~ J. Michael Straczynski
No destiny seems to me more enviable than that of an artist who can permit himself to observe the world around him and to reproduce it in his own way.
Ondaatje, Michael. 1992. The English Patient VIAthetwistedmind, a Gemini shush
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NBC News Pulls Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
By Glenn Greenwald
Yesterday,
Mohyeldin witnessed and then reported on the brutal killing by Israeli
planes of four young boys as they played soccer on a beach in Gaza
City.
 As a new round of violence kicks off in Israel-Palestine and more children are killed, it's time to take definitive non-violent action to end this nightmare. Our governments and companies have continued to aid, trade and invest in the violence, but we can help stop it if we call on key banks, pension funds and businesses to pull out their investments -- add your voice now:  |
We know it works -- when EU countries issued guidelines not to fund the illegal Israeli settlements it caused an earthquake in the cabinet, and when citizens successfully persuaded a Dutch pension fund, PGGM, to withdraw, it created a political storm.
This may not feel like a direct way to stop the current killing, but history tells us that raising the financial cost of oppression can pave a path to peace. Click to call on 6 key banks, pension funds and businesses to pull out -- If we all take smart action now and turn up the heat, they could withdraw, the Israeli economy will take a hit, and we can turn the calculation of the extremists politically profiting from this hell upside down:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_loc/?binitdb&v=42612
In the last five weeks three Israeli teenagers were murdered in the West Bank, a Palestinian boy was burnt alive, an American kid was brutally beaten up by Israeli police, and now over 40 Gazan kids have died in Israeli air strikes. This is not the “Middle East conflict”, it's becoming a war on children. And we are becoming numb to this global shame.The media makes out like this is an intractable conflict between two equal warring parties, but it is not. Palestinian extremists' attacks on innocent civilians must be condemned and ended but the root of the conflict lies elsewhere -- in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. Israel currently occupies, colonises, bombs, raids, and controls the water, trade and the borders of a legally free nation that has been recognised by the United Nations. In Gaza, Israel has created the largest open-air prison in the world, and then blockaded it. Now as bombs fall, the families, literally have no way to get out. These are war crimes and we wouldn't accept that anywhere else, why accept it in Palestine? Half a century ago Israel and its Arab neighbours went to war and Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza. Occupying territory after war happens all the time. But no military occupation should turn into a decades long tyranny which only fuels and benefits extremists who use terror to target the innocent. And who suffers? The majority of loving families on both sides that just want freedom and peace.
To many, particularly in Europe and North America, calling for companies to withdraw investments from financing or taking part in Israel's occupation of Palestine sounds completely biased. But it’s not -- this is the most potent non-violent strategy to end the ritual violence, ensure Israelis' security and achieve Palestinian freedom. Israel’s power and wealth dwarfs Palestine, and if it refuses to end its illegal occupation, the world must act to make the cost unbearable.Dutch pension fund, ABP, invests in Israeli banks that help fund the colonisation of Palestine. Massive banks like Barclays invest in suppliers of Israeli arms and other occupation businesses. Computer giant Hewlett-Packard supplies sophisticated surveillance to control the movement of Palestinians. And Caterpillar provides bulldozers that are used to demolish Palestinian homes and farms. If we can create the biggest global call ever to get these companies to pull out, we will show clearly that the world will no longer be complicit in this bloodshed. The Palestinian people are calling on the world to support this path and progressive Israelis support it too. Let’s join them:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_loc/?binitdb&v=42612
Our community has worked to bring peace, hope, and change to some of the world’s toughest conflicts, and often that means taking difficult positions to address the root cause. For years our community has looked for a political solution to this nightmare, but with this new round of horror unfolding in Gaza, the time has come to turn to sanctions and disinvestment to finally help end the horror for Israelis and Palestinians.
With hope and determination,
Alice, Fadi, Ben, Laila, Anna, Ricken, Jo, Nell, Mais and the entire Avaaz team
MORE INFORMATION:
UN independent expert calls for boycott of businesses profiting from Israeli settlements (UN)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43376#.U7_ynqhMrRI
12 more EU countries warn against trade with Israeli settlements (Haaretz)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.603030
Israelis, Palestinians Pro Peace Process, but Not Hopeful (Gallup)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/161456/israelis-palestinians-pro-peace-process-not-hopeful.aspx
Under pressure, a strong EU-Israel relationship faces uncertain future (Middle East Monitor)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/debate/9675-under-pressure-a-strong-eu-israel-relationshi...
