Ecuador Coup Attempt Engineered by the CIA

Rebel Newsflash: Ecuador Coup Attempt Engineered by the CIA (plus 30 more items)

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• Ecuador Coup Attempt Engineered by the CIA
• Sony Forced To Disassociate Itself With Eco-Fascist Group
• Israel in America: Obama's dance of death
• Colbert strikes again
• Recent research on Individualism/Collectivism
• Rick Sanchez on Jewish Media Power
• Who Are Their Prey?
• US Scrambles to Save Peace Talks
• Uncle Bob Wants You
• The mendacity of "restraint"
• For Palestinians in Israel, "transfer" threat nothing new
• DOJ Urges Citizens to Report "Extremists" Handing Out Literature
• Matt Taibbi's Great Derangement
• Shooting from Mavi Marmara: Time for Israel to Put Up or Shut Up
• Execution at Dawn in Holy Jerusalem
• Obama's Cave-in to Israel: Letter Suggests US not Honest Broker
• Indigenous Resistance, from Colombia to Palestine
• Canada and Israel – Book Review
• October Surprise: Terror Hysteria Recycled In Election Ploy
• Monday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 57 Wounded
• Sumud in the Jordan Valley: Ongoing Nakba, Ongoing Resistance.
• Israeli Palestinian Talks Halted: Now What?
• Israeli settlers burn yet another mosque in occupied Palestine
• Obama letter confirms Palestinian fears
• The Empire Strikes Back: California Withholds Toilet Paper
• Get to know a Muslim, rather than hate one
• "Rule of Lie," America's "Wingnut" Press
• One of "Gods Chosen" prevents bleeding pregnant woman going to hospital
• Drunk Israeli Settler Brags How Jews Killed Jesus
• IDF shoots tied and blindfolded prisoner
• Exodus of Jewish Advisors from Obama White House Likely Not an Omen of Good Things to Come

Ecuador Coup Attempt Engineered by the CIA Posted: 05 Oct 2010 05:27 AM PDT Ecuador's police forces played the key role in the coup attempt which shattered the country on September 30. The passing of a law affecting the police officers' bonuses and job benefits became a pretext for the rebellion which erupted in the capital city of Quito and the Guayquil seaport town. Actually, the law was not supposed to entail pay reductions, but those who masterminded the coup managed to convince the police that it would and thus provoked the uprising.

Sony Forced To Disassociate Itself With Eco-Fascist Group Posted: 05 Oct 2010 05:20 AM PDT As a result of the huge backlash in response to the shocking 10:10 Global climate change infomercial, in which children are liquidated for not expressing support for reducing carbon emissions, Sony has been forced to disassociate itself from the eco-fascist group behind the video. In an email, Sony Europe Director of Corporate Communications Nick Sharples has "taken the decision to disassociate ourselves from 10:10 at this time."

Israel in America: Obama's dance of death Posted: 05 Oct 2010 04:45 AM PDT Obama has just lost his closest adviser and chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who is making the unusual transition from national to municipal politics. His replacement, the quiet Washington insider Peter Rouse, head of the Obama-Biden 2008 transition team, is the antithesis of his sharp-tongued predecessor. "Pete was affectionately known as the 101st  senator," effused Obama. He is also losing his closest adviser David Axelrod (pragmatist Emanuel described their difference as prose versus poetry) and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.

Colbert strikes again Posted: 05 Oct 2010 04:32 AM PDT An absolute mockery and travesty... What better to symbolize the illegitimacy of the current US government?

Recent research on Individualism/Collectivism Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:59 AM PDT In cross-cultural perspective, the unique thing about European culture is the tendency for individualism. Individualism is the basis for Western modernization - for why the West has dominated the rest of the world. It is intimately linked with a suite of traits, including democratic and republic forms of government, relatively high status for women, relatively low ethnocentrism, moral universalism, and science. Research on Individualism/Collectivism has become a rather large academic industry. Recent research has found genetic differences between individualist and  collectivist societies and has linked this dimension to economic growth and innovation. Several of these strands come together in a paper by Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gérard Roland , "Culture, Institutions, and the Wealth of Nations " put out by the Center for Economic Policy Research (short online version: "Does Culture Affect Long-run  Growth .")

Rick Sanchez on Jewish Media Power Posted: 05 Oct 2010 02:13 AM PDT How Jewish is Hollywood? That's the question Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein asked two years ago just before Christmas. In answer, he wrote: When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.

