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"One day, after I am long gone, you will remember me and say: 'We should have stopped the nuclear program of Israel, abolished the Federal Reserve and kicked all secret societies, occultists, usurpers and Zionists out of our wonderful country to keep it that way,' but it is never too late. Just remember that."
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The slaughter of Palestinian non-combatants by Israel continues.
This looks like the result of small arms fire. The interior of the home is intact. No bomb damaged the interior of the home.
Israeli forces killed eight, unarmed children in their home here.
Do those look like "terrorists?" NO. They are innocent non-combatants.
Is this warfare? NO. It is slaughter of civilians.
Is Israel a civilized state? NO It is a rogue state.
Is this just a good, ol'-fashun, Old-Testiment-style ass whoopin'? NO. It is an act of unspeakable barbarism by deranged, fanatical, undisciplined, unprofessional Israeli military service members.
As many times in the past, Israel is not God's favorite country now.
Join the international resistance to unprincipled Zionism to the international Jewish mafia and to the international Jewish banking cartel. Educate and inspire others to join the resistance. Do not be a coward. Do not leave the hard work to others.
Become the powers that be. Recover sovereignty of your country. Rebuild democratic and rule-of-law institutions.
Support boycotts, divestments and sanctions against Israel. (UPC codes for goods made in Israel begin with the prefix, 7290.) Assure that neither your investment portfolio nor the portfolios of entities with which you are affiliated include Israeli businesses. Demand that your country cease support of Israel and economically isolate it.
Make consumer, personal finance, investment and political decisions that will disempower the unprincipled Zionist and ruthless Jewish matrix and that will empower citizens. Do not do business with the powers that are using, oppressing and dispossessing you. Recruit, support and vote for non-dominant-party candidates of integrity who are informed of the abuses of unprincipled Zionism and the international Jewish banking cartels and who are courageous.
See that photo image? That could be you and your family in the years ahead unless you join the resistance. Unconscionable violence can spread--even into "civilized ' countries. Those who mindlessly support or tolerate this carnage anywhere are as dangerous as the direct perpetrators of it. Are you tolerant of it? Where do you stand?
Join the people throughout the world who are raising their voices and acting to end this ongoing rule of oppression and atrocities--including many honorable Jews who are speaking and acting individually and as members of honorable Jewish-lead organizations to which non-Jews can belong such as If Americans Knew (http://www.http://www.IfAmericansKnew.org), Jewish Voice For Peace (http://www.JewishVoiceForPeace.org) and Jews For Justice For Palestinians (http://wwwJFJFP.org).
JOIN THE RESISTANCE!
This looks like the result of small arms fire. The interior of the home is intact. No bomb damaged the interior of the home.
Israeli forces killed eight, unarmed children in their home here.
Do those look like "terrorists?" NO. They are innocent non-combatants.
Is this warfare? NO. It is slaughter of civilians.
Is Israel a civilized state? NO It is a rogue state.
Is this just a good, ol'-fashun, Old-Testiment-style ass whoopin'? NO. It is an act of unspeakable barbarism by deranged, fanatical, undisciplined, unprofessional Israeli military service members.
As many times in the past, Israel is not God's favorite country now.
Join the international resistance to unprincipled Zionism to the international Jewish mafia and to the international Jewish banking cartel. Educate and inspire others to join the resistance. Do not be a coward. Do not leave the hard work to others.
Become the powers that be. Recover sovereignty of your country. Rebuild democratic and rule-of-law institutions.
Support boycotts, divestments and sanctions against Israel. (UPC codes for goods made in Israel begin with the prefix, 7290.) Assure that neither your investment portfolio nor the portfolios of entities with which you are affiliated include Israeli businesses. Demand that your country cease support of Israel and economically isolate it.
Make consumer, personal finance, investment and political decisions that will disempower the unprincipled Zionist and ruthless Jewish matrix and that will empower citizens. Do not do business with the powers that are using, oppressing and dispossessing you. Recruit, support and vote for non-dominant-party candidates of integrity who are informed of the abuses of unprincipled Zionism and the international Jewish banking cartels and who are courageous.
