Where is the money

Rebel Newsflash: Where is the money? (plus 99 more items)

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• Where is the money?
• Israelis rally around officer convicted of killing unarmed Palestinian motorist
• New York Times Crawled to Obama for Instructions on Wikileaks Docs
• There Goes The Tea Party
• Egypt remains complicit in Gaza siege
• Time for the Palestinians to call Israel's bluff?
• Israel's Secret Police Exposed
• Somalia dominates AU summit
• Gaza children shelled with flechette bombs
• US needs lesson in 'secret-keeping'
• Israel wages war against media and activists
• Press freedoms fall victim to Fatah, Hamas disunity
• Farewell, A Vaguely Accurate Portrayal of the Cold War
• Trusted Most: Men With Guns
• Wikileaks Docs Target Pakistan
• Victories as N. American boycott movement gains momentum
• Revitalize Industrial Production for the Benefit of Western Man
• Monday: 46 Iraqis Killed, 88 Wounded
• No words to console Gaza child after mother is killed by Israeli shelling
• Has anti-Semitism made Jews boycott the war on terror?
• Inconsistencies Found in Rwandan Murder Investigation
• Why the world needs WikiLeaks
• Book review: Gideon Levy and the Western media elite
• Washington's gift to Pakistan
• Bradley Manning's Gift
• Life in the USSA
• Israel Braces Itself for a UN Fact Finding Mission
• Facing Journalistic Fraud
• Arab Oil, a Blessing and a Curse
• Why Kate Middleton is Prince William's Only Option
• Failure to Excommunicate
• Liberals Ignore the Facts
• Wikileaks Releases 'The Afghan War Diary'
• Israel Admits: "Our Troops Are Psychopaths!"
• Madoff and Friends
• Javerting Attention
• Sunday: 15 Iraqis Killed, 36 Wounded
• Former CIA Boss: Iran Attack "Inexorable"
• Iran's nuclear standoff: who is the loser?
• Blankfort vs. the Chomskybots
• Bill Kristol's 'Emergency Committee?' Give me a break
• Israel Hiding Behind The "Iranian Threat"
• Mexican Drug Mafia Invades Texas
• Senator Webb's Historic Op-Ed
• Sarkozy playing 'Sayanim' in Lebanon
• Gazans Denied Medical Care Under Siege
• Israel's Right Discovers the One-State Solution
• The arrogance of power
• Is the Madoff Scandal Paradigmatic?
• Julius Evola's Concept of Race: A Racism of Three Degrees
• What Would It Take?
• Saturday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 22 Wounded
• The Gentile misunderstanding of Jewish power
• Once Again, Corporate Media Turns On Bloggers
• Spirit vs. Profit
• BP, Illusion of a False Spill
• Obama and oil spill: Lessons from corporate world
• Famous people on the Jews
• Shadow Banking Makes a Comeback
• Jews behind the abortion industry
• Modern Day Mind Control of The People
• Chomsky a 'Crypto-Zionist'!
• Beyond apartheid
• Israel's New Land Grab Master Plan
• A new paradigm for Gulf security
• Terror's Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone
• Jailhouse Letter from Ed Steele Explains How He Was Framed
• General Petraeus: Neocons' Favorite for President
• Interview with Archbishop Theodosios (Atallah) Hanna
• Should Islamic Republic trust India
• Israel's Friends at Westminster Legislate to Protect Vilest Criminals
• The Obama Election and Our Cultural Shift
• Hasbarapocalypse — Leaked Frank Luntz Memo: Israeli Public Diplomacy in US on Flotilla Failed Dismally
• Love Conquers All: The Message At the Heart Of The Road
• An external cure on mankind?
• International labor report's omissions reveal pro-Israel bias
• Jew spew - Part one and two
• Latest documents advocating the ban of depleted uranium
• Can Kyrgyzstan Become a Democracy in Russia's Backyard?
• Human Rights Watch flotilla stance mirrors that of US, Israel
• Jew puts Holocaust on trial
• It's Not About Oil
• Mel's Alleged Death Threats, Tinsley's Lonely Summer, and Prince Albert Sets a Date
• Writing the Last Chapter
• If Kosovo, Why Not Palestine?
• Madness of McCarthyism - A Primer for Israel
• 'This Time We Went Too Far' – Book Review
• Combatants for Peace
• The Lockerbie bombers's
• Friday: 1 Iraqi Killed, 33 Wounded
• False Flag Cyber Attack Could Takedown The Internet
• This Week at War
• Women prepared to break the siege of Gaza
• Jesse Ventura Talks with Alex Jones About Government Harassment of His TV Show
• What do we Have in common with Stanley McChrystal?
• Israel and Indian Hell
• Obama's Afghan War in Perspective
• Steve Watson: Google Launches Cover-Up of 'Google' Spies' Story
• The attack on the Euro and the dismantling of the European Union
• Apartheid Plain and Simple

Where is the money? Posted: 27 Jul 2010 09:22 AM PDT As of 7/26/2010 our National debt is 13,261,223,866,406.98 so to put this in to perspective a couple of people and I decided that we would follow the money, this proved to be a brick wall task, true there is public notices of budgets but everything is agency specific without real numbers representing where our money is being spent. You can view these statements at the US Treasury IRS and even the office that is supposed to hold accountability of Government spending I had attempted to contact Michael Brostek,. (202)512-4800 U.S. Government Accountability Office . a message had been left requesting a balance sheet showing were the tax payers money has been spent, the has been no return call from MR. Brosteck.

Israelis rally around officer convicted of killing unarmed Palestinian motorist Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:30 AM PDT A decision by Israel's high court to double a 15-month jail term for a policeman who shot dead an unarmed Palestinian driver suspected of stealing a car has provoked denunciations from police commanders and government officials. Yitzhak Aharonovitch, the internal security minister, condemned the judges for "sending a terrible message to police officers."

New York Times Crawled to Obama for Instructions on Wikileaks Docs Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:30 AM PDT It is not news that the corporate media is a lapdog for the government. It disseminates propaganda, half-truths, and spin for the government. This became apparent prior to the "leak" of classified documents by Wikileaks earlier in the week. According to Yahoo's Michael Calderone, the Obama administration was "very pleased with how the New York Times dealt with its semi-exclusive access to the documents," writes Alex Pareene for Salon. "Times Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet took reporters Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt to the White House last week to brief the administration on what they planned on publishing."

There Goes The Tea Party Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:01 AM PDT What's going on with the Tea Party?  Remember the good old days when TEA was an acronym for "Taxed Enough Already?"  Today, it's starting to sound more like "Terminate Every Arab!" It could be argued that the once noble Tea Party has been thrown to the wolves.  In its place is a political machine that has hijacked the Tea party name and is using it to stage a NeoCon-Republican comeback.

Egypt remains complicit in Gaza siege Posted: 27 Jul 2010 03:14 AM PDT Almost two months since Egypt announced it would reopen its Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip, operation of the crossing remains sorely limited. "Rafah has only been opened to passengers and some medical supplies," Hatem el-Buluk, journalist and resident of al-Arish, located some 40 kilometers west of Rafah, told IPS. "Everything else, including food and construction materials, must enter the strip via Israeli-controlled border crossings."

