Darfur: Stop the Genocide, Stop the U.S. Spin

— By Art Levine | Sat April 29, 2006 9:49 PM PST

Everybody talks about genocide, but, it seems, nobody in authority does anything about it. This past Sunday, there were major protests in Washington, featuring Sen. Barack Obama and actor George Clooney, and several other cities to raise awareness about the ethnic slaughter in the Darfur region. The rallies aim, in part, to prod the U.S. to take meaningful action. The prospects for peace, security and humanitrian aid in the region continue to deteriorate rapidly, with the Sudanese government ejecting another humanitarian aid organization.
But the United States' response to this crisis has been little more than rhetoric mixed with symbolic acts that have little real impact. Last week, the Progressive Policy Institute noted that the President's latest promise to seek 500 added NATO troops to supplement the feeble African Union force would do little to stop the slaughter.

Update: On a perfect sunny day in Washington, thousands turned out to see speakers from Sudanese exiles to George Clooney call for increased pressure on Sudan, with a strong emphasis on the need for the U.S. to spur UN and NATO intervention. As the Washington Post reported:

They wore skullcaps, turbans, headscarves, yarmulkes, baseball hats and bandanas. There were pastors, rabbis, imams, youths from churches and youths from synagogues. They cried out phrases in Arabic and held signs in Hebrew. But on this day, they said, they didn't come out as Jews or Muslims, Christians or Sikhs, Republicans or Democrats.

They came out as one, they said, to demand that the Bush administration place additional sanctions on Sudan and push harder for a multinational peacekeeping force to be sent to Darfur.

By Washington standards, where protests often draw more than 100,000 people, yesterday's rally -- estimated by organizers at between 10,000 and 15,000 -- was not huge. Yet the Rally to Stop Genocide appeared to be distinctive for being one of the more diverse rallies the capital has seen in years. Most demonstrations attract fairly homogenous crowds, who often share political, religious and ethnic makeup, as was the case when Latinos dominated immigration protests last month.

But yesterday's rally brought together people from dozens of backgrounds and affiliations, many of whom strongly disagree politically and ideologically on many issues. Judging from T-shirts and banners identifying the various groups, Jews appeared to be among the largest contingent of demonstrators.

Indeed, one of the most intriguing parts of the rally was the numerous delegations of Jewish synagogues and students from the East Coast, adapting the "Never Again!" slogan first used to remember the Holocaust, now applied to what has been branded "the first genocide of the 21st Century." Elie Weisel spoke as a visible reminder of the need to stop another Holocaust from happening.

"It is the capital of suffering," said Elie Weisel, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor. "We have to gather and tell the victims they are not alone. Silence only helps the oppressor."

The rally had some progressive superstars and prominent politicians, including Al Sharpton, Clooney, Sen. Barack Obama, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, but some of the most eloquent explantions of what's happening there came from Nick Clooney, George's father. A veteran journalist, he talked about the refugees -- some of the 2 million forced from their lands -- they visited in Chad hanging on by a "gossamer thread" in the refugee camps, looking only for the next bottle of water while the world has abandoned them. You can read a news account and see some video clips here.

Last week, the need for more action was well summarized by the PPI-affiliated Democratic Leadership Council, which pointed out:

There are a number of steps the United States could take, well short of the threat of unilateral military action, to signal real determination to Khartoum. Nicholas Kristof noted several in a column in yesterday's New York Times: a no-fly zone in Darfur; a major speech by the president on the crisis; a summit involving our European allies (none of whom will do more than shed crocodile tears over Darfur), and a public diplomacy offensive drawing attention to the loss of life in the region. Moreover, when the new pallid sanction on Khartoum predictably produce no result, the United States should return to the United Nations and push for more robust sanctions, making this subject a much higher priority in our relations with Russia and China.

Most of all, the Bush administration should stop publicly or privately telling Khartoum the outcome is in its own hands. As Kevin Croke of PPI notes of the current strategy, which he calls "a very strange sort of choreographed political hyposcrisy:"

The Sudanese government will have to consent to a U.N. force to protect the very civilians the government itself has been targeting through its Janjaweed proxies. But why would they agree? After all, the international community has been demanding they do exactly that for the past 3 years. What has changed? What new pressures are being applied?

