Expose deception by the Zionist controlled Goverment & Media ( The Other Side Of the News!!!)
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Expose deception by the Zionist controlled Goverment & Media ( The Other Side Of the News!!!) Dead because of a lie. Dead because selfish people in government wanted a war and lied to get one, aided by selfish people in the media WHO TOOK MONEY FROM Goverment TO LIE T O THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The government and the media traded the blood of these young Americans for their personal gain. Look at their faces. How can you not be angry? Thank God for France Tags: * FRANCE * PROTESTS/REVOLUTION Thank God for France. While American liberals tremble at the idea of sending an angry e mail to congress for fear that their name will appear on the State Department's list of terrorists, French workers are on the front lines choking on tear gas and fending off billyclubs in hand-to-hand combat with Sarkozy's Gendarmerie. That's because the French haven't forgotten their class roots. When the government gets too big for its britches, people pour out onto to the streets and Paris becomes a warzone replete with overturned Mercedes Benzs, smashed storefront windows, and stacks of smoldering tires issuing pillars of black smoke. This is what democracy looks like when it hasn't been emasculated by decades of propaganda and consumerism. » * 1 comment^ Oct 24 10:01 Obama ramping up CIA infiltration of Pakistan: report By: ActivistPost Tags: * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * CURRENT EVENTS * PAKISTAN / INDIA * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS * WHITE HOUSE AFP The United States is trying to expand a secret CIA operation designed to eliminate radical Islamic militants’ havens located in Pakistan near the Afghan border, The Wall Street Journal reported. » * 1 comment Oct 24 09:57 Natalie Merchant & Friends: There is No Good Reason Tags: * ARTS * ENTERTAINMENT * PROTESTS/REVOLUTION The black singer is Mighty Sam McClain. My brother Matt has played with him. » * 2 comments^ Oct 24 09:50 Life in Palestinian Refugee Camps Tags: * ISRAEL Besides mass slaughter and destruction, wars create refugees, millions at times, uprooted, displaced and homeless, on their own somehow to survive. Israel's "War of Independence" was no different, dispossessing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, a story Western media reports don't explain or even mention. » * 2 comments^ Oct 24 09:48 PHOTO ESSAY ~~ PALESTINIANS ARE THE SAME AS ANY OTHER PEOPLE Tags: * ISRAEL * PALESTINE uch immense violence has been inflicted on Gaza, for so long. So much has been done to dehumanize the people living here, that we in the west have come to regard Palestinians in Gaza not as whole people, but as mere objects of pity; not as complex, thinking political beings, but as “recipients of humanitarian aid.” » * 1 comment^ Oct 24 09:48 ’Child cancer skyrocketing in Basra’ Tags: * IRAQ "Basra’s childhood leukemia rates compare unfavorably to those of neighboring Kuwait and nearby Oman, as well as the US and the European Union and other countries," said a study conducted by the University of Washington in Seattle, which documented the increase in the cancer rate in Basra. A suspected source of the afflictions is the depleted uranium (DU) used by the invading forces. It is reported that the United States and Britain used up to 2,000 tons of DU during the Iraq war. In another report, from 22 July, 2010, at: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1307887/Iraqi-city-has-higher-cancer-rates-than-Hiroshima- "A report has been published indicating cancers and other diseases in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are significantly higher than those of the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs of 1945. The survey found that in the five years following the 2004 attacks by USA-led forces there has been a four-fold increase in all cancer. The types of cancer are similar to that in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors who were exposed to nuclear fallout." It appears that cancer is a 21st century byproduct of the way the US fights its wars. » * 2 comments^ Oct 24 09:48 PETE SEEGER: IN LIEU OF A TRIBUTE Tags: * ARTS * ENTERTAINMENT * ISRAEL * PALESTINE It was my hope that I would never have to write this post. My public silence on the issue at hand until now was my way of protecting the image of a man so great, a man who has been the inspiration to millions of activists throughout the world. I tried to keep to myself what I am about to tell you all, hoping it would never happen. But, it is happening, it’s official, Pete Seeger will be taking part in a Virtual Rally For A better Middle East. The event is sponsored by an organisation known as the Arava Institute. One of the major players is the Jewish National Fund. » * 1 comment * ^ Oct 24 09:47 FASCISTS TO MARCH IN NORTHERN ISRAEL Tags: * ISRAEL Some 70 members of the organization are expected to participate, led by Kach activists Itamar Ben Gvir and Baruch Marzel. Thousands of police officers will provide security, and serious clashes are expected – as took place last year during a similar demonstration. About three months ago the High Court approved the demonstration despite police claims, based on past experience and intelligence information, that the demonstration would likely end in public disorder. The Supreme Court even permitted the demonstrators to approach about 50 yards closer to the center of the city than last year, when clashes led to the injury of 15 police and 12 civilians. Oct 24 09:46 Georgia Class Action Suit For ALL Homeowners Who Have Been Foreclosed ON by MERS! Tags: * ECONOMY Another Class Action Suit has NOW been filed for All Homeowners who have been foreclosed on in the State of Georgia against MERS! How Awesome is this!! A class action for ALL homeowners who had been foreclosed on in the past by MERS banks! The paperwork filed is at the link! This should get the banks buzzing! Now there is two Class Actions happening in the states for previous foreclosures - New York and Georgia! Oct 24 09:39 Patients' anger after they are unable to opt out of swine flu vaccine despite fears of side effects Tags: * SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE Patients' groups have expressed anger over this year's seasonal flu jab programme because people are unable to opt out of having the swine flu vaccine. The H1N1 vaccine will be the dominant of three flu strains included in the shot, meaning millions of elderly and vulnerable patients will get it automatically. Yet many people refused to have the swine flu vaccine when it was offered last year because of fears it may cause serious side effects. The Mail on Sunday revealed last week that Government experts are examining a possible association between the H1N1 swine flu jab and the paralysing nerve disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome. As reported on 5 June, 2010 at: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFlu/swine-flu-pandemic-world-health-organization-scientists-linked/story?id=10829940 "World Health Organization Scientists Linked to Swine Flu Vaccine Makers" "Scientists who advised the World Health Organization on its influenza policies and recommendations—including the decision to proclaim the so-called swine flu a "pandemic" had close ties to companies that manufacture vaccines and antiviral medicines like Tamiflu, a fact that WHO did not publicly disclose." This is all about drug company profits, and has nothing to do with patient wellness. Also, as reported at: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101014183734AAQnFF7 "The vaccine industry is a $20 billion dollar industry and now in the United States, NO drug company, NO doctor can be sued if a person is damaged by any vaccine." "The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) was enacted in the United States to reduce the potential financial liability of vaccine makers due to vaccine injury claims, so we are told. I find it astonishing that pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and health professionals keep promoting the idea that vaccines are safe and, yet, if they were really safe, why did we need to pass a law protecting doctors and the companies manufacturing vaccines from being sued as a result of vaccines damaging people? The information circulars that come with the vaccine packages sent to doctors clearly state warnings in regard to safety of the vaccine by every manufacturer of those vaccines, such as the flu vaccine produced by Novartis, has listed on its product information circular that NO testing has been done on pregnant women, young children, and the elderly." British health care recipients have every right to be skeptical about the safety of these jabs, and in light of the above information, I don't blame them at all. » * 3 comments^ Oct 24 09:38 Foreclosure Mess Scares Away Investors as 'Fear Has Taken Hold' Tags: * ECONOMY Investors who have been snapping up foreclosed homes are backing off in the wake of the U.S. foreclosure fiasco, driven off by sagging inventory and fears over legal title. Some economists say the trend could hurt the overall housing market. The financial media is staying away from the third rail on this story, which is that the main players in this fiasco over-subscribed those mortgage-backed securities. What that means is simple. The same mortgages were pledged as collateral on multiple investment bundles. So even if a home is paid off to one lender, there may be others out there who also think they have a clear title to the property! This is why investors are steering clear of foreclosed homes and why the executives at the main players like Countrywide/BofA, Bear Sterns, Goldman Sachs, etc. et. al. are looking at major jail time. » * 1 comment^ Oct 24 09:31 Top Ten countries External % GDP to debt ratio. Same list has names of countries with blood in the streets. Who's next? Tags: * ECONOMY Oct 24 09:30 The Dismal Science ........ and Goldman Sachs Tags: * ECONOMY * HUMOR AND SATIRE Oct 24 09:30 Gaza's War Crimes - Israel/Palestine By: Nilwik Tags: * ISRAEL * PALESTINE Oct 24 09:28 Lawsuit Alleges that MERS Owes California a Potential $60-120 Billion in Unpaid Land-Recording Fees Tags: * ECONOMY In creating MERS, these institutions actually changed the land-title system that this country - for much of its history - has relied upon to determine legal ownership status of land titleholders. Not only did the lenders sidestep (read that to mean avoid) paying billions of dollars in fees to local governments, they paid themselves from the fees that MERS collected. » * 1 comment^ Oct 24 09:28 Will you make the leap of faith? Or will you sink, with the ship? Tags: * DICTATORSHIP * ECONOMY The Ultra-Rich of the United States have already begun their mass exodus from the United States, fully understanding the situation that is about to present itself. Dr. Rima Laibow, the lady who first introduced the implications, of Codex Alimentarius, to the world at large, took off more than a year ago to begin a new life in South America. What do these people understand, that we do not? Oct 24 09:27 Controversy surrounds Widlak case Tags: * ASSASSINATION * ECONOMY The most notable individual taking a hit in public opinion is Macomb County Medical Examiner Dr. Daniel Spitz. It was Spitz who conducted the initial autopsy on Widlak and found no physical trauma to the body. That sparked speculation that the banker may have taken his own life by walking into the lake and drowning. But a second autopsy, commissioned by Widlak’s family, found he died from an “execution style” gunshot wound to the back of the head. Oct 24 09:22 Immigrant vets face deportation despite service By: ActivistPost Tags: * AFGHANISTAN * IMMIGRATION/NAU/GLOBALISM * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS SAN FRANCISCO — Up to 8,000 non-citizens enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces every year and serve alongside American troops. If they die while serving, they are given citizenship and a military funeral. If they live and get in trouble with the law, they can get be ensnared by a 1996 immigration law that greatly expanded the list of crimes for which non-citizens can be deported. Oct 24 09:21 Quadruple-dose seasonal flu "super" vaccine now being aggressively pushed onto senior citizens By: malterwitty Tags: * SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE What's especially entertaining about all this is that the FDA's approval of this quadruple potency vaccine is a blatant admission that single-dose vaccines just don't work! Obviously, if the single-dose vaccine was working as advertised, then it would be 100% effective and there would be no need for a double, triple or quadruple-dose vaccine. But all of a sudden, now that the quadruple-dose vaccine is available, the regular single-dose vaccine "isn't good enough." ... Of course, flu shots have never been about what works in the first place. They're about what makes the most money. This new quadruple flu shot is being sold at about twice the price of a regular flu shot. Oct 24 09:15 Wikileaks under doubt as “classified” documents substantiate bogus U.S. claims By: Saladin Tags: * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * CURRENT EVENTS The fact that the supposedly damaging leaks are in fact bolstering American accusations against Iran while minimizing American complicity in Iraqi deaths leads some to believe that the leaks are in fact engineered by the Pentagon to either discredit Wikileaks, or are in conjunction with Wikileaks which is a U.S. government outfit. Oct 24 09:13 Touch-Screen Machine Flips Straight-Party Vote Four Times in a Row from GOP to Dem By: kdtroxel Tags: * CURRENT EVENTS * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION * PROTESTS/REVOLUTION * VOTE FRAUD County GOP Chair: 'They ain’t worth a damn, we ought to go back to paper ballots' Aaand the touch-screen voting machines continue to flip votes during the early voting period. Right on schedule. Just as always. But, for the second time this week we have the unusual occurrence of votes reportedly flipping away from the GOP. Yesterday our report was of a touch-screen in Dallas, TX, caught on video flipping an attempted vote for Republican Gov. Rick Perry to straight-ticket Green Party selections in Dallas, TX. Tyson also went on to report there were long lines reported as voters waited to use the two touch-screen voting machines available at one location (paper ballots don't cause that problem) and, even more disturbingly, "machines reporting 250 ballots cast where 400 voters had signed in to vote." » * 2 comments * Oct 24 09:13 'Politics overshadowing racism' Tags: * ISRAEL Several prominent Jewish leaders in the United States have spoken up against what they called "the growing atmosphere of racism in Israel," as apparent from the controversial loyalty oath bill and the polemic over the possible deportation of foreign workers' children. Said leaders were especially irked by a recent statement made by Shas' spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who said that "the Goyim's (non-Jews) sole reason for existing is to serve Jews." This is more about American Jewish leaders' embarrassment over the public statements concerning what many Israeli and American Jews believe privately. » * 1 comment^ Oct 24 09:11 Pakistan resists US push to expand terror fight By: ActivistPost Tags: * AFGHANISTAN * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * CURRENT EVENTS * PAKISTAN / INDIA * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's foreign minister says the country's military will deal with a key Taliban sanctuary along the Afghan border on its own timeline despite U.S. pressure. Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke Sunday after returning from Washington following the latest round of high level strategic talks with the Obama administration. Oct 24 09:07 Welcome to Israel, the land of White Slavers, Body Snatchers and Drug Mules Tags: * HIDDEN HISTORY * ISRAEL Four hundred years ago, Jewish slave traders dominated the lucrative business of shipment and sale of African slaves to the new world. 6 For at least the last 125 years, Jews have also overwhelmingly controlled organized prostitution and white slavery in Europe, the United States, and South America. Jewish historian Edward Bristow, in his book Prostitution and Prejudice: the Jewish Fight against White Slavery, 7 says: » * 3 comments * ^ Oct 24 09:05 Iran Slams “Undemocratic” French Government Approach Tags: * FRANCE "If protests had occurred in another country, it would have been interpreted as democracy," Iranian Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission spokesman Kazem Jalali told Fars news agency, referring to Sarkozy's remarks that had called demonstrations "undemocratic." Sarkozy wants to loot the people of France to please the bankers. The people of France have been through that before, and they have an answer! » * 2 comments^ Oct 24 09:05 Gas for guns program may yield unintended consequence By: Saladin Tags: * RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS "No-questions-asked" means those of you with stolen guns--or even ones used in "guncrimes!"--can not only count on the police to dispose of evidence for you, they'll also act as your fence and reward you for your enterprising ways. And they'll do this knowing it won't make a damn bit of difference in "combating gun violence." Something that's pretty well been established as a useless waste...Still, they have the money and the manpower resources to put on this show, so things must be pretty good in Baton Rouge crime-wise. Oct 24 09:04 Veteran Suicides Outnumber US Military Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan Tags: * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS More than 1,000 veterans in California under 35 died after returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan between 2005 and 2008 - three times as many California service members who were killed in conflict overseas, according to a recently published Bay Citizen report. » * 1 comment^ Oct 24 09:04 Fake Al Qaeda Actors EXPOSED! Adam Gadahn & Yousef al-Khattab Tags: * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA » * 2 comments^ Oct 24 08:58 Justify a 'hit list' Tags: * DICTATORSHIP Before the government begins targeting its own citizens for assassination far from a combat zone, it should, at the very least, have to explain to a court why such an extraordinary step doesn't violate the Constitution, which promises that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. In a pending lawsuit, Awlaki's father asks the court to rule that his son can't be killed outside armed conflict "unless he is found to present a concrete, specific and imminent threat to life or physical safety, and there are no means other than lethal force that could reasonably be employed to neutralize the threat." Having slipped to the very bottom of this moral slope, the US government will never stop. Imagine, in the not too distant future,a US citizen getting on the government's extrajudicial assassination list for simply (and completely peacefully) expressing an opinion different than that of the US government: that is where this administration's decision will put this country, if not checked and challenged through the court system. Oct 24 08:56 Ministers plan huge sell-off of Britain's forests By: malterwitty Tags: * GREAT BRITAIN Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, is expected to announce plans within days to dispose of about half of the 748,000 hectares of woodland overseen by the Forestry Commission by 2020. The controversial decision will pave the way for a huge expansion in the number of Center Parcs-style holiday villages, golf courses, adventure sites and commercial logging operations throughout Britain as land is sold to private companies. Legislation which currently governs the treatment of "ancient forests" such as the Forest of Dean and Sherwood Forest is likely to be changed giving private firms the right to cut down trees. Oct 24 08:53 Dolphins 'walk' on water By: malterwitty Tags: * SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE Dolphins in the wild are teaching themselves to "walk" with their tails along the surface of water, biologists have claimed. Especially in the Gulf of Mexico Oct 24 08:52 The Government Pulls a Bernie Madoff on Social Security and Lays Out the Sad Truth Tags: * ECONOMY When Bernie Madoff realized he could no longer meet all the demands of his investors that wanted their money, he walked into the offices of the SEC and admitted as much. The government has just pulled a Madoff. They have admitted that they don't have the money to pay everyone out they have promised to pay out via Social Security. Specifically, those under 30 are going to get really screwed. I really hate to say I told you so ... no, wait; actually I rather like it, but I did warn you all that this was going to happenback during the Clinton administration when he was looting Social Security to create his magical "Budget Surplus". » * 1 comment^ Oct 24 08:48 It was the Gaza assault's worst atrocity. Now the truth may finally be told Tags: * ISRAEL Israeli military police are investigating whether an air strike which killed 21 members of the same family sheltering in a building during the Army's Gaza offensive in 2008-9 was authorised by a senior brigade commander who had been warned of the danger to civilians. The truth may be told, but it is unlikely that anyone will be charged for this massacre. Killing innocent Palestinian civilians is simply normal(and in their minds,justified) behavior for most in the IDF. » * 1 comment^ Oct 24 08:47 Clegg call over Iraq torture claims Tags: * TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Allegations of killings, torture and abuse in Iraq contained in leaked US military logs, must be properly examined, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said. Mr Clegg, who has previously said he believes the Iraq war was "illegal", said it was up to the US administration to answer for the actions of its forces. "Bin Laden made us do it!" -- Official White Horse Souse Oct 24 08:46 Thousands of N.J. homeowners in foreclosure 'limbo land' Tags: * DICTATORSHIP * ECONOMY New Jersey's foreclosure rate looks bad - 6.28 percent as of the second quarter of this year. But as bad as that is, it does not include homeowners like the Eiseles. They are among the additional 4.26 percent of homeowners who were at least 90 days behind on payments but not yet in foreclosure, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Oct 24 08:46 Queen's £38m a year windfarm windfall By: malterwitty Tags: * GREAT BRITAIN The Royal Family have secured a lucrative deal that will earn them tens of millions of pounds from the massive expansion of offshore windfarms. They will net up to £37.5m extra income every year from the drive for green energy because the seabed within Britain's territorial waters is owned by the Crown Estate. Under new measures announced by Chancellor