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@ericgarcetti drafted No Iraq War bill.
@Wendy_Greuel opposed No Iraq War bill.
link to commondreams.org
Guantanamo is a consequence of the Israelification of US
link to mondoweiss.net
Bob Jones University is a Protestant Evangelical University.
Bob Jones, Jr. once said that Catholicism "is a satanic counterfeit, an ecclesiastic tyranny over the souls of men....It is the old harlot of the book of the Revelation—'the Mother of Harlots.'" All popes, Jones asserted, "are demon possessed." In 1966, BJU awarded an honorary doctorate to the Rev. Ian Paisley, future British MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, and Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, who has referred to the Pope as a "Roman anti-Christ." Bob Jones III has argued that the university is "not so much anti-Catholic as it is opposed to the idea that all men, regardless of religious beliefs, will eventually get to heaven through good works which the faithful, practicing Catholic embraces."
link to en.wikipedia.org
David Gregory challenging the president
link to youtube.com
Rand Paul’s “Hidden Agenda”
Posted By Scott McConnell
Movement conservative opinion on Rand Paul’s filibuster seems roughly split between enthusiasm and derision. The derisives group around McCain’s view that Paul was grandstanding on a kind of “black helicopter” issue, one so farfetched as not to merit serious discussion. More interesting, however, were two neoconservative attacks targeting Rand’s supposedly hidden agenda.
As the filibuster was taking place, Jonathan Tobin of Commentary wrote [1] that Paul’s real beef is not the threat of drones being deployed domestically, but something else:
The attempt to shift the discussion about drones to the fanciful suggestion that the Justice Department might target Tea Party members is a red herring. Paul’s core objection to the drone program remains what he calls the “perpetual war” against Islamist terrorists.
Most Americans, Tobin argues, support drone strikes against al-Qaeda terrorists, even those not actively attacking U.S. troops. But not Rand Paul, claims Tobin: the senator does seem to oppose the drone strikes. Indeed, anyone who heard all or most of his several hours of talk on the subject heard a great deal that shows he thinks the “perpetual war” against the Islamists is the real problem.
Michael Gerson in the Washington Post elaborated [2] on this broader Paul agenda in a column bluntly titled “Rand Paul masks his true world-view.” What is it? Gerson explains:
But in the course of a 13-hour filibuster [3], it becomes impossible to hide your deeper motivations. Paul employs the prospect of drone murders in an attempt to discredit the “perpetual war” in which “the whole world is a zone of war.” His actual target is the war on terrorism, which he regards as unconstitutional and counterproductive.
As further evidence, Gerson cites a speech Rand Paul made last summer in Tampa, Florida, the wrap-up to his father’s presidential campaign. There he praised his Dad for raising the concept of “blowback”—saying that if his father hadn’t raised it, no one would have. Gerson then goes on to quote Ron Paul, who repeated his oft-made point that much of the animosity against America—including that of the terrorists who carried out 9/11—was in response to America’s own aggressive foreign policies. (From Gerson’s account of the rally, it seems that Rand was simply praising his father for bringing blowback into the conversation, while not explicitly endorsing the concept.) Gerson concludes that Rand Paul is not really a “realist” as he describes himself, in the “Hagel” mode, but rather Rand is someone who believes—like his father—that American actions in the world are sometimes the cause for people to hate us. (Touching, is it not, to see the neocons, only weeks after depicting Chuck Hagel as the spawn of Ezra Pound, using him as an examplar of sober realism?)
It seems premature to give Rand Paul that much credit. Everyone who pays attention to world public opinion, especially in the Muslim world, knows it’s bloody obvious that American policies generate animosity—though not all policies and not among all Muslims. But Gerson is correct that few American politicians are inclined to acknowledge that fact directly.
Is Rand Paul—by casually letting slip the phrase “perpetual war” into a 13-hour filibuster—really readying a stand against the forever war [4]? It would be exciting if he were. The idea that the United States should fight a perpetual war against radical Islam, which itself is going through a civilizational civil war (which Americans understand not at all), seems a dead-sure recipe to expose the United States to more terrorism, more restrictions on civil liberties, and budget deficits as far as the eye can see. The United States, half the world away, could survive quite well with a much smaller footprint in the Muslim world and hardly needs to take on for itself the project of eliminating every Muslim terrorist, real or potential. Do you think China squanders resources on ambitions like that?
I must confess, however, that I don’t see, yet, much real evidence that Rand Paul is going to become our century’s William Fulbright and lead a fight over this question. The neoconservative suspicions seem more based on his patrimony and over-interpretations of an isolated phrase here and there. But to be sure, neocon opinion minders are watching him closely and warily. They are on perpetual guard duty to squash any emergent tribune of “isolationist” sentiment, particularly in the Republican Party. They believe—probably correctly—that some variant of a more restrained, less belligerent foreign policy would be the most popular American position if it found effective leadership. Some now fear this is Rand Paul’s hidden agenda. Let’s hope they are right.
link to theamericanconservative.com
Once in the door with Reagan the neocons first priority was crushing the anti-nuke movement:
"My choice for the villain of Reykjavik is Reagan adviser Richard Perle, who represented the Pentagon at the meeting. Perle consistently advised Reagan against agreeing to any nuclear reductions and tried to frame conditions in ways that he believed would be unacceptable to the Soviet side. When Reagan polled his advisers whether he should accept the laboratory restriction on SDI, something secretary of state George Shultz and others recommended in exchange for Gorbachev’s extraordinary package of concessions, Perle scared Reagan off by telling him the deal would be the ruination of SDI because Congress wouldn't continue to fund it and scientists wouldn't continue to work on it. At Reykjavik, Richard Perle was Reagan’s Iago."
link to takepart.com
"In 1986, President Ronald Reagan considered the abolition of nuclear weapons from the world, but then changed his mind.