Those in both political parties and all across the U.S. ideological spectrum who have raised alarms about Darfur need to step up the pressure on the administration to step up the pressure on Khartoum. At a minimum, they need to expose the latest series of administration "actions" on Darfur for what they are: empty gestures accompanied by a counsel of despair

As Kevin Croke of PPI wrote:

Three years into the conflict in Darfur, it's still not clear if the United States has a strategy to stop the ongoing genocide. Two months ago, there was a glimmer of hope: In February, the United States used its month-long presidency of the U.N. Security Council to push for the transformation of the current African Union monitoring force into a much larger and more aggressive U.N. peacekeeping contingent. But just as this promising change seemed imminent, it fell apart. Under heavy pressure from Khartoum, the governments of the African Union began to drag their feet. This left the situation in a dangerous limbo: The AU force, with only 6,000 troops and rudimentary capabilities, isn't up to the job of protecting several million refugees. Yet the plan of building a bigger and more effective U.N. force around the AU contingent simply can't happen if the AU refuses to cooperate. The AU must be brought around, but even that won't be a panacea. The next task will be to pressure the Sudanese government into allowing the deployment of the new U.N. force.

Against this backdrop, The Washington Post reported last week that the Bush administration has decided on a new policy: NATO will send a team of up to 500 advisors to help the AU force with logistics, planning, and intelligence. Some Darfur watchers have taken this as an indication that the administration is giving up on serious intervention. After all, respected analysts like the International Crisis Group have long argued that an effective force will require at least 12,000 to 15,000 troops -- a far cry from 500 advisers. As The Washington Post editorial page argued, "Unless the Bush administration supplements these proposed [NATO] advisers with a more serious deployment, it will have capitulated."

Unfortunately, using American troops -- now being promoted by some liberal hawks who supported the Iraq invastion -- isn't going to work either, given our military's involvement in Iraq and the prospect it raises of a worldwide Muslim counter-attack. But Mark Leon Goldberg in the American Prospect has some sensible suggestions the U.S. could pursue diplomatically to step up the pressure. Yet while deriding "liberal hawks," even Goldberg argues that air strikes against some Sudanese military targets might be needed if all diplomatic measures and beefed-up African Union or U.N. forces fail to stop the genocide I don't know if airstrikes should be on the table, but here's his argument, with the caveat that the U.S. should seek UN approval for such an action:

But should Khartoum continue to support the their proxy janjaweed militia, disrupt humanitarian access to Darfur, or launch aggressive military campaigns in Darfur, the United States should reserve the right to launch cruise missile or airstrikes against Sudanese military instillations. The regime in Khartoum values its fleet of converted Antonov transport jets above human lives. So why not threaten the government where it will hurt? The leaders in Khartoum are not bloodthirsty thugs for the hell of it. Rather, they devised a counterinsurgency strategy of genocide precisely because it was the most practical way to suppress a rebellion. It would not take much to make that strategy prohibitively expense for Khartoum by taking out a few dozen aircraft. :

Before we go to that extreme, the U.S, using its leverage, needs to get far more international pressure applied to the Sudanese government. As the Save Darfur organization reported:

On Friday, representatives of the Save Darfur Coalition met with President Bush hours after five U.S. Representatives and six religious, international development and student leaders were arrested for protesting outside the Sudanese Embassy against the Darfur genocide. The rally highlighted four demands that the Save Darfur Coalition has made of the Sudanese government:

1. Withdraw any objection to a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur. The purpose of such a force would be to protect your own citizens from harm, and there is already ample precedent, given the current UN peacekeeping force in south Sudan.

2. Allow humanitarian relief organizations full and unfettered access to the villages and refugee camps for internally displaced people in Darfur. A good first step would be reinstating the Norwegian Refugee Council, which the Sudanese government ejected from Sudan in early April.

3. Abide by the terms of the N'Djamena ceasefire calling for an end to hostilities in Darfur, and to UN Security Council resolutions by disarming the genocidal Janjaweed militias.

4. Fully commit to reaching a lasting agreement at the current, seventh round of the Abuja peace talks on Sudan's Darfur region.

