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On the Border: News Reporters Now Enemies of Truth
By Brenda NorrellPeople who live along the US/Mexico border have a new online patrol. We are all now scouts on the lookout for the news reporters, television crews and filmmakers who come to the border to promote themselves and tell the same old worn out story about drug running along the border.
The underlying theme of their stories is always the same: White people are good and brown people are bad.
The underlying theme of their stories is always the same: White people are good and brown people are bad.
These news reporters always leave out this vital fact: The narcotics pipeline exists because of the demand for illegal drugs in the US.
News reporters certainly don't want to investigate the fact that the most notorious killers, now running the drug war in Mexico, the Zetas, were trained by US Special Forces.
These same news reporters don't like to report that US soldiers have been heavily involved in running drugs. The FBI had to shut down the sting operation, Operation Lively Green, because so many US soldiers wanted to run cocaine from Nogales to Phoenix.
News reporters certainly don't want to investigate the fact that the most notorious killers, now running the drug war in Mexico, the Zetas, were trained by US Special Forces.
These same news reporters don't like to report that US soldiers have been heavily involved in running drugs. The FBI had to shut down the sting operation, Operation Lively Green, because so many US soldiers wanted to run cocaine from Nogales to Phoenix.
Naomi Klein: Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world
The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism
Naomi Klein The Guardian, Saturday 19 June 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/jun/19/naomi-klein-gulf-oil-spill
Naomi Klein The Guardian, Saturday 19 June 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/jun/19/naomi-klein-gulf-oil-spill
Chief Arvol Looking Horse: A Great Urgency
To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders
My Relatives,
Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I
ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit
of your Nations in prayer.
We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we
are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color,
which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As
I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened,
those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations,
eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.
To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders
My Relatives,
Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I
ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit
of your Nations in prayer.
We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we
are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color,
which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As
I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened,
those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations,
eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.
Why the US is using Israel for a proxy attack against Iran. To stop Iran’s natural gas deal with Pakistan.
US Congressional records show that US oil companies like Unicol, petitioned the US government to use the US military to expedite a regime change in Afghanistan so that Unicol could begin building a Trans-Afghanistan natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India. During a FEBRUARY 12, 1998 US Congressional hearing Unocal actually asked the US government to remove the Taliban and install a US friendly leader in Afghanistan. Again the US is planning to attack another country, using Israel as its proxy, to take control of yet another natural gas pipeline - this time the Iranian natural gas pipeline deal with Pakistan
“The deal was signed. Export of Iran’s gas to Pakistan will be launched by the end of 2015,” Iran’s state TV reported.
“For 25 years Iran will export one million cubic metres of natural gas to Pakistan per day,” it said.
The project is crucial for Pakistan to avert a growing energy crisis already causing severe electricity shortages in the country of about 170 million, at the same time as it confronts Islamist militancy.
( Funny how one can read something that seems insightful...and realize there's a bias involved that reveals the writer likely doesn't have a clue. Besides which ; would this deal solve Iran's U.S.- caused energy shortage ? This is likely to become extremely messy instantly. )
The US has been intentionally (and illegally) interfering with Iran’s development of its rich oil and gas resources with sanctions, both UN and US imposed sanctions, The US imposed sanctions against Afghanistan and Iraq for the very same reasons. The US has been using a totally fictitious nuclear threat from Iran to divert US and World attention away from the real US agenda - to take control of the oil and natural gas resources of yet another Middle East country.
VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water
FOR VETERANS WHO MIGHT BE AFFECTED
Veterans who think they might have been affected by contaminated water at Camp Lejeune can apply for service connection health benefits from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs . You can apply by filling out VA Form 21-526, Veterans Application for Compensation and/or Pension.
The VA recommends that if you have any of the following material, please attach it to your application:
— Discharge or separation papers (DD214 or equivalent)
— Dependency records (marriage & children's birth certificates)
— Medical evidence (doctor & hospital reports)
Veterans who have applied for benefits related to water contamination at Camp Lejeune say they strongly recommend a medical nexus letter from a doctor.
