Posts Tagged ‘Tehran’
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
May 19 10:34
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EPA scientists say manmade carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are contributing to a warming of the global climate — and as such represent a threat to human welfare. But a leading climatologist says his research indicates that CO2 poses no threat to human welfare at all, and he says the EPA should revisit its findings.
May 19 10:33
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Four gorillas found dead in Rwanda’s Karisimbi area probably died of extreme cold, the New Times reported, citing Rica Rwigamba, head of tourism at the Rwanda Development Board.
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So much for global warming, right?
May 19 10:32
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Richard Russell, the famous writer of the Dow Theory Letters, has a chilling line in today’s note:
Do your friends a favor. Tell them to "batten down the hatches" because there’s a HARD RAIN coming. Tell them to get out of debt and sell anything they can sell (and don’t need) in order to get liquid. Tell them that Richard Russell says that by the end of this year they won’t recognize the country. They’ll retort, "How the dickens does Russell know — who told him?" Tell them the stock market told him.
That’s pretty intense!
May 19 10:31
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Dear Mayor Villaraigosa,
I was dismayed to learn that the Los Angeles City Council voted to boycott Arizona and Arizona-based companies — a vote you strongly supported — to show opposition to SB 1070 (Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act).
I received your message; please receive mine. As a state-wide elected member of the Arizona Corporation Commission overseeing Arizona’s electric and water utilities, I too am keenly aware of the “resources and ties” we share with the City of Los Angeles. In fact, approximately twenty-five percent of the electricity consumed in Los Angeles is generated by power plants in Arizona.
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Arizona provides 25% of the electricity used by Los Angeles. The recent boycott against Arizona by Los Angeles may backlash into rolling blackouts with no ENRON to take the blame for them.
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May 19 10:28
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The Precinct Judge of Elections at North Union 4 in Fayette County says she mistakenly gave 175 people 2 ballots this morning. She claims she thought the Special Election to fill the vacancy in Congressional District 12 required her to give a seperate ballot for the Primary and the Special Election. As of now, it is unknown the partisan breakdown of the 175 voters
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If the government cannot prove the accuracy and honesty of the election by which they claim authority over the people, then the people are neither legally nor morally obligated to obey that government’s dictates nor to pay its bills.
May 19 10:25
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Contrary to the commonly held scientific conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer, a scientist who has written more than 150 peer-reviewed papers has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming soon.
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"Have that heretic burned at the stake! No, wait, that makes CO2, right? How about drowning? Can we drown the heretic?" — Saint Al of the Gore
May 19 10:18
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And ABCNNBBCBS wonders why only 9% of America watches their news shows.
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May 19 10:15
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This is how travelers to the United States are being treated, and why our tourism is in melt-down.
I washed the soundtrack through the computers to make it easier to hear what the goon with the uniform is saying, and here is the mp3. PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH ALL YOUR STATE TOURISM OFFICES AND NEWSPAPERS!
UPDATE – Bumped it back up to the top as a counterpoint to Obama’s speech protecting illegal immigration.
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May 19 10:13
By: poorrichard
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While I’m a firm believer in the teachings and earthly mission of Christ, I do not subscribe to the idea of the 1000 year, utopia Millennium. It’s a deception that is being promoted by Zionists to suck in fundamentalist Christians to do their bidding and bring about their New World Order "utopia". The Zionists WANT to create a huge, world wide conflagration between Muslims and Christians and the big happy Christmas present at the end of this deadly destruction is the return of the "messiah" and a thousand years of bliss, happiness, and peace with Christ sitting on a throne in Jerusalem. The "rebuilding of the temple" is part of the Zionist script.
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May 19 10:12
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Captured Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi has said that while in Morocco, suspected Israeli or US agents had given him a list of people to assassinate in Tehran.
May 19 10:09
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After last night’s election results, there’s no doubt that the electorate has contempt for Washington incumbents and the political establishment. Virtually every media account dutifully recites the same storyline — that these results reflect an “anti-incumbent” mood — but virtually none of these stories examines the reasons for that “mood.” Why do Americans, seemingly regardless of party affiliation or geographic location, despise the political establishment?
One reason why media mavens seem reluctant, even unable, to grapple with this question is because it so plainly falls outside their familiar, comfortable narratives.
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Actually, the corporate media cannot talk about the reasons for public anger with government wrongdoing without talking about their own complicity in said wrongdoing.
Needless to say, the blogs are not compromised by such guilty associations.
The corporate media won’t admit that either!
May 19 10:02
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People all over America are discussing freedom’s future. In short, they are worried. In fact, many are actually talking about State secession. In coffee shops and cafes, and around dining room tables, millions of people are speaking favorably of states breaking away from the union. Not since the turn of the twentieth century have this many people thought (and spoken) this favorably about the prospect of a State (or group of states) exiting the union. In my mind, this is a good thing.
May 19 10:01
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Gonna still be quoting Emerson when they lock me up
May 19 10:01
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In this digest: a) Videos about the ongoing popular resistance including in Nabi Saleh, Sheikh Jarrah, Beit Jala, Italy etc. b) Four actions you can take for this week including support for the Free Gaza movement, c) several analytical articles that sheds light on what is going on in the land of apartheid including a critical article by Azmi Bishara on Salam Fayyad’s plans for a Palestinian statelet.
Videos about popular resistance
May 19 10:00
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Many reported that Noam Chomsky was recently stopped from entering Israel. This is false. Totally false. He was prevented from going to the Palestinian city of Ramallah by Israeli forces. This important distinction highlights among other things that Israel controls the borders into occupied Palestinian areas, a large part of the problem.
May 19 10:00
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Washington – The so-called Museum of Tolerance slated for construction on the oldest Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem has resulted in the exhumation of more then 1000 people laid to rest there, Haaretz’s Nir Hasson reported Tuesday.
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Now, to put this in context, imagine the media reaction of the Palestinians decided to put up a museum commemorating the Nakba, and wanted to dig up a Jewish cemetery to do it?
May 19 09:58
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On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that she had brokered a draft agreement, finally winning over a reluctant Russia and China and big footing a compromise that upstarts Brazil and Turkey struck with Iran on Monday.
“This announcement is as convincing an answer to the efforts undertaken in Tehran over the last few days as any we could provide,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, describing the agreement as a “strong draft,” according to the Times.
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May 19 09:53
By: chartist
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Stocks trading in Shanghai are off 25% from their cyclical bull market peak 0f 3500 which was reached in the summer of 2009. A decline of more than 20% is viewed by many as bear market territory. According to The Vanguard Group “there’s no agreed-upon definition of a bear market, one generally accepted measure is a price decline of 20% or more over at least a two-month period.” Shanghai now qualifies.
May 19 09:49
By: poorrichard
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Whoever steps forward to take on that pit of vipers known as the Fed is on a suicide mission.
