The Attack
and Seizure of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla....
Israeli
raid
on
aid
flotilla
condemned
by
UN,
‘Free
Gaza’
protests
flare
up
globally
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/06/01/video-israeli-raid-on-aid-flotilla-condemned-by-un-free-gaza-protests-flare-up-globally/
RTVideo - Special Note - Alt ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5tbqwn8lE4 --- (RTYuTb -
5 min 23 sec - June 01, 2010) - Source:
DrRonPaul2012 --- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – UN Security Council
has condemned the
deadly raid of an international flotilla taking aid to Gaza. At least 9
pro-Palestinian activists were killed and dozens injured when Israeli
troops stormed the vessels. Paula Slier is in the Israeli port city of
Ashdod, where the ships have arrived. She’s been assessing the growing
chorus of condemnation."
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Israeli
Knesset
Member:
Israel
Wanted
High
Number
Of
Fatalities
--- http://www.prisonplanet.com/israeli-knesset-member-israel-wanted-high-number-of-fatalities.html
Special Note - A
quote...."A
member of the Israeli Knesset, the legislative branch of the Israeli
government, who was on board the Marmara ship when it was ambushed by
IDF troops, has told reporters that the intention of the raid was to
kill as many on board as they could in order to ward off others from
attempting to reach Gaza by sea. -- Hanin Zoabi, who currently serves
as a member of the Knesset representing the Balad party, made the
following comments at a press gathering today...." -
also posted at PJB --- http://buchanan.org/blog/israeli-knesset-member-israel-wanted-high-number-of-fatalities-4133
“It was clear from the size of
the
force that boarded the ship that the purpose was not only to stop this
sail, but to cause the largest possible number of fatalities in order
to stop such initiatives in the future.”
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Israeli
MP's
Terror
on
Aid
Ship:
'Plan
Was
to
Kill
Activists'
---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16015
Special Note - A
quote...."An Arab member of the Israeli parliament who was on board
the international flotilla that was attacked on Monday as it tried to
take humanitarian aid to Gaza accused Israel yesterday of intending to
kill peace activists as a way to deter future convoys. -- Haneen
Zoubi
said Israeli naval vessels had surrounded the flotilla’s flagship, the
Mavi Marmara, and fired on it a few minutes before commandos abseiled
from a helicopter directly above them. -- Terrified passengers
had
been forced off the deck when water was sprayed at them. She said she
was not aware of any provocation or resistance by the passengers, who
were all unarmed. -- She added that within minutes of the raid
beginning, three bodies had been brought to the main room on the upper
deck in which she and most other passengers were confined. Two had
gunshot wounds to the head, in what she suggested had been executions."
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Reporters
Without
Borders:
15
journalists
still
missing
--- http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=288951
Press Censorship Alert -
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - Reporters Without Borders is urging the
Israeli authorities to release a list of the journalists who were
arrested during Monday's raid on the humanitarian flotilla and to say
where they are being held."
also
posted at Uruknet --- http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m66559&hd=&size=1&l=e
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America's
Complicity
in
Evil --- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19456
Must Read - A
quote...."As I write at 5pm on Monday, May 31, all day has passed since
the early morning reports of the Israeli commando attack on the unarmed
ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, and there has been no response
from President Obama except to say that he needed to learn "all the
facts about this morning's tragic events" and that Israeli prime
minister Netanyahu had canceled his plans to meet with him at the White
House."
also posted at DProgram --- http://dprogram.net/2010/06/01/americas-complicity-in-evil-paul-craig-roberts/
& CounterPunch --- http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06012010.html
& PJB --- http://buchanan.org/blog/americas-complicity-in-evil-4126
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Act
of
War?
And
Treason?
Yes --- http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/act-of-war-and-treason-yes/
A quote...."The United States blocked a UN Security Council
investigation into what happened to those ships on international
waters. But that’s not all… we have also suggested that Israel be in
charge of an “impartial investigation” instead. I’m serious. -- I
don’t really know what to say about this, so I will just put it out
there for you all to see. I can’t say that I am surprised in any way,
unfortunately, but I am a little disappointed."
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Dead:
19.
Injured:
60.
This
is
Israel.
Appeal
of
the
BRussells
Tribunal.
--- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19453
Special Note --
A quote...."Even for eyes burnt
witnessing human suffering, there is something shocking, something
impossible, about watching Israeli soldiers, armed and in gas masks,
fast-roping from helicopters onto an aid ship filled with civilians —
journalists, parliamentarians, human rights activists, mothers, doctors
— headed to Gaza to break the inhuman siege that keeps 1.5 million
people somewhere between life and death."
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We are
all Gazans now --- http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LF02Ak02.html
Special
Note - A
quote...."Footage from the deck of the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara -
played across the world, but not much on US networks - is unmistakable.
Fully body-armored and weaponized Israeli commandos have approached the
flotilla on high-speed marine dinghies, deployed stun grenades and tear
gas and shot everything in sight - a military helicopter is hovering
over the flotilla. At a certain point the commander of the Marmara is
heard, in English: "Please stop all resistance. They are using live
ammunition."
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Captain
recounts
attack
on
Flotilla --- http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128712§ionid=351020202
A quote...."They pointed two guns to the head of each of us," Tokalak
told a news conference on Tuesday. "They were really interesting guns,
like the ones you see in the movies." -
also posted at AlethoNews --- http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/captain-recounts-attack-on-flotilla/
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Operation
Mini
Cast
Lead --- http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/operation-mini-cast-lead-1.293417
Must Read - Some
quotes...."Like in "Mini-Israel," the park where there is everything,
but smaller, Israel embarked yesterday on a mini Operation Cast Lead.
Like its larger, losing predecessor, this operation had it all: the
usual false claim that is was they who had started it - and not the
landing of commandos from helicopters on a ship in open sea, away from
Israeli territorial waters. There was the claim that the first act of
violence came not from the soldiers, but the rioting activists on Mavi
Marmara; that the blockade on Gaza is legal and that the flotilla to
its shores is against the law - God knows which law." -- "If Cast Lead
was a turning point in the attitude of the world toward us, this
operation is the second horror film of the apparently ongoing series.
Israel proved yesterday that it learned nothing from the first movie."
-
also posted at ICH --- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25586.htm
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All
At Sea --- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25592.htm
Must Read - Some
quotes...."June 01, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- I wonder how
many of you remember the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the
Achille Lauro way back in October 1985?" -- "
The incident created headlines around the world
and polarized people over the Palestinian cause. - It also prompted the
law makers to create new legislation making it an international crime
for anyone to take a ship by force. - And this is the reason for the
brief history lesson - under article 3 of the Rome Convention for the
Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation
of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or
exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or
kill any person in the process. - The treaty necessarily adopts a
strict approach. One cannot attack a ship and then claim self-defence
if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence."
