The light that never burns out

Rebel Newsflash: The light that never burns out (plus 69 more items)

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• The light that never burns out
• National unity remains elusive under occupation
• New Ron Paul Op-ed
• 101 East - Indonesia: Fighting extremism
• 'Americans Don't Flinch' – They Duck!
• I Am a Protester, Not a Terrorist
• Drone Attacks to Stimulate Economy?
• Beyond Petroleum
• OPGAI Volunteers Work Camp
• Abbas: Israel must not expel Hamas politicians from Jerusalem
• Abu Zubaydah and the Case Against Torture Architect James Mitchell
• The McCrystal Psy-Ops at Rolling Stone
• WHO to tax your internet usage to fund vaccines in third-world countries
• Coffee with Bradley Smith: Smith speaks at Cal State Fullerton intro
• Israel Lobby Riding High in US Election Run-Up
• Punishing Turkey
• Chimpanzees don't believe in open borders
• Medical Report: Fluoride Blinded, Crippled Indian Children - Alex Jones Tv
• The Free Market: Uncool But Effective
• Saddam's Most Dangerous Legacy
• Of Drunken Ascot and Cricket Orgies
• Dr. John Coleman Covers Historical & Future Atrocities of The Committee of 300
• Blood, Oil & US Empire
• The Ultimate Gulf Conspiracy?
• Ray McGovern: Israel Flotilla Murders
• Why We'd Fear Black Militias
• The Saudi bluff
• Ignoring the tsunami
• Hypocrisy begins at home
• Dennis Kucinich on Afghan Strategy: Bring our troops home
• 'None of This Is Easy'
• Israeli Ambassador Admits Rogue Operations, Spying And Worse
• POLITICS: All Quiet on the Australian Front on Role in Afghanistan
• Two Americas
• US Social Forum cancels exploitative Zionist workshop
• Lifestyles of the Rich and Tyrannical
• Why the Irish Support Palestine
• Barack Hussein Corleone's' Comment That Individuals don't Matter
• McChrystal Sideshow Masks Murderous Reality
• General McChrystal Resigns
• The Coming Era of Energy Disasters
• Palestinians Versus The Samson Option Blackmail
• Officially FUBAR
• Our Global Senate and Its Flaws
• Petition: A World United for the Freedom of Humanity & Freedom of Palestine
• Dems seek rules to keep lobbyist cash flowing
• The K Street Funnel
• Wednesday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 8 Wounded
• Right-Wing Israel Lobby Riding High in Election Run-Up
• Egypt's unfulfilled promise to open the Rafah Crossing
• Belgian lawyers to charge Barak and Livni for war crimes
• The Stupid Boys Town Mentality and the Death of America and Europe
• A REALLY BIG Black Swan
• Integrating Palestine into the US progressive left
• Is "Whiteism" the Antidote to "Jewism"?
• Kyrgyzstan: Picking up the pieces
• Switch to Petraeus Betrays Afghan Policy Crisis
• UK, US Students Promote BDS
• FCC Declares It Has Right to Regulate Internet
• Crazy Talk in the Middle East
• Secularism is the State "Religion"
• Obama & Insubordination: Is He Truman or Mr. Milquetoast?
• Will the White Race Survive?
• Turkish-Israeli relations frozen, can the Arabs turn this to their favour?
• More news from Chutzpah Central
• Sen. Kyle's Comment About Why Obama Won't Send Troops to The Border
• Gaza moves New York City mother from apathy to activism
• WeAreChangeLA's Bruno Bruhwiler vs. Terrorism Charges Update
• Sen. Kyl: Obama won't secure border until lawmakers move on immigration reform package
• BP and Sado-Messochism

The light that never burns out Posted: 24 Jun 2010 07:49 AM PDT Epitaph for a murdered planet: There is no money in the truth. That's why everyone, or just about everyone, accepts all these lies, always calculating the money to be gained against the relative truth of the subject at hand, always forgetting there is no such thing as relative truth. Relative truth is always a lie.

National unity remains elusive under occupation Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:37 AM PDT During his recent visit to the Gaza Strip, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mousa received from Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas a memorandum putting forward Hamas' terms for signing an Egyptian-brokered reconciliation deal with its rival US-backed Fatah. Dr. Ahmad Yousef, deputy foreign minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, told The Electronic Intifada (EI) that the memorandum emphasized points that Fatah should accept before Hamas signs the Egyptian-brokered paper.

New Ron Paul Op-ed Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:49 AM PDT In advance of his trip to Iowa this Friday night, Dr. Paul has a new op-ed today on The Iowa Republican website. Entitled "Keeping the Republic," it takes a look at how far we have come from what our Founders envisioned while highlighting the fact that there is a dedicated group of people ready to take on the challenge of restoring the Constitution.

101 East - Indonesia: Fighting extremism Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:33 AM PDT After the 2002 Bali bombings, Indonesia began a de-radicalisation programme to try and reform extreme militants. Can Indonesia rehabilitate its militants and prevent future terror attacks?

