In solidarity

In the name of Earth Solidarity and a march towards Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity in Iran

I support in solidarity the IRI's Supreme Leader, Hazrat Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in helping the Syrian people and their government who are defending themselves against Islamic terrorists. I support him and the government of the IRI in caring to help Hezbollah in Lebanon and Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah whom I found speaking the truth and serving the Lebanese people. 

I support helping and encouraging the people in Irak and their government I support helping our Kurdish brothers and sisters and their leaders fighting ISIS,. 

And I support Ayatollah Khamenei in approving the recent nuclear deal and I congratulate President Rouhani and its Iranian negotiating team. 

I throw my support to the IRI Supreme Leader in his general and noble fight against Islamists and in keeping Iran and Iranians safe, particularly against the backward Taliban and Al Qaeda, the brutal criminal ISIS (Daesh) and their present backward Saudi Wahabi supporters who are bombing Yemenis and oppressing people in Bahrein.

Simultaneously, I support the Supreme Leader in condemning the foreign military presence and arms sales in the region. I notice that the Supreme Leader do not himself use the slogan of ''Death to'' used by some crowd. 

Iranians should ask for the evacuation of all foreign troops from the region and any region, and for a denuclearization and demilitarization of the region, and of the world.

I also support Foreign Minister Javad Zarif proposal of officially recognizing Israel on the ground that they make peace with Palestinians and with a Palestinian State.

Simultaneously, Iranians should unite and get together in solidarity to implement their sacred cultural principle of Good thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds into the present constitution in vigour. Iranians should ask for constitutional changes that would implement this principle and also all principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Iran was one of the first signatories. 

I wish to transform the Islamic Republic of Iran into a more inclusive Republic of Iran. 

I wish for a free, loving, happy, and prosperous Iran that would also sign a pact with all neighbouring countries to form, gradually, an Iranian - Turanian Union, on the model of the European Union.

I said.
August 1, year 70 of the New Era

US AIRPORT SECURITY FAILURE (95%) EXPOSED

AIRPORT SECURITY FAILS TO UNCOVER 95% OF GUNS, EXPLOSIVES

http://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find-widespread-security-failures/story?id=31434881

ABC News, June 1, 2015. An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, ABC News has learned.

The series of tests were conducted by Homeland Security Red Teams who pose as passengers, setting out to beat the system.

According to officials briefed on the results of a recent Homeland Security Inspector General’s report, TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints.

Solution to another big conflict: Israel, the Hebrew State

Is Judaism an ethnicity or a (political) religion?

The State of Israel's problem is its schizophrenic confusion when commonly called the Jewish State. Because  Jewish refers both to a religion (Judaism) and to an ethnicity (Jewish-hood).

You might call yourself Jewish by referring to your ancestry, even if you do not practice Judaism. Or, reciprocally, you might convert to Judaism - for whatever reason, without having any Jewish ancestor.

Solution is to stop calling Israel a Jewish State. To stop promoting either racism or religious bigotry. As a religion, Judaism should be enjoyed solely as a folklore, and not taken more seriously, not taken politically. It is too old and too weird to be promoted or even be politically acceptable in a civilized peace-loving post-modern society.

The Hebrew State is what we should call Israel in order to protect its people, most of them with Jewish ancestry but not bigots, to protect its singularity and its language-culture, positively. What is important is to preserve the language, not to take seriously that obsolete religious mythology, which instigates, encourages, and values conflicts and war.

In a TV program, Chanel 3, in mid May, Thursday (? date I failed to register), 10:30-11 am, the person talking was promoting the idea of Jerusalem belonging to the Jews, and only to the Jews, ignoring the fact that Christian and Muslims are also considering the city as sacred to them in their own religions perspective (Muslims call it Ghods). In support, he would give reference to the Torah: I Kings, 9:3:5, Joel, 3:3:2, and Zaccharia 3:12:1-2. Obviously, that doesn't help peace. The Program's name: The Prophetic Connection.

In the same program and discourse, the broadcaster ended in promoting the selling of DVDs on the topic: 3DVD, 13 episodes, for $75. To help Israeli children. One out of 3 children in Israel live in poverty, he said. Really? Perhaps change  is needed.

Happy New Day !

HAPPY NEW DAY !
 

I wish you all the best for the New Day, the anniversary of our planet Earth, celebrating Spring in Northern Hemisphere, and celebrating the Season for Harvest in the Southern Hemisphere.

