Rebel Newsflash: Riz Khan - The 'Youtube Wars' (plus 52 more items) |  |
- Riz Khan - The 'Youtube Wars'
- Why, really, was the USS Liberty attacked by Israel?
- Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives
- Bob Etheridge's Assault & Afghanistan's Mineral Deposits
- Time for world to confront Israel: Gilad Atzmon
- BP Gulf oil spill - aka volcano
- Stuck on Stupid: Obama's Czar Fetish
- IDF to charge soldier with killing two Palestinian women during Gaza war
- Turkey's Policy Toward Iran Is Worth Emulating
- US High Court Derails Rendition Victim's Lawsuit
- Historical Lessons Warn Against Modern US Foreign Policy
- Israeli Attack May Violate International, Maritime Laws
- Afghan Bling!
- Entering the Soviet Era in America
- Transatlantic Jewish coalition set to break the siege of Gaza
- Sometimes a frog is just a frog
- Second Psychiatrist Suicide Rocks Israel
- The oil spill is not the last crisis America will face. "Pray Baby Pray"
- A disgraceful evasion of responsibility
- In a side room at the airport
- Chinese Takeout
- The Jews Are Employing Pan-Turkism as a Weapon Against the Turkish People, the Chinese, the Russians, the Armenians, Etc.
- Are Rare Earth Elements Actually Rare?
- Distorting the Truth About Crime and Race
- Turkish Dilemma
- Minerals, WikiLeaks, and Blackwater for Sale
- The Other Fateful Triangle: Israel, Iran and Turkey
- White Privilege Found
- Fox In The Henhouse, Can We Trust Israeli Security Companies?
- Independent journalists dismantling Israel's hold on media narrative
- The Role of "Mental Imagery": Giving a "Human Face" to Racism, Genocide and War Crimes
- Israel's ';friends' still shamelessly swinging from the chandeliers at Westminster
- From Land Mines to Copper Mines
- The American "Church" and "Republic" Join Netanyahu's Psychologist in Suicide
- The US strategy in Eurasia and the drug production in Afghanistan
- Tuesday: 1 US Soldier, 12 Iraqis Killed; 22 Iraqis Wounded
- 'We must break 'sound barrier' in US media on all issues'
- "Retrepo" and "War": Sebastian Junger as a Propagandist for Aggressive Warfare
- Gasbags
- The Chechen Model
- Roissy Is Restoring Balance To The Force
- Is Blackwater's Erik Prince Moving to the United Arab Emirates?
- Ambinder: Mineral Miracle? Or a Massive Information Operation?
- End the Gaza Siege
- Israel's 'Friends' Still Shamelessly Swinging
- The Real Deal with George Galloway
- Bailing Out Politicians Now?
- Translation: 200 Years Together
- 'Museum of Tolerance' over graves of Jew Liberators
- Appomattox: End or Beginning?
- Cù Chulainn in the GPO: The Mythic Imagination of Patrick Pearse
- The Yom Kippur syndrome
- Secularism Shows Its True Satanic Colors
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| Why, really, was the USS Liberty attacked by Israel? Posted: 16 Jun 2010 12:19 AM PDT  The following is my keynote address to the annual re-union dinner of the Liberty Veterans' Association – Long Island, 12 June 2010. I want to begin by saying that though I covered wars wherever they were taking place on Planet Earth in my television reporting days – it was in Vietnam as a very young correspondent that I first started to ask myself questions about why things are as they are in the world – I am an Englishman and one who didn't serve in his country's armed forces. (Not because I was a draft dodger. Conscription had ended). So it is both an honour and a privilege for me to be with you this evening. And please believe me, I really mean it. I'm not a politician just saying it.  |
| Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:59 PM PDT  Federal authorities are investigating whether officials of the government south of the border participated in a citizen's kidnapping and torture—Canadian authorities, that is, investigating the possible role of U.S. officials in the "extraordinary rendition" of Canadian citizen Maher Arar. "Extraordinary rendition" is White House-speak for arresting someone and secretly sending him to another country, where he is likely to be tortured. Arar revealed that, for the past four years, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been investigating possible roles of U.S. and Syrian officials in his rendition and torture. This announcement follows the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that it will not consider Arar's case, ending his pursuit of justice through U.S. courts.  |
| Bob Etheridge's Assault & Afghanistan's Mineral Deposits Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:36 PM PDT
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| Time for world to confront Israel: Gilad Atzmon Posted: 15 Jun 2010 08:44 PM PDT  According to the famous Israeli-born Jazz musician, Gilad Atzmon, "The ideology that carried out execution-style killings on the Gaza aid flotilla the 'Mavi Marmara' is the same ideology that carried out the massacres at Deir Yassin, Qibya, Sabra and Shatilla, Qana, Gaza, Jenin and the murder of Rachel Corrie — more than that it is the same ideology that killed Christ."  |
