GAZA
HOLOCAUST DENIED
They know that the horror now raining on Gaza has little to do with Hamas or, absurdly, “Israel’s right to exist.” They know the opposite to be true: that Palestine’s right to exist was canceled 61 years ago and the expulsion and, if necessary, extinction of the indigenous people was planned and executed by the founders of Israel. They know, for example, that the infamous “Plan D” resulted in the murderous depopulation of 369 Palestinian towns and villages by the Haganah (Jewish army) and that massacre upon massacre of Palestinian civilians in such places as Deir Yassin, al-Dawayima, Eilaboun, Jish, Ramle and Lydda are referred to in official records as “ethnic cleansing.” Arriving at a scene of this carnage, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, was asked by a general, Yigal Allon, “What shall we do with the Arabs?” Ben-Gurion, reported the Israeli historian Benny Morris, “made a dismissive, energetic gesture with his hand and said, ‘Expel them’. The order to expel an entire population “without attention to age” was signed by Yitzhak Rabin, a future prime minister promoted by the world’s most efficient propaganda as a peacemaker.
UN: NO FIGHTERS IN TARGETED SCHOOL
The head of the UN agency in Gaza running the school that was attacked by Israel forces has rejected claims that Hamas fighters were inside the converted shelter.
The Israeli military accused Hamas of using civilians sheltering inside the building as “human shields” and said its troops had returned fire after fighters fired mortars at their positions from within al-Fakhora school in the Jabaliya refugee camp.
But John Ging, the director of operations in Gaza for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), told reporters that he had visited the school during a three-hour lull in the fighting on Wednesday and “was reassured by the management of the school … that there were no militants in the school”.
GAZA FAMILIES MOURN AFTER UN SCHOOL BOMBED
In the 12 days of Israel’s war on Gaza, the shelling of a United Nations school on Tuesday has been the most shocking incident. More than 40 people were killed.
ISRAEL ‘FIRES ON UN GAZA CONVOY’
At least one Palestinian has been killed after a UN relief agency convoy came under fire from Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, officials say.
The attack took place on Thursday as the lorries travelled to the Erez crossing to pick up supplies that were to have been allowed in during a three-hour ceasefire.
TOP ISRAELI RABBIS ADVOCATE GENOCIDE
This kind of genocidal hatred of Palestinians is not unusual in Israel. What used to be unusual was for it to be spoken so brazenly and openly. Of course we know what would happen if a Muslim or Palestinian religious figure made such a statement.
ISRAELI ATROCITIES IN GAZA: A POLITICAL IMPASSE AND MORAL COLLAPSE
The Israeli shelling of the al-Fakhora school is no isolated incident. Ging reported that three Palestinians were killed yesterday in a separate Israeli air strike near another school in the area where no fighting was taking place at the time. The UNRWA has 23 schools sheltering around 15,000 refugees who have been driven from their homes by the Israeli military. Yesterday morning a building next to a UN health centre was hit by Israeli fire—injuring 10 people, including seven staff and three patients. The International Red Cross reported that an ambulance post was also hit, injuring a medical worker.
According to Reuters, at least 75 Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday—indicating a sharp jump in casualties since the Israeli army launched ground operations four days ago.
YUVAL STEINITZ: ISRAEL PLANNED GAZA INVASION FOR 9 MONTHS
ISRAELI VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
‘US RESPONSIBLE FOR WAR ON GAZA’
Kucinich in a statement on Wednesday lambasted Israel’s disproportionate use of force against defenseless people of Gaza with US weapons, paid for by American taxpayers.
WORLDWIDE PROTESTS ESCALATE IN RESPONSE TO ISRAEL’S GROUND WAR ON GAZA
Resistance and solidarity continues to grow in Israel and the West Bank (1 and 2), despite serious repression. Three demonstrators in the West Bank have been killed and hundreds in Israel have been jailed for protesting the killing spree. In Gaza, seven medics killed by Israeli forces, five since the ground invasion began.
CANADA POLICE ARREST JEWISH PROTESTORS
Canada has arrested eight Jewish women for peacefully protesting against the war on Gaza inside the Israeli consulate in Toronto.
The Jewish women were arrested by the police after taking part in a sit-in to protest the ongoing Israeli strikes on Gaza in a bid to offer an alternate voice and reaction to violent Israeli actions.
