Sunday, June 27, 2010

Austerity Fascism Is Coming And It Will Be Brutal

Welcome to the age of rage – riots and revolutions will be the reaction to the next stage of the new world order

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Top historians, social and financial analysts are warning that the draconian austerity measures currently being prepared by governments in the west will cause riots and even revolutions as people react with fury in response to their jobs, savings, basic public services, pensions and welfare money being seized by the financial terrorists who caused the economic collapse in the first place.

British historian Simon Schama is a creature of the establishment and he makes it clear whose side he is on at the end of his recent column for the Bilderberg-controlled Financial Times entitled, The World Teeters on the Brink of a New Age of Rage. However, the fact that he is an elitist at heart only makes Schama’s predications all the more alarming. This is someone on the inside who is painfully aware of the fact that the imminent attempt on behalf of the globalists to enforce so-called “austerity measures” on the people of the west, which in reality is a euphemistic term for the next leg of the new world order, is not just going to cause riots and mass social unrest, but it could even lead to revolution if the elite allow the situation to spiral out of their control.

A Pendulum Swing Toward Austerity

A Pendulum Swing Toward Austerity, by Tyler Cowen, Commentary , NY Times: “The Road to Serfdom,” the critique of socialism written 65 years ago by ... Friedrich von Hayek, was recently No. 1 in nonfiction sales at Amazon.com. Many people, including ... Glenn Beck, have contended that growth of government power has, indeed, set us on such a road today. But ... the expansionary phase of big government is coming to an end, and quickly.

In the last few years, we have seen ... huge financial bailouts, a $787 billion stimulus plan and legislation for near-universal health insurance coverage. But the policy mood in Washington is now much more modest: no second major stimulus is forthcoming and ... a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely to move forward. ...

If any financial policy idea is taking a major place on the American and global stages, it is fiscal austerity. ... In the United States, we face rising health care costs and pension problems in state governments, with no clear long-run solution for bringing the books into balance.

The Powers-That-Be Are Terrified of the Mass Awakening Taking Place Worldwide

Our situation is admittedly dire.

Oligarchs are seizing more overt control in most countries in the world, the worldwide economy is on course for another - even bigger - train wreck, countries are cracking down on freedom and becoming more tyrannical, we are in a permanent state of war (and see this), and companies like BP are destroying our natural resources without any checks and balances.
But as Andrew Gavin Marshall points out, the elites are actually terrified of the mass political awakening which is occurring worldwide.

Ben Bernanke needs fresh monetary blitz as US recovery falters

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is waging an epochal battle behind the scenes for control of US monetary policy, struggling to overcome resistance from regional Fed hawks for further possible stimulus to prevent a deflationary spiral.

Fed watchers say Mr Bernanke and his close allies at the Board in Washington are worried by signs that the US recovery is running out of steam. The ECRI leading indicator published by the Economic Cycle Research Institute has collapsed to a 45-week low of -5.7 in the most precipitous slide for half a century. Such a reading typically portends contraction within three months or so.

RBS tells clients to prepare for "monster" money printing by the Federal Reserve

As recovery starts to stall in the US and Europe with echoes of mid-1931, bond experts are once again dusting off a speech by Ben Bernanke given eight years ago as a freshman governor at the Federal Reserve.

Entitled "Deflation: Making Sure It Doesn’t Happen Here", it is a warfare manual for defeating economic slumps by use of extreme monetary stimulus once interest rates have dropped to zero, and implicitly once governments have spent themselves to near bankruptcy.

The speech is best known for its irreverent one-liner: "The US government has a technology, called a printing press, that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost."

The Third Depression

By PAUL KRUGMAN

Published: June 27, 2010

Recessions are common; depressions are rare. As far as I can tell, there were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as “depressions” at the time: the years of deflation and instability that followed the Panic of 1873 and the years of mass unemployment that followed the financial crisis of 1929-31.

