I must not be addicted judging by the various blogs I maintain and the fact that the first site I hit is the Boston Globe. They certainly aren't saying what I want to hear.
That doesn't mean I haven't been reading blogs -- I have. I just haven't been posting anything because I'm not spending endless hours at the computer anymore, for various reasons.
What I have been reading the last few days? Rather than mirror post all over the place, why don't I give you the appetizers and let you go there? Let the sites and sources take their deserved credit.
"U.S. Increases Its Share of Worldwide Arms Market
06 September 2009
Despite a recession that knocked down global arms sales last year, the United States expanded its role as the world’s leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals, according to a new Congressional study.
The United States signed weapons agreements valued at $37.8 billion in 2008, or 68.4 percent of all business in the global arms bazaar.
TVNL Comment: The military industrial complex thrives on war. Deal with it.
Source: TV News Lies"Internet Battles
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Source: Daily Burkeman
"A Few Good Kids
Source: Wake Up From Your Slumber
"More 9/11 Unanswered Questions
The planes had the call signs "Bobcat 14" and "Bobcat 17." A partial transcript of air traffic controller communications reveals they were communicating with the control tower at Washington's Reagan National Airport, which is less than a mile from the Pentagon, between at least 9:31 a.m. and 9:40 a.m. on September 11. [1] (The attack on the Pentagon took place at 9:37 a.m. [2]) Radar data has shown that the two aircraft flew "in trail" (in single file, with one directly behind the other) at an altitude of 21,000 feet, and were overhead in the few minutes before the Pentagon was hit. [3]
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Related: "Democracy Now" to change its name to "Democracy When?"
"Pentagon plans for drugging 'agitated' citizens
(Austin and Hamburg, 1 July 2002) - The Advantages and Limitations of Calmatives for Use as a Non-Lethal Technique, a 49 page report obtained last week by the Sunshine Project under US information freedom law, has revealed a shocking Pentagon program that is researching psychopharmacological weapons. Based on "extensive review conducted on the medical literature and new developments in the pharmaceutical industry", the report concludes that "the development and use of [psychopharmacological weapons] is achievable and desirable." These mind-altering weapons violate international agreements on chemical and biological warfare as well as human rights. Some of the techniques discussed in the report have already been used by the US in the "War on Terrorism".
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Source: Care and Washing of the Brain
"Which of these civil rights activist heroes does our Zionist media adore?...Which does it ignore?
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When injustices are perpetuated by fellow Jews does this mean that American Jews must put their love of their genetic materials ahead of truth, justice or any modicum of decency? Curious minds want to know.
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Source: Liberal White Boy
"THAT DAY, This 9/11 and Bob Dylan Musical Prophets
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"Israel Steals Body Parts: Palestinians
“They claimed they came to arrest him, but in truth they came to murder him, which they did,” Walid Masalmeh, a resident of the small West Bank town of Dura, 10 kilometer west of Al-Khalil (Hebron), said about his relative Bassam.
In 1995, Bassam was killed by the Israeli army at the village of Beit Awwa, located near the former armistice line between the West Bank and what is now Israel.
“But 24 hours later they returned the body with a huge scar running from the chin to the lower abdomen,” Walid remembers.
“They took all the vital organs, including the heart, kidneys, Liver. Then they stuffed the empty cavities with garbage before sewing him up.”
Several other Palestinians gave a similar narrative, recounting how they received the bodies of their murdered relatives, mostly men in their early twenties, with vital organs taken away by the Israeli authorities.
Israeli occupation authorities don’t deny that the bodies of victims were returned to their respective families minus the internal organs, but claim that the organs were disposed of as part of routine autopsy operations....
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"Even the Bravest Couldn’t get to Ground Zero
The New York Fire Department was even kicked off the site, so that the mayor could “professionalize” the recovery effort. That means that a Controlled Demolition company took complete control at that point. The same Controlled Demolition company who’s owner admits he called people in New York on Sept. 11th, and warned them that the buildings were going to come down.
The mayor of New York, the same guy who would later be known as “a noun, a verb, and 9/11“, actually used scores of NYPD to physically block the firemen from accessing Ground Zero when they were simply trying to recover the remains of their fallen brothers. That same mayor told the firemen to go sift through the debris at the landfill if they so desired.
But just so you know, there wasn’t “thousands” of witnesses digging through the debris willy-nilly for “months and months” after 9/11.
The clean-up was so tightly controlled by a demolition contractor, even New York’s Bravest had to fight to try and get too it.
--VIDEO--"Also see: Israeli Soldiers Target Journalist in the West Bank
Source: Willy Loman
"Me interviewed on PressTV Sept 2009
Source: Divining the News
"IDF SOLDIERS AND JEWISH SQUATTERS; SH*T, DRUGS AND ABUSE
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Source: Snippits and Slappits
"Video of Palestinian Children at Israeli Jail
Sep 5th, 2009 by kawther.salam
Each year, hundreds or even thousands of Palestinian children are arrested, tortured, interrogated, abused and incarcerated by the criminals of the Israeli military occupation.
In many cases the children are abused sexually by the Israeli interrogators. They are also imprisoned together with teenagers, criminals, and drugs dealers, who also attack the children, abused them sexually, and steal their personal belongings. Two children from the Nahalin village near Bethlehem told me how they had been abused sexually at the Israeli jail by criminals detained there.
Here is a Video which shows how the Israeli military treats the Palestinian children and their families while attending their illegal “military courts”.
Source: Kawther Salam
"Kevin Barrett & 9/11
The question that often comes up is whether Barrett is a help or hindrance to the movement and sometimes whether he is a plant. That's up to the reader or listener to decide....
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Also see: What is taught in high schools about 9/11?
Source: Kenny's Sideshow
The 'recruitment' of India was a joint Am-Brit idea, a combination of a desire to sell weapons, irritate China, and secure India as a future source of cheap soldiers to fight the Am-Brit dirty wars from the Red Sea to China to the shores of Sydney.
Source: The Lounge
"Gaza Fishermen - Daily Suffering with No Notice
Ayman Quader
The Palestinian fishermen have been consistently harassed by the regular Israeli attacks on them, as they abuse the fishermen for pursuing their livelihood. Furthermore, they are prevented to work for far distances inside the sea. The allowed distance for them is just around 4.5 Km. Unfortunately, once they reach that distance, they find themselves under Israeli fire.
Around 3000 fishermen are now despondently jobless and in a real tragedy. The tragedy began with the complete blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip. The fishermen are prohibited from going to a deeper and richer area of fishing, and they have been dramatically affected with these restrictions from the Israeli navy forces. Indeed, they now have very low incomes with which to feed their families.
Ismael Kalilo is a 65-year old fisherman in Gaza City, who has spent 50 years of his life in the sea, and now lives in the Beach Camp. "I am totally satisfied to be a fisherman in Gaza, but completely exhausted by the conditions imposed on us."
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Source: Peace For Gaza
