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- Flotilla assault serves to isolate Israel
- White Men as Modern Scapegoats
- Free Bruno - L.A. 9-11 Truth Activist Faces Charges
- Full Report of The BP Gulf Oil Spill "False Flag" Event
- History Made Today in San Francisco–Dockworkers Refuse to Cross Picket Line to Unload Israeli Ship
- Who will be punished for killing civilans in the Gaza war?
- Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in America
- Last Days of The Internet
- And what of all the other deaths?
- Grandpa Bibi's responsibility
- Clipped wings
- Education minister vows to punish professors who back academic boycott
- Netanyahu drops opposition to Likud plan for renewed settlement building
- Lebanon flotilla organizers say ready to sail for Gaza 'very soon'
- Anne Frank family slams book about fictional love affair
- Activist Cindy Sheehan to lead protest against Deepwater Horizon unifed command center in New Orleans
- Israel to allow more Gaza goods
- Noam Chomsky: Two kinds of democracy (1991) + Media Control (Transcript)
- The concept of Hell in the art work of Hieronymus Bosch by Rocket Kirchner
- The Trial of Splitting-the-Sky: The YouTube Videos
- Cutting through the confusion about Israel/Palestine
- It wasn't the Arabs, stupid! It was the Jews (Part 1)
- It wasn't the Arabs, stupid! It was the Jews (Part 2)
- We Are All Palestinians
- Breed More, Parent Less
- The settler company "Achva" deceives consumers, falsely representing itself as located in Tel Aviv
- And the winner for best actor in a Mossad film is .....
- Does Israel suffer from 'Iranophobia'?
- Sunday: 58 Iraqis Killed, 98 Wounded
- Climate CONsensus, Carbon CONtrols, Truther CONvicted - Sunday Update
- Tips for Turks and Arabs
- World Cup: Is football more popular than politics?
- Satanist Insider Responds to "Disbelievers"
- 'Nuclear-Free Middle East Not Easy'
- Sting, Stieglitz, and an Addiction Memoir Worth Reading
- The Death of the WASP
- Thoughts on Alex Kurtagic's "Learning from the Right"
- McChrystal faces 'Iraq' moment
- A Father's Day Message from Chuck Baldwin
- Kandahar campaign will be bloody
- Witness: US Agent Aimed at Mexican
- Obey's Afghanistan: At Long Last, It's Guns vs. Butter
- Protesters Arrested at Nuke-Parts Plant in Kansas City
- Obama's Oily Waterloo
- Obama's Liberal Critics Find Their Voice
- What About Compensation for Bhopal?
- Mass Graves for Piles of Lie
- A note of appreciation from the Elite
- Mind-Weaponization defined
- American Crusaders: Christian Nationalism after 9/11
- Robert Lipsyte, Fathers Playing Tough with Sons
- The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks
- Oil spilling, BP chilling? Tony Hayward's Day at the Races
- Are Immanuel parents so different from the rest of Israelis?
- Ausrtralian Unions Act to Isolate Israel
- Israel planned Iran attack from Caucasus base
- Who does Tony Blair work for?
- Let's Chant: 'Free, Free Palestine'
- Richard Falk:The Shock Resulting from Flotilla Attack has Reinforced the Campaign to de-Legitimize Israel
- Lieberman: Who's the Enemy in the War on Terror?
- The Final Turkel Commission Report
- 12 Degrees of Failure
| Flotilla assault serves to isolate Israel Posted: 20 Jun 2010 08:24 PM PDT  Israel's brutal nature is comprehensibly evident to everyone. The independent nations of the world in Asia, Africa and Latin America know well that Israel's existence is blended with inhumanity and violence. Even the ordinary people in the Northern America and Europe are well aware of the fact that Israel is an insane and vicious regime; it's only their respective governments who refuse to submit to the reality of Israel and believe that this rogue state does not benefit the international community in any way. |
| White Men as Modern Scapegoats Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:56 PM PDT  I look at the Gospels not so much as religion but as good practical wisdom about people, their motivations, and their behavior. There are at least four archetypes in the Gospels that applied not only then but also today. They are the State, the Mob, the Leaders, and the Scapegoat/Human Sacrifice. The leaders incite the mob into a frenzy, and both |
| Free Bruno - L.A. 9-11 Truth Activist Faces Charges Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:58 PM PDT  Bruno Bruhwiler, lead organizer of WeAreChangeLA, is being targeted as a terrorist threat. To understand why he is being targeted by the Zionist-war crimocracy, watch the short (50-second) video below. Americans (and peace activists around the world) need to support patriots like Bruno who bring the truth of 9-11 to the fore in the anti-war movement. |
| Full Report of The BP Gulf Oil Spill "False Flag" Event Posted: 20 Jun 2010 03:42 PM PDT
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| History Made Today in San Francisco–Dockworkers Refuse to Cross Picket Line to Unload Israeli Ship Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:56 PM PDT  Since the beginning of the workers' struggles in your country – the United States of America – international solidarity has been a constant part of workers' organizing and struggle in solidarity with workers and people facing injustice everywhere in the world. We, the workers and the people of Palestine are suffering under oppression of the Israeli occupation of our land and people. This occupation began long ago, the longest-lasting occupation of the modern era.