Neither the Long Depression of the 19th century nor the Great Depression of the 20th was an era of nonstop decline — on the contrary, both included periods when the economy grew. But these episodes of improvement were never enough to undo the damage from the initial slump, and were followed by relapses.

Rob Johnson on TRNN

As the world waits for the decisions to roll out from the G20 summit, Rob Johnson discussed fiscal austerity with the Real News Network. “If it wasn’t so tragic I would say it was humorous,” he started out. But tragic it is. A lot of it all comes back to banks: why are deficit numbers so high? The financial crisis, caused by big banks. Who does fiscal austerity benefit, when it risks killing economic recovery? Those who hold treasury bonds at 0% interest — big banks. “Finance is supposed to be a servant to commerce, [the] economy, [and] social goals. Well the servant’s servant has become the master’s master. And it’s time to reinvert that,” Rob says.

Supreme Court Ruling Criminalizes Speech in Material Support Law Case

President Carter Could Be Prosecuted for Monitoring Fair Elections in Lebanon

June 21, 2010, Washington and New York – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to criminalize speech in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge the Patriot Act before the highest court in the land, and the first post-9/11 case to pit free speech guarantees against national security claims. Attorneys say that under the Court’s ruling, many groups and individuals providing peaceful advocacy could be prosecuted, including President Carter for training all parties in fair election practices in Lebanon. President Carter submitted an amicus brief in the case.

Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the majority, affirming in part, reversing in part, and remanding the case back to the lower court for review; Justice Breyer dissented, joined by Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor. The Court held that the statute's prohibitions on "expert advice," "training," "service," and "personnel" were not vague, and did not violate speech or associational rights as applied to plaintiffs' intended activities. Plaintiffs sought to provide assistance and education on human rights advocacy and peacemaking to the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey, a designated terrorist organization. Multiple lower court rulings had found the statute unconstitutionally vague.

Said CCR Cooperating Attorney David Cole, “We are deeply disappointed. The Supreme Court has ruled that human rights advocates, providing training and assistance in the nonviolent resolution of disputes, can be prosecuted as terrorists. In the name of fighting terrorism, the Court has said that the First Amendment permits Congress to make human rights advocacy and peacemaking a crime. That is wrong.”

George Galloway - A politician Who actually speaks the truth about Israel, the US, Zionism and war cimes in Palestine

This guy is great.

'Ten big media lies' about Israel

GeorgeGalloway.com

Saturday, June 26, 2010

BP Story gets murkier and devasting presentation by Noam Chomsky on Haiti

Obama to make $85 million from BP disaster?

“Goldman Sachs wasn’t alone either in its astute “foreknowledge” of the collapse of BP’s stock value due to the Gulf disaster as BP’s own chief executive, Tony Hayward, sold about one-third of his shares weeks before this catastrophe began unfolding too.
But according to this FSB report the largest seller of BP stock in the weeks before this disaster occurred was the American investment company known as Vanguard who through two of their financial arms (Vanguard Windsor II Investor and Vanguard Windsor Investor) unloaded over 1.5 million shares of BP stock saving their investors hundreds of millions of dollars, chief among them President Obama.
For though little known by the American people, their President Obama holds all of his wealth in just two Vanguard funds, Vanguard 500 Index Fund where he has 3 accounts and the Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund where he holds another 3 accounts, all six of which the FSB estimates will earn Obama nearly $8.5 million a year and which over 10 years will equal the staggering sum of $85 million.
The FSB further estimates in this report that through Obama’s 3 accounts in the Vanguard 500 Index Fund he stands to make another $100 million over the next 10 years as their largest stock holding is in the energy giant Exxon Mobil they believe will eventually acquire BP and all of their assets for what will be essentially a “rock bottom” price and which very predictably BP has hired Goldman Sachs to advise them on.

Chomsky on Haiti - June 8th 2010

G20

Two Chicago Indymedia journalists denied entry to cover G20 meeting and protests in Canada

Friday, June 25, 2010

Is US-Isreal planning to blockade and attack Iran?

