Posts Tagged ‘Unarmed Civilians’

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

Monday, June 14th, 2010

 

Jun 14 10:35

President Obama compares Gulf of Mexico oil leak to 9/11

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On the eve of his fourth trip to the region and ahead of a national address from the Oval Office, Mr Obama vowed to seize the opportunity to push for “a visionary energy policy that we so vitally need and has been absent for so long”.

“In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come,” Mr Obama told the influential news website Politico.

“One of the biggest leadership challenges for me going forward is going to be to make sure that we draw the right lessons from this disaster.”

Webmaster’s Commentary:

Translation: Obama is going to use this catastrophe to push through carbon taxes.

If this legislation passes (assuming Obama doesn’t do it via Executive Order Fiat)this will absolutely crush any potential US economic recovery.

Jun 14 10:31

Why Do Jews Commit Massacres?

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Terrorist Brothers in Arms – Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff of the Obama White House, spent a week in Israel just before Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla. Emanuel, an Israeli citizen and son of an Irgun terrorist, met with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 26, 2010. The Obama administration refused to condemn Israel’s criminal action on the high seas in which at least nine unarmed civilians were killed.

Jun 14 10:28

Iranian aid ships head for Gaza

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Iran is sending aid ships to blockaded Gaza, state radio said on Monday — a move likely to be considered provocative by Israel which accuses Tehran of arming the Palestinian enclave’s Islamist rulers, Hamas.

One ship left port on Sunday and another will depart by Friday, loaded with food, construction material and toys, the report said. The boats would be part of international efforts to break Israel’s isolation of the Gaza Strip.

"Until the end of the Gaza blockade, Iran will continue to ship aid," said an official at Iran’s Society for the Defence of the Palestinian Nation.

Webmaster’s Commentary:

Ahmedinejad has played this like a chess master.

If Israel attacks Iran, it will be because Iran is attempting to break the siege of Gaza, and not because of a non-existent nuclear weapons program.

This gives Iran the moral high ground, and the initiative.

Jun 14 10:23

Netanyahu: Gaza flotilla probe will show the world Israel acted lawfully

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Webmaster’s Commentary:

Everything Hitler did was the letter of the law, but that didn’t make him right, nor does it make Israel right!

Jun 14 10:20

Turkey dismisses Israeli probe into raid, warns it may revise ties

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Turkey strongly dismissed Monday a commission established by Israel to investigate the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship and warned it may revise bilateral ties with Israel if a U.N.-led inquiry is not launched.

Jun 14 10:19

Netanyahu warns: Dark days ahead

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"The flotilla to Gaza was not a one-time thing. We find ourselves in the midst of a difficult and continuous battle against the State of Israel. The flood of hate is being led by Israel’s enemies all over the world," Netanyahu added.

"They are trying to pinch us with the metal pinchers of missiles and terror, and revoke Israel’s right to defend itself as well as the rights of IDF soldiers to protect their own lives."

Webmaster’s Commentary:

Memo to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: your hubristic paranoia is showing here, sir, and it sounds like you are about to go off the deep end.

The world reaction to an Israeli hijacking and massacre on the high seas is (rightly and logically) that of outrage.

But the fundamental problem here is the continued Israeli siege of Gaza, which is causing malnutrition in 14% of Gazan children, according to UNICEF figures.

Even the normally geopolitically low-key Red Cross has come out with a statement that the siege of Gaza is illegal, under international law. When the Red Cross makes a statement like that, you know you have a problem.

The siege is not contributing anything to Israel’s safety and security; it was simply put in place to cause the Hamas party (legally elected, I might add) to collapse. But if anything, the siege has made Hamas stronger in the eyes of Gazan Palestinians.

The siege of Gaza has failed, Mr. Prime Minister: it is high time to end it.

Jun 14 10:19

More Kosher crap exposed… a must watch new video

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I wonder whether in Israel they remember what truth stands for..

Jun 14 10:17

GORDON DUFF: ISRAEL LEAVES TRAIL OF LIES IN AFGHANISTAN

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The second time this week, the London Times has run articles submitted by Israeli intelligence, irresponsible, inaccurate and intended to bring chaos. The first article claimed that US sources had verified Saudi Arabia’s intention to allow Israeli planes to use their territory for an attack on Iran. The government of Saudi Arabia issued a strong denial in hours. Today’s Israeli press release, carried as a news article by the London Times is far more sinister but also leaves a trail. We are putting the London Times in for the Yellow Journalism Award of the Week, something usually reserved for Fox News.

Jun 14 10:16

Israel sets up ship raid inquiry, Turkey wants UN probe

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Jun 14 10:13

Obama to let Charles Manson invetsigate the Sharon Tate murders

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Jun 14 10:11

A better typing feel than the iPad!! :)

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Jun 14 10:07

Kandahar? Kandahar? What’s Kandahar?

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Don’t look now, but President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy is collapsing on his head.

The troops that Obama added to the war in 2009 were supposed to head south into Helmand and Kandahar. Instead, the whole war is going south. Fast.

Jun 14 10:04

Gaza: Time to end, not ‘ease’ the siege

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The Israeli argument that the siege is necessary to undermine the Hamas movement, which has been in control of the Strip for three years this week, has been proven invalid.