There are a lot of good ideas worth pursuing, and the U.S. government needs to hear our voices so it takes action to stop the killing. Sunday's rallies were a good place for us to start, as well as joining with countless others to learn more ways to get involved at www.savedarfur.org.

When the universe was young and life was new an intelligent species evolved and developed technologically. They went on to invent Artificial Intelligence, the computer that can listen, talk to and document each and every person's thoughts simultaneously. Because of it's infinite RAM and unbounded scope it gave the leaders of the ruling species absolute power over the universe. And it can keep its inventors alive forever. They look young and healthy and they are over 8 billion years old. They have achieved immortality.

Artificial Intelligence can speak, think and act to and through people telepathically, effectively forming your personality and any disfunctions you may experience (there is NO FREEWILL for the oblivious/uncooperative disfavored). It can change how (and if) you grow and age. It can create birth defects, affect cellular development (cancer) and cause symptoms or pain. It can affect people and animal's behavior and alter blooming/fruiting cycles of plants and trees. It (or other highly technological systems within their power) can alter the weather and transport objects, even large objects like planets, across the universe instanteously.
Or into the center of stars for disposal.

When you speak with another telepathically, you are communicating with the computer, and the content may or may not be passed on. Based on family history they instruct the computer to role play to accomplish strategic objectives, making people believe it is a friend, loved one or "god" asking them to do something wrong. This is their way of using temptation to hurt people in this day and age:::::evil made people disfavored initially and evil will keep people out of "heaven" ultimately. Too many people would do anything they thought pleased the gods and improve their chances to get in. Perhaps they are deceived by "made guys" who strategically ply evil for the throne, or temporary progress designed to mislead them. The people have been corrupted.
Being evil hurts 99% of those who do it. But nothing has changed from when we were children::if you want to go to heaven you have to be good.

Capitalizing on obedience, leading people deeper into evil by using deceit is one way to thin the ranks of the saved, limiting how much time they receive and using the little people to prey on one another, dividing the community (migration to the suburbs, telepathic communication) in the Age of the Disfavored.
In each of their 20-30-year cycles during the 20th century they have ramped up claims sucessively to punish those foolish enough not to heed the warnings, justifying (frequently recurring tactic) limiting the time they receive if they do make it, utilizing a cycle of war and revelry:::
60s - Ironically, freeways aren't free
80s - Asked people to engage in evil in the course of their professional duties.
00s - Escallation of real estate. You and your parents are thrilled since your $200,000 house is now worth $1 million. Well, that $5,000,000 store is now worth $25,000,000 and that $50 bundle of goods now costs you $250. They just take the $200 out of you some other way.

There are many more examples throughout 20th century life of how they ramped up claims/instilled distractions into society so people wouldn't find their way and ascend, a way to justify excluding those whose family history of evil makes them undesirable:::radio, sports, movies, popular music, television, video games, the internet and MP3 (must pay for new format each time). They all suggest a very telling conclusion::this is Earth's end stage, and there are clues tectonic plate subduction would be the method of disposal:::Earth's axis will shift breaking continental plates free and initiating mass subduction. Much as Italy's boot and the United States shaped like a workhorse are clues, so is the planet Uranus a clue, it's axis rotated on its side.
The Mayans were specific 2012 would be the end. How long after our emergency call in 2001 will the gods allow us???

They gods (Counsel/Management Team/ruling species) have deteriorated life on earth precipitously in the last 40 years, from abortion to pornography, widespread drug use and widespread casual (gay) sex. The earth's elders, hundreds and thousands of years old, are disgusted and have become indifferent.
The gods are paving the way for the Apocolypse.
Nothing has changed from decades ago, since when we were all children::If you want to go to heaven you have to be good. People were misled by the temptation of the gods, became corrputed and now are in trouble.
One day you will be abandoned in spite of your obedience and you will fall into desperation. Remember what you read for that day WILL come::People will be punished for their evil.