The women protested for more than two hours, shouting anti-violence slogans. One of the protestors Ryerson University Professor Judy Rebick said the women also tried to state their case to staff within the consulate, but their efforts were in vain.
RED CROSS: ISRAEL LEAVES WOUNDED TO DIE
Aid workers and four Palestine Red Crescent ambulances crossed over to the Zaytun district of Gaza City on Wednesday, where they found four emaciated children laying beside their dead mothers in a house containing 12 bodies, said a statement released by the international Committee of the Red Cross.
ISRAELI TANKS HEADING TOWARD KHAN YUNIS
Witnesses told AFP that dozens of tanks, supported by several helicopters, entered the populated area early on Thursday morning heading toward the city of Khan Yunis.
The Army has intensified its attacks on the region, striking a house and a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, near the Egyptian border early on Thursday morning.
AHMADINEJAD: HAMAS GETTING STRONGER
“The Zionist regime has no place in the region and it has lost the philosophy behind its existence,” he told IRNA.
“Today everybody knows that the Zionist regime has been formed on baseless principles and it has no goals but sowing disunion and paving the way for the domination of the corrupt powers in the Middle East,” Iran’s President said.
CARDINAL: GAZA BIG CONCENTRATION CAMP
“Defenseless populations are always the ones who pay. Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration camp”, Martino, (his informal title in the Vatican is “justice minister”) said.
This comes at a time when the Pope has not openly criticized Israel and has only made several general appeals for an end to the violence in Gaza.
ISRAEL ARTILLERY FIRE HITS LEBANON
Tel Aviv has fired five mortar rounds at Lebanon, claiming that the assault was in retaliation for rocket attacks on its northern towns.
BART SHOOTING – UPDATED
Here is a new just released video of the shooting from another angle.
MEDIA EYELESS IN GAZA AT KEY MOMENT
Consumed by coverage of the Nov. 4 presidential election, US mainstream media ignored a key Israeli military attack on a Hamas target that some Palestinians claim marked the effective end of the ceasefire between the two sides and set the stage for the current round of bloodletting.
While the major US news wire Associated Press (AP) reported that the attack, in which six members of Hamas’s military wing were killed by Israeli ground forces, threatened the ceasefire, its report was carried by only a handful of small newspapers around the country.
CHEMTRAIL FALLOUT IN NOCAL, SOOR NEWSPAPER AD
Chemtrails
Chemtrails
Full-page advertisement placed in a Redding, California paper recently by a group of concerned citizens
VENEZUELA TO PROVIDE OIL TO US NEEDY
Venezuela will continue providing cheap heating oil to US households, two days after CITGO announced the program was suspended indefinitely.
MUMBAI SUSPECT IS ‘PAKISTANI’
Pakistani officials have acknowledged for the first time that the lone surviving suspected gunman from November’s attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai attacks is of Pakistani origin.
Shortly after the announcement the country’s senior security adviser was sacked, apparently for leaking the news without government approval.
‘INDIAN ENRON’ ROCKS BUSINESS WORLD
The Indian government has vowed to strengthen anti-fraud legislation after the chairman of the country’s fourth biggest software firm said he had falsified company accounts.
Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Satyam Computer Services, resigned on Wednesday after admitting he had “inflated profits over a period of the last several years”.
SRI LANKAN EDITOR SHOT DEAD
The editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper, strongly critical of the government, has been shot dead by armed men, police have said.
Lasantha Wickramatunga, editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper, was killed on Thursday as he drove to his office in the capital Colombo.
GAZA
EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY IN GAZA CRISIS PREPARES TRAP FOR PALESTINIANS
Before leaving for his trip, President Sarkozy publicly blamed Hamas—and not the Israeli military—for the plight of the Palestinians, citing the firing of Hamas rockets into southern Israel. The head of the Czech government and current president of the European Union, Mirek Topolanek, declared that the Israeli military action had a “defensive” character. And in a telephone call with the Israeli prime minister, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that the responsibility for the fighting lay “clearly and exclusively” with Hamas.
In appealing for a cease-fire, the European governments are first and foremost pursuing their own geo-political interests.
They fear that the ruthless methods employed by Israel will undermine the Arab regimes with which they have economic and political ties. The widespread popular anger over Israel’s actions is increasingly being directed against the Arab ruling elites, which collaborate closely with Israel and the US.
