TREACHEROUS RON PAUL SOLD OUT TO ZIONISM!
CON RON SIDES WITH THE JEWISH BARBARIC INVADERS, THIEVES, RACISTS, FASCISTS AND MASS MURDERERS!
SHAME ON YOU, CON PAUL!
HE WANTS TO UNLEASH ISRAEL ON IRAN AND KEEP THE US AS RESERVE JUST IN CASE IRAN PROVES TOUGHER TAN EXPECTED AND ISRAEL NEEDS HELP!
Has
Ron Paul Sold Out To Israeli Lobby?
Ron Paul Shocks Campaign Staff With New Position On Israel
By Grace Wyler
April 21, 2012 Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul
revealed this week that he would support moving the U.S. Embassy
in Israel to Jerusalem, a surprising position that contradicts
conventional wisdom about Paul's stance toward the Jewish
state.
Paul first
made this position known Wednesday night, during a private
meeting with evangelical leaders interested in helping the Texas
Congressman reach out to the conservative Christian community.
According
to a transcript of the meeting obtained by
Business Insider, the leaders started off the meeting by
asking Paul whether he would sign an Executive Order to move the
U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a major
policy objective for Israeli hardliners and many leaders in the
Christian Right.
"The real issue here is not what America wants, but what does
Israel want," Paul told evangelical leaders, according to a
transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider. "If
Israel wants their capital to be Jerusalem, then the United
States should honor that."
"How would we like it if some other nation said 'We decided to
recognize New York City as your capital instead, so we will
build our embassy there?'" he added.
Even
Paul's senior campaign aides were surprised by his response.
"We were floored," senior advisor Doug Wead told Business
Insider. "It sounds like pure Ron Paul, but it still caught us
off guard...If someone would have asked him that in a national
debate, I suppose it would have popped right out, but nobody
did!"
Wead added
that Paul's position "makes sense after the fact," noting that
the candidate has frequently emphasized Israel's sovereignty.
"I
appreciate what he said about Israel — as a matter of fact, I
was pleasantly surprised," Brian Jacobs, a Texas pastor who
attended Wednesday's meeting, told Business Insider. "It helped
answer a lot of questions that I had."
Ironically, Paul and
Newt Gingrich are now the only presidential candidates who
have said that they are in favor of recognizing Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel and moving the U.S. Embassy there. President
Barack Obama has postponed moving the Embassy. Romney "would
like to see the U.S. Embassy eventually moved to Jerusalem,"
campaign spokesman Andrea Saul said in a statement emailed to
Business Insider.
While
Paul's position is unlikely to change the near-certain outcome
of the Republican primary, it could help Paul gain support among
evangelical leaders, many of whom have been hesitant to support
Romney. Jacobs, who has worked as a consultant for televangelist
Billy Graham, told Business Insider that several evangelical
leaders have started to express interest in talking to Paul in
the wake of Rick Santorum's departure from the race.
Jacobs
said he is now working with the Paul campaign to organize
conference calls between the candidate and evangelical
leaders. Christian television producer Justin Machacek, who also
attended Wednesday's meeting, said he is working on arranging a
larger meeting between Paul and other conservative Christian
groups.
A
relationship with Christian Right powerbrokers could give Ron
Paul more leverage within the party, as Romney tries to unite
the GOP after this year's divisive primary fight. It could also
help broaden the Paul coalition, setting the stage for a future
run by Paul's son, U.S. Sen.
Rand Paul.
"100% of Christian leaders that I've talked to, do you know the
one thing they like about Ron Paul? His son Rand Paul," Jacobs
told Business Insider. "Every Christian leader will say, 'You
know I'm not quite sure if Ron Paul can win the nomination'…but
in the same breath, they tag it with, "But I sure do like the
way his son has followed him.'"
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Ron Paul’s Position on Israel is a Betrayal of His Values
by Jeremy R. Hammond
Doug Wead, a senior advisor to the Ron Paul campaign, writes in his blog
that Ron Paul was asked by evangelical leaders about moving the U.S.
embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “The real issue here is
not what America wants but what Israel wants,” Dr. Paul told them,
according to Wead. “We have no right to choose their capital…. If they
say it is Jerusalem, then it is Jerusalem.” Wead summarizes Dr. Paul’s
position as: “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Get over it.”
Ron
Paul’s position, as reported by Mr. Wead, is morally and legally wrong,
as well as strategically mistaken. Dr. Paul has stood out as a
presidential candidate precisely because of his unwavering consistency
and incorruptibility, the only one who is not willing to betray his
values to win votes or pander to the lobbies. His statement on Jerusalem
is extremely damaging to that reputation, and will no doubt give rise
to the charge that he has sold his soul to the “Israeli lobby”.
If
we give him the benefit of the doubt and assume his position is
sincere, that he has not said this merely to win some votes, then we
must assume that Dr. Paul is just not very well read on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is not the first time that he has been
wrong in his views regarding Israel. His campaign often touts that he
was the only one to defend Israel’s bombing of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear
reactor in 1981, which is entirely inconsistent with his correct
observation that “Another term for preventive war is aggressive
war—starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us.”
Israel’s
attack was not a “preemptive” act of self-defense, but an act of
aggression, “the supreme international crime”, as defined at Nuremberg.