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Obama's
Timidity
and
Deaths
at
Sea
--- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25595.htm
Must
Read - Obama, and a good
portion of the US-NRE's
population, are the best Isreali/AIPAC butt kissers the world will ever
see....mpg - A quote...."June 01, 2010 "Information Clearing
House" -- A chief lesson to learn from President Barack Obama’s recent
unwillingness to stand up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and the Likud Lobby is that such timidity can get people killed. --
Casualty figures are still arriving in the wake of Israel’s Sunday
night-Monday morning commando attack on an unarmed flotilla trying to
bring relief supplies to the 1.5 million Palestinians crowded into
Gaza. Already, at least nine civilian passengers are reported killed,
and dozens wounded."
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Does
Israel
Rule
the
World? - No,
just what used to be called the United States of America. - mpg
--- http://www.jnoubiyeh.com/2010/06/does-israel-rule-world.html
A quote...."Yesterday, the Israeli
military attacked and boarded one of
the Turkish aid ships sailing to Gaza as part of a flotilla, killing 19
and injuring many more. As this occurred in international waters, it is
not only an act of piracy but could also be construed as an ‘act of
war'. This attack on unarmed civilian men and women illustrates the
moral depths to which the Jewish state has sunk."
also posted at OnlineJournal --- http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5949.shtml
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Ex-Mossad
agent:
Gaza
flotilla
raid
’so
stupid
it’s
stupefying’
---
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0601/exmossad-agent-gaza-flotilla-raid-so-stupid-stupefying/
A quote...."The former Mossad agent
is Victor Ostrovsky, who
enlisted in the Israeli Defense Force at age 18 and has since written
two books highly critical of Israel's war-fighting apparatus. His first
book,
"By
Way
of
Deception," ---
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Deception-Making-Mossad-officer
/dp/0971759502 --- illustrates the brutal and often
confusing
nature of the Israeli spy service's covert operations, casting the
agency as a villain that engages in the drug trade to further their
ambitions over the good of Israel. His other book, "The Other Side of
Deception," speculates as to Mossad's greater agenda. The book is
available
online
in
its
entirety."
--- http://www.scribd.com/doc/27175886/Other-Side-of-Deception-Victor-Ostrovsky
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What
if Iran had committed the Gaza carnage and Freedom Flotilla massacre? --- http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5950.shtml
Special
Note - A
quote...."The "international community," which in most cases comprises
the United States and its European friends, that gave birth to this
inauspicious child continue to tolerate the consequences of the great
mistake they made 60 years ago. From the very beginning, it was clear
that the establishment of the regime of Israel would be tantamount to
insecurity, anxiety and disorder in the Middle East. [That WAS
the idea.] Now Israel is expanding the frontiers of its
aggressiveness and one can easily foresee the days when the European
and American civilians are massacred by the Zionist regime, a simple
instance of which we witnessed in the flotilla case."
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For
more
articles on Gaza's aid flotilla.....
U.S. blocks
Security Council criticism of Israeli raid --- http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_15200395
Alt --- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25589.htm
Western
Leaders
are
too
Cowardly
to
Help
Save
Lives
--- http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-western-leaders-are-too-cowardly--to-help-save-lives-1987989.html
Alt --- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25593.htm
No
weapons
on
stormed
Turkish
ship:
Report
--- http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/weapons+stormed+Turkish+ship+Report/3092005/story.html
Complete
Interview
Transcript
with
Richard
Falk
from
May
31st
2010
--- http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/complete-interview-transcript-with-richard-falk-from-may-31st-2010/
Obama
Regime
Blocks
Condemnation
of
Israeli
Crimes
at
UNSC
Meeting
--- http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1295.htm
Alt --- http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/obama-regime-blocks-condemnation-of-israeli-crimes-at-unsc-meeting/
Alt --- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/226151
Nicaragua
suspends
ties
with
Israel
--- http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128726§ionid=351020706
US
refuses
to
condemn
Israel
--- http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128716§ionid=351020202
Washington
comes to aid of Israel over Gaza convoy massacre
--- http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/isra-j02.shtml
Reporting
Israeli Assault Through Israel's Eyes
--- http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4081
Alt --- http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/01-8
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Stop
Supporting
the
Troops
and
End
the
Wars
--- http://dprogram.net/2010/06/01/video-stop-supporting-the-troops-and-end-the-wars/
Must
View Video - Alt --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTEhbf92FdM
---
(YouTube
-
9
min
24
sec
-
May
23,
2010)
-
Source:
AutonomistVoice --- http://www.youtube.com/user/AutonomistVoice
---
A
quote...."War
is
terrorism.
Soldiers
are
not
heroes.
Presidents
are
not
saviors.
A
powerful
call
to
action,
to
move
from
ritualized
‘marches’ to sustained rebellion. Filmed at UC Santa Barbara on May 7,
2010. Thanks to Emma Kaplan and Matthis Chiroux. - Two portions of this
were lifted from “What You Didn’t Know About the War” — watch it here: http://bit.ly/jVSSn" ---
http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=dprogram.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FjVSSn&sref=http%3A%2F
%2Fdprogram.net%2F2010%2F06%2F01%2Fvideo-stop-supporting-the-troops-and-end-the-wars%2F
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American
Denial
-
Living
in
a
Can’t-Do
Nation
--- http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175255/tomgram:_engelhardt,_living_in_the_51st_state_%28of_denial%29___/
A quote...."Graduates of the class of
2010, I’m honored to have been
asked to address you today, but I would not want to be you. -- I
graduated in 1966 on a gloriously sunny day; then again, it was a
sunnier moment in this country. We were, after all, still surfing
the crest of post-World War II American wealth and productivity.
The first oil crisis of 1973 wasn’t even on the horizon." - also posted at ICH
--- http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175255/tomgram:_engelhardt,_living_in_the_51st_state_%28of_denial%29___/#more
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From
the
1953
CIA
Overthrow
of
Democracy
in
Iran,
to
the
Iraq
War,
to
the
Criminal
Gulf
Catastrophe
and
Deaths,
BP
Was
There
--- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19484
A quote...."If
you were to draw an oily line from the first exploitation of oil in the
Middle East by the British in 1901 (they were in the process of
converting their then world dominating naval fleet from coal to oil and
were in desperate need of it) to the overthrow of the secular
democratic leader in Iran, Mohammed Mossadeq, in 1953, to the Iraq War,
to the criminal environmental catastrophe in the Gulf, BP would have
been there."
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Hamas,
Turkey,
Iran,
and
Strategic
Leadership
in
the
Middle
East -
http://www.raceforiran.com/hamas-turkey-iran-and-strategic-leadership-in-the-middle-east
A quote...."In our two extended
discussions with him, see here
and here, HAMAS political chief Khalid Mishal came across as a
clear-eyed, strategic leader. Last week, Charlie Rose sat down in
Damascus for his own interview with Mishal, see here. The
interview is very evocative, substantively and in terms of Mishal’s
personal qualities, of our conversations with the HAMAS leader.