| BP Gulf oil spill - aka volcano Posted: 15 Jun 2010 07:11 PM PDT  A lot of people have wondered why the half hearted attempts to either salvage or contain the crude oil in the gulf? Why no effort to use microbe technology to mitigate the damage? Is it because there is very little crude oil to be found in this disaster? Is it because crude oil IS NOT THE PROBLEM? I have been troubled by the fact that there is a lot of white (steam?) yellow (sulphur?) and red (iron ore?) in the plumes coming up from the sea floor. Maybe Mr. Kemner is right. There is very little oil because these malicious fools have pierced the magma level of the earth and created a volcano. That would also account for the high concentration of toxic gases such as hydrogen sulphide. Other evidence to support this conclusion is found in the high pressure at the well head. Typically an artesian well would show about 1000 to 1500 psi. But according to numerous experts and as confirmed by Reverend Lindsey Williams this well head pressure is at least 20,000 psi and may be as high as 70,000 psi. If Mr. Kemner is correct we can expect famine worldwide. This is not just an American/British problem. This is a global catastrophe.....  |
| Stuck on Stupid: Obama's Czar Fetish Posted: 15 Jun 2010 07:00 PM PDT  Here is the Obama Disaster Management Theory: In times of crisis, you can never have enough unelected, un-vetted political appointees hanging around. Nearly two months after the BP oil spill, the White House will now name an oil spill restoration point person to oversee recovery efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. Too many czars have already spoiled this administration's credibility. Might as well pile on another. The new oil spill czar is not to be mistaken for the old oil spill czar, U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who was officially designated the "National Incident Commander of the Unified Command for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico" on April 30. Allen was appointed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano 10 days after the disaster, which Napolitano claimed the administration had been on top of since, um, "Day One."  |
| IDF to charge soldier with killing two Palestinian women during Gaza war Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:26 PM PDT  Soldier suspected breaking rules of engagement by opening fire on 65-year-old woman and her daughter. A Israeli soldier is to face charges over the shooting of two Palestinian women during Operation Cast lead in Gaza a year and a half ago, Army Radio reported on Wednesday.  |
| Turkey's Policy Toward Iran Is Worth Emulating Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT  The sad truth is that if Iran wants a nuclear weapon, it will likely eventually get one. So the United States should quit wasting valuable political capital beseeching, threatening, and horse-trading with China, Russia, and other UN Security Council members to incrementally ratchet up likely futile multilateral economic sanctions against Iran.  |
| US High Court Derails Rendition Victim's Lawsuit Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT  The quest for justice for a Canadian who was mistakenly tagged as a terrorist by U.S. authorities and shipped off to a Syrian prison for close to a year of abuse came to an abrupt halt Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his case. Maher Arar is a Syrian-born Canadian and father who was arrested in 2002 while passing through New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on his way home to Canada. The Canadian government provided U.S. authorities with bad intelligence suggesting Arar had ties to al-Qaeda. Arar was deported to Syria, where he was held in a 3′x6′x7′ cell for 10 and a half months, during which time he claims he was tortured.  |
| Historical Lessons Warn Against Modern US Foreign Policy Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT  This writer has recently published a book which examines the cultural origins of a certain American outlook that, since the Second World War, has inspired generally unsuccessful military interventions into non-Western countries, the most dramatic of them being the defeat in Vietnam followed by the genocide in Cambodia. This American outlook subsequently inspired the 2001-2003 invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of them successfully settled (or indeed "won"), and both of them, these days, looking as if they may crumble again into internecine violence, despite the continued presence of American troops (and in Afghanistan, those of NATO).  |
| Israeli Attack May Violate International, Maritime Laws Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT  When two widely divergent investigative panels launch their probes on the recent Israeli attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, one of the disputed issues under scrutiny would be the legality of forcibly boarding a vessel in international waters. The two commissions of inquiry, one appointed by Israel and the other to be named by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, will seek answers to a number of unresolved questions triggered by the attack which killed nine Turkish nationals and sparked worldwide outrage and condemnation.  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT  Just as John McCain was telling Gen. David Petraeus how worried he is that the US is going to leave Afghanistan before "the job" is done, the General's head dropped onto the desk in front of him: had he passed out from ennui? McCain had the same effect on the American electorate in 2008. Petraeus blamed it on not having had breakfast, but, in any case, the US government seems intent on having Afghanistan for lunch – and what a rich meal that is going to be! According to a piece by James Risen in the New York Times, there's gold in them thar hills! "The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials."  |
