The Crucifixion of Mel Gibson

Rebel Newsflash: The Crucifixion of Mel Gibson (plus 32 more items)

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• The Crucifixion of Mel Gibson
• Joshua Frank: The U.S. doesn't have to justify their double standards to anyone
• Missing Gold
• Debunking Joe Farah's Jewish Fables
• Gibson vis-a-vis Polanski
• Netanyahu's seat
• American Idolatry Intensifies as Nation Sinks in to Depression
• The Three Stooges Go To Israel
• West still 'undermining Haiti'
• Spotlight shifts to Brazil 2014
• China outflanks US in Pakistan
• Former Contractor: BP Not Interested In Cleaning Up Oil Spill
• Witch-hunt Begins in Israeli Schools and Colleges
• What's Normal under Occupation?
• Israel's Settlement Enterprise: Longstanding, Outrageous and Illegal
• Nuclear politics shape South Asia
• Finding a Racist in a Haystack
• Chomsky's Inner Conservative
• Dollar Devaluation and Destruction of America Pick Up Steam
• Turkey's democratic revolution
• Srebrenica's lessons for the UN
• Kick it up South Africa
• India's "Hearts of Darkness"
• BDS to Israel: Abide by International Law
• Obama's Collapse
• Two Sit-Ins in Jerusalem
• Creative Resistance Shatters Israel's Image
• A Black-Palestinian Liberation Theology?
• Obama's Summer of Misery and Hardship Tour Hits the Road
• Israel's 'street apartheid'
• Obama and Netanyahu Plan Conflict, not Resolution
• Global Elite Designed Sanctions to Kill and Impoverish the People of Iran
• Fluoridation: Mind Control of the Masses

The Crucifixion of Mel Gibson Posted: 12 Jul 2010 05:27 PM PDT This is Hollywood paying Mel Gibson back for the unforgivable crime of making a movie about Jesus Christ several years ago. And for refusing to condemn his own father when Hollywood scum attacked Hutton Gibson for having his own views about World War 2. And for Mel telling a cop that Jews are behind all the wars of the world, which might've been an exaggeration, but not a huge one. They certainly were behind the Iraq quagmire - over in Israel, the main newspaper bragged in 2003 that the Iraq War was a Jewish creation.

Joshua Frank: The U.S. doesn't have to justify their double standards to anyone Posted: 12 Jul 2010 03:19 PM PDT Interview with the noted progressive writer and journalist Joshua Frank to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East, the prospect of Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the future of Israel with its growing international isolation, the role of United States in the settlement of disputes between Israel and Palestine, the illegal nuclear activities of Israel in violation of the UNSC resolution 487 and the future of controversy over Iran's nuclear program.

Missing Gold Posted: 12 Jul 2010 02:47 PM PDT The basement of 4 World Trade Center housed vaults used to store gold and silver bullion. Published articles about precious metals recovered from the World Trade Center ruins in the aftermath of the attack mention less than $300 million worth of gold. All such reports appear to refer to a removal operation conducted in late October of 2001. On Nov. 1, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced that "more than $230 million" worth of gold and silver bars that had been stored in a bomb-proof vault had been recovered.

Debunking Joe Farah's Jewish Fables Posted: 12 Jul 2010 02:37 PM PDT The Bible warns Christians to ignore "Jewish fables." (Titus 1:14) In 1948 Israel violently drove half of the Arab population from Palestine, stealing land on which they had lived and farmed for thousands of years. To distract the world from this outrage, Israel created an elaborate tapestry of fables deluding generations of evangelicals and much of the world. The most audacious claim of such propaganda is that the Palestinians were not deprived of their land because the Palestinians as a land-owning people never existed! They never inhabited Palestine in significant numbers and only entered in the 20 th century as squatters, benefitting from the hospitality and prosperity of Israel. Zionist mythology also teaches that the number of Jews living in much of Palestine, especially in Jerusalem, always exceeded the Arabs, strengthening Israel's right to remain the dominant occupant.

Gibson vis-a-vis Polanski Posted: 12 Jul 2010 01:09 PM PDT On 9 July 2010, Steven Zeitchik writes Mel Gibson's mainstream Hollywood career is over -- for real, this time: ...as sad as it is that someone with all this experience could walk the world in his own bubble of hate, it's perhaps sadder that it took so many of us this long to realize what should have been clear all along.

Netanyahu's seat Posted: 12 Jul 2010 09:55 AM PDT The defense budget has experienced fantastic growth over the past few years - from NIS 44 billion in 2006 to NIS 55 billion this year. The recommendations of the Brodet Commission that was tasked with examining the defense budget have, in Nissan's view, collapsed and efforts to streamline the defense establishment were barely carried out.

