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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Ayodhya judgment to be available online
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Fwd: [bangla-vision] Student loses eye to CRPF sling-shot
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Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Student loses eye to CRPF sling-shot
To: bangla-vision@yahoogroups.com
From: Habib Yousafzai <habibyousafzai@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Student loses eye to CRPF sling-shot
To: bangla-vision@yahoogroups.com
Srinagar, Sept 29: The fears that government was risking the lives of students by decreeing them to attend schools amidst curfew and protests came true on Wednesday when a schoolboy lost his eye after being hit by a marble shot at him through sling shot allegedly by paramilitary CRPF troopers. Student loses eye to CRPF sling-shot
'Why Go To School, Follow Geelani's Calendar'
SAMAAN LATEEF
A 9th class student of Extol Bhawan School Awantibavan, Soura, Aabid Mushtaq, minutes after being brought out of Operation Theatre at SMHS Hospital here, while revealing his agony to Greater Kashmir said: "I came out on road to see whether my school bus has reached the pickup place. Two CRPF men caught hold of me and another one shot a marble in my left eye with a sling shot from close range. They also thrashed me with canes."
Aabid said he showed his identity card also but the troopers didn't honour it. "CRPF men told me that Kashmiri students need not attend schools," he said. "You are following Geelani's calendar. When you didn't go to school for past two days, what is the need to go today," he quoted the troopers as saying. "Follow Geelani's calendar," the boy was told while being thrashed.
Aabid's father, Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat, a businessman, said since there was no curfew or protests in the area he allowed his son to attend the school. "My son was profusely bleeding in the eye. His shirt was fully stained with blood when we took him to hospital," he said.
Muzaffar Ahmad, an eyewitness, said CRPF men ruthlessly beat up Aabid. "They later held him and one of them hit him with the marble," he said. "Kashmiri people are not safe in their own land. Forces are here to kill the people, not to provide security," he lamented.
Aabid was rushed to SKIMS from where doctors referred him to SMHS Hospital.
A senior doctor who operated upon Aabid told this reporter that Aabid's eye has been badly damaged with injury in eyeball. "He can't see with that eye. We can only try to repair the eye to avoid deformity in the face," the doctor said.
The doctor said that Aabid has been shot from very close range. "It is unbearable. Small kids are becoming visually handicapped in force's action," he said.
The family members said they requested the SHO Soura to register an FIR. But police denied, saying let the patient recuperate from the injury then only they could register a case.
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Fwd: [bangla-vision] Plan for multiple terror attacks uncovered 29 Sep 2010
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Subject: [bangla-vision] Plan for multiple terror attacks uncovered 29 Sep 2010
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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
29 Sep 2010
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How Did UT Shooter Tooley Get Mohammed Atta's Eyes, Eyebrows? --Another CIA Photoshop PSYOP? By Lori Price, http://www.legitgov.org/ 29 Sep 2010 On Tuesday, a 19-year-old student at the Austin campus of the University of Texas allegedly brandished an AK-47 and fired 'several shots' as he 'ran through the campus,' ultimately killing no one but himself... As the list of 'oddities' grows regarding this shooting incident as with so many others, he possibility of another CIA Photoshop PSYOP emerges. A comparison of the image of Mohammed Atta, one of the alleged masterminds and ringleader of the 9/11 terror attacks, and that of Colton Tooley, the alleged AK-47-toting math major, reveals a startling similarity between their eyes, eyebrows and hairlines.
Plan for multiple terror attacks uncovered 29 Sep 2010 Western intelligence agencies have disrupted plans for multiple attacks on European cities by a group thought to be linked to al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh], security sources have confirmed to the Financial Times. According to these sources, terrorist groups based in Pakistan were planning simultaneous strikes in London, as well as cities in France and Germany.
'Mumbai-style terror plot' against UK uncovered 29 Sep 2010 Intelligence officials have intercepted a credible Islamist-linked terror plot against Britain, it emerged today. The threat is one of "a succession" of terror operations [false flags] the country has been dealing with over the past weeks, a government official said, although the UK's terror alert status has not been raised from "severe". The planned attack would have reportedly been similar to the deadly commando-style raids in Mumbai, India, two years ago, with other European cities, in France and Germany, also targeted.
France on high alert after warnings of possible terrorist attacks --Although officials later dismissed the report as unreliable, they maintained the high alert. 28 Sep 2010 France is reportedly on a high alert following repeated intelligence warnings that terrorists may be planning to carry out attacks in the country. The French Interior Ministry had said that a foreign intelligence service had passed along a report suggesting that a female suicide bomber had planned to strike somewhere in Paris.
'Credible But Not Specific' Threat of New Terrorist Attack --Officials in Europe, US on High Alert for Commando-Style Raids After Capture of Suspected German Terrorist 28 Sep 2010 US and European officials said Tuesday they have detected a plot to carry out a major, coordinated series of commando-style terror attacks in Britain, France, Germany and possibly the United States. A senior US official said that while there is a "credible" threat, no specific time or place is known.
U.S. should be able to shut Internet, former CIA chief says --U.S. military has new Cyber Command to begin operations 1 October 26 Sep 2010 Cyberterrorism is such a threat that the U.S. president should have the authority to shut down the Internet in the event of an attack, Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said. Hayden made the comments during a visit to San Antonio where he was meeting with military and civilian officials to discuss cyber security. Hayden said the president currently does not have the authority to shut down the Internet in an emergency. [Yes, 'emergencies' such as exposing and resisting inevitable false flags, phony pandemics, and inside terror jobs.]
U.S. Is Working to Ease Wiretapping on the Internet --Mandate would include ability to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages 27 Sep 2010 Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is "going dark" as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications -- including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct "peer to peer" messaging like Skype -- to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order.
Money transfers could face anti-terrorism scrutiny --The new rule would require banks to disclose even the smallest transfers. 27 Sep 2010 The Obama administration wants to require U.S. banks to report all electronic money transfers into and out of the country, a dramatic expansion in efforts to counter terrorist financing and money laundering. Officials say the information would help them spot the sort of transfers that helped finance the 'al-Qaeda hijackers' who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
USC receives $15.3 million grant for its anti-terrorism center --CREATE will expand to include more than 20 research partners across the country, and pursue a research program of more than 35 projects a year. 28 Sep 2010 An anti-terrorism center at USC received a $15.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the university announced today. The grant was awarded to the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, which evaluates the risks, costs and consequences of terrorism and provides guidance on investments in homeland security.
