Analysis of Class Based on Different Ideologies
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Marxist-Leninism – There can be no reconciliation between class antagonism. Proletariat must revolt.
Non-Marxist Utopian Socialism – The bourgeois and proletariat should reconcile.
Fascism – Class division is healthy and natural. There should be order in society. Equality of individuals is a false concept.
Nazism – The race issue (as they defined it) should make the class issue irrelevant. All Germanic peoples should unite against Jews and Slavs regardless of class.
Democratic Capitalism – Class “doesn’t matter.”
Theocracy (including Islam) – Unify Classes through religion. Class antagonisms are seen as divisive.
Metal Gear @ July 3, 2009
AQIM : The Ambush at Wadi Zakar
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L’Organisation Al Qa’ida au Maghreb Islamique
Dans la série de l’Ombre des Sabres
Within the series, Shade of the Swords
[) The Ambush at Wadi Zakar (]
Part (1) @blipTV : here
Part (2) @blipTV : here
Released July 1, 2009. More info available here, and also here.
Cmdr @ July 3, 2009
Gutsy Polish Engineer Chooses Death over Islam
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http://www.krakowpost.com/article/1399
I’m posting this with two motivations. One to highlight the courage of this individual but two to insure all readers that this blog is NOT a hivemind that exists solely to advance the interests of Islam in lockstep under the banner of anti-imperialism, Marxism and Nationalism. This is a position that I have failed to articulate strongly enough and I take full responsibility if any pro-Islamic, anti-Islamic or neutral readers failed to realize our true position. We continue to not require strict ideological convergence on every issue.
In addition, it must be stated more forcefully that those of us who say we are atheists are telling the truth and not “controlled” by Islamic interests, hiding our religion or only ducking behind the banner of free speech for self-interested reasons. I oppose the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War and any Persian War, but at the same time would never allow my opposition to imperialism to blind me on other issues.
I recognize the Greyness of the world and we as a blog are not Black and White, or always on the side of Muslims. We do not seek to deny speech to anything anti-Islamic, desecrate Buddhist statues, enforce Sharia Law, outlaw criticism of the Koran or justify crimes committed in the name of religion. The opposition to contemporary American imperialism and liberalism is based on ideological and material principles (depending a bit on each poster)-not necessarily empathy for Theocracy.
After the Liberal Democratic Imperialist question is solved, there will be a subsequent Islamic question. It cannot be swept under the rug forever. If Fundamentalist Muslims think they can bully and intimidate non-Muslims into submission, then they are wrong and will learn just how wrong they are. I have to salute this guy for his courage and would do the same thing if I was in his situation.
Piotr Stańczak, a Polish engineer working in Afghanistan for Geofizyka Krakow, was kidnapped by the Taliban in late 2008 and beheaded by his captors on the 7th of February. Now, a fellow hostage has revealed that Stańczak was given a chance to save his own life – and refused.
According to the German Press Agency (DPA), who interviewed Mohammad Amir (not his real name), a recently-released hostage of the Taliban, Stańczak had gained the respect of his captors. The Pole did not show fear and ate and slept well while in captivity. Amir was told about Stańczak by a Taliban guard, who stressed that it was difficult for his commander to order the engineer’s execution. According to Amir, that was why the commander gave Stańczak a choice: convert to Islam or face death. With no hesitation, Stańczak chose the latter.
Amir told the DPA that Stańczak was “very stubborn” according to the guard, and that he insisted that the Taliban release him, allow him to return home and take counsel from his family and then decide whether to convert.
Stańczak’s captors had been negotiating with the Pakistani government, which failed to meet their demand of the release of imprisoned militants. The Polish government has been heavily criticised for their role in the engineer’s death; a report released in early June by the Presidential National Security Bureau (BBN) stated that “Piotr Stańczak did not fall victim to the effective tactics used by the kidnappers, but to the inefficiency of the Polish government.” In particular, the report blames Prime Minister Tusk for his statement made on the eve of Stańczak’s murder, in which he said: “Poland will not pay ransom to Taliban […] and it is not going to pay any ransoms whatsoever.” The BBN concluded that the prime minister’s words could have directly contributed to the engineer’s death.
However, the prime minister’s government has criticised the president for using the report as a political attack before the elections.
Metal Gear @ July 3, 2009
Phony Internet Political Dissidents – Audio File
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The Audio File
Hello, this is Metal Gear of www.freemediaproductions.info and I am going to discuss the misuse of the internet by phony activists who claim to be political dissidents. These are people who say things over the net that they would never say in life. Their most notable trait is that they never ever make videos, audios or art. They never create anything constructive but spend their time in the drama pits bashing others. They just type away and flame activists in circle jerk drama website. Learn to spot these people and avoid them. The enemy must first be identified before defensive strategy can be planned. Free Media Productions welcomes collaboration attempts with political dissidents who are opposed to this circle jerk culture. We will not replicate this culture by creating cross board drama.
