Jerusalem Approves Silwan Demolitions

Rebel Newsflash: Jerusalem Approves Silwan Demolitions (plus 56 more items)

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• Jerusalem Approves Silwan Demolitions
• Write to the Forgotten Prisoners in Guantánamo
• The Knesset Comes to Westminster
• The despised state of Israel cannot survive for long: Christopher Bollyn
• Hamas: We won't let Red Cross visit Shalit
• Runaway Defense Spending Not Winning Any Wars
• Taliban's Time Horizon Longer Than America's
• McChrystal's Challenge
• Buy This Book: The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's
• Canadian Rendition Probe Expands to US, Syria
• A History of Impunity
• 'Free Palestine', Not Only Gaza
• Alan Watt Discusses The "Psychological Warfare" Being Waged Against Amierica
• Choose Peace: End the Siege of Gaza and Occupation of Palestine
• Religous Extremists Will Inherit the Earth
• Problem, What Problem?
• Washington DC Grandma's 13 Year Old Dog being Shot to Death by Police
• Day by day we are getting better at it!!! Must watch
• Ahmadinejad vs. Iran's morality police
• To neutralize
• Is Israel becoming a banana republic?
• We need a constitution
• An Explanation of Anti-Semitism
• Obama's Treasonist Act Gives Mexican Narco Terrorist Border Control
• Is It Legal to Kill Osama bin Laden?
• Change Egypt's Expats Can Believe In
• The Hummer Is Dead. And We Buried It
• The Runaway General in a Runaway War
• It's Not Too Late to Save Kyrgyzstan
• Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario
• Stock Markets Will Lead To The Extinction Of Humans
• The Coming Dark Age
• Flotilla Resolution Breaks Zionist Propaganda
• The Buffoonization of Hugo Chavez by Sean Fenley
• Antisemitic Incitement on Al-Aqsa TV Continues
• Tuesday: 1 US Soldier, 14 Iraqis Killed; 42 Iraqis Wounded
• Reforming Asylum Policy
• Where the Right Makes the Taboos
• With Toy Story 3, Pixar Wins Disney Divorce Battle
• "Let Them Eat Oil"
• The Fate of the Internet. Decided in a Back Room
• Illuminati Psy-Op: Welles' "War of the Worlds"
• The Meaning of "Austerity"
• Two Dutch Citizens on Flotilla Sue the Israeli Government
• Jews as a hostile elite–again
• BP Oil Disaster: Sliming The Planet on Purpose?
• The world acts, Netanyahu reacts
• Bank Shot
• Testimony and Visuals: Officers suspended on suspicion they vandalized cars
• Prolonging the Gaza Failure
• Which Side Are You On?
• Is There an End in Sight in Afghanistan?
• Gaza: End of the Siege?
• It Was All Just a Game
• Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda
• On the Verge of Collapse
• Small step, reluctantly taken

Jerusalem Approves Silwan Demolitions Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:09 AM PDT Jerusalem Municipality Planning and Building Committee decided Monday (21/6) to approve a contentious building plan that will destroy 22 Palestinian homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, in order to create a tourist center for archeological sites and a new residential housing complex. The plan, conceptualized more than a year ago, has been on hold for the past four months following US pressure.

Write to the Forgotten Prisoners in Guantánamo Posted: 22 Jun 2010 11:29 PM PDT Sometimes the idea for a campaign arrives out of the blue, and this is the case with a project to write to all the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo, which was launched last week by Shahrina Ahmed-Amatullah, a friend on Facebook. Shahrina had a list of 24 prisoners provided by Amnesty International (mirrored here), and approached me to ask if I had a list of all the prisoners still held. I explained that I didn't have a specific list of the remaining prisoners, but that she could extract their names from my definitive prisoner lists (available here, here, here and here), which she then did, announcing the project via a Facebook note entitled, "What if YOU were tortured … and no one knew about it??!"

The Knesset Comes to Westminster Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:01 PM PDT Hague has been a Friend of Israel since the age of 15. Burt is an officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel. Naturally he's in charge of Middle East affairs. Lidington also frolics with the Israel flag wavers. Before his elevation to the House of Lords Howell was MP for Guildford, in the south of England. His daughter is Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's wife.