More than a thousand years ago, perhaps over two thousand years ago, some free-thinker humanbeing realized they are living on a planet that is part of a system having the sun at its center and revolving around it. Some thousand years ago, the Iranian astronomer, Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), freed from Islamic bigotry, managed to calculate, at fractions of second, the exact time of the Earth's revolution around the sun, and calculating the Spring Equinox on the Northern Hemisphere which is the Autumn Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.  He established, thanks to some free thinker courageous Persian-Turkish rulers who commanded his work, in defiance with the Abrahamic myth, the present Zodiac calendar, that has become the official calendar in the Iranian world and beyond... until Pope Gregory XIII prohibited the use of it - in Europe.

To know what time the New Year starts in your location, click on the following link: 

http://www.7seen.com/ ... and please disregard the 7seen (7 S) and its primitive drawing, some annoying folklore we can do without. Instead, please let us keep focus on the deep spiritual meaning of celebrating our life on Earth.

 

Now-Ruz or No-Ruz or New-Ruz, is not a mystical concept from strange foreigners. It simply means New-Day in the Persian language. And it is simply about celebrating the Spring and the renewal of life on Earth. 

Let us welcome and celebrate the New Day on Earth, the Spring and Fall equinox, let us leave behind the negatives of the past, and start on a newly fresh and positive ground for the year to come. Let us make sure we understand the need to celebrate and respect Mother Nature. And let us make it the backbone, the essence, and the foundation for a New Universal Religion on Earth

Shodja

What is Iranity?

 
On one hand, Iranity is the solution against Islamic intolerance, a solution to do without this primitive religion called Islam that destroys human spirit of free thinking, and annihilates human dignity. Be aware: most Muslims are not Islamic.

On the other hand, and simultaneously, yes simultaneously, Iranity works against greedy mercantilism, against this system that has been established during the past 500 years by greedy merchants, unscrupulous merchants thirsty for power and driven by the need to dominate; a system prone to competition, conflicts, and war, a system that has been destroying our planet's environment and depleting our natural resources, without consideration for future generations' life on Earth.

Be aware: Iranity is not a nationality. It is a spirituality. Many Iranians do not adhere to it, or are deprive from it. Iranity is just a synonymous for humanity, it is a hope for humanity.

Shodja

Beheadings You Won

The ISIS Beheadings You Won 

(But Won’t Hear About)  

That shows how ISIS targets its audience 

(article is reproduced integrally, except for the title slightly manipulated from its original: ''The ISIS Beheadings You Won't Hear About'')

 

ISIS released a video on Saturday [March 6, 2015] showing militants beheading three Arabic-speaking prisoners. Called “Harvest of the Apostates,” the high-quality clip features common characteristics of ISIS propaganda: interviews with the hostages, up-close shots of their faces, complete subtitles, animated graphics and gruesome, unflinching footage of three men being beheaded with bowie knives. 

So far, no Western media appear to have reported on the release, which isn’t that surprising, but it does sit in stark contrast to the coverage given on Friday to the Islamic State’s unconfirmed claims that a U.S.-led coalition airstrike had killed American aid worker and ISIS hostage Kayla Jean Mueller. Further, last week’s release of a video showing captive Jordanian pilot Muadh al-Ksasbeh burned alive received a massive amount of press—partly because Jordan is a comparatively Western-friendly state, and one that is involved in the fight against ISIS, and partly because the king of Jordan was in the U.S. at the time. 

Even this under-the-radar video shows how ISIS plays the media like a violin. Its videos of the executions of Westerners, or Western-friendly infidels, are produced for a Western audience. They are polished in production and subtitled in English—so you can imagine the delight in ISIS HQ when Fox News in the U.S. aired the execution video in full online. 

This latest video, on the other hand, had subtitles only in Arabic. These victims are Muslims who worked for the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a battle on the Tabqa air base near the Syrian city of Raqqa. It was carefully shot, for sure, but ISIS knew the men wouldn’t get any play in the Western press, so it was crafted solely for an Arabic-speaking audience. 

copied from:
http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-beheading-video/?utm_campaign=International&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain

The ISIS Beheadings You Won (But Won’t Hear About)

That shows how ISIS targets its audience

ISIS released a video on Saturday showing militants beheading three Arabic-speaking prisoners. Called “Harvest of the Apostates,” the high-quality clip features common characteristics of ISIS propaganda: interviews with the hostages, up-close shots of their faces, complete subtitles, animated graphics and gruesome, unflinching footage of three men being beheaded with bowie knives.

So far, no Western media appear to have reported on the release, which isn’t that surprising, but it does sit in stark contrast to the coverage given on Friday to the Islamic State’s unconfirmed claims that a U.S.-led coalition airstrike had killed American aid worker and ISIS hostage Kayla Jean Mueller. Further, last week’s release of a video showing captive Jordanian pilot Muadh al-Ksasbeh burned alive received a massive amount of press—partly because Jordan is a comparatively Western-friendly state, and one that is involved in the fight against ISIS, and partly because the king of Jordan was in the U.S. at the time.