See that photo image? That could be you and your family in the years ahead unless you join the resistance. Unconscionable violence can spread--even into "civilized ' countries. Those who mindlessly support or tolerate this carnage anywhere are as dangerous as the direct perpetrators of it. Are you tolerant of it? Where do you stand?
Join the people throughout the world who are raising their voices and acting to end this ongoing rule of oppression and atrocities--including many honorable Jews who are speaking and acting individually and as members of honorable Jewish-lead organizations to which non-Jews can belong such as If Americans Knew (http://www.http://www.IfAmericansKnew.org), Jewish Voice For Peace (http://www.JewishVoiceForPeace.org) and Jews For Justice For Palestinians (http://wwwJFJFP.org).
JOIN THE RESISTANCE!
Israeli army whistle-blower gets arrested after posting "Israeli troops killed Gaza civilians in revenge" on Facebook http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/08/03/israeli-army-whistle-blower-leaks-account-of-revenge-attacks-against-civilians-by-israeli-troops-in-gazas-shujaiyya "The deadliest WMD is a Zionist speaking."
Fred Mrozek "If wars can be strated by lies, peace can be started by truth."
Julian Assange "I am unaware of any animal that is as cruel as Israelis—not even crocodiles. They bomb schools, hospitals, refugee camps, orphanages, UN feeding stations, water works, sewer plants, ambulances, kids playing on the beach. They put millions of people in a siege. They shoot children going to school. They kidnap kids and harvest their organs. They inject prisoners with disease pathogens before releasing them. They murder by land, sea and air. And worst of all, they slander their defenceless victims as 'terrorists.'"
David Attenborough naturalist and broadcaster July 21, 2014, 5:30 p.m. Irish Senator, David Norris, bitterly condemned Israal for atrocities in Gaza including deliberately targeting families and known shelters and calls on the United Nations to intervene
Former U. S. president, Jimmy Carter writes that neither Israel nor Palestinian militants should target civilians, that the international community must recognize Hamas as the legitimate government of Palestine, that the United Nations and the Quartet should intervene and that a war crimes tribunal should be convened. Jimmy Carter former president of the United States Foreign Policy magazine online edition August 4, 2014 Israelis and Palestinians are still burying their loved ones as Gaza's third war in six years continues. Since July 8, when this war began, more than 1,600 Palestinian and 65 Israeli lives have been sacrificed. Many in the world are heartbroken in the powerless certainty that more will die, that more are being killed every hour. This tragedy results from the deliberate obstruction of a promising move toward peace in the region, when a reconciliation agreement among the Palestinian factions was announced in April. This was a major concession by Hamas, in opening Gaza to joint control under a technocratic government that did not include any Hamas members. The new government also pledged to adopt the three basic principles demanded by the Middle East Quartet comprised of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union, and Russia: nonviolence, recognition of Israel, and adherence to past agreements. Tragically, Israel rejected this opportunity for peace and has succeeded in preventing the new government's deployment in Gaza. Two factors are necessary to make Palestinian unity possible. First, there must be at least a partial lifting of the 7-year-old sanctions and blockade that isolate the 1.8 million people in Gaza. There must also be an opportunity for the teachers, police, and welfare and health workers on the Hamas payroll to be paid. These necessary requirements for a human standard of living continue to be denied. Instead, Israel blocked Qatar's offer to provide funds to pay civil servants' salaries, and access to and from Gaza has been further tightened by Egypt and Israel. There is no humane or legal justification for the way the Israeli Defense Forces are conducting this war. Israeli bombs, missiles, and artillery have pulverized large parts of Gaza, including thousands of homes, schools, and hospitals. More than 250,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Gaza. Hundreds of Palestinian noncombatants have been killed. Much of Gaza has lost access to water and electricity completely. This is a humanitarian catastrophe. There is never an excuse for deliberate attacks on civilians in conflict. These are war crimes. There is never an excuse for deliberate attacks on civilians in conflict. These are war crimes. This is true for both sides. Hamas's indiscriminate targeting of Israeli civilians is equally unacceptable. However, three Israeli civilians have been killed by Palestinian rockets, while an overwhelming majority of the 1,600 Palestinians killed have been civilians, including more than 330 children. The need for international judicial proceedings to investigate and end these violations of international law should be taken very seriously. The U.N. Security Council should focus on what can be done to limit the potential use of force by both sides. It should vote for a resolution recognizing the inhumane conditions in Gaza and mandate an end to the siege. That resolution could also acknowledge the need for international monitors who can report on movements into and out of Gaza as well as cease-fire violations. It should then enshrine strict measures to prevent the smuggling of weapons into Gaza. Early discussions have already taken place. The Elders, an international group of elder statesmen of which we are a part, hope