Link: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m56796&hd=&size=1&l=e

Yesterday August 8 2009 at noon, about 40 ultra-orthodox jewish squatters, the Israeli terrorists generally known as “Siknaj”, attacked the tent of the Al-Ghawi family and beat and wounded four members of these families, who were forcibly expelled from their own house on last 2 August 2009. -The criminal settlers, or “Siknaj”, were wearing black talars and hats, and used stones, sticks, and chairs in their criminal attack. The victims were three children aged between 10 – 13 and a woman. One of them was left bleeding in critical condition.

Link: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/aug2009/hmls-a10.shtml

As the economic crisis continues to intensify, scores of US cities are enacting undemocratic laws that criminalize homelessness and trample on the rights of the growing number of homeless individuals and families who reside in these cities, according to a report released last month. In Orlando, the City Council passed a law prohibiting the sharing of food with 25 people or more in parks in the downtown area of the city. The law against sharing food can only be seen as a direct attack against the democratic rights of homeless individuals as there is no conceivable purpose for it other than to make life even more difficult for people living on the streets. NYT: Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/us/08houston.html?_r=1

It was a scene replayed with alarming frequency in Texas: a 46-year-old man walked out of prison here Friday afternoon after spending 23 years behind bars for a sex crime that the evidence suggests he did not commit. The man, Ernest Sonnier, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison largely on the strength of the victim’s testimony, even though the forensic evidence gathered from her body and clothes showed that someone with a blood type different from the defendant’s had raped her, lawyers from the Innocence Project in New York said. “It’s just sloppy science, at best,” said Alba Morales, who represents Mr. Sonnier.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWXRwrYa4oU

How to help Become a part of the growing single payer movement Visit PDA and CNA on the web Support State Single-Payer initiatives at the national and state level. Tell your congressional representative and Democratic Leaders in Congress to support the Kucinich amendment to HR 3200. Tell your congressional representative to support HR 676.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09ehrenreich.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all

Being Poor in the USA is a Crime - Literally. The pattern is to curtail financing for services that might help the poor while ramping up law enforcement: starve school and public transportation budgets, then make truancy illegal. Shut down public housing and make being homeless a crime.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/08/20098910857878664.html

59% of Pakistanis See the United States as the Biggest Threat to Pakistan.

Link: http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2009/07/amnesty_international_report_s.html

Article: Amnesty International report slams Israel's actions during fighting in Gaza - And now read the comments: Israel's cyber-trolls at work.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvlwg3F6q0

Former FBI Language Specialist Sibel Edmonds finally gets to testify under oath, after being hit with a gag order. For more information on her and the deposition, see http://www.bradblog.com

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/09/diego-garcia-flights-mps-documents

A damning appraisal by the influential foreign affairs select committee on Britain's role in the rendition of terror suspects and alleged complicity of torture condemns the government's lack of transparency on vital areas of concern. In particular, the MPs, in a report released today, call for an explanation for the missing papers, which might explain the role of Diego Garcia, the British overseas territory, in the US's "extraordinary rendition" programme.

Link: http://america-hijacked.com/2009/08/08/israel-will-attack-iran-by-end-of-2009-bolton/

John Bolton has been associated with the ‘JINSA’ (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs) which Colin Powell conveyed (in Washington Post correspondent Karen DeYoung’s bio book about him) was in control of the Pentagon.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/09/obama-healthcare-reform-defeat

President's approval ratings plummet as Republican campaign threatens to inflict devastating political defeat. Debate fuelled by Sarah Palin's remarks that new legislation would force her child to go before a 'death panel' President Barack Obama has become mired in a frenzied fight over US healthcare reform as Republicans scent a devastating political victory that could hobble his presidency. Don't be fooled by Obama's act. Everything is going exactly as planned. Obama’s drive for an overhaul of the health care system is yet another cruel trick played on the American people. Like the ten trillion dollar bailout that went to the international banking cartel, Obama’s health care plan does not benefit the American people, but instead marks an unprecedented attack on health care for the working population and is actually a corporate counterrevolution in health care being carried out in the interests of more profits for the giant pharmaceutical companies, insurance conglomerates, hospital chains, and corporations.

Link: http://www.redress.cc:80/americas/pjballes20090809

Paul J. Balles shows how the US media’s application of Joseph Goebbels’s dictum – that a lie, if audacious enough and repeated enough times, will be believed by the masses – has produced a plethora of anti-Arab bigots, from the likes of Steve Emerson, Alan Dershowitz, Caroline Glick and Ruth Conniff to the racist ranting of brainless lumpen on the internet. More insidious than the wars with tanks and guns, aircraft and bombs, missiles and guidance systems, shock and awe campaigns. The wickedest wars are the wars for people's minds – the propaganda campaigns that exercise thought control.