Iraq
slaughter
not
an
aberration ---
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/06/iraq
Must Read - A quote...."I
was just on Democracy Now along with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
discussing the Iraq video they released yesterday, and there's one
vital point I want to emphasize. Shining light on what our
government and military do is so critical precisely because it forces
people to see what is really being done and prevents myth and
propaganda from distorting those realities. That's why the
administration fights so hard to keep torture photos suppressed, why
the military fought so hard here to keep this video concealed (and why
they did the same with regard to the Afghan massacre), and why
whistle-blowers, real journalists, and sites like WikiLeaks are the
declared enemy of the government. The discussions many people are
having today -- about the brutal reality of what the U.S. does when it
engages in war, invasions and occupation -- is exactly the discussion
which they most want to avoid."
also
posted
at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25150.htm
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The
Muted
Plain:
Anticipating
the
Wake
of
the
Wikileaks Revelation
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1952-the-muted-plain-anticipating-the-wake-of-the-wikileaks-revelation.html
Special Note - Related
Article - A quote...."So, thanks to Wikileaks.org, Americans now know
that their soldiers often gun down civilians in occupied countries
during reckless missions based on little or no intelligence (in every
sense of the word). This will no doubt come as a great shock -- yea, a
veritable political earthquake -- in a land where the top commander in
what is now its chief war just recently confessed that his troops were
slaughtering an "amazing" number of civilians who posed no threat
whatsoever. -- We all recall the vast hue and cry that greeted this
astounding admission by Afghan top gun General Stanley McChrystal, who
was hand-picked by the Nobel Peace Laureate himself to lead America's
noble crusade to stamp out Muslim extremism in Central Asia by killing
innocent Muslims all over Central Asia. No less than the New York Times
its own self reported prominently on McChrystal's chilling candor."
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The
Collateral
Murder
of
Arabs
in
Iraq
and
Palestine ---
http://www.hybridstates.com/2010/04/the-collateral-murder-of-arabs-in-iraq-and-palestine/
Special Note - Related
Article - A quote...."It is bound to happen. The massacring of unarmed
civilians and the institutional cover-up for such behavior are
certainties when it comes to modern warfare. This statement applies, of
course, to the Sri Lankans as much as the Russians, to the Americans as
much as the Israelis. The American military, for example, murdered over
600 Pakistani civilians in 2009 alone through 44 drone strikes; only
four of these strikes hit their intended targets. " -
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64860&hd=&size=1&l=e
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What
'legitimate'
violence
looks
like ---
http://charliedavis.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-legitimate-violence-looks-like.html
Special Note - A
quote...."The video posted below by the invaluable website WikiLeaks
might depict a grotesque atrocity being carried out by U.S. forces in
Iraq, but it is useful to note that, while certainly abhorrent and
something to [be] avoided when possible, that war crime was
legitimately
sanctioned by our duly-elected representatives in Washington, who as
embodiments of the state are deserving of our utmost respect, as we
know from reading The Nation. What would be called "murder" with little
hesitation if you or I carried out is -- through the miracle of the
electoral process -- transmogrified into the mere bureaucratic exercise
of the state's legitimate monopoly on the use of violence, meaning that
while one may question the wisdom of a murderous policy that has killed
thousands upon thousands of innocent Afghan, Iraqi, Pakistani, Yemeni
and Somali civilians, one dare not question the legitimacy of the
murderers, lest you end up like one of those wild-eyed, seditious
Tea Party-types."
