Psychiatrist of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Commits Suicide (plus 71 more items) |
- Psychiatrist of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Commits Suicide
- James Delingpole Covers The BP Gulf Oil Disaster
- When False Flags Don't Fly
- Alex Jones Puts MSNBC's Chris Matthews in His Place
- For the US in Afghanistan, the News Is Bad
- The Moral Failure of American Liberals
- Health Agency Urged to Probe CIA Torture Claims
- The War is Making You Poor
- Advantage Hamas After Flotilla Fiasco
- Concerns Grow over Bagram's Prison within a Prison
- New Footage Depicts Attack on Mavi Marmara
- Iran's Year of Turmoil
- Investigations in the air
- Pakistan's New Networks of Terror
- Activist U.S. Supreme Court Demolishes AZ's 'Clean Elections' Law, States Rights
- A Voice from Iraq: Former Guantánamo Prisoner Speaks
- The Islamic Republic of Sudan?
- Has the BP Bashing Gone Too Far?
- Everybody Else is Crazy
- Tehran's Lost Connection
- Exclusive! BP Boardroom Spill Video!
- Carbon Tax Bill May Be Dead After Shock Graham Reversal On Climate Change
- Publisher Slaps "Outdated" Warning On U.S. Constitution, Founding Documents
- Thursday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 16 Wounded
- Thursday: 18 Iraqis Killed, 46 Wounded
- Why Did The U.S. Refuse International Help on The Gulf Oil Spill?
- Remembering Douglas Reed
- Gaza Freedom Flotilla Smuggled Photos
- Israel Is Fueling Anti-Americanism Among U.S. Allies
- Goldman Sachs Clients Advised To Do Opposite Of What They Are Told
- No Pride in Occupation: Tel Aviv Pride Parades Focus on Protest, Progressive Social Change
- Professor: Debt Spreading 'Like a Cancer', Euro Is Doomed
- The Deadly Closing of the Israeli Mind
- Gerald Celente Says US to Implode by End of 2010
- Bilderberg 2010
- Pro-Obama Thug Viciously Attacks Anti-Bailout Protester
- Chairman of Goldman Sachs International Was – Until Last Year – Also Chairman of BP
- Why Are We Worrying about North Korea?
- Obama's Doublespeak on Iran
- Oliver Stone, Jesse Ventura Spar With Republican Congressman On Larry King
- Awake in the nightmare
- No golden time, but a time for gold
- Iran sanctions as good as 'used tissue'
- Laying Bare the Racial Supremacist State of Israel!
- Just holding on
- Antidepressants dramatically raise risk of cataracts
- Vitamin D deficiency unquestionably linked to bone fractures
- Israeli Piracy, Puppets Resign, Estulin in Brussels
- Facebook Hates You, OKC Bombshell, Synthia
- Hamas 1, Netanyahu 0
- Stoned
- Guilty Until Proven Guilty
- More Bile for Helen Thomas, From Women
- Euro Crash, AZ Immigrant Law, Fair Use is Good - New World Next Week
- It Coulda Been Worse...
- After the Flotilla, will Turkey emerge as a force for Palestinian rights?
- Iran's Disappeared Nuclear Scientist: Video Points to Unlawful US Abduction
- The US-NATO "Arc of War" Stretches From Afghanistan to the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus
- Israel Strikes on High Seas Again; World Outraged
- Nato's dangerous supply lines
- China's Got a Secret
- Rift between Israel and the United States: Flotilla incident didn't help
- UN sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program: Why did China go along?
- Is Obama BP's Poodle?
