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Mexico needs a Revolution.

lew333 — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:39:14 +0000

Throughout recent history,since the times of Echeverria to now Calderon, Mexico has suffrered economical problems, and it is sad to say, but these problems have not yet been solved or even improved. And as prove of such situation numbers tell us that over fifty percent of�the�Mexican population lives in extreme poverty. Aside from the economy Mexico is also victim of a severe political crisis, in fact it is not�rational and by all means not appropriate to say that Mexico atill has �politics. The “politics” in Mexico are led by private interests, corruption, governmental distortions, and an endless system of�frauds and briberies that go from the most remote�municipalities and governmental offices�to the office of Mr. Calderon. And how are Mexican authorities confronting this ? With�cynicism�and impotence.�

Mexico does not need a new leader, leaders we have had forever, and none have satisfied the people of Mexico, Mexico needs�us to start the change, because it is on us, the�Mexican people, in which power is, and because of that reason we have to feel obligated to exert that power and begin a revolution.�

viva Mexico

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I hope

lew333 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:08:08 +0000

I hope the leaves do not touch your body when they fall

So that you don’t turn them into crystals;

I hope the rain quits being a miracle

That runs through your body.

I hope the moon can rise without you

I hope the earth does not kiss your steps.

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I hope your constant look ends,

Your precise words and your perfect smile as well.

I hope something happens that erases you soon:

A blinding light, a shot of snow.

I hope that at least death can take me away

To not see you so much, to not see you forever.

In every second, in every vision:

I hope I can not even touch you in songs

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I hope that the aurora does not yell shouts that drop on my back,

I hope that your name is forgotten by that voice.

I hope the walls don’t retain your sound of tired paths,

I hope that desire goes after you.

This, to your old government of �deceased and flowers.

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�p.m.s.r

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luis

Politics and Leaders

lew333 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:22:12 +0000

I was thinking once that i could fly away and see all the buildings and the people from the sky, which�would look like insects running around.� Once flying I could not tell what the people had in common, however the trees were all green and the earth in general resembled a grayish landscape. Through my mind the only thing that connected me aside from the simple fact that�I�could see those tiny people all around the�place was the notion that I was alone in the sky. My solitude then started invading every inch of my body, and in a blind attempt to abolish it�I asked myself: where is my mind? The answer came about suddenly without the implementation�of any analysis, yet reason and logic were�crucial�to the satisfactory response: my mind is with me. In the earth my mind was somewhere else, not with me, maybe very close to me, but never as close to me as it was in the sky. In the sky there�weren’t �politics�nor arguments; your own mysteries, intuiton, judgement and sentiments ruled�the atmosphere. In the sky I was the leader of my memories and my present. In the sky I was the leader not because I was alone, but because I was capable to see everybody from up top. I was not able to win anything in the sky, but as I was flying I was able to convince myself of what the�people really needed. Politics are a farse excuse to win power, I said. Leaders are leaders not because they win an election of high remarks,�but because they can convince themselves of what is right for the people.�My flight was over and it was time to convince the rest of the wonders and the air of change brought about�by my travesy through the sky.At that time�I was a leader, not a politcian.

A Second Away From Them

lew333 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:08:47 +0000

A trigger goes off
Two million children are dying
A teen in Japan having an orgasm
A worker union brings chaos
A woman with provocative dress in the streets
And five children starving..
Her husband?
Don’t ask.
Water shortages….
And the sun each day feels closer
You…
Light a smoke
While this is happening…
There is no time to change your life
Your habits are dust….
The world is a tornado……
Change it.