American Idolatry Intensifies as Nation Sinks in to Depression Posted: 12 Jul 2010 07:15 AM PDT The sight of American citizens gathering to protest basketball player LeBron James' decision to join Miami Heat last week, after Ohio Governor Ted Strickland joined celebrities to serenade James in a bizarre appeal video entitled "We are LeBron," was a shocking reminder of how millions of Americans are more concerned about sports teams than the fact that their country is collapsing around them, and how potent a threat such wanton delusion is to the survival of freedom and prosperity in the United States.

The Three Stooges Go To Israel Posted: 12 Jul 2010 06:31 AM PDT Does anyone remember the famous black-and-white skit, performed by the Three Stooges, where a psychotic Moe goes berserk and attacks an innocent bystander who unwittingly utters the trigger words "Niagara Falls!"? Today, we have a new cast of crazies doing the same routine.  However, you can substitute the word "Iran!" in place of the words "Niagara Falls!" and still get the same reaction out of the likes of Joseph Lieberman (I – CT), John McCain (R – AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R – SC), AKA:  The Three Stooges.

West still 'undermining Haiti' Posted: 12 Jul 2010 02:52 AM PDT Six months ago a devastating earthquake killed more than 230,000 Haitians. About 100,000 homes were completely destroyed, alongside 1,000 schools and many other buildings. The scenes of devastation filled TV screens around the world. Half a year later the picture is eerily familiar.

Spotlight shifts to Brazil 2014 Posted: 12 Jul 2010 02:07 AM PDT With the sun setting on the 2010 World Cup, the focus now shifts to Brazil - host of the 2014 World Cup. South America's largest country will host the tournament for the second time - the first was in 1950. It will be the first time two consecutive World Cups are held in countries from the southern hemisphere. Brazil won its bid, in part, thanks to ambitious plans to make it a truly nationwide event, hosting games in 12 different cities spread out all over the country - Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Cuiaba, Salvador, Recife, Natal, Fortaleza, Manaus. South Africa, by comparison, hosted games in nine cities.

China outflanks US in Pakistan Posted: 12 Jul 2010 01:38 AM PDT Asif Ali Zardari, the president of Pakistan, has concluded his fifth visit to China since he came to power in 2008. Amid much mutual backslapping and loud calls from the Pakistani president for more Chinese investment in his country's ravenous energy sector, Zardari and Hu Jintao, his Chinese counterpart, have stayed almost silent on the biggest of their shared concerns.

Former Contractor: BP Not Interested In Cleaning Up Oil Spill Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:30 AM PDT Former high-level BP contractor and Army Special Operations soldier Adam Dillon told a New Orleans television station that British Petroleum is not interested in cleaning up the oil spill because the company is run by "cutthroat individuals" who only care about money.

Witch-hunt Begins in Israeli Schools and Colleges Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:08 AM PDT Hundreds of Israeli college professors have signed a petition accusing the education minister of endangering academic freedoms after he threatened to "punish" any lecturer or institution that supports a boycott of Israel. The backlash against Gideon Saar, a member of the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, comes after a series of moves suggesting he is trying to stamp a more stridently right-wing agenda on the Israeli education system.

What's Normal under Occupation? Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:03 AM PDT 'For 122 days I heard the voices of tortured people, the shouting of tortured people, the crying of tortured people. The first days in that time, I could not sleep. I could not do anything, because I could not stop hearing the voices of tortured people. But after maybe 100 days, I got used to that situation, so I could sleep very well, and I started thinking there is nothing that can bother me. I started laughing a lot with my mate in my horrible cell and my family when they came to visit me.'

Israel's Settlement Enterprise: Longstanding, Outrageous and Illegal Posted: 11 Jul 2010 10:00 PM PDT B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, addressed it in its July 2010 report titled, "By Hook and By Crook: Israel's Settlement Policy in the West Bank", ahead of a July 6 meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Obama, their fifth - a shameless love fest endorsing Israeli crimes, Obama saying Israel has "got to be able to respond to threats or any combination of threats in the region," ones it manufactures to pursue ruthless, lawless policies, nonviolent civilians the victims.

Nuclear politics shape South Asia Posted: 11 Jul 2010 08:06 PM PDT Asif Ali Zardari, the president of Pakistan, has concluded his fifth visit to China since he came to power in 2008. Amid much mutual backslapping and loud calls from the Pakistani president for more Chinese investment in his country's ravenous energy sector, Zardari and Hu Jintao, his Chinese counterpart, have stayed almost silent on the biggest of their shared concerns.