Chomsky thinks risk increasing - June 12th 2010

On June21st DEBKAfile reported:
US-led armada secretly drilled bombing Iranian targets, missile defense with Israel

AP reported June24th 2010:

US Congress approves new Iran sanctions

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Congress sent President Barack Obama a sweeping package of tough new energy and financial sanctions on Iran, aiming to force Tehran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program.
The US Senate and House of Representatives approved the legislation -- which backers described as the toughest ever unilateral US sanctions against the Islamic republic -- by crushing 99-0 and 408-8 margins, respectively.
The new measures, piled atop new UN Security Council and European sanctions, aimed to choke off Iran's access to imports of refined petroleum products like gasoline and jet fuel and curb its access to the international banking system.

Summarized by Willyloman

Senate Passes Refined Gasoline Sanction as U.S.S. Truman is Probably Carrying Israeli Warplanes to Attack Iran

Think of them and be afraid

Palestinian Children in the rural village of at-Tuwani speak of their encounters with violent Israeli Settlers in the South Hebron Hills of Occupied Palestine.

Polish Plane Crash

A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and many of the countrys top leaders crashed as it landed in a heavy fog in the morning of April 10, 2010, killing everyone on board. The leaders were arriving in Russia to commemorate a World War II anniversary.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife were killed in plane crash, when his TU-154, carrying an official Polish delegation, crashed in Smolensk Region,

On board the plane were former Polish president-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski; the deputy speaker of Poland's parliament, Jerzy Szmajdzin'ski; the head of the president's chancellery, Wladyslaw Stasiak; and the head of the National Security Bureau, Aleksander Szczygo. The group was on their way to Smolensk to visit the Katyn memorial site, for Polish officers murdered during World War II.

Notable passengers:

Governmental:

1.Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland
2.Maria Kaczyńska, First Lady of Poland
3.Mariusz Handzlik, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
4.Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last President of the Polish government-in-exile
5.Andrzej Kremer, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
6.Tomasz Merta, Deputy Minister of Culture
7.Sławomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland
8.Władysław Stasiak, Chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
9.Aleksander Szczygło, Head of the National Security Bureau
10.Paweł Wypych, Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland

Military:

1.Lieutenant General Andrzej Błasik, Commander of the Polish Air Force
2.Major General Tadeusz Buk, Commander of the Polish Land Forces
3.General Franciszek Gągor, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
4.Vice Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Commander of the Polish Navy
5.Stanislaw Komorowski, Deputy Minister of National Defence
6.Lieutenant General Bronislaw Kwiatkowski, Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command
7.Major General Włodzimierz Potasiński, Commander of the Polish Special Forces
8.Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison

Senate:

1.Krystyna Bochenek, Deputy Speaker of the Senate
2.Janina Fetlińska
3.Stanisław Zając

Sejm:

1.Leszek Deptuła
2.Grzegorz Dolniak
3.Grażyna Gęsicka
4.Przemysław Gosiewski
5.Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
6.Sebastian Karpiniuk
7.Aleksandra Natalli-Świat
8.Krzysztof Putra, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
9.Arkadiusz Rybicki
10.Jerzy Szmajdziński, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
11.Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz
12.Zbigniew Wassermann
13.Wiesław Woda
14.Edward Wojtas

Religious:

1.Archbishop Miron Chodakowski, Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Army
2.Tadeusz Płoski, bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army
3.Ryszard Rumianek, Rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
4.Bronisław Gostomski, Reverend of St Andrew Bobola Polish Church in London

Others:

1.Joanna Agacka-Indecka, President of the Polish Bar Council
2.Janusz Kochanowski, Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights
3.Janusz Kurtyka, historian and President of the Institute of National Remembrance
4.Piotr Nurowski, President of the Polish Olympic Committee
5.Maciej Płażyński, President of the Polish Community Association, former Speaker of the Sejm
6.Andrzej Przewoźnik, Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
7.Anna Walentynowicz, one of major activists of the free trade union Solidarity in the late 1970s and early 1980s
8.Janusz Zakrzeński, actor

