Andrew Levine’s article, “Existential Threat” (below) honestly and accurately exposes
-decades-
of Israeli maneuvering around and out of any serious peace process.

Already in the first Camp David accords with Egypt,

Menachim Begin was recorded saying that he would rather cut his arm off

than sign any peace agreement with Egypt.

At that time,

the United States was indeed in a position to “impose” peace on Israel.

Today however things are different.

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From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”),

comes INSIDE JOB,

the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008.

[ 2008 ?  Oh thank god that's over with, then ... ]

The global financial meltdown,

at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs.

Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders,

politicians

and journalists,

[ UNCENSOR'S  WARNING  :  Some of these people may have personally helped to get you into this shit,

in the first place  ]

INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships

which have corrupted politics,

regulation

and academia.

Watch trailer here

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The violent and unprovoked arrests of 5 international and Israeli activists on Friday 14 of August
represented a step up in the brutal Israeli suppression of creative non-violent political protest in Hebron.
In defiance of Military Order 101 which outlaws any political protest involving more than 10 people,
international and Palestinian activists have been gathering every Saturday
to protest the Israeli closure of Shuhada Street to Palestinians,
and the presence of illegal settlements and outposts throughout the area
and also in the very heart of the the Old City itself.

An interview with Najwa Sultan of al Bwere a small village on the outskirts of Hebron.
This small village has the fortune to be located around a fertile valley full of grapes,olives and fruit trees
however it also borders the illegal settler out-post of the illegal settlement Givat Harsina.
The outpost is situated on a hillside overlooking al Bwere and on the so called ‘buffer-zone’ which is supposed to protect the large settlement suburb of Hasina from Palestinian ‘terror’.
In reality it not only denies the local farmers the opportunity to farm their land
but provides the extreme elements of the settler movement a base
from which to develop the Palestinian land for themselves
and to launch regular and violent attacks on the village and villagers of al Bwere.

Unfortunately these predations on the people of al Bwere are actively supported
not only by the collusion of the local Police and Army,
many of whom live alongside the settlers in Givat Harsina,
but also the entire military justice system which judges all Palestinians guilty by birth.

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have reached the Gaza Strip,

despite Israel’s strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian territory.

The end of the mission to symbolically break the siege came

after Israel backed down from an earlier warning

to the ‘Free Gaza’ protest group not to breach the blockade.

[ Hooray for Israel for exorcising some bloody restraint.

Welcome to The Human Race,

-guys- ]

Read the rest here :

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/08/20088231408112340.html

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It’s time to put an end to their 9 year uninterrupted celebration of death and destruction.

Especially since we’ve been footing the bill.

“September 11th attacks good for Israel” – Israeli PM Netanyahu

And that noise they make is just plain creepy. ]

[ I read a quote somewhere once that basically said one of the roles of science fiction is to 'prevent the future' ]

We invite you to join us as we host 8 panel discussions over 2 days

which will explore the important changes in our world since the attacks of 9/11

and the ever increasing need to understand its relevance.

On the 9th anniversary of these attacks we can look back on 2 wars,

2 U.S. Administrations,

a world financial crisis

and the impact on culture both home and abroad.

Of particular interest will be the changes in the face of the military,

the surveillance state,

the media,

the economy,

politics

and corporatism

that have been cast by the official government narrative of the attacks

and the struggle against empire embodied in these changes.

Read the rest here

[ h / t : wrh ]

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on January 27, 2009.

It is based on Jean Ziegler’s latest book “Hatred of the West”

(La Haine de l’Occident – Albin Michel, October, 2008)

Jean Ziegler, one of the leading proponents in the world today for justice and the right to food and human dignity for all people,

reaches out in particular to the poverty-stricken people in the South.

He has been leading a passionate fight over the past few decades against the appalling callousness and blindness of the West,

the greed of multinational corporations that run the global financial system.

Their only interest is squeezing out maximum profit at the expense of the millions of starving people in the world.

Read the rest at Axis of Logic.com

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Video:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/924.html

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for failing to produce documents on the CIA’s testing of hundreds of kinds of drugs

- including sarin and phosgene nerve gas and LSD

- on thousands of soldiers.

Read the rest here

[ & speaking of tabs for the lads : ]

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is commonly used to try to discredit criticism of the powerful in government or business.

[ .. or both ]

For example, just this week – after Tony Blair was confronted by the Iraq Inquiry

with evidence

that he had used lies to sell the Iraq war

[ ... which he did do, by the way ... ]

- Blair dismissed the entire Iraq Inquiry as simply being part of Britain’s “obsession with conspiracy theories”.

(Not only did Blair know that Saddam possessed no WMDs,

but the French this week accused Blair of using of ‘Soviet-style’ propaganda in run-up to the Iraq war).

