Why hate won't work

Rebel Newsflash: Why hate won't work (plus 54 more items)

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• Why hate won't work
• Friday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 27 Wounded
• Nearly Half a Million Dollars Pledged by Americans to Fight DOJ Lawsuit Against Arizona
• Wall Steet Not Giving to Dems: Good Riddance
• Neocons, Likud Conquer DC, Again
• The Black Panther Case Is Growing Legs
• Sheriff Richard Mack: Fed's Can't Tell States What to do!
• Iran Sanctions May Target Iran's Middle Class
• Israel's Nukes Harm US National Interests
• CNN's Objectivity Questioned in Sacking of Mideast Reporter
• America Is In A Societal Meltdown
• LeBron James Announces... He's Going to Miami!
• David Icke: Humanity's Last Chance
• Does the U.S. Military Keep All Its Combat Videos?
• Obama Selects General Who Likes Killing Muslims to Centcom
• Resistance Land
• The upshot of political subjugation
• Thursday: 33 Iraqis Killed, 119 Wounded
• Obama Endorses Netanyahu As Man Of Peace
• An "Inconvenient Truth" Film for Nuclear Analysts?
• Peace bullish or 'bullshit'
• Update on the Edgar Steele Case
• A Cautious Welcome for British Torture Inquiry
• Cluster Bombs and Civilian Lives
• Win for US War Resisters
• Iranian Scholars Condemn Israeli Attack
• Born Of The Sun – Egypt
• "The War That's Not a War"
• Chris Emery: OKC Bombing was Design to Save Bill Clinton from Whitewater Investigation
• Former IMF Chief Economist Says "Cap & Trade" is a Direct Tax on it's People
• Paul Craig Roberts: Americans to be Financially Raped to Fund War with Iran
• National Guard Helps Confiscate Guns in New York State
• Wayne Madsen: The Military Occupation of The Gulf Coast States has Begun!
• An excellent meeting
• Mitigating Annihilation
• The War Drones On
• Life by a Thousand Cuts
• No Free Press for BP Oil Disaster
• The Sheep Look Up
• Netanyahu Didn't Deserve the Red Carpet Treatment
• Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe (Part Two): Germany and France
• Hamas Lawmaker: Gaza Flotilla Did More Than 10,000 Rockets
• Wednesday: 84 Iraqis Killed, 362 Wounded
• International Aid to the Palestinians Under Occupation
• The lies about Hamas rockets
• Crisis in Germany's Unconditional Support of Israel
• Research on Settlements Released
• People & Power - Making the banks pay
• Reassembling America's Democracy
• Losing in Afghanistan
• Fed's Attack States Rights
• The Sheikh Who Got Away
• You must be Jewish
• Challenge Hamas
• The Price of War

Why hate won't work Posted: 09 Jul 2010 08:40 AM PDT I like to write things as if each story will be my last, a condition which has never been nearer to reality than it is now. It has been my great honor to know people I've never actually seen, but have learned so much from. I used to like to think that everyone was pretty much the same, until I proved it wasn't true.

Friday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 27 Wounded Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:26 AM PDT Attacks in the capital abated today, but one significant attack in western Baghdad left numerous casualties. At least six Iraqis were killed and 27 more were wounded there and in other towns just north of the capital. Iraqiya party leader, Ayad Allawi, said that negotiations between the political parties are in their final stages and hopes that the new government will be formed in August. Iraq was crippled after March elections gave no clear mandate to any party, but Iraqiya received the most seats.

Nearly Half a Million Dollars Pledged by Americans to Fight DOJ Lawsuit Against Arizona Posted: 09 Jul 2010 03:00 AM PDT Americans from around the country are sending donations to Arizona in an effort to fend off a looming federal lawsuit against the state's recently passed immigration law. The Arizona Star reported yesterday that a legal defense fund for SB 1070 has collected almost $500,000 as of Thursday morning, more than 60 percent of it coming in during the 48 hours after the Justice Department sued to invalidate the law. Money came from more than 9,000 contributors spread from coast to coast and border to border.