But, in the context of yesterday’s Israeli attack, in international
waters, against a flotilla of Turkish ships bringing relief supplies to
Gaza, Rose’s interview with Mishal takes on special significance, and
we urge its full viewing."
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Algeria,
Libya set to buy Russian Pantsir-S1 short-range air defense systems --- http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20100602/159266078.html
A quote...."Algeria and Libya are ready to
buy Russian Pantsir-S1
short-range air defense systems, deputy head of the Russian
Military-Technical Cooperation Service Vyacheslav Dzirkalin said on
Wednesday."
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Russia
to supply Su-30, Yak-130 planes to Algeria in 2011 --- http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20100602/159265065.html
A quote...."Russia will supply Su-30
Flanker fighters and Yak-130
Mitten trainer/light attack jets to Algeria in 2011, the deputy head of
the Russian Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation,
Vyacheslav Dzirkalin, said."
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Japan's
prime
minister
steps
down
over
US
base
row
--- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100602/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_politics
BREAKING
: 53 mins
ago - (1:48 am PST 06-02-10) -- A quote...."TOKYO – Embattled Japanese
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned Wednesday to improve his party's
chances in an election next month, after his own popularity plunged over his broken campaign promise to move a
U.S. Marine base." - bold by website editor
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China Bans
Court Evidence Gained Through Torture --- http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=9012
You
know what's completely
hysterical about this headline, the US-NRE is going in the opposite
direction as fast as it can. - mpg -- A quote...."The top
judicial and law enforcement bodies in China have issued new guidelines
that seek to halt the use of torture in obtaining confessions or
witness testimony, especially in death penalty cases." - Source: NYT --- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/world/asia/01china.html?pagewanted=print
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Free
trade
zone
for
China,
S.Korea,
Japan
to
produce
hefty
benefits,
thorough
exploration
needed
--- http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90863/7005085.html
A quote...."While regional integration is
breaking down the walls
dividing adjacent countries, free trade is thickening the web of their
economic interdependence between them with potential benefits." - also posted at BLN --- http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-9010-0-9-9--.html
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Dmitry
Medveved – Russia ready to eliminate visas for EU citizens --- http://en.rian.ru/video/20100602/159264977.html
A quote...."Russia has submitted a draft
agreement to the European
Union on scrapping the current visa requirements, Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev said at a news conference following the Russia-EU
summit in Rostov-on-Don."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
The
Lone
Ship
of
the
Freedom
Flotilla:
The
Rachel
Corrie
MV
Continues
to
Sail
Towards
Gaza
in
Defiance
of
Israeli
Threats
--- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19481
A
quote...."Following Israel's criminal raid in international waters on
May 31st, the Rachel Corrie MV continues to sail towards the Gaza
coastline in defiance of Israeli threats. - In an act of tremendous
courage, the Rachel Corrie MV is determined to break the Israeli
blockade of Gaza."
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ECESG:
Freedom
fleet
2
to
set
sail
to
Gaza
in
weeks
--- http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/world-news/6258-ecesg-freedom-fleet-2-to-set-sail-to-gaza-in-weeks
A quote...."Brussels, June 2, (Pal Telegraph) The "European
Campaign to End Siege on Gaza", announced that it already obtain the
funding of the first three ships of the new fleet which will go to the
Gaza Strip, which will be named "fleet of Freedom 2", related to the
name of the First Fleet, who was exposed to piracy and a bloody
massacre by Israel against the peace activists on board."
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Govt
warns
Israel
to
'exercise
restraint'
on
Irish
aid
ship
--- http://www.eecho.ie/news/index.aspx?c=ireland&jp=eyojsnsnqley
A quote...."Israel is being warned to act with "absolute restraint"
when the MV Rachel Corrie approaches Gaza. -- The ship - with three
Irish citizens on board - was part of the original flotilla intercepted
by Israeli forces yesterday."
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"No
other
options:"
Gaza's
tunnel
industry
--- http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11309.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=
feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote...."GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Life can be hard
working in these tunnels, and it is always at risk. But many have no
choice but to work in them, particularly since mid-2007, when Israel
and Egypt, with the help of the international community, imposed a
siege of staggering severity on the 1.5 million humans in the Gaza
Strip."
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Wall
Street
Operative
Geithner
Rebuffed
in
Berlin
on
Mission
to
Make
World
Safe
for
Derivatives
--- http://tarpley.net/2010/05/29/geithner-rebuffed-in-berlin/
Special Note - Hip Hip Hooray!!! - (video previously posted May 29th 2010) - RTVideo - Alt --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx5a_Wq1nZ0
---
(RTYuTb
-
7
min
51
sec
-
May
27,
2010)
-
Source:
RTAmerica --- http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica
---
A
quote...."On
the
most
important
stop
of
last
week’s
desperate
mission
to
make
the
world
safe
for
derivatives,
US
Treasury
Secretary Geithner
has been dealt a decisive rebuff. Geithner’s obvious attempt to
sabotage the recent prohibition enacted by the German government
against naked credit default swaps (among the most toxic of
derivatives) was rejected in Berlin on Thursday by German Finance
Minister Wolfgang Schäuble. -- At their joint press conference,
Geithner and Schäuble could hardly hide the atmosphere of tension
and hostility, even though both were determined to mask the clash for
domestic political reasons."
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Keiser
Report
on
Toxic
Twins:
Oil
Spill
&
Cash
Crisis
---
http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/0/RhXKDgiQjZU
MKVideo -
Alt --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhXKDgiQjZU
---
(RTMKYuTb
-
24
min
55
sec
-
June
01,
2010)
--
A
quote...."This
week
Max
Keiser
and
co-host
Stacy
Herbert
compare the BP offshore toxic oil spill
crisis to the toxic derivatives spill polluting global financial
system. In the second half of the show, Max interviews Heidi Moore of
Slate's TheBigMoney.com about movie futures, financial innovation and
financial reform."
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Owners
Stop
Paying
Mortgage
...
And
Stop
Fretting
About
It
--- http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Owners-Stop-Paying-Mortgage-nytimes-4276925797.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode
Special Note - A
quote...."ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — For Alex Pemberton and Susan Reboyras,
foreclosure is becoming a way of life — something they did not want but
are in no hurry to get out of. - Foreclosure has allowed them to
stabilize the family business. Go to Outback occasionally for a steak.
Take their gas-guzzling airboat out for the weekend. Visit the Hard
Rock Casino."
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Commodities’
Biggest
Drop
Since
Lehman
Is
Bear
Signal
(Update4)
--- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVi5QeUitk8k
Deflation Alert - A
quote...." June 1 (Bloomberg) -- The biggest slump in commodities since
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed is undermining Wall Street
forecasts for accelerating economic growth and higher prices for
everything from copper to crude oil. - The Journal of Commerce
Industrial Price Commodity Smoothed Price Index that tracks the growth
rate of steel, cattle hides, tallow and burlap plunged 57 percent in
May, two years after a decline that foreshadowed the worst recession in
half a century. The index of 18 industrial materials declined the most
since October 2008 as Europe’s debt crisis widened and China took steps
to curb growth."