The occasion was a summit between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland. During the summit, Reagan briefly embraced Gorbachev’s proposal to abolish nuclear weapons. Gorbachev’s price? A promise by the U.S. to confine the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to the laboratory.
The president’s neocon aides were horrified. Richard Perle, who regarded the notion of nuclear abolition as “ludicrous” and “delusional,” almost single-handedly torpedoed the Reykjavik deal."
link to chronicle.com
Norman Podhoretz:
"The night Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States, I watched the returns in the company of a group of intellectuals who were so jubilant at the news of the mounting landslide that a passing stranger might have taken them for professional Republican Party workers or perhaps for fervent ideological conservatives. In fact, however, most of them were registered Democrats. Some had never before voted for a Republican; or if they had, it would have been in a local race and for a liberal of the species, such as Jacob Javits or John Lindsay in his original political incarnation. Others had voted for Richard Nixon in 1972, but only because as compared with George McGovern he seemed the lesser evil; most of them had gone for Hubert Humphrey against Nixon in 1968. In voting for Nixon even against McGovern they felt uneasy, not merely because they had always disliked Nixon, but also because in deserting the Democratic Party they were breaking with a tradition to which they had been loyal all their political lives. On the other hand, they felt that in nominating George McGovern, who stood for values that departed in almost every respect from that tradition, the Democratic Party had deserted them."
link to nytimes.com
Irving Kristol, writing in 1973 (in Congress Bi-Weekly, a publication of the American Jewish Congress):
Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel… Jews don’t like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States… American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, NO, we don’t want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big,
so that we can defend Israel.
link to mondoweiss.net
Obama's in a tough spot since AIPAC can instantly stop the sequester via the names on Thomas Friedman's napkin.
The parallels between this story and Argo are just absurd... but he's a real filmmaker trying to get through the airport. Weird.
Filmmaker Michael Moore, who came to the defense of Palestinian "5 Broken Cameras" co-director Emad Burnat when he was detained at Lax earlier this week, said that Burnat's film has an excellent chance of winning a Best Documentary Feature Oscar this weekend.
"It has an excellent chance of winning because it's one of the best movies of the year," Moore told HuffPost Live host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Wednesday. "Not just one of the best documentaries. '5 Broken Cameras' is one of the best movies of the year. And I know many, many people in the Academy who've seen it and were just amazed and moved by this film."
link to imdb.com
This kind of low dirty bs is typical of hollywood zionists. Not only doesn't the CNN article say that, Michael Moore has been hailing 5 Broken Cameras for months, linking to free online streams and much more. Moore is the most influential champion the film and Burnat have in the industry.
It will be interesting to see if Academy Awards host Seth MacFarlane and others will be able to resist commenting on comparisons between Argo's fake American filmmakers trying to get through the Tehran airport and 5 Broken Cameras' real Palestinian filmmaker trying to get through LAX to attend the Oscars.
link to michaelmoore.com
5 Broken Cameras and Gatekeepers will probably lose to Searching for Sugarman – about Rodriguez voice of the South African anti-apartheid movement – by Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul.
Tavis Smiley interview: link to pbs.org
link to haaretz.com
Dana Milbank attacks Walt and Mearsheimer on racialist grounds, saying that they are blue-eyed and have Germanic names, and he wonders about their motivation for saying what they do about the Israel lobby. He also says they have no idea how Washington works, then dismisses the idea that the attachment among Jews to Israel is a significant factor in policymaking, because while yes, Elliott Abrams and Douglas Feith care about Israel, Bush and Cheney are fervently behind Israel, too.
link to mondoweiss.net
"And my people-- we were at the forefront of the civil rights movement and many other liberal movements; we helped move this country forward. But on this issue, we’re by and large reactionary—and that’s why I’m engaged on it, as a Jew."
I wish Phil was engaged because racism is wrong instead of fraying prestige.
Obama had to say that to get elected and appoint Hagel who said:
"How do we realistically believe that a continuation of the systematic destruction of an American friend, the country and people of Lebanon, is going to enhance America's image and give us the trust and credibility to lead a lasting and sustained peace effort in the Middle East?"
link to slate.com
(Sorry if too OT)
French Neocons:
Walking around the Isle St Louis in Paris a few weeks ago I came across a mass of tarps and scaffolds shrouding the renovation of 17thc Hôtel Lambert by its new owner Prince Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani, son of the Emir of Qatar.