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Afghan
and
Iraqi
Civilian
Killings
Nothing
New ---
http://firedoglake.com/2010/04/06/aghan-civilian-killings-nothing-new/
Contains Video - Related
Article - A quote...."There are times when I feel that all of the posts
I write for FDL are just variations on one story: US forces kill
civilians in occupied country. US spinmeisters claim civilians were
really “insurgents.” Witnesses speak up or neighbors go to local
government to complain. US military quietly backtrack on original story
and some officer makes a visit to the scene of the killing, pockets
full of condolence cash. Officer pledges that from now on, things will
change, more care will be taken – and of course we deeply regret
… And then it happens all over again."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64855&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Alex
Covers
Wikileakd
Video
–
A
Culture
of
Psychopathic Abuse in Iraq
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/04/06/video-alex-covers-wikileakd-video-a-culture-of-psychopathic-abuse-in-iraq/
Videos -
Special Note -
Related Article -
(OK, he's a little over the top....so
what? What he says is TRUE. -
mpg)
AJ(1/4)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzRSClx7Gik
AJ(2/4)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T5F0bHVx3M
AJ(3/4)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDuaxzGO0Ys
AJ(4/4)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUL5UYl6JYE
A
quote...."Wikileakd video shows U.S. troops firing on Reuters reporters
and Iraqi children"
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Collateral
Pentagon ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LD07Ak01.html
Related Article - A quote...."As a document of the tragedy and
absurdity of the continuum Afghanistan-Iraq - and of a series of
Pentagon-sanctioned war crimes - this video tells it like it is, louder
than any anti-war manifesto published or broadcast since 2001. And no -
it will not be running for Best Documentary Short in the 2011 Oscars."
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Abu
Zubaydah:
Tortured
for
Nothing ---
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/04/06/abu-zubaydah-tortured-for-nothing/
NOT TRUE !! -
He
fulfilled his purpose, he was deliberately and knowingly
tortured to provide false and misleading information to the 9/11
commission, along with propaganda to the US-NRE's Presstitutes.
Torturing someone to provide propaganda is criminal, torturing someone
to provide false information to support a war of aggression is a war
crime. Torturing someone to provide false information to the
commission investigating 9/11 however....is treason. The last two
crimes can, and should, be punished by the death penalty. - mpg
- A quote...."The story of Abu Zubaydah — a Saudi-born Palestinian
whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn — has always been
absolutely central to the “War on Terror.” Seized in a house raid in
Faisalabad, Pakistan on March 28, 2002, he was immediately touted as
“al-Qaeda’s chief of operations and top recruiter,” who would be able
to “provide the names of terrorists around the world and which targets
they planned to hit.” He then pretty much vanished off the face of the
earth for four and a half years." -
also
posted
at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64866&hd=&size=1&l=e
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D.C.
Circuit
Abruptly
Closes
Courtroom
in
Guantanamo Case -
And
the cover-up continues! - mpg
---
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/04/dc-circuit-abruptly-closes-courtroom-in-guantanamo-case.html
A quote...."A federal appeals court in Washington was prepared to hear
a Guantanamo Bay detainee case in open court today, though the lawyers
involved in the dispute were prohibited from talking about the
confidential record. -- A minute into the argument, Chief Judge David
Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit had heard
enough and abruptly closed the courtroom to the public. That meant
about a dozen people in the courtroom were barred from sitting in court
to hear oral argument."
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Judge
dismisses
scores
of
Guantanamo
habeas
cases -
And
continues.....mpg
---
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/05/91651/judge-voids-scores-of-guantanamo.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON — A federal judge has dismissed more than 100
habeas corpus lawsuits filed by former Guantanamo captives, ruling that
because the Bush and Obama administrations had transferred them
elsewhere, the courts need not decide whether the Pentagon imprisoned
them illegally."
For more on the three articles
shown above see....9/11-Iraq-Torture
Fables
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
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Israel's
9/11
"To
Do"
Checklist ---
http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/04/israels-911-to-do-checklist.html
A quote...."1. On 9/11/2001, set off the world's biggest false-flag
against our ally, friend, financial backer, weapons depot and all
around gullible sucker, the USA using Arab patsies, MOSSAD agents,
mercs, CIA cutouts, katsas running White House and Pentagon traitors
and our world-wide system of sayanim.... Check." --
For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's
9/11
Central
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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Oldspapers
and
the Crisis of the Establishment ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north832.html ---
Hip Hip Hooray!!
-
mpg
Special Note - A
quote...." The gatekeepers stand at the gates,
guarding who goes in and what goes out. But the walls have gaping holes
in them, if they still stand at all. This has never happened before in
world history. - As a result, the world's social order will change. We
cannot see clearly what it will look like in 20 years or 50 years, but
the changes inaugurated by the printing press in one century,
1450–1550, offer good examples of what will happen. The pace of change
is much faster today."
