Oh No, It Just Can’t Be – Gulf Disaster

Rebel Newsflash: Oh No, It Just Can't Be – Gulf Disaster (plus 27 more items)

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• Oh No, It Just Can't Be – Gulf Disaster
• Britain more interested in saving Israelis from garden shed rockets than British citizens from Israeli pirates
• A Broomstick Can Shoot
• Testing the international community
• Faltering Clegg Won't Walk the Walk
• Russian Spy Case: Espionage or Politics?
• Do you feel independent on Independence Day?
• Time For Some Serious American SMACKDOWN!
• Veterans Today Opposes Elena Kagan
• The War Over Germany's Imams
• Clinton, Obama Defend Byrd's Ku Klux Klan Membership
• Germans embrace multicultural team
• Julius Evola: "Our Marcuse, only better"
• Hiding In Plain Sight
• Scientists Admit Chemtrails Are Creating Artificial Clouds
• Friday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 3 Wounded; Turkish Air Strikes
• A cycle of stupidity
• Tyranny of the Merchant Class
• Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe (Part One): The UK
• Smearing a film about Chávez's Venezuela
• Charles Krauthammer's propaganda
• Popular Music Is The Babylon System
• The Mermaid's Lament
• Turkey is the Key
• What's Wrong with American Christians?
• Now the Hard Part
• What Effect Will Resignation of Iran Hard-Liner Have on IAEA?
• Toronto Police Chief Lies Again To Frame Protesters

Oh No, It Just Can't Be – Gulf Disaster Posted: 03 Jul 2010 08:58 AM PDT I received this note: "Thanks for the Gulf update! But you forgot one important recommendation – MOVE OUT OF THERE IMMEDIATELY! Pack up your wife and kids and get the heck out of there NOW!!! Many already in those Gulf States are being slowly poisoned, but now with the new storm or anyone storm yet to come they will get well oiled and gassed with many, many VOCs from the heavy rain and wind. People need to get out of there! Curious don't you think that with all they know, all the articles and news about people getting ill, crops and landscapes dying inland from the toxic rain falling there in the last few weeks, that there has been NO mass exodus of people leaving those affected areas?"

Britain more interested in saving Israelis from garden shed rockets than British citizens from Israeli pirates Posted: 03 Jul 2010 04:36 AM PDT A month ago, while reports were coming in that Israeli gunboats had "intercepted" the Free Gaza flotilla 90 miles out to sea and told the humanitarian workers they would be boarded and towed to an Israeli port, I emailed Clegg: "Where is the Royal Navy when it's needed to protect life and limb of the 30-odd British nationals?" Ministers received advanced warning of Israel's threats to stop the flotilla "by any means". What was needed was firm intervention. Just for a change the British people wanted their government to do them proud on the international stage and protect those brave souls on their peaceful mission to bring relief to Palestinians whose lives have been made a living hell by the bully-boys of the Middle East.

A Broomstick Can Shoot Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:46 AM PDT A victory is a victory. A big victory is better than a small one, but a small victory is better than a defeat. This week we won.

Testing the international community Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:40 AM PDT Israel's raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla is not simply inter-state affair concerning Israel and Turkey. It is, rather, an issue between Israel and the international community. When Israel attacked the flotilla, with citizens of 32 countries aboard, it struck brutally at the international community. Its actions were in clear violation of international law and the international community must now demand that Israel be held to account.

Faltering Clegg Won't Walk the Walk Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:30 AM PDT A month ago, while reports were coming in that Israeli gunboats had 'intercepted' the Free Gaza flotilla 90 miles out to sea and told the humanitarian workers they would be boarded and towed to an Israeli port, I emailed Clegg: 'Where is the Royal Navy when it's needed to protect life and limb of the 30-odd British nationals?'

Russian Spy Case: Espionage or Politics? Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:00 PM PDT In their June 28 article headlined, "In Ordinary Lives, US Sees the Work of Russian Agents," Scott Shane and Charlie Savage said they "lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to their neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers."

Do you feel independent on Independence Day? Posted: 02 Jul 2010 09:55 PM PDT Before "Old Glory" gets raised, the burgers and dogs go on the grill; before the potato salad and coleslaw and other goodies get heaped on your plate, let me lay this pickle next to them . . . First, do you feel independent if you're one of the 10 to 20 percent of America's unemployed facing your benefits being cut?

Time For Some Serious American SMACKDOWN! Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:00 AM PDT For real Americans on the eve of America's 234th birthday, I wanted to state for the record exactly why I write the things I do here. Believe me, I would not go to all this bother if I didn't feel it was crucially important to each of us, our children, grandchildren and America's future. If you feel concerned with current events and where America is headed, please take a few minutes to read this.

Veterans Today Opposes Elena Kagan Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:32 AM PDT Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is untrustworthy, weak on defense and supports the Bill of Rights only with conditions. With our military imbedded in foreign conflicts on false premises, her wartime appointment must be rejected. This former University of Chicago law professor poses a danger to the right of free speech and the right to bear arms—the first two tenets of our Bill or Rights. Only 50 years old, Ms. Kagan could leave in her judicial wake a badly battered Constitution and a nation unable to defend itself, particularly when forced to confront an enemy within.