I found out later the renovation is controversial despite the crumbling condition in which it had been left by the previous the owners, the Rothschild family.
link to nytimes.com;
In France, restoration of protected buildings must be overseen by a state-certified architect. For the Lambert, that job belongs to Alain-Charles Perrot, the chief architect for historic monuments, so who would be against the project?
A little browsing brought up a petition by French art historian Didier Rykner protesting the Lambert renovation.
http://lambert.over-blog.org
Additional searching revealed that Didier Rykner champions other causes, like stopping the Louvre Abu Dhabi which he wrote about in the "The American - The online magazine of the American Enterprise Institute".
link to american.com
David Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine attacked the Louvre Abu Dhabi by citing Didier Ryker's petition but also worked in Muslims fears about "pornographic" European art.
"New Louvre Plans Anger Muslims - Oh, and a few Frenchmen too. From AP, with thanks to Fjordman:"
link to jihadwatch.org
(btw search "fjordman breivik")
The Hôtel Lambert renovation and the Louvre Abu Dhabi survived the protests but not without drawing attention to the actors behind the curtain.
8 Vet Suicides during the 8 hour Hagel hearing.
link to huffingtonpost.com
Scott Horton interview with Philip Weiss:
link to scotthorton.org
Attacks on Hagel unfounded
Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, Omaha
As a rabbi of Temple Israel for the past 25 years, I have had many opportunities through the years to have long, informative, honest, conversations with Chuck Hagel.
On more than one occasion, Chuck came and addressed our congregation on a variety of topics. Through our long friendship, I discovered in Chuck Hagel a staunch, credible supporter of the State of Israel.
As a person who grew up in the State of Israel, I found a great love in Chuck’s heart for the Israeli people and their desire to live in peace and security.
Through the years, I heard him speak in support for sanctions on Iran, against the Hezbollah in Lebanon and the need to avoid any contact with and not support the terrorist organization Hamas until it agrees to recognize Israel and renounce violence.
It pains me to read about the attempts to derail his nomination for secretary of defense. Chuck Hagel would be an excellent choice to bring new ideas and renewed vigor to a region searching for lasting peace.
link to omaha.com
Chuck Hagel Anti-Israel Charge Is 'Extremely Stupid,' Nebraska Rabbi Says
"We developed a very close relationship," Azriel said. "I cannot tell you how many times we spent talking, with him wanting to know about my childhood in Israel, what it was like having to go to the basement in apartment building I lived with my parents to hide from bombings. He was deeply interested in my personal experiences."
The fact that Hagel has at times spoken out against a monolithic view of what it means to be pro-Israel, Azriel said, was something that had endeared him to the Midwestern community of Jews.
"He represents the best in the way people are brought up here," said Azriel, who moved to Omaha from Israel 25 years ago. "This is what I like about him and it is part of the Nebraska piece: He's definitely independent in his thinking, and people want truthful politicians, people who speak their minds, people who are not moved as marionettes on strings."
link to huffingtonpost.com
“He said to me, ‘Let the Jews pay for it’,” said Marsha Halteman, director for military and law enforcement programs at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).
Hagel didn't say ‘Let the Jews pay for it’.
In Halteman's words:
“He essentially told us that if we wanted to keep the USO [in Haifa] open—and when I say ‘we’, he meant ‘the Jews’—he said the Jews could pay for it,” said Halteman.
But even that isn't true. Hagel kept the Haifa operation open, expanding it in fact, while shuttering ten others in the Middle East region.
"Hagel USO" search results:
Hagel: “Let the Jews Pay for it”
link to commentarymagazine.com
Chuck Hagel told Israel Supporters: “Let the Jews Pay for It!”
link to unitedjerusalem.org
Chuck Hagel: “Let the Jews Pay for It!”
link to jewishpress.com
Hagel: 'Let the Jews Pay for it'
link to unitycoalitionforisrael.org
Chuck Hagel: "Let The JOOOOOOOSE Pay For it!"
link to yidwithlid.blogspot.com
Hagel: 'Let the Jews Pay For It'
link to weeklystandard.com
Obama pick: “Let the Jews Pay for it”
link to tomohalloran.com
Report: Hagel Worked to Shut Down USO Port in Haifa, Israel
link to nationalreview.com
Hillary is also a sell out on Cluster Bombs because of the J Lobby
link to thedailybeast.com
IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon
Phosphorous and cluster bombs heavily used; unexploded munitions litter wide area of Lebanon.
"What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.
link to haaretz.com
Lobby also determined to undermine Canada's
leading role advancing the Anti-Personnel Mines Convention (the landmines treaty)
link to ottawacitizen.com
Video: “Dead In The Water” BBC documentary about the USS Liberty
link to youtube.com
Phil, Israel Firsters are not "people who think about Israel's security first" but people consumed Israel's power first.
Weekend Edition Dec 1, 2012
A Compelling, Chutzpadik History Of 'Jews And Words'
Robert Siegel (in full "thinking America's" schmaltzy uncle mode):
"So there's a direct line between Abraham, Moses and Alan Dershowitz?"