MARTIAL LAW, THE FINANCIAL BAILOUT, AND WAR
According to Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vermont) the bailout bill originally called for a cap on executive salaries, but Paulson changed the requirement at the last minute. Welch and other members of Congress were enraged by “news that banks getting taxpayer-funded bailouts are still paying exorbitant salaries, bonuses, and other benefits.”1 In addition, as AP reported in October, “Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. questioned allowing banks that accept bailout bucks to continue paying dividends on their common stock. `There are far better uses of taxpayer dollars than continuing dividend payments to shareholders,’ he said.”2 Even more reprehensible is the fact that since the bailouts, Paulson and the Treasury Department have refused to provide details of the Troubled Assets Relief Program spending of hundreds of billions of dollars, while the New York Federal Reserve has refused to provide information about its own bail-out (using government-backed loans) that amounts to trillions.
WAR AND NATURAL GAS: THE ISRAELI INVASION AND GAZA’S OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS
The issue of sovereignty over Gaza’s gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas reserves belong to Palestine. The death of Yasser Arafat, the election of the Hamas government and the ruin of the Palestinian Authority have enabled Israel to establish de facto control over Gaza’s offshore gas reserves.
WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING
I watched BBC World News for a timed hour yesterday. In that time I saw:
Pro-Israeli (including US government) speakers – 17
Pro-Palestinian speakers – 2
Mentions of Hamas Rockets as reason for war – 37
Mentions of illegal Israeli settlements – 0
Mentions of Palestinians killed by Israel during “ceasefire” – 2
Mentions of Sderot – 12
Mentions Sderot used to be Palestinian – 0
ALERT- JACKSON-LEE TO INTRO FED ‘HATE BILL’
The media wants to distract or lull us to sleep while the Democrats sneak through the hate bill. This is exactly what happened in Canada in 1971. Result: now in Canada it is a federal crime to quote Bible criticisms of homosexuality from the pulpit or airwaves. Penalty: at least $5000 initial fine, with prison if such criticisms are repeated.
PELICANS FALL OUT OF SKY FROM MEXICO TO ORE
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Pelicans suffering from a mysterious malady are crashing into cars and boats, wandering along roadways and turning up dead by the hundreds across the West Coast, from southern Oregon to Baja California, Mexico, bird-rescue workers say.
THE WALL EFFECTS OF PALESTINIAN LANDS AND PEOPLE
The construction of the Israeli separation wall began on the 16th June 2002. For the most part the barrier, which could eventually extend over 750km, consists of a series of 25 foot high concrete walls, trenches, barbed wire and electrified fencing with numerous watch towers, electronic sensors, thermal imaging and video cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles, sniper towers, and roads for patrol vehicles.
FEDERAL JUDGE ARRESTS ALA. SHERIFF OVER JAIL FOOD
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) – A federal judge has ordered the arrest of an Alabama sheriff who was held in contempt of court for failing to adequately feed jail inmates while profiting from the skimpy meals.
SURGING TOWARDS STALEMATE IN AFGHANISTAN
The United States will soon double the number of its troops in Afghanistan from about 30,000 to 60,000, and several other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries will also up their troop levels.
The move comes with little surprise and considerable bipartisan support in the US, but with little public discussion of the aims and likely outcomes.
JFK AND OBAMA–PROFILES IN COURAGE AND COWARDICE
We grow old waiting for good government. If madness is doing the same thing over and over again, hoping for a different result, then the definition of voting is doing the same thing over and over again hoping for better leaders. Hoping for change, we see our hopes dashed and our champions either betray us or assassinated. Those leaders who dare express a genuine determination to change the corrupt system once in office are probably warned by handlers, perhaps warned several times, that any idealistic breach, any ethical intention to overturn the entrenched money power system is a death sentence.
Obama knew beforehand. How could he not?
He was warned—or cautioned if you prefer—to conduct himself accordingly by his handlers, by the powerbrokers who wield true power behind the scenes. You could see it throughout his entire campaign. Thinly veiled threats to the Middle East, rattling sabers rather than building bridges. In other words, business as usual.
ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWS PROTEST ISRAEL’S GAZA OFFENSIVE
Jews protesting Israeli genocide
Jews protesting Israeli genocide
JERUSALEM – Dozens of black-clad ultra-Orthodox Jews belonging to an l anti-Zionist faction on Wednesday protested against Israel’s deadly 12-day-old offensive on the Gaza Strip.