Ending of a Dreamer

lew333 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:36:08 +0000

Flying over dreams
Perfect illusions
Farce politics
Beautiful celebrities
Sitting in my chair
Observing a box
Cigarette lit up
Eyes open wide
Many years
I believed
That falling is….
Getting up?
And all the sudden
I can not
Stay there,
They indirectly said
The years do not stop
And I still believe
I can pray
And all the sudden I can not
Go away
I said
You have not understood me
You have done wrong
Your words kill
Kill my verb
With your saliva
And natural speech
I, I am
Flying over dreams
Perfect illusions
Good bye, I said from the second floor
To you
And you, I said:
Farce politics
And beautiful celebrities

CHAVEZ DEFEATED?!

lew333 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:03:53 +0000

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1690507,00.html?imw=Y

The link above is an article I found about President Hugo Chavez’s referendum to give him the power to run for�office unlimited times. As you will learn from reading the article, the referendum was turned down my the people of Venezuela in an open and fair democratic election runned by Chavez’s socialist government. My question is: what to think of this? The results of the election are without a doubt a surprise to the global political atmosphere, since Chavez has always been backed up by the majority of the population, especially the poor people. Now that for the first time President Chavez was actually turned down by his own people the future of the leftist movement around South America could be held in uncertainty. True Socialists and well informed leftists should be happy about this, ironic? No, not at all, the defeat actually showed that fair democratic elections can be held in a Socialist country. If Chavez’s referendum was accepted by the people, Venezuela would be in the road to a dictarorship, which in return would make Socialism look bad; despite Chavez’s efficient work to help his country and actions to battle imperialism, he should not have the right to alter the constitution just for his own benefits.

TRUE SOCIALISM……NEEDS TO BE HEARD.

VERY FEW OF THE REASONS AS TO WHY THE USA IS HATED

lew333 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:56:23 +0000

�Massive war crimes in Vietnam War: The mass murder of well over 1 million (some say about 3 million) innocent Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam war was an act of mass state terrorism. (The USA also used chemical weapons such as dioxins in this aggressive war.) The USA should have been forced to pay hundreds of billions of dollars of reparations for their war crimes. But instead, the USA imposed horrendous trade sanctions on Vietnam which led to mass starvation for many years. At the same time, the USA forced the Vietnamese to put a humiliating amount of effort into finding decades-old corpses of American war criminals. Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian Vietnamese died without their bodies being recovered. But US citizens are capable of feeling no sympathy for any people other than their own. They think that one American is worth a thousand foreigners. There are many people in the USA even now who are proud of their participation in the mass murder and war crimes in Vietnam.

Destruction of democracy in Chile: The removal of the freely elected democratic government of Chile by the CIA, including the bombing of the presidential palace (on another September 11), followed by the murder of thousands of innocent civilians. This proves that the USA is not in favor of democracy.

Embargo of Cuba but not China or Saudi Arabia: Decades of embargo of the popular government of Cuba, while the USA gives most favored nation status to China. The support for China and Saudi Arabia is purely in the US self-interest. The dislike of Cuba by the USA is really due to the fact that Cuba does not bow to the USA.

Total support for Israel‘s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians: The USA continues to protect, encourage and finance Israel’s 6 decades of ethnic cleansing in Palestine. The USA thwarts every humane gesture by the United Nations. The USA encourages and financially supports the slaughter of several hundred innocent people in Palestine every year by the Israeli death squads seeking Lebensraum. It is clear that the USA’s ruling class is in love with Israel. They are blinded by love. [If the Palestinians all converted to Christianity, the scales would fall from the eyes of the US Americans. Then they would realize that the Palestinians are human beings.] The occupied West Bank of Jordan resembles the Warsaw Ghetto of World War II. The occupied West Bank is a slave prison of the Jewish Israelis. But deeds which were evil when the Germans did them in WW2 are now encouraged every day by the USA when the Israeli land thieves do them. Seeing the enthusiastic US American support for Israelis turning innocent Palestinians into mincemeat is the principal cause of worldwide Muslim anger against the USA.

Colonization of Hawaii: The USA colonized and annexed Hawaii. The USA should decolonize this independent nation. This proves that the USA is not anti-colonization.