The despised state of Israel cannot survive for long: Christopher Bollyn Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:22 PM PDT The international community is still unaware of the hidden realities behind the 9-11 attacks. The startling alliance of the United States and Israel which have given the Zionist regime an impunity from the international laws is threatening the security of Middle East growingly. I've conducted an elaborate, in-depth interview with Christopher Bollyn, the indepedent American journalist and researcher who has lot to say about the reality of 9-11 attacks and the dominance of Israel over the U.S. corporate system.

Hamas: We won't let Red Cross visit Shalit Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:06 PM PDT Hamas official says visitation denied for fear it might lead Israel to try to free abducted IDF soldier in military operation. Hamas has rejected the latest request from the International Red Cross to visit abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, Israel Radio reported on Wednesday.

Runaway Defense Spending Not Winning Any Wars Posted: 22 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT In Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, the major places of military interest to the United States today (disregarding the hundreds of other places where American soldiers and agents or mercenaries have been dispatched to suppress one or another outbreak of ethnic, tribal, religious, or territorial conflict, the United States having appointed itself the enemy of Disorder) there are indications that things are coming apart. In Afghanistan, Gen. David McChrystal has chosen casual insubordination; the American-sponsored Afghan president talks of making peace with the Taliban enemy and ordering the United States and NATO to leave the country (just when billion-dollar lodes of lithium, gold, and the other minerals a modern nation and its leaders covet have been discovered).

Taliban's Time Horizon Longer Than America's Posted: 22 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT In contrast to World War II and Desert Storm – which had clear goals, even though those of the latter were limited – the war in Afghanistan resembles the Spanish-American War and the Vietnam War. In the former, the goal changed from defeating the Spanish in a conventional war to subduing Philippine guerrillas in order to imperially conquer the archipelago. In the latter, contrary to popular belief, Lyndon Johnson's goal was never to win, but to alter the conditions on the battlefield to compel the enemy to negotiate. In the Spanish-American War, America was able to take out the adversarial regime relatively easy. The hard part came in getting rid of the guerrillas, who were sure they were promised by the McKinley administration that if they helped the Americans get rid of the Spanish, the Philippines would win its independence. The latter didn't happen, and it took several years of brutal American counterinsurgency tactics and torture to subdue the local Thomas Jefferson wannabes.

McChrystal's Challenge Posted: 22 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT All Washington is atwitter over a Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal in which the thuggish commander of US forces in Afghanistan and his snarky juvenile-sounding aides (who call themselves "Team America") deride Vice President Joe Biden" – "Joe Bite Me" – special envoy Richard Holbrooke ("'Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke,' he groans. 'I don't even want to open it.'"), White House national security adviser Jim Jones, and ambassador to Kabul Karl Eikenberry (a "clown"). Not even the president is spared: McChrystal's team claims Obama was "intimidated" by the General, a charge that reinforces the neocon meme about the administration's supposedly anti-military pseudo-pacifistic foreign policy. The narrative spun by author Michael Hastings is redolent of a movie scenario, definitely of the grade-B variety: the main character, the General, is a thuggish caricature – Hastings describes him as someone "who was always open to new ways of killing" – who is nonetheless glamorized as a lean, mean fighting machine who eats one meal a day, runs seven miles every morning, and is in every other respect an archetypal Attila right out of Central Casting. His "team," too, is romanticized in a way that might appeal to the imagination of a grade-B screenwriter:

Buy This Book: The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's Posted: 22 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT A year and a half into the presidency of Barack Obama, any hopes that he would usher in a dramatic rethinking of U.S. foreign policy have been more or less definitively dashed. Notwithstanding the wild-eyed warnings of right-wing hawks who see Obama as "the first post-American president," with a covert agenda that is part Saul Alinsky and part Frantz Fanon, the president has so far proven himself to be have little inclination to break with the past when it comes to foreign policy.

Canadian Rendition Probe Expands to US, Syria Posted: 22 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT The Canadian government has quietly been conducting an international criminal probe of the actions of Syrian and U.S. authorities in the case of Maher Arar, the Canadian who was arrested in 2002 by U.S. officials and then rendered to a Syrian jail where he was held incommunicado and tortured for 10 months before being released without charge, it was revealed Monday. The Toronto Star newspaper is reporting that "an unprecedented Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) probe into the Arar torture affair has gone global, with the possibility the Mounties will lay charges against U.S. and Syrian government officials involved in the case."