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A
Visible Fall in US Money M3 Worries Some Analysts --- http://www.lewrockwell.com/shostak/shostak12.1.html
Deflation Alert - A
quote...."According to the British newspaper the Telegraph from 26 of
May US money supply M3 (the Fed doesn’t publish this data any longer)
displays a visible decline. The yearly rate of growth of this measure
of money stood in April at minus 5.3% against minus 4.3% in March and
plus 5.2% in April last year. -- Economists that follow M3 are alarmed
with the sharp fall in this measure of money. They are of the view that
this large decline might be pointing to a nasty recession ahead."
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FDIC
shuts
down
more
banks,
pushing
yearly
tally
to
78
--- http://www.marketwatch.com/story/five-us-banks-close-lifting-2010-tally-to-78-2010-05-28?reflink=MW_news_stmp
A quote...."May 28, 2010, 10:13 p.m. EDT - LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) --
The number of U.S. bank closures continued to climb late Friday as
regulators shut down three banks in Florida, one in California and
another in Nevada."
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Eurozone
unemployment
rate
rises --- http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/06/20106114345894408.html
A quote...."The unemployment rate in the countries that share the euro
has hit its highest level in almost 12 years, statistics have shown."
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ECB
Warns of $239 Billion in Further Bank Loan Losses --- http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-9019-0-13-13--.html
A quote...."The European Central Bank warned on Monday that euro zone
banks face up to 195 billion euros in a "second wave" of potential loan
losses over the next 18 months due to the financial crisis, and
disclosed it had increased purchases of euro zone government bonds."
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Industrial
EspionageHow
the
CIA
got
the
world
to
buy
American
during
the
Cold
War
--- http://www.slate.com/id/2254620/
Must Read - A
quote...."New
York University researchers Daniel Berger, Bill Easterly, Shanker
Satyanath—together with Harvard economist Nathan Nunn—have analyzed
Perkins' "economic hitman" theory—that is, the theory that the U.S.
government has used the CIA to promote American corporate interests
abroad. (The economists prefer the term "political influence
hypothesis" to "economic hitman theory.") Based on information from
declassified documents detailing covert CIA operations during the Cold
War, the social scientists find that Perkins' claims are backed up by
the numbers: Countries targeted for CIA political interventions started
importing more U.S. products, a sign of American economic imperialism
at work." -
also posted at BLN
---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-8876-0-22-22--.html
---
How the US-NRE really does
"business" with countries around
the world. - mpg
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Kyrgyzstan’s
"Rose
Revolution":
Washington,
Moscow,
Beijing
and
the
Geopolitics
of
Central
Asia
-
Part
II
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19333
Special Note - [
Part
I?] ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19327
--- A quote...."China’s growing economic ties to the
cash-strapped regime of former Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev was a
major reason Washington decided to dump its erstwhile ally Akayev after
almost a decade of support. In June 2001 China, along with Russia,
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, signed the
Declaration creating the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Three
days later Beijing announced a large grant to Kyrgyzstan for military
equipment.[1]"
also posted at BLN
--- http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=8943
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Obama's
Letter
to
Lula
Exposes
White
House
Forked
Tongue
On
Iran ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25566.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."May 28, 2010 "NewsHoggers" --May 27, 2010 -- Via Robert
Naiman, it appears that President Lula of Brazil has decided to shine
some light on the Obama administration's machinations on Iran. He has
finally released the full text of Obama's 20th April letter to Brazil
about the proposed TTR fuel swap deal and the entire
thing appears
today in Brazilian Foreign Policy...." --
http://www.politicaexterna.com/archives/11023
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Israel
must
sign
NPT,
189
countries
say ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128138§ionid=351020202
A quote...."The final statement of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Review Conference has called for the establishment of a nuclear
weapons-free zone in the Middle East. -- The 28-page document, which
was agreed upon on Friday by all 189 NPT signatories after a month-long
round of talks at UN Headquarters in New York, called for a conference
to be held in 2012 "to be attended by all states of the Middle East,
leading to the establishment" of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the
Middle East." -
also posted at
WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/225854
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Key
points
of
UN
nuclear
conference
statement ---
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/key-points-of-un-nuclear-conference-statement/
A quote...."The following are key points of the final document agreed
here Friday at the end of a month-long UN conference to review efforts
to curb the spread of nuclear weapons."
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Israel
rejects
plea
of
189
countries ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128296§ionid=351020202
A quote...."After the United Nations ratified a resolution calling for
a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu moves to condemn the treaty. -- The attack came after all 189
signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) reached a deal on
Friday for the establishment of a Middle East without nukes."
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Israel
stations
nuclear
missile
subs
off
Iran ---
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7140282.ece
A quote...."Three German-built Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear
cruise missiles are to be deployed in the Gulf near the Iranian
coastline."
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The
President
Fetes
the
Jews ---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-david-wolpe/the-president-fetes-the-j_b_593410.html
"Fete" isn't really the most
accurate description of what Obama, or for that matter, most US-NRE
presidents do to show their appreciation for the campaign contributions
they receive and how they should "properly" genuflect to the "Jewish
community" in this
country.
Whereas most politicians in other countries like to kiss
babies (on their faces), US-NRE politicians must kiss AIPAC/Israeli
butt each and every day or suffer the immediate monetary wrath and
media backlash of the "Jewish community",
and out of all the presidents so far, Obama is the best AIPAC/Israeli
butt kisser of them all. Keep
in mind folks the "Jewish community" in the US-NRE is about 5.5 to 6
million strong, that's about 1.8 to 2
percent of the 320 MILLION
people
who now live in this country. Think about just how small a number that
represents compared to all the
headlines you've seen during the last
twenty years.
From the public creation of
plans like the PNAC
Protocols
and
a
Clean
Break ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists
/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409 ---
and the invasions of
Israel's enemies these plans called for, to
9/11
which
served
as
their
pretext, ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
---
to the twenty four
trillion dollar bail-out for the
Banksters,
to the constant, ceaseless, endless, non-stop, yammering to invade
Iran,
to the total news black-out
regarding the
Saudi Royals cooperation with Israel's support for Hama's
rivals ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists
/ussponsoredcivilwars-weblist-mpg-101107#PALESTINE ---
along
with the Saudi Royals support for their own ever expanding network of
Madrasas
and al-Qaeda elements throughout the Middle East for the last ten years.
