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Jan Irvin: "Is Judaism a Race or a Religion, and what do you say to those that claim that it is a Race?"
Prof. Shlomo Sand: "They are stupid, exactly like the anti-Semitics, I think the Zionists that thought in the past that Jewishness is a race, pure or not pure, are stupid - exactly like the anti-Semitics that thought that the Jewish are a Race. All my book is a kind of declaration, that Jewishness cannot be a Race, the origins of most of the Jews is not from Palestine… and most of the Jewish came from conversion."
The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.
U.S. military rules specifically prohibit the proselytizing of any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan and were drawn up in order to prevent criticism that the U.S. was embarked on a religious "Crusade" in its war against al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents.
from global research: For 33 years, Sonoma State University's (SSU) Project Censored (PC) has engaged in pioneering research on, and advocacy for, First Amendment issues... Each year, it ranks the top 25 and publishes them in its yearbook, "Censored: Media Democracy in Action." The latest "Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008 - 09":
(1) US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street (2) US Schools Are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s (3) Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates (4) Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina (5) Europe Blocks US Toxic Products (6) Lobbyists Buy Congress (7) Obama's Military Appointments Have Corrupted Pasts (8) Bailed Out Banks and America's Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions (9) US Arms Used for (Israel's) War Crimes in Gaza (10) Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate (11) Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine (12) Mysterious Death of Mike Connell - Karl Rove's Election Thief (13) Katrina's Hidden Race War (14) Congress Invested in Defense Contracts (15) World Bank's Carbon Trade Fiasco (16) US Repression of Haiti Continues (17) The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan (18) Ecuador's Constitutional Rights of Nature (19) Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor (20) Secret Control of the Presidential Debates (21) Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare (22) Obama's TrilateralCommission Team (23) Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud (24) Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion (25) Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon
from clyde lewis: In this Ground Zero Lounge, Clyde Lewis asks his audience to think about the similarities between Pirates and a government that uses disproportionate force to destabilize a country. The recent “we’ll see” attitude towards prosecuting agents of torture from the Obama administration and the policies of “extreme force” towards poor an desperate Somalian pirates is disproportionate. This sets a precedent for the highest hypocrisy.
Almost from out of nowhere this spate of Pirate attacks are gaining the attention of the American media. The Obama administration is grandstanding on its intervention in Somalian waters, However the administration is lacking vision into the bigger picture. The people that get the mainstream narrative in the United States are not getting the whole story either. The reality is that this adulation of the violent policing of “piracy” is an embarrassment for us as a country and a complete exercise in hypocrisy on the part of the Obama administration. This Piracy incident underscores how haphazardly the foreign policy of the United States has not changed and unfortunately we see that policies of “shoot first ask questions later” are put into practice.
The so- called “pirates” propaganda is being used as a smokescreen to invade, destabilize, and control the Horn of Africa. The Pirates are the pretext to justify all means of military invasion in Somalia that could eventually lead to military invasion/intervention in the horn of Africa. The so-called pirates crisis is a struggle between China, America and the West to control the strategic waterways in Somalia and the Horn of Africa.
Somalia's strategic position in the Horn of Africa means that any nation that dominates this area will have tremendous control over world trade. The even darker story behind the piracy takes into account CIA transitional puppet governments, illegal dumping in coastal waters and the Toxic aftermath. While piracy is an abhorrent practice, the half truth of Somalian “piracy” is equally despicable. This Ground Zero Lounge will lead you to a remarkable conclusion that twists its direction into the tragedy of ecological disaster on planet earth far more destructive than Global Warming.
Recorded every Monday evening in front of a live audience at Dante's Inferno in Portland Oregon, the Ground Zero Lounge features Clyde Lewis in this audience participation discussion of current events as they relate to the paranormal.
tanker-grabbing pirates drown, with bounty from danger room: The 1,000-foot-long Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star has been released after a ransom was paid, two months after Somali pirates launched a shocking raid to capture the $150-million vessel and its $100-million cargo of crude oil. But in a bizarre twist, five of the newly wealthy hijackers drowned while celebrating their windfall... Later, as the pirates were motoring back to shore in boats, "singing in colorful tone, and exchanging some ridiculous words," one boat capsized and five pirates - who could not swim - drowned.