Of course, the American government has been busted in the last couple of years in numerous conspiracies.

For example, William K. Black – professor of economics and law,

and the senior regulator during the S & L crisis

- says that that the government’s entire strategy now

- as during the S&L crisis

- is to cover up how bad things are

(“the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts”).

Similarly , 7 out of the 8 giant, money center banks went bankrupt in the 1980’s during the “Latin American Crisis”,

and the government’s response was to cover up their insolvency.

And the government spied on American citizens

(even before 9/11

… confirmed

here

and

here),

while saying “we don’t spy”.

The government tortured prisoners in Iraq,

but said “we don’t torture”.

[ A cell phone photo of a human piece of shit,

wearing gloves,

"not torturing anyone" ]

In other words, high-level government officialave conspired to cover up the truth.

And Tom Brokaw notes:

“All wars are based on propaganda.”

[ As in 'Truth Being The First Casualty' of said wars, and so on ]

A concerted effort to produce propaganda is a conspiracy.

Acceptable Versus Unacceptable Conspiracy Theories

Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was a conspiracy.

The heads of Enron

were found guilty of conspiracy,

as was the head of Adelphia.

Numerous lower-level government officials have been found guilty of conspiracy.

See this,

this,

this,

this

and

this.

Time Magazine’s financial columnist Justin Fox writes:

“Some financial market conspiracies are real …

Most good investigative reporters are conspiracy theorists, by the way.”

Indeed, conspiracies are so common that judges are trained to look at conspiracy allegations as just another legal claim

to be disproven or proven by the evidence.

But – while people might admit that corporate executives and low-level government officials might have engaged in conspiracies

- they may be strongly opposed to considering that the wealthiest or most powerful might possibly have done so.

Indeed, those who most loudly attempt to ridicule and discredit conspiracy theories

tend to focus on defending against criticism involving the powerful.

This may be partly due to psychology:

it is scary for people to admit that those who are supposed to be their “leaders”

protecting them

may in fact be human beings with complicated motives

who may not always have their best interests in mind.

And see

this.

For example :

Obama’s current head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

- and a favored pick for the Supreme Court (Cass Sunstein)

[ asshole ]

- previously:

Defined a conspiracy theory as

“an effort to explain some event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people,

who have also managed to conceal their role.”

He has called for the use of state power

to crush conspiracy allegations of state wrongdoing.

[ ... and it is this 'calling for the use of state power to crush conspiracy allegations of state wrongdoing',

that makes him an asshole ]

See this,

this

and

this.

Similarly:

Michael Kelly, a Washington Post journalist

and neoconservative critic of anti-war movements on both the left and right,

coined the term “fusion paranoia”

to refer to a political convergence of left-wing and right-wing activists

around anti-war issues and civil liberties,

which he claimed were motivated by a shared belief in conspiracism or anti-government views.

In other words, prominent neocon writer Kelly believes that

everyone who is not a booster for government power and war is a crazy conspiracy theorist.

Similarly, psychologists who serve the government

eagerly label anyone

“taking a cynical stance toward politics, mistrusting authority, endorsing democratic practices,

… and displaying an inquisitive, imaginative outlook”

as crazy conspiracy theorists.

This is not really new.

In Stalinist Russia,

anyone who criticized the government was labeled crazy,

and many were sent to insane asylums.

Using the Power of the State to Crush Criticism of the Government

The bottom line is that the power of the state

is used to crush criticism of major government policies and actions

(or failures to act)

and high-level government officials.

Pay attention, and you’ll notice that criticism of “conspiracy theories”

is usually aimed at attempting to protect the state and key government players.

The power of the state is seldom used to crush conspiracy theories regarding people who are not powerful

. . . at least to the extent that they are not important to the government.

Source and source comments here

Watch the whole thing on pootube

the valuation of China’s currency,

and sanctions against Iran and North Korea might be fading,

a new set of squabbles arises immediately afterwards,

with tensions building and mounting in recent weeks over events in the Yellow Sea and the South China Sea,

and with the signs that the US is trying to meddle and dominate issues involving China.

[ What the fuck is wrong with some people ? ]

What irritates China more is,

in addition to Hillary Clinton’s aggressive diplomacy at an ASEAN Regional Forum meeting in Hanoi,

where she blatantly asserted US has “national interest” in the South China Sea,

[ I think what hilary really means is that the US has "international interest" in the South China Sea ]

that Pentagon

said Friday

the USS Washington

is heading for the Yellow Sea for the United States and South Korean naval and air units joint military exercises.

To this,

the Chinese public responds angrily,

accusing Washington

of needlessly escalating tensions in the region,

although the government is still edging its way in the diplomatic barbs being exchanged between the two powers.

Read the rest here

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