It's a long post, readers, because this guy is tremendous!!!!
His comments, not mine:
"Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Venezuela sends 364 tons of food to Haitians, meanwhile US lets them starve
Too busy making government subsidized biofuel for oligarchs, I guess.
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Venezuela sends relief aid to Haiti
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:37:54
Haitians protest against the cost of living on April 7, 2008 in Port-au-Prince.
Venezuela has dispatched tons of humanitarian aid to Haiti to help survive those being severely affected by shortage of foodstuff.
Venezuela dispatched a fleet of airplanes carrying 364 tons of food on Sunday, Xinhua reports...."
"Only 19 Mayors showed up for "100 Mayors for Hillary" event"
April 15, 2008
Categories: Hillary Clinton
Mayoral turnout low
It's hard to know when stuff like this has any meaning, but 19 mayors doesn't sound like great turnout for today's "100 Mayors for Hillary" event.
This next post is a GOOD ONE, and I am so thankful he dug it out!!!!
"Hillary Clinton: 'Screw the voters'"
"During the past week, Sen. Hillary Clinton has presented herself as a working class populist, the politician in touch with small town sentiments, compared to the elitism of her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama.
But a telling anecdote from her husband's administration shows Hillary Clinton's attitudes about the "lunch-bucket Democrats" are not exactly pristine.
In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach.
"Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them."
The statement -- which author Benjamin Barber witnessed and wrote about in his book, "The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House" -- was prompted by another speaker raising the difficulties of reaching "Reagan Democrats." It stands in stark contrast to the attitude the New York Democrat has recently taken on the campaign trail, in which she has presented herself as the one candidate who understands the working-class needs.
"I don't think [Obama] really gets it that people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you," she said this week.
But those who were at the event say the 1995 episode fits into her larger viewpoint....--MORE--"
Oh, that's good, that's really good!!!!
The "lady" is SOMETHING ELSE!
I've never seen anyone like her, I really haven't!!!!
Unfortunately, the next post is a body-blow!
"Video: Obama addresses Bush admin crimes
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Now on video: Obama speaks on Bush criminality
Here's the video of Obama speaking about whether he'd prosecute Bush administration officials for torture planning or any other crimes that may have taken place inside the White House. Watch it, and judge his response for yourself.
--MORE--"Oh, Obama!
Let's turn to the IMPORTANT ISSUES then, and not the DAMN POLITICS!
Thank God the CCNWO is covering that stuff, because I'm feeling the need to start launching profanities and f-bombs now!
I want those guys in the dock for war crimes; all six of them that sat in that room and DEVISED the GUIDELINES for TORTURE!!!!
Anyway, let's turn to his next post which... oh, NOW I REALLY WANT to let the F-BOMBS FLY!!!!!!
"Twelve Palestinians killed including children in attack on mosque, houses in Gaza Wednesday afternoon"
"Date: 16 / 04 / 2008 Time: 10:25
Gaza - Ma'an - Thirteen Palestinians including at least two children were killed and 18 others wounded, some seriously, when Israeli tanks fired on a mosque and two houses in the town of Juhor Ad-Dik in the central Gaza Strip, late on Wednesday afternoon.
A total of 18 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip so far on Wednesday.
Muawiya Hassanain, the director of the ambulance and emergency department in the Palestinian Health Ministry, said that the nine of the dead and some of the wounded were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital. Women and children wre among the wounded.
Earlier on Wednesday afternoon, two Israeli airs raids claimed the life of a thirty-two-year-old man and wounded five others.
Local sources identified the victim of that strike as Hani Zu'rub. Witnesses said that Israeli warplanes fired on two cars in northern Gaza.
Hassanain said the first strike targeted a car in the town of Beit Lahiya, killing Zu'rub and injuring three. Two people were injured in the second strike all were evacuated to Al-Awda Hospital
On Wednesday morning Israeli forces invaded the Shuja'iyya neighborhood iof Gaza City for a short time, before withdrawing after killing four Palestinian activists affiliated to Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades.
