Pro-Palestinian Activism and the Holocult

Rebel Newsflash: Pro-Palestinian Activism and the Holocult: A Modern Tragicomedy (plus 56 more items)

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• Pro-Palestinian Activism and the Holocult: A Modern Tragicomedy
• EU and Israel collaborate on cleaner, deadlier aircraft engines
• You’ve Gotta Fight For Your Right…To PARTY!
• Leaked documents show PA undermined Turkey's push for UN flotilla probe
• Methodist “Justice for Palestine and Israel” Report Attracts Jewish-Christian Support
• Lieberman's victory
• No to the corruption of our children’s minds
• Inside Story - 'Crushing the PKK'
• Riz Khan - Colombia's new president
• Updating Lynne Stewart's "Love Struggle:" Part II
• Two Hollandese Citizens on Flotilla Sue the Israeli Government
• Turkey Rejects European Plea to Join EU
• Downplaying the Mess of War
• Heard Any Good War Jokes Lately?
• Peace Groups Slam High Court Ruling on ‘Terror Support’
• 'Am I Not a Human': Women under Occupation
• Busting the Bilderberg blackout
• Crude Lies: Americans Not Getting Truth About Gulf Gusher
• Israel’s Big Lie: Gaza Not Suffering
• Well, If China Did It...
• The American “Church” and “Republic” Join Netanyahu’s Psychologist in Suicide
• Activists prevent Israeli ship from unloading at US port
• Max Keiser Reveals "Put Options" Ties to BP's False Flag Oil Spill Event
• The silent expulsion
• On the edge with Max Keiser: Loren Howe on Slave Societies
• Israeli Operatives
• Obama Thinks About Releasing Innocent Yemenis from Guantánamo
• Another Bi-partisan Violation
• Democratic Party Defends Israeli Attack
• "What solidarity means": a letter from Gilboa Prison
• Seed of Destruction: Nuclear 'Pits'
• Monday: 1 Iraqi Killed, 39 Wounded
• Max Keiser on Oil Spill: Rewarding Eco-Terror
• Israel to Internally Probe Attack
• Israel’s “Oz Unit” Draws Criticism
• Another attempt to take over the Web
• Ameer Makhoul Writes from Prison
• EU rubber-stamping grants for Israeli war industry
• Loose Oil Is a Way of Life in West Africa
• BDS in Sweden
• Afghan Mineral Hoax
• Criminal Investigation of BP Staged Oil Spill Vital
• 'Cops' Run Amok, Suppress Video Tapes of Police Abuse
• Israelis Boycotting Turkey
• Castro is right, so is Helen Thomas
• The Tide Is Turning
• Turkey can take credit for ending Israel's blockade of Gaza
• Inside Story - Lifting the blockade
• War on whaling
• Who Says We Can't Criticize Israel?
• Kill the ‘Kill Switch’
• Unrest in Pakistan
• Supreme Court Rules "Material Support" Law Can Stand
• ACLU Releases Report On Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan
• "Redneckophobia"? Why Obama Is Attacking Arizona
• Who will be punished for killing civilians in the Gaza war?
• Human Trafficking and Politics

Pro-Palestinian Activism and the Holocult: A Modern Tragicomedy Posted: 22 Jun 2010 09:53 AM PDT Just like with any religious zealots it makes little sense arguing with followers of the Holocult on a rational level. Try asking them how much petrol it takes to burn 1.5 million dead bodies. "Probably a lot", they will say. Then ask how much more petrol it would take if the bodies were burnt in trenches on a territory with groundwater levels as high as 2 feet below surface. "Several times more, if it can be done at all!", will be the answer. Then ask them how much diesel fuel it would take to kill those 1.5 million people in the first place with the non-toxic exhaust fumes of a diesel engine. The answer will probably be something like, "Are you nuts? They can't be all asthmatics!" Then tell them, "You just denied one third of the holocaust. In places like Germany, Austria, France and a dozen other countries you can get up to 5 years of prison for saying that." Once they get over their first shock, they will tell you quickly something like that it is quite possible that the holocaust numbers have been a little bit exagerated but it did happen, and they will never ever talk to you again.

