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A key agency has downgraded cash-strapped Miami's bond credit rating, a shift that will leave the public footing a higher bill for big-ticket projects, including parking garages for the new Marlins ballpark.
When you visit your kid's grave site at some national cemetery, killed fighting 'Wars for Wall Street and Israel,' give thanks that your son or daughter died fighting a war for Zionism.
When you drive home on a pothole filled highway, silently utter a prayer for Israel and smile, knowing that the money that should have repaired that road is building state of the art highways in Israel.
In the video clip from Fox below, Bill Kristol advocates US military attack on Iran because he predicts that Israel will attack Iran. This is propaganda for an unlawful war for the following "emperor has no clothes" obvious reasons. Fox "reporting" is also a manipulative variation of the same war drone I've documented from CBS, ABC, and CNN.
The fact is that absent a new World War, the US Government is finished (actually, a new world war will finish the US, but at least DC will go out with a wild party!)
The conventional view in Washington is that nothing revives fanatical patriotism among American taxpayers like a good bloodbath against, well, it doesn't really matter. We are going after this Arabs because Israel said to and because the Germans have been up at bat twice and are sick of being the global whipping boy.
The sad reality is that we cannot stop the next World War because all it takes is the least mentally stable leader to launch one missile and the whole world catches on fire, then the slaves are put back to work rebuilding it all again.
But what we can do and must do is deprive the attacker of the illusion that the intended target for invasion is somehow the villain.
Israel and the US media attempted to blame Turkey for Israel's attack on the aid flotilla in International waters. This is a repeat of the propaganda Bush used when he attacked Iraq, or Hitler used when he attacked Poland; "They made us do it, Mommy!"
The conventional view in Washington is that nothing revives fanatical patriotism among American taxpayers like a good bloodbath against, well, it doesn't really matter. We are going after this Arabs because Israel said to and because the Germans have been up at bat twice and are sick of being the global whipping boy.
The sad reality is that we cannot stop the next World War because all it takes is the least mentally stable leader to launch one missile and the whole world catches on fire, then the slaves are put back to work rebuilding it all again.
But what we can do and must do is deprive the attacker of the illusion that the intended target for invasion is somehow the villain.
Israel and the US media attempted to blame Turkey for Israel's attack on the aid flotilla in International waters. This is a repeat of the propaganda Bush used when he attacked Iraq, or Hitler used when he attacked Poland; "They made us do it, Mommy!"
Thomas Friedman sure knows how to flip reality on its head. In his New York Times op-ed column today, Friedman hops on the bandwagon of bashing Turkey for "joining the Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran resistance front against Israel."
Friedman accuses Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan of no longer promoting democracy and instead being more focused on "praising Hamas instead of the more responsible Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, which is actually building the foundations of a Palestinian state."
Ignoring the fact that HAMAS won the elections, right?
Here is the Israeli modus operandi.
Israsel creates and funds "opposition" parties in Palestine to prevent any one party from being seen as the leader of all Palestine. When Yassir Arafat led the PLO and PLO began to accept Israeli terms towards peace, Israel's Shin Bet created and funded HAMAS so that Israel could say, "We do not know who to talk to; there are two governments in Palestine!"
Then Arafat died (or was murdered), and Israel dropped supporting HAMAS. HAMAS, rather than fade away leaving Palestine in Chaos as Israel wanted, decided that since it was now the defacto government of Palestine they would act like one, much to the annoyance of the Israeli sponsors who had betrayed them.
So, Israel played the same game all over, creating and funding FATAH so that Israel could say, "We do not know who to talk to; there are two governments in Palestine!" And as soon as HAMAS is gone and FATAH is the power, Israel will drop support for Abbas and create yet a new opposition party to keep Palestine divided and conquered.
Here is the Israeli modus operandi.
Israsel creates and funds "opposition" parties in Palestine to prevent any one party from being seen as the leader of all Palestine. When Yassir Arafat led the PLO and PLO began to accept Israeli terms towards peace, Israel's Shin Bet created and funded HAMAS so that Israel could say, "We do not know who to talk to; there are two governments in Palestine!"
Then Arafat died (or was murdered), and Israel dropped supporting HAMAS. HAMAS, rather than fade away leaving Palestine in Chaos as Israel wanted, decided that since it was now the defacto government of Palestine they would act like one, much to the annoyance of the Israeli sponsors who had betrayed them.
So, Israel played the same game all over, creating and funding FATAH so that Israel could say, "We do not know who to talk to; there are two governments in Palestine!" And as soon as HAMAS is gone and FATAH is the power, Israel will drop support for Abbas and create yet a new opposition party to keep Palestine divided and conquered.
Hold your breath. This in not a joke, this is not a satire. It is real almost as much as it is pathetic. Israeli Ynet just reported that the images of captured Israeli commandos published in Turkish papers opened "...old wounds among those Israeli commandos involved in similar circumstances. Thus far, at least four combat soldiers have reported worsening of their (mental) condition"
One thing the people of America must do at this November election, despite what is certain to happen beforehand. That is to not vote for any Jewish/Israeli lawmaker no matter what. All of them must be thrown out of office. Also, any and every lawmaker who is in support of Israel in any way must be refused office on that basis period. They are traitors in the most indefensible sense. Every single individual who supports the Crime Syndicate known as Israel should be exposed for it as if it were a heinous crime, which it is. Support of Israel must be seen and understood as a capital felony against humanity.
In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Hasan Huseyin Uysal, a Turkish doctor, said that he treated Israeli commandos who were captured and briefly detained during the initial stages of a raid on a ship challenging Israel's naval blockade of Gaza last week.
The municipality wants to demolish 22 homes and to transfer the residents to another area, an issue that was rejected by the residents as it violates their rights and violates international law.
They have good reason to worry. Even though BP claims otherwise, we just don't know for sure and you shouldn't just dump it anywhere (although I suspect they will, anyway):
About 35,000 bags — or 250 tons — of oily trash have been carted away from this beach, said Lt. Patrick Hanley of the Coast Guard, who is stationed at Port Fourchon. And as of Monday, more than 175,000 gallons of liquid waste — a combination of oil and water — had been sent to landfills, as had 11,276 cubic yards of solid waste, said Petty Officer Gail Dale, also of the Coast Guard, who works with at the command center in Houma.
Oil giant BP is facing a huge new challenge in disposing of the millions of gallons of potentially toxic oil sludge its crews are collecting from the Gulf of Mexico, according to industry experts and veterans of past spills.
Crews so far have skimmed and sucked up 21.1 million gallons of oil mixed with water, according to the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command. Because the out-of-control well may continue spewing for months, that total almost certainly will surge.
BP's plan for handling the gooey mess, written in conjunction with the Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency and Louisiana officials, calls for reclaiming or recycling as much as possible.
Why does the rightwing attack on "Big Government" increasingly resonate with working people?
Liberals claim wage and salaried workers are acting against their "self-interest", citing government welfare programs like social security and unemployment payments. Progressives argue that workers hostile to the state are 'racists", "fundamentalists" and/or irrational, blinded by misplaced fears of threats to individual freedoms.
I will argue there are many sound, rational, material reasons for working people to be in revolt against the state.
Twenty-Two Reasons Why Working People Hate the State
A new bill rocketing through Congress would give the president sweeping powers to police the Web for national-security reasons. Could this be a way to block WikiLeaks?
This is an attack by the government on freedom of the press targeted specifically at the blogs and alternative media. The label "National Security", originally defined as militarily significant secrets, has grown to a wide brush used to block stories of war crimes and political corruption the public has both a right and a need to know.
This is the first stage of censorship and a cold wake-up call to the dictatorship that has emerged in our nation.
This is the first stage of censorship and a cold wake-up call to the dictatorship that has emerged in our nation.
This Thursday, the FCC opens up comments on its proposal regulate the Internet. While no one is quite sure all that it will contain, Scott Cleland (a long-time telecom policy expert and insider) has pieced together recent FCC filings from Google to outline how Net Neutrality regulations could be part of a grand plan to control how virtually all media enters your home.
The international community has been expected Israel to take steps to loosen the Gaza blockade ever since an attack on a flotilla resulted in the death of nine protestors.
The Israel response came today, and it wasn't impressive.
As predicted, Israel announcement they would ease the blockade was mostly a hoax, intended to bluff other nations into canceling their plans for aid flotillas, and to hopefully allow the story of the attack on the previous aid flotilla in international waters to fade away. That of course did not work; the world has had way too much experience with Israel's behavior relative to Gaza in the past.
See Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
See Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
When the Florida Press Association invited U.S. Senate candidates to speak to the media at the Ritz-Carlton on Thursday, there was one name absent from the list. Charlie Crist, Republican Marco Rubio, and Democrat Kendrick Meek all made the list. Even long-shot Democrat billionaire Jeff Greene was included...
Russia will "always hate" U.S. missile defenses because it cannot match them, but that should not stand in the way of ratifying a new U.S.-Russian nuclear arms treaty, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
In what must be among the wildest speculations of the Obama Administration, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates sought to defend a massive US missile defense system in Europe by guessing that Iran might fire "scores or even hundreds of missiles" at Europe (for what reasons, only the liars know).
Resisting the Occupation and Siege
Millions worldwide demand it. So does the Arab League, according to an Al Jazeera June 13 report quoting Amr Moussa, Arab League secretary-general, saying:
"This blockade….must be lifted and must be broken and the Arab League decision is very clear in this regard."
On June 13, Moussa commented after visiting Gaza for talks with Hamas Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, Haaretz reporting he's the highest Arab official to do so since Hamas' 2006 election, after which an Israeli/West embargo followed, then the June 2007 siege.