Some 40 members of the Neturei Karta faction gathered in the centre of the ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Mea Shearim in occupied Jerusalem, waving placards reading “Stop the Zionist terrorist massacre in Gaza.”
ISRAEL’S STRATEGY OF TERROR AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS
When it comes to war Israel has a single, simple strategy. Trap millions of people between tanks and warplanes. Cut off all food, water and electricity. Then systematically bring buildings down on their heads.
EGYPT DENIES DOCTORS ACCESS TO GAZA
The hospitals of Gaza need more doctors who can deal with the increased number of injured people, especially the thousands of Palestinians who are in critical conditions and need surgery and continuous intensive care. The Israeli war criminals bombed these Palestinian civilians using forbidden bombs, including so far is known phosphor incendiary bombs as well as bombs with uranium, which caused dangerous burns and injuries for over 3090 persons. Many of them lost parts of their organs or were left without feet, legs, arms, eyes…
VIDEO OF A BOMBED SCHOOL IN GAZA
The Israeli criminal forces fired deliberately at three UNRWA schools in Gaza after the faculty administration of the UN schools informed the Israeli Authorities about the presence of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in these schools, who had fled from their homes and were using these UN schools as a shelter from Israeli strikes and the freezing winter weather. The Israeli criminals had also ordered the Palestinian civilians to leave their homes, and they were aware of where these civilian stayed when they bombed the places. It is a clear event of Genocide and ethnic cleansing according to the Palestinians testimonies.
WHERE WOULD YOU GO?
Israeli genocide
Israeli genocide
If your unbelievably small and overcrowded land was being terrorized, pulverized by bombs from the world’s 4th largest military, and your borders were closed; if your house was not safe, mosque (church) not safe, school not safe, street not safe, UN refugee camp not safe…Where would you go, run, hide?
Blood in the streets of Gaza
GATES ESTIMATES ANOTHER $69.7 BILLION NEEDED IN FISCAL 2009 FOR WARS
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has sent a $69.7 billion war cost “estimate” to congressional leaders and said that the outgoing administration will not formally request more war funding before President-elect Barack Obama takes office.
PAID “BLOG ATTACK” ARMIES FLOOD BLOGS WITH COMMENTS
As a 9/11 truth activist, I read a fair amount of what is written about 9/11–whether in the mainstream media, the alternative media, or on sites that I have learned to trust. Frequently the comments are polarized: those of us who know the awful truth, and another group, much angrier, seemingly younger and much less well educated: those who are enraged that anyone would even suggest that the government lied to us about 9/11.
Who are these people who are apparently oblivious to the hundreds of well documented lies from the Bush administration?
Here’s a clue: a company that advertises blog armies to “flood the zone with comments from professionals who are ready to put your talking points on the blogosphere 24/7.”
The Israeli propaganda machine
‘REPORTS OF NEW ROCKET ATTACKS, FALSE ALARM’
Warning sirens in the town of Nahariya went off by accident and residents in the area reported hearing explosions, but the sounds were apparently sonic booms by Israeli air force.
OBAMA’S MESSAGE TO GOYZA
“Whatever happens with Yisrael, just keep looking the other way. Your spiel will be that there can only be one Achasverosh at a time, and all you have to do is repeat what you said in July:
‘If somebody was sending rochakachs into my house, where my kinders sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that,” you must say. “And I would expect the Israelis to do the same thing.’
DESPITE THE MASSACRE, ISRAEL IS FAILING
Israel has killed and wounded almost four thousand men, women and children so far in its assault on Gaza; it has entombed whole families together in the ruins of their homes. As I write these words, news is breaking that Israeli bombs have killed at least 40 civilians huddling in a UN school which they mistakenly thought would be safer than the homes from which Israel’s relentless barrage-and its deliberately terrorizing “warning” leaflets and prerecorded phone calls-had already driven them. (I still have one of the leaflets the Israelis dropped on besieged Beirut in 1982 and the language is exactly the same-”flee, flee for your lives!”). Mosques, schools, houses, apartment buildings, have all been brought down on the heads of those inside.
All this death and destruction comes supposedly in retaliation for rocket attacks that had not inflicted a single fatality inside Israel in over a year. What happened to “an eye for an eye?”