Time for the Palestinians to call Israel's bluff? Posted: 27 Jul 2010 02:25 AM PDT Defenders of Israel right or wrong continue to assert that the absence of peace is all the fault of the Palestinians. In one sense they are right. When the Palestine file was closed by Israel's victory (ethnic cleansing and all) on the battlefield in 1948, the Palestinians were supposed to accept their lot as the sacrificial lamb on the altar of political expediency. That was according to the script written by Zionism and effectively endorsed by all the major powers and, behind closed doors, the regimes of a divided and impotent Arab order. Nobody in power anywhere wanted the Palestine file to be re-opened because, if it was, a confrontation with Zionism in all of its awesome manifestations would one day be inevitable. So it could be said if the Palestinians had been prepared to be the sacrificial lamb, the first Arab-Israeli war would also have been the last.

Israel's Secret Police Exposed Posted: 27 Jul 2010 02:02 AM PDT The arrest by Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret police, including attempts by one of its agents to enlist the accused to assassinate a Palestinian spiritual leader. Chaim Pearlman, who was arrested a fortnight ago, has been charged with murdering four Palestinians in Jerusalem and injuring at least seven others in a series of knife attacks that began more than a decade ago. Police are still investigating whether he was involved in additional attacks.

Somalia dominates AU summit Posted: 26 Jul 2010 10:37 PM PDT African leaders attending the 15th African Union (AU) summit in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, originally planned to focus on the health of African mothers and infants. But al-Shabab's July 11 attacks in Kampala and the challenges that the Somalia conflict pose for the region have now overshadowed that, shifting the summit's focus to regional and world security.

Gaza children shelled with flechette bombs Posted: 26 Jul 2010 10:08 PM PDT "She came in through the front door and it wasn't clear she was injured. Suddenly a lot of blood came from her nose and she vomited, all of the family saw this -- her little brothers were very scared. She had just been playing in the front of the house." That is how Nihed al-Massry describes what happened to her daughter, nine-year-old Samah Eid al-Massry, after the Israeli army reportedly shelled and fired four bombs into and around a residential area in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, on 21 July. Samah is now being hospitalized in serious condition, suffering from extensive blood loss and very low haemoglobin. She was hit by shrapnel and flechettes from a nail bomb that landed 100 meters away, causing internal bleeding to the chest and severe head trauma. Nails are now embedded throughout her body.

US needs lesson in 'secret-keeping' Posted: 26 Jul 2010 09:05 PM PDT The WikiLeaks website supposedly carrying some 91,000 US military reports from Afghanistan makes for oddly mesmerising reading. Having only dedicated a few hours to the task, I can hardly claim even a cursory appreciation for what is there and what it represents. Like most of us, I am forced to rely to a large degree for now on the analyses provided by those media outlets which have had weeks to study and begin to digest the mass of documents.

Israel wages war against media and activists Posted: 26 Jul 2010 08:26 PM PDT Palestinian activists are being jailed, Israeli activists are under surveillance, and the Israeli military is increasingly targeting journalists who cover West Bank protests. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) in Israel issued a statement recently condemning what it sees as a change in the Israeli military's policy in their treatment of journalists covering the growing number of West Bank protests against Israel's wall, illegal settlements and land expropriation.

Press freedoms fall victim to Fatah, Hamas disunity Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:40 PM PDT The split between the the Hamas-run Gaza wing and the Fatah-run West Bank wing of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has overshadowed every aspect of public life, including, many rights groups have documented, infringements on press freedoms and the work of journalists. Eighteen months ago, Samir Hamato, 42, Gaza-based economics editor with the Palestinian newspaper of al-Hayat al-Jadida had his monthly salary withheld by the West Bank PA. Hamato told The Electronic Intifada that he has yet to learn the reasons.

Farewell, A Vaguely Accurate Portrayal of the Cold War Posted: 26 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT We won the Cold War two decades ago. Do we yet know why? As T.S. Eliot noted in Gerontion, "History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors…" In 1945, Winston Churchill banned all mention of the immense Ultra project that had broken the Nazi Enigma code. Ultra's 1974 declassification rewrote the history of WWII. Hence, there's time for new insights into the conflict with Communism to emerge.

Trusted Most: Men With Guns Posted: 26 Jul 2010 03:59 PM PDT Public confidence in Congress has plummeted to the lowest level of any institution since Gallup began asking the question in 1973. One-half of all Americans have little or no confidence in the Congress. Only 11 percent have a "great deal" or "a lot of" confidence in what is, given its place of primacy in the Constitution, the first branch of government and the branch most representative of the people.

Wikileaks Docs Target Pakistan Posted: 26 Jul 2010 08:47 AM PDT Not long after Wikileaks dumped tens of thousands of classified Afghanistan "war" documents into the public arena for consumption, the corporate media zoomed in on Pakistan. "WikiLeaks documents released Sunday shine a spotlight on Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, a spy agency that has been accused for years of having links to terrorist groups," writes the Wall Street Journal .

Victories as N. American boycott movement gains momentum Posted: 26 Jul 2010 08:03 AM PDT On 15 July, a food co-operative with two locations in Olympia, Washington, voted to become the first grocery stores in the United States to ban Israeli-made items from its shelves. The Olympia Food Co-op's board of directors last week resolved to publicly join the international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement in support of Palestinian rights, in an action that supporters and organizers say is congruent to its mission statement centered around food justice as a human right.

Revitalize Industrial Production for the Benefit of Western Man Posted: 26 Jul 2010 07:14 AM PDT There has been a lot of back and forth recently about whether or not WN is at the stage where we could/should increase the amount of boots-on-the-ground activism right now or if we still need to hone in on the mysterious "It" that will give us that revolutionary advantage before we can really begin to see turnout and participation. Well, this post is not going to be about that, rather it is about something overlooked in that debate that can help us right now and in the future with recruiting potential followers.

Monday: 46 Iraqis Killed, 88 Wounded Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:35 AM PDT Updated at 6:18 p.m. EDT, July 25, 2010 Despite extra precautions, belligerents detonated a car bomb in Karbala. A separate car bomb destroyed the al-Arabiya studios and a lawmaker's home in Baghdad. At least 46 Iraqis were killed and 88 more were wounded in those two attacks. Curiously, no other attacks in Iraq were reported. Meanwhile, members of the Iraqiya party refuse to allow the political impasse preventing the formation of the next government to become "internationalized."

No words to console Gaza child after mother is killed by Israeli shelling Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:23 AM PDT The Abu Said family are Bedouin whose isolated farm is located near Gaza's boundary with Israel in the vicinity of Johr al-Dik. For the last forty years, the family never had any major problems with their belligerent Israeli neighbors. Abu Said, the family patriarch, explained that after the first and second Palestinian intifadas and following the start of the siege on Gaza, the threat of being shot by Israeli soldiers forced him to stop cultivating plots of land closest to the border. Twenty years ago, the family could still plough their property near the border, while in recent times they've had to retreat 400 meters, with considerable losses to their harvest. Beautiful orchards brimming with fruit once prospered; now even the trees' roots are gone.

Has anti-Semitism made Jews boycott the war on terror? Posted: 26 Jul 2010 04:18 AM PDT According to the Department of Defense, only 4000 Jews serve in the American military.  Over 200,000 American Jews have been trained at US expense by the IDF in Israel but only a handful defend Israel in the current wars in the military of the country of their birth, the United States of America.  40% of the world's Jews live in Israel.  40% of the world's Jews live in the United States with 2.2 million residing in New York City alone. If any nation has been the homeland of the Jews, it has been the United States.