The IAEA had been monitoring Iraq’s program, and there was no evidence
at that time of any weapons program. Israel was only nation in the
Middle East that actually possessed nuclear weapons (which remains
true), and its attack was condemned by the United Nations Security
Council in Resolution 487, which noted that “Iraq has been a party to
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [NPT] since it
came into force in 1970, that in accordance with that Treaty Iraq has
accepted IAEA safeguards on all its nuclear activities, and that the
Agency has testified that these safeguards have been satisfactorily
applied to date”. Far from making the world safer from the threat of
nuclear weapons proliferation, the international community, in strongly
condemning Israel’s attack as a “clear violation of the Charter of the
United Nations and the norms of international conduct”, found that
Israel’s attack constituted “a serious threat to the entire IAEA
safeguards regime which is the foundation of the non-proliferation
Treaty”.
While
there’s no evidence Israel’s attack prevented Iraq from acquiring a
nuclear weapon, according to U.S. intelligence, it was likely an
important factor that played into Saddam Hussein’s subsequent decision
to move his nuclear program underground and seek to develop an Iraqi
nuclear deterrent to further Israeli aggression. An interagency
intelligence assessment on the consequences of Israel’s attack stated
that it “could be a watershed event in the Middle East” by adding “new
strains” to “US-Arab relations” and sparking an “arms race” in which
“Arab leaders will intensify their search for alternative ways to boost
their security and protect their interests” (much the same observation
that Rafsanjani made in 2001). Israel’s own possession of nuclear
weapons made its actions all the more destabilizing. Israeli Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan had “dispelled the ambiguity that surrounded
Israel’s nuclear program by acknowledging Israel’s capability to produce
nuclear weapons, and the raid on Iraq has laid Tel Aviv’s challenge
before the Arab world in clear terms.” Saddam Hussein responded “by
suggesting that world governments provide the Arabs with a nuclear
deterrent to Israel’s formidable nuclear capabilities. His message to
other Arabs is that they can have no security as long as Israel alone
commands the nuclear threat.” In line with the view of the international
community as reflected in the U.N. resolution, the assessment stated
that Israel’s attack seriously damaged international efforts to prevent
the proliferation of nuclear weapons. “A related consequence of the raid
is damage to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and to the IAEA
safeguards system”, which would “probably have a detrimental impact”.
Contrary to Israeli assertions “that the IAEA safeguards system is a
sham”, the assessment made a similar observation as the U.N. resolution
that “The Iraqis have had the support of most IAEA members because of
general acceptance that international and bilateral safeguards over
Iraq’s program were sufficient to guard against the diversion of fissile
material for a nuclear device.”
Ron
Paul’s suggestion that the U.S. should recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel is likewise a disappointing defense of lawlessness
that would seem to indicate that Dr. Paul is unfamiliar with the history
of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and rather bases his views on the
establishment-approved mythical narrative, which is essentially the
history as it is presented in Zionist propaganda.
The
truth is that following the Zionists’ unilateral declaration of the
existence of the state of Israel in May 1948, an act prejudicial to the
rights of the majority inhabitants and for which there was absolutely no
legal basis, Palestine was ethnically cleansed. More than 700,000 Arab
Palestinians were expelled or fled from their homes, never allowed to
return. The Zionist forces captured Jerusalem, and when an armistice was
finally reached in 1949, Israel controlled the west and Jordan the east
of the city.
In
1967, Israel invaded and occupied the West Bank and claimed to annex
East Jerusalem. Subsequently, the United Nations Security Council passed
resolution 242, which emphasized “the inadmissibility of the
acquisition of territory by war”, emphasized that member states have a
commitment to abide by the U.N. Charter, and called for the “Withdrawal
of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied” during the June 1967
war.
In
May 1968, the Security Council passed resolution 252, which declared
Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem “invalid” and called upon Israel “to
rescind all such measures already taken and to desist forthwith from
taking any further action which tends to change the status of
Jerusalem”.
In
July 1969, the Security Council passed resolution 267, noting that
Israel had since “taken further measures tending to change the status of
the City of Jerusalem”. It reaffirmed “the established principle that
acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible” and
deplored Israel’s further violations of U.N. resolutions, censured “in
the strongest terms all measures taken to change the status of the City
of Jerusalem”, and confirmed “that all legislative and administrative
measures and actions taken by Israel which purport to alter the status
of Jerusalem, including expropriation of land and properties thereon,
are invalid and cannot change that status”, and urgently called on
Israel to rescind the measures taken to annex Jerusalem.
Security
Council 271 of September 1969 again reaffirmed the principle of the
inadmissibility under international law of the acquisition of territory
by war, describing Jerusalem as being under “military occupation” by
Israel and condemning Israel’s continued violation of previous
resolutions.
Resolution
298 of September 1971 again reaffirmed the principle, deplored Israel’s
continued violation of U.N. resolutions, and confirmed that Israel’s
attempts to annex Jerusalem “are totally invalid”.
Resolution 446 of March 1979 affirmed “once more that the Fourth Geneva Convention … is applicable to the Arab territories occupied by Israel, including Jerusalem“,
determined “that the policy and practices of Israel in establishing
settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since
1967 have no legal validity” (emphasis added).
Resolution
452 of July 1979 again deplored Israel’s continued violation of
Security Council resolutions and again emphasized that Israel’s
annexation of Jerusalem “has no legal validity and constitutes a
violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention”. It again also noted that
Jerusalem is included in “the occupied Arab territories”.