Moussa entered through Rafah after Egypt reopened it following the Freedom Flotilla massacre, saying it will continue indefinitely.
According to Haaretz:
By Rich Wiles
Through the recent murderous events in international waters Israel has once again shown its true colours and its total disregard for humanity. From the global reaction over the last week it seems that, for once, a huge majority of people around the world have seen these attacks in a clear light. Let us call a massacre a massacre. Whilst these atrocities have clearly appalled millions of people, the inhumanity of the Zionist regime should have come as no surprise, for this is nothing new.
Editors Note: Mrs Julia Irwin's MP adjournment debate speech on 16th June, 2010 in the Australian Parliament and the Government minister Dr Craig Emerson's shameful disassociation on behalf of the government at the conclusion of the adjournment debate.
If Craig Emerson's comment reflects the Labor Party's policy on this matter as Israel and its merciless treatment of the whole nation of Palestine is clearly reprehensible, then sadly the compromised parliamentarians both in Australia and in the US Congress is an indication that Israel has captured and is dictating the foreign policies of both countries and whereas one could once have expected an independent stance on matters of importance from Australia, such as the Middle East, this appears not to be the case.
Turkey and the Neocons
On May 31, Israeli navy commandos launched a deadly attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters as the aid convoy was heading toward the besieged Gaza Strip, killing 20 people.
Defying repeated international calls for a transparent and credible probe into the incident, Israel's cabinet approved the establishment of an "independent public commission" to probe the legal aspects of the deadly operation.
What follows is Press TV's interview with Dr. Franklin Lamb, an international lawyer, about the investigation into the attack.
Press TV: Dr. Lamb, will the one-sided investigation by Israel be regarded as a legitimate one by the international community?
Israel's Flotilla "Investigation" – Accused Murderer Chooses Own Jury; Court Reporter is Family Member
Isabel Kershner is the New York Times' correspondent in Israel, formerly of The Jerusalem Report and the wife of Hirsch Goodman.
The New York Times, whose regional bureau chief has a son in the Israeli military, reports that Israel has just appointed a panel charged with investigating its attack on an aid flotilla that killed nine aid volunteers, including a 19-year-old American.
Isabel Kershner, who is an Israeli citizen and has refused to answer questions about her possible family ties to the Israeli military, writes the report.
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, California -- SoCal Martial Law Alerts (SCMLA) ran the administrative gauntlet as they tried to obtain a copy of the oath of office, bond and license for a certain CAL FIRE firefighter. SCMLA began the quest by calling the California Natural Resources Agency and was transferred four times before finally reaching the correct agency (i.e. CAL FIRE).
FRESNO, California -- SoCal Martial Law Alerts (SCMLA) interviewed Lee, an American who discovered while on a recent (Christian) mission trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, that Mexican banks will no longer exchange American dollars for Mexican pesos.
Lee said that, when he first arrived in Oaxaca two weeks ago, the banks would still exchange American dollars for Mexican pesos, but then when he accompanied a friend to a Mexican bank approximately one week ago, that's when he discovered the policy change regarding dollar-to-peso currency exchanges.
Unlike the EMU countries, the governments of England, the United States, and other sovereign nations can still borrow from their own central banks, funding much-needed programs essentially interest-free. They can but they probably won't, because they have been deceived into relinquishing that sovereign power to an overreaching financial sector bent on controlling the money systems of the world privately and autocratically. Professor Carroll Quigley, an insider groomed by the international bankers, revealed this plan in 1966, writing in Tragedy and Hope:
[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.
Alan Simpson has always interested me - unlike most others. He is frank about some things - some things maybe less so.
Valerie Plame Wilson first gained fame when she was outed as a spy during the Bush Administration. Today she is using her name recognition to bring attention to one of the greatest threats still facing the world: Nuclear weapons. RT spoke to her on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival where she is helping promote the film "Countdown to Zero."
I bet you've never heard of anti-Palestinism? In Israel and the United States, defaming and delegitimizing the Palestinians is a national sport; but have you ever heard anybody complain about it? Why didn't Americans get worked up when 1,400 Palestinians were incinerated with Israeli phosphorous bombs? Why did the murder of 300 children in last year's assault not touch a nerve? Why did it take three long years and the slaughter of eight Turks and a Turkish-American citizen to notice that Israel has incarcerated 1.5 million Palestinians in a concentration camp?
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged Congress on Wednesday to speed approval of the 33- billion-dollar supplemental war funding requested by President Barack Obama.
"We simply MUST defends the United States against all enemies that attack Americans. Well, okay, Iraq didn't actually attack us. Neither did Afghanistan come to think of it. Yemen? No> Somalia? No. Pakistan? No. Hmmm. Has anyone attacked us recently? I, I, I mean, besides Israel, of course!!! They are allowed to attack and kill Americans; a fine and noble tradition that goes back to the heroic Israeli attackers who almost sank the USS Liberty!"
And for the inevitable Israeli shills screaming, "What about 9-11?!? Iraq attacked the US on 9-11!!!!"...
Americans know we were lied to about Iraq's 'nookular' bombs. We are already stuck in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, plus "actions" in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia , who knows where else.
America has spent too much money and blood to be wiling to go to war and even if we were to go to war there is a stark reality that we all must face. Iran has not attacked and killed Americans in international waters.
Israel has.
When Japan attacked and killed Americans in 1941, for what seemed to the Japanese to be very good reasons, the President did not make excuses for the attacking nation and suggest we go attack Brazil instead. Roosevelt attacked the nation that attacked Americans.
America has spent too much money and blood to be wiling to go to war and even if we were to go to war there is a stark reality that we all must face. Iran has not attacked and killed Americans in international waters.
Israel has.
When Japan attacked and killed Americans in 1941, for what seemed to the Japanese to be very good reasons, the President did not make excuses for the attacking nation and suggest we go attack Brazil instead. Roosevelt attacked the nation that attacked Americans.
The San Diego Union Tribune told employees Thursday the company is cutting close to 40 newsroom positions, according to sources.
I am going to bet that the San Diego Union Tribune never bothered to tell their readers that the US Government was lying about Saddam's 'nookular' bombs.
Nobody likes a liar.
Nobody likes a liar.
First it was trash cans, transit shelters and mailboxes. The latest casualty of G20 security concerns are saplings that line city sidewalks.
The trees could be ripped out of the ground by demonstrators "and then you've got a huge bar," said Constable Wendy Drummond, a spokeswoman for the Integrated Security Unit. Despite promises from summit organizers to replace the trees once foreign leaders leave town on June 27, the move bewilders tree lovers.
"The idea that tearing down something that's going to be living for 100 more years for a three-day meeting is insane," said Mark Calzavara of the Council of Canadians.
More egregious still, sources on the ground say that BP is telling cleanup workers that they will be fired if they wear respirators:
Because - as part of their PR campaign - BP is doing everything it can to prevent dramatic pictures or headlines regarding the oil spill.
Remember 9-11, where the EPA told the emergency workers that the air was perfectly safe at Ground Zero and no special protection was needed, and now all those workers are ill with cancer, mesothelioma, etc.?
Thomas was forced into retirement for declaring that Jews "should get the hell out of Palestine," but New York Senator Chuck Schumer, one of the most powerful politicians in the US, has avoided any criticism or even major press coverage for remarks he made only days later that supported the continued "economic strangulation" of Gaza; in part, because, he essentially argues, the inhabitants of the benighted Strip are not Jewish.
So, Israel violates the Fourth Geneva Convention with an illegal blockade and Congress sics the Human Rights Council, on Iran?
Now Barack Obama has made a big Oval Office speech and has tried to convince all of us that he is in charge of the crisis. Well, perhaps if he had tried to take decisive action a month ago the American people may have rallied around him. But right now the BP/government response to this disaster remains completely and totally chaotic.
After oil spill, Obama vows to find votes for energy bill
Wed Jun 2, 4:13 pm
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AFP) – President Barack Obama Wednesday vowed to find the votes to pass a stalled energy bill, saying the Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe showed the need to "aggressively" seek a clean energy future.
"The only way the transition to clean energy will succeed is if the private sector is fully invested in this future -- if capital comes off the sidelines and the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs is unleashed," he said.
"The only way to do that is by finally putting a price on carbon pollution," Obama said, noting that the House of Representatives had already passed a climate change bill, which had become stalled in the Senate.
Obama's involvement in Chicago Climate Exchange—the rest of the story
By Judi McLeod Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The same Chicago Climate Exchange promoting public rip-off was funded by Obama before he was POTUS.
Even as man-made global warming is being exposed as a money-generating hoax, Obama is working feverishly to push the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme through Congress.
Obama was never the character he created for himself in the fairy-tale version in "Dreams of My Father". He's the agent of Change and Hope for cohorts making money down at the Chicago Climate Exchange.
Crime inc ~ RICO Investigation Needed NOW about Gulf, Energy & CCX
2010 June 9
by Greg Hedgepath
The White House is right in the middle of the cover-up:
Contrary to early reports from the Obama Administration that it was not aware of the catastrophic nature of the Gulf oil spill, newly-released Coast Guard logs show that the government knew within hours that the spill would be devastating.
Reports indicate Obama is to use the Oil Spill Disaster to renew a push for Cap & Trade. This is made more suspicious by his apparent delay and even obstruction of solutions:
Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base
A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from a Texas Air Force base where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English, FoxNews.com has learned.
A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from a Texas Air Force base where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English, FoxNews.com has learned.
