Fake Democracy - Afghanistan

Karzai... thousands of votes were forged to keep him in his country's top position. Fraud happens in a "young democracy", he says. With over 90 per cent of votes counted in Afghanistan's presidential election, President Karzai has won a clear majority, yet Western officials believe as many as one in six votes is tainted by fraud. Afghans loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up hundreds of fictitious polling sites where no one voted but where hundreds of thousands of ballots were still recorded toward the president's re-election, according to senior Western and Afghan officials. The fake voting sites, as many as 800, existed only on paper, hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of votes for Mr Karzai in the election last month came from each of those places. "We think that about 15 per cent of the polling sites never opened on Election Day,' the senior Western diplomat said. 'But they still managed to report thousands of ballots for Karzai.' "Besides creating the fake sites, Mr Karzai's supporters also took over approximately 800 legitimate polling centers and used them to report tens of thousands of additional ballots for Mr Karzai, the officials said." Mr Karzai has had tense meetings with Richard Holbrooke, the US regional envoy, who urged him to face a second round in the disputed elections, and earlier in the year with Joe Biden, the US Vice-President, who walked out of a meeting with him. The United Nations-backed commission serving as the ultimate arbiter of the Afghan elections announced Tuesday that it had found 'clear and convincing evidence of fraud' in a number of polling stations and ordered a partial recount even as election officials declared that President Hamid Karzai had won a majority of the vote.

Even before the election, many Afghans were angry with him over his failure to curb a system of corruption and patronage that had paralysed efforts to repair the war-thrashed nation. The international aid community is disheartened by the prospect of another five years of a government that is infested with warlords and drug traffickers. Public opinion in both the US and Europe is tiring of bad news from Afghanistan. President Obama faces questions from both the left and right. What is the point of pouring more troops or billions of dollars into Afghanistan, his critics say, when the Taliban seem to be gaining ground and the money simply vanishes into the baggy pockets of Kabul officials? You just can't bomb a nation into democracy. Iraq and Afghanistan are under occupation, their "officials" are US established puppet governments. Their "elections" are fake, their people are not liberated, they are enslaved. Just call it what it really is! It is not a war on terror, it is a war of terror. Here is Karzai (Mr Fashionqueen), your democratic leader of the free people of liberated Afghanistan and there is your democracy for which you've been fighting for, Amerika...

True Heroes of Iraq

Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at George Bush, released from prison. Al-Zeidi had initially been sentenced to three years for assaulting a foreign head of state, but had his sentence reduced to a year on appeal. While throwing his shoes at Bush at a news conference in Baghdad in December 2008, he shouted: "It is the farewell kiss, you dog." According to witnesses, al-Zaidi was "severely beaten" by security officers after he had been dragged out of the room following the shoe-throwing incident. As the man's screaming could be heard outside, Bush said "That’s what people do in a free society, draw attention to themselves." A "large blood trail" could be seen on the carpet where al-Zaidi had been dragged by security agents. "I had the feeling that the blood of innocent people was dropping on my feet during the time that he (Bush) was smiling and coming to say bye-bye to Iraq with a dinner," he told the judge.

The authorities had asked his family not to give him a hero's welcome, but people celebrated outside his home in central Baghdad. Al-Zeidi said he had been beaten, whipped and been given electric shocks during his first few days in custody, he was injected with unknown chemical drugs and he suffers from a continuous headache. "I was being tortured in the worst ways, beaten with electric cables and iron bars." He said his guards had also used simulated drowning - the technique of waterboarding used by the US forces on suspects arrested over the September 11, 2001, attacks. "I did this as a revenge for the victims and people killed in Iraq ... now the new US politicians should deal with Arabs properly ... as respectful counterparts not like slaves. I am neither afraid nor regretting what I did." "Today I am free again but my home is still a prison," he added. Muntadhar al-Zaidi suffered a broken hand, broken ribs, internal bleeding, and an eye injury.