Obama could go the route of that carpenter from Nazareth that kicked the moneychangers out of the Temple and was killed for his efforts.
Or he could take the route of Andy Jackson, who closed down the 2nd National Bank of the US and got shot for his efforts, but not killed.
Or Lincoln, who was opposed to an Independent US Treasury, but refused to pay usurious rates to finance the Civil War, so he printed US greenbacks and was murdered by an assassin’s bullet.
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May 19 09:43
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Obama is on TV right now trying to explain why illegal immigrants should not be harassed or even asked to provide identification to prove they are supposed to be here.
Meanwhile, as this TV new report shows, it isn’t just Mexican laborers crossing that open border!
May 19 09:39
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Firzli starts by blaming the current mess by the "complacency" of national governments towards large financial corporations and their acceptance of the "progressive phasing out of control mechanisms presented as necessary for the ‘modernization’ of national economies." After an accurate description of Carter Glass and Henry Steagall’s drive for the 1933 bill, Firzli, in a clear reference to today, notes that "the law stopped abuse for over six decades… from 1933 on, ‘sellers will no longer be evaluators’ and ‘lenders ceased to be advisors.’" [backtranslated from the French]
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May 19 09:38
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Finally someone speaks the truth. In an interview with Spiegel Magazine, former Bundesbank chief Karl Otto Pohl, says it how it is: "Without a "haircut," a partial debt waiver, [Greece] cannot and will not ever [repay its debt]. So why not immediately? That would have been one alternative.
May 19 09:34
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Shove that leaking pipe up their ass?
May 19 09:33
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As Hillary Clinton tries to start yet another war with Iran, a reminder of the lies used to start the war with Iraq.
May 19 09:33
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"All war is based on deception." — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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As Hillary Clinton tries to start yet another war with Iran, a reminder of the lies used to start the war with Iraq.
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May 19 09:29
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed concern over reports that the U.S. and EU are preparing unilateral sanctions against Iran in addition to a draft Security Council resolution currently being discussed.
May 19 09:27
By: disinter
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As far as Germany putting a ban on all naked short-selling, it will suffocate many legitimate market makers and make the markets less liquid and efficient, and make them much more volatile. It will do nothing to make it easier for Greece or the other PIIGS to pay their bills. Naked short selling has nothing to do with the PIIGS crisis. The PIIGS are in crisis because of their own doing.
May 19 09:27
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Some 37 Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses meet with US president, urge him to increase his personal involvement in the administration’s Israel-related policies.
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The above 37 members of Congress, voted into office by AMERICAN voters and paid and supported by AMERICAN taxpayers, need to be shown the door because America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third. At this time of national crisis, nobody in government should indulge the luxury of solving Israel’s problems, let alone forcing the AMERICAN taxpayers to pay for it all!
Below you’ll find a list of Jewish Americans who are Democrats or Independents in the 111th U.S. Congress.
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
THE GREEKS KNOW WHAT IS BEING DONE TO THEM!
DO YOU?
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!
"In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times."– Robert W. McChesney, author — Rich Media, Poor Democracy
May 8, 2010
May 08 11:18
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KBR Inc. was selected for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military support services in Iraq, the Army said.
The Army announced its decision yesterday only hours after the Justice Department said it will pursue a lawsuit accusing the Houston-based company of taking kickbacks from two subcontractors on Iraq-related work. The Army also awarded the work to KBR over objections from members of Congress, who have pushed the Pentagon to seek bids for further logistics contracts.
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Unflipping believable.
May 08 11:13
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May 08 11:08
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"We are living in the mud. We are wet and we are hungry. Those in charge have left us without hope. If they have a plan we do not know it. We are asking about the future. And we want our voices to be heard, " Suzette Janvier a resident of St. Martin (a neighborhood of central Port-au-Prince) – April 24, 2010
May 08 10:08
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As Americans observe the chaos in Greece, most assume that the strength of our currency, the credit worthiness of our government, and the vast expanse of two oceans, will prevent a similar scene from playing out in our streets. I believe these protections to be illusory.
May 08 10:06
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The drug war is a travesty. It has nothing to do with preventing the consumption of illegal drugs, however, as the government and the corporate media tell us. It is about making a tidy profit for the CIA (so they can run their covert ops off the books) and Wall Street. It is also an excuse to militarize the cops and expand the for-profit prison industry.
Militarized cops that have cut their teeth on harmless drug users will be soon be used on the American people as they turn out in the streets in response to the Greatest Depression now unfolding.
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Ever notice that when the US declares a "war" on anything, that issue gets worse, rather than better?!?
May 08 09:58
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Israeli Consul General in Los Angeles Jacob Dayan sent a complaint letter to the owners of the Annenberg Space for Photography, saying the venue is being used as a political tool to spread lies about Israel’s part in the global effort to provide clean and fresh drinking water.
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Memo to Israeli Consul General Dayan: this exhibit simply demonstrates the truth about Israeli water policy.
If you don’t like it, get someone in the Israeli government to change it!
May 08 09:52
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Neither is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and both employ their nuclear weapons in elaborate games of peek-a-boo with the international community. Israel and North Korea are equally paranoid about outsiders conspiring to destroy their states, and this paranoia isn’t without some justification. Partly as a result of these suspicions, both countries engage in reckless and destabilizing foreign policies. In recent years, Israel has launched preemptive strikes and invaded other countries, while North Korea has abducted foreign citizens and blown up South Korean targets (including, possibly, a South Korean ship in late March in the Yellow Sea).
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May 08 09:49
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We begin with a fundamental principle, one that even the Post implicitly acknowledges: Terrorism is, in fact, a federal criminal offense. Let me repeat that: Terrorism is a crime under U.S. law.
Thus, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that suspected terrorists have always been subject to the rules, guarantees, and protections that relate to the federal criminal-justice system. Grand-jury indictments, jury trials in federal court, criminal-defense attorneys, the presumption of innocence, the exclusion of incompetent and irrelevant evidence, the right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses, the right to remain silent, the right to call favorable witnesses, and so forth.
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This country is rapidly morphing into a country governed by the rule of men, and not the rule of law, which is a truly terrifying process to watch.
There are several very nasty pieces of legislation, floating in various congressional committees right now which will, if passed, absolutely destroy presumption of innocence and legal due process in this country.
May 08 09:37
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The Times Square bombing suspect apparently operated as a "lone wolf" who did not work with other terrorists, according to the general who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But investigators believe he had some bomb-making training in Pakistan, a second senior military official said.
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Who is this "secondary senior military official", making the claim that Shahzad had bomb-making training in Pakistan, and why is he not sourced?!?
This is because the US government is trying to use this alleged, unsourced "link" as a justification for increased attacks against Pakistani targets, which has already been approved earlier this week.
