IF WE ARE NEITHER AFRICANS NOR INDIANS THEN WHO ARE WE?

WHO THE HELL ARE WE…?

Honest, amusing thoughts; let us be Moros and call the others Indios. Both were alien anyway, but between the two, I’d prefer to be a Moro. The Spaniards had a unique, if not humorous, way of referring to their conquered people. Those they conquered easily, as meek as a sheep on the way to the slaughterhouse; they call stupid ‘Indios.’ Filipinos are not the first Indios, by the way, in fact, I think the root word is derived from the word “Indians” of South/Latin America. Before the marauding sailors of Europe stumbled upon what was later to become the Philippine Archipelago, Europeans were already slaughtering the “Indios” of North and South America (New World). Except for Portuguese Brazil, South America continues to speak Spanish; in fact, had the United States not acquired the Philippines from Spain, we would still be speaking Spanish, not English, to this day. We were once called “Ectopic Latin Americans.” Manila and Mexico City were sister cities of the Spanish (Iberian) Empire.

Those who fought the Spanish Empire tooth and nail, such as the Muslims of North Africa (the Moors of Morocco/Mauritania), were called Moors, a term later shortened by Filipino Indios to Moros.

Since we are neither “Indios” (not Indians) of North and South America nor Moors (not Africans) of North Africa, then what the hell are we? We are not even Filipinos (not Spanish) from the root word “Prince Philip” of Spain.

It is about time to not rediscover but discover our true identity and discard the barbarian skin that Filipino Indios (not Moros) so proudly display like a priceless heirloom.

An afterthought: 

…that the Spaniards should call us Moros and Indios is weird if not outright stupidly ignorant considering that we have absolutely no physical resemblance to neither the black Africans nor the Indians of the American continents but hey; Christopher Columbus is probably the greatest ignorant ass-hole in all of history calling the natives of the American continents Indians meaning he had not the slightest idea of India and its people that he was looking for. The difference is so vast apart; only a certified moron will make the mistake he did, and for later historians to continue to adhere to an obvious misnomer boggles the mind. We know, for instance, that six of the supposed 19 who allegedly carried out 9/11 are alive and well; the story has never changed. We would rather stick to tradition rather than see the light of truth. It’s insane.

Google Dictionary:

Indios plural

1.     A member of any of the indigenous peoples of America or eastern Asia in areas formerly subject to Spain or Portugal

NLK

PARADISE LOST: Nancy and the Maranaw Children (photo exhibit)

PARADISE LOST: Nancy and the Maranaw Children (photo exhibit)

PHOTO EXHIBIT -1960-1970

Some fifty years ago and beyond, Lanao was a haven of peace. Life was good and simple then, when the lyrics of songs and the mountains came alive (remember The Sound of Music?), and poets wrote tributes in rhyme to peace, beauty, love, and friendship. It was a time when one could bask in the moonlight until the wee hours of the morning without fear of being molested, not even by a ghost. It was the calm before the storm…

Unsurprisingly, Nancy fell in love with what used to be Paradise Lost in the mist of time. I remember seeing Nancy for the first time in 1964. She came to deliver a one-time lecture to our 6th-grade class at Marawi Pilot Elementary School. I saw her again a few months later at MSU Preparatory High School orientation classes for incoming freshmen. She later became our English teacher and adviser. We became real friends; I mean, really close, like an adopted family that now spans half a century. She met every member of my clan, and my family treated her like no stranger.

We trekked the mountains, walked the streams, and paddled across lakes and rivers. We slept on dirty floors and hiked long distances for sheer adventure. She took me and the two other kids to Tawi-Tawi, Sulu, for a month-long vacation while she and other Peace Corps volunteers conducted seminars for teachers in Tawi-Tawi. She bought us a small boat (canoe-like) that we paddled around the water channel between Bongao and Sanga-sanga. Unfortunately, it was stolen barely a week after we bought it.

She volunteered twice in the US Peace Corps, and when she could no longer stay in the Organization, she applied to teach at Dansalan College, where she remained for several more years. As soon as she left in 1970, if I remember correctly, turbulent political storms hit the country that eventually led to the declaration of Martial Law in 1972. The Muslim provinces in southern Philippines were especially brutally hit. Christians in Marawi City had to run for their lives, many of whom were not only my classmates; they were our neighbors and childhood friends. Life was never the same again.

