Voices
07/01/10
Prof William O. Beeman: Iranians deny the arrogant literature of the west
By Kourosh Ziabari
Prof. William O. Beeman
Prof. William O. Beeman is the head of anthropology department at the University of Minnesota. His inimitable and independent approach toward the current affairs of Iran, one of the most controversial countries of the world, resembles the attitude of Noam Chomsky in terms of perspective and mindset and has cost him his reputation, professional credit.
Regrettably, he was insulted and attacked by a number of American mainstream media and fanatic neoconservatives over the past years and even his academic colleagues blamed him for what they considered to be his support for the main pivot of the ¡°axis of evil¡±.
Prof. Beeman who speaks the Persian language fluently believes that Iranian people should not be treated with disdain and arrogance since their ancient superiority and historical backgrounds causes them to be resistant toward the hostile rhetoric and inimical literature.
News
07/01/10
Smearing a film about Chávez's Venezuela
Oliver Stone's documentary South of the Border--about Venezuela and its President Hugo Chávez--was trashed in the New York Times in a feature story by correspondent Larry Rohter. Rohter complained the film was full of mistakes--but supporters of the film point out that he made far more errors in his brief article. Here, Gregory Wilpert, co-founder of the Venezuelanalysis.com Web site, responds to attack on the film and on his particular role in it.
US Congress withholds billions from Medicaid, jobless benefits
The failure of Congress to pass a bill containing Medicaid relief to the states and jobless benefit extensions to millions of long-term unemployed workers ensures that the social crisis will intensify in the coming weeks and months. The decision will result in a new wave of foreclosures, evictions, homelessness, and hunger, while states will be compelled to further slash social spending.
Why a Bank-Bashing Populist Democrats Opposed the Wall Street "Reform" Bill
No member of the House has been a harsher critic of the abuses of big banks and Wall Street that Ohio Democrat Marcy Kaptur. No member of the House has been more on-target in his condemnations and her calls for reform. During the bank bailout fight of 2008, Kaptur became a national folk-hero as millions of Americans clicked on YouTube videos of her ripping the bankers who had come to Congress looking for handouts. "The crimes of Wall Street will make Watergate look like penny ante theives," she declared. In particular, Kaptur condemned the bailout for failing to protect families facing foreclosure.
Israel conducts different air raids across Gaza
The Israeli armed aircrafts bombed shortly after midnight a number of sites in the southern Gaza Strip and the north without reported casualties.
Time to shut down the US Federal Reserve?
Kartik Athreya, senior economist for the Richmond Fed, has written a paper condemning economic bloggers as chronically stupid and a threat to public order.
New Eurasia: A New Vision for the Third Millennium
The New Eurasian worldview is the inevitable outcome of the search for a viable alternative to a world dominated by the United States and Western Europe. A search for a new vision of life and society suited to the needs of a new century unencumbered by the West's sterile materialistic values and egocentricity.
Sinking Ship - The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself
Israel's botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The attack also highlights the extent to which Israel has become a strategic liability for the United States. This situation is likely to get worse over time, which will cause major problems for Americans who have a deep attachment to the Jewish state.
06/30/10
Web Bot: 1.2 billion dead in BP oil spill, Nov. 2010 nuclear war. Accurate? Will ETs intervene?
The Web Bot technology is now predicting a 1.289+ billion mega-death resulting from an "ill-wind" and the BP Gulf oil disaster. Researcher Clif High has published a prediction expecting a 'tipping point' around November 8, 2010 into global nuclear war, triggered by a mistaken Israeli-influenced attack on Iran that could come anytime after July 11, 2010.
Slowly the Poison the Whole Bloodstream Fills ... BP's Temple of Doom
The electronic ether is crackling with rumors of suspected collateral damage from the BP Gulf Oil catastrophe. A Youtube video purports to show rain falling in Louisiana, streaking the earth with a Deepwater Horizon sheen of oil. In Tennessee, near the Big River, TV news reports bird deaths and damage to all kinds of plants, bearing scars of an unidentified toxin. Widespread crop damages.
The mass repression at the G20 summit in Toronto
The violence and repression carried out this past weekend by the authorities in Toronto, where the G20 summit was taking place, was worthy of a police state. An army of security officers, both in uniform and undercover, took over the downtown portion of Toronto, a major world city, creating conditions of "martial law," in the words of a columnist for the right-wing Toronto Sun.