- MSNBC Hit Piece Smears Tea Party As Neo-Nazis
- Neocon Frum Shills For Bilderberg
- BP Oil Spill, Korean Standoff, Cybercom - New World Next Week
- Bank Protests, Voting Upsets, Elite Meetings
- Wednesday: 10 Iraqis Killed, 32 Wounded
- Wednesday: 1 US Soldier, 16 Iraqis Killed; 36 Iraqis Wounded
- CALEA and the Stellar Wind
- On the Brink of the Tragedy
| Psychiatrist of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Commits Suicide Posted: 11 Jun 2010 07:05 AM PDT Moshe Yatom, a prominent Israeli psychiatrist who successfully cured the most extreme forms of mental illness throughout a distinguished career, was found dead at his home in Tel Aviv yesterday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A suicide note at his side explained that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been his patient for the last nine years, had "sucked the life right out of me." |
| James Delingpole Covers The BP Gulf Oil Disaster Posted: 10 Jun 2010 10:26 PM PDT
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| Alex Jones Puts MSNBC's Chris Matthews in His Place Posted: 10 Jun 2010 07:04 PM PDT
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| For the US in Afghanistan, the News Is Bad Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT While U.S. officials insist they are making progress in reversing the momentum built up by the Taliban insurgency over the last several years, the latest news from Afghanistan suggests the opposite may be closer to the truth. Even senior military officials are conceding privately that their much-touted new counterinsurgency strategy of "clear, hold and build" in contested areas of the Pashtun southern and eastern parts of the country are not working out as planned despite the "surge" of some 20,000 additional U.S. troops over the past six months. |
| The Moral Failure of American Liberals Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT The ostracism of Helen Thomas, the doyenne of the White House press corps, over her comment that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to Poland, Germany, America, and elsewhere is revealing in several ways. In spite of an apology, the 89-year-old has been summarily retired by the Hearst newspaper group, dropped by her agent, spurned by the White House, and denounced by long-time friends and colleagues. |
| Health Agency Urged to Probe CIA Torture Claims Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT Human rights groups are turning to an obscure government agency to investigate allegations that medical professionals on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) helped the agency to perform experiments on detainees in U.S. custody following the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, in an effort to make "enhanced interrogation techniques" more efficient and provide them with legal cover. |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT Complain, complain, complain – that, it seems, is what anti-interventionists often seem content – or, rather, condemned – to do. The world is in a bad state, and getting rapidly worse, this guy is evil, that one is a tool – all right already, my critics answer, but what are we gonna do about it? We know what you're against, but what, pray tell, are you for? |
| Advantage Hamas After Flotilla Fiasco Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT RAMALLAH — Israel may allow soft drinks, juice, canned fruit, salads, biscuits, and potato chips into the Gaza Strip from next week. What should be an unremarkable event is making news headlines and portends unseen consequences. After four years of a crippling Israeli blockade, which has reduced the poverty-stricken territory to a humanitarian basket-case, the international powers that be, in their infinite wisdom, have reached the conclusion that the above mentioned items do not, in fact, represent a threat to Israel's security. |
| Concerns Grow over Bagram's Prison within a Prison Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT The administration of President Barack Obama is considering using Afghanistan's U.S.-run Bagram Air Base prison to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects captured far from a battlefield and who have not been charged with a crime — without any judicial oversight. A senior U.S. official reportedly told the Los Angeles Times that the Obama administration wants to detain and interrogate non-Afghan terrorism suspects captured in countries outside Afghanistan in a section of the Bagram prison, even after it turns the prison over to Afghan control. |