Funding, weapons and training for Nicaraguan terrorists: The USA gave huge amounts of funding to terrorists in Nicaragua who killed hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans in the 1980s with guns and mines on farmland. Tens of thousands of innocent civilians lost their legs or were maimed in other ways. When there was finally an election along US-approved lines, the USA said the vote was not fair and would not be recognized – until it emerged that the USA’s puppet won, and then they immediately announced that the election was completely fair. (The previous election which brought the Sandinistas to power was recognized by official European observers and everyone else as free and fair. But the people didn’t elect a a pro-mega-capitalist government. So the US rejected that election as flawed. This is because US governments think that democracy and pro-US-capitalism are the same thing. The USA was happy with the previous puppet dictator Somoza.)

Arrogant, conceited nationalism: US citizens have a general attitude that they are rich because they are superior. This is totally explicitly stated, especially on ceremonial occasions. The reason the USA is rich is for many reasons, including very successful exploitation of other countries, the fact that they came into World Wars I and II very late when other countries were exhausted, the geographical isolation of the USA, the fertile land which they took from the indigenous people (whom they largely exterminated), and their homogeneous language and culture.

Theft of Spanish lands in America: The USA stole vast areas of land from the Spanish empire to create California, Texas etc.

Support for Indonesian massacre of Chinese: The USA approved the Suharto government’s killing of about 500,000 Chinese Indonesians who were suspected of being communist sympathizers.

Invasion of Haiti: Occupation of Haiti in 1994 to install US choice of r�gime. (See also 2004 overthrow of democracy in Haiti by USA.) The USA also invaded and occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934.

Invasion of Panama: Invasion of Panama to get just one guy, Noriega, who happened to be a CIA employee who was conducting most of the cocaine trade from South America into the USA. US forces killed many innocent people.

Invasion of Grenada: Invasion of Grenada in 1983 to install pro-US government. This was part of Reagan’s foreign actions to make US citizens feel proud again. (The USA really should find ways of feeling good that don’t involve making foreigners into mincemeat. People who study these things say that the USA has invaded 67 countries from 1945 to 2004 and has killed some tens of millions of people in military conflicts in that time.)

Attempted invasion of Cuba: Unsuccessful invasion of Cuba (1961) to install pro-US-capitalist government. Large numbers of people pointlessly killed for ideological/economic reasons, with no apology. In 2007, the US government still hates Cuba more than any country. The USA takes a very, very long time to forgive countries which successfully resist (and thereby humiliate) the US Empire. (Others include Iran and Vietnam.).

Killing thousands of innocent poor Afghans: In the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the USA, looking for a small group of bandits, has shot up the whole country, causing a massive increase in starvation and other suffering. When several hundred (about 350) Taliban surrendered in one city, the USA used aerial bombing to kill every one of them, even though they were unarmed and had surrendered. This is a very serious war crime under the Geneva Convention. Combatants are required to give quarter, but the USA has operated an explicit policy of taking no prisoners. They stated that they intended all al Qaida and Taliban to be killed. The USA should be brought before war crimes tribunals for these crimes, but the USA will refuse to even think about this possibility. In fact, the US government has passed a law to impose sanctions on any country which cooperates with the International Criminal Court, and they have passed a law to indemnify all US war criminals from any legal action. Thus the USA has declared that it is free to commit war crimes with impunity. (2002-12-19: It has emerged that the USA was responsible for the murder of about 8000 Taliban who had surrendered. This is why the USA is so afraid of the International Criminal Court. They are as bad as the Serbs were in the 1990s.)
(2003-3-24: The US government says that the Iraqis must abide by the Geneva convention in the treatment of US prisoners. But the USA denied Geneva Convention rights to thousands of Afghan prisoners from 2001. After more than a year, these prisoners are still being maltreated in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. This shows once again that all countries in the world must obey international conventions – all countries except the USA.) After tearing up the Geneva Convention in regard to Afghanistan, the USA complained loudly about extremely minor matters in their illegal war of aggression against Iraq in 2003, for example when photos of prisoners were shown on TV, which is not actually against the Geneva Convention. The USA insists that other countries must very precisely obey international conventions, but the USA never accepts that international law applies to them.

