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Six Occupy Sen. Grassley's Office - Iowa Peaceable Assembly Campaign
Six Occupy Sen. Grassley's Office - Iowa Peaceable Assembly Campaign
By Brian Terrell | Voices for Creative NonViolence
On Wednesday afternoon, April 14, six Iowans, Frankie Hughes, Renee Espeland, Mona Shaw, Christine Gaunt, Elton Davis and Brian Terrell visited the Des Moines office of Senator Charles Grassley. The offices of both Senator Grassley and Senator Tom Harkin, located in the Des Moines Federal Building, have been visited at least once a week by activists in concert with the Peaceable Assembly Campaign.
As with previous visits, we came to the senator's office with a plea that the senators stop all funding of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and convert that spending to meeting human needs at home and abroad.
On this occasion, a letter was delivered to the senator via his office staff, noting that that day was the eve of "tax day" and that President Obama had sent the senate the largest military budget in history. The senator was asked to rise to this historic occasion.
At 4 pm, after much friendly and hopefully fruitful discussion with Grassley's staff, Chris began a "die-in" and lay quiet and still on the office floor. Shortly after this Inspector Mike Goldberg of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Police (ICE provides "security" for federal buildings) ordered us to leave. Chris, Mona and Brian elected not to obey. Frankie (who at 12 years old had been charged in Juvenile Court for her part in a similar protest in Senator Harkin's office the week before) and Renee (Frankie's mom who had been charged with "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" for her daughter's part in that protest in Senator Harkin's office) and Elton left. Chris, Mona and Brian remained and were issued citations for federal charges of failure to obey an order to disperse and were escorted out of the building, Chris in a wheelchair as she declined to leave federal property on her own will. Read more.
Teach In on Capitol Hill: What Congress Must Do to End U.S. Wars and Help Secure a Peaceful Middle East
Global Peace and Justice Groups Threaten Israel's Legitimacy
Global Peace and Justice Groups Threaten Israel's Legitimacy
By Stephen Lendman
Working pro bono for Israeli government agencies, the Tel Aviv-based Reut Institute (RI) provides "real-time strategic decision-making" support in areas of national security and socioeconomic policy.
Saying global peace and justice groups threaten Israel's legitimacy, its recent series of articles, policy papers, and presentations counterattacked - a combination of damage control and rethink despite legitimate criticism showing Israel delegitimizes itself, and no amount of policy paper makeover will change it. Only Israel can do that, but in its 62 year existence never tried.
In a January 28 brief, RI said Israel:
"face(s) a dramatic assault on the very legitimacy of its existence as a Jewish and democratic state. While the ideological framework for this delegitimacy was solidified after the first Durban" World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, "the trend (got) a boost by the perceived lack of (political) progress, coupled with Operation Cast Lead in Gaza," followed by the damning Goldstone Report.
Groups "making the fundamental delegitimacy" claim want to internationally isolate Israel and ultimately turn it into a pariah state by:
- demonizing it in public protests, the media, on campuses, and through events like the annual Israel Apartheid Week and World Social Forum, asking its affiliates to excommunicate Israel;
- promoting the Global BDS Movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions) in areas of the economy, academia, culture, sport, and security; at risk is it achieving equivalency between Israel and apartheid-era South Africa, yet legitimate critics, including Jimmy Carter, accuse Israel of being worse than apartheid; and
- targeting the state and its officials legally, including through the International Criminal Court (ICJ) and universal jurisdiction (UJ) to charge Israeli generals and politicians with war crimes.
Goldstone Banned By SA Zionists
Goldstone banned by SA Zionists | alJazeera | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com
Richard Goldstone, a former South African judge, has been effectively banned from attending his grandson's bar mitzvah which is to be held in Johannesburg next month.
Goldstone, who authored a UN report on the war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, has been barred by the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) from attending the event, South African and Israeli newspapers reported on Thursday.
"A very ugly feature of the response to the Goldstone report has been personal attacks like this on him and his family over a sustained period," Doron Isaacs, a Jewish South African, told Al Jazeera on Thursday.
"This should not be seen as an isolated incident." Read more.
Accelerating Fascism in Israel
Accelerating Fascism in Israel
By Stephen Lendman
Occupied Palestinians and Israeli Arabs never had rights in a state affording them solely to Jews. Now even they're at risk as democratic freedoms fast erode on their way to extinction; to wit, free expression, a right without which all others are endangered. It includes free speech, a free press, freedom of thought, culture, intellectual inquiry, and the right to challenge government authority peacefully, especially in times of war and cases of injustice, lawlessness, incompetence, and abuses of power.
Israel has no constitution or specific laws guaranteeing equality or free expression. Yet its Basic Laws protect human dignity and liberty as fundamental democratic values, more rhetoric than fact given its persecution of journalist Anat Kam and Haaretz's national security reporter Uri Blau.
Kam (held under house arrest since December) will be tried in mid-April for passing confidential documents she removed while stationed in IDF General Yair Naveh's office during her mandatory military service. Blau, fearing assassination or a judicial lynching, is now hiding in London.
Two (internal security) Shin Bet gag orders (code name "Double-Take") were judicially implemented to silence press discussion, on October 8, 2009 and on January 1, 2010 for 90 days, now partially lifted.
They're on grounds of harming national security, damaging the investigative process, and the ability of prosecutors to prove criminal liability. Part of it is cited in an undated April richardsilverstein.com Tikun Olam article headlined, "Anat Kam Gag Order Published for the First Time," stating:
"....publication about the investigation or that it even exists (is prohibited), and on the judicial discussion of the matter and legal decision rendered by the court which has been and will be conducted....
We seek that the gag prohibits publication even about the application for a gag order, its content, and even the existence of a gag order in this case; and any other publication likely to identify the respondent, witnesses, suspects or others engaged in the investigation, including publications of their images, addresses, or other identifying details."
Israel's Declining Sperm Quality Tied to Depleted Uranium Exposure
Israel's Declining Sperm Quality Tied to Depleted Uranium Exposure
Tim King | Salem-News.com
Israel's population is facing a dire threat: a drastic depopulation, from the use of weapons that leave behind Depleted Uranium (DU). Depleted Uranium leads to the word Omnicidal, as DU kills everything in the food chain, everywhere the wind blows. Experts say the dramatic drop in Israel's sperm count could eliminate their ability to reproduce.
Research by an Israeli doctor shows a significant drop in sperm count level and sperm motility among young Israeli soldiers in recent years. Sperm motility is the ability of sperm to move properly toward an egg.
It is attributed to the inhalation of DU aerosolized nano-particles; the dirty results of extra powerful weapons used by Israel and the U.S.