If we were to compare to gangster rap, the keyboard activist would be a studio gangster. At worst an FBI infiltrator, at best a troll who does not know who he or she is messing with. They hide behind the computer screen and try to “outdo” each other with “shocking” comments. Their profile in life doesn’t match their profile online and comments are exaggerated. They generally focus on social networking; not getting things done. They continue to draw a line between “the internet” and “real life” and argue that the two are not connected when releasing the personal information of their combatants for the world to see, yet they never miss an opportunity to cause division and tension within the causes of real activists. Their dedication to this cause is proof that they know the internet IS real life even though they deny it when releasing personal information of their political opponents.
Another symptom is Ideological perfectionism. They refuse to work with a lesser evil against a greater evil in actual protests. Yet their obsession with “mainstream appeal” neuters and destroys the message. They claim to represent public opinion or speak for a silent majority, and lash at anyone who disagrees with the ideology the silent majority allegedly backs. In specific detail, an obsession with these people exists in polluting counter-liberal movement with “zog” conspiracy theories and obsession with “the Jews (sic)” to fulfill liberal wet dreams and imperialist interests. Zog stands for “Zionist Occupied Government” for those who are fortunate enough not to have been exposed to this idiotic terminology. In a supposed attempt to show the opinion of the nonexistent silent majority, they talk of defying their ZOG but have done nothing to oppose the ruling order more serious than jaywalking or driving 5 miles over the speed limit. Worse yet, their idiocy and circle jerking has caused more trouble and advances the interests of the neo-liberal society that they mislabel ZOG.
Offline, they go past the point of avoiding conflict. I may avoid discussing dissident politics in business, political and social situations, but don’t go so far as to pretend to be a neo-liberal or republican or democrat. They actually lie and collaborate with mainstream movements they say they dislike online.
Free Media Productions is the real deal and encourages collaboration with the legitimate. Keep your mind open and be careful who you run with.
Metal Gear @ July 3, 2009
Collaborative Nationalism vs Bourgeious Euro-unitarianism
Posted in: Ethnicity and Race, Globalism / Imperialism, Nationalism, anthropology | Comments (0)
This post is motivated by a skype chat I recently had with “Constantin Von Hoffmeister” and “Dúnadan” (who posts on Ian Jobbling’s website). I do not consider myself a follower of Jobling except of his earlier works on race realism and the stupidity of anti-Semitism on his older website. Recently I have realized the inherent incompatibilities in our world views.
European Unity is a form of color conscious globalism. True nationalists must approach the idea with skepticism. Collaborative nationalism must be distinguished from white national denial. If two ethnically variant European nationalists collaborate as nationalist first, then they are pan-nationalists. If they collaborate as Europeans and not as nationalists, then they are Euro-liberals. Pan-nationalism is ideologically sound but Euro-liberalism is anti-nationalist and must be opposed. Down with the EU and down with using “Europeaness” to advocate open boarders to members of other European nations.
It seems that most people who want to define a “European” racial identity (as if this even makes sense anthropologically) aim to dissolve national borders within Europe and “unify” against non-Europeans. Certainly this viewpoint is not a nationalist viewpoint.
Metal Gear @ July 1, 2009
The “Anti-Darwinism” of Marx/Engels never existed
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Many people claim that Marx and Engels were anti-scientific and anti-Darwinistic. However Engels showed great respect for Darwin in his opening to Marx’s Communist Manifesto. I have used an internet link as my source, but print versions of the introduction match it identically.
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
This proposition (The Communist Manifesto), which, in my opinion, is destined to do for history what Darwin’s theory has done for biology, we both of us, had been gradually approaching for some years before 1845.
Metal Gear @ June 30, 2009
Obama’s First Coup d’Etat
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By Eva Golinger — Global Research
President Zelaya of Honduras has just been kidnapped
[Note: As of 11:15am, Caracas time, President Zelaya is speaking live on Telesur from San Jose, Costa Rica. He has verified the soldiers entered his residence in the early morning hours, firing guns and threatening to kill him and his family if he resisted the coup. He was forced to go with the soldiers who took him to the air base and flew him to Costa Rica. He has requested the U.S. Government make a public statement condemning the coup, otherwise, it will indicate their compliance.]
Caracas, Venezuela – The text message that beeped on my cell phone this morning read “Alert, Zelaya has been kidnapped, coup d’etat underway in Honduras, spread the word.” It’s a rude awakening for a Sunday morning, especially for the millions of Hondurans that were preparing to exercise their sacred right to vote today for the first time on a consultative referendum concerning the future convening of a constitutional assembly to reform the constitution. Supposedly at the center of the controversary is today’s scheduled referendum, which is not a binding vote but merely an opinion poll to determine whether or not a majority of Hondurans desire to eventually enter into a process to modify their constitution.