these discussions will continue and reach fruition. At the Palestinians' request, the Swiss government is considering convening an international conference of the signatory states of the Geneva Conventions, which enshrine the humanitarian laws of warfare. This could pressure Israel and Hamas into observing their duties under international law to protect civilian populations. We sincerely hope all states -- especially those in the West, with the greatest power -- attend and live up to their obligations to uphold the Fourth Geneva Convention, which governs the treatment of populations in occupied territory. Unity between Fatah and Hamas is currently stronger than it has been for many years. As Elders, we believe this is one of the most encouraging developments in recent years and welcome it warmly. This presents an opportunity for the Palestinian Authority to reassume control over Gaza -- an essential first step towards Israel and Egypt lifting the blockade. The Palestinian Authority cannot manage the task of administering Gaza on its own. It will need the prompt return of the EU Border Assistance Mission, an international effort to help monitor border crossings that was launched in 2005 and suspended in 2007. EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has already offered to reinstate the program, covering not only Rafah but all of Gaza's crossings. Egypt and Israel would, in turn, cooperate with international monitors to be deployed in Gaza and along its borders, backed by a U.N. Security Council mandate to protect civilian populations. A valuable precedent for trust-building between Egypt and Israel is the international peacekeeping force operating in the Sinai, mandated by the peace treaty signed by the two countries in 1979. The international community's initial goal should be the full restoration of the free movement of people and goods to and from Gaza through Israel, Egypt, and the sea. Concurrently, the United States and EU should recognize that Hamas is not just a military but also a political force. Hamas cannot be wished away, nor will it cooperate in its own demise. Only by recognizing its legitimacy as a political actor -- one that represents a substantial portion of the Palestinian people -- can the West begin to provide the right incentives for Hamas to lay down its weapons. Ever since the internationally monitored 2006 elections that brought Hamas to power in Palestine, the West's approach has manifestly contributed to the opposite result. Ultimately, however, lasting peace depends on the creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel. Leaders in Israel, Palestine, and the world's major powers should believe that policy changes are within reach that would move Israelis and Palestinians closer to a day when the skies over the Holy Land can forever fall silent. How To Fix It http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/08/04/how_to_fix_it_jimmy_carter_mary_robinson_israel_palestine_gaza_hamas The arms trade and Israel's attack on Gaza
Following is the text of a letter first published in the British Guardian newspaper that 64 public figures, including 7 Nobel Peace Prize winners signed, that again calls for an embargo on arms trade with Israel Friday 18 July 2014 13.59 EDT Repeating a call by world luminaries in 2012 for an international embargo on arms trade with Israel, a group of many of the same luminaries signed a new letter that they will deliver to the United Nations in September 2014. "Israel has once again unleashed the full force of its military against the captive Palestinian population, particularly in the besieged Gaza Strip, in an inhumane and illegal act of military aggression. Israel's ability to launch such devastating attacks with impunity largely stems from the vast international military cooperation and trade that it maintains with complicit governments across the world.... [...] "We call on the UN and governments across the world to take immediate steps to implement a comprehensive and legally binding military embargo on Israel, similar to that imposed on South Africa during apartheid." Click on the link below to read the first, published version of the letter. (A protracted search yielded no original source letter.) http://www.TheGuardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/arms-trade-israel-attack-gaza Click on the link below to view fact sheet on Israeli arms trade and arms abuse: http://www.BDSMovement.net/2014/military-embargo-fact-sheet-12345 International luminaries, including Nobel Peace Prize laureates signed a very similar letter in 2012: Nobel Peace laureates call for Israel military boycott over Gaza assault http://www.TheGuardian.com/world/2012/nov/28/nobel-laureates-call-israel-boycott Sign the petition that calls on world leaders to impose a global ban on arms trade with Israel: http://www.BDSMovement.net/stoparmingisrael The BRICS nations--Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa--formed the New Development Bank to break the oppressive, worldwide economic and political control of the criminal Rothschild banking cartel
BRICS: Breaking the Jewish money power
http://BrotherNathanaelFoundation.org/news/219-brother-nathanael Challenging the exorbitant privilege of the U. S. dollar: The future of the BRICS Development Bank http://www.Counterpunch.org/2014/07/29/the-future-of-the-brics-development-bank BRICS countries create $100 billion bank to ease Western grip on global finances http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jul/16/brics-countries-development-bank "The U. S. state conceives itself as above international law along with ally Israel, but this reality is taboo to report and so too all the killing and terrorization of civilians."