All of that military might as it turns out, could set the stage for a massive Israeli act of population suicide.
A study by Dr. Ronit Haimov-Kokhman released in November, showed a 40-percent decline in the concentration of sperm cells in Israeli sperm donors from 2004 to 2008, compared to samples taken between 1995 and 1999.
Sperm banks in Israel are now reportedly turning away as many as two-thirds of potential donors, due to the low-quality sperm. In the past, around one-third of the potential donors were turned away. Read more.
Israel Dismisses Obama Call to Join NPT
Israel Dismisses Obama Call to Join NPT
Minister: Obama Fine With Israel's 'Nuclear Ambiguity'
By Jason Ditz | AntiWar.com | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com
As with previous discussions of the possibility, Israeli officials today reacted negatively to yesterday's comment by President Obama in support of seeing Israel join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
"There is no room to pressure Israel to join," insisted Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who added that it was unreasonable to ask Israel to join so long as Iran, a signatory to the NPT remains a "threat." Read more.
Israel's Infiltration Prevention Bill
Israel's Infiltration Prevention Bill
By Stephen Lendman
International law protects refugees and asylum seekers, Article I of the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees calling them:
"A person who owning to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail him/herself of the protection of that country."
Post-WW II, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established to help them.
To gain legal protection, they must:
- be outside their country of origin;
- fear persecution;
- be harmed or fear harm by their government or others;
- fear persecution for at least one of the above cited reasons; and
- pose no danger to others.
Jordan's King Says Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon War "Imminent"
Jordan's King Says Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon War "Imminent"
By Steve Clemons | Huffington Post
Congressman Adam Schiff hosted a "Members Only" meeting of the 'Congressional Friends of Jordan Caucus' in the US House of Representatives this morning in the CVC Congressional Meeting Room with Jordan's King Abdullah II.
According to one attendee in the session, "the King's message was sobering."
King Abdullah seemed significantly concerned that conflict was about to break out again between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
One congressional source told me that the word the King used was 'imminent' with regard to the potential outbreak of war.
On many levels, this is extremely worrisome. Hezbollah is now integrated into Lebanon's parliament and interacting with countries like France at all levels of government. An Israeli-Lebanon War could preempt the normalization track the United States is pursuing with Syria. Read more.
University of Ottawa Activist Student Persecutions: The Case of Marc Kelly
University of Ottawa Activist Student Persecutions: The Case of Marc Kelly
By Stephen Lendman
On October 21, 2008, for the first time in school history, the University of Ottawa (U of O) Faculty of Science, without cause, deregistered undergraduate Marc Kelly, an exemplary student, expelling him for the semester and preventing him from completing the final three courses he needed to graduate. The official email sent him read:
"The Faculty of Science has been asked to deregister you. (This) message is to notify you that you are no longer registered...."
The official reason was the Department of Physics' displeasure over the nature and methods of his valid, legitimate research, twice secretly rejecting it, then informing him through pro forma letters saying, "It is common sense that (your research) has to use physics tools and physics knowledge."
Kelly was never contacted or questioned. When he tried approaching Physics Chair Bela Joos for an explanation, he refused to see him, suggesting this action wasn't over academic performance, but for publicly supporting tenured Professor Denis Rancourt, unfairly fired as explained below and in detail in an early April article titled, "Targeting Academic and Speech Freedoms: The Case of Canadian Professor Denis Rancourt."
In March 2009, it was for his political activism - specifically, courageously supporting oppressed Palestinians, criticizing the university's refusal to academically boycott Israel, and gallantly backing what U of O officials and President Allan Rock opposed - a former Canadian politician, UN ambassador, and staunch Israeli supporter.
Why Are American Jewish Groups So Intent on Defending Illegal Israeli Settlements and Other Human Rights Violations?
Why Are American Jewish Groups So Intent on Defending Illegal Israeli Settlements and Other Human Rights Violations?
by Sydney Levy and Yaman Salahi | MR Magazine | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com
A coalition of nearly 20 Jewish groups, ranging from the right-wing David Project and the Jewish National Fund to the liberal J Street, is distributing a misleading statement condemning a Student Senate bill at UC Berkeley. The ground-breaking bill calls for divestment from companies that profit from the perpetuation of the Israeli military occupation in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza. They refer to the bill as "dishonest" and "misleading" and "based on contested allegations."
Yet it is their letter that is both dishonest and misleading. The bill, available here, is based on extensive, footnoted research. Yet this coalition of Jewish groups does not contest any of the facts. Without offering any evidence, they dismiss findings by reputable organizations like the Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. Instead of condemning these human rights violations, they prefer to misinform the public by suggesting that it is somehow wrong to "take sides" against universally recognized injustice. In so doing, they effectively defend illegal Israeli settlements and the Israeli military occupation that continues to disrupt everyday features of Palestinian life: education, health care, economic life, and art and culture.
Further, they claim that the Berkeley bill calls on the University "to divest exclusively from Israel." They imply that the bill calls for divestment "from any company doing business with Israel." Read more.
Alarming Racism in Israel
Alarming Racism in Israel
By Stephen Lendman
Mossawa means equality, the Mossawa Advocacy Center promoting it for Israel's Arab citizens - about 1.5 million, comprising 20% of the population. Established in 1997, it "strives to improve the social, economic and political status of (Israeli Arabs), while preserving their national and cultural rights as Palestinians." It also promotes gender equality "in all spheres of society."
Its September 29, 2009 press release headlined the "High Follow-up Committee for Arab citizens (an organization representing Israeli Arabs) call for a general" October 1 one-day work stoppage to protest deteriorating conditions they face, and Israel's failure "to bring justice to the families of the 13 Arab victims that were killed by security forces during the events of October 2000," the start of the second Intifada.
The Committee asked all Arab institutions, organizations and businesses to honor it in opposition to Triangle and Negev area home demolitions; Galilee and Triangle area settlement building; discrimination in allocating resources; police violence, intimidation, racial, and political incitement; and the right of Arab citizens "to exist and live in dignity in their historic homeland."
Democracy Between Myth And Reality
Democracy between myth and reality
By Zafar Bangash | Crescent Online
...What is the reality of democracy in practice? Political systems in all Western societies are tightly controlled by the elites. People with money manipulate the system to their advantage. The masses are simply used as a vote bank to endorse whatever policies are put forward by competing elites belonging to the same class. In the past, feudal elites controlled the system and used it to advance their landed interests; with industrialization and development of the banking sector, a new class of people emerged. Now multinational corporations manipulate the system so that their interests are protected and advanced. People are asked to choose between the same set of elites that represent elite interests, not those of the masses. This has been compared to mice being asked to choose between different colors of cats to rule them: black, white, brown or other....