A History of Impunity Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:36 PM PDT Last week the government of Israel announced the launch of an investigation into the events surrounding the deadly Memorial Day flotilla raid which left nine activists dead. Many international bodies including the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU), as well as human rights groups like Amnesty International, are calling for an independent and impartial, international investigation into the incident. In fact, The UN Human Rights Council has already called for an investigation and chosen a principle investigator. Turkey too has decided to launch its own investigation. The Mahmoud Abbas-led Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah, which can in no way be construed as a pro-Hamas entity, also slammed the Israeli investigation.

'Free Palestine', Not Only Gaza Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:11 PM PDT One thing is missing in the 'Free Gaza' movement. Activists and civil societies and journalists who support the Palestinian cause are rightfully angry at Israel's murderous campaign against the aid-loaded 'Freedom Flotilla' that was going to the besieged and starved residents of Gaza, but they ignore the overall conditions in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the refugee camps.

Alan Watt Discusses The "Psychological Warfare" Being Waged Against Amierica Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:10 PM PDT Alex welcomes back to the show researcher, author, and radio talk show host Alan Watt. According to his bio, "Watt is a long-term researcher into the causative forces behind major changes in historical development. His background is that of a renaissance man with a background in three professions, plus having various books published in religions, philosophy, poetry, mainly under pseudonyms." Mr. Watt is featured in Alex Jones' film Fall Of The Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama, available at the Infowars Store.

Choose Peace: End the Siege of Gaza and Occupation of Palestine Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:07 PM PDT On Saturday 5th June, 2010, 35 heavily armed Israeli Navy Seals commandeered our boat, MV Rachel Corrie, one of the Freedom Flotilla, in International waters (30 miles off the coast of Gaza).  As they did so, we 19 humanitarian activists and crew, sat on the deck. We were quietly anxious, aware of the solitary figure in the wheelhouse with his hands held high against the window, in full view of the three Israeli warships, 4 approaching zodiacs and 2 commando carriers, whose guns were pointing in his direction. I personally wondered if the courageous Derek Graham would live to tell the tale, conscious of what happened on the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, earlier in the week.

Religous Extremists Will Inherit the Earth Posted: 22 Jun 2010 03:41 PM PDT Did you know that Osama bin Laden has twenty-five children? And that his Dad had fifty-four? (Osama seems to be number 17.) Bin Laden Sr. was careful never to have more than four wives at a time, though, divorcing older wives in order to marry younger ones, thus staying within the proper Koranic bounds. Like his son, he was a pious man, his great worldly success notwithstanding. Fifty-four kids! Piety will do that for ya. It is a commonplace observation that religious populations are more fecund than irreligious ones: and that within religions, it is the most devout and most fundamentalist subgroups that have the highest fertility. A lot of us have been wondering how the demographic consequences of all that will play out across the coming decades. Will secularization and attrition contain the swelling numbers of the devout? Or will the religious inherit the earth?

Problem, What Problem? Posted: 22 Jun 2010 01:07 PM PDT   In The Eternal Obsession, Steve Sailer quotes Sarah Kaufman's WaPo article, Ballet series has lots of talent, little diversity: The companies are also overwhelmingly white and dotted with Europeans -- as they have always been. Diversity in ballet remains a serious problem for the small companies as well as the large, on the coasts as well as in the heartland. In the 21st century, we can put a black man in the White House, but as last week's survey shows, we can't put a black ballerina in the Opera House. Clearly, not enough work is being done to foster African American dancers. But with public money in their coffers, ballet companies -- and the local, state and federal funders -- need to make equal opportunity in the dancer ranks a priority.

Washington DC Grandma's 13 Year Old Dog being Shot to Death by Police Posted: 22 Jun 2010 12:43 PM PDT Alex comments on a grandma's 13 year old dog being shot to death by Washington DC police who were issueing a search warrant for drugs. www.prisonplanet.tv www.infowars.com

Day by day we are getting better at it!!! Must watch Posted: 22 Jun 2010 11:13 AM PDT JavaScript is disabled! To display this content, you need a JavaScript capable browser. Adobe Flash Player not installed or older than 7.0.14! Hasbara has no chance.

Ahmadinejad vs. Iran's morality police Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:32 AM PDT The Iranian president has spurned his base in a bid to placate the reformists, but critics ask why he is even worried about the 'lost' movement. A caricature from 2009 on the Iranian website Roozonline, which is run by reformist Iranian intellectuals, portrays U.S. President Barack Obama, with his hand covering his eyes, stretching out his hand to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Beneath the feet of the Iranian president are bloodied and squashed green figures who symbolize the victims of Mir Hossain Mousavi's green movement.