| Entering the Soviet Era in America Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT  Mark it on your calendar. It seems we've finally entered the Soviet era in America. You remember the Soviet Union, now almost 20 years in its grave. But who gives it a second thought today? Even in its glory years that "evil empire" was sometimes referred to as "the second superpower." In 1991, after seven decades, it suddenly disintegrated and disappeared, leaving the United States – the "sole superpower," even the "hyperpower," on planet Earth – surprised but triumphant.  |
| Transatlantic Jewish coalition set to break the siege of Gaza Posted: 15 Jun 2010 05:33 PM PDT  Within days after the attack on the Mavi Marmara, European activists announced a Jewish Boat to sail in July from an undisclosed location in the Mediterranean, attempting to break the siege imposed by Israel in 2006. The boat is sponsored by a coalition of international Jewish organizations dedicated to peace with justice in Israel/Palestine, including the ''Jüdische Stimme'' ('Jewish Voice' for a Just Peace in the Near East), along with European Jews for a Just Peace in the Near East (EJJP) and Jews for Justice For Palestinians (UK). American Jews for a Just Peace (AJJP) will serve as the U.S. Coordinator, creating a transatlantic partnership. The small boat's cargo will include school books, medicines and medical equipment.  |
| Sometimes a frog is just a frog Posted: 15 Jun 2010 03:11 PM PDT  For generations we have maintained racial purity in matters of marriage, protecting ourselves from every evil, and they, small thinkers, swallow all this chatter fed to them by those who are not even circumcised, while expecting us to hurt the feelings of Israel's keepers of the faith. Israel is finding it more difficult than ever to explain the righteousness of its actions to the world. No matter how hard it tries, the world refuses to believe our reasons for keeping Gaza under a blockade for so long. We explain that the Gazans are not suffering from a humanitarian crisis, and that if they are, it is their own doing. But those goyim, feeble-minded as they are, refuse to believe us. We prepare (particularly for our guests from across the sea) full companies of soldiers dressed in white, reflecting our desire for peace and our inherent hospitality in the very color of their uniforms. Yet they, through a complete lack of understanding of our noble goals, find reason for condemnation even in that.  |
| Second Psychiatrist Suicide Rocks Israel Posted: 15 Jun 2010 02:21 PM PDT  Just one week after Benjamin Netanyahu's psychiatrist Moshe Yatom killed himself in despair over his failure to develop an effective treatment for the Prime Minister, a second psychiatrist suicide has left Israel reeling.Yigal Peleg, 61, a colleague of Yatom's who had been treating Defense Minister Ehud Barak for Security Addiction Disorder (SAD), was found dead at his home in Tel Aviv Monday evening from an overdose of Valium. A suicide note indicated that Yatom's failure had provoked widespread despair in Israel's psychiatric community, which fears a therapeutic remedy for doublethink is much more remote than previously believed. Security Addiction Disorder, often characterized by blizzards of doublethink, is also now believed to be well nigh incurable.  |
| The oil spill is not the last crisis America will face. "Pray Baby Pray" Posted: 15 Jun 2010 01:53 PM PDT  Giving his obligatory Gulf disaster speech but lacking real specifics on what to do, Mr. Obama transforms into Pastor Barry and tells us to put our faith in the Lord 'cause there's more to come and this leak "has tested the limits of human technology." |
| A disgraceful evasion of responsibility Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:29 PM PDT
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| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:29 PM PDT  It is hard to convince the Jewish public in Israel that what happens at Ben-Gurion International Airport is a systematic injustice, if not worse. The ethnocentric panic undermines the principle of civil equality. Here is a story known to only some of the citizens of Israel. A few weeks ago a 43-year-old lecturer in sociology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who serves as a member of the prestigious academic journal Sociology, packed a suitcase and went to Ben-Gurion International Airport. From there he was supposed to take off for the journal's annual editorial board meeting in London. He stood in line, showed his passport and his ticket and was immediately directed to a separate line.  