(TheAge) – Chavez threatens to cut off oil to US

Chavez said during a speech to thousands of supporters that if there were an “armed aggression against Venezuela” from Colombia backed by the US, “we would suspend shipments of oil”.

Chavez said “we wouldn’t send one more drop” of oil to the United States, which is the top buyer of oil from the South American country. Read More Here

(OpinionMaker) – The US: Proponent of Twofold Policies

THE POWERFUL NEVER TAKE LESSONS FROM HISTORY – DEFYING THE HISTORY IS SELF DESTRUCTION – Read More Here

(CPDH) – In Colombia appears a mass grave containing 2,000 bodies

In the small town of La Macarena, Meta, 200 kilometers south of Bogota, one of the hottest areas of the Colombian conflict is the largest mass grave discovered in the recent history of Latin America, with a number of bodies “NN ” buried without identification, which could reach 2,000, according to various sources and the residents themselves. Read More Here

Iran

(KurtNimmo) – Former CIA Boss: Iran Attack “Inexorable”

According to Michael Hayden, a CIA boss under George W. Bush, Iran’s not having a nuke is just as dangerous as it having one.

Hayden predicted Iran plans to “get itself to that step right below a nuclear weapon, that permanent breakout stage, so the needle isn’t quite in the red for the international community.” Hayden said that reaching even that level would be “as destabilizing to the region as actually having a weapon” and it will result in an attack by the U.S., Israel, or both. Read More Here

(Tarpley) – Obama is Preparing to Bomb Iran – Webster Tarpley – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Threatening Iran with a preemptive attack: Iran’s nuclear standoff: who is the loser? – Read More Here

(HuffingtonPost) – Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House Republicans

Jamal Abdi at HuffPo explains that almost a third of Republicans in the House have signed on to a resolution urging Israel to attack Iran. Read More Here

FLASHBACK – (Haaretz) – Sources: Iran gave Hamas missile that can hit Tel Aviv – Read More Here

Palestine

(Ma’an) – US boat to join Gaza flotilla

In a statement on its website, the group said its boat would set sail in September or October as part of a flotilla of ships from Europe, Canada, India, South Africa, and parts of the Middle East. – Read More Here

(PalTelegraph) – Israelis dump toxic waste over vital water supply for the region – Read More Here

Afghanistan

(PoliticalTheatrics) – Afghanistan: Condition Black

On any given day NATO hospitals in southern Afghanistan enter “CONDITION BLACK” – a status that alerts military tactical commanders that hospital beds are full and patients should be diverted elsewhere. Commanders’ options are limited however – in the south NATO has only two Role-3 hospitals – those that are capable of dealing with complex polytrauma that is a common result of IED blasts. Read More Here

(RebootTheRepublic) – HUGE NEWS: WikiLeaks Releasing Over 90,000 Documents In ‘Afghan War Diary’

WikiLeaks has obtained a massive set of records about the Afghanistan war, dubbed “The War Logs,” that paints a grim picture of the nation’s longest military engagement. Read More Here

(PumpItOut) – Recently there has been an article put out by Rob Balsamo of Pilots for 9/11 Truth concerning the speed of UA flight 175 titled: NASA Flight Director Confirms 9/11 Aircraft Speed As The “Elephant In The Room”

I was able to talk with Dwain Deets about the article and get some clarification on the plane issues as well as some information about his new website 7problemswithbuilding7.

Also included in the audio is Dave’s aka “broken sticks” conversation with Ross “Rusty” Aimar who is CEO of Aviation Experts, and is 3rd on the list of Rob Balsamo’s Pilotsfor911truth “Core Members”.

Mp3 Download link (35.9MB): Here

Alternate download link: Here

Alex goes through a short news blitz to end the week out. Read the rest of this entry »

(VeteransToday) – The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy and needs to be closed, permanently. Read the rest of this entry »

In an exclusive interview on the Alex Jones Show today, Jesse Ventura will talk about the U.S. military’s attempt to undermine his popular TruTV show, “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.” Read the rest of this entry »

(CNN) – Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed the “mixed blessing of the internet,” and agreed that there should be a crackdown on anonymous bloggers who disparage others on the internet. Video Link Here

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(HawaiiReporter) – Healthcare Bill Will Cost Hawaii Taxpayers $204 Million, State Consultant Says, But Advocates Say ‘Reform’ is Needed; Hawaii Medical Providers Prepare for the Impact – Read More Here

(Guardian) – U.S. bank failures reach 103 so far this year – Read More Here

(WashExam) – White House predicts record $1.47 trillion deficit this year, 9 percent unemployment next year – Read More Here

(Makow) – Is Oil Spill Cover for Massive Foreclosure?

See the Gulf of Mexico oil spill not as an engineered environmental disaster but rather a savvy political move that diverts attention from foreclosure action by foreign financiers. Read More Here

(WebOfDebt) – Why the U.S. Need Not Fear a Sovereign Debt Crisis: Unlike Greece, It Is Actually Sovereign – Ellen Brown – Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – Shadow Banking Makes A Comeback – Mike Whitney – Read More Here

(BBJ) – Bankruptcy filings surge

Bay State bankruptcy filings spiked 25 during the first half of the year compared to the same period last year, according to a new report from The Warren Group. Read More Here

(TheAtlantic) – Mass Layoffs Up in June

More firms engaged in mass layoffs in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The results are disappointing. The number of workers laid off through mass actions of fifty or more increased by 7.2% compared to May. But more alarming is the number of firms that participated in these activities, which increased by 16.6%. That’s the biggest jump since August of 2009. Read More Here

(BizJournals) – Recovery Report: Schools plan layoffs now that much of stimulus aid is gone – Read More Here

(TulsaWorld) – Thousands show up at Tulsa food pantry Friday

“We estimate there were 2,000 people here this morning,” said Connie Cronley, executive director. “The heat, the crowd and the incorrect information they have received rendered, in my judgment, a situation that was unsafe.” Read More Here

(WallStCheatSheet) – Where and Why are Businesses Closing?