Such an initiative has never taken place in the Central American nation, which has a very limited constitution that allows minimal participation by the people of Honduras in their political processes. The current constitution, written in 1982 during the height of the Reagan Administration’s dirty war in Central America, was designed to ensure those in power, both economic and political, would retain it with little interference from the people. Zelaya, elected in November 2005 on the platform of Honduras’ Liberal Party, had proposed the opinion poll be conducted to determine if a majority of citizens agreed that constitutional reform was necessary. He was backed by a majority of labor unions and social movements in the country. If the poll had occured, depending on the results, a referendum would have been conducted during the upcoming elections in November to vote on convening a constitutional assembly. Nevertheless, today’s scheduled poll was not binding by law.
In fact, several days before the poll was to occur, Honduras’ Supreme Court ruled it illegal, upon request by the Congress, both of which are led by anti-Zelaya majorities and members of the ultra-conservative party, National Party of Honduras (PNH). This move led to massive protests in the streets in favor of President Zelaya. On June 24, the president fired the head of the high military command, General Romeo Vásquez, after he refused to allow the military to distribute the electoral material for Sunday’s elections. General Romeo Vásquez held the material under tight military control, refusing to release it even to the president’s followers, stating that the scheduled referendum had been determined illegal by the Supreme Court and therefore he could not comply with the president’s order. As in the Unted States, the president of Honduras is Commander in Chief and has the final say on the military’s actions, and so he ordered the General’s removal. The Minister of Defense, Angel Edmundo Orellana, also resigned in response to this increasingly tense situation.
But the following day, Honduras’ Supreme Court reinstated General Romeo Vásquez to the high military command, ruling his firing as “unconstitutional’. Thousands poured into the streets of Honduras’ capital, Tegucigalpa, showing support for President Zelaya and evidencing their determination to ensure Sunday’s non-binding referendum would take place. On Friday, the president and a group of hundreds of supporters, marched to the nearby air base to collect the electoral material that had been previously held by the military. That evening, Zelaya gave a national press conference along with a group of politicians from different political parties and social movements, calling for unity and peace in the country.
As of Saturday, the situation in Honduras was reported as calm. But early Sunday morning, a group of approximately 60 armed soldiers entered the presidential residence and took Zelaya hostage. After several hours of confusion, reports surfaced claiming the president had been taken to a nearby air force base and flown to neighboring Costa Rica. No images have been seen of the president so far and it is unknown whether or not his life is still endangered.
President Zelaya’s wife, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, speaking live on Telesur at approximately 10:00am Caracas time, denounced that in early hours of Sunday morning, the soldiers stormed their residence, firing shots throughout the house, beating and then taking the president. “It was an act of cowardness”, said the first lady, referring to the illegal kidnapping occuring during a time when no one would know or react until it was all over. Casto de Zelaya also called for the “preservation” of her husband’s life, indicating that she herself is unaware of his whereabouts. She claimed their lives are all still in “serious danger” and made a call for the international community to denounce this illegal coup d’etat and to act rapidly to reinstate constitutional order in the country, which includes the rescue and return of the democratically elected Zelaya.
Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela have both made public statements on Sunday morning condeming the coup d’etat in Honduras and calling on the international community to react to ensure democracy is restored and the constitutional president is reinstated. Last Wednesday, June 24, an extraordinary meeting of the member nations of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), of which Honduras is a member, was convened in Venezuela to welcome Ecuador, Antigua & Barbados and St. Vincent to its ranks. During the meeting, which was attended by Honduras’ Foreign Minister, Patricia Rodas, a statement was read supporting President Zelaya and condenming any attempts to undermine his mandate and Honduras’ democratic processes.
Reports coming out of Honduras have informed that the public television channel, Canal 8, has been shut down by the coup forces. Just minutes ago, Telesur announced that the military in Honduras is shutting down all electricity throughout the country. Those television and radio stations still transmitting are not reporting the coup d’etat or the kidnapping of President Zelaya, according to Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas. “Telephones and electricity are being cut off”, confirmed Rodas just minutes ago via Telesur. “The media are showing cartoons and soap operas and are not informing the people of Honduras about what is happening”. The situation is eerily reminiscent of the April 2002 coup d’etat against President Chávez in Venezuela, when the media played a key role by first manipulating information to support the coup and then later blacking out all information when the people began protesting and eventually overcame and defeated the coup forces, rescuing Chávez (who had also been kidnapped by the military) and restoring constitutional order.
Honduras is a nation that has been the victim of dictatorships and massive U.S. intervention during the past century, including several military invasions. The last major U.S. government intervention in Honduras occured during the 1980s, when the Reagain Administration funded death squads and paramilitaries to eliminate any potential “communist threats” in Central America. At the time, John Negroponte, was the U.S. Ambassador in Honduras and was responsible for directly funding and training Honduran death squads that were responsable for thousands of disappeared and assassinated throughout the region.