FBI agents, supervisors 'cheated' in terrorism exam --Report found significant abuses and cheating involving at least 22 employees, including legal adviser 28 Sep 2010 FBI agents and several supervisors cheated in an exam about new rules for terrorism and criminal investigations and for collecting foreign intelligence, according to a US Justice Department report yesterday. The report found that some FBI employees improperly consulted colleagues while taking the exam, and others used or distributed answer sheets or study guides that provided the answers to the test.
10,000 TSA employees get secret clearances 23 Sep 2010 The new head of the Transportation Security Administration say he's giving 10,000 of the agency's employees access to secret intelligence information to better enable them to detect threats and stop terrorists grope more thirteen-year-olds. John Pistole told an aviation luncheon that he views TSA as a counterterrorism agency. He said his goal is to get the latest intelligence to all employees who have what he called an "action need" to "inform their judgment and decision-making."
CIA steps up drone attacks in Pakistan amid fear of al-Qaeda terror in Europe 29 Sep 2010 A sharply escalated campaign of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan is aimed in part at al-Qaeda units suspected of planning terrorist attacks on targets in Europe, a threat that U.S. officials described as "credible but not specific" enough to allow authorities to anticipate precisely where or when a strike might occur. The intensified bombing of targets in North and South Waziristan represents an expansion of the secret drone program from its origins as a weapon used in a selective hunt for high-ranking operatives to one now delivering a barrage of strikes in the hopes of disrupting a still-murky plot.
Pakistan furious over Nato cross-border CIA raids 27 Sep 2010 Pakistan reacted angrily today after Nato said US helicopters had crossed into its territory from Afghanistan to attack militants, claiming to have killed more than 50 Taliban fighters. The admission that two incursions had taken place over the weekend by helicopters from the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), and possibly a further cross-border raid today, came after recent reports of a covert CIA military force in Afghanistan that crosses into Pakistan to kill Taliban and al-Qaida fighters.
US judge declares mistrial in case of 2 ex-Blackwater contractors accused of killing Afghans 27 Sep 2010 A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of two former Blackwater mercenaries accused of murdering two unarmed Afghan civilians and wounding a third man in Kabul. The jury came out deadlocked just before 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) after several days of deliberations, WAVY-TV in Norfolk reported on its website. A new trial date was set for March 1.
Violence kills 100 Afghan police every month: govt 26 Sep 2010 Almost 2,000 Afghan police officers have been killed or injured by insurgents in the past six months as many are forced onto the frontline in the war against the Taliban, an official said Sunday. Taliban-style bomb attacks, suicide bombings, direct clashes and military operations had killed 595 police officers and wounded another 1,345, said Zemarai Bashary, spokesman for the interior ministry.
Israel commandos 'peacefully' board Jewish Gaza-bound aid boat --IDF says commandos peacefully intercepted the 'Irene', the latest vessel to try to breach an on the Palestinian territory in the wake of Israel's deadly flotilla raid in May. 28 Sep 2010 Israeli naval commandos have peacefully boarded a Jewish aid boat attempting to break a naval blockade on Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said at 11:30 A.M. Tuesday. "IDF naval forces recently boarded the yacht 'Irene', and it is currently being led to the Ashdod seaport along with its passengers," the military said in statement that branded the boat a "provocation yacht".
Insurance firms plan private navy to take on Somali pirates --Patrol boats crewed by armed guards to protect valuable ships in Gulf of Aden 28 Sep 2010 Insurers have drawn up plans for the world's first private navy to try to turn the tide against Somali pirates who continue to plague the global shipping industry by hijacking vessels for ransoms of more than £100m a year, The Independent has learnt. Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT), which insures 14 per cent of the world's commercial shipping fleet, said the unprecedented "private navy" would work under the direct control of the military with clear rules of engagement valid under international law. [?!?]
'We saw a bright glowing object like an eye': U.S. airman's startling testimony about UFO encounter near UK nuclear base --Retired officers call on Government to tell public the truth --Deactivation of nuclear weapons 'is a message' to human race 28 Sep 2010 An ex-U.S. air force chief has given an astonishing account of an encounter with a UFO at an air force base in Suffolk. Charles Halt is one of a number of senior former airmen who went public today over claims that UFOs had tampered with nuclear missiles in the U.S. and the UK. Mr Halt, who retired in 1991, told a press conference that he was working at RAF Bentwater near Rendelsham in Suffolk in 1980 when he had the terrifying encounter.
UN 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien visitors' [Glenn Beck?] 26 Sep 2010 A space ambassador could be appointed by the United Nations to act as the first point of contact for aliens trying to communicate with Earth. Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist, is set to be tasked with co-ordinating humanity's response if and when extraterrestrials make contact. Aliens who landed on earth and asked: "Take me to your leader" would be directed to Mrs Othman. She will set out the details of her proposed new role at a Royal Society conference in Buckinghamshire next week.
Officials: Lone Gunman in UT Shooting Was Student 28 Sep 2010 The gunman who opened fire today at the University of Texas' Austin campus before killing himself was a 19-year-old student, officials said. The suspect was identified as Colton Tooley, a sophomore math major from Austin, university spokesman Don Hale told AOL News in a phone interview. The suspect was wearing a ski mask and suit and carrying an AK-47 as he ran through the campus this morning, firing randomly before he went into the library and shot himself to death, according to officials and a witness. No other injuries were reported, but police locked down the sprawling campus earlier as they checked reports of a second gunman.
University of Texas shooting: Gunman dead; searching for second suspect 28 Sep 2010 3:49 p.m.: Authorities have concluded that the gunman acted alone, and the lockdown has ended at the Austin campus. A gunman fired "several shots" inside a library at the University of Texas and then shot himself, according to a breaking news report in the Austin American Statesman. Police "are looking for a possible second suspect" as of late this morning, the report says... Police told the paper they were concerned of a possible second suspect based on witness reports that raised that prospect. Witnesses reportedly described eight to 10 shots fired, "in short bursts," the account said, by a gunman wearing a black ski mask.
Lawyer Involved In Prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens 'Commits Suicide' 27 Sep 2010 NPR has learned that lawyer Nick Marsh took his own life over the weekend. Marsh was one of the lawyers who prosecuted former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens for corruption, a prosecution that failed amidst charges of misconduct. The Attorney General dropped that case, saying there were problems with sharing evidence with the defense. Marsh's lawyer, Bob Luskin, says he thought his client would not be charged. But apparently the strain of the investigation was just too much.
