Audio Archive > Cabale News Service > [October 08 2007] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Why DO We Celebrate A Holiday For A Person (Columbus) Who Most People In The World Would Compare To Adolf Hitler Or Pol Pot? He Wasn't Even The Person Who Discovered The North American Continent!
Travus T. Hipp - Cabale News Service[October 08 2007] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Why DO We Celebrate A Holiday For A Person (Columbus) Who Most People In The World Would Compare To Adolf Hitler Or Pol Pot? He Wasn't Even The Person Who Discovered The North American Continent! (October 8, 2007)
In The News: Travus has the NEWS day off... Just commentary today.... HOWEVER, Da' Buffalo has prepared a bit of news, starting with the topic of genocide.
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It's 'Indigenous Americans Day' or 'Columbus Day', if you are anachronistic about the history of the domination of the North American continent by a group of outcast Europeans who were harrassing the Church of England and were advised to leave if they wanted to keep their 'heads on their shoulders' so to speak, and the rest is history... of genocide.
The Topography Of Genocide Click the map for details
Yesterday, Juan Cole @ Informed Comment posted a note about a firefight in Baghdad between armed militia factions, ostensibly in regard to walls being built which are further dividing a society already forced by unchecked violence into communities demarcated along religious lines.
McClatchy reports from late Saturday, "Clashes erupted between Mahdi Army militiamen and Iraqi army in Al Washash area, Iraqi police said. The clashes started on the background of building a separating wall in the area. Two people were injured."
My initial comment, comparing the walling of Iraq to the infamous Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during WWII was rejected, redacted, removed.
I sent a rather rude note to the moderator and regrouped. My second attempt at pointing out the comparison WAS posted:
Walls... Riverbend of Baghdad Burning spoke of them just before she fled to Syria with her family:
"Thursday, April 26, 2007 The Great Wall of Segregation... …Which is the wall the current Iraqi government is building (with the support and guidance of the Americans). It's a wall that is intended to separate and isolate what is now considered the largest 'Sunni' area in Baghdad- let no one say the Americans are not building anything. According to plans the Iraqi puppets and Americans cooked up, it will 'protect' A'adhamiya, a residential/mercantile area that the current Iraqi government and their death squads couldn't empty of Sunnis. The wall, of course, will protect no one.
I sometimes wonder if this is how the concentration camps began in Europe. The Nazi government probably said, "Oh look- we're just going to protect the Jews with this little wall here- it will be difficult for people to get into their special area to hurt them!" And yet, it will also be difficult to get out.
The Wall is the latest effort to further break Iraqi society apart." [In Full]
If it pleases the blog's administrator, in the future I will refrain from mentioning another infamous walled... uhmn... 'area'... in Poland, during WWII, and just let the Iraqis speak for themselves about THEIR walls, and the destruction of THEIR heritage and culture.
Oh yes, and there are other socio/cultural/economic effects of "walls" which have been discussed recently in the MSM: Most of Iraq's budget is apparently being spent on 'blast walls'...
I'll let an Iraqi who manufactures them speak for himself:
"Yassir Jaddu, whose private company is now working on contracts handed out by the US authorities in Iraq, said many contractors had been forced to switch from civil to military contracts because of the precarious security situation. The bulk of funds allocated to reconstruction, he added, was going towards providing security measures such as blast walls.
“If we measure the money spent on building blast walls you will find that it is more than that spent on fuel, electricity and other services. “One of our small contracts was to build a wall around a police station in Baghdad. We needed 2,500 concrete pieces. Just imagine how costly that was,” he said. “Now banks, the courts and even the markets are surrounded by walls, not to speak of military camps and police stations. About 99 percent of Iraq’s budget is going towards building walls." [AFP via Y! News[Link Change, Middle East Online]]
Why don't we just call it what it is... Genocide instigated, aided, AND abetted by a U.S. invasion and a subsequent regimen of seemingly intentional destabilization of Iraq's society (IMNSHO, absolutely on purpose) with an overweening goal of 'stabilizing' a government friendly to U.S. interests even if it kills ALL of the citizens. BTW, the Democrats won't help...
Which leads us to a piece of breaking news which initially was included at that point in my screed: The PR firm of one of Hillary Clinton's media hot rods has just been hired by Blackwater Security to help them 'clean up' up their 'reputation'. Article @ Atlantic Free Press.
Burson-Marsteller, the firm in question, is notable for it's union-busting activities as well.
...The wicked word for the day is: 'Corporatism' But if you prefer, just call it 'conflict of interest', by our government's leaders, with democracy.
Quote of the day, from the Atlantic Free Press article about Hillary Clinton's PR flack:
Mel Brooks said this about Hitler in a 1966 Playboy interview: "There was a whole nice side of Hitler. He was a good dancer - no one knows that. He loved a parakeet named Bob - no one knows that either."
Last, but not least... Senator Larry Craig, who was denied his attempt to withdraw a guilty plea for... umn... 'playing footsie' with an undercover police officer in a Minnesota airport bathroom, but will apparently serve out the rest of his time 'servicing' the citizens of his state, was lambasted on Saturday Night Live:
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Reviewer:leighm - - May 9, 2009 Subject: Funny thing is... The funny thing is the commentator, Travus T. Hipp, recently won an award from the his state broadcasters association for thirty years of news broadcasting, and his pro radio carrer extends back to the 60s.
You like the Grateful Dead and such?
He was one of their earliest promoters when he worked for KZAP in San Francisco in the sixties and owned a roadhouse in Nevada where all the psychedelic bands, now mythical, came to woodshed.
Reviewer:thatemailname - - May 4, 2009 Subject: Huh? This kind of stuff has no business being here. People come to the Internet Archive expecting to find a sane website, full of historically worthwhile material. Instead, we have to be exposed to this kind of maniacal ranting by unhinged people! It's offensive.
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