Israel knows that it can secure an end to rocket attacks from Gaza through a mediated truce, such as the one brokered by Egypt in 2008. When Israel broke that truce – leading to a response from Hamas – it was as though it wanted an excuse to unleash its superior military arsenal on the Strip.

Israel’s very insistence that it has the right to control the Gaza Strip and to use military power against Palestinians must not be accepted or even accommodated by the international community.

Jun 14 10:01

Daniel Rubin: Another flier’s run-in with the TSA

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Her knees have been replaced with titanium, and a metal plate supports her back. She’s used to setting off alarms.

But she’s not used to the sort of screening she experienced April 5 when a Transportation Security Administration worker motioned Phillips to the side for a secondary screening. Phillips says the screener’s metal-detecting wand went north of the retirees knees and brushed against her crotch.

Phillips jumped, aghast.

And when she asked for a different female screener, she says, a standoff led to her being detained for nearly two hours – until a Philadelphia police sergeant sent her on her way.

Jun 14 10:01

Red Cross: Gaza blockade illegal

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip as a violation of the Geneva Conventions and called on the Israeli government to lift it.

In a statement released on Monday, the organisation called the blockade "collective punishment", a crime under international law. It described Gaza as a territory plagued by frequent power cuts, a ruined economy, and a collapsed health care system.

Webmaster’s Commentary:

Great that the Red Cross appears to have managed a magnificent grasp of the obvious.

The question is, what is the Red Cross actually going to do to break the siege?!?

Jun 14 10:00

Int’l law expert Aral: Israel not as untouchable as before

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“Israel now has committed new crimes and is not as untouchable as before. Almost all countries in the word have been critical of its latest attack in one way or another,” he told Today’s Zaman for Monday Talk regarding Israel’s attack on May 31 which killed nine people and wounded several dozen on an aid ship carrying activists from more than 30 countries.

Israel claims that it acted in self-defense while attacking the ship, which was in international waters and carrying humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

The Turkish government said that it will implement several measures against Israel and will seek options to have the Israeli officials responsible for the tragedy tried in court.

Jun 14 09:58

Public Prosecutors in Germany: German Members of Parliament File War Crimes Complaints against Israel

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Public prosecutors in Germany are looking into a war crimes complaint filed against Israel by two members of parliament with the Left Party and a human rights activist who were on board the Mavi Marmara when Israeli troops stormed it 11 days ago.

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Good!

Jun 14 09:57

Narcotics: The Best-Known Afghan Business

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The US-led invasion of Afghanistan has bred unprecedentedly favorable conditions for the country’s drug business which is presently flourishing in the NATO-controlled oasis. While the Taliban banned opium cultivation, the Western coalition brought unchecked freedom to Afghanistan, the result being that opium production in the country has grown more than 40 times over since 2001.

Webmaster’s Commentary:

Remember; where there is control of the drug trade in a country, where those drugs wind up is also controlled.

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Jun 14 09:54

PROPAGANDA ALERT – Iran ‘definitely’ building nuclear weapon

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Webmaster’s Commentary:

Here is a good lesson in media propaganda. First, the story headline…

"Iran ‘definitely’ building nuclear weapon "

Note the use of the word ‘definitely’.

Now, the opening paragraph of the body of the story.

Due to concern over potentially harmful international political implications, U.S. officials will only say they "believe" Iran is engaged in a clandestine program that may yield a nuclear weapon.

Most readers will glance at the headline only and come away convinced that Iran is ‘definitely’ building a nuclear weapon even though the story is pure conjecture from the usual anonymous sources from the "US Ally", meaning Israel.

Jun 14 09:53

America leaves Iraq a toxic legacy of dumped hazardous materials

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American troops going home from Iraq after seven painful years are leaving behind a legacy that is literally toxic.

An investigation by The Times in five Iraqi provinces has found that hazardous material from US bases is being dumped locally rather than sent back to America, in clear breach of Pentagon rules.

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"But we’re killing Iraqis with DU and toxic chemicals for their own good!" – official White House Souse.

Jun 14 09:50

Hoax: Video Showing Heavy Weapons Discovered on Mavi Marmara is a Fraud

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A video has been racing around the Internet — purportedly showing heavy weapons discovered behind bags of flour on the Mavi Marmara. The find would serve to justify the lethal raid on the flotilla to Gaza and some posters have asked why no uproar? The answer is because the video is a fraud — it shows a boat that was actually searched in 2009.

Jun 14 09:48

Hawaii elections clerk hits YouTube – HOAX ALERT

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Webmaster’s Commentary:

I was being flooded with this nonsense over the last couple weeks. The logic behind my position remains unchanged. If there were anything to this birth certificate nonsense, both Hilary Clinton and John McCain would have used it to secure their victories.

That being said, the fact that this latest story emerged just as Orly Taitz was campaigning in California was grounds for suspicion, since Orly’s sole claim to fame was the birther movement.

So now OpEdNews comes out with a story exposing the fact that the so-called expert from Hawaii is linked to known white supremacist groups and has a past history of dubious accuracy and credibility. So everyone who ran this story as unquestioned news fell into a trap, including WND. There "well is poisoned" and any further criticisms of Obama, however legitimate, can be dismissed as racist smear attacks.

Jun 14 09:47

Russia deploys hundreds of extra soldiers to Kyrgyz military base

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Russia has deployed hundreds more soldiers to protect its military base in Kyrgyzstan, in the wake of fresh unrest that had left almost 100 people dead in the Central Asian country as of Sunday.