The 43 lawmakers negotiating the final version of the Wall Street reform bill have collected more than $112 million from the finance, insurance and real estate sectors during the past 20 years. And the financial services sector gave a total of $695 million during the same period, according to a new report by the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog group.
4th and 5th on the list: George W. Bush and John McCain.
Russia appears to have a "schizophrenic" approach to Iran, viewing Tehran as a security threat while pursuing commercial deals with the country, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday.
Gates told senators Russia has for years seen Iran as a worrisome regional power.
When he met with then-president Vladimir Putin three years ago in Moscow, the Russian leader "told me that he considered Iran Russia's greatest national security threat," Gates said.
Forgive me, but has SecDef Gates gone barking mad?!?!?
First, it is Russia which is providing the technical support to the construction of the power plant in Bushehr.
If Russia really believed that Iran was such a red-hot security issue, why did they offer to assist Iran with its nuclear facility in the first place?!?
A south Texas municipal judge was arrested Thursday and accused of using traffic fines paid by those who appeared before him to pay his personal credit card.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper called on NDP MP Libby Davies to resign as her party's deputy leader after she suggested Israel has been occupying territory since the country came into existence.
Canadians need to tell Harper that they need a CANADIAN Prime Minister, not another Israeli whore.
Ships from several countries, including Iran and Lebanon, have reportedly left or are planning to leave for Hamas-controlled Gaza in defiance of an Israeli maritime blockade on that territory.
The U.S. central bank, whose authority some lawmakers had wanted to rein in amid wide criticism for lax oversight before the 2007-2009 financial crisis, will actually see its powers increase under the sweeping overhaul of financial regulation.
John McCain has a new article in The New Republic -- which is exactly where it should be -- calling for regime change in Iran. The whole article contains one paragraph after the next of the favorite pastime of America's political and media class: self-righteously condemning other nations for what we ourselves do (at least) as much.
"And so you can imagine my dismay, Mr. Speaker, with the recent aggressive action by Turkey toward our most cherished ally, Israel. "
"Aggressive Action, Mr. Pence? Cookies? Candy? Potato chips?
Please remember that Japan was a "cherished ally" in early 1941. The US was selling the Japanese steel, railroads, weaponry; a large and vast trade that had been continuing since the days of Commodore Perry.
Yet when Japan decided that Americans were a threat to their illegal occupation of China and attacked Pearl Harbor, no Americans stood up to defend Japan's attack just because from Japan;s point of view, America might inter4fere with their illegal occupation of China. Nobody would have dared do so, because they would right have been denounced as a traitor!
Can you imagine President Roosevelt abandoning his "Day of Infamy" speech to rush over to the League of Nations and explain that it was a perfectly permissible for Japan to attack and kill Americans, because after all, Japan thought we might interfere with their illegal occupation of China?
Mr. Pence you are a traitor and unfit for office, as anyone who is more worried about those who attacked Americans in international waters than the Americans themselves is unfit for office.
No government can serve two masters, and a government that serves Israel cannot serve the American people. A friend to Israel is no friend of America.
America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third.
Clearly, that is requirement of office you fail to meet.
Either stand with America, Congressman, or stand alone.
Please remember that Japan was a "cherished ally" in early 1941. The US was selling the Japanese steel, railroads, weaponry; a large and vast trade that had been continuing since the days of Commodore Perry.
Yet when Japan decided that Americans were a threat to their illegal occupation of China and attacked Pearl Harbor, no Americans stood up to defend Japan's attack just because from Japan;s point of view, America might inter4fere with their illegal occupation of China. Nobody would have dared do so, because they would right have been denounced as a traitor!
Can you imagine President Roosevelt abandoning his "Day of Infamy" speech to rush over to the League of Nations and explain that it was a perfectly permissible for Japan to attack and kill Americans, because after all, Japan thought we might interfere with their illegal occupation of China?
Mr. Pence you are a traitor and unfit for office, as anyone who is more worried about those who attacked Americans in international waters than the Americans themselves is unfit for office.
No government can serve two masters, and a government that serves Israel cannot serve the American people. A friend to Israel is no friend of America.
America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third.
Clearly, that is requirement of office you fail to meet.
Either stand with America, Congressman, or stand alone.
The so-called "peace process" that you reference roughly started in 1991, with the Madrid Conference, and we're now in the year 2010. That's about 20 years. It appears that the "peace process" has failed and that negotiations have led to nowhere, and that was due to the Israeli refusal to accept a viable two-state solution. I said that both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are willing to accept a Palestinian state in only 22% of historic Palestine. Israel, it seems, wants it all.
The cost of insuring Illinois bonds against default rose to a record as lawmakers sought to close a $13 billion deficit in the state's proposed budget for the year starting July 1.
BP was aware of cracks appearing in the Macondo well as far back as February, right around the time Goldman Sachs and BP Chairman Tony Hayward were busy dumping their stocks in the company on the eve of the explosion that led to the oil spill, according to information uncovered by congressional investigators.
Remember when the Space Shuttle Challenger had frozen O-Rings and management said, "We have to launch; we're on a tight schedule"?
Didn't work out then.
Didn't work out now.
and the lesson is that the real world does not bend to the will of CEOs and politicians, no matter how much they bark.
Didn't work out then.
Didn't work out now.
and the lesson is that the real world does not bend to the will of CEOs and politicians, no matter how much they bark.
The zios are still crying about their video being taken down…. they tried so hard to 'con the world' and it backfired as are all of their efforts to discredit the Humanitarian Flotillas that have been heading to Gaza.
They have been crying that their video was not an infringement of Copyright Law as it was a parody. Now, the same group, Latma, is literally daring YouTube with another 'parody', just as vile as the one that was removed.
Israel on Thursday issued an official complaint against the president of the United Nations Correspondents Association for deliberately barring Israel from responding to the public screening of a documentary film on the events of the recent Gaza-bound aid flotilla, made by one of the activists.
The president of the UN Correspondents Association, Giampaolo Pioli, organized an event several days ago during which a documentary film by one of the Mavi Marmara activists was screened. In the invitation sent to all the foreign correspondents in New York Pioli wrote that he was inviting them to the debut of a film depicting the "Israeli attack on human rights activists."
Wow, does Israel ever get cranky when the truth about anything with which they are involved comes out, and they can't control the agenda!
This activist's film should be seen by every member of the UN.
The parents are being imprisoned for contempt, following a series of refusals to implement high court decisions regarding ethnic divisions in a school in Emmanuel.
Jerusalem Post, come on, tell it like it is: the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish parents don't want their kids in the same classrooms with Sephardic Jewish kids, and the Israeli high court ruled that this discrimination cannot be allowed to stand in the school in the settlement of Emmanuel.
This can only be characterized as blatant racism from one Jewish group in Israel against another.
A coalition of pro-Palestinian groups has said it plans to send a second aid flotilla to Gaza, dismissing Israel's promise to ease its blockade as not bold enough and defying Israeli warnings against any new sea-based activist operation.
The problem with Israel that despite the talk of easing the blockade, reports from Gaza is that nothing but a few token items such as mayonnaise are being let through. And any easing Israel does today can be revoked as soon as the eyes of the world turn away again. The fact is that Israel is on the defensive and has lost the initiative and now is the time for Israel to finally draw its borders and live within them as a modern civilized nation should. It is time for Palestine to have the same right to exist and to a state that Israel has. All other options are just delaying tactics.
Activists plan to put up posters Thursday night in downtown London in solidarity with two men arrested for putting up G20 protest posters earlier this week.
The two men were arrested Tuesday night and held in police cells overnight. They face seven charges each of mischief for what police called "the negative message with content relating to the disruption and resistance to the G8 G20 on the posters."
The posters were put up in the area of Dundas St. E., and around Egerton St. and Rectory St.. Environmentally friendly glue was used to put up the posters, but police said that gluing considered graffiti.
About 200 kilometres from where world leaders will soon gather, two London political activists spent the night in city police cells over posters inviting people to Toronto to protest the G8 and G20 summits.
Darius Mirshahi, 25, and Andrew Cadotte, 19, flashed a peace sign and stood on the courthouse steps moments after their releases Wednesday afternoon and ripped open the police-issued, clear plastic bags containing their personal effects.
As the wind whipped up and papers flew, defence lawyer Dale Ives cautioned them: "Don't let that blow away guys or they'll charge you with littering."
The Chinese Communist party called on employers to raise salaries and improve training for workers today, as Toyota became the latest foreign firm to be hit by a wave of high-profile strikes.
According to labour activists, there have been numerous strikes in recent years, though few get reported in the media. Chang Kai, professor of labour relations and law at Renmin University, said the number had increased by 30% per year.
Their impact has grown as the "one-child" family planning policy starts to thin the bulge in the working-age population. This demographic change in the balance of labour supply and demand has added to improved worker organisation and greater activism at high-profile foreign firms.
It took 10 days to plug the first cracks, according to reports BP filed with the Minerals Management Service that were later delivered to congressional investigators. Cracks in the surrounding rock continued to complicate the drilling operation during the ensuing weeks. Left unsealed, they can allow explosive natural gas to rush up the shaft.
"Once they realized they had oil down there, all the decisions they made were designed to get that oil at the lowest cost," said Peter Galvin of the Center for Biological Diversity, which has been working with congressional investigators probing the disaster. "It's been a doomed voyage from the beginning."
More than 90 U.S. banks and thrifts missed making a May 17 payment to the U.S. government under its main bank bailout program, signaling a rising number of lenders are struggling to meet their obligations.
The SNL Financial statistics show 91 banks missed their dividend payment under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
The statistics, compiled by SNL Financial from U.S. Treasury data, showed 91 banks and thrifts skipped the May dividend payment under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. It was the first missed payment for 23 of the banks; for the others, it was at least their second miss.