May 08 09:30
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The approval given to the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by the administration of President Barack Obama to expand drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions is on face value a declaration of war by the US inside Pakistan. The move comes at a time when Pakistan is trying to win some breathing space to delay an all-out operation in North Waziristan, home to powerful militant groups and an al-Qaeda headquarters.
The CIA was given authority on Wednesday to expand strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles against low-level combatants, even if their identities are not known. Obama had previously said drone
strikes were necessary to "take out high-level terrorist targets".
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How many countries does the US have to invade before it’s a world war?!?!?
And please remember: US extrajudicial assassinations simply fuels Pakistanis’ smoldering hatred against the US and Pakistani governments, causing retaliation against Pakistani and US targets.
That, in turn, fuels more US extrajudicial assassinations, and the cycle starts all over again.
Whatever outcome here the US wants cannot possibly be characterized as either stability, or economic progress for the Pakistani people.
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May 08 09:17
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A new round of U.N. sanctions against Iran will be ready by mid-June, European diplomatic sources said on Friday, but it remained uncertain how soon a draft proposal will be put to the Security Council.
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Note that these alleged "sources" are not sourced.
Were I a betting person, I would not bet that this next round of sanctions will be passed by the Security Council.
As recently as this last Thursday, as reported in:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=125641§ionid=351020101
Russia’s Lavrov has just gone on record as having said that the Iranian nuclear issue has to be resolved geopolitically, and not through military conflict. As reported in the article:
‘In a meeting with ambassadors from Arab states on Wednesday, Lavrov reaffirmed Moscow’s support for diplomatically engaging Tehran and warned against the “disastrous” consequences of taking military action.’
Russia most probably will not be on board regarding a new round of sanctions against Iran.
And China?!? In the immortal words of Tony Soprano, "fuggetaboutit!"
China is Iran’s number-one trading partner, particularly in the area of energy. Is China about to publicly bite the hand that is feeding its voracious appetite for energy with which to fuel its growth? This is hardly likely.
So what we will have, when the sanctions are defeated at the UN, will be the unilateral and multilateral sanctions put into place by the EU, the UK, and the US, which will most probably be a prelude to war which will almost inevitably follow.
May 08 09:05
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ABC recently reported on a letter signed by 250 scientists published in the journal Science.
The letter is accompanied by a photo of a lone Polar Bear on an ice berg credited to ISTOCKPHOTO.COM. The photo is a fake with the following note in the photo caption at Istockphoto: "This images is a photoshop design. Polarbear, ice floe, ocean and sky are real, they were just not together in the way they are now."
May 08 09:04
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International pro-Palestinian bodies have organized a massive relief convoy to break the Israeli siege of Gaza under the banner of "Freedom Flotilla."
The convoy is consisted of five passenger boats and three aid-laden ships, the first of which would set sail for the Gaza Strip from Greece next week, the International Middle East Media Center reported on Thursday.
The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG), one of the international bodies involved in organizing the relief convoy, said the ships were "loaded with reconstruction, medical and educational supplies."
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Memo to the Egyptian and Israeli governments: making martyrs out of any of these people would be the most geopolitically counterproductive things you could possibly do.
May 08 08:51
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Responding to a request from the Israeli High Court regarding two illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli government stated that it intends to “legalize” Hersha and Givat Hayovel.
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Ignoring the little detail that these outposts are illegal under INTERNATIONAL law.
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May 08 08:49
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Pakistan faces "very severe consequences" if a terror plot like the failed Times Square bombing was traced to that country, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in remarks made public on Saturday.
"We’ve made it very clear that if — heaven-forbid– an attack like this that we can trace back to Pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences," Clinton told CBS’s "60 Minutes" program, according to excerpts released by the TV network.
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Translation: watch for a major escalation of military confrontation in Pakistan.
And about this alleged "link" between Shahzad’s family and Pakistani militants; in Pakistan, due to this country’s grinding poverty coupled with government corruption, it is pretty darn hard not to know someone who is in the Taliban, or at least sympathetic to them in some way.
The lethal combination of those two elements in any society can make insurgency appear attractive.
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May 08 08:48
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Israeli Consul General in Los Angeles Jacob Dayan reportedly sent a letter of complaint to the venue hosting a National Geographic photo exhibition highlighting Israel’s unequal water policy, Israeli media reported on Friday.
The Annenberg Space for Photography exhibit, coinciding with the magazine’s special issue Water: Our Thirsty World, features the works of award-winning photographers looking at water from environmental, social, political and cultural perspectives.
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May 08 08:47
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Shares in Israel-based Goy & Goy Pharmaceuticals Incorporated rocketed to 89 US dollars following the long-awaited announcement of a miracle cure for Holocaust Denial Syndrome (HDS).
Soon to be marketed and sold under the name Holozac, the drug works by closing down the brain’s center of intellectual inquiry. It also blocks the re-uptake of politically incorrect neurotransmitters involved in critical thought processes, making it more difficult to distinguish between truth and lies.
May 08 08:41
By: Saladin
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Emad Fakha had taken three of his four children to help in the fields after school, something they enjoyed, a treat. The children had climbed into the “basket” on the ground at the rear of the tractor, ready to be lifted up. Emad was preparing to start the motor when an Israeli military jeep swerved off the road, at speed, and rammed into the tractor from behind.
With the body of one sister draped obscenely over its front bumper, the jeep reversed for five or six metres and then rammed once again into the tractor. What might have been a tragic accident is thus revealed for what it was – a cold-blooded murder.
May 08 08:27
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The original Mother’s Day Proclamation from poet and suffragette Julia Ward Howe was a protest against the evils of war, a call to mothers to act to prevent future wars that would exact horrific tolls on their sons and the sons of others
May 08 08:23
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The Obama Administration is applying an old exception to the Miranda rule in a new way in order to interrogate terrorism suspects before reading them their rights, several experts tell TPMmuckraker, finding what one law professor calls a "middle ground" between those who want suspects put through the criminal justice system and those who believe they should be classified as "enemy combatants."
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We are careening down very a slippery slope, if this administration decides that the Miranda rule should only be used intermittently.
And by the way, in US law, there is no such thing as an "enemy combatant" or (as found in the wording of the monstrous Lieberman/McCain Bill, now in committee,"hostile belligerent"); there are simply citizens who break the law, or foreigners who break the law, and that same law is applicable to both.
May 08 08:19
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Lackomar is an independent contractor for a private parcel company. If you live northwest of this battered city and you recently purchased something from a home shopping network, there’s a good chance the 36-year-old handled your package.
But there is one small item that never leaves his truck: a green nylon satchel Lackomar jokingly calls "the football," a reference to the briefcase with codes for a nuclear strike kept close to the U.S. president. Inside, along with a pocket knife and a small first aid kit, is a sealed envelope containing codes, rallying points and detailed plans that Lackomar would use to mobilize his squad of armed citizen-soldiers in an emergency.