George Osborne last week, the Royals will soon get 15% of the profits from the Estate's £6bn property portfolio, rather than the existing Civil List arrangement. Experts predict the growth in offshore windfarms could be worth up to £250m a year to the Crown Estate. Oct 24 08:46 U.S. seeks to dismiss UBS criminal tax evasion case Tags: * ECONOMY * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to dismiss a criminal prosecution against UBS AG that led to the Swiss bank paying a $780 million penalty and admitting it helped wealthy U.S. clients evade taxes. A telling reminder whose side the US Government and the courts are on, and it is not YOURS! Oct 24 08:44 Israel Stopping UN From Building Gaza Schools Tags: * ISRAEL The Israeli government has rejected the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) request to build a number of schools inside the Gaza Strip, claiming the building would be “defenses” for Hamas. The UNRWA says they had to reject 40,000 students in the strip this year because of lack of space. Israel damaged or destroyed a large number of buildings, including schools, during the 2008-09 invasion of the Gaza Strip, and has largely blocked the importation of construction material since, leaving the strip in ruins. Just when you think you cannot imagine the Israeli government acting in a more morally reprehensible, petty, vindictive, and vile manner, it surprises you yet again! Oct 24 08:44 Iraq war logs: British legal threat as UN calls on Obama to look at torture claims Tags: * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA Britain's role in the alleged torture and unlawful killing of Iraqi civilians may be the subject of legal action following the publication of nearly 400,000 leaked military documents by the website WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks document dump appears to have been a carefully prepared plan to stage a limited hangout as bait to sell US justification for the war with Iran. WikiLeaks provided documents about torture and beatings which was already known information, in essence, the "bait." But recall that rat poison is 90% good food, and the ten percent that kills you is the real purpose behind the tasty food, and in the case of WikiLeaks, the poison inside the tasty bait are the claims that most Iraqis have been killed by other Iraqis and that Iran is the reason the US is unable to win the war. Both these claims serve the American propaganda cause and clearly there is ample reason to doubt them. In the present case, however, Assange and the US Government may have hoisted with their own petard because the public is ignoring the intended message and focusing on the confirmation of the torture allegations. Much of the public still did not want to believe that the US Government was carrying our torture on a scale to rival the Nazis. This document dump, although containing information which was already known to those who were paying attention, has triggered a backlash of lawyers and even the United Nations, who now understand they must be seen to address these war crimes by the US and British Government. Oct 24 08:37 Alex Jones constructive criticism, Israel and 911 why avoid it? – Ryan Dawson Tags: * CORPORATE MEDIA * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * ISRAEL See Also: War By Deception – Ryan Dawson » * 1 comment^ Oct 24 08:34 Class Action vs Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Gmac, Deutsche Bank, Nation Star, Aurora, Bac, Citi, Us Bank, Lps, Et Al Tags: * ECONOMY MERS Mortgage Electronic Ripoff System! Oct 24 08:32 G-20 meeting ends with U.S. failing to secure key support for trade plan Tags: * ECONOMY While agreeing to the general principles of this framework, some key American allies and trading partners opposed the U.S.-backed proposal to set global curbs on the current account surpluses and deficits of major nations, underscoring the difficulties ahead in restoring stability to the global economy. There is no place for the dollar to go but down, which is why financial institutions are foreclosing homes like crazy (many times illegally). They understand that those pretty printed pieces of paper, called US currency, are very close to being without any value whatsoever. Oct 24 08:24 Viva Palestina convoy reaches Gaza Tags: * ISRAEL * PALESTINE Pro-Palestinian activists in more than 100 cars and lorries have crossed into the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip through Egypt's Rafah crossing with aid worth nearly $5m. The multinational "Viva Palestina" ship arrived at Egypt's port city of al-Arish from Lattakia, Syria, earlier on Thursday. About 300 activists then flew into al-Arish airport and converged with the ship's passengers before entering Gaza. The activists had initially joined up in Syria from Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, and more than two dozen other countries. The convoy was organised by George Galloway a British politician. However, Galloway was not with the convoy after being banned from Egypt following clashes between activists from a previous aid mission and police in January in El-Arish, 45km from Gaza. Not seeing a lot of coverage about this on ABCNNBBCBSFOX, are you? But a US athlete dies, and it's headline news! » * 2 comments^ Oct 24 08:20 Haiti cholera cases detected in Port-au-Prince Tags: * CURRENT EVENTS Five cases of cholera have been detected in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, the UN says, amid an outbreak that has killed more than 200 people. More than a million survivors of Haiti's devastating January earthquake are crowded into tent cities around Port-au-Prince with poor sanitary conditions and little access to clean drinking water Given the poor quality of sanitation in Port-Au-Prince, this infection may well spread like wildfire. » * 1 comment^ Oct 24 08:16 G20 finance ministers agree to global economic regulations Tags: * ECONOMY The rules, announced in September by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, will be phased in over several years starting in 2013. They will be formally adopted by G20 leaders at a Seoul summit next month. Under the Basel III reforms, banks of all sizes will be required to hold more reserves by January 1, 2015, with the "minimum requirement for common equity", the highest form of loss-absorbing capital, raised to 4.5 percent of overall assets from 2.0 percent at the moment. In addition, banks would be required by January 1, 2019 to set aside an additional buffer of 2.5 percent to "withstand future periods of stress", bringing the total of such core reserves required to 7.0 percent. The question left unanswered is what happens to the status of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency until Basel III starts taking effect? Oct 24 08:12 A Soulless White House By: poorrichard Tags: * WHITE HOUSE I think Barack and Michelle Obama are secret totalitarians -- in spirit, if not yet in fact -- who believe mostly in their own superior intentions. Michelle really does think the country needs an all-powerful Food Mom who will make the kids eat right so they never get fat...even though Michelle can't control her own appetite any more than the rest of us can. Human beings love to eat because our ancestors lived in constant fear of famine. Humans got fat when food was plentiful because the chances were good that a drought or a freeze was coming soon to kill the crops and the cattle. Fat is how our bodies store food. Fat people can make it through the lean years when skinny people get sick and die. » * 1 comment Oct 24 08:09 The Pentagon shooting was a false flag! By: Rick H. Tags: * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA The Pentagon shooting was a false flag! Not a false