To neutralize Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:32 AM PDT Unlike in the case of their Jewish counterparts, when it comes to offending Arab drivers, the Israeli Border Police would rather kill than arrest. If a policeman had witnessed the hit-and-run accident that took the life of cyclist Shneor Cheshin on Friday, would he have killed the driver after catching him? Of course not. But on Friday, June 11, in broad daylight in the middle of a residential neighborhood, a policeman killed a driver who ran into - but did not kill - pedestrians: police officers on foot.

Is Israel becoming a banana republic? Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:32 AM PDT Israeli subservience to American demands does not strengthen Israel's image in the eyes of its enemies and in the capitals of Europe and Asia. It is almost 30 years since Menachem Begin gave his now famous reply to the administration in Washington, which threatened Israel with punishment over the Knesset's passage of the bill applying Israeli law and administration to the Golan Heights: "Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic?" For many years, Israeli governments have insisted on maintaining a position of proud independence to friend and foe alike. Everyone should know that we are not a banana republic.

We need a constitution Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:32 AM PDT The argument that both Ben-Gurion and Sharon stuck to a no-constitution tradition proves nothing, since it is doubtful whether either had a genuine commitment to human rights or minority rights. Embedded in his criticism of anchorman Yair Lapid, Aluf Benn considered it proper to critique the need for a constitution in Israel, and particularly the Israel Democracy Institute's proposal for one ("A danger called constitution," Haaretz, June 16 ).

An Explanation of Anti-Semitism Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:17 AM PDT To be "semitic" means that one belongs to the peoples who are descendants from Sam (Shem), son of Noah from the Old Testament (Torah). The place of residense of the semitic peoples is the middle east; our languages are Accadian, Aramaic, Amhari, Arabic, Hebrew. All Arab nations are included among the semitic peoples. According to biblical lore, we have dark skin because Sam had dark skin. Noah of the Old Testament of the Bible (Torah) is revered as a Prophet in Islam. The Hebrews eventually left the area which became a province of the Roman Empire of their own volition. The few descendants of the original jews are those who today are known as Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, who established themselves mainly around the Mediterranean and in the Arabic countries, respectively. These two groups are the only jews who can be called "semitic" in any sense of the word. The main line of today's jews are the Ashkenazim, who represent about 95% of the jews of our days. The word "Ashkenazi" means "German Jew" in Yiddish and it denotes European Jews in general. Within the tradition of the Old Testament, the Ashkenazim are not descendants of Sam, but are of the lineage of his brother Japheth, the son of Noah who is the forefather of the peoples of white and yellow skin.

Obama's Treasonist Act Gives Mexican Narco Terrorist Border Control Posted: 22 Jun 2010 09:49 AM PDT Southern Arizona is now unofficially part of the Mexican narco state. Obama does not plan to address the problem because he intends to use it as a political football in order to push through legislation to legalize millions of people who have entered the country illegally, go on welfare rolls, and bankrupt many states. The massive influx of illegal aliens is part of a plan by the global elite to erode the sovereignty of the United States — under the rubric of the North American Union — and flood the country with low wage workers that will ultimately reduce the living standards of American workers. Addendum A number of people have offered to help the police take back the state from narco terrorists. In response, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office issued the following press release: PCSO Response to Citizen Offers of Assistance With the recent national attention brought about by the signing of Arizona SB 1070 into law, the recent shooting of a Pinal County Sheriff's Office Deputy and the spate of national media attention focusing on the serious illegal alien situation in Pinal County, our office has been literally flooded with offers of assistance from citizens around the state and the nation. The Sheriff's Office is appreciative of the offers which have come from so many patriotic and concerned citizens who are willing to come to Pinal County Arizona at their own expense and put themselves at our disposal to assist in enforcement and apprehension efforts.

Is It Legal to Kill Osama bin Laden? Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:50 AM PDT Not really. But if you act alone, you're probably in the clear. Gary Faulkner, the American man detained in Pakistan while trying to kill Osama bin Laden, will be released this week without charges, according to his family. The 52-year-old Colorado construction worker was arrested last week in northwest Pakistan for carrying weapons -- including a pistol and 40-inch sword -- without a permit. Questions of practicality (and sanity) aside, had Faulkner succeeded, could he have been charged with murder?