Wall Steet Not Giving to Dems: Good Riddance Posted: 09 Jul 2010 02:49 AM PDT Wall Street donations to the two Democratic congressional campaign committees are down 65 percent from two years ago, The Post reports. Party insiders say "the overwhelming factor is the rising anger among financial executives who think they have not been treated well based on their support of Democrats over the past four years." The National Journal writes that Wall Streeters are "sick of being used as political punching bags." And Post columnist Steven Pearlstein suggests that "bad blood" between big business and the Obama administration is "not a good thing."

Neocons, Likud Conquer DC, Again Posted: 08 Jul 2010 09:35 PM PDT The clout of Washington's neoconservatives and the political fear induced by Israel's Likud hardliners were on display again with recently released e-mails in which Gen. David Petraeus grovels before a key neocon and in White House meetings at which President Obama pandered to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Black Panther Case Is Growing Legs Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:37 PM PDT It looks like this might be the first official Obama Scandal to "grow legs" as journalists say. The story has gone viral and simply will not go away. Fox News reports: "In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims. J. Christian Adams, testifying Tuesday before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, said that over and over and over again, the department showed hostility toward those cases. He described the Black Panther case as one example of that — he defended the legitimacy of the suit and said his blood boiled when he heard a Justice official claim the case wasn't solid. 'It is false,' Adams said of the claim. 'We abetted wrongdoing and abandoned law-abiding citizens,' he later testified."

Sheriff Richard Mack: Fed's Can't Tell States What to do! Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:17 PM PDT Alex also talks with Sheriff Richard Mack, a former sheriff in Graham County, Arizona, who sued the Clinton administration during the mid-90s over the Brady Bill. He currently educates sheriffs nation-wide about their powers to protect their constituents from abuse by the federal government. Mack is the author of The County Sheriff: America's Last Hope.

Iran Sanctions May Target Iran's Middle Class Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT Although the United States and its allies insist that the latest round of U.N. sanctions against Iran targets high-level government officials rather than the general population, interviews with a number of analysts, activists and journalists in Tehran reveal a growing concern over the impact on the country's middle class. "The government will use the oil money to prevent pressure on the lower classes, but the main pressure will be on the middle class, the majority of whom are anti-government," a former governmental official told IPS on the condition of anonymity.

Israel's Nukes Harm US National Interests Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT Transcript of John J. Mearsheimer's remarks at the IRmep conference at the International Spy Museum "Israel's Nuclear Arsenal: Espionage, Opacity and Future" Washington, DC, 7/7/2010 What I want to do was ask four questions, and then answer them. The first is, "why did Israel develop nuclear weapons to begin within the 1950s and 1960s?"  Second, "does it make sense today for Israel to have a nuclear deterrent?"  Third, "does opacity make good strategic sense for Israel?"  "Does it matter for the United States?" And four, "is it in America's interest for Israel to have nuclear weapons?" Those are the four questions I want to answer.

CNN's Objectivity Questioned in Sacking of Mideast Reporter Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT CNN's firing of Octavia Nasr, the editor responsible for the network's Middle East coverage, over a Twitter post in which she expressed her sadness over the death of a Lebanese cleric has set off a firestorm of debate about what the decision says about CNN's fairness in reporting on the region. On Sunday, Nasr wrote, "Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot," on her Twitter account, which is followed by over 7,000 readers.

America Is In A Societal Meltdown Posted: 08 Jul 2010 02:14 PM PDT "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." So said Founding Father and America's second President John Adams. And he was absolutely right. And that is what is absolutely wrong with our country today: America is in a complete moral, societal, and cultural meltdown.

LeBron James Announces... He's Going to Miami! Posted: 08 Jul 2010 02:01 PM PDT Alex Jones gives the inside scoop on basketball MVP LeBron James' pivotal trade decision... err, I mean, rather breaks down how society has become obsessed with celebrity culture and taken its eye off of important world events, allowing corruption and global domination to take root. Here are people by the tens of thousands begging LeBron James to stay on their team, yet these same people won't go out and protest the looting of the Federal government, the banker-bailout or even the BP oil spill. Yes, modern bread and circuses-- endless ballgames, television and gossip about celeb birthday parties-- has driven our culture to embrace the meaningless, while reducing our consciousness to mindless drivel. America-- once the greatest cradle of imagination and wealth has fallen to a land of virtual morons who look up to decadent system-icons instead of leaders who could drive our future to greatness once again.