'Americans Don't Flinch' – They Duck! Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:18 AM PDT Yesterday, accepting General McChrystal's resignation, President Obama said that McChrystal's departure represented a change in personnel, not a change in policy. "Americans don't flinch in the face of difficult truths or difficult tasks." he stated, "We persist and we persevere." Yet, President Obama and the U.S. people don't face up to the ugly truth that, in Afghanistan, the U.S. has routinely committed atrocities against innocent civilians. By ducking that truth, the U.S. reinforces a sense of exceptionalism, which, in other parts of the world, causes resentment and antagonism.

I Am a Protester, Not a Terrorist Posted: 24 Jun 2010 12:35 AM PDT There was a knot in my stomach as I rode the subway to my first anti-G20 protest this week. All the foreboding emails flooding my inbox had me spooked. Company instructions on gas masks, underwear choice (avoid cotton, it absorbs gas fumes), and making sure to have an escape route. My husband had just forwarded me a missive from his office administrator, suggesting staff go underground to avoid the afternoon's protest.

Drone Attacks to Stimulate Economy? Posted: 24 Jun 2010 12:21 AM PDT What's worse: backstabbing a president or bombing lots of civilians? The answers pretty obvious to judge by the stink over General Stanley McChrystal. The man's in trouble; the policies he embraced may not be. Ironically, one policy he raised concerns about—the use of drones—goes on, to barely a whimper. Thanks to newly announced federal contracts, Wisconsin National Guard is planning to build a new $8 million base for unmanned drones. Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri is to be a drone base control. Rapid City's nearby Ellsworth Force Base also recently "won" a drone contract.

Beyond Petroleum Posted: 24 Jun 2010 12:05 AM PDT You couldn't call it a dialogue. It was more like a momentary rip in the global power continuum, a spill of outrage on the stage of a major oil conference in London. On Tuesday, two Greenpeace activists interrupted a speech by British Petroleum chief of staff Steve Westwell — sandwiched him at his podium, trespassed on time and space that didn't belong to them, and spoke to an audience that hadn't come to hear them. They had about 20 seconds, not much time to talk about the complexity of ecosystems or draw attention, say, to the plight of the Gulf of Mexico's Sargassum algae. They did the best they could.

OPGAI Volunteers Work Camp Posted: 23 Jun 2010 11:41 PM PDT Concept: The idea of the camp is based on the bringing together at least 700 Palestinian youth from the different Palestinians communities as well as the youth groups of other organizations and participants from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Also, the participation is open for volunteers from all over the world to be present work side by side with local volunteers for the 4 days.

Abbas: Israel must not expel Hamas politicians from Jerusalem Posted: 23 Jun 2010 11:39 PM PDT Jerusalem police confiscated the Israeli identity cards of the four Hamas legislators - Mohammed Abu Tir, Mohammed Totach, Khaled Abu Arafa, and Ahmed Atoun - in early June and gave them until July to leave the country. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday denounced Israel's plan to expel four politicians from Jerusalem because they belong to the Islamic militant group Hamas.

Abu Zubaydah and the Case Against Torture Architect James Mitchell Posted: 23 Jun 2010 09:52 PM PDT Attempts to call to accountability any of the architects of the Bush administration's torture program have so far been depressingly unsuccessful. First, any hopes that President Obama would lead the way were dashed when, even before taking office, the President-Elect declared "a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards." Then, in January this year, the best hope to date — the final report of a four-year internal investigation into the Justice Department lawyers who wrote the "torture memos" in 2002 and 2003 that purported to redefine torture so that it could be practiced by the CIA, and later by the US military — was shattered when a senior Justice Department official was allowed to override the report's damning conclusions, declaring that, instead of facing disciplinary measures for "professional misconduct," the men in question — John Yoo, now a professor at Berkeley, and Jay S. Bybee, now a judge in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals — had only exercised "poor judgment."

The McCrystal Psy-Ops at Rolling Stone Posted: 23 Jun 2010 07:07 PM PDT It's sickening! As soon as anyone remotely significant publishes any dirt on our psychopathic leaders, the gullible alternative media jump at it as if it was the Gospel of the Lord. I'm thinking of the Seymour M. Hersh articles in the New Yorker concerning illegal wiretapping and U.S. plans to attack Iran, the Walt/Mearsheimer article on the Israel Lobby in the London Review of Books, and now the Rolling Stone article on the U.S. military leadership's attitude towards the Obama administration. What most self-professed 'progressives' and 'dissidents' don't realise is that these articles are part of carefully crafted psy-ops run by the Anglo-Judean Axis of Greed.

WHO to tax your internet usage to fund vaccines in third-world countries Posted: 23 Jun 2010 07:00 PM PDT The United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing hard to impose global consumer taxes to help fund its various programs, including a new proposal that would tax the internet in order to pay for vaccines and other pharmaceutical medicines for third-world countries. Yes, you read that right - WHO wants every person in the world to help pay for drugs that make Big Pharma even richer.