Ancient Fossils Show Arctic Now Near Climate Tipping Point
Current levels of Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about "irreversible" shifts in Arctic ecosystems, according to new research published today by scientists from the United States, Canada and The Netherlands.
Biologists find 'dead zones' around BP oil spill in Gulf
Methane at 100,000 times normal levels have been creating oxygen-depleted areas devoid of life near BP's Deepwater Horizon spill, according to two independent scientists. Scientists are confronting growing evidence that BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is creating oxygen-depleted "dead zones" where fish and other marine life cannot survive.
Senate GOP again kills jobless aid extension
For the third time in three weeks, Republicans in the Senate on Wednesday successfully filibustered a bill to continue providing unemployment checks to millions of people.
Study: US media redefined torture after US started practicing it
The US news media radically changed how it reported on the issue of waterboarding after it emerged that US forces had used the practice, says a new study from Harvard University.
The GOP's Genetic Link to Big Oil
If scientists were to compare the DNA of Republican congress-critters and of oil corporations, I'll bet they'd find that they match perfectly. After all, the two species have identical political instincts and seem to have a natural affinity for each other — so I'm pretty sure they sprang from the same genetic pool.
Nearly 1 in 3 first-quarter home sales a foreclosure: report
Nearly one out of every three U.S. home sales in the first quarter was a foreclosure property as steep price discounts boosted demand for distressed real estate, RealtyTrac said in a new report on Wednesday.
National debt soars to highest level since WWII
The federal debt will represent 62% of the nation's economy by the end of this year, the highest percentage since just after World War II, according to a long-term budget outlook released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
Kagan Hearings: Gags, Guns, God, and Gays
Kagan has never been a judge and she hasn't published very many academic law opinions. As a result, the confirmation process is leaning heavily on her counsels to President Bill Clinton as a White House adviser, her clerkship with legendary liberal Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and her stint as Dean of Harvard Law School.
Israeli soldiers shot flotilla activists from choppers
The Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples (MAZLUM-DER) stated during a press conference on Monday that Israeli commandos shot at activists on the Mavi Marmara from their helicopters, according to autopsy reports.
Airport body scanners 'could give you cancer', warns expert
Scientists say radiation from the scanners has been underestimated and could be particularly risky for children. They say that the low level beam does deliver a small dose of radiation to the body but because the beam concentrates on the skin - one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the human body - that dose may be up to 20 times higher than first estimated.
War-funding puzzle stumps Democrats
House Democratic support for the war in Afghanistan has eroded to a point where President Barack Obama is now so reliant on Republican votes that he's backtracking from his own party's efforts to add new education funding to avert teacher layoffs.
Kagan: Vampire or Werewolf?
During the softball questioning of Supreme Court shoo-in Elena Kagan, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, didn't ask Kagan about her history of animosity toward the Bill of Rights — in particular her belief that the government can ban both guns and freedom of speech — but instead pitched her a question about Twilight Saga: Eclipse, a new film based on the vampire novels of Stephenie Meyer.
VA hospital may have infected 1,800 veterans with HIV - Video
A Missouri VA hospital is under fire because it may have exposed more than 1,800 veterans to life-threatening diseases such as hepatitis and HIV. John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis has recently mailed letters to 1,812 veterans telling them they could contract hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after visiting the medical center for dental work, said Rep. Russ Carnahan. Carnahan said Tuesday he is calling for a investigation into the issue and has sent a letter to President Obama about it.
Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing
Forced expulsion, revocation of residency rights, excessive taxation, mass house demolition, recurrent land seizure and bulldozing Arab property. These are some of the main components of Israel's latest aggressive campaign to rid East Jerusalem of its Arab demographics and identity. Judaising, by any and all means, the occupied Arab city that Israel seized from Jordan in 1967 is Israel's way of undermining any semblance of efforts towards peace, vanishing the two-state solution...
Crisis of Legitimacy in Honduras?
A long, brutal year after the June 28, 2009, military coup that deposed President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, official Honduras is collapsing under the weight of its own illegitimacy. On the anniversary of the coup, the opposition took over the nation's highways and bridges in overt resistance to Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo's new government, while his own appointees are openly defiant of the slightest concession. The Obama administration, meanwhile, remains insistent that Lobo is the only path forward.