...An entire industry of lobbyists has also emerged. Lobbying is an expensive undertaking. A small group of people with money is able to manipulate the political system to their advantage. In the US, the Zionist lobby, the armaments industry and more recently the banking industry have all shown how the system is controlled and manipulated. No US leader has the courage to oppose the demands of the Zionist lobby. While millions of Americans are deprived of the right to a decent job, housing and healthcare, billions of dollars are funnelled to the Zionist State of Israel each year. America's global wars are waged on the backs of ordinary Americans whose sons and daughters die in distant lands so that the armaments industry barons can make tidy profits. The gnomes of banking lost billions of dollars in Ponzi schemes but then demanded that the government bail them out otherwise the entire system would collapse. Nearly $1 trillion were handed to them while millions of people lost their jobs and homes. How were people's interests safeguarded? The banking executives should have been put on trial for fraud and handed long prison sentences. Instead, in America's democratic utopia, they gave themselves billions of dollars in bonuses while ordinary people were thrown out of their homes and forced to live in tents.
This is how democracy works. One must express sympathy with ordinary people but this does not put bread on their plates. Read more.
Israel's Netanyahu Blows Off Obama's Nuclear Summi
Israel's Netanyahu Blows Off Obama's Nuclear Summit
By Juan Cole | Informed Comment | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com
The audience at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference is said to have gone wild with applause when Liz Cheney announced the decision of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu not to attend next week's nuclear summit, called by President Barack Obama....
Netanyahu's government recently humiliated Vice President Joe Biden when he was on a state visit to that country recently by announcing the building of 1600 new household units on Palestinian West Bank territory that Israel had unilaterally annexed to its district of Jerusalem. The announcement scuttled the talks with the Palestine Authority, the beginning of which Biden had come to celebrate. The Palestinians, have sensibly decided that they will refuse to negotiate with people who are actively stealing from them the very territory that is at stake in the negotiations. The Israeli slap in the face to Biden caused a subsequent Netanyahu visit to Washington to turn into a fiasco, with President Obama making forceful demands on the wily Netanyahu, and then leaving him on his own devices for dinner....
But there is another possible explanation for Netanyahu staying away from a summit on nuclear security issues in Washington. It is that the Israeli prime minister is protesting a new White House policy of refusing visas to Israeli scientists, engineers and technicians who work at the Dimona Reactor/ nuclear bomb factory. Up until recently they had been free to attend technical and scientific conferences and pursue advanced classes at US universities. The visa denials were reported in the Israeli newspaper Maariv by Uri Binder on Wednesday April 7: "Nuclear Reactor Workers Not Wanted in United States." It was translated by the USG Open Source Center. The article reports that Israeli workers at the Nuclear Research Center Negev (NRCN) in Dimona are complaining bitterly at the humiliation of being excluded from the US, saying the turn-downs are an "offense" against them "and their families." (???) Moreover, the Dimona bomb plant is suddenly finding it difficult to import technical components and equipment from the United States. The restrictions, they say, are unprecedented. They also claim a double standard, alleging that the Obama administration is being "lenient" toward Iran. Read more.
Imprisoning Palestinian Children
Imprisoning Palestinian Children
By Stephen Lendman
In June 2009, Defence for Children International (DCI)/Palestine Section published a report titled, "Palestine Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities."
DCI/Palestine "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according to international law principles.
Each year, about 700 West Bank children, under 18, are arrested, detained, interrogated, and prosecuted in Israeli military courts, in total about 6,500 since 2000. DCI lawyers represent 30 - 40% of them. The report focuses on their torture and abuse in custody.
Since the 1967 occupation, an estimated 700,000 Palestinian men, women, and children passed through Israel's judicial system, over 150,000 tried in military courts from 1990 - 2006, the remainder handled through plea bargains for lighter sentences. On average, over 9,000 Palestinians a year are affected, including 700 children treated the same as adults.
For nearly 43 years, Israeli military justice operated "almost completely devoid of international scrutiny," giving authorities license to violate human rights and humanitarian law with impunity. As a result, due process and judicial fairness don't apply under a system denying them.
Indoctrinating Israeli Youths To Be Warriors
Indoctrinating Israeli Youths to Be Warriors
By Stephen Lendman
The modern roots go back to Zionism's founding at the First Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland in 1897, its program being:
"Establishing for the Jewish people a publicly and legally assured home in Eretz Yisrael."
Five decades later, it was accomplished by dispossessing indigenous Palestinians, denying them the right to their land, creating a new Jewish identity, legitimizing Jews as rightful owners, and using superior military force to assure it against defenseless civilians, no match against their powerful adversary.
Leading up to and after its War of Independence, Israel stayed politically and militarily hard line, negotiating from strength, choosing confrontation over diplomacy, naked aggression as a form of self-defense, and occupation to seize as much of historic Palestine as possible to secure an ethnically pure Jewish state - policies called "Israelification (and) De-Arabization" to preserve a "Jewish character."
In his book, "The Making of Israeli Militarism, Uri Ben- Eliezer says writing about Israeli militarism involves "ventur(ing) into an intellectual minefield," given Jewish history under the Nazis and the perception of Israel as a safe haven. Yet decades of Arab-Israeli conflict produced seven full-scale wars, two Intifadas, and many hundreds of violent incidents.
Ben-Eliezer believes that, beginning in the 1930s, militarism "was gradually legitimized within the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, then within the new state (was) crystallized into a value, a formula, and an ideology." Over time, it acquired a dynamic of its own, then during the 1948 war, it "acquired full legitimacy" and became decisive in setting policy.
Politics and militarism were wedded to create a militaristic view of reality. Thereafter, it was institutionalized to where "the idea of implementing a military solution to (political problems) was not only enshrined as a value in its own right but was also considered legitimate, desirable, and indeed the best option."
Today, militarism is a "cardinal aspect of Israeli society," its quintessential element under the 1986 National Defence Service Law, requiring all Jewish Israeli citizens and permanent residents to serve - men and women, with exemptions only for Orthodox Jews, educational inadequacy, health, family considerations, married or pregnant women or those with children, criminals, and other considerations at the Defense Ministry's discretion. In addition, most Israeli leaders are former high-ranking IDF officers, politics and the military being inextricably connected.
The Creed of Objectivity and The New York Times
The Creed of Objectivity and The New York Times
By Barnabe F. Geisweiller | Truthout | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com
Many have recently questioned just how objective The New York Times' correspondent in Israel and Palestine, Ethan Bronner, can be when he has a son serving in the Israel Defense Forces - the Israeli army. In an article published March 28, Bronner showed readers there was cause for concern.