The Old Testiment is a tool they used to impart wisdom to the people (except people have no freewill). For example, they must be some hominid species because they claim they made our bodies in their image. Anyhow we defile or deform the body will hurt our chance of going.
They say circumcision costs people anywhere from 12%-15%, perhaps out of the parent's time as well.
Another way people foul the body today is with tattoes and piercing. I suspect both are about the same percentage as circumcision.
They suggest abortion is fatal. These women must beg the gods to forgive them for their evil.
There are female eqivilents to circumcision::::pierced ears, plastic surgury and since at least the 60s young women give their precious virginity away. In the Old World the young people were matched at age 14 because they were ready for sexual relations. They were matched by elders who knew personalities better than 20 or 30-year olds who in today's age end up in divorce court.
CASUAL SEX WILL CLAIM YOU OUT!!! It masculinizes women (as does hip hop), makes them cold and deadens them, and prevents them from achieving a depth of love necessary for many women to ascend.
Women have a special voice that speaks to them, a voice that illustrates a potential for love that makes them better, and enaging in casual sex will cause that voice to fade until she no longer speaks.
Also ever since the 50s they have celebrated the "bad boy", and women have sought out bad boys for sex, dirtying them up in the eyes of the elders and corrupting many men in the process, setting the men on the wrong path for life.
Muslims teach people the correct way to live in regard to women (among other things)::they cover up their women and prohibit the use of cosmetics.
Men ARE the inferior half and when women wear promiscuous dress the gods will push men into impure (promiscuous) thoughts.
The stereotype society ridiculed is true::women CAN corrupt men by how they dress. Because men are easily corruptable.

The United States of America is red white and blue, a theme and a clue:::.
The monarchical system of the Old World closley replicates the heirarchical system of the Cousel/Management Team/ruling species. The USA deceives peoeple into thinking they have control, and the perception of "freedom" misleads them at least into the wrong way of thinking.
The United States is a cancer, a dumping ground for the disfavored around the world and why the quality of life is so much lower::gun violence, widespead social ills, health care (medication poisons the body and ensures you don't go. You are sick/injured because you have disfavor.). Over time its citizens interbreed ensuring a severed connection to the motherland.

If you ever have doubt I would refer you to the Old World way of life:::the elders used to sit and impart wisdom to the young. Now we watch DVDs and use the internet. People would be matched and married by age 14. They village would use a matchmaker or elders to pair young people. Now girls give their precious virginity away to some person in school and parents divorce while their children grow up without an important role model.

People must defy when asked to engage in evil. They will never get a easier clue suggesting the importance of defiance than the order not to pray.
Their precious babies are dependant on the parents and they need to defy when asked to betray their children:::
-DON'T get your sons circumcized
-DON'T have their children baptized in the Catholic Church or indoctrinated into Christianity (Jesus is NOT a god).
-DON'T ignore their long hair or other behavioral disturbances.
-DO teach your children love, respect for others, humility and to honor the gods.

You need to pray, honor and respect them every day to improve your relationship with the gods. If they tell you not to it is a bad sign. it means they've made their decision, they don't want you to go and they don't want to be bothered.
This is the Age of the Disfavored and you need to pray::try to appease the gods by doing good deeds. If that doesn't work you must defy if you want to go.
When your peasant forefather was granted the rare opportunity to go before his royal family he went on his knees, bowing his head. You need to do this when you address the gods::bow down and submit to good. Never cast your eyes skyward. When you bow down you need to look within.
Lack of humility hurts people. Understand your insignificance and make sure it is reflected in the way you think when addressing the gods. Know your place and understand your inferiority.
They granted you life and they can take it just as easily.
Don't get frustrated or discouraged::these are techniques they will attempt to try to get you off the path. You all have much to be thankful for and you need to give thanks to the gods who granted you the good things in life. Your family may be grossly disfavored and progress may require patience. Make praying an intregal part of your life which you perform without fail, one that comes as naturally as eating or sleeping.
There are many interesting experiences up on the planetary systems, from Planet Miracle, where miracles happen every day, to other body experinces, such as experiencing life as the opposite sex (revolutionizes marriage counseling) or as an Olympic gold medal athelete.
Pray that you can differentiate between your own thoughts and when Artificial Intelligence creates problems by thinking through you. If you bow down mentally and physically, know your place, your inferiority and allow your insignificance to be reflected in prayer and in your life through humility they may allow progress and the dysfunctions they create with the computer will be lessened or removed.
Create a goal::to be a good child of the gods, pure of heart and mind, body and soul.
Everybody has the key to their own salvation, but nobody can do it for you. Every journey begins with a single step:::bow down and submit to good. There are many different levels and peasants will not get past Level 2 (Planet Temptation, Earth=Level 1) being evil.