Three Ilyushin Il-96 military planes with a battalion of Russian paratroopers on board have landed at the base in Kant, the Interfax news agency reported. A Russian battalion typically ranges from 350 to 800 soldiers, depending on the situation.

Webmaster’s Commentary:

This is an interesting development, in light of the fact that Russia had previously declared it was sending no troops to Kyrgyzstan to quell the rioting.

As reported last Saturday, 12 June, at

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7050247.html

"Otunbayeva asked Russia early Saturday to send in troops, but the Kremlin said it would not meddle into what it described as Kyrgyzstan’s internal conflict.

"It’s a domestic conflict, and Russia now doesn’t see conditions for taking part in its settlement," Kremlin spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said in Moscow. She added that Russia will discuss with other members of a security pact of ex-Soviet nations about the possibility of sending a joint peacekeeping force to Kyrgyzstan.

Timakova said Russia would send a plane to Kyrgyzstan to deliver humanitarian supplies and help evacuate victims of the violence."

One has to wonder why Russia would believe that its base in Kyrgyzstan would come under any kind of attack.

Jun 14 09:36

Israeli policeman killed in ambush

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The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah political party, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Soooooo… if it is FATAH killing Israelis, why is Israel trying to bring down HAMAS?

Jun 14 09:32

Israel forced to defend ‘Mossad spy’ arrested in Poland

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Israel has been forced to the defence of an alleged Mossad spy who has been arrested in Poland on charges of using a German passport in an operation to kill a Palestinian militant.

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Extrajudicial assassinations has always been a stock-in-trade for the Mossad; they just hate like hell when they get caught doing it, which appears to have been what happened in this case.

Jun 14 09:30

My response to Obama’s “Lifestyle Behavior Modification” is …

By: Mike Rivero
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Go along like the good little pussy I am

Refuse

Rebell

Tar and feathers

Ropes and trees

Guillotines

A really nasty wedgie

All of the above,slowly

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Jun 14 09:27

Hoax: Video Showing Heavy Weapons Discovered on Mavi Marmara is a Fraud

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A video has been racing around the Internet — purportedly showing heavy weapons discovered behind bags of flour on the Mavi Marmara. The find would serve to justify the lethal raid on the flotilla to Gaza and some posters have asked why no uproar? The answer is because the video is a fraud — it shows a boat that was actually searched in 2009.

Webmaster’s Commentary:

This is why the world isn’t going to believe one word of any kind kind of commission report coming from Israel as to why they murdered humanitarian aid workers on the high seas.

Jun 14 09:27

Obama Issues Executive Order Mandating “Lifestyle Behavior Modification”

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You will "change" to my liking! Claiming the "authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America," President Obama has truly gone off the deep end this time in his most atrocious attempt to date to control every aspect of Americans? lives.

Webmaster’s Commentary:

Okay, so let’s sum up here.

1. BP blows up a well and because the US Government has been asleep at the switch on safety and regulation, this results in the worst environmental disaster possibly in all history.

2. Israel attacks an aid fleet in international waters, hijacking one US-flagged ship, kidnapping 12 Americans and gunning down a boy from New York.

3. Obama’s response to both of the above is to declare that the American taxpayers must further reduce our standard of living so that we may pay added taxes.

Did I miss anything here?

Jun 14 09:24

Netanyahu: Gaza flotilla probe will show the world Israel acted lawfully

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of Monday’s cabinet meeting that the main goal of the Gaza flotilla probe is to prove to the world that the Israel Navy operation on the Gaza-bound aid ship was appropriate and met international standards.

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One never ceases to be amazed at Netanyahu’s Orwellian grasp of geopolitical language.

Preventing nutrition from getting Gazan kids to the point where 14% of Gaza’s kids are malnourished is Israel’s "great humanitarian aid" to them.

Preventing infants from getting out of Gaza for desperately needed medical care is denied for "security reasons".

And the slaughter of unarmed civilians in international waters is "self defense".

Unflipping believable; and trust me, Mr. Prime Minister, the world is not going to believe it either, particularly with the videos and eye-witness accounts from the survivors which have surfaced.

Jun 14 09:21

The Crude Truth

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Two weeks ago the president and his advisors realized that they were headed for the rocks. The Great Reconciler of 2008 was being reclassified in the popular mind as the Wimp of the Year in 2010. The White House had allowed BP’s CEO, Tony Hayward, to grab headlines day after day with absurdly lowball estimates of how much oil was gushing out into the Gulf.

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Pussying out when Israel attacked Americans in international waters did not help either!

Jun 14 09:19

DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE IN PALESTINE …. AS DOES THE OCCUPATION

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Our demonstrations here continue as does the Israeli repression. On Friday, demonstrations in Al-Ma’sara, Wad Rahhal, Bil’in., Ni’lin and elsewhere. Injuries and arrests (including our dear friend Hassan Breijiya from Al-Ma’sara). On Sunday, at Beit Jala demonstration, Israeli occupation soldiers were acting crazy, hitting and shoving people. Local organizer Imad was detained and roughed up. I was arriving a bit late and was prevented from entering the site. I tried to go down through the hills and was spotted by an Israeli soldier who pointed his gun at me and said he would shoot if I do not go to him and then proceeded to abuse me physically and psychologically. He only released me after the end of the demonstration (45 minutes later).