Inconsistencies Found in Rwandan Murder Investigation Posted: 26 Jul 2010 01:49 AM PDT Human Rights Watch is calling for the Rwandan Government to allow independent foreign experts to carry out an autopsy on the body of André Kagwa Rwisereka, vice president of the opposition Democratic Green Party. Rwisereka was last seen late in the evening of July 12, 2010. His body was found near the southern town of Butare on July 14. His head had been severed, and witnesses described unusual marks on several parts of his body.

Why the world needs WikiLeaks Posted: 26 Jul 2010 12:31 AM PDT The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and videos.

Book review: Gideon Levy and the Western media elite Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:16 PM PDT The small volume The Punishment of Gaza is a selection from Gideon Levy's columns on Gaza in Israeli daily Haaretz since 2006. The dissident Israeli journalist reminds us that the brutal Israeli assault on Gaza has not been a matter of isolated wars of aggression, but an ongoing, long-term policy directed at the population of that small, refugee-packed fraction of Palestine. Despite his ideological limits, Levy is a searing critic of Israeli brutality, as anyone who has read him will know. Right from the beginning, he named the last major Israeli massacre of Gaza "a war crime" -- in his 27 December 2008 article "The Neighborhood Bully Strikes Again." And he criticized it on moral grounds, not merely as the "mistake" or "blunder" that hypocritical Israeli pundits, masquerading as critics, would label it much later on.

Washington's gift to Pakistan Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:43 PM PDT The views expressed do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.

Bradley Manning's Gift Posted: 25 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT They said the huge cache of classified documents – including 250,000 diplomatic messages passed from US embassies around the world to Washington – was a fantasy, "boasting" by Pfc. Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst who gave Wikileaks that video of US soldiers laughing and shouting "good shot!" as they mowed down Iraqi civilians. The "hi tech" media, especially Wired magazine, did everything they could do discredit and smear him, including spreading rumors about his alleged sexuality. Now, with the release of over 91,000 internal US government communications, intelligence analyses and incident reports via Wikileaks, the motive behind the determined effort to smear Manning and shut down Wikileaks is all too apparent. The Guardian provides a helpful interactive map, in which you click on a location and read the "incident report." Of course, you're reading a selection of what the Guardian editors consider important, but it looks to me like their news judgment isn't bad at all, because the first one I clicked on was an intelligence report detailing meetings of the Taliban with Osama bin Laden in Quetta, Pakistan, and in villages on the border with Afghanistan. So, bin Laden is not only alive, but they know where he is. I guess when Hillary was hectoring the Pakistanis about the whereabouts of bin Laden, the subtext was: "If we know, then you must know, too!"

Life in the USSA Posted: 25 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT Last week, the Washington Post ran an excellent three-part series on the growing national security state. The series, written by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, was titled "Top Secret America," and the articles were titled "A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control," "National Security, Inc.," and "The Secrets Next Door." This series, said the Post's editors, was based on two years of reporting. As good reporters, they focused mainly on the facts. Those facts themselves are pretty scary. The reporters didn't draw any big conclusions from the facts. Yet, the whole series is an excellent illustration of two of the main themes in the life work of the late economist Friedrich Hayek, who shared the Nobel Prize in economics in 1974. One theme, which he emphasized in his 1944 book, The Road to Serfdom, is that when government grows and takes on more power over our lives, it threatens our freedom. The second theme is that central planning of an economy doesn't work. Although Hayek never applied his insights about central economic planning to central anti-terrorism planning, the reasoning, as we shall see, is the same. So is the bottom line: It doesn't work.

Israel Braces Itself for a UN Fact Finding Mission Posted: 25 Jul 2010 05:03 PM PDT Israel faces another disastrous report as an 'Independent and impartial' fact-finding team appointed by the UN Human Rights Council will look into Israel's 'violations of international law' during her commando raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish ship. Seemingly the UN Human Rights Council wasn't overwhelmingly impressed by Israel's own 'truth finding' missions. I guess that this is understandable. The Israelis should accept the UN concerns. It is very uncommon to let the murderer or the rapist investigate himself.

Facing Journalistic Fraud Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:53 PM PDT Propaganda is associated in the popular mind with totalitarian regimes. The truth is, however, that examples of propaganda can be found as far back as Antiquity, and that the activity is as much a feature of liberal democratic societies today as it was of National Socialist Germany, Maoist China, and the Soviet Union. In fact, the advent of the information age has made propaganda much more pervasive than it ever was in any of those societies. What is more, despite the constant development of ever more subtle applications of propaganda techniques, modern manifestations in the 'free' mainstream Western media can be just as crude as the worst examples ever to appear under the yoke of Eastern Communism.

Arab Oil, a Blessing and a Curse Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:41 PM PDT While important transformations are taking place within the thinly populated oil producing Arab states (APC) due to their wealth, the capital-hungry nonoil producing Arab states are barely managing to feed their populations. The APC states invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the West and too little in the Arab nonoil states. And they are not using their political and economic influence with the industrialized nations to support a just solution to the Palestinian issue. Oil producing countries failed or refused to utilize oil as a strategic commodity for political advantage to back up the Palestinian cause. The 1973 Arab oil embargo supports the view that dependency on oil as the only industry and no national economic diversification limits the Arab states individually and collectively from exerting sustained political pressures on the oil users. When the APC spokesman coined the expression "oil and politics do not mix", he meant that exploiting the oil as a weapon would very likely harm their own economies and they were not willing to sacrifice.

Why Kate Middleton is Prince William's Only Option Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT It goes without saying that Prince William is considered by many to be the most eligible bachelor in the world. He's handsome; he'll inherit the Crown Jewels; the Queen is his granny; Prime Ministers and Presidents will bow before him. Clearly, he's a catch. And yet, he's stuck with Kate Middleton.

Failure to Excommunicate Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT The Catholic Church raised me. The Immaculate Heart nuns who supervised my education from the age of six through thirteen were, for the most part, conscientious educators. They loved us, possibly as surrogates for the children they did not bear. Theirs cannot have been easy lives, cloistered after hours in a small house among other women and forbidden the company of men. They wore their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience with dignity. If they were occasionally cruel or deranged, it was within the accepted limits of the time: whacking us on the backside with ping-pong paddles when we became insufferable (which we certainly did) and purveying the anti-communist phobias of the time. ("What would you do," our principal, Sister Mary Immaculata, would ask, "if the communists burst into the school right now, put a gun to your head and ordered you to deny Christ?") I realize now that these women, whom we regarded as holy sanctuaries of chaste love for Christ, lived in fear: fear of eternal damnation, fear of the priests who oversaw the parish school and fear of censure by the community. No one ever told me of a single case of one of them harming a child, touching a child inappropriately or neglecting a child who needed help.

Liberals Ignore the Facts Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT When I encounter facts that run contrary to my beliefs, I embrace the facts and abandon my beliefs. I wish the rest of the world was like me. I was around eight years old when the evidence against Santa Claus became too overwhelming for me to continue believing in him. My arrogant and dickheadedly precocious mind had figured out that it would be physically impossible for Santa to fit enough toys for all the world's children on a single sleigh and then deliver them over the course of one night. After hammering at this line of questioning with my mother, she finally relented and admitted she'd been lying to me for eight years about Santa Claus.