EU and Israel collaborate on cleaner, deadlier aircraft engines Posted: 22 Jun 2010 05:09 AM PDT European Union subsidies earmarked for reducing air travel's contribution to climate change may help develop deadlier warplanes than those already found in the world's arsenals, Brussels officials have admitted. Some 1.6 billion euros ($2 billion) has been allocated to the EU's Clean Sky project, which aims to develop aircraft engines that emit half as much carbon dioxide as those now in use. With the funding being divided between industry and the European taxpayer, plane and engine manufacturers have stated that the project underscores their eagerness to be more ecologically responsible.

You’ve Gotta Fight For Your Right…To PARTY! Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:03 AM PDT See that man standing in the bleachers? That’s me—I’m an American, dammit! Every time I hear that “Star Spangled Banner” played over the loud speakers, I set my $7 cup of beer down here on the seat and proudly place my right hand over my heart.  See that tear in my eye?  That’s what you call patriotism. I can’t tell you what the sixth amendment is, but I do know who won game six in the NBA finals.

Leaked documents show PA undermined Turkey's push for UN flotilla probe Posted: 22 Jun 2010 03:20 AM PDT The Palestinian Authority attempted to neutralize a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning Israel's deadly attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, leaked UN and Palestinian Authority documents obtained by The Electronic Intifada show. Israel's 31 May attack killed nine Turkish citizens, including a dual US-Turkish citizen, and injured dozens of others aboard the Mavi Marmara in international waters.

Methodist “Justice for Palestine and Israel” Report Attracts Jewish-Christian Support Posted: 22 Jun 2010 01:17 AM PDT A joint Jewish-Christian statement supporting the 'Justice for Palestine and Israel' paper being presented at this year's Methodist Conference has been signed by 30 organisations and individuals. The signatories, Christians and Jews from the UK and Palestine/Israel, offer their "wholehearted support" for the "humane and principled conclusions" of the Methodist working group, and criticise those who have "misrepresented and attacked" the report.

Lieberman's victory Posted: 22 Jun 2010 12:57 AM PDT Let's admit it: The man who has had the most influence on Israel in the last year is Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Let's admit it: The man who has had the most influence on Israel in the last year is Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. It's not the prime minister, who has yet to decide on the direction in which he wants to lead the country; nor is it the defense minister, who sometimes speaks out with confidence and then acts slightly differently; and it is definitely not the ministers, who may havebeen dealing with matters pertaining to their offices, but haven’t done much for their country.

No to the corruption of our children’s minds Posted: 22 Jun 2010 12:44 AM PDT It is no coincidence that the first country to be taken over by Jewish banksters, Germany, was also the first one to introduce government welfare and childcare. Why would psychopathic monsters responsible for the death of hundreds of millions of people care to introduce something as nice as childcare, single-parent allowances, health, old-age and unemployment insurance? As if they cared?! Well, the thing is, if you don't rely on your spouse, your parents, your family and your church as your social safety net, then they have less power over you. What's wrong with that? The answer is this: Social welfare and childcare are part of a systematic effort of our ruling crime families to eliminate ALL competing sources of power, the two strongest being churches and family.

Inside Story - 'Crushing the PKK' Posted: 21 Jun 2010 11:47 PM PDT Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq have dramatically escalated their attacks on Turkish targets this month after their imprisoned leader accused Turkey of not establishing dialogue with his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). How will this renewed conflict unfold and can there be a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish issue in Turkey?

Riz Khan - Colombia's new president Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:34 PM PDT Juan Manuel Santos, the former Colombian defence minister, will be Colombia's next president after he won a thumping victory in Sunday's presidential run-off against ex-Bogota mayor Antanas Mockus. On Monday's Riz Khan we ask: How will Santos deal with these critical problems?

Updating Lynne Stewart's "Love Struggle:" Part II Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:06 PM PDT Human rights attorney Stewart spent her career observing the American Bar Association's Model Rules, saying all lawyers must: "devote professional time and resources and use civil influence to ensure equal access to our system of justice for all those who because of economic or social barriers cannot afford or secure adequate legal counsel."