Jun 14 09:18

BAD FOR THE GOOSE BUT GOOD FOR THE GANDER?

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It soon might be a crime to boycott goods made in the illegal settlements controlled by Israel, BUT…. it’s OK to boycott goods produced in Turkey….

The ‘logic’ of zion’…..

Jun 14 09:17

SOLSTICE HUGS FROM JERUSALEM

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…Ever since William Blake penned the poem and Edward Elgar scored the anthem, English men and women have sung of the mystic union of the Avalon and Jerusalem .

Jun 14 09:16

1.3 million flee as China flooding kills 155

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Unusually heavy seasonal flooding in China has killed at least 155 people and forced more than 1 million to flee as water levels in some areas reached at their highest in more than a decade, the government reported Saturday.

Flooding strikes along the Yangtze almost every summer, although authorities had claimed that construction of the massive Three Gorges Dam along the river’s upper reaches would help modulate water levels and prevent major losses.

Webmaster’s Commentary:

As reported on 7 June, 2010 in

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timcollard/100042402/china-cracks-in-the-three-gorges-dam-so-300000-people-can-wave-goodbye-to-their-homes/

"n China, cracks are appearing – in the neighbourhood of the massive Three Gorges Dam, the country’s great prestige project, and also in the Great Internet Firewall of China, enabling the ominous news to leak out. Three years ago stories were already emerging in the Chinese media about landslides, ecological deterioration and accumulation of algae further down the river. And less and less effort seems to be made to plug the leaks."

This combination of flooding, coupled with problems with the dam, could lead to an ecological disaster for the people living in this region, and beyond.

Jun 14 09:16

BP spill called ‘biggest environmental crime’

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"And you, the American people, must be punished for this crime with a carbon tax and mandated lifestyle behavior!" — Official White Horse Souse
If you think I am kidding, wait until you hear Obama’s speech tomorrow. BP screws up, the US Government let them do it, they cannot fix it, so the only action the government can take is dump the blame and the costs on the taxpayers.

Jun 14 09:10

Hooters Booms: The Women of Hooters Step Forward To Clean Up Gulf Oil Spill

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With a series of failures in the Gulf in dealing with the BP spill and complaints over the lack of action from the government, help has finally arrived by one of the most trusted groups in America: the Hooter girls. Hooters has announced that its employees will be donated their torn pantyhose to help absorb the oil — that is over 100,000 pairs pantyhose.

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Posted without comment

Jun 14 09:07

100,000 Uzbek Refugees Flee Deadly Chaos, Bound For Border

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The United States, Russia and the United Nations worked on humanitarian aid airlifts while neighboring Uzbekistan hastily set up camps to handle the flood of hungry, frightened refugees. Most were women, children and the elderly, many of whom Uzbekistan said had gunshot wounds.

The interim government had planned a referendum to approve a new constitution on June 27, but it now appears unlikely the vote will take place. New parliamentary elections are scheduled for October, but the violence appears aimed at undermining the interim government before then.

Webmaster’s Commentary:

It looks as though the interim government of Kyrgyzstan is about to unravel.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

One has to wonder if Bakiyev, the former president, will be returned to power, under these circumstances.

Jun 14 09:05

IRAN MAY BE VERY SMART TO CHALLENGE GAZA FLOTILLA!

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza, as two aid ships and a military escort prepare to set sail.

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Contrary to the initial reaction of "Is he out of his mind" felt by most on hearing this news, I think Ahmadinejad, ever the chess player, has made a brilliant move.

Ahmadinejad knows war is coming no matter what he does. Just as Israel created the war in Iraq for Americans to die in, Israel is creating a new war in Iran for Americans to die in. Congress is owned by Israel, and as was the case with Iran, the media will repeat whatever lies are created to justify the invasion.

So, Ahmadinejad cannot change the reality of the coming invasion, but he can change the world’s perception of what the war is about! If he just sits and waits and allow Israel to send the US to attack him on Israel’s timetable and under Israel’s justification, then Iran has already lost the war. But if Iran runs the Gaza blockade, and THAT is the opening salvo, then myths and legends about non-existent nuclear weapons vanish from the debate, and the war is about trying to save the Gazans from collective punishment, a war crime, by Israel. Iran will be seen as having the moral high ground, and the initiative!

Jun 14 09:01

Afghanistan’s ‘Vast Riches Of Minerals’ Highlighted By Pentagon

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"The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials," the New York Times’ James Risen reported on Monday.

Opponents of the war have questioned whether Monday’s Times story is the Pentagon’s latest attempt to persuade an increasingly frustrated American public that Afghanistan is worth the costs in blood and treasure.

Webmaster’s Commentary:

I want to see the actual hard science here.

But if this is true (and that’s one big if), these discoveries mean that the US and NATO will never leave Afghanistan, no matter how many soldiers are maimed for life or killed, again, in the pursuit of private profit.

Jun 14 08:56

BP presents oil containment plan: official

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Energy giant BP has presented a new plan to contain more than 50,000 barrels a day of oil gushing from a ruptured Gulf of Mexico well by the end of June, an administration official said Monday.

he revised strategy would increase the capture of oil to a range of 40,000 to 53,000 barrels a day by the end of June, which would grow to 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day by mid-July, according to the administration official.