Who Are Their Prey? Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:14 AM PDT Let us begin by asking ourselves, "Who owns the corporate-mainstream media?" And of course, the answer is large, very large, corporations own the corporate media. But, who owns the controlling stock of these large corporations, and controls their "news" and aired content? The answer is the foreign, privately owned International Monetary/Banking Cartel, that controls the money and credit of the world. Make sense?

US Scrambles to Save Peace Talks Posted: 04 Oct 2010 11:00 PM PDT With a key Arab League meeting delayed until Friday, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is scrambling to keep one-month-old direct Israeli- Palestinian peace talks alive. The stakes are high. If the talks fall apart, a number of observers believe a third intifada could break out on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem where tensions have been simmering over the demolition of Palestinian homes for some months.

Uncle Bob Wants You Posted: 04 Oct 2010 11:00 PM PDT Uncle Bob Gates wants more young people to join the military. In a Sept. 29 speech at Duke University, Defense Secretary Gates asked students, "If America's best and brightest will not step forward, who will?" The likes of you, Uncle Bob, that's who.

The mendacity of "restraint" Posted: 04 Oct 2010 03:42 PM PDT As Israel's self-imposed and largely irrelevant settlement freeze ends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked settlers to show "restraint." It is an interesting choice of adjective, for people who show restraint are the injured and outraged; they are victims who although entitled to a full measure of justice settle for less to maintain good will and harmony. In the context of the West Bank settlers and Israel's illegal colonization no adjective could be less appropriate. Yet unwittingly it also reveals the mendacity behind Israel's whole approach to these negotiations.

For Palestinians in Israel, "transfer" threat nothing new Posted: 04 Oct 2010 02:28 PM PDT Controversy has arisen after Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's comments to the United Nations' General Assembly on 28 September. During his address the leader of the ultra-right wing Yisrael Beiteinu party outlined his proposal for a "population and territory swap" in the context of establishing an ostensible Palestinian state during this current round of US-brokered direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. His plan, which he first announced in 2004, includes a re-drawing of the borders -- moving Palestinian towns and villages currently inside the state to within the confines of a separate Palestinian entity ("Avigdor Lieberman: Olmert's newest colleague," Institute for Middle East Understanding, 12 November 2006). This move would be in return for evacuations of some, but not all, settlements in the occupied West Bank. Settlements in occupied East Jerusalem would not be but would be annexed to the State of Israel under Lieberman's plan. Lieberman, a settler himself, lives in the illegal West Bank settlement of Nokdim.

DOJ Urges Citizens to Report "Extremists" Handing Out Literature Posted: 04 Oct 2010 12:57 PM PDT If you posted an Obama Joker poster or Tea Party literature on a public bulletin board, the Justice Department is warning you are a possible terrorist. According to a hand-out distributed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, a component of the Justice Department, "extremist literature distributed at the mall or posted on public bulletin boards" is suspicious and a potential indicator of terrorist activities.

Matt Taibbi's Great Derangement Posted: 04 Oct 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Shooting from Mavi Marmara: Time for Israel to Put Up or Shut Up Posted: 04 Oct 2010 12:32 PM PDT The inappropriately named Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) is reputed to have links with Israeli intelligence. On 15 September the organization published a report that was based in part on information from ªefik Dinç. Mr Dinç had been on the Mavi Marmara for the newspaper Habertürk and has written a book on the raid entitled 'The Bloodstained Mavi Marmara'. At present the book is only available in Turkish. Although there is no reason to doubt the ITIC translations into English, one can certainly criticise the way ITIC has blended its own material with that of Mr Dinç's.

Execution at Dawn in Holy Jerusalem Posted: 04 Oct 2010 12:02 PM PDT Fethiya with her children after receiving the news of the execution of her her husband. The darkness was still a lowered curtain in the early hours of dawn in the holy occupied city of Jerusalem. The crows were flying in the sky, witnesses of the Israeli terrorist execution of a poor Palestinian laborer. Chasing, beating, torturing and detaining laborers by israel while they try to enter Jerusalem from the side of Al-Issawiya village north of Jerusalem is a normal occurrence.

Obama's Cave-in to Israel: Letter Suggests US not Honest Broker Posted: 04 Oct 2010 10:53 AM PDT The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by President Barack Obama last week to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more sceptical about US and Israeli roles in the current peace talks. According to the leak, Obama made a series of extraordinarily generous offers to Israel, many of them at the expense of the Palestinians, in return for a single minor concession from Netanyahu: a two-month extension of the partial freeze on settlement growth.