Two Hollandese 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.

Turkey Rejects European Plea to Join EU Posted: 21 Jun 2010 09:01 PM PDT Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently categorized as 'black propaganda' the claim that Turkey is shifting its foreign policy orientation away from the West, especially in the aftermath of the May 31 Israeli murder of 9 Turkish humanitarian activists on the Mavi Marmara. Explaining that his administration’s policy of improved relations with neighbors—manifestations of which include the waiving of visa requirements for citizens of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Libya—has drastically increased tourism revenues, Erdogan has also reminded the West of Turkey’s application for European integration, pending since 1963, and has threatened the European Union with the label “Christian Club” in the event that Turkey is not admitted.

Downplaying the Mess of War Posted: 21 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT “Honor those Who lives did give; But now who pays For those that live?” The best part of America’s wars is that, except for limited attacks during WWII, all our conflicts have been fought on somebody else’s soil since the battle of Appomattox. This represents good and careful planning. You certainly don’t want your own constituents grousing about residual Agent Orange, depleted uranium, unexploded ordnance, blown-up bridges, or torn-down homes.

Heard Any Good War Jokes Lately? Posted: 21 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT The pratfall Dave Petraeus took face-first into his microphone during his farcical testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee last Tuesday channeled the Twix candy bar commercial that asks: “Need a moment?” As the New York Times put it, the Teflon General was facing some intense questioning on the president’s order to begin reducing American forces in Afghanistan next year when he “slumped toward the microphone on his table.” Maybe Dave just needed some time think things over. Maybe he needed to stall while his driver ran out to see if he left his crib sheet in his government sedan. The general returned to the floor a half hour after later claiming he “just got dehydrated.” Must have been from all the heat he was catching from the committee.

Peace Groups Slam High Court Ruling on ‘Terror Support’ Posted: 21 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT In the wake of Monday’s Supreme Court decision upholding a law making it a crime to provide any “material support” to an organization designated as a “terrorist” by the U.S. government, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter charged that the law “actually threatens our work and the work of many other peacemaking organizations that must interact directly with groups that have engaged in violence.” Carter, whose organization, the Carter Center, filed a “friend of the court” brief in the case, said in a statement, “We are disappointed that the Supreme Court has upheld a law that inhibits the work of human rights and conflict resolution groups.”

'Am I Not a Human': Women under Occupation Posted: 21 Jun 2010 04:36 PM PDT In spite of their exceptional suffering, Palestinian women display remarkable endurance qualities. Living under stress in poverty, their homes destroyed, lands razed or expropriated, children sick, husbands imprisoned, fathers killed, and more, they plant seeds of hope, fulfill their daily social role, and participate in political and every day resistance. Since the 1948 Nakba, they've been denied basic human rights, security, free expression and movement, a safe and healthy environment, and education. They became refugees in their own land and abroad, bearing burdens beyond the capacity most women can bear anywhere.

Busting the Bilderberg blackout Posted: 21 Jun 2010 04:22 PM PDT The following is a transcript of a letter sent to The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times regarding their participation and their unethical refusal to cover Bilderberg. Gentlemen (and I use the term loosely): It is mindboggling that, for years, you would attend secret Bilderberg meetings, gain foreknowledge of Earth-shaking events to come, and keep your crooked promise to report nothing. This is journalistic prostitution, plain and simple.

Crude Lies: Americans Not Getting Truth About Gulf Gusher Posted: 21 Jun 2010 04:19 PM PDT America experienced long gas lines in the 1970s. Gasoline was rationed, fuel costs rising through the stratosphere. So Congress created a Department of Energy. Another bureaucracy, this time with one major goal: Reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Sounded good, didn’t it? Wow, we’re finally going to do something about this oil thing. This trade deficit thing: oil. No more hard times. Yellow brick road forever.