John McMurtry Professor Emeritus of Philosophy University of Guelph, Canada Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada awarded in 2001 for outstanding contributions to the study of humanities and social sciences Gaza war prompts Latin America to break ties with Israel
4 News Great Britain July 31, 2014 Guillermo Galdos Reporter While the US and UK stand by Israel over its military offensive in Gaza, governments across Latin America have moved to cut their links. In a series of coordinated diplomatic and financial measures, Latin America is making a stand, heavily criticising Israel and cutting ties with the Jewish state, writes Channel 4 News reporter Guillermo Galdos. El Salvador, Chile, Peru, Brazil and Ecuador have all recalled their ambassadors, while Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay and Paraguay have suspended the Free Trade Agreement talks, demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. In a joint statement they called for an end to the "disproportionate use of force by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip which in the majority affects civilians, including children and women." 'Terrorist state' Chile - with the largest Palestinian Arab population outside of the Middle East - was the first to cut ties. It is no small gesture, as the country has deep economic and military connections with Israel. And Bolivian President Evo Morales (pictured, above right) followed with a feisty speech on Wednesday - accusing Israel of being a "terrorist state" and has said that from now on Israelis would need a visa to visit his country. "Israel doesn't guarantee the principle of respect for life, and the basic right to live in harmony and peace." Evo Morales President, Bolivia "Israel doesn't guarantee the principle of respect for life, and the basic right to live in harmony and peace in the international community," he said. Israel's foreign ministry said it was disappointed with the recalling of ambassadors - and that such actions only encourage Hamas "a group recognised as a terror organisation by many countries around the world". 'Diplomatic dwarf' But the foreign ministry also made light of the measures, calling Brazil a "diplomatic dwarf", and even joked about their semifinal loss in this summer's World Cup. President Dilma Rouseff (pictured, above left) responded by saying: "Brazil was the first country to recognise Israel. Brazil is a friend to Israel...but there is a massacre ongoing in the Gaza Strip." Uruguay and Argentina, which have large Jewish communities, have not followed suit, keeping their ambassadors in Israel. Colombia and Mexico are also maintaining diplomatic relations. But the stand by many in Latin America is being seen as a departure--and is being hailed here by many who are proud that the region is taking a stand. http://www.channel4.com/news/gaza-strip-latin-america-israel-diplomatic-brazil-argentina See also: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4552549,00.html In July, 2013, the European Union imposed broad and deep sanctions against Israeli businesses illegally located in the most broadly-defined Palestinian territories Israel hit with EU war crime sanctions July 20, 2013 Gordon Duff Ediitor Veterans Today "In a surprise[,] last minute move, the European Union set forth a strong set of economic sanctions against Israel, leaving that nation both surprised and reeling. "The sanctions, stimulated by what the EU refers to as “Israeli intransigence” regarding peace talks with the Palestinians, cover all financial dealings, loans, awards, transfer of "instruments" and severely limiting economic cooperation between Israel and all EU member nations starting in 2014. "The sanctions are against any Israeli “economic activity,” not just within what has been referred to as the “occupied territories” but broad areas of Israel that had been designated for the establishment of an “Arab State” in 1949." To read the entire article, click on the link below: Israel hit with EU war crime sanctions http://www.VeteransToday.com/2013/07/20/israel-hit-with-eu-war-crimes-sanctions More than 500 South African Jews signed a letter condemning oppressions and atrocities in Palestine by Israel
