Israel Uses a Few Humanitarian-Aid Trucks to Justify More Dead Palestinian Children

They are not even trying to make their bullshit make sense anymore. Their talking points about the Gaza shelling have reached a level of abject stupidity that is absolutely stunning, to say the least. And yet, they are accepted and repeated on websites and in news casts, all across this country. All this, while several Arab states have officially called off all new year celebrations in honor of those innocent civilians lost in Gaza.

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told ABC News that…

“Israel rejected international calls for a cease-fire today because Hamas fighters would “abuse” it to put themselves “in a better position for the next attack,”

Meaning, I guess, they would hide? Or they would rebuild a house or two? Meaning they would what? What the fuck could they do to protect themselves from the 2 ton bombs these gouls are shooting at them?

She then followed that bit of demonized logic with the following disclaimer…

“…the cease-fire was unnecessary because Israel is keeping the border “crossings open during this operation” to allow “humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.”

What she is saying, on television for the world to see, is that don’t need to stop lobbing warheads into civilian areas… now wait for it… because they have finally allowed some humanitarian relief trucks into Gaza.

They can keep blowing kids legs off because they are sending in a few truck loads of bandages and bottled water into an open-air prison that they themselves have created, in direct conflict with international human rights laws.

More shocking than that, is the fact that ABC News’ chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos didn’t spit in her face.  In fact, he just carried on with the propaganda session, treating that vile human being with respect.

Cynthia McKinney; Will You Marry Me?

You had me at “U.S.S. Liberty“.

Obama’s Shameful Silence on Gaza Proves He Is Not Changing Anything; Now Deal With It

by Scott Creighton

Barak Obama has declined to speak out about the horrendous attacks Israel is currently conducting against the Palestinian people of Gaza. And the rest of the world has condemned his complict silence while his “progressive” supporters wait and hope for “Change“.  He has sited the laughable excuse that we only have “one president at a time” and it would be inappropriate for him to use his influence while President Bush is in office. That’s just fascinating, because to date, he has chimed in on EVERY SINGLE MAJOR ISSUE and most of his comments result in action being taken, one way or the other. Also to date, he has been ABSOLUTELY WRONG EVERY TIME HE OPENED HIS MOUTH.

But as Axelrod told CBS and repeated on NBC’s Meet the Press, there is only one president at a time and Obama would honor President Bush’s decisions.

President elect Obama commented on the Blagojevich case when he called for Gov. Blagojevich to resign because of alleged charges of “selling the senate seat”… (turns out later, that his own “investigation” into the matter has shown that Blagojevich did not attempt to “sell the senate seat” at all…)

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs told the Associated Press that the president-elect believes Blagojevich should resign, saying “under the current circumstances it is difficult for the governor to effectively do his job and serve the people of Illinois.”

He even went so far as to suggest publicly that lawmakers in the state find some way to strip Blago of his means to appoint a successor to the senate seat, perhaps sparking Lisa Madigan’s pathetic attempt to undermine the rule of law by asking the Ill. Supreme Court to declare Blago “disabled” because of the as-of-yet un-indicted charges that are pending against him… (that embarrassing effort was dismissed by the court without dignifying it with comment.)

Gibbs also said Obama urged Illinois lawmakers to strip Blagojevich of his ability to appoint a Senate successor to Obama by voting to establish a special senatorial election next year…

President elect Obama also commented on the Paulson bailout deal and the Big three Auto-industry deal that had massive mandatory concessions in both benefits and pay for the workers, with very little oversight on executives.

Several Democrats in the Congressional Black Caucus said they were persuaded to support the bill by Mr. Obama. Representatives Elijah E. Cummings and Donna F. Edwards, both of Maryland, said they had each spoken to Mr. Obama who helped persuade them to support the bill,

President-elect Barack Obama said today he hoped a congressional deal to bail out the struggling U.S. auto industry could be reached this week, saying again the Detroit 3 automakers could not be allowed to collapse.

Obama commented on the Mumbai attacks

President-Elect Obama strongly condemns today’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the people of India. These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism.

Obama has pressed for a trillion dollar stimulus package which will probably end up being nothing more than the funding for the NAFTA Superhighway; he has already endorsed a continued stepped up operation in Afghanistan, and suggested a course of covert action in Pakistan as well.

All of these issues seemed important enough for president elect Obama to issue policy statement about… all of them, he made a public stand on, WHILE PRESIDENT BUSH WAS STILL IN OFFICE.

And yet, president elect Obama now claims that he can’t comment on the Gaza situation… because there can’t be two presidents at one time?  And you people buy that load of crap?

This is what your “progressive” president elect is ignoring after he worked to help secure billions of taxpayer dollars for Big Banking to steal…

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This is what Obama turns his back on while openly working to send more troops into harms way in the illegal occupation of Afghanistan…

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This is what “Change” ignores while he secretly tries to get an elected governor kicked out of office for trumped up charges…

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Barack Obama is bought and paid for.

He sold the highest office in the land, just like Clinton and the Bushs before him.

