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700 Israelis Arrested For Protesting Against War

http://www.middle-east-online.com

PACIFICA – About 700 Israelis have been arrested for protesting against the war on Gaza since the beginning of the deadly offensive, said Neve Gordon, chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel on Monday.

"700 Israelis have been arrested since this war began, because they protested this… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 14, 2009 at 6:13pm — 1 Comment

Wash Your Hands for a Healthy State: Hygiene Propaganda in the Soviet Union

The Body Soviet: Propaganda,

Hygiene and the Revolutionary State

by Tricia Starks

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – By making the personal political, hygienists in the early days of the Soviet Union attempted to improve public health dramatically and played a key role in the establishment of the Soviet state. In The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene and the Revolutionary State, historian Tricia Starks examines the extensive collections… Continue

Added by C on January 14, 2009 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Israel attacks UN aid compound with White Phosphorous Shells

UNRWA spokesman Johan Eriksson told the British Broadcasting Corp. via phone from Jerusalem that he had just spoken to the agencys boss in Gaza City, who confirmed to him that at least three shells containing white phosphorus hit their sprawling compound.

Fire is raging inside our compound. It is inside a mechanical workshop, Eriksson told the BBC, adding that shipping pallets loaded with humanitarian aid were also on fire inside the compound.

Firefighters cannot do anything.… Continue

Added by truth on January 15, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Zimbabwe's central bank will introduce a $50 billion note -- enough to buy just two loaves of bread.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN -- As a way of fighting cash shortages amid spiraling inflation.

Zimbabwe's dollar is virtually worthless, with foreign currency now being used to purchase basic items.

The country's acting finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, made the announcement in a government gazette released Saturday.

Although Chinamasa did not give the date on which the $50 billion and new $20 billion notes would come into… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 14, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Brain May Be Wired for Social Conformity

Study says 'error-monitoring' signals keep us from being too different from others

Your brain may be wired to go along with popular opinion in social situations, a new study suggests.

Scans done with functional magnetic resonance imaging showed that people whose opinion differed with that of a group of people experienced a neuronal response in the brain's rostral cingulate zone (RCZ) and nucleus accumbens (NAc) -- areas that seem… Continue

Added by C on January 14, 2009 at 2:41pm — 1 Comment

New York Times - ‘Emergency’ Declared for Inauguration

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Published: January 13, 2009

WASHINGTON — It is true, President Bush sounded alarms about Barack Obama during the campaign season. On Tuesday, Mr. Bush went one step further: He declared Mr. Obama’s inauguration an actual emergency.

The declaration, though, was not a political statement about Republicans being run out of town. Rather, it was a bureaucratic move intended to provide additional federal money to help Washington cope with the huge… Continue

Added by 7R33SandR0P3S on January 14, 2009 at 3:15pm — 1 Comment

CALL THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO COMMIT ERIC HOLDER TO ENFORCING THE LAW FOR PAST BUSH CRIMES

We scored an amazing mass media victory this week, which we must immediately build on and expand, when first Keith Olbermann took note of the fact that the number one question on the Obama "change" site was asking about a special prosecutor for the torture and wiretap crimes of the Bush administration.…

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Added by Marklar on January 14, 2009 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

Israeli conscientious objectors, the Shministim

My name is Omer Goldman. I am 19 years old. I am one of the Shministim. Thank you for signing the Shministim letter to support me and my friends. Tell your friends to send a letter to the Israeli Minister of Defense.

Sign the petition

I first went to prison on September 23 and served 35 days. I am lucky, after 2 times in jail, I got a medical discharge, but I'm the only one.… Continue

Added by Maas on January 13, 2009 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

NAFTA Super Highway is not Dead

http://skylla2012.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/nafta-super-highway-is-not-dead/

Added by truth on January 13, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

LIVE WEB CAM GAZA ISRAEL WAR - Feed 2

MOVED HERE

Live from Gaza - Operation Pillar of Cloud - #GazaUnderAttack Cams On #Gaza & #TelAviv…

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Added by truth on January 12, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

A System to Prevent Illegal Gun Owner REGISTRATION

BIDS v. NICS

If we must have gun-buyer background checks to stop criminals,

at least do it without compiling massive records on the innocent.

BIDS: “Blind Identification Database System”

Basically, BIDS distributes the list of hardcore prohibited possessors

to federally licensed firearm dealers. Dealers check their customers

against the computerized list to lockout illegal sales.

This… Continue

Added by leilei on January 2, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

my letter to the editor

Oregon's Uber Kontrol Freak Governor Ted Kulongoski is at it again.

Last week two articles referencing Ted’s plan to install GPS tracking chips on all of our vehicles appeared in the Observer.

Lawmakers are worried that their global warming scare tactics will cause us to purchase more fuel efficient vehicles, which is what they told us to do in the first place, and therefore strip the State of billions of dollars of gas tax money.

The answer to this new… Continue

Added by fireguy on January 6, 2009 at 12:54am — 3 Comments

Abraham Foxman and the Anti-Defamation League debunked!

Maasanova

Abraham Foxman and the Anti-Defamation League debunked part 1 (download)

Abraham Foxman and the Anti-Defamation League debunked part 2 (download)

In light of the recent and ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the… Continue

Added by Maas on January 6, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

Chemtrails - Concerned Citizens Run Full-Page Ad In Paper - See It Here

http://mayanmajix.com/art3852.html

Added by TheLasersShadow on January 7, 2009 at 12:26pm — No Comments

#LIVE Coverage #GazaUnderAttack Cams On #Gaza & #TelAviv WEB CAM GAZA ISRAEL WAR

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Added by truth on November 17, 2012 at 2:00pm — 4 Comments

Israelis 'Bomb Civilian Shelter' Killing 30 People after "evacuating" them to the shelter where they were bombed.

By BBC

January 09, 2009 "BBC" -- -Israeli forces shelled a house in the Gaza Strip which they had moved around 110 Palestinians into 24 hours earlier, the UN quotes witnesses as saying.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) called it "one of the gravest incidents" since the beginning of the offensive.

The shelling at Zeitoun, a south-east suburb of Gaza City, on 5 January killed some 30… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 9, 2009 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

Race-Based Mustard Gas Studies on U.S. Soldiers

Mustard Gas and

American Race-

Based Human

Experimentation

in World War II

Susan L. Smith

During World War II, scientists funded by

the United States government conducted

mustard gas experiments on 60,000

American soldiers as part of military preparation

for potential chemical warfare.1 One aspect of the

chemical warfare research program on mustard

gas involved race-based human experimentation.

In at least nine… Continue

Added by C on January 10, 2009 at 1:27pm — 2 Comments

It's For the Children

I for one am a business owner and this garbage will certainly cause me to re-think surviving in ways I had not planned on. Please read and sign petition, give senators, reps hell!

Rivkah

But it's … for the children!

Posted: January 10, 2009

1:00 am Eastern

© 2009

It's happening once again. Amidst the tanking economy, I'm stunned to introduce HR 4040, the Consumer Product Safety… Continue

Added by Rivkah Cohen on January 10, 2009 at 3:44pm — 1 Comment