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LIVING ON THE EDGE OF POVERTY
Allen L Roland
Poverty in the U.S. today has many faces. For a homeless man on the streets of Los Angeles, it means not knowing where he will spend the night or where his next meal will come from. For a child in rural Alabama, it means going without breakfast and wearing tattered hand-me-down clothes. For millions of seniors, living from one social security check to the next, it means living on the edge of poverty.
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In 2009, 4 million people fell into poverty which brings the total to over 43 million. Nearly 44 million Americans ~ one in seven ~ lived last year in homes in which the income was below the poverty level ~ and it's getting worse.
Living on the edge of poverty is a far to common experience, particularly for seniors . In 2010, many seniors, including myself, are fed up with an Obama administration who evidently still feels that a top-down stimulus for Wall Street will eventually reach a down and out Main Street.
On Gaza and Chutzpah
Gilad Atzmon
The UN probe into the Israeli massacre in high seas concluded yesterday that Israeli forces violated international law and showed ‘incredible violence’ when they raided a flotilla attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. The UN fact finding mission also argues that Israel's naval blockade of the Palestinian territory was unlawful because of the humanitarian crisis there, and described the military raid on the flotilla as ‘brutal and disproportionate.’
According to the UN probe, there is "clear evidence to support prosecutions" against Israel for "willfull killing" and “torture”.
One would expect that after a publication of such a harsh report, Israel would self reflect, repent and vow to change its attitude toward international law and humanism in general.
Big Brother terrorizes more activists
Mary Shaw
It's like McCarthyism all over again.
On September 24, FBI agents raided the homes of some anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis on suspicion that they were providing material support to terrorism.
This follows only a few weeks after it was discovered that Pennsylvania's Office of Homeland Security had been spying on activist groups in the Keystone State.
The Chicago Tribune quotes one of the harassed activists in Minnesota as calling the searches "an outrageous fishing expedition."
Bombs over Khartoum
Savo Heleta
The notion of South Sudanese airplanes bombing Khartoum could make the regime of Omar al Bashir think twice before sending forces and planes to destroy the south and its population in the aftermath of the 2011 referendum on self-determination.
For decades, the people in South Sudan have suffered cruel attacks and ruthless terror at the hands of their northern countrymen. During this time, the world ignored Khartoum’s numerous genocidal campaigns and unthinkable discrimination and brutality. No one ever came to the rescue of the southerners.
On DADT repeal, 2 steps forward, 2 or 3 steps back
Mary Shaw
There have been some interesting developments lately for gay men and lesbians who bravely want to serve this nation in the military. Sadly, some of the developments were not encouraging.
On September 21, Senate Republicans blocked a defense bill that included a conditional repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy. Even though the repeal would have been dependent on the completion of a Defense Department study and subsequent certification that it would not harm military effectiveness, the Republicans wouldn't even let the bill come to the floor for a debate.
The measure had already passed in the House and in the Senate Armed Services Committee. But that apparently made no difference.
Reaction to Aafia Siddiqui's Sentencing
by Stephen Lendman
On September 23, the FBI headlined, "Aafia Siddiqui Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to 86 Years for Attempting to Murder US Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Crimes." More on its press release below.
No matter that she's completely innocent, and has been a US political prisoner since her March 30, 2003 abduction, incarceration, torture, prosecution, and conviction on bogus charges. Her case is one of America's most egregious examples of horrific abuse and injustice, climaxed by her virtual life sentence for an alleged crime she never committed.
Yet she was convicted for these claimed felonies:
A defense which deserves being called "holy"
Kourosh Ziabari
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Nixon
Almost 20 years have passed since the conclusion of 20th century's longest, most erosive war which was brutally imposed on the defenseless people of Iran by a belligerent and aggressive dictator who was finally pushed to death by the same people who had once persuaded, funded, aided and supported him in attacking and invading the new-born Iran of post-revolution days.
The expansionistic ambitions of the beloved puppet of the White House who was granted the honorary citizenship of Detroit as a reward for his unconditional subservience to the United States, transpired to be a deadly pandemic which claimed the lives of more than 400,000 innocent Iranians who witnessed the most breathtaking years the country had experienced contemporarily.
With the intention of revitalizing the forgotten pan-Arabist sentiments of the 1950s, confronting an emerging Shiite power in the Persian Gulf region and taking over some of the strategic parts of Iran including the Arab-speaking province of Khuzestan and the triple islands of Abu Musa, Lesser Tunb and Greater Tunb which were handed over to Iran 9 years earlier in a trilateral agreement between Iran, the protectorate of Ras Al-Khaimah and the representatives of British forces in the Persian Gulf, Saddam Hussein unilaterally nullified the 1975 Algiers Agreement in 1980 and attacked Iran.
Turkey : beware of the Israeli snake
by Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem
Martyrs of the Freedom Flotilla
It is crystal clear that Israel, the arrogant, fanatical and belligerent Jewish state is trying hard to undermine Turkey. Israel feels that its hegemony in the Middle East is being challenged by Turkish efforts to reassert the country's national interests by enhancing relations with Islamic neighbors and also by courageously opposing Israeli ethnic cleansing and other manifestly criminal policies against the Palestinians.