Jews throughout the world who recognize the initial and ongoing crimes of Israel --actions that go far beyond securing of Israel to duplicities and provocations--should join their South African brothers and sisters and publicly express their oppositions to the crimes of Israel. Mark Venzke, publisher WE, AS South African Jews, are appalled and devastated by Israel’s assault on Gaza. [...] We are proudly Jewish. We know that every human being is invested with inherent dignity, every life equal. Just as we resist anti-Semitism, we refuse to dehumanise Palestinians in order to make their deaths lighter on our collective conscience. We sign this statement in order to affirm their humanity and our own. We hope for a permanent ceasefire and an end to the death and destruction. Beyond that we believe that the way forward must involve Israel lifting the blockade of Gaza, ending the occupation of the West Bank and fully complying with international law. Attacks on Israeli civilians and rockets fired into Israeli towns must stop; these are illegal, counterproductive and wrong. [...] We also hope for an Israeli government committed to achieving peace. We distance ourselves from South African Jewish organisations whose blind support for Israel’s disproportionate actions moves us further from a just resolution to the conflict. Read the entire letter here: http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/letters/2014/08/11/letter-proudly-jewish-but-israel-appals-us Zionist Israel: A God Of Gold
Following is the speech of
Mark Venzke, publisher of A More Perfect Union that he delivered at a rally for Palestine on Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Following is the letter of
Mark Venzke, publisher of A More Perfect Union that he sent to Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, July 1, 2014 about the response of his country to the murders of three young Israelis
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To the right is a brief thoughtful response to the tragic deaths of three Israeli young men recently by Ron Harold, a blogger from the United States.
I had honestly not thought that Palestinians have had a right to defend their land under international law. However, having the right to do something and having good reason to do so are two different things. |
The New Math: Settlements For Murders
Ron Harold Publisher and Blogger Citizen Agenda http://www.CitizenAgenda.com The New Math: If Israel thinks it deserves one settlement per three deaths, how many settlements does Israel owe the Palestinian people? Since September 2000, Israeli forces killed more than 4,789 Palestinians – at least 3,100 civilians who were not taking part in hostilities according to reports by B’Tselem, an Israeli rights group. 952 were Palestinian minors and 146 were Palestinian women. Conversely, 471 Israelis were killed during that same time period, less than 10% by Quassam rocket. B’Tselem Statistics: http://www.btselem.org/.../before-cast-lead/by-date-of-event Here's something you'll probably never ever hear in the "Zionized," western media: the Palestinians actually possess the legal authority to use what the Geneva Conventions refer to as "...any means necessary..." to evict the unlawful Occupiers from Occupied territory, especially since the balance of military power is categorically lopsided. It is a longstanding legal fact that Israel has been illegally occupying Palestinian territories since 1967. Israel claims Syria and Egypt started the Six Day War but closer examination of events suggests otherwise. To say the Russian immigrant Jews made the worst real estate deal in the world history is accurate considering they (Israel) intentionally and wantonly displaced approximately a million Palestinians from their homeland, literally uprooting them up out of their homes and herding them into tent cities where they remained for a very long time. Some new neighbor, huh? What do you expect? A THANK YOU NOTE or year-round hell? |
proofs of nuclear demolitions of World Trade Center buildings on 9/11/2001
VT [Veterans Today] nuclear education: Undeniable proof of 9-11 as a nuclear event
June 2, 2014
http://www.VeteransToday.com/2014/06/02/vt-nuclear-education-undeniable-proof-of-911-as-a-nuclear-event
VT [Veterans Today] nuclear education: Undeniable proof of 9-11 as a nuclear event
June 2, 2014
http://www.VeteransToday.com/2014/06/02/vt-nuclear-education-undeniable-proof-of-911-as-a-nuclear-event
"Verily, those who have attained to faith, as well as those who follow the Jewish faith, and the Christians...all who believe in God and the Last Day and do righteous deeds—shall have their reward with their Sustainier; and no fear need they have, and neither shall they grieve."
The Holy Quran, 2:62
The Holy Quran, 2:62
Pope Francis made an unplanned and unannounced visit to the wall of separation in Bethlehem--to the very place where graffiti called upon him to exercise leadership in ending Israeli occupation and oppression in Palestine
Through his words, actions and gestures, Pope Francis has been answering that call. He has been boldly advocating for justice and peace in Palestine.
