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Wisconsinites v. Governor Scott Walker
by Stephen Lendman
Last winter's epic battle between Wisconsin public workers and Republican Governor Walker ended badly for social justice. Nonetheless, struggling for it continues.
As issue was old-fashioned union busting. It included eroding collective bargain rights before ending them altogether. In addition, draconian wage and benefit cuts were imposed.
Brazen politicians conspired with corrupt union bosses. Rank and file interests lost out. Wealth and power ones prevailed. It's the same story nationwide at federal, state and local levels.
After draconian Wisconsin legislation passed, collective bargaining's only permitted on wage issues. In addition, health insurance and pension contributions doubled. Things got tougher for workers already hard pressed to make ends meet. Wage cuts ranged from 8 - 20% ahead of more coming.
Racist Israeli Supreme Court Decisions
Stephen Lendman
Two recent Israeli High Court rulings follow a disturbing trend. On January 11, divided justices ruled 6 - 5 for Israel's Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law.
It denies citizenship rights to Palestinians with Israeli spouses. Enacted in 2003 as temporary legislation, it was extended twice after its initial expiration date.
Will a pro-Gadhafi “Green Revolution” topple the NTC?
Franklin Lamb
Tripoli
This observer was stunned late last week when during a meeting in a Maghreb country with three high ranking former Libyan officials, among hundreds currently in hiding, and some organizing, in countries bordering Libya, one of them, in all earnest, asked me, “Do you believe there will be a counter revolution soon in the “Jamarariya (state of the masses)?”
The reason I was so surprised is that I was about to ask my hosts that very question. I was thinking that with all their security and serious faced male visitors, some western, coming and going and whispering that the reported Libyan Liberation Front groups along the Seral might be making some progress after not hearing much about them recently.
Obama Sending US Forces to Libya
by Stephen Lendman
On January 13, Cynthia McKinney said Obama has 12,000 US troops in Malta heading for Libya.
Throughout 2011, Washington and rogue NATO partners committed Nuremberg level crimes. They made Libya a charnel house.
Terror bombing caused massacres, mass destruction and human misery. Libya remains wracked by violence, instability, and illegitimate governance.
Is Lindsey Williams a Baptist Order Whistleblower?
By Melanie Lamport
Lindsey Williams is the ordained Baptist minister who went to Alaska in 1971 and allegedly learned about the secret agenda of the Elite. Lindsey is a regular guest on the Alex Jones Show. The show is syndicated by the Genesis Communication Network on over sixty AM and FM radio stations across the United States, as well as having a large internet based audience.
Last week Lindsey told Alex’s listeners about some breaking news from his Elite [pun intended] sources. Lindsey says the Elite are “starting to spill the beans” because: [take your pick]
- The Elite are getting old.
- The Elite don’t care anymore.
- The Elite have a conscience after all.
- The Elite have a code of ethics that require they tell us what they are doing before they do it.
Pastor Williams’ ramblings are 98% really old news. The latest Lindsey Williams The Middle East will be in flames in 2012 is about Ben Bernanke's speech in November 2002 that according to Williams contains five “important points.” Listening to Lindsey, a Baptist Order Whistleblower, repeat over and over will make you nauseous:
"Folks, you will be so scared, I was so scared, Chills went up my spine, Please, folks, I beg of you, Everything the elite have told me has happened exactly the way they said it would, These are the exact words, I am so privileged to have been able to work with the elite, This is so important, folks, Let me warn you ahead of time, Let me go back and say ..., The key point that I'll give right now is — let me give some background on this ..., Let me give one thing that I think is so important, I have had so many talk show hosts call me"
The five smoking guns guaranteed to make you yawn are:
- Lower interest rates to 0% more or less.
- Expand the Fed’s balance sheet by helping the government buy securities.
- Increase the money supply.
- Buy the country's debt.... known as QE1 and QE2, and now it seems the Federal Reserve owns more U.S. debt than China.
- Devalue the dollar on purpose and announce it.
The first clue that we shouldn’t trust Pastor Williams to tell us the truth is that he is a regular on the Alex Jones show.
Ongoing Global Economic Crisis
by Stephen Lendman
Rosy scenario optimists ignore clear-eyed analysis. Economist Paul Craig Roberts sees hard times getting harder.
His "Dismal Economic Outlook For The New Year" article highlights what media scoundrels and mainstream analysts miss or suppress.
Decades of imperial wars, exporting America's manufacturing base and other high-paying jobs, as well as financial deregulation and corporate/government collusion "severely damaged the US economy and the economic prospects of 90%" of households. They've never had it so bad with worse coming.
It's clear from wealth distribution, unemployment, growing poverty, and millions in need losing their struggle to get by. Homelessness, hunger, lost homes, closed strip malls, empty office buildings and other facilities, "shopping mall vacancies," and "huge population losses in America's" once prosperous manufacturing cities show a nation in decline.
Unaccountable: Private Military Contractor Abuses
by Stephen Lendman
Wherever they're deployed, they're menacing and feared for good reason. Known historically by various names, they include mercenaries, soldiers of fortune, dogs of war, and Condottieri for wealthy city state leaders and the Papacy in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance Italy.
Ancient Greeks and Romans used them. So did Alexander the Great, feudal lords, Napoleon and George Washington against the British.
Article 47 of the 1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions calls them anyone:
- specially recruited locally or abroad to fight in armed conflicts;
- directly participating in hostilities:
- doing so for greater private gain than conscripted or otherwise recruited combatants;
- acting unaffiliated to conflict parties and not a resident of territory where they're waged;
- not an armed forces member of either side; and
- not sent by a nation unrelated to hostilities as a member of its armed forces.
Reinventing the Middle East lexicon
Eric Walberg
Gilad Atzmon
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that’s all.”
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (1871)
The lexicon of Israel and its Western lobbyists constantly needs parsing to know just what is meant. Most glaringly is the term “settlers”, which suggests peaceful pioneers wishing to integrate with the locals. In Israel, the word “settlers” is a loaded term, for they are “aggressive squatters, half a million of them in over 100 illegal colonies — ugly blots on an otherwise lovely landscape ... who terrorise local villagers, vandalise their crops, pollute their land and harass their children,” as described by Stuart Littlewood. The Fourth Geneva Convention forbids that an occupying power transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
Palestinian Liberation Requires Unity
by Stephen Lendman
PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi wants EU help to end Israel's occupation. She said America's preoccupied with elections and grossly biased for Israel.
Calling the current situation "dangerous" she said Israel's "dragging the region into the abyss." As a result, urgent EU help is needed "to end the occupation."
EU nations know their obligations under international law, including Geneva's Common Article 1. Requiring all nations enforce them, it states:
Israel Plans More Walls
by Stephen Lendman
Instead of peace, reconciliation, equity and justice, Israel plans settlement expansions and more Walls. More on them below.
At the same time, Abbas broke his pledge about no peace talks unless settlement expansions stop. Chief negotiators Saeb Erekat and Yitzhak Molcho are meeting in Amman, Jordan. They're joined by Quartet representatives.
Netanyahu's spokesman Mark Regev claims "talks are intended to move forward to negotiations."
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