Israel’s Big Lie: Gaza Not Suffering Posted: 21 Jun 2010 03:56 PM PDT With incredible audacity, the government of Israel (as well as the hugely popular “We Con the World ” video) claims there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. This falsehood, promoted worldwide by Israel’s PR arm, the Anti-Defamation League, is obediently repeated by Christian conservative media and leadership.

Well, If China Did It... Posted: 21 Jun 2010 03:24 PM PDT Fresh off his calls to strip Americans of their citizenship for having the wrong political sympathizes so they can be legally tortured, Joe Lieberman has proposed giving the president the authority to shut down the internet in "times of war." "We need this capacity in a time of war. We need the capacity for the president to say, internet service provider, we've got to disconnect the American internet from all traffic coming in from another foreign country, or we have to put a patch on this part of it," Lieberman told CNN's Candy Crowley Sunday.

The American “Church” and “Republic” Join Netanyahu’s Psychologist in Suicide Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:19 PM PDT The National Prayer Network’s Ted Pike painfully reminds us that the American “evangelical” community is once again supporting the crimes of the Zionist State of Israel against decent humanity.  Ted joins my old friends, Chuck Carlson of We Hold These Truths, and Dale Crowley, as one of the few Protestant evangelicals of national prominence who recognizes that murder and terror undergirded by an ideological agenda of Jewish racial supremacism, is antithetical to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God.  The terroristic strike on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla is just the latest example of this demonic alliance, but it isn’t the last.  The endgame is a preemptive Israeli attack on Iran.

Activists prevent Israeli ship from unloading at US port Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:03 PM PDT For the first time in US history, a peaceful protest was able to stop workers from unloading an Israeli cargo ship on Sunday, 20 June, in the San Francisco Bay area. From 5:30am until 7pm, social justice activists and labor union organizers blocked and picketed several entrances at the Port of Oakland, preventing two shifts of longshoremen with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) to come to work and unload the Israeli Zim Lines cargo ship.

Max Keiser Reveals "Put Options" Ties to BP's False Flag Oil Spill Event Posted: 21 Jun 2010 11:11 AM PDT Alex welcomes back to the show Max Keiser, a film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader. Keiser is the host of On the Edge, a program of news and analysis, and Keiser Report, a financial tabloid, that broadcasts on RT. Keiser formerly hosted The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News. He invented Virtual Specialist Technology, a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

The silent expulsion Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:53 AM PDT   Dr. Immad Hammada and Dr. Murad Abu-Khalaf are both lecturers in electrical engineering born in East Jerusalem. Their families have lived in the city for generations. They both left years ago, each one separately, to study in the United States, and after graduating and consolidating their careers they want to return to live in their home town. But their right to be reunified with their families is being denied by the Interior Ministry, as Amira Hass reported in Sunday's Haaretz. Hammada has been living in his city for some three years illegally, without any rights and under constant danger of being arrested and deported, while Abu-Khalaf is finding it difficult to return, even for a visit.

On the edge with Max Keiser: Loren Howe on Slave Societies Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:43 AM PDT Max Keiser is on the edge of the financial news where future financial scandals, market crashes and monetary crisis begin, be there before it happens

Israeli Operatives Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:23 AM PDT Alex in this short rant breaks down the israeli operatives that work in washington dc and in america spread islamic propaganda to further the need for a police state to keep us safe.

Obama Thinks About Releasing Innocent Yemenis from Guantánamo Posted: 21 Jun 2010 08:34 AM PDT Three weeks ago, I wrote a bitter commentary about the repeated failures of the US government to release an innocent Yemeni prisoner in Guantánamo — a student, Mohammed Hassan Odaini, now aged 26, but just 18 when he was seized — even though he was cleared for release by a military review board under President Bush in 2006, and, to the best of my knowledge, had also been cleared for release last year by President Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force. I wrote my bitter commentary just after Odaini was cleared for release for a third time, by a District Court judge who granted his habeas corpus petition, and I railed against the callous indifference of the President, who appeared content to let an innocent man rot in Guantánamo, having capitulated to pressure from critics in Congress and the media, when, in January, he announced a moratorium on all further releases of Yemeni prisoners for an unspecified amount of time.