flag to start a war but to further an agenda and/or to hide something! Here is the proof: The Pentagon is the most secure building in the world, and yet they do not want us to believe that. You should ask yourself why. Why can a plane strike the Pentagon without even one security person shooting at it, if only with a handgun? Sure, it would have been futile, but these people don’t ONLY have handguns, and the handguns they do have are fully automatic! Nor am I talking about the few security guards you see as you enter the building and go through the metal detectors. If someone wanted to make a point, would they shoot at a building they know is protected from bullets? » * Rick H.'s blog * 2 comments * Oct 24 08:09 Why is the UN hosting events with the Simon Wiesenthal Center (for intolerance)? Tags: * ISRAEL This is disturbing. The United Nations University in New York held a session yesterday with the appealing title, Can Citizen Action Save the World? and where did it do so-- at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's "New York Tolerance Center" on E. 42d Street. But the Simon Wiesenthal Center has opposed the building of a mosque/Islamic center in downtown New York out of pure intolerance... and is building a museum in Jerusalem on a historic Muslim graveyard, desecrating graves hundreds of years old. Should the U.N. be holding hands with the Wiesenthal Center? Heck no. Oct 24 08:08 The Chutzpah Is Staggering Tags: * ISRAEL * PALESTINE "It's fairly well-known that U.S. groups raise millions of tax-deductible dollars each year to support Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. But here's the most brazen fundraising effort we've encountered in a while: the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund is holding a dinner cruise that will leave from Chelsea Piers in Manhattan next month, and the group is dubbing the event the "Hebron Aid Flotilla." Oct 24 08:06 Jewish Supremacism–The Worst of the Nasty Odors Stinking Up Our World Today Tags: * RELIGION/ATHEISM Imagine the scene…a synagogue–a PLACE OF WORSHIP, FOR GOD’S SAKE–and not just ANY place of worship, but indeed in the very headquarters of God Himself–Israel…He–Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, spiritual leader of Israel’s Shas party–mounts the steps to the podium, clears his throat, adjusts his glasses, shuffles his papers, opens his mouth to speak, and then, with no warning whatsoever– KABOOM. –belches out a whopper of a heart-stopper that could (or at least SHOULD) have been heard from space. » * 1 comment * ^ Oct 24 07:19 What is the Saudi arms deal really about? By: poorrichard Tags: * IRAN * ISRAEL * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS It is widely believed that the massive $60 billion U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia is directed against Iran. After all, Israel did not object to the deal. As one analyst told China's Xinhua News Agency, Jerusalem, of all places, was simply adhering to the ancient principle of: "My enemy's enemy is my friend." » * 1 comment Oct 24 07:05 Torture, killing, children shot – and how the US tried to keep it all quiet By: poorrichard Tags: * IRAQ * TORTURE/WAR CRIMES So now we begin to know the full extent of what Tony Blair called the blood price. A detainee tortured with live electrical wires here, children shot by US troops at a checkpoint there, insurgents using children to carry out suicide bombings somewhere else; on and on, through 391,832 documents. At the Pentagon, these messages were the day-to-day commonplaces of staff inboxes; for Iraqis, they detail, in the emotionless jargon of the US military, nothing less than the hacking open of a nation's veins. Oct 24 06:48 "Central Banks a Threat To Civilization" - Peter Schiff on Freedom Watch 10/23/10 By: portos Tags: * ECONOMY * VIDEO Oct 24 06:47 Jim Rogers on Bloomberg 10/21/10: Printing Money Won't Work By: portos Tags: * ECONOMY * VIDEO Oct 24 06:46 "I Think There's A Real Concern About Funding To The IMF & The United Nations!" Joe Miller By: portos Tags: * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION * VIDEO Oct 24 06:39 Afghan heroin kills 10X more than Taliban By: portos Tags: * AFGHANISTAN * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * VIDEO * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS The war in Afghanistan continues to wage on it may not be the largest problem facing the war torn nation. Russia and the United States are teaming up to take on the Afghan drug industry which has continued to spiral out of control. Earlier, Director of the Russian Drug Control Service Victor Ivanov was in Washington to push the Americans to help eradicate poppy fields in Afghanistan. Oct 24 06:25 LEBANON’S PALESTINIAN CIVIL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN MOVES INTO THE CHRISTIAN HEARTLAND By: My Catbird Seat Tags: * CORPORATE MEDIA * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * CURRENT EVENTS * EUROPE * FRANCE * GREAT BRITAIN * HAWAII * ISRAEL * LEBANON * MIDDLE EAST * PAKISTAN / INDIA * PALESTINE * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION * PROTESTS/REVOLUTION * VIDEO * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS * WHITE HOUSE Franklin Lamb — Shatila Camp For some brief history, first please watch this documentary video by Robert Fisk, a colleague and veteran journalist: The Palestine Civil Rights Campaign-Lebanon and the Washington DC-Beirut based Sabra Shatila Foundation have released a copy of the Open Letter that was delivered this morning in Rome to representatives of Pope Benedict XVI and Lebanon’s Marionite Patriarch, Cardinal Nassrallah Sfeir on the occasion of the VATICANS 2010 SPECIAL SYNOD ON THE MIDDLE EAST Oct 24 05:52 The Rising Tide of Ethno-Nationalism: Multiculturalism Fails in Europe By: poorrichard Tags: * EUROPE * IMMIGRATION/NAU/GLOBALISM Is Europe's adventure in international living about to end? At Potsdam, Germany, this weekend, Chancellor Angela Merkel told the young conservatives of her Christian Democratic Union that Germany's attempt to create a multicultural society where people "live side by side and enjoy each other" has "failed, utterly failed." Backing up her rueful admission are surveys showing 30 percent of Germans believe the country is overrun by foreigners. An equal number believe the foreigners come to feed off German welfare. » * 4 comments Oct 24 05:40 WHEN WILL THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE END? – DR. BOUTHAINA SHAABAN By: Elias Tags: * ASSASSINATION * CORPORATE MEDIA * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * CURRENT EVENTS * HIDDEN HISTORY * ISRAEL * MIDDLE EAST * PALESTINE * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION * PROTESTS/REVOLUTION * RELIGION/ATHEISM * TORTURE/WAR CRIMES * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS * WHITE HOUSE Do Western politicians, who flatter Israeli war criminals like Benjamin Netanyahu, by calling Israel ‘and oasis of democracy’ know this? Why don’t the Americans spread freedom and human rights in Palestine instead of supporting and funding torture, murder and settlement? Or do they view Palestinians as they viewed red Indians in America and the aborigines in Australia as people without human rights and whose life is not equal to human life? Oct 24 05:36 VATICAN MIDEAST SYNOD ENDS WITH CRITICISM OF ISRAEL By: Elias Tags: * CORPORATE MEDIA * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * CURRENT EVENTS * ISRAEL * MIDDLE EAST * PALESTINE * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION * PROTESTS/REVOLUTION * TORTURE/WAR CRIMES * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS * WHITE HOUSE Israel cannot use the biblical concept of a promised land or a chosen