The War Over Germany's Imams Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:17 AM PDT For decades, no one in Germany took much notice of the imported Islamic holy men in their midst. Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs sent imams inconspicuously, on four-year postings, to minister to the spiritual needs of West Germany's Turkish migrant workers and their families -- while keeping them in line with Turkish cultural norms.

Clinton, Obama Defend Byrd's Ku Klux Klan Membership Posted: 02 Jul 2010 09:52 AM PDT Byrd signed up with the KKK in 1942, becoming head of the local chapter before claiming to lose interest in the organisation a year later. However, in 1946 Byrd stated that the KKK was "needed today as never before." President Obama described Byrd as a "statesman", adding that his ties to the Klan could be forgiven following his long career as a Senator.

Germans embrace multicultural team Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:47 AM PDT On the small football pitch marked out in a quiet suburb of Berlin, the latest match is under way. As the boys play and pass, there's running commentary from them, imagining for a moment they are the heroes they've been following in the World Cup.

Julius Evola: "Our Marcuse, only better" Posted: 02 Jul 2010 07:00 AM PDT Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born in Rome to a noble Sicilian family. His father, Vincenzo Evola, was born in Cinisi. He fought in World War I as an artillery officer on the Asiago plateau. After the war, attracted to the avant-garde, Evola briefly associated with Filippo Marinetti's Futurist movement, but became a prominent representative of Dadaism in Italy through his painting, poetry, and collaboration on the shortly published journal, Revue Bleu. In 1922, after concluding that avant-garde art was becoming commercialized and stiffened into academic convention, he reduced his focus on artistic expression such as painting and poetry.

Hiding In Plain Sight Posted: 02 Jul 2010 06:40 AM PDT Pakistan's Punjab province is not usually cited among the areas in danger of imminent takeover by terrorists, but that will likely soon change. On July 1, suicide bombers had no problem launching a triple attack on a famous Sufi shrine in Lahore, its bustling capital city. At least 35 were killed and over 175 injured in the assault. In fact, it was only the latest in a string of terrorist attacks that have rocked Pakistan's densely populated heartland over the past year. Last month, Taliban gunmen torched 50 U.S. and NATO supply trucks headed for Afghanistan just outside Islamabad in northern Punjab. And the problems are likely to get worse in Punjab before they get better.

Scientists Admit Chemtrails Are Creating Artificial Clouds Posted: 02 Jul 2010 06:21 AM PDT Scientists now admit that emissions from aircraft are forming artificial clouds that block out the sun, precisely what geoengineering advocates like top eugenicist and White House science advisor John P. Holdren have called for, but the article tries to insinuate that the effect is caused by natural "vapours," when in reality it can be attributed to chemtrails that contain substances harmful to humans.

Friday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 3 Wounded; Turkish Air Strikes Posted: 02 Jul 2010 05:05 AM PDT Four Iraqis were killed and three more were wounded in light violence, but battles between Turkish troops and PKK rebels based in northern Iraq heated up. Turkish warplanes continued airstrikes against suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hideouts in the Qandil Mountains, while clashes again took place in Turkey. Peshmerga forces reported damage to buildings in Arbil province as well as the destruction of a bridge. After coming under gunfire in a Turkish village, Turkish troops left civilian casualties.

A cycle of stupidity Posted: 02 Jul 2010 05:03 AM PDT RNC Chairman Michael Steele today lashed out at President Obama by saying:  "if he's such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that's the one thing you don't do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan?"  Of course it's absurd for Steele to voice that criticism without mentioning that it is his own Party which started that war and waged it for 8 years -- as well as the fact that virtually every Congressional member of his Party continues to support the war -- but Steele was right in the substance of what he said.  In response, look at this truly repellent and classically Rovian statement issued by the DNC condemning Steele:

Tyranny of the Merchant Class Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:36 AM PDT There is a reason why, so many centuries ago, every major religion warned its adherents not to give too much power to the "merchant class." That reason is still here – the commercial drive knows few self-imposed boundaries, especially when it resides in large corporations. A cruel manifestation of this singular drive for maximizing profit is how companies treat those who are most powerless, most vulnerable or most preoccupied.

Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe (Part One): The UK Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:59 AM PDT Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when the United States — the post-World War II driver of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Conventions, prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment — went off the rails and introduced a horrendous global program of rendition, torture, arbitrary detention and prisons beyond the law, other countries who were drawn into the "War on Terror" have striven to keep their own involvement quiet, and for good reason. Although the Bush administration was drunk on unfettered executive power, and was largely encouraged and supported by members of Congress, elsewhere these supposedly "robust" responses to terrorism were conducted with far more subterfuge, as the governments in question recognized that they were crimes, and, at worst, crimes against humanity.