Resolution
465 of March 1980 again condemned Israel’s settlement policy, which
violates the Fourth Geneva Convention and U.N. Security Council
resolutions, and again reaffirmed that Israel’s annexation attempts
“have no legal validity” and constitutes “a flagrant violation of the
Fourth Geneva Convention”.
Resolution 471 of June 1980 once again reaffirmed the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention “to the Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem“, and once again called upon Israel to end its illegal occupation of those territories, including Jerusalem.
Resolution
476 of June 1980 again deplored Israel’s continued violation of
international law and reaffirmed “the overriding necessity to end the
prolonged occupation of Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967,
including Jerusalem”, and reaffirmed Israel’s annexation measures “have
no legal validity and constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth
Geneva Convention” and were “null and void”.
Resolution
478 of August 1980 again censured Israel’s continued violation of
international law and again reaffirmed that its annexation attempts were
“null and void”.
Resolutions
592 of December 1986, 605 of December 1987, 607 of January 1988, 636 of
July 1989, 694 of May 1991, 726 of January 1992, 799 of December 1992
all again reaffirmed the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention
to occupied Arab territory, including Jerusalem.
In July 2004, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on
the legal consequences of Israel’s decision to build a wall in the West
Bank, including Jerusalem, which concluded that “all these territories
(including East Jerusalem) remain occupied territories and that Israel
has continued to have the status of occupying Power”, that the
construction of the wall in those territories is “illegal”, and that
Israel’s settlements in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, similarly
“have been established in breach of international law.”
Ron
Paul’s defense of Israel’s Osirak attack and his statement on Jerusalem
are inconstant with his beliefs in individual liberty and the rule of
law, which is unfortunately damaging to his credibility and to his
presidential campaign.
One must keep in mind that of the candidates, Ron Paul is also the only one who has said he would cut off all foreign aid, including the $3 billion plus given annually to Israel.
This is not trivial, given the fact that without U.S. support, Israel’s
criminal policies against the Palestinians could not continue. Ron Paul
is the only one who has criticized Israel’s siege of Gaza and the
massacre it carried out there from December 27, 2008 to January 18,
2009. He is unquestionably a preferable candidate than Newt Gingrich,
who has said that Palestinians are an “invented” people. Or Mitt Romney, who has pledged
that if elected president, he will “begin discussions with Israel to
increase the level of our military assistance and coordination”. Or
Barack Obama, who told his Israeli audience
in Sderot during his presidential campaign in July 2008 of his
“unshakeable commitment” to Israel, and who declared that “Jerusalem
will be the capital of Israel”.
It is a disturbing development in Ron Paul’s campaign to see him sounding on this issue more rather than less like his establishment opponents.
Jeremy
R. Hammond is an independent political analyst and a recipient of the
Project Censored Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He is
the founding editor of Foreign Policy Journal
(www.foreignpolicyjournal.com) and can also be found on the web at
JeremyRHammond.com. His new book, "Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Austrian
vs. Keynesian economics in the financial crisis", is now available at
Amazon.com. Read more articles by Jeremy R. Hammond. http://www.jeremyrhammond.com
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freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards;
and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks." - "It will
bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation,
enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by
violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the
artifices of false and designing men." -- Samuel Adams- (1722-1803)
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Is Ron Paul part of a US-BP Iran War plan?
Was the notorious "Islam Bomb" cartoon, published across Europe in 2006, part of an aborted false flag world war plan?
(The article below is my revision and republication of an article by Dr. James H. Fetzer, originally published in Scholars for 9/11 Truth on February 2, 2008.)
In
2006 a former Army intelligence officer detected evidence that a false
flag nuclear operation would be carried out against the British
Petroleum refinery in Texas City, Texas, part of Ron Paul's
Congressional district, on January 31, 2006.
Captain Eric H. May, a former NBC editorial writer whose political and military essays had appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Houston Chronicle and Military Intelligence Magazine,
issued a series of warnings through alternative media interviews and
articles. The mainstream media at first ignored them, but were compelled
to report them when a day-after nuclear response team arrived and set up operations in Paul's district on February 1, 2006 -- the day after Captain May's predicted attack date of January 31.
Galveston County Daily News
reporter T.J. Aulds had long been suspicious of the repeated explosions
at the BP refinery, the nation's most toxic industrial site. In Nuclear attack warning story dismissed, published on February 2, 2006, he wrote:
If
you are reading this, you survived a predicted nuclear attack on Texas
City. Recent weeks have seen the city mentioned as the subject of
rampant Internet and e-mail claims suggesting that emergency management
officials were preparing for some form of attack.
Officials with
several agencies said those reports are false. Shauna Dunlap, a
spokesman for the FBI, said that there are “no credible or corroborated
threats to the area.”
That attack was to have taken place Tuesday, based on those reports. A report filed on the Arctic Beacon
web site as well as the site owner’s Internet radio show had warned of a
pending nuclear attack on the city — not from terrorists, but the
federal government.
Basing his information on a report from a man
claiming to be a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, show host Greg
Szymanski reported that the area was likely the target for a
government-led nuclear attack. The report quickly made the rounds via
e-mail and blog sites.
Despite the headlined dismissal, Aulds' own reporting seemed to confirm the nuclear attack warning story:
On
Wednesday, people driving along Galveston’s Seawall Boulevard could see
unmarked black trucks and sport utility vehicles bearing government
license plates near crews setting up what appeared to be satellite or
radar gear on the beach. . . . The crews were wearing shirts embossed
with the words, ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team,’ a
branch of the U.S. Defense Department. It was enough to get even the
most timid conspiracy theorist thinking something was up.