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| Who will be punished for killing civilans in the Gaza war? Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:38 PM PDT  The decision to indict Staff Sgt. S. for killing two women during last year's war in Gaza has caused a stir. But his lawyer will rightly ask, why him, and not all the others who killed civilians?' Why was Staff Sgt. S., out of all the Israel Defense Forces' soldiers and officers, chosen to stand trial for killing two women in the Gaza Strip on January 4, 2009, the first day of Israel's ground incursion there? The IDF killed 34 armed men that same day. Was S. chosen because he was the only one who killed civilians? |
| Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in America Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:20 PM PDT  Whether through oversight or neglect on my part, I have never initiated an extended discussion of the Ku Klux Klan on this website. We have discussed the League of the South and the Council of Conservative Citizens. It would be odd not to discuss the strongest pro-White organization in our little corner of America. The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest and most well known pro-White organization in United States. Founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, the Klan quickly grew to include hundreds of thousands of members in the Southern states. In the late 1860s and early 1870s, the Ku Klux Klan fought the federal military occupation of the South and worked tirelessly to restore the racial ideal of America as "White man's country." |
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| And what of all the other deaths? Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT  The decision to indict Staff Sgt. S. for killing two women during Cast Lead has caused a stir. But his lawyer will rightly ask, 'why him, and not all the others who killled civilians?' Why was Staff Sgt. S., out of all the Israel Defense Forces' soldiers and officers, chosen to stand trial for killing two women in the Gaza Strip on January 4, 2009, the first day of Israel's ground incursion there? The IDF killed 34 armed men that same day. Was S. chosen because he was the only one who killed civilians? |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT  An Israeli leader who gives up on progress in the negotiations toward a two-state solution is dooming his grandchildren, and perhaps his children too, to a binational, one-state solution. At times, when I'm watching my little grandchildren, my thoughts turn to Grandpa Bibi. Doesn't Shmuel's grandfather also wonder what kind of country our generation will bequeath to theirs? Grandchildren turn the future from a mere political, social or economic concept into concrete reality, replete with responsibility. Doesn't Benjamin Netanyahu ask himself what he is doing to ensure that his grandson will raise his children in a Jewish and democratic state? Is it possible that this man, who has taken upon himself for the second time supreme responsibility for the fate of the Zionist dream, believes that time and his own inactivity are working for the good of future generations? |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT  A committee investigating the Gaza flotilla raid has not been given a mandate to investigate the government's preparations for an attempt to breach its naval blockade. The Turkel Committee that is investigating the handling of last month's Gaza-bound flotilla - otherwise known as the "independent public committee" - convened last week for a preparatory meeting. The committee is a kind of Israeli council of sages whose purposes are to examine whether the naval blockade and the way it was enforced were compatible with international law, and to placate the world, especially the United States. |
| Education minister vows to punish professors who back academic boycott Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT  Gideon Sa'ar says government will act during the summer against academics who joined call for Israel boycott. A few days after saying he intends to take action against Israeli professors who call for an academic boycott of Israel, Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar is scheduled to appear on Monday before the Knesset Education Committee to discuss the limits of freedom of expression in schools. |
| Netanyahu drops opposition to Likud plan for renewed settlement building Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT  PM delayed discussion on the construction freeze in for months but will not oppose new initiative and may even support it. The Likud Central Committee will meet on Thursday to discuss the freeze on construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and is expected to approve a proposal that settlement construction be promoted. The decision was made after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lifted his opposition to the proposal, forwarded by the rightist faction in the party, even though he has yet to decide whether he will participate in the meeting. |
| Lebanon flotilla organizers say ready to sail for Gaza 'very soon' Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT  Activists travel from Europe to take part in latest attempt to break Israel's maritime blockade on the Gaza Strip. Lebanese sources involved in organizing a planned flotilla to the Gaza Strip told Haaretz yesterday that their preparations were not yet complete but that activists were on their way to the country to take part in the latest attempt to break Israel's maritime blockade on the Gaza Strip. |