On Friday, the Organization of American States (OAS), convened a special meeting to discuss the crisis in Honduras, later issuing a statement condeming the threats to democracy and authorizing a convoy of representatives to travel to OAS to investigate further. Nevertheless, on Friday, Assistant Secretary of State of the United States, Phillip J. Crowley, refused to clarify the U.S. government’s position in reference to the potential coup against President Zelaya, and instead issued a more ambiguous statement that implied Washington’s support for the opposition to the Honduran president. While most other Latin American governments had clearly indicated their adamant condemnation of the coup plans underway in Honduras and their solid support for Honduras’ constitutionally elected president, Manual Zelaya, the U.S. spokesman stated the following, “We are concerned about the breakdown in the political dialogue among Honduran politicians over the proposed June 28 poll on constitutional reform. We urge all sides to seek a consensual democratic resolution in the current political impasse that adheres to the Honduran constitution and to Honduran laws consistent with the principles of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.”
As of 10:30am, Sunday morning, no further statements have been issued by the Washington concerning the military coup in Honduras. The Central American nation is highly dependent on the U.S. economy, which ensures one of its top sources of income, the monies sent from Hondurans working in the U.S. under the “temporary protected status” program that was implemented during Washington’s dirty war in the 1980s as a result of massive immigration to U.S. territory to escape the war zone. Another major source of funding in Honduras is USAID, providing over US$ 50 millon annually for “democracy promotion” programs, which generally supports NGOs and political parties favorable to U.S. interests, as has been the case in Venezuela, Bolivia and other nations in the region. The Pentagon also maintains a military base in Honduras in Soto Cano, equipped with approximately 500 troops and numerous air force combat planes and helicopters.
Foreign Minister Rodas has stated that she has repeatedly tried to make contact with the U.S. Ambassador in Honduras, Hugo Llorens, who has not responded to any of her calls thus far. The modus operandi of the coup makes clear that Washington is involved. Neither the Honduran military, which is majority trained by U.S. forces, nor the political and economic elite, would act to oust a democratically elected president without the backing and support of the U.S. government. President Zelaya has increasingly come under attack by the conservative forces in Honduras for his growing relationship with the ALBA countries, and particularly Venezuela and President Chávez. Many believe the coup has been executed as a method of ensuring Honduras does not continue to unify with the more leftist and socialist countries in Latin America.
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Besoshvili @ June 30, 2009
Somalia : The Expedition of Al-Furqan
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Youth Mujahideen Movement
{ The Expedition of Al-Furqan }
Full video @blipTV : here
Download (wmv HQ version, 278mb) available here.
More info here. Released June 27, 2009.
Cmdr @ June 30, 2009
Futuristic Vision of the Third Position
Posted in: History, Nationalism, Poetry, Political Theory, Science/Technology, anthropology | Comments (1)
Eye on the future.
Foot on the gas.
Forward motion to shoot for.
No looking back.
New Nationalism, technnocratic
That’s the habbit
Call me an addict
Get a board to draw from scratch – on it.
Responsible technocracy is the way
Nationalism must follow it today,
Ignore the disrupters, who stray,
Reactionaries from the past cannot play.
We don’t need
to appeal to the past deeds.
Hitler is not the model
Foward looking, hand on the thottle.
Comparisons to Reich number three are absurd.
Contingency is the way, new ideologies must be heard.
Progressive nationalism is the vision.
Welcome to the third position.
Class conscious, we reject bourgeois lies.
Race and ethnicity analyzed
Through the eyes
Of the scientific mind.
Realism is the name
Of the game.
False theories of the past
Are labeled as lame.
Eye on the future.
Foot on the gas.
Forward motion to shoot for.
No looking back.
The proletarian force
Lead to nationalism.
Class antagonism
Is dissolved for a new course.
Revisionists we may be.
We do not seek to repeat history.
The future is the way.
All eyes watch, no delay.
Get your mind out of the past.
New ideologies are vast.
Critical thinking can cast
The chains off of your back.
Contingency, we analyze.
Every situation is new.
Old ideologies we vandalize.
The past is done and that is through.
Eye on the future.
Foot on the gas.
Forward motion to shoot for.
No looking back.
The next big thing,
Futuristic nationalists, let the bells ring.
Clinching and waving the fist,
as you get the jist.
Prepared for war, in any fashion to begin.
We will not follow the disruptor.
Clowns who claim to represent nationalism,
They won’t be interrupters.
Futuristic technocracy with a third position,
If you haven’t seen it you better listen.
Its implementation is a goal and a mission.
Get that straight, it is the vision.
Eye on the future.
Foot on the gas.
Forward motion to shoot for.
No looking back.
Metal Gear @ June 30, 2009