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Deadbeats Bush and Gingrich Say "States Better Off Bankrupt"
Michael Collins
Not if a state owes you money!
Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich just published an OpEd in the Los Angeles Times arguing that states would be wise to consider filing bankruptcy to relieve their financial troubles. They cite three states, California, Illinois and New York, while failing to mention the angry elephant in the living room with similar problems, Texas.
Texas faces a $25 billion shortfall for a $95 billion two-year budget. That equals California's 18-month deficit inherited by the recently inaugurated Governor Jerry Brown.
"So why haven't we heard more about Texas, one of the most important economy's in America? Well, it's because it doesn't fit the script. It's a pro-business, lean-spending, no-union state. You can't fit it into a nice storyline, so it's ignored," said Business Insider
US Ambassador’s bid to get Falk sacked from UN opens a can of worms
Stuart Littlewood
Mention Richard Falk and you think of an honourable man who cares deeply about injustice, particularly the trampled rights of Palestinians under the evil jackboot.
Mention Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the United Nations, and what comes to mind?
The BBC reported in December 2008: “During her stint in the Clinton White House, she was described as ‘brilliant’ but also ‘authoritarian’ and ‘brash’. According to the New York Times, she acknowledges ‘a certain impatience at times’.”
She is also said to be "unwilling to consider opinions that differ from her own".
Ambassador Rice has just demanded that Falk, the UN Human Rights Council's special rapporteur in the Palestinian territories, step down from his UN position. “In my view, Mr. Falk’s latest commentary [an entry in his blog about the media and 9/11] is so noxious that it should finally be plain to all that he should no longer continue in his position on behalf of the UN.”
Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution is Upon Us! - Video
Ken O'Keefe
The Global Revolution - Egypt
I have for many years lived with the knowledge that we, the masses, the working class, the poor, the white, the black, the brown, the immigrants, the Christians, the Muslims, the atheists, the soldiers/ex-soldiers, the peaceniks, the communists, the anarchists, the students, the people, across the spectrum, we all have a common cause. And yet, we have so tragically allowed ourselves to be duped, to be pitted against each other, fighting each other, finding a million ways to divide ourselves, or simply to be indifferent to each other. In this the tyrant’s smile, they laugh and they joke, about how complete their control over us is. They have been laughing for far too long.
Palestine Looks Abroad for Rational Understanding
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
“What one misses in Arab and Palestinian culture is a moral and intellectual standard by which truth and falsehood can be distinguished and according to which intellectuals act regardless of profit or patronage.”
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“We Palestinians must still reconcile ourselves with our history, and with the perhaps futile sacrifices of the past century. And we must restore Palestine to its place not simply as a small piece of territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River but an idea that for years galvanized the Arab world into thinking about and fighting for social justice, democracy, and a different kind of future than the one that has been imposed on it by force and by an absence of Arab will.” (Edward W. Said, Peace and its Discontents, 1996)
Hezbollah is the New Government of Lebanon. Now What?
FRANKLIN LAMB
Beirut
This observer tends to get a haircut about every four months whether I need it or not. But this morning I got more than a trim from my Hezbollah friend and barber, Abass, named after Abass ibn Ali, the brother of Hussein, both martyrs and heroes of the epic 680 a.d. internecine Muslim battle at Karbala in present day Iraq. The Battle of Karbala, for Hezbollah members and Shia Muslims generally, symbolizes the triumph of good over evil and the willingness to sacrifice one’s life for justice and the greater good of one’s family, community or “Ummah.” The reason for mentioning this is that my barber was ecstatic and claims his party has just experienced a “Karbala moment!”
Middle East Intifadas
by Stephen Lendman
Initially in Tunisia, popular revolt spread regionally across North Africa and the Middle East, erupting in Algeria, Jordan, Egypt and Yemen. On January 27, Al Jazeera reported revolutionary fervor in Egypt, saying:
"On Thursday, protesters hurled petrol bombs at a fire station in Suez, setting it ablaze. They tried but failed to (torch) a local" Mubarak-controlled National Party office. Near Giza, on Cairo's outskirts, police attacked hundreds of protesters with tear gas, rubber bullets and batons. In Ismailia, the scene repeated, police using similar tactics to disperse crowds. Ahead of expected massive Friday protests, Cairo was uncharacteristically quiet.