| Anne Frank family slams book about fictional love affair Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT  'Anne was not the child she is in this book. Her terrible destiny should be used to invent some fictitious story.' A new novel that tells the fictional story of a steamy affair between Anne Frank and one of her neighbors has drawn the ire of the young Holocaust victim's cousin. |
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| Israel to allow more Gaza goods Posted: 20 Jun 2010 11:55 AM PDT  Israel has said it will loosen its siege on the Gaza Strip by letting into the territory all goods other than "weapons and materials that Hamas uses". Sunday's announcement came after a meeting of the Israeli security cabinet and weeks of international pressure to end the crippling blockade on the Palestinian enclave. |
| Noam Chomsky: Two kinds of democracy (1991) + Media Control (Transcript) Posted: 20 Jun 2010 11:50 AM PDT  Noam Chomsky on democracy, war, propaganda, manufacturing consent, media control, marxism-leninism, elitism, stupid masses, bewildered herd etc. From 'Media Control'. According to the The Government Accounting Office, the Bush administration spent $1.6 billion over the last two and a half years on public relations operations. That's $1.6 billion of our tax money commandeered for, among other things, O.T.I.-style partisan propaganda here at home, aimed at affecting domestic elections. Included in this figure is a mysterious $15 million paid directly to individual members of the media. |
| The concept of Hell in the art work of Hieronymus Bosch by Rocket Kirchner Posted: 20 Jun 2010 09:49 AM PDT  It is obvious to anyone with half a brain when viewing Bosch's "The carrying of the cross" that Christ is surrounded mostly by evil men. But what is not so obvious is the left side of the triptych in "The Garden of earthly delights" is that the beauty of the garden around Christ could very well be the exterior facade that is manifested in the torments of Hell on the right panel. Though Bosch is a western painter through and through, one cannot help but to see Eastern motifs in his work. The so called Garden of Delights really seems like a hellish thing across the board, because as Buddha said, "Desire causes suffering". Or as Christ said,"If you drink from this water, you will thirst again". As opposed to the living water Christ offers with a promise that one will never thirst again. |
| The Trial of Splitting-the-Sky: The YouTube Videos Posted: 20 Jun 2010 09:44 AM PDT  In these You Tubes, Our Own CBC presents the record of a major public event addressing the unaccountable lawlessness of the organized criminals who presently control the world's dominant machinery of military and psychological warfare. There is a long history of imperial conquest behind the concentration in a single superpower of so much military power to kill, maim and intimidate--- so much power to manipulate human perceptions through psychological warfare that demonizes and dehumanizes the real, imagined, or constructed enemies of American empire. |
| Cutting through the confusion about Israel/Palestine Posted: 20 Jun 2010 09:06 AM PDT  In the spring of 2009, I was a member of a group that put up a billboard criticizing Israel's lethal use of force during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. A year later, the group received a letter from a college student – referred to as "J" below – asking it to remove the billboard. The student said that he had researched the Gaza invasion and had concluded that both sides were equally responsible for its consequences. He felt that the billboard unfairly placed the blame for all of the destruction solely at the feet of Israel. I replied to the student with the following letter, some of which contains passages from my forthcoming book. |
| It wasn't the Arabs, stupid! It was the Jews (Part 1) Posted: 20 Jun 2010 09:04 AM PDT  I wrote this for the education of my unfortunately poorly educated 'fellow Americans' – and ESPECIALLY for all of those brain-dead pasty faced Pavlovian drooling Zionist Baptists who by your own FREE WILL – KNOWINGLY and PURPOSEFULLY mock the teachings of our Lord with your racist hatred and unconscionable demonic war-mongering. What kind of sadistic filth would scream an endless blood lust for the lives of innocent women and children who have done you no harm? You have already been the prime enabling cause of the murders of over TWO MILLION innocent human beings – mostly CHILDREN – and yet – FULL WELL knowing this – you STILL cannot satisfy you lust for even MORE killing, destruction, rapes, tortures, and dehumanization of innocent souls! That is the TRUTH and no amount of protest can change it. |
| It wasn't the Arabs, stupid! It was the Jews (Part 2) Posted: 20 Jun 2010 08:52 AM PDT Here is yet more wisdom for the hungry for knowledge and truth. The most prolific liars of all time as proven by their own conduct for the past two thousand years and of course by the word of the Son of God – Jesus of Nazareth – the Christ – as written in the Gospel of John – are of course THE JEWS! In fairness – not 'ALL' Jews are liars. And of course — Not all large sharks are man-eathers. Not all Vipers are deadly. Not all Grizzly bears are man-killers. Not all gypsies are cheats. Not all scorpions are poisonous. Not all home invadors are going to kill the family. Not all homosexual perverts are pedophiles. Not all cancers are deadly. Not all drug addicts ruin their lives. Not all poisons are fatal. Not all psychopaths are killers. Not all black widdow bites aere fatal. Not all AIDS viruses are contageous. Not all gunshots to the head are fatal. Not all plane crashes are fatal. Not all Russian Roulette players