When she came for a visit in February 2012, more than forty years after she left, we could not even bring her to ‘Tamparan’ across the lake, where she had lived for a few years as a teacher. When my cousins brought her to Dansalan College during the 3 days she stayed in Marawi for a visit, they had to provide surreptitiously armed escorts. They were scared to death that armed gangs would snatch her for ransom, which has become the order of the day in the land that used to be a “haven of tranquility.”

She and her company stayed with my brother at MSU for three days and then spent three days in Manila with my family. Although I have just returned to KSA after my leave, I just have to find a way to go back to Manila. It is one favor I have to do for myself. The three days she stayed were short, but they were enough to establish rapport with my family. I found it a real surprise that my children bonded with her like she was no stranger, although I have not really told my children the history of our past :-)

Thanks to today’s fantastic technology, one of the priceless mementos she kept was more than 800 slides she took during those years, which recorded in living color Lanao, the truly lost paradise. She had all the slides digitized and recorded on a CD/DVD that she gave to us during her visit. We have this family group on Facebook where we post pictures of our parents. The one missing was a photo of our grandmother that no one seems to have kept. Surprisingly, Nancy had taken two pictures of her :-)

Disclaimer: If you are in these photos and do not like your image to appear in them, please drop a comment, and I will remove it. Some of those in these photos are no longer with us. If you have a relative who passed away and does not like his/her photo to be in it, please drop a note, likewise, and I will remove it.

NLK

https://www.amazon.com/Nosca-Khalid/e/B01NA7APYQ

Wow! What’s this on Mars: a nut/seed or a critter?

Wow! What is this…? Either 1) a “nut” (fruit), 2) a seed, or 3) an insect, but I will go for a fruit of some kind. The broken edge resembles the appearance and texture of a nut or a seed. Since there are no visible plants in the near vicinity of Curiosity’s landing site, it must have been carried by flowing water. This is a tiny scoop, and if you imagine the size of planet Mars, you get the staggering, huge picture. It is like your big toe stepping on a peanut on planet Earth, meaning the planet is swarming with life.

The sand and gravel are not dry; they appear damp and moist.

Mars Rover Curiosity Swallows 1st Soil Sample | Space.com:

Yum! Curiosity Rover Swallows 1st Mars Sample, Finds Odd Bright Stuff

by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer

Date: 18 October 2012 Time: 03:06 PM ET

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has swallowed its first tiny bite of Martian soil, after standing down for a spell while scientists checked out some strange bright bits in the dirt.

SNIP

Work at Rocknest slowed after Curiosity dug its second scoop on Oct. 12, when researchers noticedoddly bright flecks at the bottom of the hole. The team dumped the scoop out, worried that it might contain debris that had flaked off Curiosity.

They already knew that some tiny rover pieces are littering the Martian ground, after spotting a bright shred of what appears to be plastic on Oct. 7. Team members have since identified five or six other such bits, which may have fallen off Curiosity's sky-crane descent stage during landing on Aug. 5.

"We went super-paranoid," Grotzinger told reporters today. The team determined that "if this stuff is man-made, we better make sure that we're not taking any of it in."

So Curiosity moved to a slightly different location, and then took lots of pictures to make sure that the surface was pristine before making scoop number three. If any bright flecks are indeed present in the sample, they're naturally occurring, the mission team reasons, since any rover pieces would be restricted to the surface.

All that being said, Curiosity scientists now believe the bright soil flecks are indeed indigenous to Mars. They could be minerals that are part of the soil-forming process, Grotzinger said, or reflective surfaces created by the cleaving of ordinary dirt.

The team aims to fire its mineral-identifying laser, which is part of Curiosity's ChemCam instrument, at some of the pieces in the next few days to get a better idea of what they actually are.

Please read full article:

http://www.space.com/18122-mars-rover-curiosity-swallows-soil-sample.html

'via Blog this'

9/11 mastermind delivers anti-US diatribe at Guantanamo...