The Great Dictator: Heil Hynckel
By Katherine Smith, PhD
The Turner Classic Movie schedule for December featured The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin's first talking picture. The classic 1940 film was released one year before the U.S. abandoned its policy of neutrality and entered the Second World War. Chaplin, in The Great Dictator, satirizes the best-known evil person the world has ever known. Had the world known the extent of the misinformation surrounding Hitler, a former street cleaner and gay prostitute The Great Dictator, would be a documentary.
December 10, 2010 AP NewsBreak, Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War bring the events of Nazi Germany back into the headlines:
The 600-page report, the Justice Department has tried to keep secret for four years, confirms what the report refers to as “a pathetic chapter” in our nation’s history. The "experts" our intelligence people recruited were just a bunch of criminals and losers that never provided any useful intelligence about the Soviet Union.” Long-hidden report: CIA created ‘safe haven’ for Nazis in the US [1]
The Turner Classic Movie schedule for December featured The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin's first talking picture. The classic 1940 film was released one year before the U.S. abandoned its policy of neutrality and entered the Second World War.
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, the best-known film star the world has ever known, in The Great Dictator, satirizes who our filtered history books claim was the best-known evil person the world has ever known. [2]
Had the world known the extent of the misinformation surrounding Hitler, a former street cleaner and gay prostitute then the History Channel would feature The Great Dictator, a documentary, on the Modern State of Israel. The Hidden Hitler (2001) by Lothar Machtan [3]
The social cataclysmic events of two World Wars, the Holocaust and 70 million deaths were not about a fanatical dictator trying to take over the world with money from Elite of The Global Financial Elite (Hitler’s Grandfather) and Prescott Bush, but was a satanic ancient plan to ensure the Jews arrived in Palestine not in 1946 or 1950, but in 1948, AKA The Key to the Secret of the Universe. [4]
Sometimes truth is stranger than historical fiction, or, is it the other way around?
The Great Dictator begins during a battle of World War I where an unnamed Jewish private (Charlie Chaplin), a barber by profession, is comically blundering through the trenches in a tract of combat scenes fighting for the Central Powers in the army of the fictional nation of Tomaini.
At the outbreak of the Great War, Adolph Hitler, rumored to be part Jewish, joined the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment and became a Dispatch Runner.
He proved himself a capable and “brave soldier,” was twice wounded, once almost fatally gassed, and awarded the Iron Cross in recognition of his bravery.
“Hitler fought bravely in more than forty battles and was promoted to corporal and decorated with both the Iron Cross Second Class and First Class.” John Toland
On awarding this recognition, Colonel Anton Tubeuf further stated: “He was always ready to help out in any situation, always volunteered for the most difficult and most arduous, and the most dangerous missions, and to risk his life and well-being for the Fatherland. “
Well not quite, read the following revisionist history.
February 5, 1914, months before war broke out, the twenty-five year old Adolph Hitler, a part-Jewish [4] street cleaner and a gay prostitute, applied for military service and was turned away as 'Unfit for the army or auxiliary corps’, he was too weak and had a history of tuberculosis. Hitler By Joachim C. Fest
Unwilling to sit out the war, living next door to Ilyitch Ulyanov (Lenin), Adolph begs the King of Bavaria and is allowed to join the 6th battalion of the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment as a volunteer in The War to End All Wars, AKA A Pointless Tragedy. Hitler By Joachim C. Fest
August 3, 1914 in its first engagement against the British and Belgians near Pyres, 2500 of the 3000 men in the Hitler's regiment were killed, wounded or missing. Hitler escaped without a scratch. Hitler By Joachim C. Fest
Throughout most of the war Hitler had great luck avoiding life-threatening injury. The times that Hitler cheated death became a legend that has baffled historians ever since. Hitler had narrowly escaped death an inordinate number of times, as if he led a charmed life.