The number of banks missing their TARP payments rose for the third straight quarter. In February, 74 banks deferred their payments; 55 deferred last November.
This is a really nasty harbinger of things to come for this country financially.
And apparently, neither President Obama nor Vice-President Biden got the memo on this. Because, as reported at:
"OBAMA, BIDEN DECLARE "RECOVERY SUMMER": Vice President Biden today will kick off "Recovery Summer," a six-week-long push designed to highlight the jobs accompanying a surge in stimulus-funded projects to improve highways, parks, drinking water and other public works"
This news about missed TARP payments, coupled with the spike in jobless claims, and Obama and Biden are proclaiming this the "Recovery Summer"?!?
Are they completely, utterly barking mad?!?!?
• Israel hold the world record in the number of towns & villages it ethnically cleansed...500+
• Israel holds the world record in the number of refugees it deported...4 million +
• Israel holds the world record in the number of homes it demolished...60 thousand +
• Israel is the country with the highest record of UN condemnation...500+ times
• Israel is the country with the highest number of protective US Security council vetoes...100+ times
• Israel has killed more innocent civilians per capita than any other country...50 thousand+
There are no Israelis on board the aid ship and certainly nobody is attacking them, yet the laser sights from the Israeli rifles can be seen "painting" targets among the aid workers and crew.
The ruling class, with the indispensable assistance of the media, including many blogs (both left and right), need only convince Americans of the "seriousness" of the danger those "Others" represent, and the next chapter in the neverending war will commence in earnest. Iran in particular is endlessly useful in this connection.
The drumbeats for a war against Iran are beating ever more loudly, particularly with the passage of sanctions against it, and formal sanctions probably coming from the EU either today or tomorrow.
With the two catastrophic wars going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, a third war will break and bankrupt this country, not to mention that should a war against Iran break out, China and Russia may well come to its aid militarily.
A soft-spoken teacher and former civilian engineer with the Canadian Department of Defense, Neish realized then that a video taken by an Arab TV cameraman in the midst of the Israeli assault on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza of him flipping through a booklet had been transmitted before the Israelis blocked all electronic signals from the flotilla. The booklet had pictures and profiles of all the passengers, and he'd found it in the backpack of an Israeli Defense Force commando.
This man is telling the truth: the Israeli government is pathologically incapable of telling the truth, when the truth does any kind of disservice to its image or agenda.
This is why the whole notion of an Israeli inquiry into the flotilla massacre is so completely ludicrous.
Perfect example of how breathing that benzine can seriously screw up your brain.
Quite an amazing fantasy isn't it? Yet this is exactly what we have seen the present government do over the last few weeks.
According to a Los Angeles Times report, a senior U.S. official stated the Obama administration wants to detain and interrogate non-Afghan terrorism suspects captured in countries outside Afghanistan in a section of the Bagram prison, even after it turns the prison over to Afghan "control."
This is consistent with Obama's record of continuing and expanding the national security state begun by the Bush regime. Bagram is one of the pre-eminent hellhole prisons currently run by the U.S. military. In many respects it is even worse than Gitmo, with torture and death being the result for many prisoners detained there.
As reported at on 21 May 2009 at:
Obama: 'We Do Not Torture'
Speaking today at the National Archives, President Obama said that the United States "went off course" in fighting terrorism during the Bush administration and that his new policies will "better protect" the country. Waterboarding and other harsh techniques, Obama argued, "did not advance our war and counter-terrorism efforts–they undermined them." He also defended his decision to close Guantanamo Bay. Rather than keep us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security," Obama said. "It is a rallying cry for our enemies. It sets back the willingness of our allies to work with us in fighting an enemy that operates in scores of countries. By any measure, the costs of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing it."
Looks like that was just another grand declaration on Bushbama's part that's been flushed down the toilet with the expansion of US overseen indefinite detention and torture at Bagram.
Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I was brought up on the myths and hagiography of the Zionist state, I, over time, came to recognize the folly of the whole colonialist enterprise — the folly of ethnic exclusion and expulsion, the inherent tragedy of nationalism based on the delusion of religious birthright. With much sorrow, I came to the sad realization that the dream of the State of Israel was based on European chauvinism and exceptionalism. This reckoning has been a difficult one for me to bear -- the hardest awakening of my adult life.
James Bovard at Antiwar.com points out one of the more egregiously sick-making of the many atrocious "arguments" employed by Barack Obama in his successful effort to block the efforts of Maher Arar to seek justice for his unjust rendition and proxy torture in the Great War of Global Terror.
Apparently, there is no "change" whatsoever in Obama's maintaining the institutionalization of US-authorized (or US personnel-administered) torture.
With this decision, the Supreme Court has literally eviscerated the Constitution and Bill of Rights, throwing them under the proverbial bus.
Public prosecutors in Germany are looking into a war crimes complaint filed against Israel by two members of parliament with the far-left Left Party and a human rights activist who were on board the Mavi Marmara when Israeli troops stormed it 11 days ago.
The Prime Minister's Office announced on Thursday that the security cabinet had agreed to relax Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip, but as it turns out, no binding decision was ever made during the cabinet meeting.
The Prime Minister's Office issued a press release in English following the meeting, which was also sent to foreign diplomats, was substantially different than the Hebrew announcement – according to the English text, a decision was made to ease the blockade, but in the Hebrew text there was no mention of any such decision.
This is why the humanitarian aid flotillas must keep on coming, because the Israeli government will not lift the siege of Gaza of its own accord.
These statements were given merely to "buy time" to extend the siege, not to really ease or end the siege.
UBS stands alone in one rather formidable respect—it was the defendant in the largest offshore tax evasion case in U.S. history, accused of helping wealthy Americans hide their income in secret offshore accounts. To settle a massive investigation, UBS forked over $780 million to the US treasury. This settlement came shortly before Wolf rounded out Obama's golfing party. Given this rather problematical situation, why then would the President choose UBS's Wolf of all people for this honor?
There is a powerful movement to re-direct news in a controlled fashion in the United States. For all practical purposes, it would be a takeover by government of news media reporting using the "nudge" style method of control favored by the Obama Administration.
For the moment, the Pentagon is breathing a sigh of relief. Vital US fuel supply flights from its Manas base to Afghanistan resumed last week even as Kyrgyzstan slid into chaos. At least 171 and possibly as many as 500 have died in rioting in southern Kyrgyzstan this week, almost all ethnic Uzbeks, with thousands injured. More than 80,000 fled to neighbouring Uzbekistan, forcing it to close its borders as it cannot cope with more. On Monday, China began evacuating the majority of its 1000 nationals.
Comparing the blockade of Gaza, by Israel, with that of Iraq, similarities are chillingly stark. Iraq, seventy percent reliant on imports from fertilizer to pharmaceuticals, building materials, to medical maintenance, was bombed back "to a pre-industrial age" in 1991. All wherewithal, for not alone rebuilding was denied, but foods, soft drinks, paper, books, newspapers, toiletries, pens, pencils, blackboards, toys, musical instruments, sheet music, trade and professional literature (including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet) ping pong balls. Items hardly "dual use" to morph in to weapons of mass destruction - or even play yard destruction.
According to UNICEF figures, 14% of Gazan Palestinian kids are malnourished.
This malnutrition is a direct result of Israel's siege of Gaza.
The "escrow account" in 2010 is not $20 billion dollars. BP will put in $3 billion dollars in the third quarter of 2010 (ending September 30) and another $2 billion in the fourth quarter (ending December 31).
The war on Afghanistan is a profit driven "resource war".
Under US and allied occupation, this mineral wealth is slated to be plundered, once the country has been pacified, by a handful of multinational mining conglomerates. According to Olga Borisova, writing in the months following the October 2001 invasion, the US-led "war on terrorism [will be transformed] into a colonial policy of influencing a fabulously wealthy country." (Borisova, op cit).
So, that's what our kids are fighting, getting maimed, and dying for in Afghanistan: the potential profits to be realized from oil, minerals, and drugs.
I wish the people in Congress, the White House and the Pentagon had the "male attributes" to tell every single grieving friend and family members of those killed or maimed in this war the truth: they don't, of course.
At a time when many countries are becoming more critical of Israel's policies, Canada seems to be moving in the opposite direction. A general reluctance to engage in open debate about the Palestinian issue is exacerbated by pro-Israel groups' efforts to shut down discussion and the federal government's unprecedented penchant for defending Israeli actions.
Since the beginning of 2010, the federal government has systematically cut funding to Arab-Canadian organisations and to UN relief works in Gaza. In March, the Ontario provincial legislature issued a unanimous condemnation of Israeli Apartheid Week, while the federal government considered introducing a similar motion.
Memo to our friends up North: your government has been hijacked by a foreign government (read: Israel, just as has happened here in the US)and such a government will not put the interests of Canadians first, second, and third.
In fact, that country's agenda may be very harmful to the welfare of Canada's future.
I would suggest, then, that the next time Parliamentary elections are held, that you throw out every single Israeli-firster and replace them with someone who is not, just as we need to to in our upcoming elections here in the US.
This hijacking of our govenments - and putting a stop to it - is literally a matter of life and death for both countries.
Why did the Obama administration just approve more than 400 new leases for oil companies to operate in the Gulf of Mexico?
The news stories these days are so full of doublespeak that if you hold one up in front of me, I see two. For example:
Lucy Dixon, who works on a cattle and horse farm, said she had never seen so much snow in the area. "Every mountain was covered, even the famous Spandau Kop.