Greg Szymanski, a noted investigative journalist, wrote a gripping series of articles about May's false flag forecast for The Arctic Beacon,
beginning the week before events bore him out. Rather than rely on Bush
administration officials, he turned to reputable Texas City insiders,
especially a British Petroleum employee and a local minister. He wrote
Jan. 25, 2006: All Signposts Lead To Imminent Nuclear Attack In America
-- Intel Army Capt. Eric May Issues 'Red Alert' For Next 9 Days For
Texas City-Houston Area. Capt. May claims to have broken the Illuminati
and Bush Cabal's "embedded code" in an effort to beat the neocons at
their own nasty game. Capt. May may have thwarted one attempted nuclear
attack last July, but says the Bush Cabal is coming back again for a
second try.
Jan. 26, 2006: Houston PD Running Nuclear Disaster Drills
-- As Build-Up Of Numerous Law Enforcement Agencies Seen In Nearby
Texas City. Army Intel Capt. Eric May warns Bush cabal days away from a
nuclear strike. Texas City resident "opens up a hornet's nest" as he
warns local law enforcement about the possibility of nuclear strike.
Jan. 28, 2006: Texas City British Petroleum Claims No Foul Play
-- In 2005 Explosion Killing 15; BP Sets Aside $1 Billion For Upgrades
Amid Rumors Neocons Plan To Nuke Plant In Upcoming Days. Some Texas
City citizens taking nuke warning seriously as local law enforcement
build-up seen and at least 400 employees moved out of BP to different
office building.
Citizens who have read Captain May's
articles about false flag attempts in the East Texas oil patch urged him
to contact Ron Paul with the details. Some tried to contact the
congressman themselves, but thus far to no avail. A fair number of them
believe that it was the Bush administration's design on Texas City that
prompted Paul's 2008 presidential bid, while others believe that Paul
is a part of the false flag plan.
May has noticed a pattern ithe selection of targets for attacks,
including New York City in New York, Oklahoma City in Oklahoma, and now
Texas City in Texas
“Anticipating what they are going to do next
is not rocket science,” he observed, “but it requires patience and
attention to detail. Let's hope that we will be as successful in
thwarting other attacks by our own government as we were in this
instance.”
Dr. Jim Fetzer has featured Captain May as his guest on “The Dynamic Duo” several times and takes his analyses seriously.
“I
wish I could tell you that he’s wrong," Fetzer said, "but the evidence
we have discovered about 9/11 suggests that this administration has no
scruples when it comes to sacrificing innocent lives to advance its
political agenda.”
Dr. Kevin Barrett, who has closely followed May’s research, also believes that these signs have to be taken seriously.
“In
the Texas City, Texas, case, even the mainstream media reported
indications that strange events were in the works," Barrett said,
"including unmarked black trucks and sport utility vehicles bearing
government license plates near crews setting up what appeared to be
satellite or radar gear on the beach, and the crews were wearing shirts
that said, ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team.’ We may
have been very lucky that Captain May sounded the alarm,” Barrett said.
“My impression is that Captain Eric May is one of the bravest and most
eloquent intelligence analysts in the United States today. It is
regrettable his state of health has deteriorated to the point that we
are not going to be able to count on his research much longer.”
The
timing of the apparent false flag attempt, which May supposed would
occur in the hours before Bush's January 31, 2006 State of the Union
Address, explains an otherwise inexplicable series of events:
February
1-2: A dozen cartoons attacking Islam are published across Europe.
According to prolific scholar James Petras, in January Mossad activated
media sayanim (helpers) to reproduce the cartoons on February
1-2. The cartoons, especially one linking Islam to a bomb, were probably
designed to be wartime propaganda to follow a false flag nuclear attack
against Texas City.
February 6-10: The first international, inter-agency and industry-wide Internet terrorism exercise, and Cyber Storm
occurs, and was probably intended to support the Global War plan. The
difficulty in finding articles about it is disquieting, with the
upcoming National Level Exercise, 2012 taking cyber operations to the highest level yet, and presenting the same danger of going live to support a war on Iran.
February 14: The Washington Times runs a scathing editorial, Arab-owned American ports?,
condemning the Bush administration's bizarre decision to turn over the
management of several U.S. ports to a United Arab Emirates company,
Dubai Ports World. The fiasco is attributed to presidential bungling,
but a more plausible explanation is that the UAE was to provide key
logistical support for the intended war on Iran.
February 21: Bush
threatens to veto any Congressional attempt to block the Dubai Ports
World deal. It will be his first veto, and his determination sets him
against public opinion and the legislative branch.
February 22: An
alleged Al Qaeda bombing destroys the Mosque of the Golden Dome, one of
the most important sites to Shiite Muslims. In Iraq the act of
terrorism sparks internecine conflict between Shiites and Sunnis, while
in the U.S. it allows the Bush administration to shift public scrutiny
away from its shady dealings with the UAE.
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Op-Ed Articles
The Grand Prix, Western Hypocrisy and the Gulf States
By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Where
have Bahrain, Qatar or Saudi Arabia been in terms of human rights? Let
us have a look and let us hold the western powers, particularly the
FUKUS-Axis (France, UK, US and Israel) to account in their international
relations.
