Martin Eden

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Is It If It Is ~ A Poem-Prose written by Martin Eden on 29 January 2009

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Jan 292009
 

Current mood:? luminous

Is It If It Is
(A Poem-Prose written by Martin Eden on 29 January 2009)

There is that fellow self
That ran right by me
The other day
While this self stood still
Taking in the sights around me
Along the way

‘Whats the hurry?!’ this self cried out
And got no reply, wondering why

Strangely I did not feel torn
Instead I understood the tension
That both is and could be

No wonder I live on the edge of choice
Not knowing, yet knowing

It’s not the way of fate
Nor a sacrifice in the making
But a drift around meaning

So what of that oft fellow?
Let him run while I stay
And his experience I will contemplate
Write of, and learn from
And feed to nature all around me
Till I return into it

? Martin Eden

Not Quite The News 003

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Jan 232009
 

Current mood:? enlightened

Not Quite The News 003

HEADLINE
God agrees to Psychotherapy to deal with his longstanding Misogyny and obsessive Materialism, forgives Eve for taking and eating his apple!

BREAKING NEWS
Moves are afoot to enhance the prospects of a Native American to run for President of the United States of America, a country they (Native Americans) have not governed since the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers.

? Martin Eden

Not Quite The News 002

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Jan 172009
 

Current mood:Why Not?

Not Quite The News 002

HEADLINE
Largely empty Churches worldwide open doors to Homeless!!

BREAKING NEWS
A strong rumour is gathering momentum, that former Managers of failed Companies are cashing up their personal assets to fund assistance to Workers made redundant by their mismanagement.

? Martin Eden

The Plight Of The Palestinians 001

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Jan 142009
 

Current mood:Railing Against Injustice!!!

** PALESTINIANS DISPOSSESSED **
“We?d like to remind him that 2008 is also the 60th anniversary of what we call ‘al-Nakhbeh’ which roughly translated means ‘the Great Tragedy’ – the emptying of vast swatches of Palestine by members of Israel?s Stern and Urgun gangs, among others. This disaster resulted in more than three-quarters of a million Palestinians becoming refugees and the country of Palestine being wiped off world maps.”
Source:
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/01/07/abukhatered.html

** ISRAEL’S ATROCITIES AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS **
“On top of the many ‘conventional’ war crimes Israel is committing in Gaza, there may well be an extra one: the use of non-conventional weapons.”
Source:
http://www.intal.be/nl/blogs/bert-de-belder/israeli-non-conventional-weapons-used-gaza

** ISRAEL’S AGGRESSION AGAINST A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT **
“Israeli military’s deputy chief of staff Brigadier General Dan Harelsays there will not be a single Hamas building left standing in Gaza when the attack is over. ‘After this operation there will not be a single Hamas building left standing in Gaza, and we plan to change the rules of the game,’ he told the YNet News website.”
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/30/2456334.htm
PS: Imagine the outcry if this were done against a democratically elected Israeli Government, let alone an overwhelmingly elected one!

** WHY HAMAS WAS OVERWHELMINGLY DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED BY THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE **
“The organization adopted a Policy of providing assistance on the basis of socio-economic need rather than religious or economic criteria, so that families in economic distress did not need to be Hamas members or even practicing Muslims in order to qualify for aid.”
Source:
http://www.counterpunch.org/gordon02072006.html

? Martin Eden

World Facts And Questions 001

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Jan 142009
 

Current mood:Wanting answers!!

# ?? ?Religion ?? ?????? Number of Adherents
1 ?? ?Christianity ?? ??? 1.9 billion
2 ?? ?Islam ?? ???????????? 1.1 billion
3 ?? ?Hinduism ?? ?????? 781 million
4 ?? ?Buddhism ?? ????? 324 million
5 ?? ?Sikhism ?? ???????? 19 million
6 ?? ?Judaism ?? ???????? 14 million
7 ?? ?Bah?’? Faith ?? ??? 6.1 million
8???? Confucianism???? 5.3 million
9 ?? ?Jainism ?? ?????????? 4.9 million
10 ? Shinto ?? ??????????? 2.8 million

[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups]

… So how is it possible that Israel can afford to acquire the arsenal of sophisticated weapons, and in particular its ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’, which it most definitely has, and moreover, where does it get those weapons from?? And how can Israel then go on to repeatedly disregard international condemnation of its oft-repeated and mounting atrocities against the Palestinians, not to mention international laws readily applied to other nations, and be endlessly pandered to?

Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was invaded for less!

? Martin Eden

The World In Ratios 008

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Jan 132009
 

Current mood:Feeling The Injustice!!

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MIDDLE EAST – Israel’s latest atrocity against the Palestinians!
900 Palestinians Dead (3,500 Injured) : 13 Israelis Dead
(as at 13 January 2009)

? Martin Eden

* “… no virtue which has its roots in fear is much to be admired.” ~Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, & philosopher(1872-1970)

* ?Intolerance is evidence of impotence.? ~ Aleister Crowley, English poet, author, philosopher (1875-1947)

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Climate Change 001

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Jan 102009
 

Current mood:? anxious

Climate Change 001

When I was a boy in Primary School, some 45 years ago, I remember going to school in sweltering heat and being allowed to sleep at my desk due to the heat in an un-airconditioned classroom. I remember desperately hanging out for the long Xmas holidays to begin around mid-December, and enduring those first couple of? onerous weeks of December with the feeling that they would never end.

Today I am witnessing one of the mildest summers Melbourne, Australia, has ever had.? In fact it is high/mid summer (i.e. mid-January, here in the Southern Hemisphere) and I had to put on my jumper and zip it up around my neck to keep warm against the cold wind on a walk yesterday afternoon.? Moreover, for the past couple of nights I had to put the heater on in the evening while watching TV.

Yet our Government, elected on a promise to address Climate Change with urgency, dallies, under pressure from big business/polluters, in formulating policies and sanctions against polluters while bailing out these same ‘laissez-faire advocating’ big businesses/polluters from their latest gross ‘ Masserati driving’ mismanagement!

? Martin Eden

Not Quite The News 001

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Jan 102009
 

Current mood:? amused

Not Quite The News 001

HEADLINE
Beckhams give fortune away to help overthrow Zimbabwean Tyrant Mugabe.

BREAKING NEWS
Speculation mounts that former Australian Prime Minister, the right regressive John W[War] Howard, is to honour outgoing American President, the right digressed George W[War] Bush, with a Medal for services, above and beyond the call of duty, to the American Oil Industry and the American Offence Industry (owners, developers and producers of the greatest arsenal of Weapons of Mass Destruction the world has ever seen).

? Martin Eden

The World In Ratios 007

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Jan 092009
 

Current mood:WTF!!??!!

AUSTRALIA
(Former Australian Prime Minister, the right regressive) John Howard’s American ‘Human Rights’ Medal : Detention Centres and very long term detention for Refugees; Failure to protect the Legal Rights of Australian Citizens abroad, in particular an Australian held in Guantanemo Bay (electioneeringly brought back to Australia on the proviso of silence just before an election); Military Intervention and suspension of Land Rights as a way of dealing with Aboriginal affairs!

MIDDLE EAST
(Nazi) Holocaust creates Israel : Israel creates Holocaust (against the Palestinians) replete with ‘Berlin Wall’

? Martin Eden

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