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Numbers
to
Die
For
-
Believe
It or Not (2010 Imperial Edition)
---
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175228/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_numbers_to_die_for__/
A quote...."With our Afghan and Iraq wars on my mind, I’ve been
wondering whether Ripley’s moment hasn’t returned. Here, for
instance, are some figures offered in a Washington Post piece by
Lieutenant General James H. Pillsbury, deputy commanding general of the
U.S. Army Materiel Command, who is deeply involved in the “drawdown of
the logistics operation in Iraq”: “There are... more than 341
facilities; 263,000 soldiers, Defense Department civilians and
contractor employees; 83,000 containers; 42,000 vehicles; 3 million
equipment items; and roughly $54 billion in assets that will ultimately
be removed from Iraq.” -
also posted
at AntiWar
---
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2010/04/06/us-war-fighting-numbers/
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Obama
Will
Now
Have
His
Private
Army ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/obamas-private-army.html
A quote...."Of course, SEC. 430, Establishing a Ready Reserve Corps.
lists in detail the commissioned Regular Corps and Ready Reserve Corps
that will be trained up, fired up, lined up and controlled by Obama
himself. Naturally the purpose for this army is to stand by in case
they are needed at short notice for a national health emergency or
emergency response missions. -- The health bill talks specifically
about their routine training, appointment by the President with the
advice and consent of the Senate, and other details of service."
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U.S.
[i.e.
Obama]
Approves
Targeted
Killing
of American Cleric ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.html?hp
A quote...."WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has taken the
extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American
citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to
have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly
participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said
Tuesday."
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Robert
Fisk:
Pakistan
is
in
pieces ---
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/robert-fisk-pakistan-is-in-p.htmls-14756006.html
Must Read - A
quote...."American drones overhead, Taliban troops on the offensive,
and the horrifying rise of child kidnapping – Pakistan is in pieces,
writes Robert Fisk, in a devastating portrait of a country thwarted by
violence and corruption."
also
posted at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25149.htm
---
For more on this issue
see....
It
Will
Happen
Every
Single
Time
-
01-01-08
-
mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-122407-010108#EVERY_TIME
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The
United
States
takes
the matter of three-headed babies very seriously ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64863&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."The BBC reported last month that doctors in the Iraqi city
of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some
blaming weapons used by the United States during its fierce onslaughts
of 2004 and subsequently, which left much of the city in ruins. "It was
like an earthquake," a local engineer who was running for a national
assembly seat told the Washington Post in 2005. "After Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, there was Fallujah." Now, the level of heart defects
among newborn babies is said to be 13 times higher than in Europe." -
It is the "Method"
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
---
they use, it is what they
are, it is who they are, and it is what they
do....always. - mpg
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US-Committed
Atrocities
in
Afghanistan ---
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/04/07/us-committed-atrocities-in-afghanistan
A quote...."After General Stanley McChrystal took charge of US/NATO
Afghan forces last June, systematic atrocities escalated sharply after
promises of kinder, gentler killing (an oxymoron), winning hearts and
minds, and fewer civilian casualties as a "paramount" objective - now
much higher the result of more than a fourfold increase in night raids,
targeting civilians, including children, while they sleep."
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Taleban
accuses
Afghan
president
of
'playing
games' ---
http://news.scotsman.com/12007/Taleban-accuses-Afghan-president-of.6207553.jp
A quote...."AFTER three successive outbursts blaming foreigners for
last year's election fraud, accusing western troops of meddling and
finally threatening to join the Taleban, Afghan president Hamid Karzai
suffered a fresh blow last night when the insurgents essentially told
him to get lost."
also posted at Uruknet ---
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=64867
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Karzai
stands
by
vote
fraud
claims
against West ---
http://nwotruth.com/karzai-stands-by-vote-fraud-claims-against-west/
A quote...."President Hamid Karzai said he stood behind accusations
that the West was responsible for election fraud in Afghanistan,
despite having incurred the White House’s anger over the comments. -
His remarks appeared to intensify the quarrel, by directly blaming
Washington for what he has described as “massive fraud” aimed at
weakening him and his government. - “What I said about the election was
all true, I won’t repeat it, but it was all true,” Karzai told the BBC.