Wikileaks Releases 'The Afghan War Diary' Posted: 25 Jul 2010 03:36 PM PDT We hope the impact will lead to a comprehensive understanding of the war in Afghanistan and modern warfare in general. - Wikileaks WikiLeaks has done it again; over 90,000 documents from the war in Afghanistan have been released to the public. Wikileaks called, The Afghan War Diary (AWD), "An extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.

Israel Admits: "Our Troops Are Psychopaths!" Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:33 PM PDT Gordon is skeptical of the Zionist claim that their troops, unlike American soldiers, don't suffer from PTSD. If this is true, Gordon says, maybe it's because American soldiers are fighting and dying for a Zionist-orchestrated series of lies, and are treated like "broken toys" when they come home; while Israeli soldiers are committing genocide for their own national benefit, and are relatively well-treated by their US-taxpayer-funded regime.

Madoff and Friends Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:18 PM PDT The Madoff Circle: Who Knew What?, by Jake Bernstein, ProPublica: What these men undeniably shared were similar backgrounds and interests. Based largely in New York and South Florida, they moved through parallel milieus of affluent Jewish country clubs and synagogues. They were active in similar philanthropies and served on the boards of foundations, universities and yeshivas. The cast of characters, spelled out mostly in complaints filed by the trustee and the SEC, includes: Carl Shapiro,, 97, a Boston-based philanthropist who made one fortune in ladies dresses and a larger one with Madoff; Robert Jaffe, 66, Shapiro's son-in-law; Maurice "Sonny" Cohn, 79, a onetime Madoff neighbor turned business partner; Stanley Chais, 83, a close friend of Madoff's for more than 50 years and one of his earliest investors; and Jeffry Picower, a lawyer and accountant, who recently died of a heart attack at 67. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Javerting Attention Posted: 25 Jul 2010 08:48 AM PDT Mangan's The One-Man NAACP of the Right links Pat Hannagan's Purging the Faux White Right. Mangan and Hannagan dismantle Lawrence Auster's latest attempt to pathologize "the anti-semites" who see jewish ethnocentrism in the defense of Polanski and attack on Gibson. What makes Auster notable is that he's the tip of a little jewish iceberg of Polanski defenders, sticking out more than others due to his usual pose as an traditionalist anti-"liberal" convert to Christianity. The clear jewish pattern emerges from the long list of people quoted in my series of posts concerning Polanski. In a nutshell, Polanski is a jewish OJ. His plight neatly polarized jews, who tend to view him as a victim, wronged and hunted by a cruel, puritanical system, and everybody else, including Whites, who tend to see him as a celebrity pervert who has long escaped justice.

Sunday: 15 Iraqis Killed, 36 Wounded Posted: 25 Jul 2010 07:28 AM PDT Updated at 10:53 p.m. EDT, July 25, 2010 Security has been tightened ahead of Shi'ite religious holiday, but at least 15 Iraqis were killed and 36 more were wounded in unrelated violence. Meanwhile, a State of Law M.P. complained that the delay in forming the government has shaken the international community's trust in Iraq. Despite that fear, Iraq's political blocs postponed the parliamentary session by one day to pick a speaker, among other issues plaguing the new parliament. The government, however, was able to make a decision on changing Iraq's state logo and stamp. Mirroring parliament, the Iraqi Football Association has postponed board elections until further notice.

Former CIA Boss: Iran Attack "Inexorable" Posted: 25 Jul 2010 05:48 AM PDT According to Michael Hayden, a CIA boss under George W. Bush, Iran's not having a nuke is just as dangerous as it having one. Hayden predicted Iran plans to "get itself to that step right below a nuclear weapon, that permanent breakout stage, so the needle isn't quite in the red for the international community." Hayden said that reaching even that level would be "as destabilizing to the region as actually having a weapon" and it will result in an attack by the U.S., Israel, or both.

Iran's nuclear standoff: who is the loser? Posted: 25 Jul 2010 05:23 AM PDT The United Nations Security council has recently imposed the fourth round of financial sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. This set of sanctions causes great damages to the daily life of ordinary Iranians and paralyzes their economy and lifestyle enormously. Aside from the conflict between the governments and statesmen, it's only the nation of Iran who loses the game. In this article Kourosh Ziabari discusses the plight of Iranian nation as a result of UNSC imposed sanctions against Iran.

Blankfort vs. the Chomskybots Posted: 25 Jul 2010 05:16 AM PDT Regular radio guest Jeff Blankfort's latest Chomsky critique has elicited yelps of outrage from the followers of His Noam-ness.  (Jeff debated Richard Curtis on my show last month, and skewered Chomsky back in April.) Methinks they doth protest too much. What's really going on here, it seems to me, is that Chomsky and his fellow-left-Jewish-Zionist acolytes are trying to police the pro-Palestinian movement in the US, and Blankfort is calling them on it. Specifically, the Chomskyites don't want pro-Palestinians  challenging the legitimacy of the Zionist state or engaging in effective action against it. And the most effective possible action -- the exposure of the Zionist Fifth Column in America as prime enemy of both American ideals and the American people -- is what Zionists posing as pro-Palestinian lefties truly fear and loathe. As Blankfort suggests, these folks, who are extremely prominent and numerous on the left, have effectively hobbled the pro-Palestinian movement in America.

Bill Kristol's 'Emergency Committee?' Give me a break Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:31 AM PDT Via Ben Smith at Politico, we learn that the usual suspects have started yet another organization whose objective is to promote a hard-right, Likudnik agenda in the Middle East. The new group apparently intends to go after anyone who thinks U.S. Middle East policy has been less than totally successful in recent years, and who is willing to think for themselves (and U.S. interests), instead of reflexively echoing the positions favored by AIPAC and other groups in the "status quo" lobby.

Israel Hiding Behind The "Iranian Threat" Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:13 AM PDT With the recent formation of The Emergency Committee for Israel, the neoconservative and Likudnik characters on the American right have stepped up their anti-Iranian lobbying efforts. Among other things, they have again brought up how a nuclear Iran would pose an "imminent threat" that would tear the region apart. This renewed exaggeration of an Iranian threat to Israel comes at a time when Israel is clearly being shown to be a strategic liability to the U.S., a fact the Israel Lobby has so far concealed with great success.

Mexican Drug Mafia Invades Texas Posted: 25 Jul 2010 03:44 AM PDT The United States is under attack by narco terrorists invading from the failed state of Mexico and Obama and the federal government are doing nothing about it. In June, the Mexican drug mafia forced the closure of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona. Authorities in Arizona admit that criminals now control a drug and human smuggling corridor that stretches from the border into metro Phoenix. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu explained in June that the Mexican Mafia controls three counties in his state.

Senator Webb's Historic Op-Ed Posted: 25 Jul 2010 01:07 AM PDT The moment I saw Senator Webb's WSJ op-ed piece on ending non-Black affirmative action I knew that an incredibly important historic event had just taken place.  My in-depth review of the coverage and the commentary on the piece has confirmed that initial reaction.  What we have just witnessed was not only another sign that the much-hoped for White re-awakening in America was occurring much faster than even the most optimistic activists hoped for ten years ago, but the most powerful sign that this is so. Many in the WN community, including many here, reacted with wariness and anger: just another politician on the make, not one of us at all, but now hijacking white consciousness for party political ends.