die. |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2010 08:45 AM PDT  1. Hi FBI guys who read this blog. How about a little multiple choice test? It's a pretty easy test, so easy in fact that Shas Party members don't even get a hint at the correct answer.Now here's the question: Let's say you have a person whom you suspect may be guilty of a crime, any crime really, but one that is serious enough that you will want to send someone out to arrest the person. Let's say the person is suspected of doing any one or more of the following: dealing drugs, using drugs, exploiting child labor laws, murdering innocent people on the high seas, exposing fraud in the police department by uploading videos of policemen engaged in criminal behavior, selling nuclear weapons to South Africa, or maybe something really awful, like hitting Israeli commandos over the head with a stick. Anyway, whatever the reason, you all out there in the FBI have a warrant and need to go arrest this guy. The guy is 28, you have his name, you know who he is, so you: |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2010 08:35 AM PDT  Bryan Caplan makes the case for having more children in The Wall Street Journal. The main problem with parenting pessimists, though, is that they assume there's no acceptable way to make parenting less work and more fun. Parents may feel like their pressure, encouragement, money and time are all that stands between their kids and failure. But decades' worth of twin and adoption research says the opposite: Parents have a lot more room to safely maneuver than they realize, because the long-run effects of parenting on children's outcomes are much smaller than they look. |
| The settler company "Achva" deceives consumers, falsely representing itself as located in Tel Aviv Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:47 AM PDT  The Arkia flight company, by serving to passengers the false cover food products, takes some part in the blame. This kind of settler companies' fraud becomes increasingly common, as their directors feel the heat The Gush Shalom Movement protested to the management of the flight company "Arkia". "By serving the "Achva" food products to your passengers you take part in the fraud perpetrated by company, which tries to create among consumers the false impression that it is located in Tel Aviv - when in practice, its factory is in the 'Barkan' industrial zone on the West Bank". |
| And the winner for best actor in a Mossad film is ..... Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:46 AM PDT  Adam Pearlman!!! Special thanks to the producers and directors at MEMRI. Regrettably, Adam will not be attending this year's American Mossad Academy Awards show. Accepting in his absence will be Joey Lieberman and Chucky Schumer. |
| Does Israel suffer from 'Iranophobia'? Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:12 AM PDT  Some Israelis argue that an 'Iranophobia' holds unnecessary sway over Israeli thinking about a wide range of problems, from rearming of Hezbollah to the 'terrorist' activists aboard the Gaza flotilla. Should Israel see less of a threat in Iran? Barely a day goes by without a strident warning from a top Israeli official, politician, or general about the nature of the "threat" Iran poses to the Jewish state. It's unprecedented. Or it's imminent. Or it's existential. And it is declared to be behind every Israeli problem, from the rearming of Hezbollah in Lebanon to the "terrorist" humanitarian activists aboard the Gaza flotilla. |
| Sunday: 58 Iraqis Killed, 98 Wounded Posted: 20 Jun 2010 04:55 AM PDT  Updated at 6:49 p.m. EDT, June 20, 2010 At least 58 Iraqis were killed and 98 more were wounded mostly in Baghdad and Tikrit. Turkish troops also struck in northern Iraq where civilians were among the casualties. Meanwhile, an American-born al-Qaeda spokesman repeated the group's demands, which include the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. |
| Climate CONsensus, Carbon CONtrols, Truther CONvicted - Sunday Update Posted: 20 Jun 2010 04:49 AM PDT
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| Posted: 20 Jun 2010 04:47 AM PDT  I find it very discouraging that the Turks are employing a Jewish model in their pursuit of otherwise reasonable and productive policies in their international relations. I have always been an advocate of Muslim unity and cooperation to promote peace, stability and prosperity in the Middle East and the World. However, I have never advocated a Middle Eastern/North African/Central Asian/EU globalization project, which is what the Turks are presently pursuing. Instead, I advocate strong nationalism coupled to international cooperation. |
| World Cup: Is football more popular than politics? Posted: 20 Jun 2010 04:26 AM PDT
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| Satanist Insider Responds to "Disbelievers" Posted: 20 Jun 2010 04:24 AM PDT  "After the culling, you will lick the hand which feeds you."Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known. "How many of the Sheeple have become spiritual warriors, through prayer and sacrifice." |
| 'Nuclear-Free Middle East Not Easy' Posted: 20 Jun 2010 03:31 AM PDT
"The issues involved are complex and not likely to be resolved through the convening of a single conference," Ikeda tells IPS in an email interview. |