Another Bi-partisan Violation Posted: 21 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT So, Sens. Chuck Schumer and John Cornyn have teamed up to give us another awful piece of power-grabbing, privacy-stealing, probably unconstitutional legislation. They do a bad job of selling this bunk today in the Daily Caller :

Democratic Party Defends Israeli Attack Posted: 21 Jun 2010 07:41 AM PDT In Congress, Democratic leaders find common ground with their Republican counterparts in their effort to defend the Israeli assault on unarmed humanitarian aid flotillas. In a sharp contrast with the broad international consensus, a number of democratic representatives and senators proclaimed that the murder of nine activists, which took place in international waters, were inevitable and justified as Israel's "right to self-defense."

"What solidarity means": a letter from Gilboa Prison Posted: 21 Jun 2010 07:25 AM PDT After being allowed to get a pen and a piece of paper, which has been banned for the last three weeks, and after being allowed to get out of my total isolation, it's a moment to write a short letter from my jail (Gilboa). It's a great opportunity for me to express my sincere thanks, greetings and appreciation to all the colleagues, friends and solidarity groups, organizations and persons, internationals, Arabs in the region, Israelis and Palestinians in the homeland and in the Diaspora. A very special salute to all those who visited my family and supported them after the trauma they passed on 6 May and since that late night.

Seed of Destruction: Nuclear 'Pits' Posted: 21 Jun 2010 07:07 AM PDT If a nuclear weapon is an evil fruit of the times we live in, its "pit" is like a dollop of brimstone ladled out by Satan with love from hell. Didn't know a nuclear weapon has a pit? First, it behooves us to note that the word "pit" has a number of definitions. In fact, even when applied to fruit -- "a seed covered by a stony layer" -- it's of two faces like Janus. To humans, it's waste material to be discarded, but from a tree's point of view (on whatever level, such as cellular), it's a means of ensuring the future of its species.

Monday: 1 Iraqi Killed, 39 Wounded Posted: 21 Jun 2010 06:16 AM PDT Updated at 7:50 p.m. EDT, June 21, 2010 At least one Iraqi was killed and 39 more were wounded in the latest violence. Rioting over power cuts spread to Nasariya were residents attacked police guarding the province’s government compound. Electricity Minister Karim Waheed was forced to resign. Also, Turkish troops are amassing at the border during operations against the PKK.

Max Keiser on Oil Spill: Rewarding Eco-Terror Posted: 21 Jun 2010 03:28 AM PDT This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the latest scandals of financial news presenters speaking in tongues, EU commissioners threatening the return of dictatorships and European fund managers piling into Australian property. Watch the full Episode №53 on Tuesday.

Israel to Internally Probe Attack Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:52 AM PDT The Turkel Committee met for the first time last week to examine the legality of Israel’s raid on the Gaza bound Freedom Flotilla, which left nine Turkish activists dead and dozens of international activists wounded in May. The committee was established by the Israeli government as a response to the UN Security Council’s call for "an impartial, credible and transparent probe in line with international standards". Retired Israeli Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel chairs the three-person committee, with the additional accompaniment of two international observers. Shabtai Rosen, a professor of international law and an Israel Prize laureate, and Amos Horev, a military expert and former president of the Technion, join Justice Turkel on the panel.

Israel’s “Oz Unit” Draws Criticism Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:35 AM PDT The U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 was released last week, featuring criticism of Oz, the unit tasked with handling Israel's borders and immigration. The report's review of Israel states: "There was a diminishment of anti-trafficking efforts in the reporting period since the newly-created immigration and border control authority (commonly referred to as the "Oz" unit) within the Ministry of Interior (MOI) replaced the Immigration Police. The Oz unit was accused of lacking awareness of trafficking and the will to combat it."

Another attempt to take over the Web Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:31 AM PDT The neo-conservative Senator Joe Lieberman has introduced a bill to give Obama power to shut down the Internet by declaring a national emergency. S3480 , the "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act," not only allows the President to seize and shut down large parts of the Internet any time he wants to declare a "national cyber emergency," but permits the President to shut down the Internet across the entire planet.