Sarkozy playing 'Sayanim' in Lebanon Posted: 25 Jul 2010 12:04 AM PDT French President Nicholas Sarkozy is son of a Jewish mother-Christian father French couple. In November 2007, French daily Le Figaro revealed that Sarkozy had been an agent of Israeli Mossad. Sayanim is a Hebrew word which means 'volunteers' – and according to Jeff Gates there are tens of thousand of them in United States (could be as many as one million around the world).

Gazans Denied Medical Care Under Siege Posted: 24 Jul 2010 10:00 PM PDT Two recent reports discuss it, a July Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR-IL) one titled, "A Situation Report on Obstacles Facing Gaza Residents in Need of Medical Treatment," and a June one titled, "Who Gets to Go," jointly prepared by PHR-IL, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

Israel's Right Discovers the One-State Solution Posted: 24 Jul 2010 08:18 PM PDT Since I witnessed the rise of the Nazis during my childhood in Germany, my nose always tickles when it smells something fascist, even when the odor is still faint. When the debate about the "one-state solution" began, my nose tickled. Have you gone mad, I told my nose, this time you are dead wrong. This is a plan of the Left. It is being put forward by leftists of undoubted credentials, the greatest idealists in Israel and abroad, even certified Marxists.

The arrogance of power Posted: 24 Jul 2010 07:15 PM PDT When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ending the cold war, America breathed a sigh of relief. A problem that should have been addressed at that point was neglected. The question that should have dominated American thinking: Do we really need to maintain the many US military bases abroad?

Is the Madoff Scandal Paradigmatic? Posted: 24 Jul 2010 06:08 PM PDT In December 2008 the astonishing news broke of Bernard Madoff's immense Ponzi scheme — the biggest in history, apparently, with a notional value approaching $65 Billion. This was very rapidly followed by loud complaints by prominent Jewish leaders such as the Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxmanand the American Jewish Committee's David Harris, to the effect that the media coverage of this scandal was facilitating anti-Semitism by repeatedly noting that Madoff is Jewish.

Julius Evola's Concept of Race: A Racism of Three Degrees Posted: 24 Jul 2010 06:03 PM PDT Since the rise of physical anthropology, the definition of the term "race" has undergone several changes. In 1899, William Z. Ripley stated that, "Race, properly speaking, is responsible only for those peculiarities, mental or bodily, which are transmitted with constancy along the lines of direct physical descent."  In 1916, Madison Grant described it as the "immutability of somatological or bodily characters, with which is closely associated the immutability of physical predispositions and impulses." He was echoed a decade later by German anthropologist Hans F.K. Gunther, who in his Racial Elements of European History said, "A race shows itself in a human group which is marked off from every other human group through its own proper combination of bodily and mental characteristics, and in turn produces only its like."

What Would It Take? Posted: 24 Jul 2010 05:37 PM PDT I believe Whites are willfully denying the clear and present danger we face. Whether it is through late or broken marriages, lackluster efforts at having replacement-level families, or feeble efforts at keeping the governing elite from importing a new (non-White) people, demographically, White Americans are in free fall. About this, the numbers speak clearly; there is no ambiguity.

Saturday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 22 Wounded Posted: 24 Jul 2010 01:34 PM PDT Three Iraqis were killed and 22 more were wounded in attacks in Mosul and Basra. Meanwhile, the INA's rejection of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a second term as prime minister could serve as the impetus to help a new coalition of 220 lawmakers resolve the impasse preventing the formation of the next government. In Mosul, a bomb blast wounded 18 civilians shopping at a souk. Gunmen killed two policemen in Risala.

The Gentile misunderstanding of Jewish power Posted: 24 Jul 2010 11:32 AM PDT "Jewish power is a subject I often talk about in my writings. In some of my more long-winded pieces I have referred to that power as something almost akin to "omnipotence" or "omnipresence." One recent poster even says that the fact that Jews are criticized across the internet and that the criticizers are allowed to continue with the criticizing without being purged or molested, proves that Jews are not all-powerful. Point taken, but point irrelevant as well.

Once Again, Corporate Media Turns On Bloggers Posted: 24 Jul 2010 10:17 AM PDT In the video clip below, CNN talking heads Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discuss internet journalism and the Sherrod case. "Imagine what would have happened," says Roberts, "if we hadn't taken a look at what happened to Shirley Sherrod and plumbed the depths further and found what had been posted on the internet was not in fact reflective of what she said." Too bad this self-righteous attitude was nowhere to be found when it was discovered that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. It was obvious well before Bush and the neocons invaded Iraq that Saddam Hussein did not have nuclear and biological weapons. Iraq had nothing to do with al-Qaeda. It did not buy yellow cake in Niger.

Spirit vs. Profit Posted: 24 Jul 2010 09:28 AM PDT We Germans are known to be weird but good car makers, which is the reason why it shouldn't come as a surprise when I tell you that we own a psychic octopus named Paul who accurately predicted the outcome of the World-football-championship-semi-final . By means beyond my intellectual reach did he conclude that the German team, high on the agenda as cup winner and particularly cherished in the betting world, would be licked by Spain whom nobody believed capable to lick anybody in any case. Well, I loved him for it! And I was even more delighted when his prediction turned out to be true.

BP, Illusion of a False Spill Posted: 24 Jul 2010 07:47 AM PDT The 'disaster' in the Gulf of Mexico is beyond a false flag; it's an illusion. What I'm about to reveal will more than likely go by the wayside, and the charade will continue. The reason for writing this is not for attention, games, or folly, but to expose the biggest scam in the 21st century, and to relieve some aching hearts. There is no need for fear as this is a staged event. I cannot reveal my sources, they do go straight to the top, but hopefully what I write will echo inside of each person reading this as the truth.

Obama and oil spill: Lessons from corporate world Posted: 24 Jul 2010 01:48 AM PDT As chief executive officer of America Inc., Barack Obama has walked the factory floor when it comes to managing the federal response to the Gulf oil spill, going directly to front-line workers. He's used wiles respected in the boardroom in wringing a $20 billion commitment from BP.

Famous people on the Jews Posted: 24 Jul 2010 12:46 AM PDT Mark Twain's true opinion of the Jews is probably the best kept secret in American literary history. Immediately after his death, his eccentric daughter Clara married a Jewish piano player, Otto Gabrilowitsch. Twain's publishers were given speedy instructions to delete "Concerning the Jews" from the collected works, where it had appeared in the book The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories.

Shadow Banking Makes a Comeback Posted: 24 Jul 2010 12:44 AM PDT Credit conditions are improving for speculators and bubblemakers, but they continue to worsen for households, consumers and small businesses. An article in the Wall Street Journal confirms that the Fed's efforts to revive the so-called shadow banking system is showing signs of progress. Financial intermediaries have been taking advantage of low rates and easy terms to fund corporate bonds, stocks and mortgage-backed securities. Thus, the reflating of high-risk financial assets has resumed, thanks to the Fed's crisis-engendering monetary policy and extraordinary rescue operations.

Jews behind the abortion industry Posted: 24 Jul 2010 12:10 AM PDT They willingly exterminate us using feminist rethorics.

Modern Day Mind Control of The People Posted: 23 Jul 2010 11:58 PM PDT Alex Jones goes through a short news blitz to end the week out.

