us come to the house and do as many interviews as we wanted.  Luckily Carol was just finishing up her novel My Sister's Killer which covers the same topic.  She provided us with a lot of information we had never heard and even more freaky stories.
The hardest person to get on camera was Richard, a retired police detective.  Not only did he move out of the state, but the last thing he wanted to do was talk about the most gruesome case he ever investigated in a 30+ year career.  It took a lot of phone calls and a little begging, but once he realized we were serious, he agreed to meet with us and was a great guy.  A very special thanks goes to out to the Colorado State University Alumni Association for providing us with some much needed photos of the Windsor Five.

Watch it here


President Barack Obama -- Left in Stitches

President Barack Obama had to get 12 stitches in his lip after he got caught with an elbow during a game of basketball at Fort McNair earlier today.























Bet the guy who elbowed Barack is going to get audited hardcore next year.



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The Unforgotten | Rachel corrie   

Private Lynch And Forgetting "Rachel Corrie"

Source : Naomi Klein

Jessica Lynch and Rachel Corrie could have passed for sisters. Two all-American blondes, two destinies forever changed in a Middle East war zone. Private Jessica Lynch, the soldier, was born in Palestine, West Virginia. Rachel Corrie, the activist, died in Israeli-occupied Palestine. 

Corrie was four years older than 19-year-old Lynch. Her body was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza seven days before Lynch was taken into Iraqi custody on March 23. Before she went to Iraq, Lynch organized a pen-pal program with a local kindergarten. Before Corrie left for Gaza, she organized a pen-pal program between kids in her hometown of Olympia, Washington, and children in Rafah. 

Lynch went to Iraq as a soldier loyal to her government. Corrie went to Gaza to oppose the actions of her government. As a U.S. citizen, she believed she had a special responsibility to defend Palestinians against U.S.-built weapons, purchased with U.S. aid to Israel. In letters home, she described how fresh water was being diverted from Gaza to Israeli settlements, how death was more normal than life. "This is what we pay for here," she wrote. 

Unlike Lynch, Corrie did not go to Gaza to engage in combat: she went to try to thwart it. Along with her fellow members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), she believed that the Israeli military's incursions could be slowed by the presence of highly visible "internationals." The killing of Palestinian civilians may have become commonplace, the thinking went, but Israel doesn't want the diplomatic or media scandals that would come if it killed a U.S. student.
In a way, Corrie was harnessing the very thing that she disliked most about her country—the belief that American lives are worth more than any others—and trying to use it to save a few Palestinian homes from demolition.

Believing her fluorescent orange jacket would serve as armor, Corrie stood in front of bulldozers, slept beside wells and escorted children to school. If suicide bombers turn their bodies into weapons of death, Corrie turned hers into the opposite—a weapon of life, a "human shield."
When that Israeli bulldozer driver looked at Corrie's orange jacket and pressed the accelerator, her strategy failed. It turns out that the lives of some U.S. citizens—even beautiful, young, white women—are valued more than others. And nothing demonstrates this more starkly than the opposing responses to Rachel Corrie and Pvt. Jessica Lynch.

When the Pentagon announced Lynch's successful rescue, she became a hero, complete with "America loves Jessica" fridge magnets, stickers, T-shirts, mugs, country songs and an NBC made-for-TV movie. According to White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, President George Bush was "full of joy for Jessica Lynch." Her rescue, we were told, was a testament to a core American value: as West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller said to the Senate: "We take care of our people."

Do they? Corrie's death, which made the papers for two days and then virtually disappeared, has met with almost total official silence, despite the fact that eyewitnesses claim it was a deliberate act. President Bush has said nothing about a U.S. citizen killed by a U.S.-made bulldozer bought with U.S. tax dollars. A U.S. congressional resolution demanding an independent inquiry has been buried in committee, leaving the Israeli military's investigation—which cleared itself of any wrongdoing—as the only official investigation.

The ISM says that this non-response has sent a clear, and dangerous, signal. According to Olivia Jackson, a 25-year-old British citizen in Rafah: "After Rachel was killed, [the Israeli military] waited for the response from the American government and the response was pathetic. They know they can get away with it, and it has encouraged them to keep on going."
First there was Brian Avery, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen shot in the face on April 5. Then Tom Hurndall, a British ISM activist shot in the head and left brain dead on April 11. Next was James Miller, the British cameraman shot dead while wearing a vest that said "TV." In all of these cases, eyewitnesses say the shooters were Israeli soldiers.

There is something else that Jessica Lynch and Rachel Corrie have in common: both of their stories have been distorted by the military for its own purposes. According to the official story, Lynch was captured in a bloody gun battle, mistreated by sadistic Iraqi doctors, then rescued in another storm of bullets by heroic Navy SEALs. In the past weeks, another version has emerged. The doctors who treated Lynch found no evidence of battle wounds, and donated their own blood to save her life. Most embarrassing of all, witnesses have told the BBC that those daring Navy SEALs already knew there were no Iraqi fighters left in the area when they stormed the hospital.

But while Lynch's story has been distorted to make its protagonists appear more heroic, Corrie's story has been posthumously twisted to make her, and her fellow ISM activists, appear sinister.

For months, the Israeli military had been looking for an excuse to get rid of the ISM "troublemakers." It found it in Asif Mohammed Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif, the two British suicide bombers. It turns out that they had attended a memorial service for Corrie in Rafah, a fact the Israeli military has seized on to link the ISM to terrorism. Members of ISM point out that the event was open to the public, and that they knew nothing of the British visitors' intentions.
In the past two weeks, half a dozen ISM activists have been arrested, several deported, and the organization's offices raided. The crackdown is spreading to all "internationals," meaning there are fewer people in the occupied territories to either witness the abuses or assist the victims. On Monday, the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process told the Security Council that dozens of U.N. aid workers had been prevented from getting in and out of Gaza, calling it a violation of "Israel's international humanitarian law obligations." 


On June 5 there will be an international day of action for Palestinian rights. One of the demands is for the U.N. to send a monitoring force into the occupied territories. Until that happens, many are determined to continue Corrie's work. More than 40 students at her former college, Evergreen State, in Olympia, Washington, have signed up to go to Gaza with the ISM this summer.

So who is a hero? During the attack on Iraq, some of Corrie's friends e-mailed her picture to MSNBC asking that it be included on the station's "wall of heroes," along with Jessica Lynch. The network didn't comply, but Corrie is being honored in other ways. Her family has received more than 10,000 letters of support, communities across the country have organized memorial services, and children from the occupied territories are being named Rachel. It's not a made-for-TV kind of tribute, but maybe that's for the best.

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