Truly, honestly, just for once, ask yourselves is this your country, are these your
policies and plans, do they actually benefit YOU and YOUR children, do they represent YOUR aspirations and ideas or do
they serve solely to
benefit another country and its citizens? - mpg
A quote...."The reception brought together an impressively
wide array of personalities. In addition to the usual farrago of Rabbis
and Jewish leaders and professionals, there were Washington insiders
like David Brooks, Nina Totenberg, Roger Cohen, Diane Sawyer, Carl
Bernstein and government officials like David Axelrod and Peter Orszag,
a group of Senators and congressmen (including the easily spotted Al
Franken.) Supreme court justices -- and Elena Kagan, the nominee --
added to the august feel of leather bound books on the shelves and
Presidential seals on everything from the carpet to the paper hand
towels. Several non-Jews active in politics and supportive of Israel,
including the Director of research for the Southern Baptist convention,
Barrett Duke, were present; and of course, Israel's Ambassador Michael
Oren. To reinforce the connection of the administration with Israel,
the President made a point to remind us that Rahm Emanuel was in Israel
for the Bar Mitzvah of his son."
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Building
What?
How
SCADs
Can
Be
Hidden
in
Plain
Sight ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25569.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."May
28, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- At 5:21 PM on 9/11, Building 7
of the World Trade Center collapsed, even though it had not been hit by
a plane – a fact that is important because of the widespread acceptance
of the idea, in spite of its scientific absurdity, that the Twin Towers
collapsed because of the combined effect of the impact of the airliners
plus the ensuing jet-fuel-fed fires. The collapse of World Trade Center
7 (WTC 7) thereby challenges the official account of the destruction of
the World Trade Center, according to which it was accomplished by
al-Qaeda hijackers, even if one accepts the government’s scientifically
impossible account of the Twin Towers. This fact was recently
emphasized in the title of a review article based on my 2009 book, The
Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7,1 by National Medal
of Science-winner Lynn Margulis: “Two Hit, Three Down – The Biggest
Lie.”2"
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Former
BBC
Reporter
Alan
Hart
Reveals
‘Mossad’
Involved
in
9/11
on
Alex
Jones
Tv
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/05/29/video-former-bbc-reporter-alan-hart-reveals-mossad-involved-in-911-on-alex-jones-tv/
Video -
AH&AJ(1/5)
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97o6HgiXw9g
AH&AJ(2/5)
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHrVo1_gRgU
AH&AJ(3/5)
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSpfmU0-cs0
AH&AJ(4/5)
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBwC4sddKTs
AH&AJ(5/5)
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEzk-AFNb84
---
A
quote...."(May
28)
–
Alex
talks
with
respected
Middle
East
expert
and
former
BBC
presenter
Alan
Hart.
Mr.
Hart
has broken his silence on
9/11 and has revealed that the world’s most prominent civil engineering
company told him directly that the collapse of the twin towers was a
controlled demolition." -
For more
on the two articles shown above see....Reficultnias's
9/11
Central ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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Pure
Kafka ---
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/pure-kafka/
Must Read - A
quote...."The first paragraph of today’s
New
York
Times
article ---
http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=alethonews.wordpress
.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F05%2F29%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F29gitmo.html%3Fscp%3D2%26sq%3Dcharlie%2520savage%2
6st%3Dcse&sref=http%3A%2F%2Falethonews.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F29%2Fpure-kafka%2F
---
by
Charlie
Savage:
"The 48 Guantánamo Bay
detainees whom the Obama administration has decided to keep holding without trial include
several for whom there is no evidence
of involvement in any specific terrorist plot, according to a report
disclosed Friday."
"The Report itself, in a matter-of-fact-tone, describes the individuals
to be kept in a cage indefinitely without charges this way...."
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A
disgrace
of
historic
proportions ---
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/28/guantanamo/index.html
Related Article - A quote...."The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg
reports
---
http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=alethonews.wordpress.com&
url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2F2010%2F05%2F26%2F94878%2Fjudge-orders-yemeni-detainee-released.html&sref=http%3A%2F
%2Falethonews.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F28%2Fa-disgrace-of-historic-proportions%2F
---
that,
this
week,
yet
another
federal
judge
has
ordered
the
Obama
administration
to
release
yet
another
Guantanamo
detainee
on
the
ground
that
there
is
no
persuasive evidence to justify his detention.
The latest detainee to win his habeas hearing, Mohammed Hassen, is a
27-year old Yemeni imprisoned by the U.S. without charges
for 8 years, since he was 19 years
old. He has "long claimed he was captured in Pakistan studying
the Quran and had no ties to al Qaida," and that "he had been unjustly
rounded up in a March 2002 dragnet by Pakistani security forces in the
city of Faisalabad that targeted Arabs." Hassen is now the third
consecutive detainee ordered freed who was rounded up in that same
raid. The Obama DOJ opposed his petition even though the Bush
administration had cleared him for release in 2007. He has now
spent roughly 30% of his life in a cage at Guantanamo." -
also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/a-disgrace-of-historic-proportions/
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Times
Square
bomb
plot:
Pakistani
Army
major
arrested
---
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/7772507/Times-Square-bomb-plot-Pakistani-Army-major-arrested.html
A quote...."A Pakistani Army major, who was until recently a serving
officer, has been arrested in connection with the failed Times Square
bomb plot."
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A quote...."
It's the 'Oh, my God'
Obusha holiday weekend really, really bad
news dump: US considering attack on Pakistan ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128228§ionid=3510203
--- 29 May 2010 The US military is
reportedly ---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052804854.html
---
weighing
all
possible
options
to
attack
Pakistan,
in
the
event
that
it
manages
to
link
the
country
with
a
disastrous
attack
on the US soil... Military officials in the US have
used the failed bomb attempt on New York's Times Square on May 1, to
accuse Pakistan of harboring terrorists.
The incident was also
used to urge the Obama administration to review how it would respond to
a successful attack on US soil"
-
Paragraph quoted from CLG ---
http://www.legitgov.org/
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US
admits
blame
for
[Afghan]
civilian
deaths ---
http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/59697-us-admits-blame-civilian-deaths.html
A quote...."A US drone attack which left 23 Afghan civilians dead when
they were mistaken for Taliban fighters occurred due to the
"unprofessional" approach of the soldiers involved, an internal
military report has found. -- The civilians died on February 21 in
Uruzgan province when three vehicles were hit by Hellfire missiles
fired from a drone on the orders of a special forces commander on the
ground."
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Taliban capture
Afghan district on Pakistan border ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/225894
A quote...."KUNAR, Afghanistan (AFP) – Taliban militants captured the
administrative headquarters of a remote Afghan district Saturday,
officials said, while a suicide bomber blew himself up near a NATO base
in Kabul. -- Insurgents had surrounded Bargi Matal district in Nuristan
province, which borders Pakistan, on Friday and engaged police in a
fierce gun battle, Nuristan governor Jamaludin Badr told AFP. -- The
fate of police officers guarding the administrative compound — which
houses government, police and judicial offices — was unclear. -- "Since
the district headquarters is inside the village in a crowded location
we had to make a tactical retreat to avoid casualties to civilians"
living in nearby houses, he said. -- Afghan authorities often use the
term "tactical retreat" when Taliban have overrun police forces and
captured districts." -
also posted at
YahooNews
---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100529/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest
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America’s
Forgotten
War ---
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/americas_forgotten_war_20100528/
A quote...."Perhaps President Barack Obama should be thankful for the
bad news—the oil spill, intractable unemployment and the rest—for it
has definitely diverted attention from his biggest disaster: the
Afghanistan war. -- So far, the distant war, fought by service
volunteers and civilian contractors, can’t compete for attention in the
media world. This may be good for Obama today. I doubt he wants a
national debate on Afghanistan. But it’s bad for the country, and as it
continues it will be bad for Obama, dragging him down as other
senseless wars have done to his predecessors.