Did Global Elite Kill Polish President Kaczynski? | Regime Change By Plane Crash

G20 in Toronto

G20 Toronto -- Charlie Veitch Arrested and Luke Rudkowski Denied Entry into Canada

Man arrested and left in wire cage under new G20 law

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Zionism

Over the last few weeks, since the Gaza massacre, I have been researching Israeli and US policy in the middle east to try and wrap my head around what happened and why. I have always known that Israeli state policy towards Palestinians has been worse than Nazi policy towards Jews, but to expand this policy towards citizens of thirty countries, MP's, noble laureates, journalists, was inexplicable to me at the time so I had to investigate their motivation.

Well, after several weeks of research, "The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion" to date, appears to be the only answer to what is really going on in the world today.

This is a problem.

On the one hand, many millions perhaps hundreds of millions have been aware of this publication for many years, but personally I had never even heard of it.

This publication has been "debunked" on wikipedia, however debunked because it is plagiarism. That doesn't make it any less true. As someone once said, "if it walks like a duck."

The problem with "The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion" (TPLEZ) is that it rings true. Almost everything in it

It means that the "New World Order" = TPLEZ

Everything I have seen and read matches up to TPLEZ doctrine

Joe Biden: I'm a Zionist

Child Tortured, His Privates electrified By Israeli Interrogators

Israeli Lies Revealed By Tzipi Livni

"Democracy is the preferred system because it gives the political power to the mass media"

David Frum: "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox"

BBC Paxman: "What's the difference between Zionism and Racism?"

Do Zionists control the U S Government?

Jimmy Carter: US Candidates MUST do as Israel says

Invisible Colonization - CNN memo to staff: "We refer to Gilo as 'a Jewish neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem'...We don't refer to it as a 'settlement'"

American Mass Media is controlled by Zionists

Jimmy Carter - Palestine: Peace not Apartheid

60 Minutes - The Truth in Palestine

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

the horror

Fascism Enters Through “Terror” Door

The question is not whether fascists have held power in the United States, but why they have not yet been able to rule as fascists. The question may soon become moot, as the U.S. Supreme Court acts to further “dismantle legal barriers to actual fascist rule”

“The national criminal justice system is now set to operate as a recognizably fascist political machine.”

America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company-Owned Town
What we are witnessing is the destructive behavior of a predatory class that sees its future in trillion-dollar derivative bets; commodification of every conceivable resource (food, water, air?) and manipulation of every commodity market; privatization of every possible state function (schools, safety nets); constant expansion of the “market” in the maintenance of empire; and the “primitive accumulation” of the spoils of war.

resistance in canada - from lesbian and gay community

Pride Toronto in hiding after spirited denunciation from queer leaders

Town hall on free speech at Toronto Pride

One for Toronto's queer history books

Pride Toronto reverses ban on "Israeli Apartheid"

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid wins battle against censorship

Pride Toronto censorship: All of our coverage in one place

Canada: Israel's new defender

Muted support for Palestine, funding cuts for Arab groups, now a ban on the phrase 'Israeli apartheid': what's going on in Canada?

At a time when many countries are becoming more critical of Israel's policies, Canada seems to be moving in the opposite direction. A general reluctance to engage in open debate about the Palestinian issue is exacerbated by pro-Israel groups' efforts to shut down discussion and the federal government's unprecedented penchant for defending Israeli actions.

Since the beginning of 2010, the federal government has systematically cut funding to Arab-Canadian organisations and to UN relief works in Gaza. In March, the Ontario provincial legislature issued a unanimous condemnation of Israeli Apartheid Week, while the federal government considered introducing a similar motion.

However, self-censorship reached new heights last month when Toronto's Pride Committee – which organises one of the world's largest gay pride celebrations – announced it would be banning use of the term "Israeli apartheid" at the festivities.

Pride week in Toronto is a loud and highly visible public event, with a long tradition of activists linking their own campaigns for sexual rights to other struggles for liberation and social justice; however, this year the organisers caved in to pressure from pro-Israel groups and Toronto city council.

