July 2009
44 posts
Detainees, Even if Acquitted, Might Not Go Free
“WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Tuesday it could continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely even if they have been acquitted of terrorism charges by a U.S. military commission.”
Full Article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124699680303307309.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Irish Noble Peace Prize Winner shot by Israeli...
“Israeli troops fired rubber bullets and tear gas at a non-violent protest against the separation wall near the West Bank village of Bilin. Several protesters were injured including the Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire who was shot with a rubber bullet.”
Video
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c8_1180940999
Israel's Housing Minister: Spread of Arab...
“Housing Minister Ariel Atias on Thursday warned against the spread of Arab population into various parts of Israel, saying that preventing this phenomenon was no less than a national responsibility. “I see [it] as a national duty to prevent the spread of a population that, to say the least, does not love the state of Israel,” Atias told a conference of the Israel Bar...
Likud's Danon called for boycott of July 4th
“An MK from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s own Likud Party called Tuesday on his fellow legislators to boycott the annual American Independence Day celebration at US Ambassador James Cunningham’s home.”
Full Article
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1246296541281
The Economic Strategy Of Imperial America
“For both sides, the problem is that Washington’s guns and butter economy (including trillions to Wall Street) creates greater deficits and inflated spending. America’s dominance is maintained, and foreign economies are obliged to finance it. Failure to support the dollar will inflate their own currencies, give US exporters a competitive edge, and ultimately let the world...
Iran Divided & the 'October Suprise'
“Iran’s current political divisions can be traced back to a controversy nearly three decades ago when Iran faced war with Iraq and became entwined with U.S. and Israeli political maneuvers that set all three countries on a dangerous course that continues to this day.”
Full Article
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/062409.html
U.S. Launches South Afghan Offensive
“WASHINGTON — The U.S. military launched a major operation in southern Afghanistan, an early test of the Obama administration’s new strategy for beating back the resurgent Taliban and stabilizing the country in advance of this summer’s presidential elections. Operation Khanjar, or “strike of the sword,” began shortly after 1 a.m. local time when close to 4,000...
Bureaucrats Will Carry Out Mandatory Home...
“The controversial climate bill that is set to be taken up by the Senate on Monday after its passage in the House will legislate home inspections by government regulators who will demand to audit every aspect of your property under the threat of substantial and repeated fines if their visits are denied or their demands not satisfied.”
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Creepy, revealing quote from White House staffer
“Jane Hamsher details the extremely aggressive tactics the White House and House leadership used to coerce liberal environmentalist members to vote for the cap-and-trade bill despite their belief that it helped polluters more than it did anything else (and remember their ability to do that the next time they claim that a bill they ostensibly support simply couldn’t pass because it...
May Flashback - Pope's urging brings Gaza blockade...
“Jerusalem; and Gaza City, Gaza - Though the rockets and shells have fallen quiet in Gaza since the January war with Israel, the prices of cooking fuel and many foods have skyrocketed. Due to both the war’s aftermath and the tight restrictions Israel enforces at the checkpoints on Gaza’s border, many Gazans are tightening their belts – literally.”
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How Israel's naval blockade denies Gazans food,...
“The naval blockade – part of a wider Israeli effort to seal off the tiny coastal strip controlled by the Islamist militant group Hamas – not only prevents such shipments, it is also devastating a key Gazan industry and source of food: fishing.”
Full Article
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0701/p06s02-wome.html
British prisoners report ill treatment in Israeli...
“A message smuggled out of the Ramla Givon prison in an email from members of the solidarity boat crew arrested earlier this week has accused the Israeli authorities of maltreatment and keeping them in poor conditions.”
Full Article
http://www.salfordonline.com/articles.php?func=viewdetails&vdetails=13924
Amnesty: Israeli Troops Used Children as Human...
“Amnesty International issued a 105-page report today detailing war crimes committed by the Israeli military during its 22-day military offensive against the Gaza Strip. The attack killed over 1,400 Palestinians and wounded 5,000 others. It also destroyed over 3,000 homes. The report found that “much of the destruction was wanton and resulted from direct attacks on civilian objects as well...
The New York Times and the Iranian election
“The response of the US media to the Iranian election says more about the state of democracy and the so-called “free press” in America than it does about the state of democratic rights in Iran. The coverage by the New York Times typifies a presentation of the victory of the incumbent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over his main challenger, former Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi, that...
When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In...
An article documenting ten murders from torture in Afghanistan carried out by the US
http://uruknet.com/?p=m55628&hd=&size=1&l=e
Has Barack Obama become the bane of Israeli Jews?
“He swept to power with the support of 78% of American Jews. But has Barack Obama become the bane of Israeli Jews? A gulf between American and Israeli Jews was evident even before Obama moved into the White House. Just a third of Israelis would have endorsed him had they been allowed to vote, polling indicated, while almost half would have chosen John McCain. In recent weeks, several...
The West´s Relationship to the State of Israel –...