06/29/10
Top Republican: Raise Social Security's retirement age to 70
Boehner, the top Republican lawmaker in the House, said "We're all living a lot longer than anyone ever expected," The GOP leader said Social Security was the most important entitlement to reform, though he also pledged Republicans would bring legislation to the floor to repeal and replace the healthcare reforms passed earlier this year if the GOP wins back control of the House this fall.
Obama and Cameron pledge to defend BP profits
US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron met this weekend during the G20 summit in Canada to discuss the ongoing crisis in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the BP oil spill. The goal of the meeting, however, was not to coordinate cleanup and recovery efforts, but to once again give a US and UK government guarantee of the profits of BP.
Billions Missing, Lies Mounting
In Congress on Monday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich told it straight on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: billions of dollars "gone missing," as in stolen, by warlords, drug lords, corrupt government officials "underwritten by the lives of our troops." While people at home lose jobs, homes, savings, schooling, pensions, hope.
'Dozens' of US citizens on assassination list, White House adviser hints
When it was confirmed last winter by then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair that the Obama administration had authorized the assassination of American citizens working with terrorist groups overseas, it appeared that no more than three Americans were being targeted in this manner.
Kucinich: 'We are losing our nation to lies about the necessity of war'
In Afghanistan, corruption is rife. It is so abundant, in fact, that a senior US lawmaker declared on Monday that she'd be freezing $3.9 billion in Afghan aid dollars until the situation is addressed. Rep. Nita Lowey's declaration of principle was made in response to a Wall Street Journal report that claimed over $3 billion has been legally shipped through the airport in Kabul over just the last three years, leading investigators to believe much of it comes from U.S. aid dollars being diverted by corrupt officials.
Fannie-Freddie Bailout Could Cost Taxpayers $1 Trillion
For American taxpayers, now on the hook for some $145 billion in housing losses connected to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans, that amount could be just the tip of the iceberg.
Facebook Deletes Boycott BP Group, Which Had 800,000 Members
FACEBOOK HAS DELETED BOYCOTT BP, LEAVING ALMOST 800,000 FANS HANGING... As recently as 30 minutes ago, Facebook has removed the main "Boycott BP" from it's page. With it, it leave almost 800,000 fans hanging.
New Big Screen Documentary Exposes Pat Tillman Cover-Up
Evidence strongly indicates Tillman was murdered to prevent him from becoming an anti-war icon. A new documentary set to hit the big screen this summer lifts the lid on the cover-up behind the death of Pat Tillman, the pro-football star who gave up a lucrative career to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq before preparing to return to the U.S. as an anti-war icon, at which point he was killed in a so-called friendly fire incident that more closely resembled a deliberate assassination.
Jury Convicts Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge of Lying About Torture
Decades after torture allegations were first leveled against former Chicago police commander Jon Burge, a federal jury has found him guilty of lying about torturing prisoners into making confessions. Burge has long been accused of overseeing the systematic torture of more than 100 African American men.
U.S. Woman Falsely Accused of Rwanda Genocide Rape Crimes
Millions of U.S. Taxpayers Dollars Fund Fabricated Rwanda Genocide and Asylum Cases On June 24, 2010, U.S. agents in Manchester, New Hampshire arrested Rwandan genocide survivor Beatrice Munyenyezi, a Hutu and a U.S. citizen since 2004. Charged with lying on her immigration documents to conceal her alleged major role in genocide in Rwanda, Ms. Munyenyezi is also charged with rape as a war and genocide crime. Meanwhile, a federal prosecutor for the case is known for misconduct, falsification of evidence and perjury. Is it a crime to have a Facebook profile? Is it a crime to use a computer?
U.S. charges 11 as secret agents; Russia calls action 'unfounded'
An FBI investigation turns up a vast spy operation on the East Coast with 'deep cover' assignments. Russia's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that the arrests are a throwback to the Cold War.
Palestinian boycott of Israeli settlement goods starts to bite
Israeli factories based in settlements on the West Bank have been forced to cut back production as a growing Palestinian boycott movement begins to take effect. The boycott, endorsed by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, was given further momentum this week when a campaign to clear supermarket shelves of produce originating in settlements was rolled out in Ramallah.
Russia furious over Cold War-style US spy arrests
Russia angrily hit back on Tuesday at US claims that it had smashed a Moscow-organised spy ring, saying the accusations were reminiscent of the Cold War and could damage efforts to improve relations.