U.S. Patriot Act Kept Somalia Starving
By Linus Atarah
Humanitarian
organisations suspended food aid delivery to drought- struck areas
controlled by Al-Shabaab for fear of violating the USA Patriot Act.
To Sleep with Open Eyes
By Fidel Castro Ruz
The
Yankee transnationals will never give up their control over the land,
the water, the mines and the natural resources of our countries. Their
soldiers should vacate the military bases; their troops should be
withdrawn from each and every one of our territories.
The Simple Truth in Chomsky's Words
By Geoff_Kennedy
"One
of the things they want is a passive quiescent population. So one of
the things that you can do to make life uncomfortable for them is NOT
to be passive
and quiescent."
WikiLeaks Supporters Plan US Foundation to Restore Funding
By James Ball
Supporters
based in the US are now in talks with Assange to establish a US-based
foundation aimed at funding organisations cut off by private companies
in situations with first amendment implications.
Has Ron Paul Sold Out To Israeli Lobby?
Ron Paul Shocks Campaign Staff With New Position On Israel
By Grace Wyler
Paul
first made this position known Wednesday night, during a private
meeting with evangelical leaders interested in helping the Texas
Congressman reach out to the conservative Christian community.
Debt-ridden Countries IMF'd
By Michael Hudson
How much debt can you throw at a problem caused by too much debt?
Cheney's Heart Transplants
By Christopher Brauchli
The
heart Mr. Cheney got was clearly not a kind heart and as we soon
learned, there was no difference between Dick Cheney with the old heart
and Dick Cheney with the new heart.
Prostitution and Empire
By Jim Panyard
The
self righteous prigs in Sodom on the Potomac are also saying the
prostitutes "may" have been "exposed" to classified information, which
makes the situation even more severe.
The TSA's Mission Creep is Making the US a Police State
By Jennifer Abel
The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports - now it's checkpoints and roadblocks.
Breast Cancer Survivor Jailed Over $280 Medical Bill
'Debtor's Prisons' Return to the U.S
By Alain Sherter
Breast
cancer survivor handcuffed and thrown in jail over a mistaken $280
medical bill as 'debtor's prisons' return to the U.S.
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Hard News
Fresh air raids by Yemeni warplanes kill 12 "al-Qaida" militants: At
least 12 militants of the al-Qaida terrorist group were killed and
five others injured on Saturday evening in air strikes by Yemeni air
forces in the southern province of Abyan, a government official said,
Xinhua reported.
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/2017405.html
8 Yemeni soldiers killed in clashes with al-Qaida in restive south: Dozens
of al-Qaida militants attacked a post of Yemeni army forces on
Saturday, sparking deadly clashes that killed eight soldiers and
wounded 13 others in the southern province of Abyan, a senior army
officer told Xinhua.
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/2017395.html
3 killed in south Libya clashes: hospital: Fresh
fighting flared in the Libyan desert town of Kufra overnight leaving
three people dead and 17 others wounded, local sources told AFP on
Saturday.
http://bit.ly/I2Jd4c
South Sudan says troops bombed during flashpoint "pullout": South
Sudan accused its neighbour Sudan of bombing its troops as they pulled
out of the disputed oil region of Heglig on Saturday, dampening
already faint hopes of any imminent settlement between the bitter foes.
http://yhoo.it/JesrDz
Sudan Rejects Talks with South Sudan : Sudanese
President Omar al-Bashir rejected holding new talks with authorities
from South Sudan, and assured that the troops who still remain in his
country will be expelled.
http://bit.ly/IdeiW6
Bombings kill three as Iraq governor targeted: Bombs
exploded in two minibuses in Baghdad on Saturday, killing three people
and wounding at least 12, while a bomb attack on a governor's convoy
wounded two guards, security officials said.
http://www.timesofoman.com/innercat.asp?detail=3575
Iraq calls Turkey "hostile state" as relations dim: Maliki
was responding to comments made by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip
Erdogan on Thursday in which Erdogan accused the Iraqi leader of fanning
tensions between the country's Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds with his
"self-centered" ways.
http://bit.ly/I1YpBU
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria:
Clinton says Turkey may invoke NATO's Article 4 over Syrian tension: Turkey's
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said "NATO has responsibilities to
protect the Turkish border according to Article 5," referring to the
border incident. Article 5, known as the collective defense clause,
commits NATO states to defend a member state when it comes under an
attack.
http://bit.ly/I192qD
UN monitors visit Syria opposition stronghold: Five
unarmed U.N. truce monitors toured the battered city at the heart of
the Syrian uprising on foot Saturday, encountering unusually calm
streets after weeks of shelling as a throng of residents clamored for
foreign military help to oust President Bashar Assad.
http://bit.ly/IflT5H
UN council approves 300 Syria monitor mission: Security Council unanimously adopts resolution authorising deployment of up to 300 observers to Syria for three months.
http://aje.me/IdV3tC
US says may not allow renewal of UN mission in Syria: The
United States warned Saturday it may not allow the renewal of the UN
ceasefire monitoring mission in Syria after the first three months, and
called for greater international pressure on the government of
President Bashar al-Assad.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1196711/1/.html
Paris "Friends of Syria" meeting: Imperialist powers prepare for war against Syria: The
so-called "Friends of Syria," consisting of the major imperialist
powers, their NATO allies, and the Gulf monarchies, met Thursday
evening in Paris to step up their war preparations against Syria.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/syri-a21.shtml
"Armed terrorist" group blows up pipeline in Syria: Syria's
state news agency said that an "armed terrorist" group blew up an oil
pipeline in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zor, near the border
with Iraq, on Saturday.