Coffee with Bradley Smith: Smith speaks at Cal State Fullerton intro Posted: 23 Jun 2010 06:15 PM PDT This is an introductory segment from the talk I gave at Cal State-Fullerton on 06 May. The title of the talk is "The Student Newspaper and the Question of Taboo." For a look at how the Daily Titan staff reported on this talk see: www.dailytitan.com

Israel Lobby Riding High in US Election Run-Up Posted: 23 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT Despite the growing international condemnation and isolation incurred by the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the right-wing leadership of the so-called "Israel Lobby" here is riding high in the U.S. Congress. So far this week, it has chalked up a key victory on Capitol Hill in its longstanding effort to impose "crippling sanctions" against Iran.

Punishing Turkey Posted: 23 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT Does anyone remember the movie The Boys from Brazil?  It told the story of how a group of top Nazis had moved to Brazil where they made a number of clones of Hitler-as-a-child that were being strategically placed around the world to eventually bring about a Fourth Reich. The movie ended ambiguously, with many of the Hitler children still alive and evidently expected to eventually turn into Hitler adults.  The movie makers were clearly on to something because there have been a lot of Hitler sightings by Israel and its friends over the past few years.  Saddam Hussein was described as a new Hitler while Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been depicted in even more heinous terms as a reborn Nazi leader preparing a new Holocaust.  More recently Israel demonstrators have displayed effigies of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the hairline altered and a moustache added to create a caricature of Hitler.

Chimpanzees don't believe in open borders Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:48 PM PDT I began my chapter on Jewish involvement in shaping US immigration policy as follows: Immigration policy is a paradigmatic example of conflicts of interest between ethnic groups because immigration policy determines the future demographic composition of the nation. Ethnic groups unable to influence immigration policy in their own interests will eventually be displaced by groups able to accomplish this goal. Immigration policy is thus of fundamental interest to an evolutionist. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Medical Report: Fluoride Blinded, Crippled Indian Children - Alex Jones Tv Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:53 PM PDT Indian Children Blinded, Crippled By Fluoride In Water Growing awareness of mass medication of public with deadly neurotoxin leads to establishment backlash Paul Joseph Watson www.prisonplanet.com www.infowars.com Wednesday, June 23, 2010 The controversy over adding sodium fluoride to water supplies in both the US and the UK is intensifying as two separate stories out of India reveal that children are being blinded and crippled partly as a result of the neurotoxin being artificially added to drinking water. In the Indian village of Gaudiyan, well over half of the population have bone deformities, making them physically handicapped. Children are born normally but after they start drinking the fluoridated water, they begin to develop crippling defects in their hands and feet. "Due to the excess fluoride content in drinking water, the calcium intake is not absorbed in the body, causing disabilities and deformities," said Dr Amit Shukla, a neurophysician. "Sijara, a 35-year-old woman who is also afflicted, said the problem started around 30 years ago and gradually gripped the entire village," reports Express India. "Now, you hardly find a person without the deformities. People in the village die at a relatively young age," added Sijara whose three sons also have physical deformities." Government doctors have denied that fluoridation of drinking water is to blame, but have refused to test the water, insisting such tests are "not necessary".

The Free Market: Uncool But Effective Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:25 PM PDT When the Right wants to antagonize the Obamaniancs, they draw a picture of Batman's Joker with the word Socialist below it. This makes the Left particularly incredulous because they don't see that word as a bad thing. As the Ethicist put it in last Sunday's New York Times, "How does it defame a person to call him a 'socialist' — a set of ideas many advanced Western democracies find congenial, what with the accessible health-care, affordable higher education and good public transportation?" Come on, Randy. You don't really believe that do you? Surely, this is another case of, as Orwell put it, "Left-wing parties making it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy." Nobody really believes socialist policies are good for us. Deep down, we all know getting laid isn't even almost as fun when your mom set you up with her and that's assuming dates like that even get you laid in the first place.

Saddam's Most Dangerous Legacy Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:00 PM PDT While Saddam Hussein was still ruling Iraq, he went to a village to award a new Kalashnikov rifle to a young boy. The boy had come to the tyrant's attention after reporting the private conversations of his mother and father to the secret police. It seemed the parents had criticized the tyrant, whom the youngster had been taught in school was the beneficent father of all Iraqis. The boy received a Kalashnikov and praise from Saddam for his loyalty. His betrayal of family left him a ward of the greater family, the state as incarnated in Saddam Hussein.

Of Drunken Ascot and Cricket Orgies Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:00 PM PDT During my book party one month ago—rather surprisingly, the thing is selling well—I spotted Ferdinand Mount in the crowd and asked him to meet a friend of mine. Ferdie recognized the name immediately. "You brought cheer to the plains of India," he told Naresh Kumar, quoting a headline of more than fifty years ago. Mount then went on to quote from one of his own dispatches: "As the shadows lengthened in the centre court of Wimbledon, the soft touch and tricky lobs of Kumar-Krishnan tied their opponents in knots," or words to that effect. Naresh Kumar was one of the most popular players on the tennis circuit during the mid- and late-fifties. A gentleman through and through, he played in 101 Wimbledon matches and actually did bring cheer to the plains of India. He and I were friends on the tour, although I was more often than not unemployed after the first round, whereas he was always working, including the weekends. In a tournament in Deauville in 1958, Kumar drove his French opponent crazy with dinks, slices and top spin, something extremely hard to do with wooden rackets and the dead gut of the day, and the Frenchman quit. Naresh was surprised, but shook the quitter's hand and never talked about it. I compared it to the ghost of the Ligne Maginot returning, and my Indian friend thought it unkind.