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:28 AM PDT  Cold economic realities dictate that China is going to be the big player in the new Afghan gold rush -- and Washington had better wake up to that fact, soon. The prospect of cobalt in Kandahar has sparked lively debate about whether new mineral wealth -- if it pans out -- will aid or hinder U.S. policies in Afghanistan, as well as whether the country will fall prey to the so-called resource curse, as political scientist Michael Ross and others fear. But a short-term focus on Afghan-U.S. relations might be a mistake: The real winner from new natural-resource wealth beyond the Khyber Pass will be China. If the United States really cares about stabilizing Afghanistan's central government and eliminating terrorist havens, it needs to start working now to persuade Beijing that these are shared goals.  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:10 AM PDT  In a series of articles, lectures and interviews, I have been warning since 2007 that the Jewish manufactured myth of Pan-Turkism would be used to pit Turks against Armenians, Chinese and the Russians. About one year ago, I revealed the fact that the trouble the Jews stirred up in Red China between Chinese and Uyghur's was a staged crisis meant to pit Chinese against Turks based on the mythology of Pan-Turkism. |
| Are Rare Earth Elements Actually Rare? Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:04 AM PDT  Not if you're willing to dig for them. When Apple's new iPhone debuts later this month, it will be the latest addition to a long list of electronic devices -- ranging from wind turbines to flat-screen TVs -- that rely on rare earth elements, a family of minerals found near the bottom of the periodic table. Rare earth elements are needed to manufacture the consumer electronics for which the world has an exponentially expanding appetite, and are also necessary for green-energy technology like nickel-metal-hydride electric-car batteries. There's just one problem: Almost nobody produces them except the Chinese, and even they may not have enough of them for long. So, are rare earth minerals actually rare?  |
| Distorting the Truth About Crime and Race Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:10 AM PDT  The New York Times's front page story this week on the New York Police Department and its allegedly racist stop-and-frisk practices follows a well-worn template: give specific racial breakdowns for every aspect of police behavior, but refer to racial crime rates only in the most attenuated of terms. Disclosing crime rates—the proper benchmark against which police behavior must be measured—would demolish a cornerstone of the Times's worldview: that the New York Police Department, like police departments across America, oppresses the city's black population with unjustified racial tactics. |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 09:33 AM PDT  Once a reliable Western ally, Turkey is now going its own way in the Middle East. And nobody in Washington or Brussels knows what to do about it. My son wants to study a non-European language that's going to matter in the future. He has been contemplating Arabic or Hindi. But after the last few weeks, I'm thinking -- Turkish. All of a sudden, everyone wants to know about Turkey -- and it turns out almost no one does. There's no real mystery in that: Americans tend to benignly neglect other countries until they become a problem. And until just the other day, Turkey was a fun tourist destination; now it's a problem.  |
| Minerals, WikiLeaks, and Blackwater for Sale Posted: 15 Jun 2010 09:03 AM PDT  In the wake of a rumor that WikiLeaks may soon publish a number of secret State Department cables, some are saying that the Pentagon is on the hunt for the whistleblowing organization's founder Julian Assange. On GRITtv with Laura Flanders, Nation writer and blogger Jeremy Scahill says that while Assange may not exactly be on the run to the extent that is being portrayed, diplomats have reason to be concerned about what Wikileaks may have in its possession. "I think a lot of diplomats around the world are very, very nervous. At a minimum, they're going to want to talk to Julian Assange," Scahill says. "He denies that he has them [the cables], by the way." |
| The Other Fateful Triangle: Israel, Iran and Turkey Posted: 15 Jun 2010 08:51 AM PDT
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| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 08:46 AM PDT  We've finally found all that white privilege we've been hearing about. It's on the other side of the world. NOT LONG AGO I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I'd never heard of. No experience necessary—which was good, because I had none. I'd be paid $1,000 for a week, put up in a fancy hotel, and wined and dined in Dongying, an industrial city in Shandong province I'd also never heard of. The only requirements were a fair complexion and a suit.  |
| Fox In The Henhouse, Can We Trust Israeli Security Companies? Posted: 15 Jun 2010 08:21 AM PDT  This week we learned that Israel had staged scenes from the Freedom Flotilla attack using actors and common Hollywood special effects, called "double negative." The actors were shown standing among peaceful humanitarian workers, waving weapons around. This became a problem when the stage Israel used wasn't quite the same. We ended up with a film showing our Israeli "terrorists" walking through solid steel time and time again. Israel's film industry has been suffering of late. Even the phony bin Laden videos have given over to audio. The new bin Laden they use was doing Marlboro commercials in Egypt before they took him on.  |