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Folks, please be very careful joining a militia. A lot of these are being set up by the FBI for the express purpose of causing trouble in order to justify declaring all militias a terrorist threat. The other side plays dirty. Be careful!
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May 08 08:13
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The senior official said, if the Taliban has widened its focus to carry out attacks on the United States, then "it would change the game." He added that it could force the U.S. to reassess the threat it faces from Pakistan and how best to respond.
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Please note that right after this incident (almost as though on cue), Obama has approved stepped up drone attacks in Pakistan.
The Pakistani government and military are being well compensated by the US to wage a war of attrition against its own people, and look the other way when the US contributes to the carnage through these drone strikes.
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
May 05 13:14
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An Ohio man who spent nearly 30 years in prison is being released after new DNA tests showed he didn’t rape an 11-year-old girl.
Raymond Towler had been serving a life sentence for the rape of a girl in a Cleveland park in 1981. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Eileen Gallagher choked back tears as she vacated the conviction on Wednesday and left the bench to shake Towler’s hand at the defense table.
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Well, that’s gonna make it ALLLLLLLL better now!
Back in the 1990s, when militant feminists hijacked the equity feminist movement and turned it into the male-bash "All men are rapists" so let’s ship them off to war hate fest, NOW fought against using DNA tests in rape trials on the theory that such a test was insulting to the victims because it implied they might be mistaken, or worse, lying.
Of course, there were mistakes, and a great deal of lying. The FBI reported that rape was the second most common falsely-reported crime in America. Then as the false charges began to surface, the feminists tried to counter the damage by claiming that a rape charge against a male competitor was a legitimate tool of feminine empowerment. Catherine Commins at Vassar was quoted in TIME magazine as saying that a false rape charge was actually a good thing for a man to have to go through.
The lesson here is that the willingness to throw innocent people under a train for personal gain knows no gender. Far from the much-touted claim that women are the more civilized gender, the actions of the feminist leaders of the 1990s proved they were every bit as ruthless and immoral as their male counterparts!
I wonder how many more innocent men still languish in prison for crimes they did not commit; sacrifices to the wealth and influence of feminist leaders.
May 05 12:57
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Israeli author Shelly Elkayam on Wednesday said she is suing the family of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit for plagiarism over a book he wrote when he was 11-years-old, published after his abduction, Army Radio reported.
Elkayam told Army Radio that the Shalit family was holding her story "hostage."
"The story that Gilad Shalit wrote in a book called ‘When the Shark and the Fish First Met,’ was written by me," Elkayam said.
May 05 12:31
By: KevinE
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If this doesnt tip the Bovine Excrement meter, I dont know what does. Wave that Flag!!!! Gotta go gets that Osama Bin Landen. More Booga Booga, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink, Yeah hes in Iran now!!!
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May 05 12:30
By: Redress
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GOP and FOX NEWS Campaign Continues to Stamp Israeli Brand On Time Square Bomber
Watching the news on the arrest of the Time Square bomber, or as we will call him, “the Time Square Fizzler,” and the flood of political attacks on the president and news reports condemning Pakistan and Islam make it all clear as a bell. The ‘highly trained’ terrorist, supposedly schooled in explosives and ’secret agent stuff’ is another patsy.
Think “Mumbai” and the recent trial. All our suspect could say, over and over, knowing he is doomed is that he was ’set up.’
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May 05 12:30
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… because if anyone is going to bugger the people, by rights it should be the government!
May 05 12:26
By: Redress
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A program about one of America’s darkest stories.
The U.S.S. Liberty was attacked during the Six Day War in 1967, Tim King discusses this important event and others with Phil Tourney and Mark Glenn on The Liberty Hour Radio Program.
(COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho) – One of the most disturbing stories in contemporary military history is the 1967 Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, an American Navy ship in international waters, monitoring the Six Day War. It was a politically divisive act of aggression of Israel and neighboring nations.
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May 05 12:20
By: Nilwik
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May 05 12:07
By: disinter
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I love the way Ahmadinejad turns US foreign policy back on itself!
May 05 11:52
By: Khephra
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The Popes ‘Benedict’ from the fourth to the ninth inclusive (IV-IX) belong to the darkest period of papal history… Benedict VI (973) was thrown into prison by the anti-pope Boniface VII, and strangled by his orders in 974. Benedict VII was a layman and became pope by force, and drove out Boniface VII. Pope Benedict IX had long caused scandal to the Church by his disorderly life. His immediate successor, Pope Gregory VI (1044-46), had persuaded Benedict IX to resign the Chair of Peter, and to do so bestowed valuable possessions on him.
May 05 11:32
By: KevinE
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The deployment began two or three years ago and seven 7,000-strong divisions are now in place, an unidentified senior government official told Yonhap news agency.
"The threat that North Korea may infiltrate special forces for limited warfare has become real," the agency quoted a separate senior defence ministry official as saying.
May 05 11:27
By: Jnoubiyeh
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Now with the Palestinians officially banning settlement products just as proximity talks are to be launched, Israel is fretting over what kind of publicity this issue will receive. Israel doesn’t want to talk seriously about dismantling settlements. That became clear during all the futile years of negotiations behind us. It would rather nip this little Palestinian scheme in the bud before it spins out of control and the illegality of settlements and their damaging repercussions on any prospects of peace are finally exposed in broad daylight.
May 05 11:23
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May 05 11:04
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Last year, members of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) learned that the author of a critical study on diesel engine soot impacts, Hien Tran, had falsified his academic credentials. Tran admitted the deception, and accepted a Board demotion. However, Tran’s analyses remained the basis for highly controversial and costly regulations imposed upon operators of trucks, buses and other diesel-powered machinery.
May 05 11:04
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A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted May 1-2 shows that 9 out of 10 Americans say it is moderately to extremely important to them for the federal government to take steps this year to secure the border against illegal immigration.
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May 05 11:03
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This article is not nice reading. It is going to expose and demonstrate just how a fake activist gets debunked, how smear campaigns are unraveled, and how Internet is Big Brother who never closes his eye and leaves bread crumbs tracing everything to the source. It is a shocking story of sex, lies and madness. That it involves Palestine, unfortunately has once again influenced us to speak out. We insist upon the separation of the Palestinian cause from some disturbed persons involved who use the cause for their own ends. By their own words and deeds, they shall be exposed. Welcome to the Emperor’s New Clothes.
May 05 10:58
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Time to go take another look at cold fusion?
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May 05 10:46
By: malterwitty
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‘Independent’ reporter Jerome Taylor relives his bloody experience on the trail of voting fraud in east London
May 05 10:44
By: malterwitty
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Police are looking into up to 50 allegations of election "irregularities" amid fears bogus names have been used to apply for postal votes.