This kind of complicity will find it’s way back to these united states, and when it does, I can only pray to god that the last thing you Obama-apologists know is the hatred that someone’s callous indifference to the suffering of your loved ones can bring.

Maybe then you will get off your ass and your self absorbed “Changelust” and demand your “progressive” leader take a stand against the real horrors of this world rather than just spouting out platitudes and outright lies in support of a rogue regime that does this to innocent civilians.

The leadership (if you wish to call it that) stands  alone in the world supporting this criminal action.

You “progressives” hold the key to forcing a change in that behavior, yet you are silent.   You just regurgitate the talking point that there can’t be  ‘two presidents at the same time”.

Shame on you. You run some stories and post some pictures, and “feel” pity in your hearts, as you know deep down you are tacitly supporting the silence of the one man on the planet, who’s words could create immense change in the course of these events.

I am sickened by the fact that I ever had anything to do with any of you. You are an embarrassment to this nation and the liberal traditions of it’s past.

When you exalt over the moment of Obama’s coronation, and he and his PR campaign piss all over the best of our history by allowing him to put his hand on a bible once owned by Lincoln, I want you to remember this face and the hundreds that will be added to list from now till then.

I want you to remember the price others have paid so this bastard Obama can pretend to be the next JFK or Lincoln (like Bush pretended to be a cowboy), while he in fact is the next NAFTA-Clinton and Terrorism-Bush…

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I hope there is one single moment of clarity in your bullshit little meaningless Obamacoffeemug holding, Obamateeshirt wearing, empty little lives, when you see for the first time what self-absorbed, inhuman morons you have been.

So if you continue to support this bastard, Obama, after all this, stay the fuck off my site.

And stop calling yourself “progressive” or “liberal” because you don’t know the meaning of the words. You are no less selfish than the idiots who blogged and voted for Bush 43 in 2004. That is a fact. Deal with it.

How Venture Capitalists Try to Control What You Know About Any Issue Out There

by Scott Creighton

Early on Dec 27th, I wrote this article about the Israeli attacks in Gaza. I have since added to in with several updates. The article was voted down and off the Reddit lists in less than a minute. I mentioned it as an update on the article when it happened.

Up until now, I didn’t know how that happened so fast.

Proof That Israels propaganda machine is sending people to Reddit to up or down vote our submissions.

The application is called Megaphone Desktop Tool and what it does is send out instant messages to people who are signed up, the alert them to a story or a Reddit page, that has anything to do with whatever issue they want to “shape” via controlling the story.

megaphone_screenshotThe Foreign Ministry itself is now pushing the idea, urging supporters of Israel everywhere to become cyberspace soldiers in the new battleground for Israel’s image.“  Jerusalem Post

“The Megaphone application was being distributed by the World Union of Jewish Students and other pro-Israel organizations, through the Giyus.org website.”

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What you can see here is the Giyus site sending an update to someone’s desktop, telling them about certain articles or polls that are currently on the web, then telling them how to react to them. Marching orders, if you will.

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Tuesday, December 30: National Day of Action in solidarity with the people of Gaza

The Time is Now

Scott Creighton

Palestinian supporters hit the streets

Local protest of Israel’s attacks in Gaza

Hundreds Gather In Tampa To Protest Gaza Airstrikes

watch video…

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Gov. Blagojevich to Select Roland Burris to fill Obama’s Senate Seat

by Scott Creighton

A good choice if you ask me. The following info is from Wiki’s page on him.

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Burris was born and raised in a small community of Centralia in southern Illinois. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He was an exchange student on scholarship to study International Law at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from Howard University School of Law in 1963.

From 1991 to 1995, he was Attorney General for the State of Illinois, where he headed over 500 lawyers. There, he was the second African American elected to the office of Attorney General in the United States.

  • Member, Board of the Better Business Bureau (2008)
  • Member, Board of the Auditorium Theater of Chicago (2001-2006)
  • Member, Board of The National Center for Responsible Gaming (1996-2005)
  • Chairman, National Association of Attorneys General, Civil Rights Commission (1993-1995)
  • Member, Howard University Law School Alumni Association
  • Member, Mental Health Association of Greater Chicago
  • Vice-Chairman, Committee on Illinois Government
  • Trustee, Goodwill Industries
  • Member, Chicago Area Council, Boy Souts of America
  • Member, Board of Directors, Auditorium Theater of Roosevelt University (1996)
  • Chairman, Illinois State Justice Commission (1994-1996)
  • Chairman and Founder, Illinois Commission of the African-American Males (1992-1994)
  • Vice-Chairman, Democratic National Committee (1985-1989)
  • Life member, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • Chairman, Civil Rights Committee, National Association of Attorneys General (1993-1994)

A few things the MSM isn’t telling you about the Gaza Attacks

by Scott Creighton

(Please feel free to help add to this list. This is just a primer course…)

1. the lie: Hamas and the Palestinians refuse a two-state solution.