Wisconsin DA Accused of Sexual Harassment to Resign, Lawyer Says --DA Sends 30 Texts to Domestic Violence Victim 27 Sep 2010 The Wisconsin district attorney (R) accused of "sexting" women involved in cases he was prosecuting, including one alleged domestic violence victim, will resign from office, the attorney's lawyer said today. Calumet Country DA Ken Kratz had fought pressure to resign for two weeks since the allegations were first made public but decided to step down before the Oct. 8 court hearing that could have forced his removal, Kratz's attorney Robert Craanen told reporters after he met with his client at a Wisconsin courthouse, according to The Associated Press.
Dem Whip: GOP majority will issue birther subpoenas 27 Sep 2010 House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) warned Republicans will investigate President Obama's birthplace if they take over Congress. Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans will grind the government to a halt by issuing subpoenas against the Obama administration over a number of issues if they take power.
DeMint warns 99 other senators bills must pass through his office 29 Sep 2010 Sen. Jim DeMint, in an unusual assertion of unilateral power, warned the other 99 senators that for the rest of their legislative session this year, all bills and nominations that are slated for unanimous passage must go through his office for review. The move by the South Carolina Republican, who has a growing national following among conservative activists, is his most direct challenge yet to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and it's increased speculation that he's gunning for the Kentucky Republican's leadership post.
B*** me, Biden: Biden tells liberal base: 'Stop whining' 27 Sep 2010 Vice President Joe Biden on Monday urged Democrats to overcome their differences and support their candidates at the polls by telling them to "stop whining." During a fundraiser for New Hampshire Democratic candidates for the House and Senate, Biden said that Democrats should "remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives. This president has done an incredible job. He's kept his promises," according to a pool report. [See: 1 Million Strong in the Professional Left.]
Barack Obama under fire for grossly underestimating Gulf oil spill --White House commission finds that administration lost public trust and may have sabotaged clean-up operations 28 Sep 2010 The Obama administration lost the public trust and may have sabotaged clean-up operations in the Gulf of Mexico by grossly underestimating the amount of oil gushing from BP's broken Macondo well, according to a White House commission appointed to investigate the spill. In a scathing critique of the administration's handling of the disaster, the two co-chairs of the commission yesterday said government officials made a serious blunder by releasing early estimates of the spill that were about 60 times too low.
More than 100 Arrested at White House Demanding End to Mountaintop Removal By lacymacauley 27 Sep 2010 More than 100 people were arrested today during Appalachia Rising, the largest national protest to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. Arrests included Appalachian residents; retired coal miners; renowned climate scientist, James Hansen; and faith leaders. After a march from Freedom Plaza and a rally at Lafayette Park, more than 100 stage a sit-in in front of the White House to demand President Obama follow his own science and end mountaintop mining.
Many think health overhaul should do more, poll finds 26 Sep 2010 An Associated Press poll finds that Americans who think the law should have done more outnumber those who think the government should stay out of healthcare -- by 2 to 1. The poll found that about four in 10 adults think the new law did not go far enough to change the healthcare system, regardless of whether they support the law, oppose it or remain neutral.
Carter hospitalized but expected to resume tour 29 Sep 2010 While on tour promoting his 26th book, former president Jimmy Carter was hospitalized Tuesday in Cleveland with an upset stomach, but he was expected to resume his schedule Wednesday with two events in Washington, said a spokeswoman for the Carter Center. Carter, who will turn 86 on Friday, fell ill aboard a flight from Atlanta and was rushed by ambulance and Secret Service escort to MetroHealth Medical Center, where he was to remain overnight.
Downtown LA Hits All-Time High of 113 Degrees --Thousands are left without power after record temperatures 28 Sep 2010 The region is baking in a heat wave as September draws to a close. Downtown Los Angeles recorded an all-time record high of 113 degrees Monday as a heat wave continues to bake California, according to the National Weather Service. Weather forecaster Stuart Seto says the record high was reached about 12:15 p.m. Monday.
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Previous lead stories: CIA seeks to gag critics of terror hit list 27 Sep 2010 The Obama Administration is trying to use national security laws to pre-empt an embarrassing court case over its targeted assassinations of terror suspects. In papers filed over the weekend Leon Panetta, the head of the CIA, argued that American security would be breached if the lawsuit was heard in court. "This case cannot be litigated without risking or requiring the disclosure of classified and privileged intelligence information that must not be disclosed," he wrote.
Obama invokes 'state secrets' claim to dismiss suit against assassinating U.S. citizens 25 Sep 2010 The Obama administration urged a federal judge early Saturday to dismiss a lawsuit over its targeting of a U.S. citizen for killing overseas, saying that the case would reveal state secrets. The U.S.-born citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi, is a cleric now believed to be in Yemen... Civil liberties groups sued the U.S. government on behalf of Aulaqi's father, arguing that the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command's placement of Aulaqi on a capture-or-kill list of suspected terrorists -- outside a war zone and absent an imminent threat -- amounted to an extrajudicial execution order against a U.S. citizen.
Pentagon destroyed 10,000 copies of army officer's book 26 Sep 2010 The Pentagon has admitted buying up and destroying 10,000 copies of an insider's account of life in Afghanistan by an army intelligence officer. It said that the book, Operation Dark Heart by Lt Col Anthony Shaffer, threatened to divulge state secrets. Lt Col Shaffer, a bronze star recipient, said he had no intention of jeopardising American lives or damaging national security. "The whole premise smacks of retaliation," he told CNN. "Someone buying 10,000 books to suppress a story in this digital age is ludicrous."
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Fwd: CC Issue 29 Sep - Energy Security: An Annotated Military/ Security Bibliography
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Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:13 AM
Subject: CC Issue 29 Sep - Energy Security: An Annotated Military/ Security Bibliography
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Energy Security: An Annotated Military/Security Bibliography
(2010 Update)
By Rick Munroe
http://www.countercurrents.org/munroe290910.htm
A selected list of studies of various aspects of energy security (including peak oil) which have either been conducted by members of the military/security research community, or which raise issues with direct military/security relevance
UK Government's Oil Shock Warning
By Matthew Wild
http://www.countercurrents.org/wild290910.htm
A UK government minister is preparing for a coming global oil shock – a possible doubling of the price of oil. As Monday's UK Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, "Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, told the Liberal Democrat conference last week that in a world facing economic "shocks" it was possible that the price of oil would double from its current level of about $75 a barrel and that he had ordered his officials to look at the impact of a Seventies-style oil price spike on the British economy."