This recession was particularly ravaging to many businesses. ~1.5 million businesses have already closed their doors. Here is a more in depth look at where businesses are closing and why: Read More Here

(FoxBusiness) – Video: Peter Schiff On Fin Reg – Video Link Here

(WRH) – The US Government is Dying

The US Government is dying. Its ultimate fate was sealed the moment the Federal Reserve Fiat money system was put into place. Like a recreational drug user enjoying that first chemical rush, those who created the federal Reserve luxuriated in the seemingly endless flow of money pouring forth from the Federal Reserve, money used to prolong and consolidate power, money spent without worry in the full knowledge that it was going to be someone else’s problem to pay it all back. Read More Here

(CSPAN) – Video: Ron Paul – Financial Services Hearing July 22 2010 – Video Link Here

(CNNMoney) – 20% of Americans hit by major economic loss

The new Economic Security Index looks at the interaction of three key variables that have a direct bearing on a person’s economic security: income loss, medical expenses and debt. Read More Here

(USAToday) – Consumer group: Insurers kept surplus while hiking premiums

Non-profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans stockpiled billions of dollars during the past decade, yet continued to hit consumers with double-digit premium increases, Consumers Union found in an analysis of 10 of the plans’ finances. Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Video: Gerald Celente – ‘Get the Crooks out’ – Read the rest of this entry »

(C4L) – Bruce Fein’s American Empire: Before the Fall is not for the faint of heart. “You, your family, your friends, your professional colleagues, and your elected and appointed officials in the nation’s highest circles will fiercely resist the truths this book expounds,” the author warns. He’s not kidding. Only the most well informed constitutionalist will fail to be surprised by this book — and even that reader will come away from American Empire with a clearer understanding of the dangers facing our republic. In a little over 200 pages, Fein documents America’s slide from the rule of law into arbitrary power and the reduction of her citizens to comfortable serfs. The force that has brought about these changes is ceaseless war, which demands the sacrifice of real liberty for a spurious security.

When Campaign for Liberty first asked me to help edit the book some months ago, I feared it would be a dry foreign-policy tome. I could hardly have been more wrong: Fein writes with passion and verve; he is a man who has been robbed of his country, and readers who pick up American Empire will soon share the outrage he feels. Read the rest of this entry »

(Guardian) – The blackest hearts: War crimes in Iraq

In March 2006, four US soldiers, strung out after months in the deadly battleground south of Baghdad, hatched a plan: to carry out one of the worst war crimes ever committed in Iraq Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – AUDIO: Eugenics and Global Empiricism

Gene Basler interviews Andrew Gavin Marshall, Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Globalization regarding his July 2010 article, “New Eugenics and the Rise of the Global Scientific Dictatorship” Audio Link Here

(Uruknet) – Two dead and four children injured in Israeli nail bomb attack in Beit Hanoun, Gaza

“She came in through and it wasn’t clear she was injured. Suddenly a lot of blood came from her nose and she vomited. All of the family saw this – her little brothers were very scared. She had just been playing in the front of the house.” Read More Here

(DesertPeace) – THE INVISIBLE HOLOCAUST

In the last decade of the 20th century, a nation often hailed (not least by itself) as the “world’s greatest democracy” directed a program of savage economic warfare against a broken, defenseless country. This blockade, carried out with an exacting bureaucratic coldness, killed, by very conservative estimate, at least one million innocent people. More than half of these victims were young children. Read More Here

(Intifada) – Haneen Zoabi: The largest Threat to Democracy is Zionism – Read More Here

Afghanistan

(WSWS) – Afghan conference endorses indefinite occupation

The international foreign ministers conference held in Kabul Tuesday formally endorsed President Hamid Karzai’s proposed 2014 target for Afghan forces to assume the lead responsibility for the country’s security, while acknowledging that the foreign occupation will continue indefinitely. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Video: ‘Mental disease rising among US troops’

America’s wars on Iraq and Afghanistan are taking a toll on US soldiers, as the latest statistics show one out of every nine American soldiers leaves the army on a medical discharge due to a mental disorder.

“We have 100,000 troops and a third of them suffer some sort of mental health disease and half of those suffer multiple health disease,” Paul Martin from Peace Action told Press TV’s correspondent. Read More Here

(RethinkAfghanistan) – Video: ‘What Was My Father’s Crime?’ Afghan Tells Story of His Father’s Killing in a U.S. Night Raid – Video Link Here

Iran

(Telegraph) – EU plans ‘toughest ever’ sanctions against Iran – Read More Here

(UglyTruth) – Israel’s Attack on Iran–A 15 Minute War To Save A Dying Theocratic Ethno-State?

As we approach that “great day of reckoning” viz-a-viz (what appears to be) the impending and unavoidable attack on Iran by the Jewish state, it is important to keep in mind the motto of Israel’s Mossad that “By way of deception thou shalt make wars”. Read More Here

(AmericaHijacked) – A Timetable For War (with Iran) – Philip Giraldi – Read More Here

(PressTV) – House OK’s possible Israeli raid on Iran

Republicans in the US House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light a possible Israeli bombing campaign against Iran.

Resolution 1553 provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress backs Israel’s use of ‘all means necessary’ against Iran, “including the use of military force,” BBC Persian reported. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Iran to shun euro, dollar in oil deals

“We are free to choose any currency to sell our crude oil and this issue depends on Iran’s interests,” Mohammad Reza Rahimi said during a ceremony releasing a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Mehr news agency reported.

“The important issue is to exclude euros and dollars,” he added. Read More Here

Pakistan

(AFP) – Kucinich, Ron Paul: Get US troops out of Pakistan – Read More Here

(PressTV) – 16 killed in US drone attack in Pakistan

Washington claims the strikes target militants. However, Islamabad has repeatedly condemned the attacks, saying they violate Pakistan’s sovereignty. Read More Here

Palestine

(VOANews) – Israel Rejects UN Plan to Probe Flotilla Raid

A United Nations body is moving ahead with an investigation of the deadly flotilla incident off the coast of the Gaza Strip in late May, despite Israeli opposition. Read More Here

(Kuna) – Jewish settlers seize Palestinian land in W. Bank, turn it to outpost

This is part of the Israeli plans to seize the Palestinian land and turn them to outposts and later into settlements. The building of settlements in West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem is illegal according to UN resolutions. Read More Here

(WelcomeToMyWorld) – Gaza: Photographic Evidence of Extensive Israeli War Crimes – View Here

(NewsWatch) – Israeli soldiers attack photographers covering West Bank demonstration

They were Hazem Bader from French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), Reuters Abdul Rahim Al-Aqusini and Associated Press Abdul Hafiz Hashlamoun. One photographer said he was hit by a baton and the other lost his hearing after a stun grenade exploded near him. Read More Here