Fania Oz-Salzberger: "And Seinfeld and Sarah Silverman."
link to npr.org
Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All By Chris Hedges
last paragraph:
The specter of terrorism, as in Israel, is used by the state to divert gargantuan expenditures to homeland security, the military and internal surveillance. Privacy is abolished. Dissent is treason. The military with its mantra of blind obedience and force characterizes the dark ethic of the wider culture. Beauty and truth are abolished. Culture is degraded into kitsch. The emotional and intellectual life of the citizenry is ravaged by spectacle, the tawdry and salacious, as well as by handfuls of painkillers and narcotics. Blind ambition, a lust for power and a grotesque personal vanity—exemplified by David Petraeus and his former mistress—are the engines of advancement. The concept of the common good is no longer part of the lexicon of power. This, as the novelist J.M. Coetzee writes, is “the black flower of civilization.” It is Rome under Diocletian. It is us. Empires, in the end, decay into despotic, murderous and corrupt regimes that finally consume themselves. And we, like Israel, are now coughing up blood.
link to truthdig.com
The great terrain robbery
A NEW interpretation of the land-for-peace principle has emerged from Israel. In the self-declared “security zone” that it occupies in southern Lebanon, Israel seems to have decided that if it cannot have peace, it will at least make sure that it has the land. Since September, Israeli lorries have been scooping up truckload after truckload of Lebanon's fertile topsoil and carting it off to Israel. The Economist 1998: link to economist.com
One inch of topsoil can take 500 years to form. Without topsoil, little plant life is possible. It has the highest concentration of organic matter and microorganisms and is where most of the Earth's biological soil activity occurs. link to en.wikipedia.org
Miriam Levinger
link to youtube.com
The interview was pre-taped, they could've edited the phrase "leader of the Jewish people" but chose to leave it in. The look in Bibi's cow eyes gazing deep into the camera at "easily moved" American idiots reminds me of Manny Horvitz, Philadelphia mobster on Boardwalk Empire (starting again tonight incidentally).
Interview: Alejandro Beutel of the Muslim Public Affairs Council discusses MPAC’s exposé on “America’s Top 25 Pseudo-Experts on Islam":
link to scotthorton.org
paper: link to mpac.org
“President Obama needs to get his priorities straight,” Bachmann concluded. “What he needs to do is he needs to cancel his interview with David Letterman, cancel his meeting with Beyonce, cancel his meeting with Jay-Z, and instead, agree to meet with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu!”: link to rawstory.com
"Fear, Inc." paper documents Michelle Bachmann's importance as messenger for Islamophobia Network:
link to t.co
"From where do these attitudes of royal privilege and entitlement arise? "
And they exile people more throughly than Roman emperors.
E.g.: Helen Thomas, "First Lady of the Press", erased as if she never existed. Awards in her name terminated, name scrubbed from journalism courses.
Michael Moore's agent is Rahm Emanuel's brother Ari at William Morris Endeavor
link to en.wikipedia.org
link to latimesblogs.latimes.com
"Without the guiding and enabling hand of Jewish Zionists at the pinnacle of the American power structure (in the media, Wall Street, policy centers, academe, etc.), Christian Zionists would be a negligible factor in American politics."
Exactly and the warmongering, torture, the attacks on civil liberties, environmentalists, unions, science and the arts, the misogyny and homophobia (and pinkwashing) and all that comes with empowering Christian Zionists will eventually be laid at their feet.
CNN link to ac360.blogs.cnn.com
Andrei Lugovoi, suspect in Litvinenko poisoning, was himself poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 link to bbc.co.uk
The Russian oligarchs behind scammers like Jack Abramoff, now back Romney who recently said the current anti-oligarch Russian govt is "enemy #1".
link to rt.com
"In order to understand what motivates Bill Kristol’s professed hyper-patriotism, with its consistently disastrous prescriptions, it’s worth recalling how his father, Irving Kristol, reacted to Vietnam War critic Senator George McGovern. The presidential contender’s proposed cut in U.S. military expenditure would, according to the “godfather” of neoconservatism, “drive a knife in the heart of Israel.”
“Jews don’t like big military budgets,” the elder Kristol explained in a Jewish publication in 1973. “But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States … American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don’t want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel."
link to maidhcocathail.wordpress.com
Norman Podhoretz: "The night Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States, I watched the returns in the company of a group of intellectuals who were so jubilant at the news of the mounting landslide that a passing stranger might have taken them for professional Republican Party workers or perhaps for fervent ideological conservatives. In fact, however, most of them were registered Democrats. Some had never before voted for a Republican; or if they had, it would have been in a local race and for a liberal of the species, such as Jacob Javits or John Lindsay in his original political incarnation.
link to nytimes.com
"Romney’s foreign policy advisers are graduates of the workshop of Dick Cheney and the various American outworks of the Likud or the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute. These people – including Cofer Black, Michael Chertoff, Robert Kagan and Dan Senor – have their eyes on a goal beyond victory in Syria and Iran: they look forward to a militarised approach to Russia and China."
link to lrb.co.uk
Buchanan on Philip Weiss, Bill Kristol and Arabists. Fun to read post Hagel nomination.
link to townhall.com
"The big story in the Republican Party over the last 30 years, and I'm very happy about this," said Kristol, is the "eclipsing" of the George H.W. Bush-James Baker-Brent Scowcroft realists, "an Arabist old-fashioned Republican Party ... very concerned about relations with Arab states that were not friendly with Israel ... ."
