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Of all sources, Engadget reports that the undersea cable cutting going on in the Med is getting suspicious.

For the fourth time in a week, an undersea communications cable in the Mediterranean Sea has apparently been cut, and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious. Flag Telecom, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA Group, has had two cables damaged in the span of a week — a quandary it has never dealt with until now. As it stands, traffic from the Middle East and surrounding areas is being routed through various other cables in an attempt to remain online, but any more snips and we could be dealing with ping times eerily similar to those seen in 1993 (or much, much larger issues).

I’m also a little suspicious about the constant cable cutting shenanigans resulting in limited or no Internet access in the Middle East, but leaving a certain, apartheid, racist, lying, bullying, oppressing, tyrannical shit of a country untouched.

These cables are not easy to cut. They have to be deliberately damaged. It has to be sabotage. Cable cut once, could be an accident. Unlikely, but possible. Twice, thrice and erm, frice….that’s deliberate. The question is, what would be so big as to require no comms getting out of Iran, for example?

Who would want to stop any information flowing out of the Middle East in the event of some kind of attack? Couldn’t be Israel and the USA, could it?

Every country that has dumped, or talked of dumping the rapidly dying and soon-to-be-bankrupt dollar has been in the cross-hairs of the Bush administration and the Islamophobes around the world. Now that the UAE wants out, or rather, is on the road to exit through a re-valuation, maybe it’s being given a few warning slaps?

The world could suddenly be plunged into a new era of darkness through yet another false-flag operation. I shudder to think of the kind of atrocities that might go unreported without people having the power of the Internet. And just think, most of the public will buy the same old lies that they did in the aftermath of 9/11. They got away with killing over a million in Iraq and ethnically cleansing the rest, without the Internet, I’m sure they’d happily nuke Iran - and worse!

At first, I wondered if these cables being cut wouldn’t also take out Israel, but guess what? Apparently not!

Breaking news:

US President George W Bush has said Israel must end occupation of Arab land taken in 1967 so that a viable Palestinian state can be created.

If this is true, and he applies pressure on Israel, financial pressure to back up his request, it would immediately make him the most popular president in recent times amongst Muslims. It sounds almost obscene, especially given his past performances and the obscenities committed in going to Iraq and destroying that once proud country, but to hear such a demand from the mouth of a US president is tantamount to a miracle.He is also talking about financial settlements instead of the right to return. Long a contentious issue, this might be the one on which long-suffering Palestinians have to sadly, cede more ground.I wait more news on this with baited breath. Could I even dare imagine this to be true?Update:The article has since been updated and now also adds from Bush:

These negotiations must ensure that Israel has secure recognised and defensible borders and they must ensure the state of Palestine is viable, contiguous, sovereign and independent.

The key word being “contiguous”. (I wonder if he even knows what that means)I don’t think he does, because sadly, this is also part of what’s on the table and in my book, is the goat poo in the milk pail:

He also said a peace agreement would require mutually agreed adjustments to the pre-1967 boundaries “to reflect current realities” - a reference to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Those settlements need to be torn down. The problem is that Israel is building settlements in occupied territories and mounting raids on Gaza and killing children and oppressing a nation even while these talks go on.I will rein in my optimism for the meantime, but I will never give up hope.Update 2What I really want of course, is that which appears impossible at the moment: The establishment of a single state in pre-1948 Palestine and for all the refugees to be able to return.Update 3I’ve thought about this. Nothing has really changed. Palestinians are still getting screwed over and Bush and his Zionist cohorts in Israel are still a bunch of lying, murdering rapists. That’s my reasoned and considered opinion by the way.

No irony at all in the title. If even one commentator in the press can freely speak like this about an incumbent president, there is still hope! Olbermann has been telling it like it is for quite a while. Long may he continue!

I somehow managed to miss this quite brilliant post…

Any moron should now be able to see in plain view that peace with Palestine has never been Israel’s aim. Palestine creates a unity government after international pressure and even gives up on the right of return, a staggering gambit and a huge sacrifice. In return, Israel spits on the corpses of the Naqba and on the inmates of the largest concentration camp in the world, Gaza, and on the bodies of women consumed by flies from the massacre in Sabra and Shatila.

It is always the way of the most destabilising force in the Middle East and the most cancerous, hypocritical, lying state the world has ever known. Sure, there have been more brutal regimes, but not quite so calculating, so duplicitous or so worth flushing down the toilet along with its slightly less evil brother, South African apartheid.

After the recent murders by the Zionist liars, I hope the Arab leadership finally grows some balls and exerts pressure on Israel by denying the West the oil it needs. That would send a nice, strong message to the Whitehouse to cease funding the Terrorist Tel Aviv Reich.

This of course, is never going to happen. And until Palestine has nukes, there will never be peace.

With the latest killing/suicide in Virginia, the latest of many, including Columbine, why aren’t these terrorists being called suicide shooters?

When around a million people in Iraq have been killed as a result of imperialist, colonialist, Zionist aggression, and many more displaced, perhaps for years, maybe even forever; many would have found it hard to feel any sympathy for President Bush when he stood up to condemn the terrorist actions in his own back yard today.

With terror reigning in American schools and universities, with these gun-toting white fanatics on the loose having killed more American children than all Muslims have done in history, isn’t it time for President Bush to bring his War on Terror back home?

Obviously, one feels sorry for the affected, murder ain’t good, but would it be a touch controversial for me to say that an American’s life (usually white American) gets a thousand times more coverage than a Muslim’s? (Even an American Muslim?)

Would it be unfair if I pointed out that even on the BBC, a dead Israeli Jew gets an order of magnitude more coverage than a dead Palestinian Muslim?

So you’ll excuse me if I feel compassion fatigue when I hear of American deaths due to their moral bankruptcy. I certainly don’t take any pleasure in this recent event. That would be sick, but you’ll excuse me if I dismiss it in the competition for my perception.

It’s just that my attention is more on the thousands of children who died today because American corporations want it that way.

Imam jailed for sending money to Palestine

While we’re at it, why not throw every fucking member of the US Government and half of that shit country’s arrogant and despicable populace into prison for far worse crimes? Like supporting Israel, and a war on children in Iraq and Afghanistan. Useless murdering retards.

Shame Cheney didn’t get it from the Taliban, you know, the force created by America in the first place. If I were to see Cheney’s head on a spike, for example, I would not be very upset.