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The GOP pledge
by Von Helman
“Ladies and gentlemen step right up and get your tickets to see the new circus event in town, yes the new GOP pledge, it has everything you could ever want or need…”
Or so that’s what I’m hearing being yelled at the newsstands down on the corner.
So now, at what seams the peak (if there really is one) of the huge disappointment that the democrats and the Obama administration has turned out to be with their out of control spending, lack of genuine transparency, and the fact that the US citizens are indeed upset so let not a good crisis go to waste...
‘Troubled Waters’ overcomes censor troubles; more must-see Ag films
By Rady Ananda
After controversy erupted when the University of Minnesota yanked the opening of Larkin McPhee's new film, Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story, U of M officials gave the go-ahead for the October 3rd screening. The film explores agrochemical runoff and growing dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico.
Molly Priesmeyer of the Twin Cities Daily Planet exposed a conflict of interest between U of Minn. and Big Ag:
Committee of Independent Experts on Gaza War
by Stephen Lendman
On September 21, the UN Human Rights Council's independent fact finding Committee issued its report titled, "No Safe Place," assessing "investigat(ions) and report(s) on violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law during" Operation Cast Lead. Its members included:
-- Professor John Dugard, Chairman, former UN Special Human Rights Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine;
-- Norwegian Judge Finn Lynghjem;
-- Chilean attorney Gonzalo Boye;
-- Professor Corte-Real, a forensic body damage evaluator; and
-- solicitor Ms. Raelene Sharp.
On February 21, it held an initial meeting with the Arab League's Secretary-General in Cairo, then entered Gaza the next day through the Rafah crossing. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights organized its six day visit with a wide range of persons, including Cast Lead victims, witnesses, doctors, lawyers, journalists, business people, and members of NGOs, UN agencies and Hamas.
Is Ahmadinejad a sane person in an insane world?
Von Helman
Most people today are too young to really recall the 1979 American hostage situation in Iran but if they are they usually also can’t help remember how ineffective the Carter administration was in handling it. I personally remember the news reports of one specific rescue mission “Operation Eagle Claw” which went awry when a US military helicopter crashed into a refueling plane in the Middle East desert killing 8 service men.
I also remember Ronald Regan during the 1980 election campaign say that if elected, as president the first order of business was to bomb Iran if the hostages weren’t yet released. Regan said this while doing his best John Wayne impersonation, but the result of that raspy threat as history recorded was that all 52 hostages were released within hours of Ronald Regan taking office.
THE CREDIT MELTDOWN AND THE SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM: WHAT BASEL III MISSED
Ellen Brown
While local banks are held in check by the new banking czars in Basel, Wall Street’s “shadow banking system” has hardly been curbed by regulators at all; and it is here that the 2008 credit crisis was actually precipitated. The banking system’s credit machine is systemically flawed and needs a radical overhaul.
On September 13, the Bank for International Settlements issued heightened capital requirements that will make lending even more difficult for local banks, which do most of the consumer and small business lending today. The new rules are ostensibly designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 credit collapse, but they fail to address its real cause, which involves a “shadow” banking system that has largely escaped regulation.
Congressional Food Fascism Legislation
by Stephen Lendman
Two earlier articles addressed corporate friendly legislation masquerading as pro-consumer. In fact, they'll destroy safe food, empower agribusiness and drug giants, and harm small farmers and consumers. Access them through the following links:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/07/hr-2749-agribusiness-empowering-act.html
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/legislation-for-greater-agribusiness.html
This article is a brief follow-up on where things now stand, as the Senate tries to circumvent growing public opposition.
On July 29, 2009, the House passed HR 2749: Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 "To amend the (1938 as amended) Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food in the global market, and for other purposes."
Israel Will Be Palestine
by Gilad Atzmon
A meeting between Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon ended abruptly yesterday. The dispute followed the Israeli deputy foreign minister’s demand that the meeting’s summary should refer to the notion of ‘two states for two peoples,’ rather than just ‘two states.’
"I wanted that at the very least it will note two states for two peoples. I demanded to know what they meant. One Palestinian state and one bi-national state, or another Palestinian state?" the deputy minister told Ynet. "I made it clear that we were out of the picture if the summary didn’t say two states for two peoples."
Shut Up! You’re Disturbing the Elite
by Keith Johnson
So many warnings, so many solutions, and so many people who couldn’t care less.
LONG AGO: A man named Noah (the conspiracy theorist of his time) warns his people that a great flood is fast approaching. His preparations for the event are largely dismissed as crazy, and he is constantly the subject of ridicule and mockery. Even as the heavy rains turn torrential; the people continue to laugh, eat, drink and dance…right up until the water level rises high enough to sweep them all away.
1912: As the RMS Titanic takes on water; word spreads among the passengers that they must prepare to abandon ship. Many refuse to board lifeboats because they are convinced that the vessel cannot sink. Some stay in the lounges to socialize while others return to their cabins and fall fast asleep. The lifeboats aboard the Titanic have the capacity to accommodate 2/3 of the passengers, but many of them are sent away nearly empty because some people refuse to take the crisis seriously.
Aafia Siddiqui Sentenced: A Grievous Miscarriage of Justice
by Stephen Lendman
On September 23 in federal court, US District Court Judge Richard Berman sentenced political prisoner Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison. Outrage most accurately expresses this gross miscarriage of justice, compounding what she's already endured following her March 30, 2003 abduction, imprisonment, torture, prosecution, and conviction on bogus charges.
Earlier articles explained her case in detail, accessed through the following links:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/12/abduction-secret-detention-torture-and.html
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/02/aafia-siddiqui-victimized-by-american.html
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/03/aafia-siddiqui-victimized-by-american.html
In modern times, she's one of American depravity's most aggrieved victims, now given a virtual life sentence for a crime she didn't and couldn't have committed, explained in the above articles.
Is peace really possible in Palestine?
Salim Nazzal
The American sponsored negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis has not so far generated any serious hope for Palestinians looking forward to ridding themselves of the last occupation in history. The reason for this pessimism is that Palestinians have lost hope after endless negotiations which began in Madrid 1990 and nothing of these negotiations indicated a happy ending of the Zionist occupation. Even while negotiations were going on Israel has continued its illegal settlement activities in which they steal more Palestinian land and Palestinian water sources. This policy is clearly aiming at the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homes.
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