“Natural Superiority” of that Culture

lew333 — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:57:38 +0000

Two first�world tourists arrived to a hotel which they considered of high quality and dignified of their standards, that according to them are hard to find in a third world country. One of them is a college professor and the other one a successful entrepreneur. They are eager to learn about the local culture and also have plans to help the people. As� their social interactions develop with the local people their arrogance is inevitable to notice after making remarks about the harsh conditions these people live in, about the lack of freedom they have, about how nasty the water is and how strange the food is, about how much indifference these �people have toward them, which according to them is just one of the perks of coming from a� privileged� country, that presumes to have a sea of freedom and economic opportunities. For the tourists the local people were just jealous of their immense freedom and brand-name clothes, so they felt pity for them and gave them extra money for their traditional forms of art. To their surprise one local artist told them he would not receive any extra money, so the tourist insisted by telling him that they wanted to help him. He told them, “What makes you think I need help?” The tourists walked away with all their money and their narrow, yet well informed and educated perspective about the world. They were irrational toward the artist and the local people, they had defined what is good and what is bad based on their own culture, a culture which they think is a pure example of their so called term freedom, a culture that feels the exigency to help others, a culture that by irrational means feels superior to others and completely ignores the right and capacity of others.

The Americans

lew333 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:08:12 +0000

The Americans by Piero

English Translation

I have translated a�piece of poetry from Alberto Cortez that was interpreted by famous�Latin American�singer, Piero. I find the piece very intersting, and I must say very offensive too, however there is a�great amount of�sense and truth�in it.The song is widely known all over Central and South America.�

They are born old

And they become older

Through life

The Americans

And they are born convinced

That there is nothing in the world

More important than

The Americans

Napoleon for them

Was an Italian gentleman

That organized the thing

Without Americans

And they are more than certain

That Waterloo would not

Have lost without the help

Of the Americans

If they know about history

Is not because they read

But because they watched it

In the American theaters

With grand stages

And fabulous music

In the subtle style

Of the Americans

With large mandibles

Of so much chewing gum

Is common to see

The Americans

Showing a thousand colors

All but black

Which they do not consider

Of American taste

When they are old enough

They dress as tourists

And travel around the world

The Americans

In an organized trip

With romance included

Everything paid

By Americans

If there is something to admire

Is the great elegancy

Wherever they go

Of the Americans

With traditional clothes

They blend with the people

And nobody notices

The Americans

Always buying

Valuable things

That have recently become old

For Americans

And later in their houses

They attend the guests

That greatly appreciate the good taste

Of the Americans

And in the night clubs

They feel inspired

And it is very common to see them

Dancing without stop

Proliferating the grace

Of the Americans

And well my friends

It is enough for now

I have told you what I could

About the Americans

And if you see them

I beg you please to give them my respectful greeting

To the Americans

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Is China a Threat?

lew333 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:44:09 +0000

�The Sino-American relationship has been volatile over the last past decades, however how could it really be defined? Considering each country’s economical ideologies and interests we could arrive to a conclusion that there is a lot of disagreement between the two. With the increase of American involvement all around the world and at the same time the increase of China’s military power and economy under communist rule, it is almost natural that tensions between the two countries will become rough. There have been boycotts of China’s Olympic Games here in the United States due to the reactions Americans have about communism in China, this is one of the many examples of how fragile the interaction between the two countries can be. What Americans don’t realize is that the majority of Chinese people are content with their government and one of the reasons of their economic improvement has been accomplished under a communist economic structure, Americans may argue about the political prisoners of China and their social inequalities, but what country does not have this problems? America? NO. Let’s just look at the prisons in Iraq and the abuses from American soldiers to the prisoners, also at the discrimination from Americans to immigrants and Middle East people. In order to keep peace in this world each country has to stay out of other county’s affairs. America?

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