"I heard some farmers say it has never snowed like this since 1977. We have had up to six inches of snowfall."
Stock farmer James Kingwill said he had not seen so much for a long time. "It is good for farmers," he added.
The problem is not just Obama. The problem is the entire Federal Government.
The United States under the Obama administration has developed an increasingly close working relationship with the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But that growing engagement with a controversial institution of international law was unable to prevent the ICC from expanding the scope of its work to include the murky crime of "aggression," a move the US had vehemently opposed.
Imagine my absence of shock.
The past six months has seen a series of unprecedented setbacks for the cause of catastrophic man-made climate change: the collapse of the Kyoto process; the release of incriminating Climategate emails; the discovery of the shoddy standards of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); the mounting evidence that a job-creating green industrial revolution is a fantasy; and the growing suspicion by the public that it has been sold a bill of goods.
The British Royal Society recently released a statement that "Any public perception that the science is somehow fully settled is wholly incorrect," thus contradicting its own former president, and true believer, Lord May. And if the science isn't settled, there can hardly ever have been "consensus" on the issue.
"If the US offered its citizens the right to freedom of information on world affairs, so that the American people could be fully informed of their leaders' support for Israeli atrocities as well as the crimes they have committed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the people would take effective measure against their statesmen," the Iranian president said.
A short memo to Iranian President Ahmedinejad: we, at least for the moment, do have a mechanism for taking "...effective measure" against the government. It's called an election.
And in the upcoming election in November, it is my most dearly held wish that every incumbent be thrown out of office, and that no "Israel-firsters" are voted in to replace them.
Israel has been, and continues to be, a millstone hanging on the necks of the US government, and Israel's agenda is not that which is best for the citizens of the US.
In fact, the agenda of the current Israeli leadership is to push the US as hard as it can toward a new war in the Middle East, again (as was the case with Iraq), to "neutralize" yet another one of Israel's existential threats in the region for it, that being Iran.
We need politicians who put America first, second, and third, period, end of discussion.
Considering how catastrophically badly things are going in Afghanistan and Iraq, a new war, with all its costs in blood and money, is absolutely the last thing this country needs right now.
An electromagnetic "bird" dispatched to the Arctic for the most detailed look yet at the thickness of the ice has turned up a reassuring picture.
The meltdown has not been as dire as some would suggest, said geophysicist Christian Haas of the University of Alberta. His international team flew across the top of the planet last year for the 2,412-kilometre survey.
Factory activity growth plummeted in the Mid-Atlantic region in June, a survey showed on Thursday, adding to worries that the short and tepid U.S. economic recovery is now fizzling.
So much for "Recovery Summer."
Syrian President Bashar Assad said Thursday that Israel is being run by a "pyromaniac government", warning that its raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip had increased the risks of war in the region.
The Israeli commando attack on a flotilla in which nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists were killed had "destroyed any chance for peace in the near future", Assad told the BBC in a television interview aired on Thursday.
Note that Haaretz deliberately sidesteps the fact that one of the assassinated was an American of Turkish descent, Furkan Dogan, a 19 year old kid who should have had his whole life ahead of him.
Please, remember that name.
Unfortunately, Syrian President Assad is absolutely right in his characterization of the current Israeli leadership. And under Netanyahu's watch, a regional war - into which the US cannot help but be dragged in - will most likely spark a global war.
That war appears to be Netanyahu's agenda, and this is why every Israel-firster in the US Congress needs to be replaced as soon as humanly possible.
US lawmakers slammed "disgraceful" Turkey on Wednesday over its ties to Iran and charged Ankara had the "blood" of nine Turks killed in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship on its hands.
"There will be a cost if Turkey stays on its present heading of growing closer to Iran and more antagonistic to the state of Israel," warned Representative Mike Pence, the number three House Republican.
Please remember; Turkey's government, working in concert with that of Brazil, hammered out a nuclear materials swap with Iran, which was totally acceptable to Iran. Edrogan and Lula were behaving like true adults here in the world of geopolitics.
The US, Israel, and the UN ignored this totally, as though it had never happened.
Also, please remember: the Israeli Navy hijacked both a Turkish and American flagged vessel on the high seas, assassinating 9 unarmed humanitarian aid workers, including one American kid of Turkish descent.
And to all living in the congressional districts allegedly represented by Peter King, Mike Pence, and Eliot Engel: please throw these Israeli-firsters out of Congress at the next possible election.
These men are putting the interests of the dictates of a foreign government (read: Israel) ahead of yours and ahead of the needs of this Republic.
This cannot be allowed to stand.
Sen. Barbara Boxer said last week that climate change -- not terrorism, nuclear weapons or Islamic radicalism -- will stand as the "leading cause of conflict" over the next two decades.
The comment was apparently based on reports and studies over the past few years that have linked climate change to other security issues, according to Fox News.
Here comes the carbon tax, which BTW has wrecked the economy of every nation it has been imposed on while not actually doing a thing to improve the environment.
Turkey sent hundreds of elite troops into northern Iraq on Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas in an operation that could increase tensions within the region.
The soldiers killed four rebels escaping after a failed attack on a Turkish unit near the border, the Turkish military said. It did not say when the troops, who were supported by Turkish warplanes, would withdraw. But private NTV television, without citing any sources, said the soldiers were on their way back to Turkey.
Translation: apparently, neither the US nor the Iraqi military have any control whatsoever of northern Iraq.
While the IDF continued Wednesday to track the Iranian ships en route to the Gaza Strip, the Navy was put on high alert amid fears that another flotilla would be launched from Lebanon, leaving – due to the short distance – little time to stop it.
"There is not a lot of time to stop fast ships that come from Lebanon," an IDF officer explained, "Practically, it means that the Navy has to be on high alert around the clock."
The Navy will likely first try to stop the ships by calling on them to stop at sea and far from the Gaza coast.
So apparently, having learned nothing from the flotilla massacre, the Israeli Navy is contemplating another hijacking of an unarmed aid ship in international waters?
Unflipping believable.
Omri and Gilad Sharon, sons of former PM Ariel Sharon, allegedly brokered $3 million in bribes transferred to their father.
Israel has warned both Lebanese and Iranian organizers against sending aid ships to the besieged Gaza Strip.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said attempts by Lebanese and Iranian activists to break the blockade of Gaza "would be seen not just as a provocation and a breach of law, but as a hostile act because the ships and their cargo are from enemy states."
"They are coming from an enemy state and it means that, of course, the treatment is different, because legally they are different," Palmor warned.
Ahmedinejad has played this sending of aid to Gaza masterfully.
Because if Israel starts shooting an an unarmed humanitarian aid ship and starts a war, it will be remembered that Israel was the aggressor, not that Iran is accused of having a nuclear weapons program.
In that scenario, Iran has the moral high ground, period, end of discussion.
Satellite Images Show The BP Gulf Oil Spill May Have Hit The Florida Keys On May 23rd
he protest drew attention to issues Israel has grappled with for years, including discrimination inside the Jewish community and the disproportionate clout of the country's ultra-Orthodox minority.
Parents of European, or Ashkenazi, descent at a girls' school in the West Bank settlement of Emanuel don't want their daughters to study with schoolgirls of Mideast and North African descent, known as Sephardim.
Not that the Ashkenazi Jewish families are behaving like vicious little racists against Sephardic Jewish families, of course!
Word is that Harry Reid will bring the carbon tax to the floor prior to the 4th of July weekend. They are still desperate to sell you this lemon. It is time to learn how to say "no." There is no freedom without the freedom to say "no."
Speaking during a Senate Appropriation Defense Subcommittee hearing today, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates demanded that the $33 billion war funding bill be approved by Independence Day.
"We begin to have to do stupid things if the supplemental is not passed by July 4," Gates warned. Exactly what these would be and how we would be able to tell the difference from ordinary Pentagon strategy was not clear.
This year, July 4th falls on a Sunday.
Were I a betting person, I would bet that Gates will have his money before that, possibly in the next week or so, as Congress typically takes a week or two of vacation after the 4th of July holiday.
One question to the supporters of a 'One State Solution' for Israel/Palestine…. How do you expect Israelis and Palestinians to get along in one state when Israelis cannot even get along with each other?
If they want segregation between Jews of European decent and Jews of North African decent, can you imagine where Palestinians will wind up?
How 1950-ish of them! More proof that Israel is still trapped living in the last century.
Video Showing Heavy Weapons Discovered on Mavi Marmara is a Fraud A video has been racing around the Internet — purportedly showing heavy weapons discovered behind bags of flour on the Mavi Marmara. The find would serve to justify the lethal raid on the flotilla to Gaza and some posters have asked why no uproar? The answer is because the video is a fraud — it shows a boat that was actually searched in 2009……
Shuyoukhi's family confirmed that he was tortured during his detention and interrogation, noting that there are still signs of torture visible on his hands, head, and other parts of the body.
A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said.
"It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. "They called the local authorities."
The incident happened in Little Rock, Ark., last Wednesday, she said.
Little Rock police turned the package over to the county coroner, who questions where they came from and if they were properly obtained.
The new ultra-economy class!
China's holdings of US debt climbed to the highest level this year, the US Treasury said Tuesday even as Beijing stepped up attacks on the United States for its burgeoning debt.
The cash-rich Chinese government raised its US Treasury bond holdings to 900.2 billion dollars in April, its highest level since November 2009, while posting the second consecutive monthly rise, according to a report on international capital flows.
China, the world's largest holder of foreign-exchange reserves, has been constantly criticizing Washington for its snowballing debt levels, fearing that Beijing's investment in US government bonds could turn sour if a debt crisis overwhelms America.