The main effect of the decision is to bar one group in particular – Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) – who have marched in the parade since 2008.

The reason given is that the phrase "Israeli apartheid" violates Toronto's anti-discrimination policy. But when asked, neither Pride Toronto nor Giorgio Mammoliti – the Toronto city councillor mainly involved – could explain in detail what was discriminatory about describing Israel's privileging of its Jewish citizens over others as a form or racism and apartheid.
"It's absolutely bizarre the way they are trying to use the language around diversity and inclusiveness to exclude people," QuAIA activist Tim McCaskell told me. "It was so 1984."

More disgusting news and some brutal truth

IDF draws up new Gaza war doctrine

Ahead of a potential new conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the IDF has drawn up plans to evacuate entire Palestinian villages and refugee camps from areas of conflict in the event of an Israeli incursion, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

In America You can criticize God, but you can’t criticize Israel

Continued Ethnic Cleansing and Measures Aimed at Creating Jewish Majority in Occupied Jerusalem

Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border

Israel did 9/11, ALL THE PROOF IN THE WORLD

Zionism 101 – The Complete Story

Accused Mossad assassination attempt on Erdogan

Revisiting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2010

Israel blasts Castro for calling swastika 'new Israeli banner'

"The hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they would not hesitate to send the one and a half million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages were exterminated by the Nazis," the ex-Cuban leader said. "It would seem that the Fuehrer's [Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's] swastika is today Israel's banner," the 83-year-old Castro declared

Who says we can't criticize the state of Israel?

Closer to home, the aid organization Kairos had its funding cut off by the Harper government because of, the government alleges, its support for the boycott movement against Israel and its "anti-semitism". Kairos is a joint venture of thirteen Canadian churches and church organizations, including Catholic, Anglican, Christian Reformed, Evangelical Lutheran, Mennonite, Presbyterian, Society of Friends, and United Church.

The latest public figure to get the "anti-semitic" label is NDP MP for East Vancouver, Libby Davies. She has had this pinned on her because she expressed support for the international campaign to boycott and sanction Israel for its blockade of Gaza, as well as suggesting that Israel has been "occupying" the land since 1948.

Prime Minister Harper has since called for Davies to resign as deputy NDP leader and Liberal Bob Rae has accused her of "hostility and ignorance". Even some members of her own party, the NDP, have attacked her, with Thomas Mulcair NDP MP calling her comments "egregious" and out of step with her party.

It is quite interesting that, while the caucuses of the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP are very quick to jump on Davies, they have made no criticism of the killings by Israeli commandoes of the nine people on the ships attempting to break the blockade of Gaza by Israel.

It is also quite interesting that, as a 2007 BBC poll shows (see footnote 1), 52% of Canadians have a negative view towards Israel, while only 23% had a positive one. The question should be asked: Just who is out of step with who? Is it Libby Davies or is it the three federal parties in parliament who are out of step with the Canadian people?

Indeed, it is these same three federal political parties that have formed "The Canadian Parliamentary Committee to Combat Anti-semitism", the members of which are claiming that criticizing Israel is a "new form" of anti-semitism. Dylan Penner, founding member of Independent Jewish Voices, believes that the ultimate objective of this Parliamentary Committee is "to introduce legislation that would make it a crime to criticize Israel".

Canada’s Israel Lobby

Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism

“We, The Jewish People, Control America”

Israeli Spokesman Says We Control Stupid Americans

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The bravest, most eloquent 9 year-old kid in the world - April 2009 Gaza

True Cost of Home Ownership

headlines

How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack

Leaked documents show PA undermined Turkey's push for UN flotilla probe

Israel and the aid convoy: How to make enemies

It's Official: There was No Humanitarian Aid on Mavi Marmara
Turkey, Israel, the U.S.
Neo-Conservatives Lead Charge Against Turkey
Turkish officials blow AIPAC claims out of the, uh, sea
Abbas to Obama: I'm against lifting the Gaza naval blockade

