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I've been playing chess with a dozen palestinian youths and with one israeli guy. The israeli is the best - in fact he's better than anyone else I've played ever - even the really brilliant chess players who "taught me" (by beating me until I started beating them back).

And this israeli lad I like him much - he speaks english only in pieces, but relatively well. It reminds me strongly why I am trying to force a peaceful solution on the country. Israelis and their policy are very irresponsible and have led to countless children and others dying in israel purely because their government refuses to treat others as humans too. It is a bad attitude to take.

But I'm surprised myself at how much I'm pleased with playing this israeli kid - he's so good and he's just teaching me voluntarily - telling me what I'm doing wrong and what I should look for. In essence he has the ruthless strategism which israel as a country strongly follows, making it so heartless and brutal - so it's good - my pay for being good and remembering not to blame israeli children (who, along with palestinian children, are the main people I am trying to protect) is that the lad is teaching me israeli strategy right from the core - the way only a young mind can do!

The palestinians include a few fierce players too! I'm really getting the runaround at the moment. But the only player among em who insisted on swapping queens, right at the start - is almost fully massacred by me. I find that players who are gung-ho with their queen are usually rubbish at winning without a queen. I hardly touch my queen - as you can imagine my superstitions and emotional insanities have driven me to play chess with an approach that requires i really use all my pieces to protect the Queen, not the King, and losing the game is still more acceptable than losing the Queen!

Plus my nonviolent version of chess seems to be working and I have found that it is really "Queen's Chess" - if you play it - chess where the rules are ALL the same except you are not allowed to take ANY PIECE, EVER - you'll understand why. The board is ruled by the queen, the king becomes on the run from her inside about 3 moves and the entire game is just a hunt, in which the queen and her knights hunt down the enemy king and pin him down for her guards to carry off and imprison.

Once a few women have played nonviolent chess, I expect it'll take off really well!

Anyway, I hope I can pass the first 400 mark, on my boycott forum-posts, asap, like today. There is no time like the present, and although there is a place for discussion, bravado, and other forms of gabbing, I must remember that the work itself is more important than the whole **** lot. P.R. is only legitimate when it's for something that is actually progressive and thus progressING.

When I've done that, that means 400 places where I could have profited, all "defused" (well I can't use them commercially after that, can I?) - so it's about time I put my money where my mouth is.

Two final notes on my morality as a businessman:

1. my tardis is NOT an "arbitrage machine" - it is merely a legitimate mechanism of affiliate profits which is gaining from effective advertising bought at a very good price from google so that each hit I buy returns more money up front than it costs, but the fact is that over each 1000 hits I am gaining regular repeat customers, which means all I am doing is advertising my business, not performing arbitrage. It's still "passive income" but not in the sense often meant (people really mean piss-take income when they say passive income, but it's not the same thing always, only usually).

2. the forum sig advertising was NOT spam - just systematic and widespread. I was just posting relevant posts, researching if necessary and going into character on each forum. There is nothing immoral or genuinely spammy about it - it's the same tactic used in most mainstream business - above all in advertising.


and finally note this -

because I am not using sig advertising now, and because my boycott message is not about sending people to any link, merely about putting convincing reasons in their face along with emphatically bringing key brands/products to their attention, it means that even the forums I couldn't post at before without my links being scrubbed, I can now post at - and in most places the posts are getting a better airing than if they were just anonymous advertising-in-disguise, slinking away into one category or other.

True, I am now posting in the general section for all forums, which is not where I was going before (I'm not that kind of a guerrilla marketer - i'm a PROFESSIONAL guerrilla marketer! not some goon who hires illiterates to make people think my brand is as clean as a student's laundry basket) but because what I'm saying is 100% legit and cunningly written (advertisers learn about ad copy - in the end I came up with an AMAZING title for my message) it's doing well.

So rest assured. Before long, Israeli kids and Palestinian kids will all live 100% as safely as British ones. The USA is another world altogether. There are so many dangers in the usa and so much gun violence. No doubt people WILL eventually try to fix the USA too (from outside, of course).

Right now I can see the world, whether black or white or any of the other colours of our skins, whether agnostic, or atheist, or protestand or catholic or sunni or shia or abrahamic or pagan, the entire world feels 2 things about Israel and the USA -

all countries FEAR Israel and the USA
all countries are ashamed and angry at what those 2 countries do.

Most of USA's "allies" are people they have "bought" and recent protectionist moves on their part, at the end of a long bout of having not just screwed their own people out of billions of dollars, but indeed having screwed half of Europe, Asia, Russia, North America, and many others on the fringes of those zones, the USA's "allies" are (1) no longer buyable {the usa has no more money to buy that kind of allegiance} (2) not at all impressed at what the USA has done to all our economies.

These are the realities. Most people on this site clearly understand that and know it - and indeed are the right sort of people to make positive movements forwards each in their own land, making sure that the money of each country is returned to that country's PEOPLE, above all the CHILDREN. British children have been very badly robbed by right wing americans. I may be angry at the racism here, but I'd never stop defending the children of whom I was once one - a british child, that was me, pre-16.

Anyway. This is how things are. I suggest people bear it in mind as they progress through the next few years. The USA and Israel are both seen as the enemies of most of the world - and they are the ONLY TWO COUNTRIES - other than Apartheid South Africa - who categorically refused to condemn Apartheid South Africa. Even today, the USA has neither accepted Apartheid South Africa was wrong, not officially, nor has it apologized for slavery, which other countries have done. Popular voting for a black man as President shows that the USA is ready to change, but the change has not come until compensation for ALL families of former slaves paid out BY FAMILIES OF former slave owners is a done deed.

The time has come for liberal Americans to save their country by doing the job which otherwise Asia and Europe will do in their land. And post-apartheid Israel. Boy will she be a good ally to the good lands of the world.

[[my mistake, the israeli player is OLDER than me - i was thrown by the bad english - and actually he's just made a really bad move, i think - so maybe I can rise up and whip his *** anyway... if not, I'll play him until I'm better than him! Oi vay]]