Dr. John Coleman Covers Historical & Future Atrocities of The Committee of 300 Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:35 PM PDT Alex welcomes back to the show author John Coleman, a former British Intelligence Officer for MI6. Coleman has researched the Committee of 300 and the New World and its plan to establish a unified church and monetary system, oversee the destruction of all national identity and national pride, and establish the ability to control of each and every person through means of mind control. Coleman is the author of the bestseller The Committee of 300, Gun Control: An Attack on the Whole Constitution, and Pearl Harbor and Beyond: An account of Treachery and Treason.

Blood, Oil & US Empire Posted: 23 Jun 2010 02:56 PM PDT Blood Oil & US Empire - Ashley Smith, Adaner Usmani, Glen Ford at the New England United Antiwar Conference. Filmed by Paul Hubbard on 1-30-10 at MIT, Boston MA.

The Ultimate Gulf Conspiracy? Posted: 23 Jun 2010 01:35 PM PDT Here's some more thoughts on the Gulf disaster to add to the mix. Something to refer to as time unfolds. It's sort of science meets technology meets psychopaths. The result, if there may be a bit of truth in this info, is a false flag social engineering event that if things go according to plan will only end when the objectives are met.

Ray McGovern: Israel Flotilla Murders Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:58 PM PDT Ray McGovern on Israel Flotilla Murders

Why We'd Fear Black Militias Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:51 PM PDT They've found a new double standard. Imagine that the inauguration of President George W. Bush had sparked an explosive rise in African American militia groups. Suppose thousands of heavily armed black men began gathering at training camps in wooded areas throughout the country, devising military tactics for "taking back their country" after what they believed was an electoral coup./Do you think Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney would have reacted to a black militaristic buildup as coolly as President Obama has to the phenomenal growth of white militias?/Since Obama took office last year, the number of white militias has shot up from about 170 to more than 500, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist groups in the United States. Armed with enough firepower to take on a police department, some of these groups are honing their sniper skills using photographs of Obama for target practice./They cling to the delusion that the nation's first black president is somehow a subversive working for Muslim extremists, and they aim to bring him down./"If the people we saw running around armed to the teeth were black, I think their organizations would be destroyed in a matter of hours," Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, told me. "If people saw on their TV screens photos of black militia members shooting at images of a white president, I don't think they would last."

The Saudi bluff Posted: 23 Jun 2010 10:51 AM PDT The "Arab peace initiative" (or, more accurately, "the Saudi initiative" ) was born shortly after the devastating 9/11 terror attacks, when the status of the Arab world - and especially of the terrorists' native countries, first and foremost Saudi Arabia - was at a nadir. To anyone with eyes in his head, it was clear that the peace plan was a public relations exercise. To anyone, that is, except those Israelis who always leap, as if by conditioned reflex, to advance the interests of those who seek to lure their country into a trap.

Ignoring the tsunami Posted: 23 Jun 2010 10:51 AM PDT Things have never been better: The number of millionaires in the country soared by 43 percent between 2008 and 2009, with 2,519 new ones joining the 5,900 we already had, for a total of 8,419 Israeli millionaires. Their total net assets rose by about 41 percent, from $30.1 billion at the end of 2008 to $42.4 billion at the end of 2009. No wonder it's impossible to find a luxury apartment to buy or to reserve a table at a top restaurant in Tel Aviv, or that tickets for "Nabucco" were so hard to get. Never was so much owned by so few Israelis. Never has life been so good here for so wealthy an elite, as the country is poised at the brink of the abyss.

Hypocrisy begins at home Posted: 23 Jun 2010 10:51 AM PDT It may be that the whole world is dazzlingly two-faced, but we should nevertheless focus on the hypocrites in our own region, since after all, hypocrisy begins at home. Some six months ago, while it was still licking the wounds caused by the barbs hurled at it from all sides because of the lead it cast in Gaza, Israel was given a chance to improve its image. It seized the opportunity presented by the horrendous earthquake that devastated Haiti and rapidly dispatched a relief delegation. Thus, while denying the children of Gaza pencils and notebooks, Israel poured aid into a country thousands of kilometers away.

Dennis Kucinich on Afghan Strategy: Bring our troops home Posted: 23 Jun 2010 10:19 AM PDT Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after President Obama replaced NATO and U.S. Commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal with General David Petraeus: "The counterinsurgency strategy is falling apart. The doctrine of counterinsurgency has broken down just as the chain of command has broken down. The Karzai Administration is broken by corruption. Our budget is broken. General Petraeus has served his country honorably, but we can't expect a different outcome from a new general with the same old strategy. The only way to repair this mess is to get out of Afghanistan.