US supreme court backs gun rights - Video
The US supreme court has ruled that local and state governments cannot deny an individual's right to own a gun. The decision is expected to have wide-ranging implications
Saudis urge US on Middle East peace - Video
Saudi Arabia's king is due to travel to Washington to meet Barack Obama, the US president, to discuss Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, the nuclear standoff with Iran, and economic co-operation.
Past News
07/01/10
Tick...tick...tick - Israeli Mistake, Confusion, and a chart
The issue is the July 11th break into 18 and a half hours of release language. George, and apparently others, are under the impression that some big 'thing' would happen on that date. This may well be the case, however, note that the release language (all the downward slanting lines in the charts below) continues all summer as punctuations to building tension. So the pattern from July 11th through to November 8th is one of building tension and then release of tension, almost on a daily basis. Note that this is the USUAL state of our charts for the planet. What is unusual is that we have been in a very long period of building tension for these past few months. What is also unusual is the 'tipping point' that is forecast to occur over 4 days in November from the 8th through the 11th inclusive. Then what is even more unusual is that the release language continues unabated, without deviation for over 2 months, from November 11th through to January 23rd. ... the 9/11 event), had a tipping point that lasted about 4 hours, followed by 12 hours of release language...
06/22/10
US Military: "100% Certain That 911 Was A Mossad Operation, Period" - Audio
Israelis Inadvertently Admit Complicity in 9/11 Attacks "Our purpose was to document the event." Watch this one-minute video from Youtube, and you will hear one of the five "Dancing Israelis" step on his own sword. This is a clip from an Israeli talk show from November 2001, with simultaneous translation from Hebrew to English. For those who do not already know, on the morning of September 11, 2001, a New Jersey housewife by the name of "Maria," observed five suspicious men in her apartment complex. The five young men were filming the burning WTC towers, jumping up and down, cheering, and high-fiving each other. They were also lighting their lighters and holding them up in the air, as if at a rock concert. While the rest of the country was in a state of shock and tears, these five Israelis were clearly celebrating our nation's greatest at-home tragedy. Maria called the police. http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/pastnews.php/2006/09/27/israelis_inadvertently_admit_complicity
06/21/10
In 1903, Cabalist Banker Prophesied Gulf Apocalypse
"In 1903, they knew that an oil reservoir emptying into the oceans would become an apocalypse and could destroy the entire earth." In 1903, Austrian banker, writer and occultist Gustav Meyrink (left, 1868-1932) wrote a novella, "Petroleum, Petroleum", part of a collection of short stories, which featured this Preface: "To assure priority of this prophecy, I state that the following novella has been written in 1903. Gustav Meyrink". The novella tells the story of Dr. Jessegrim who has made a fortune in the mescaline business. He decides to go into oil. All of Mexico was standing on caves which were partly at least filled with petroleum, and connected with each other. Jessegrim resolves to blast away the separations between the caves. After the last detonation, the oil flows from the underground deposit in Mexico into the ocean and forms a glass surface, which continues to grow, taken by the gulf stream, soon covering the entire Atlantic surface. The coasts were barren and the population retreated into the interior of the land. Instead of being arrested, in Meyrink's story, Jessegrim is hired as a consultant. He says: "If the oil continues to spill as it does, it will have covered the oceans of the world in 27 to 29 weeks and there will be no more rains, ever, as water can not evaporate anymore. At best, it will rain petroleum."
06/19/10
Russia's Scientists: Toxic Rain From Oil Spill Will Ravage America
Russia's top scientists have informed their president that they expect toxic rain from the Gulf oil spill to destroy the eastern coast of the United States. They also believe that BP's use of a chemical dispersal agent at the spill site is hiding just how bad the spill really is. Er, here's hoping they're wrong? From the EU Times: A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with "total destruction".