May 05 10:42
By: malterwitty
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Children as young as 18 months old have received polling cards for the general election — prompting further fears of voting fraud.
The Standard has learned of dozens of cases of youngsters being registered to vote although they are not 18. Councils have put the incidents down to registration errors.
Voters are not required to prove their identity at polling stations.
May 05 10:33
By: TheParadigmShift
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Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover.
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May 05 10:01
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This is being reported in the foreign press. No mention at ABCNNBBCBS!
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May 05 09:54
By: disinter
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Thanks to a friend (who works for the government), who notes that we now know that “an FBI agent provocateur fired the first shots at National Guard soldiers, who then killed four students, according to newly declassified FBI records. Remember, belief in conspiracy theories is always a mark of insanity.”
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May 05 09:51
By: suman
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9/11 FEMA Videographer at Ground Zero (200 Pics)
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May 05 09:44
By: PoliticalTheatrics
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There’s more war in America’s future — a great deal more, judging by the Obama Administration’s reports, pronouncements and actions in recent months.
May 05 09:41
By: Jnoubiyeh
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Major General Alberto Asarta Cuevas of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, said on Wednesday that he has no evidence of any Scud missiles in southern Lebanon, after Israel accused Syria of transferring the missiles to Hezbollah.
May 05 09:39
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The field of psychological warfare has developed dramatically the last few years due to various factors including the development of the media in Israel and worldwide. Terror organizations increasingly photograph and film attacks on IDF forces and publish them on television stations.
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So now, all pro-peace, humanitarian organizations in and around Israel, documenting abuses of Palestinians, are to be considered "terrorists"?!?
May 05 09:39
By: Carl_Herman
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The “emperor has no clothes” fact is that the new face of unlawful global imperialism is the old face of 20th Century imperialists. As critical mass of public recognition builds, this time, the public will reject their loveless and mass-murderous empire-building.
The two paper-thin lies the 21st Century fascists use to promote unlawful war is that Iran threatens to destroy Israel and Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Both are quickly proven as lies.
As documented in the links here (and from other viewpoints here, here, and here), Iran’s President Ahmadinejad never physically threatened Israel and all inspections of Iran’s legal nuclear energy and medicine has verified all nuclear material is accounted for.
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May 05 09:30
By: Jnoubiyeh
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Incredibly, just as the Bush-Cheney administration did in order to launch a war against Iraq in 2003 by (falsely) alleging that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Obama-Biden administration, in 2010, is arguing for unilateral sanctions against Iran and even beating the drums of war against Iran, alleging that its program to enrich uranium and operate nuclear power plants is posing an existential threat to Israel, to Europe and to the United States.
May 05 09:20
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The detainees were from the northern region of Mosul and Nineveh province and were captured between September and December 2009. At that time the Iraqi army was conducting sweeps throughout the area in response to militant Sunni opposition, according the HRW report.
The New York Times states that the arrests were made by the Baghdad Brigade. The security group is controlled by Maliki’s office, bypassing the military and the police, and has been criticized in the past for its unconstitutionality. In turn, the secret prison—a military barracks converted into a detention facility hidden from view by concrete blast walls—was run by the Baghdad Operations Command, one of several regional security commands set up by Maliki that answer directly to him, according to several news sources.
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Welcome to "democracy" in Iraq, 2010!
May 05 09:16
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Ever since the provincial elections in January 2009, Iran has worked steadfastly [PDF] to revive the then-defunct United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), the sectarian Shiite alliance that was created back in 2004 and that largely collapsed in 2007. After Ahmad Chalabi played an initial role in bringing the Sadrists and ISCI back together in the first part of 2009, the final reunification took place Tuesday night in Baghdad when the State of Law list headed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki joined the other Shiites to form a single parliamentary bloc.
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So, please let me take a moment to wrap my head around this; the largest beneficiary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq is….IRAN?!?!?!?!?
May 05 09:11
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Allegations that Britain was complicit in the use of chemical weapons linked to an upsurge in child deformity cases in Iraq, are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.
Lawyers for the Iraqis have sent a letter before action to the MoD asking the Government to disclose what it knows about the Army’s role in the offensive, the presence of prohibited weapons and the legal advice given to Tony Blair, Prime Minister at the time.
Legal actions against America are blocked by US federal immunity laws and the US government’s boycott of the International Criminal Court.
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As reported in 2005 in:
http://www.alternativesmagazine.com/32/bowman.html
"By now most people know that DU has damaged tens of thousands of our own troops and caused soaring cancer rates in target populations, including the people of Iraq, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Over 130,000 veterans of the first Gulf War have been declared “unfit for service” because of medical conditions which independent scientists and physicians connect to exposure to depleted uranium.
What is less well known is the staggering rate of birth defects in the children of the veterans of these wars. The British are reporting rates as high as 65%. It seems that breathing in the radioactive dust from exploded DU shells not only causes decapacitating illnesses, but massive genetic damage as well.
The use of DU was started by the first President Bush and continued by Clinton. Both could plead ignorance. But now the data is in. We know better. The continued use of over 2,000 tons of this toxic and highly radioactive substance in the current Iraq War is inexcusable."
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May 05 09:01
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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is invoking a state anti-fraud law to demand the University of Virginia turn over years worth of documents related to climate scientist Michael Mann, targeting about $500,000 in grants that funded Mann’s studies.
May 05 08:58
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In this, the ninth year of the thoroughly Edwardian invasion of Afghanistan, more than two-thirds of the home populations of the invaders want their troops to get out of where they have no right to be. This is true of Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada and Germany. What this says is that, behind the media façade of politicised ritual – such as the parade of coffins through Wootton Bassett – millions of people are trusting their own critical and moral intelligence and ignoring propaganda that has militarised contemporary history, journalism and parliamentary politics -
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So, how many more years, here in the US, will it take before this country is going to speak with one voice to stop these wars without end, and demand that Congress stops funding them?
May 05 08:55
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Every day, but especially on days like today, Palestinians and all other peoples that are living under foreign oppression ask when their day will come. ‘El Cinco de Mayo’ is a special day celebrating FREEDOM.
May 05 08:55
By: Jnoubiyeh
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Encouraged by government flaccidity and leniency, Jewish settler terrorists in the West Bank are planning to carry out more arson attacks against Islamic houses of worship for the purpose of forcing millions of Palestinians to flee their homes and land in order to enable Jews to create an ethnically and religiously pure Jewish state in accordance with Talmudic teachings.
May 05 08:51
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The smallest (by far) of the three leaks has been closed off, but that may not really mean anything as the system is under pressure from below, and closing off one hole may just increase pressure and flow at the others.