More than once, he moved away from a spot where, moments later, a shell exploded killing or wounding everyone.
"I was eating my dinner in a trench… when "Suddenly a voice seemed to be saying to me 'Get up and go over there', It was so clear and insistent that I obeyed mechanically, as if it had been a military order.
I rose at once to my feet and walked twenty yards along the trench, carrying my dinner in its tin can with me. Then I sat down to go on eating, my mind being once more at rest. Hardly had I done so when a flash and deafening report came from part of the trench I just left. A stray shell had burst over the group I had been sitting, and every member of it was killed". Adolf Hitler, John Toland
“The annals of history are full of fateful moments which scholars refer to as the great ‘what if’s’ of history, where if events had taken only a slight deviation the course of human affairs would have been dramatically different. Such a moment occurred in the last moments of the Great War in the French village of Marcoing involving 27-year old Private Henry Tandey of Warwickshire, UK. Tandey was mentioned five times in dispatches and certainly earned his VC during the capture of the French village and crossing at Marcoing, his regiment held down by heavy machine gun fire Tandey crawled forward, located the machine gun nest and took it out.
Arriving at the crossing Henry Tandey braved heavy fire to place wooden planks over a gaping hole enabling troops to roll across and take the battle to the Germans.
As the ferocious battle wound down and enemy troops surrendered or retreated a wounded German soldier limped out of the maelstrom and into Private Tandey's line of fire, the battle weary man never raised his rifle and just stared at Tandey resigned to the inevitable.
I took aim but couldn't shoot a wounded man”, said Tandey, ‘so I let him go.’
Henry Tandey VC DCM MM was haunted the remainder of his life by his good deed, [he incorrectly concluded] the simple squeeze of a trigger would have spared the world a catastrophe which cost tens of millions of lives. [3.5]
”Israel” and despotic Arab regimes shake as revolution sweeps through the Middle East
Salim Nazzal
Either we live in dignity or die in dignity - A young Arab blogger
Palestinian scholar Azmi Bshara recently wrote that the whole Arab region is heading quickly towards “Tunisization;” a new term used by Arabs these days to refer to the folk revolution in Tunis.
From Mauretania in the west to Yemen in the east, demonstrations and sit INS are being seen throughout the Middle East. The kings, princes, presidents, the one-man ruler, the one-party, the one- family, the one-tribe ruling system, and naturally the Zionist state are trembling with fear.
State of Our Union Reality Check
eileen fleming
On 25 January 2011, during President Obama’s State of the Union speech he said, “America’s moral example must always shine for all who yearn for freedom, justice, and dignity. And because we have begun this work, tonight we can say that American leadership has been renewed and America’s standing has been restored.”
On 25 January 2011, Chief Correspondent for Channel 4 News in the UK, Alex Thomson reported on Israeli filmmaker Nurit Kedar regarding her film Concrete, in which former soldiers involved in Operation Cast Lead allowed themselves to be named and they stated how their commanders would "psych up" the soldiers before an operation so they were ready to shoot indiscriminately.
Eight defiant words that can prevent our country's collapse
By Dennis Rahkonen
Highly profitable General Electric and Exxon-Mobil paid no federal income taxes in 2009.
Moreover, according to the Government Accountability Office, neither did two-thirds of U.S. corporations during recent years.
Also, roughly 40,000 American factories shut down during the past decade, often to rip off sweatshop employees overseas.
If the mega rich didn't have tax evasion loopholes larger than a gaudy, whirling Ferris wheel -- and if they possessed sufficient patriotism to hire Americans (at fair wages and with decent benefits) -- there'd be much less national debt for right-wing Republicans to demagogically point to in outrageously scapegoating public service unions, Social Security, and Medicare.
Just as typical workaday citizens obviously couldn't be blamed for the Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom debacles that occurred earlier in this century, they certainly aren't at fault for the housing bubble/derivatives fiasco that tanked our economy not that long ago.
School teachers, firefighters, sanitation workers, librarians, nurses, and police officers didn't send Wall Street into a calamitous tailspin in the autumn of 2008.
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