| New Footage Depicts Attack on Mavi Marmara Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT Blasts from a megaphone accompany the sounding of alarms, a woman's voice repeatedly pleading, "We are civilians, we have no guns…we need help for people…please don't attack." Brazilian-American filmmaker Iara Lee, a passenger on board the Mavi Marmara, managed to smuggle an hour of footage taken during the May 31 attack on a six-ship humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces. An activist from the group Cultures of Resistance, Lee released her footage to the press Thursday at the United Nations. She plans to make it available to the public, to let the images speak for themselves. |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2010 10:19 AM PDT The wealth of moving, graphic images depicting Iran's 2009 presidential election, the protests that followed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declaration of victory, and the brutality of the government's response gave people around the world a street-level view that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Cell phone cameras, satellite TV networks, and the Internet allowed us to instantly witness members of Iran's Basij militia beating and killing unarmed protesters, opposition leaders speaking out, and ordinary Iranians helping one another out. |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2010 10:18 AM PDT The ministers in the "Forum of Seven" are working night and day to prevent a skilled, credible investigation that would seriously examine a question of public importance: the quality of defense and political preparations before the Turkish flotilla to Gaza and during the takeover of its ships. Sufficient preparation concerns the performance and responsibility of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, of the foreign and information ministers, of the Forum and the security cabinet, as well as the chairman of the National Security Council - Uzi Arad - charged by law with "overseeing the cabinet's administration" on matters of foreign and defense policy. This is in addition to the chief of staff's responsibility for the military's performance in preparing for and conducting the operation. |
| Pakistan's New Networks of Terror Posted: 10 Jun 2010 09:32 AM PDT On May 28, several mercenaries invaded two mosques in Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, and ended up mowing down nearly 100 Ahmadis, members of a breakaway sect that was officially declared to be non-Muslim in the mid-1970s. The killing was one of the boldest and most deadly in a year of bold and deadly attacks in Pakistan. And it pointed to a frightening development in Pakistani terrorism. The militants had a typical profile for jihadists in Pakistan, having trained in North Waziristan in camps connected to the Pakistani Taliban (TTP). But it also seems likely that they were connected to local Punjabi terrorist groups. In a sign of Pakistan's increasing chaos, the groups that were formerly barricaded in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghanistan border are now joining forces with groups around the country -- and the result is a networked terrorism outfit with an ever-growing capacity to produce pain and mayhem. |
| Activist U.S. Supreme Court Demolishes AZ's 'Clean Elections' Law, States Rights Posted: 10 Jun 2010 08:58 AM PDT In a burst of judicial activism, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upended the gubernatorial race in Arizona, cutting off matching funds to candidates participating in the state's public campaign finance system. Suddenly, three candidates, including Gov. Jan Brewer, can no longer receive public funds they had counted on to run against a free-spending wealthy opponent.
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| A Voice from Iraq: Former Guantánamo Prisoner Speaks Posted: 10 Jun 2010 08:56 AM PDT In a fascinating interview with Mohammed Furat, the Iraqi editor of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), an Iraqi and former Guantánamo prisoner (one of the three Iraqis released from Guantánamo in January 2009), told his story. His account is fascinating on his own terms, as it provides an insight into how vulnerable refugees from other countries could end up in Guantánamo, but it is also of great interest because, to the best of my knowledge, it is the first ever interview with a prisoner released from Guantánamo to Iraq, and although the man in question — who uses the pseudonym Hussein Latif — is clearly struggling to make a living in Baghdad, it is reassuring that he is a free man, and was only imprisoned on his return for "several months," as those of us who have been studying Guantánamo closely feared that the men returned from Guantánamo to Iraq might languish in Iraqi jails for years (or forever), unnoticed by the outside world. |
| The Islamic Republic of Sudan? Posted: 10 Jun 2010 08:37 AM PDT The Sudanese newspaper Rai al-Shaab (Opinion of the People), owned and controlled by Sudanese opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, recently published an article that potentially provides new and important insight into Sudan's terrorist ties to Iran. The article alleges that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, is operating a secret weapons factory in Sudan to funnel weapons to Iran-sponsored terrorist organizations in Africa and the Middle East. Several Arab bloggers circulated the article last week. Today, these blogs are the only evidence that the article ever existed. Soon after it was published, Sudanese authorities shut down the entire newspaper. The paper's deputy editor, Abu Zur al-Amin, was arrested on charges of "terrorism, espionage and destabilizing the constitutional system," according to Reuters. |