"
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China
urges
calm
in
standoff
over
North
Korea ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100530/ts_nm/us_korea_north_82
A quote...."SEOGWIPO, South Korea (Reuters) – China came under pressure
to censure in North Korea at a regional summit on Sunday but gave no
sign it would get tough with the hermit state, instead urging everyone
to calm tensions over a ship sinking."
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Russia
wants
'100%
proof'
N.Korea
sunk
ship ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100527/wl_afp/skoreankoreamilitaryrussia
A quote...."MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia will not support efforts to punish
North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship until it is fully
convinced Pyongyang was behind the incident, a foreign ministry
spokesman said Thursday."
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Gulf
of
Tonkin
Redux:
Did
an
American
Mine
Sink
South
Korean
Ship?
---
http://www.infowars.com/gulf-of-tonkin-redux-did-an-american-mine-sink-south-korean-ship/
A quote...."Editor’s note: The sinking of the Cheonan took place in
South Korean waters dominated by a joint U.S.-Korean base for
anti-submarine warfare operations, an area North Korea admits it does
not have the technology to penetrate with its submarines. It is
speculated the USNS Salvor was was laying bottom mines in the area and
a rising mine was inadvertently released. “If indeed it was an American
rising mine that sank the Cheonan, it would constitute a friendly-fire
accident,” writes Yoichi Shimatsu. Or it was a Gulf of Tonkin incident
intended to provide a pretext to blame North Korea. Either way, don’t
expect the corporate media to report on this." --
For more on this issue see the articles
shown below (previously posted).....
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Second
Korean
War
will
drag
nations
into
Global
Bloodshed? -
video
---
http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/8/Ty0jzKajmdg
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty0jzKajmdg ---
(RTYuTb -
3m32s - May 27, 2010)
Analysts
question
Korea
torpedo
incident
---
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/05/asian_analysts_question_korea_torpedo_incident.html?hpid=news-col-blog
PCC-772
Cheonan:
An
Unacceptable
Provocation
by
the
United
States
of
America....
---
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/pcc-772-cheonan-an-unacceptable-provocation-by-the-united-states-of
-america-and-the-international-community-has-a-duty-to-respond/
Is
the U.S. Government Planning War to Quell the Tide of Economic Unrest?
--- http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett25.1.html
The
Sinking
of
the
Cheonan:
We
Are
Being
Lied
To
---
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-we-are-being-lied-to/
German
Made
Torpedo
Sunk
South
Korean
Cheonan
---
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/german-made-torpedo-sunk-south-korean-cheonan/
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[Russia's]
Duma
to
consider response to U.S. missile deployment in Poland
--- http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100529/159213967.html
A quote...."The State Duma will discuss Russia's response to the
deployment of U.S. missiles in Poland during debates on the new
Russian-U.S. strategic arms reduction treaty, Duma speaker Boris
Gryzlov said on Saturday. -- In an interview with the Rossia TV
channel, he suggested one
possibility could be the deployment of Russian missiles in the
Kaliningrad exclave near the Polish border."
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Russia
wins large contract to modernize Indian Su-30MKI fighters - media
---
http://en.rian.ru/world/20100530/159217594.html
A quote...."India has placed orders with the Russian defense industry
to modernize Su-30MKI Flanker-H fighters produced in India under the
Russian license, India Today magazine reported in its June issue,
without disclosing the sum of the contract."
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Belarus
reaffirms interest in integration with Russia, Kazakhstan
--- http://en.rian.ru/world/20100529/159213806.html
A quote...."The Belarusian government on Saturday reiterated its
commitment to integrate into a customs union with Russia and
Kazakhstan. -- "Belarus reaffirms its desire for integration with our
partners - Russia and Kazakhstan - in the framework of a customs union
and a single economic space," the government press service said in a
statement. -- The Belarusian Cabinet of Ministers said it would
continue working with its Russian and Kazakh partners to overcome their
differences over a tripartite customs union agreement."
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========== ====
China,
Kazakhstan seek to upgrade military cooperation ---
http://en.rian.ru/world/20100529/159212484.html
A quote...."The Chinese and Kazakh defense ministers have agreed to
advance cooperation between the two militaries, Xinhua said on
Saturday. -- At a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart, Adilbek
Dzhaksybekov, visiting Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie said
"military-to-military relationship is a key part of overall bilateral
relations."
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========== ====
New
base
deal
drives
wedge
through
Japanese
gov't,
alienates
islanders ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-05/29/c_13322282.htm
A quote...."....as much as the decision has served to drive the
political wedge further between Okinawa and mainland Japan, it has also
caused a rift in the ruling coalition following Hatoyama's forcible
dismissal of Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Mizuho Fukushima,
who, not wishing to betray the people of Okinawa, refused to sign a
Cabinet document sanctioning the plan. -- The whole ordeal has left all
and sundry utterly flummoxed. -- Hatoyama has dithered, bungled,
deceived, flip-flopped and fumbled his way back to the exact point he
started from when he took office last September, regarding the
relocation of the Futenma facility, numerous political pundits are
asserting."
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========== ====
In
Japan,
U.S.
Losing
Diplomatic
Ground
to
China ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/world/asia/24japan.html?emc=eta1
A quote...."TOKYO — When Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited
Japan’s new leaders in October, not long after their historic election,
he pressed so hard and so publicly for a military base agreement that
the Japanese news media labeled him a bully."
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========== ====
In
US,
thousands
protest
Arizona
law ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128294§ionid=3510203
A quote...."Thousands of people from all over the US have gathered in
Arizona's capital, Phoenix, to protest against the state's immigration
law, saying it could lead to racial profiling."
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USS
Liberty:
American
Servicemen
Expendable;
Don't
Embarrass
Israel
---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15995
A quote...."Within the United States, there has been a growing
awareness of Palestinian suffering. This has been manifested in the
many demonstrations held during Israel's assault on Gaza from December
2008-January 2009. The boycott of Israeli goods is gaining speed, as
well as the campaign to recognize the Israeli government’s treatment of
Palestinians as apartheid. -- Yet there is one tragic and shameful
event in particular which serves to discourage Palestinian rights
activists. If so-called “patriotic” Americans viciously suppress the
concerns of veterans and their families by covering up the murder of
their own sailors, what hope is there to recognize the voices of
oft-maligned Arabs half a world away?"