Finding a Racist in a Haystack Posted: 11 Jul 2010 04:01 PM PDT The Freedom Riders did black Americans a great service by calling Kennedy on his bullshit and actually testing how abolished Jim Crow laws were in the South. They got their asses kicked, brandished firearms and fearlessly laughed in the president's face when he begged them to stop. They were barricaded into hospitals by angry racists only to be busted out by cool black dudes in Studebakers. Then they partied all night and did it again. There are few pictures from this time because cameras were included in the beatings but that one shot of Jim Zwerg covered in blood with his tie clip still on makes James Dean look like Johnny Weir. Even if you didn't agree with their politics you have to admire them for proving how ineffective Northern Laws are when imposed on the South. How can you get more badass than that? You can't. Unfortunately, their badassness is exactly why their actions were such a huge disservice to white Americans. Namely, how can we even come close to that level of awesome?

Chomsky's Inner Conservative Posted: 11 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT Noam Chomsky's new book, Hopes and Prospects, leads me to a conclusion that will startle his admirers and critics alike: Chomsky is a conservative. It might surprise him as well. After all, he is a socialist and a libertarian. The fundamental precept of his philosophy, which stems from a view of humans as free and creative beings, is that people should be left alone. While the managers of society may coerce and manipulate people, they can and should resist domination. Most conservatives, at least in the American tradition, believe the state should stay out of the lives of its citizens. Too many self-described conservatives insist that the government they can resist at home should involve itself in the lives of people in other countries. Dictating to others how to live is deeply unconservative. If the American government should stay out of the affairs of those of us who have the right to vote for and against it, how much more should it leave alone those with no say in its direction? The American federal government has, as Chomsky states in this enlightening series of essays, no more right to break into the houses of people in foreign lands than into your house in Kentucky or Alaska. Chomsky's conservatism is more consistent than that of many who claim for themselves, which Chomsky certainly does not, the name conservative. He believes not only in the freedom of Americans, but in freedom from Americans.

Dollar Devaluation and Destruction of America Pick Up Steam Posted: 11 Jul 2010 05:12 AM PDT Back in January Lindsey Williams' insider sources told him the dollar will be devalued within a year. In response, oil and food prices will rise significantly and the elite and banksters will move assets into gold and silver. On Friday Fortune reported that central banks are now abandoning the dollar as the world's reserve currency. Morgan Stanley says the dollar is rapidly losing its status. "We already knew that central banks have preferred gold to dollars," writes Fortune, but it now "seems that those central banks prefer almost anything to dollars."

Turkey's democratic revolution Posted: 11 Jul 2010 03:45 AM PDT Istanbul is the European Capital of Culture for 2010. A cosmopolitan city, it is where east and west meet geographically, archeologically and socially. In the past few weeks, Istiklal Cadessi, the main pedestrian street in the famous Taksim district has witnessed a gay rights demonstration, a jazz festival, an international folkloric dance and costume parade and a demonstration by an Islamic movement supporting Uighur rights in China; a true example of the amalgam that makes up the Turkish social fabric. Something many in Istanbul consider to be under threat.

Srebrenica's lessons for the UN Posted: 11 Jul 2010 02:16 AM PDT German activist Philipp Ruch's monument to Srebrenica is a huge jumble of worn shoes - 16,744 of them in memory of the 8,372 victims of the massacre that took place 15 years ago when Bosnian Serb troops advanced on a Muslim enclave that was supposedly protected by UN peacekeepers. The 'Pillar of Shame' creator says worn shoes have been pouring into Bosnian collection centres since he launched his appeal for footwear six weeks ago.

Kick it up South Africa Posted: 10 Jul 2010 11:16 PM PDT "Stop that car! That one over there!" It is the day before the opening of the World Cup and I am standing at an intersection in Ipelegeng, Soweto in South Africa watching a group of five teenage Sowetan girls race across the street towards a little red Toyota. They are dodging traffic, video camera, microphone, and sound boom in hand, as they scoot past vehicles, hooting and hollering for the car full of seemingly terrified passengers to stop.

India's "Hearts of Darkness" Posted: 10 Jul 2010 10:01 PM PDT "Transnational corporations (TNCs) now roam the world to find the cheapest and most vulnerable workers." They're mostly young women in poor countries like China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Haiti, and many others working up to 14 or more hours a day for sub-poverty wages under horrific conditions. Because TNCs are unaccountable, a dehumanized global workforce is ruthlessly exploited, denied their civil liberties, a living wage, and the right to work in dignity in healthy safe environments. NLC conducts "popular campaigns based on (its) original research to promote worker rights and pressure companies to end human and labor abuses. (It) views worker rights in the global economy as indivisible and inalienable human rights and (believes) now is the time to secure them for all on the planet."

BDS to Israel: Abide by International Law Posted: 10 Jul 2010 09:54 PM PDT There is a considerable amount of misunderstanding about the BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions). As John Berger explained a while back, BDS is not a principle but a strategy; it is not against Israel but against Israeli policy; when the policy changes BDS will end.