| Has the BP Bashing Gone Too Far? Posted: 10 Jun 2010 07:54 AM PDT First, it was the bust of Winston Churchill removed from the Oval Office. Then it was an inappropriate gift for the Queen. Now, the British press is asking again whether U.S. President Barack Obama has it in for the British, this time over BP. There has been extensive coverage in Britain of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But now it is not the environmental damage that is the big issue; it is the economic damage to BP caused by American politicians, including the president, as they demand that BP pay for the cleanup as well as compensation, and are now demanding the company not pay its shareholders dividends. |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:44 AM PDT Israel and the rest of the world seem to be speaking dissonant moral languages. How, Israelis wonder, can pro-Hamas activists wielding knives be confused for peace ...The "dissonant moral languages" problem is that the "the world" is talking morals while the Israelis (and their cheerleaders abroad) are talking tactics. |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:04 AM PDT During last year's election turmoil in Tehran, the Iranian regime's biggest foe often seemed to be 21st-century technology. While the regime cracked down on supporters of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi -- the so-called Green Movement -- with decidedly pre-Web 2.0 tools like truncheons and tear gas, protesters used Twitter, YouTube, and other Web-based applications to publicize their cause, and the regime's brutal response, to the rest of the world. A year later, however, Iranian dissidents' techno-euphoria is mostly a thing of the past. The regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared victory over the opposition this February, after the Green Movement's call for massive demonstrations to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution were effectively blocked by the regime's nationwide shutdown of both Internet and cell-phone access. The Greens, deprived of communications in a society where mass media are under complete state control, suffered a lackluster turnout, prompting some Iran watchers in Washington to (prematurely) declare the movement dead. |
| Exclusive! BP Boardroom Spill Video! Posted: 10 Jun 2010 05:57 AM PDT Okay, so it's not exclusive. We lied. Just like BP. But it's very very funny... |
| Carbon Tax Bill May Be Dead After Shock Graham Reversal On Climate Change Posted: 10 Jun 2010 05:06 AM PDT The plan to impose a carbon tax on American citizens may be dead at least for the time being after Republican Senator Lindsey Graham shockingly reversed his views on climate change, telling a press conference that the science behind man-made global warming is in question and those pushing it are alarmists who have oversold the problem. South Carolina Republican Graham told reporters that he would vote against the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill he helped author as a consequence of his reversal, meaning the package will fall short of the votes it needs to obtain passage, according to a Senate aide. |
| Publisher Slaps "Outdated" Warning On U.S. Constitution, Founding Documents Posted: 10 Jun 2010 04:54 AM PDT Wilder Publications, which carries reprints of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Common Sense, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federalist Papers, includes a warning on the books that reads: |
| Thursday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 16 Wounded Posted: 10 Jun 2010 04:52 AM PDT At least eight Iraqis were killed and 16 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Meanwhile, 60 Iraqi asylum seekers were deported from Europe. Days before the new parliament is set to meet, Iraqiya list leader Ayad Allawi decried Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's attempt to "undermine [Iraq's] fragile democracy" in an editorial in the Washington Post. He has also begun picking his new cabinet. Whether his selections will stand remains to be seen. |
| Thursday: 18 Iraqis Killed, 46 Wounded Posted: 10 Jun 2010 04:52 AM PDT Updated at 8:30 p.m. EDT, June 10, 2010 At least 18 Iraqis were killed and 46 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Meanwhile, 60 Iraqi asylum seekers were deported from Europe. |