Bronner refers to illegal settlement expansion in East Jerusalem simply as "Jerusalem housing." He quotes Americans and Israelis, many speaking about Palestinians, but not one Palestinian. He includes a quote from Moshe Yaalon, a senior Israeli politician, stating that "the belief of land for peace has failed. We got land in return for terror." Bronner could have asked a senior Palestinian government minister what he thinks the Palestinians got after over forty years of occupation, in return for recognizing Israel's right to exist, and after nearly twenty years of negotiations. Bur he did not.
The New York Times sees nothing wrong with its coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict being shaped by journalists such as Bronner and their stridently pro-Israel columnist, Thomas L. Friedman. Nor does the paper see a conflict of interest in Bronner having a son in the Israeli army; the Times believes this will not affect his coverage of its actions in the occupied territories. Read more.
Israeli Youth Spread Message Of Peace With Portland Peers
Israeli youth spread message of peace with Portland peers
By Larry Bingham | The Oregonian | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com
The teens and tweens joking and laughing in the dining room at the YMCA's Camp Collins Saturday afternoon looked like any other damp-haired Oregon kids in their faded jeans, scruffy hoodies and muddy shoes.
Unless you knew half of them were visiting from Israel, you wouldn't think something unusual was taking place over turkey-and-cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. At nearly every table, Israeli Arabs sat beside Jewish schoolmates -- pairings that would be unusual in their highly segregated home country.
Which is why 21 youths -- 15 girls and six boys primarily in middle-school grades -- are spending roughly two weeks in the Portland area spreading a message of peace. They come from a school in Jerusalem that aims to integrate two groups violently opposed.
The Camp Collins visitors, who spent the morning and afternoon on a challenge course in rainy woods unlike any in Israel, attend a school operated by the Hand in Hand Center, a program started 13 years ago by Portland native Lee Gordon. Read more.
Among the Righteous: Lost Stories of the Holocaust In Arab Lands
Did any Arabs save Jews during the Holocaust? That's the question author Robert Satloff had in mind when he set out to discover the lost, true stories of survival, courage and betrayal in Arab lands during World War II. The history of the Holocaust in Europe is well-documented, but the history of what happened to the Jewish people of North Africa has been mostly forgotten, even in the very towns and cities where it occurred. The truth is remarkable: not only did Jews in Arab lands suffer many of same elements of persecution as Jews in Europe -- arrests, deportations, confiscations and forced labor -- but there were also hopeful stories of "righteous" Arabs reaching out to protect them. Visit the website.
Israeli Planes and Helicopters Bomb Gaza Targets
Israeli Planes and Helicopters Bomb Gaza Targets
Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Ralph Gowling | Reuters
Israeli planes and helicopters mounted at least seven missile attacks on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday, destroying what a military spokesman described as Palestinian munitions sites.
Four air strikes blew up two caravans near the town of Khan Younis, witnesses and Hamas officials said. There were no casualties.
A fifth missile hit a cheese factory in Gaza City, setting it on fire, witnesses and Hamas officials said. Hospital officials said two children were slightly wounded by flying debris.
Helicopters struck twice in the central refugee camp of Nusseirat, destroying a metal foundry. There were no casualties.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the attacks, saying they had targeted two weapons-manufacturing plants and two arms caches. Read more.
End Israel's U.S. Allowance So Both Can Gain: Celestine Bohlen
End Israel's U.S. Allowance So Both Can Gain: Celestine Bohlen
Commentary by Celestine Bohlen | Business Week
The crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations isn't going away. If anything, it keeps getting worse, precisely because it has exposed and crystallized a gap between the goals, expectations and even the national interests of these old allies.
The basic relationship may still be "rock solid," as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it recently, but it is being tugged in opposite directions. Maybe now is the time to take money out of the equation.
Israel will get $2.7 billion in military aid from the U.S. this year -- or 18 percent of Israel's military budget. By 2013, that will lock into an annual level of $3.15 billion for five years. It also has almost $4 billion outstanding in available U.S. loan guarantees, left over from $9 billion extended at former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's request in 2003.
That makes Israel the largest recipient of U.S. aid in the world, if you don't count Iraq and Afghanistan. It also benefits from some of the easiest terms: Unlike other recipients, which must buy 100 percent American, Israel can spend about one quarter of its U.S. military aid at home, which amounts to a significant boost to its defense industry.
The problem with this kind of largess is that it muddies the picture, both for Israel and the U.S. The best thing for the relationship would be for the U.S. to cut Israel's allowance. Read more.
Discharged Soldiers Sue For Millions Over Anthrax Experiment
Discharged soldiers sue for millions over Anthrax experiment
By Vered Luvitch | Ynetnews
Dozens of soldiers who took part in experiment in early 1990s aimed at determining efficacy of Anthrax vaccine demand $80,000 each in damages. 'Physical harm was passed down to our children,' plaintiff says
Sixty-four former IDF soldiers are suing the Defense Ministry for NIS 18 million ($4.8 million) over what they claim is damage caused to them during Anthrax vaccine experiments in the early 1990s.
The experiments, which were meant to determine the efficacy of an Anthrax vaccine, were carried out in light of what was then defined at the time as the "strategic threat of a surprise biological attack facing Israel."
Nicknamed "Omer 2," the experiments included 716 IDF soldiers picked out of a pool of 4,000.
The lawsuit, filed with the Petah Tikva District Court, is based on the principle according to which anyone who decides to take part in an experiment must do so willingly and after considering the risks involved.
As part of the lawsuit the soldiers are demanding that the state reveal the ingredients of the serum that was given to them, in addition to NIS 300,000 (about $80,000) in damages to each plaintiff for mental anguish and emotional distress resulting from the involuntary use of one's body and medical negligence.
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs cited an Israel Medical Association (IMA) report according to which the experiments were unjustifiable. Read more.
Case Against Gaza Protestors Unravelling
The attempt to criminalise scores of people who demonstrated last January against the occupation of Gaza is running into trouble. Last week, the police effectively dropped charges against Jake Smith, one of many charged with violent disorder, admitting that the evidence was faulty.
Jake's defence lawyers had found film of him being assaulted by police before the incident for which he was falsely charged (watch video).
So far, all the protestors who have pleaded not guilty have been found innocent. Another defendant had her sentence reduced significantly on appeal.
A picture of police violence and intimidation is now developing and Stop the War is part of the campaign to have all charges dropped against the protestors. Click here for background and updates.