(Rense) – Israel’s New Land Grab Master Plan – Stephen Lendman – Read More Here

(RoyTov) – White Washing War Crimes

Recently, I claimed Israel cannot carry out an investigation regarding its own crimes towards Gaza’s Freedom Flotilla. The reasons were clear, a Turkish diplomat at the UN openly defined Israel as a Pirate Nation – as I did before the attack in Gaza’s Freedom Flotilla and as a terror state. Justice Goldstone defined Israel as a Terror State in his report to the Human Rights Council of the UN. Read More Here

(PreventDisease) – More Than Half World’s Oxygen May Be At Risk Due To Oil Pollution of Ocean’s Benthic Zone

Marine biomes cover 75% of the earth’s surface and have an enormous impact on our planet’s climate. In the benthic zone, these biomes supply more than half of the world’s oxygen. As a consequence of the BP oil disaster, scientists are very concerned about the global oxygen supply if this layer of the ocean becomes saturated with contaminates of oil and other toxins. Read More Here

(ABC) – Video: BP Shut of Critical ALARM Systems BEFORE oil spill – Video Link Here

(NYTimes) – Scientists Confirm Underwater Plumes Are From Spill

Florida researchers said Friday that they had for the first time conclusively linked vast plumes of microscopic oil droplets drifting in the Gulf of Mexico to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Read More Here

Video: Scientists Confirm Matt Simmons Claim by discovering 2 Giant Underwater Oil Spills

It’s official — the oil plumes USF scientists found deep underwater in the Gulf are definitely from the BP blowout.

USF researchers said Friday they used chemical fingerprints to directly tie the clouds of oil to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. – Video Link Here

(AFP) – BP accused of trying to silence science on spill

The head of the American Association of Professors accused BP Friday of trying to buy the silence of scientists and academics to protect itself after the Gulf oil spill, in a BBC interview.

“This is really one huge corporation trying to buy faculty silence in a comprehensive way,” said Cary Nelson. Read More Here

(TheNation) – BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle

In the first few days after BP’s Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup workers could be seen on Louisiana beaches wearing scarlet pants and white t-shirts with the words “Inmate Labor” printed in large red block letters. Coastal residents, many of whom had just seen their livelihoods disappear, expressed outrage at community meetings; why should BP be using cheap or free prison labor when so many people were desperate for work? The outfits disappeared overnight. Read More Here

(12160) – Governor Jindal declares State of Emergency: Oil could “enter coastal homes”, evacuation orders expected today

Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday declared a state of emergency… [The storm] was spending a lot of time over water, instead of land which would break it up. “It’s wise to prepare for a Category 1 hurricane, just in case,” the governor said… Read More Here

Video: BP caps DIFFERENT WELL – MORE LIES – Video Link Here

(MSNBC) – BP digitally alters press photo, confesses it’s a fake

Amateurish use of Photoshop causes yet another BP embarrassment Read More Here

(RedactedNews) – Technician: Deepwater Horizon Warning System Disabled

The chief engineer on the Deepwater Horizon tells a government panel that warning systems on the drilling rig were inhibited because the crew did not want to be disturbed in the middle of the night. Read More Here

FLASHBACK – (WashingtonsBlog) – Methane Release From the Gulf Oil Spill: What Does It Mean? How Bad Could It Get? – Read More Here

(Salon) – Mexican soldiers fought late-night gunbattles with gangs who forced citizens from their cars and used the vehicles to block streets in a city across the border from Texas.

The Nuevo Laredo city government posted messages on Facebook warning citizens to stay indoors as the battles erupted at several intersections Wednesday night. City officials on Thursday said they could not immediately confirm witness reports that several gunmen were killed. Read the rest of this entry »

(SteveWatson) – Warning: This contains spoilers for those who have not yet seen the movie or read the book!

The Road, directed by John Hillcoat based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, is an extremely powerful film because it explores the fundamental human condition and the basic struggle between good and evil.

The imagery in the movie provides the perfect backdrop for a stunning exploration of the greatest threat to our civilization – barbarism.

The near future post-apocalyptic landscape serves as a physical embodiment of the spiritual decline of humanity we see unfolding all around us today. Read the rest of this entry »

(BostonGlobe) – Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material, according to investigative reports. Video Link Here

(NewScientist) – Now a powerful group of scientists, venture capitalists and conservative think tanks is coalescing around the idea of reproducing this cooling effect by injecting sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to counter climate change. Despite the enormity of what is being proposed – nothing less than seizing control of the climate – the public has been almost entirely excluded from the planning Read More Here

(Guardian) – Review of deaths between 1921 and 2007 shows inequality is increasing with the poorest more likely to die younger – Read More Here

(911Blogger) – The following is a two page U.S. Secret Service Executive Summary included within a April 23, 2010 Freedom of Information Act release, describing the activities of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, families of the president and vice-president, threats against Air Force One and activity within the Presidential Emergency Operations Center on September 11, 2001. The Executive Summary report describes Secret Service reports of an unidentified aircraft circling Washington, D.C. and the activity of other noteworthy Secret Service protectees on September 11, 2001.

DOWNLOAD & READ DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS [pdf]:

http://www.mediafire.com/?7xie8kdglcdf468

Previously published documents [pdf]:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vydb4nxdmyy

Source: 911 Blogger

The hysteria over the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber reveals much about the political and media class on both sides of the Atlantic, especially Britain. From Gordon Brown’s “repulsion” to Barack Obama’s “outrage,” the theater of lies and hypocrisy is dutifully attended by those who call themselves journalists. “But what if Megrahi lives longer than three months?” whined a BBC reporter to the Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond. “What will you say to your constituents, then?”

Horror of horrors that a dying man should live longer than prescribed before he “pays” for his “heinous crime”: the description of the Scottish justice minister, Kenny MacAskill, whose “compassion” allowed Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi to go home to Libya to “face justice from a higher power.” Amen.

The American satirist Larry David once addressed a voluble crony as “a babbling brook of bullsh*t.” Such eloquence summarizes the circus of Megrahi’s release. Read the rest of this entry »

The Order of Mates celebrated beside Sydney Harbour the other day. This is a venerable masonry in Australian political life that unites the Labor Party with the rich elite known as the big end of town. They shake hands, not hug, though the Silver Bodgie now hugs. In his prime, the Silver Bodgie, aka Bob Hawke or Hawkie, wore suits that shone, wide-bottomed trousers and shirts with the buttons undone. A bodgie was a Australian version of the 1950s English Teddy Boy and Hawke’s thick grey-black coiffure added inches to his abbreviated stature.