Chomsky a 'Crypto-Zionist'! Posted: 23 Jul 2010 11:47 PM PDT "The Jewish religion died 200 years ago. Now there is nothing that unifies the Jews around the world apart from Holocaust," Yeshayahy Leibowitz, a observant orthodox Jew philosopher. Professor Dr. Noam Chomsky made headlines when he was refused entery by the Israeli guards at the Allenby Bridge on his way from Amman (Jordan) to Ramallah (West Bank) where he was schedule to lecture on US foreign policy at Bir Zeit University.The "official" reason was that Chomsky is a 'Self-Hating, Israel-Threatening (S.H.I.T)' Jews and thus a threat to the Zionist entity. In fact, Chomsky in real life doesn't even come closer to those 'allegations".

Beyond apartheid Posted: 23 Jul 2010 11:09 PM PDT Israel's decision to force all prospective Israeli citizens to declare loyalty to "a Jewish and democratic state" is not only racist, but designed to further institutionalise the dispossession of Palestinians. It is ironic that the oath should include the term democracy as the law itself is a blatant exercise in state coercion.

Israel's New Land Grab Master Plan Posted: 23 Jul 2010 09:59 PM PDT The new plan updates older ones, going back to the first, what Israeli historian Ilan Pappe documented in his 2006 book, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," on David Ben-Gurion's Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), his final master plan following Plans A, B and C, what Palestinians call the Nakba, the catastrophe, commemorated annually to never forget. By bombarding and besieging villages and population centers, destroying communities, and expelling or killing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, it planned an exclusive Jewish state, excluding Arabs by any means, including mass-murder, dispossession, and persecution, ongoing to this day, what Palestinians heroically resist.

A new paradigm for Gulf security Posted: 23 Jul 2010 08:35 PM PDT Seen through the prism of geopolitics, interactions related to security in the Arabian Gulf are - in principle - closely connected to the reality of more general regional security. This perspective can also be expanded to include the impact on the wider scope of regional and international policies.

Terror's Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone Posted: 23 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT A recent exposé in the Washington Post shows that if you have a security clearance and are comfortable being part of a lucrative "self-licking ice cream cone" — a process that offers few if any benefits while perpetuating its own existence — then the "war on terror" is definitely for you! The conclusion that the Long War against Islamic militants abroad can be enriching for a host of "counter-terror" contractors at home leaps out of the Post's "Top Secret America," a comprehensive three-part series by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin on July 19, 20 and 21.

Jailhouse Letter from Ed Steele Explains How He Was Framed Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:46 PM PDT After being held incommunicado for nearly a month, Idaho attorney Edgar Steele was finally able to get a letter out of the Spokane County Jail, where he is being held on shaky federal charges of "murder for hire." He maintains that a confidential informant (CI) in the feds' employ lied to the authorities regarding the alleged plot in order to cover up the theft of tens of thousands of dollars in silver coins the CI had stolen from Steele sometime earlier.

General Petraeus: Neocons' Favorite for President Posted: 23 Jul 2010 02:26 PM PDT As we move past the mid-term elections, the question as to the Republican candidate for the presidency in 2012 will come to the fore.  Obama's approval rating is falling.  And given the economic situation it is very unlikely that there will be any significant improvement in how he is viewed by the voters.  Even if increased federal spending might be able to keep the unemployment level stationary or lower it slightly for the short term—i.e., until the 2012 election—the ballooning deficit will still turn substantial numbers of voters against him because of their fears of what will happen in the future.  On the other hand, any type of austerity program, or even the elimination of  stimulus funding, would probably lead to increased unemployment in the short term—at least up to the 2012 election.  In short, Obama is quite vulnerable in 2012.  However, he still has substantial support, and despite his escalating problems, he would likely defeat any candidate without widespread appeal, especially those whose strength does not go beyond the conservative Republican base.

Interview with Archbishop Theodosios (Atallah) Hanna Posted: 23 Jul 2010 01:08 PM PDT Let me be clear on this subject, there will be no Palestine without Jerusalem as its capital. It is ridicules to imagine Palestine without Jerusalem, because it beats in the heart of every Palestinian. In addition to that, Israel tries to change the features of Jerusalem through its development projects like the light train, the malls or the parks. They are trying to make Palestinians foreigners in their own city. According to international law, Jerusalem is still an occupied city, thus it has no right to change anything in it. Whatever is the final agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the Palestinians should have the free right of entry to their city without any restrictions; also they must have the right to live in it, build their homes and resides in Jerusalem without the interference of anybody. The Palestinian in Jerusalem is in his city and his country and not a stranger and the treatment of the Palestinian as a outsider is by itself a racist action.

Should Islamic Republic trust India Posted: 23 Jul 2010 12:59 PM PDT "Israel sees Islam as the greatest danger to its dominance over the Middle East, itself built on cruelty, violation and oppression," – Professor Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (Haifa University) in his book 'The Israeli Connection: Who Arms Israel and Why?' It's interesting to witness that when some of India's important alies (the US, EU and Israel) are pushing for a 'regime-change' in Tehran for the dominance of the Zionist-regime in the region – New Delhi has recourting Tehran. On July 8-9, 2010 – an Iranian trade and commerce delegation headed by Sayyed Shamusddin Hosseini visited New Delhi. During the visit, India signed six commerce and technical cooperation pacts. However, Indian side was careful that not of these pacts cross line with the US-Israel_UN imposed fourth round of sanctions against the Islamic Republic recently.

Israel's Friends at Westminster Legislate to Protect Vilest Criminals Posted: 23 Jul 2010 11:58 AM PDT Israelis wanted for war crimes can sleep easier thanks to their friends and admirers in the British Establishment. Yes, our brand-new coalition government intends providing a safe haven for the vilest of criminals.

The Obama Election and Our Cultural Shift Posted: 23 Jul 2010 11:30 AM PDT Senator Jim Webb (D-Virginia) has written an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal attacking the diversity-industrial complex.  It's rare to see such an honest look in a major paper at what "diversity" really means. The NAACP believes the tea party is racist. The tea party believes the NAACP is racist. And Pat Buchanan got into trouble recently by pointing out that if Elena Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court, there will not be a single Protestant Justice, although Protestants make up half the U.S. population and dominated the court for generations.

Hasbarapocalypse — Leaked Frank Luntz Memo: Israeli Public Diplomacy in US on Flotilla Failed Dismally Posted: 23 Jul 2010 11:19 AM PDT The Israel Project (TIP), an American Hasbara outfit, commissioned Republican political consultant Frank Luntz to examine the effectiveness of Israel's public diplomacy in the US on the Flotilla debacle. TIP gave the memo to the Prime Minister's Office, where someone promptly leaked it to Chico Menashe, Channel Ten TV News diplomatic affairs correspondent.

Love Conquers All: The Message At the Heart Of The Road Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:39 AM PDT Warning: This contains spoilers for those who have not yet seen the movie or read the book! The Road, directed by John Hillcoat based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, is an extremely powerful film because it explores the fundamental human condition and the basic struggle between good and evil.

An external cure on mankind? Posted: 23 Jul 2010 09:47 AM PDT "I was in two minds about blogging again. By the time October 2008 came around, I figured I had just about reached a final, fixed position on the causes of 90% the ills of this world and that there was really nothing more I could say. My position today remains as totally rock solid now as it did back then. However, I will restate it here now, for the benefit of new readers, or for anyone who didn't quite get the message last time around.