| Independent journalists dismantling Israel's hold on media narrative Posted: 15 Jun 2010 08:01 AM PDT
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| The Role of "Mental Imagery": Giving a "Human Face" to Racism, Genocide and War Crimes Posted: 15 Jun 2010 07:47 AM PDT  For the corporate elites to continue practicing genocidal predation for power and profit in developing countries, it is necessary that the predation be cast in a false cover of humanitarian aid, democratic development, solidarity, progress, and the like, and that the most overtly murderous practices be cast as necessary in a fight against evil.  |
| Israel's ';friends' still shamelessly swinging from the chandeliers at Westminster Posted: 15 Jun 2010 07:18 AM PDT  It's been one atrocity after another, so you'd think that Israel's cheer-leaders scattered about the upper echelons of the British Establishment would have the decency to keep quiet and "consider their position". But no. In the wake of the Free Gaza flotilla hi-jacking this letter appeared in The Daily Telegraph…  |
| From Land Mines to Copper Mines Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:28 AM PDT  Will Afghanistan's mineral wealth rescue the country from decades of instability and poverty? It just might -- and here's how. Geologists have discovered vast deposits of iron, copper, gold, and other minerals in Afghanistan, according to a front-page story in Monday's New York Times. Worth an estimated $1 trillion, these resources -- if exploited -- could fundamentally transform the country.  |
| The American "Church" and "Republic" Join Netanyahu's Psychologist in Suicide Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:19 AM 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.  |
| The US strategy in Eurasia and the drug production in Afghanistan Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:16 AM PDT  Considering the main global actors nowadays, namely US, Russia, China and India, their geographic position in the two distinct areas of America and Eurasia, and, above all, their relations in terms of power and world geo-strategy, Afghanistan constitutes, together with Caucasus and the Central Asian Republics, a large area (fig. 1), whose destabilization offers an advantage to US, i.e. to the geopolitical player exterior to the Eurasian context. In particular, the destabilization of this large zone assures the US at least three geopolitical and geo-strategic opportunities: a) its progressive penetration in the Eurasian landmass; b) the containment of Russia; c) the creation of a vulnus in Eurasian landmass.  |
| Tuesday: 1 US Soldier, 12 Iraqis Killed; 22 Iraqis Wounded Posted: 15 Jun 2010 05:29 AM PDT  At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 22 more were wounded. Also, a U.S. soldier died of non-combat wounds. Meanwhile, the Kurdish Autonomous Region's prime minister, Barham Saleh, said that the Kurds would not support the new government without guarantees being made. Clashes broke out near Mosul in Abu Saif after gunmen killed a civil servant. The victim's family then took revenge on nearby wedding attended by people believed to be associated with al-Qaeda forces. Six more people were killed, including two women, and four more were wounded. Several people were arrested.  |
| 'We must break 'sound barrier' in US media on all issues' Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:50 AM PDT
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| "Retrepo" and "War": Sebastian Junger as a Propagandist for Aggressive Warfare Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:28 AM PDT  Has Sebastian Junger been cast as a front-line propagandist in the ongoing psychological operation of poisoning public consciousness so that citizens will support the Obama regime's unconscionable extension and escalation of the 9/11 wars? It certainly seemed to me during my recent trip to California that the telegenic Junger is busily engaged in pumping out a potent mix of strategic disinformation on behalf of the world's most lethal and unbridled war machine. These days one of the main imperatives of this war machine's media manipulations must be to assuage the constituency that voted for Obama so that aroused public opinion in the so-called Homeland will not get in the way of the military superpower's most recent rounds of Eurasian invasion.  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:26 AM PDT  Politicians, oilmen, and green-energy boosters love to invoke the idea of energy security. None of them know what they're talking about. No one envies BP's top brass this week. The company's executives have a full schedule of hearings on Capitol Hill over the next several days, as well as a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, at which they are sure to be asked a great many questions about the still-ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill that BP simply can't answer. Faced with the prospect of penalties and drilling moratoriums on its U.S. operations, the company is reportedly planning to tell Obama that, in the Financial Times' words, "crippling the company would not be in the interests of the U.S. or its future energy security."  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 03:00 AM PDT  Why are Caucasian leaders trying to emulate Chechnya's brutal strongman? Rizvan Kurbanov, Dagestan's first deputy prime minister, is a busy man. He is wrapped up in a campaign to shut down the republic's ubiquitous slot machines. In the mornings, he Skypes with a friend in Los Angeles. He spends hours chain-smoking and greeting journalists in his office. Through it all, he must find time to focus on the hardest job of all -- overseeing the security services tasked with cracking down on the Caucasian republic's growing Islamist insurgency.  |