Hawke also talked out of the corner of his mouth in an accent that was said to be “ocker”, or working class, although he himself was of the middle class and Oxford educated. As president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, his popularity rested on his reputation as a hard-drinking larrikin, an Australian sobriquet once prized almost as much as an imperial honour. For Hawke, it was the disguise of one whose heart belonged to the big end of town, who cooled the struggles of working Australians, during the rise to power of the new property sharks, minerals barons and tax avoiders.

Indeed, as Labor prime minister in the 1980s, Hawke and his treasurer Paul Keating eliminated the most equitable spread of personal income on earth: a model for the Blairites. And the great Mate across the Pacific loved Hawkie. Victor Marchetti, the CIA strategist who helped draft the treaty that gave America control over its most important spy base in the southern hemisphere, told me, “When Hawke came along… he immediately sent signals that he knew how the game was played and who was buttering his bread. He became very co-operative, and even obsequious.” – Read the rest of this entry »

(AP) – Tropical Storm Bonnie moving toward oil spill – Read More Here

(SOTT) – Video: Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Broken!! Risk of Global Climate Change By BP Oil Spill! – Video Link Here

(NaturalNews) – Video: BP Fish Oil Plus (puppet satire)

Created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, this puppet satire skit feature “Bob” from BP, pitching a new product “PB Fish Oil Plus” made with 100% natural crude oil. Video Link Here

(Cravatt) – Video: Gulf Coast Trauma – Video Link Here

(Rense) – Audio: Jeff Rense Interviews Chris Landau – Oil Geologist – The TRUTH About The Disaster – Download Audio Here

(DemocracyNow) – Video: Three of Every Four Oil & Gas Lobbyists Worked for Federal Government – Amy Goodman

Three out of every four lobbyists who represent oil and gas companies previously worked in the federal government, according to a new analysis by the Washington Post. That’s a rate that is more than double revolving-door standards on Capitol Hill. We talk to Steve Kretzmann, the founder and director of Oil Change International. Video Link Here

(AlterNet) – Exposing the Natural Gas Industry’s Attempt to Silence Its Critics

Natural gas companies, according to the director of the documentary film ‘Gasland,’ Josh Fox, are ‘shameless and have immense resources to pay for spin.’ Read More Here

(RawStory) – BP accused of trying to silence science on spill

The head of the American Association of Professors accused BP Friday of trying to buy the silence of scientists and academics to protect itself after the Gulf oil spill, in a BBC interview.

“This is really one huge corporation trying to buy faculty silence in a comprehensive way,” said Cary Nelson. Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – Big Storm to Hit Gulf of Mexico … All Oil Relief Operations Will Be Suspended … Cap Will Stay On, Unattended

As oil industry expert Bob Cavnar writes:

The National Hurricane Center this morning forecasted a 70% chance that Invest 97, now just south of the Bahamas, would form into a tropical cyclone. Destination? The central Gulf. In his McBriefing yesterday, Kent Wells announced that instead of running and cementing the last liner into relief well 1, they had already run in a storm packer to temporarily seal the well and were preparing to shut down. Here’s the storm track by computer model. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – BP Coverup and the Criminal Pursuit of Profit: Deepwater Horizon Workers knew of Problems before Explosion

Two internal Transocean reports obtained by The New York Times shed further light on the criminal negligence of both BP and Transocean in the lead-up to the April 20 explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which killed 11 workers and set off one of the most devastating environmental catastrophes in human history.

The reports reveal that Deepwter Horizon workers were well aware of mechanical and safety problems aboard the rig, but they feared reprisal should they speak out. The documents also strongly indicate that BP and Transocean knowingly disregarded basic safety and maintenance. Read More Here

(Dispatches) – Destruction of the Gulf Coast Treasure? What Happens Next? – Dahr Jamail

Waters, white sand beaches, fertile coastal marshes… Read More Here

China Spill

(NYTimes) – China: Oil Spill Prompts Warning

China’s largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday. Cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves. An official warned that the spill posed a “severe threat” to sea life and water quality. Read More Here

(Haaretz) – Israel tells United Nations it will limit phosphorus use in populated areas

The army will limit its use of phosphorous bombs in populated areas and stop using them near “sensitive sites” like UN buildings, Israel said in a report it presented to the United Nations this week. Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – We Can Handle the Truth – Stop Trying to Hide the Truth from Us

The peace movement needs to stand with Bradley Manning and Wikileaks in their efforts to let Americans see the truth about what the military is doing in our name. We can handle the truth! Indeed, we need to hear the truth, not propaganda about how great the U.S. military is performing, in order to be responsible citizens. Read More Here

(DailyMail) – Limbless soldier has benefits stopped after walking 400m on prosthetic leg

A soldier who lost a leg in Afghanistan has had his disability benefits stopped because he has learnt to walk a few hundred metres on a prosthetic limb.

Private Aron Shelton, 26, had his left leg amputated below the knee – while his right leg was also damaged – after the Land Rover he was travelling in was blown up in June 2007. Read More Here

Iraq

(GlobalResearch) – US War Crimes: Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima

The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004.

According to the authors of a new study, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by US atomic bomb strikes in 1945. Read More Here

(IND) – Johann Hari: Oil, blood money, and Blair’s last scandal

There is no question there was a plot. The question is whether the plot worked,or whether it got what it wanted by a remarkable coincidence Read More Here

(PressTV) – UK admits using DU ammunition in Iraq

UK defense secretary says American and British forces used depleted uranium (DU) ammunitions during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

“UK forces used about 1.9 metric tons of depleted uranium ammunition in the Iraq war in 2003,” UK Defense Secretary Liam Fox said in a written reply to the House of Commons on Thursday, the Kuwait News Agency reported.