- “That the US carried out the fraud?” the BBC correspondent asked. -
“That’s exactly what happened; I mentioned the elements who did it,”
Karzai said."
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The
return
of kingmaker Muqtada ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LD07Ak04.html
A quote...."DAMASCUS - Arab and international media are busy debating
who will become the new prime minister of Iraq. Iyad Allawi, a symbol
of secularism who came out with 91 seats in the March 7 elections, or
incumbent Nuri al-Maliki, a religiously-driven statesman who came in
second, with a total of 89 seats."
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As
Iraq
Threatens
to
Come
Apart,
US Problems in Afghanistan Mount
---
http://original.antiwar.com/pfaff/2010/04/06/part-us-problems-in-afghanistan-mount/
A quote...."Washington once again finds itself dangerously entangled
with the hostile policies, nationalistic interests and supporters, and
personal ambitions of a foreign figure whom it counted on to serve
American interests."
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Fox
“news”
continues
CBS,
ABC,
CNN
propaganda
to
attack Iran: today’s CIA
Operation Mockingbird ---
http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-
County-Nonpartisan-Examiner%7Ey2010m4d6-Fox-news-continues-CBS-ABC-CNN-propaganda-to-attack-Iran-todays-CIA-Operation-Mockingbird
A quote...."In the video clip from Fox below, Bill Kristol advocates US
military attack on Iran because he predicts that Israel will attack
Iran. This is propaganda for an unlawful war for the following “emperor
has no clothes” obvious reasons. Fox "reporting" is also a manipulative
variation of the same war drone I’ve documented from CBS, ABC, and CNN."
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Obama
Policy
Retains
Right
to
Nuke
Iran ---
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/04/05/obama-policy-retains-right-to-nuke-iran/
Our new Roman Emperor
pronounced
his Royal
decree while his mouth was firmly planted on AIPAC's
butt....it's rather difficult for Obama to say anything when he's
kneeling in his
customary position regarding AIPAC, but perhaps he was talking out of
HIS ass? - mpg -- A
quote...."Much has been made in the past few weeks of the Obama
Administration’s plan to issue a new nuclear weapons doctrine,
replacing the Bush Doctrine that included the possibility of using
nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states."
also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/obama-policy-retains-right-to-nuke-iran/
& WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/221902
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China
Denies Backing Iran Sanctions ---
http://www.effedieffe.com/content/view/9939/183/
Like India,
---
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/india/India-snubs-US-over-Iran-pipeline/Article1-526431.aspx
---
but unlike Obama, China refuses to
kiss AIPAC butt. - mpg -- Related Article - A
quote...."Yesterday’s claims that
the Chinese government had, after months of US cajoling, finally agreed
to support sanctions against Iran appear to be premature, and China has
reiterated its past position that diplomacy, not sanctions, should
resolve the issue."
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Iran
sanctions
would
be
ineffective:
Brazilian
FM ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122646§ionid=351020101
---
Ditto
Related Article - A quote...."Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim
has warned against imposing new sanctions on Iran, saying that Brazil
wants to maintain its ties with the Islamic Republic."
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Diplomacy
should
settle
Iran
nuclear
question:
Erdogan -
Ditto
--- ---
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jWdpwaGb0sehh_osplQ4dFb_FV6Q
Related Article - A quote...."PARIS — The crisis over Iran's nuclear
programme should be settled through diplomacy, Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview published Tuesday by the
French newspaper Le Figaro."
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Amnesty
reveals
Saudi
strikes
on
Yemeni
civilians ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122683§ionid=351020206
A quote...."Amnesty International sheds light on the suffering
inflicted upon civilians in northern Yemen during the joint
Saudi-Yemeni offensive against the country's Houthis."
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Ukraine
President
Scraps
NATO
Membership
Commission
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/04/05/ukraine-president-scraps-nato-membership-commission/
A quote...."With Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in high profile
meetings in the Russian capital of Moscow today, it is more clear than
ever that he is intent on repairing ties between the two nations,
strained in the years under former president Yushchenko."
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Okinawa
mayors
unanimously
pass
anti-Futenma
resolution ---
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=69189
A quote...."GINOWAN, Okinawa — Okinawa mayors met Monday and
unanimously passed a resolution calling for the immediate closure of
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and moving the air units outside
Japan."