| Roissy Is Restoring Balance To The Force Posted: 15 Jun 2010 01:55 AM PDT As of 2010, I declare Roissy to be the greatest man of the 21st century. There will be more great men, but Roissy gets the title of Da Man, for the first decade. The concept of Ecological Balance applies to human society, as to the natural world. Modern human civilization is way out of balance. The Right Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus as well as Jay Hanson have it right. If you haven't read Hanson, click that link and watch his flash videos.  |
| Is Blackwater's Erik Prince Moving to the United Arab Emirates? Posted: 15 Jun 2010 01:48 AM PDT  Sources close to Blackwater and its secretive owner Erik Prince claim that the embattled head of the world's most infamous mercenary firm is planning to move to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Middle Eastern nation, a major hub for the US war industry, has no extradition treaty with the United States. In April, five of Prince's top deputies were hit with a 15-count indictment by a federal Grand Jury on conspiracy, weapons and obstruction of justice charges. Among those indicted were Prince's longtime number two man, former Blackwater president Gary Jackson, former vice presidents William Matthews and Ana Bundy, and Prince's former legal counsel Andrew Howell.  |
| Ambinder: Mineral Miracle? Or a Massive Information Operation? Posted: 14 Jun 2010 11:46 PM PDT Marc Ambinder has an interesting take on the $trillion mineral blockbuster. Were it not for the byline of James Risen, a New York Times reporter currently in a legal battle with the Obama administration over the identity of his sources, a second read of his blockbuster A1 story this morning, U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan, would engender some fairly acute skepticism. For one, a simple Google search identifies any number of previous stories with similar details.  |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2010 10:04 PM PDT  Millions worldwide demand it. So does the Arab League, according to an Al Jazeera June 13 report quoting Amr Moussa, Arab League secretary-general, saying: "This blockade....must be lifted and must be broken and the Arab League decision is very clear in this regard."
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| Israel's 'Friends' Still Shamelessly Swinging Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:46 PM PDT  It's been one atrocity after another, so you'd think that Israel's cheer-leaders scattered about the upper echelons of the British Establishment would have the decency to keep quiet and "consider their position". But no. In the wake of the Free Gaza flotilla hi-jacking this letter appeared in The Daily Telegraph...  |
| The Real Deal with George Galloway Posted: 14 Jun 2010 08:24 PM PDT
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| Posted: 14 Jun 2010 07:00 PM PDT  Even lifelong Democratic pol Steny Hoyer, majority leader of the U.S. House, is balking at Barack Obama's latest bailout proposal. "I think there is spending fatigue," said Steny. "It's tough in both houses to get votes."  |
| Translation: 200 Years Together Posted: 14 Jun 2010 03:51 PM PDT Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's 200 Years Together is finally being translated into English. The first chapter is available online. For those unfamiliar with Solzhenitsyn's book, it discusses the Jews and the Soviet Union. Dr. MacDonald has some commentary over at The Occidental Observer worth checking out. 200 Years Together has been a rallying cry in racially aware circles for as long as I can remember. The book is notorious for its failure to find an English publisher. The American Jewish community has invested many hours in preventing 200 Years Together from finding a wider audience. That is a positive indicator that it is worth reading.  |
| 'Museum of Tolerance' over graves of Jew Liberators Posted: 14 Jun 2010 02:24 PM PDT  The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Ageles (named after Austrian Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, whom British author Guy Walters in his book Hunting Evil called a "liar – and bad one at that"), is planning to build another propaganda center for the Jewish sufferings at the hands of Christian and Jew Nazis. The part is that it's to be named 'Museum of Tolerance' without any mention to Palestinian genocide at the hands of the same European Jews, who claim victims of Nazis. Against Muslim protests, the Israeli Supreme Court gave its kosher blessing for the project to go ahead in October 2008. Ironically, Israel Antiquities Authority's chief excavator for the site, Gideon Suliemani, found out that the municipal car parking lot to be used for the new 'Museum of Tolerance' was originally built on a portion of an ancient Muslim cemetery in West Jerusalem, known as "Ma'man Allah", housing thousands of Muslim graves going back to 638 CE, when Arab Muslims liberated Jew Serfs (slaves) from the Christian rulers of Jerusalem.  |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2010 12:30 PM PDT  Hunter Wallace, Mike Capatano, and H. Rock White visit Appomattox where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederacy lost its independence. Hunter draws some comparisons between the bravery of Confederate soldiers and the present generation of White Nationalists.  |