The announcement came after a joint study by the environment, health and science ministries in Iraq said there were communities near the cities of Najaf, Basra and Fallujah with increased rates of cancer and birth defects over the past five years. Read More Here

Iran

(TehranTimes) – Iran will not back down in nuclear standoff: Ahmadinejad – Read More Here

(AsiaTimes) – Amiri ‘told CIA Iran had no bomb program

Contrary to a news media
narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided the United States with intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there was no such Iranian nuclear weapons program, according to a former CIA officer. Read More Here

Palestine

(Rense) – Stop The Wall – People vs Oppression

Stop the Wall.org (STW) is a “Palestinian movement against the (Separation) Wall and the settlements under Israeli repression,” calling for it to be stopped, portions built dismantled, all confiscated lands returned, and compensation paid for losses. Read More Here

(OpinionMaker) – PALESTINE: Anyone really serious about allowing their civil rights?

“Some members of Parliament prefer that the camps explode and then they will insist that “Palestinian security problems must be resolved before Parliament can consider giving them civils rights”—meaning several more years of delay.That would be a disaster for all concerned.” Read More Here

China

(Reuters) – Lawmakers demand tough action on China piracy – Read More Here

(WSJournal) – U.S. ‘Concerned’ About China Buildup – Read More Here

(Guardian) – Chinese army to target cyber war threat

New department dedicated to protecting information security follows creation of US cyber command Read More Here

North/South Korea

(BBC) – US spy chief nominee warns of N Korea ‘direct attacks’

North Korea’s sinking of a South Korean warship may herald a “dangerous new period”, the nominee to be US director of national intelligence has warned. Read More Here

(Guardian) – North Korea threatens ‘physical response’ to US military exercises

Regime sees naval and air drills as sign of hostility as US urges Asian nations to enforce UN sanctions against North Korea Read More Here

(9News) – N.Korea threatens nuclear retaliation

North Korea on Saturday threatened to use a “powerful nuclear deterrence” in response to a South Korea-US joint naval exercise, state media said. Read More Here

Afghanistan

(PressTV) – Iran raps armed action on Afghanistan

Iran has called for a regional solution to Afghanistan, saying that foreign military presence has aggravated the security situation in the war-torn country.

“The solution to Afghanistan should not be sought in military confrontation and any action in Afghanistan should be based on realities,” Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said at an international conference on Afghanistan in Kabul on Tuesday. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Afghanistan, ‘new Vietnam for US’

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has warned Washington against repeating its past mistakes, saying Afghanistan will become a new Vietnam for the United States. Read More Here

(MarketOracle) – China: The US Is “Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy”

The common thought amongst even reasonably educated and economically literate Americans is that China is ‘stuck with US Treasuries’ and has no choice, so it must perform within the status quo and do as the US wishes, or face a ruinous decline in their reserve holdings of US Treasuries Read More Here

(Rense) – Audio: Jeff Rense Interviews G. Edward Griffin – The ‘Recovery’  – Download Audio Here

(Truthout) – The Silent Killing of America’s Workforce

An Interview with Patrice Woeppel on the Deadly Inadequacies of the Workers’ Compensation System Read More Here

REPOST – (DailyFinance) – The Jobless Effect: Is the Real Unemployment Rate 16.5%, 22%, or. . .?

Raghavan Mayur, president at TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, follows unemployment data closely. So, when his survey for May revealed that 28% of the 1,000-odd households surveyed reported that at least one member was looking for a full-time job, he was flummoxed. Read More Here

(FPost) – Why isn’t the market collapsing? – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Obama signs the financial reform bill: Towards a new volatile phase of economic disruptions? – Read More Here

(WSWS) – US jobless claims, housing data point to worsening economy

Reports issued Thursday on initial claims for unemployment benefits and sales of previously owned homes confirm that the US economy is slowing dramatically. Read More Here

(MichiganCapitolConfidential) – The Art of the Ann Arbor City Budget

The debate in Ann Arbor, where firefighters are being laid off due to a multimillion dollar budget deficit, is over an $850,000 piece of art. Read More Here

Climategate

(Politico) – Democrats pull plug on climate bill

Senate Democrats pulled the plug on climate legislation Thursday, pushing the issue off into an uncertain future ahead of midterm elections where President Barack Obama’s party is girding for a drubbing. Read More Here

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(CharlieVLog) – Video: AMERICA WAKE UP !! – Read the rest of this entry »

(NLPC) – Recent email communication between White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin (in photo), who is Google’s former head of Global Public Policy, and multiple outside individuals raise new questions about the official’s alleged circumvention of federal ethics and recordkeeping rules.

McLaughlin’s communications with Google officials and others about issues that directly benefit the company appears to be more extensive than indicated by a May White House report, which resulted in an official reprimand of Mr. McLaughlin. Click here for a 12-page pdf of the McLaughlin emails.

Administration rules expressly prohibit former lobbyist company officials like McLaughlin from involving themselves in federal policies that materially impact their former employer.  But the new emails, which NLPC obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, show a continued pattern in which Mr. McLaughlin communicates with another apparent Google lobbyist, the leader of a Google-funded organization that lobbies in support of Google’s primary area of federal interest, and the head of a nonprofit that works closely with Google lobbyists. Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – An Infowars.com reader sent an email today informing us that our website is no longer available in Greek public libraries. “Prisonplanet.com is still accessible, but it’s only a matter of time before the Greek censors notice attention has shifted to that website, and move in to ban it as well,” she writes. “This isn’t just a local library banning access to Infowars.com, but is a nationwide ban: the digital traffic filters, through which all traffic from and to Greek public libraries passes, are located in and controlled from Athens (National Technical University of Athens), so yes, THIS IS A NATION WIDE BAN!”

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(KurtNimmo) – In an exclusive interview on the Alex Jones Show today, Jesse Ventura will talk about the U.S. military’s attempt to undermine his popular TruTV show, “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.”

Jesse was prevented from filming a stand-up in front of the Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery for an episode on government involvement in the JFK assassination. Despite the military ban, Ventura managed to film the segment. “I did it anyway,” he told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

“They felt I offended them with my last series, because I look into government things, Conspiracy Theory, my TV show,” Ventura told Ann Sharpsteen of Scripps News. Sharpsteen posted a video of her interview with Ventura on YouTube earlier in the week (see video below). Read the rest of this entry »

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(BostonGlobe) – Harvard Medical School will prohibit its 11,000 faculty from giving promotional talks for drug and medical device makers and accepting personal gifts, travel, or meals, under a new policy intended partly to guard against companies’ use of Harvard’s prestige to market their products.