'None of This Is Easy' Posted: 23 Jun 2010 09:37 AM PDT Gen. David Petraeus agreed Wednesday to become commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. In his testimony last week to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Petraeus portrayed an Afghanistan that is on the right track, but still has a long way to go before it can fend for itself. I'll begin by setting my remarks in context. As you will recall, soon after the 9/11 attacks, an international coalition led by the United States conducted an impressive campaign to defeat the Taliban, al Qaeda, and other associated extremist groups in Afghanistan. In the years that followed, however, members of the Taliban and the other extremist elements gradually reconnected in Afghanistan's and Pakistan's border regions and rebuilt the structures necessary to communicate, plan, and carry out operations.

Israeli Ambassador Admits Rogue Operations, Spying And Worse Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:56 AM PDT In a shocking revelation today, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren admitted that super-spy Johnathan Pollard, responsible for the murder of 100 CIA agents and the turnover of 360 square feet of vital intelligence to the Soviet Union wasn't really working for Israel at all. In 1998, the government of Israel admitted that Jonathan Pollard was a spy for Israel, having stolen nearly every NATO defense plan needed to assure a Soviet victory in case of war. Israel claims that a defense agreement, not in evidence, makes any information held by the United States, found useful to Israel, no matter its security classification, property of the State of Israel. The Israeli news agency Haaretz quotes as follows:

POLITICS: All Quiet on the Australian Front on Role in Afghanistan Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:39 AM PDT The lack of debate here concerning Australia's military involvement in Afghanistan is unlikely to change in the near future despite the recent deaths of five Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel in the war-ravaged nation. Three commandos died on Jun. 21 in a helicopter crash in Kandahar province while two soldiers were killed by an improvised explosive device in Oruzgan province on Jun. 7.

Two Americas Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:24 AM PDT Yesterday, both Greta Van Susteren on Fox "News" and Ed Schultz on MSNBC asked the very same viewer poll question during their shows: "Should President Obama fire Gen. McChrystal?" Results from viewers as of last night...

US Social Forum cancels exploitative Zionist workshop Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:21 AM PDT In a historic accomplishment, the leadership of the US Social Forum voted this morning to cancel a workshop proposed by "Stand With US," a Zionist organization that sought to represent Israel as a safe haven for LGBTQI communities and undermine the broadening support for the cause of justice in/for Palestine. As the National Planning Committee (NPC) put it in its announcement, "the workshop 'LGBTQI Liberation in the Middle East' (Thursday, 24 June 10:00am to 12:00pm) has been canceled for violating the submission procedure and transparency requirements for all workshops, and for being in violation of the anti-racist principles central to the US Social Forum."

Lifestyles of the Rich and Tyrannical Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:21 AM PDT Reliable information about North Korea is hard to come by, but the Dear Leader is thought to have two residences in Pyongyang as well as 10 country chalets throughout North Korea -- and there are probably more if you include the country estates that belonged to his late father, Kim Il Sung. Many of these are reportedly connected to each other by private underground rail lines.

Why the Irish Support Palestine Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:17 AM PDT Once upon a time, Ireland was a huge supporter of Jewish aspirations in the Promised Land. What happened? As the world scrambled to respond to Israel's deadly May 31 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, the first reaction came from an unlikely source: Ireland. On the morning of June 5, the MV Rachel Corrie, which had set sail from the east coast of Ireland in an attempt to breach the Gaza blockade, was intercepted by Israeli forces. The vessel's Irish passengers included Mairead Maguire, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her work to bring peace to Northern Ireland.

Barack Hussein Corleone's' Comment That Individuals don't Matter Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:01 AM PDT Brief review by alex jones on Barack Hussein Corleone's video saying that indivuduals don't matter, but institutions do!

McChrystal Sideshow Masks Murderous Reality Posted: 23 Jun 2010 07:41 AM PDT Some people seem to think that the question of which uniformed goober is in charge of the imperial bloodbath in Afghanistan is a vitally important issue, worthy of endless exegesis. It is not. It is a meaningless sideshow. What does matter, vitally, deeply, urgently, is the imperial bloodbath itself, and the fact that it will go on, and on, no matter what Barack Obama does or doesn't do about Stanley McChrystal.

General McChrystal Resigns Posted: 23 Jun 2010 07:41 AM PDT President Obama nominates General Petraeus as his replacement.  McChrystal's resignation follows the release of an article in Rolling Stone magazine, in which McChrystal and his staff were quoted criticizing the members of the Obama Administration, NATO allies, and even a few jabs at the big guy himself. This is to be expected with an army of occupation.  The top-brass is somewhat understandably frustrated with playing politics.  They are trained to fight and that's it, not to schmooze diplomats or "win hearts and minds" (whatever that means) or play "world police" (which ironically McChrystal and his staff referenced by nicknaming themselves "Team America").

The Coming Era of Energy Disasters Posted: 23 Jun 2010 07:40 AM PDT On June 15th, in their testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the chief executives of America's leading oil companies argued that BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was an aberration -- something that would not have occurred with proper corporate oversight and will not happen again once proper safeguards are put in place. This is fallacious, if not an outright lie. The Deep Horizon explosion was the inevitable result of a relentless effort to extract oil from ever deeper and more hazardous locations. In fact, as long as the industry continues its relentless, reckless pursuit of "extreme energy" -- oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium obtained from geologically, environmentally, and politically unsafe areas -- more such calamities are destined to occur.