Change Egypt's Expats Can Believe In Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:46 AM PDT Egyptian-Americans are fueling Mohamed ElBaradei's campaign for reform. Waleed Ali had never gotten excited about politics before. A recent immigrant to the United States from Cairo, he had a lot on his plate: a day job designing software in Nashua, New Hampshire, and part-time graduate studies in international business at Southern New Hampshire University. But something about Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former International Atomic Energy Agency chief, lit a spark.

The Hummer Is Dead. And We Buried It Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:39 AM PDT On the eve of a gathering of over 25,000 social justice activists in Detroit called the U.S. Social Forum, environmentalists and peacemakers led by the group CODEPINK converged to bury the symbol of the American hubris: the Hummer. One month after the last Hummer rolled off the production line, the activists gave the hulk of steel a proper burial. The resting place chosen for the Hummer was the Heidelberg Project, an artistic community in downtown Detroit where dolls and plastic toys and shoes and shopping carts are transformed into street art. People come from far and wide to view the wild and wacky creations by artist Tyree Gupton. Heidelberg Street's message to Detroit and global visitors is one of renewal and hope in a city devastated by hard times and unemployment. The activists used the Hummer's demise to mark the end of a Rambo-like era, culture, lifestyle, and political philosophy. A converted military tank first sold to civilians in 1992 thanks to the promotion of action hero/Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hummers represented an increasing militarization of our society and the glorification of war. They were also an energy sinkhole that helped fuel wars for oil and global warming. The Hummer's dreadful gas mileage of 8-10 miles per gallon was less than half the mileage of the Model T Ford 100 years ago! Hummers emitted over 3 times more carbon dioxide than average cars and they give off more smog-producing pollutants and dangerous particulates. But because they had been categorized as light trucks, they were exempt from meeting emission or fuel-efficiency standards.

The Runaway General in a Runaway War Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:37 AM PDT Let's get this out upfront. War is run by deception and by lies. The media, including Rolling Stone, will only give us some truths while muddying the waters on the rest of the story. This 'ambush' of McChrystal reeks of diversion and deception. Not he doesn't deserve to be ambushed. Remember, he was the guy who headed the cover up of  the assassination of Pat Tillman. He covered for war crimes of the Bush administration while involving himself in others right up to the present.

It's Not Too Late to Save Kyrgyzstan Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:15 AM PDT Russia and the United States weren't able to stop the recent outbreak of violence and ethnic cleansing in Osh. But there's still time to prevent the worst. In 2005, the world's heads of states, gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York, agreed that they had a responsibility to protect their own peoples from mass atrocities -- and that the responsibility would fall to the larger community when a state proved unable or unwilling to prevent such crimes. Since that time, violence reaching the legal threshold of crimes against humanity (the other specified constituent crimes are genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing) has been perpetrated in Sudan, Sri Lanka, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and arguably in Kenya, Burma, and Zimbabwe, among other places. In almost every case, the world has failed to muster an even remotely effective response. So far, it looks like we can add Kyrgyzstan to the list; but it's not too late to get things right.

Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:56 AM PDT Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the latest official number: up to 60,000 barrels per day). Forecasts for how long it will take before the leak is finally plugged continue pluming toward August—maybe even December. In addition to the oil itself, BP has (in this case deliberately) spilled a million gallons of toxic Corexit dispersant. Biologists' accounts of the devastation being wreaked on fish, birds, amphibians, turtles, coral reefs, and marshes grow more apocalyptic by the day—especially in view of the fact that the vast majority of animal victims die alone and uncounted. Warnings are now being raised that the natural gas being vented along with the oil will significantly extend the giant dead zones in the Gulf. And guesses as to the ultimate economic toll of this still-unfolding tragedy—on everything from the tourism and fishing industries of at least five coastal states to the pensioners in Britain whose futures are at risk if BP files for bankruptcy or is taken over by a Chinese oil company—surge every time an analyst steps back to consider the situation from another angle.

Stock Markets Will Lead To The Extinction Of Humans Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:55 AM PDT An Australian scientist who helped in eradicating smallpox has sounded a death warning. Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has claimed that human race will be unable to survive population explosion and unbridled consumption. "Humans will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years, Fenner is quoted as saying. "A lot of other animals will, too."