The conflict-of-interest rules also place stricter limits on the income faculty can earn from companies for consulting, joining boards, and other work; require public reporting of payments of at least $5,000 on a medical school website; and promise more robust internal reporting and monitoring of these relationships. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) A new animation video from The Story of Stuff Project, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and Free Range Studios deals a devastating blow to the chemical industry with a straightforward, hard-hitting and entertaining look at the toxicity of cosmetics and personal care products.

Narrated by Annie Leonard, who also narrated the hugely popular Story of Stuff animations, this new cosmetics animation takes aim at the toxic cosmetics industry, exposing how many popular brand-name products contain cancer causing chemicals. Read the rest of this entry »

(Rense) – 2010 has thundered past the half way mark and is galloping into history. What will the rest of the year hold?

Most of the “Top Ten Trends for 2010″ forecast by Gerald Celente this past winter in the Trends Journal® have either come to pass or are about to manifest. Celente predicted:

The Afghan surge would fail.
The economic recovery would never materialize.
Terrorist threats would increase.
Tea parties would gain strong momentum.
Obama’s popularity would wane and/or plummet.
Anti-Immigration sentiments would intensify.
In 2009, “experts” rejoiced at the sight of the impending recovery’s “green shoots” and predicted the advent of a roaring bull stock market run.

Bull market or BS? Celente called the green shoots a mirage and recovery “a cover up.” Sure enough, the Dow is now trading at 1999 levels. He also wrote “Geopolitical and sociological fallout will threaten the entire European Union” and he forecast the “Crash of 2010.”

Will the “Crash” happen at all? Will it happen on schedule? Events conspiring in that direction are explored in detail in the Summer Trends Journal®, just sent to subscribers. Read the rest of this entry »

(C4L) – There is overwhelming agreement among economists that the Second World War was responsible for decisively ending the Great Depression. When asked why the wars in Iran and Afghanistan are failing to make the same impact today, they often claim that the current conflicts are simply too small to be economically significant.

There is, of course, much irony here. No one argues that World War II, with its genocide, tens of millions of combatant casualties, and wholesale destruction of cities and regions, was good for humanity. But the improved American economy of the late 1940s seems to illustrate the benefits of large-scale government stimulus. This conundrum may be causing some to wonder how we could capture the good without the bad.

If one believes that government spending can create economic growth, then the answer should be simple: let’s have a huge pretend war that rivals the Second World War in size. However, this time, let’s not kill anyone. Read the rest of this entry »

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(Telegraph) – The “National Citizen Service” will bring together 16-year-olds from different backgrounds and around the country to become community volunteers and join in outdoor pursuits.

David Cameron has said that he hopes participation in the non-military, voluntary form of national service will become a “rite of passage” for all teenagers. Read More Here

(SteveWatson) – Following our article yesterday detailing the threat of a false flag cyber attack as a pretext to restrict the free Internet, the term ‘false flag cyber attack’ was sent to the top of the Google Trends charts: Read the rest of this entry »

(Truthout) – Unknown to most Americans is that dengue fever has been the intense focus of US Army and CIA biological warfare researchers for over 50 years. Ed Regis notes in his excellent history of Fort Detrick, “The Biology of Doom,” that as early as 1942 leading biochemists at the installation placed dengue fever on a long list for serious consideration as a possible weapon. Read More Here

(WSWS) – Over the last week, two young men were shot and killed while attempting to flee police, in the suburbs of Grenoble and the village of Saint-Aignan in central France. Police have responded to riots provoked by the killings with massive police deployments, firing live ammunition. Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – In yet another terrifying expose, The Washington Post continues to lift the veil on just how massive the US government’s spying operation has become.

Dana Priest — whose Pulitzer prize winning journalism exposed the existence of  U.S. secret prisons abroad, continues in today’s story to show just how much money is being shelled out to the private companies that now operate the lion’s share of America’s spy network. Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – The British Independent featured an AP article last Saturday, detailing suspicions that health officials in the Republic of Uzbekistan are widely involved in involuntary sterilization-practices. At first glance, the story may seem wild and baseless. Nothing however is further from the truth.

The AP-reporter spoke with a 24-year old housewife named Saodat Rakhimbayeva, an extremely brave woman who tells a heart-wrenching tale of state-sponsored eugenics in her home country of Uzbekistan. After giving birth to a premature boy, she had to witness her son dying just three days later. Read the rest of this entry »

(WNY) – Barack Obama’s presidency, while far from being a failure, has been something of a disappointment to many of his initial supporters. The noise from people on the far right who question the president’s place of birth or believe him to be a socialist because he passed a stimulus package that many economists believe to be too small and a health care bill that will lead to millions of new customers and new revenue for the insurance companies, has overshadowed some of this. However, Obama’s disappointed supporters are far more important to his political future than angry opponents who never have and never will support him.

Disappointment from progressive circles seems to be based on three things, Obama’s support for the war in Afghanistan, his failure to take any strong positions on important issues to progressives such as marriage equality and the relatively modest nature of the legislation the administration has passed on key issues such as health care and the economy. These decisions can all be explained-some might say rationalized. Obama, after all, campaigned on expanding the war in Afghanistan. While the health care and economic stimulus bills are not perfect, they took a great deal of work and are better than nothing. Obama has to be careful about doing too much for his base because he risks alienating moderates. These explanations are either irrelevant; nobody cares how much work or legislative pyrotechnics it took to pass the bills, or wrong; supporting marriage equality comes at far less political cost than many think. Read the rest of this entry »

After the destruction of their homes and forced expulsion from South Mitrovica in Kosovo in 1999, the Roma people were displaced to temporary UN camps at the foot of mountains of toxic lead waste.

Ten years later, families are still there suffering from chronic lead poisoning. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex talks with writer, director, and producer Brian Kraft and Robert DiNozzi about Kraft’s The Fall of America and The Western World, an 8+ hour documentary. The video explores the current economic crisis, the Federal Reserve, the emerging police state, the globalist agenda, and how political agendas in media have destroyed our ability to get real news. Robert DiNozzi was the executive producer of Flightplan, a 2005 feature film starring Jodie Foster. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex talks with writer, director, and producer Brian Kraft and Robert DiNozzi about Kraft’s The Fall of America and The Western World, an 8+ hour documentary. The video explores the current economic crisis, the Federal Reserve, the emerging police state, the globalist agenda, and how political agendas in media have destroyed our ability to get real news. Robert DiNozzi was the executive producer of Flightplan, a 2005 feature film starring Jodie Foster. Read the rest of this entry »

(Bloomberg) – The 700 Billion Dollar Bailout? Its Really 23.7 Trillion!