International labor report's omissions reveal pro-Israel bias Posted: 23 Jul 2010 09:41 AM PDT Every June, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) releases its Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights. According to a press release that accompanied the 2010 publication (which reports on events in 2009), "the Middle East remains among the regions of the world where union rights are least protected." The report describes repression meted out to Palestinian workers and trade unionists by both the Israeli authorities and the Palestinian factions. But ITUC's omissions and brevity both disguise the complexity of life for Palestinian workers, and reveal some of the union confederation's own biases.

Jew spew - Part one and two Posted: 23 Jul 2010 09:35 AM PDT Feeling the Hate In Jerusalem on Eve of Obama's Cairo Address.

Latest documents advocating the ban of depleted uranium Posted: 23 Jul 2010 08:50 AM PDT To all those and their associates who remain in denial about the ill-effects of DU in order to keep it as a deadly nuclear tool in the DOD arsenal, let me submit for their and everyone else's edification some recent documents gathered from reliable government and non-government sources. I have relied on these impeccable sources partially to provide totally independent information for study. According to the UK Uranium Weapons Network, now submitting its evidence to the Iraq War Inquiry, "The UK Uranium Weapons Network (UWN) announced today that it has submitted its report on British military use of depleted uranium (DU) ammunition in the 2003 Iraq War to the Chilcot Inquiry.

Can Kyrgyzstan Become a Democracy in Russia's Backyard? Posted: 23 Jul 2010 08:01 AM PDT In recent weeks, Kyrgyzstan has offered little in the way of good news. Once regarded as the best hope for democracy in Central Asia, the country's government was thrown out in a coup last April. Just months later, the southern part of the country descended into communal warfare, sending tens of thousands fleeing, many across the border into Uzbekistan. Seventy-five thousand people are still displaced. Amid the violence, Kyrgyzstan's hopes for democracy seemed like a distant fantasy.

Human Rights Watch flotilla stance mirrors that of US, Israel Posted: 23 Jul 2010 07:33 AM PDT Supporters of Israel often accuse Human Rights Watch (HRW), one of the most prominent human rights organizations in the world, of having an anti-Israel bias or even being anti-Semitic. For instance, a recent lengthy article in The New Republic accused the group of paying "disproportionate attention to Israeli misdeeds." Similarly, Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz has said that HRW exhibits a "willful blindness when it comes to Israel, and its enemies have completely undermined the credibility of a once important human rights organization." Indeed, there is no shortage of other similar critiques of the organization by supporters of Israel.

Jew puts Holocaust on trial Posted: 23 Jul 2010 07:30 AM PDT It isn't abortion. It isn't illegal immigration. No, it isn't sex either. No, it isn't health problems, it isn't personal finance and it isn't marriage or anything like that. It's not crime, fraud, war or racism. It isn't 9/11 and it isn't Kennedy's death. It also isn't Martin Luther Kings death. None of those things. We, as adults, are allowed to ask questions about all of them. Well, maybe not 9/11 but we still discuss it openly. We are not allowed to question the Holocaust and the 6 million Jews that were killed. NO Questions allowed. WE know the facts.

It's Not About Oil Posted: 23 Jul 2010 06:27 AM PDT The common themes of Mark Hackard's informative articles are that the US elites oppose the spirit of the East due to liberal ideology and old school national interests. The former argument I agree with; the latter, on the other hand, seems to imply that those ruling America actually care about its citizens, or at least those which happen to be corporate shareholders. One will search in vain for a "rational"-that is, economic-reason for the Iraq War, which couldn't be paid for if you stole all the country's oil for a hundred years.  As for the petroleum companies, The Israel Lobby revealed that they have actually traditionally opposed a bellicose foreign policy in the Middle East, preferring to peacefully conduct business with whoever happens to be in power

Mel's Alleged Death Threats, Tinsley's Lonely Summer, and Prince Albert Sets a Date Posted: 23 Jul 2010 06:13 AM PDT After last week's nonstop Mel news, with explosive tapes being released daily, this was a relatively quiet week—until now. Now the witch hunt begins: who exactly sold the tapes to RadarOnline.com? One report points the finger at the younger sister of Oksana Grigorieva. Oksana has denied leaking the tapes, but now one source says "I suspect that if the authorities look at the sister [Natalie], they'll find a wire transfer or a check to her from the website." If Oksana was involved, she could be found in contempt of court. She's also in hot water over a text message she sent Mel that could prove extortion. Meanwhile, there are more reports of Mad Mel spewing hatred. Oksana claims Mel told her "I want Jew blood on my hands" after his anti-Semitic rant was leaked years ago, and that he hired a team of private investigators to follow a famous Hollywood figure and wanted him "stripped naked, kneecapped, and left in the heat." Turns out that "Hollywood figure" is TMZ's Harvey Levin, who's led the charge of anti-Mel coverage for a few years. But it also seems Oksana's camp, who told Levin about the "plot," had a few details wrong, making the validity of the violent story suspicious.

Writing the Last Chapter Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:48 AM PDT The plight of the Palestinian Arabs has been well documented and their cause kept alive by the indestructible spirit of this courageous and proud people. Those who were supposed to disappear from history refused to go away. They endured, struggled, and resisted all attempts to make permanent their dispossession and occupation. The story of Palestine and its people has been written, and narrated in many books, but Ramzy Baroud's "My Father was a freedom fighter" is not just another book telling the story of Palestine as a sub-plot of 20th century political history, but a unique and necessary Palestinian-centered narrative. Most accounts of the Palestinian experience inevitably focus on the rise and fall of empires, international political intrigue, great power rivalry, and changing global political landscapes with the Palestinians appearing almost always as mere spectators at best, and sometimes a dispensable nuisance.

If Kosovo, Why Not Palestine? Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:37 AM PDT On July 22, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on the following question posed to it by Serbia: "Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international law?" By a 10-4 majority, the court ruled that, because "general international law contains no applicable prohibition of declarations of independence", Kosovo's declaration of independence in February 2008, coordinated with and supported by the American and most EU governments and subsequently recognized by 69 countries, "did not violate general international law." The clear implication is that no declarations of independence violate international law and that all are therefore "legal".

Madness of McCarthyism - A Primer for Israel Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:32 AM PDT 'We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men.' -- (Edward R. Murrow)

'This Time We Went Too Far' – Book Review Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:23 AM PDT Finkelstein explains how Hamas's acceptance of a two-state solution (on pre-1967 borders), and the June 2008 ceasefire brokered by Egypt, presented Israel with "a daunting challenge". Israel would need to provoke Hamas into resuming its attacks "and then radicalize or destroy it, thereby eliminating it as a legitimate negotiating partner or as an obstacle to settlement on Israel's terms". Israel's foreign minister Tzipi Livni wanted a period of calm but said any extended truce "harms the Israeli strategic goal, empowers Hamas, and gives the impression that Israel recognizes the movement". Israel's strategic goal, Finkelstein suggests, was to retain the valuable parts of the West Bank.

Combatants for Peace Posted: 23 Jul 2010 04:30 AM PDT A group of former Israeli and Palestinian fighters publicly choose peace over arms.