The Coming Dark Age Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:54 AM PDT Based on recent comments in this space, and also in my email in-box, I am compelled to provide an updated overview of my proposed agenda in light of the ongoing collapse of the world's industrial economy. There's nothing new here, but plenty of people don't have the time to read what I've written in the past so, in spasms of foolish ignorance, they keep asking me to stop driving my car (trust me, I'd love to … and I go for weeks at a time without doing so) or cease speaking and writing about economic collapse because it is not happening (and, in a related issue, there's an invisible man in the sky who loves us and wants us to be happy).

Flotilla Resolution Breaks Zionist Propaganda Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:52 AM PDT What follows is the resolution adopted unanimously by the municipal council of Vienna. It bears the signatures of all political parties, and this has caused the anger of the zionist colony in Vienna. In fact, the days since this resolution was adopted have seen paroxysms of rage and hatred on an almost daily basis from representatives of the local zionist colony. The resolution was adopted on 31 May 2010 in the wake of the act of piracy and bloody massacre perpetrated by Israel in international waters against the fleet of humanitarian relief which was on its way to break the siege on the Gaza Strip. In this massacre, 10 peace activists were murdered and other 56 were injured, the ships were looted, over 650 participants were detained under inhuman conditions and subjected to sham "investigations". In the resolution, the municipal council of Vienna condemns these crimes yet addresses the subject in a measured and objective tone.

The Buffoonization of Hugo Chavez by Sean Fenley Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:45 AM PDT It is said when you can't beat 'em, that you might as well make common cause with them, but in the case of President Hugo Chavez and the government of Venezuela this doesn't seem to be the logical choice of the U.S. State Department, and the corporate 'mainstream' media at all. Since, the Obama State Department and its auxiliaries are incapable of debunking the unequivocal success of the Bolivarian revolution, and since the CIA's forays into the Bolivarian Republic have been far from a success; the corporate MSM seems to be employing the strategy, that if you can't beat 'em, then you might as well throw a whole bunch of mud in their eye.

Antisemitic Incitement on Al-Aqsa TV Continues Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:33 AM PDT Translated by MEMRI, Mossad's free misinterpretation service for Middle-Eastern languages.

Tuesday: 1 US Soldier, 14 Iraqis Killed; 42 Iraqis Wounded Posted: 22 Jun 2010 05:21 AM PDT Updated at 11:43 p.m. EDT, June 22, 2010 At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 42 more were wounded in the latest attacks. A U.S. soldier also died in a non-combat incident. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is considering accepting the resignation of his electricity minister, but he also praised his designee Karim Waleed and said Iraqis should expect more years of disrupted power service even if Waleed resigns.

Reforming Asylum Policy Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:56 AM PDT On May 14, 2010, a U.S. immigration judge granted asylum to President Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt in a second hearing. Zeituni Onyangohad applied for asylum in 2002, but the request was denied in 2004 and she was ordered to leave the country. She stayed on, fighting the order. The asylum process is confidential, as are the grounds for the judge granting the request.

Where the Right Makes the Taboos Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:19 AM PDT Japan doesn't like being told how awful it is. YOKOHAMA, Japan — "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about dolphin hunting in Japan, would seem to be a natural fit for movie theaters here, but so far the distributor has yet to find a single one that will screen the film./And if Shuhei Nishimura and his compatriots on Japan's nationalist fringe have their way, none ever will.

With Toy Story 3, Pixar Wins Disney Divorce Battle Posted: 22 Jun 2010 02:56 AM PDT In 1965, Gordon Moore of Intel noted that silicon chips had been quickly doubling in transistor density, and forecasted that computers would continue to get twice as powerful every 18 months to infinity and beyond! (Or words to roughly that effect—"Moore's Law" soon entered the realm of urban legend.) Pixar's computer animated Toy Story 3, released 15 years after the first mature computer animation movie, 1995's landmark Toy Story about a little boy's playthings who come to life when he's not looking, has thus benefited from about ten subsequent doublings in computer firepower. So, is the latest sequel 1024 times better than the original?

"Let Them Eat Oil" Posted: 22 Jun 2010 02:54 AM PDT 1st, a few dozen activists, scientists, environmentalists and concerned citizens gathered in front of the Deepwater Horizon Response Unified Command Center to present our list of demands to the office that houses BP and 14 Federal Agencies (the FBI also has offices in the building).

