The US Pulls a Saddam 1991: Secretly Uses Saudis to Invade Oil Rich Bahrain
Saturday, April 23, 2011
While the US continues to use a so called, ''Humanitarian Mission,'' as a guise to gain access to Libya's rich oil reserves. The hypocrisy could not be clearer. The US's ally, the small, but oil rich Gulf state of Bahrain has been massacring its own citizens, just as Ghadaffi did with little remorse in Libya. The only difference is that as the regime in Bahrain's control became more and more precarious, the US secretly greenlighted or may have called for the help of the Saudi Royal Dictatorship to invade Bahrain in order to keep the Bahraini regime in power, to secure the oil, and to keep the money flowing to American companies,and to protect the US fifth fleet stationed in the small oil rich country. Does this seem all a little too familiar? If so its, because its precisely what happened with Saddam over Kuwait in 1991, only this time the belligerant oil grubbers are the US and their close allies the House of Saud.
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Canada's Corporate Mafia Undemocratically Ban The Canadian Green Party from Debates
Sunday, April 3, 2011
If this ıs allowed to happen, unlike their last attempt at hijackıng democracy, any idea of Real Canadian Democracy will be set back half a century. This cannot be allowed to happen.
Update: The Canadian Greens are now taking the anti-democratic mafia to court.
UPDATE: Elizabeth May is Elected as the First Green Seat in Canadian Federal Parliament.
Democracy Wins: And the Corporate Mafia Loses.
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UPDATE: Elizabeth May is Elected as the First Green Seat in Canadian Federal Parliament.
Democracy Wins: And the Corporate Mafia Loses.
Coming To An End....
Friday, March 18, 2011
Broken Hallelujah will not be renewing it's domain name when it becomes due in June 2011.
Before Facebook and Twitter and the others, blogs were the main way of connecting with folks around the world online. But now it's so much easier for me to use social media.
Easy Bake Coven will probably always be online. It was my first born (2001) and it's still a part of me. It began with my daughter at 14 years old and my sister still living and battling cancer. It was fueled by making new friends online as we felt our way together through the darkness of the newborn Blogosphere.
It was soon after September 11, 2001, and we were fragile. The whole world was. We yearned for safety and comfort. We learned enough to hunt and peck our way through HTML and found others who were hurting but hopeful together.
We collectively comforted one another through rumors of war and realities of war. No matter the politics. No matter the religion. We blogged. And blogged.
We healed and laughed and loved and documented every (sometimes nauseating) detail. That was the inception of Easy Bake Coven and I could no easier throw it away than cut off my arm but I digress.
Broken Hallelujah has had a decent run but it's over. xoxo
Watching Protesters Risk It All
Monday, February 21, 2011
As democracy protests spread across the Middle East, we as journalists struggle to convey the sights and sounds, the religion and politics. But there’s one central element that we can’t even begin to capture: the raw courage of men and women — some of them just teenagers — who risk torture, beatings and even death because they want freedoms that we take for granted.
Here in Bahrain on Saturday, I felt almost physically ill as I watched a column of pro-democracy marchers approach the Pearl Roundabout, the spiritual center of their movement. One day earlier, troops had opened fire on marchers there, with live ammunition and without any warning. So I flinched and braced myself to watch them die.
Yet, astonishingly, they didn’t. The royal family called off the use of lethal force, perhaps because of American pressure. The police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, but the protesters marched on anyway, and the police fled.
The protesters fell on the ground of the roundabout and kissed the soil. They embraced each other. They screamed. They danced. Some wept.
"We are calling it ‘Martyrs’ Roundabout’ now," Layla, a 19-year-old university student, told me in that moment of stunned excitement. "One way or another, freedom has to come," she said. "It’s not something given by anybody. It’s a right of the people.”
Courage is indeed the story. Thank you, Nick for always being the first to report the under reported stories until they can no longer be ignored.
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