http://yhoo.it/IeskGo
Pentagon has 'successful plan' with hundreds of Tomahawks deployed near Iran: "We
are prepared with all options on the table if we have to respond,"
Panetta said, adding that "there are plans" to deal with Iran if the
country does not give up its nuclear ambitions.
http://rt.com/news/pentagon-iran-attack-missiles-606/
EU condemns eviction of Arab family from East Jerusalem home: The
eviction, carried out by the Bailiff's Office with police back-up,
gave Jewish residents complete control of three homes in the Beit
Hanina neighborhood, paving the way for the first Jewish residential
presence in the area.
http://bit.ly/JnaS4E
More $ for Israel:
U.S. Republicans seek to provide Israel with $680 million for Iron Dome anti-missile system: This
year, Obama's budget requests $3.1 billion in security assistance to
Israel, part of a 10-year, $30 billion U.S. commitment to the Jewish
state's security. None of that is scheduled to fund Iron Dome.
http://bit.ly/IalDUp
Taliban claim responsibility for SW Afghanistan copter crash: A
Taliban spokesman announced on Thursday evening that "Taliban fighters
shot down a helicopter and killed all its passengers in Khanashen
Dewalak area near Garmsir in the southern Helmand province," CNN
reported on Friday.
http://presstv.com/detail/237268.html
Afghan forces arrest five men with 10,000kg explosives: Intelligence agency says men were planning multiple attacks on crowded areas when they were detained in Kabul
http://bit.ly/J9gn6s
Pakistan, US exploring joint ownership of drone attacks: Pakistan
and the United States have begun exploring various options for joint
ownership of drone attacks against militant targets in the tribal belt
after the US flatly refused to stop the predator strikes.
http://bit.ly/Jqef91
US Muslim: I Was Tortured at FBI's Behest in UAE: A
Muslim American seeking asylum in Sweden claimed Wednesday he was
detained at the U.S. government's request while in the United Arab
Emirates last summer, tortured in custody and interrogated about the
activities of a Portland, Oregon, mosque.
http://abcn.ws/I19wwS
US transfers 2 Guantanamo prisoners to El Salvador: The
men, ethnic Uighurs from a region of China roiled by a separatist
movement, are learning Spanish and gratefully settling into their new
home in the Central American country, lawyers for the men said.
http://bit.ly/JeuveH
Citizens United Constitutional Amendment Backed By Vermont Legislature: Vermont
has become the third U.S. state to pass a resolution calling on
Congress to amend the Constitution to get money out of politics and
reverse the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that allows
unlimited corporate money in politics.
http://huff.to/IYBkRA
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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Cost Of War
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,801
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,967
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,324,484,084,575 http://www.costofwar.com/
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"Each
act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse.
You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking
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Op-Ed Articles
Witness To Murder
US Border Patrol Beat and Taser Man to Death
Video
Are We Sliding Toward a Police State?
By Steven Greenhut
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
By Milton Mayer
What
happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by
little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions
deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so
complicated that the government had to act on information which the
people could not understand.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11845.htm
How Dare Russia
By David Swanson
Mitt Romney, American Parasite
By Pete Kotz
Israel's Secret Weapon
Video
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Hard News
'20 Qaeda suspects' killed in Yemen air strikes:
The
witnesses said three of the men were killed when a missile set ablaze
and destroyed their car on a desert road in the Samda region between the
provinces of Jouf and Marib. The defence ministry said earlier that 17
suspected Al-Qaeda militants were killed in an air raid that struck
one of their hideouts in the southern town of Loder late on Saturday.
http://yhoo.it/I2TySt
12 killed in south Libya violence: tribal leader: Fresh
fighting between Toubou tribesmen and the national army flared in the
Libyan desert town of Kufra overnight leaving up to 12 people dead and
scores wounded, local sources told AFP on Saturday.
http://bit.ly/JjOBW8
Secret documents reveal MI5 agents betrayed Libyan dissidents to Gaddafi spies in London : Experts say the explosive documents suggest breaches of the Geneva Conventions, the Human Rights Act and criminal law
http://bit.ly/JgJHa9
MI6, Gaddafi and the mosque sting to lure al-Qaeda terrorist: MI6
and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan intelligence service set up a
radical mosque in a Western European city in order to lure in al-Qaeda
terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
http://bit.ly/Ijg99W
Two Police Killed, Five Wounded in Afghanistan: The
incident took place around 8:30am in the Shokhi area of Kapisa's
Nejrab district, when the police vehicle struck a roadside mine, he
said.
http://bit.ly/J2FjY2
Iran cleric praises atom talks, signals shift-analysts: An
influential Iranian cleric praised recent nuclear talks between Iran
and world powers on Friday, the latest in a series of positive
statements from senior figures that analysts said could signal Tehran
is softening its stance.
http://reut.rs/J3Di3a
Ready to hit Iran if ordered: Israel military chief: Israeli
forces are carrying out more special operations beyond the country's
borders and will be ready to attack Iran's nuclear sites if ordered,
the chief-of-staff said in an interview on Sunday.