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American
Radical
–
The
Trials
of
Norman
Finkelstein
---
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/american-radical-the-trials-of-norman-finkelstein/#more-10592
Videos -
NF(1/9)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6foEzDVAo8
NF(2/9)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMMumIjZ0kI
NF(3/9)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoySPQ7ZMII
NF(4/9)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZHUBOpkPkA
NF(5/9)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtWG1_UzbNc
NF(6/9)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiBANvGsI5k
NF(7/9)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-DO8jdVTBw
NF(8/9)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8EStoIJT5A
NF(9/9)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeR5MrX4IVU --- A
quote...."This past week one of Israel’s main television networks
broadcast the documentary AMERICAN RADICAL three times. An old Israeli
friend wrote to ask whether it had been shown in the U.S. I had to
smile.” Norman Finkelstein "
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
'A
Battle
for
the
High
Seas.
And
the
High
Ground' ---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15996
Action Update - A
quote...."If you're hoping to see news about the extraordinary events
taking place in the Med sea around Cyprus on either the BBC or Sky this
weekend. Forget it. For now. Despite the fact that almost three dozen
Brits are amongst the 700 brave souls heading to Gaza on a fleet of
ships laden with essential aid. Or the incredible military and
political manoeverings surrounding Israel’s response to the peaceful
attempt, major news channels in the West remain silent. This despite
the fact their news editors have the direct numbers of spokespeople on
board and access to the live news feed."
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FGM:
We’re
on
the
way
to
Gaza ---
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/05/12544/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=
feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
Action Update - A
quote...."After tremendous pressure from the Greek Cypriots,
reneging
on
their
agreement
with
us, ---
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/cyprus-stops-mps-joining-gaza-flotilla/20100529
---
we
were
forced
to
take
our
MPs
and
activists
to
Famagusta
yesterday,
on
the
Turkish/Cypriot
side
of
Cyprus.
We
spent
all
day going from one port to the next, surrounded by
helicopters and police. Clearly our deal with Cyprus officials had
fallen through, and we ended up being pawns in a political soap opera.
The Cypriot members of Parliament, the ones who had worked so hard to
get us permission to leave, were outraged. The Greek Parliament members
finally told us to go to the North. If they could, they would. The
Cypriot government said they made their decision because, “The Republic
of Cyprus is fighting for its survival” but it didn’t bow to pressure
from Israel. As they said this, they bowed their heads."
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Israel
to
World:
Screw
You,
We
will
Continue
to
Block
Gaza
---
http://theonlydemocracy.org/2010/05/israel-to-world-screw-you-we-will-continue-to-block-gaza/
A quote...."It all happened before. -- A ship sailing to Palestine. Its
organizers care not so much about the ship’s arrival. They want to
bring world attention to the injustices in Palestine. Live broadcasts
from aboard the ship excite and inspire supporters on the shores."
also posted at Creative-i
---
http://www.creative-i.info/2010/05/30/israel-to-world-screw-you-we-will-continue-to-block-gaza/
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ISRAEL
MAKES
ANOTHER
MISTAKE
ON
FLOTILLA ---
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/05/israel-makes-another-mistake-on.html
A quote...."It’s not us, it’s you………. So, the burning question
that Israel and Israelis
ALL
want to know "Why do people hate us and hate Israel"
The Answer? Because you taught us to
hate you....
If I were Israel,
I'd fire my PR Propaganda team!! Israel is about to make another
grave PR mistake by attacking and stopping the flotilla. They can’t
even see, that yet once again they are showing the world they have
no compassion for human suffering
and again teaching the world to hate Israel and
confirming we are right to do so."
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Grace
Notes ---
http://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/grace-notes/
Special Note - A
quote...."It’s been too long since I’ve seen the Abu Leila’s, living in
a tent in Gaza’s northern Al Attatra region. The last time I visited,
31 December, the land was drenched with long-needed rain, their tent
leaky and sagging beneath the water’s weight. -- Only the oldest
daughter is ‘home’ when I stop in, parents Saleh and Arafia having gone
to the bombshell of their pre-Israeli war on Gaza home not far from the
tent camp. -- But the girl, just 10 years, is happy to play host,
taking on the persona and role of an adult as Palestinian children so
easily do, living lives of adults from a young age."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m66478&hd=&size=1&l=e
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East
Jerusalem
eviction
orders
threaten
new
embarrassment
for
Netanyahu
---
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/east-jerusalem-eviction-orders-threaten-new-embarrassment-for-netanyahu-1.292885
A quote...."As PM heads to Washington to expunge memories of row with
U.S. over Jewish building in the capital, settlers' push to oust
Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah risks reigniting tensions."
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Israel
shells
Gazan
farmers,
injuring
six ---
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/05/12537/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=
feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."Yesterday, Thursday the 27 May ’10, three people were
wounded in the Zeytoun neighborhood of Gaza City which was bombed by
the Israeli Apache helicopters and six farmers from the same area were
wounded by the tank artillery fire while farming near the border. --
This morning (Friday 28th), two ISM activists visited two of the
wounded farmers in the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. -- Baraka
Mihammad AL Mugrabi, age 53 and Musa Ashad Badawi, age 28 are
neighbors, and went to farm yesterday at 6 a.m. Because they have small
plots of land they were quite near each other and a part of a larger
group of about 30 people. -- Baraka has 5 dunums of land and Musa 12,
and they grow olives, apricots and other fruits as well as vegetables
and some wheat."
For more on this
issue see....Israel's
Scorched
Earth ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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Settlers
reportedly
set
fire
to
Hebron
store ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=287950
A quote...."Hebron – Ma'an – Palestinian residents living near the
illegal Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron accused settlers of setting
fire to a local Palestinian store and home on Saturday."
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Israeli
warplanes
pound
southern
Gaza
overnight ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=288077
A quote...."Gaza – Ma'an – Israeli warplanes struck the defunct Yasser
Arafat International Airport near Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, early
Sunday morning, marking the second day of air strikes."
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Clashes
erupt
in
Jenin ---
http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/west-bank/6202-clashes-erupt-in-jenin
Full quote...."Jenin, May 30, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – Israeli occupation
forces (IOF) raided Sunday Romana town in the city of the West Bank of
Jenin, and roamed its streets which erupted clashes between the IOF and
the citizens. -- Eyewitnesses said to SAFA news agency that three
military vehicles supported with Israeli troop raided the town at 9
a.m. which resulted in erupting clashes between IOF and students. --
Palestinian citizens confirmed that IOF fired gunshots in air to
disperse the crowd of the students."
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Solidarity
campaign
with
Palestinian
people
launched ---
http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/solidarity-campaign-with-palestinian-people-launched/
A quote...."A campaign of solidarity with the Palestinian people was
launched in Lahore earlier this year which is now gathering momentum.
-- Campaign founders, including Amanullah Kariapper, Qalandar Memon,
and Dr Magid Shihade, a Palestinian scholar teaching at the Lahore
University of Management Sciences (LUMS), discussed the initiative
“Pakistanis for Palestine” at the Lahore Press Club."
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Deutsche
Bank: “We are out of Elbit” ---
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/2275.shtml ---
Victory!! Victory!!