Unfortunately, due to its staggering debtload, the US government could quite soon find itself in a state of collapse; the Chinese government, with its huge foreign exchange reserves invested in US treasuries, has every reason to be concerned.
The fact that this term is used exclusively with regard to Israel is instructive as to its legitimacy, as is the fact that the demand is placed upon Palestinians to recognize Israel's "right to exist", while no similar demand is placed upon Israelis to recognize the "right to exist" of a Palestinian state.
Nations don't have rights, people do. The proper framework for discussion is within that of the right of all peoples to self-determination. Seen in this, the proper framework, it is an elementary observation that it is not the Arabs which have denied Jews that right, but the Jews which have denied that right to the Arabs. The terminology of Israel's "right to exist" is constantly employed to obfuscate that fact.
Swiss legislators have destroyed decades of tradition for the benefit of a sloppy Swiss-based big bank.
The legislators have approved a law that clears the way for the government to hand over the names of thousands of alleged U.S. tax evaders to the Internal Revenue Service, dodging the risk that the U.S. would reopen a bruising tax case against Swiss bank UBS AG, according to WSJ.
The United Nations warns that Israel's easing of West Bank blockades is not sufficient and in many areas it has not created any improvement.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon is launching a global public relations campaign to try to improve his country's image and neutralise coverage of the violent drug war scaring away tourists and foreign investors.
Calderon declared all-out war on drug cartels on taking office in late 2006, sending thousands of troops and federal police across Mexico to take on the heavily armed gangs running a multibillion dollar business.
Calderon, a strong-willed conservative, says he is turning to private advertising firms to launch an international image improvement campaign to show the world another, less violent side of Mexico, a country that depends on some 20 million tourists a year to boost its public finances.
Memo to Mexican President Felipe Calderon: this approach is somewhat akin to touching up an exray to hide a cancer.
Thinking people are going to stay away from Mexico until the drug problem gets fixed, one way or the other.
No advertising agency on this planet has enough lipstick to put on this pig to make it "pretty" to a potential tourist.
The earlier version of the story explicitly stated the "racial epithet" being used.
After an Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound flotilla that left nine Turkish citizens dead, Ankara has introduced a roadmap to "completely" cut its ties with Israel.
After Israel failed to apologize or pay compensations for the killing of the Turkish citizens in its attack on the Mavi Marmara on May 31, Turkish Defense Industry Implementation Committee (SSIK) reviewed the country's military agreements and joint projects with Israel on Thursday...
The criminal website http://stoptheism.com/ invites people to kill the few volunteers who are providing health treatment in Gaza under Israeli bombs.
They are Americans, Spaniards, Australians, Italians and other volunteers who report us what news they can about the real impact of the Israeli aggression in Gaza. Amongst them there is Vittorio Arrigoni, human rights activist.
What we have here is pure incitement to killing, furnished also with the photos of those "wanted". It's really inconceivable that the site is still online. We demand that the Italian Government and Foreign Office take steps right now to call for it to be immediately closed and to bring those responsible to court.
The Obama administration added Iranian individuals and firms to a blacklist, as the United States and Europe tighten the screws on Iran's nuclear program a week after the UN imposed new sanctions.
During a summit Thursday in Brussels, European Union (EU) leaders are expected to approve their bloc's curbs on investment as well as transfers of technology, equipment and services in Iran's oil and gas industry.
These sanctions are the last step before a war against Iran which will almost inevitably follow.
The only questions is, when.
'Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals.'
The claim was made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a recent speech, following the deadly commando raid on the humanitarian aid flotilla to Gaza on May 31. According to Erdogan, Israel doesn't adhere to the code of conduct embraced even by the vilest of criminals.
"It is time for American Jews to demand that Obama instruct Israel to obey international law."
Well-known actress and comedian, Roseanne Barr, has been a consistent and persistent voice for decades against some of the acts committed by the state of Israel. Specifically, she has vigorously, unflinchingly, unequivocally, uncompromisingly, and courageously called upon Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
New claims for jobless insurance benefits in the United States rose unexpectedly for the second straight week, the government said Thursday on concerns unemployment may derail the economic recovery.
There is no economic recovery, except for the very large banks, defense contractors, and Goldman Sachs!
The private sector is frozen solid, and job outsourcing continues at a frenetic pace.
Under these circumstances, the rise in US jobless claims cannot possibly be characterized as a "surprise".
The United States Thursday pledged solidarity with South Korea in its bid to censure North Korea for the sinking of a warship, with a senior envoy urging the world to take a strong stance.
Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell was visiting Seoul days after the North threatened military action in response to any United Nations condemnation over the deadly sinking of the Cheonan in March.
Without China on board, there is absolutely nothing the US can do to ratchet down tensions between the North and South Korean countries, if that is actually what is intended by the US.
China can - and most likely will - veto any UN Security Council resolution against North Korea.
Obama said he had urged the BP bosses to remember when they were meeting in the boardroom to "keep in mind those individuals, that they are desperate, may lose business that have been in their families for two or three generations."
Svanberg agreed, saying: "We care about the small people."
A corporation is, by definition, an entity without a conscience.
In its catastrophically indifferent and cavalier handling of the Gulf Oil spill, BP managed to prove that very clearly.
BP holds more than $2 billion in annual US defense contracts and continues to be the premiere provider of fuel to the world's largest consumer of oil and gas: the Pentagon. BP is responsible for the worst environmental crime in US history. It is responsible for the deaths of 11 oil rig workers. Attorney General Eric Holder said he is conducting both criminal and civil probes into BP's actions in the US Gulf.
A grandmother has been jailed for five years for possessing a "family heirloom" World War II pistol.
Gail Cochrane, 53, had kept the gun for 29 years following the death of her father, who had been in the Royal Navy.
As a side note, since Great Britain passed their draconian guns laws and started locking people up for keeping antiques, crime in Great Britain has actually increased dramatically (which is consistent with the results of gun bans everywhere). But Britain has kept their gun ban in place on the excuse that the Brits can be told they are much safer with the gun ban in place.
Senior Pentagon officials urged patience Wednesday as U.S. troops begin operations to stabilize the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Mideast, returned to Capitol Hill to offer a full-throated endorsement of President Obama's order to pull out of Afghanistan starting next summer
Memo to Admiral Mullen and President Obama: the American people have absolutely lost their patience this immoral and illegal war.
We have collectively experienced that moment of clarity where we understand fully that the US is not at all involved in an alleged "war on terror"; we are involved in a war against people who are either cursed by living over resources the US government considers theirs, or on transit routes to and from resources the US government considers theirs, as is the case in Afghanistan.
I would like to point out that, nearly 9 years on, the US military is no closer to "pacifying" Afghanistan to the point where the oil pipelines can be installed with which to control Eurasian oil than we were at the beginning of the process.
Karzai is talking reconciliation with the Taliban as the only way forward here, and (thug that he is) he has the intelligence to understand that. The Taliban want the US and NATO out of Afghanistan immediately.
This means that the US and NATO will most likely need to withdraw from Afghanistan far sooner than they want to; and for all the blood and money spent, the US is no closer to the installation of those pipelines than was the Bush administration in August of 2001, when it was negotiating with the Taliban for the pipeline rights.
Our brave young men and women who have fighting, getting maimed for life, and dying in Afghanistan, have not been fighting for the security of the United States: they have been fighting, getting maimed, and dying for the potential private profit coming from drugs and oil.
The 2001 bombing and invasion of Afghanistan has been presented to World public opinion as a "Just War", a war directed against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a war to eliminate "Islamic terrorism" and instate Western style democracy.
The economic dimensions of the "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT) are rarely mentioned. The post 9/11 "counter-terrorism campaign" has served to obfuscate the real objectives of the US-NATO war.
The war on Afghanistan is part of a profit driven agenda: a war of economic conquest and plunder, "a resource war".
I wonder where I heard that before?
We are heading to a time in which the world will be bi-polar with the US and Israel isolated and the rest of the world united against us. Israel is in the wrong, the entire world sees that, and as long as the US Government continues to protect and defend Israel, even when it attacks Americans, the rest of the world will see the US as equally wrong.
U.S. lawmakers warned Turkey on Wednesday that its ties with Washington would suffer if it continued on what they considered an anti-Israel path.
"There will be a cost if Turkey stays on its present heading of growing closer to Iran and more antagonistic to the state of Israel," Representative Mike Pence, the No. 3 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, said.
Notice that what might be best for America and Americans does not seem to even enter their little pointed heads.
Safe Haven For Investigative Journalists Everywhere
Reykjavik, Iceland; 4:00 UTC, June 16th 2010.
The WikiLeaks advised proposal to build an international "new media haven" in Iceland, with the world's strongest press and whistleblower protection laws, and a "Nobel" prize for
for Freedom of Expression, has unanimously passed the Icelandic Parliament.
Israel faces international condemnation for the May 31 incident. But Berkley, D-Nev., maintained that the chief U.S. ally in the Middle East was set up by the Turkish government, which sanctioned the six-ship flotilla that tried to sail through an embargo that Israel has imposed on the Palestinian territory.
At his long-awaited press conference on the Gulf oil disaster last month, President Obama announced a moratorium on new oil drilling and exploration for six months. "We can't do this stuff if we don't have confidence that we can prevent crises like this from happening again," he declared. But while existing rigs may be out of commission for the near future, the administration hasn't exactly put the brakes on new oil and gas drilling ventures. In recent weeks, the government has quietly approved the sale of more than 400 new leases for vast swaths of the Gulf of Mexico. And these contracts—which mark the first step in the drilling process—were subjected to the same slapdash environmental oversight that failed to prevent the BP catastrophe.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said Israel's raid on the Gaza aid flotilla has increased the chances of war in the Middle East.