This guy was tortured and water boarded 183 times for several years under the CIA because the government cannot risk putting him on trial unless he admitted all the crimes that the government attributes to him, meaning he is the fall guy that will save the USA from all the lies of 9/11. The (military) judge will put the accused on trial only on one condition: their lawyers will not mention anything that has to do with their torture, meaning their torture never happened as far as the military judge is concerned. He allegedly admitted (under torture, of course) that he was the mastermind not only of 9/11 but of the first attempt to bring down the twin towers in 1993, where 6 people died. He also allegedly admitted to having beheaded Daniel Pearl, the American journalist, in 2002

I think he would have admitted if they had asked him if he was the guy crawling at the knoll that fired the fatal shot that killed JFK. It would have solved the JFK assassination and all the unsolved murder mysteries of the world, including the “Jack the Ripper.” Maybe he was Jack the Ripper in another place in time :-)

9/11 mastermind delivers anti-US diatribe at Guantanamo - Yahoo! News Maktoob:

9/11 mastermind delivers anti-US diatribe at Guantanamo

By Chantal Valery 

Wearing a military-style vest, self-declared 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed delivered a scathing anti-American diatribe at a military tribunal in what the judge called a "one-time occurrence."

The US president "can legislate assassinations under the name of national security for American citizens," the Kuwaiti-born Pakistani said during the third day of a pre-trial hearing at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

SNIP

Sheikh Mohammed was detained in a secret CIA prison from 2002 to 2006, and the government has acknowledged that he was subjected to waterboarding 183 times.

"Every dictator can choose" his definition of national security, he said.

"With this definition, many can invade the rule and go against it, many can kill people under the name of national security, many can torture people under the name of national security and detain children under the name of national security, under-aged children."

 Please read full article:

http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/9-11-mastermind-delivers-anti-us-diatribe-guantanamo-022352181.html

'via Blog this'

Iraq Buys Russian Weapons | Veterans Today

USA must stop dreaming, or to rephrase it better, USA must stop lying to the American people: USA won the Iraq war for Iran; another paradox in our time. The USA actually had enough time to rethink its policies in Iraq from 1991 (Gulf War I) to 2003 (full invasion). I found it mindboggling bizarre how in that length of time, nobody advised the neo-con evil geniuses that removing Saddam would put in power the majority Shiite (Shi’a) that will be pro-Iran come-what-may. The USA can expect, whether they like it or not, that these new weapons Iraq is buying from Russia can end up in Iran should there be a war with Iran.

Iraq Buys Russian Weapons | Veterans Today:

Iraq Buys Russian Weapons

$4.2 Billion Worth Just Before American Election

… by  Bob Nichols

(San Francisco) The Premier of Iraq journeyed many miles to the United States’s enemy, Russia, to sign on the dotted line for Russian weapons worth US$4.2 Billion Dollars, the Russian news agency RIA NOVOSTI released October 9, 2012 in Moscow.

RIA Novosti reports “MOSCOW, October 9 – Russia will deliver attack helicopters and mobile air-defense systems to Iraq in arms deals worth $4.2 billion signed earlier this year, it was disclosed today during a visit to Moscow by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in which he met his counterpart Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.”

Full article:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/14/iraq-buys-russian-weapons/

'via Blog this'

USA's unconditional support to Israel's "PREVENTIVE WAR" vs IRAN

Huh, warmongers through a complicit media are twisting Americans’ intelligence and sense of focus. The beast Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is being rephrased by its war dogs in the USA senate as “PREVENTIVE” war. A law is being prepared by Israel’s war dogs in the US Senate that will declare the USA’s unconditional support for Bibi/infantile Netanyahu should he decide whimsically that it’s time to go to “preventive war” versus Iran. When does going to war become “war prevention” but hey, “war is peace” has always been a US politician’s paradoxical logic to justify their war adventures.  The only way to prevent war is by not going to war; that's a simple solution. You don’t avoid crushing to your death by jumping from the top of the Empire State Building!

New Senate Push to Pledge Unconditional Support for Israeli "Preventive" War on Iran : ICH:

New Senate Push to Pledge Unconditional Support for Israeli "Preventive" War on Iran 

By Jamal Abdi 

October 13, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - -  Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is planning to press the Senate next month to pledge U.S. troops, money, and political support to Israel should Bibi Netanyahu launch a preventive war on Iran.