In recent days and weeks, Israel has been quite furious about the recent referendum in Turkey which granted the government additional powers to assert real democracy and prevent the recurrence of military coups.
A Republican Ransom: Just Say No!
by Doug Drenkow
Let me get this straight. The GOP, under Geo. W. Bush (Remember him? Trillions for the rich. Diddly squat for the rest of us), crashed and trashed the U.S. and world economy, threw millions of Americans out of their jobs -- those jobs not already sent overseas -- gambled away trillions of hard-earned life-savings, and sank millions of home mortgages underwater.
Ever since then, in almost perfect lockstep, the Republicans in Congress have threatened, delayed, filibustered, and in every other way they could think of obstructed every single piece of legislation that offered help in any way, shape, or form to those millions thrown out of work, those millions more far-underemployed, teachers and nurses and firefighters and police facing layoffs by state and local governments in crisis, and all the rest of us everyday Americans wanting nothing more than to provide for our families and to make a worthwhile contribution to our nation but threatened with abject ruin at every turn.
Pictures of Mini Nukes at PakAlert Prove 9-11 was a Metaphysical Catechism (Test)
By Robert Singer
The PakAlert Press, and other popular 9/11 conspiracy websites controlled by the CIA, and known for promoting the controlled demolition theory of the Twin Towers, i.e., an Inside Job, as 9/18/2010 has the following headline: [1]
Pictures Prove Mini Nukes Caused 9-11 Devastation
Posted on PakAlert on September 18, 2010 // 8 Comments
(http://www.pakalertpress.com/2010/09/18/pictures-prove-mini-nukes-caused-9-11-devastation/) and Proven 9-11 Nukes = US Government Involvement
These recent articles at PakAlert CONTRADICT their previous position that 9/11 was an Israeli Inside Job (Israeli connection, 9/11, ALL THE PROOF IN THE WORLD!!) and they now proclaim loudly:
This understanding means we cannot blame the highly unconventional Ground Zero devastation on thermite/thermate/super thermate and “controlled demolition” any more than we can blame it on “jet fuel” or “box cutters.”
Even a child can see there is something wrong with these pictures.
A=Controlled Demolition of a hotel, B=North Tower, C=Hiroshima.
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However, before getting on the mini-nuke/Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) bridge-to-nowhere, ask yourself this question:
If PakAlert is suddenly promoting the mini-nuke/Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) story featuring Judy Wood (previously marginalized and isolated from the 9/11 Truth Movement and considered a Kook [2]), there can only be two possibilities:
Option 1. Mini Nukes and Judy Wood are the truth. The CIA now, after years of promoting 9/11 Truth (mis/disinformation) admit:
- Alex Jones is the "Minister of Truth" over a flock of "Truthers," whose church is the "9/11 Truth Movement." Pastor Jones is none other than a member of Project Mockingbird, Jesuit Temporal Coadjutor and alternative Media Gatekeeper for the Vatican: Alex Jones Jesuit Temporal Coadjutor CIA Disinformation Agent.
- "9/11 'Truth' was planned simultaneously with 9/11 itself. That is why you have so many conflicting stories, points of view, arguments and discussions, etc. The Trolls were pre-ordained and planned. So were the major websites (e.g., 911Truth.org, Infowars). “It is a known fact that any grouping of five or more will be infiltrated.” - Veronica Chapman, Truther
And on September 18, 2010, The Powers That Be (TPTB, a non-conspiracy acronym [3]) had a change of heart (or maybe grew a conscience) and directed their agents, in this case PakAlert and the CIA, to tell the common man the "truth" about what really happened: that is, it was mini-nuke/Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) instead of controlled demolition that cause the Twin Towers to collapse on 9/11. Unlikely. Click here to read a 9-point refutation of the idea that nuclear devices were used to destroy the WTC buildings.
All you can say about a theory of Mini-nukes and Space Beam weapons is that it is a possible explanation, but that doesn't mean it's true. In fact, the recent disclosure from the CIA-controlled sites, who replaced an impossible explanation of the collapse with a plausible explanation, should alert everyone the Mini-nukes and the Space Beam weapon story (for WTC 1 & 2) cannot be true.
Dr. Judy Wood's research confirms a DEW was used to make the impact holes in the Twin Towers and to demolish WTC 7 (without making a sound) but a DEW explanation cannot explain the collapse of the Twin Towers because:
WTC 7 was a bottom-up a gravity-assisted collapse with a small debris field, while WTC 1 and 2 were primarily top-down, virtually unassisted by gravity and showered debris in a wide radius as their frames essentially "peeled" outward. FEMA: WTC Study, Ch. 5 (05/02) [4]
Option 2. The mini-nukes/DEW is the new story behind the story, behind the story of how the World Trade Center I and II collapsed (highly probable).
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