“On 21 April 2008, former U.S. President and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter met with Hamas Leader Khaled Meshal and reached an agreement that Hamas will respect the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip areas seized by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, provided this be ratified by the Palestinian people in a referendum. Carter had made several other requests, but these were turned down. Hamas later announced publicly an offer for a 10 year hudna with Israel, should they decide to return to their 1967 borders and allow the return of all Palestinian refugees. Several nations originally rejected the plan, but Israel is yet to respond“…

2. the lie: Hamas overthrew the government and took over in Gaza

“In January 2006, Hamas won a surprise victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, taking 76 of the 132 seats in the chamber, while the ruling Fatah party took 43…”

3.  A little more history

Israeli Operation Autumn Clouds: four Qassam rockets fired from northern Gaza, one person “went into shock” … response; Israel invaded killing Fifty-three Palestinians, including 16 civilians…

Israeli Operation Summer Rains: one Gen. was taken by Palestinians… response; Israel lobbed between 7,000 and 9,000 Israeli artillery shells into Gaza killing 80 Palestinians in 6 months.  Israel also arrested 64 Hamas officials

4. Children in the cross-hairs

“Remember These Children” reports that as of 1 February 2008, 119 Israeli children, age 17 and under, had been killed by Palestinians. Over the same time period, 982 Palestinian children, age 17 and under, were killed by Israelis”

5. Tools of war

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…and their casualties? Rachel Corrie, American Peace activist, for one…

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Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. She was killed by a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during a protest against the destruction of Palestinian homes by the IDF in the Gaza Strip”

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NIST Building 7 Analysis Debunked

KUCINICH CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT UNITED NATIONS INQUIRY ON GAZA

U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich today released the following statement as Israeli attacks on Gaza have gone into a third day with a pending ground invasion of Gaza by Israel:

“Today I sent a letter to Secretary General Ban ki-Moon urging the United Nations to establish an independent inquiry of Israel’s war against Gaza. The attacks on civilians represent collective punishment, which is a violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm).

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Why I Am a Socialist

Chris Hedges, Truthdig

The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties. The Democratic and Republican parties have become little more than squalid clubs of privilege and wealth, whores to money and corporate interests, hostage to a massive arms industry, and so adept at deception and self-delusion they no longer know truth from lies. We will either find our way out of this mess by embracing an uncompromising democratic socialism—one that will insist on massive government relief and work programs, the nationalization of electricity and gas companies, a universal, not-for-profit government health care program, the outlawing of hedge funds, a radical reduction of our bloated military budget and an end to imperial wars—or we will continue to be fleeced and impoverished by our bankrupt elite and shackled and chained by our surveillance state.

The free market and globalization, promised as the route to worldwide prosperity, have been exposed as a con game. But this does not mean our corporate masters will disappear. Totalitarianism, as George Orwell pointed out, is not so much an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. “A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial,” Orwell wrote, “that is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.” Force and fraud are all they have left. They will use both.

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The Politics of the Gaza Massacre

by Justin Raimondo, AntiWar

If you’re looking for the cause of the most recent Israeli aggression against the Palestinians – over 300 killed so far, and many more wounded – forget Hamas. The real casus belli is politics, in Israel and America.

On the Israeli front, elections loom large. The current Israeli government is enormously unpopular, and – with polls showing a massive swing to the right – this latest “incursion” is its last attempt to shore up their sagging power base. The rightist surge in Israel has been building for a long time, with the settler movement gaining momentum and the Likud Party likely the chief beneficiary – in which case there will be no chance of a peaceful settlement of the Palestinian question, no matter how evenhanded President Barack Obama turns out to be.

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Today I end my support of Israel

(man, I didn’t think I would ever put anything up from Kos… but this is good)

by Chilean Jew from DailyKos

Like davidminzer, I’m Jewish and descendant of holocaust survivors. Moreover, I’ve been a Zionist all of my life. I went to a Zionist school, I was active in Zionist youth groups. I’ve always been a fervent supporter of Israel as a refuge for Jews around the world who seek a place to exercise their traditions and embrace their identity in peace.

I sang the Israeli anthem in the train rails of Aushwitz-Birkenau and I pledged to fight every day of my life to make sure the savage crimes that had taken place there would never happen again. Every year I pledged: Never Again. Remember and Never forget.

Well, I haven’t forgotten. And so to honor that pledge, to honor the memory of my family members who died in those death camps and because “there comes a time when silence is betrayal”, today I finally and publicly end my support for the state of Israel.

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So, Who Wants To Wipe Someone “Off The Map”?

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A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE

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News and Videos of the Aftermath of the Gaza Attacks

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Why I No Longer Support 9/11 Blogger as a “Truth” Site

by Scott Creighton

I recently had my own troubles over at 9/11 Blogger, with a very “focused” group that haunts that site and is allowed to act as their resident gate-keepers.  That really doesn’t factor in to this decision.

What does factor in, is the fact that 9/11 Blogger hasn’t posted one article about what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza right now. Not one. 9/11 Blogger covered the conflict in Georgia, and they pointed out that it was a war of aggression started by the Georgians, who tried to pretend they were the ones attacked. With the exact same situation developing in Gaza, 9/11 Blogger has not issued one single article about the atrocity taking place right now.

And 9/11 Blogger calls themselves a “Truth” site?

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