Take Action: DC! Tomorrow, March 30th - International Day of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel
When: March 30, 5 PM
Where: Lord & Taylor, 5255 Western Ave., Northwest Washington DC 20015; next to Friendship Heights metro
Tuesday, March 30th, 5pm, join us in marking the international day of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. We will be protesting against the Israeli cosmetic company AHAVA at the Lord and Taylor's store in Washington DC. AHAVA is made in a settlement using Palestinian resources taken from the Dead Sea. The address of Lord and Taylors is 5255 Western Ave Northwest Washington DC 20015. It is next to the Friendship Heights metro. Spa attire (bathrobes and towels) are recommended but not required. We will provide signs and fliers, but if you would like to make your own sign, messages could include: AHAVA: Made by Israeli Profiteers in Occupied Palestine; Have a Heart--Don't Sell AHAVA Cosmetics; Don't buy AHAVA Cosmetics; Settlement Products Kill Hope for Peace; There is no love in Occupation.
We'll meet in the underground parking lot of the store. If you are planning to come, please call Medea Benjamin at 415 235 6517. Thank you and hope to see you there.
Iraq Today: Between Unity and Disintegration
This YouTube video is from a conference at Hebrew University sponsored by the Truman Institute at which Ambassador Ryan Crocker made extensive remarks on the present situation in Iraq. It took place when preliminary results of the election had been issued but the final results were not known. Crocker's remarks take place about 20 minutes into the recording.
The Lawfare Project's Anti-Democratic Agenda
The Lawfare Project's Anti-Democratic Agenda
By Stephen Lendman
Its web site (thelawfareproject.org) calls Lawfare:
"The use of the law as a weapon of war."
Fact Check
Provided they contradict no others, laws are sacrosanct, especially fundamental international ones like the UN Charter, Four Geneva Conventions, their Common Article 3, the Rome Statute, Nuremberg Tribunal and judgment, Genocide Convention, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and many others - ones Israel and America are sworn to uphold but consistently violate with impunity.
Lawfare Project (LP) claim: "The abuse of the law and legal systems (is used) for strategic or military ends."
Fact Check
International law is clear and unequivocal. The UN Charter explains under what conditions violence and coercion by one state against another are justified. Article 2(3) and Article 33(1) require peaceful settlement of international disputes. Article 2(4) prohibits force or its threatened use, and Article 51 allows the "right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member....until the Security Council has taken measures to maintain international peace and security."
In other words, justifiable self-defense is permitted, and Articles 2(3), 2(4), and 33(1) absolutely prohibit all unilateral threats or use of force not allowed under Article 51 or authorized by the Security Council. Even then, under Fourth Geneva, civilians are "protected persons" off-limits to attack. Doing it is a war crime.
Claim: Law is used to "thwart free speech about issues of national security and public concern."
Some Leave Gaza Town As Israeli Tanks Enter Area
Some leave Gaza town as Israeli tanks enter area | CNN
Several residents living east of Khan Younis in Gaza were seen leaving their homes Saturday, witnesses said, following clashes a day earlier that left two Israeli soldiers and three Palestinians dead.
Meanwhile, four Israeli tanks and a bulldozer rolled in to Gaza, east of Khan Younis, early Saturday, witnesses told CNN. The military vehicles left soon after they arrived, the witnesses added.
The IDF said that "after yesterday's events, IDF continued to operate in the area and removed infrastructure used by the terrorists to carry out the attack yesterday."
The Israeli military would not confirm the report that tanks had entered and then withdrew from Gaza.
Later, Israel Defense Forces helicopters and drones were seen and heard around 7:10 p.m. (12:10 p.m. ET) Saturday above northern Gaza, Khan Younis, and off the Gazan coast, the witnesses said. The IDF would not comment when asked if the Israel's air force was carrying out an operation in the area. Read more.
AIPAC: Telling a Whopper
By Stephanie Westbrook
The theme of this year's annual policy conference for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was 'Israel: Tell the Story.' And it was quite a story that AIPAC wanted to tell.
The conference aimed at imparting to the over 7000 attendees 'an intimate understanding of the many ways that Israel is making the world a better place,' with a focus on peacemaking and innovation. According to the AIPAC web site, conference goers will also 'meet Israelis who rush to the scene of natural disasters in far away lands because they believe that to save one life is to save the whole world.' No mention was made of the 1400 people killed during the Israeli assault on Gaza.
Against a backdrop of creative blends of US and Israeli flags and icons, the three-day conference in Washington DC included plenary speeches by former Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Tzipi Livni and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom, according to journalist MJ Rosenberg, delegates were warned in advance not to boo or hiss. Workshops varied from self-serving questions such as 'Are Settlements An Obstacle to Peace?' and 'Is Israel Treated Unfairly in the Press?' to 'The Gaza Dilemma' and 'Inside Iran.'
Large numbers of young people attended the conference. With more than 900 university students from 370 campuses as well as 397 high school students, many benefiting from scholarships, students made up nearly 17% of the total number of participants.
Standing outside the conference it was clear that AIPAC is reaching out well beyond the Jewish community for support.
The constant flow of buses, with taxpayer-funded police escort, dropped off conference attendees including many African-American delegations. In fact, workshop sessions centered on the emerging alliance with the African American community and how this alliance can be 'ignited around the pro-Israel cause.'
U.S. Checking Possibility Of Pumping Oil From Northern Iraq To Haifa, Via Jordan
U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan
By Amiram Cohen | Haaretz
The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem.
The Prime Minister's Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a "bonus" the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq, had asked the Americans for the official telegram.
The new pipeline would take oil from the Kirkuk area, where some 40 percent of Iraqi oil is produced, and transport it via Mosul, and then across Jordan to Israel. The U.S. telegram included a request for a cost estimate for repairing the Mosul-Haifa pipeline that was in use prior to 1948. During the War of Independence, the Iraqis stopped the flow of oil to Haifa and the pipeline fell into disrepair over the years.
The National Infrastructure Ministry has recently conducted research indicating that construction of a 42-inch diameter pipeline between Kirkuk and Haifa would cost about $400,000 per kilometer. The old Mosul-Haifa pipeline was only 8 inches in diameter.
National Infrastructure Minister Yosef Paritzky said yesterday that the port of Haifa is an attractive destination for Iraqi oil and that he plans to discuss this matter with the U.S. secretary of energy during his planned visit to Washington next month. Paritzky added that the plan depends on Jordan's consent and that Jordan would receive a transit fee for allowing the oil to piped through its territory. The minister noted, however, that "due to pan-Arab concerns, it will be hard for the Jordanians to agree to the flow of Iraqi oil via Jordan and Israel." Read more.