See comments on this image where a Jewish online news and information Internet site, Mondoweiss, that is supportive of Palestine originally published it at:
http://www.Mondoweiss.net/2014/05/the-pope-palestine.html?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=5ef7819ddc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-5ef7819ddc-398410155
Through his words, actions and gestures, Pope Francis has been answering that call. He has been boldly advocating for justice and peace in Palestine.
See comments on this image where a Jewish online news and information Internet site, Mondoweiss, that is supportive of Palestine originally published it at:
http://www.Mondoweiss.net/2014/05/the-pope-palestine.html?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=5ef7819ddc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-5ef7819ddc-398410155
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
"The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptable reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
A study by a Northwestern University professor and a Princeton University professor concludes that a small segment of our population, the wealthy and powerful, dominate governance in the United States
May 23, 2014
Mark Venzke
citizen journalist
Gainesville, Florida, United States Of America--In a study published on April 9, 2014, two professors from two top universities in the United States conclude that the United States is governed primarily by the wealthy and powerful and that the legitimate interests of non-wealthy and non-powerful citizens are neglected.
The authors use sophisticated statistical analysis of policy outcomes of 1779 issues to reach their conclusions.
Abstract
"Each of four theoretical traditions in the study of American politics – which can be characterized as theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy, Economic Elite Domination, and two types of interest group pluralism, Majoritarian Pluralism and Biased Pluralism – offers different predictions [sic] about which sets of actors have how much influence over public policy: average citizens; economic elites; and organized interest groups, mass-based or business-oriented.
"A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. This paper reports on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism." [emphasis added]
Here is a link to the study:
http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf
May 23, 2014
Mark Venzke
citizen journalist
Gainesville, Florida, United States Of America--In a study published on April 9, 2014, two professors from two top universities in the United States conclude that the United States is governed primarily by the wealthy and powerful and that the legitimate interests of non-wealthy and non-powerful citizens are neglected.
The authors use sophisticated statistical analysis of policy outcomes of 1779 issues to reach their conclusions.
Abstract
"Each of four theoretical traditions in the study of American politics – which can be characterized as theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy, Economic Elite Domination, and two types of interest group pluralism, Majoritarian Pluralism and Biased Pluralism – offers different predictions [sic] about which sets of actors have how much influence over public policy: average citizens; economic elites; and organized interest groups, mass-based or business-oriented.
"A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. This paper reports on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism." [emphasis added]
Here is a link to the study:
http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf
...IF they would exercise their power.
"We will lead every revolt against us."
Theodor Herzl
father of modern Zionism
Theodor Herzl
father of modern Zionism
"If you want to control the opposition, become the opposition!"
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Poland's Walesa says the US no longer world leader
Friday, May 23, 2014
Warsaw, Poland (AP) -- Poland's former president and Nobel Peace laureate, Lech Walesa, said Friday he plans to urge President Barack Obama to take a more active world leadership role when he visits Poland in June.
Speaking to The Associated Press, Walesa said "the world is disorganized and the superpower is not taking the lead. I am displeased."
The former Solidarity leader said that when he meets Obama in Warsaw, he wants to tell him that the U.S. should inspire and encourage the world into positive action.
[...]
http://news.yahoo.com/polands-walesa-says-us-no-longer-world-leader-191843026.html
Friday, May 23, 2014
Warsaw, Poland (AP) -- Poland's former president and Nobel Peace laureate, Lech Walesa, said Friday he plans to urge President Barack Obama to take a more active world leadership role when he visits Poland in June.
Speaking to The Associated Press, Walesa said "the world is disorganized and the superpower is not taking the lead. I am displeased."
The former Solidarity leader said that when he meets Obama in Warsaw, he wants to tell him that the U.S. should inspire and encourage the world into positive action.
[...]
http://news.yahoo.com/polands-walesa-says-us-no-longer-world-leader-191843026.html
SUPPORT GENUINE INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE EVENTS OF 9/11/2001
by Mark Venzke
May 11, 2014
Are you aware that three skyscrapers in the World Trade Center complex fell on 9/11/2001? In addition to the two Twin Towers, a third skyscraper, building seven of the World Trade Center complex, fell hours after the Twin Towers fell on that day, yet only five percent of United States citizens know it. Many videos showing the collapse of that building are available on YouTube.com.