| Why Did The U.S. Refuse International Help on The Gulf Oil Spill? Posted: 10 Jun 2010 03:50 AM PDT |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2010 03:22 AM PDT Douglas Reed (1895–1976), British author and journalist, was a penetrating and clear-eyed witness to the course of events in Europe and the West following the First World War. He served in the trenches in that war, and afterwards became a correspondent in the then-arising telephone news services. "I began to pick up the tricks of the journalist's trade," he writes in Insanity Fair , the book that made him famous. Insanity Fair was published April 1, 1938 and was a great success. Six months later Reed reported in a Postscript: "Now… on October 1st , I am sitting in Belgrade and read in my newspapers that the book is in its 28th edition and that it has been banned in Germany, and all around me is the tragedy that I have foretold you, the tragedy of faith betrayed… moving with gathering speed." |
| Gaza Freedom Flotilla Smuggled Photos Posted: 10 Jun 2010 03:12 AM PDT A Victoria peace activist who was aboard an aid ship attacked by Israeli commandos off Gaza last week says he was able to smuggle out photos of the raid. |
| Israel Is Fueling Anti-Americanism Among U.S. Allies Posted: 10 Jun 2010 03:05 AM PDT |
| Goldman Sachs Clients Advised To Do Opposite Of What They Are Told Posted: 10 Jun 2010 03:00 AM PDT Yesterday, we wrote: "Full blown capitulation from the Goldman FX (strategic not tactical) team: the firm goes from a $1.35 target on EURUSD to $1.15. Score one more golden star for Goldman-Client relations. On the other hand, Thomas Stolper is officially advising clients to sell their euros to Goldman. There is no clearer signal to buy the beaten down currency." This was at a EURUSD of 1.1950. Sure enough, just over 12 hours later, the EURUSD hit 1.2133 (and dragging the little computerized gimmick known as the stock market with it). Goldman's "prognostication" track record is starting to challenge that of the head seer Bernanke himself. At least doing the opposite of what Goldman advises its clients continues to yield a 100% win percentage. |
| No Pride in Occupation: Tel Aviv Pride Parades Focus on Protest, Progressive Social Change Posted: 10 Jun 2010 02:57 AM PDT Friday (11 June) will be a busy day in Tel Aviv, with the city hosting not just one, but three pride parades. In addition to the municipality's 12thannual pride parade, two alternative marches will be making their way through the city. The parades, Community Pride Parade: Parading for Change and Just before Pride: Alternative Radical March, are initiatives to bring the pride parade back to the LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex) community and draw attention to other groups in the city that are underrepresented and do not have a public voice, such as refugees, immigrants, Palestinians, Russian speakers and Mizrahi communities.
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| Professor: Debt Spreading 'Like a Cancer', Euro Is Doomed Posted: 10 Jun 2010 02:55 AM PDT The economic situation today is drastically worse than a couple years ago, and the euro is doomed as a concept, Nassim Taleb, professor and author of the bestselling book "The Black Swan," told CNBC on Thursday. "We had less debt cumulatively (two years ago), and more people employed. Today, we have more risk in the system, and a smaller tax base," Taleb said. |
| The Deadly Closing of the Israeli Mind Posted: 10 Jun 2010 02:49 AM PDT |
| Gerald Celente Says US to Implode by End of 2010 Posted: 10 Jun 2010 02:24 AM PDT Alex also talks with Gerald Celente, renowned trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other events of historical importance. Alex also covers the latest news and takes your calls. |
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| Pro-Obama Thug Viciously Attacks Anti-Bailout Protester Posted: 10 Jun 2010 12:28 AM PDT Yet another shocking example of a pro-Obama thug violently assaulting anti-Obama protesters has emerged right on the eve of an MSNBC hit piece hosted by Chris Matthews which smears anyone who questions the actions of international bankers or the federal government as a dangerous racist who wants to kill people. As we reported yesterday, an advance script of next week's "Rise of the Right" MSNBC special, which was leaked to us by a concerned MSNBC staffer, portrays Americans who suspect international bankers might not have their best interests at heart as neo-nazi Hitler supporters who want to shoot cops and instigate a bloody revolution. |
| Chairman of Goldman Sachs International Was – Until Last Year – Also Chairman of BP Posted: 09 Jun 2010 11:48 PM PDT Janine Wedel has written extensively on how the "shadow elite" rule the world and about the "flexians" – the movers and shakers of the shadow elite who glide across borders, and structure overlapping (and not fully revealed) roles in government, business, media, and think tanks to serve their own agendas. Wedel says that flexians wear many hats both within and outside of government, and use their networks of contacts to influence policy – are warping our democracy and the rule of law.