Britons Queued At Ben Gurion Airport As Israeli Officials Cloned Passports
Britons Queued At Ben Gurion Airport As Israeli Officials Cloned Passports
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Passing through Israel's Ben Gurion airport, a few miles east of Tel Aviv, is a unique experience no first-time visitor is likely to forget.
It represents the pinnacle of modern aviation security. Baggage is passed through giant, state-of-the-art machines, and travellers – both arriving and leaving – are frequently subjected to lengthy, personal and repetitive questioning by officials, on their ethnic background and that of any local acquaintances they may have made.
It is not at all uncommon for the mostly youthful immigration officers to wander off, passports and tickets in hand, ostensibly to consult with their seniors. Surrendering documents at check-in or at immigration has hitherto been considered a necessary evil for all those travelling in and out of Ben Gurion.
But the evidence that the Israeli state has been taking the information gleaned from these inspections to create cloned identities for its spies introduces a new level of risk to the experience. Read more.


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This is the second installment in a series about the concept of import substitution by Bob Wise. Read the introduction, "Should we build Apples or should we harvest them," here.
Have you ever asked where your food comes from? Sometimes I ask at food markets: "Can I buy something grown in Oregon?" I usually get a blank stare because there is so little from Oregon in these markets, particularly in the off-season.
If we are sitting in the midst of one of the world's most food-abundant places why is it so difficult to buy food grown here? The answer is that we import most of the food we eat.
We currently import at least 90 percent of the food we purchase from outside the Portland region. Research sponsored by the USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program found that the total food and related inputs purchased outside the Portland region is about $4.7 billion a year.
If we can substitute 10 percent to 20 percent of the food currently imported from outside the region with food produced regionally — import substitution — we can increase regional wealth by between $470 million and $940 million annually. It is also important that such import substitution be pursued while still supporting exports.
How can we change this significant "leakage" dynamic? Summarized below are findings from several recent research projects conducted by Cogan Owens Cogan and regional partners that attempt to answer some of these questions.
1. What does the food economy look like? The food economic cluster includes production (growing), processing, distribution and consumption industries. It is a significant economic engine, with 16,150 firms, 155,903 employees and a 2008 payroll of $2.97 billion in the Portland region alone.
2. Can we support expanded agriculture to accommodate import substitution? Research conducted by Ecotrust on regional ecosystem services indicates that the region can feed itself most fruits and vegetables and support half of current beef consumption on existing pasture land.
3. What would it take for the demand for local foods to increase? Several related strategies and tools provide places to start:
- Expand farmers' markets so there is one in every city, town and large neighborhood.
- Increase the supply of local food in regional markets and corner stores.
- Encourage schools, hospitals and other large institutions to purchase more local food.
- Increase participation in Community Supported Agriculture.
- Encourage the use of locally grown products in local restaurants and catering businesses.
- Regionalize purchasing strategies for major market chains and fast food establishments.
- Support innovations such as developing smart phone applications to help inform interested shoppers of food origins.
4. What would it take for the supply of local food to increase? Our research indicates that we need several new strategies to support the regional food economy. These strategies include:
- Make it easier to grow food in cities.
- Allow farm- and food-related businesses in rural zones to support farm income, such as food tourism and business incubation centers.
- Support community design for food, including permanent homes for farmers' markets and community gardens.
- Implement transferable development right-type programs focused on protecting agricultural lands in the urban-rural fringe.
5. How can we help farmers keep a greater share of the food dollar and stay in business?
- Support producer cooperatives or other organizations to help farmers brand, process, market and distribute their products.
- Provide information on good farm business practices.
- Create and support networks designed to find and facilitate the next generation of farmers.
- Provide information on traditional bank and innovative sources of capital for farmers, such as patient capital and pension funds.
6. Finally, how can we increase our human and social capital to support the food economy? Oregon is ranked as one of the states with the most hunger and highest obesity rates. To address these challenges the region can focus on diet, personal health and vitality. Schools, health care institutions and social service agencies can work together to provide education, foster meal preparation skills, and develop purchasing strategies. For employees, we can develop programs focused on improving their skills and access to the next level of economic opportunity, such as transitioning from farm worker to farm partner and from food processing employee to food processing manager or to new business owner.
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For once, Do NOT fine him So the lead story on the World Wide Lemur this fine Saturday morning (what can I tell you, I just finished cleaning up my space after poker, and I'm not ready to sleep just yet) is how INAPPROPRIATE! the Lakers are finding Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban's public speculation over how they should amnesty Kobe Bryant next year, rather than fork over $30+ million from their $100 million and heavily luxury taxed roster. Cubes, of course, was saying all of this stuff for the only reason that Cubes says anything: to try to convince the listening public of how special, smart and wonderful he is, because this is a lifelong case that Cubes just can't get away from. (Did you know that the Mavericks are a business unlike any other, and Cubes is a genius for cashing out before the dot-com boom ended, and that Google and YouTube is doomed, Doomed, DOOMED I TELL YOU? Well, by all means, spend more time listening to Cuban. Either that, or stick knitting needles in your ears...
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The politicking — the local politicking, anyway — officially begins today.
<IF YOU GO>Some other Vanderburgh County elected officials and 2010 candidates for local office have scheduled dates to file their candidacy papers at the Election Office in Room 214 of the Civic Center. More candidate filings are expected to be announced.
1 p.m. — Bob Mangold, Democrat for Center Township trustee
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According to the 2010 Indiana election calendar, today is the first day candidates in local elections may file their candidacy papers.
In Vanderburgh County, that means the kickoff of a grand political tradition of candidates staging small pep rallies after they sign on the dotted line. Many candidates pack the second floor of the Civic Center outside the Election Office when they file, giving short speeches laced with what they hope will be applause lines.
"The main reason (for filing) is to let the public know you're running and because they have to do it," County Clerk Susan Kirk said. "But if you (stage an event), you're going to get more news coverage.
"You have your supporters there, and it's kind of like your pep rally before the big game starts."
Incumbent Republican County Council members Russ Lloyd Jr., Tom Shetler Jr. and James Raben are scheduled to file together and make remarks to supporters at 1 p.m. Lloyd, Shetler and Raben represent three of the four council districts. Democratic Councilman Royce Sutton, who represents the other district, has not announced his plans for filing.
Also set to file today are Superior Court Magistrates Richard D'Amour and Jill R. Marcrum, who will make their candidacies for a Superior Court judgeship official at 10 a.m. and 11:45 a.m., respectively. D'Amour and Marcrum are seeking the seat held by Judge Douglas Knight, who is retiring.
Judicial and legislative candidates are required to file for office with the state in Indianapolis, not locally, but many of them stage "courtesy filings" locally to pump up supporters or attract media coverage.
One candidate opted not to wait until today to make her intentions known.
