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By Stephen Lendman
In May 2006, Melongo was bogusly charged and arrested for computer tampering and eavesdropping without consent - the former accusation based solely on Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF) founder, Carol Spizzirri, a woman exposed as a liar. More about her and SALF below.
Melongo justifiably claims she was framed "to cover up SALF's longstanding relationships with powerful political cronies and funders." Originally indicted on January 17, 2007, she was re-indicted on May 28, 2008 on two alleged charges for:
(1) Eavesdropping without consent:
"in that she knowingly and intentionally used an eavesdropping device, to wit: an audio recording device, for the purpose of recording a conversation, to wit: recording a conversation conducted by telephone between Annabel K. Melongo and Pamela Taylor of the Cook County Court Reporter's Office, and without the consent of all parties to such conversation and without authorization provided by Article 108A or Article 108B of the 'Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963,' approved August 13, 1963, as amended."
by Stephen Lendman
December 28 was Cast Lead's second anniversary, a three week onslaught inflicting an appalling human, destructive and environmental toll. The war ended. Regular attacks continued, and Gaza remains suffocating under siege. Yet world leaders are doing nothing to end it or hold Israeli war criminals accountable.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) said "Gaza remains sealed-off from the outside world (after) the single most brutal event in" the occupation's history, and "impunity for war crimes prevails."
Excerpted, with minimal editing, by Gary G. Kohls, MD
Doctors are expected to practice according to the "professional standards of the day." Prescribing Prozac has become the standard and is much more easily defended than refusing to prescribe it.
Antidepressants "chemically alter, distort and, more especially, stifle feelings."
Italian psychiatrist Giovanne Fava of the University of Bologna questioned whether or not "psychotropic (psychiatric) drugs actually worsen, at least in some cases, the progression of the illness which they are supposed to treat." (Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Oct. 1995)
By Khalid Amayreh
The Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip two years ago, which lasted for three weeks, was pornographically criminal and graphically genocidal. Israel knowingly and deliberately targeted innocent civilians, including children, using state-of-the-art machines of death.
Entire families were simply exterminated at the pretext that a member was involved with the resistance. Homes, hospitals, mosques and other public buildings were obliterated. Even terrified and thoroughly terrorized people raising white banners were mercilessly riddled with bullets.
The sheer criminality of the Israeli army gave the impression that Israeli soldiers were probably trying to mimic Old Testament savagery by murdering men, women, and children, and by destroying and annihilating all that breathe!!
The genocidal onslaught on Gaza is sufficient to render Israel an illegitimate state. No state under the sun, Jewish or otherwise, should behave in such a nefarious manner and remain legitimate.
By Alan Hart
The headline is not meant to imply that I think he will. As things are he can’t because of the stranglehold on American policy for Israel/Palestine of the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress, the mainstream media and many institutions of state including the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. My purpose is only to offer an answer to this question: What could happen if President Obama was able to put America’s own real interests first?
The answer has to begin with the statement (echoed by Mearsheimer and Walt and a growing number of respected and influential others) that unconditional support for the Zionist state of Israel right or wrong is not in America’s own best interests because it’s a prime cause of Arab and other Muslim hurt and humiliation, which is being transformed into a rising tide of anti-Americanism. To that can be added a related truth. America doesn’t have to have 1.5 billion Muslims (nearly one quarter of humankind) as enemies. Most Muslims do not hate America or Americans. What they do hate is the double-standard of American (and all Western) foreign policy, in particular its refusal to call and hold Israel to account for its crimes.
by Stephen Lendman
An earlier article explained its harmful effects, accessed through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/harmful-effects-of-prolonged-isolated.html
Social psychologist Hans Toch coined the term "isolation panic" to describe symptoms he observed in men he interviewed, including panic, rage, a sense of total loss of control, emotional breakdown, regressive behavior, and self-mutiliation. He distinguished between difficult but tolerable incarceration and intolerable long-term isolation, how America and Israel treat thousands, subjecting them to barbaric torture. If sustained long enough, it destroys the human spirit, psyche, mind and body.
By Mark Powell
Breaking News: Rob Kall, executive editor/publisher of OpEdNews.com, recently “Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs Overall," gets his news and opinions from The Peoples Voice (TPV).
Yesterday (1/3/2011, at 11 a.m.) TPV publishes OpEdNews Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs, Why?. The article had no XML feed description and was not picked up by Google News.
As of 11:01 a.m. there were still two articles by Katherine Smith that had not been removed (censored) from the OpEdNews website:
By 2 p.m. the links were dead, i.e., “This article is not currently available.” [1]
Here are the articles that Rob Kall doesn’t want you to read: [2]
What can you conclude when the Editor of one of the Top 100 Blogs goes to the trouble to scrub an article that was the #1 most popular on his site for 48 hours? As they say, when you are “over the target,” Expect a “404"
Here is the article that Rob Kall read yesterday (1/3/2011).