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Venezuela
Charges
Colombians
as
Would-Be
Saboteurs ---
http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=354845&CategoryId=10717
A quote...."CARACAS – Venezuela’s interior minister confirmed Tuesday
that eight Colombians were arrested last month and are now in the hands
of military prosecutors charged with espionage in furtherance of
sabotage."
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Why
there are no ‘Israelis’ in the Jewish state - Citizens classed as
Jewish or Arab nationals
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25153.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."April 06, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- - A group of
Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as
“Israelis”, a nationality currently denied them, in a case that
officials fear may threaten the country’s self-declared status as a
Jewish state." -
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64865&hd=&size=1&l=e
---
So much for recognizing
the "state
of Israel". The Zionist actually don't want any such thing! - mpg
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Palm
Sunday
protester
pays
fine
to release detained donkeys ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=274481
A quote...."Bethlehem – Ma'an – Ten days after the Palm Sunday rally,
in which Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki and several others
were detained, Israel's Jerusalem Municipality ordered one of the
detainees to pay bail for the release of his donkeys."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64857&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israeli
Settlers
Attack
Sheikh
Jarrah
Protesters -
posted
at Palestine Chronicle
---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=3814e1b3d3e3535037decefa8c459d0c&mode=details#3814e1b3d3e3535037decefa8c459d0c
A quote...."Israeli settlers have attacked a group of activists
protesting Tel Aviv's confiscation of Palestinian land in the Sheikh
Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem (al-Quds). - Five people
were slightly injured on Monday after extremist Jews insulted and later
clashed with international and Palestinian activists who had gathered
to protest the continued demolition of Palestinian houses in al-Quds."
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========== ====
After
probe,
father
says
son
was executed ---
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3872419,00.html
A quote...."After IDF rules killing of two Palestinians shot dead near
Nablus could have been avoided, residents of their village want to
bring shooters to justice, 'They went looking for scrap iron to make a
living and were shot point blank,' father says adding will take case to
international courts if necessary "
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Al-Haq
Action
Alert:
Human
Rights
Defender
Arbitrarily Detained and Tortured
by Israeli Occupation Forces
---
http://www.creative-i.info/2010/04/06/al-haq-action-alert-human-rights-defender-arbitrarily-detained-and-tortured-by-israeli-occupation-forces/
A quote...."On 15 March 2010, Umar Mousa Muhammad Ala-al-Din, a 25 year
old Palestinian student from the village of al-Masara, near Bethlehem,
was taken by Israeli Border Police and detained for seven days, until
22 March 2010. Ala-al-Din is a member of the Popular Resistance
Committee of al-Masara village and an organizer of non-violent protests
against the Annexation Wall. Whilst in custody, Ala-al-Din was verbally
and physically assaulted, causing serious injury and was denied
necessary medical treatment.
More
-
PDF"
---
http://www.alhaq.org/pdfs/Defender%20Arbitrarily%20Detained%20and%20Tortured%20by%20Israeli%20Occupation%20Forces.pdf
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Barghouthi:
‘the
day
of
student
engagement
against Jim Crow is coming’ ---
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1349
A quote...."Today my friend James North called and asked, Who is
Mustafa Barghouthi? Because Barghouthi has a wonderful piece in today’s
Financial Times explaining why BDS is so necessary to Palestinian
freedom, when violence beckons at every hand."
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Gaza:
Misfired
projectile injures 5 in Beit Hanoun ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=274641
The rockets are stupid, futile,
counter-productive, immoral, are random, therefore injure mostly
civilians and hence, are illegal, and the rockets simply serve as an
excuse for Israel to commit murder and mayhem across Gaza. They
should NEVER be used again. -
mpg -- A quote...."Gaza – Ma'an –
Five Palestinians were injured when a misfired projectile landed in
Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses said Tuesday."
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Egyptian
authorities
accelerating
construction
of
steel
wall
---
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7noxFHeSc60eq4b%2fFS4
AeYW61rf1rljssf3Rr9oOBujMa3TyfdvQXEAdrJ7i5nI6nHT5vEMq4%2bJponugHwKe0YoLaaS9Serythd89Uo805lQ%3d
Why do the Egyptian people
tolerate this? - mpg -- A quote...."CAIRO, (PIC)-- The Egyptian
authorities have recently accelerated the construction work at the
steel wall built under the border area between Egypt and Gaza Strip, an
Egyptian security source said."