| Sting, Stieglitz, and an Addiction Memoir Worth Reading Posted: 20 Jun 2010 03:00 AM PDT  If his (somewhat troubled) reunion with the Police was more nostalgic than it was inventive, Sting's current tour—with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra—is a liberating reminder of his extraordinary talent as a musician. While on some levels he is simply setting old songs ("King of Pain") to new arrangements, Sting, along with New York bred-conductor Stephen Mercurio, have found ways to breathe new life into classics like "Russians" by prefacing Vince Mendoza's stirring arrangement with the clamorous coronation scene from Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov," giving the song a terrifically ominous setting. Symphonicity goes on all summer, and a studio recording will be released in July. Don't miss it; Mercurio, for one, gave up performing with Rome's Teatro L'Opera to be there. |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2010 03:00 AM PDT  A remark by Richard Brookhiser in April in a syndicated column in the New York Post about "how we're all WASPs now" made me realize that Brookhiser's statement taken in context does not prove what he thinks he's saying. A journeyman author, long associated with NR, Brookhiser, to all appearances, is an upper-class WASP endowed with all the proper manners and tics. Nonetheless, for decades he's been in the employ of the neocons, people who would hardly qualify as bon gratin. A scene involving one of their leaders, John Podhoretz, sticks vividly in my mind. While in the employ of the Washington Times, where Arnaud de Borchgrave entertained him lavishly as a favor to his parents, the present editor of Commentary was known for his crude table manners and general loutishness. I recall seeing him in Borchgrave's office slouched over his chair and (dare I be so frank) picking his nose while in conversation with the apparent boss. (Actually it was Norm and Midge who called the shots at the WT then.) But people like John Podhoretz are precisely the ones whom Brookhiser and other WASPs, and particularly those at The New Criterion, have been kissing up to for years. |
| Thoughts on Alex Kurtagic's "Learning from the Right" Posted: 20 Jun 2010 02:59 AM PDT  Re the recent TOO article by Alex Kurtagic: First, let me remark on Alex's critical comments on folks on the racial right. I have sojourned on the left. (Greg Johnson made similar comments in another TOO article.) There are many more nutcases there than on the racial right. Among Liberals, of whom I have only casual experience, they may not be obvious foaming-at-the-mouth types. But push them a bit and you begin to see the spittle forming. Still, Kurtagic's general position is good. As the dog-trainer Caesar Milan puts it with regard to training dogs, we need to be "calm but assertive." To which I would add, friendly and non-apologetic. A positive program or vision of the Future, a Myth if you will, is necessary as Kutragic states, not just gloom and doom, or as Spiro Agnew put it, the nattering nabobs of negativism ranting about Armageddon. (Of course, Armageddon promised a positive outcome.) |
| McChrystal faces 'Iraq' moment Posted: 20 Jun 2010 02:34 AM PDT
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| A Father's Day Message from Chuck Baldwin Posted: 20 Jun 2010 02:17 AM PDT  On this Father's Day it is necessary to once again draw attention to what has become one of America's greatest problems: the dearth of masculine leadership in the home. |
| Kandahar campaign will be bloody Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:49 AM PDT
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| Witness: US Agent Aimed at Mexican Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:42 AM PDT  An eyewitness to the June 7 shooting death of a 14-year-old Mexican youth said a U.S. Border Patrol agent took aim at the boy for several seconds after the boy emerged from behind a pillar of a bridge on the Juarez side of the border near El Paso, Texas. The witness, Juan Raul Flores Cadena, told a human rights coordinator for the government of Chihuahua, Mexico, that the youth, who was identified as Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka, had been part of a group that had earlier tried to run across the border before retreating when U.S. Border Patrol agents arrived. |
| Obey's Afghanistan: At Long Last, It's Guns vs. Butter Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:35 AM PDT One of the many destructive legacies of the Reagan Era was the effective Washington consensus that wars and other military spending exist on their own fiscal planet. Reagan got a Dixiecrat Congress to double military spending at a time when the U.S. was not at war (unless you were a poor person in Central America.) Meanwhile, Reagan got the Dixiecrat Congress to cut domestic spending - we just couldn't afford those costly social programs. Reagan pretended the two things were totally unrelated, and the Dixiecrat Congress went along. Ever since, the Democratic leadership and the big Democratic constituency groups have largely collaborated in maintaining the destructive fiction that we can shovel tax dollars to war and to corporate welfare called "defense spending" without having any impact on our ability to provide quality education, health care, effective enforcement of environmental, civil rights, and worker safety laws, and other basic services to our citizens that are taken for granted by the citizens of every other industrialized country. |