PRO-PALESTINIAN groups plan to send another aid flotilla for Gaza next month, similar to the one involved in a deadly attack by Israeli commandos in May, an organiser said on Wednesday.
'We have six boats which are ready to leave Europe, we are hoping to head off next month, in the last half of July,' Mazen Kahel, spokesman for The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza, told reporters at the European parliament.
One must not forget that Turkey is a full-fledged member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and that further schism between the Jewish state and a NATO country could have serious implications on the Alliance.
The first national Jewish anti-Zionist gathering will take place this weekend in Detroit. The "U.S. Assembly of Jews: Confronting Racism and Israeli Apartheid," endorsed by over 50 groups, will explore strategies for anti-Zionist Jewish organizing, expanding the boycott and divestment movement, decolonizing Palestine, and developing Jewish political perspectives distinct from Zionism.
Alexander the Great wanted global governance.
Napoleon wanted global governance.
The Roman Emperors wanted global governance.
Hitler wanted global governance.
Since Israel's May 31 attack on the Mavi Marmara aid ship, there has been growing criticism of Israel's behavior across much of the world, including from traditional allies like Turkey.
Yet as this criticism has grown abroad, the pressure for Israel's public to toe the official line on the story (whatever it may be at any given time) has also grown, and in the West there is an increasingly visible effort to lionize the Israeli attack and do demonize even perceived criticism of the Israeli government as "anti-semitism."
A perfect illustration of Israel's screaming "Anti-Semite" at every critic can still be seen at the StarAdvertiser (which has now blocked all further comments on the page).
"Israel is starving the Gazans."
A: "You're an anti-Semite!"
"Israel is committing war crimes."
"Israel murdered an American."
"Israel is in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention."
"Israel is occupying Palestinian lands!"
And so on ...
A not very long time ago, in a galaxy known as the Milky Way, the member of an occult group of sinister individuals warned that should this group ever get to a point where it believed it could fix fiscal problems through printing money, this would present "a paramount risk to the long-term welfare of the U.S. economy." The group is better known as the Federal Reserve and the individual was Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher.
Tension that broke out between Turkey and Israel when the latter killed eight Turkish citizens and a US citizen of Turkish origin in a raid on a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla has resulted in Turkey freezing bilateral relations with Israel -- but joint projects and contracts signed with Israeli companies will remain as they are.
The whale was found floating 77 miles due south of the Deepwater Horizon spill site.
The first reports of Israel's May 31 commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla surfaced among the country's 1.4 million Palestinian citizens alongside rumors that Sheikh Ra'id Salah, head of the radical northern wing of the Islamic Movement of Israel, had been shot dead on the lead ship, the Mavi Marmara. Salah is alive, but at the time his demise seemed confirmed when it emerged that large numbers of police had been drafted into northern Israel, where most of the Palestinian minority lives, in expectation of widespread violence.
Most Americans support the new, controversial Arizona law that gives police there the power to check the residency status of suspected illegal immigrants.
The Obama administration more than doubled spending on cycling and walking initiatives to $1.2 billion (£810 million) last year as it seeks to coax Americans out of their cars.
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated 42 years ago in the midst of his campaign for the U.S. presidency. Largely overshadowed by the death of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, the official account of RFK's tragic end, allegedly shot down by a lone gunman, like his brother, has received vastly less attention. In both instances, we are looking at staged events that fit into a recurrent pattern in U.S. and world history where innocent individuals (or "patsies") are baited and framed for cover-up purposes. Professor James H. Fetzer, an expert in the scientific study of assassinations, provides a sketch of how we know what happened to them and why, where RFK's assassination was in part intended to prevent a reinvestigation into his brother's death.
When I hear reports of 60,000 barrells of oil are spilling into the ocean a day, it pisses me of. Our water, our wildlife, our citizens well-being is out the window. What pisses me off even more are the lies. I was born on a Tuesday… but not LAST Tuesday. I hate being talked to like I'm Boo-Boo the Fool. How we went from a couple of thousands of barrells to now 60,000 is beyond me. Actually, it's not. They merely just lied.
GISS tells us that it was the hottest May on record. Just looking at that map makes me perspire. It must be wicked hot at the North Pole!
But wait a minute! The DMI record doesn't look so hot in the Arctic.
What could be wrong? Could it be the fact that GISS has almost no coverage in the Arctic?
Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.
Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seeing some strange — and troubling — phenomena.
Fish and other wildlife are fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast. But that is not the hopeful sign it might appear to be, researchers say.
The animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen.
It is surely the perfect excuse to put the kettle on: tea is just as good as water at keeping you hydrated.
In a study that busts the myth that tea is a diuretic, researchers found it does not bother your bladder any more than plain water.
The technology used for electric car batteries is so backward they will die after just two years, experts have warned.
The cars will also be extremely expensive to run and cover far less distance on one battery charge than previously claimed, they say.
The Israeli Role in the Plundering of Iceland
Part Two
Shortly before the catastrophic collapse of Iceland's three major banks in the fall of 2008, the island nation was ranked as one of the wealthiest and most productive nations in the world. The financial damage caused by the plundering of Iceland's banks is the worst suffered by any country in economic history relative to the size of its economy.
Iceland is a volcanic island nation of about 320,000 people.
BP was criminally negligent in drilling the well which blew out. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
It has bungled everything it has done since. Indeed - as discussed below - it has made things worse.
And BP has tried to cover up its blunders by lowballing spill estimates, keeping reporters out of areas hardest hit by the oil (and see this, this and this) and threatening to arrest them if they try to take pictures, hiding dead birds and other sealife, telling cleanup workers they'll be fired if they use respirators, and using dispersants to hide the amount of spilled oil (the dispersants are only worsening the damage caused by the spill).
Latest HYCOM-GFS oilspill forecast shows a large stretch of oil approximately 15 miles south of the Florida Keys, near Marathon and Big Pine Key by this weekend.
President Obama's choice to oversee the gulf oil disaster fund is one of the very few people who have weighed the dollar value of devastation before: 9/11's special master Kenneth Feinberg.
Feinberg "consulted" with Blankfein about the Goldman bonuses
Goldman "followed [Feinberg's] prescriptions" about how bonuses should be paid
Feinberg thinks Blankfein's $9 million bonus is "too high"
Feinberg has no authority over the Goldman bonuses
As the sole person responsible for distributing the money from the Victims Compensation Fund, Feinberg paid out nearly $7 billion to families in compensation - if they would sign the agreement not to sue the airlines or the Israeli airport security firm involved in 9-11 (Huntleigh USA/ICTS). More than 98 percent of the families accepted the money from the Feinberg-managed fund. The amounts of the payments and the amounts paid to Diane Feinberg and the 30 lawyers are not known. The American people deserve to know how the funds were used and who got paid.
A keen observer of the Netanyahu behavior might well detect a suicidal tendency, perhaps tied in some way to the well known Israeli Masada complex. Masada was the first century A.D. site of the suicide of nearly one thousand Israelite zealots who refused to surrender to the Roman army. More recently, in 1991 investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported on the modern version of Masada called the Samson Option, in which Israel was planning to use nuclear weapons to destroy most of the Middle East if it were in danger of being overrun. Today hardliners have similarly warned that if Israel is threatened with destruction it will take the whole Mideast region down with it and possibly also nuke selected European capitals.
A perfect example of an issue that Matthews and his ilk want to sideline is the manifestly provable fact that elitists have for decades publicly stated their desire to reduce global population by around 80 per cent and as much as 99 per cent.
During MSNBC's Hardball show on Tuesday, Corn characterized the notion that "there is a planetary elite that literally has a secret plan to kill 80 to 99 percent of the population," as a conspiracy theory
The history of Israel as a geopolitical fraud will fill entire libraries asthose defrauded marvel at how so few deceived so many for so long. Those duped include many naive Jews who "even now" identify their interests with this extremist enclave. Israeli leaders are wrong to worry about "de-legitimization."
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip as a violation of the Geneva Conventions and called on the Israeli government to lift it.
In a statement released on Monday, the organisation called the blockade "collective punishment", a crime under international law. It described Gaza as a territory plagued by frequent power cuts, a ruined economy, and a collapsed health care system.
"The closure imposed on the Gaza Strip is about to enter its fourth year, choking off any real possibility of economic development," the ICRC said.
"Gazans continue to suffer from unemployment, poverty and warfare, while the quality of Gaza's health care system has reached an all-time low."
Crippling shortages
"The clip will show previously classified footage from US warplanes that had been tapped to bomb Taliban positions in Farah province, Afghanistan last year," the paper said. "The Afghan government said at the time that the strikes by F-18 and B1 planes near Garani killed 147 civilians.
I'll bet fro the point of view of the Afghan civilians, there isn't a whole lot of difference between the USA and the USSR. Both engaged in indiscriminate mass murder.
Despite almost a decade of warfare, including an invasion and occupation, the US military and its allies and client state armed forces are losing the war in Afghanistan. Outside of the central districts of a few cities and the military fortresses, the Afghan national resistance forces, in all of their complex local, regional and national alliances, are in control, of territory, people and administration.
After Obama's treasonous support and defense of a foreign nation that attacked Americans in international waters, nobody should vote for him or his party (not that the GOP are any less disloyal to Americans).