MANY AMERICANS DO LOVE THEIR POLICE STATE
Scattered through the comments to yesterday’s column about a Customs and Border Patrol stop of a passenger train that never crossed the boundaries of the United States are little gems of the sort that I’ve come to dread and anticipate in equal parts: praise for the government for behaving in an arbitrary and heavy-handed manner. Unfortunately, all too many of our friends, neighbors and relations have come to relish acting like bit players in a bad Cold War film. They’re more than happy to bow down to the nearest uniform so long as somebody assures them it will “keep us safe” — from whom, it doesn’t matter, though it’s certainly not from overbearing authorities.
ISRAEL CONTINUES TO TARGET PALESTINIAN MEDICS IN GAZA
“It was very clear that we were a medical team. Yet as two of our team, wearing bright red medic uniforms, went to pick up the body, they were fired upon 13 times by an Israeli sniper.” – Eva Bartlett (Canada) International Solidarity Movement.
“The Israeli’s fired at the ambulance hitting it once. At least six medics have already been murdered while fulfilling there duties. How are the medics supposed to work? For every ten attempts the Red Crescent make to co-ordinate their humanitarian missions with the Israelis, only two are allowed. This means that the Israelis are refusing to allow 80 percent of medical missions to operate with any form of safety.” Alberto Arce (Spain) – International Solidarity Movement
OBAMA SELECTS CFR MEMBER SANJAY GUPTA TO BE SURGEON GENERAL
“America’s most famous television surgeon, Sanjay Gupta, is poised to take his black bag and microphone to the White House as President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for U.S. surgeon general,” reports the Washington Post. “A neurosurgeon who is also a correspondent for CNN and CBS, Gupta was chosen as much for his broadcasting skills as for his medical résumé, suggesting that the incoming administration values visible advisers who can drive a public message.”
JOE BIDEN: I AM A ZIONIST!
GIRL STOPS BULLETS WITH NERVES OF STEEL
AMERICANS GETTING SANITIZED TV COVERAGE OF THE WAR IN GAZA
Americans following the news of the war between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters in Gaza are not receiving the full picture of the true horrors of war. U.S. television news outlets have been reluctant to broadcast often-graphic footage of the war’s impact on civilians in densely-populated Gaza City that have saturated non-U.S. media, including these children who were killed Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-operated school. (Photo: European Pressphoto Agency)
ISRAEL’S STORY ABOUT THE WAR CONTINUES TO UNRAVEL
When the Olmert government announced the start of the current war against Gaza on December 27, government officials said Israel “was forced” to act because Hamas had broken (or at least, gratuitously ended) the ceasefire that existed from June 19 through December 18. Therefore, in some convoluted way, Hamas “started” the present war and is thus responsible for everything that has ensued within it.
These charges have been regularly repeated by government spokesmen since then, and repeated or further amplified by their entire echo chamber of Stepford supporters in the US ever since.
WARNING: VACATE ROOM WHEN CFL BULB BREAKS
Less than a month after the U.S. Congress passed an energy bill banning the incandescent light bulb by 2014, the UK Environment Agency issued guidelines calling for evacuation of any room where an energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulb is broken, releasing toxic mercury.
THE PROVEN CURE AND PREVENTION FOR CANCER THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW (PART II)
(NaturalNews) The Budwig protocol is the food treatment and cure for cancer and other major debilitating diseases created by Dr. Johanna Budwig. It was designed for use with extremely ill and wasted cancer patients who had been sent home by their doctors to die.
WILL DR. SANJAY GUPTA DISCLOSE HIS FINANCIAL TIES TO BIG PHARMA?
(NaturalNews) As we all learned earlier this week, Dr. Sanjay Gupta is President-elect Obama’s choice for Surgeon General. Numerous questions have been raised, however, about Dr. Gupta’s ties to pharmaceutical companies and his tendency to promote vaccines and pharmaceuticals while dismissing safety concerns about those drugs.
VETS SUE CIA OVER MIND CONTROL TESTS
For two decades or more during the Cold War, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with acid, weed, and dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of zany (and sometimes dangerous) mind-control experiments. Now, the Vietnam Veterans of America are suing the agency and the Pentagon for perceived abuses suffered under the so-called “MK-ULTRA” and other projects.
MELAMINE BYPRODUCT FOUND IN U.S. BABY FORMULA
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says the industrial chemical melamine and a byproduct cyanuric acid have now been detected in four of 89 containers of infant formula made in the United States, doubling previously reported positive results. The contamination is extremely minute, at levels federal regulators say are safe for babies.
