New Revelations on Hariri Assassination

Rebel Newsflash: New Revelations on Hariri Assassination (plus 12 more items)

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• New Revelations on Hariri Assassination
• Zionism's Holocaustianity Big Lie
• Professor Richard Falk on Universal Jurisdiction
• Sanction Congress, Not One Member
• For sale: a bus-sized satellite?
• WikiLeaks: Curbing Korean chaos
• Aids: Is the tide turning?
• Pushing US Immigration reform
• Kosovars tolerate fake marriages
• Thoughts on Germany and Palestine
• Nine Obama Pardons Mock Equity and Justice
• My aunt the revolutionary
• Obama's Middle East turkeys

New Revelations on Hariri Assassination Posted: 05 Dec 2010 06:04 AM PST Thierry Meyssan of Voltaire.org has published an excellent article with new revelations on the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri in Beirut.  These revelations support my early analysis that the Lebanese leader was killed by an Israeli missile fired from a drone. Meyssan's latest article, "Revelations on Rafik Hariri's Assassination", reveals important new details about the weapon, the crime, and the cover-up.

Zionism's Holocaustianity Big Lie Posted: 05 Dec 2010 04:48 AM PST In the year 1900, a full four decades prior to WW2, a famous Jewish Rabbi let slip the plans and motivation for the invention of the Holocaust myth. The purpose: to gain sympathy and support for Zionism (i.e. creation of a Jewish State in Palestine). Here's what he said: "There are 6,000,000 living, bleeding, suffering arguments in favor of Zionism." JUNE 11, 1900 - NEWYORK TIMES - page 7 - Rabbi Wise's Address

Professor Richard Falk on Universal Jurisdiction Posted: 04 Dec 2010 09:50 AM PST I think it is important to realise that the whole idea of universal jurisdiction is to take account of the weakness of international institutions in upholding international criminal law. There has always been the sense that national judicial institutions reinforce the norms of international law and take account of that institutional vacuum that exists in international society; this has been a historical practice in relation to piracy and to other kinds of international crimes that were a threat to the international community as a whole. The idea of Nuremberg after World War Two was that crimes against the peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes are also offences against the whole of international society. There is an interest on the part of all states in trying to implement those norms of international criminal law. The American Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg said the law the state applied to the German survivors of World War Two will not be respected unless those who sit in judgement uphold it in relation to their own behaviour; that it was a promise to the future.

Sanction Congress, Not One Member Posted: 04 Dec 2010 02:31 AM PST The Constitution's Article I, Section 5, clause 2 authorizes the House of Representatives to discipline or "punish" its members for "disorderly Behavior," as well as for criminal, civil liability, or other misconduct issues. Ostensibly it's to protect the institutional integrity and reputation of the body, an impossible challenge given its longstanding record, notably over the past three decades, deserving far more than censure. Punishment may be by reprimand, censure, expulsion, and/or fines, monetary restitution, loss of seniority, and suspension or loss of certain privileges. In addition, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct may issue a formal Committee reproach by "Letter of Reproval" for misconduct not warranting full House action. It may also express disapproval by informal letters and/or direct communications with members.

For sale: a bus-sized satellite? Posted: 03 Dec 2010 06:41 AM PST Want to buy your very own state-of-the-art satellite? The idea sounds outlandish, but an international group of internet activists are trying to raise $150,000 in the hope of eventually purchasing the Terrestar-1 satellite to provide free internet connections to people in the developing world.

WikiLeaks: Curbing Korean chaos Posted: 02 Dec 2010 05:47 AM PST There is a very real danger that some analysts, diplomats, commentators and politicians are taking all that is revealed by Wikileaks at face value, without questioning the veracity of some of the information gleaned from third sources and some of the information transmitted back by US diplomats, believing as they did that they were doing so under the cloak of anonymity. Take for instance the views of US diplomats who had met with their South Korean counterparts and who had apparently discussed China's attitude to North Korea.

Aids: Is the tide turning? Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:06 AM PST According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) there are currently 33 million people said to be HIV positive, over the past 12 months there were 2.6 million new cases. Last year 1.8 million HIV positive persons died of Aids-related-illnesses. The figures provide grim reading. Historically, being HIV positive meant an inevitable early passing as a result of Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (Aids). However, due to progress primarily in medical science, the tides are turning, with HIV positive persons experiencing an improvement in the quality of life as well as an increase in life expectancy.

Pushing US Immigration reform Posted: 30 Nov 2010 03:04 AM PST Democratic lawmakers will attempt to summon up their waning power by using the so-called "lame duck" session of Congress to pass what will likely be the closest they will get to comprehensive immigration reform. Nancy Pelosi the house speaker and Harry Reid the Democratic senate leader will shepherd remaining members of their dwindling flock to pass the DREAM Act, which provides a six- year conditional path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US by their parents before they were 16 years of age.

Kosovars tolerate fake marriages Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:23 AM PST Each time she goes to sleep, Valbona, 35, from Peja, western Kosovo, looks at her wedding photograph taken 13 years ago. Beside her, she sees her smiling husband. Today, that moment is just a memory. Two years ago, her husband remarried a German woman. Not only did Valbona, mother of their four children aged four to 11, know of his plan, she approved it.

Thoughts on Germany and Palestine Posted: 05 Dec 2010 01:34 AM PST   We listened, spoke, networked, bought each others' books, ate, hugged, cried, and laughed.  I mostly spent lots of time in thinking; maybe because waiting at airports or because such conferences give us opportunity to reflect or whatever.  Thoughts are a mixed blessing.  In that labyrinth of neurons firing sometimes uncontrollably, we are transported to the past, to the present, to the future, whipsawed by images and stories and sounds and smells.  The one minute I am thinking of my delay of three hours at the bridge to Jordan while Israeli Shin Bet agents scurry around trying to figure out what to do about me.  I reflect on my angered indignation verbalized twice to a young white clean-cut guy (maybe Russian?).  Did I challenge him too much or was it too little?

Nine Obama Pardons Mock Equity and Justice Posted: 04 Dec 2010 06:49 AM PST After the annual Thanksgiving Day turkey "pardoning" travesty, Obama granted nine executive pardons, a December 3 White House press release announcing them by name, date of sentencing, and offense committed. They date from Russell James Dixon's June 23, 1960 two years probation for a felony liquor law violation to Scoey Lathaniel Morris' May 21, 1999 three years probation and $1,200 restitution for passing counterfeit obligations or securities.

My aunt the revolutionary Posted: 29 Nov 2010 02:57 AM PST As a young girl I remember rummaging through a box of old family photographs from 1940s and 1950s Iraq. There was one of my grandparents on their wedding day and others of exuberant young girls in pearl necklaces and smirking boys in ironed shorts. Everyone seemed to be smiling - hinting at a more carefree era in Iraq's history. But one particular photograph jumped out at me. It was of a young woman with a piercing gaze. This, I was told, was my aunt and the more I asked about her, the more fascinated I became.

Obama's Middle East turkeys Posted: 29 Nov 2010 03:13 AM PST Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government has repeatedly treated even the most polite requests to live up to its international commitments (i.e., freezing settlements) with contempt. So now the Obama administration has escalated from simple requests to a version of "pretty please, with a cherry on top." This approach supposedly comes from the President's top Middle East adviser, Dennis Ross, who is notoriously close to the Israeli government - although one can be certain that AIPAC and the Democratic campaign committees that cultivate the AIPAC donors are weighing in heavily.

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