US Military Must Stop Using Oil In 30 Years,
Defense Think Tank Says
By Mason Inman
http://www.countercurrents.org/inman290910.htm
The success of the US military in coming decades will depend largely on the development of a world-wide system for producing a variety of biofuels, according to a new report released today. That way, the military can stay refueled and able to operate anywhere, even when petroleum supplies are tight. "Fueling the Future Force", by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a think tank based in Washington, D.C., makes a set of recommendations for the Department of Defense about how it can move toward running without any petroleum in 30 years' time
We Can't Use It – So Why The Heck Are We
Prospecting For New Oil?
By George Monbiot
http://www.countercurrents.org/monbiot300910.htm
Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can't afford to use existing reserves?
The Food Crisis Is Not About A Shortage Of Food
By Jim Goodman
http://www.countercurrents.org/goodman290910.htm
The food crisis of 2008 never really ended, it was ignored and forgotten. The rich and powerful are well fed; they had no food crisis, no shortage, so in the West, it was little more than a short lived sound bite, tragic but forgettable. To the poor in the developing world, whose ability to afford food is no better now than in 2008, the hunger continues
Israeli Ties – A Chance To Do The Right Thing
By Archbishop Desmond Tutu
http://www.countercurrents.org/tutu290910.htm
The University of Johannesburg's Senate will next week meet to decide whether to end its relationship with an Israeli institution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, on the grounds of that university's active support for and involvement in the Israeli military. Archbishop Desmond Tutu supports the move. He explains why
An Israeli Gandhi Seized At Sea
By Ira Chernus
http://www.countercurrents.org/chernus290910.htm
Shouldn't we be looking for the Israeli Gandhi? The search might not take as long as you think. There are plenty of Israeli Jews nonviolently resisting their own government's policies of occupation and oppression. The latest to find the public spotlight is Rami Elhanan, a former Israeli soldier who joined other Jewish activists from Israel and around the world as sailors for peace and justice on a boat called the Irene
Hungry In Gaza, More And More
By Eva Bartlett
http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett290910.htm
"The main reason for hunger in Gaza is Israeli politics on the people Gaza. Gaza is different than other places. When we have a disaster, we cannot leave our small piece of land to find work or safety elsewhere. We are trapped inside."
A Lie At The Heart Of Israel's Settlement Project
By Richard Irvine
http://www.countercurrents.org/irvine290910.htm
Settlements - or to describe them accurately, illegal Jewish only colonies - did not happen by accident; nor do they continue as some sort of unfortunate but unavoidable historical hangover. Rather they are central to Israel's entire policy with regard to the Palestinian territories
Imperial Israel
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman290910.htm
Peace is only possible if negotiated equally for both sides, a prospect nowhere in sight, nor is Palestine's legitimate Hamas government even invited to try. The entire process again is a sham, little more than theater, one side entirely excluded, a story-line with a familiar bad ending
Palestinian Authority Recommends
Whitewashing Gaza War Crimes
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman290910A.htm
Who do they serve anyway? It's clear from the sham peace talks and a new development. The Mahmoud Abbas-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) wants Israel absolved of accountability for Cast Lead crimes of war and against humanity. No matter that conclusive evidence exposed them, the result of the IDF's 23-day day rampage, killing over 1,400, injuring over 5,000, many severely, and practically leveling wide areas of Gaza, affecting mostly civilian and non-military related targets
Testimonies of Crimes Against Humanity
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Criminal Trial
Conservation Centre of Environmental & Reserves in Fallujah (CCERF) & Monitoring Net of Human Rights in Iraq
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A report
US-Led NATO Forces In Afghanistan
Extend War Into Pakistan
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali290910.htm
With three cross border attacks into Pakistani territory the US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan have apparently extended Afghan-war into Pakistan
The Jury Verdicts of IPT, Ranchi
By Gladson Dungdung
http://www.countercurrents.org/dungdung290910.htm
We are extremely pleased to inform you that we had organized a very successful Independence People's Tribunal on Operation Green Hunt in Ranchi on 25th and 26th of September, 2010 under the banner of the Jharkhand Alternative Development Forum with the support of Operation Green Hunt Virodhi Nagrik Manch, Jharkhand Indigenous People's Forum, Jharkhand Initiatives Desk, Jharkhand Jungle Bachao Andolan, Jharkhand Mines Area Coordination Committee and many other groups
Ayodhya Verdict: All Parties Must Act
To Face The Situation
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http://www.countercurrents.org/sachar290910.htm
It is only the weakness of political will that is responsible for the Ayodhya imbroglio to continue as one of the bitterest disputes within the country. By keeping the Ayodhya issue alive, the country has been kept away from addressing its most urgent task — how to meet the challenge of the growing pauperisation of the masses. And that includes both Hindus and Muslims
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Subject: CC Issue 29 Sep - Energy Security: An Annotated Military/ Security Bibliography
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
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Press Release
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Action Alert
http://www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm
Energy Security: An Annotated Military/Security Bibliography
(2010 Update)
By Rick Munroe
http://www.countercurrents.org/munroe290910.htm
A selected list of studies of various aspects of energy security (including peak oil) which have either been conducted by members of the military/security research community, or which raise issues with direct military/security relevance
UK Government's Oil Shock Warning
By Matthew Wild
http://www.countercurrents.org/wild290910.htm
A UK government minister is preparing for a coming global oil shock – a possible doubling of the price of oil. As Monday's UK Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, "Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, told the Liberal Democrat conference last week that in a world facing economic "shocks" it was possible that the price of oil would double from its current level of about $75 a barrel and that he had ordered his officials to look at the impact of a Seventies-style oil price spike on the British economy."
US Military Must Stop Using Oil In 30 Years,
Defense Think Tank Says
By Mason Inman
http://www.countercurrents.org/inman290910.htm
The success of the US military in coming decades will depend largely on the development of a world-wide system for producing a variety of biofuels, according to a new report released today. That way, the military can stay refueled and able to operate anywhere, even when petroleum supplies are tight. "Fueling the Future Force", by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a think tank based in Washington, D.C., makes a set of recommendations for the Department of Defense about how it can move toward running without any petroleum in 30 years' time
We Can't Use It – So Why The Heck Are We
Prospecting For New Oil?