That Bush crowd is yesterday, said Kristol. And not only had the "Arabists" like President Bush been shoved aside by the neocons, the "Pat Buchanan/Ron Paul type" of Republican has been purged.
"At B'nai Jeshurun," writes Weiss, "Kristol admitted to playing a role in expelling members of the Republican Party he does not agree with." These are Republicans you had to "repudiate," said Kristol, people "of whom I disapprove so much that I won't appear with them."
"I've encouraged that they be expelled or not welcomed into the Republican Party. I'd be happy if Ron Paul left. I was very happy when Pat Buchanan was allowed -- really encouraged ... by George Bush ... to go off and run as a third-party candidate."
“They had small children coming to my house and spitting on me and on my children and wife.”
What's with the spitting?
link to csmonitor.com
link to 972mag.com
The star of Girls is Zosia Mamet, daughter of David Mamet:
link to letmypeoplegrow.org
David Mamet's sly Tea Party schtick:
link to motherjones.com
Follow @MaattMusleh the guy in red at the top of the page.
Maat's blog http://palestineyouthvoice.wordpress.com
Christ at the Checkpoint
link to christatthecheckpoint.com
Christ at the Checkpoint by Latma
link to youtube.com
Belgian Congo Hatikvah
link to youtube.com
Rubber and murder, slavery in its worst form.
Under terms of the General Act of the Berlin Conference, Leopold pledged to suppress the East African slave trade; promote humanitarian policies; guarantee free trade within the colony; impose no import duties for twenty years; and encourage philanthropic and scientific enterprises. Contrary to his pledge, beginning in the mid-1880s Leopold issued a series of decrees that eventually violated these conditions.
link to yale.edu
ok not auspicious... worse, the house Ali Abunimah says Rudoren will live in:
link to electronicintifada.net
Auspicious tweet from @rudoren Jodi Rudoren:
Fascinating piece re West Bank documentarian. NYTimes: From Unyielding Cameraman, an Acclaimed Film link to nytimes.com
Anonymous Message To The State of Israel
link to youtube.com
Text posted under video.
Israeli fans beg Bibi not to bomb Iran until after Madonna launches her world tour in Israel
link to haaretz.com
Moby and others playing Israel
link to hollywoodreporter.com
& link to shuki.co.il
Netanyahu will never be forgiven for putting Obama in his place by timing Op Cast Lead to the election and inauguration. Never.
link to blognovic.files.wordpress.com
Are Freedom House and Freedom Watch the same org?
link to en.wikipedia.org
Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence
link to washingtonpost.com
Vanessa Redgrave 1978 Academy Awards
"Hoodlums" remark at 2:53
link to youtube.com
HuffPost France not a threat
link to observer.com
"Death of real news source of non-partisan sadness" for Ted Koppel
link to washingtonpost.com
L.A. Times apologizes for calling Ben Hur a Palestinian (September 28, 2011)
The Los Angeles Times corrected an item about an anniversary release of a “Ben Hur” DVD that called the title character a Palestinian.
The correction came following complaints from readers and the staff of CAMERA: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America of a Calendar item published Monday.
“A Sept. 26 Calendar section article about a new DVD and Blu-ray release of the 1959 film ‘Ben-Hur’ described the title character, played by Charlton Heston, as a Palestinian nobleman,” the correction said. “The character Ben-Hur was a Jew from Judea who lived long before the place now known as Palestine was given that name.”
The original item had said, “Based on the novel by Lew Wallace, the period drama revolves around Judah Ben-Hur (Heston), a Palestinian nobleman who is enslaved by the Romans, engages in one of the most thrilling chariot races ever captured on screen, and even encounters Jesus Christ.”
link to jewishjournal.com
CAMERA link to blog.camera.org
"Sundance" will generate new commenters because zionists are fanatically obsessed with anything the least bit zeitgeisty, particularly with regard to film and tv and Sundance owner Redford has very strong credentials on the environment, Native Americans, animals. Not good.
CNN's Dana Loesch Cheers Soldiers Who Urinated On Corpses, Says She Would "Drop Trou" And Do It Herself:
CNN "political analyst" Dana Loesch, on the other hand, apparently doesn't care if these actions were directly working against the mission of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan; instead, she cheered for it in order to fuel the unhinged Muslim hatred that has become a staple of modern day right-wing media. On her show, she gave the marines in question "one million cool points" and said that she would "drop trou" and "do it too." She ended by saying: "Do I have a problem with that as a citizen of the United States? No, I don't."
Audio: link to stlactivisthub.blogspot.com
Jonathan Alter (msnbc dailybeast @jonathanalter):
"Isikoff just made good point: Casino union buster Adelson putting $5m into ad featuring union guys bashing Mitt. He's suddenly powerbroker."
Oh and Charles Schultz... Joel Stein also overlooks Aaron Spelling, Sol Saks, Sherwood Schwartz, Jerry Springer...
Forget about Chuck Jones, Dr Seuss, Jim Henson, Walt Disney, "Davey and Goliath" is the hallmark goy cartoon.