MORE EVIDENCE OF PENTAGON WAR AGAINST THE INTERNET
Further evidence has emerged revealing how the Pentagon is in the business of responding to blog posts critical of the U.S. government. Noah Shachtman, writing for Wired, posts an Air Force flowchart used for “counter-blogging” purposes.
Free speech, internet under attack
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IN ACTION
While the U.S. Immigration officer named Knapp rifled through all her belongings, Aew sat quietly. She was afraid of this man, who eventually pushed a keyboard to Aew and coerced her into giving up the password to her e-mail address. Officer Knapp read through Aew’s e-mails that were addressed to me, and mine to her. Aew would tell me later that she sat quietly, but “Inside I was crying.” She had been so excited to finally visit America. America, the only country ever to coerce her at the border. This is against everything I know about winning and losing the subtle wars. This is against everything I love about the United States. We are not supposed to behave like this. Aew would tell me later that she thought she would be arrested if she did not give the password.
The Government of the United States was reading the private e-mails of a U.S. citizen (me). The Department of “Homeland Security” was at work, intimidating visitors with legitimate visas. They had at least 24 hours to check her out before she landed in the United States. What kind of security is this? The Department of Homeland Security was at this moment more like the Department of Intimidation.
THE DOJ PURSUES THE “REAL CRIMINAL” IN THE NSA SPYING SCANDAL
Thomas Tamm is the mid-level, career Justice Department lawyer who, in 2004, blew the whistle on Bush’s illegal NSA spying program by alerting The New York Times’ Eric Lichtblau to the fact that Bush was eavesdropping on Americans without the warrants required by law. He then watched his life be virtually destroyed by the FBI’s ensuing — and still ongoing — criminal investigation into this disclosure.
COURAGE AND GUNS
“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.”
~ Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
TIME TO END THE SECOND PROHIBITION
America’s First Prohibition, on alcohol, ended in 1933, not because it failed – although it most certainly had. Not because the murder rate in America’s cities doubled during 13 years of the “noble experiment.” Not because the enforcement of a law that attempted to prevent people from doing what they went on doing anyway had corrupted the police, courts, legislatures and businesses of the nation. Not because Prohibition handed a share of the economy to a criminal underworld that grew richer than U.S. Steel without paying a penny in tax. Nor because the federal prison population swelled by more than five hundred per cent to accommodate all those who were caught (a small percentage of the offending total) producing, importing, selling and drinking the devil’s liquid.
No, it ended because the Great Crash of 1929, the banking crisis that followed, the loss of tax revenues from business that had gone bust and millions of workers without jobs made it too expensive. The Great Depression killed Prohibition, because the United States just couldn’t afford it.
When Barack Hussein Obama assumes office on January 20th, he should remember the precedent his party set in 1933 and end the Second Prohibition, on drugs.
MAKING A KILLING
Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money–drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human terms is even greater–these drugs now kill an estimated 42,000 people every year. And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims and the survivors themselves, this riveting documentary rips the mask off psychotropic drugging and exposes a brutal but well-entrenched money-making machine.
RFID INK PRODUCT COULD TRACK HUMANS
A US company has launched a chip-less RFID (radio frequency identification) ink that can be used to track both animals and people.
Visible or invisible ink “tatoos” can be applied to the skin and tracked by RFID readers positioned a few feet away.
The company, Somark, said it had successfully tested its Biocompatible Chipless RFID Ink product on cattle and laboratory rats and proved the “efficacy of injecting and reading a ‘tattoo’ within the skin of animals”.
RAW VIDEO: ISRAELI SOLDIER SHOOTS PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTER
“WE GONNA KILL YOU”
Drunk youth illegal settlers attack a Palestinian home. Lucky for the Palestinians reporters where there.
SETTLER PUNCHES WOMAN IN THE FACE
Settlers attacking cameramen steal a camera with probably some good photos of atrocities, a camera man tries to retrieve the camera and is punched in the face
PALESTINIAN FARMERS UNDER ATTACK
ISRAEL’S “COLONIES” – ANNA BALTZER
Anna Baltzer, a young Jewish American, went to the West Bank to discover the realities of daily life for Palestinians under the occupation. What she found would change her outlook on the conflict forever.
BAYER KNOWINGLY SOLD HIV-CONTAMINATED VACCINES, SAY INTERNAL DOCUMENTS
Here’s a little-known truth about Bayer that needs to be revisited. In 2006, it was discovered that Bayer found out a vaccine it was selling in the United States was accidentally contaminated with HIV.