Two Richmond residents, Paul Larudee and Kathy Sheetz, were among the hundreds of unarmed civilians on the Freedom Flotilla that attempted to bring 10,000 tons of medical supplies and building materials to Gaza by sea, when their boats were forcefully seized three days ago by Israeli commandos in international waters. Varying reports have stated that between 9 and 18 flotilla participants were killed and dozens were injured by Israeli forces. The names and nationalities of those who were killed are still unknown.
An example of the lengths the media is going to to protect Israel. According to this piece of propaganda, Israel is not isolated because they did anything bad but because Obama isn't doing enough to force the world to love Israel!
I will tell you the secret. Some Jewish people spread their hatred of peoples all over the world by playing the Victim.
The scare tactic known as "Antisemitism" is born from ancient cultures.
Tactics they use like this manifests itself mainly through the controlled news media, TV commercials, and through all kinds of entertainment, all through the industry they own.
It manifests itself though our cultural, spiritual, and government leaders they control.
They are disingenuous, misinformed, they lie through omission and out right lie, for their own gain.
Defamation: True Stories from Michael Wiseguy on Vimeo.
In 1775 this continent suffered under a government that worked for the interests of a foreign power; Great Britain. Our ancestors fought a revolution to bring freedom and prosperity to this land. Yet somehow, without firing a shot, we once again suffer under a government serving the interests of a foreign power, Israel. How did this come about? And when do the American people get angry about it?
No government can serve two masters, and a government that serves Israel cannot serve the American people. A friend to Israel is no friend of America.
Memorize this list of Israel's whores in the US Government and vote them out of office before it is your children being murdered by Israel! There is no more important issue this election!
America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third.
Memorize this list of Israel's whores in the US Government and vote them out of office before it is your children being murdered by Israel! There is no more important issue this election!
America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third.
Former U.S. Diplomat and U.S. Army/Army Reserve veteran, Ann Wright, a retired Colonel, spoke on June 16, 2010, at the Potter's House restaurant in Washington, D.C. Col. Wright was on one of the vessels in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, when it was attacked, on May 31, 2010, by the Israeli military, in international waters, in the Mediterranean Sea. She shared her strong feeing about that blood stained event. Col. Wright sharply blamed the Israelis for the deadly assault on unarmed civilians and also criticized the U.S. State Department for its "wimpy" response to the affair.
A group of Israeli left-wing activists who were angry about the Turkish attacks on IDF soldiers aboard the Mavi Marmara two weeks ago decided Monday to cancel the flotilla that they were planning to Cyprus to protest the Turkish occupation of the island's northern half.
Butm, but, but ... Israel said occupation was GOOD!!!!!!
A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years.
The CIA report predicts "an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947/1948 and 1967 refugees. The latter being the precondition for sustainable peace in the region."
The study, which has been made available only to a certain number of individuals, further forecasts the return of all Palestinian refugees to the occupied territories, and the exodus of two million Israelis — who would move to the US in the next 15 years.
Turkey will halt military cooperation with Israel and will not send back an envoy, withdrawn after an Israeli commando operation to stop an aid convoy reaching Gaza, a Turkish newspaper reported yesterday.
Although a large chunk of the USA didn't get in on the warmth in March, the rest of the world sure did.
Translation: "Yeah, okay, it was cool where you were but trust us, everyplace else was on fire, so shaddup when we charge you s carbon tax!"
Tehran's preparations for sending an aid convoy to Gaza are at their peak, and two organizations plan to send ships to the besieged Strip. One of the ships seems to have already set sail, and the other is slated to leave this Saturday. They are expected to arrive at Gaza's shores via the Red Sea.
The Bay Area artists who have been putting up guerrilla bus shelter posters for the last year scored again on Sunday, with two designs focusing on Israeli war crimes. (like the one pictured above).
A public service message posted near the offices of the San Francisco Chronicle reminds passersby of the deadly Israeli commando attack on the flotilla of international aid ships to Gaza.
"700 Kidnapped, 9 Murdered, and Israel says it is the victim. Sound familiar? Same story since 1984," reads the text below a huge fist descending on a passenger ship. The poster calls for ending the blockade of Gaza and holding Israel accountable.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it has formed a committee to look into Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship, the Associated Press reported.
The panel headed by Turkey's foreign and justice ministers will "assess the national and international dimensions" of the raid and prepare the ground for a possible international investigation, and has met twice since it was formed on Monday, the AP wrote.
U.S. Military has Special Ops "Boots on the Ground" in Mexico
Posted by Bill Conroy - June 12, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Task Force is Embedded with Mexican Troops, CIA Operative Claims
A special operations task force under the command of the Pentagon is currently in place south of the border providing advice and training to the Mexican Army in gathering intelligence, infiltrating and, as needed, taking direct action against narco-trafficking organizations, claims a former CIA asset who has a long history in the covert operations theater.
By James M. Rockefeller
Zionist operatives ambushed veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, a friend and a great American. When they won, America lost.
When reviewing the unedited video of her "interview," what you see is a rabbi rephrasing her answers to a question about Israel. Her response: "They should get the hell out of Palestine." The United Nations long ago endorsed that stance.
It was not Thomas but the rabbi that offended the Jewish community. Language cited as "anti-Semitic" came not from her but from responses that the rabbi restated as leading questions. She simply spoke the truth: Jewish settlers should leave the occupied territories and, as she rightly said: "go home."
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The BP Gulf Oil Disaster: New Facts Diabolical
6. That the current oil spill could be stopped within 72 hours under an executive order from the White House to the US Navy, at any time.Who will broker all the cap-and-trade certificates to keep American companies in legal compliance ~ why the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), of course. And who will ultimately pay all the costs ~ US consumers and taxpayers as higher prices are passed along. And who are the major stockholders who stand to transition from stockholder losers to massive windfall winners as CCX stockholders, or those who own stocks in other companies that own CCX stocks?
• Barack and Michelle Obama
• Al Gore (Generation Investment Management)
MSNBC hit piece called "Rise of the Right" - aired tonight -
Watch video replay at 12:00AM EASTERN TIME HERE
Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies
...Eight months later, on May 5, 2010, Ross Beaty told online investment newsletter Hera Research Monthly "We would have been farther along had [the global economic crisis] not happened, although we may not have had opportunities that we took advantage of. For example, going into Iceland was strictly something that could only have happened because Iceland had a calamitous financial meltdown in 2008."...
"Have our guys in Gaza fling a couple bottle rockets into an empty field on our side of the wall. No, wait; that hasn't worked since CAST LEAD. What to do, what to do? I know! We'll knock over another big building in the USA, and blame Arabs for it! Worked before. The goyim will fall for that one again and again and again and again!"
Larudee says that plans have been set to break the siege of Gaza by air and announces a new undaunted strategy to press the right of return of Palestinians back to the forefront of events.
Paul Larudee is an American citizen whose visit to Jordan back in 1965 was his first close acquaintance – from a different angle - with what was happening in Palestine. He got engaged with the cause ever since and gradually learned the price that he, and his peers, would have to pay for defying Israel and defending the rights of the Palestinians.
Israel's natural gas bonanza in the eastern Mediterranean just keep getting bigger, with reserves currently pegged at around 25 trillion cubic feet.
That's enough to guarantee the Jewish state, dependent on imported energy since it was founded in 1948, energy security for at least two decades.
The strikes at three fields, dubbed Tamar, Dalat and Leviathan, could even turn Israel into a gas exporter and transform its economy. There are indications that there's oil down there as well.
But the offshore finds may become a casus belli as Lebanon, Israel's northern neighbor and longtime battleground, lays claim to the gas fields as well.
Following Israel's deadly assault on the Free Gaza (FG) flotilla several weeks ago in international waters, during which nine activists were shot dead and dozens wounded, as the flotilla tried to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to the besieged strip, Israeli authorities came under enormous pressure to lift the blockade.
To put it in a nutshell, I cannot leave the country with my two children – aged 10 and 7 – from the same borders. As crazy as this sounds, it is true, courtesy of Israel's complicated and discriminatory system of ID cards among Palestinians. I am one of thousands of people who fall between the cracks – stuck between two oppressive Israeli sets of restrictions for travelling Palestinians, the result of which is that mother and children cannot travel together across Israeli borders.
The racist system of segregation Israel has imposed upon Palestinians living under its occupation has been allowed to continue unabated. Freedom of movement, democracy and family unity are principles that Israel may very well embrace, at least for Jewish Israelis. Such things are obviously not for us.
Nearly 5,000 miles from the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP and its culture of cost-cutting are contributing to another environmental mess in the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska's north shore, according to internal BP documents and more than a dozen employees interviewed over the past month.
After two serious oil spills and other mishaps at the remote site, the BP employees fingered a long list of safety issues that have not been adequately addressed, making the Prudhoe Bay oilfield vulnerable to a devastating accident that potentially could rival the havoc in the Gulf.
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One night before the Rolling Stones take the stage at the 12.12.12 concert, Mick Jagger visited Late Show With David Letterman to give the Top Ten List. His list included "Nobody wants to hear anything from your new album!" (Advice that Jagger probably doesn't take too seriously: both of the band's new songs, "Doom And Gloom" and "One More Shot" have made the band's setlist at their recent shows.) There was also "Never take relationship advice from Phil Spector," "Before shouting 'Hi, Seattle!' make sure you are in Seattle" and "You don't earn a cent when someone does a song about having 'Moves Like Jagger'," referencing pop-rock band's Maroon 5's recent Mick-centric hit single.
Watch the entire Jagger-hosted Top Ten here.
Jagger and the Stones play two nights at Newark's Prudential Center this week: Thursday (December 13) and Saturday (December 15), the second of which will also be a pay-per-view special; at that show, they'll be joined by Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga and The Black Keys.
— Brian Ives, CBS Local
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