If you like Latma you'll love "The Dictator" (posted down thread but as Philip says, I'm 'scratching an itch' wrt to Larry Seinfeld Charles and SBCohen).
link to youtube.com
new trailer from Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles (Seinfeld)
link to youtube.com
The Santa Fe audience I saw this trailer with was audibly disgusted. One cowboy looking guy said "That looks pretty racist."
Thanks Walid.
Lebanese friends of mine insist that Henry Kissinger made an offer to transfer the Maronites to Nevada. Have you heard of this?
Some info here but I can't vouch for it
link to hk-elie-hobeika.blogspot.com
One in 10 Norwegian women over the age of 15 has been raped, according to the country’s largest shelter organization, the Secretariat of the Shelter Movement. But at least 80 percent of these cases are never brought to official attention and only 10 percent of those that are end in a conviction, the Justice Ministry says.
Nowhere is this taboo more stubborn than in the family home, long considered off-limits for law enforcement and the state.
“The statistics tell us that the safest place for women is outside, on the street — most rapes happen at home,” said Tove Smaadahl, general manager of the Shelter Movement. In a 2005 survey by the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 9 percent of female respondents in a relationship reported experiencing sexual assault.
link to nytimes.com
Emily K Schrader is from Palos Verdes Calif link to twitpic.com
Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes:
link to books.google.com
Annie... you're in LA right? Are you going to see Omar Barghouti at USC tomorrow? link to usacbi.org
I understand the emotions problem. It's a tough one.
oh and éthérée needs two ees at the end. what I get for being a polyglot.
Well I thought éthérée captured her pretty well, searching too as I was. Anyway, this site could use a little more of that.
link to youtube.com
wiki: Delphine Seyrig used her celebrity status to promote women's rights. The most important of the three films she directed was the 1977 Sois belle et tais-toi (Be Pretty and Shut up) that included actresses Shirley MacLaine, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda, speaking frankly about the level of sexism they had to deal with in film industry. In 1982 Seyrig was the key member of the group that established the Paris-based "Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir", which maintains a large archive of women's filmed and recorded work and produces work by and about women. In 1989, Seyrig was given a festival tribute at Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France.
Way OT but thank you for the photo of éthérée Delphine Seyrig (born in Beirut Lebanon).
link to youtube.com I think this is the only film with wardrobe, coiffure & maquillage actually by Coco Chanel herself. A nice break from I/P horrors.
Ron Paul was one of five Republicans to vote for a House defense bill amendment that would begin the process of repealing "don't ask, don't tell". His reason?
"I have received several calls and visits from constituents who, in spite of the heavy investment in their training, have been forced out of the military simply because they were discovered to be homosexual," Paul told The Washington Post Friday.
"To me, this seems like an awful waste. Personal behavior that is disruptive should be subject to military discipline regardless of whether the individual is heterosexual or homosexual. But to discharge an otherwise well-trained, professional, and highly skilled member of the military for these reasons is unfortunate and makes no financial sense," Paul said."
link to advocate.com
Should be "rode... to power". Cringe.
It's like eye-for-an-eye in reverse - Adelson & Geller cancel out Goodman & Schwerner. How ironic is it that people who road enlightened ideals and the civil rights movement to power have locked arms with racist, misogynistic, homophobic religious fanatics to re-seed the ground, relentlessly and strategically, with vicious, jingoistic gutter racism? Gee, it's not like America had any problems with that before or paid a very big price to heal from it. On the brighter side, Hophmi and eee can rejoice.
It would be anathema to my New England Unitarian ancestors to even consider itemizing their influence on abolition, literature, academia, etc., while others financed the slave trade, the Confederacy, Big Cotton, several market bubbles, and both the north and the south in the Civil War, but this post calls for it. Tribal hubris is toxic, degrades everyone.
CA Sen. Ted Lieu calls on CEO of Lowe's home-improvement chain to apologize to American Muslims for 'bigoted, shameful' actions (scroll for Lieu's letter)
link to sd28.senate.ca.gov
Support Ted on Twitter @tedlieu
The Source of America’s Wars
Maidhc Ó Cathail
In order to understand what motivates Bill Kristol’s professed hyper-patriotism, with its consistently disastrous prescriptions, it’s worth recalling how his father, Irving Kristol, reacted to Vietnam War critic Senator George McGovern. The presidential contender’s proposed cut in U.S. military expenditure would, according to the “godfather” of neoconservatism, “drive a knife in the heart of Israel.”
“Jews don’t like big military budgets,” the elder Kristol explained in a Jewish publication in 1973. “But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States … American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don’t want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.”
more at link to maidhcocathail.wordpress.com
Bellow era anti-Semitism
In a 1967 letter to Evelyn Waugh’s biographer, Christopher Sykes, Graham Greene tells how he once reproached Waugh for his “anti-Semitic rudeness” to Alexander Korda at a dinner party. Waugh said “He had no right to bring his mistress to Carol Reed’s house”, to which Greene said, “But I had my mistress with me”. Waugh’s casuistic reply, “That is quite different. She is a married woman”.