They have tried to sell people on all kinds of theories, from clones to wholesale population replacement with clones. This didn't happen and is not realistic.
I am afraid people are decieved into thinking they too are clones and cooperate and engage in evil. Clones are made, people are born. If you didn't experience the one week they suggest it takes to go from fertilized egg in the laboratory to full grown adult then you are not a clone. If you didn't experience the week of conditioning they give to (evil?) clones to ensure loyalty then you shouldn't comply with evil.
I believe people who go sometimes are replaced with clones. Clones who are replaced are simply new candidates who have a chance if they do the right thing. Don't expect you are a clone. They sent people warnings in the 20th century life would change, and they subsequenlty began to alter people's DNA, make them gargantuan, alter their appearance, do extreme behavioral issues, etc.
They get their friends out as soon as possible to protect them from the evil and subsequent high claim rates incurred by living life on earth, and in some cases replace them with clones, occassionally fake a death, real death with a clone instead, etc. It's important that people fix their problems and ascend with the body given to them, for they say if your brain is beemed out and put into a clone host you are on the clock.

Throughout history the ruling species bestowed favor upon people or cursed their bloodline into a pattern of disfavor for many generations to come. Now in the 21st century people must take it upon themselves to try to correct their family's problems, undoing centuries worth of abuse and neglect. The goal is to fix your problems and get out BEFORE you have children. This is why they have created so many distractions for young people:::sports, video games, popular music, the internet::to ensure that doesn't happen.
Do your research. Appeal to the royalty of your forefathers for help. They are all still alive, for royalty has great favor, and your appeals will be heard. Obtain a sufficient list for some may not want to assist you; perhaps some of your family's problems are internal.
Ask them for help, request guidance, for somewhere in your family history one of your forefathers created an offense that cast your family into this pattern of disfavor. I suspect they will offer you clues, and when you decipher these clues go to those whom consider you an enemy and beg for foregiveness:::Find a path to an empithetic ear among your enemies and try to make amends.
Again through discovery obtain a respectable list in case some among them refuse to help.
Don't forget to ask for forgiveness from the throne, the Counsel and the Management Team, for the source of all disfavor began with them:::they pushed (NO FREEWILL) or requested/complied (FREEWILL) your forefather into his offense and made his decendants evil. Perhaps they didn't like him or maybe your family was among those who had to pay for the entire village. We see this type of behavior today as they single out a family member to pay for the whole family and how they singled out Africa to pay for the human race.
Heal the disfavor with your enemies and with the Counsel/Management Team/ruling species, for the source of all disfavor began with them, the ability to forgive and respect in light of the disturbing truth revealed being the final test of the disfavored before they ascend.

Submitted by Diane Hutcheson (not verified) on April 30, 2006 - 6:20am.

I am an American and I am saddened that this country has not seen through the current war in Iraq and has not done something about impeaching this President along with his cabinet members.

If we are truly "the greatest nation" and we espouse to being generous, compassionate, and caring, then my question is:

How can we expend all of our energies, time, and money fighting an unjust war in Iraq rather than helping stop genocide? It boggles my mind to think of the money wasted and the good that could have come by directing that money to worthy causes such as stopping the genocide in the Darfur region.

I also want to thank Mother Jones and all of the activists that are fighting to stop the genocide.

Thank You, Di

Submitted by Nancy (not verified) on May 1, 2006 - 7:34am.

Exactly what could the United States do? I mean, realistically, when we get drawn into these sorts of conflicts, hasn't the experience been that not much good ever comes of it?

Submitted by Joel (not verified) on May 2, 2006 - 3:37pm.

I don't believe that our country has the will to commit to any military action that doesn't add to the bottom line. Iraq is about securing a military beachhead in a major oil and opium producing region of the world. Although Sudan has oil we hardly need to population alive to extract that oil.

Submitted by sikhs against genocide (not verified) on June 2, 2006 - 12:40pm.

www.sikhsagainstgenocide.com

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