Ameer Makhoul Writes from Prison Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:18 AM PDT After being allowed to get a pen and a piece of paper, which has been banned for the last three weeks, and after being allowed to get out of my total isolation, it's a moment to write a short letter from my jail (Gilboa). It's a great opportunity for me to express my sincere thanks, greetings & appreciation to all the colleagues, friends and solidarity groups, organizations & persons, internationals, Arabs in the region, Israelis & Palestinians in the homeland & in the Diaspora. A very special salute to all those who visited my family and supported them after the trauma they passed in May 6 & since that late night.

EU rubber-stamping grants for Israeli war industry Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:09 AM PDT A leading Israeli supplier of warplanes used to kill and maim civilians in Gaza is in the running for two new scientific research grants from the European Union. Israel's attacks on Gaza in late 2008 and 2009 provided its air force with an opportunity to experiment with state-of-the-art pilotless drones such as the Heron. Although human rights groups have calculated that the Heron and other drones killed at least 87 civilians during that three-week war, EU officials have tentatively approved the release of fresh finance to the Heron's manufacturer, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).

Loose Oil Is a Way of Life in West Africa Posted: 21 Jun 2010 01:50 AM PDT I believe it was Amiri Baraka who once said, “one man’s fast is another man’s slow.” The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has destroyed a way of life for many American fishermen. This should be accepted as fact not fiction. The landscape of our nation is going to change soon and not for the better. The recent oil spill is not an aberration. Just look at the story in The New York Times (June 16, 2010) about the awful conditions in the Niger Delta. It’s obvious we need the media to expand its coverage of oil spills. How soon will toxic wastelands become a normal sight for Americans, the way it is for some Nigerians? It’s unfortunate that Africa is still a “dark continent” when it comes to shedding light on the operations of the oil industry.

BDS in Sweden Posted: 21 Jun 2010 01:37 AM PDT I think the BDS movement in Sweden started many years ago by smaller groups of activists, by groups of ISM activists, by a smaller network that was called Boycott Israel, by the tremendous work of the Palestinian Solidarity Association of Sweden, that were also one of the first ones to call for BDS; also the contribution of the Jews for Israeli-Palestinian peace in Sweden. I think that has pretty much lead to what we have seen. Also the Christian associations, such as the Diakonia, the peacemaking teams, and their campaigns. There is criticism toward Israeli wines from the occupied Palestinian territories. There is a lot of precedence that has enabled us, I think in the last few weeks, to propel us, the movement, to such an extent that today Boycott Israel had a campaign in the main tabloid in Sweden, in an editorial.

Afghan Mineral Hoax Posted: 21 Jun 2010 01:23 AM PDT The New York Times reporter, James Risen, who wrote the cooked-up story US Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan, worth US$1 trillion – got very upset by the criticism he received from independent bloggers and even from some ‘Friend of Israel’ , Foreign Policy’s Blake Hounshell (June 14, 2010), who said that there is more to Risen’s discovery than meet the eye. Some analyst believe that the timing of the story makes it ‘fishy’. Not only it divert the public attention from Obama’s totally failed policy in Afghanistan but also the world’s growing criticism of Israeli fascism in the wake of its massacre at Sea. The story is supposed to provide booster to original reason to invade Afghanistan in the first place – to exploit Caspian Sea oil/gas reserves and revive the poppy cultivation, eradicated by Taliban. The invasion of Afghanistan was sold to Bush long before the 9/11 by the pro-Israel neocons in his administration. The ultimate beneficiary is Israel in both cases.