“When I think of Israel´s crimes against the Palestinian people, I can´t even describe my feelings of frustration. It´s not that there aren´t many other areas in the world where people are oppressed, murdered in bombing raids and other war-crimes and their human rights violated. There are indeed. What sickens me so much, and what frustrates so many other people around the world as well, is...
America's Effective Unemployment Rate at 18.7%?
“The numbers are staggering and are aggregates of official data. They matter because various Obama administration officials including the President himself started off calling for huge stimulus packages to help generate “jobs, jobs, jobs!” But now, I have been hearing more and more from senior Obama economic team members about the jobs they hoped for coming at the very tail end...
Reblog if you believe in God, the Bible and try to...
(via heckyeahjesus)
“If I am to succeed, the sooner I know it, the less uneasiness I shall have to go...”
– Letter to John Page (15 July 1763); published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson (1905)
Obama vs Duck
Murdoch CEO Labels Bloggers “Political...
“A stinging attack by John Hartigan, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited, labels bloggers and alternative media outlets as “political extremists”. Hartigan implies that bloggers should be jailed as they are in oppressive police states like China and Burma.”
Full Article
http://www.prisonplanet.com/murdoch-ceo-labels-bloggers-political-extremists.html
2003 Flashback - New Front Sets Sights On Toppling...
“A budding coalition of conservative hawks, Jewish organizations and Iranian monarchists is pressing the White House to step up American efforts to bring about regime change in Iran. For now, President Bush’s official stance is to encourage the Iranian people to push the mullah regime aside themselves, but observers believe that the policy is not yet firm, and that has created an opportunity...
PITT STUDY: Accidental release blamed in swine flu...
“Sick pigs at the 1918 Cedar Rapids Swine Show in Iowa and scientists’ accidental release of an “extinct” flu virus in 1977 played key roles in creating a strain that has swept the globe and sparked fear of a more deadly flu season this winter. University of Pittsburgh infectious disease experts reviewed nearly a century of epidemiology reports to trace the origins of swine...
The Nation's Death Bed - Movie
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6769FEA670120275
The Nation’s Deathbed Official Youtube Release The Nations Deathbed is a documentary about the SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership), the protest that occurred in Montebello Quebec in August of 2007 and how it all ties into the agenda for a North American Union. This film reveals the true story of the horrific events that...
Vaccine Expert Reveals What You Should Know Before...
“A study by the Harvard Medical School of Public Health confirmed that public health officials could convince most people in the U.S. to alter their daily lives, follow government mandates and do as they are told after only a small amount of hyping that a deadly global pandemic was eminent. It documented that people tend to look to the government as a sort of Big Daddy who has their best...
Ex-CIA spy admits to kidnapping Muslim cleric
“Former US CIA agent Robert Seldon Lady has confessed to his role in the abduction of a Muslim Egyptian cleric for questioning. In an interview with the Italian Il Giornale newspaper, the former CIA operative admitted to his involvement in the 2003 kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr known as Abu Omar under the suspicion that he had links to ‘terror’...
The Panama Deception - A riveting Academy...
http://thelastoutpost.com/video-3/ciadrugrunning/the-panama-deception.html
For even more see
http://www.empowermentproject.org/index.html
Report Cites Indiscriminate Drone Use by Israel
“JERUSALEM – The concerted effort of international human rights activists to rein in violations of laws of war was given a major impetus when Human Rights Watch researchers presented a report [.pdf] Tuesday on the unbridled use by the Israeli military of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCLAV), commonly known as drones, during Israel’s 22-day assault on Hamas in Gaza at the beginning of the...
Israel abducts nobel laureate, former US congress...
“The Free Gaza Movement announced in a press release on Tuesday that its boat The Spirit of Humanity had been intercepted by the Israeli navy while en route from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Palestinian people. The people of Gaza have suffered under an Israeli siege and a three-week military assault code-named Operation Cast Lead that began on December 27...
Iran police: most people detained in unrest freed
“TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s police chief said on Wednesday that 1,032 people were detained during unrest in Tehran sparked by last month’s disputed presidential election, but that most had since been released. “Those who are still in detention were referred to the public and revolutionary courts in Tehran,” the semi-official Fars News Agency quoted Ismail...
WatchScheur on Glenn Beck talking about how America needs Osama Bin Laden to attack the US so the government can get the go ahead to violently handle any and all situations it deems “necessary”
Independence Now And Forever
“Indeed, the signers of America’s Declaration of Independence endured the sacrifice of both toil and blood. Pertaining to the lives of the signers, David Limbaugh writes, “Of those 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war. Five were captured and imprisoned, in each case with brutal treatment. Several lost wives, sons or entire...
June 2009
49 posts
“I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national...”
– Andrew Jackson
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than...”
– Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, 1802.
Billy Mays Found Dead
Two days ago my friends and I were talking about Billy Mays, yesterday I posted a Billy Mays dub on my tumblr, then right afterwards a Billy Mays informercial came on my television. It’s like it was trying to tell me something! Rest In Peace Billy Mays
http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/28/billy-mays-is-dead/