| Cù Chulainn in the GPO: The Mythic Imagination of Patrick Pearse Posted: 14 Jun 2010 10:57 AM PDT  On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, while all Europe was mobilized for the first of its terrible civil wars, Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and several hundred "militia men" from the Irish Citizen Army and the Nationalist Volunteers commandeered the General Post Office on Dublin's O'Connell (then Sackville) Street.  |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:52 AM PDT  The flotilla raid won us the battle but lost us the war - the blockade on Gaza is now finished. The blame game between the political and military establishments is revealing the same characteristics that led us to the Yom Kippur War, and the same subsequent spats over who was responsible and who must be held accountable. Then, as now, the chief failure was that of intelligence. Then, as now, the military was full of itself, sure that we'd "break their bones," in the famous words of then-chief of staff David Elazar on the second day of the Egyptian-Syrian assault.  |
| Secularism Shows Its True Satanic Colors Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:02 AM PDT  Right in time for Father's Day, June 20, the Illuminati-owned Atlantic Monthly asks the heterophobic, hateful question: "Are Fathers Necessary?" Throughout my lifetime, society was underpinned by Christian assumptions and values. The most important assumptions were that every human being is made in the image of God with a Divine soul, and we must love one another. Our duty and destiny is to become more Christ-like in behavior.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have spilled into another frontier - the Internet. Raw footage both from American soldiers as well as fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan are flooding cyberspace leading many to call the conflicts the world's first 'YouTube Wars'. So what impact will this new propaganda battle have on global public opinion and perception of both wars?
Prison Planet editor Paul Joseph Watson sits in for Alex for the first hour of today's show to discuss the Bob Etheridge controversy, the ongoing BP oil spill and the new war propaganda surrounding the "discovery" of mineral deposits in Afghanistan. Corporate Media Follows Government Orders, Runs Defense For Etheridge Assault 
The decision to appoint a committee to examine the international-law aspects of the events surrounding the Gaza-bound flotilla is to be welcomed, but it is not sufficient. The decision avoids the need to examine the causes of the full extent of Israel's political, diplomatic and moral failure in handling the flotilla. The Israel Defense Forces' examination of the action's operational aspects is also inadequate to answer the questions troubling Israelis regarding the decision and why it was taken.
The thunderous events set in motion by Israel's storming of the Mavi Marmara, the lead ship in the peace flotilla challenging the blockade of Gaza, have thrown important light on the overall situation in the Middle East. Turkey has emerged as the major protagonist among the forces that support the Palestinian cause. This is extremely ironic given that the country has been a loyal member of NATO for six decades and "Israel's most important friend in the Muslim world" (New York Times, May 31, 2010) for as long as one can remember, markedly so in the post-Cold War period and even under the present government. The Turkish national flag competed all over the world for the pride of place with the Palestinian flag in demonstrations protesting the barbaric murder by Israeli commandos of at least nine volunteers on board the Marmara, all of them Turkish citizens. From Istanbul to Toronto, Islamic motifs also dominated most such protests.
"The systematic attempt and very deliberate first priority for the Israeli soldiers as they came on the ships was to shut down the story, to confiscate all cameras, to shut down satellites, to smash the CCTV cameras that were on the Mavi Marmara, to make sure that nothing was going out. They were hellbent on controlling the story," commented Australian journalist Paul McGeough, one of the hundreds of activists and reporters who witnessed the deadly morning attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on 31 May ("
RT has spoken to US journalist, and TV and radio host Amy Goodman on how the Obama administration deals with its main challenges, and what the American people think of their leader.
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