people to justify new settlements in Jerusalem or territorial claims, a Vatican synod on the Middle East said Saturday. Oct 24 04:59 PRESS TV’S ARASH ZAHEDI TALKS TO JAMES MORRIS ON US-SAUDI ARMS DEAL [VIDEO] By: Elias Tags: * ASSASSINATION * CORPORATE MEDIA * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * CURRENT EVENTS * DICTATORSHIP * IRAN * IRAQ * ISRAEL * LEBANON * MIDDLE EAST * PALESTINE * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION * PROTESTS/REVOLUTION * RELIGION/ATHEISM * TORTURE/WAR CRIMES * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS * WHITE HOUSE * WMD The Neocon plan: rattle the sword for Americans to hear so the US will give permission to Israel to bomb Iran Oct 24 04:35 Robert Fisk: They're Trying To Sell the Brooklyn Bridge Again By: StingRay Tags: * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * CURRENT EVENTS * IRAN * IRAQ * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS * WHITE HOUSE * WMD The real problem, of course, is that we are sold the Brooklyn Bridge over and over again. Now here's a good quote. "Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear bomb, where the Iranians are trying to perfect a nuclear option." This prediction was not made by Benjamin Netanyahu but – and thank God for Roger Cohen who spotted this particular Brooklyn Bridge – by then prime minister Shimon Peres, now president of Israel, in 1996. And four years earlier, the very same Peres predicted that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1999. » * Oct 24 01:30 Foreclosure Fight Heads To The Courts Where Judges Are Finally Respecting The Law By: Pitchfork Tags: * ECONOMY Katherine M. Porter, a visiting law professor at Harvard University and an expert on consumer credit law, said that lenders were wrong to minimize problems with the legal documentation. “The misbehavior is clear: they lied to the courts,” she said. “The fact that they are saying no one was harmed, they are missing the point. They did actual harm to the court system, to the rule of law. We don’t say, ‘You can perjure yourself on the stand because the jury will come to the right verdict anyway.’ That’s what they are saying.”? October 23, 2010 Oct 23 22:07 California Is Broke – 19 Reasons Why It May Be Time For Everyone To Leave The State Of California For Good By: Alex2245 Tags: * ECONOMY Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a seemingly endless parade of pop songs about how great life was in California, and millions of young Americans dreamed of moving to the land of sandy beaches and golden sunshine. But now all of that has changed. Today, millions of Californians are dreaming about leaving the state for good. The truth is that California is broke. The economy of the state is in shambles. The official unemployment rate has been sitting above 12 percent for an extended period of time, and poverty is everywhere. » * Oct 23 21:40 Big Problem for Banks: Due Process Tags: * ECONOMY So there you have it. Having convinced millions of Americans to buy homes they couldn’t afford, Bank of America is now revving up its foreclosure efforts on these same homeowners. At the same time, having sold tens of thousands of these same terrible loans to investors, it is going to spend tens of millions of dollars on lawyers to keep from having to buy back their junky loans. Apparently, being the biggest bank in the country means never having to say you’re sorry. This story misses the main point. Bank of America re-sold the same mortgages over and over into different investment packages! That is felony fraud! Oct 23 21:38 Zionist Patsy Adam Gadahn Calls For Terror Attacks In Multiple Cities By: Alex2245 Tags: * CURRENT EVENTS Adam Gadahn, the grandson of former Anti-Defamation League board member Carl K. Pearlman, is a complete patsy, trained by rogue elements of the Mossad to help further the fraudulent war on terror. The ADL was caught spying on the United States in 1993 and openly works for the interests of Zionist Israel. Sadly, most people refuse to do the little research it takes to realize that this is no conspiracy theory. Our government funded/created Al Qaeda. This is open knowledge that cannot be debunked. » * 1 comment Oct 23 21:18 Gulf Oil Spill: Mission Accomplished or Ongoing Crisis? By: Alex2245 Tags: * GULF OIL DISASTER The corporate media has almost entirely stopped covering the Gulf oil spill. Many have tried to say that the effects of the spill are not nearly as bad as feared, and that everything is pretty much cleaned up and back to normal. But today, it is widely being reported that there are currently massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in the Gulf of Mexico . And websites like Florida Oil Spill Law (FOSL) have tirelessly been reporting on the Gulf oil spill this whole time. Oct 23 21:16 Airborne laser fails 2nd shootdown test in row Tags: * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS A converted Boeing Co 747 equipped with a powerful laser failed to shoot down a mock enemy ballistic missile, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said on Thursday, the system's second botched flight test in a row. In other news, a mysterious hole appeared through the image of Lincoln at Mount Rushmore. A Pentagon spokesslug suggested that the hole, bored clean through 50 feet of solid rock,. might be the work of extraterrestrial aliens angered over humans' refusal to give their money to Al Gore. Oct 23 21:14 Detroit Targeted By Terrorists Tags: * CURRENT EVENTS Like the auto industry didn't wreck them enough! » * 1 comment^ Oct 23 20:05 American Corporate-Owned Monopoly Media: YOUR ENEMY! By: jackrabbit Tags: * CORPORATE MEDIA Gold is just a metal. Reputation, ethics, morality, respect - that's the real gold. There is no substitute for the real deal. JFK said: Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I agree wholeheartedly. » * 1 comment Oct 23 18:07 VIDEO: Felix Salmon Explains Why Lawsuits Are Flying At Banks Who Turned Crap Into Triple AAA By: Pitchfork Tags: * ECONOMY Video: Felix Salmon says investment banks face massive legal risk due to the way they built their mortgage bonds. He explains EXACTLY how banks built these bonds - with lies and cover-ups every step of the way. Runs Just 2 Minutes. Solid explanation with excellent detail. GREAT CLIP!!! » * 1 comment Oct 23 17:41 Healthy 16 y/o goes gulf swimming, then hospitalized with "compromised lung" & "enlarged heart" By: kdtroxel Tags: * CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS * GULF OIL DISASTER * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION * PROTESTS/REVOLUTION * SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE * VIDEO Healthy 16 y/o goes swimming, then hospitalized with "compromised lung" & "enlarged heart" Full Interview: Environment America in Mobile on 6 Month Anniversary of BP Spil October 20, 2010 Press Conference in Mobile organized by Environment America on the 6 Month Anniversary of the BP Blowout. Featuring Heather Emmert from Environment America, David Underhill from Sieraa Club, Robin Young from Guardians of the Gulf, Captain Lori DeAngelis, and David Pham from Boat People SOS » * Oct 23 16:54 NUGGETS OF ISRAELI RACISM Tags: * ISRAEL * RELIGION/ATHEISM “Non-Jews exist to serve Jews” and other nuggets of racism Oct 23 16:53 Beware of Facebook's Beacon? By: chillyphantom Tags: * CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS * CURRENT EVENTS * DICTATORSHIP * EDUCATION The new Facebook advertising system, codenamed Beacon, represents an innovative approach to online marketing, but it also marks an additional step in the ongoing erosion of consumer privacy. There are two primary aspects of the new Facebook ad system. The first is the expansion of the "friends" concept so that you can be friends (articulated as Fans) of a brand or company. Any company or organization can now establish a profile on Facebook and solicit support from other users. Each time a user adds the company as a friend, their connections are notified that they support that brand. Oct 23 16:46 LAMEST WIKILEAK SO FAR … IS ISRAEL BEHIND IT? By: wdon Tags: * CURRENT EVENTS * IRAQ * ISRAEL * MIDDLE EAST * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION * TORTURE/WAR CRIMES * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Only Israel has the penetration of the Department of Defense that would allow this kind of spying. Not only can they do it, they also have so many spies in the American chain of command, they could easily prevent it. Who has the facilities to gather and filter this much data? Who would want to? With the biggest story in Iraq the falsified intelligence on “weapons of mass destruction,” why didn’t Wikileaks get us documents on this? Exposing this real Iraq scandal would do some good, except for one thing, friends of Israel inside the Pentagon were the creators of this program. Is this why Wikileaks dodges the real issues? Is it because the trail for much of what happened in Iraq heads directly to Tel Aviv? » * 1 comment Oct 23 16:46 Wikileaks under doubt as “classified” documents substantiate bogus U.S. claims Tags: * COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA The fact that the supposedly damaging leaks are in fact bolstering American accusations against Iran while minimizing American complicity in Iraqi deaths leads some to believe that the leaks are in fact engineered by the Pentagon to either discredit Wikileaks, or are in conjunction with Wikileaks which is a U.S. government outfit. Oct 23 16:30 Fight Back! -- Obama Spends $200 Million On Stimulus Signs -- See A Sign, Take A Picture, Send It In! By: Pitchfork Tags: * ECONOMY Video: Be a Citizen Watchdog -- $192 million for stimulus signs MUST SEE PHOTO: Double the Stimulus Double The Fun --- » * 2 comments Oct 23 16:10 Panda: Mac is less secure than Windows, here's an antivirus By: chillyphantom Tags: * COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY * CURRENT EVENTS The number of Mac OS vulnerabilities has quintupled in less than a year. In 2009, 34 vulnerabilities were detected for Mac OS. So far in 2010, this number has risen to 175 vulnerabilities. Furthermore, the platform can also be affected by 170,000 macro viruses for Windows and there are 5,000 classified strains of malware that specifically target Apple systems, according to Panda Security. » * Oct 23 16:06 Making The American Wage Slave By: jackrabbit Tags: * ECONOMY This is the government's economic plan for recovery of the American economy? Oct 23 15:26 Weimar in Jerusalem: the rise of fascism in Israel By: Redress Tags: * CURRENT EVENTS * ISRAEL * MIDDLE EAST * PALESTINE Uri Avnery warns that fascism will overwhelm Israel unless progressive forces "awake from the coma, understand what is happening and where it is leading to, protest and struggle by all available means ... in order to arrest the fascist wave that is threatening to engulf us". Oct 23 14:43 French pension reform vote passed by parliament By: Nilwik Tags: * EUROPE * FRANCE So even the fact that 4 million French people demonstrate against this reduction of the social safety net that they have paid all their lives for, they donated it to the horse traders of the banking world, The French elite have take a dump down the throats of the people tehy are suppose to serve. Mr Dr. Guillotin Should have the Nobel peace prize! Oct 23 13:47 Tarpley: US exports depression to China By: portos Tags: * ECONOMY * VIDEO If you look at the global economy and take a look at growth, China is in the lead and in some cases is leaving the world in the dust. Is China to blame for the recession in the United States and has the US declared economic warfare? Maybe it is time for America to take a page out of China's playbook for economic success. Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar and Investigative journalist Webster Tarpley join RT's Kristine Frazao to discuss the world's economy and Chinas place in it. Oct 23 13:42 Gerald Celente: US Elections - "It's more of the same" By: portos Tags: * ECONOMY * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION * VIDEO Oct 23 13:40 No coincidence - Assange and Gadahn's new "leaks" By: mytrueword Tags: * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * CURRENT EVENTS * IRAN * IRAQ * ISRAEL * TORTURE/WAR CRIMES * WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS * WHITE HOUSE Saturday, October 23, 2010 No coincidence - Assange and Gadahn's new "leaks" Asking the fox to investigate the chicken house certainly won't result in any military or government heads rolling but for those who think Wikileaks is working for the CIA what is planned is that the Wikileaks Propaganda Helps Build A Case for Attacking Iran. With reports like "how Iran devised new suicide vest for al-Qaeda to use in Iraq," war crimes by the U.S. and/or Israel against Iran can be looked at as justifiable. The Mossad front SITE[https://www.siteintelgroup.com/Pages/Default.aspxinstitute ]most likely had the the latest Gadahn video 'in the can' and ready for release as soon as Wikileaks gave the world their Iraq 'leaks.' Oct 23 13:40 Aussie MUA Union Leader Kevin Bracken Questions Official 911 Story. By: portos Tags: * 911 * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * VIDEO Oct 23 13:38 “The Arsonists burning Down the House” – Max Keiser Truth About Markets USA 10.23.2010 By: portos Tags: * ECONOMY * VIDEO Oct 23 12:51 America declared that ninety six percent of the Gulf of Mexico is open to fishing By: Alex2245 Tags: * GULF OIL DISASTER The fact that 96% of the Gulf of Mexico is now open for fishing is scary. The chemicals from the dispersant used in the supposed clean up of the gulf mixed with the VOC’s are a very toxic combo. The fact is that poisons and toxins have not only harmed humans, they have also caused massive fish kills and an untold number of wildlife deaths. » * 1 comment Oct 23 12:49 'Even if the Israelis confess, I don't expect any justice from them' By: poorrichard Tags: * ISRAEL * PALESTINE Maysa Samouni, whose husband Tawfiq, 21, was killed and baby daughter Jumana, now two, was injured in the building struck by missiles on 5 January, 2009, was unmoved yesterday by the progress of the investigation into the attack. "The court wouldn't bring back my husband," she said. "Even if they [the Israelis] confessed that they shot at the warehouse crowded with the civilians, I didn't expect any justice from them." Oct 23 12:03 French pension reform vote passed by parliament By: poorrichard Tags: * FRANCE * POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION The French parliament has narrowly given its approval to the pension reforms which have caused a wave of strikes, demonstrations and protests across France, leading to traffic chaos and petrol shortages. The senate voted 177 to 153 to approve measures including a rise in the official retirement age from 60 to 62. The lower house, the national assembly, had earlier given its assent. The vote came after the right-of-centre government of President Nicolas Sarkozy used emergency clauses in the constitution to push through the reforms. The reforms had stalled in the senate after opposition members tabled hundreds of amendments leading to three weeks of debate. » * Oct 23 11:30 CLIMATEGATE: A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY Tags: * CLIMATEGATE Please report everywhere in support of California's Prop 23. DON'T GET BULLED BY A GORE! » * 2 comments^ Oct 23 10:50 Blago retrial delayed till