The reporter, who hails from Iraq's Shiite majority, lived alone in a humble two-bedroom apartment, filled with books on politics and religion, written in both English and Arabic. A portrait of the revolutionary icon Che Guevara hung on one of his walls. His release is a victory for all those who reject the occupation and stand against it.

Welthauptstadt Germania

World Capital Germania was Hitler's pet project to reconstruct Berlin on a grand scale, with huge buildings, wide boulevards, and a reorganised transportation system. His chief architect Albert Speer produced many of the plans for the rebuilt city, only a small portion of which was realized before World War II. The Führer did not have one particular style; there was no official architecture of the Reich, only the neoclassical baseline that was enlarged, multiplied, altered and exaggerated, sometimes to the point of ludicrousness (Fascist Stripped Classical style). In Mein Kampf, Hitler states that industrialized German cities of his day lacked dominating public monuments and a central focus for community life. The New Berlin would be greater than London and Washington DC or any other city of that time... To name just a few of the monster buildings planned:

Olympic Stadium - The first step in these plans was the Olympic Stadium for the 1936 Summer Olympics. This stadium would promote the rise of the Nazi government. A much larger stadium, where all the other Olympic Games would take place, capable of holding 400,000 spectators was planned but only the foundations were dug before the project was abandoned. Had this stadium been completed it would remain the largest in the world today by a considerable margin.

The Avenue of Victory - Berlin was to be reorganized along a central 5 km-long boulevard known as the Avenue of Victory. This new North-South Axis would have served as a parade ground, and have been closed off to traffic. Vehicles would have instead been diverted into an underground highway running directly underneath the parade route; sections of this highway's tunnel structure were built, and still exist today.

Triumphbogen (The Arch of Triumph) - It would be almost a hundred metres high, and the Arc de Triomphe (in Paris) would have been able to fit inside its opening. The outbreak of War in 1939 caused the decision to postpone construction until after the war to save strategic materials. Again, Hitler himself did the sketching.

Große Halle (Great Dome) - Also known as Volkshalle, a huge assembly hall, inspired by Hadrian's Pantheon, with a dome which would have been over 210 m high, with floor space for 180,000 people. The sketch of the Volkshalle given by Hitler to Speer shows a traditional gabled pronaos supported by ten columns, a shallow rectangular intermediate block and behind it the domed main building. Speer's Monsterbau was to be the capital's most important and impressive building in terms of its size and symbolism. Visually it was to have been the architectural centrepiece of Berlin as the world capital. Its dimensions were so large that it would have dwarfed every other structure in Berlin. The oculus of the building's dome, 46m in diameter, would have accommodated the entire rotunda of Hadrian's Pantheon. The dome of the Volkshalle (250m in diameter) was to rise from a massive granite podium 315 by 315 metres and 74 metres high, to a total inclusive height of 290 metres. The resemblance of the Volkshalle to the Pantheon is far more obvious when their interiors are compared. The large niche (50 metres high by 28 metres wide) at the north end of the Volkshalle was to be surfaced with gold mosaic and to enclose an eagle 24 metres high, beneath which was situated Hitler's tribunal. The temple-like building was ultimately intended for the worship of Hitler and his successors.

Großer Platz - At the northern end of the avenue on the north side of the East-West Axis there was to be a large open forum known as Großer Platz with an area of around 350,000 square metres. This square was to be surrounded by the grandest buildings of all, with the Führer's palace on the west side, the 1894 Reichstag Building on the east side and the third Reich Chancellery and high command of the German Army on the south side (on either side of the square's entrance from the Avenue of Victory). It would have stand in front of The Great Dome. A square where Hitler could address ~500 000 of his followers, face to face.