Obama's Collapse Posted: 10 Jul 2010 09:04 PM PDT The spectacle of an American sucking up to an Israeli Prime Minister is familiar but no less sickening every time it happens. Not since Eisenhower has an American president had the guts to stand up to Israel. With this single exception, all of them have fallen over in their haste to give Israel whatever it wants and to hold it responsible for nothing, not even the murder of its own citizens. The recent meeting between Barack Obama, effectively apologising because his middle name is Hussein, and Benyamin Netanyahu surely marks the lowest point in this sick relationship. Obama has now thrown in the towel. That is what the White House meeting represented. He talked of a peace process which does not exist and Israeli 'concessions' which have never been made. Obama wants the non-existent peace process to be resumed with a Palestinian government that is not the Palestinian government and a Palestinian president who is not the president.

Two Sit-Ins in Jerusalem Posted: 10 Jul 2010 09:01 PM PDT At this moment, two sit-ins are taking place in Jerusalem, two kilometers apart. In West Jerusalem, the Shalit family is sitting in a protest tent in front of the Prime Minister's residence, swearing to remain there until the return of their son. In East Jerusalem, three members of the Palestinian parliament are holed up in the building of the International Red Cross.

Creative Resistance Shatters Israel's Image Posted: 10 Jul 2010 08:54 PM PDT The Gaza aid flotilla has come to symbolize a breathtaking type of creative resistance. Ingenious, challenging and as Israel has learnt much to its folly, devastating! Clearly the Mavi Marmara has changed the Zionist worldview of a tiny Jewish state besieged by hostile terrorists forever. No longer is Israel able to lean on deceptive arguments of the past to justify its policies of repression and vengeful occupation.

A Black-Palestinian Liberation Theology? Posted: 10 Jul 2010 08:51 PM PDT When President Barack Hussein Obama reiterated that the Israeli blockade of Gaza was unsustainable, and when he announced an economic aid package worth millions of dollars for the beleaguered Palestinians, I asked myself: "Why Not a Black-Palestinian Liberation Theology?" (President Obama also addressed concern over the use of Israeli weapons against Palestinians, and the need of an "international mechanism" consisting of Egypt, Turkey, Israel, and of course, the Palestinian Authority.

Obama's Summer of Misery and Hardship Tour Hits the Road Posted: 10 Jul 2010 06:13 AM PDT Let's put Lindsay Lohan's fear of jail aside for a moment and turn to Obama's Summer Recovery Tour 2010. Obama's apparatchiks "will fan out across the country over the next few days to spread the message to voters about how effective their $787 billion recovery plan has been," The Hill reported earlier this week. "Obama and the White House take comfort the economy is moving in the right direction. They point out that the economy has added jobs in six of the last seven months and stress that when Obama took office the economy was losing 750,000 jobs a month." Has it really? Less than a month ago Joe Bite Me said jobs have gone away and they are never coming back. Biden said "there's no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession" and folks should get used to it. "We inherited a godawful mess," he said and glibly added that there was "no way to regenerate $3 trillion that was lost. Not misplaced, lost."

Israel's 'street apartheid' Posted: 10 Jul 2010 02:31 AM PDT Mahmoud Alami, a Jerusalem taxi driver, knows the city like the back of his hand. He knows the neighbourhoods, the streets. And he knows the stop lights. There is one in particular that troubles him not professionally but personally. It stands between Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighbourhood, and Pisgaat Zeev, a Jewish settlement.

Obama and Netanyahu Plan Conflict, not Resolution Posted: 09 Jul 2010 10:04 PM PDT On July 6, Bibi and Obama met privately for 79 minutes, Atlanta Journal Constitution writer Jay Bookman calling it "empty theatre, actors going through the motions of pretending to pretend, (when, in fact, there's) no willingness or political ability within Israel to withdraw from settlements (or) create a viable Palestinian state, (nor is there) stomach in Washington" to endorse an equitable agreement. "I can't recall a time when I have been more cynical about peace prospects there, and the prettily staged theatrics in Washington" only harden that view.

Global Elite Designed Sanctions to Kill and Impoverish the People of Iran Posted: 09 Jul 2010 09:37 AM PDT Omid Memarian, writing for IPS, warns that sanctions recently imposed on Iran by the United Nations and the United States will adversely impact that country's middle class. "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," Memarian writes.

Fluoridation: Mind Control of the Masses Posted: 09 Jul 2010 05:45 AM PDT Despite damning evidence on fluoride toxicity, bureaucracies and multinationals continue to pollute our drinking water and mess with our physical and mental health Extracted with permission from his 1987

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