Palestinians Versus The Samson Option Blackmail Posted: 23 Jun 2010 07:39 AM PDT In his article Alan Hart concludes that after the inevitable failure of the two-state solution there is "only two possible end-game scenarios": Zionist-awakening scenario: "In one Israeli Jews come to their senses and accept that their best and actually only hope for a future with security and peace is the One State solution – a single, democratic state in which all of its citizens, Jews and Arabs, would have equal civil and political rights." Armageddon scenario: "In the other foreseeable end-game scenario….. The anti-Israel outrage of citizens of all faiths and none around the world would be such that the governments of the major powers, including the one in Washington D.C., would be obliged to punish the Zionist state with boycott, sanctions and divestment" In which case the zionists threaten the world to take it down with them if they go down.

Officially FUBAR Posted: 23 Jun 2010 06:52 AM PDT "If Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular," a senior adviser to head of NATO ops in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal (via Rolling Stone) FUBAR: Military slang for: Fu#ked Up Beyond All/Any Repair/Recognition. FUBAR also has a close military acronym: SNAFU: Situation Normal All Fu#ked Up.

Our Global Senate and Its Flaws Posted: 23 Jun 2010 06:52 AM PDT They used to be seven. They embodied power and relished it. Other leaders envied their photo ops. They were the cream of the cream, the top of the top. They were the G7. And now they are 20, and they meet in Toronto this week. The G20 is the Senate of our global government. It sets global economic policy, giving direction to an alphabet soup of global executive agencies, from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Petition: A World United for the Freedom of Humanity & Freedom of Palestine Posted: 23 Jun 2010 06:50 AM PDT We The People, citizens of the world sharing a common planet, sharing the fate and destiny of life and death, sharing a globe decorated by the gifts of air, land, and sea, sharing the joys and sorrows of our fellow man and woman, hereby declare our freedom from fear, our freedom from all greedy, subjugating, occupying, and oppressive forces, our freedom to declare, resist, and fight by all means necessary man's evil toward fellow man without fear of consequences.

Dems seek rules to keep lobbyist cash flowing Posted: 23 Jun 2010 06:49 AM PDT It's no coincidence that the Democrats' leading fundraisers -- New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen -- are the sponsors of the DISCLOSE Act, a bill that would further regulate political communications by corporations, nonprofits and unions. All politicians, especially Democratic moneymen like Van Hollen (who runs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) and Schumer (former head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee), benefit from the web of campaign finance regulations that draws businesses and interest groups to K Street and Washington.

The K Street Funnel Posted: 23 Jun 2010 06:49 AM PDT We've written several articles and letters to you explaining the dangers of the DISCLOSE Act, and here Tim Carney takes a look at some of the motives behind why Democrats would seek to impose new regulations on the First Amendment. In January, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that Congress shall, in fact, make no law abridging the freedom of speech, Schumer warned, "This opens the floodgates and allows special interest money to overflow our elections and undermine our democracy." Schumer, as the top recipient of money from Wall Street, real estate, and the insurance industry, knows about being awash in special-interest money.

Wednesday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 8 Wounded Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:55 AM PDT Light violence left four Iraqis killed and eight more wounded, but a guerilla war on Iraq's northern border could be intensifying. The lack of a stable government following March elections has left Iraq unable to properly deal with events on its northern flank and forced Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to criticize Iraq's regional neighbors for meddling in Iraqi politics. Kurdish rebels promised to continue attacks in Turkey until their demands for increased rights and autonomy are met. Turkish forces meanwhile arrested 27 suspects in connection with yesterday's deadly bombing in Istanbul. Iranian troops stepped up their operations in northern Iraq as well.

Right-Wing Israel Lobby Riding High in Election Run-Up Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:40 AM PDT Despite the growing international condemnation and isolation incurred by the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the right-wing leadership of the so-called "Israel Lobby" here is riding high in the U.S. Congress. So far this week, it has chalked up a key victory on Capitol Hill in its longstanding effort to impose "crippling sanctions" against Iran.

Egypt's unfulfilled promise to open the Rafah Crossing Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:30 AM PDT Following Israel's attack on the Freedom Flotilla at the end of last month, the siege of Gaza has come under the spotlight. In Europe and the United States there is a growing realisation in official circles that the siege is unacceptable and untenable. With this realisation, attention has, quite naturally, fallen on Egypt's role in the siege. Following the attack on the flotilla, Egypt announced that it had opened the Rafah Crossing, the only point of entry to Gaza not under Israel's direct control, indefinitely. Prior to that the Rafah Crossing had been kept completely closed to the movement of goods, and was only opened intermittently to the movement of people.  This made Egypt a collaborator with Israel in its siege of the Gaza Strip. The Egyptian government had refused to allow aid into Gaza. In December last year it began building a steel wall designed to cut off Gaza's only lifeline to the outside world - the smuggling tunnels built underneath the border between Gaza and Egypt. 156 Palestinians have died in these tunnels, which are prone to collapse, over the past two years.  Some of these deaths were due to deliberate action by the Egyptian security forces.