The Fate of the Internet. Decided in a Back Room Posted: 22 Jun 2010 01:37 AM PDT Given that the corporations at the table all profit from gaining control over information, the outcome won't be pretty. The meetings include a small group of industry lobbyists representing the likes of AT&T, Verizon, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, and Google. They reportedly met for two-and-a-half hours on Monday morning and will convene another meeting today. The goal according to insiders is to "reach consensus" on rules of the road for the Internet.

Illuminati Psy-Op: Welles' "War of the Worlds" Posted: 22 Jun 2010 12:20 AM PDT Hardly a month goes by when society is not subject to some psychological (or real) attack, whether it be "human swine" epidemic or the  massive environmental damage grabbing headlines today. These attacks are orchestrated by the Illuminati and trumpeted by their private house organs, the mainstream mass media.

The Meaning of "Austerity" Posted: 21 Jun 2010 11:15 PM PDT TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES COMING SHORTLY www.corbettreport.com

Two Dutch Citizens on Flotilla Sue the Israeli Government Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:02 PM PDT The Dutch Foreign Ministry informed Amin abu Rashed, the coordinator of the "European Campaign to Lift the Siege on Gaza", who was present on the freedom flotilla, that they will pay all expenses of a lawsuit which he filed together with another Hollandese citizen against the Israeli authorities because of their abduction in the international water from the ships of the freedom flotilla on May 31 2010. Abu Rashed stated in a press conference that he and Ms. Anne de Jong filed a lawsuit against the Israeli government on last Thursday June 17 2010, and that a lawyer specialized in the international laws has presented their complaints, because they were kidnapped at sea and detained without a lawyer. He added that they will ask for a compensation for the moral and the material damage which was done to them during the abduction from aboard the ships in international waters.

Jews as a hostile elite–again Posted: 21 Jun 2010 03:53 PM PDT Peter Brimelow ends his recent article ("Redneckophobia"? Why Obama Is Attacking Arizona") by noting : "Our political class may live in a fantasy world, but the motive for its immigration enthusiasm is all too real: a relentless hatred of the historic American nation."The immediate object of his ire is one Klejda Gjermani, described by Brimelow as "an Albanian expatriate of Jewish descent" who stepped off the boat and pretty much immediately realized she suffered from redneckophobia. She works for Commentary, so I am sure she feels quite at home there.

BP Oil Disaster: Sliming The Planet on Purpose? Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:07 PM PDT Often-times, I get a little burned out about all the things going on today and just don't feel like typing about it, let alone anything else. When I see photos and vids of innocent animals like the Brown Pelican and sea turtles covered in oil, struggling to survive, I have to turn my head. It's all so effed-up, I just can't believe it.

The world acts, Netanyahu reacts Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:53 AM PDT When Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister again after 10 years in exile, his foolish and diminishing group of followers presented him as an example of a righteous man who fell and rose again; a comeback. A year and a quarter went by and it turns out this is no comeback, but rather a talkback. A one-man response team. The world acts, and Netanyahu mumbles. Zero initiatives, lots of desperate running to catch the tail of reality. Rather similar to Mehmet Tubal, the captain of the Mavi Marmara - theoretical master of his ship, practically speaking - a pawn.

Bank Shot Posted: 21 Jun 2010 09:20 AM PDT Nine years after 9/11, getting between extremist groups and their funding remains an uphill struggle. Last week the U.S. government indicted Faisal Shahzad for his failed attempt to blow up Times Square with a car bomb. In the text of the prosecutor's case, one particular detail stands out: Shahzad's operation was financed by the Pakistani Taliban, which sent him the money in two installments -- one for $5,000, the other for $7,000. The cash arrived in the United States via hawalas, the traditional, informal South Asian networks used to transfer funds across international borders. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Testimony and Visuals: Officers suspended on suspicion they vandalized cars Posted: 21 Jun 2010 07:04 AM PDT Following B'Tselem's intervention, the army opened a military police investigation into the vandalizing of cars in the southern Hebron hills and suspended two officers suspected of involvement. On 12-13th of October, B'Tselem documented 8 cars used to transport Palestinian workers that were vandalized, allegedly by soldiers.

