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Net Neutrality Threatened
by Stephen Lendman
This article follows two previous ones, accessed through the following links:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/11/struggle-for-net-neutrality.html
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/07/under-threat-free-and-open-internet.html
Free Press.net is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working for media reform through education, organizing and advocacy - Net Neutrality its defining issue, keeping it free and open, letting users access all content without restrictions, limitations, or discrimination, an online level playing field for everyone, the essence of democratic free speech. Without it, consumer choice will be lost, stolen by corporate predators, making the Internet look like cable TV, letting them decide what web sites, content and applications are available at what cost.
AMERICAN IRAQ VET SAYS - ENOUGH, NO MORE!
Allen L Roland
The illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan will only end when the Veterans themselves take a stand against the out of control Military Industrial Complex and greed driven financial elite, as Iraq Vet Mike Prysner has, and say ~ Enough, No More!
WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just confirmed what most progressives already know ~ the progressives are considered roadkill ~ run over by Obamanomics and the corporate oligarchy. But our day is coming and it will be heralded by transparency and the truth, starting with the illegal and corrupt occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan ~ and the Veterans will lead the way as they did with Vietnam.
Another insult to Christianity… meet the Methodist Friends of Israel
Stuart Littlewood
A few weeks ago the Methodist Church's annual conference did a very courageous and praiseworthy thing. It voted to boycott products from Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestine, regarded as illegal under international law, and to encourage Methodists across Britain to do the same.
"The decision is a response to a call from a group of Palestinian Christians, a growing number of Jewish organisations, both inside Israel and worldwide, and the World Council of Churches," said the press release.
Gaza,Soweto and African American Thought: A Message of Enlightenment, Part 2 of 3
Bishop Donald R. Corder
Caught in an illusion and seeming invincibility of the moment, fantasy of grandeur immerges as the Don Quixote of America stands in the Maya of Zionism. The distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between mind and body, distinction between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy resulting from an unenlightened perspective. Wherein truth is dressed up and there is no turning back from the lie camouflaging the devastating implications of a war against Iran as a humanitarian gesture; rendered on behalf of regional peace. Men and women of good conscience look upon and find themselves therein criminalized within the paradigm both for their pacifism or raising their voices and lifting their hands in opposition to the sheer madness now orchestrated in the Middle East, by the dogs of war. All taking note the good people, should quite simply have looked the other way.
Igniting Armageddon in The Middle East
By DR. Elias Akleh
Aggressive rhetoric and a push for Israel to attack Iran have been, lately, intensified in the American media. While senators are trying to get President Obama to officially support an Israeli attack on Iran, reporters of the main media are trying to convince the average American that Iran’s (non-existent) nuclear weapons program, half the globe away, is a threat to America, and the only viable way to stop Iran is through an Israeli “preventive” attack. They claim that the consequences of such an attack, warned by some military strategists as devastating, are “overblown”. Many Zionist-bought Senators assert that the Congress strongly rejects nuclear Iran and supports the use of all means to keep Iran from acquiring a bomb including through military actions. Reiterating this assertion during their visit to Israel last July, Senators McCain, Lieberman and Graham hinted that Israel could spearhead such an attack that would definitely draw American forces in the conflict to finish the job.
Going After the Little Guy and Ignoring the White Collar Criminals
By Gary G. Kohls
In November 2007, 85-year old law-abiding citizen Paul Henss, of suburban Atlanta, Georgia, was deported to Germany, the country of his birth. He had lived in America for 53 years. Henss had immigrated to the US in 1955 at age 33, trying to escape the chaos, hunger and deprivations of post-war Germany. Unfortunately, he had omitted informing immigration authorities at the time about the precise role he had played the war.
Henss had been caught up in the unrelenting dragnet of the US State Department’s Nazi-hunting bureaucracy. The Jewish director of the unit, Eli Rosenbaum, had decided that Henss was a genuine war criminal for having briefly trained guard dogs during the war.
Henss was born in 1922 and, by age 12 - in 1934 - he had joined the Hitler Youth, as did most Aryan boys in Germany (including Pope Benedict XVI). At age 19 he, like most German young men, had been conscripted into the military - whether willing to fight and kill for Germany or not. He was assigned to the Waffen SS and fought with the most decorated German division of the war, the Ist SS Panzer Division.
Excuse The American Left Mr. Gibbs
By Timothy V. Gatto
Robert Gibbs complaining about the left shouldn’t come as any big surprise. The Obama administration has ignored the left since its inception and will continue to do so. So Gibbs thinks we shouldn’t complain that he’s too centrist? What is that, double speak for waging war in faraway places? Is that a “centrist” thing to do? In this day and age I guess it is. Centrism among the politicians means far right to the real left.
How do I know what the left wants? I AM the left. I eat it, I drink it, I spend my days thinking about it. I recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America. I am a card carrying member of the American left. I don’t need Gibbs telling me that I’m pushing Obama too fast. I couldn’t be bothered. Obama is just what the powers that be want him to be. He preached to the choir and the choir fell for it, this after he reneged on the FISA Bill and gave immunity to the telecoms after promising to filibuster the bill. He also said that he wouldn’t take money for his campaign from special interests. Do I have to tell you that Goldman Sachs was one of his biggest contributors? So when will the left get wise to Obama?
Fed begins monetizing the deficit - buying U.S. Treasuries
By Numerian
The Federal Reserve, in announcing the results of this week's meeting of the Open Market Committee, surprised the market by revealing it will begin purchasing US Treasury notes and bonds with the principal income it receives from its vast holdings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage securities. This practice - wherein the Fed buys up US government securities and injects cash into the public market as payment for these securities - is a form of monetizing the debt.
The last time the Fed did this on a big scale was back in the 1960s when it attempted to mop up the excess Treasury securities that were flooding the market as a result of Lyndon Johnson's efforts to finance the Vietnam War. That Fed program was viewed at the time as a failure, since the cash the Fed put back into the economy in exchange for the securities was a big reason - perhaps the major reason - why price inflation accelerated from the late 1960s until a decade later, when Paul Volcker managed to squelch inflation once and for all with forbiddingly high interest rates.
Rachel Maddow Misses Journalistic Opportunity
Joel S. Hirschhhorn
On her August 9 show on MSNBC Rachel Maddow went for an easy attack on those seeking government reforms through constitutional amendments but also missed a big opportunity to inform and educate her audience and millions more Americans.
She ridiculed those, especially Republican candidates and congressmen, making a big point of using constitutional amendments as a way to build public support for themselves. Her basic point was that amending the constitution is really, really hard. It is so difficult that the public should not take this political rhetoric very seriously as a practical way to change law.
BRAVERY AND MORALITY IN ISRAEL Update on the flotilla enquiry developments
Gilad Atzmon
Israel's Defense Force's Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi testified today before the Israeli internal probe into Israel's deadly raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla. He defended the military from politicians' accusations that it botched the operation.
"The commandos exhibited calm, bravery and morality… Their actions were proportionate and correct", Ashkenazi told the inquiry.
Let’s, once again, watch the video of Israeli soldiers executing a peace activist on the Mavi Marmara so we know what the words "bravery, morality, proportionate and correct" stand for in the Jewish State's lexicon.
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