By George Monbiot
http://www.countercurrents.org/monbiot300910.htm
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Fwd: Food list- The Cost of Cheap Meat - LA Times
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From: Paul Stephens <greateco@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:12 AM
Subject: Food list- The Cost of Cheap Meat - LA Times
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If you adjust for inflation and income, Americans have never spent less on food than they have in recent years. And yet many feel we've also never paid such a high price.
U.S. Department of Agriculture figures show the average American spent just 9.5 percent of his or her disposable income on food last year, a lower percentage than in any country in the world.
And although meat consumption has risen slightly over the past 40 years, its impact on the pocketbook is less than half of what it was in 1970, falling from 4.1 percent to 1.6 percent in 2008.
The majority of this cheap protein is delivered by "factory farms" that house thousands of animals in confinement. These concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, produce mass quantities of food at low cost.
"We have found the most efficient way to meet consumer demand for a high-quality, relatively inexpensive product," said Dave Warner, spokesman for the National Pork Producers Council in Washington, D.C. "We're the lowest-cost producer in the world, which is why we're the No. 1 pork exporter in the world."
But the system also has created disasters like last month's recall of half a billion salmonella-tainted eggs. Critics say the consolidation of food production has led to environmental damage, the loss of millions of small independent farms, rising health care expenditures and billions in tax-funded subsidies to produce cheap animal feed.
The U.S. House of Representatives held hearings this week on just what went wrong with the factory-farmed eggs implicated in the salmonella outbreak and whether regulation could have helped. But many environmentalists, farmers and advocates of "sustainable" food say that even with better regulation, this kind of agriculture is not sustainable and only artificially cheap.
"Cheap is in the eyes of the accountant," said Daniel Imhoff, a researcher who edited the new book "CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories." "Somehow we've forgotten how to add the total costs of cheap meat production to our health, environment, the loss of vibrant rural communities with lots of family farms."
The costs not calculated in the direct consumer price of meat and other animal products — called externalities — touch on a variety of issues. Among them:
Health
Meat producers put antibiotics in feed to make the animals grow faster and to prevent disease. But this summer, officials from several federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testified in support of new guidelines that would curb CAFOs' nontherapeutic use of antibiotics, citing a rise in dangerous antibiotic-resistant infections.
The meat industry objects, saying no studies directly link drug resistance in humans to the use of antibiotics in animals.
A cheap meat supply also may affect health by encouraging people to eat more of it. Americans already eat more protein than the USDA dietary guidelines recommend — an average of 5.5 ounces of protein from meat, fish, beans and nuts combined daily. The USDA is expected to add eggs to that list of protein sources this year.
According to a recently published Harvard School of Public Health study that followed 84,000 women over 26 years, women who ate two servings per day of red meat had a 30 percent higher risk of developing coronary heart disease than those who had half a serving per day.
"So maybe it's time to step back and ask if it really needs to be that cheap," said David Kirby, author of "Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment." "Maybe we don't need so much. Maybe we need better-quality animal products in moderation and less regularly."
Food safety
While some CAFO supporters say these operations benefit from having enough money to hire consultants who help create safer and more efficient facilities, the multiple violations at the huge Wright County Egg operation at the center of the salmonella outbreak show that larger doesn't always mean safer.
Last year, the Consumers Union found that two-thirds of American supermarket chickens they tested were contaminated with salmonella or campylobacter, another bacterium that can sicken humans.
The relatively rapid consolidation of U.S. meat, poultry, egg and dairy production and processing greatly increases the potential for these "problems to spread fast and wide throughout the food system," Imhoff said.
"Ideally eggs shouldn't have salmonella in them in the first place, and chickens grown in a more sustainable manner are less likely to carry it," Kirby said. "But if this were isolated to one (small) egg farm somewhere, we wouldn't have this massive problem."
As long as the factory-farming system is in place, stringent safety rules and better enforcement are needed, Kirby said. "Right now we just don't have enough inspectors and boots on the ground," he said.
Taxpayer dollars
The meat industry doesn't receive direct subsidies from the government. However, it relies heavily on cheap corn and soy feed whose farming soaks up billions in subsidies each year. It also receives government grants for CAFO pollution management, and the government bought $150 million of pork from an industry damaged last year by swine flu fears.
Environment
On small traditional farms, animal waste is used to fertilize crops. On CAFOs, there are not enough crops nearby to absorb the enormous amount of waste, which must be stored, pumped out and transported away.
Often, environmentalists say, the excrement creates toxic fumes (both while stored and when sprayed onto fields), leaks into waterways, runs off fields and spills from lagoons and transit vehicles.
In Iowa, home to hundreds of CAFOs, the Department of Natural Resources recorded that 99 waterways were contaminated enough in 2008 to cause fish kills and that 47 of the incidents that caused the contamination could be positively traced back to animal waste. Such contamination has killed as many as 150,000 aquatic animals at a time.
Activists say such figures underestimate the problem because they account only for spills that are reported and investigated.
"The problem is there is very little monitoring of the pollution big ag has caused because the agencies don't regulate," said Scott Edwards, director of advocacy at Waterkeeper Alliance.
An analysis by the Chesapeake Bay Program found that agriculture — both livestock and crops — is the single biggest source of pollution in the bay, contributing 42 percent of the nitrogen, 46 percent of the phosphorus and 76 percent of the sediment in the troubled waterway.
This year the Environmental Protection Agency found that 21 percent of the groundwater sampled in Washington's agricultural Yakima Valley contained unsafe levels of nitrates, leaving it unfit for residents to use. A final report is due out in coming weeks, but nitrogen-rich animal waste is a suspected contributor.
Defenders of CAFOs say environmental compliance is improving within the industry. "We support environmental standards, and problems are rare," Warner said. "That's not to say that there isn't anyone out there who is not up to the standards, but that happens in every industry."
Farms
Representatives of the meat industry acknowledge that consolidation has contributed to the loss of nearly 5 million independent family farms since 1935.
Some, they note, now work as hired contractors who produce uniform animals under the rules and specifications of huge companies like Tyson or Smithfield. "As a contract grower for Smithfield, you have a guaranteed income," Warner said.
