The final moments of Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist crushed to death beneath a pile of earth and rubble in the path of an advancing Israeli army bulldozer, were described to an Israeli court by an eyewitness yesterday.
'I saw Israeli bulldozer kill Rachel Corrie', Briton tells court of the moment he saw American activist fall as she tried to defend Palestinian homes.
'I saw Israeli bulldozer kill Rachel Corrie'. Briton tells court of the moment he saw American activist fall as she tried to defend Palestinian homes
7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Gov’t
Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old student from Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago as she stood before a Palestinian home facing demolition. Today, a trial opens in Israel in a lawsuit brought by Corrie’s family against the Israeli government. The eyewitness testimony is expected to challenge Israel’s version of events with evidence that she was clearly visible to the soldiers, standing before the bulldozer in her florescent orange jacket. We spend the hour with Rachel Corrie’s family: her father Craig, her mother Cindy, and her sister Sarah.
The mainstream media censorship of reporting anything negative about Israel does not apply here on Big Dan's Big Blog:
Israeli Wiretappers, the NSA, and 9/11: Are Members of the U.S. Govt Being Blackmailed by Israel and Others via Wiretaps?
Israel Crackdown Puts Liberal Jews on the Spot
Netanyahu apologizes for announcement of settlements, not actual settlements!
Israel Apology: Netanyahu Expresses Regret Over Settlement Announcement
On 9/11/2001, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the 9/11 attacks meant for US/Israeli relations, and Netanyahu replied: "It's good… it's very, very good… er… well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy for our cause."
Source of Netanyahu quote: New York Times, 9/11/2001
McCain & Israel-First Shill Joe Lieberman Rush To Israel's Defense! I think these guys care more about Israel than America!
Are McCain and Lieberman U.S. Senators or Israeli Senators??? Are they getting kickbacks from Israel, or what???
Above: Israeli Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman.
Lieberman, McCain Want Iran Sanctioned for Human Rights Abuses, But Ignore Evidence US Committed Similar Violations. Saturday 13 February 2010
Lower your voices or what? Do you guys know something we don't know???
Lieberman, McCain call on Admin to "lower voices" on Israel
Our government wasn't lying when they said we're not in Afghanistan for their oil...we're in there to protect a proposed pipeline! Dying for oil, no wonder we're in our 9th year there! Weren't you wondering why we're in Afghanistan so long? Extrapolate that into: corporations and the wealthy are using the military for their own profits! Ask yourself why we're in our 9th year in Afghanistan. Bringing them freedom? Keeping US free? Defending OUR freedom? Here's the funny part of these "ventures": WE don't see lower gas and oil prices, big wigs see more profits and see that we don't get off of oil. If you saw pictures of the pipeline, would you be against the war and want all involved in coercing us there hanged? Would you be more receptive to 9/11 being an inside job?
Central Asia Pipeline Plan Begins To Emerge by Bruce Gagnon
Bruce Gagnon: The Washington Post today introduces us to a controversy over Afghanistan war strategy. The Post reports that operations in Delaram (in the southwest) are “far from a strategic priority for senior officers at the international military headquarters in Kabul. One calls Delaram, a day’s drive from the nearest city, ‘the end of the Earth.’ Another deems the area ‘unrelated to our core mission’ of defeating the Taliban by protecting Afghans in their cities and towns.”
Why then are the Marines fighting in this part of the country?
When you check the maps above a clearer picture emerges. The right map is the proposed pipeline route to move Caspian Sea oil through Turkmenistan into Afghanistan and then finally through Pakistan to ports along the Arabian Sea where U.S. and British tankers would gorge themselves with the black gold.
The whole reason the U.S. is in Afghanistan and Pakistan today is to deny those pipelines from being routed through Russia, China, or Iran.
Then look at the left map where the U.S. Marines are operating inside Afghanistan and causing some controversy within the military. They are building big bases in desolate southwestern Afghanistan and wanting to extend control in that region near the border of Pakistan – all of which are areas that must “be controlled” if pipelines are to be successfully built and maintained.
It seems quite obvious to me what is going on.
Washington Post: At Afghan outpost, Marines gone rogue or leading the fight against counterinsurgency?
Wars Sending U.S. into RUIN, the numbers the media and government WILL NOT TALK ABOUT! These are not WARS, they are FOREIGN OCCUPATIONS and we're doing things like protecting pipelines for the wealthy. We're in Afghanistan for the 9th year! Does anyone realize this? These wars are costing every American man, woman, and child $10,000.00 each - is that OK with you? And your kids? YOU are NOT concerned with government spending, if you're only talking about spending on HEALTH CARE and not the WARS...WHICH ARE FAR MORE COSTLY! It's not even CLOSE! You cannot be taken seriously if you aren't talking about WAR SPENDING! WWII took HALF THE TIME, they are just robbing us of our money right now. Let me repeat: all you people NOT talking about war spending and saying "founding fathers" and "Constitution" all the time - SHUT UP!!! If you don't mention WAR SPENDING! And all you 2010 candidates from both parties, too. But ESPECIALLY REPUBLICANS! And the media for not asking candidates about WAR SPENDING when they talk about cutting spending.
Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants - It is generally (generally???) considered illegal for the military to hire contractors to act as covert spies:
From left: Michael D. Furlong, the official who was said to have hired private contractors to track militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Robert Young Pelton, a contractor; Duane Clarridge, a former C.I.A. official; and Eason Jordan, a former television news executive (what do I keep telling you about TV???).
Cornel West WHACKS Obama:
2,200 page report making a criminal case against Lehman Brothers in the financial crisis, Geithner should be behind bars, there's enough evidence here:
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The Current Money System (And Why It's Gotta Go)
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I found this website via the Brad Blog. To the best of my knowledge, as far as the Obama Health Care Plan is concerned, either you can afford health care or you can't. If you can't pay for it and your income falls within the guidelines then your government provides it at no cost to you. If you CAN pay for it, then PAY for it. If you feel that you can't pay for it and your income is OVER the guideline for getting it free, then too freakin' bad. Stop making that amount of money that keeps you from being WITHIN the guidelines. If you want to make a certain amount of money, AND get free health care...it just AIN'T gonna happen. Pick yourself up by your boot straps and get on your feet. You will make it, just try. Don't expect to get the government to pay for you while you are earning too much money to qualify for free health care. I am a taxpayer and I refuse to provide free health care to those who have the money to pay for it.
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ReplyDeleteGeithner is toast, and any REAL investigation would lead all the way up to David Rockefeller. Study Geither's past and see how much of his grooming was at the behest of Rockefeller.
I used to have the money to pay for it, until they tripled my premiums. How much of your disposable income are you willing to part with to continue with your pompous attitude about affordability? As less and less people can afford the ever increasing premiums, there will come a day when you can no longer afford health insurance either. Then how much crow will you have to eat? It's not about CARE, and never has been. It's about the insurance industry, which enjoys a business environment virtually free of risk. Remember risk? Insurance premiums used to be based on it, and during bad years, they might even show a loss. That's what capitalism used to look like before the insurance industry, in collusion with the banks, acquired Congress.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to pay for the wars with over 50% of my income taxes. Do you have any objection? I will GLADLY pay for other Americans' health care any day. Do you hate Americans? Look to your left and right: one of the people is in health care crisis. They're your friends, neighbors, and family. Do you hate Jesus, too? Jesus would cover everyone with health care.
ReplyDeleteRIGHT NOW...BEFORE anything is enacted, 45,000 Americans a year die due to lack of health care, that's FIFTEEN 9/11's per year! And we spent TRILLIONS because 3,000 people died on 9/11. And counting.
So we spent 3 TRILLION for 3,000 people who died on 9/11, so we should spend 45 TRILLION on health care!
RIGHT NOW...before any health care reform is enacted, my wife and I were paying $1,000.00/month for two people with a $3,000.00 deductible. So that means we were paying $15,000.00 BEFORE getting anything paid for...NOT including copays, deductibles, and the stealth farce they dreamed up: CO-INSURANCE! If you have a 20% "co-insurance", you simply pay 20% of the total cost of ANYTHING, not including the copays and deductibles. That means, if you have a heart operation for $150,000.00, you pay $30,000.00 EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE INSURANCE BECAUSE OF THE 20% CO-INSURANCE!!! So YOU ARE BANKRUPT, anyway! Even though you're paying $1,000.00/month and a $3,000.00 deductible.
Bridget, I bet you have great insurance. Only the minority with great insurance at a low cost say the things you do.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/final-destination-iran-1.1013151
ReplyDeleteBridgette: you found this site via Brad Blog, and I never talk about health care on Brad Blog. Why did you come here via Brad Blog and talk about health care? That's fine, I welcome it, but I just wonder why you brought up that subject here when I don't talk about health care on Brad Blog?
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ReplyDeleteWell you see, I met this fine, fine fellow on a jet airliner on the way from Madrid to Alaska. He was such a gentleman and we got along superbly. WE sat next to each other during the entire flight. He let me know in no uncertain terms that he was the"Ed McMahon" of Big Dan's Big Blog. This splendid fellow's name was Drumbo.......a quirky sort of stocky fellow, with deep, haunting blue eyes and a smile that could launch a thousand "hips". He was a top-knotch ball buster who wore many faces, but nobody could ever really figure out whom he was because he had the uncanny ability to write in many, varied styles. The man was a true artisan, never taking life too seriously, but all the while loving his family with a fierce passion that is never seen in modern man....an aristocrat so to speak. HEY GUYS!!!!
ReplyDeleteLMFAO!
ReplyDeleteYour getting better drumbo...
Had me on that one!
Covering the Coverage: Reaction to ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax, Condemnation of NYTimes Continues...
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Perhaps we should begin to ask whether or not the press isn't questioning the right wing noise machine's propaganda simply because they agree with it?