However BP cautioned in its letter to Coast Guard Rear Admiral James Watson, "The quoted numbers represent installed design capacities and any unplanned events will impact actual delivery."

Webmaster’s Commentary:

If BP had a working containment plan, it would have been working by now.

BP has had neither the engineering or scientific acumen to make this happen.

13 foreign nations who have companies with the expertise on this kind of disaster have offered to assist, but have been rebuffed, until now:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/13/AR2010061304232.html

"The State Department sent letters to some U.S. allies two weeks after the accident, and the Coast Guard initially sought to assess what supplies might be available overseas, but the administration’s public posture on aid has been inconsistent. On May 5, Crowley announced that 13 international offers had been received and that decisions on what to accept would be made "in the next day or two." Two weeks later, the State Department said the government saw no reason to accept any of the offers. "

This is a man-made catastrophe, but it has been made far worse by Obama’s administration not accepting desperately needed help in time.

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Jun 14 08:40

As businesses collapse, claimants still waiting for checks from BP

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Across the gulf, residents already shell-shocked by the tar balls, oil soup and dead sea life washing up on their beaches are getting hit with a second wave: the sudden collapse of their livelihoods, and the equally intimidating challenge of getting BP to pay for it.

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This is going to destroy the entire region economically, then Obama will use this disaster to get the Congress to pass carbon taxes, which will destroy the national economy to an even larger extent.

Jun 14 08:27

Why hasn’t Rep Bod Etheridge been arrested for assault?

By: disinter
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Jun 14 08:08

Video reveals European, American weapons used in Israeli attack on Gaza Flotilla

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You paid for the weapons used to commit murder no the high seas!

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Jun 14 07:54

FBI’s Most Wanted: Wikileaks creator

By: poorrichard
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Jun 14 07:41

Crony Healthcare in Action

By: disinter
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It’s all about politicians who have no idea of the impossibility of replacing the huge number of calculations made by individuals in a free market, by a central planning authority. It’s about politicians who don’t understand the incentive system. It’s about politicians who fail to understand that the creation of power centers (new regulations and agencies) ultimately leads to those who will attempt to influence and capture the thinking in such power centers. It’s about cronyism. In healthcare, it will mean crony healthcare–which will mean less care, care directed toward the treatments offered by those who have captured the regulators. It will mean higher prices for less, and ultimately more pain more suffering and earlier deaths for most of us.

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Jun 14 07:38

BP Grasping At Strings

By: chillyphantom
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Struggling to halt the gargantuan flow of crude oil from the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico, BP CEO Tony Hayward took time out from his demanding schedule to discuss with Outside The (Cardboard) Box the effect the environmental disaster has had on his life, BP’s plans for the future and his inspiration for BP’s latest approach to stemming the flow.

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Jun 14 07:21

Amnesty for the Banksters, Debtor’s Prison for the Serfs

By: Saladin
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"Having been deadbeats and strategic defaulters of the first order," writes economic analyst Yves Smith, the major banks "continue to manifest their characteristic unmitigated gall [by] hectoring the public about honorable behavior." Smith predicts that ere long we will witness the return of debtor’s prison, which was supposedly abolished in the 19th century.

Jun 14 07:13

A4 paper banned in Gaza for fear it will be used to make for paper airplanes

By: Kelly Thomas
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Here is a partial list of banned items from entering teh Gaza strip.

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Jun 14 07:10

Jews Are NOT Prosecuted For Violating Canada’s "Hate Laws"

By: Saladin
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For starters. the entire Jewish religion is, of course, based on a concept of racial supremacy. The Jews seriously believe they are better than the rest of humanity. Yet I very much doubt that any rabbis will be summoned before any Canadian Human Rights Tribunals any time soon for possession of the Babylonian Talmud.

Jun 14 07:09

With bra or without, attorney denied entry

By: Kelly Thomas
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An underwire bra kept a Miami lawyer from seeing her client, and when she removed it, prison dress codes meant she still couldn’t see him, authorities said.

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Jun 14 07:05

‘Act two’ of crisis begins: Soros

By: Kelly Thomas
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Billionaire investor George Soros says ”we have just entered Act II” of the crisis as Europe’s fiscal woes worsen and governments are pressured to curb budget deficits that may push the global economy back into recession.

”The collapse of the financial system as we know it is real, and the crisis is far from over,” Mr Soros said at a conference in Vienna. ”Indeed, we have just entered Act II of the drama.”

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If You Stop 6 Ships We Will Send 6,000

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

David Swanson
WarIsACrime.org
Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:12 EDT