Critics — including the USDA — say these practices put the remaining independent farmers at a disadvantage, especially when independents are given a lower price for their meat than the ones operating under contract.
Animal welfare
Supporters of CAFOs say housing animals this way protects them from predators and harsh weather and makes it easier to feed and medicate them. Animal rights supporters and other opponents say the crowded indoor conditions lead to stress that affects the animals' health and increases the likelihood of mass infection. They also object to what they view as mistreatment of the animals, such as the clipping of chicken beaks to prevent closely packed birds from wounding each other.
Pastured chickens, a niche industry, are often raised in moveable outdoor pens. But Richard Lobb, spokesman for the National Chicken Council, said switching to such a system would not be feasible or wise on a large scale.
"We raise 9 billion, with a B, birds a year, and if you were to try to (pasture all the birds) in the mainstream chicken industry you would need all of the farmland in the entire Deep South," he said.
Final words
Many in the meat industry say CAFO practices meet consumer demand for a uniform, inexpensive product. With a record number of Americans using food stamps, cheap food strikes Lobb as a strange thing to complain about.
"Our food bill is high enough as it is," he said. "I rejoice that there are people in this country who would be willing to pay a lot more for their food, but to me they are snobs."
Imhoff responds that investing in more sustainable food practices would save money elsewhere.
"What we will hear time and time again from the industry is that we can't afford to have increases in food production costs, but we haven't tried," he said. "And I don't think as a society, as a country, people wouldn't pay more if they understood what it took to make the food cheap."
Kirby added: "It's strange, in this country we are crazy about quality control for our kids' toys, bedding, car seats … but then we will go out and buy the cheapest food we can find.
"This is what we put in our mouth, what we feed our children," he said. "Why aren't we regulating it better and why is cheap such an important factor?"
meng@tribune.com --
"Science is not truth ... it may be learning but what you learn is not necessarily the truth, it's a piece of the truth not the whole.
Applied science that divorces itself from the consequences and effects of these isolated truths and says everything else is an untruth is the crux of the problem.
There are other valid truths which this kind of hubris refuses to see. Balance for one."
Shaharazade at Dailykos
From: Paul Stephens <greateco@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:12 AM
Subject: Food list- The Cost of Cheap Meat - LA Times
To: cascogreens listserve <CascadeCoGreens@yahoogroups.com>, Missoula listserve <GLMG_discussion@yahoogroups.com>, MT State Greens <MTStateGreens@yahoogroups.com>, Yellowstone Greens Forum <ycgforum@yahoogroups.com>
The costs of cheap meat
Critics of factory farms say we pay a high price for low-cost food
| Though consumption of meat in the U.S. has risen slightly over the past 40 years, production methods have enabled people to spend a smaller percentage of their income on it. (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune / January 26, 2010) |
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By Monica Eng, Tribune reporter
September 24, 2010|8:37 a.m.
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If you adjust for inflation and income, Americans have never spent less on food than they have in recent years. And yet many feel we've also never paid such a high price.
U.S. Department of Agriculture figures show the average American spent just 9.5 percent of his or her disposable income on food last year, a lower percentage than in any country in the world.
And although meat consumption has risen slightly over the past 40 years, its impact on the pocketbook is less than half of what it was in 1970, falling from 4.1 percent to 1.6 percent in 2008.
The majority of this cheap protein is delivered by "factory farms" that house thousands of animals in confinement. These concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, produce mass quantities of food at low cost.
"We have found the most efficient way to meet consumer demand for a high-quality, relatively inexpensive product," said Dave Warner, spokesman for the National Pork Producers Council in Washington, D.C. "We're the lowest-cost producer in the world, which is why we're the No. 1 pork exporter in the world."
But the system also has created disasters like last month's recall of half a billion salmonella-tainted eggs. Critics say the consolidation of food production has led to environmental damage, the loss of millions of small independent farms, rising health care expenditures and billions in tax-funded subsidies to produce cheap animal feed.
The U.S. House of Representatives held hearings this week on just what went wrong with the factory-farmed eggs implicated in the salmonella outbreak and whether regulation could have helped. But many environmentalists, farmers and advocates of "sustainable" food say that even with better regulation, this kind of agriculture is not sustainable and only artificially cheap.
"Cheap is in the eyes of the accountant," said Daniel Imhoff, a researcher who edited the new book "CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories." "Somehow we've forgotten how to add the total costs of cheap meat production to our health, environment, the loss of vibrant rural communities with lots of family farms."
The costs not calculated in the direct consumer price of meat and other animal products — called externalities — touch on a variety of issues. Among them:
Health
Meat producers put antibiotics in feed to make the animals grow faster and to prevent disease. But this summer, officials from several federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testified in support of new guidelines that would curb CAFOs' nontherapeutic use of antibiotics, citing a rise in dangerous antibiotic-resistant infections.
The meat industry objects, saying no studies directly link drug resistance in humans to the use of antibiotics in animals.
A cheap meat supply also may affect health by encouraging people to eat more of it. Americans already eat more protein than the USDA dietary guidelines recommend — an average of 5.5 ounces of protein from meat, fish, beans and nuts combined daily. The USDA is expected to add eggs to that list of protein sources this year.
According to a recently published Harvard School of Public Health study that followed 84,000 women over 26 years, women who ate two servings per day of red meat had a 30 percent higher risk of developing coronary heart disease than those who had half a serving per day.
"So maybe it's time to step back and ask if it really needs to be that cheap," said David Kirby, author of "Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment." "Maybe we don't need so much. Maybe we need better-quality animal products in moderation and less regularly."
Food safety
While some CAFO supporters say these operations benefit from having enough money to hire consultants who help create safer and more efficient facilities, the multiple violations at the huge Wright County Egg operation at the center of the salmonella outbreak show that larger doesn't always mean safer.
Last year, the Consumers Union found that two-thirds of American supermarket chickens they tested were contaminated with salmonella or campylobacter, another bacterium that can sicken humans.
The relatively rapid consolidation of U.S. meat, poultry, egg and dairy production and processing greatly increases the potential for these "problems to spread fast and wide throughout the food system," Imhoff said.
"Ideally eggs shouldn't have salmonella in them in the first place, and chickens grown in a more sustainable manner are less likely to carry it," Kirby said. "But if this were isolated to one (small) egg farm somewhere, we wouldn't have this massive problem."
As long as the factory-farming system is in place, stringent safety rules and better enforcement are needed, Kirby said. "Right now we just don't have enough inspectors and boots on the ground," he said.