For more information, contact your local VA office or your local veterans service organization, or go online to http://www.vba.va.gov/VBA/
The Marine Corps also has a website about the Lejeune contamination, www.tftptf.com
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Department of Veterans Affairs benefits website
Holocaust Survivor protests Israel massacre in Gaza 2009
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Holocaust Survivor protests Israel massacre in Gaza 2009
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USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group and one Israeli warship, crossed Suez Canal into Red Sea to seize humanitarian aid ships by force and commit acts of violence against civilians
Intercepts Iranian aid convoy to Gaza
For all you naive Canadians who believe Canada isn’t or was never involved in the US war of aggression against Iraq you are sadly wrong and deceived as the HMCS Charlottetown has been with the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group when the US attacked Iraq on March 18, 2003.); and the British destroyer HMS Manchester (D95).
A day earlier the Egyptian government denied an Israeli government request not to allow the Iranian flotilla to use the Suez Canal to reach Gaza.
Collective punishment is specifically barred under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that the objective of the blockade is to weaken the Gaza economy and undermine support for Hamas. That is a political, not a military, objective, and it is impermissible under international law to target innocent civilians to achieve nonmilitary goals.
The second point pertains to the attack on the Freedom Flotilla. As Bisharat notes, “Actions taken to enforce an illegal siege cannot themselves be legal.” The Israel commandos were transported 70 miles offshore, into international waters. There, they attacked a civilian vessel flagged to an allied state — a NATO member — and killed and wounded some yet unclarified number of activists whose journey was motivated by their opposition to the blockade.
It was not an act of “piracy,” because the Israeli troops were operating under the flag of a nation-state. Because the blockade violates international law, and Israel had no military justification for boarding her with special forces troops, it rather constituted an “illegal act of war.” Craig Murray, a former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, called the legal situation “very plain”:
Because the incident took place on the high seas does not mean … that international law is the only applicable law. The Law of the Sea is quite plain that, when an incident takes place on a ship on the high seas (outside anybody’s territorial waters) the applicable law is that of the flag state of the ship on which the incident occurred. In legal terms, the Turkish ship was Turkish territory.
There are therefore two clear legal possibilities.
Possibility one is that the Israeli commandos were acting on behalf of the government of Israel in killing the activists on the ships. In that case Israel is in a position of war with Turkey, and the act falls under international jurisdiction as a war crime.
Possibility two is that, if the killings were not authorised Israeli military action, they were acts of murder under Turkish jurisdiction. If Israel does not consider itself in a position of war with Turkey, then it must hand over the commandos involved for trial in Turkey under Turkish law.
- Group Life and Health Insurance policies are all illegal Ponzi Schemes
- FDA approved GMO corn revealed to be unfit for consumption. Solution? Use it to make clean ethanol fuel.
- Odds are that the majority of salvage auto parts you buy are stolen.
- Why the US is using Israel for a proxy attack against Iran. To stop Iran's natural gas deal with Pakistan.
- 9/11 attacker, Saudi Arabia, gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites
- Toronto G20 Summit cost breakdown. What Canadian taxpayers are actually paying for.
- Harper government authorizes police to violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and use acoustic weapon against civilians at G20 summit
- Orthodox Jews Against 'State' Of Israel not because it operates secularly, but because the entire concept of a sovereign Jewish state is contrary to Jewish Law.
- BP ordered to pay economic injury claims and billed for $69 million to pay back American taxpayers for some of the costs of the response so far.
- Truthout
Not All Environmentalists Pleased with Climate Legislation
"It's not accurate to call this a climate bill," said Tyson Slocum who serves as Energy Director for Public Citizen, a Washington DC based consumer advocacy organization. "This is nuclear energy- promoting, oil drilling-championing, coal mining-boosting legislation with a weak carbon pricing mechanism thrown in."
"National environmental groups in Washington, DC, led by Environmental Defense Fund, are sending the message that they'll accept nearly any compromise to get a bill through," David Orr, who serves as Chair of the Ozark Headwaters Group, Sierra Club's Arkansas Chapter, recently told Truthout. "With the British Petroleum oil disaster devastating the Gulf of Mexico, EDF and other big-name green groups applaud the Kerry-Lieberman bill that allows for greatly expanded offshore drilling, and other give-aways to polluting industries that do nothing to advance the cause for climate protection."
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