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/peas-in-pod-by-digby-this-op-ed-by.html
For a few weeks last fall, editors and ombudsmen at The Washington Post and New York Times seemed obsessed with the idea that they should be paying more attention to right-wing media and websites. In the wake of some wildly hyperbolic claims about ACORN, the nation's leading news outlets apologized for being too slow to run chasing after every "scandal" ginned up by Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Beck, and their ilk.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/201003110054
Where's the outrage?
ACORN attack tape found to be fraudulent.
Read more: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/97985-wheres-the-outrage/#ixzz0iIKDJMYi
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/97985-wheres-the-outrage/
Breitbart confirms he was duped by O'Keefe and the ACORN pimp hoax
http://mediamatters.org/columns/201003020001
ACORN tape fraud: Does Andrew Breitbart care?
It doesn't seem to matter to the new conservative hero whether his "investigation" holds up
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/03/02/breitbart/index.html
The ACORN scandal, then and now
http://coloradoindependent.com/48555/the-acorn-scandal-then-and-now
Pimps, weasels and ACORN
The truth is slowly catching up with the smears
http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14877
The Rightwing Witch Hunt Against ACORN
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/538559/the_rightwing_witch_hunt_against_acorn
Extra, Extra--Read All About ACORN
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/512453/extra_extra_read_all_about_acorn
HITLER would be proud:
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Grayson: 'Alaskan chillbilly' smartest GOP leader since W.
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Activist Cindy Sheehan revives anti-war efforts
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http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/
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ReplyDeleteWTF - I try to post a link and it goes to moderation - WTF?
ReplyDeleteWhy I ought to...
To the moon buddy, to the moon!
Watch out for the IRS
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McCain & Lieberman Rush To Israel's Defense!
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Lieberman, McCain Want Iran Sanctioned for Human Rights Abuses, But Ignore Evidence US Committed Similar Violations
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http://www.truthout.org/lieberman-mccain-want-iran-sanctioned-human-rights-abuses-but-ignore-evidence-us-committed-similar-v
Still sending me to moderation!
ReplyDeleteWatch out for them IRS agents!
Go to sacbee(dot)com and search on IRS agents storm Sacramento car wash turn (dot) into a .
Now I got it! The first link that got sent to moderation was about the coffee party!
ReplyDeleteAha - sending me to moderation so you can rip off my links and use them to your advantage without attribution!
I'm hoppin' the next freight and heading to NEPA!
WTF - I replied to myself?
ReplyDeleteThat's not what the screen said, it said I was replying to your GRITtv: Max Blumenthal: Israel, the GOP, & Coffee Party comment!
It makes no sense otherwise - now you're trying to make me look feeble minded too!
Fuck the train, I'm walking to the airport!
Lieberman, McCain call on Admin to "lower voices" on Israel
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wtf? are mccain & lieberman Israeli Senators?
On MY blog? It's going into moderation???
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ReplyDeleteYou gotta be fuckin with me!
Now my reply to you is showing at you instead of at me like it was ten minutes ago!!
I'm not sure Drumbo would say he got here via Brad Blog. If that's him, he's getting genius. I'm guessing that's not him. Or he's getting REAL good!
ReplyDeleteHe's getting like Cato in the Pink Panther movies, and I'm Clouseau!
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Did it really go into moderation? I never have anything go into moderation, I better check that out. That's not ME doing that!
ReplyDeleteWho the hell is moderating MY comments???
ReplyDeleteLook: I've always had:
ReplyDeletePre-Moderation No. Comments don't need to be approved before they are published.
Are the "moderated" comments coming through eventually? If so, someone's moderating them...AND IT'S NOT ME!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteEvery time I tried to comment with a link, it was sent to moderation. You should have three or four in there from tonight, and a few others over time since you started using this. It usually lets me paste in a link, but will send me to moderation if I turn text into a link. Tonight I can't even paste a link.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen any of mine show up.
ReplyDeleteTest:
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Now it let me leave a link.
ReplyDeleteTest:
Raw Story
Still won't let me make text a link. Off to moderation it went.
ReplyDeleteNot even infowars is allowing this to be posted. I have a feeling even blogs like this one are being censored by "the monitors" - as even my posts here require a "monitor" to allegedly view them before they are posted.
ReplyDeleteSince yesterday on Infowars - this still looks like this:
plunger Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
March 15th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
OK – now reveal Geithner’s ties to David Rockefeller (CFR, etc.), and role-up the entire conspiracy (inclusive of 9/11) all the way to the top. Geithner’s path through life groomed him for the NY Fed position – where he did as he was told – on behalf of David Rockefeller.
Connect All The Dots
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/3820
http://www.plungerspeaks.blogspot.com/
Agreed - many posts going into moderation. Is Disqus a CIA blogging platform? Where did it come from?
ReplyDeleteWebster Tarpley lays out the new false flag that will be relied upon to attack Iran or anyone else the CIA chooses:
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