May 05 08:50
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The Greek financial bail-out comes with an usurious price that will be paid for by ordinary working people, the unemployed, pensioners and the poor. In return for the €110 billion to stave off international investors and creditors, the Greek government knows full well that the quid pro quo is an all-out attack to slash wages, social welfare, pensions and public services.
The new euphemism for this broadside assault on people’s livelihoods is “fiscal consolidation”. And, as one commentator noted grimly in the Financial Times, “the consolidation will have to be coordinated”. In other words, what we are seeing in Greece is but the opening act of a much bigger theatre of class war to be waged on Europe, North America and elsewhere.
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Watch for this to hit the US soon, courtesy of a spending-mad, broke US government.
May 05 08:46
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The first casualty of state terror is the corruption of language, the invention of euphemisms, where words mean their opposite and slogans cover great crimes: There is no longer a world consensus that condemns crimes against humanity. This is because mass murder and assassinations secure investor ‘confidence’, because Indians are dispossessed so the mines can be exploited; oil workers disappear so the petroleum will flow; and the international financial press praises the success of el Presidente for “pacifying the country”.
When narco-presidents are embraced by the leaders of North America and Europe, it is evident that criminals have become respectable the respectable have become criminals.
May 05 08:44
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There is a new technological trend in the United States that promises to use advances in Internet, GPS, and chemical detection technology to manage states’ surging prison and parolee populations. Several states, particularly those with massive budget deficits like California and Michigan, are unable to shoulder the burden of housing more inmates in their dangerously overcrowded prisons.
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We may well see "techno-creep" on the way these devices are used, to the point where innocent citizens, who have done nothing wrong, will be expected to wear these as a condition of employment.
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May 05 08:42
By: Jnoubiyeh
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George Stephanopoulos Interviews Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
May 05 08:38
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New York City police investigating a botched car bombing in Times Square say the bomb contained fertilizer that was incapable of exploding.
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This case just gets weirder and weirder.
May 05 08:37
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In March 2004, when Alan Greenspan was Fed chairman, he suppressed the opinions of those Fed officials who knew that there was a housing bubble.
Congressman Alan Grayson points out that – because the Fed unilaterally decided to hand out half a trillion to foreigners without any Congressional oversight, and that Bernanke testified that he didn’t know who got the loot – the Fed must be subject to an audit.
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Audited, my astrolabe!
The Fed needs to be abolished, period, end of discussion.
May 05 08:36
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The chief suspect in the case of the failed Times Square car bombing is Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, who has confessed to the plot. Much of the media has latched onto Shahzad’s Muslim faith and his Pakistani identity, making inflammatory remarks and suggestions about Muslims and Pakistanis.
Yet one fact being ignored in the American media’s sensationalist narrative about the failed bombing is that the man who was responsible for police finding the bomb was Muslim. The UK’s Times Online reports that Aliou Niasse, a Senagalese Muslim immigrant who works as a photograph vendor on Times Square, was the first to bring the smoking car to the police’s attention:
May 05 08:31
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Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.
May 05 08:29
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The FBI will assist in the investigation of a suspicious envelope addressed to Gov. Jan Brewer that an employee at the Capitol opened Tuesday, sending the Executive Tower into one-hour lockdown after a white powder spilled from the envelope onto a computer.
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Apr 28 11:51
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Apr 28 11:12
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Fake antivirus–false pop-up warnings designed to scare money out of computer users–represents 15 percent of all malware that Google detects on Web sites, according to 13-month analysis the company conducted between January 2009 and February 2010.
Apr 28 11:12
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Hackers are hard at work trying to dupe iPad owners to install a malware-loaded iTunes update on their Windows PCs.
Apr 28 10:58
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There are those who have been talking about a single global regulator for years and as a result of the 2008 Credit Crisis, there have been calls to protect you and me from future banking crises through new financial reform. However, we had better consider its real impact. It is not about protecting you and me it is about changing the national regulatory laws of America to conform to a world governmental system and globalizing the last barrier separating individual nation-states. It is about a major power grab of America’s financial assets. As a result of the high stakes, we should ask if Republicans are being told they had better vote for financial reform so we don’t have another September/October, 2008?
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The foundation for global government rested on three pillars. The first was the global warming crisis (which was exposed as a hoax) to justify a global environmental authority, the second the global pandemic (also a hoax) to justify a global health authority, and finally the global economic crisis (looking just as faked) to bring about a global version of the Federal Reserve bank.
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Apr 28 10:46
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Increasingly, I have no fealty to the U.S. government. This has nothing to do with George Bush, bogeyman of the Left, the war in Iraq, or Halliburton, and everything to do with the reasonable assessment that the United States is too big for its own good. Too big in its 300 million people to be represented by 550 mostly millionaire men (not women) in a far-off swamp called Washington, D.C. I therefore have stopped calling myself a U.S. citizen.
Apr 28 10:44
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This could be a game changer. From the University of California, Irvine press release, a finding that suggests soil microbes have a negative feedback with temperature increase. This has broad implications for the amount of CO2 emitted estimated in climate models.
Apr 28 10:44
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Have you noticed that the Australian PM, Kevin Rudd has dumped his CTS until at least 2012. This was his key platform at the last election, when he described global warming as “the greatest moral imperative of our time”.
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Apr 28 10:43
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Sarah Palin was right! Of course, when she mentioned it liberals went nuts claiming that she was fear-mongering. Now, President Obama’s Budget Director is heralding the cost cutting measure.
Apr 28 10:31
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Facts of life:
* Goldman has a multi-decade history of fraud going back to the 1920s
* Goldman was one of the ring leaders of the DotCom IPO scam of the 1990s
* By being willing to package and re-sell total garbage real estate loans, Goldman & other banks massively inflated real estate prices, defrauded investors all over the world, and brought the world financial system to the brink (and we’re not out of the woods yet.)
Criminals…and if they didn’t own the last three White Houses, some of them would be in jail.
Apr 28 09:58
By: disinter
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What will these commies think of next? U.S.-style regulation on toilet-tank size? U.S-style limits on using cash? U.S.-style bailouts of failing industries?
Apr 28 09:57
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There is a bill to make Puerto Rico a state. Again, they are trying to pull one over on us and on Puerto Ricans, who have consistently said they do not want to become a state.
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The US Government steals other peoples’ lands and makes them states without their permission. Here is just one example.
Apr 28 09:56
By: disinter
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The European Central Bank may soon have to invoke emergency powers to prevent the disintegration of southern European bond markets, with ominous signs of investor flight from Spain and Italy.
Apr 28 09:55
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The Israeli Civil Administration, which administers the occupied West Bank, claims the spillage was the result of an accidental power malfunction which caused excess settlement sewage to overflow onto Palestinian land.
“This was no mistake,” says a British activist who has been documenting life in the village for several months. “The pipe was deliberately unscrewed by hand so that the sewage would spill over into Beit Ummar. That has nothing to do with an electricity cut,” he told IPS.