Israel-Gaza conflict: 80 per cent of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes are civilians, UN report says (The Independent)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israelgaza-conflict-80-per-cent-of-palestinians-killed-by-israeli-strikes-are-civilians-un-report-says-9606397.html
Rule 156. Definition of War Crimes (ICRC)
http://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_cha_chapter44_rule156
Palestinians: Most Gaza dead are children, women, elderly (Haaretz)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.604443
Caught on Tape: US Teen Allegedly Beaten by Israeli Police (ABC News)
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/caught-tape-us-teen-tariq-abu-khdeir-allegedly-24449873
A policy of displacement (Visualizing Palestine)
http://visualizingpalestine.org/infograhic/a-policy-of-displacement
Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry
http://www.whoprofits.org/
Additional sources for this campaign:
http://avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_sources_a/?blast</
Witness to a Shelling
First-hand Account of Deadly Strike on Gaza Port
By Peter Beaumont in Gaza
There is a deafening explosion, then a second. Four children are dead.
"They Have To Die":
Israeli Politician Calls For Killing of Palestinian Mothers
By Jonathan Turley
"They
should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the
snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.
Why the Israelis Are Repetitively Violent
By Lawrence Davidson
unbeknownst
to many Jews, their wellbeing is being used falsely to justify the
policies of a habitually violent state and its racist ambitions.
Cui Bono?
Flight MH17 Down Over Ukraine
By Tony Cartalucci
Flying over warzone Ukraine, the probable & convenient happens.
When the US Welched on Its NATO Promise
By Ray McGovern
The Ukraine crisis owes its roots to a deal America made and broke with the recently deceased Soviet foreign minister.
The Human Price of Neocon Havoc
By Robert Parry
Neocons
are the "masters of chaos" as they destabilize disfavored governments
around the world. But real people pay the price as we've seen with
Israel's slaughter of four boys on a Gaza beach and an apparent
shoot-down of a Malaysian airliner over war-torn Ukraine.
Cheney Interview Blackout as Protester Waves Handcuffs at 'War Criminal'
Video
One protester tried to 'arrest' the politician, but was taken away, as live video of the event went black.
Edward Snowden: 'If I End Up In Chains In Guantánamo I Can Live With That'
Video Interview
The
31-year-old former intelligence analyst discusses whether he is a
Russian spy, his likely fate if he returns to the US and the relevance
of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in the age of Google.
Insider Trading and Financial Terrorism on Comex
By Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler
This is
an act of financial terrorism supported by federal regulatory
authorities. Another motive is to help support the relative trading
level of the U.S. dollar.
The Rise Of The Non-working Rich
By Robert Reich
More
than three quarters of self-described conservatives believe "poor
people have it easy because they can get government benefits without
doing anything."
Border Children: 'They Don't Speak English, But They Understand Hate'
By Amy Goodman
"The only threat that these children pose to us is the threat of testing our own conscience."
This Is What Happens When You Call the Cops
Video
This is what happens when you call the cops
You get your rights violated or you all get shot.
The Curse of 'American Exceptionalism'
By John Atcheson
We're exceptional, alright, but not in the way we think. Here's 8 ways we're exceptional - exceptionally bad.
Imagine: John Lennon
Video
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
First Woman Tribal Nation Principle Chief of the CWY
........maybe she won with the populist vote here: "Chief Mankiller"
seems this mankill'en is epidemic, as ubiquitous as the cemetery and urn, the pire, dirge and dust and such, soon none will care as man is all gone on, man is no more here.............Chief Allgone
TSLAGI
The man behind the Wikileaks PayPal and the PayPal 14 Fund Now Taking Bitcoin
wait for it..........wait for it...................... tha-dah!!
Ron Paul r3VOLution - As American as American Pie
let's hope the apple doesn't fall far from the tree....Rand?tis not o-key to look the other way..................we do not have the right to do what is wrong, then who must choose which child is to die so that we may live as we wish?
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Posted: 16 Jul 2014 01:11 PM PDT
16 July 2014
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An estimated 40 000 people in Cape Town marched in solidarity with Gaza
today, 16 June and gathered outside Parliament's main gates, calling
for the Israeli ambassador to South Africa to be expelled and an end to
trade ties between South Africa and Israel.
The
huge crowd, which stretched over several city blocks, held aloft scores
of banners and posters, calling for an end to the violence in
Palestine's Gaza Strip.