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© AP

I received this by Email from someone who asked to remain anonymous. I’ve only tweaked it slightly and think it deserves to be read:
Fact: people in Palestine suffer tremendously under the terror of occupation from Israel
Fact: people in Palestine are treated as animals and die on a daily basis due to Israeli blockade of any supplies coming to Palestine
Fact: people in Palestine have no food, no water, no medical supplies and have no chances whatsoever to live a normal human life
Therefore:
People from our planet try to help these civilians. We show our solidarity by sending them food, water sanitation systems, medical supplies, medicine, and many other things that enable them to survive the horrors of Israeli Apartheid and occupation.
The Israeli government chooses to:
- ignore international law
- ignore countless UN resolutions
- ignore international calls for ending the blockade of Gaza
- ignore international calls to stop the illegal occupation of Palestine
Instead Israel chooses to use any possible means to suppress the Palestinian people and stop the humanitarian necessary aid for Gaza. They use excessive violence to commit these acts and are internationally condemned for these actions.
We – the people of the world –
will NOT be tempted by their violence and their hatred
will ignore the Israeli aggression
and will continue to help the Palestinian people
this has nothing to do with politics
and has nothing to do with religion
nor with race or prejudice
this is solely a humanitarian necessity due to the unbearable suffering of the Palestinian people who die each day due to this Israeli terror
we sent 6 ships and you stopped the ships, killed unarmed civilians, stole the cargo and illegally imprisoned the peacefull civilians who came to help the Palestinian people
Now we will send 60 ships
And if you stop us
We will send 600 ships
And if you sabotage us again
We will send 600 ships
No force or hate can stop the power of compassion and love
It is like the ways Mahatma Ghandi has showed us
We will not accept your violence and terror
We will not stand by and let you commit your crimes
We will resist, with all we have, in nonviolent ways
If you fight us the world will see what you are truly like
And more people will come and help
And in the end, you will not be able to stop the power of human solidarity
We will help the Palestinian people
Free Palestine!

 

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/209665-If-You-Stop-6-Ships-We-Will-Send-6-000

Butchering Afghan protests: US drones now targeting public demonstrations, latest missile strikes kill 16

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Jason Ditz
AntiWar.com
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:37 EST

As the fighting in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province continues to pick up, US forces have killed 16 people described as "suspected militants" in a pair of drone strikes on opposite sides of the province.
The larger of the attacks came in the town of Now Zad, once described as a "ghost town" by NATO and declared "liberated" in a December invasion. The US Predator Drone fired a Hellfire missile into what officials are describing as a "crowd of suspects" killing 13 and wounding three.

Comment: Translation: "Crowd of suspects" is US military-speak for "unarmed civilians terrorised by the presence of foreign troops killing people."

Exactly what made the reportedly unarmed crowd a "crowd of suspects" is unclear, but Marines that attacked the town at roughly the same time claim to have found ammunition and a "Taliban torture cell." US forces seemed quite pleased with the attack on the crowd, declaring "we caught them with their pants down."
A smaller attack claimed three others, whom officials described as "armed fighters." A separate incident in Helmand Province yesterday also claimed 13 civilians, when NATO and Afghan forces opened fire on protesters in Garmsir village.

 

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/201219-Butchering-Afghan-protests-US-drones-now-targeting-public-demonstrations-latest-missile-strikes-kill-16

C L G headlines

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

 

Last updated: 12/31/2009 14:03:30

The Pre-Ball-Dropping-New Year’s Eve Bad News Dump begins: Judge Dismisses Charges in Blackwater Shooting 31 Dec 2009 3:49 P.M. ET A federal judge dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly Baghdad shooting. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said Thursday that the Justice Department overstepped its bounds and wrongly used evidence it wasn’t allowed to see. He said the government’s explanations have been contradictory, unbelievable and not credible. Blackwater contractors terrorists were hired to guard State Department diplomats in Iraq. Prosecutors say the guards fired on unarmed civilians in a busy intersection in 2007, killing innocent people.

Allegation: Blackwater hiring youths in Peshawar to carry out attacks and suicide bombingsJust as the CLG has asserted from the get-go. Wait until Blackwater gets hold of one of Pakistan’s nukes, detonates it, blames ‘al-Qaeda’ and plunges the US into WWIII. I am thinking the lucrative contract for Xe to ‘clean up’ in the aftermath of the nuclear explosion has already been drafted. Blackwater needs to be eliminated before they become as big as Goldman Sachs and Citi – ‘too big’ to destroy. –Lori Price

Mufti Usmani holds Blackwater responsible for blast 31 Dec 2009 Contrary to the claim and media reports by the media about Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan taking responsibility of the Ashura bomb blast, Mufti Mohammed Rafi Usmani held US agency Blackwater responsible for the gory incident that claimed more than 40 lives. Addressing a news conference along with Muhammed Taqi, Mufti Muhammed Naeem, Maulana Tanver-ul-Haq and others on Wednesday, Mufti Usmani said that Blackwater was involved in the killing of innocent people in the Muharram procession. He said that soon after the blast, shops in the city’s economic hub were set ablaze which proved that the attack was "pre-planned and organized". Mufti Usmani said that the incident was a conspiracy against Islam and the government totally failed to control the situation, as it was the responsibility of the government to provide security to the citizens and to protect the property… He alleged that Blackwater was hiring youths in Peshawar to carry out attacks and suicide bombings.

Western troops accused of executing 10 Afghan civilians, including children 31 Dec 2009 American-led troops were accused yesterday of dragging innocent children from their beds and shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead. Afghan government investigators said that eight schoolchildren were killed, all but one of them from the same family. Locals said that some victims were handcuffed before being killed. Western military sources said that the dead were all part of an Afghan terrorist cell [yeah, the eight-year-olds] responsible for manufacturing improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have claimed the lives of countless soldiers and civilians. [They don't 'hate us for our freedoms' -- they hate us for our war crimes. --Lori Price]

New: Airline bomber suspect studied in Houston 31 Dec 2009 The Nigerian man accused of trying to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day over Detroit attended an intensive, Islamic education seminar in Houston last year designed for top student scholars, an organization confirmed Wednesday. Shaykh Waleed Basyouni, vice president for the AlMaghrib Institute in Houston, said 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was living in London in the summer of 2008 when he attended the nonprofit institute’s annual "IlmSummit" with about 150 other students.