David Icke: Humanity's Last Chance Posted: 08 Jul 2010 01:45 PM PDT Alex welcomes back to the show writer, public speaker, and former well-known BBC television sports presenter David Icke. David has authored several books, including: Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More and Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion.

Does the U.S. Military Keep All Its Combat Videos? Posted: 08 Jul 2010 10:57 AM PDT On July 6, the U.S. military announced that it had charged Army Spec. Bradley Manning with leaking classified video showing a 2007 airborne attack that killed a dozen people in Iraq. The clip, taken through the gunsight of an Apache helicopter, was published by the website WikiLeaks in April. Does the military keep all of its video?

Obama Selects General Who Likes Killing Muslims to Centcom Posted: 08 Jul 2010 08:53 AM PDT Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis has been selected to replace the globalist Gen. David Petraeus who was selected to replace Gen. Stanley McCrystal who made the mistake of dissing the anointed one, Barry Obama. Mattis will fill the post of CentCom commander previously occupied by Petraeus. Gen. Mattis has the same habit of speaking his mind as McCrystal. Eric Garris writes today that Mattis was quoted back in 2005 as saying he finds pleasure in shooting and killing people in Afghanistan. "Actually it's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot," Mattis said, prompting laughter from some military members in the audience, CNN reported on February 4, 2005. "It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up there with you. I like brawling." Mattis, who commanded Marine expeditions in Afghanistan and Iraq, made the comments during a panel discussion in San Diego, California.

Resistance Land Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:53 AM PDT On a hilltop overlooking Israel's former occupation zone in south Lebanon, Hezbollah has built what the international press has dubbed the Shiite militia's "Disneyland." Mleeta, Hezbollah's new "Tourist Landmark of the Resistance," is designed to celebrate the party's long war against Israel. As it pulls in the masses, Mleeta also provides another sign that Israeli deterrence in Lebanon is disintegrating.

The upshot of political subjugation Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:07 AM PDT If I could think of any tactfully discreet and diplomatically clear way to describe the outcome of the 15th Extraordinary Session of the IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government on Somalia without compromising the essence of my message, I would have simply chosen that approach. Therefore, going crude is the appropriate way: As a patched up political charade destined to embolden the very extremist elements that it is intended to subdue and push Somalia deep into anarchy and destruction, the resolution passed in that session is haphazardly imprudent and wildly dangerous.

Thursday: 33 Iraqis Killed, 119 Wounded Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:59 AM PDT Solemn observances at the Imam Kadhim shrine in Baghdad culminated today. Although pilgrims began to return to their homes, they remain vulnerable to attacks. At least 33 Iraqis were killed and 119 more were wounded, mostly in the capital. Due to the nature of these reports an exact count is difficult at best: The confusion of numerous or larger attacks can lead to wildly conflicting numbers and vague locations. Meanwhile, the Iraqi Parliament is to meet next Tuesday, just ahead of a constitutional deadline. In Baghdad, five pilgrims were killed and 36 more were wounded near the Mashtal Bridge in New Baghdad. In Zaafaraniya, four people were killed and 20 more were wounded in another explosion. On Palestine St., two pilgrims were killed and 20 more were wounded. One pilgrim was killed in a blast in southern Baghdad. A roadside bomb in northern Baghdad killed five pilgrims. In Rustamiya, a bomb blast wounded 14 pilgrims. Eleven pilgrims were wounded in a car bomb in Bayaa. A bomb in Yarmouk killed 11 people and wounded eight more.

Obama Endorses Netanyahu As Man Of Peace Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:12 AM PDT President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a man who "wants peace" and is "willing to take risks for peace." He did so following a White House meeting five weeks after the May 31 raid on the Mavi Marmara Gaza aid convoy, in which Israeli forces murdered eight Turkish activists and a dual Turkish-US national. The White House meeting was also on the eve of another round of Israeli settlement expansion on the West Bank.