U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. Read More Here

(WSJ) – Geithner: White House to Allow Tax Cuts for Wealthy to Expire – Read More Here

(USAToday) – Faith in Social Security system tanking – Read More Here

(PressTV) – US Jobless claims exceed expectations – Read More Here

(WarIsACrime) – Rebuild America, or Bomb Afghanistan? Bring our war $$ home! – Read More Here

(USAToday) – Bad credit? GM buys AmeriCredit to do sub-prime loans – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Cutting the Budget Deficit Undermines Social Security and Medicare, Depresses Purchasing Power – Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – No Wonder the Outlook for the Economy is “Unusually Uncertain” … the Fed is Killing It – Read More Here

(CNSNews) – White House Backs Bill to Collect Employee Pay Information from Businesses – Read More Here

(Clusterstock) – Thanks To Fannie And Freddie, Bailout Tab Hits $3.7 Trillion – Read More Here

(BizJournals) – All Liz Claiborne outlet stores to close

The New York-based apparel retailer said it would close its name brand outlet stores nationwide to cut losses and redirect capital. Read More Here

(LoganDaily) – With no police, village faces crime wave

New Straitsville Police Chief Kevin Ginsell was laid off from his position last Monday, July 12, and since then there have been four burglaries in the downtown area.
Council Member Chris Tigner says the village can no longer afford to pay for police protection. Read More Here

(BelloCiao) – TO THE DECLINE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY – Read More Here

(IPS) – Depression, Poverty Make A Deadly Mix – Read More Here

Climategate

(CorbettReport) – Leaked G20 Documents Show Carbon Taxes Still High on Globalist Agenda

This week The Corbett Report was sent documents purported to be the notes of an attendee of the recent Toronto G20 meeting. The documents, if genuine, show that the recent meeting once again gave the G20 a chance to discuss global government as an answer to the ongoing economic meltdown and reaffirm that carbon taxes are high on the globalists’ priority list. Read More Here

(WSJ) – U.S. Forces Step Up Pakistan Presence – Read More Here

(AntiWar) – Internal AU Reports Acknowledge Indiscriminate Targeting of Somali Civilians – Read More Here

(BBC) – Video: Fallujah children’s ‘genetic damage’

Cancer, leukaemia and infant mortality are all increasing in the Iraqi town of Fallujah, which saw fierce fighting between US forces and Sunni insurgents, a new survey says.

Still one of the most dangerous places in Iraq, doctors have been reporting a large number of birth defects since the 2004 offensive. Read More Here

(TheWe) – New World Order Statistic

Doctors in Fallujah have specifically pointed out that not only are they witnessing unprecedented numbers of birth defects but what is more alarming is: “a significant number of babies that do survive begin to develop severe disabilities at a later stage.” Read More Here

(PressTV) – ‘Israel needs war to exist’

A former Israeli lecturer has said the entity depends on wars for its existence, warning that the hostility only invites disaster for Tel Aviv. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – America’s Undeclared War on Pakistan – Clinton’s Paradoxistan: Too Good to Be True – Read More Here

(WarIsACrime) – Blood on Our Hands: The Most Brutal Crime committed during the past Decade has been the Invasion of Iraq – David Swanson

The most massive and brutal crime committed on this planet during the past decade has been the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And we’re seeking to wash the blood off our hands without so much as an “Out, damn spot!” Nowadays “looking forward, not backward” is supposed to take care of everything, even as the crimes continue. What that takes care of is the leading perpetrators who begin to sense that the coast is clear and creep out of their holes to declare, as did Karl Rove this week, that their biggest mistake was not more aggressively attacking those who pointed out their crimes. Read More Here

Iran

(Telegraph) – Iran’s Khamenei calls on Muslims to fight ‘terrorism’ fuelled by US and UK

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on Muslims to fight the “blind and savage terrorism” fuelled by the United States and Britain, whom he blamed for deadly bombings of an Iranian mosque. Read More Here

(NYTimes) – Trial Focuses on Iran Ties of Kennedy Plot Suspect

The trial of two men accused of plotting to attack Kennedy International Airport took an unexpected twist on Wednesday when prosecutors suggested that one of the men, a former government official in Guyana, had spied on behalf of the Iranian government. Read More Here

(TarpleyNet) – Obama Is Preparing to Bomb Iran – Webster Tarpley

After about two and a half years during which the danger of war between the United States and Iran was at a relatively low level, this threat is now rapidly increasing. A pattern of political and diplomatic events, military deployments, and media chatter now indicates that Anglo-American ruling circles, acting through the troubled Obama administration, are currently gearing up for a campaign of bombing against Iran, combined with special forces incursions designed to stir up rebellions among the non-Persian nationalities of the Islamic Republic. Naturally, the probability of a new fake Gulf of Tonkin incident or false flag terror attack staged by the Anglo-American war party and attributed to Iran or its proxies is also growing rapidly. Read More Here

North/South Korea

(Telegraph) – US sanctions against North Korea provoke Chinese anger

The United States announced new sanctions against North Korea in an attempt to hit the rogue state’s nuclear weapons programme and destabilise its regime. Read More Here

(GOwansBlog) – “Sanctions of Mass Destruction” (SMD): US Sponsored Economic Blockade Destroys North Korea’s Health Care System

“Economic sanctions are, at their core, a war against public health.”–The New England Journal of Medicine Read More Here

REPOST - (WRH) – THE BIG LIE SELLING YOU WAR WITH NORTH KOREA

What can I say; here we go again!

I hardly need to go down the list of lies used to start US wars. We have been though that over and over again.
Nor do I need to elucidate on the many reasons why the US Government is in desperate need for yet another war with which to scare the American people into acceptance of more takes and fewer rights and freedoms.

Anyone with half a brain realizes that the US Government, unable to gain support for an invasion of Iran, has changed gears and decided that North Korea will be the next step towards World War III.

