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! ! ! EMERGENCY ALERT ! ! ! THERE'S STILL TIME TO KILL THE HATE BILL!
By Rev. Ted Pike
Sen. Patrick Leahy's hate crimes amendment was scheduled to be received by the Senate on Wednesday, July 15, and voted on. Yet, the debate over funding additional F-22 fighter planes on the defense appropriations bill was not resolved today and will continue Wednesday. This delay may give lovers of freedom another day to protest the hate bill, S. 909.
Because of massive failure of Christian/conservative action groups to rally calling at this pivotal moment, homosexual calling in favor of the hate bill dominated in Senate offices today. I have written about how Dr. Dobson and Family Research Council devastated evangelical will to fight the hate bill in their radio broadcast last week. They said it is now in vain to oppose the hate bill; prayer is our only recourse. (Listen to Focus on the Family's James Dobson betray efforts to fight the Hate Bill: Click Here to LISTEN; Click Here to DOWNLOAD [6 min., 4.2 MB, right click and save target as.])
No Words
Andrew Lehman
For several months now, the Republicans have been seeking to find a way to demonize the Obama Administration, experimenting with the words "socialist" and "fascist" to see which word seems more powerful at evoking fear.
"Fascist" suggests a one-party government controlled by a small elite, often with close ties to specific corporations. Fascism is often characterized by an atmosphere composed of fear and reprisal.
"Socialist" seems to imply a government focused on the group instead of the individual, denying individuals their desire to do as they please while seeking ways to make the less economically advantaged individuals within the group more secure. Implied is the denigration of individual rights.
Israel escalates racist actions in occupied Palestine
The Palestinian Return Centre
Palestine Return Centre (PRC) expressed deep anxiety towards Israeli practises in occupied Palestinian territories. International laws, UN resolutions, International court of justice, 4th Geneva conventions and many other charters are being repeatedly and clearly violated by Israel which is meet with a lamentable silence by the International community as well as the Arab and the Muslim world.
With the coming of the recent Israeli government, more racial practises are committed against Palestinians. Judaising Jerusalem through ethnic cleansing forceful expulsion of Palestinians is unremitting. In an effort to deny the culture and history of Palestinians a shameful decision was made yesterday by the Israeli government to change names of Arabic cities into Hebrew.
ICRC: Israel Traps Gazans in Deprivation and Despair
by Stephen Lendman
Founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross is an "impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance." It also tries "to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles."
It's legally mandatd to do it under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and has had a permanent presence in Gaza since 1968. Currently 109 ICRC staff work there, including 19 expatriates. They remained throughout Operation Cast Lead and witnessed firsthand the carnage and destruction that took place.
Uighur vs Afghan: A study in contrasts
Eric Walberg
The US slaughter in Afghanistan makes the Chinese creeping colonisation of Urumqi look like a picnic, bemoans Eric Walberg
Last week's riots in Urumqi, resulting in 180 deaths, recall similar protests in Tibet last year, though only 19 people were killed there. Both Uighurs and Tibetans exiles demonstrated during the Chinese Olympics, to little effect. Both regions, remote from the heart of Han China, were taken over under the communists, and are important strategically and as storehouses of mineral wealth to feed the new capitalist China's voracious appetite. They remind us that old-fashion colonialism is alive and well. Neither the Uighurs nor the Tibetans have any hope of independence, but they rightly would like the Han to be less greedy and invasive.
Anarchism, Marxism, and Zapatismo
By Hans Bennett
On January 1, 1994, the now-infamous North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. That same day, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), rose up and launched a military offensive that occupied towns throughout the state of Chiapas, in Mexico. The EZLN, or “Zapatistas” had been covertly organizing for many years, but they specifically chose the day of NAFTA’s implementation for their public rebellion.
Many components of NAFTA favored US corporate interests at the expense of Mexico’s general population, but the Zapatistas were particularly opposed to NAFTA’s rewriting of the Mexican Constitution, in order to eliminate the population’s biggest victory won during the Mexican Revolution fought years before, at the time of World War One. “The Mexican Revolution wrote into the national constitution the opportunity for a village to hold its land communally, in an ejido, so that no individual could alienate any portion of it,” writes Staughton Lynd, co-author of the new book Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History. Both Lynd (a Marxist from the US) and his co-author Andrej Grubacic (an anarchist from the Balkans) are public supporters of the Zapatistas, who they argue have set a powerful example of revolutionary organizing that should influence anti-capitalists around the world. Much like the historical traditions of the Haymarket Martyrs and the ‘Wobblies’ (the Industrial Workers of the World) in the United States, Lynd and Grubacic argue that the Zapatistas have synthesized the best aspects of both the Marxist and anarchist traditions.
Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination Alert
by Stephen Lendman
On July 13, a World Health Organization (WHO) Global Alert headlined, "WHO recommendations on pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccinations" suggest that universally mandated ones are coming. It stated that on July 7, the pharmaceutical industry-dominated Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization held an "extraordinary meeting in Geneva to discuss issues and make recommendations related to vaccine for the pandemic (H1N1) 2009."
There's no pandemic nor until recently a single death anywhere attributable to Swine Flu. Yet WHO said the virus "is considered unstoppable," while admitting little evidence of spread so far, most cases are mild, and many people recover unaided. Nonetheless, all countries will need vaccines and should follow these priorities as initial supplies will be limited:
My dream World
Najwa Sheikh Ahmed
It is really nice that humans can practice having dreams on their awareness, it is a bless, certainly it is, for the people of Gaza, where the blockade, the deteriorating economical situation, and the effects of the recent war left them no chance to fulfill any of their dreams, and their plans for the future even the smallest ones. Therefore, having them achieved on their dreams is an attempt to elevate the stress and frustration they felt. On these dream worlds, the worlds that each one of us can create by himself, and can control its elements, with both the; add and delete buttons, it became a perfect world.
ALL THE LIES LEAD TO CHENEY / LET'S PROSECUTE
Allen L Roland
Absolute power absolutely corrupts and the Libby conviction in 2007 was the very tip of an Iceberg of deceit, deception, hubris and abuse of power by the Cheney/Bush administration ~ which began with the 9/11 coverup, extended to the illegal War, occupation and economic rape of Iraq and is fully visible in the tragedy of New Orleans . Karl Rove's resignation left only the dark master himself ~ for all the lies eventually lead to Dick Cheney:
Pandora's Box is opening ~ The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees.
Torture Accountability Requires the People to Demand It
By Kevin Zeese
Attorney General Holder Considering Appointment of Special Prosecutor But Devil is In the Details. We Need a Full-Fledged, Independent Investigation and Prosecution
Reports over the weekend indicate that Attorney General Holder is seriously considering appointing a special prosecutor to investigate torture and other abuses during the Bush-Cheney administration.
This would be a major reversal and indicates that efforts for torture accountability are paying off. We are close to success but pressure is mounting to prevent a prosecution so those who favor holding torturers accountable, including those who created and facilitated the policy, need to increase their efforts at this critical time.
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