Former County Councilwoman Marsha Abell, a Republican, told a roomful of supporters at The Centre on Tuesday that she will seek the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic County Commissioner Troy Tornatta.
"I've always treated taxpayer money as if it were my own, and some of it is because I also am a home-owner here in Evansville," Abell said. "And I always will be very, very careful with your money.
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Teacher's Appreciation Week is just around the corner! As a busy, working mother, I wanted to come up with a different but fun way to gift that special educator in your kiddo's life! Dress up a jar candle with this Candle Wrap Teacher Appreciation Printable!
I do not have school age children anymore, but this could be used for anyone…..thanks for the idea!
Lovely and thoughtful! =D
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What a neat saying and awesome teacher's gift!
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lovely idea Jill, I don't have a teacher to give this to but it's great for any occassion! I really like it!
I'd love it if you link this up to my linky party. It will go on 2 blogs. http://diycraftyprojects.com/2013/04/whatcha-work-up-wednesday-30.html
Good morning Jill! I found your post at Lil' Luna's link party! This is such a great, crafty idea and it's definitely a must-try! I would like to invite you to my party to link up this recipe for others to see! http://home-styled.blogspot.com/2013/04/link-party-show-your-style-sunday-5.html
Jill – I love that quote…. it looks perfect on your candle. What a lovely gift! Thanks so much for sharing on Project Inspire{d}!
Lovely, thank you for sharing this wonderful idea as we get ready to wind up our school year.
Such a sweet idea, Jill! I have to save it for next year


text: Shawn Forno 2015-07-05T02:24:46-04:00 Shawn Forno http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/index.php?author=shawn-forno Copyright 2008, HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. HuffingtonPost Blogger Feed for Shawn Forno Good old fashioned elbow grease. Animation Is a Rube Goldberg Machine tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2014:/theblog//3.5434284 2014-06-03T13:21:28-04:00 2014-08-03T05:59:05-04:00 Shawn Forno http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shawn-forno/ It's not just that they're indescribably cool or painstaking to make -- no, Rube Goldbergs are so captivating because they're animation that happens in the real world. If you're not familiar, a Rube Goldberg Machine is any complicated contraption built from everyday objects arranged into a long chain-reaction to accomplish a simple goal. The winner of the 30th annual Rube Goldberg Collegiate competition in 2014 (yes, they've been competing for 30 years) zipped up a zipper. In 75 steps. If you've ever stacked dominoes in a row, you've built a Rube Goldberg Machine. Welcome to the club, nerd. The beauty of "Rubes" is that it doesn't matter what parts they're made of -- ping-pong balls and dominoes, or hammers and balloons -- or what they're goal is -- these machines captivate people by bringing everyday objects to life. Rube Goldberg machines are stop-motion animation in real-time, moving the action along like a story. But more on that later. First, let's get to know these contraptions better by looking at their history. It's no coincidence that the creator and namesake of the Rube Goldberg machine -- Reuben Lucius Goldberg (born 1883) -- was a famous cartoonist and animator. Originally a trained engineer (he received his degree from Berkeley in 1904), Goldberg's passion for illustration led him to leave a promising career designing sewers for the City Hall to draw illustrations part-time while he swept the editorial floor at the San Francisco Chronicle. He made a whopping $8/week at his new career and never looked back. Goldberg's imaginative illustrations "quickly ensnared the public's interest," and by 1915 his comics were the toast of the art world, earning him over $100,000 a year ($2.3 million today). His work was syndicated in New York Dada (published by Marcel Duchamp), The Literary Digest, and he went on to found the National Cartoonists Society in 1946. Goldberg even received a Pulitzer for his animations. Shortly before his death in 1970, Goldberg's work was curated by the Smithsonian in an exhibit aptly titled "Do it the Hard Way." In 1931, Rube Goldberg machines got so popular that Merriam-Webster adopted the word "Rube Goldberg" to mean "an adjective defined as accomplishing something simple through complicated means." Goldberg himself said the machines were: "A symbol of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results." - Rube Goldberg To understand how animation itself is a type of Rube Goldberg machine, let's examine the first feature length animated film ever created - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, released on Feb 4, 1938. Over 570 animators and water-color artists labored for nearly five years to compile two million sketches and paintings, though only 166,000 made the final film. Production soared over budget by $1.25 million (6x the original figure), and Hollywood insiders described the film as "Disney's Folly." Talk about "maximum effort" for just an 83-minute cartoon. But that's the exactly the point. Snow White isn't just a "cartoon," and far from the "folly" predicted by Hollywood professionals, Snow White became one of the most cherished films of all time. It single-handedly transformed "cartoons" - a medium widely discredited at the time -- into the respectable, lucrative creative field we recognize today. Five years of foolish toil resulted in a timeless tale. Snow White's initial release earned $8.5 million at the box office making it the most successful movie ever. Fast forward to 2014 where Frozen became the first animated film to gross $1 billion. Rube Goldbergs -- as animation -- are alive and well. But here's the wonderful thing about Rube Goldbergs and animation -- no one needs them. Not even a little bit. People don't need a self-operating napkin anymore than they need quality animation for their product. Hundred of studios churn out cheap, cookie-cutter animation -- and they manage to eek out a profit. But the bottom-line was never a concern for Goldberg, or any of the great animators -- from Disney to Miyazaki -- and it's exactly that disregard for convention that makes Rube Goldbergs and quality animation so adored. Every Rube Goldberg and every great animation is unique - hand-crafted to fit the situation - and their success depends solely on the skill and vision of the creator. Whether it's nailing a walk cycle or stacking 1,000 dominoes - each has their technical challenges, and when it's done well, a story inevitably emerges. A story from a bunch of things crashing into each other? Absolutely. Rube Goldbergs are packed with drama. Will the fan blow the book over? Why is that sledgehammer pointed at that T.V.? Will the glass shards fall on the scale and tip the bag of marbles? What if the marbles roll the wrong way? It's been 100 years since Goldberg illustrated his first contraption - "Automatic Weight Reducing Machine," in 1914 and people are still coming back for more. OK GO's music video for "This Too Shall Pass" features an astounding Rube Goldberg, and over 43 million people have flocked to see it. Quality craftsmanship and imagination stand the test of time. Jonathan Gottschall's book The Storytelling Animal talks about how people inherently crave storytelling, and we'll find it anywhere -- from dancing mice and fairy princesses to a cog rolling down a plank. I love Rube Goldberg machines and animation, but maybe I'm just old-fashioned. I take pleasure in all the world's perfectly complicated contraptions because for all their bells and whistles, squiggly lines, and non-sequiturs, they do something so beautifully simple amidst the chaos. They tell stories.]]