| Protesters Arrested at Nuke-Parts Plant in Kansas City Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:30 AM PDT The National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City Plant, managed by Honeywell to help make nuclear weapons, became the scene of civil disobedience for the first time June 18. Four people were arrested when they blocked the employees' entrance to the plant, while about 35 supporters blocked the plant's front driveway. Crosses were planted along the highway and chalk bodies colored the sidewalks. A huge sheet-turned-banner told the story of death and destruction related to the plant. More than a dozen vehicles from NNSA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Kansas City Police came to the scene, and a police helicopter hovered overhead. |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:24 AM PDT President Obama's handling of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico can be aptly described, in the words of the great Yogi Berra, as "déjà vu all over again". After nearly two months of dilly-dallying, Obama finally got the deservedly reviled BP CEO Tony Hayward to the White House where he extracted some kind of a commitment-over-time for a $20 billion dollar escrow fund. Republicans cried foul, Democrats praised the president's fortitude. So it has been with the president's handling of the nation's economic woes. Obama inherited a horrible situation with a collapsing American banking system, with job loss and home foreclosure at record levels. But just as he did with the problem of regulating the oil giants, the ever-conciliatory president "stayed the course." Instead of looking for new leadership to right the ship, the president installed Clinton retreads and Wall Street insiders-Summers, Geithner, Bernanke-in other words, the guys who got us into the mess in the first place. Eighteen months later, the economy remains stagnant and the same hacks remain in place. |
| Obama's Liberal Critics Find Their Voice Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:20 AM PDT Until President Obama's first ever Oval Office address-to-the-nation the other night BP's chief executive Tony Hayward was winning the booby prize as "America's most clueless man" for his gaffe-prone TV interviews. But Obama is gaining fast. His self-exonerating speech, full of sparkling generalities and with no hint of frank accountability for his administration's culpability in the nation's worst environmental disaster, was like the man himself, bloodless and emotionally detached from the human costs of an oil invasion that's now spreading from Louisiana to Texas, Florida and as far north as the Carolinas. Instead, to cover his impotence to cope with the seemingly unstoppable 60,000 barrel a day spillage, and his deference to BP he's appointing - what else? - one of those tired old wheezes, a "tsar" to oversee the Gulf spill effort and a "commission" to investigate its causes which by now are well known by everyone except the clueless White House. Don't they listen to their own scientific advisers? |
| What About Compensation for Bhopal? Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:17 AM PDT Moral outrage is seldom a pretty sight. When BP's chief executive Tony Hayward appeared before a Congressional investigation into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there was little he could say to placate angry members of the energy sub-committee. Most of the committee members had turned up to take part in a ritual denunciation, a modern version of putting someone in the stocks, and Hayward remained for the most part impassive as the rancid eggs rained down. I don't say this in defence of BP. When his inquisitors broke off from telling Hayward how personally affronted they felt by the oil disaster which followed the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig, they had telling charges to make against the company. Peter Welch, a Democrat Congressman from Vermont, listed a catalogue of safety failings at the company long before the Deepwater Horizon blast killed 11 people. The committee heard that BP's record was significantly worse than that of other oil companies; it has been accused of 760 safety violations in the US in the past five years, compared with eight at ConocoPhilips and six at ExxonMobil. |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:15 AM PDT  When Israel has proven its aggressive nature to the whole world, when the savagery of its wars against its neighbors for over sixty years and the blockade it is imposing on unarmed civilians in Gaza have been exposed, and when its government has shown the extent of its extremism, the United States embarked on an effort to start negotiations of any kind between Israel and the Palestinians. It is acknowledged by everyone that these negotiations are not based on a clear frame of reference, particularly in relation to Jerusalem and the return of the refugees. This is meant as a cover to the policies of those who launched the war on Gaza and have never stopped robbing the Palestinians of their land, destroying their homes and killing their children. Netanyahu's extremism is such that he wants to give a religious Jewish interpretation to the ethnic cleansing of Arab East Jerusalem. |
| A note of appreciation from the Elite Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:05 AM PDT
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| Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:35 AM PDT I came up with a definition of Mind-Weaponization: The single-minded pursuit of hegemony. Hegemony is the leftist term for political power/social influence, and it's always used in a negative context. Studying details like this about the Left shows us how we got into the situation we are in. How we got "ravelled" in the first place so we can start unraveling. |
| American Crusaders: Christian Nationalism after 9/11 Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:34 AM PDT