April Tags: * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA A federal judge in Chicago today granted a defense request to delay the retrial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) from January until April 20, a Chicago source confirms. That would put the trial after the Feb. 22 election and even after a runoff, if necessary, slated for April 5. That's all good news for mayoral candidate and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who was subpoenaed as a defense witnesses at Blago's first trial but never called. The judge is encouraging defense lawyers to change their tactics, so it could be that Emanuel might fit into their revised case. But, even if he does, he'll already have been either defeated for elected to the mayor's job. How magnificently convenient for Emanuel! » * 1 comment^ Oct 23 10:44 PRESIDENT CARTER JOINS WEEKLY DEMONSTRATION IN SHEIKH JARRAH Tags: * ISRAEL * PALESTINE Report from beyond the green line: Al Ma’asara celebrates four years of joint struggle and houses set on fire from tear gas in Nabi Saleh » * 1 comment^ Oct 23 10:42 7 banks closed in Fla., Ga., Ill., Kan., Ariz. Tags: * ECONOMY Regulators on Friday shut down a total of seven banks in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas and Arizona, lifting to 139 the number of U.S. banks that have fallen this year as soured loans have mounted and the economy has sputtered. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over the banks, the largest of which by far was Hillcrest Bank, based in Overland Park, Kan., with $1.6 billion in assets. One cannot look at these continuing bank closures and say the words "economic recovery" with a straight face, as those in the White House have done recently. Oct 23 10:39 Weimar in Jerusalem: the rise of fascism in Israel By: sabbah Tags: * ISRAEL * MIDDLE EAST * PALESTINE Yitzhak Herzog, the minister of welfare in the Netanyahu government, a member of the Labour party, the grandson of a chief rabbi and the son of a president, said a few days ago that "fascism is touching the margins of our society". He was wrong: fascism is not only touching the margins, it is touching the government in which he is serving, and the Knesset, of which he is a member. Oct 23 10:38 UN Peacekeepers Complicit in Sex Trade By: sabbah Tags: * TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Unfortunately sexual abuse, rape, and sex trafficking are more commonplace than occasional, wherever Blue Helmets are deployed. Blue Helmet abuses, including trading food for sex with girls as young as eight in Liberia, said also to go on in Burundi, Ivory Coast, East Timor, DR Congo, Cambodia, and Bosnia. Various other reports were similar, abuses including sex with young girls, rape and trafficking. Oct 23 10:38 Nation's Biggest Banks Each Hold over $20B in Foreclosures: Report Tags: * ECONOMY New data released this week shows that the nation’s largest banks are holding monstrous volumes of soured home loans. Not only has the housing crisis left major lenders knee-deep in an ocean of non-performers, but added exposure to early delinquencies means they could sink even deeper. Oh yes, let us all feel sorry for the poor beleaguered lenders! Those greedy bastard money-addicts created this mess! First a real-estate froth-up to drive home prices higher, to bring more interest to the banks on home mortgages. Then, using teaser rates and a government supplied $8000 tax credit to lure more buyers into the mortgages. But remember that the goal here was not a home bubble, but a home MORTGAGE bubble, as those mortgages were bundled up and sold as investment vehicles. Ah, but here is the problem! The mortgages were sold multiple times into multiple mortgage-backed securities! This is criminal fraud. And because the mortgage payments can only go to service one mortgage, a lot of those mortgage-backed securities being sold for billions of dollars in fast profits were worthless! This, of course, created a situation where the bankers who bundled and over-sold those mortgages need the bad paper to go away and the fastest way to do that is crash the economy and foreclose all the mortgages good and bad, to bury the evidence (along with the home owners). This is the scene in the show "The Producers" in which the accountant tells the producer that it might be possible to make more money by over-subscribing a show designed to fail then by actually working to produce a hit. All very funny in the stage play and the film until you realize that this is exactly what the nation's financial corporations have done to us all! They over-subscribed the mortgage backed securities, making billions by re-selling the same mortgages over and over again up to 20 times, then foreclosed on the properties to cover the over-subscription! And Congress, themselves invested in the firms that owned those mortgage backed securities, went along with the scam! The housing market is being intentionally crashed by the banks and the US Government! Oct 23 10:36 Hate-filled Israeli rabbis incite violence against non-Jews By: sabbah Tags: * ISRAEL * MIDDLE EAST * PALESTINE Israel appears to be awash with Jewish hate preachers. In the past, rabbis who issued racist edicts or offensive remarks about Palestinians or non-Jews were generally dismissed as radicals and extremists who were no more than a trifling annoyance to be ignored in the hope that they would simply go away. However, it is now clear that ignoring this problem has only made it worse. Oct 23 10:35 Double Agent Gadahn turns up the volume; calls for attacks in U.S. By: ActivistPost Tags: * 911 * AFGHANISTAN * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA * ISRAEL * MIDDLE EAST CAIRO — A U.S.-born spokesman for al-Qaida on Saturday urged Muslims living in the United States and Europe to carry out attacks there, calling it a duty and an obligation. In a 48-minute video posted on militant websites, Adam Gadahn directed his appeal to Muslim immigrants in what he called the "miserable suburbs" of Paris, London and Detroit, as well as those traveling to the West to study or work. » * 1 comment Oct 23 10:34 US Justice Department abandons murder case against Blackwater contractor Tags: * COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA The US Justice Department said Monday it would not seek charges against Andrew J. Moonen. The Blackwater Worldwide military contractor had been accused of killing a guard assigned to an Iraqi vice president on December 24, 2006. The government’s abandonment of the case against Moonen is the latest instance in which security guards working with Blackwater, now known as Xe Services, have been allowed to walk free after committing brutal crimes against the Iraqi and Afghan population. Other prosecutions of Blackwater personnel have been blocked due to immunity deals struck with the accused. "Justice" in the United States is always available...for a price. Oct 23 10:31 Hate-filled Israeli rabbis incite violence against non-Jews Tags: * ISRAEL Vitriolic racism and hatred has become the Israeli norm. What is particularly disturbing is that leading Israeli rabbis, who are meant to be the spiritual and moral guides of the Jewish people, are actually encouraging racism, physical violence and even the killing of Palestinians. The term "hate preacher" has often been used in the Western media about Muslims but it seems more appropriate to describe some of the Israeli rabbis for their recent statements and guidance. One would think that the descendants of people who endured what the Jewish people endured under the Hitler would be the poster children for tolerance and respect for all; unfortunately, the collective Israeli psyche has moved in the absolutely opposite direction.