Here is the big lie… Read More Here

FLASHBACK - (VOANews) – US Professors Raise Doubts About Report on South Korean Ship Sinking

A new study by U.S. researchers raises questions about the investigation into the sinking of a South Korean navy ship. International investigators blamed a North Korean torpedo, raising tensions on the Korean peninsula. Read More Here

Afghanistan

(RussiaToday) – Video: Afghan heroin ‘sponsored’ by West? – Video Link Here

(HuffingtonPost) – Afghans Trained by Blackwater Defect to Taliban

Remember when Sarah Palin said that “the surge principles that have worked in Iraq need to be implemented in Afghanistan.” Well…as Ms. Palin would say, many Afghans working for the Afghan security forces are now switching sides and are now defecting to the Taliban.

Guess who trained many of them? Blackwater! Read More Here

Palestine

(AmnestyInternational) – Israel intensifies West Bank Palestinian home demolitions

Amnesty International has today called on the Israeli authorities to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and other buildings in the West Bank, after a further 74 were destroyed in the Jordan Valley earlier this week. Read More Here

(DesertPeace) – THE ‘CHANGE’ MUST COME FROM US…NOT THE GOVERNMENT; INTERVIEW WITH ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN

With “peace talks” between the Palestinian Authority and Israel seeming more and more like a dead end, many people around the world, including dissident Jewish voices, are turning to grassroots activism to pressure Israel to end the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories. Read More Here

(Ynet) – IDF: We don’t have to promise not to hurt civilians

Response to UN aimed at countering Goldstone Report includes list of rules of engagement that were altered. Many officers outraged, say report is exaggerated, unnecessary apology that will tie military’s hands in future Read More Here

(GoogleSearch) – Israel Destroyed Gaza – View Pics Here

(PressTV) – World champions could join Flotilla II – Read More Here

(AlJazeera) – Video: Gaza’s only fisherwoman – Video Link Here

(PoliticalTheatrics) – Rachel Corrie’s Hometown Divests From Israel

The Olympia, Washington Food Co-op board of directors met last week to make the final decision to endorse the boycott. “A couple of board members were concerned about what will be the financial effect on the organization, but it’s minimal,” board member Rob Richards told Haaretz. “For me personally there is a moral imperative that goes beyond any financial concern. So we decided to adopt the boycott which went into effect the next day.” Read More Here

(Haaretz) – IDF destroys West Bank village after declaring it military zone

Since 1967, Israel has prevented the growth of Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley by cutting off their water supply or declaring large areas as live fire zones. Read More Here

(DesetPeace) – FROM WARSAW TO GAZA ~~ LIBERATE ALL GHETTOS

“Never Again” means never again to crimes against humanity and dehumanization anywhere in the world. Liberate all ghettos. Read More Here

(SouthLebanon) – Palestinian Children Under Occupation

Palestinian children grow up “under the Israeli occupation, surrounded by cruelty, oppression, killing, starvation and destruction.” Yet, like all children, they dream of playing and living normally and safely. Instead, their father may be dead or in prison, their brother killed, their home destroyed, and their mother forced to give birth at an Israeli checkpoint, risking her and the newborn. Read More Here

(SouthLebanon) – Israel refuses to stop using internationally banned phosphorus bombs

The Israeli government has refused to provide the United Nations assurance to discontinue its illegal usage of internationally banned white phosphorus bombs, which it used heavily in its latest war on the Gaza Strip, causing hundreds of Palestinian deaths, in addition to serious environmental damage.

Israel submitted an official report to the UN this week admitting its use of white phosphorus bombs in its war on Gaza after having previously denied such allegations, and assuring that it would use the bombs in a “restricted” manner, but refusing to assure complete discontinuation. Read More Here

REPOST - Video: GAZA of the Broken-Hearted…Dedicated to the Children of GAZA – Read the rest of this entry »

(ActivistPost) – BP ‘Awarded’ MASSIVE Iraq Oil Contracts in Gordon Brown’s ‘New World Order’ – Read More Here

(CLG) – Tropical depression races toward oil spill, threatens deep-sea effort to plug ruptured well – Read More Here

(WPost) – Three of every four oil and gas lobbyists worked for federal government – Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – Did BP Keep Drilling Even Though It Had Lost Control of the Oil Well Much Earlier? – Read More Here

(FloridaOilSpillLaw) – BREAKING: Feds claim ‘seep’ 3 km away came from ANOTHER offshore oil facility

Oil industry and engineering expert Bob Bea has a different view, according to a report published int he last 24 hours by the Times-Picayune: Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – Senior EPA Analyst: “Government [Agencies] Have Been Sock Puppets for BP In This Cover Up” – Read More Here

(LATimes) – BP testimony: Officials knew of key safety problem on rig

BP officials knew about a problem on a crucial well safety device at least three months before the catastrophic April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico but failed to repair it, according to testimony Tuesday from the company’s well manager. Read More Here

(Truthout) – BP’s Long, Bloody History of Reckless Greed

British Petroleum (now known as BP), the company responsible for the worst single-source environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, has over its 100-year history caused a number of environmental and workplace disasters. But the harm BP has caused goes further. Read More Here

China’s Oil Gusher

(EnergyBoom) – China Oil Spill Doubles In Size as Clean-Up Efforts Continue

The oil spill off the northeast coast of China has doubled since it began last Friday.

Crude oil now covers around 165 square miles of water.  Although this currently pales in comparison to the size of Gulf of Mexico offshore oil leak (2,700 mile oil slick), it is another black-eye for the oil industry.

The China oil spill began when an oil pipeline exploded while an oil tanker was being unloaded at Dalian Port.  The explosion led to a 15-hour firestorm and oil flowing into the Yellow Sea.

According to the China Securities Journal, operations at the Dalian Port have returned to normal.  Beaches, however, have been closed, and there are 800 boats and 40 oil skimming vessels trying to clean up the oil.

Greenpeace China’s lead climate campaigner, Yang Ailun, said this disaster highlights the time has truly come to shift to renewable energy: “From the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Dalian to the numerous coal mine accidents, it is tragically obvious that economic development built upon fossil fuels is unsustainable and comes at a high price.”

Read the full story at the Christian Science Monitor: China oil spill spreads but not as big as BP oil spill in Gulf

(AOLNews) – Large China Oil Spill Threatens Sea Life, Water Quality

China’s largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday, while cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves.

An official warned the spill posed a “severe threat” to sea life and water quality as China’s latest environmental crisis spread off the shores of Dalian, once named China’s most livable city. Read More Here