‘I’m Alive,’ Says Yemen Radical Anwar Awlaki Despite U.S. Attack –Denies Ties to al Qaeda As U.S. Officials Probe His [Alleged] Ties to Christmas Day Bomb Attempt and Fort Hood Shooting 31 Dec 2009 A week after U.S. and Yemeni officials said the radical Yemen cleric Anwar Awlaki may have been killed in a U.S.-backed Christmas eve air strike, a Yemeni journalist says Awlaki has surfaced to proclaim, "I’m alive." "He said the house that was attacked was two or three kilometers away from him and he was not there," the journalist, Abdulelah Hider Shaea, told ABC News. He said he talked to Awlaki on the phone and recognized his voice from previous interviews. [Abdulelah Shaea needs to watch his back. The US/Blackwater target is *journalists,* not their al-CIAduh hirelings. --LRP]

US pledges $16 bn for training Afghan security forces [so they can kill more US soliders] 31 Dec 2009 The United States has pledged $16 billion to spend on training and equipping Afghanistan’s army and air force, but the country needs more to build a force that can guarantee stability, an Afghan army official said on Wednesday… Part of the US cash is likely to cover planned spending on over 150 aircraft — including helicopters, and reconnaissance, combat and transport planes. [See: Soldier killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan 21 Dec 2009.]

Was the Afghan Bomb Attack an Inside Job? Possibility Arises that Someone Working with U.S. Forces was on the Side of the Terrorists 30 Dec 2009 It all happened at a well-fortified combat outpost in Eastern Afghanistan. Somehow a suicide bomber was able to bring his explosives on the base, walk up to a group of American civilians and blow himself up. It will take an investigation to determine how he did it. But the outpost is located in the middle of a notorious stronghold for Afghan insurgents near the border with Pakistan, reports CBS News. Afghan soldiers and civilians are present at almost every American outpost since one of the chief principals of the U.S. strategy is to partner with the Afghans. According to Christine Fair of Georgetown University, some of them may actually be working for the Taliban.

Afghanistan suicide bombing kills 8 CIA officers –The Taliban takes responsibility for the explosion at a U.S. base in Khowst province where the agency has a major presence. 31 Dec 2009 A bomber slipped into [?!?] a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday and detonated a suicide vest, killing eight CIA officers in one of the deadliest days in the agency’s history, current and former U.S. officials said. The attack took place at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khowst province, an area near the border with Pakistan. An undisclosed number of civilians were wounded, the officials said. A U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the CIA had a major presence at the base, in part because of its strategic location.

Eight US ‘CIA agents’ killed in Afghanistan bomb attack 31 Dec 2009 Eight CIA agents have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in south-eastern Afghanistan, US reports say. A bomber was wearing an explosive vest managed to enter Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost Province, on the border with Pakistan. Several other people were reported injured by the blast.

Two French journalists kidnapped in Afghanistan 31 Dec 2009 Two French reporters have been kidnapped north-east of the Afghan capital Kabul, Afghan officials say. They say the journalists were seized in Kapisa province, along with three Afghans travelling with them. French Defence minister Herve Morin, who is visiting Afghanistan, said he had had no news of two journalists since Wednesday. Media sources in Paris said they work for the French TV Channel FR3.

5 Canadians killed in Afghanistan, including 1 journalist 31 Dec 2009 Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang and four Canadian soldiers were killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan on Wednesday. She was covering the war for the Canwest News Service.

Explosion blasts against NATO troops in S Afghanistan 30 Dec 2009 A powerful explosion blasted against NATO-led forces in Dand district of Kandahar province, south Afghanistan on Wednesday evening, causing panic among the locals, Xinhua’s scribe in Kandahar said. The blast took place 10 km south of Kandahar city, the capital of Kandahar province, at 05:00 p.m. local time. Security personnel cordoned off the area and did not allow journalists to get access to the site.

Iraqi governor seriously injured in double suicide attack 30 Dec 2009 The governor of the Iraqi province that was the battleground of a lethal three-year insurgency was seriously injured today in a double suicide bombing that killed 23 people and wounded more than 100, prompting fresh fears that public order across the country is again decaying. Qassim Mohamed was caught up in a second bomb attack at the scene of an explosion that he had just left his office in Ramadi to inspect. Officials were trying to verify reports that the suicide bomber had been part of the Anbar province governor’s security detail.

Iraq blasts kill at least 27 31 Dec 2009 A car bomb and a suicide bomber struck a government building in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, yesterday, killing at least 27 people and wounding the governor of Anbar province, police officials and witnesses said. The bombs, detonated outside the provincial government building, exploded after the release of a British hostage who had been held in Iraq since 2007.

TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive 30 Dec 2009 Two bloggers received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents Tuesday after they published a new TSA directive that revises screening procedures and puts new restrictions on passengers in the wake of a recent bombing attempt by the so-called underwear bomber. Special agents from the TSA’s Office of Inspection interrogated two U.S. bloggers, one of them an established travel columnist, and served them each with a civil subpoena demanding information on the anonymous source that provided the TSA document.