An "Inconvenient Truth" Film for Nuclear Analysts? Posted: 08 Jul 2010 04:44 AM PDT Just after 2:26 a.m., on June 3, 1980, computer screens at the command post of the Strategic Air Command in Nebraska suddenly indicated that two submarine-launched ballistic missiles were headed toward the United States. Eighteen seconds after the first signals, the displays showed even more launches. The duty commander ordered B-52 and FB-111 bomber pilots to their planes and told them to start their engines.

Peace bullish or 'bullshit' Posted: 08 Jul 2010 04:19 AM PDT The good news: "Netanyahu to give peace process a 'robust push". The bad news, any rational person privy to the ideology and makeup of the Israeli government knows this not serious. And yet, after their meeting, Barack Obama, the US president, has publically supported his Israeli interlocutor, saying he believed Binyamin Netanyahu would take "risks for peace" and praised the Israeli prime minister for easing the blockade on the Gaza Strip.

Update on the Edgar Steele Case Posted: 08 Jul 2010 03:49 AM PDT After recovering from a nearly fatal heart condition, Edgar Steele announced that he planned to become more politically active –even running for political office. Shortly after that announcement, Steele was arrested and charged with hiring a hitman to kill his wife and his mother-in-law. The hitman Larry Fairfax is reportedly also the police informant. This is an extremely strange combination, especially when you consider what Fairfax did and how Fairfax was treated. Fairfax actually attached a foot long pipe bomb to Mrs. Steele's car. Does that sound like something someone working with police would do? Also Fairfax was arrested and charged with attempted murder and placing a bomb.

A Cautious Welcome for British Torture Inquiry Posted: 08 Jul 2010 03:28 AM PDT Human rights campaigners have reacted with cautious optimism to the British government's official announcement of a judicial inquiry into the involvement of the British security services — MI5 and MI6 — in torture and rendition since the 9/11 attacks, although many pressing questions are, as yet, unanswered. These concern the scope of the inquiry, its transparency (or lack of it), how the issue of compensation for the victims of British involvement will be played by the government, whether the inquiry involves a thinly-veiled attempt to gag the courts, which have been openly critical of British involvement in torture, and, perhaps most crucially, whether the inquiry will lead to a genuine renunciation by the government and the security services of any further involvement with torture, which, lest we forget, is not only illegal, but also counter-productive, morally corrosive, and fundamentally unreliable.

Cluster Bombs and Civilian Lives Posted: 08 Jul 2010 02:25 AM PDT Cluster bombs are in the news again, thanks to a recent report from Amnesty International. The human rights agency has confirmed that 35 women and children were killed following the latest US attacks on an alleged al-Qaeda hideout in Yemen. Initially, there were attempts to bury the story, and Yemen officially denied that civilians were killed as a result of the December 17 attack on al-Majala in southern Yemen. However, it has been simply impossible to conceal what is now considered the largest loss of life in one single US attack in the country.

Win for US War Resisters Posted: 08 Jul 2010 02:14 AM PDT Parliament has voted twice to let Iraq war resisters from the United States stay in Canada. Now the Federal Court of Appeal has added its voice to the debate. On Tuesday, the court ruled that Jeremy Hinzman, an asylum-seeking American paratrooper and conscientious objector, should have another chance at remaining in Toronto, where he has settled with his wife, son and baby daughter. The court found that an immigration officer's 2008 decision to deny Hinzman's application for permanent residence in Canada was "unreasonable" and "significantly flawed" because it didn't take into account his pacifist religious beliefs.

Iranian Scholars Condemn Israeli Attack Posted: 07 Jul 2010 11:11 PM PDT The May 31, 2010, Israeli army raid on the flotilla bringing food and medical supplies for the oppressed people in Gaza and the cruel killing of several humanitarian and peaceful activists on board of those ships in international waters once again revealed the militant nature of the occupiers of Palestinian lands. The world community at large deplores Israel's disrespect for international laws. Some governments have rightly summoned the Israeli ambassadors in their countries to convey their objections. Conscientious people all over the world have raised their voices in support of the Palestinian people to register their call for justice, hoping to prevent further oppression. Based on its goals of support for freedom, democracy, and the basic rights of all people, the Iranian Green Movement supports freedom movements all over the world and in particular the Palestinian national liberation struggle. The Green Movement finds similarities between the violence exhibited by the occupying regime of Israel and the suppressive regime of the Islamic Republic, and denounces both of these oppressive regimes. Neither of the regimes hesitates to shoot peaceful people and often employs the most violent means to repress those who seek freedom. Both these regimes are in a race to ignore the citizens' rights and disrespect the judgment of the international community.