Taxpayer dollars
The meat industry doesn't receive direct subsidies from the government. However, it relies heavily on cheap corn and soy feed whose farming soaks up billions in subsidies each year. It also receives government grants for CAFO pollution management, and the government bought $150 million of pork from an industry damaged last year by swine flu fears.
Environment
On small traditional farms, animal waste is used to fertilize crops. On CAFOs, there are not enough crops nearby to absorb the enormous amount of waste, which must be stored, pumped out and transported away.
Often, environmentalists say, the excrement creates toxic fumes (both while stored and when sprayed onto fields), leaks into waterways, runs off fields and spills from lagoons and transit vehicles.
In Iowa, home to hundreds of CAFOs, the Department of Natural Resources recorded that 99 waterways were contaminated enough in 2008 to cause fish kills and that 47 of the incidents that caused the contamination could be positively traced back to animal waste. Such contamination has killed as many as 150,000 aquatic animals at a time.
Activists say such figures underestimate the problem because they account only for spills that are reported and investigated.
"The problem is there is very little monitoring of the pollution big ag has caused because the agencies don't regulate," said Scott Edwards, director of advocacy at Waterkeeper Alliance.
An analysis by the Chesapeake Bay Program found that agriculture — both livestock and crops — is the single biggest source of pollution in the bay, contributing 42 percent of the nitrogen, 46 percent of the phosphorus and 76 percent of the sediment in the troubled waterway.
This year the Environmental Protection Agency found that 21 percent of the groundwater sampled in Washington's agricultural Yakima Valley contained unsafe levels of nitrates, leaving it unfit for residents to use. A final report is due out in coming weeks, but nitrogen-rich animal waste is a suspected contributor.
Defenders of CAFOs say environmental compliance is improving within the industry. "We support environmental standards, and problems are rare," Warner said. "That's not to say that there isn't anyone out there who is not up to the standards, but that happens in every industry."
Farms
Representatives of the meat industry acknowledge that consolidation has contributed to the loss of nearly 5 million independent family farms since 1935.
Some, they note, now work as hired contractors who produce uniform animals under the rules and specifications of huge companies like Tyson or Smithfield. "As a contract grower for Smithfield, you have a guaranteed income," Warner said.
Critics — including the USDA — say these practices put the remaining independent farmers at a disadvantage, especially when independents are given a lower price for their meat than the ones operating under contract.
Animal welfare
Supporters of CAFOs say housing animals this way protects them from predators and harsh weather and makes it easier to feed and medicate them. Animal rights supporters and other opponents say the crowded indoor conditions lead to stress that affects the animals' health and increases the likelihood of mass infection. They also object to what they view as mistreatment of the animals, such as the clipping of chicken beaks to prevent closely packed birds from wounding each other.
Pastured chickens, a niche industry, are often raised in moveable outdoor pens. But Richard Lobb, spokesman for the National Chicken Council, said switching to such a system would not be feasible or wise on a large scale.
"We raise 9 billion, with a B, birds a year, and if you were to try to (pasture all the birds) in the mainstream chicken industry you would need all of the farmland in the entire Deep South," he said.
Final words
Many in the meat industry say CAFO practices meet consumer demand for a uniform, inexpensive product. With a record number of Americans using food stamps, cheap food strikes Lobb as a strange thing to complain about.
"Our food bill is high enough as it is," he said. "I rejoice that there are people in this country who would be willing to pay a lot more for their food, but to me they are snobs."
Imhoff responds that investing in more sustainable food practices would save money elsewhere.
"What we will hear time and time again from the industry is that we can't afford to have increases in food production costs, but we haven't tried," he said. "And I don't think as a society, as a country, people wouldn't pay more if they understood what it took to make the food cheap."
Kirby added: "It's strange, in this country we are crazy about quality control for our kids' toys, bedding, car seats … but then we will go out and buy the cheapest food we can find.
"This is what we put in our mouth, what we feed our children," he said. "Why aren't we regulating it better and why is cheap such an important factor?"
meng@tribune.com --
"Science is not truth ... it may be learning but what you learn is not necessarily the truth, it's a piece of the truth not the whole.
Applied science that divorces itself from the consequences and effects of these isolated truths and says everything else is an untruth is the crux of the problem.
There are other valid truths which this kind of hubris refuses to see. Balance for one."
Shaharazade at Dailykos
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Pl Read:
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Fwd: MY 173rd OPEN MESSAGE TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
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From: ben.merhav@gmail.com <ben.merhav@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:45 AM
Subject: MY 173rd OPEN MESSAGE TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
"peace negotiations" with the zionist apartheid regime, considers zionist aspects of the negotiations. Uri Avnery is not bothered by zionist murders in cold blood of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip ; he is not bothered by the increased maltreatment and torture of Palestinian political prisoners ; he is not bothered by the persecution of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship like Ameer Makhoul, the leader of Ittijah; he ignores even the latest zionist piracy of a new Gaza aid boat, one participant of which is the son in law of the zionist General M. Peled, his former political partner. Yet Ma'an and its Palestinian leaders-patrons are promoting Avnery's ongoing fooling of the Palestinian leaders and of other supporters of the Palestinian cause.
The focus of Avnery's article is Ehud Olmert, a former top zionist war criminal. Avnery does not like him much, but not because of his past war crimes, rather because of his various criminal court cases, involving bribes and other kinds of personal corruption. However, Avnery points out Olmert's "benevolence" in regard to willingness to accept some Palestinian refugees, and to accept some kind of Jerusalem division. Avnery compares Olmert's "benevolence" to his own by stating that he would allow the return of 50,000 Palestinian refugees a year for 10 years (i.e. altogether no more than half a million refugees), whereas Olmert would allow less to return.
Reading between the lines it is easy to detect Avnery's "advice" to the Palestinian leaders, namely, that they should compromise on the issue of refugees ( as well as on the issue of Jerusalem and on the issue the illegal zionist settlements blocks - which he adviced them to do so far).
By republishing continuously Avnery's zionist propaganda the Palestinian leaders are showing their willingness to capitulate completely to the zionist enemy. Such treachery is similar, of course, to their continued approval of Raji Sourani's betrayal of myself and my children to the ongoing turture by the zionist Gestapo here, in Australia.
