Mapping Our Universe

Humanity has not always used maps.

Maps have evolved into excuses for political and military policies and actions.

It is a symptom of the flawed Western world that to "wipe a nation off the map" is regarded as an inflammatory statement to be condemned on principle.

In point of fact, most "mapped" nations would prefer to wipe at least sections of their neighbor's territories off "the map"...



and "the map" itself is a loaded phrase including logical fallacies...

as there does not now nor ever has existed a single map regarded by all of humanity as the legitimate reference point of any geographical instance.



In a world of true freedom the thought of removing anything but nature from a map is perfectly legitimate and valid.








http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel

On October 26, 2005, IRIB News, an English-language subsidiary of the state-controlled Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, filed a story on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent speech to the "World Without Zionism" conference in Asia. The story was entitled: Ahmadinejad: Israel must be wiped off the map.^[1]

Many news sources have presented one of Ahmadinejad's phrases in Persian as a statement that "Israel must be wiped off the map",^[5][6][7] an English idiom which means to "cause a place to stop to exist",^[8] or to "obliterate totally",^[9] or "destroy completely".^[10]

Ahmadinejad's phrase was " بايد از صفحه روزگار محو شود " according to the text published on the President's Office's website.^[11]

DICK

Remember when Dick Cheney used to be constantly on television with his snide opinions and cocky statements?

Where has he been lately?

What the fuck does that liar have to say for himself nowadays?

While the media continues to convince us that Obama hasn't beaten Hillary already...

and McCain is a legitimate opposition to either of them...

and Huckabee and Romney are Vice-Presidential material...

and our false war still rages on in Iraq

while we blindly ally ourselves with Israel

and a war criminal rules the "free world".

2008- The year the environmental movement became a corporate marketing ploy and the Democratic party proudly hoisted the mantle of a failing Republican regime...

the year Communist China seems more liberal than the U.S.A. and Russia calls US fascists.

International Justice is a LIE

New York City, NY – Indigenous Peoples attending the Permanent
> Forum are outraged that their rejection of the carbon market has
> been ignored in the final report of the 7th Session of the United
> Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII). The final
> report of the PFII hails World Bank funded carbon trading, like the
> Clean Development Mechanism, as “good examples” of partnership
> despite the human rights violations and environmental destruction
> they have caused.
>
> “Indigenous Peoples attending the 7th session of the Permanent
> Forum are profoundly concerned that our key recommendations on
> climate change are not being taken into account by the Permanent
> Forum. This Permanent Forum was created precisely to recognize,promote, and support the rights of Indigenous peoples,” says Florina Lopez, Coordinator of the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity
> Network of Abya Yala.
>
> Throughout the two weeks of the Permanent Forum, Indigenous
> community representatives have consistently testified about the
> injustices associated with the clean development mechanism projects
> and have asked that the Permanent Forum not promote the projects.
> However, in the final report of the Permanent Forum (document E/C.
> 19/2008/L.2) adopted today, these injustices have been ignored.
>
> In response, many groups under the name of the Indigenous Caucus of
> Abya Yala took the floor today to express their concerns. Their
> statement affirmed that the recommendations of the Permanent Forum
> do not properly reflect their positions. They used the opportunity
> to affirm their rejection of carbon trading mechanisms and concerns
> over specific implementations. Over 30 organizations at the forum
> called for the final report to include a section outlining their
> concerns.
>
> In the background paper for this session (Document E/C.19/2008/10),
> three projects are being upheld to illustrate the “clean
> development mechanism projects that are being implemented in
> indigenous peoples territories with good results.” However, there
> are grave problems with each of these projects including violations
> of the rights enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of
> Indigenous Peoples. For example, the Jeripachi wind power project
> in Colombia did not get the free, prior, and informed consent of
> the Wayuu people to build this wind farm in a sacred territory of
> the Wayuu People. Indigenous Peoples’ organizations contend the
> assassination of over 200 Wayuu People prior to the implementation
> of the project was to clear the area for this and other projects.
> Additionally, most of the energy generated from the wind farm is
> used to power the Cerrajon mine, the biggest open air coal mine in
> the world, which itself is known for numerous human rights
> violations and environmental damages. Representatives of the Wayuu
> people who attended the Permanent Forum didn’t even know the
> project was being promoted as a good example.
>
> “In promoting the clean development mechanism projects and carbon
> trading, the Permanent Forum is allowing oil companies who are the
> biggest emitters for greenhouse gases, to continue to pollute,”
> says Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous
> Environmental Network. “Promoting the commodification of the air
> is a corruption of our traditional teachings and violates the
> original instructions of Indigenous Peoples."