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Apr 28 09:55
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Shimon Peres….. a man that has been politically active for the past 66 years…. a man that started out as a ‘leftwinger’ and wound up sitting next to his fellow war criminal, Ariel Sharon, as his new political partner….
A man that has sold out every ideal of human decency to get where he is today, his first elected position in all those years, the President of the State of Israel.
Apr 28 09:54
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A sign from Gaza: “Dear Europe, Sorry about that cloud of ash over your heads and that you can’t travel anywhere. We feel just the same. Sincerely, Gaza”
Apr 28 09:53
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Tuesday’s hearings of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations laid the groundwork for future criminal prosecutions of Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein and his chief lieutenants whose reckless and self-serving actions helped to precipitate the financial crisis. Committee chairman Senator Carl Levin (a former prosecutor) adroitly managed the proceedings in a way that narrowed their scope and focused on four main areas of concern. Through persistent questioning, which bordered on hectoring, Levin was able to prove his central thesis:
1. That Goldman puts its own interests before those of its clients.
2. That Goldman knowingly misled it clients and sold them "crap" that it was betting against.
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And if Goldman (and Madoff) were doing it while the SEC watched porn, then they are all probably guilty of fraud to some extent.
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Apr 28 09:52
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U.S. meat prices may rise to records this summer after farmers reduced hog and cattle herds to the smallest sizes in decades, the result of surging feed costs linked to demands for more ethanol.
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Another consequence of the not-well-thought-out idea of growing ethanol fuels for cars.
To recap…
Contrary to the sales pitch, ethanol is not carbon neutral because the processing of the plants into ethanol produces carbon effluents.
Because ethanol contains much lower energy than gasoline, one must buy and burn more of it to perform the same work as gasoline.
The fuel system on most cars was never designed to work with alcohol molecules. The fuel systems of cars using ethanol fuels are failing, requiring costly and carbon-producing repairs.
The diversion of finite farmlands from food to ethanol production has driven up the cost of food crops and now, meat and dairy products as well.
Apr 28 09:42
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Apr 28 09:40
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THE great fraud has been found out, and his country saved – for now – from the greatest of his follies.
Here’s the worst lie that Kevin Rudd, perhaps our most deceitful Prime Minister, once told about global warming and his Emissions Trading Scheme: "The biggest challenge the world faces in the decades ahead is climate change.
Apr 28 09:34
By: disinter
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The conspiracy-obsessed federal government is trying to keep in a cage the nine Michigan “militia” taxpayers its agents provocateur persuaded to say dumb things. At least that was the official story, as reported in the official media. The nine were going to overthrow the government using the government’s signature tactics of force and violence. Really. Truly. Nine working-class people vs. the greatest military empire in history and its millions of troops and cops and spies. Of course, the whole thing was a set up by the Obama police state, which may even be worse than the Bush police state. But now it looks as if the feds may have made everything up.
Apr 28 09:25
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Apr 28 09:19
By: malterwitty
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Persons working with aid organizations assisting the victims of the Darfur conflict have passed on the news that they have confirmed through their contacts in the so called “Save Darfur Coalition” that millions of dollars raised to help the Darfur refugees have ended up in Israeli bank accounts. These accounts help fund programs that include illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Apr 28 09:14
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Tax credits that lured investors into supporting high-tech businesses wouldn’t be paid out over the next three years under a bill approved by Hawaii lawmakers.
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[insert great profanity, some in a foreign language, here]
Apr 28 09:14
By: malterwitty
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GlaxoSmithKline profits increased 16pc in the first quarter, driven by better-than expected swine flu vaccine sales.
Apr 28 09:11
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World Bank and OECD say water is a finite resource that must be valued at a higher price in order to repair old supply systems and build new ones
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The next commodity to be "ENRONized" to soak the public.
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Apr 28 09:09
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Jewish community leaders have urged the White House to refrain from publicly pledging to defend Israel against possible Iranian hostilities, senior Jewish activists told the Forward.
Messages were passed to the White House through several channels, Jewish activists said. And it seems to have worked: Speaking before the annual conference of the American Jewish Committee in Washington last week — his most recent address before a Jewish audience — President Bush talked about America’s commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and about his administration’s commitment to Israeli security, but he did not link the two, as he has several times in recent months.
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Translation: "You should go attack Iran for Israel, but don’t say it’s for Israel!"
Apr 28 09:08
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Mayor Nir Barkat said that construction in East Jerusalem will continue, despite the "slap in the face" Israel received from the United States over the matter, Army Radio reported on Wednesday.
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Apr 28 09:05
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The eurozone "lurched towards the endgame" yesterday as Standard & Poor’s finally relegated Greece’s sovereign credit rating to "junk" status, downgraded Portugal by two steps to A-, and the yields on Greek debt climbed beyond 15 per cent, a signal that the market regards a default as virtually certain.
The contagion that many feared is threatening to overwhelm the entire single currency area in a remarkably short time. The course of events has parallels with the banking crises of the autumn of 2008, when successive institutions came under attack and their interrelationships and size devastated confidence in the financial system, famously so after the failure of Lehman’s.
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The trap of a private central bank lending the public currency at interest is that the moment that first pretty printed piece of paper goes into circulation, more money is owed to that private bank than is actually in existence. Hence the debt trap is permanent and eventual default literally built into the system itself.
Apr 28 09:02
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Apr 28 09:01
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Law firms are cutting salaries and hiring fewer graduates, reports Ameet Sachdev in the Chicago Tribune, which means that a law degree may not be a foolproof way to get a high-paying job after graduation. In addition, ongoing tuition hikes on already-overpriced law school degrees make the prospect of unemployment (and loan repayment) after graduation even more dire.
Apr 28 09:00
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Students, especially at for-profit universities, are leaving college in the U.S. with a debt load large enough to raise questions about the ability of many to repay loans, a study found.
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The high-paying jobs used to lure students into debt for their education have fled to foreign shores, and the end result is that in the United States, college graduates are working as cooks and store clerks.
Apr 28 08:58
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Senate Democrats agreed Monday to kill a provision from their derivatives bill pushed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a change one analyst predicted could force the Nebraska company to set aside up to $8 billion.
The Senate Agriculture Committee inserted language into its derivatives bill last week at the request of Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.) that would have exempted any existing derivatives contracts from new collateral requirements—the money set aside to cover potential losses.
Berkshire has $63 billion in derivatives contracts, and Mr. Buffett has boasted he holds very little collateral against these products.
Apr 28 08:58
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The Barack Obama administration’s declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a serious possibility if Iran does not bow to the demand that it cease uranium enrichment.
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Yesterday we quoted Hillary Clinton that Iran is not a direct threat to the United States, hence this bludgeoning of Iran in violation of the NNPT is done solely to please Israel.