http://bit.ly/I5viu8
Congressional Report: US Stockpiling $800 Million of Weapons in Israel: The
equipment was transferred to Israel for use by the United States in
case of war, and Israel may use the weapons in case of emergency and
with American approval.
http://bit.ly/JlP6hn
Lieberman Warns Netanyahu Egypt More Dangerous than Iran: If
the upcoming presidential elections are followed by a revisal, if not
cancellation, of the peace treaty with Israel, the Foreign Minister
expects that Israel will be a natural target for the regime to target a
foreign country as an enemy and draw attention away from domestic
problems.
http://bit.ly/I3skeZ
Why the U.S. May Be Secretly Cheering a Muslim Brotherhood Run For Egypt's Presidency: The
Brotherhood's candidate is in regular contact with U.S. Ambassador
Anne Paterson, and that U.S. officials have praised his moderation,
intelligence and effectiveness.
http://ti.me/Hc0hsy
China Says The US Is Bringing War To The South China Sea: The
Obama administration has turned U.S. military attention on China's
neck of the woods by placing more troops in the Philippines since World
War II, stationing Marines in Australia, and promoting a list of
initiatives that have done nothing so much as anger the CCP.
http://read.bi/Iftlyr
Russia-China joint naval exercise starts: The
April 22-27 drill, taking place in the Yellow Sea off China's east
coast, involves a total of 16 vessels and two submarines from Chinese
navy and four warships from Russian navy's Pacific Fleet as well as
three supply ships being summoned for the exercise.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-04/22/c_131543381.htm
Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart: Confronted
with evidence of widespread corruption in Mexico, top Wal-Mart
executives focused more on damage control than on rooting out
wrongdoing, an examination by The New York Times found.
http://nyti.ms/I1LKyW
U.S. Previously Owned Home Sales Unexpectedly Fell in March: Sales
of previously owned U.S. homes in March unexpectedly fell for the
third time in the last four months, showing an uneven recovery in the
housing market.
http://bloom.bg/JmW9os
Wells Fargo Insiders Detail Foreclosure Fraud Practices: 'It's
Exactly Like An Assembly Line': The nation's largest mortgage servicer
often improperly foreclosed on homeowners who weren't past due or owed
little interest while pushing the files out the door as fast as
possible
http://bit.ly/I1Vdmk
Retirement bottom line: Many will have to work until 70: Some experts say the forecast for the generation born from 1946 through 1964 isn't necessarily so rosy.
http://usat.ly/IZBCsw
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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Cost Of War
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,801
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,967
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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Witness To A Murder
US Border Patrol
Beat and Taser Man to Death
Video
A new video shows Anastacio Hernadez-Rojas lying on the ground
in the fetal position, circled by at least a dozen federal
agents as one repeatedly shocks him with an electric stun gun.
The video was shot by a passer-by and was obtained by the lawyer
for the Hernandez-Rojas family as they push on with their
wrongful death suit against the US government.
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Crossing the
line at the border
By Brian Epstein - PBS
Eight people have been killed along the border in the past two
years. One man died a short time after being beaten and tased,
an event recorded by two eyewitnesses whose video is the
centerpiece of the report. Both eyewitnesses say the man offered
little or no resistance. One told Need to Know that she felt
like she watched someone being “murdered,” and the San Diego
coroner’s office classified the death as a “homicide.”
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FROM THE FRENCH CONNECTION
(Daryl Bradford Smith)
A Fraud!!!
Wake Up You Fools!!!!
The Ron Paul Campaign is infiltrated, Sabotaged and Compromised.
I do not question the integrity of congressmen Ron Paul. I do not
question his patriotism or his character. But I do question the people
around him and how they are insulating him from his support base. If I
were Ron Paul and a few really trusted people without an agenda to
undermine the campaign. There needs to be a shake up in the campaign to
weed out the hacks and operatives who have infiltrated the leadership
positions.
The campaign has not been running TV and radio ads even though they
had the funds to pay for these ads. He is getting bad advice from the
wrong people who are there to mislead the Texas congressmen. It is time
to expose the traitors inside the campaign sent by the republican party
and possibly Carl Rove to undermine any chances of Ron Paul getting any
victory. These are the people who are holding back the campaign. Thank
God the Grassroots are not following orders from headquarters. They are
grabbing the bull by the horns making an impact in the state convention
prior to the gathering in August.
1- Blackwater agents posing as media. Does this mean these people might be hired assassins.
2. Israel firster Attorney Bruce Fien is close to Ron Paul now as legal advisor.
3. Indictators point to Jesse Benton working for the Coke Brothers or a mole sent from the RNC?
4. Shortly prior to the Iowa Caucus in 2012. Doug Weed was on
national Television say we need volunteers to watch the polls in Iowa
being election observers. There was another letter released from Ron
Paul’s Facebook page saying “The Ron Paul campaign tell people to stay away from Iowa that it is all taken care of.”
5. There is no challenges to election fraud in Maine, Nevada and South Carolina when the fraud was obvious.
6. There was no legal challenges from the Paul Campaign when the Iowa
RNC counted the ballots in secret instead out in public view.
7. If there were TV ads, they were very weak. No campaign ads talking
about abolishing the TSA and nullifying the NDAA. Real issues that
resonated with the American people.
8. Dr Stan Monteith
confirmed there are infiltrators inside the Ron Paul campaign with a
mission to naturalize the liberty movement to preserve the status quo.