Even this under-the-radar video shows how ISIS plays the media like a violin. Its videos of the executions of Westerners, or Western-friendly infidels, are produced for a Western audience. They are polished in production and subtitled in English—so you can imagine the delight in ISIS HQ when Fox News in the U.S. aired the execution video in full online. This latest video, on the other hand, had subtitles only in Arabic. These victims are Muslims who worked for the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a battle on the Tabqa air base near the Syrian city of Raqqa. It was carefully shot, for sure, but ISIS knew the men wouldn’t get any play in the Western press, so it was crafted solely for an Arabic-speaking audience.

http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-beheading-video/?utm_campaign=International&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain

 

Esther and the Arrogant Warmonger Prime Minister

Esther's mausoleum in Hamedan 
(photo by Sanaz Shirshekar, copyright 2009)

Beautiful Jewish Queen of Iran, Esther, was able to prevent her Jewish community from annihilation, by countering the plotting speech of an arrogant warmonger Prime Minister of the time.

There were many 'false' or 'twisted truth'  in M. Netanyahu 's demagogic speech in his address to the US Congress on March 3rd.  I would like to point to two of them in particular.

1) Out of respect for the Truth, I spent over an hour on twitter searching to check Bibi's bold statement that ''Ayatollah Khamenei has tweeted in English Israel must be destroyed''. I couldn't find any such statement or similar. That would be a monumental lie by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Or at least a monumental twisting of the Truth, since Khamenei has always attacked 'Zionism' (he even compares Zionism to 'Nazism'), and he is one of the strongest critics of the 'Zionist' policy of occupying Palestinian lands and of suppressing and oppressing Palestinians (he isn't alone as everyone should know). Everyone should appreciate the difference between Israel, a country, and Zionism, a political ideology. But during my search, I also noticed Khamenei tweeted many times, and insisted on, his equal respect for Jews, Christian, and Muslims (Shiite and Sunnite alike).  If you find Ayatollah Khamenei has tweeted such thing as alleged by Benjamin Netanyahu, I would be immensely grateful to have you 'copy and paste' here for the sake of the Truth. I wasn't able to find. 

Moreover, Khamenei doesn't know much any English, and for me, when I read his tweets, it is easy to notice that someone else might be managing in his name with a poor translation from Persian into a much poorer English than mine, unlike M. Netanyahu who masters the language. Therefore INSISTING, as Bibi did, on the idea that Khamenei writes in English is also a figure of rhetoric reinforcing his above allegation (that I believe to be false), in a speech that can obviously be qualified as a purely, completely, and solely anti-Iranian speech. 

2) The second twisting of the truth I chose to talk is when Prime Minister Netanyahu mentions the biblical story of Esther and pretends she saved the Jews from annihilation by Iranians, thus using it to reinforce his anti-Iranian rhetoric. A serious dangerous lie or twist of the truth.  He just failed to mention that Esther is not only Jewish but is herself Persian-Iranian, in birth and in death, and, even most importantly, she was the Queen of the Persian-Iranian empire. What she did was to counter a plot by an arrogant and intolerant prime minister. Her mausoleum still stands in the Iranian city of Hamedan (Ecbâtân), still safeguarded by Iranians - god knows for how long, amid widespread anti-Iranianism and growing destructive power of Islamists everywhere.

Although the story of Esther is, after all, nothing but a primitive biblical story written by, and destined to, our primitive ancestors, it can also be summarized more adequately as follow: you need an arrogant warmonger anti-jewish or anti-Iranian prime minister to create trouble.

Netanyahu's Biggest Lie

Joseph Goebbels on the ''Big Lie'':

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

Benjamin Netanyahu 's Biggest Lie: ''Iran wants to annihilate Israel.''

Esther in warmonger Netanyahu's anti-Iranian speech in the US Congress

On March 3, 2015, Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a speech at the USA Congress, dominated by Republicans, to blast President Barack Obama's administration  for negotiating with Iran, and... ,mainly, to promote his own image for the coming elections in Israel, as a hardliner acclaimed by America!

I feel sorry for the people of Israel for having Netanyahu as ''leader'', and sorry that human being still admires and follows warmongering demagogues. Sorry to see so many members of the US Congress giving so many standing ovations to a warmongering demagogue.