Action Update -
Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because if we all join in this
effort, it will work! - mpg
-- A quote...."Occupied Palestine –
Germany’s biggest bank Deutsche Bank has
divested the bank’s 2% stake in Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms
company that supplies the Israeli military and provides components for
the Apartheid Wall in Occupied Palestinian Territory that was found to
be in violation of international law by the International Court of
Justice.[i] The announcement at the Bank’s AGM today follows a
concerted campaign from German human rights organisations."- bold by
website editor -
also posted at
USCACBI
---
http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/deutsche-bank-we-are-out-of-elbit/
---
For
more
on
how
to
Boycott,
Divest
and
Sanction
the
state
of
Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/ ---
of this website.
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BDS
Is
Vital
For Palestine’s Freedom ---
http://palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1424
Action Update -
Contains Video -
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVMlU-I47w4 ---
Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because it's a measure of not
only human justice, but a measure of us all! - mpg -- A
quote...."2010 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Mustafa Barghouthi, tells PSC
that an international campaign of boycott, sanctions and divestment on
Israel is vital if Palestine is ever to be free of occupation. Dr
Barghouthi, who heads the Palestinian National Initiative, also
describes how the movement of non-violent resistance in the West Bank
is challenging Israel’s occupation." -
also posted at USCACBI
---
http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/bds-is-vital-for-palestine%E2%80%99s-freedom/
---
For
more
on
how
to
Boycott,
Divest
and
Sanction
the
state
of
Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/ ---
of this website.
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Call for an
international campaign to Stop the Jewish National Fund
--- http://stopthejnf.bdsmovement.net/node/35
Action Update -
Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because it's the human thing to
do. - mpg -- A quote...."The Jewish National Fund (JNF)[1] was
instrumental in the ethnic cleansing[2] of Palestine in the 1948 Nakba,
and continues to play a central role in maintaining Israel’s regime of
apartheid.[3] The JNF provided political, financial and intelligence[4]
support for the Zionist forces in their conquest, massacres and ethnic
cleansing operations that characterized the 1948-49 war and the
Palestinian Nakba. Today, the JNF controls vast properties belonging to
millions of Palestinians, developing them exclusively for persons of
“Jewish nationality,” a concept established and promoted in the JNF’s
charter to exclude all others." -
also
posted
at USCACBI
---
http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/call-for-an-international-campaign-to-stop-the-jewish-national-fund/
---
For
more
on
how
to
Boycott,
Divest
and
Sanction
the
state
of
Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/ ---
of this website.
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Tarpley:
“A
casino
economy
of
globalization” ---
http://www.prisonplanet.com/tarpley-a-casino-economy-of-globalization.html
Must View RTVideo -
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx5a_Wq1nZ0 ---
(RTYuTb -
7 min 51 sec - May 27, 2010) -
RTAmerica ---
http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica --- A
quote...."Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner is visiting Berlin
this week, meeting German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble for talks
focusing on the economic crisis in the euro zone, and measures being
taken to restore global confidence and financial stability and to
promote continued recovery. Webster Tarpley says that the whole point
of Timothy Geithner’s visit is to make the world safe for derivatives,
speculation and this casino economy of globalization."
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Marc
Faber: 'The Banks Are Gone' ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber66.1.html
Video - A quote...."Marc
Faber spoke with Bloomberg Television about his bearish views on
markets yesterday, and they remain as bearish as always. -- "The banks
are gone," according to Marc Faber, and are only being kept alive by
European Central Bank and government aid programs. -- Faber, though,
feels in the near term that things are oversold, and that there will be
a summer rally. The bottom won't get here until October and November,
when more stimulus should come in and challenge sovereign debt yet
again. -- Faber thinks the economy will settle much lower in the
future."
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Austerity
measures
throughout
Europe ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2010/may2010/pers-m29.shtml
A quote...."Two weeks ago, European heads of state and the
International Monetary Fund reached agreement on a €750 billion rescue
package for the euro. Since then, not a day has gone by without the
announcement of a new round of draconian austerity measures. Working
people are now being ordered to pay the price for plugging the massive
holes in public finances that are the result of various rescue measures
for the banks and the euro."
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Dow
Ends
Worst
May Since 1940 ---
http://www.infowars.com/dow-ends-worst-may-since-1940/
A quote...."U.S. stocks slid, capping the worst May for the Dow Jones
Industrial Average since 1940, while the euro slumped and Treasuries
rose as a downgrade of Spain’s debt rating and escalating tensions on
the Korean peninsula triggered a flight from riskier assets."
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The Wall
Street Journal's War On Gold ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north849.html
Gold Bug Alert -
(For all you gold bugs out there)
-- A quote...." Brett Arends writes for the Wall Street Journal. He is
a standard Establishment financial journalist. They are all anti-gold.
I have read these people for 50 years. They never change. Their
arguments never change: stupid. Their timing never changes: bad. - They
ignore gold when it is at the bottom. They ignore it when it has
doubled. When it has tripled, they write articles on why it's not a
good investment, because it is overbought. When it has quadrupled, they
call it a bubble. - Arends takes anti-gold hackery to a new level. He
calls gold a Ponzi scheme."
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Oil
spills
unimpeded
after
40
days [and forty nights.
Almost biblical, don't you think?] ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128267§ionid=3510203
A quote...."The massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is spreading out
as the oil is still gushing out from the BP's damaged well 40 days
after the explosion. -- The so-called "top kill" method, which British
Petroleum has employed since Wednesday, has proven to be a failure with
the company's top executive Tony Hayward saying the chances to plug the
leak are only 60 to 70 percent."
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Top
kill’
has
failed,
BP
admits ---
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0529/do-takes-gulf-coast-residents-affected-spill/
A quote...."Oil giant BP admitted on Saturday that its fourth attempt
to stop the oil leak at the Deepwater Horizon -- known as "top kill" --
has failed. -- "I don't think the amount of oil coming out has
changed," BP's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, told reporters.
"Just by watching it, we don't believe it's changed."
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"Irish Parliamentarians offer to
bring family's letters and parcels to Captured Israeli soldier Gilat
Schalit May 27, 2010"
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========== ===="The mechanism for the bailout of
Europe is the Fed's provision of dollar credit in virtually unlimited
amounts via central bank swaps lines.....the Fed swap lines help the
bankrupt nations of the EU ignore their mounting fiscal problems......Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is engaged in a
little geopolitical engineering in Europe -- and the people of the EU
do not yet realize that a political change in control has occurred....
the
leaders
of
Europe
now
find
themselves
beholden
to
the
Fed
for
their
continued
political
existence....
Chairman
Bernanke
and
the
FOMC
have
but
to
terminate
the
Fed's
swap
lines with the various central banks of
Europe or start selling the MBS portfolio in the US, and governments
from Washington to Berlin will start to fall." ("More fed swap Lines
for Europe and the End of Globalization", Clifford Rossi,
Institutional Risk Analysis)" - bold by website editor