Israeli PM Netanyahu Tours Fire Ravaged Area
(San Francisco) - Early December 2, 2010 deadly fires were set in Israel’s remaining forest. Before it was all said and done at least 42 people were dead - burned to death in the fire, three prisons, a hospital and a university evacuated.
Israel was caught quite unprepared and asked more that 20 countries to send help - quick! What started out as a forest fire quickly escalated to a major international incident.
Israeli Prime Minister (...)
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Did PM Netanyahu get a Lethal Dose of DU?
11 December 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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Wikileaks: US Hits Back At Israel
6 December 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Wikileaks: US Hits Back At Israel
Posted on 03. Dec, 2010 by Raja Mujtaba
U.S. intelligence retaliates against Israel’s role in Wikileaks’s disclosures
By Wayne Madsen
With Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, continuing their gloating over the disclosure by Wikileaks of classified U.S. State Department cables, the U.S. intelligence community is taking off its gloves and is releasing some embarrassing information about Netanyahu and a Mossad attempt to (...) -
WikiLeaks Exposes Israeli Mafia’s Growing Influence
6 December 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Cable reveals Mafia-government connection — But US media don’t care to dig for the story
I love how the pundits are yawning over the latest WikiLeaks revelations: oh, there’s nothing to see here, it’s all so boring, no "smoking gun," so let’s just move right along. These people are just plain lazy: they want "scoops" delivered to their front doors, all neatly packaged and labeled as such. In short, they don’t want to have to do any work, beyond the usual cut-and-paste. Which is why a lot (...) -
U.S. soldier pleads guilty to firing on unarmed Afghans
2 December 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
The first U.S. soldier court-martialed in the prosecution of 12 infantrymen accused of terrorizing unarmed Afghan civilians pleaded guilty on Wednesday to assault and other charges and agreed to testify against his co-defendants.
Staff Sergeant Robert Stevens, 25, an Army medic from Portland, Oregon, admitted to opening fire on two Afghan farmers for no apparent reason. He and other troops were acting on orders from a squad leader during a patrol in March.
The charge of aggravated (...) -
Iraq is a Self Cleaning Oven
28 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Ours, Theirs, Civilian. It makes NO Difference.
(San Francisco) – American Expeditionary Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan use only the best weapons money can buy and American ingenuity can dream up. For twenty years that meant weaponized uranium poison gas and aerosols, a.k.a. “DU,” according to the Pentagon, weapons contractors, university weapons researchers and the political leadership of the United States.
Were they Right or Wrong? Not all military officers, experts and politicians (...) -
4.6 million dead Iraqi & Afghan infants but Oz ABC wouldn’t ask Hillary Clinton "Is the price worth it?"
20 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently visited Australia in November 2010 but was not asked the key question about 4.6 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan (UN data), specifically “Is the price worth it?”
Clinton’s friend and predecessor as Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, had been asked the same question on CBS “60 Minutes” in 1996 (when dead Iraqi children totaled “only" 0.5 million) and notoriously replied “We think the (...) -
How China swallowed 15% of ’Net traffic for 18 minutes
18 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
In a 300+ page report (PDF) today, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission provided the US Congress with a detailed overview of what’s been happening in China—including a curious incident in which 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic suddenly passed through Chinese servers on the way to its destination.
Here’s how the Commission describes the incident, which took place earlier this year:
For about 18 minutes on April 8, 2010, China Telecom advertised erroneous (...) -
Expose US war crimes by "proceeds of crime" prosecution of former Australian PM Howard over his memoirs
15 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe leaders of the US Alliance have yet to face war crimes trials before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their involvements in the Iraqi Genocide (4.4 million deaths, 1990-2010) and the Afghan Genocide (4.9 million deaths, 2001-2003).
However Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks (who has committed no offences against Australian or International law) is reportedly under investigation by Australian authorities for a possible “proceeds of crimes” prosecution over the (...) -
Canada’s Zionist Lapdog for Israel PM Stephen Harper
10 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Harper on Israel, by Murray Dobbin
http://www.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers...
"Watching and listening to Stephen Harper’s bizarre and unnerving speevh about anti-Semitism and Israel raises the question as to whether or not the man is mentally fit to be prime minister.." -
Peace Held Hostage to Rotating US, Israeli Elections
10 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
By Nicola Nasser*
The statement by former U.S. President George W. Bush in his 497 – page memoir of “Decision Points” that a secret peace deal was worked out between the then-prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, and Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, which “we devised a process to turn .. into a public agreement” had not Olmert been ousted by a scandal to be replaced in the following elections by Binyamin Netanyahu, who reneged on his predecessor’s commitments, is a piece of history (...)