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"Babam almıştı onu bana ,
Sadece iki paraya.
Anlatırlar Haggadah'ta.
Düzenbaz kedi yattı pusuya,
Zıplayıp yuttu kuzuyu bir lokmada.
Sonra köpek geldi,
Babamın aldığı kuzuyu yiyen kediyi boğdu.
Babam almıştı onu bana,
Sadece iki paraya.
Kuzucuk, ah kuzucuk..
Derken sopa geldi,
Babamın aldığı kuzuyu yiyen, kediyi boğan köpeği dövdü.
Gecikmeden ateş çıktı ve babamın aldığı kuzuyu yiyen , kediyi boğan,köpeği döven sopayı kül etti.
Ardından su geldi.
Kuzuyu yiyen, kediyi boğan,köpeği döven, sopayı yakan ateşi söndürdü.
Sonra öküz geldive babamın aldığı kuzuyu yiyen, kediyi boğan,köpeği döven,sopayı yakan,ateşi söndüren suyu içti.
Ardından kasap çıktı ortayave babamın aldığı kuzuyu yiyen,kediyi boğan,köpeği döven,sopayı yakan, suyu içen öküzü kesti.
Sonra ölüm meleği geldi,
Babamın aldığı kuzuyu yiyen, kediyi boğan, köpeği döven,sopayı yakan,ateşi söndüren, suyu içen kasabın aldı canını.
Babam almıştı onu bana sadece iki paraya.
Neden şarkı söylüyorsun küçük kuzu?
Henüz Bahar gelmedi buraya.
Ne de Fısıh Bayramı erişti.
Değiştin mi hiç?
Değiştim ben bu sene,ve her gece,
Her bir gece.
Sadece dört soru sormuştum sana,
Ama bu gece başka soru düşündüm.
Bunca delilik ne kadar daha devam edecel böyle?
Zalimin mazlum ile
Celladın kurban ile dönüp durduğu bu dehşet çemberi,
Bunca delilik ne kadar daha sürecek böyle.
Eskiden uysal bir kuzuydum.
Sonra bir kaplan oldumve vahşi bir kurt.
Güvercindim önceden, bir ceylandım.
Bugünse bilmiyorum ne olduğumu.
Babam almıştı onu bana sadece iki paraya.
Kuzucuk,ah kuzucuk.
Ve herşey yeniden başlıyor işte..."

MESSAGE TO SMOKERS
07/01/2007 - Joe Jackson



Dear Smokers,

You are the scum of the earth. Bad enough that you are intent on committing suicide, but with your noxious fumes you are committing nothing less than murder too.

The preceding statement should sound pretty familiar by now. If you believe it, don't bother to read any further. But if you're skeptical, consider this: you're being made into scapegoats by people who are nowhere near as honest and noble as is commonly assumed. In fact a lot of them are downright nasty, and it's about time you started standing up to them.

From July 1st, smoking is banned in every pub, restaurant and club in England - including private clubs, but then again a pub is private property too. I could bemoan the loss of property rights; I could also have a good rant about the loss of tolerance and free choice. But the real issue is that the only possible justification for this ban is blatantly, and provably, so phoney that it stinks to high heaven. I refer, of course, to the grotesquely-hyped but elusive phantom of 'secondhand smoke'.

Some people seem to think smoking is being banned just because they don't LIKE it, or because it has in some circles become unfashionable. But these are no concerns of the government, and they can easily be addressed by good ventilation systems and/or separate spaces, according to market demand.

If, on the other hand, tobacco smoke in the air - even on well-ventilated premises, even in separate rooms, even, if the antismoking brigade has its way, OUTSIDE - is putting innocent bystanders in mortal danger, then I'd say tobacco should be completely illegal, since it would clearly be worse than heroin. But first, I'd want to see at least one proven case of death caused by ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke). Because I, and many other people - scientists, academics, activists, and just plain skeptics - have been researching this issue for many years, and we haven't come across one yet.

Take a look at davehitt.com [davehitt.com] . Mr Hitt's article 'Name Three' is a grimly hilarious account of how he went to just about every antismoking authority in the USA in a fruitless quest to find three real-life cases. I've been in debates myself in which I've asked antismokers to name one, and been repeatedly ignored. Once I was told this information could not be revealed because of 'professional etiquette'.

Just last month, I had an article about smoking bans published in a German magazine. The editor removed the line 'there is not one proven documented case of death caused by secondhand smoke', claiming that there was one such case in Italy. I investigated. The case in question was the death of Monica Crema, whose husband succesfully sued her employer, Pariba Bank, claiming that she had been killed by smoke at work. SECONDHAND SMOKE KILLS! said the headlines. But the verdict was appealed. This time there was a proper trial, and it was found that Ms Crema had actually died from a food allergy. And the headlines said . . . well, nothing, actually.

I could say that even a few cases would still be pretty insignificant compared to all the deaths irrefutably caused by booze, or cars, or even prescription drugs. But the fact is that the antismokers' case for ETS collapses when subjected to the slightest scrutiny. Unable to produce actual proof, they tell us that ETS kills because they say so, and we wouldn't understand, so we must take their word for it. And at this point I need to 'zoom out,' so to speak, and briefly address the bigger picture.

There's an old saying: 'trust me, I'm a doctor'. But I'm asking you to trust me because I'm NOT. Many people these days, including newspaper editors and politicians, are simply not willing to challenge or question medical authorities...

"Fate leads to dead.Death is not punishment but atonement ,an expression of the subjection of guilty life to the law of natural life.That guilt which has often been the focal point of the theory of the tragic has its home in fate and the drama of fate..."

Internally displaced people,need for peace...?

Go sessions:Ben Harper

"Religion is the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet found himself or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being encamped outside the world. Man is the world of man, the state and society. This state, this society, produce religion, an inverted world-consciousness, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of that world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in a popular form, its spiritualistic point d honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, its universal source of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realisation of the human essence because the human essence has no true reality. The struggle against religion is therefore indirectly a fight against the world of which religion is the spiritual aroma. "

Kokusu buram buram tüten
Limanda simit satan çocuklar
Martıların telaşı bambaşka
İşçiler gözler yolunu.
İnebilseydin o vapurdan
Ayağında Varna'nın tozu
Yüreğinde ince bir sızı.
Mavi gözlerinde yanıp tutuşan
Hasretle kucaklayabilseydim
Seninle, bir daha.
Davullar çalsa, zurnalar söyleseydi
Bağrımıza bassaydık seni Nazım,
Yapardım mutluluğun resmini
Başında delikanlı şapkan,
Kolların sıvalı, kavgaya hazır
Bahriyeli adımlarla düşüp yola
Gidebilseydik meserret kahvesine,
İlk karşılaştığımız yere
Ve bir acı kahvemi içseydin.
Anlatsaydık
O günlerden, geçmişten, gelecekten,
Ne günler biterdi,
Ne geceler...
Dinerdi tüm acılar seninle
Bir düş olurdu ayrılığımız,
Anılarda kalan.
Ve dolaşsaydık Türkiye'yi
Bir baştan bir başa.
Yattığımız yerler müze olmuş,
Sürgün şehirler cennet.

İşte o zaman Nazım,
Yapardım mutluluğun resmini
Buna da ne tual yeterdi;
Ne boya...

Abidin Dino

You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait,
just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka