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The US has plans for nearly two-thirds of Somalia's oil fields to be allocated to the US oil companies Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips. The US hopes Somalia will line up as an ally alongside Ethiopia and Djibouti, where the US has a military base. This alliance would give America powerful leverage close to the major energy-producing regions.
Posted May 13, 2008 10:20 AM PSTThis 'hijacking' has had truly appalling consequences. More than one million people have been made internal refugees, and the UN food security unit warned last week that 3.5 million people, half of Somalia's population, are facing famine. Fighting has turned Mogadishu into a ghost town. About 700,000 people have fled - out of a population of up to 1.5 million. The International Committee of the Red Cross describes Somalia's crisis as "catastrophic." (http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5 /5/thousands_of_somalis_protest_deadly_us) Category: AFRICA I got a call today from Mark Levine, the election protection attorney for Donna Edwards and one in whom I have a good amount of trust, and he told me about a brewing problem in West Virginia which will probably end up disenfranchising thousands of Obama voters. Here's the nub of the issue. West Virginia has an open primary, which means you can vote even if you are an independent. However, if you are a Democrat or a Republican, you are automatically given a normal ballot in a primary. If you are an independent, you are pointed to a touch screen device which does not list a Presidential choice.
Posted May 13, 2008 10:05 AM PSTIf you are an independent, you have the option of requesting a Democratic or Republican ballot so you can vote in the Presidential primary, but you have to request it. And unless you know to request it, you will end up with no vote in the Presidential primary. The Secretary of State has decided not to inform people of this fact, which will leave potentially thousands of voters in West Virginia who came to vote for Obama without a choice. Category: VOTE FRAUD THE "BIG BANG" IS JUST RELIGION DISGUISED AS SCIENCE...
Posted May 13, 2008 09:54 AM PSTCategory: SCIENCE/HEALTH More and more evidence surfaces that the story of a supreme moment of creation is not based in fact.
A carpet red with the blood of the Palestinian people is being rolled out to welcome the visiting dignitaries coming to 'celebrate' 60 years of ethnic cleansing in the Holy Land.
Posted May 13, 2008 09:44 AM PSTCategory: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE six-week-old coalition is unraveling because of a dispute over whether to remove President Pervez Musharraf, undermining efforts to rein in surging food prices and maintain stability.
Posted May 13, 2008 09:02 AM PSTNine ministers from Nawaz Sharif's party withdrew from the cabinet today after the former Prime Minister failed to win the reinstatement of justices who might force Musharraf's ouster. Category: PAKISTAN Israel will not agree to an Egyptian proposal for a truce with the Gaza Strip unless it includes the issue of arms smuggling and the release of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday.
Posted May 13, 2008 08:48 AM PSTCategory: ISRAEL Israel is not interested in peace; were they, they would have at least used a truce as a starting point from which to negotiate the larger issues, such as the release of Shalit, and smuggling of weapons.
What Israel wants is territory. And Israel will do anything they think they can get away with in that pursuit. Rejecting the continued U.S. occupation of the sovereign nation of Hawaii, a group of Native Hawaiians has re-established its own government, named the Hawaiian Kingdom Government. On April 30, that government reclaimed the Iolani Palace, home of the last Hawaiian monarchs before they were overthrown by U.S. interests in 1893. The palace is now run as a museum.
Posted May 13, 2008 08:42 AM PSTCategory: HAWAII Nationwide, all is not well. Road, bridge and other important public-works infrastructure continue to age and deteriorate as Congress dithers elsewhere. Only disasters move our representatives to act -- and in an election year, even those actions seem spotty at best and disingenuous at worst.
Posted May 13, 2008 08:29 AM PSTCategory: CURRENT EVENTS 'Poster children' for ID theft...
Posted May 13, 2008 08:23 AM PSTCategory: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY The committee is investigating whether Rove and Republican appointees at the Justice Department influenced Siegelman's prosecution to kill his chances for re-election. It is part of a broader inquiry into whether U.S. attorneys were fired for not aggressively pursuing cases against Democrats.
Posted May 13, 2008 08:17 AM PSTCategory: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS The committee will huff, puff, possibly issue a subpoena or two, and then do.....absolutely nothing.
It is obvious that members of the 110th congress have collectively had their spines removed before starting their term of office. Microsoft Corp. and leading astronomy institutions like the Adler Planetarium in Chicago on Tuesday will offer a free computer program to put the vast reaches of the cosmos at your fingertips.
Posted May 13, 2008 08:18 AM PSTAnd with a little luck, the software may help desktop astronomers discover parts of the universe. Category: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY , Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH The Nakba of 1948 was a disaster for the people of Palestine.... The Nakba of today is.....
'A disaster for everybody'
Posted May 13, 2008 08:17 AM PSTCategory: PALESTINE NAKBA EVENTS NEAR YOU.......
Posted May 13, 2008 08:17 AM PSTCategory: PALESTINE The press has been harping at suicide in the MURDER of Riad Hamad. Some of his own so called supporters are even swallowing the lies put out by the local police. The reasons for this could be to simply put an end to the speculations and an opportunistic way to 'save their own asses' while trying to make it look like there were wrongdoings in the way Riad operated. That is pure nonsense and those that do not stand with Riad's family in this hour of pain are suspect of those very wrongdoings that Riad is being accused of, in my mind anyway...
Posted May 13, 2008 08:15 AM PSTCategory: ASSASSINATION Ali Abu Zour lived in a village near Jaffa that no longer exists. The residents of Abu Kishk fled or were forced from their homes in 1948.
Posted May 13, 2008 08:14 AM PSTCategory: PALESTINE Israel's hush-up machine was in overdrive in March while this writer was in the Middle East. A story resurfaced that Egyptian prisoners had been executed in both the 1956 and 1967 Israeli-Egyptian wars, which is certainly true. Israel then changed its story to say that the prisoners were Palestinian fighters and not Egyptians. With each successive day the stories became so confusing that, except in Egypt itself, the allegation received less and less coverage. So it's time for a refresher review of Israeli atrocities.
Posted May 13, 2008 08:13 AM PSTCategory: ENTERTAINMENT JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s chief executive said Monday that while the crisis in the credit markets appears to be three-quarters over, he believes a U.S. recession is just beginning.
Posted May 13, 2008 08:13 AM PSTCategory: ECONOMY This data provided federal agents with leads to possible criminal activity, but they were often unable to link cash transactions to a specific crime. As a result, a vague law prohibiting "structuring" was enacted, in which it became illegal to structure transactions to avoid the $10,000 reporting requirement. This little understood law is a favorite tool of law enforcement because few Americans know that depositing or withdrawing a few thousand dollars in cash a few times a year may land them in prison. Once such activity is detected, federal agents demand an explanation, while threatening to imprison the suspects for "structuring." As a result, thousands of uncooperative or unconvincing Americans have been imprisoned for nothing more than suspicious cash transactions.
Posted May 13, 2008 08:00 AM PSTCategory: DICTATORSHIP In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.
Posted May 13, 2008 07:58 AM PSTCategory: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS COLLECTION OF VIDEOS OF THE FIRST MOMENTS OF 9-11....
Posted May 13, 2008 07:48 AM PSTCategory: 911 These are archive clips of the first moments that 9-11 broke into the TV news. In looking back at them there are a couple obvious points. EVERYONE makes a point of bringing up the 1993 bombing attack on the World Trade Towers, and dropping hints about terrorism even as they claim there are no facts yet.
Second, the stories all break into the TV feeds at most 5 minutes after the impact on the tower by the first jet, YET BBC HAS THEIR OWN CAMERA SET UP WATCHING THE BUILDING, EVERY NETWORK HAS A CAMERA UP ON TOP OF A HIGH BUILDING, AND ABC NEWS EVEN HAS A HELICOPTER IN THE AIR! This is morning rush hour in New York. Doesn't it seem like the network cameras are in position just a bit fast? Albert Einstein described belief in God as "childish superstition" and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.
Posted May 13, 2008 07:24 AM PSTThe father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments in response to a philosopher in 1954. As a Jew himself, Einstein said he had a great affinity with Jewish people but said they "have no different quality for me than all other people". Category: HIDDEN HISTORY We're just here to say hi: terror squad...
Posted May 13, 2008 07:20 AM PSTCategory: DICTATORSHIP An exhibit on Israel's expulsion of the Palestinians from their homes 60 years ago is canceled after a visit from the "terror" police.
72% of India's fruit, vegetable produce goes waste...
Posted May 13, 2008 07:16 AM PSTCategory: ECONOMY There would be no shortages if we all just controlled waste.
I was at the local supermarket yesterday and spotted this kitchen accessory. It's a sandwich cutter in the shape of a heart. The idea is that after you make a sandwich for someone, probably your child's school lunch, you use this device to trim the sandwich into the shape of a heart as an expression of commercialized and fashion magazine approved love. While there may be exceptions for the family dog, it is presumed that the non-heart portions of the sandwich are thrown away. When you consider the difference in shape between the square sandwich and the final heart shaped meal, that is a lot of sandwich that is removed and tossed for esthetics' sake! It is estimated that Americans throw out half the food they buy. If we could just be more aware, not buy quite to much that we wind up allowing to spoil, etc. the shortages (and high prices) would vanish. A recent letter to the editor asked for evidence of my claims regarding the tragedy of 9/11. Below I present some points that are presently known. I won't be able to convince anyone who doesn't want to be convinced, but for those who are willing to deal with factual evidence, consider the following:
Posted May 13, 2008 07:15 AM PSTCategory: 911 Texas-born Dahr Jamail was outraged that the US media were swallowing the Bush administration's line on Iraq and so, with just $2,000 and no previous journalistic experience, he set off to find out what was really happening in the country. He talks to Stephen Moss
Posted May 13, 2008 07:14 AM PSTCategory: IRAQ US honey bee deaths increased over last year...
Posted May 13, 2008 07:09 AM PSTCategory: SCIENCE/HEALTH Bushies might wish we would forget WTC7 about which Larry Silverstein himself said 'it was pulled'. Certainly, no airliner hit it. The dinky fires were unimpressive, less inflammatory than the rhetoric describing them. Even if the kerosene had damaged and caused the twin tower fires, that was not the case at WTC7. So --why did WTC7 collapse if not from dinky, unimpressive, fires here and there? Occam's Razor demands the common sense conclusion: it was 'pulled' and therefore prepared weeks, possibly months, in advance! Just as Silverstein said it was.
This bears repeating: if WTC7 was pulled, then the official conspiracy theory is nonsense.
Posted May 13, 2008 07:08 AM PSTCategory: 911 I am tired of my own genetic materials not being properly represented by our Congress. It's time for Irish Americans to form a lobby and implement a leveraged buyout of our Congress to support our peeps over in the Motherland, Fatherland or whatever the heck it is. I understand many of our Congressmen are already familiar with our Irish golf courses. Here is my action plan.
Posted May 13, 2008 07:07 AM PSTCategory: HUMOR Iran played a prominent role in a deal struck by Iraqi Shi'ite factions to end seven weeks of fighting in the Baghdad stronghold of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a senior Shi'ite Iraqi legislator said on Monday.
Posted May 13, 2008 07:06 AM PSTCategory: IRAN , Category: IRAQ Increasingly, as it seems more and more likely that Hilary Clinton is not going to get up with the Democrat nomination, the neocons have been concentrating massive amounts of their propaganda energies in trying to deride Barack Obama rather than in trying to promote their man, John McCain, signifying that even the neocons are starting to think that McCain is a lost cause.
Posted May 13, 2008 07:06 AM PSTCategory: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION A German graduate student in oceanography at M.I.T. applied to the Transportation Security Administration for a new ID card allowing him to work around ships and docks.
Posted May 13, 2008 07:04 AM PSTWhat the student, Wilken-Jon von Appen, received in return was a letter that not only turned him down but added an ominous warning from John M. Busch, a security administration official: "I have determined that you pose a security threat." Category: DICTATORSHIP "I have determined that you pose a sanity threat, John."
Hollywood actors and studios clash over Internet clips...
Posted May 13, 2008 06:57 AM PSTCategory: ENTERTAINMENT Here we go again with another prolonged strike!
Obama: Israel a 'constant sore' that 'infects...foreign policy'...
Posted May 13, 2008 06:56 AM PSTCategory: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Israel does not like Obama very much .... which is why I hope he wins!
America needs a President who will put America first, second, and third. The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.
Posted May 13, 2008 06:55 AM PSTCategory: IRAQ , Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Tillman mom: Account of death may not be true...
Posted May 13, 2008 06:54 AM PSTCategory: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS Just a few days after John McCain noted that Hamas leaders hoped Barack Obama would become the next U.S. president, House Republican Leader John Boehner today did his best to paint the Illinois Senate as something less than pro-Israel.
Posted May 13, 2008 06:52 AM PSTCategory: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Don't you miss the days when people worried whether a congressman was pro-AMERICAN or not?
The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.
Posted May 13, 2008 06:51 AM PSTCategory: 911 "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell
you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." --
US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
Gov. Crist declares state of emergency after brushfires...
Posted May 12, 2008 10:02 PM PSTCategory: CURRENT EVENTS Obama Muslim Smear Resurfaces: NYT Op-Ed Tags Obama As Muslim 'Apostate'...
Posted May 12, 2008 10:00 PM PSTCategory: MAINSTREAM MEDIA , Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION The New York Times is getting scorched by its readers on the comments page. They are indignant, offended, shocked, angry, disgusted and giving the editorial editors an earful. Almost 400 postings question the New York Time's judgment for publishing this trash. Many are asking for an apology.
The nation's food supply may soon be under significant threat as the result of a Bush administration decision to move its research on one of the most contagious animal diseases from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland, placing it near herds of livestock.
Posted May 12, 2008 06:16 PM PSTCategory: SCIENCE/HEALTH FLASHBACK: O'Reilly threatens caller for mentioning another talk show....
Posted May 12, 2008 05:48 PM PSTCategory: MAINSTREAM MEDIA Can I have your car when you are Raptured?...
Posted May 12, 2008 05:32 PM PSTCategory: RELIGION FLASHBACK: CNN's Sanchez: O'Reilly "screamed at the top of his lungs for a very long period of time" Summary: Bill O'Reilly stated that CNN has gone "over to the dark side" for its coverage of O'Reilly's recent statement that he was surprised "there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City ... even though it's run by blacks." O'Reilly said he "talked to CNN last night" before the controversy was discussed on CNN's Out in the Open and "explained the deal." He added, "They went ahead with the racist angle anyway." Out in the Open host Rick Sanchez responded to O'Reilly's assertion: "Never once did we utter the word 'racist' in relation to Bill O'Reilly," adding that O'Reilly "screamed at the top of his lungs for a very long period of time."
Posted May 12, 2008 05:31 PM PSTCategory: MAINSTREAM MEDIA Hillary Clinton's attempts at a loyalty oath not as bad as Bush in 2004, but still bad for democracy The part that bothered me was the section in the lower right-hand corner: The box read: "Yes! I will vote for Hillary on May 6th!" with a place for a signature and a date.
Posted May 12, 2008 05:29 PM PSTWe all looked at the paper. Someone asked, "If you don't sign this box, can you still get in?" The volunteer at first said we had to sign it. Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Former NSA analyst and Navy intelligence officer Wayne Madsen tells the The Alex Jones Show that one of the key motives behind the DC Madam's murder may have been the information her call girls picked up from Washington's top brass concerning foreknowledge and government complicity in the 9/11 attacks.
Posted May 12, 2008 05:28 PM PSTCategory: 911 , Category: ASSASSINATION Josef Fritzel's Granddaughter Had Convulsions Due To Ecstasy Overdose...
Posted May 12, 2008 05:26 PM PSTCategory: CURRENT EVENTS Really swell guy.
FLASHBACK: O'Reilly: No escaping "the similarities between what Hitler ... did back then and the hate-filled blogs, what they're doing"...
Posted May 12, 2008 05:24 PM PSTReplies to ADL propaganda...
Posted May 12, 2008 05:19 PM PSTCategory: ISRAEL You mean Justin Rainmondo DOESN'T look like Mel Gibson?!?
'What are we to do?? There are Arab children enrolled in Jewish nursery schools in this neighbourhood.' Such is the dilemma facing the rabbinical council in Jerusalem. They have been pressing the 'alarm' button as more Palestinians move into neighbourhoods in the northern part of Jerusalem.
Posted May 12, 2008 05:17 PM PSTCategory: ISRAEL They can spend billions to build bridges in Iraq and subsidize houses in Israel's racial apartheid but they can't fix our infrastructure at home.
Posted May 12, 2008 05:02 PM PSTCategory: CURRENT EVENTS Geraldo Rivera called Bill O'Reilly out on his exploitation of a drunk-driving tragedy in Virginia Beach, and the two are out of their chairs at each other. With video.
Posted May 12, 2008 04:45 PM PSTCategory: MAINSTREAM MEDIA Relinked in light of today's video showing O'Reilly losing it with his production staff.
FLASHBACK: O'Reilly Involved in Shoving Match at Obama Event...
Posted May 12, 2008 04:44 PM PSTCategory: MAINSTREAM MEDIA Relinked in light of today's video showing O'Reilly losing it with his production staff.
911TruthSeattle.org taken over by the "Pod People"...
Posted May 12, 2008 03:02 PM PSTCategory: 911 , Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS See THE POD PEOPLE
China quake as recorded here in Hawaii...
Posted May 12, 2008 02:26 PM PSTCategory: SCIENCE/HEALTH States Seize Citizens' Property to Balance Their Budgets...
Posted May 12, 2008 02:18 PM PSTCategory: DICTATORSHIP , Category: ECONOMY A student of a large bible college in east Texas was accused by federal agents of committing an "act of terror and espionage" after he gave a talk to a group of Boy Scouts in which he encouraged them to educate themselves about the U.S. constitution.
Posted May 12, 2008 01:46 PM PSTCategory: DICTATORSHIP JPMorgan Chase Admits It Received a Multi-Billion Gift From the Fed...
Posted May 12, 2008 01:41 PM PSTCategory: ECONOMY Translation: JPMorgan Received a Multi-Billion Gift From the TAXPAYERS!
DUNGEON monster Josef Fritzl is enjoying a more comfortable life in prison than his victims enjoyed.
Posted May 12, 2008 01:40 PM PSTThe rapist has a TV, radio, bedside lamp and even pot plants in his cell. And natural light streams in through glass. It's the opposite of the hell he kept his daughter Elisabeth and three of their children in. The beast fathered seven kids with Elisabeth in a windowless pit where he kept her caged for 24 years. Category: CURRENT EVENTS "Bomb Syria" Woolsey Advises McCain...
Posted May 12, 2008 01:40 PM PSTCategory: SYRIA New Lies Replace Old for Bogus "War on Terror"
Posted May 12, 2008 01:38 PM PSTCategory: 911 , Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS Eco Group Calls For "Voluntary Human Extinction"...
Posted May 12, 2008 01:33 PM PSTCategory: SCIENCE/HEALTH There is a lot of self-hate in the radical environmentalist movement.
Setting that aside, there is a fundamental problem with this approach. The people most willing to make such a sacrifice for the good of the whole world are the very ones you would WANT to encourage to have (and teach) offspring. It's the ones least likely to voluntarily curb their instincts that are the problem. One of Pakistan's biggest political parties is to leave its fragile civilian government only three months after the coalition was formed.
Posted May 12, 2008 11:52 AM PSTNawaz Sharif announced that he was pulling his PML-N party out, after failing to agree terms with his coalition partners over how to reinstate judges who were axed by the country's military ruler, President Musharraf. Category: PAKISTAN This is a really unfortunate move on the part of Sharif, ands will only serve to strengthen Musharraf to some degree.
Inglewood police killed one man and wounded another when they opened fire on a vehicle, saying they believed the occupants had shot at them -- although it turned out that the men were unarmed and their car was never struck with bullets.
Posted May 12, 2008 11:39 AM PSTCategory: CURRENT EVENTS So much for "to protect and serve" when it comes to police activities in Inglewood.
Yes the war is over and we have a winner - Iran. Iran is calling all the shots in Iraq and the US is propping up and supporting Iran's proxy government there. Perhaps it's time to let Iran prop up their government with their blood and treasure. So the US toppled Iran's chief nemesis in the area, Saddam, and then placed in power and continue to prop up an Iranian friendly junta. It would appear the Bush administration is a pretty good enemy to have.
Posted May 12, 2008 11:20 AM PSTCategory: IRAN History will probably characterize this American administration as the policy makers most deserving of the geopolitical booby prize for unintended consequences in the 21st century.
The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.
Posted May 12, 2008 11:03 AM PSTThe government seeks to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef to conduct more comprehensive testing to satisfy demand from overseas customers in Japan and elsewhere. Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH If you ever labored under the illusion that the federal government gives a flying Frisbee about the health of Americans, this is proof positive it doesn't.
It just cares about the costs to cattle producers, who are a huge lobby in Washington. The UN is demanding an investigation into how the Israeli military killed one of its Palestinian school teachers by blasting open the front door of her Gaza home with explosives in the presence of three of her children.
Posted May 12, 2008 10:50 AM PSTCategory: ISRAEL The IDF indulges in this kind of behavior all the time; they just hate like hell getting caught at it.
And the UN will not get any kind of an investigation; they will get some sort of pro forma apology, which will be delivered with "sincere regret at this unfortunate accident". Unfortunately, that will not stop the killings. While the reality is and according to Jordanian newspaper al-Ghad, the tribal chiefs probably were asking for water:
Posted May 12, 2008 10:41 AM PSTThe Council of Arab tribes in Mosul reported that the government cut off water supplies from the right side of the city for two days as part of collective punishment policy against Arabs who refused to deny their pan-Arabism, and reject the campaign of "Kurdishization" of the city Category: IRAN Using food and water as a weapon is as old as the hills.... but no less despicable in the 21st century.
Today, police departments across the United States more closely resemble an occupying army than they do public servants responding to calls for help. Police officers can now be seen wearing helmets and body armor and carrying AR-15's, just to deliver simple warrants. The militarization of our police departments not only gives the appearance of a military dictatorship but places the public at great risk.
Posted May 12, 2008 10:34 AM PSTOur police departments now regularly receive free surplus equipment from the U.S. military, which they readily accept. The training being given at many police academies appears to be the type of tactics one would use in Baghdad, rather than Baltimore. It would seem that our police officers are being readied for war, with the American public as the enemy. In the last several years, there has been a transformation from community policing to pre-emptive assaults Category: DICTATORSHIP None of this is accidental: there has been a very deliberate transformation moving from the concept of police being tasked "to protect and serve" to the mode of "intimidate and injure".
Soldiers shoot at any civilian vehicle on the streets in defiance of a strict curfew. Two men, a woman and child in one car which failed to stop were shot dead yesterday by US troops, who issued a statement saying the men were armed and one made "threatening movements".
Posted May 12, 2008 10:23 AM PSTMosul, on the Tigris river, is inhabited by 1.4 million people, but has been sealed off from the outside world by hundreds of police and army checkpoints since the Iraqi government offensive against al-Qa'ida began at 4am on Saturday. The operation is a critical part of an attempt to reassert military control over Iraq which has led to heavy fighting in Baghdad and Basra. Category: IRAQ (Ahem). Wasn't the fighting in Basra and Baghdad primarily with the Al Sadr militia?
And why are we killing women.....and children??? Apparently, for the US military, "Al Quaeda is now defined as any Iraqi who just might want their country back. Watch it quick because CBS is all over the net threatening copyright lawsuits on anyone who has this video and burying it as fast as they can.
Posted May 12, 2008 10:17 AM PSTCategory: MAINSTREAM MEDIA Vice Premier Haim Ramon told the ministers that "Lebanon must be treated as a Hizbullah state. Everything that happens there is the responsibility of Hizbullah. The country is controlled by this terrorist organization, and its government has become irrelevant."
Posted May 12, 2008 10:08 AM PSTCategory: LEBANON Translation: Israel is itching for an opportunity to fight Hezbullah in Lebanon again.
This PR campaign is to prepare Israel - and the world - for a coming military strike inside Lebanon. ...This article is written as though Israel believed it actually needed a "green light "to continue their slaughter in Gaza. One has to wonder if this will start right after Bush has left Israel, later this week.
Posted May 12, 2008 10:05 AM PSTCategory: ISRAEL What the Democratic Candidates Need to Win...
Posted May 12, 2008 09:50 AM PSTCategory: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Hillary will win big in West Virginia and Kentucky.
... and it won't change a damn thing! Apparently, the people of Iraq are not happy with the American occupation, and the division their cities by concrete walls.
Posted May 12, 2008 09:38 AM PSTIt appears that the US military has taken a page from the Israeli playbook where huge walls, taking away large areas of Palestinian lands, separates areas of Palestine from Israel in the name of "security". Category: IRAQ One also has to wonder just how much agricultural land has been hit with depleted uranium poisoning, and how much of that affects the food that can be harvested.
Posted May 12, 2008 09:43 AM PSTCategory: IRAQ Lars-Olof Corneliusson, the former commander of a Swedish amphibious military unit based near Stockholm, is accused of trying to cover up an incident in which new conscripts fired shoulder mounted artillery cannons while in the nude.
Posted May 12, 2008 09:36 AM PSTCategory: WAR/DRAFT Ummmmmmmm ... okay.
Heavy fighting broke out Monday between government supporters and opponents in Lebanon's second-largest city, where the two sides battled with rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and mortars, security officials and residents said.
Posted May 12, 2008 09:26 AM PSTCategory: LEBANON The question here is, how long before Israel declares the UN-decreed moratorium "null and void", and decides it has to go in for a "pre-emptive" strike in the name of "self defense.
Nazi collaborator and racist advocate of mass genocide Prince Philip, a man who has often expressed his desire to return to the earth as a "deadly virus" to thin the human population, says that there are too many people in the world as he attacked large families in a television interview set to air this week.
Posted May 12, 2008 08:57 AM PSTCategory: SCIENCE/HEALTH I do not much care for the Prince, but he is correct. We have a population problem and always WILL have since sex is so much more fun than dying.
John McCain is planning to run as a different kind of Republican. But being any kind of Republican seems like some sort of death sentence these days.
Posted May 12, 2008 08:56 AM PSTCategory: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Not that the Democrats look all that much better since Pelosi became speaker.
She once described herself as "the most famous person you know very little about." But as she careens across the country in a desperate attempt to rescue her campaign, America is coming to know Hillary Clinton all too well.
Posted May 12, 2008 08:55 AM PSTThe tenacity that even critics praised suddenly looks tawdry. The persistence against impossible odds appears anything but noble. Long after the party is over, Clinton's refusal to go home is taking on the trappings of a sad spectacle. Her inability to accept defeat is not, it seems clear, about public service or even politics. It is merely personal. Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Folks, the system is broken! It doesn't work for ordinary folks (and hasn't since 1861).
Posted May 12, 2008 08:55 AM PSTCategory: DICTATORSHIP John Ehrlichman named as the anti-Moratorium game plan's quarterback Nixon's favorite football coach, Bud Wilkinson, late of the University of Oklahoma. What Wilkinson proposed, since "no one likes to be used," was that he jawbone the kids into realizing the Moratorium as "an attempt to exploit students for the organizers' own purposes." "It's easy to manipulate kids," Haldeman agreed, "because they love to get excited. You can foment them up for a panty raid, or in the old days, gold-fish swallowing." But six weeks after Bud Wilkinson started meeting with student leaders to shame them into the realization that they were cats' paws, he apologetically reported back: kids were laughing in his face. "The problem of dealing with the Vietnam Moratorium Committee," Wilkinson noted, with understatement, "is difficult."
Posted May 12, 2008 08:49 AM PSTCategory: PROTEST ALERTS NEVER underestimate the young.
None of the three remaining presidential candidates have uttered "even a syllable" of complaint about US policy toward Israel, rather a "paean of praise," Mr. Findley says. "This is a phenomenon without precedent in American history."
Posted May 12, 2008 08:42 AM PSTTo Findley, the "most powerful instrument of intimidation" used by pro-Israel groups is the charge of "anti-Semitism." The meaning of that term has been expanded. It used to be applied to those hostile to a race or faith, that is, against Jews or Judaism. Now it's often applied to critics of Israel or US-Israel policy, says Findley. Category: ISRAEL "Anyone who criticizes Hitler is guilty of anti-Germanism!!!!"
Hillary Clinton may have a financial incentive to remain in the presidential race for a while. And she has Senator John McCain to thank for it.
Posted May 12, 2008 08:36 AM PSTClinton loaned her struggling campaign $11 million in recent months. A little-known provision of a 2002 campaign- finance law cosponsored by McCain prevents candidates who drop out of the race from raising money after the nominating conventions to repay themselves for personal loans. Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Unless Hillary wins the nomination, why would anyone donate money to her to repay her loans?
Bibles to be Delivered with 'Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'...
Posted May 12, 2008 08:35 AM PSTCategory: RELIGION Nothing new here. The Atheists shave been delivering nothing with every newspaper in America for decades!
Bill O'Reilly Goes Nuts!...
Posted May 12, 2008 08:29 AM PSTCategory: MAINSTREAM MEDIA First, he doesn't know the technical jargon for parts of his broadcasts, but mostly, his treatment of his subordinates is highly unprofessional!
And at the same time as we unreservedly condemn the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe, we categorically reject the exploitation of the Holocaust by the Zionists to justify their crimes and harness international acceptance of the campaign of ethnic cleansing and subjection they have been waging against us - to the point where in February the Israeli deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai threatened the people of Gaza with a "holocaust".
Posted May 12, 2008 08:27 AM PSTCategory: PALESTINE Passover ended on the Hebrew calendar almost a month ago.... Ramadan is not due to start until the 1st of September...
Posted May 12, 2008 08:24 AM PSTWhy then are the bakeries in Gaza closing NOW??? Category: PALESTINE Consider that Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said in 1969 in an often-repeated statement: "There is no such thing as a Palestinian."
Posted May 12, 2008 08:22 AM PSTToo bad she didn't read history because there has been a collective consciousness of their unique identity for millennia. The ancient Canaanites weren't called Palestinians, but neither were the Mesopotamians called Iraqis or the Celts called Irish or British. Still, the roots are unquestionable and run eternally deep, from archeological finds to folktales. Category: PALESTINE Eighty-year-old Beatrice Habesch sobbed when she caught sight of her father's house in Jerusalem on Sunday and remembered how it was taken over by Jews in 1948.
Posted May 12, 2008 08:21 AM PST"This is our house! This is my house!" she shouted as fellow Palestinians held her back from running towards the building. Category: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE "We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees. And still we dare to slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed of what we did and trying to undo some of the evil we committed ... we justify our terrible acts and even attempt to glorify them."
Posted May 12, 2008 08:21 AM PSTCategory: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE 7.8 Magnitude quake hits China near Emperor Qin's Terra-cotta Army...
Posted May 12, 2008 08:18 AM PSTCategory: SCIENCE/HEALTH
Lebanese officials claimed Sunday that Israeli Air Force warplanes flew over southern Lebanon.
Posted May 11, 2008 09:25 PM PSTCategory: ISRAEL , Category: LEBANON Sudan raised the spectre of war with neighbouring Chad yesterday, accusing it of backing Darfuri rebels who launched a daring assault on its capital, Khartoum.
Posted May 11, 2008 05:18 PM PSTHundreds of fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) also attacked Omdurman, which lies across the Nile from the capital, on Saturday. Sudanese forces responded with artillery and helicopter gunships as fighting raged throughout the weekend. It was the first time that the conflict in Darfur had reached the gates of the capital. Category: AFRICA A US warship, which was deployed off Lebanon in February amid concern over Beirut's political crisis, crossed Egypt's Suez Canal on Sunday on its way to the Mediterranean, an official with the canal authority told AFP.
Posted May 11, 2008 05:01 PM PST"The USS Cole has crossed the Suez Canal and is headed to the Mediterranean," the official said, adding he did not know its exact destination. Category: MIDDLE EAST Unless more funding and effort are put into saving the nation's infrastructure, it will continue to crumble, say experts. An estimated $1.5 trillion over the next five years could be needed to avoid large-scale disaster.
Posted May 11, 2008 04:55 PM PSTCategory: CURRENT EVENTS With most of our taxpayer dollars going to fund wars and more wars, don't look for there to be any construction on infrastructure until it collapses.
And then look for absolutely no Federal money to be available. Unless more funding and effort are put into saving the nation's infrastructure, it will continue to crumble, say experts. An estimated $1.5 trillion over the next five years could be needed to avoid large-scale disaster.
Posted May 11, 2008 04:55 PM PSTCategory: CURRENT EVENTS With most of our taxpayer dollars going to fund wars and more wars, don't look for there to be any construction on infrastructure until it collapses.
And then look for absolutely no Federal money to be available. Yet 23 Senate Democrats voted against the war ( HT to GN1927 for correction.See comment below for complete list.) And a majority of House Democrats. Also a Republican, Lincoln Chaffee. We must admire these honorable men and women who stood up when the nation needed them.