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How US and Blair Plotted 'Ceasefire' Scam
By Jonathan Cook
The
idea for the so-called Egyptian "ceasefire proposal" was actually
hatched in Washington, the messenger boy was arch-war criminal Tony
Blair, and the terms were drafted by Israel.
Israel Inflicts Illegal Collective Punishment on Gaza
By Marjorie Cohn
"Israel
is able to act with utter impunity because of the military, economic
and political support it receives from governments around the world,"
American and Israeli War Crimes
By Margaret Kimberley
Barack
Obama and his other partners in world gangsterism such as the prime
ministers of Canada, the United Kingdom and other NATO countries blurt
out the same lying rhetoric.
Israel Accused Of War Crimes In UK Parliament
Video
Highlights from a UK parliamentary debate in which MPs variously accused Israel of war crimes.
Full Text : President Bashar al-Assad Speech Following the Swearing-in Ceremony
Video and English Transcript
"A few
years ago, some called for freedom - your response was to remain free
in the age of subservience, to be masters in the age of slaves."
Atoms For Peace And Iran Nuclear Talk
The Theatrics Continues - From Eisenhower to Obama
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
For
34 years, Washington has been engaged in covert and overt operation to
overthrow the government of the Iranian people. It has been complicit
in war and war crimes.
Government Repeatedly Told Us We'd Have "Blood On Our Hands"
By Elias Isquith
The former editor in chief of the New York Times says Washington often played the terrorism card to spike stories.
Border Wars in the Homeland
By Todd Miller
A
Border Patrol agent forced Vermont's senior senator Patrick Leahy from
his car at a checkpoint 125 miles south of the New York State border.
The Potential Killers All Around Us
By Dave Lindorff
I've often wondered why so many innocent people who are shot by police end up dead.
America Is Guilty if We Don't Prosecute Obama
By Eric Zuesse
The signs of the fascist turn of the American Government are also all around us.
Why We're Doomed: Interest and Debt
By Charles Hugh Smith
Even if
the economy were growing at a faster pace, it wouldn't come close to
offsetting the interest payments on our ever-expanding debt.
Did the Other Shoe Just Drop?
Big Banks Hit with Monster $250 Billion Lawsuit in Housing Crisis
By Ellen Brown
When
depositors open their online accounts and see that their balances have
shrunk or disappeared, a run on the banks is likely.
Look Who's Behind This Large Study to "Help the Bees"
Heather Callaghan
Corporatist Lobbying Replaced a Free Market
James Hall
20 Signs The Epic Drought In The Western US Is Starting To Become Apocalyptic
Michael Snyder
The Reasons We Fight The New World Order
Brandon Smith
Golden Rice: GMO "Super Gruel" for the Masses
Tony Cartalucci
Texas Plans to Fingerprint EVERYONE within the Next 12 Years
Daisy Luther
Attention: Roundup damages sperm
Jon Rappoport
Good News: Jury Nullification is Interfering With Marijuana Convictions
5 nations forming their own world bank: Is this the new New World Order?
Lily Dane
Is Anything on the Internet Real Anymore?
Melissa Melton
New Must-See Videos
LA Homeless Upset Over Mayor Working to Provide Shelter to Illegal Aliens
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Why Bitcoin Today Is Like the Internet in 1994
Hard News
At least 222 Palestinians killed: 'Government murdering children with my money':
Israeli
Jew: Ofer Neiman and a group of like-minded Israeli Jews are not only
pained by the ongoing Israeli onslaught against the blockaded Gaza
Strip, but also by what they describe as Israel's "apartheid" policies
against the "oppressed" Palestinian people.
Israeli kills another four children in Gaza : medics:
Six
other Palestinians including four members of one family, among them a
woman, 70, and two children aged 4 and 6, were killed in two Israeli
air strikes in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, medics there
said.
Fear grips Gaza hospital bombarded repeatedly by Israel:
The
staff have appealed to international agencies for protection, and say
the hospital is known to the Israeli army. But it was hit again on
Tuesday night.
Arab MK Stages 'Moment of Silence' for Gaza Dead in Knesset: Video -
MK
Basel Ghattas (Balad) cause a firestorm in the Knesset Wednesday,
after he staged a "moment of silence" for the "victims" of Israel's
attack on Gaza.