Criminal Investigation of BP Staged Oil Spill Vital Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:44 AM PDT www.prisonplanet.com States Need To Launch Criminal Investigation Into BP, Federal Government's Role In Oil Spill Following the rise of sufficient indicators that BP knew about the conditions of its Gulf oil assets prior to the April 20 leak & explosion 62 long days ago and counting, Alex Jones has called for criminal investigations of key figures at BP, inside the White House administration and elsewhere. Further, Alex has urged activists and concerned citizens everywhere to take a proactive approach to dealing with the looming consequences of the massive oil leak. He suggests calling on Governors and State Legislators in the Gulf Region to assert 10th Amendment rights-- refute the Federal Government's inaction, and institute measures to resolve the situation as best as can be. In addition, Alex alerts awakened people everywhere to the renewed efforts by President Obama and certain allies, to ram through Carbon Taxes and other Climate Change measures via stealth, and using the crisis of the BP Oil Spill to justify such fascist policies-- when the Obama Administration's bewildered response (much like the Bush Administration's delayed response at Katrina) exacerbated the scale and depth of the crisis BP may have let happen.

'Cops' Run Amok, Suppress Video Tapes of Police Abuse Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:26 AM PDT ‘Police States’ are what they do! One of the things police states do is deny citizens a voice even as they seek to control information themselves. Lately and not surprisingly, police seek to suppress video tapes of police officers in the act of abusing people, beating them up, depriving victims of Miranda and other rights. There are efforts to make illegal the use of video cameras to expose police brutality and mis-conduct. How convenient!

Israelis Boycotting Turkey Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:07 AM PDT Israel's naval attack on the Freedom Flotilla aid ships is taking an interesting turn. Nine activists were killed aboard a Turkish sponsored boat, resulting in outrage from the Turkish government and international community at large. Protests erupted in Istanbul, with 10,000 demonstrators outside the Israeli embassy. Turkey's ambassador was recalled from Tel Aviv and a joint Turkish-Israeli military exercise canceled. Turkish citizens decried the attack and the killing of their countrymen and other international activists.

Castro is right, so is Helen Thomas Posted: 20 Jun 2010 11:57 PM PDT Zionist supremacists from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles are ganging up on two elderly targets these days. The first is the 84-year-old Fidel Castro, a man who apparently made up his mind about Zionism more than six decades ago. And the second is 89-year-old veteran American journalist Helen Thomas. Castro’s crime was a few passing remarks he uttered recently, saying that the Swastika has become Israel’s real flag.

The Tide Is Turning Posted: 20 Jun 2010 11:10 PM PDT In July 13, 1970, I stopped at Heathrow Airport on my way to commence my university education in Canada. I handed the airline attendant my Jordanian passport to be processed, she quickly glanced through its pages and asked me to identify my citizenship. Being young and inexperienced, I proudly answered Palestinian. She quickly responded by asking: You are Palestinian carrying a Jordanian Passport and exited an Israeli airport. Would you like to explain that?  I answered, where would you like me to start, 1917, 1948, 1956 or 1967.

Turkey can take credit for ending Israel's blockade of Gaza Posted: 20 Jun 2010 09:36 PM PDT It is now clear, even to Israel's leaders, that the Turkish flotilla - despite activists' deaths and not having actually reached Gaza - accelerated policy change in Gaza. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan can claim a big check mark for himself, despite the Turkish flotilla not having reached Gaza and nine activists aboard the Mavi Marmara ship having been killed during the raid in May. Erdogan achieved his goal: He collapsed the Israeli siege on "Hamastan." The cabinet announcement on Sunday put an end to the three-year-old civilian blockade on Gaza, initiated when Hamas took power.

Inside Story - Lifting the blockade Posted: 20 Jun 2010 09:33 PM PDT George Mitchell, the US special envoy to the Middle East, met with Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, on Saturday to discuss ongoing political deadlock in the Middle East. On Friday he met with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in Ramallah. Both Abbas and Ismail Haniya, the deposed prime minister, however, reiterated that the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip must be completely lifted. But can those making this demand capitalise on unprecedented international pressure to achieve that end? And will more planned aid flotillas bound for Gaza help or hinder?

War on whaling Posted: 20 Jun 2010 09:31 PM PDT Delegates to the International Whaling Commission ( IWC) will hear a proposal in Morocco this week that aims to put an end to the commercial hunting of whales, which is the most direct threat to their survival. The meeting comes as the annual whaling season gets underway in Iceland. Laurence Lee reports from Iceland's capital Reykjavik on the struggle to save whales in the country.