Castro says Israelis would like to send Palestinians to gas chambers

The Israeli Media’s Flotilla Fail

Haiti: Five Months After The Quake

Monday, June 21, 2010

Chomsky

June 9th 2010 - Obama Imperialism

June 8th 2010 - Haiti Destruction

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Good Summaries on Israel - Gaza

The Obama Illusion - masters of war have never had it so good

The Obama Illusion Comes Crashing Down

The U.S. War Addiction

Global War Racket Exposed

50 Statistics About The U.S. Economy That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

Power, illusion & America's last taboo

War is peace. Ignorance is strength

US Corporate Media and Israel

How the U.S. Corporate Media Got the Israel Flotilla Catastrophe So Wrong

Israel's official statements about the flotilla were terrible. But our media's treatment of the situation was just as bad.

The next time there is news about Israel killing activists, massacring children, bombing a refugee camp or perhaps obliterating an entire country, there is no need to pay attention to the facts. All you need to know is Israel, the eternal victim that says it will never feel secure, is just responding to some terrorist. And once the last ruthless animal is exterminated, there will be “peace.”

'How Has My Country So Terribly Lost Its Way?'

'Anyone who does not agree with the government and/or military policy is perceived as a traitor. Democracy is to be feared and freedom of speech has become profanity.'

7 Questions for Defenders of Israel's Inhumane Siege of Gaza

The Gaza blockade has nothing to do with Israel defending itself.

No need for flotillas if Gaza turns to peace'

President Peres tells Jewish Agency assembly, 'Would Gaza leaders denounce terror, stop building tunnels, shooting missiles, release Gilad Shalit, there would be no need for any sort of closure or blockade'

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Unverified stats about Israel

Israeli World Records-
• Israel was established upon the ruins of another nation that it destroyed; Palestine
• Israel hold the world record in the number of towns & villages it ethnically cleansed...500+
• Israel holds the world record in the number of refugees it deported...4 million +
• Israel holds the world record in the number of homes it demolished...60 thousand +
• Israel is the country with the highest record of UN condemnation...500+ times
• Israel is the country with the highest number of protective US Security council vetoes...100+ times
• Israel has killed more innocent civilians per capita than any other country...50 thousand+
• Israel has imprisoned more civilians per capita than any other country...250 thousand+
• Israel has rendered more innocent civilians handicapped per capita than any other country...50 thousand+
• Israel has injured more innocent civilians per capita than any other country...200 thousand+
• Israel has only two countries to defend its policies in the United Nations. These countries are America & Micronesia. The population for Micronesia as of June 2008 is only 108,000
• Israel is the only country on Earth that denies the right of return of refugees
• Israel is the only country on Earth that still occupies a whole other country & parts of two other countries
• Israel is the only country on Earth that publicly, steals the water of its neighbors
• Israel is the only country on Earth that has legalized home demolishing as a method of collective punishment
• Israel is the only country on Earth that uproots trees as a method of collective punishment
• Israel is the only country on Earth that deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and justifies it
• Israel is the only country on Earth that legalized assassination
• Israel stands unique in using human shields in military operations
• Amongst all countries, Israel is the only one that has legalized torture
• Israel is the only country on Earth that builds illegal settlements in occupied lands
• Israel is the only country on Earth that publicly jails activists without trial
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Israel has created the highest number of checkpoints
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Israel holds the world record in the number of curfew it has installed on the Palestinians
• Israel is the only country on Earth whose checkpoints deny women access to hospitals, they give birth alone and babies usually die
• Israel is exceptional in being the only country on Earth whose checkpoints denies patients access to hospitals, and they end up dying
• Israel is the only country on Earth whose checkpoints are where wedding parades come to an end
• Israel is the only country on Earth who check points schoolchildren, denies them access to school, and puts an end to their classes
• Israel is one of two countries that, against International Law, use cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs. America is the other...what a surprise huh?
• Israel holds the world record in the number of soldiers refusing to serve in the army
• Israel despite being a rich country, receives the highest financial aid, more than the sum aid to all sub-Saharan Africa!
• Israel claims its enemies want to wipe it off the map, but it has indeed wiped a whole country called Palestine off the map!
• Israel is the country that has introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East. But the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
• After East Germany, Israel is the only country that is building a segregation wall
• Second to South Africa, Israel is the only country to establish an apartheid regime
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first iron gates on roads
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first cities turned into jails with gates and opening hours
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first apartheid walls
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first electrified segregation fences
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first 'eyes specific' rubber bullets
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first abortion efficient, infant killing tear gas
• Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first humiliation guaranteed human cages
• Israel is the only country on Earth that has a political party that publicly advocates ethnic cleansing of native citizens (Palestinians)
• Israel is the only country on Earth that still has racist laws that discriminate against native citizens (Palestinians)
• Israel is the only country on Earth known to have a memorial dedicated to a terrorist where his followers gather and dance
• Israel is the only country on Earth that imprisons kids for political reasons

