A warm smile and easy laugh reveal Hebah Ismail’s unthreatening, gentle personality. An American citizen, this 3L of Egyptian descent works with the International Human Rights Clinic on projects related to Bedouin land rights. Hebah wears a hijab. She still does not know which of one, or combination, of these characteristics prompted the security and immigration personnel at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport to deem her dangerous and deny her entry to… Continue
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By MICHELLE FAUL and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press Writers PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti --
Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission "knew what they were doing was wrong."
But Prime Minister Max Bellerive also told The Associated Press his country is open to having the Americans go before courts in the United… Continue
Herald Scotland Exclusive: Graeme Murray and Chris Watt
Published on 24 Jan 2010
One of the last remaining Auschwitz survivors has launched a blistering attack on Israel over its occupation of Palestine as he began a lecture tour of Scotland.
Dr Hajo Meyer, 86, who survived 10 months in the Nazi… Continue
There's a good chance you may be eating a livestock drug banned in 160 nations.
CounterPunch / By Martha Rosenberg
While researchers and scientists investigate the cause of our diabetes, obesity, asthma and ADHD epidemics, they should ask why the FDA approved a livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 percent mortality in pigs, according to angry farmers who phoned the manufacturer.
Drugs and crime chief says $352bn in criminal proceeds was effectively laundered by financial institutions
Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment… Continue
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I hope everyone enjoys our pilot for a new weekly WeAreChange show. On our 1st episode we go over the daily news, overview Obama’s year in office, give you the weather, sports, and two great interview with Cindy Sheehan and Charlie Veitch of the Love Police.
This is a pilot episode of our show before we go live in late February on UBATV.com, WeAreChange is doing this show for free with the studio…
Food inventories worldwide are at the lowest in decades as the world continues to consume more than it produces. We even have a shortage of farmers now since agriculture has been such a terrible business for three decades. We should all hope prices go higher or there may soon be a time when there will be little or no food at any price.… Continue
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401k/IRA Screw Job Coming?
Karl Denninger
Market Ticker
Jan 11, 2010
Now this is a guaranteed rape job.
In a short conversation this noontime that CNBC apparently has omitted from their archives (Why's that folks?) Rick Santelli was talking about a potential to effectively force money into the Treasury market.
By Kathy Freston, AlterNet. Posted January 9, 2010.
The chicken and pork industries have wrought unprecedented changes in bird and swine flu. Billions could die in a flu pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen.
I just wanted u all to meet the man behind the woman, he is the shy one LOL mostly I just wanted everyone to know im in great hands since my accident!! he is working from home to make sure I have everything !!! He has been so patient with me and believe it or not ive been a BITCH (only cause im hurting so much LOL) I guess I just want to tell him KISSSSSSSEESS SWEET MAN I promise not to be a bitch to much longer !! (H'es my best buddy in the whole world (besides u… Continue
KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries, is sitting on mineral and petroleum reserves worth an estimated one trillion dollars, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday.
The war-ravaged nation could become one of the richest in the world if helped to tap its geological deposits, Karzai told reporters.
"I have very good news for Afghans," Karzai said.
"The initial figures we have obtained show that our mineral deposits are worth a thousand… Continue
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Yes, slavery still exists. And it isn't some rare occurrence, it's standard procedure.
As soon as dawn breaks in Port-au-Prince the first children appear, staggering under the weight of five-gallon buckets of water. The water carriers, many as young as 6-years-old, are some of the thousands of children living as virtual child slaves in the country.
Given away to other families by parents too poor to feed and clothe them, they cook, clean and fetch water without any… Continue
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Last month 44 US and coalition troops were killed in Afghanistan—the bloodiest month of fighting recorded in the country’s winter season since the 2001 invasion. In previous years, the freezing temperatures and snowy conditions have seen a lull in the conflict between the US and NATO led International Security Assistance Force and anti-occupation guerrillas.
In January 2009 there were 25 coalition troop deaths; in the same month in… Continue
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A child born with defects attributable to exposure to depleted uranium (archive photo)
Iraq's Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against Britain and the US over their use of depleted uranium bombs in Iraq, an Iraqi minister says.
Iraq's Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Mikhail Salim, told Assabah newspaper that the lawsuit will be launched based on reports from the Iraqi ministries of science and the environment.
U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.
(AP Photo/Edmund Fountain, Pool) [picture provided in the link]
Here’s one way to get your book on the bestseller list — money laundering:
Sarah Palin has been using her political action committee to buy up thousands of copies of her book, “Going Rogue.”
The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate had her political organization spend more than $63,000 on what her reports… Continue
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February 01, 2010 "The News" -- LAHORE: Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successful drone strikes killed three al-Qaeda leaders, wanted by the… Continue
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The CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side. | AP Photo by Christopher Morris/VII
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.
FLUORIDEGATE: An American Tragedy, is a feature documentary that reveals the tragedy of how government, industry and trade associations protect and promote a...
60 Minutes interviews alleged Mossad agent"we create a pretend world, we are a global production company......the world is our stage."_______________________...
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Congress quietly killed the one fix that could have helped America’s “Area 51 veterans” prove where they served — and get the care they say they’ve earned.WA...