Smearing a film about Chávez's Venezuela Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:06 AM PDT It is truly amazing how a long-time Latin America correspondent who accuses Oliver Stone's recently released documentary South of the Border of "mistakes, misstatements and missing details," manages to get practically every single statement of his own wrong, misstated or lacking in detail. This is all the more amazing, considering that the filmmakers and I spoke to Larry Rohter at length last week and provided him with the plenty of information to back up the film's points, which he chose to ignore.

Charles Krauthammer's propaganda Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:03 AM PDT It's anything but news that Charles Krauthammer is a rank propagandist, but his column today is particularly egregious, though quite illustrative of how these issues are discussed.  He lambastes the Obama administration for what he calls its "absurd and embarrassing refusal . . . to acknowledge who out there is trying to kill Americans and why."  Krauthammer -- needless to say and for reasons too obvious to require explanation -- wants to claim that the True Cause of Terrorism is "radical Islam" by itself, and thus accuses the administration of dishonesty because it "has banned from its official vocabulary the terms jihadist, Islamist and Islamic terrorism."  His primary evidence is this recent statement of Faisal Shazhad, when he pleaded guilty to attempting the Times Square bombing:  "I consider myself a mujahid, a Muslim soldier."  See, Krauthammer argues, even Shazhad admits it was Islam that caused his Terrorism, so why can't Obama admit it, too?

Popular Music Is The Babylon System Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:56 AM PDT It has never been more apparent to those who have awakened from the slumber imposed upon them by popular culture that the establishment music industry now pumps out the most dumbed-down, monotonous, garbage which actually serves to induce depression and despair in those who are enlightened and aware, while providing hypnotizing bread and circuses for those still transfixed by the babylon system.

The Mermaid's Lament Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:22 AM PDT 1. As I again prepare to leave town for another trip, this one an escape from هموم الدنيا as we say in Arabic, I regret not being able to blog as I was before – there is so much I'd love to rant about.  I hope you all enjoy the war with Iran, it might even start before I get back to blogging regularly. 2. Before I finish packing, I leave something for all you Arabists out there. It is the entire content of of a recent post on the Mermaid's Sea blog – we are mutual fans though we have never met and most likely never will.  I take it as a lamentation for Khalid Said, now known as شهيد الطوارئ .  If any of you Arabists out there would like to post a poetic English translation in the comments section so those مستضعفين في الارض who do not know Arabic can appreciate it, please do. It would be nice to see more than one rendering so folks can compare.

Turkey is the Key Posted: 01 Jul 2010 08:31 PM PDT Bombs go off in Turkey — a great spree of terrorist bombings and attacks. Practically every day Turkish soldiers and civilians are being killed. The killings are done ostensibly by the Kurd terrorists of the PKK, but in reality it is a new step in Israel's warfare against Turkish independence. Encouraged by Israel, the PKK has extended its operations to the Aegean and the Black Sea resorts all the way to Izmir.

What's Wrong with American Christians? Posted: 01 Jul 2010 07:31 PM PDT Why it is that "Everyone but Christians understands that Jesus was nonviolent."-Gandhi It takes a deep faith in Jesus to speak the truth about Jesus, and only one with the deepest of faith will dare to speak the truth that Jesus spoke.

Now the Hard Part Posted: 01 Jul 2010 07:00 PM PDT It was the speediest nomination, Senate confirmation hearing and vote to affirm a presidential appointment since Barack Obama moved into the White House. Shortly after noon on June 30 — just seven days after Gen. David Petraeus was named to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal — the U.S. Senate voted 99-0 to appoint Petraeus as the next commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. He faces extraordinary challenges. Unfortunately, the O-Team isn't likely to make a tough job any easier. Petraeus takes command in the midst of an increasingly difficult and bloody campaign. U.S. and NATO casualties topped 100 in June, the most in one month since the war began in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 on U.S. soil. The 46-nation "grand coalition" he now heads under a United Nations mandate is rife with dozens of conflicting "national caveats" that limit how troops from various countries can be deployed and employed. Placating our "allies" in this fight is a full-time task in itself.

What Effect Will Resignation of Iran Hard-Liner Have on IAEA? Posted: 01 Jul 2010 07:48 AM PDT The International Atomic Energy Agency "said on Thursday its top inspector Olli Heinonen, head of investigations into Iran and Syria, has resigned for personal reasons after nearly 30 years at the Vienna-based organization," reports Reuters. Heinonen, 63, is head of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) safeguards department which verifies that countries' nuclear programs are not being diverted for military use. [He] is probably best known for giving a presentation to diplomats on Iran in 2008 which indicated links between projects to process uranium, test explosives and modify a missile cone . . . for a nuclear warhead.

Toronto Police Chief Lies Again To Frame Protesters Posted: 01 Jul 2010 12:37 AM PDT Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has been caught lying again in an effort to justify the brutal police response metered out against G20 protesters and journalists this past weekend, after it emerged that weapons he presented to the media as evidence of criminals planning to wreak havoc on the city were in fact toys seized from a man who was on his way to a fantasy role-playing game and had nothing to do with the G20 summit.

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