Senate panel votes for defense bill that doubles money for Israel's Iron Dome:
The
Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee approved a defense spending
bill on Tuesday that would provide $621.6 million for Israeli missile
defense, including $351 million for the Iron Dome system .
Israel agrees to UN request for humanitarian ceasefire:
Israel
on Wednesday agreed to temporarily halt its assault on Gaza after
United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Robert Serry called for a "humanitarian ceasefire." The Israeli Defense
Ministry said that the ceasefire was meant for Gazans to see the
damage wrought by Israel in the last week and a half.
Report: Hamas, Islamic Jihad offer 10-year truce:
Hamas
and Islamic Jihad have submitted a list of 10 demands to Egypt to
establish a 10-year truce with Israel, the Hebrew-language daily Maariv
reported Wednesday.
Abbas to meet Hamas leaders in Cairo:
Abbas
"wants a ceasefire to end the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip,"
senior Fatah leader Nabil Shaath told a Wednesday press conference in
Ramallah.
Infrastructure destruction in Gaza throws doubt on Israeli motives:
Israeli
claims that its air strikes are aimed at rocket launching sites, but
Gazans complain that the sorties are also targeting infrastructure
ranging from fishing boats to schools
Israel buys tweets to promote Gaza escalation:
PM Netanyahu's twitter account uses promoted tweets seeking to build support for the escalation in the Gaza Strip.
Rebel clashes in Yemen leave 35 fighters dead: officials:
The
officials say the Hawthi rebels, who belong to a Shiite sect, have
been battling their conservative Sunni rivals from one of Yemen's
largest tribes, backed by a local army unit, in Jouf province since
Tuesday, July 15.
Yemen: 10 million Yemenis still struggle for food: -
A
new United Nations survey has found that over 10 million Yemenis -
more than 40 per cent of the population - do not know where their next
meal will come from.
15 ISIL rebels killed in Mosul:
"The
Iraqi Air Force targeted the ISIL shelters in the Right Side of Mosul
to kill 15 of them including, Abdul Aziz al-Maytoni, who is responsible
for the assassinations."
Iraqi forces retreat from ISIS-held Tikrit:
Iraq
state forces have retreated from the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit,
held by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, after a
renewed effort to take back the city was met with heavy opposition,
according to a soldier who fought in the operation on Wednesday.
ISIS Militants Captured 52 American-Made Artillery Weapons That Cost $500,000 Each
These
U.S.-supplied artillery pieces have a range of up to 20 miles and can
also be outfitted with GPS aiming systems. The howitzers' range could
place Baghdad, as well as many other major Iraqi cities, squarely
within bombardment range of ISIS.
Crack in the Caliphate? ISIS Executes Dozens of its Own Men in Iraq and Syria:
Abu
Bakr Al-Baghdadi may have announced himself the undisputed caliph of
the Islamic State, but there are many in the ranks who are opposing
ISIS. Taking its internal fights to the streets, the ISIS recently
executed 12 of its own Sunni militants in Saadiya.
War criminal :
Dick Cheney: I Have No Regrets About the Iraq War:
But
former Vice President Dick Cheney has no regrets. "I believed in it
then," Cheney told Politico's Mike Allen. "I look back on it now, it
was absolutely the right thing to do."
A few thousand dollars - the price of life for civilians killed in war zones:
The
United States frequently paid $2,500 in response to the death of a
civilian in Iraq, and continues make payouts around this amount in
Afghanistan. In contrast, the U.S. government pays families of U.S.
soldiers killed in those countries a death gratuity of $100,000.
At least four killed in Damascus following Assad inauguration ceremony:
Syria's
state news agency SANA reported that mortars struck the center of the
capital immediately after Assad's speech at his swearing in ceremony
for his third term ended.
Syria's President Assad says the Arab Spring is dead (+video)
Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad mocked the failures of the Arab Spring in a
defiant speech at his swearing in ceremony for a third term in office
today. President Assad signaled his intent to serve the full seven-year
term.
Bush's "Redirection" and the Rise of ISIS:
It
is good to remember that the policy that led to this mess was
initiated under the Bush Administration, with full cognizance of the
possibility that it could result in severe terroristic and
destabilizing blowback. It was in 2007 that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia
launched what Seymour Hersh, "the Redirection."
How the West bankrolls Isis:
Millions from governments and NGOs funding radical Islamic terror group
35 militants killed in air strike, says Pak army:
The Pakistani military said its jets killed 35 suspected militants today as part of an anti-Taliban offensive.