OpEdNews Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs, Why?
By Mark Powell
Just got a mass email from Rob Kall, executive editor/publisher of OpEdNews.com: "Nice to start the new year with this news: OpEdNews Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs Overall."
OpEdNews is Bold and Daring: The Way Progressive News Should Be (LOL)
Consider the top 15 articles at the site for the past week:
#1 12/30/2010: America's Gulf: New Report Says It's Dying (by Stephen Lendman)
#2 12/28/2010: Rove Might Be Trying To "Pull A Siegelman" With Julian Assange (by Roger Shuler)
#3 12/28/2010: Is an economic collapse being prepared? If so, for whose benefit? (by Richard Clark)
#4 12/27/2010: FROM MIDDLE CLASS TO SLAVE CLASS - COURTESY OF THE FED, THE WHITE HOUSE, CONGRESS AND THE BANKERS. (by lila york)
#5 12/27/2010: THE U.S. STOCK MARKET IS RIGGED (by lila york)
#6 12/23/2010: Pentagon's Christmas Present: Largest Military Budget Since WW II (by Rick Rozoff)
#7 12/31/2010: Obama's Outrage: Rage Against Russia, Silence at Indian Injustice (by Chris Floyd)
#8 12/28/2010: 2011 (by paul craig roberts)
#9 12/26/2010: Have You Been Fooled: These Dirty Pharma Marketing Tricks? (by Martha Rosenberg)
#10 12/27/2010: 2011: A Brave New Dystopia (by Chris Hedges)
#11 12/27/2010: Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure (Part I) (by Stephen Lendman)
#12 12/29/2010: America Has Gone Away (by paul craig roberts)
#13 12/31/2010: Capricorn Solar Eclipse, January 4, 2011 (by Cathy Lynn Pagano)
#14 12/26/2010: The psychological, cultural & societal disintegration of America under post-industrial capitalism (by Richard Clark)
#15 12/26/2010: Welcoming the Summer Soldier: Suppressing Dissent in America (by David Model)
“Bold and Daring,” not really. “Thought Provoking,” not a chance. The same old rant that everyone else publishes, for sure.
Of the top 15 Rob had the “courage” to publish, almost every one is replete with negativity and a Corporatocracy rant. The identical rant that we are bombarded with at every other alternative news and opinion website, 24x7 (except, of course The Peoples Voice, currently featuring Thought Provoking Articles):
What we aren’t getting that they have, that we deserve but they won’t give us because life isn’t fair. And don’t forget the world is full of a bunch of greedy bastards who run the corporations that don’t care about anything but profits.
by Stephen Lendman
Directed energy weapons include lasers, high power microwave, and millimeter wave ones among others. A relevant December 2007 Department of Defense (DOD) report called them a "transformational game changer in military operations, able to augment and improve operational capabilities in many areas," for both lethal and non-lethal purposes.
Access the full text through the following link:
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/ADA476320.pdf
Among other applications, EMF weapons/devices are used for harassment, surveillance and mind control. Agencies like the Pentagon, CIA and NSA use them to monitor people, manipulate their minds, harm, and at times kill them. The Navy Times called them the "most feared and controversial weapon(s) of (the) modern age."
Human experiments in America go back decades, an earlier article addressed MK-ULTRA (and others), accessed through the following link:
By Timothy V. Gatto
During a conversation with my wife, she mentioned that her mother was very disenchanted with the Federal government. The government is denying recipients of Social Security their cost of living adjustment for the second year in a row, but still they manage to give the wealthiest Americans a continuation of the Bush tax-cuts. I told my wife that she would probably blame it on Obama seeing that she isn’t very involved politics and she would only see the simple version of what happened, and that it was the Democrats and President Obama that extended the Bush tax-cuts for the wealthiest people and cut COLA for people on Social Security. I also remarked that the Republicans would probably use that to make political capital with, even though the Republicans were the ones pressing the deal.
Kourosh Ziabari
On the eve of New Gregorian Year, the international community commemorates the second anniversary of Israel's deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip in the wake of the continuous blockade of the coastal sliver which has paralyzed the lives of more than 1.5 million impoverished Palestinians living there.
Two years ago and during the final days of 2008, Israel launched an all-out military attack on the Gaza Strip which, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, claimed the lives of 1,417 Palestinians, the majority of whom were innocent women and children. The military assault of the Israel Defense Forces also wounded 5,303 Palestinians, destroyed more than half of the basic infrastructure of the strip and displaced tens of thousands of defenseless civilians.
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