In order to cover its tracks, say the journalists in this video (below), Bayer pulled the vaccines off the market and sold them to consumers in Japan, France, Spain and other countries, where hemophiliacs were then contaminated with HIV due to the vaccine.
COVERUP – BEHIND THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR (1988)
SEPTEMBER 12, 2001: HISTORIANS QUESTION PRESIDENT BUSH’S FAILURE TO IMMEDIATELY RETURN TO WASHINGTON AFTER ATTACKS
When Dallek’s words appear in print, White House political adviser Karl Rove calls Dallek to inform him that Bush did not return to Washington right away because of security threats to the White House (see (9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001) and Air Force One (see 10:32 a.m. September 11, 2001 and (4:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001). Rove provides no substantiation for his claims, and media critic Eric Alterman later asks, “If you think Air Force One is to be attacked (see (Between 10:55 a.m. and 11:41 a.m.) September 11, 2001), why go up in Air Force One?” Looking back on Dallek’s assessment, New York Times columnist Frank Rich later writes, “September 11 was the first time since the British set fire to the White House in 1814 that a president abandoned the capital for security reasons.” [USA Today, 9/12/2001; Rich, 2006, pp. 24-25]
NOVEMBER 8, 2001: PRESIDENT BUSH CALLS FOR VOLUNTEER CIVIL-DEFENSE SERVICE
President Bush follows up Attorney General John Ashcroft’s declaration of victory over terrorism (see November 8, 2001) with a prime-time speech calling for the formation of a volunteer civil-defense service and a larger National Guard presence at airports, both to keep Americans safe from future terror attacks.
MAY 17, 2004: 9/11 COMMISSIONERS BRIEFED ON APPROACH TO TAKE IN NEW YORK HEARINGS, WARNED TO ‘WATCH THEIR RHETORIC’
Farmer and his team have worked up a list of pages and pages of questions (see Before May 17, 2004) about why Guiliani built his emergency response center next to a top terrorist target, about city radios that failed to work on 9/11, miscommunication between the police and the fire departments, and 911 telephone operators who told people trapped in the Word Trade Center to remain where they were, instead of trying to escape.
FEBRUARY 2003 OR AFTER: 9/11 COMMISSION STAFF SET UP ‘BACK-CHANNEL NETWORK’ TO REPORT ON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ZELIKOW’S BEHAVIOR
Members of the 9/11 Commission’s staff who are suspicious of the partisanship of the Commission’s executive director, Philip Zelikow, establish what author Philip Shenon calls a “back-channel network” through which reports of Zelikow’s behavior can be passed. The staff members are suspicious of Zelikow because they think he is close to the Bush administration, in particular National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (see January 3, 2001), whose interests he defends on the Commission (see May-June 2004).
JUNE 2004: 9/11 COMMISSION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ZELIKOW DISCUSSES KEY PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEF WITH CIA ANALYST, ALLEGEDLY PRESSURES ANALYST TO ACCEPT WHITE HOUSE VERSION OF EVENTS
According to an anonymous Commission staffer who overhears part of the conversation and who talks to author Philip Shenon, Zelikow pressures the analyst to accept the version of the PDB offered by Bush and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and say that it contained historical information and was written in response to a request by President Bush for such briefing. Zelikow is close to Rice (see January 3, 2001) and defends her interests on the Commission (see May-June 2004). However, Zelikow will later deny pressuring the analyst, saying he was merely trying to prepare a summary of what was known about the PDB for the commissioners and that he had little time, so the interview was conducted by telephone. Nevertheless, the call is in violation of several internal Commission rules, including the requirement that significant interviews be conducted in the presence of at least two staff members.
APRIL 14, 2004: 9/11 COMMISSION FAILS TO ASK FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER ABOUT PRE-9/11 FAILINGS AT PUBLIC HEARING
FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies publicly to the 9/11 Commission, but the commissioners fail to ask him tough questions about the FBI’s apparent failings before the attacks. Author Philip Shenon will comment: “[Mueller] might have expected that it might be the showdown in which he would be asked to explain, in excruciating detail, how the FBI had blundered so often before 9/11—the familiar roster of Zacarias Moussaoui, the Phoenix memo, the disasters in San Diego. Instead, he was welcomed as a hero.” The commissioners shower Mueller with praise.