Prolonging the Gaza Failure Posted: 21 Jun 2010 05:22 AM PDT The recent Israeli raid on the flotilla bringing aid to Gaza — which resulted in the deaths of nine civilians, more injuries, and near-global condemnation for Israel's actions — has brought a lot of attention to Gaza in the past few weeks. Unfortunately, much of the discourse has centered on the specific incident itself (such as who fired first and whether Israeli troops were right to protect themselves), and not about the politics and conditions in Gaza overall. Even Helen Thomas' controversial comments about Israel and the question of who will take her seat have gotten more and better coverage. The hardest-hitting questions — "When does America's unwavering defense of Israel begin to compromise our unwavering defense of free speech? Does our media display a casual bias against the Arab world and the suffering of the Palestinians?" — have come not from journalists, but from The Daily Show's Jon Stewart.

Which Side Are You On? Posted: 21 Jun 2010 03:48 AM PDT Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters picketed at the Port of Oakland, in California, on Sunday hoping to delay an Israeli cargo ship from docking, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Police estimated that more than 500 demonstrators gathered early Sunday morning at Berth 58, where a cargo ship operated by the Israeli Zim shipping company was scheduled to dock. The crowd dispersed around 10 a.m. but around 200 protesters returned in the afternoon when a second shift of dockworkers were scheduled to work.

Is There an End in Sight in Afghanistan? Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:55 AM PDT The death of the 300th member of the British armed forces represents a melancholy landmark in the eight-and-a-half-year story of the war in Afghanistan. It is a painful reminder to everyone, particularly to the families, of the cost of the war in blood - and to the 300 dead must be added five times as many injured and maimed in battle. And then there are those who will carry their inner mental scars silently for years - only for them to appear later in life. The question uppermost now is the one asked by General David Petraeus flying over Mosul in the early days of the incursion into Iraq in 2003, "tell me how all this will end?"

Gaza: End of the Siege? Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:51 AM PDT "This is the beginning of the total collapse of the siege." So said Hanin Zuabi, an Israeli Arab member of the parliament who was aboard the flotilla that was attacked by Israel on May 31. That judgment may be a bit premature, however, and both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are being far more cautious in their assessments of the Israeli decision to weaken its blockade of Gaza. Skepticism abounds, and with good reason. But yesterday's decision by Israel is an important step that could unlock the frozen Middle East peace process. Israel deserves no applause for its action, since the blockade was wrong in the first place and since it remains unclear how far the Israelis will go in implementing the new rules. Simultaneously with the announcement by the Israeli cabinet, President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu set a meeting in Washington on July 6, at which the president will have to read the prime minister the riot act if there is to be any forward movement in talks.

It Was All Just a Game Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:23 AM PDT Haaretz has published an interesting article which promotes Erdogan and Obama as the benefactors of the Palestinians and assigns them credit for supposedly "ending" the Jewish siege of Gaza: Aluf Benn / Turkey can take credit for ending Israel's blockade of Gaza

Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:19 AM PDT Following the latest in semantics on the news? Journalism and the Israeli government are in love again. It's Islamic terror, Turkish terror, Hamas terror, Islamic Jihad terror, Hezbollah terror, activist terror, war on terror, Palestinian terror, Muslim terror, Iranian terror, Syrian terror, anti-Semitic terror... But I am doing the Israelis an injustice. Their lexicon, and that of the White House - most of the time - and our reporters' lexicon, is the same. Yes, let's be fair to the Israelis. Their lexicon goes like this: Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror.

On the Verge of Collapse Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:04 AM PDT 'IT WASN'T Sen. McCain's question,'' General David Petraeus said. "I just got dehydrated.'' The head of US Central Command was accounting for the fact that, moments before, while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he had briefly passed out. Senator McCain's undisguised skepticism about what he was hearing of the American war in Afghanistan was not the problem. It was explained that Petraeus had not had breakfast. One sensed, even through the televised news reports, a rare spirit of unanimity in the political hearing room - a feeling of embarrassment for the general that led the chairman to immediately adjourn the session. On the same day, the heads of five oil companies appeared before a House committee looking into the Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe. The business executives were subject to angry interrogation by members of Congress. That all five companies depended on the same "cookie cutter'' emergency back-up plan for deep water drilling showed that the notorious incompetence of BP is the industry standard. Not embarrassment here, but anger. About the most that could be said for the oil company chiefs was that no one fainted.

Small step, reluctantly taken Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:51 AM PDT It took the killing of nine people at sea and the blackening of Israel's name throughout the world to make the government decide to stop interfering with what the people of Gaza may or may not eat. It apparently would have been too much to expect from PM Netanyahu and his ministers to have taken even such a small positive step at their own initiative - not to be dragged to implementing it by massive external pressure.

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