Hamas announced that four of its fighters were killed in clashes with the invading Israeli forces. Palestinian medical sources named the victims as Abdul-Karim Al-Khaisi, Mustafa Tatar, Karam Al-Wadiyya and Mahmoud Hillis. Five other activists sustained were injured.
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli incursion started with penetration of Israeli special forces under cover of helicopters and tanks. They started shooting randomly at Palestinian houses.
The Al-Qassam Brigades released a series of statements saying that their fighters launched more than 57 mortar shells at the invading Israeli forces as well as several rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). The statements also said that three anti-personnel landmines were detonated against Israeli troops.
Later on the Israeli army announced that one officer was wounded, but they gave no details about the nature of the wounds.
Eyewitnesses said that before they withdrew, the Israeli forces apprehended several Palestinians including Abdul-Salam Al-Hayya, brother of senior Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya.
On Tuesday evening, one Palestinian affiliated to Islamic Jihad's military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, was killed and three bystanders were injured as a result of a missile launched by an Israeli reconnaissance plane at a motorcycle in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The Al-Quds Brigades named the victim as Abdullah Al-Ghussain.
Two Palestinian civilians were injured in Israeli shelling at the area of Juhr Ad-Dik and the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City.
Israeli forces announced that one soldier was hurt in the clashes at Shuja'iyya."
I didn't red light anything, I posted the linked article in full!
I'm getting to the point of being speechless because the atrocities just never end -- nor does the Zionist media or world's silence, save the blogs!!!!
Now I would like you to take a look at a bunch of other links and the --MORE-- that he provides!
"Related
Twelve Palestinians killed including children in attack on mosque, houses in Gaza Wednesday afternoon
Israel Murders Reuters Cameraman
Why Zionism-Nazism comparisons are legitimate
Ramblings from a Police State
Israeli leader: 'We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq'
Shitty liitle state moves to shut Hebron orphanages, schools
J Street Launches - Pro-Israel Lobby Launched in "New Format" - Like putting lipstick on a pig
The fear factor that silences
Obama: Carter visit wrong : Black nazis. Whodda thunk?
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Carter can't be fooled"
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The Obama comment is so perceptive, especially since he basically endorses torture above.
On this next post, I took a different quotation then he did, so I suggest you click on the link, readers.
"Palestine-Israel fairy tale"
".... Most Americans are pro-the-manufactured, yet misleading images of Israel reach their homes through television, wait at their doorsteps in the morning and confront them through the web. Israel has mastery over the language of the Western media, which, again, helped create a parallel reality that has little correlation to the real world, that of facts, numbers and actual events. That alternative universe only exists on newspapers' editorial pages, mega-churches and the blabber of Fox News 'experts'.
There is no serious or equitable debate regarding Palestine and Israel in the US corporate media, nor any other cultural, political and religious circles. If the existing narrative is to be called a debate, then it's one with an imagined, not real, language, almost entirely irrelevant to the realities in Palestine and Israel.
It's one that is largely predicated on a narrow minded, apocalyptic religious discourse which for decades has found itself an accepted point of departure for most politicians, even those who falsely pose as liberals.
Between the two discourses, that of misguided religious fantasies and pandering politicians, there maybe exists enough room for alternative narratives. Unfortunately, that space is too overwhelmed by cultural misconceptions, institutional bias and deliberate confusion, introduced and instilled deliberately by media producers, pundits and the other manufactures of American popular culture.
Until the gatekeepers of US culture are seriously challenged, Palestine will continue to reside in the American imagination as a battle between good and evil, a 'Holy Land' that must be wrestled from the hands of those who might have owned the land, at one point, but now, they "haven't any business to be there defiling it."
Ramzy Baroud (www.ramzybaroud.net) is an author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, London)."
Great stuff (but not the subject matter, if you know what I mean), and the truth -- that's why it is here!
Thanks, blogger!