Check out Carlos Latuff one of the star cartoonists of Tahrir
link to twitpic.com
link to latuff2.deviantart.com
twitter @CarlosLatuff
Andrew Sullivan - @sullydish - recent posts
Israel's decision to release a thousand criminals and terrorists
link to andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com
The core test of a civilization: how well does it treat its prisoners of war? Sam Roggeveen:
The images of a gaunt and weak Shalit, reportedly suffering from malnutrition and lack of exposure to natural light, contrast with images of the first group of Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for the Israeli soldier's freedom.
link to andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com
Squeezing Shalit For One More Ounce Of Propaganda
Marc Tracy is infuriated by Egyptian TV's interview with Gilad Shalit before his return to Israel. It was, in my view, disgusting:
link to andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com
"You doubt they will dare risk global nuclear holocaust in their fanatical zeal to do what they perceive as God’s bidding?"
I've often wondered, if Thomas Friedman's infamous clique can launch the Iraq war - effects of: link to brussellstribunal.org - what won't they do? I would think monitoring mondoweiss posters would be low on the list. Hope we're on a secure server... Phil? Adam?
@MJayRosenberg: Washington Post columnist @JRubinBlogger retweets best friend Rachel Abrams' screed urging GENOCIDE
link to twitter.com
No Palestinian kids aren't drawing transformers, they're drawing themselves cowering in terror of IDF brownshirts:
link to muzzlewatch.com
who's the smarmy lisping narrator, Omer Gershon?
link to electronicintifada.net
Carlos Latuff cartoon
link to twitpic.com
"And Kristol got his way":
The thought of five million orphans in a nation of 26 million people is simply too appalling to fully comprehend. An equivalent number in the United States would be 57 million orphans.
Video taping torture, the destruction of evidence, and the exact role of the White House in the entire affair are indicative and emblematic of the larger problems. These acts represent a gruesome metaphor. But it's just more of the same outrageous behavior we've seen for years.
The overriding crime is over a million deaths plus the suffering and abandonment of millions more, all due to a foreign policy based on lies and deception. This was done against the prevailing views of the military and the people of the United States.
Millions of Iraqi civilians are dead, suffering and abandoned.
link to atlanticfreepress.com
Humanitarian crisis caused by the War and Occupation of Iraq
Red Cross report shows that the US-UK invasion of Iraq caused 1.2 million deaths, including, 2,000 doctors, created 4.7 million refugees and resulted in the assassination or imprisonment of 5,500 academics and intellectuals.
The medical profession in particular has been hollowed out. Iraq's health-care system used to be the envy of the Arab world. But after the U.S. invasion, doctors became targets for ransom kidnappings and assassination. Upwards of 120 physicians were killed. Some were gunned down in their own clinics. Things got worse than ever after 2005, when loyalists of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gained control of the Health Ministry. Hospitals turned into Shiite militia bases where Sunnis could be killed on sight. The Sadrists are in retreat now, but the doctors are still missing. The current health minister, Salih Hasnawi, estimates that roughly half the country's doctors have fled, from a prewar total of as many as 30,000 or more.
More with many important links: link to brussellstribunal.org
scarf designed by Sigmund descendant Bella Freud. Never hurts to have bleeding heart MOT window dressing.
Energy Committee for Israel wants you
Sara doesn't look very coerced to me:
link to blog.panorama.it
J'aime la Sara courageuse.
Arbabsiar tried to recruit a Mexican drug cartel gunman for the assassination. The gunman was an FBI informant. This happens as Atty Genl Eric Holder awaits a subpoena in the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal in which the ATF allegedly allowed thousands of assault rifles and other weapons into the hands of suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels in order to track them.
link to cbsnews.com
"neocons’ obsession with defending Israel." Not about defending. It's about crushing obstacles to domination and expansion.
Helen Thomas: Why Iraq War?
link to youtube.com
Egyptian Activists' Action Plan: Translated
link to theatlantic.com
Adbusters has been so good on Palestine I wondered how they kept their Whole Foods account. That they're associated with Occupy WS is an auspicious sign.
Link to Mondoweiss on Adbusters
link to adbusters.org
Andrea Dworkin covered the same terrain in Ms Magazine 1990 (Phil, link may interest you)
link to nostatusquo.com
Cast Lead began on US election day Nov 4 2008 and ended on Jan 21 2009 the day after Obama's Inauguration - I think to show the schw---za who wears the pants. Now the Lobby pushes Perry (advisor Feith), Bachmann (advisor Gaffney), Palin (advisor Kristol), Marco Rubio (first trip the day after becoming FL senator - not to Latin America - but to Israel). Does the Lobby really believe the Israel connection will be forgotten when an EPA/Social Security/Medicare/Worker's Rights/Civil Liberties/Climate Science/DOE destroying Evangelical fascist wins the White House (again) because of hardline Israel credentials?
grunfeld's public statement
link to gawker.com
letters some support student
link to fullcomment.nationalpost.com
The lobby wants this fight because they know that, at this point in time, they will win. The brainwashing is too strong. I hope the Democrats don't take the bait because a Perry Supreme Court is the likely outcome.
Today Christian extremists are being cultivated in the US for similar reasons.