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| Robert Lipsyte, Fathers Playing Tough with Sons Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:15 AM PDT  Let me not be shy when it comes to sports. In my youth, I was a great shortstop with fantastic range. And if I do say so myself, I played a pretty spectacular outfield as well (when I wasn't blasting homers out of the park). I'm talking, of course, about those night-time childhood moments when I would lie crosswise on my bed, with just the dim light from the hall filtering into my room, bouncing a balled-up piece of paper off the wall. |
| The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks Posted: 19 Jun 2010 11:36 PM PDT
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| Oil spilling, BP chilling? Tony Hayward's Day at the Races Posted: 19 Jun 2010 11:20 PM PDT
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| Are Immanuel parents so different from the rest of Israelis? Posted: 19 Jun 2010 10:58 PM PDT  Let's face it, with the exception of a handful of Jewish-Arab or religious-secular schools, the Israeli school system is segregated. Ashkenazi parents of pupils at the Beit Yaakov School in Immanuel claim the need to keep their daughters away from Sephardi classmates is not racist, but rather expresses concern for the religious or cultural influences the girls may be exposed to by mixing with children different from themselves. These parents' rather belligerent willingness to serve jail time rather than let their daughters sit in ethnically mixed classrooms is widely viewed as an example of unenlightened racism that the state clearly can neither allow nor support. |
| Ausrtralian Unions Act to Isolate Israel Posted: 19 Jun 2010 08:10 PM PDT  The movement for Australian union action against Israel is gaining strength after the apartheid state's latest murderous attack on the unarmed aid flotilla to Gaza. The South Coast Labour Council (SCLC) and the New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory branches of the Australian Services Union have joined the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union in committing to the international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against the aggressive Israeli state. |
| Israel planned Iran attack from Caucasus base Posted: 19 Jun 2010 07:33 PM PDT
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| Posted: 19 Jun 2010 04:17 PM PDT  "In the conversations I've had with the Israeli Prime Minister there is now, in principle, agreement for Israel to allow goods in" Tony Blair told reporters on Monday. And like magic, an official Israeli statement today announced the 'easing' of the Gaza blockade. After three years of lucrative ambassadorial work, the man best known for invading Iraq on doctored evidence is back in the big time. As pressure mounts on Netanyahu's government to end the illegal blockade on Gaza following the flotilla massacre, the former PM has been asked to step up his Hasbara duties. Today's announcement confirmed that Israel will "liberalise the system by which civilian goods enter Gaza and expand the inflow of materials for civilian projects that are under international supervision". Specific goods were not specified, but it is believed a severely limited quantity of foodstuffs and education materials will be taken off the banned list. The UK-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign derided the "so called easing of the blockade as a sham designed to divert the world's attention from the inhumane blockade". |
| Let's Chant: 'Free, Free Palestine' Posted: 19 Jun 2010 03:39 PM PDT Seeing the footage dispatched from London to TV stations around the world following the massacre of peace activists onboard the Freedom Flotilla embarrassed me for several reasons. First and foremost, as an Iranian Muslim who ideologically supports and upholds his brothers in religion during crucial times, I found myself incomprehensibly ineffectual as I saw British citizens storming onto the streets of London, holding the flags of Turkey and Palestine, chanting "Free, Free Palestine". |
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| Lieberman: Who's the Enemy in the War on Terror? Posted: 19 Jun 2010 12:23 PM PDT  On June 15, 2010 – the Wall Street Journal (listed as an Israel Hasbara Committee member) published an Israeli propaganda crap,written by Zionist Jew Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman Senate Homeland Security Committee. In the 'opinion' Joe Lieberman claims that America's real enemy is "violent Islamist extremism". I am sure, 'Mr. Israel', cannot be so ignorant of the fact that since the creation of the UNcountry – most of terrorist acts against the US were carried out by the Jewish extremists and not the 'Islamist extremists'. To name a few Jewish terrorism; Lavon Affair (1954), President John F. Kennedy's assassination (1963), USS Liberty attack (1967), Operation Trojan (1986), Pan Am 103 bombing (1988), 9/11 (2001), AA Flight 587 (2001), Bali bombing (2002 & 2005), Madrid train bombing (2004), USS Cole bombing (2000), Nigerian underwear bomber (2009), Time Square hoax (2010) and unlimited other false-flage operations. |
| The Final Turkel Commission Report Posted: 19 Jun 2010 11:19 AM PDT
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| Posted: 19 Jun 2010 09:19 AM PDT  How does a weak state become a failed state? Each weak state is beset by a unique set of troubles. One country's chief woe might be staggering economic decline while another's is the rapid brain drain of its best and brightest. Here are the worst performers in each of the index's 12 indicators -- and how things got so bad. |
Alex gives his full report on the bp gulf oil spill, and reveals why he is now sure it's a 100% false flag event to usher in the global carbon tax talked about at the G-20 summit.