Who Says We Can't Criticize Israel? Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:48 PM PDT Like a postage stamp that has been licked too often, a word can lose its power and authority if it is used indiscriminately. So it is with the word "terrorist" that is now routinely applied by governments all over the world to demonize and marginalize political opposition. And likewise with the word "anti-semitic" which is a label stuck on just about anyone who is not in total support of the state of Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians.

Kill the ‘Kill Switch’ Posted: 20 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT Who else but Joe Lieberman would introduce a bill to give the President the power to shut down the Internet with the flick of a switch? I’m afraid of the answer to that question, and you should be, too. However, it’s hardly surprising America’s premier authoritarian warmonger – author of a bill that would strip American citizenship from anyone even vaguely suspected of “terrorism” – would come up with a scheme like this. If the “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act” passes – and isn’t that a name that embraces practically every collectivist bromide extant? – the Department of Homeland  Security would establish a “cyber-terrorism” sub-bureaucracy, the Office of Cyberspace Policy (OCP), and the National Center for Cybersecurity and Communication (NCCC), with the former lording it over the Internet – a Cyber-Czar – and the latter unleashed to spy on and otherwise guard the “cybersecurity” Senators Lieberman and his two co-sponsors aver is imminently threatened.

Unrest in Pakistan Posted: 20 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT “The military is the muscle that protects the ruling elite from the wrath of the people,” said Pakistani political analyst Dr. Mubashir Hassan. “Right now, people are out on the street; blocking roads, attacking railway stations, etc. If you read the papers, it seems as though a general uprising has started all over Pakistan.” Dr. Hassan said that sporadic outbursts of anger in Pakistan won’t coalesce into a people’s revolution anytime soon. The demonstrators are too disorganized. But the sheer volume of daily protests shows that many sectors of Pakistani society have pressing needs and priorities that do not include enlistment as foot soldiers in a proxy force for the United States’ War on Terror.

Supreme Court Rules "Material Support" Law Can Stand Posted: 20 Jun 2010 04:00 PM PDT The United States Supreme Court today upheld the broad application of a federal law that hinders the ability of human rights and humanitarian aid organizations to do their work by making it a crime to provide "material support" to designated "foreign terrorist organizations" (FTOs). The ruling thwarts the efforts of human rights organizations to persuade violent actors to renounce violence or cease their human rights abuses and jeopardizes the provision of aid and disaster relief in conflict zones controlled by designated groups, said the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, on behalf of the Carter Center and several other organizations known for their work to promote peace, further human rights and alleviate human suffering around the world.

ACLU Releases Report On Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Posted: 20 Jun 2010 04:00 PM PDT The American Civil Liberties Union today released a report summarizing the civil liberties and civil rights record of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, nominated by President Obama to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The report was prepared in accordance with ACLU policy, and will be made available to the public and members of the Senate. The ACLU does not endorse or oppose candidates for elective or appointed office.

"Redneckophobia"? Why Obama Is Attacking Arizona Posted: 20 Jun 2010 02:34 PM PDT The news that the Obama Administration has decided to challenge Arizona's anti-illegal immigration SB1070 is one of those moments when you see that, inside the Beltway and for our entire bipartisan political class, it's an upside-down, through-the-looking-glass, funny old world. Quite regardless of the very debatable legal merits of the Administration's attack on federalism (which admittedly will not matter once there are enough Commissar Kagans legislating from the bench), why would the Obama Administration want to challenge a law that all polls show is overwhelmingly popular with Americans in general-and Arizonans in particular-right before November's elections? Couldn't it at least have waited until after the elections?

Who will be punished for killing civilians 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?

Human Trafficking and Politics Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:23 PM PDT The United Nations says there are 13.7 million women and children, who are victims of forced labor or commercial sex – generating more than US$28 billion per year. The ‘Human Traficcing Industry’ is steadily catching up with drug and arms trafficing.

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