video: cheney: it doesn’t matter that we haven’t captured bin laden from thinkprogress: After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush famously declared that he would capture Osama bin Laden “dead or alive.” However, less than a year later — in March 2002 — Bush said that he was “not that concerned” about the al Qaeda leader. Today on CNN’s Late Edition, host Wolf Blitzer asked Vice President Cheney, “How frustrating is this to you personally, knowing he’s [bin Laden] still at large?” Cheney hesitated, then simply replied that he would “obviously…like to solve that problem.” He added that it’s more “important” to “keep…this country safe,” indicating that bin Laden is inconsequential.
from danger room: Somali pirates have nabbed their biggest prize yet - a Saudi-owned supertanker, about as big as an aircraft carrier. The ocean-going hijackers managed to pull off this latest assault, on the Sirius Star, despite a swarm of international warships now working to ward off such strikes. "Our presence in the region is helping deter and disrupt criminal attacks off the Somali coast, but the situation with the Sirius Star clearly indicates the pirates’ ability to adapt their tactics and methods of attack," U.S. Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, Commander, Combined Maritime Forces, said in a statement. "Typically, pirates attack within 200 miles of the shoreline and go after smaller prey," the L.A. Times observes. TheStar"held a cargo of as much as two million barrels of oil - more than one quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily production," Reuters notes. (That's a picture of her sister ship the, Capricorn Star, above.) It was hit "450 nautical miles southeast of Mombasa, Kenya, was in an area far beyond the Gulf of Aden, where most of the attacks on shipping have taken place." Citizens of Croatia, Great Britain, the Philippines, Poland, and Saudi Arabia are among the Sirius Star's crew of 25.
update: pirates strike again, seize grain ship from danger room: Somali pirates have struck again, seizing a Hong Kong cargo ship loaded with wheat and bound for Iran. The hijacking of the Delight comes on the heels of the pirates' biggest score yet: a 1080-foot Saudi supertanker, packed with $100 million worth of oil. It's now anchored off of the Somali coast. Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen told reporters he was "stunned" by the capture of the Sirius Star tanker. "These [pirates]... have proven to be pretty capable, can get on and off lots of vessels. I mean, this is a 300,000-ton [vessel] -- three times bigger one of our aircraft carriers." Yesterday, Combined Maritime Forces commander Vice Admiral Bill Gortney told ship-owners that they had to be responsible for their own pirate-defense -- despite the swarm of warships in the region. One Norwegian shipping firm has ordered its vessels to avoid the region entirely, CNN reports.
66 companies want blackwater protection from pirates from raw replay: In the last twelve days, nine ships have been been hijacked by pirates. The U.S. State Department says that shipping companies need to do more to protect their vessels. 66 shipping companies have approached Blackwater about using their services. Fox’s Jennifer Griffin talked with Blackwater CEO Erik Prince who explained how his company can provide private security services for shipping. This video is from Fox’s Happening Now, broadcast Nov. 20, 2008.
fed releases crisis preparedness video from rogue government: The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta this past January released a video on crisis preparedness. The timing of such a video being released is suspicious considering the prospect of bank failures and an inflationary collapse of the U.S. monetary system loom large...download the video here because youtube gave my upload the smackdown...
US launches airstrike in somalia
from ap: The U.S. launched an airstrike Monday on a Somali town held by Islamic extremists to go after a group of terrorist suspects, U.S. defense officials said... "It was a deliberate, precise strike against a known terrorist and his associates," one U.S. military official said in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the record.
chavez sends tanks to colombia border in dispute from reuters: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez moved tanks to the Colombian border and mobilized fighter jets on Sunday, warning Bogota could spark a war after its troops struck inside another of its neighbors, Ecuador. Reacting to Colombia's killing on Saturday of a Colombian rebel over the border in Ecuador, a Venezuelan ally, Chavez also withdrew all of his diplomats from Bogota in the worst dispute between the neighbors since he came to office in 1999.
dod not interested in finding human lab rats used in project shad from deseret news: Congressional researchers said Thursday the Defense Department has not done enough to find and contact people who were likely exposed to old chemical and germ warfare testsoverseen by Utah-based Army scientists. The U.S. General Accountability Office, a research arm of Congress, wrote that until such efforts improve, "Congress, veterans, and the public may continue to question the completeness and accuracy of DOD's (Department of Defense) efforts."
US military to train pak forces from press tv: US military is reviewing a plan to send about 100 American experts to train a Pakistan paramilitary force, the New York Times reports... For many years, small teams of American Special Operations forces have trained their Pakistani counterparts in counterinsurgency tactics.
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