Belgian lawyers to charge Barak and Livni for war crimes Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:27 AM PDT Two Belgian lawyers announced on Wednesday that, working on behalf of a group of Palestinians - including, significantly, one who is a Belgian national - they were intending to charge 14 Israeli politicians, including Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, Tzipi Livni and Matan Vilnai, for crimes against humanity and war crimes. The lawyers, Georges-Henri Beauthier and Alexis Deswaef said they were acting on behalf of 13 Palestinian victims from Gaza, and an additional man - Anouar El Okka, a Belgian doctor of Palestinian origin.

The Stupid Boys Town Mentality and the Death of America and Europe Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:02 AM PDT Father Flanagan promoted the myth that there are no "bad boys", instead laying the blame for corruption and evil on evil environments. Jews are bad to the core of the apple of their Jewist God's eye, and history is the absolute proof. Martin Luther eventually opposed the Jews, after a long stint of helping them, by stupidly claiming that they were just plain stubborn and would not accept Christianity. But Luther's Christianity was even more Jewish than the Judaization of Catholicism it would replace.

A REALLY BIG Black Swan Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:30 AM PDT In the security biz, it's rarely the anticipated events that kick your butt. It's those so-called 'black swans' that blindside you, and maybe even inflict a career-ending injury. Let me suggest one of those is paddling up the bayou at this very moment – carefully dodging the oil slicks – and we're so busy looking at old threats and repeating our old prejudices at ever higher volume that we can't hear the splash of those big, webbed feet.

Integrating Palestine into the US progressive left Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:28 AM PDT Hardly an Arab or Palestinian living in the United States does not desire their fellow Americans to carry the banner of Palestinian justice and shift US policy toward the conflict. Even the revered Columbia Professor Edward Said who commanded respect and attention in a broad spectrum of fields echoed this sentiment. At a 2002 al-Awda rally in New York he called upon the impassioned throng to talk about Palestine everywhere, to everyone: at the supermarket, near the office water cooler, at the playground, with members of the Parent Teacher Association, on the bus, and at the bus stop -- everywhere.

Is "Whiteism" the Antidote to "Jewism"? Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:26 AM PDT Whites have several qualities which render them vulnerable to the Jews, but which can also be used to defeat the Jews and to promote the interests of the human race. Whites tend to be very conformist, surrender readily to authority, are capable of compassionless violence, seek "moral" justifications, can be persuaded to perform self-destructive actions based upon pseudo-rationales, and tend to be blindly religious. As such, the Whites have established an ancient and verifiable track record of destroying themselves and the human race for the benefit of the Jews, whom the Whites have historically worshiped. The Jewists are utterly selfish, amoral and are only concerned with self-interest. As such, the Jews have established an ancient and verifiable track record of destroying humanity, focusing upon the Whites, for their own benefit.

Kyrgyzstan: Picking up the pieces Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:17 AM PDT Kyrgyzstan joined the rank of failed states this month: its central government lacks legitimacy and depends heavily on external aid, with the US base looming large, while the people are largely destitute, harassed by local thugs and drug barons, and looking to Moscow for a way out. Clashes in the south are worse than earlier reported, responsible for more than 300 killed, mostly Uzbeks, and setting off a massive wave of refugees, with 100,000 people crammed in camps on Kyrgyzstan's border with Uzbekistan and tens of thousands more displaced. The clashes are almost certainly the result of a provocation organised by the clan of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

Switch to Petraeus Betrays Afghan Policy Crisis Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:15 AM PDT Despite President Barack Obama's denial that his decision to fire Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander in Afghanistan and replace him with Gen. David Petraeus signified any differences with McChrystal over war strategy, the decision obviously reflects a desire by Obama to find a way out of a deepening policy crisis in Afghanistan. Although the ostensible reason was indiscreet comments by McChrystal and his aides reported in Rolling Stone, the switch from McChrystal to Petraeus was clearly the result of White House unhappiness with McChrystal's handling of the war.

UK, US Students Promote BDS Posted: 23 Jun 2010 02:52 AM PDT In February 2009, Hampshire College became the first university in the US to divest from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. A two-year campaign by the college's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) encouraged the Board of Trustees to withdraw its funds from six particular companies in a move which the SJP called a "...groundbreaking decision follow[ing] in Hampshire's history of being the first college in the country to divest from apartheid South Africa 32 years ago."

FCC Declares It Has Right to Regulate Internet Posted: 23 Jun 2010 02:49 AM PDT Via the Heartland Institute: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski's announcement the FCC intends on applying what he calls "Third Way" net neutrality regulations to the Internet after a period of public comment has sparked renewed debate over whether the FCC should be allowed to assume such authority over the Internet...

Crazy Talk in the Middle East Posted: 23 Jun 2010 02:15 AM PDT Trying to track—let alone make sense—of recent developments around Iran is enough to make one reach for that stuff they just found lots of in Afghanistan: lithium. While the element is essential for a host of electronics, it is also a standard treatment for bipolar behavior. Take the issue of Iran's missile force. The conservative International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London concluded that the threat the missiles pose to Israel, the U.S. or its allies has been vastly overstated. "While such attacks might trigger fear, the expected casualties would be low—probably less than a few hundred," the study found. Iran's Shehab-1 and 2 cannot even reach Israel, and it will be at least three years before the longer range Shahab-3B and Sejjil-2 are deployed. In any case, according to the study, the missiles are inaccurate.