The Lockerbie bombers's Posted: 23 Jul 2010 04:30 AM PDT What are the implications of BP's alleged role in al-Merghani's controversial release?

Friday: 1 Iraqi Killed, 33 Wounded Posted: 23 Jul 2010 04:17 AM PDT Only one Iraqi death was reported today, but 33 Iraqis were wounded in new attacks. Three U.S. soldiers who were wounded at their base in Nasariya as well. Iraq trudged on without a new government, but U.S. President Barack Obama urged Iraqis to hasten its formation, while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqiya-head Ayad Allawi. One officer was killed and 13 Iraqis were wounded in a car bomb blast in Kirkuk. The chief of police was among the wounded, but his son was the officer killed. Nine wanted men were captured south of the city.

False Flag Cyber Attack Could Takedown The Internet Posted: 23 Jul 2010 03:59 AM PDT An increasing clamour to restrict and control the internet on behalf of the government, the Pentagon, the intelligence community and their private corporate arms, could result in a staged cyber attack being used as justification. Over recent months we have seen a great increase in media coverage of inflated fears over a possible "electronic Pearl Harbor" event, with reports claiming that the U.S. could be "felled within 15 minutes".

This Week at War Posted: 23 Jul 2010 03:17 AM PDT Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrived in South Korea on July 21 to display their commitment to that country's defense. In March, a North Korean torpedo sank the South Korean corvette Cheonan, killing 46 sailors. Last month, South Korea took its case to the U.N. Security Council but was unable to get much satisfaction -- China, with North Korea's stability its paramount concern, blocked the Security Council from explicitly naming North Korea as the perpetrator.

Women prepared to break the siege of Gaza Posted: 23 Jul 2010 03:12 AM PDT The Maryam, an all-female Lebanese aid ship, currently docked in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, is getting ready to set sail for Gaza in the next few days. The ship, which aims to break Israel's siege on the Palestinian territory, will carry about fifty aid workers, including some US nuns keen to deliver aid to the long-suffering women and children of Gaza. "We were all drawn to the project ... united by a feeling of stark injustice," says Samar Hajj, one of the organizers of the Maryam, which is named after the mother of Christ.

Jesse Ventura Talks with Alex Jones About Government Harassment of His TV Show Posted: 23 Jul 2010 01:58 AM PDT In an exclusive interview on the Alex Jones Show today, Jesse Ventura will talk about the U.S. military's attempt to undermine his popular TruTV show, "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura." Jesse was prevented from filming a stand-up in front of the Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery for an episode on government involvement in the JFK assassination. Despite the military ban, Ventura managed to film the segment. "I did it anyway," he told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

What do we Have in common with Stanley McChrystal? Posted: 23 Jul 2010 01:13 AM PDT Despite the international media's preoccupation with the world cup, news of the rupture in the relationship between commander of the US forces in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, and the American administration, and then his dismissal, occupied a significant share of media attention.  Most of the media, however, avoided raising the real questions and were only satisfied with responding to curiosity about the dispute between Joseph Biden and McChrystal and the "deep disappointment" expressed by US Chief of Staff, Michael Mullen over the issue.  The media focused on what was called McChrystal's criticism of President Obama, although the focus should be, from a purely American perspective, and as expressed by head of the Senate foreign affairs committee, John Kerry, "our first priority should be our mission in Afghanistan and our ability to proceed with skill".

Israel and Indian Hell Posted: 23 Jul 2010 12:32 AM PDT Modern India is land of many paradox. In population, it's the world's second largest population after China, but it has more billionaires than China; India is home to over 2,000 ethnic groups, each with unique language; it has followers of world's all major religions; India has the largest low-caste community in the world (over 200 million), the largest unwed widows (33 million) and home to world's largest 'Holy Cow' population (over one million). The Hindu majority is also credited with killing around one million unborn girls through abortion and by other means. Since its creation in August 1947 – New Delhi has been fighting with more than 18 military separatist groups in India. These call for either a new state within Indian dominion or a totally independent state from New Delhi, such as Occupied Muslim-majority Jammu & Kashmir Valley, Nagaland and Khalistan. However, the greatest threat to India as a sovereign state doesn't come from its local rebel groups or its neighboring 'enemies' (Pakistan, Bangladesh, China and Nepal) but from its anti-Muslim ally, Israel, which since 1990s have been behind India's local terrorism and its wars with its neighbors.

Obama's Afghan War in Perspective Posted: 22 Jul 2010 11:09 PM PDT Practically everyone now understands that the war in Afghanistan is going very badly. This is not because the Taliban and other "insurgent" forces are strong and their foreign foes weak. It is because of the Afghans' indomitable spirit of independence that is only intensified by each civilian death due to house raids or bombs. Republican Party chair Michael Steele says "This [war] isn't something the U.S. wanted to engage in." But it should be clear how we arrived at this point.  And since sometimes we forget how many outrages have led to it, and how the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are part of a continuum, let me try to sum it up.

Steve Watson: Google Launches Cover-Up of 'Google' Spies' Story Posted: 22 Jul 2010 10:06 PM PDT The ongoing saga with Google censorship has continued today as it emerged that once again the search engine giant removed a key term from it's trends pages. Alex Jones yesterday asked his readers and listeners to send the term 'Google spies' to the top of the trends charts in the latest effort to fight back against the company's censorship of his films on YouTube. The term related to a story we prepared detailing how Google is intimately linked with US intelligence and has a history of censorship and surveillance. Within a short time the term had hit the top spot with the "volcanic" status added (see below -- click for enlargement). As you can see, the effect of the term being pushed to the top of the trends charts is that bloggers and journalists pick up the story and begin to document it. A snowball effect ensues and millions of people all over the world are more likely to be directed toward the story. However, within half an hour the term had been completely removed by Google and resulted in no news story links. These actions replicated Google's activity in the days beforehand when it removed other terms such as 'The Obama Deception', 'Infowars', 'Fall of the Republic' and 'Google Censorship' -- which had all become some of the most searched topics on the internet. This is the epicentre of the infowar.

The attack on the Euro and the dismantling of the European Union Posted: 22 Jul 2010 08:14 PM PDT The crisis of the euro results from a policy choice, that of the EU authorities pawning off the common currency, instead of restructuring the Greek sovereign debt. Such a restructuring could have safeguarded the euro, but it would have necessitated a cash injection from the banks, which would have forfeited part of their debt in the operation. The French financial institutions are said to have about €50 billion of Greek debt on their balance sheets, whereas €28 billion is attributed to the German banks [1]. However, the protection of several dozen billions of euros held by the financial institutions does not justify such risk-taking. The fundamental stakes, in putting pressure on the euro, is to make the workers pay for the crisis and thus to effect a gigantic transfer of income from households to business, principally towards the financial institutions.

Apartheid Plain and Simple Posted: 22 Jul 2010 07:41 PM PDT As if the preponderance of discriminatory laws already swelling the Israeli legal system were not enough, the Israeli parliament — the Knesset — is slated to debate a fresh installment of anti-Arab draft laws aimed at "reasserting the Jewish nature of Israel". One of these draft laws, tabled by a pro- settler party called Habayt ha Yahudi, or the Jewish Home, would force all citizens and would-be citizens of Israel to declare their loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state. The draft law specifically targets Palestinians married or wishing to marry other Palestinians who are already Israeli citizens — ie Palestinians living in Israel proper.

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