Born Of The Sun – Egypt Posted: 07 Jul 2010 09:04 PM PDT At Sekem Farm a delicately balanced relationship between workers and nature exists which, in a world suffering from rapidly increasing population, may lead the way for the future of farming. Born of Dr Abouleish's ambitious vision, the Sekem Farm is an ecological paradise in the middle of the Egyptian desert. Both a thriving business and a close-knit community. In this oasis, nothing is lost, and a delicately balanced relationship between workers and nature is established. With predictions of the world's population rising to 9 billion by 2050, the Sekem community may well be the future of farming.

"The War That's Not a War" Posted: 07 Jul 2010 06:09 PM PDT On July 1, Congressman Paul spoke on the House floor concerning the war in Afghanistan and the need for a new foreign policy.

Chris Emery: OKC Bombing was Design to Save Bill Clinton from Whitewater Investigation Posted: 07 Jul 2010 04:36 PM PDT [ Chris Emery ] is a film writer, director, producer living in Oklahoma City. He is currently working on his fifth documentary film which is a feature length project covering the Oklahoma City Bombing case. His interest in the truth movement was spawned several years ago as he discovered a consistent pattern of lies and deception contained in the US Governments 'official accounts' of the shootout at Ruby Ridge, WTC - '93, the WACO massacre, the OKC bombing, the downing of TWA Flight 800 and the 9/11 fiasco www.ruleoflawradio.com [ James Lane ] was born and raised in central Oklahoma. He has been an Information Technology professional for over 12 years. After becoming aware of the inexplicable events surrounding the collapse of WTC building 7 on September 11, 2001 he was compelled to investigate and take action. He recently stared the Oklahoma chapter of We Are Change, a citizens based grassroots peace and social justice movement working to reveal the truth behind the events of 9/11, as well as the lies of the government and corporate elite who remain suspect in this crime. www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv

Former IMF Chief Economist Says "Cap & Trade" is a Direct Tax on it's People Posted: 07 Jul 2010 03:16 PM PDT Former IMF Chief Economist Says "Cap & Trade" is a Direct Tax on it's People

Paul Craig Roberts: Americans to be Financially Raped to Fund War with Iran Posted: 07 Jul 2010 03:03 PM PDT Alex welcomes back to the show economist, former syndicated journalist, and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, Paul Craig Roberts. He is the author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice and How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds.

National Guard Helps Confiscate Guns in New York State Posted: 07 Jul 2010 01:52 PM PDT Alex Jones, came in the office, his blood was boiling, as he launched into a news story about the national guard assisting the local police in New York state to scan peoples cars with high powered gamma radiation scanners to look for drugs and weapons. He covers a host of other subjects please watch and spread around.

Wayne Madsen: The Military Occupation of The Gulf Coast States has Begun! Posted: 07 Jul 2010 11:29 AM PDT Alex also talks with Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author, columnist, and US Navy veteran Wayne Madsen.

An excellent meeting Posted: 07 Jul 2010 09:54 AM PDT It really was an excellent meeting: The chance that a binational state will be established has improved as a result; relations between Israel and the United States are indeed "marvelous." Israel can continue with the whims of its occupation. The president of the United States proved Tuesday that perhaps there has been change, but not as far as we are concerned. If there remained any vestiges of hope in the Middle East from Barack Obama, they have dissipated; if some people still expected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lead a courageous move, they now know they made a mistake (and misled others ).

Mitigating Annihilation Posted: 07 Jul 2010 08:58 AM PDT From the air, the area north of Grand Isle, Louisiana, much of it around Barataria Bay, looks like scorched earth. This area has been and is heavily afflicted by BP's oil. The so-called clean up efforts, including laying out booms to supposedly prevent oil from destroying more marsh and killing more wildlife, are a farce. Opaque multi-color sheen stains much of the bay, and is visible in countless inlets that snake their way into the marsh. The contrast between the green marsh area yet to be soiled and the marsh already blackened by the oil and the sheen covered Gulf water is stark. The afflicted water appears as a lifeless, dull, silvery fluid.