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China's
Metamorphosis:
"From
export
juggernaut
to
a
credit
addict" -
With
a little help from the US-NRE.
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25151.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."There's no chance that the Geithner will openly challenge Hu
or that the administration will take any action that would jeopardize
relations. China's President will get the red carpet treatment for the
length of his visit and Geithner will spend the bulk of his time
pressing the leader for concessions that will allow greater access to
China's market for his buddies in the financial services industry.
That's the "hidden agenda" that both the congress and the media fail to
see. From Geithner's point of view, the confab is not really about
"strategic dialogue" on "mutual economic and security issues". That's
just a smokescreen. Geithner is backed by powerful Wall Street
constituents who could care less about exchange rates or jobs. What
they care about is markets and profits. And for that, they need greater
access. -- During his term as Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson spent
more time in Beijing than he did in Washington. But his goals were the
same as Geithner's; to do whatever it takes to pry-open the biggest
consumer market on earth. That basic policy hasn't changed."
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Keiser
Report
№31
–
Markets!
Finance!
Scandal! ---
http://dprogram.net/2010/04/06/video-keiser-report-%E2%84%9631-markets-finance-scandal/
MKVideo -
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJxq8Mfur6g ---
(MKRTYuTb
- 25 min 14 sec - April 06, 2010) -- A quote...."This time Max Keiser
and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals of Tony “No Blood for
Oil” Blair lying about selling the UK gold supply on “technical advice
of the Bank of England;” a millionaire tramp in Sweden and a casino
that refuses to pay in America; and, finally, the Irish ‘Bad Bank’ and
the ‘Celtic Chernobyl.’ Max also talks to William ‘BJ’ Lawson, who is
running for Congress in North Carolina’s 4th District, about Ron Paul
Republicans, the Federal Reserve setting fiscal policy and defining
President Obama."
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Looting
Main
Street ---
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32906678/looting_main_street/print
Special Note - A
quote...."How the nation's biggest banks are ripping off American
cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece."
also posted at BLN
--- http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=8133
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Long-Term
Unemployment
at
Post-WWII
High ---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/long-term-unemployment-at-post-wwii.html
A quote...."As Barry Ritholtz
pointed
out ---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/what-do-new-unemployment-numbers-mean.html
---
Friday:"
"Long-term unemployed (jobless
for 27 weeks+) increased by
414,000 to 6.5 million."
"Yesterday, the Pew Charitable Trusts released a
report
---
http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=58310
---
noting
that
long-term unemployment is the worst it has been
since the
end of World War II. As
summarized
---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/06/unemployment-
more-than-3_n_526900.html --- by Shahien Nasiripour:"
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A Weak Employment Report
---
http://blog.atimes.net/?p=1419
Some quotes...."Health care and temporary service employment accounted
for the bulk of the weaker-than-expected payroll report, and the
so-called underemployment rate actually rose. The BLS writes" -- "
Throw in 15,000 factory jobs, and that’s it.
The ADP report showed a decline in manufacturing employment, so that’s
within the range of statistical error. It’s remarkable how little
manufacturing employment has grown given the improvements in Asia,
suggesting that the tidal effect of Asian growth on the US is limited."
- bold by website editor
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ExxonMobil
paid
no
federal
income tax in 2009. (Updated) -
How
much
did
YOU
pay
folks? Was it zero? -
mpg
--- http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/06/exxon-tax/
A quote...."Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top
U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,” Forbes
notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in pretax
income, but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a
tax benefit of $1.1 billion.” Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last
year reported a record $45.2 billion profit, paid the most taxes of any
corporation, but none of it went to the IRS: "
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For instance, HRW has published
five heavily publicised reports on
Israel and the Palestinian territories since the January 2009 war…Noah
Pollak, a New York writer who has led some of the criticisms against
HRW, points out that it cares about Palestinians when maltreated by
Israelis, but is less concerned if perpetrators are fellow Arabs.