Warmongers, of course, are found not only in Israel and Iran but also plenty in the USA and everywhere else. We must not listen to them and must not follow them. Bibi's speech is a warmongering one. No positive proposal for peace. Analyzing his speech, there are truths and false, truths are twisted in promoting his warmongering rhetoric, essentially by portraying Iran as ''the enemy''. Iran and Israel are friends, not enemies. Warmongers on both sides are pushing us against each other.

  

 Amongst his ''twisting of the truth'', was his presenting of the biblical figure Esther as a courageous Jewish woman who helped save Jewish community from being annihilated by Iranians. What a dangerous falsification of history by a warmonger demagogue. Esther was Jewish, yes, but she also was an Iranian Queen, he conveniently forgets to mention! It is her marriage to the Persian king that helped save the Jewish community. The point is not about Esther. It is, after all,  just a biblical story. The point is that there are some people who are brainwashed or brain-damaged with the idea of animosity, and who promote animosity, like Bibi; people who promote or just believe in the idea that one cannot be at the same time Jewish and Iranian! Well, among my best friends, Sam Nosratabadi (who recently passed away in Israel, former President of Iranian Students at the time I met him), Nasir and Manouchehr Pirouzian who live in Belgium, Houshang Gabbay who lives between Iran and England, and the list is long, are all Iranian and Jewish, proud to be both. Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav, born in the city of Yazd in Iran, was proud of being Jewish AND Iranian (they were speaking Persian at home, in Israel) AND Israeli.

I was stopped. But there are other ways to continue.

I was stopped. But there are other ways to continue.

I decided to run for the next Federal Election in Canada (2015), in the riding of Richmond Hill (North of Toronto), where there are already two other Canadian-Iranians, nominated by the Liberals and the Conservatives, running.  I knew it would mean sacrificing an enjoyable time for retirement. But it would be for the sake of making it possible for our children, grandchildren, and great-grand-children to continue living a healthy or just possible life on this planet.

My goal was to bring change and to help stop the present mercantile system of conflict, competition, and greed, which is destroying life on Earth, and it does it at an accelerating pace.

My plan was to run simultaneously for both the NDP and the Green Party, something that has never been done before and seemingly impossible. But I wanted to be such candidate for change, for solidarity over division, for cooperation over competition, for love over hatred. Rules that push us against each other need to be broken. New traditions of cooperation need to be created, and I wanted to personify this change, right from the beginning.

I, therefore, filled up my papers for both the NDP and the Green Party to be a prospective nominee, having contributed to both parties for years. I wrote to the leaders of the two parties, Elizabeth May and Thomas Mulcair, to invite them to work with each other. I also asked them to make a constitutional exception for my case of being a member of both parties - without specifying.

Yesterday, my project was stopped. In a phone call from Ottawa, I was told my candidacy was rejected. Not because of my double sympathies. No, they weren't probably aware of it. It was because of political positions expressed on Facebook considered as controversial. Not that the Party was necessarily against.

In 1997, I had run for the same party, holding the same opinions and positions, and there was no controversy at all, ever. But there was no Facebook, neither. Also, in 1997, decisions were made, democratically, in the riding. My nomination was contested, but members of the riding voted for me over my rival. Now, despite the riding being favorable to my candidacy and no one contesting it, the National Director of the NDP sitting in Ottawa, Anne McGrath, decided to be the authority rejecting my prospective nomination.

What controversial issues? They were five, I was told: (1) Last summer, I had expressed a favorable opinion on the issue, debated in England, of banning the 'burqa' (this hideous and obvious symbol of women as sub-human); (2) I used wordings in favor of a UN reform; (3) I wrote ''alleged war criminals'' in reference to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (unfortunate, of course, but factual); (4) I had favored Assad’s regime over ISIS-ISIL-DAESH; (5) I had expressed sympathy for the French  Front National, for their standing for France’s culture of freedom and secularism versus Islamism. (In fact, I was criticizing the TV journalists who were constantly interrupting her, and attacking her instead of being neutral.)

*****

To the young lady in charge of announcing me the ‘’bad news’’ I responded: ‘’bad news for the NDP, not for me’’.  Presently, I am listening to some beautiful music played in CBC 90.3 FM in French, English, and Spanish; Oldies, not yet banned by the Islamists[1] who will expand their killings globally and take over, if we aren’t vigilant (as they did in my motherland, Iran) if we don’t find a better way to stop the present trend of overpopulation, of over-exploitation and the pillage of our global resources, of killing all life on Earth.  

(Please indulge English weaknesses and mistakes) Shodja, February 14, 2015

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[1] Note: Islamist or Islamic and Muslim are two different categories. I, personally, am a Muslim but not an Islamic /Islamist.