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Members of Parliament accepted free trips to Israel more than any other country, a report by Canada’s ethics commissioner reveals. Lawmakers’ trips to Israel outnumbered other destinations nearly 2 to 1 during 2008.
The report on "sponsored travel" shows that the Canada - Israel Committee paid more than $160,000.00 to send 24 federal politicians on trips to Israel, often with their spouses...
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02...

The Second Case
Anis Hamadeh, February 5, 2009
Summary: This essay is about Gaza and the German silence between 1945 and 1968, about Israel’s myths and the situation of the Palestinians who are labeled with negative stereotypes, while Jews are labeled with positive stereotypes. The Gaza pogrom was carried out with the participation of German desk-perpetrators and this would be the pure form of racism, emerging from the middle of society, something untenable in Germany. This second case (…)

US hires advisers, Rothschild firm, on auto restructuring
by Jui Chakravorty and David Bailey
Global Research, February 8, 2009 Financial Times - 2009-02-05
The US government has retained two law firms with extensive bankruptcy experience and the investment bank Rothschild to advise officials on the taxpayer-backed restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler, a person with direct knowledge of the work said.
New York law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP was hired by the US (…)

Russian auto workers protest lay-offs at AVTO-VAZ plant in Tolyatti
AvtoVAZ Stopping Plant Indefinitely
AvtoVAZ, Russia’s biggest automaker, is stopping its conveyor indefinitely, the company said in a statement Friday evening.
“The conveyor was stopped on Thursday for an indeterminate amount of time due to nondelivery of auto components," the statement said.
The company’s official announcement seems to be at odds with assurances made by AvtoVAZ chief executive Boris Alyoshin to (…)

OnlineJournal By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer Jan 30, 2009, 00:20
WMR) Israeli expansionists, their intentions to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical “Greater Israel.” Israel reportedly has plans to relocate thousands of Kurdish Jews from Israel, including expatriates from Kurdish (…)

By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
Years ago I was in a terrible car crash. It was a beautiful, sunny spring day and we were headed for Panama City, Florida. My friend had just replaced his four thousand-pound Ford with a new MGB convertible. The back tire, the driving wheel, got into the gravel and lost traction. The car swerved and he jerked the wheel to correct, but it wasn’t a four thousand-pound Ford, just an eighteen hundred-pound sports car. All of my life compressed (…)

Gaza Fundraising event, Sunday 8th February
http://www.bolton.vivapalestina.org/index.html
Basic Needs List (updated 1 February 2009)
PLEASE NOTE WE ARE NO LONGER COLLECTING CLOTHES (OR FOOTWEAR) OR TOYS ETC, WITH THE LIMITED SPACE WE HAVE IN THE CONVOY WE ARE CONCENTRATING ON FILLING THE REMAINING SPACE WITH VITAL RECONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT.
There is a need for food stuff but instead of taking donations of food, we would like to collect donations which would enable us to buy the food (…)

http://www.iousathemovie.com/

Notwithstanding the assertions of the egregiously dishonest Bush-ites (Bush, McCain, Cheney, Dr Condoleezza Rice aka Dr Death or the Wicked Witch of the West etc) and neo-Bush-ites (such as Uncle Tom Obama and the awful Clintons) we STILL do not know who was responsible for murdering 3,000 people on 9-11 (formerly US supported terrorists? with US passive complicity? by the US itself with or without the help of US surrogates such as Apartheid Israeli Mossad or Pakistan ISI?) (see “US (…)

GM, Chrysler offer workers cash, cars to leave
Tue Feb 3, 2009 12:38am By Poornima Gupta
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N) and Chrysler LLC on Monday began offering a new round of retirement incentives including vouchers for cars as the automakers move to reduce workers and inventory.
GM will offer its U.S. hourly workers $20,000 in cash and a $25,000 voucher to buy a vehicle as an incentive to retire or leave the company, an official with the United Auto Workers union (…)