US murders 13 people in northwest Pakistan:
Another
security official said as many as 20 people may have been killed in
the strike. He said the attack took place around 2:00am (2100 GMT)
while an important meeting was going on in the compound.
Afghanistan: Major attack foiled in Paktia, 19 alledged suicide bombers/militants killed:
According
to the local security officials, a group of 20 militants including 10
suicide bombers were looking to carry out coordinated attack in this
province.
War criminals go free as:
US drone protester sentenced to 1 year in jail:
A
grandmother of three was sentenced to one year at the Onondaga County
jail Thursday in DeWitt Town Court after she was found guilty of
violating an order of protection while protesting at Hancock Air Base.
Ukraine: At least 30 civilians killed in latest attack as government battles to control eastern regions:
Yuri
crouches to cradle the lifeless body of Ira, his ex-wife, to his
cheek. Her blood is smeared across his face. Next to her, Ira's teenage
sister lies face down with her foot poking from beneath a blanket. In
the courtyard their parents lie next to a children's swing set. "I will
slit these Ukrainian bastards' throats," he said.
Airstrike in eastern Ukraine kills 11 civilians:
An
airstrike in eastern Ukraine sent an apartment building crumpling to
the ground Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and adding to the
steadily mounting civilian death toll. Rebels pinned the attack on the
Ukrainian air force. The government swiftly denied blame but was not
immediately able to offer an alternative explanation.
More Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting rages in east, peace move flops:
Ukraine's military said 11 more troops were killed in the space of 24 hours, mostly in clashes near the frontier..
Ukraine rebels reclaim village:
Rebels
said they retook a village near the Russian border from government
forces Wednesday as both sides pressed to claim territory in eastern
Ukraine
U.S. hits oil giant Rosneft, other firms with toughest Russia sanctions:
The
targeted companies also include Russia's second-largest gas producer,
Novatek, Vnesheconombank, or VEB, a state-owned bank that acts as
payment agent for the Russian government, and eight arms firms.
Russia to reopen Cuban mega-base to spy on America - report:
Moscow
and Havana have reportedly reached an agreement on reopening the
SIGINT facility in Lourdes, Cuba - once Russia's largest foreign base
of this kind - which was shut down in 2001 due to financial problems
and under US pressure.
A Real American Hero:
Navy nurse rejects force-feed of Gitmo prisoners:
The
nurse decided against being a participant after deciding the practice
was criminal.. Southern Command spokesman Army Col. Greg Julian
confirms the report. He says it is the first time a Navy nurse has
refused to tube-feed a hunger-striking prisoner. He says the nurse is a
lieutenant and has been assigned to other duties
Nigeria: 27 Killed in Fresh Borno Village Attack:
Seven
others who were said to have attempted to bury their dead relatives in
the Sabon Gari graveyard were also killed on Wednesday morning as the
insurgents came back again, our source revealed.
Fresh attacks on Libya airport push death toll to 30:
Libya's
international airport in capital Tripoli has been under renewed attack
on Wednesday with the death toll reaching 30, according to security
sources.
Militias Clash At Libyan Airport For Fourth Day:
The
control tower and 20 aircraft have been damaged by shelling at Libya's
main airport in Tripoli as fighting continued there for a fourth day.
Zintan militia in control of Libya airport:
Fighters
from Libya's Zintan militia, armed with anti-aircraft guns and
mortars, have fanned out across Tripoli's airport, transformed into a
battlefield by two days of fighting that has cut the capital off from
the outside world.
Libyan militants return from Iraq and Syria to fight ex-general Haftar:
Libyan
jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq are returning home to fight the
breakaway (CIA) militia led by Khalifa Haftar, who has recently emerged
as a serious threat to the country's Islamists, security and military
sources toldAsharq Al-Awsat.
Libya in mortal danger:
The
only feasible way in and out of the country is currently the border
crossing into Tunisia. This is already crowded and frequently shut by
disputes between Libyan and Tunisian border authorities.
Assange arrest warrant upheld by Swedish court:
Swedish
Judge Lena Egelin was quick to dismiss the legal challenge to
Assange's arrest warrant, but noted that the decision could still be
appealed.
Bush and Chaney walk free as : Actress who sent Obama ricin sentenced to 18 years:
The
Texas actress who admitted sending ricin-laced letters to President
Barack Obama and then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was sentenced to
18 years in prison Wednesday, the U.S. attorney's office said
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