Posted May 11, 2008 03:28 PM PSTFake mavericks like McCain rolled over and played nice. Sen. Clinton fully expected the Primary for Democratic nomination in 2008 to be a coronation: the real attacks would come from Republicans in the General Elections. So she was looking to the right and not the left as she made her decision. She made a crucial decision risking the lives of thousands of soldiers based on a mere political calculation. Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Yeah, this might help get the Post Office out of the red!...
Posted May 11, 2008 03:28 PM PSTCategory: HUMOR But McAuliffe's shady ties to the company go beyond his questionable investment windfall. According to the press reports, McAuliff also did "political work" for Global Crossing CEO Gary Winnick, working out of an office in downtown Washington owned by Winnick. On one occasion, McAuliffe set up a golf outing for Winnick and then-President Clinton. Winnick would later give a million dollars to Clinton's presidential library. The question is: what did he and Global Crossing receive in return?
Posted May 11, 2008 03:26 PM PSTCategory: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION When you tied those blue and white ribbons around your tree, I never understood what would have caused you to stoop so low as to cheer on the genocide of the Palestinian people. You have a large house on the prestigious North Side of town. What makes you so comfortable with the destruction of the homes of others? You have a father, who adores you and works hard to support you and your mother. He gives you anything you want and need. What makes you so gleeful and self-complacent when other children's fathers are dragged out of their homes to be arrested without charge, imprisoned indefinitely and tortured? Since you are clearly willing to accept the murder of Palestinian families for the sake of confiscating their property for the arrogant indulgence of 'the Jewish people,' how can any of your American neighbors feel safe from you? How dare you insult my family with your ribbons of Jewish supremacism? Who do you think you are? Perhaps the real question is: who do you wish you were?
Posted May 11, 2008 02:01 PM PSTCategory: ISRAEL In 1933 corporate America attempted to implement a coup against the US Government with plans to install a right-wing fascist dictatorship. One of the players in this treason was Prescott Bush, Georgie's grandaddy among other so called captains of industry, whom I refer to as traitors. This coup was thwarted due to the efforts of General Smedley Butler whom corporate america tried to draw into their conspiracy. Unlike the business sector of America, General Butler believed in democracy, he believed in the principles that America was founded upon and it is thanks to him that this coup didn't take place in 1933.
Posted May 11, 2008 01:39 PM PSTCategory: HIDDEN HISTORY I TOLD YOU HILLARY WASN'T GOING TO QUIT!...
Posted May 11, 2008 01:17 PM PSTCategory: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION They wheedle and schnorr and contribute to various causes. It's the kind of schnorring that begins with Shaare Zedek Medical Center and could end in court. The question here is why did Talansky, or any other Jewish American, invest, allegedly, in Olmert? What do they receive in exchange for this pot stirring?
Posted May 11, 2008 10:01 AM PSTCategory: ISRAEL Jewish Writers Claim Powerful Zionists Drove USA Into...War For Israel's Sake!...
Posted May 11, 2008 09:58 AM PSTCategory: IRAQ , Category: ISRAEL Fierce fighting raged today between supporters of Lebanon's Western-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition in the northern city of Tripoli.
Posted May 11, 2008 09:54 AM PST"About 7,000 people have fled from Bab al-Tebbaneh, which marks the frontlines, because of the battles," he said. Residents of Tripoli could hear heavy machine gun firing and the thump of exploding rocket-propelled grenades, some of which fell inside the city, an AFP correspondent said. Category: LEBANON Great Lies in U.S. History...
Posted May 11, 2008 09:56 AM PSTCategory: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS Dr Chris Busby is an internationally renowned scientist and founder of the Low Level Radiation Campaign ( www.llrc.org ) His scientific studies and Reports on the dangers of radiation, proving it unsafe at any level, wrong foot the nuclear and arms industry on an ongoing basis.
Posted May 11, 2008 09:51 AM PSTCategory: SCIENCE/HEALTH Part of our "legacy" in Iraq will be that of the illness and death, for Iraqis, US troops, and their families, due to genetic damage.
The Bush administration appears set to offer Israel a powerful radar system that could greatly boost Israeli defenses against enemy ballistic missiles while tying it directly into a growing U.S. missile shield.
Posted May 11, 2008 09:40 AM PSTCategory: ISRAEL the degree to which Israel is militarily interconnected with the US is almost an admission that it has become our 51st state.
On May 8th, Jes and Leslie Richardson and Medea Benjamin of CodePink crashed a Hillary fundraiser and managed to unfurl a banner protesting her remarks about "obliterating" Iran. Clinton's dismissive reaction as Jes was led from the room was to hope that "he didn't step on any of the cookies or the cakes."
Posted May 11, 2008 09:30 AM PSTCONTROVERSIAL DEATH MY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||