Indigenous Resistance, from Colombia to Palestine Posted: 04 Oct 2010 10:44 AM PDT "They only see our water, our land, our trees. They don't care about us. They want the land -- without the people on it." These words are not of a Palestinian farmer but of Justo Conda, governor of Lopez Adentro Indigenous Reserve in southwestern Colombia, whose community was repeatedly threatened with displacement under former president Alvaro Uribe Velez. Uribe, recently appointed by the United Nations to investigate Israel's fatal attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, has a notoriously horrific track record on human rights. Less explored are the clear parallels between his government's mistreatment of indigenous peoples of Colombia and Israel's abuses of the indigenous people of Palestine.

Canada and Israel – Book Review Posted: 04 Oct 2010 10:36 AM PDT While much is made of U.S. support of Israel, its unstinting rhetoric and its similarly unstinting financial generosity, Canada has likewise been a strong supporter of Zionism and Israel. Not only has Canada been strong, they have in certain respects been stronger and more faithful to Israel than the U.S. In an enlightening little book, Canada and Israel - Building Apartheid, Yves Engler documents the strength of the Canadian tendency to give full support to Israel regardless of international law.

October Surprise: Terror Hysteria Recycled In Election Ploy Posted: 04 Oct 2010 10:13 AM PDT The establishment media is giving full court press to announcements from US and European authorities that airport lobbies are being targeted for terror attacks in a recycled version of the laughable 2007 incident in which two retards set fire to a jeep outside Glasgow airport, a non-event that authorities hyped beyond all recognition amidst a similar wave of hysteria to that which we're witnessing now. The October surprise has arrived, and it's a contrived and cynical ploy to frighten Americans into putting their trust back in the government by waving the familiar boogeyman of the outside threat.

Monday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 57 Wounded Posted: 04 Oct 2010 09:38 AM PDT At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 57 more were wounded in numerous attacks across the country. While Baghdad suffered significant violence, particularly towards government employees, predominantly Kurdish areas of the country also saw many attacks. Meanwhile, the Iraqiya party called on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step aside and allow their party leader, Ayad Allawi, to take the premiership as acknowledgement that Iraqiya narrowly won March elections. In Jalawla, four policemen were killed and at least 17 more were wounded when two bombs exploded outside a Peshmerga fighter's home.

Sumud in the Jordan Valley: Ongoing Nakba, Ongoing Resistance. Posted: 04 Oct 2010 08:57 AM PDT Ethnic cleansing, perpetrated through forced displacement, persists as one of the main strategies of the Zionist colonisation and settlement of Palestine. Historically, displacement began with the Nakba, the expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and property in 1948, which set the material basis for the establishment of a state with a Jewish majority in historic Palestine. The strategy of the Nakba, however, did not end in 1948; it is ongoing, albeit at a different intensity. Its objective is to consolidate the Jewish character of the state of Israel and to facilitate the creeping expansion of its deliberately undefined borders.

Israeli Palestinian Talks Halted: Now What? Posted: 04 Oct 2010 08:27 AM PDT A few days ago, the Israeli moratorium on the construction of illegal settlements in the West Bank ended and the building was reinitiated at a frightening pace. Mahmoud Abbas said in various occasions that he would abandon peace talks if Israel wouldn't extend the moratorium. Accordingly, Yasser Abed Rabbo, the general secretary of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, announced it would halt direct talks with Israel as long as settlement construction continues. In Jordan, Abbas said that he "held Israel responsible for halting the talks, citing its continuation of settlement building;" the statement was released by Jordan's royal court. It is important to remember that Abbas is holding his position as President of the Palestinian Authority illegally. Elected to serve until January 9, 2009, Mr. Abbas unilaterally extended his term as president of the Palestinian Authority for another year and continues in office even after that deadline expired. For a long time Abbas was little more than an Israeli puppet completely dependent on the Israeli Administration will to recognize his legitimacy; yet it was forced by the last into a very tough situation. Now what? Can the PLO - and Abbas - keep holding the reign in the West Bank when it is being shunned by Hamas and Israel?

Israeli settlers burn yet another mosque in occupied Palestine Posted: 04 Oct 2010 08:00 AM PDT Hours after a meeting between the Israel Defence Forces' Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, and his Palestinian interlocutors in Bethlehem, Israeli settlers have set fire to the Ambiya Mosque south of the city. This despicable act was not the first of its kind and there is no doubt that it will not be the last. The arson attack is part of a growing campaign of vandalism and terror carried out by illegal settlers against Islamic places of worship across the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Even as we at the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) draw attention to this attack, at best it is likely to feature as a minor footnote in the mainstream media; at worst, it will be ignored altogether. If this had been Muslims attacking a synagogue somewhere, the reaction would be completely different, of course. World leaders would be condemning another "Islamic terrorist" attack and warning of a renewed onslaught by Al-Qaeda, and media coverage would be widespread.