The New Reich Chancellery - In January 1938, Hitler asked Speer to build a new Reich Chancellery on the same site as the existing structure, and said he needed it for urgent foreign policy reasons no later than his next New Year's reception for diplomats on January 10, 1939. This was a huge undertaking, especially since the existing Chancellery was in full operation. After consultation with his assistants, Speer agreed. Although the site could not be cleared until April, Speer was successful in building the large, impressive structure in nine months. The structure included the "Marble Gallery": at 146 metres long, almost twice as long as the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. The second Chancellery was destroyed by the Soviet army in 1945.

Führerpalast (Hitler's Palace) - Situated in the immediate vicinity of the dome. It was equipped only with loopholes and no windows. In addition to the offices it should include a dining room of nearly 3,000 square meters and a theater for about 1,000 spectators. /here's a picture of a model/

"Architecture is not only the spoken word in stone, but also is the expression of the faith and conviction of a community, or else it signifies the power, greatness and fame of a great man or ruler." Adolf Hitler

Hitler should have sticked with his building plans... instead of becoming the World's greatest city, Berlin was razed to ashes thanks to his other mad ideas.

Albert Einstein on Call for World Government

Einstein had been an advocate of world government as early as october 1914. He acknowledged that such a step would require the unconditional surrender by every nation, in a certain measure, of its liberty of action - its sovereignty. In 1945, he approved the daring project of assembling the Comittee to Frame a World Constitution which openly set forth world government as the goal after international control of atomic energy. He was "sound pacifist". Sound pacifism tries to prevent wars throuh a world order based on power, not throuh a purely passive attitude toward international problems. After Hiroshima, Albert Einstein was filled with a deep sense of responsibility, since it was his theory that had made the atomic bomb possible. " The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. We scientists who released this immense power have responsibility to harness the atom for the benefit of mankind and not for humanity's destruction." He saw the creation of world government as the final solution to the problem of war. " We must aim at a Federal Constitution of the world, a working world-wide legal order, if we hope to prevent an atomic war." He advocated that three remaining great powers after the second world war - United Staes, Great Britain and USSR initiate the union. "Experiment" was a failure, no cooperation had come from the Soviet Union. The Soviets were afraid that this idea would theatened "Communist social and economic revolution itself". In the face of Soviet opposition to the plan a "federal union of the western democracies (Atlantic Union)" was proposed. Advocates of the "one world" had settled for the "half a world". This new idea led directly to the arms race between two superpowers. A war between East and West seemed to be developing. West came to conclusion that "if world government can't give us peace and freedom, maybe bigger bomb can, the H-bomb". World government dream became the cold war nightmare. Atomic scientists who opened the "Pandora's box" couldn't find the solution to the end of the world scenario. "Because of our inability to solve the problem of international organization, it has actually contributed to the dangers which threaten peace and the very existence of mankind. " Einstein's open letter to the UN, 1947 "...There can never be complete agreement on international control and the administration of atomic energy or on general disarmament until there is a modification of the traditional concept of national sovereignty... the United Nations must act with utmost speed to create the necessary conditions for international security by laying the foundations for a real world government... Nevertheless, we must assume that despite all efforts, Russia and her allies may still find it advisable to stay out of such a world Government. In that case, and only after all efforts have been made in utmost sincerity to obtain the cooperation of Russia and her allies - the other countries would have to proceed alone... IN ORDER to achieve the final aim - which is one world, and not two hostile worlds - such a partial world Government must never act as an alliance against the rest of the world. The only real step toward world government is world Government itself... The United Nations now and world Government eventually must serve one single goal the guarantee of the security, tranquillity, and the welfare of all mankind. "

From Einstein’s research of the smallest atomic structure, to the creation of the universe, there is no one study which belongs to simply one country. Einstein called his work “The discovery of the universal harmony and order.” What he discovered was naturally what belongs to all human kind. Einstein was already a real global idealist or global citizen. He never tied himself with the position of any particular country. Einstein’s actions are those of a global idealist and he viewed himself as a global citizen.

Albert Einstein has reacted to the news of destruction of Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the sad sigh "Oh, weh!" (Alas!). A long life devoted to peace had gone into the making of that sigh...