Link: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/40065

Propelling prisoners' heads into concrete walls by means of towels wrapped around their necks, savage beatings with fists and rifles that left prisoners crippled, hanging prisoners by the arms with their arms strung up behind them, depriving prisoners of sleep for weeks on end, which has been thought the worst torture possible for 500 years, causing prisoners to freeze -- sometimes to death, and waterboarding are but a partial list of the torture methods ordered by America's highest officials.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/world/middleeast/21netanyahu.html?_r=2&ref=world

“You and I have a lot in common,” Mr. Obama said, according to Mr. Netanyahu’s account. “I started on the left and moved to the center. You started on the right and moved to the center. We are both pragmatists who like to get things done.” [Comment by Xymphora: The NYT informs us that Bibi is 'pragmatic' (he's starting to look a little like Chance the Gardener from 'Being There'). Of course he is. He doesn't care whether it is tank shells, aerial bombardment, slow poisoning from putting toxins on agricultural land, starvation by blocking food shipments, denial of medical care, or simply shooting unarmed civilians waving white flags. As long as it results in dead Palestinians, Bibi is a pragmatist.]

Link: http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/02/online-censorship-by-israel.html

Israel’s Government and the IDF are attempting to censor and control the internet, face book, you tube and many other social networks, blogs, message boards and news organisations. These groups work online for Israel and the IDF (Israeli Army).

These groups came about after the many genocidal murders committed by Israel and the IDF. Hundreds upon thousands of Lebanese, Palestinians being killed, with the majority of them being innocent civilians, women and children. Israel need helps to re-create its image worldwide. What better place than the internet?

Why the internet? Because the internet is a huge echo chamber. It also influences what news you see on your television or MSM news sites, like CNN, ABC, MSNBC and CBS for instance. It also influences what you read in your newspapers worldwide. With today’s 24 hour news cycle, the need for fresh news is quite important for retaining viewers and readers. So, many news publications and organisations turn to the internet to see what the “buzz” is and then report on that. Also, due to the internets wide range of people and access to webcams, videos and blogs, many times regular individuals get important news online before main stream media does. Given these facts, who ever controls the internet controls the news and controls the battle for the hearts and minds of the general public. [Via URUKNET -a site that is being censored by Google.]

Link: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/25/arts/scott.php

The near-simultaneous appearance of all these movies is to some degree a coincidence, but it throws into relief the curious fact that early 21st-century culture, in Europe and America, on screen and in books, is intensely, perhaps morbidly preoccupied with the great political trauma of the mid-20th century. The number of Holocaust-related memoirs, novels, documentaries and feature films in the past decade or so seems to defy quantification, and their proliferation raises some uncomfortable questions. Why are there so many? Why now? And more queasily, could there be too many?

Link: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_expanding_military_operations_in_Pakistan_0221.html

US President Barack Obama's administration has broadened the number of "radical groups" targeted by the CIA inside Pakistan by attacking a militant network seeking to overthrow the Pakistani government, The New York Times reported Saturday. ["A militant network seeking to overthrow the Pakistani government." -What better way to define the US presence in the region!]. The newspaper said recent missile strikes on training camps run by Baitullah Mehsud represent a broadening of the US militant network inside Pakistan, which has been carried out largely by drone aircraft [killing / terrorizing thousands of civilians in the process]. Under fromer president George W. Bush, the United States frequently attacked "militants" from Al-Qaeda and the Taliban but stopped short of targeting Mehsud and his followers. AntiWar: Obama Escalates Drone Strikes Inside Pakistan.