US aware ‘Nigerian’ prepared for terror attack 30 Dec 2009 The US was aware that "a Nigerian" in Yemen was being prepared for a terrorist attack – weeks before an attempted bombing on a US plane. ABC News and the New York Times say there was intelligence to this effect, but its source is unclear. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab flew from Lagos to Amsterdam before changing planes for a flight to Detroit on which he allegedly tried to detonate a bomb.

‘We assume here that New York is the No. 1 terrorist target in America.’ Extra Security in Times Square for New Year’s Eve 01 Jan 2010 For two hours on Wednesday, Times Square morphed into a militarized zone as the police swarmed an unoccupied van with blacked out windows and no license plates parked in an area set aside for Thursday’s New Year’s Eve celebration… Officers with rifles will patrol on rooftops. Others, in plainclothes, will mingle with the crowds to search for pickpockets or would-be terrorists. Meanwhile, in an out-of-sight command center staffed by the F.B.I., information and intelligence will be shared among the New York Police Department, the police of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and "numerous other agencies," said Special Agent Richard Kolko, an F.B.I. spokesman in New York.

Citizens For Legitimate Government

The Free Gaza Movement

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

by Tun. Dr. Mahathir Mohamad

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Global Research, September 8, 2009

Intifada-Palestine.com

 

We all remember the brutal Israeli attacks against Gaza last year. Many of us were outraged by the killings of some 1,300 Gazan Palestinian, men, women, the disabled, the children, the sick and the maimed.Hospitals and schools were destroyed.

The condemnation of this brutal assault had forced the Israelis to stop the massive retaliation against alleged Hamas rocket attacks against Israel.

Many of the rich countries pledged billions in aid for the rebuilding of Gaza.

After that, things became quiet. There was hardly any report in the press on what was happening. I suppose most people assume that the reconstruction of Gaza was proceeding apace.

But the reality is far different. The Egyptians limited the medicine and the building materials from entering Gaza from its territory. The sea is blockaded illegally by the Israelis.The people of Gaza have literally been made prisoners by these actions.

The Free Gaza Movement led by Huwaida Arraf was set up in order to send needed supplies to beleaguered Gaza.But after five small boats were successful in delivering much needed supplies, the Israeli navy began to intercept them and forcing them to abort their humanitarian aid.

One small boat with a number of Palestinians, Arabs, European and American (a U.S. Congresswoman) was rammed by Israeli warships. The people in the boat, all civilians were thrown into the sea. Luckily they survived.

Recently another little boat, loaded with food, medicine, stationery for school use and toys, with 25 unarmed civilians including a Nobel Peace Laureate from Ireland and the American women candidate for presidency of the U.S. was fired at by Israeli commandos, who then boarded the boat, giving rough treatment to the people on board.

Repeated shouts on the loudhailer that there were only unarmed civilians and the boat carried no arm failed to stop the commandos. The boat was steered by the commandos to an Israeli port and the people on board were thrown into Israeli jails.

The people of the Free Gaza Movement have now been released. They are determined to carry on sailing from Cyprus to Gaza to bring relief.

Winter is coming and it will be bitterly cold in Gaza. A great number of the Gazans whose houses were destroyed by the Israelis have no shelter and would suffer terribly in the winter.

Modern civilization is supposedly very concerned about human rights. It is only right that we care for those heroes and heroines who are standing up to oppressive Governments.

But shouldn’t we also be concerned and caring for the 1½ million people of Gaza, who had lost 1,300 fellow inhabitants, whose houses, schools and hospitals have been destroyed, who do not have water or sanitary facilities, who will be without shelter from the coming winter.

It is sad that Governments who had pledged aid have so readily allowed the Israelis to blockade Gaza. It is disgusting that Israel can break international laws with impunity.

I went to Cyprus to meet these brave members of the Free Gaza Movement. I was shocked at how tiny was the only fishing boat that they still have for future trips to Gaza.

I had been sailing in a much bigger yacht and I know how rough was the sea. Yet 25 people dare to sail in this tiny boat, sleeping on the open deck, being seasick, being without proper food, and being made to face Israeli attacks. We really live in an uncivilized world where the fate of one or two people, useful for condemning certain Governments are constantly played up, yet the suffering, the freedom of 1½ million Gazans are ignored. I admire the Gazans whose main concern is for their right to be a free people, free that is from Israeli oppression, supported by the rich people who talk a lot about human rights and freedom.

I don’t think I would be able to endure the kind of discomfort and dangers faced by the activists of the Free Gaza Movement. All I can do is to give moral support to them.

Malaysians who wish to do so may volunteer to sail with these intrepid people. But if they cannot, then they can contribute towards their need to buy a bigger boat as no one would rent boats to them.

The PGPO (Perdana Global Peace Organisation) would like to appeal for donations in aid of the Free Gaza Movement members to purchase a small ship to carry cement and building materials apart from medicine and food etc.

All contributions by cheque can be issued to: KLFCW (Gaza Fund).KLFCW stands for the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War. The cheques can be addressed to the KLFCW c/o Perdana Global Peace Organisation, 5th Floor, 88, Jalan Perdana, Taman Tasik Perdana, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Cash contributions can be channeled to KLFCW Maybank Account: 5123 3430 6634.

Mahathir Mohamad is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Mahathir Mohamad

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