The War Drones On Posted: 07 Jul 2010 08:53 AM PDT The problem is that a sentence like this - arguably a dead sentence, with a few quasi-facts entombed in an inert moral sensibility - parades as serious news. I mean, it's lifted straight from the New York Times: from a story about drones, the CIA hit list and our cool new PlayStation way of killing bad dudes (and everyone else in the vicinity). Someone with an active conscience could come upon a sentence like that, in the middle of a painfully ill-focused story on the endless war, and think she must be going insane. As an archeological find, it's worth examining in closer detail, but first let me put it in context. The use of pilotless aircraft in Pakistan and Afghanistan to assassinate Taliban or al-Qaida leaders and other Islamic, America-hating insurgents - with missiles, no less - seems to have hit a snag of legal controversy lately because of the news that one of the people on the list of targets, Anwar al-Awlaki, was born in New Mexico. He's an American citizen.

Life by a Thousand Cuts Posted: 07 Jul 2010 08:41 AM PDT A few years ago I found myself reporting a story about the military buildup on the remote western Pacific island of Guam. Guam happens to be the westernmost territory in the United States, a location that puts it within just a few days' sailing of many potential East Asian flashpoints. One of the people I interviewed was a senior U.S. Navy officer who made the case for expanding base facilities on the island so that they could handle some of the military's biggest ballistic-missile submarines. Among other things, he explained, this was a capability that would beef up America's ability to fight the Global War on Terror. How, exactly? Well, it was simple: These superquiet subs could sneak up close to the coastlines of countries where terrorists were operating and launch mini-subs filled with Navy SEALs through their torpedo tubes. The mini-subs could then drop the men off on the shore -- a perfect way to surprise the bad guys!

No Free Press for BP Oil Disaster Posted: 07 Jul 2010 07:51 AM PDT Last week, the U.S. Coast Guard, working in concert with oil giant BP, instituted new restrictions across the U.S. Gulf Coast that prevent the media from coming within 20 metres of booms or response vessels on beaches or water. But the insidiousness of the restrictions runs even deeper. "You can't come in here," Don, the security guard hired by BP, told IPS at the Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at Fort Jackson, Louisiana. Inside, the International Bird Rescue Research Center, one of the companies hired by BP to clean wildlife, works to wash oiled birds before returning them to the wild.

The Sheep Look Up Posted: 07 Jul 2010 07:49 AM PDT Arthur C. Clarke and director Peter Hyams proved less than prophetic in the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact, but they gave the audiences of 1984 what they wanted to hear. Cosmonaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) — who in the movie 2001 disappeared into a mysterious black monolith orbiting Jupiter — reappears as a literally starry-eyed apparition on his widow's TV set between commercials. He tells her that "something wonderful" is about to happen. It does hours later when exponentially proliferating monoliths send Jupiter critical, igniting a second sun in the solar system. Forewarned by Bowman's specter, Russian and U.S. cosmonauts hightail it out of the Jovian neighborhood on the cusp of a blast of hot plasma. The two nations at home narrowly avert their own thermonuclear Armageddon. In the closing scene, cosmonaut Heywood Floyd (Roy Schneider) rejoins his wife and son for a happy reunion on the beach under double suns.

Netanyahu Didn't Deserve the Red Carpet Treatment Posted: 07 Jul 2010 06:27 AM PDT After his government killed nine people, including one U.S. citizen, on that Gaza relief ship, Benjamin Netanyahu might have expected a chilly reception in Washington. And after approving more Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, in flagrant defiance of the Obama administration, Netanyahu didn't deserve the red carpet treatment.

Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe (Part Two): Germany and France Posted: 07 Jul 2010 06:05 AM PDT Last week, in the first of two articles examining how "War on Terror"-related complicity in torture is under intense scrutiny in Europe, I ran through the history of Britain's post-9/11 involvement in US torture, and its extensive forays into holding people without charge or trial in the UK, attempting to send foreign nationals back to countries where they face the risk of torture, using information derived from torture in other countries (sometimes with direct British involvement) and subsequently using this information operationally and even in judicial hearings. The trigger for this article was an announcement by the British government that the terms of a judge-led inquiry into British complicity in torture — first announced by foreign secretary William Hague on May 20 — have been agreed. This is welcome news, as it indicates that the UK may be the first Western country prepared to conduct an official inquiry into the whole of its post-9/11 policies, as they relate to torture — although it was worrying to hear that Prime Minister David Cameron had "suggest[ed] that the inquiry would examine only one case — that of Binyam Mohamed — and, in addition, that he "had already concluded that the country's intelligence agencies were guilty only of errors of omission, not commission." The official announcement of the inquiry this week has done little to alleviate these fears, with David Cameron explaining that most of the inquiry will be held in secret, and adding, "Let's be frank, it is not possible to have a full public inquiry into something that is meant to be secret." As Reprieve stated in response to the announcement:

Hamas Lawmaker: Gaza Flotilla Did More Than 10,000 Rockets Posted: 07 Jul 2010 05:31 AM PDT Who now doubts that strategic nonviolent action can transform the politics of the Israel/Palestine conflict? Not Hamas parliamentarian Aziz Dweik, the Wall Street Journal reports: "When we use violence, we help Israel win international support," said Aziz Dweik, a leading Hamas lawmaker in the West Bank. "The Gaza flotilla has done more for Gaza than 10,000 rockets."

Wednesday: 84 Iraqis Killed, 362 Wounded Posted: 07 Jul 2010 05:14 AM PDT Updated at 2:49 p.m. EDT, July 8, 2010 Shi'ite pilgrims streaming in to Baghdad for Imam Kadhim observances were met by a number of bombs across the city. One blast targeting them killed or wounded over 120 people in a Sunni neighborhood. Earlier in the day, however, most of the attacks were curiously focused on areas just west of the capital. At least 84 Iraqis were killed and 362 more were wounded in these and other attacks. Meanwhile, a Rasmussen poll found that less than a third of Americans would call the war in Iraq a success, and only 55 percent think that Iraqis are better off now than under Saddam.

International Aid to the Palestinians Under Occupation Posted: 07 Jul 2010 03:40 AM PDT Aid has been utilised as a political tool by the international community in order to assist the Palestinian people in achieving a state, in ending the Israeli occupation and bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Aid is a strategic tool adopted by the donor states in order to achieve political results, as well as a moral responsibility of the international community, which has been criminally negligent in holding Israel accountable for its gross and persistent violations of international law, and of the human and collective rights of the Palestinian people.

The lies about Hamas rockets Posted: 07 Jul 2010 03:18 AM PDT I honestly think that the so called 'Jewish Christian Alliance' is about to backfire...

Crisis in Germany's Unconditional Support of Israel Posted: 07 Jul 2010 02:21 AM PDT The brutal occupation of Palestine and the bloody actions of the Israeli army are increasingly meeting with international outcry and condemnation. Even in Germany, the country which, due to the Nazi genocide against European Jews, upholds since decades a very special relationship with Israel, accompanied with an outright complicity with Zionist governments against the legitimate demands of the Palestinians for self-determination – even in Germany, the time of undisputed "unconditional support for Israel" is running out. On the 1st of July, for the first time in history, the German federal parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin adopted unanimously a resolution on the Middle East. This resolution contains essentially two central demands: the first is the establishment of an international commission to investigate the attack against the Free Gaza Flotilla by the Israeli Navy on the 31th of May, which took the lives of 9 peace activists and left almost 30 injured; the second is a demand that the siege against the Gaza strip be lifted.

Research on Settlements Released Posted: 07 Jul 2010 01:55 AM PDT 121 Israeli settlements and about one hundred outposts currently control 42 percent of land area of the West Bank, according to a comprehensive report released on 6 July by the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem. As of May 2010, there are over 200 Israeli settlements on Israeli-recognised private Palestinian land, some official, some unauthorized, and some neighborhoods on land annexed to the Jerusalem Municipality's area of jurisdiction. The report, entitled By Hook and By Crook: Israel's Settlement Policy in the West Bank, analyzes the means employed by Israel to gain control of Palestinian land for the building of settlements in the West Bank. Much of the information in the report is drawn from official Israeli government data and documents.