> Debunking the Natural Food Myth: 5 Modern Foods That Are Anything but Natural tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.4468982 2013-12-19T10:00:31-05:00 2014-02-18T05:59:01-05:00 Shawn Forno http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shawn-forno/ Below are five common fruits and veggies you might want to get to know a little better... 1. Broccoli (Brassica oleracea) This wildflower produces stalks 3-7 feet high with tiny yellow buds at the top. Through domesticated humans took this thin-stalked, giant flower, and turned it into the dense green stalk thing smothered in Velveeta. However, the broccoli modification goes much further. Cauliflower, kale, cabbage, lettuce, and even brussel sprouts are all the exact same species -- brassica oleracea. Humans have just bred them for different taste preferences. Now pick your jaw up off the floor and finish your flowers. 2. Carrots (Daucus carota) Wild carrots are small flowering plants as well. The tuberous taproot of the plant is what we commonly refer to as a "carrot" and while the wild carrot is technically edible, it's only safe when it's young. Soon after adolescence, the taproot grows too woody, and contact with wild carrot leaves can lead to a nasty case of phytophotodermatitis -- painful lesions that come from reaction to UV light. 3. Bananas (Musa acuminata) Modern bananas, commonly called "Cavendish" bananas, are so far removed from their wild brethren that they can't even reproduce without human intervention. We've bred the seeds out of them. Think about that for a second; breeding the ability to breed out of a species. Sounds delicious. This means that every banana consumed in the last few decades is a clone from the same cutting, so don't complain that someone else has a bigger banana, because they're literally all the same. 4. Almonds (Prunus amygdalus) The history of wild almond is amazing. Actually not a nut, but a seed from the almond tree (a relative of the peach and prune trees), the almond fruit contains glycoside amygdalin, which transforms into hydrogen cyanide after crushing, or even chewing. Apparently as little as a dozen wild almonds contains enough cyanide to be fatal. Yet despite their poisonous nature, almonds are one of the more ancient examples of domestication, appearing as early as the Bronze Age (3000 B.C.E). The interesting thing is that no one knows how early humans figured out which almond trees didn't contain tons of cyanide. Seriously, no one knows. Apparently people loved almonds enough to keep trying different trees until they stopped dying, then bred those. Guess that's why a tiny bag costs $11. 5. Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) Wild tomato is a close relative of poisonous nightshade, and even domesticated tomatoes contain toxins like tomatine and solanine. Over-consumption, especially of the leaves, or the use of leaves to make tea, can cause death. One of the more poisonous iterations of the species, Solanum wallacei, is a purple flowering plant, similar in look to domesticated tomato. It will kill you. A balanced diet is important, and awareness of where and how your food is prepared is essential, but don't forget that most of what ends up on your dinner table, no matter your dietary preference, is the result of centuries of careful domestication and manipulation of calorie-poor, often poisonous, wild fruits and vegetables. Yum! For more science on the topic of ancient foodstuffs, enjoy Christina Warninner's TEDTalk: Debunking the Paleo Diet.]]> Fall Cocktails: The Six Best Whiskey Drinks You've Never Heard of tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3976305 2013-09-26T09:17:16-04:00 2013-11-26T05:12:02-05:00 Shawn Forno http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shawn-forno/ photo courtesy of foodriver 1) Suburban "If you could distill carved-oak paneling and club chairs, leather-bound volumes and three-cushion billiard tables, [the Suburban] is what you'd get," claims Esquire. Named for the Brooklyn Suburban Handicap horse race, this 19th century tipple combines three longshots rarely seen in the winner's circle -- rye, rum, and port. Yet somehow, they just work. A nice dark rum mellows the harsher edges of rye, specifically the "heat," port subtly plays the role of a sweet vermouth, and a dash or two of bitters rounds out the missing herbal notes. Always a safe bet. 1.5 oz. rye whisky .5 oz. dark rum .5 oz. ounce port 1 dash orange bitters 1 dash Angostura bitters 2) Remember the Maine Traveling mixologist, Charles H. Baker, brought us this American classic in his 1939 tome The Gentleman's Companion. A twist on the original absinthe cocktail -- the sazerac -- this delicious rye drink blends fall-ripened cherry sweetness, and oaky spice inherent in rye whiskey barrel distillation, with the herbal abundance of absinthe. A delightful sipper, and a great way to wade into the shallow end of the absinthe pool before diving in. 2 oz. rye whiskey .75 oz. sweet vermouth .5 oz. Cherry Heering 1/2 tsp. absinthe 3) Brain Duster If Remember the Maine didn't kick in your teeth, never fear, the Brain Duster is here. This infamously strong libation packs a wallop and is a must for absinthe cocktail enthusiasts. Previously dubbed "The Waldorf" at the Astoria (too classy), and "The Hearn" after famous boozehound Lafcadio Hearn (we're getting closer), it wasn't until noted bartender, George J. Kappeler, christened it "The Brain Duster" in 1895 that we finally respected its potent promise. 1 oz. rye whisky 1 oz. absinthe 1 oz. Italian vermouth 1 dash Angostura bitters 4) Tom and Jerry While this drink requires more than just the average pour, measure, and stir, the effort is well worth it. A holiday favorite for more than a century, this creamy warming elixir was crafted by none other than "Professor" Jerry Thomas and predates the Civil War, making it a truly nostalgic beverage to toast the changing seasons. Serve this at Thanksgiving and discover what people are actually thankful for. 12 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 bottle brandy Pinch of ground allspice Pinch of ground cinnamon Pinch of ground cloves 1 bottle dark rum 1 pint of milk nutmeg dusting 5) San Martin (often mislabeled "Sand Martin") Ok, so this drink doesn't have any whiskey in it - who cares? It looks like it does. Named for South American liberator Jose de San Martin, this libation is an excellent fit for the hardcore negroni addict, substituting the herbal punch of Campari with that most refined of French liqueurs - chartreuse. I suggest trying the mellower yellow chartreuse before the "warmer" green. 1.5 oz. London dry gin 1.5 oz. Italian vermouth .25 oz. yellow chartreuse 6) Brooklyn What better way to proclaim your hipster status than by ordering "that other borough martini?" Ironically not as celebrated as its Manhattan compatriot, the Brooklyn does things differently by substituting dry vermouth for sweet, adding maraschino liqueur, and finishing with a dash of amaro -- like Amer Picon or Ramazzotti -- instead of bitters. It tastes better if you're wrapped up in flannel. 2 oz. rye whiskey 1 oz. dry vermouth .25 oz. maraschino liqueur .25 oz. amaro]]>


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