Obama letter confirms Palestinian fears Posted: 04 Oct 2010 06:30 AM PDT The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by US President Barack Obama last week to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more skeptical about US and Israeli roles in the current peace talks. According to the leak, Obama made a series of extraordinarily generous offers to Israel, many of them at the expense of the Palestinians, in return for a single minor concession from Netanyahu: a two-month extension of the partial freeze on settlement growth.

The Empire Strikes Back: California Withholds Toilet Paper Posted: 04 Oct 2010 03:14 AM PDT It's interesting what an increasingly destitute government will cut rather than welfare rolls and union pensions. And of course, the current crop of politicians in California would never dare start deporting the vast numbers of illegal aliens to reduce the crippling costs they impose on public schools for their kids and county hospitals every time they show up in an emergency room. An article from NBC reports: "There are a few simple ingredients that any state needs in order to function. One is a budget. Another is toilet paper. Remote rural state parks will likely run out of toilet paper by early October, says an internal email from the state Finance Department. We've reached this crisis because it's taken legislators a record amount of time — 85 days — to come to something resembling an agreement about the state budget. Vendors, meanwhile, haven't been paid since the beginning of July. Also suffering are health clinics for the poor, financial aid recipients and child-development programs serving over a quarter million kids. Programs like those have to be put on hold until there's a spending plan for them."

Get to know a Muslim, rather than hate one Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT A strong work ethic, devotion to God and family, conservative views on abortion and sexuality — on these scores and more, the newcomers would appear to be right in stride with the traditional-values folk in Anytown, USA. In view of the Christian gospel followed by most of the established residents, you might assume they'd extend a hand of hospitality. You certainly wouldn't expect them to resist the newcomers' worship centers, would you? Or squander an opportunity to enlist potential allies in the fight against the country's inexorable drift toward coarseness and secularism?

"Rule of Lie," America's "Wingnut" Press Posted: 03 Oct 2010 03:04 PM PDT President Ahmadinejad of Iran has asked for a UN investigation of 9/11.  For this, he has been branded a "wingnut" and "evildoer" by the American press.  However, the 9/11 Commission itself asked for a criminal investigation, saying it uncovered a conspiracy and was prevented from getting the truth.  They were quickly silenced.  9 years later, top scientists from around the world, supported by engineers, architects, military and intelligence officials agree on one thing.  What thing is that?  We will never know.  Reporting that "one thing" would be the last thing any member of the press would ever do.  A day later, they would become unpaid bloggers and have their name on the "no fly" list.  Do things like this happen?  How long did CNN's Rick Sanchez last after pointing out that Jon Stewart's fanatic pro-Israel bias is a form of "bigotry?"

One of "Gods Chosen" prevents bleeding pregnant woman going to hospital Posted: 03 Oct 2010 11:07 AM PDT USA Tax payers pay $10 000 a year to each Israeli man, woman and child. Israeli Occupation Force Prevents Palestinian Ambulances and Sick Women Going Hospital.

Drunk Israeli Settler Brags How Jews Killed Jesus Posted: 03 Oct 2010 11:05 AM PDT Drunk israeli settler brags how jews killed Jesus

IDF shoots tied and blindfolded prisoner Posted: 03 Oct 2010 11:04 AM PDT Today, B'Tselem is publishing a video clip documenting a soldier firing a rubber coated steel bullet, from extremely close range, at a cuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee. The shooting took place in the presence of a lieutenant colonel, who was holing the Palestinian's arm when the shot was fired. The incident took place on 7 July, in Nil'in, a village in the West Bank. A Palestinian demonstrator, Ashraf Abu Rahma, 27, was stopped by soldiers, who cuffed and blindfolded him for about thirty minutes, during which time, according to Abu-Rahma, they beat him. Afterwards, a group of soldiers and border policemen led him to an army jeep. The video clip shows a soldier aim his weapon at the demonstrator's legs, from about 1.5 meters away, and fire a rubber coated steel bullet at him. Abu-Rahma stated that the bullet hit his left toe, received treatment from an army medic, and released by the soldiers

Exodus of Jewish Advisors from Obama White House Likely Not an Omen of Good Things to Come Posted: 03 Oct 2010 09:23 AM PDT While many – understandably sick to death of watching as powerful Jewish interests voraciously chew their way into the highest centers of power both in America and throughout the world – are no doubt cheering at the announced departure of Rahm Israel Emmanuel as White House Chief of Staff, there is more reason to look at this latest development with a certain amount of apprehension than relief.

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