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| Why Are We Worrying about North Korea? Posted: 09 Jun 2010 11:27 PM PDT We see through a glass darkly, said the Apostle Paul, and that is certainly the case when it comes to North Korea. Power appeared shift as the Supreme People's Assembly met in Pyongyang. The premier was replaced. Three other ministers were dumped. Six vice premiers were added. And Kim's brother-in-law, Chang Song-taek, was elevated to the vice chairmanship of the National Defense Commission, the true fount of power in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 11:23 PM PDT On April 12, 2010, President Barack Obama hosted a forty-seven nation Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. He met with dozens of heads of state making his case for a fourth set of crippling sanctions on Iran because of its intransigence on the nuclear issue. His main argument was the refusal of Iran to accept the proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of transferring the bulk of Iran's low enriched uranium outside the country in exchange for medical nuclear isotopes. |
| Oliver Stone, Jesse Ventura Spar With Republican Congressman On Larry King Posted: 09 Jun 2010 11:21 PM PDT Oliver Stone, Jesse Ventura Spar With Republican Congressman On Larry King |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 11:00 PM PDT Why cant people see that the American president and Congress are working for Israel, for the Jews of the world? And the Jews have announced plainly and clearly, that they have the right to kill or take anyone or anything they want, and no one can stop them. |
| No golden time, but a time for gold Posted: 09 Jun 2010 11:00 PM PDT
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| Iran sanctions as good as 'used tissue' Posted: 09 Jun 2010 09:53 PM PDT The United Nations resolution for a fourth round of sanctions, voted in by the Security Council on Wednesday, calls for the inspection of vessels suspected of carrying materials, setting the stage for military incidents at sea between Iran and the US Navy. With Brazil and Turkey, the architects of a nuclear-swap deal with Iran, voting against it, the resolution also removes any pretence of unified global support for coercive diplomacy on Iran. |
| Laying Bare the Racial Supremacist State of Israel! Posted: 09 Jun 2010 09:53 PM PDT This video must rank as the most powerful video that Dr. David Duke has made. It is incredibly powerful because it shows the true reality of Israel and International Zionism as a Racial Supremacist State and ideology, and perhaps even more importantly it exposes the media- and political hypocrisy in covering it up! |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 09:32 PM PDT Yesterday afternoon I gave the final class of a course on the psychological background of liberal democracy. I felt gloomy and despondent. Before that I had tried to write a blog post that would end with some kind of positive policy suggestion for Israel. But when my wife read the piece she looked at me and I could see the verdict in her eyes. The piece was devoid of energy; the optimism was fake. Yesterday afternoon I gave the final class of a course on the psychological background of liberal democracy. I felt gloomy and despondent. Before that I had tried to write a blog post that would end with some kind of positive policy suggestion for Israel. But when my wife read the piece she looked at me and I could see the verdict in her eyes. The piece was devoid of energy; the optimism was fake. |
| Antidepressants dramatically raise risk of cataracts Posted: 09 Jun 2010 07:00 PM PDT
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| Vitamin D deficiency unquestionably linked to bone fractures Posted: 09 Jun 2010 07:00 PM PDT Among people with hip fractures referred to the Scottish fracture liaison service, 98 percent test positive for serious deficiencies in vitamin D. Supplementation with the vitamin, on the other hand, significantly reduces the risk of repeat fractures.