From: ben.merhav@gmail.com <ben.merhav@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:45 AM
Subject: MY 173rd OPEN MESSAGE TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
http://zionisttorture.blogspot.com/
MY 173rd OPEN MESSAGE TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
Once again Ma'an republishes a new zionist propaganda piece by Uri Avnery, the top Israeli zionist impostor (see :
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=319215
). Titled, 2 Fingers, Avnery's article, like all his articles since the onset of theMY 173rd OPEN MESSAGE TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
Once again Ma'an republishes a new zionist propaganda piece by Uri Avnery, the top Israeli zionist impostor (see :
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=319215
"peace negotiations" with the zionist apartheid regime, considers zionist aspects of the negotiations. Uri Avnery is not bothered by zionist murders in cold blood of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip ; he is not bothered by the increased maltreatment and torture of Palestinian political prisoners ; he is not bothered by the persecution of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship like Ameer Makhoul, the leader of Ittijah; he ignores even the latest zionist piracy of a new Gaza aid boat, one participant of which is the son in law of the zionist General M. Peled, his former political partner. Yet Ma'an and its Palestinian leaders-patrons are promoting Avnery's ongoing fooling of the Palestinian leaders and of other supporters of the Palestinian cause.
The focus of Avnery's article is Ehud Olmert, a former top zionist war criminal. Avnery does not like him much, but not because of his past war crimes, rather because of his various criminal court cases, involving bribes and other kinds of personal corruption. However, Avnery points out Olmert's "benevolence" in regard to willingness to accept some Palestinian refugees, and to accept some kind of Jerusalem division. Avnery compares Olmert's "benevolence" to his own by stating that he would allow the return of 50,000 Palestinian refugees a year for 10 years (i.e. altogether no more than half a million refugees), whereas Olmert would allow less to return.
Reading between the lines it is easy to detect Avnery's "advice" to the Palestinian leaders, namely, that they should compromise on the issue of refugees ( as well as on the issue of Jerusalem and on the issue the illegal zionist settlements blocks - which he adviced them to do so far).
By republishing continuously Avnery's zionist propaganda the Palestinian leaders are showing their willingness to capitulate completely to the zionist enemy. Such treachery is similar, of course, to their continued approval of Raji Sourani's betrayal of myself and my children to the ongoing turture by the zionist Gestapo here, in Australia.
Obviously, with every passing day of Palestinian betrayal of my daughter, of my son and of myself to the zionist Gestapo; and with every passing day of the zionist Gestapo's ongoing deadly torture of us; and with every passing day of treachery by Raji Sourani and his cronies the Palestinian cause is diminished, the international solidarity with it is shrinking, and the Palestinian self inflicted disasters would multiply.
Under such circumstances the only hope left for us is the solidarity protests by all people of good will around the world.
I therefore ask again every reader to send immediately protest messages to the following email addresses, and with a copy to my email address (ben.merhav@gmail.com or benjaminmerhav@hotmail.com ).
1. to the Australian government (email Julia.Gillard.MP@aph.gov.au;r.mcclelland.mp@aph.gov.au) a message along the following lines :
" I protest the continuous torture of the Australian citizen Benjamin Merhav by sleep deprivation and his daughter and son by psychiatric torture in Melbourne, Australia.
This torture is perpetrated against Benjamin Merhav directly by the clandestine arm of the State of Israel (the zionist Gestapo), and indirectly by the same culprit against Benjamin's daughter and son.
I demand that the Australian government instruct ASIO to protect these Australian citizens, and stop these terrorist crimes by a foreign government on Australian soil immediately !"
2. to ICJ-Australia and ICJ Secretariat (email president@icj-aust.org.au,chair@icj-aust.org.au,sec-gen@icj-aust.org.au,
info@icj.dk,info@icj.org ) a message along the following lines :
"I protest your refusal to investigate Benjamin Merhav's complaint against the Australian government's approval of ASIO's violation of the rule of law in Australia, regarding the continuous torture in Melbourne of himself, his daughter and his son , all Australian citizens, by the clandestine arm of the State of Israel (the zionist Gestapo).
I demand your immediate intervention to protect these Australian citizens, to stop the perpetration of these terrorist crimes In Australia, and to end these violations of the rule of law by the Australian government in Australia."
3. to the PCHR and to all the Palestinian leaders in occupied Palestine ( email english@palestine-info.co.uk ;
pchr@pchrgaza.org ) message along the following
lines :
"I protest the betrayal of Benjamin Merhav by Raji Sourani to the zionist Gestapo's torture. I demand Sourani's replacement on the ICJ and on FIDH with a honest Palestinian patriot who would initiate protest action against the torture of Benjamin Merhav, his daughter, and his son by the zionist Gestapo in Australia.
I demand that the Palestinian leaders encourage Palestinians and their supporters to protest this ongoing terrorist torture by the zionist Gestapo, and to demand that it should stop immediately."
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DISBAND NOW THE ZIONIST APARTHEID REGIME OF
ISRAEL !
A JUST SOLUTION TO THE ZIONIST CONFLICT IN PALESTINE CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT FIRST DISBANDING THE ZIONIST APARTHEID REGIME OF ISRAEL !
FOLLOWING THE DISBANDING OF THIS RACIST REGIME, A DEMOCRATIC, NON-RACIST STATE, TO WHICH ALL THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES WOULD BE INVITED TO RETURN, SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED ON THE ENTIRE AREA OF HISTORIC PALESTINE !
THIS SHOULD BE WRITTEN INTO THE PLATFORM OF THE BDS MOVEMENT NOW, AS THE PURPOSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT OF THE ZIONIST APARTHEID REGIME OF ISRAEL !
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 ঢাকা, ২৯ সেপ্টেম্বর (আরটিএনএন ডটনেট)-- দুই বিচারপতিকে শপথ না দেয়ায় বিদায়ী সংবর্ধনায় প্রধান বিচারপতি মোহাম্মদ ফজলুল করিমের বিরুদ্ধে সংবিধান লঙ্ঘনের অভিযোগ করেছেন অ্যাটর্নি জেনারেল মাহবুবে আলম। তবে সুপ্রিম কোর্টের সিনিয়র আইনজীবীরা বিদায়ী প্রধান বিচারপতি সম্পর্কে অ্যাটর্নি জেনারেলের অভিযোগকে জাতির জন্য লজ্জাজনক বলে মন্তব্য করেছেন। বিস্তারিত | ||||
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