America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third.
Apr 28 08:55
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The mystique of Goldman Sachs is based in large part on their reputation as the smartest financiers on Wall Street. After today’s hearings, this mystique has permanently dissipated. The Goldman executives babbled. They sounded dumb. They stalled and stammered and went into contortions to avoid giving straight answers to simple questions. They were mendacious and evasive when they did speak. Financial powers around the world will note carefully the refusal of three out of four Goldman executives on one panel to state that they had a duty to defend the interests of their clients. Who will want to do business with such a gang?
Apr 28 08:52
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Persons working with aid organizations assisting the victims of the Darfur conflict have passed on the news that they have confirmed through their contacts in the so called "Save Darfur Coalition" that millions of dollars raised to help the Darfur refugees have ended up in Israeli bank accounts. These accounts help fund programs that include illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Apr 28 08:50
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I have been saying this for the last week. Clients who owe us money cannot pay us because the people who owe them money cannot pay them because the people who owe them money cannot pay them because the people who owe THEM money cannot pay them because ……
Yes, the Federal Reserve is creating new money hand over fist but that cash is not going into general circulation but into the Wall Street bailouts and from there into the pockets of the financial elites. Commerce in the real world is grinding to a halt!
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Apr 28 08:46
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Lindsey Graham has withdrawn his support for both the Democrat’s pro-amnesty immigration bill and cap and trade legislation just a week after ALIPAC Chairman Gheen gave a speech in which he demanded that Graham come clean on the fact that he is being blackmailed over his homosexuality.
Apr 28 08:40
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Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah in an article published on Wednesday scoffed at recent comments by US Defense Minister Robert Gates that Hezbollah’s arms exceeded those held by many states in the world, saying Hezbollah’s arms did not compare to the “armament” and “crimes” of the United States and its ally Israel.
Apr 28 08:39
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If Obama interferes with the Arizona Immigration law now, it will send a message all across America that rioting will get you what you want!
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Apr 28 08:34
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In small but significant numbers, filmmakers and casting executives are beginning to re-examine Hollywood’s attitude toward breast implants, Botox, collagen-injected lips and all manner of plastic surgery.
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In the recent casting call for the latest "Pirates of the Caribbean" film, specific mention was made that women with breast implants need not apply, and that potential cast members would be subject to a "bounce test" to make sure that all jiggles are ‘au natural’!
Personally, I think this is a healthy trend. I prefer women as the universe made them, not as the product of Dow Chemical and Corning Glass Works, and since I am not trying to seduce any of the women reading this blog, I can be 100% honest with you and tell you that you are really far more beautiful without all that paint and chemical coating. I know you do not want to hear that on a date after spending several hours and a few hundred dollars applying the latest fashion facade, but that’s really how most guys feel about it.
In the middle east women are taught to cover their faces with cloth. In the west they are taught to cover their faces with paints. Both customs teach women a terrible lie; that their undecorated faces are not suitable for display in public.
Apr 28 08:27
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I hereby announce that I am going to provide Greece with a trillion dollar bailout. And in the spirit of the Ben Bernanke school of money printing, the interest rate will be zero. In fact, under my GARP plan (Greek Assistance and Rejuvenation Program), the Greeks don’t even have to pay the money back, ever.. This means that European stock markets can now spike up, that the Greeks no longer have to strike–and in fact, they don’t even have to work once my money hits.
Apr 28 08:26
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“We keep saying it’s unacceptable for Iran to have a bomb, but we don’t mean it. We mean it’s terrible, we don’t want it. But when Israel says it’s unacceptable, they mean it.”
Steve Rosen, director of the Middle East Forum’s Washington Project and a former top staffer at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, agreed with Abrams’ assessment
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Steve Rosen was one of the AIPAC staffers accused of espionage in connection with the feeding of false information about Iraq sent from Israel into the Pentagon Office of Special Projects where confessed Israel spy Larry Franklin fed it to the White House. His near brush with prison has apparently not taught Rosen not to continue lying America into Israel’s wars.
Apr 28 08:21
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Israeli officers held responsible for the deaths of four Palestinians in the West Bank received only minor reprimands after an internal investigation concluded that the deaths could have been avoided.
Apr 28 08:20
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The funniest introduction to the topic is through a Hebrew article published a few years ago by Yedihot Aharonot. I had a copy of it in the memory cards stolen by Israeli agents in the attack of July 2009 against me; after it I thought it was lost. However, a few days ago I found a copy online while searching something else. Since it is in Hebrew, I won’t reproduce it here; drop me a line if you want a copy. The article is hilarious not because the author’s sense of humor, but due to the constant reminder of the author’s – and the Jewish society – moral limitations.
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Apr 28 08:19
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‘When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,’ General Stanley McChrystal, the US and NATO force commander, remarked wryly when confronted by the sprawling spaghetti diagram in a briefing.
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Apr 28 08:17
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Officials are considering setting fire to an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as efforts to stem a leak from a rig that exploded and sank are failing.
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Ask Al Gore to tax the oil slick out of existence.
Apr 28 07:09
By: dean
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Saying he was simply following a masterplan for Jerusalem, Barkat said he aimed to keep the holy city’s Jewish population at 65 percent and the Palestinian population at 35 percent.
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Apr 28 07:00
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Apr 28 06:56
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Apr 28 06:29
By: malterwitty
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A 19-year-old Hebron resident was detained by Israeli forces Tuesday night, removed from the West Bank, and expelled into Gaza, security sources said.
Apr 28 06:16
By: malterwitty
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Microphone picks up comments by prime minister about Labour supporter Gillian Duffy, who had challenged him over the economy.
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Apr 28 04:55
By: 911insidejob
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April 25, 2010 posted by Jeff Gates
Americans can now see the light at the end of a long dark tunnel—if only they will look.
We entered this tunnel in 1948 when an enclave of religious fanatics induced President Harry Truman to portray them as a “state” meriting recognition, aid and protection.
We were warned not to do so.
These extremists had just inflicted on the Palestinians an ethnic cleansing that rivaled in its savagery the fascist abuse of ethnic groups during WWII. In December 1948, Albert Einstein and 27 other concerned Jews urged us “not to support this latest manifestation of fascism.”
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Apr 28 04:54
By: 911insidejob
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April 26, 2010 posted by Jeff Gates
Israel has long been waging war on the U.S. by way of deception. To date, its operatives have worked from the shadows hoping not to be detected. Their duplicity typically includes the displacement of facts with what the American public can be deceived to believe.
Thus the need to create a widely held belief around Iraqi WMD, Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda, Iraqi meetings in Prague, Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories and Iraq’s purchase of uranium from Niger. Though all five “facts” were false, only the last claim was conceded as phony prior to inducing our invasion of Iraq.
There lies our national security challenge as the groundwork is being laid for another 911.
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