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Israel slams Arab "incitement," ignores clarion Jewish racism
by Khalid Amayreh
The Israeli press on Wednesday, 3 November, reported that Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu deliberated a draft known as the "incitement index", measuring the levels of violence and anti-Israel sentiment among Palestinians.
The meter completely ignores the much more virulent and nearly daily incitement by Israeli political and religious leaders against Palestinians, Muslims and non-Jews in general.
In fact, Israeli-Jewish incitement and racism against gentiles in general exceeds in terms of wickedness and depravity anything ever uttered by the Palestinians, Israel's ultimate victims, by many light years.
TO HELL WITH COMPROMISE: THIS IS WAR!
by Mary Pitt
On the day after the election, we have learned how much government money could buy. But it was not enough! Some of the Tea Party candidates went down in flames but enough eked out wins to change the complexion of the House and now the Republicans are making plans to repeal all the acts of the last two years and to virtually cancel all the improvements that the Democrats worked so hard to enact. Even in the President's press conference, we saw not a fighter but a man who is eager to compromise and to "work things out" with the Republicans. But the Progressives have seen enough compromise to last a good long while.
Lies, money, and the fate of our liberty
Mary Shaw
The November 2 elections whittled away at the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate and gave the Republicans control once again of the House of Representatives.
So what prompted so many people to vote for the GOP -- the very same party that got this nation into the current economic mess?
Two things that go hand in hand: Lies and money.
The lies came via the campaign ads and partisan propaganda. The money to pay for them came from the corporations to whom the U.S. Supreme Court awarded the keys to the floodgates through its decision in a little case known as Citizens United. Big business can now pump unlimited funds into the election process to further its own interests, little people be damned.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC): What is China's Three Gorges Dam Doing in this Picture?
The year is 2010 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered the greatest calamity the world has ever known:
There are now well over 150 million Americans who feel stress over these things on a consistent basis. Although over 60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck, they still support the state of the art Atom smashing Rube Large Hadron Goldberg Collider (RLHGC), developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) at a cost of only $8 Billion (that's around 3.03 billion Euros). [2]
It doesn’t matter that America and most of the industrialized world is suffering a technospheric breakdown:
Every bridge, road, reservoir, is gradually degrading along with every office building, factory, school and home, as well as the infrastructure for every sewer, municipal water system, electrical grid, airport and railway station. ALL of them are in a slow but sure process of deterioration and degeneration. [3]
Humanity will be OK if we can re-create creation by simulating conditions a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, that will either demonstrate or rule out the existence of the elusive Higgs boson a.k.a. the God Particle.
We need to find the God Particle and put it back in the Black Hole.
America: Land of Police State Persecution
by Stephen Lendman
An earlier article discussed America's violent culture, accessed through the following link:
Its opening comments are expanded below:
What do you call a country that glorifies wars and violence in the name of peace. One that's been at war every year in its history against one or more adversaries. One that believes pacifism is sissy and unpatriotic. One that feels militarism is a higher form of civilization. One that threatens planetary life.
Murdoch drums up “war” where propaganda collides with truth
Stuart Littlewood
In his recent pep-talk to the Anti-Defamation League, media magnate Rupert Murdoch complains about "an ongoing war against the Jews" commentarymagazine.com.
He seems desperate to divert attention from the mounting resentment around the world towards Israel. But his threadbare argument collapses straightaway because no distinction is made between criminal Israelis and Jews generally. The one remains carefully hidden behind the other.
And the anti-Semitism label tends to get pinned on anyone and everyone in European society, “from its most élite politicians to its largely Muslim ghettoes”, who speaks against or as much as frowns at the racist regime.
US Elections: America's Right Turn
by Stephen Lendman
Since the 1980s, neoliberalism dominated US politics under Democrats and Republicans. Bush I continued Reagan policies. Clinton hardened them. Bush II much more, and Obama so far matched Star Trek, going where no administration went before. Count the ways. They're manyfold, favoring business over popular interests, yet he's accused of being socialist.
On November 2, angry voters responded, shifting right despite favoring many left of center issues, a combination of outrage and angst overriding their best interests. Go figure because what they got will incense them more.
Haiti's Cholera Outbreak: A Disease of Poverty
by Stephen Lendman
On October 22, Reuters confirmed Haiti's cholera outbreak, saying efforts were being made to prevent an epidemic that so far "killed nearly 200 people and sickened more than 2,000," official reports understating the threat.
On the same day, New York Times writer Donald McNeil, Jr. headlined, "Cholera Outbreak Kills 150 in Haiti," saying:
"A cholera outbreak in a rural area of northwestern Haiti....overwhelmed local hospitals with thousands of sick," according to the World Health Organization. Rural Artibonite, Haiti's main rice-growing area, 62 miles north of Port-au-Prince was struck, though cases were surfacing elsewhere. They're now in the nation's capital where overcrowding threatens a possible epidemic.
Despair Follows Delusion
Joel S. Hirschhorn
Despite all the hype and rhetoric, only one impact of the midterm elections is assured. Notwithstanding power shifts from Democrats to Republicans in Congress there will not be any deep, sorely needed true reforms of our corrupt, dysfunctional and inefficient government. The culture of corruption in Washington, DC will remain. Hundreds of millions of dollars from corporate and other special interests will assure that.
Voters who think otherwise are either delusional or stupid. It will not matter whether you voted for Republicans because you wanted to defeat Democrats (or vice-versa), or whether you voted for Tea Party candidates, or whether you voted against incumbents, or whether you voted for what you believe are lesser-evil candidates. Americans lost however they voted, but it may take time for most to comprehend that. That is a terribly painful reality, which is why many who chose to vote will resist facing the ugly truth.
Palestinians complain of widespread torture in PA lockups
by Khalid Amayreh
"It is a slaughter house," "even the Gestapo didn't do this;" I spent many years in Israeli jails, and never experienced some thing like that." These are some of the comments and observations made by people who have just been released from Palestinian Authority (PA) lockups and detention centers.
The PA said it formally and completely stopped physical torture in its numerous detention centers as of October 2000, especially following protests by the donor countries which complained that their tax-payers' money was being used to torture suspected political opponents in the West Bank.
However, recent reports and testimonies gathered by human rights organizations and journalists have shown that intensive, even life-threatening torture is still being widely practiced by PA security authorities with or without the knowledge of the political authorities.
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