Iran - another impediment to control and expansion of the OT - not a nuke threat, etc.
Judith Miller following in footsteps of her theatrical precursor Leni Riefenstahl.
Looking forward to her review of My Name is Rachel Corrie.
link to rachelcorriefoundation.org
I saw recently, can't recall where maybe on mondoweiss, that Wolfowitz said the Iraq war was necessary to remove support for Palestinian independence in the OT – not for judith miller's WMD, to bring democracy or even to avenge Saddam's payments to families of suicide bombers. The Iraq War was all about holding on to the Occupied Territories.
Would like a link if anyone knows where this was posted.
Hollywood and Arabs link to reelbadarabs.com
"Crazed theory of importing democracy to the Middle East" is the stated goal. The real goal is to demolish threats to Israeli supremacy.
steve jobs arab-american
link to yalibnan.com
"I disagree that Sleep deprivation is torture."
and ok to use on these children?
link to 2.bp.blogspot.com
Rachel Maddow: Gaza Cast Lead
link to youtube.com
“Respect for the Victims of the Armenian Genocide” exhibition in Lebanon
photostream: link to flickr.com
Dimadok - You accuse others of 'not having a clue' but know zero about the sacrifices made by the Lebanese (mainly Maronites in demographically fragile mountain enclaves ) to welcome thousands of Armenian refugees after the genocide - similar actions took place in Iran, Syria, and Jordan.
Armenian Genocide Memorial in Bikfaya Lebanon
link to en.wikipedia.org.JPG
95th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide Lebanon
link to flickr.com
Recognition of Armenian Genocide by Lebanon
Lebanese Parliament Passes Genocide Resolution
BEIRUT-The Lebanese Parliament unanimously approved a resolution Thursday, calling for the commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish government at the beginning of the century.
The resolution is the first step toward a complete recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the Lebanese government, and the subsequent condemnation of relentless Turkish denial tactics.
The resolution, presented by the parliament executive, calls on all Lebanese citizens to unite with the Armenian people on April 24” in commemorating the atrocities of 1915-1923.
Mary Robinson War Criminal by Michael Rubin
link to old.nationalreview.com
Mary Robinson
link to en.wikipedia.org
not just vets... settlers, idf debasing grandmothers and arresting kids puts all US military in Muslim countries at risk.
"treating ‘rebel jews’ like Adam and Phil just like the nazis used to treat the german jews"
Slavoj Žižek:
"Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew – he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us."
more: link to guardian.co.uk
The data released by Clinton shows the total payload dropped (on Cambodia) during these years to be nearly five times greater than the generally accepted figure. To put the revised total of 2,756,941 tons into perspective, the Allies dropped just over 2 million tons of bombs during all of World War II, including the bombs that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 15,000 and 20,000 tons, respectively. Cambodia may well be the most heavily bombed country in history.
link to zcommunications.org
If only there were more Jane Fondas today.
Calvin Trillin was always a racist. Once saw him on a circle jerk panel with Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner. More odious than Pamela Geller because less honest.
"Congratulations, Israel. You have made the world less safe for Jews."
What about the safety of US servicemen in Muslim countries (at neocon's behest) as Israelis brazenly kill, maim, dispossess and humiliate Muslims with our money, weapons and slavish diplomatic support?
Zogby Press Conference livestream link to aaiusa.org
A Norman Bates Knesset ruling Settler Zombies link to mondoweiss.net
"look at how Hillary bends over for them"
@grassfed
Hillary Clinton: Toys to Gaza Bad, Cluster Bombs that look like Toys Good. link to alternet.org
link to berkeleydailyplanet.com
#flotilla2 @mondoweiss
Is that Sara Netanyahu's Louis XV fauteuil? The urban activist bulletin board is really persuasive.
see comments at link to youtube.com
example:
"Obviously, the Israelis know the gay issue is a 'conflict area' between the secular west and Arabs, so they 'Hasbara' up this staged crap to re-invigorate the conflict. Individual states have every ethical right to legislate their choice of religious law—provided it’s the whole religious law, rather than a piece intended to enflame a particular group. We don’t do that in the US. In the US we demonize specific groups for public gain while we rely on their members for personal gain.
The obscene calculation that gay rights offsets the Lobby's hopes for homophobes like Bachmann and keeps American Liberals in check (@maddow) exhibits a depth of contempt for gays that defies description. At least Bachmann doesn't play both sides of the fence.
US Aid to Israel ESF Cash Transfers: The US provides all ESF funds directly to the Israeli government without asking Israel to account for how the funds will be used. Some other aid recipients receive part of their ESF as cash transfers, but not under such flexible, unmonitored conditions. Much of the US Aid circulates back to the US to lobby Congress via AIPAC and non-profits like Hagee's CUFI Citizen's United for Israel, etc.
Bankrupting Terrorism - One Lawsuit at a Time
Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center is an Israeli based civil right organization and world leader in combating the terrorist organizations and the regimes that support them through lawsuits litigated in courtrooms around the world. Fighting for the rights of hundreds of terror victims, Shurat HaDin seeks to bankrupt the terror groups and grind their criminal activities to a halt - one lawsuit at a time.
link to israellawcenter.org