06/18/10
Oil industry insider talks about BP corruption and greed
In an exclusive interview, Ken Price, a 14 year oil industry veteran, talked about his experience in the industry and his contempt for the failure of BP to cap the Deepwater Horizon spill and the environmental ramifications. DJW: What back ground and experience do you have in the oil industry? KP: I started out with a major oil company right after I earned my BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Berkeley, Ca. and worked in the commercial marketing and engineering division for fourteen years. I spent a great deal of time around large stationary engines used in power generation and manufacturing. DJW: Have you witnessed corruption first hand in the oil industry? KP: One time, on a visit to New York, my group got to tour the main office (of oil corporation)and meet some of the higher ups, and it was during this visit that I heard them boast about the actual number and occurrences of oil shortage predictions in the United States. My memory went back to about 1972, the now infamous Arab Oil Embargo. Their memories went back to the early 1900's, with additional ones occurring about every ten years. They freely admitted that it was through the public illusion "of a finite amount of oil being present on the planet", like only a certain number of diamonds in South Africa that they could convince the public to pay a decent profit for it. Otherwise, it would be like charging for water. Today, I believe we should get on with much more efficient and non polluting resources like crystal hydrogen, hydrogen from water, and a host of others, electric cars for example we could produce in weeks, that are by today's standards a thousand times better than petroleum.
06/17/10
Oil Disaster Will Be End of Life As We Know It
This is it. It's over. Get ready for the most insane year of your life. 5 years. 10 years. One day you will look back at your life right now and think about how easy it was, how innocent. We are on the cusp of total collapse, right at the precipice. If you're like most people you probably have already decided that I am exaggerating without knowing why I am saying this. Well let me make it clear that I also wish I was exaggerating. I don't sell survival equipment or gold. My job is not recession proof. I have a family. I didn't wake up today and randomly decide to declare that this is the end of life as we know it. But I do research. I make calls and tune into radio, scouring the internet for news clips and analysis. I make a concerted effort to only quote trustworthy sources. The information that has emerged over the past few days confirms fears that this is actually an "Armageddon" event. I am being completely serious.
06/16/10
In jail for being in debt
Haekyung Nielsen, 27, of Bloomington, said police showed up at her house on a civil warrant two weeks after she gave birth through Caesarean section. A debt buyer had sent her court papers for an old credit-card debt while she was in the hospital; Nielsen said she did not have time to respond. Her baby boy, Tyler, lay in the crib as she begged the officer not to take her away. "Thank God, the police had mercy and left me and my baby alone," said Nielsen, who later paid the debt. "But to send someone to arrest me two weeks after a massive surgery that takes most women eight weeks to recover from was just unbelievable." Many debtors, like Robert Vee, 36, of Brooklyn Park, get a second surprise after being arrested - their bail is exactly the amount of money owed. Hennepin County automatically sets bail at the judgment amount or $2,500, whichever is less. This policy was adopted four years ago in response to the high volume of debtor default cases, say court officials. Some judges say the practice distorts the purpose of bail, which is to make sure people show up in court. "It's certainly an efficient way to collect debts, but it's also highly distasteful," said Hennepin County District Judge Jack Nordby. "The amount of bail should have nothing to do with the amount of the debt."
06/13/10
Jena Sheriff Seeks Revenge for Civil Rights Protests
Catrina Wallace is the sister of Robert Bailey, one of the Jena Six. Along with her mother, Caseptla Bailey, she was one of the leaders of the campaign to free the accused youths, and she organized meetings and protests for months. Wallace says her political activism made her a target. "I'm a freedom fighter," she says. "I fight for peoples' rights. I've never been in trouble." Police found no drugs or any other evidence of wrongdoing in Wallace's home. Officers initially claimed they found marijuana on her kitchen table, but later discovered that they had collected broccoli stems, left over from dinner the previous night. Despite the lack of evidence, and the fact that she has lived her whole life in Jena and is raising three small children, she was held for a $150,000 cash-only bond. Her car, a 1999 Mitsubishi Gallant, was also taken by police, who continue to hold it in an impound lot, along with about fifty other vehicles seized that day. If she wants it back, Catrina will have to pay twelve dollars a day to the lot for every day since July of last year -- an amount already larger than the value of the car.
Videos
07/01/10
Will G20 Police Succeed In Covering Up Reports of Rape and Torture?
"I was told I was going to be gang banged. I was told that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again by making sure I was going to be repeatedly raped while I was in jail," she said. Sexual penetration of an individual against their will is called rape. If these reports are accurate, and there's no reason to think otherwise given everything else we've witnessed not only over the past few days but over the past several years in Canada, Toronto police officers are not only brutal thugs who like to lie about the law, unlawfully arrest people, snatch and grab protesters using unmarked cars, and beat up journalists from major newspapers, but they are also rapists who prey on innocent women.
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