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| Israeli Piracy, Puppets Resign, Estulin in Brussels Posted: 09 Jun 2010 06:50 PM PDT
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| Facebook Hates You, OKC Bombshell, Synthia Posted: 09 Jun 2010 12:14 PM PDT
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| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 11:26 AM PDT The Gaza-bound aid flotilla has achieved its goal, albeit at the bloody price of nine dead and dozens wounded. A week after the Israel Navy intercepted the ships, the hermetic blockade of Gaza has been ripped wide open, while Israel has been the target of massive international criticism and demands for an investigation. The blockade dissolved with Egypt's announcement on Tuesday that the Rafah border crossing will remain permanently open. Though Palestinians still cannot traverse it freely, the sweeping exit ban that Israel and Egypt had imposed for the last few years on Gaza's 1.5 million residents has ended. |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 10:18 AM PDT Oliver Stone has never been one to shy away from a controversy. Over the past two decades, the director's filmic output has included a conspiracy-laden take on John F. Kennedy's assassination, provocative (and factually unconstrained) portraits of the two most polarizing U.S. presidents in recent memory, and not one but two flattering documentaries about Fidel Castro. So it is not terribly surprising that South of the Border, his new documentary coming to U.S. theaters later this month, offers a similarly admiring take on Castro's protégé, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The film's website even mounts a pre-emptive attack on Chávez's detractors, offering a detailed rebuttal to "Media Misperceptions" about the Venezuelan leader. |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:57 AM PDT On the evening of April 28, 2003, a crowd of approximately 200 Iraqi civilians gathered outside U.S. Army headquarters in Fallujah to protest the occupation of their city. As tension grew, U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne stationed on the building's roof began firing upon the crowd, killing at least 13 Iraqis and wounding more than 70. U.S. troops insisted that they fired only to defend themselves from gunfire coming from the crowd. The protesters claimed that they were unarmed and never fired at the soldiers. The odds are that you have never beaten your breast or searched your soul over this incident in Fallujah. In fact, you have likely never even heard of this incident. And the odds are that you have never heard of the tens if not hundreds of incidents like it, in which civilians have been killed as U.S. soldiers fought in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. |
| More Bile for Helen Thomas, From Women Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:49 AM PDT Breaking: Helen Thomas retires, effective immediately, by Kim Priestap, "a Ronald Reagan conservative", with a strong concern for Israel's well-being: From this day forward, Ms. Thomas will no longer be a part of the White House Press Corps. While I expect nothing less than than a fawning send off from her adoring colleagues in the media, to much of America she will be long remembered, not for her reporting and breaking of the glass ceiling for women in journalism, but for her irrepressible anger and hatred for Israel and the Jews. It's a pathetic way to end a career, but in Helen Thomas's case, a fitting one. |
| Euro Crash, AZ Immigrant Law, Fair Use is Good - New World Next Week Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:30 AM PDT
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| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:25 AM PDT A bit of comic relief that I was able to enjoy at the polls yesterday, as officials tried to figure out what the hell was causing my own (latest) e-voting disaster...
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| After the Flotilla, will Turkey emerge as a force for Palestinian rights? Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:13 AM PDT |
| Iran's Disappeared Nuclear Scientist: Video Points to Unlawful US Abduction Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:12 AM PDT The mysterious disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist took another twist with the broadcast of a video message in which he claims that he was abducted by American and Saudi intelligence agents and taken to the US where is being held against his will. |
| The US-NATO "Arc of War" Stretches From Afghanistan to the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrived in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on June 6, meeting with President Ilham Aliyev on that day and on the following with Defense Minister Colonel General Safar Abiyev. |