SNIP:

Graham's mendacity on Iran policy should by now be notorious. His most recent victory was to convince Congress to endorse Netanayhu's redline for war with Iran instead of the redline laid out by the president. The trick was that, in pushing that measure, Graham disingenuously claimed that Obama's redline was nuclear weapons "capability." And Congress bought it. In reality, the president very clearly rejected that redline and said the U.S redline was to prevent Iran from actually getting the bomb, not getting an amorphous "capability."

But Graham (and Bibi) won the battle on the Hill. Both the House and the Senate voted to endorse Netanyahu's redline, not Obama's. To be fair, many in the House and Senate who supported the resolution still have no idea that there is a difference. They read the talking points circulated by Graham and AIPAC (the measure's chief advocates), and to this day think they were simply voting to endorse what Obama had already said.

Please read full article:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32733.htm

'via Blog this'

ISLAM: ARMAGEDDON’S common denominator…

ISLAM: ARMAGEDDON’S common denominator…

It’s bizarre; it’s absurd… Has humankind become depleted of peacemakers, and is the Nobel committee forced to give Nobel Peace prizes to warmongering beasts in the active process of dragging the world to WARS OF ARMAGEDDON? Read the news; you get the feeling that the war of Armageddon is about to commence, and if you try to look back a little bit…you find yourself where it has all begun.

The war of Armageddon (Clash of Civilizations/West vs. Islam) is not about to begin; we are right in the Middle of it: the battle for Palestine (1947 to date), the Balkan war (1994-1999/slaughter of Muslims in Serbia), the Iran-Iraq War (1979-1988), USSR’s Invasion of Afghanistan (1979), the battle for Babylon [Iraq] (1991 to date is USA’s longest war not Afghanistan), USA’s 9/11, USA/NATO invasion of Afghanistan (2001 to date), USA/NATO re-invasion of Iraq (2003 to date/final battle for Babylon), the Arab spring (2010 to date), the USA/NATO bombing of Libya (2011 to date/murder of Khadafy), USA/KSA/Qatar war in Syria (2011 to date) and…the coming Israel/USA/NATO war with Iran :-(

Note: I didn’t mention Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Mali, Lebanon, India/Kashmir, or the breakup of the USSR, which gave birth to Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.

Mind-boggling Common denominator: ISLAM

PressTV - ‘Obama lurching toward nuclear war by threatening Iran’:

‘Obama lurching toward nuclear war by threatening Iran.’

Irresponsible leaders risk the unthinkable. Media scoundrels cheerlead mindlessly. So do neocon think tanks. Ordinary people are more concerned about mundane trivia than survival.

SNIP

World War II weapons were toys compared to today's. Before the war ended, tens of millions died. Estimates range from 50 - 70 million. No one knows for sure. Preventing war would have saved them. Hoped for never again became perpetual conflicts. 

Obama replicates hard-line neocon extremism. He did what supporters thought impossible. He surpassed the worst of Bush. Imagine what you'll do in a second term. He's risking the unthinkable. He's lurching toward potential nuclear war. He's mindless about likely consequences.

Only America has used nuclear weapons. It's not working to avoid potential catastrophe. It wants advantageous geopolitical positioning and dominance. Mutually assured destruction so far worked. Feel-safe days may be ending. 

SNIP

Netanyahu/Barak need one more on their side. How all cabinet members feel is necessary. Six want war. Another six don't, and two remain undecided. Decisions about this grave should be a no-brainer. Mindless officials risk possible Armageddon, Haaretz spelled out as follows: 

Though unlikely, if Israel goes it alone, Washington will be "furious. The price of oil soars. Thousands of missiles strike Tel Aviv, Haifa, Dimona and other Israeli cities. The economy collapses." 

"Hundreds are killed, thousands wounded. A mass flight of Israelis abroad. Tent cities. In this scenario, a senior figure in the ruling party said this week that Netanyahu will certainly lose the next election. Not even avowed Likudniks will vote Likud."

Does Netanyahu know the risks? "Of course," said a senior unnamed source. "He is not stupid." He just acts that way. "He sees the whole picture and all its parts." 

PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE by Stephen Lendman

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/08/25/258067/iran-war-prelude-to-nuclear-armageddon/

'via Blog this'