Chomsky - "Hope" & "Change" Meaningless

US finds vast Afghan mineral riches

Friday, June 11, 2010

Norman Finkelstein on Freedom Flotilla Israeli Raid

There Is a Method to Israel's Madness

Comic relief

Israeli students plan "Kurdish freedom flotilla"

What sounds like a diabolically clever public relations coup starts sounding too clever by half when you listen to people in the region. As one reader remarked to the Israeli news source Ynet, "Israeli ignorance is hilarious. Kurds are the most extreme Islamists in Turkey. Most of the Erdogan cabinet are Kurdish. Most of Erdogan's voters are Kurds. Kurdish mosques are full of Hamas and Hezbollah posters. I really want to watch Israelis meeting the Kurds, that will be a scene to watch."

It seems the waters of the eastern Mediterranean will be awash in self-righteous flotillas this summer. Generous Israelis are shipping humanitarian aid to oppressed Muslim and Christian communities -- everywhere except to Gaza. According to the Jerusalem Post, yet another ship -- packed to the gunwales with humanitarian supplies -- is about to head from Israel to Cyprus

Ideas for ‘reverse flotillas’ gain steam

Thursday, June 10, 2010

15 min of footage released

It has been cut, perhaps so as not to show actual murders taking place or dead bodies...More to be released in next 24hours.

Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara, May 31st 2010 // 15 min. from Cultures of Resistance

War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields

More evidence

Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security

Lieberman: Israel shouldn't lift Gaza siege until Hamas lets Red Cross see Shalit

Israel FM Lieberman admits Gaza blockade intended as collective punishment: a war crime

Israel trying to get Gaza people to overthrow Hamas

Through piracy, Israel has revealed its true nature to the world

Advocate of war crimes to head IDF enquiry

By Moshe Machover – 10 June 2010
According to a YNET report of 7 June, 2010, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi has appointed Maj-Gen (ret.) Giora Eiland to head “external inquest into deadly raid of Gaza flotilla”.
This is an excellent choice. Gen. Eiland is the main author of the Dahiya Doctrine of “disproportionate response”, which calls for “the wholesale destruction of the military, government and civilian infrastructure of the enemy entity”.
As quoted by New York Times, 19 January 2009:

The Israeli theory of what it tried to do here [in Gaza, 2008-9] is summed
up in a Hebrew phrase heard across Israel and throughout the military in the past weeks: “baal habayit hishtageya,” or “the boss has lost it.” It evokes the image of a madman who cannot be controlled.
“This phrase means that if our civilians are attacked by you, we are not going to respond in proportion but will use all means we have to cause you such damage that you will think twice in the future,” said Giora Eiland, a former national security adviser.

Now it gets more digusting and repulsive

Some of these are are democrats I used to respect and thought were sane.

Now I want to throw up

"I thank those that have joined in, in raising our voice to defend actions that really need no defense. Actions that any nation on earth would take if it were similarly threatened. Period. Any nation on earth."