The crews of two Libyan warships have mutinied and are refusing to obey Muammar Gaddafi's orders to attack the eastern port city of Benghazi. This development comes as more reports are coming in about Libyan troops defecting to the side of the people seeking to overthrow Gaddafi, the longest serving ruler in the Arab world.
At least 1,000 people were killed in Tripoli on Monday by airstrikes conducted by the Libyan military in a desperate move meant to quell the popular uprising, according to some reports.
Activist Post Many of us believe the Internet to be open and free for us to explore all known information. Indeed, it is true that we currently can surf to any active website with our browser, and we can start a website or blog on any topic we wish to discuss. And it is quite a profound concept that everyone with a smart phone literally has all of the world's knowledge in the palm of their hand...
The statement here below: "The value to the US of Japanese biological warfare data is of such importance to national security as to far outweigh the value accruing from 'war crimes' prosecution," by one US military scientist is quite revealing.
6. Contrary to face-saving claims, it appears that the US and Israel were both caught off guard by Iran's announcement. The reasoning is simple. Had the US or Israel announced the existence of he new facility before Iran's notified the IAEA, it would have put Iran on the defensive. As it is now, the US and Israel seem to be playing catch up, casting doubt on the veracity of Israel's claims to "know" that Iran is a nuclear threat.
10. The United Nations has just released the Goldstone Report, a scathing report which accuses Israel of 37 specific war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza earlier this year. Israel has denounced the report as "Anti-Semitic (even though Judge Goldstone is himself Jewish), and the United States will block the report from being referred to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague, thereby making the US Government an accessory after-the-fact.
We all need to be Joe Wilson right now. We need to stand up and scream, "LIAR!" at every politician and every talking media moron that is pushing this war in Iran. And we need to keep dong it until they get the message that we will not be deceived any more.
Israel wants to send your kids off to die in Iran, and YOU are the only one that can stop them.
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CUBA and Nicaragua have sprung to the defence of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, with Fidel Castro claiming Washington plans to order a NATO invasion of Libya to seize oil interests.
"To me, it's absolutely clear that the Government of the United States is not interested in peace in Libya," said the 84-year old former Cuban leader, who still heads the Cuban Communist Party. Washington, he said, "will not hesitate to give the order for NATO to invade that rich country, perhaps in the coming hours or days."
Reminds me of the premise of Gibson's film Edge of Darkness: While the US government continues to maintain he’s a ‘diplomat’, it’s now emerged Davis is in fact a member of the feared TF373 ‘black ops’ unit that operates invisibly in the Af-Pak TOA. The two men Davis is accused of killing were not “robbers”, but in fact two ISI agents who were tailing him. Worse — much worse -- documents found on Davis’ person prove he was working on supplying a dirty bomb to the Taliban. Lest we forget the British false flag op in Iraq back in ‘05 that turned sour (when two SAS commandos, dressed as Arabs and driving a vehicle loaded with explosives and automatic weapons, were actually apprehended by Iraqi police), I’ve included it further below...
Britain is to send a Royal Navy frigate to Libyan waters to support efforts to evacuate Britons from the troubled country and has chartered a plane to fly to Tripoli to rescue stranded nationals.
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said that as the Libyan state was collapsing it was necessary to have a military component to the rescue efforts. Foreign Office diplomats were trying to get permission last night for the chartered plane to land.
Webmaster's Commentary: This frigate is most likely to be coming to Libya to protect any British-flagged ships in Libyan waters which might be subject to an attack.
Then you were sure when the subprime problem hit, that it wouldn't cause a recession.
Then you were sure you had it under control with Bear Stearns' hedge funds.
Then you were sure you had it under control with Bear Stearns itself.
Then you were sure it was under control with Lehman, even though you had to know Citibank and others were refusing their collateral in the repo market.
You were sure QE would support higher bond prices - and lower yields. The exact opposite thing happened.
You were sure QE2 would suppress long end yields. The exact opposite thing happened.
There's been virtually no reliable information coming out of Tripoli, but a source close to the Gaddafi regime I did manage to get hold of told me the already terrible situation in Libya will get much worse. Among other things, Gaddafi has ordered security services to start sabotaging oil facilities. They will start by blowing up several oil pipelines, cutting off flow to Mediterranean ports. The sabotage, according to the insider, is meant to serve as a message to Libya's rebellious tribes: It's either me or chaos.
Webmaster's Commentary: Saddam tried that while being kicked out of Kuwait.
Libya's Interior Minister Abdel Fattah Younes al Abidi has announced his defection and support for the "February 17 revolution", news channel Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday.
Cameron voiced "cautious optimism" and said Britain would not let Iran cast a nuclear shadow in the Middle East.
Webmaster's Commentary: Now, let me get this straight: Cameron stated that a non-nuclear armed Iran, where the IAEA has documented consistently that there is no evidence of a weapons program, can possibly "...cast a nuclear shadow over the Middle East"; however, he makes absolutely no reference to Israel's confirmed weapons program, which has been established for quite some time with a regime which will not sign the NNPT, and refuses inspections?!?!?
Vaccine makers are protected from lawsuits, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, dashing the hopes of a US couple who had sought monetary damages after their daughter fell ill after a round of routine childhood inoculations.
By a 6-2 vote, the US high court, in an opinion by written Justice Antonin Scalia, rejected the family's argument that they should allowed to sue drug maker Wyeth for not making a safer vaccine.
The case concerned Hannah Bruesewitz, who as a six-month-old infant received a series of injections to protect her against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, the illness also known as whooping cough.
Webmaster's Commentary:
One has to wonder how much Wyeth (and other pharmaceutical) stock Scalia and the other Supreme Court Judges have in their portfolios.
Now that vaccine makers are ruled to be financially immune to any lawsuits resulting from the use of their products, they will most use the most flawed vaccines on the American people with impunity.
Were I a parent, I would go over the literature from the drug companies very carefully before I would allow my infant to be vaccinated. I would also do a web search on the damage various vaccinations can cause, vetted by independent research.
Were the diagnosis autism, this case would have been treated very differently.
"Family to Receive $1.5M+ in First-Ever Vaccine-Autism Court Award"
"Hannah was described as normal, happy and precocious in her first 18 months.
Then, in July 2000, she was vaccinated against nine diseases in one doctor's visit: measles, mumps, rubella, polio, varicella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and Haemophilus influenzae.
Afterward, her health declined rapidly. She developed high fevers, stopped eating, didn't respond when spoken to, began showing signs of autism, and began having screaming fits. In 2002, Hannah's parents filed an autism claim in federal vaccine court. Five years later, the government settled the case before trial and had it sealed. It's taken more than two years for both sides to agree on how much Hannah will be compensated for her injuries."
Also, to add insult to injury (sometimes literally), as reported on 20 July 2009 at:
"Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, signed a document last month that gives vaccine makers and federal officials immunity from lawsuits that might arise surrounding any new swine flu vaccine. The Boston Globe reported last week that the immunity sought by drug manufacturers was spurred on by vaccines created for the last swine flu outbreak and the resulting thousands of lawsuits filed against those vaccine makers for side effects suffered from the shots.
The document signed by Secretary Sebelius allows for a compensation fund, if needed, for claims made against the drug manufacturers. The government has taken these steps in order to encourage drug companies to actually make the vaccine and so far, five manufacturers have contracted with federal officials to make a swine flu vaccine.
Israel is becoming a liability to the United States, bringing US into the same international isolation into which Israel itself was cast. The so-called "Israel Lobby", which prevents Israeli misconduct from ever being corrected, is a grave danger to Israel's future.
Put in a seemingly awkward position, the administration had to decide whether to veto a resolution whose substance it essentially agreed with at a time when the Arab street is looking for signs of the Obama administration’s proclivities on Middle Eastern issues, or discard America's long-standing tradition of vetoing one-sided U.N. resolutions on Israel and anger many Israel supporters.
Tuesday February 22 5PM 6th Ave. and 48th St. New York, NY
“The Governor of Wisconsin's attacks on working people and our unions threaten to start a domino of anti-union legislation in other states, if we don't stop him now.”
Egyptians crossing the border to flee the mayhem in Libya say they believe the Gaddafi regime has brought in foreign mercenaries to gun down and kill protesters.
Webmaster's Commentary: Big mistake: Gadaffi has shown the Libyan people that they are just as likely to die by Gadaffi making them slavas as they are to stand up and be free. So why not be free?
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf had cut a secret deal with the US in 2006 to allow clandestine CIA operations in Pakistan, the daily reported. However, "the government and security agencies were surprised to know that Davis and some of his colleagues were involved in activities that were not spelled out in the agreement," a source told the newspaper.
Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents, which point to him or the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region, providing Al-Qaeda terrorists with "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents," according to a report.
...It is my hypothesis that they were laying the groundwork for BP's case. Like Joe Barton, barely able to restrain himself from leaping over the banister and fellating Tony Hayward outright in lieu of apology, the Obama administration had predictably begun to uneasily resemble an overly willing, if cheap, whore....
So the animals disappear under cover of night; the whales are exploded, and the court finds BP not alone in its responsibility. All we need then to keep the price of the worst oil disaster in history 'doable' is to keep the actual estimates low. By appearing inept at this estimation early on, proof is provided for the argument of a future litigation, and its outcome is all but assured....
You'd never know it from Canadian mainstream media coverage of the war in Afghanistan, of course, but Spiegel Online International reported yesterday that German troops in that country are in a state of near revolt against their commanders.
The reason? The danger they face training Afghan soldiers who, in the words of one German trooper quoted by the magazine, "consider us to be infidels who don't belong in their country."
Said another Bundeswehr soldier quoted by the English-language online edition of the German newsmagazine: "One doesn't know anymore if they will suddenly turn their weapons on you."
Canada has been highly successful in projecting an image as a benign power doing good work around the world. It has built this reputation on the idea of peacekeeping rather than waging war. While Canada has used its “peacekeeper” image to wag fingers at others — notably China and Iran for alleged human rights abuses while ignoring such egregious human rights abusers as the Zionist state of Israel — it is in Afghanistan that Canada’s own reputation lies in tatters.
Labbe was considered a rising star in the Canadian Forces when he was selected to lead the 1992-1993 mission to Somalia. During that deployment Canadian paratroopers tortured to death 16-year-old Shidane Arone, documenting the brutal beating of the Somali with a series of photographs.
Also during the mission, two Somalis were shot in the back after they entered a Canadian camp. It was later revealed that paratroopers put out food and water as “bait” and it was alleged by a military doctor that one of the Somalis was killed “execution-style” by a soldier.
A Seattle restaurant has exercised its "right to refuse service to anyone" and decided to refuse service to TSA goons. Wonder why? This article lists just a few of the way TSA deserves less than respect:
Last Friday’s American veto of the United Nations Security Council resolution that would have called Israeli settlement activity on the West Bank illegal was not only shameful, it was possibly the low point of the already foundering Obama presidency. To be sure, United States UN Ambassador Susan Rice accompanied the veto with a stirring rendition of “I’ll cry tomorrow” as she described how the Obama White House really is opposed to the settlements. Really.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the World is going to experience a major change, as humanity is striving to understand the truths.
“Today, we witness that humanity is striving to realize the truth and the world is on the threshold of an enormous change,” Ahmadinejad said in his speech to Iranian officials and representatives of the Islamic countries in Tehran on Monday.
“Achieving justice is rapidly turning into a global objective,” IRNA quoted him as saying.
Ahmadinejad said that despite efforts by arrogant powers to spread hatemongering and enmity in social and human relations, friendship and brotherly relations are taking over.
After nearly a week of peaceful protest by what’s climbed to nearly a hundred thousand strong in defiance of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s attempts to strip workers’ unions of their collective bargaining rights, Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello (aka The Nightwatchman) arrived with a few friends in tow to provide some valuable musical solidarity.
After speaking to the masses on the steps of the Capitol, Morello led five thousand people into the Monona Terrace exhibition hall nearby for a performance that included Wayne Kramer of MC5, Mike McColgan of Dropkick Murphys, Tim McIlrath of Rise Against and Ike Reilly. Tommy Gabel of Against Me! had reportedly agreed to show, but didn’t make it to the event.
This North American Union is being openly set up. This is simply another move towards a world govenrment Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way for the militaries from either nation to send troops across each other’s borders during an emergency, but some are questioning why the Harper government has kept silent on the deal.
Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way for the militaries from either nation to send troops across each other’s borders during an emergency, but some are questioning why the Harper government has kept silent on the deal.
An Alaska state lawmaker is making her way back to the state capital of Juneau after refusing what she called an invasive pat-down search at a Seattle airport.
Rep. Sharon Cissna, D-Anchorage, underwent a body scan as she was preparing to leave Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Sunday. In a statement released late Monday, she said scan results displayed – as they had during a prior episode three months earlier – the scars from her breast cancer.
This caught the attention of the Transportation Safety Administration, Cissna said, but she refused to submit to the “invasive, probing hands of a stranger” this time.
Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way for the militaries from either nation to send troops across each other’s borders during an emergency, but some are questioning why the Harper government has kept silent on the deal.
As you can see in the table that’s dealing with 2012 presidential prospective candidates, our panel still view many of the candidates on the Republican side as being preferable to Obama.
All in all, The Israel Factor 2012 favorites are, by this order: Giuliani, Gingrich, Romney, Huckabee, Bolton, Bush, Barbour, Rubio. Thune and Pawlenty are both tied with Obama at 6.
Webmaster's Commentary: Those Presidential candidates characterized as the "best for Israel" are incontrovertibly the worst for the people of the United States of America, and their needs and concerns Voting for any of these Israel-firsters will inevitably hasten the demise of this Republic.
Nestled within America's once-thriving coal country, 87-year-old Ed Shepard laments a prosperous era gone by, when shoppers lined the streets and government lent a helping hand. Now, here as in one-fourth of all U.S. counties, West Virginia's graying residents are slowly dying off. Hit by an aging population and a poor economy, a near-record number of U.S. counties are experiencing more deaths than births in their communities, a phenomenon demographers call "natural decrease."
Organized labor is trying to re-energize and take advantage of the growing backlash from the wave of anti-union sentiment in Wisconsin and more than a dozen other states.
Webmaster's Commentary:
This is NOT about unions, even though the media and government are trying to sell that idea.
The protests in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana (as of this morning) are AMERICANS who reject the idea that they must make do with less in order for Wall Street and Washington DC to have more.
Contrary to the media spin, these unions are NOT asking for more money or perqs; they are simply demanding to keep that which is already theirs, against a government whose only mantra is, "You must make do with less so that we may have more" over and over, as Wall Street gets a $14 trillion bail out, looted form the people and the states, to save itself from going to jail over the fraudulent mortgage-backed securities scandal.
The government has no right to demand the people accept lowered standards of living so that Wall Street bankers can continue record-setting bonuses.
If ICE will not Pick Up Dangerous Illegal Aliens from the County Jail. Bring them the the Congressional office. ICE will not ignore a call from the Congressman
Muammar Gaddafi told his country Tuesday evening he is a “warrior” and that he “will die as a martyr.” World leaders denounce him, but U.S. President Barack Obama has remained relatively silent.
Weekly Standard editor William Kristol commented that there was “no direct condemnation of the Qaddafi regime. No expression of support for the demonstrators. No hint of action on our part – no immediate economic embargo, no threats against any individuals involved in the atrocities, no call for a U.N. Security Council meeting, no sign of possible NATO enforcement of a no-fly zone, no demand that the border be opened for humanitarian aid. Instead, the State Department is trying to ‘convey a message’ to the Libyan government.”
Webmaster's Commentary: In light of the reality that Obama loves to hear himself speak on anything, the fact that President Obama is maintaining silence right now on this issue is more than a little ominous.
One has to wonder: in light of the fact that Libya has declared a "force Majeure" today regarding its oil production (sniffing about for some foreign military force to help it crust the revolt), is Obama possibly contemplating some kind of military intervention, either with the US alone going in, or under the guise of NATO/UN involvement to "stabilize" Libya?!?
The people of Iran and Lebanon will overthrow Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Nasrallah, President Shimon Peres told Spanish Jews during a visit marking 25 years of Spanish-Israeli ties.
Webmaster's Commentary: Were I Shimon Peres, I would not necessarily bet on these outcomes; unless, of course, Israel is getting ready to declare war on Iran and Lebanon!
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's deputy blamed Google Inc in an interview published on Tuesday for stirring up trouble in the revolution that ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
"Look what they have done in Egypt, those highly-placed managers of Google, what manipulations of the energy of the people took place there," Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told the Wall Street Journal.
Such strong comment from one of Putin's most trusted deputies is a clear signal of growing concern among Russian hardliners about the role of the Internet in the unrest which has swept across the Arab world.
Webmaster's Commentary: Memo to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin: please don't shoot the messenger on this. Many people in countries in the Middle East have ample reason to complain about the quality of their lives; lack of education; no health care; the inability to find work for a living wage, and corruption and dysfunction in their governments.
If the Russian Duma and its politicians are really working for improving the lives of Russian citizens, you have absolutely nothing to fear from Google, or any other search engine. As the Chinese leadership has discovered, much to its consternation, there are a number of methods savvy net surfers use to get around the restrictions it has placed on the Net; I am sure that Russia also has many web surfers who would understand how to circumvent restrictions, should Russian officials try to put them into place.
A lawyer accuses Nevada District Judge Donald Mosley and other judges, including the Nevada Supreme Court, of predetermining the outcome in foreclosure disputes in favor of lenders, according to court papers filed last week.
Reuters reports that Libya has just declared force majeure on its oil exports. As a reminder, Libya exports (under non-force majerue conditions) about 1.5 million barrels per day. That's a lot of barrels, especially for Italy which relies on 425,000 barrels a day from Libya to keep its economy going.
Webmaster's Commentary: This appears to be a tactic from the Ghadaffi government to potentially "sniff out" any foreign countries, depending on this oil, willing to send in their military to assist the Libyan military in crushing this revolt.
"Foreign reaction to the unrest in Libya, a major energy producer with significant investment from Britain's BP Plc, Exxon of the United States and Italy's ENI among others, has so far been muted."
I would strongly suggest that any foreign powers stupid enough to send their military to crush this revolt against Gadaffi's government will be seeing massive demonstrations in their own countries, and at breathtaking speed.
A new study in Science Translational Medicine has cast doubt over the scientific validity of nearly all randomized, double-blind placebo controlled studies involving pharmaceuticals used on human beings. It turns out that many pharmaceuticals only work because people expect them to, not because they have any "real" chemical effect on the body. As you'll see here, when test subjects were told that they were not receiving painkiller medications -- even though they were -- the medication proved to be completely worthless.
The rights of Iraq's most vulnerable citizens, especially women and detainees, are routinely violated with impunity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch conducted research in seven cities across Iraq during 2010 and found that, beyond the country's continuing violence and crimes, human rights abuses are commonplace.
"Eight years after the US invasion, life in Iraq is actually getting worse for women and minorities, while journalists and detainees face significant rights violations," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "Today, Iraq is at a crossroads - either it embraces due process and human rights or it risks reverting to a police state."
Webmaster's Commentary: Your tax dollars at work, folks: welcome to the new "Democracy" in Iraq!!
The five tents giving shelter to some 50 Bedouin residents of Amniyr, a tiny community north of Susiya in the south Hebron hills, were torn down on Monday, their olive trees uprooted and water sources covered over.
An observer with the Christian Peacemaker Teams said Israeli demolition crews arrived before sunrise, at about 5:30 a.m., and began taking down the tents, then filled a well and a water cistern with earth.
Webmaster's Commentary: The Israeli vision of "peace"; ethnic cleansing and forced Palestinian expulsion, one Bedouin village, one Palestinian home, at a time!!
Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are waging a bloody operation to keep him in power, with residents reporting gunfire in parts of the capital Tripoli and other cities, while other citizens, including the country's former ambassador to India, are saying that warplanes were used to "bomb" protesters.
"What we are witnessing today is unimaginable. Warplanes and helicopters are indiscriminately bombing one area after another. There are many, many dead," Adel Mohamed Saleh said in a live broadcast.
Webmaster's Commentary: Gaddafi may win the battle here; but he has lost the war after this wholesale slaughter of his subjects.
ABU DHABI - Defense Conseil International (DCI), a French state-owed training company, has three crowd-control specialists acting as advisers to the Bahrain Army, chief executive Jean-Louis Rotrubin said at the IDEX trade show.
The advisers, drawn from the French Gendarmerie Nationale and elite GIGN special forces unit, are part of a program to train Bahrain special Zforces in non-lethal crowd control and the avoidance of the use of deadly force, he said. The program is just beginning. The program aims "to develop a new approach to how manage crowds in cities," Rotrubin said.
First off, the crux of the story is that a guy named Dennis Montgomery seems to have concocted an elaborate con on the US government that worked for years. He created some software, supposedly originally designed to help colorize movies, but it was later pitched for its capability to (I'm not joking) read coded messages in the "crawl bar" on Al Jazeera which (it was claimed) provided clues to planned terrorist attacks.
How does military spending impact Americans? President Reagan’s former assistant secretary of defense Lawrence Korb describes the military budget as “an annual tax of more than $7,000 on every household in the country.”While increasing the security budget, Obama and the Democrats have proposed widespread cuts to critical programs from a 50% cut in low-income heating assistance to nearly a 30% cut to the clean drinking water fund. They have also proposed a 25% cut ($1.3 billion) to the community development block grants used to fund local community development including affordable housing, anti-poverty programs, and infrastructure development.
Webmaster's Commentary: We the People have become expendable to this Administration; only the propping up of the American Empire, and publicly funded wars for ultimate private profit matter to them. Please remember: Obama was never, in any substantive way, shape, or form, a populist, really committed to the substantive change in government for which the American people had clamored during the last election.
He was a reasonably competent technocrat, who privately and quietly assured the largest holders of wealth in the US and even foreign corporations, like BP (which contributed handsomely to his campaign), that he would protect their wealth, and would make sure that the financial burdens of these immoral and illegal wars would fall squarely on the shoulders of already overtaxed American citizens.
And trust me, Obama is one of them, in terms of financial status: he is not one of us. As reported on 11 February, 2011 at:
If I were to conduct a voice vote right now in an acoustically perfect arena with every single one of our 300 million Americans in attentive attendance, the American government would fall in a heartbeat, in a truly unanimous show of hands accompanied by enthusiastic cheers with all the assembled thumbs pointed straight to hell. The spontaneous appreciation of the world would then echo across the skies.
The American government would instanteously crumble in a tumultuous paroxysm of moral outrage by shamefaced Americans at the sexually perverted and criminally negligent actions of their treasonous rulers who have sold our jewel of the world to the pawnbrokers on the corner for a fistful of shekels. (Hmm, sounds kind of familiar when you put it that way, doesn’t it?)
Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. Dozens of people were reported killed.
Ibrahim Sarsour says Arab world should punish US economy after the US vetoes Security Council resolution condemning settlements.
Webmaster's Commentary:
So when gas hits $25 a gallon, you get down on your knees and thank you lucky stars you have a President who places the wishes of Israel so much higher than what is best for the American people!
Following is a video interview with Kris Petersen. Kris was involved in a battle less than a month ago with Brooklyn College, a battle that he won …. for all of us!
This is part of Israel’s attempts to “pinkwash” its colonial policies and occupation of the Palestinian people by diverting international attention to a fictional public relations image appealing to western liberals.
British novelist Ian McEwan, this year’s recipient of the prestigious Jerusalem Prize, used the opening of the the 25th Jerusalem International Book Fair last night to sharply criticize Israel’s policies of “confiscation, land purchases, and expulsion in East Jerusalem,” and a national policy that grants a “right of return to Jews but not to Arabs.”
Speaking at the capital’s Binyanei Ha’uma convention center, and in the presence of President Shimon Peres, Culture Minister Limor Livnat and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, McEwan delivered an acceptance speech that was greeted with polite but tense silence.
Sailors will don battle gear and take up fighting positions at U.S. naval bases starting Tuesday in the nation's largest antiterrorism exercise, officials said.
Navy installations in the continental United States, Guam and Hawaii will participate in Exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield through Friday. The exercise is intended to give officials a snapshot of military readiness, as the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks approaches, by reviewing the response to multiple attacks.
Webmaster's Commentary: Bull Biscuits!
Terrorists do not carry out attacks in the middle of the oceans. This is an exercise to prepare the US Navy to protect itself against the coming American revolution by conditioning sailors to see everyone as a potential threat.
When I got away from home, my first social circle of any note were the children of the diplomatic, political and legal culture of Washington D.C. That’s the first time I saw what it was like to be surrounded by money. I’d find myself being taken on a tour of Virginia Graham’s house, when she wasn’t home; sixty or seventy rooms of furniture with plastic on them like nobody lived there and nobody did. The Gore’s of Senator the Elder’s fame were next door to my best friend. The junkie son and nymphomaniac daughter of the Kraft food fortune and assorted wastrels were all around, being jaded and junked like it was an avocation.
The main value of the 1979 Camp David treaty to the Israeli leadership has been three decades of calm on Israel's south-western flank. That, in turn, has freed the army to concentrate on more pressing goals, such as its intermittent forays north to sow sectarian discord in Lebanon, its belligerent posturing towards Iran in the east, and its campaign to contain and dispossess the Palestinians under its rule.
Peace has reigned between Israel and Egypt because it is so strongly in the interests of both militaries. That is not about to change while the Egyptian and Israeli general staffs maintain their pre-eminent roles as the praetorian guards of their countries' respective political systems.
One would think that the effort to downplay the killings of as many as 64 civilians, including a large number of children, would be enough to spark considerable anti-US outrage, but apparently Gen. David Petraeus saw an opportunity to make things even worse, and took it.
In a closed door meeting aimed at explaining why they had killed so many civilians, Gen. Petraeus actually accused parents in the region of burning their own children in an attempt to raise the death count and make the US look bad.
Webmaster's Commentary: As been shown by the Al Jazeera expose, the US has done everything to placate the Palestinian Authority into accepting the status quo with Israel, and not really moving forward toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
What the US has done, with the veto at the UN last Friday of the Palestinian resolution condemning construction of illegal Jewish settlements, has been to demonstrate its true colors when it comes to Israel.
Israel wants a 1-state solution, with all the Palestinians starved out, or killed outright, in the creation of "Erez Israel", with borders extending from the Euphrates River to the Nile.
There is every reason at this moment for Palestinians to understand that, with the exception of Jimmy Carter, no US President or administration has been remotely interested in the establishment of a Palestinian state. And why?!?
Because no US politician can ever achieve high office without being "vetted" as someone totally committed to Israel's geopolitical objectives. If you don't believe that, take a look at Haley Barbour's and Mike Huckabee's recent pilgrimages to Israel.
The Palestinians have every right to their anger against Fatah, Israel and the US. And that unveiled warning that "..by inciting their people against the US and Obama, Abbas and Fayyad are shooting themselves in the foot": Abbas and Fayyad are desperately attempting to deflect Palestinian anger away from themselves and at another target, the US, after the damning revelations against Fatah from Al Jazeerah.
And when elections are held for Fatah, the general consensus is that both men will be out of the political picture permanently. The Palestinian people are not stupid; they understand, after the death of Arafat, that their leadership has simply been throwing them under the proverbial bus in terms of statehood. Perhaps this is the time to get angry, and demand real change in their leadership.
Flashback:Introduction After the Soviet Union's dissolution in late 1989, America had a choice. As the sole remaining superpower, it could have worked for a new era of peace and prosperity, ended decades of Cold War tensions, halted the insane arms race, turned swords into plowshares, and diverted hundreds of billions annually from "defense" to "rebuild(ing) civilian infrastructure and repair(ing) impoverished cities."
Instead, Washington, under GHW Bush and his successors, "chose stealth, deception, lies and wars to attempt to control the Eurasian Heartland - its only potential rival as an economic region - by military (political, and economic) force," and by extension planet earth through an agenda later called "full spectrum dominance."
US stooge and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Obama’s singular veto against the vote of 130 countries enforces the Zionst illegal expansion of settlements on stolen land in occupied Palestine. This act of unconditional defiance, by both US administrations for 63 years, screams out loudly that America is the greatest failed state in recorded history. Ivy league academic and bureaucratic stooges that cannot make change for a quarter and ignore their self dignity and humanity race to “Israel is popular stop for possible Republican presidential candidates”
Even from where I sit, I'm getting a distinctive whiff of bullshit.
Oh, now I remember. It was just a short time ago, when news reports told us that the "Taliban killed British aid worker Linda Norgrove" and then we learned that really a grenade had been thrown by a member of the U.S. rescue team who it seems feared for his own life, resulting in her death. In other words, the U.S. military killed the target of their rescue operation. How long will it take, this time, before we hear What Really Happened?
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post
The bodies of dead American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan weren't even cold in their graves when the liars that put them there turned their attention toward the Islamic Republic of Iran. Looking beyond the short-sighted goals of controlling oil or fighting "terrorism," the global elite are pursing an overarching agenda of establishing global hegemony in continuation of the British Empire's efforts stretching back centuries.
When Kevin McQuaite of Allentown went to cash out his investments, his bank couldn't find a record of them. He consulted with state officials and an attorney and got help from the Watchdog before he tracked down what happened to them. Their location had been hidden by multiple bank mergers and acquisitions.
Unlike other nations, including the US and Ireland, which injected billions of dollars of capital into their financial institutions to keep them afloat, Iceland placed its biggest lenders in receivership. It chose not to protect creditors of the country's banks, whose assets had ballooned to US$209 billion, 11 times gross domestic product.
But with the economy projected to grow 3 per cent this year, Iceland's decision to let the banks fail is looking smart.
North Korea recently took the unusual step of begging for food handouts from the foreign governments it usually threatens.
Plagued by floods, an outbreak of a livestock disease and a brutal winter, the government ordered its embassies and diplomatic offices around the world to seek help.
The request has put the United States and other Western countries in the uncomfortable position of having to decide whether to ignore the pleas of a starving country or pump food into a corrupt distribution system that often gives food to those who need it least.
Webmaster's Commentary: The US government is apt to use any contributions of food as a geopolitical lever to attempt to get the 6-way talks started again.
The real problem for Kim Jung-Il and his son, heir-apparent Kim Jung-Un will come when North Korea is no longer able to feed its military.
China would be the logical recourse for this food aid, but China is struggling with a massive drought which has reduced its wheat harvest, and pushed prices up for Chinese consumers.
SFF took a challenge and wanted to see if there were cases identical to what is plaguing the court systems. Sure enough the following cases below are ONLY a fraction of what was in store. Just imagine if someone was paying any attention to these cases, perhaps something could have changed the way the lending industry used an electronic device that without a doubt bifurcated the mortgage (deed of trust) from the note!
Bahrain's king ordered the release of some political prisoners Tuesday, conceding to another opposition demand as the embattled monarchy tries to engage protesters in talks aimed at ending an uprising that has entered its second week.
The king's decree – which covers several Shiite activists accused of plotting against the state – adds to the brinksmanship on both sides that has included a massive pro-government rally Monday, an opposition march in response and the planned return of a prominent opposition figure from exile.
It's unclear how many prisoners will be freed, said government spokeswoman Maysoon Sabkar.
Webmaster's Commentary: One has to admire the courage of these protestors. I have a sense that that their demands will be met. But one thing is certain; their fear of what the Bahraini government may do to them is gone.
How bad have things become? According to the National Employment Law Project, a trend is growing among employers to not even consider the applications of the unemployed for jobs that become available. Among examples offered by the project were a phone manufacturer that posted a job announcement with the message: “No Unemployed Candidate Will Be Considered At All,” and a Texas electronics company that announced online that it would “not consider/review anyone NOT currently employed regardless of the reason.”
Webmaster's Commentary: "Relax; you can always join the army! We have a LOT of work coming up!" -- Official White Horse Souse
The source said the undercover agent carried a pistol in her undergarments when she put the body scanners to the test. The officer successfully made it through the airport's body scanners every time she tried, the source said.
Webmaster's Commentary: So, in addition to causing cancer, these scanners do not actually detect firearms unless they are so honking huge you don't need a scanner to see them in the first place, and Obama ordered, what, another forty billion worth of these things?
The bodies of slain protesters were left on the streets of the Libyan capital Tuesday and frightened residents hunkered down in their homes as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi sought to crush anti-government demonstrations by shooting on sight anyone outside, residents and an opposition activist said. (Scroll down for live updates.)
Amid the crackdown, a defiant Gadhafi appeared on state TV in the early hours Tuesday to show he was still in charge, brandishing a large umbrella and wearing a cap with fur ear flaps, and denying reports he had left the country.
Webmaster's Commentary: The readiness of Ghadaffi to slaughter his own people, just to cling to power for a little while longer, demonstrates very clearly that he is an absolute tyrant. The people of Libya deserve far better than this.
Under President Barack Obama's new budget for fiscal year 2012, the Great American War Machine just rolls on and on. “As it is, we're pumping...money into sustaining a fighting force that's orders of magnitude larger than anything retained by any other country,” observes Ezra Klein of The Washington Post February 14th. So when Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that major cuts in military spending would be “catastrophic,” Obama settled for chopping $78 billion in cosmetic cuts Gates recommended over the next five years, Klein wrote, adding, “I bet there are more than a few Cabinet secretaries who wish they had that kind of power over the president's recommendations.” Some observers, by the way, think the Pentagon is, in fact, already running the show.
Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents, which point to him or the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region, providing Al-Qaeda terrorists with "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents," according to a report.
Easy prediction to make when you know the CIA is giving "Al Qaeda" the fissile material and biological weapons!
Do you grasp what is going on? The CIA uses a Blackwater contract agent to approach "Al Qaeda" or any convenient dumb-ass patsy and gives them the key ingredient to make a nuclear weapon. Plus they garnish it with some biological weapons as an added bonus. Then the public is fed a story about how nuclear weapons may already be inside the United States via the port in San Diego, to make the subsequent blast explainable.
This is 9-11 all over again. The government of the US and Israel is desperate to kick off WW3 before the global revolution comes to their doorsteps. They are cornered, and nothing is more dangerous than a cornered government willing to use a nuclear weapon on their own people.
This is not science fiction.
This is not a movie fantasy about a man in a Guy Fawkes mask.
This is the real deal!
The United States Government got out of the crash of 1907 by getting into WW1.
The United States Government got out of the crash of 1929 by getting into WW2.
Here we are in the throes of the crash of 2007 (which according to the FCIC did not even have to happen, were it not for Wall Street's criminality and government complacency) and look ... how ... hard ... they ... are ... trying ... to ... start ... world ... war ... three!
and the only one who can stop this insanity is you!
The Reuters news agency quoted an official as saying the Iranian ships entered before 6 a.m. local time on February 22 and were heading toward the Mediterranean.
Lew Rockwell We are living in an Orwell novel, so it is not expected that anyone would remember President Ronald Reagan’s war on Libya in 1986. Both Reagan and his vice president Bush were on television daily to decry Libya as a terror state ruled by a wicked dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The US bombing campaign was supposedly in retaliation for the alleged Libyan involvement in an attack on a German disco the previous year.
But: 'That would not be something I recognize as the United States of America,' state patrol inspector adds.
Stephen C. Webster Raw Story Amid the largest protests Madison, Wisconsin has seen in decades, newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker last week issued a stark message to public labor unions occupying the capitol building: we have options, and using the National Guard against protesters is among them.
According to Adalah-NY, performances by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) will be met with protests in six of the seven cities where it is scheduled to appear during its U.S tour, during February and March. Human rights advocates plan to protest the IPO’s role in whitewashing Israel’s apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. The protests will be held in West Palm Beach, New York City, Newark, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Those involved in organizing the events are heeding the call by Palestinian civil society to boycott institutions that work to normalize Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.
That Kissinger would equate Nasserism with terrorism is particularly galling to those who are even passingly familiar with the history of the region. As is typical with such pronouncements by the mouthpieces of the global elite, the easily demonstrable truth is precisely the opposite of what Kissinger asserts. He just thinks his audience is too historically ignorant to call him on his lie.
Neither ship is carrying chemical or nuclear material, Egypt's state-run MENA news agency has reported.
"We are talking about an unprecedented Iranian military presence in the Mediterranean, and that is a provocation to which the international community must react firmly," foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the ships' arrival in the region as an Iranian power play, after his foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman branded their presence "a provocation."
"Today we are witnessing the instability of the region in which we live and in which Iran is trying to profit by extending its influence by dispatching two warships to cross the Suez Canal," he said.
Webmaster's Commentary: Memo to Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman and Yigal Palmor: Israel transits the Suez, with nuclear armed ships, all the time, and no one makes a big deal out of it! This is not a "provocation" unless Israel decides to make it one, which they might still well do, once the two Iranian ships are in the Mediterranean. If the Israeli military boards, shoots at, or creates a false flag around these ships, we might well be looking at the start of World War III.
While all eyes in the West are currently trained on the ongoing revolution taking place in Egypt, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is warning that the situation on the sub-continent has turned “grave” as it appears open warfare is about to break out between Pakistan and the United States.
Police would don riot gear and “absolutely” use force on protesters in Wisconsin, according to a state law enforcement representative, further stoking fears that the ongoing union demonstrations against a plan by Governor Scott Walker to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees could end in violence.
Webmaster's Commentary: Mubarak tried that. So did Gaddafi. So did Ben Ali. It only made matters worse.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner made a splash in December when he ordered six of the nation's biggest mortgage lenders into court to show why their foreclosure operations shouldn't be suspended over reports of widespread irregularities.
State attorneys general around the country have increased pressure on lenders over the past year, but New Jersey is believed to be the first state whose Supreme Court has stepped into the fray so boldly. GOOD FOR NEW JERSEY
US military-industrial complex looks to exploit demonstrations to weaken Ahmadinejad’s regime
Paul Joseph Watson While the current global revolt sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa is born out of a universal human cry for freedom, food security and a decent standard of living, it is important to understand that the global elite are waiting in the wings to exploit the chaos as an opportunity to re-order the geopolitical landscape in their image, particularly by exploiting the demonstrations as a vehicle through which to weaken and topple the Iranian government.
Newcombe said he reported his alleged abuse to a Trenton diocese monsignor in 1989 — well before Naples came forward in 2007 — and Newcombe said he was awarded a settlement in 1992 that paid him to keep his mouth shut. According to Markulic, Newcombe is no longer obliged to remain silent.
Furthermore, the kind of killing that Davis was involved in--the daylight execution on a crowded street of two young men on motorcycles, and the equipment police found in his car, which included multiple semi-automatic pistols and high-capacity clips, a telescope, a forehead-mounted infra-red flashlight, multiple cell-phones, a cell-phone locater, clippers, military knives, makeup and masks and a camera filled with photos of schools (common targets for bombings in Lahore and other Pakistani cities)--sound dirtier than the typical CIA fare.
Via: New York Times: Global oil companies said Monday that they were making plans to evacuate employees in Libya after some operations there were disrupted by political unrest. Libya holds the largest crude oil reserves in Africa, and the moves drove some stock prices down and a crucial oil benchmark to a three-year high.
Moody's Investor Services has cut its outlook on Japan's credit rating to "negative" from "stable" citing concerns about debt levels.
Moody's currently rates Japan's government debt at an Aa2 level. In January, rival rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Japan's credit rating from AA to AA-, also citing debt concerns. Earlier this month, Japan was overtaken by China as the world's second-largest economy.
GAZA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Palestinians in the Gaza Strip can travel everywhere through Egypt starting from Tuesday, an official from Gaza's Hamas government said Sunday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Egypt informed Hamas that Rafah crossing point will be open in both directions, a few days after it has been open for people trapped in Egypt. An average of 300 Palestinians would be allowed to leave Gaza via Rafah everyday, the official added.
The big battles in the drug war in Mexico are “not being fought with Saturday night specials, hobby rifles and hunting shotguns,” Narco News reported in March 2009, against the grain, at a time when the mainstream media was pushing a narrative that assigned the blame for the rising tide of weapons flowing into Mexico to U.S. gun stores and gun shows.
Rather, we reported at the time, “the drug trafficking organizations are now in possession of high-powered munitions in vast quantities that can’t be explained by the gun-show loophole.”
Those weapons, found in stashes seized by Mexican law enforcers and military over the past several years, include U.S.-military issued rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and explosives.
I don't feel that national news has been giving accurate coverage of the rallies in Madison, WI, so I'm here to tell you what people are REALLY protesting about. Hint: it's not about pay cuts.
Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, who has been leading the campaign to quell the popular uprising that has reportedly led to the fleeing of his father, has been wounded in gunfire, the Muslim Brotherhood has said citing unofficial reports. The report also says Gaddafi, his wife and daughter have fled the country.
A British and a Pakistani newspaper have confirmed that an American diplomat, who is being held in Pakistan for killing two armed men in Lahore, is in reality an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency.
It would be about 200 years later when Joseph would be elevated to his high position in Egypt, second only to the pharaoh. During this same time of the 3rd Dynasty, there appears on the scene a most incredible individual in the ancient records- a man called Imhotep.
For many years, Egyptologists had doubted that Imhotep had been a real person -- they found it rather difficult to believe the various accomplishments credited to him in the accounts written over a thousand years after he was supposed to have lived. At times Imhotep has been termed the Leonardo da Vinci of ancient Egypt, but in fact he was more than that. Da Vinci gained the reputation of a genius -- Imhotep was eventually elevated to the status of a god.
Fears of all-out war in erstwhile peaceful northern Somalia grew dramatically Sunday after Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole warned Somaliland to "stop the massacre of civilians," Radio Garowe reports.
6.3 quake strike South Island of New Zealand- RAW FEED – 1.23pm: Christchurch -NBR reporter Chris Hutching reports from the central “The roads are running with water. It’s like rivers everywhere. Fill of grey liquifaction silt. The shakes are happening every minutes. There are constant aftershocks.”"When the first earthquake happened there was a bit of liquifaction on my front lawn. When I came home today water had erupted in seven places. It was gushing out of my front lawn like a river. My front lawn is covered in two feet of grey liquifaction silt. “My chimney survived the first quake. It’s buggered now. Most of it’s gone.” “All the power’s off.” People are being evacuated from the city centre, Mr Hutching said. Cracks have appeared in the ground a foot wide and eight feet deep.
Time Magazine online interview with Congressman Ron Paul. Ron Paul talks about how the war on drugs has failed, the income tax, the federal reserve, and how Obama has been able to neutralize the anti-war left. We need to give new life to the anti-war movement and this will come from real conservatives, real liberals and libertarians.
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