Alex breaks down the latest new bill in the house that would add new taxes via the FCC to our Tv & Internet.
People's responses to a historic meeting of activists from all over the country, there will be a protest at the: Deepwater Horizon Unified Response Command Center in New Orleans, LA, on Monday, June 21st from 12pm to 2pm.
Hulme refutes IPCC "consensus" 
The World Cup in South Africa is in full swing. But with much of the globe basking in the glow of the beautiful game, how much of an impact is it having in the US? In a country in love with baseball and American football, does 'soccer' score any goals? Web journalist Lori Harfenist has been on the streets of New York to find out.
A meeting called for 2012 on a Middle East free of nuclear weapons is likely to run into difficulties, says Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Buddhist association Soka Gokkai International (SGI).
McChrystal confronts the specter of a collapse of United States political support for the war
US troops by day, Taliban by night Pt.2 - Junaid: Local people likely to suffer majority of casualties
Let's be honest: you'll never win the lottery.
A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11. This film explores an emerging ultra-rightwing mass movement seeking dominion over all aspects of contemporary American society. The film weaves archival video, contemporary Christian Nationalist movement propaganda (recruiting videos, apocalyptic/military video game imagery, etc. and original investigative material) to create an intense examination of the mindset and its will to power.
in Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wired 
The chairman of oil company BP is facing fresh criticism over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, after he took a day off on Saturday. He was in the UK, watching his yacht in the Isle of Wight boat race. Earlier, He said the company is 'very strong' and will overcome all difficulties. BP has defended its chief saying it was his first day off since the leak started, after the rig explosion two months ago.
A week ago, Israel leaked to the press that they had permission from Saudi Arabia to use their air space to attack Iran. The Saudi's quickly denied this. The effort on Israel's part was a ruse to cover their real plans, to attack from the Republic of Georgia, close to Iran's northern border. However, the breakdown in relations with Turkey after miscalculating the response to their Flotilla raid on a Turkish ship in international waters may have ended this operation. Israel, whose arms agreements with Turkey mounted to nearly $5 billion dollars over a period of years, had been training pilots in Turkey for bombing attacks on Iran. During these training missions, Israel was smuggling aircraft through Turkish airspace.
Navi Pillay, the UN Human Rights Chief described the Israeli blockade on Gaza as "illegal and must be lifted" and accused Israel of Violating International Humanitarian Law, Also the head of UNRWA operation in Gaza, John Ging, had called upon the UN itself to begin defying the blockade and deliver humanitarian assistance since the blockade is a flagrant direct violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that prohibits collective punishment. The state of Israel has stated that the blockade of Gaza is for security purposes; although it is imposing Collective Punishment on 1.5 million, which is a breach of international law and a war crime.
In response to the world's outrage (except the U.S.) against Israel's May 31st murderous attack on peace activists aboard the "Free Gaza Flotilla" delivering humanitarian aid to besieged Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu and his Cabinet on Monday, June 14, 2010 voted in favor of creating an internal commission called the "Independent Public Commission" that includes three Israelis and two foreign observers to investigate the legality and circumstances of the IDF's raid on the Flotilla that led to the death of nineinternal commission called the "Independent Public Commission".| You are subscribed to email updates from Opinion To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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