| Israel Strikes on High Seas Again; World Outraged Posted: 09 Jun 2010 07:44 AM PDT On June 8, 1967, members of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) slaughtered 35 U .S. sailors, while wounding 170 others during their attack on the USS Liberty. Fast-forward to today, and the IDF continues to deliberately massacre innocent people (in this case civilians) in international waters. |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 07:44 AM PDT Wednesday's deadly attack on a Nato supply convoy near Islamabad was the first such attack near the Pakistani capital. But convoys are a regular target elsewhere in Pakistan, the main supply hub for the US-led war in Afghanistan. Thousands of trucks driven by contractors transport goods from the port city of Karachi to Afghanistan, by way of two main supply arteries through Pakistan. One route cuts through the Khyber Pass, west of Peshawar; the other crosses the border further south, at Chaman, near the city of Quetta. |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 06:59 AM PDT Every country has its diplomatic style: Protocol matters to the British; elusiveness matters to Russia; and fortitude matters to France and Brazil. For China and its military, it's all about ambiguity. Beijing has become the master of winning arguments without actually having them. Witness the defense ministers' meeting at this week's annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates used his remarks to openly criticize Beijing for resisting U.S. efforts to improve the military-to-military relationship. Speaking immediately after Gates and in response to a question from the floor, Gen. Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), accused Washington of "creating obstacles" to such cooperation by continuing to support Taiwan and interfering in China's sovereign affairs. |
| Rift between Israel and the United States: Flotilla incident didn't help Posted: 09 Jun 2010 06:38 AM PDT It is difficult to recall a time when relations between a sitting US president and the Jewish state of Israel have been uglier. The embarrassing and deadly raid by not-so-crack Israeli commandos on Gaza-bound relief ships May 31 only further demonstrates how badly the American president is constrained because of his earlier jagged ties with the government of Israel and with angry, right-wing American Jews. |
| UN sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program: Why did China go along? Posted: 09 Jun 2010 06:26 AM PDT A Chinese puzzle lies behind Wednesday's vote in the UN Security Council that imposes new sanctions on Iran: Why would Beijing help punish Iran for only appearing to make an atomic bomb but not also punish North Korea for having already exploded one? |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 05:35 AM PDT After BP successfully placed a cap to divert some of the spewing oil into tankers, tens of thousands of gallons continue to flow daily into the gulf. August is slated as the earliest date that any permanent solution may emerge. BP remains totally in charge of potentially the largest environmental disaster in the earth's recorded history, a fact that proves — in "check mate" fashion — that corporations dominate the inner workings of the U.S. government, a truth previously revealed by the bank bailouts. More than one gigantic eco-system may be destroyed by BP, and the President of the U.S. is sadly reduced to lecturing in "serious tones," with daily adjustments of tone based on the results of polling agencies. |
| MSNBC Hit Piece Smears Tea Party As Neo-Nazis Posted: 09 Jun 2010 05:14 AM PDT An MSNBC hit piece set to air next week attempts to smear Tea Party activists and average Americans concerned about how the financial crisis is being exploited as neo-nazi Hitler supporters who want to go on killing sprees, highlighting once again the corporate media's desperation to eviscerate the popularity of anti-establishment political candidates in the run up to the November elections. |
| Neocon Frum Shills For Bilderberg Posted: 09 Jun 2010 05:13 AM PDT |
| BP Oil Spill, Korean Standoff, Cybercom - New World Next Week Posted: 09 Jun 2010 05:02 AM PDT
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| Bank Protests, Voting Upsets, Elite Meetings Posted: 09 Jun 2010 04:01 AM PDT
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| Wednesday: 10 Iraqis Killed, 32 Wounded Posted: 09 Jun 2010 03:45 AM PDT At least 10 Iraqis were killed and 32 more were wounded in a string of attacks across the country. Meanwhile, a study from the Walter Reed Institute has revealed that mental health problems are common in soldiers returning to Iraq. Iran intensified cross-border bombing into Suleimaniyah, but no civilian casualties were reported. Many locals have already fled the area, and Kurdish authorities are demanding Baghdad move against Iranian troops reportedly setting up camp within Iraq. Iran has denied sending troops across the border to attack Party For A Free Kurdistan (PJAK) rebels. |
| Wednesday: 1 US Soldier, 16 Iraqis Killed; 36 Iraqis Wounded Posted: 09 Jun 2010 03:45 AM PDT Updated at 7:54 p.m. EDT, June 9, 2010 At least 16 Iraqis were killed and 36 more were wounded in a string of attacks across the country. Also, the D.O.D. reported that an American soldier was killed in a vehicle rollower near Kuwait City. Meanwhile, a study from the Walter Reed Institute has revealed that mental health problems are common in soldiers returning to Iraq, with as many as 10 percent displaying the effects of war. |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 03:04 AM PDT
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| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 03:00 AM PDT What's embarrassing for the empire is that its ally may learn from reliable sources that the ship was sunk by the United States. There is no way to avoid that fact which will follow them like a shadow. Elsewhere in the world, the circumstances similarly apply to much more dangerous events than those of East Asia; they can't be helped, and there is nothing the super-powerful empire can do to stop them. |
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