Secularism is the State "Religion" Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:57 AM PDT Last week, Quebec Superior Court Judge Gérard Dugré  ruled that the government showed "Inquisition-like intolerance"  imposing a secular ethics course on a private Roman Catholic school. The reference to secularism as an "Inquisition" was satisfying for Montreal's Loyola High School, a Jesuit boy's school that went to court to protect its freedom to teach from a Roman Catholic perspective.

Obama & Insubordination: Is He Truman or Mr. Milquetoast? Posted: 22 Jun 2010 11:58 PM PDT Journalist Michael Hastings has given Rolling Stone magazine a graphic account of the arrogance, disarray and ineptitude that distinguish what passes for President Barack Obama's policy on Afghanistan. For those of us with some gray in our hair, the fiasco is infuriatingly reminiscent of Vietnam. In blowing off steam to Hastings, NATO/U.S. commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his top aides seem to have decided that, at this low point in the Afghanistan quagmire, political offense is the best defense for a military strategy sinking from waist to neck deep. In interviews with Hastings, McChrystal and his team direct mockery at many senior-level officials of the Obama administration. For instance, one of McChrystal's aides refers to Obama's national security adviser James L. Jones as a "clown."

Will the White Race Survive? Posted: 22 Jun 2010 11:42 PM PDT The very real threat to the continued existence of the European people. Not only do Europeans have the near prospect of living in nations where they are a small minority and thus must live as strangers in their own land, but their very existence as a heritage is threatened. There is a word for the wiping away of a race or people. It is called genocide. But, people of European descent are awakening all over the world. As soon as they invest themselves in the struggle for their heritage and freedom, no power on earth can stop them from restoring their homelands and securing the existence and freedom of their children.

Turkish-Israeli relations frozen, can the Arabs turn this to their favour? Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:30 PM PDT Turkey has been pursuing a new foreign policy since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in November 2002. Although Turkey maintained its special ties with Israel during the early years of the AKP administration, there was growing concern among Israeli leadership regarding Turkey's increasing activism in the Middle East, particularly its relations with Iran and its support for Hamas. Evidently, Turkish policy towards Israel has changed in the last three years. Erdogan's government has become much more pro-Palestinian and much more critical of Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza.

More news from Chutzpah Central Posted: 22 Jun 2010 09:23 PM PDT The Jews seem to be taking the position that since everybody is bound to hate them anyway - due to the 'irrational' 'anti-Semitism' - the shitty little country might as well do everything possible to live up to the hatred. There are so many reasons to put the mad dog down.

Sen. Kyle's Comment About Why Obama Won't Send Troops to The Border Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:10 PM PDT Brief Comment on the video of Senator Kyle saying Obama refused to send troops to border because then he couldn't get immigration reform passed!.

Gaza moves New York City mother from apathy to activism Posted: 22 Jun 2010 06:57 PM PDT Last New Year's Eve, Debbie Mardon did not celebrate with noise makers or confetti -- instead, she headed to Cairo's main square to participate in the Gaza Freedom March with her daughter Jenna Bitar, 18, and son Joel, 23. Amid police violence aimed at protesters and Egyptian security forces blockading them inside their hotel, Debbie, 55, a native New Yorker, said that protesting in Cairo "was the scariest thing I've ever done in my life."

WeAreChangeLA's Bruno Bruhwiler vs. Terrorism Charges Update Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:41 PM PDT WeAreChangeLA's Bruno Bruhwiler vs. Terrorism Charges Update Bruno's fight for freedom continues as support from around the world rises, including support from freedom fighters like Alex Jones in this interview. Plus interviews by Jack Blood, the Corbett Report and others around the world are calling for much needed financial support for Bruno's defense fund. WeAreChange Holland created Free-Bruno.org to help raise funds and create awareness of what's happening to Bruno throughout Europe. Bruno says that he is deeply touched and frankly surprised at how supportive the 9/11 Truth Community is being. He never expected so many people to have his back.

Sen. Kyl: Obama won't secure border until lawmakers move on immigration reform package Posted: 22 Jun 2010 03:28 PM PDT Sen. Kyl: Obama won't secure border until lawmakers move on immigration reform package

BP and Sado-Messochism Posted: 22 Jun 2010 09:21 AM PDT Aside from the occasional asteroid and volcanic outburst, human beings are responsible for the greatest messes on the planet. We've polluted the air and water, punched holes in the ozone, and pumped enough carbon into the atmosphere to overwhelm the global thermostat. Nor is this merely a modern attribute of homo sapiens. As Jared Diamond points out in his book Collapse, we've repeatedly taxed the limits of our environment, from the heart of the Mayan civilization to far-flung Easter Island. We've hunted countless species into extinction and exhausted the soil to feed burgeoning populations. And what we once did on a local basis, we are now applying on a global scale.

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