9. A Former Ron Paul campaign staffer confirmed that the Campaign has been infiltrated with neo cons.
10. I was listening to Jim Condit Jr on the Jeff Rense show in a
rebroadcast show(7_04-2012) talk about a talk radio station in Ohio
wanting to get Ron Paul on the air for an interview. The Ron Paul
campaign never returned their calls to arrange Ron Paul to come on for
an interview.
Ron Paul is a threat to the establishment, the power structure wants
to make sure the Ron Paul does not win. I just think the powers that be
have overplayed their hand. Anything is possible. I have not written Ron
Paul off just yet. I do not know what he has up his sleeve. With
delegates being acquired from state to state. Anything is possible.
I just hope Ron Paul deals with the saboteurs inside the campaign. He
can no longer be a gentleman or a nice guy. The other side exploits
that as a weakness they can take advantage of. Until the campaign starts
vetting the people to work the campaign are screened and checked out.
There will always be trouble with no sign of victory in sight and
freedom will be lost forever.
NEWS FROM THE BRUSSELLS TRIBUNAL
April 24, 2012 |
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TRIBUNAL TO HEAR SECOND WAR CRIME CHARGE AGAINST BUSH AND ASSOCIATES |
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KUALA LUMPUR, 12 April 2012 - The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal will be hearing the second charge of Crime
of Torture and War Crimes against former U.S. President George W.
Bush and his associates namely Richard Cheney, former U.S. Vice
President, Donald Rumsfeld, former Defence Secretary, Alberto Gonzales,
then Counsel to President Bush, David Addington, then General Counsel to
the Vice-President, William Haynes II, then General Counsel to
Secretary of Defense, Jay Bybee, then Assistant Attorney General, and
John Choon Yoo, former Deputy Assistant Attorney-General. The charge
reads as follows: The
Accused persons had committed the Crime of Torture and War Crimes, in
that: The Accused persons had wilfully participated in the formulation
of executive orders and directives to exclude the applicability of all
international conventions and laws, namely the Convention against
Torture 1984, Geneva Convention III 1949, Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and the United Nations Charter in relation to the war
launched by the U.S. and others in Afghanistan (in 2001) and in Iraq (in
March 2003); Additionally, and/or on the basis and in furtherance
thereof, the Accused persons authorised, or connived in, the commission
of acts of torture and cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment against
victims in violation of international law, treaties and conventions
including the Convention against Torture 1984 and the Geneva
Conventions, including Geneva Convention III 1949.
The Kuala
Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC) following the due process of the
law is bringing this charge against the accused. In 2009, the
Commission, having received complaints from torture victims from
Guantanamo and Iraq, proceeded to conduct a painstaking and an in-depth
investigation for close to two years. Two charges on war crimes were
drawn and filed against the accused persons.
The Kuala Lumpur
War Crimes
Tribunal had heard the first charge in November 2011 against the two
accused, former U.S. President George W. Bush and former British Prime
Minister Anthony L. Blair who were after a 4-day trial found guilty of Crimes Against Peace.
These two former heads of state violated the United Nations Charter and
international law when they planned, prepared and invaded the sovereign
state Iraq on 19 March 2003 without just cause.
At the first
hearing in November 2011, the Tribunal had permitted the prosecution’s
application to hear only the first charge. The second charge will now be
heard at the second Tribunal hearing from 7 – 12 May 2012.
The
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is constituted of eminent persons with
legal qualifications. The judges of the Tribunal, which is headed by
retired Malaysian Federal Court judge Tan Sri Dato Lamin bin Haji Mohd
Yunus, who also served as an ad litem judge at the
International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Republic of Yugoslavia, include other notable
names such as Mr Alfred Lambremont Webre, a Yale graduate, who authored
several books on politics, Tunku Sofiah Jewa, practising lawyer and
author of numerous publications on International Law, Prof Salleh Buang,
former Federal Counsel in the Attorney-General Chambers and retired
Court of Appeal judge Datuk Mohd Sa’ari Yusof.
Point to note is
that victims of torture will also be called give evidence before the
Tribunal. The cries of these victims have thus far gone unheeded by the
international community. The fundamental human right to be heard has
been denied to them. These witnesses will testify on the torture they
had endured during their incarceration. The accused will have a right to
cross-examine them as in any open court hearing.
The Tribunal
will adjudicate and evaluate the evidence presented as in any court of
law. The judges of the Tribunal must be satisfied
that the charges are proven beyond reasonable doubt and deliver a
reasoned judgement.
In the event the tribunal convicts any of
the accused, the only sanction is that the name of the guilty person
will be entered in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals and
publicised worldwide. The tribunal is a tribunal of conscience and a
peoples’ initiative.
The prosecution for the trial will be lead
by Prof Gurdial Singh Nijar, prominent law professor and author of
several law publications and Prof Francis Boyle, leading American
professor, practitioner and advocate of international law, and assisted
by a team of lawyers.
The trial will be a public hearing held in
an open court on 7-12 May 2012 at the premises of the Kuala Lumpur
Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW) at 88, Jalan Perdana, Kuala
Lumpur. The hearing is open to members of the public.
For
further information, please contact : Dato’ Dr Yaacob Merican,
Secretary General of the KLWCC Secretariat, Tel: +6012-227 8680 ■ Ms
Malkeet Kaur, Media Representative of KLWCC, malkeet@dbook.com.my, Tel: +6012-3737 886 |
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