People & Power - Making the banks pay Posted: 07 Jul 2010 12:44 AM PDT As Barack Obama, the US president, signed the most radical financial reform bill since the Great Depression, People&Power looks back at Bob Abeshouse's report on the anger driving a grassroots movement that proved impossible for politicians to ignore.

Reassembling America's Democracy Posted: 06 Jul 2010 11:59 PM PDT On the Fourth of July, we celebrated Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Madison and all the other great men who created our democracy, right? Not exactly. The Founders did create the framework for a democratic republic, but they didn't create much democracy. Indeed, in America's first presidential election, only 4 percent of the people were even eligible to vote. The Founders created the possibility for democracy, but it took the struggle (often bloody and always hard) of ordinary people over the years to create the substance. In some decades, we've made advances; in others, we've fallen back - including in the past three decades, when the power of America's workaday majority has steadily been usurped by corporate elites. So now, We the People must put America back on its historic path toward economic and political democracy.

Losing in Afghanistan Posted: 06 Jul 2010 11:28 PM PDT Last week, the House of Representatives voted 215-210 for $33 billion to fund Barack Obama's troop increase in Afghanistan. But there was considerable opposition to giving the President a blank check. One hundred sixty-two House members supported an amendment that would have tied the funding to a withdrawal timetable. One hundred members voted for another amendment that would have rejected the $33 billion for the 30,000 new troops already on their way to Afghanistan; that amendment would have required that the money be spent to redeploy our troops out of Afghanistan. Democrats voting for the second amendment included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and nine Republicans. Both amendments failed to pass.

Fed's Attack States Rights Posted: 06 Jul 2010 07:18 PM PDT Alex breaks down the top news stories of the day that show the fed's continue attack on states rights at every level. www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv

The Sheikh Who Got Away Posted: 06 Jul 2010 11:39 AM PDT The coffin of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, covered in a black cloth embroidered in gold with verses from the Quran, wound through Beirut's southern suburbs July 6, traveling from his home to the Hassanein mosque, where he used to deliver Friday sermons. It was followed by thousands of mourners, most of them wearing black and many carrying pictures of Lebanon's most eminent Shiite cleric on their way to his final resting place.

You must be Jewish Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:42 AM PDT One of the common mistakes from our childhood has to do with the song "Hava Nagila." Instead of singing "Uru ahim belev sameah" - "Awaken brothers with a joyful heart," we sang "Mukhrahim lehiyot sameah" - "You must be joyful." In this way, mangling the Hebrew and the joy, and depicting them in a garbled and aggressive light, we expressed a vague suspicion that there is someone up there dictating how we should feel. Indeed, the new era in the education system is arousing nostalgia for Hammer and his political sophistication, in part because the above mentioned intervention, problematic in itself, also brought with it a strengthening of the system. This was manifested mainly in the budgetary arena, but also in strengthening the status of teachers and principals.

Challenge Hamas Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:42 AM PDT The writer David Grossman called on the government of Israel in these pages yesterday to cease its preoccupation with the number and identity of Palestinian prisoners who would potentially be swapped for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Grossman believes Israel should make Hamas a broader offer that would involve "a total cease-fire, an end to all terror activities from Gaza and a lifting of the siege." The start of such negotiations would see Shalit and the prisoners exchanged. The proposal deserves serious consideration as the basis for a new policy. It is unfortunate that four years have been wasted and something along these lines was not adopted soon after Shalit's abduction in 2006. There is no certainty, however, that Hamas would have agreed to the proposal then, or that it will do so now. It is also worth examining the impact such a deal would have on the Palestinian Authority, Egypt and Jordan. But the point of departure is that there is no sense in allowing the existing situation to continue.

The Price of War Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:21 AM PDT Larry O'Connor has a post on Big Peace, Andrew Breitbart's new group blog focused on foreign policy and military matters, titled "The Price of Peace." In the post, O'Connor features this video of a British soldier being shot in the face by Afghan militants, reportedly the Taliban.  Fortunately, the soldier was not seriously injured.

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