The explanation of the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Seven by government-connected entities is that burning or hot debris ejected from one of the Twin Towers that had fallen penetrated Tower Seven near one end of it and caused fires of office furnishings and partitions. The fires softened and weakened huge structural steel members and connectors, rivets or bolts, among them. The connections among those members failed. The part of the structure above those failed members fell. The horizontal tugging on all of the supporting columns of the building that were connected to one another by horizontal beams caused the all of the columns to buckle simultaneously, and the building collapsed.
Wrong.
As many videos of fires in other steel-framed skyscrapers throughout the world that are available on YouTube.com show, fires of furnishings and partitions in them—even after having raged for hours and for even days—have never damaged any of those skyscrapers sufficiently for them to collapse or to partially collapse. Those fires, though they were much larger, hotter and burned much longer than the fires burned in World Trade Center tower seven never heated the steel structures sufficiently to weaken them to the point that they failed.
On September 11, 2001, after a protracted series of explosions throughout the day in World Trade Center Building Seven—documented by many videos and by many testimonies of witnesses—fell at 5:20 p.m. You can hear those explosions and people's reactions to them and their later, vivid recounting of them on many videos that are available on YouTube.com. Many of those witnesses are loyal, courageous, professional and honest New York City firemen and policemen.
Building seven fell at free fall speed from the beginning of collapse. Had most or much of the structure around any initial point of failure—above and to the sides of it—of the building remained intact, that structure would have slowed the fall of the building—especially during the beginning of the fall, before the weight of the falling mass would have increased and would have increasingly easily overcome the resistance to the fall of the structure. That did not happen.
Had connectors somehow failed and the horizontal beams that they had supported somehow fallen, some floors above and around the fire may have collapsed, but the columns to which those beams had been attached—and all of the rest of the structure of the building away from the initial point of failure—would have remained standing at the very least momentarily—long enough to have delayed their collapse and possibly to have caused an area of the building at and around the failure to collapse or, if structural failure could possibly have extended to the entire building, to have caused the entire building to have fallen in a distorted shape--not as an intact mass.
The horizontally interconnected structural members and connectors of the building would have stopped or at least slowed the propagation of any failure that could have occurred near one end of the building. As stresses (tensions and compressions) among structural members radiate from an initial point of failure and become distributed over an increasingly large area, they decrease in strength and the structure of the building increases in resistance to those them. Even a momentary delay—a split second delay—in the falling of the areas of the building away from the point of initial failure would have caused the top of the building to distort. The top edges of the building would not have remained level. Most of the facades of the building would not have remained intact. The spacings among windows on most of the facades would not have remained unchanged. The windows on most of those facades would not have remained unbroken. The reflective surfaces of the glazings of the windows on most of the facades would have gone opaque as the glazing would have burst.
For almost all of the top part of the building to have fallen intact, the entire supporting structure of the building near the bottom of it—from one end of the building to the other, from the inside of the building to the outside of it—would have had to have failed simultaneously or very, very nearly simultaneously.
Clearly, all of the supporting members of the building—the huge steel columns of it—near the bottom of the building completely failed simultaneously or very, very, very nearly simultaneously.
Only very carefully timed explosive charges of the kinds that building demolishers use could simultaneously destroy every column of an expansive building.
Think about that.
Think about that.
Do not deny to yourself what happened.
Do not deny to yourself what possibilities that raises.
Your government and your corporate media have been lying to you and concealing truths about the events of 9/11.
Surprised? You are probably fully aware that they have lied to you about many less momentous matters. You are probably convinced that your government has been engaged in some very dishonorable engagements throughout the history of it.
George Bush resisted for years creating a panel to investigate the incidents of 9/11. The panel that he eventually created was lead by a confederate who impeded the investigation. The rules that the staff members of the Bush administration imposed on the investigation panel impeded the members of it from getting the information that they wanted. Several members of the panel—including Republicans—quit in disgust calling the investigation a “sham.”
Barak Obama has done nothing to investigate the events of 9/11. He has not fulfilled most of his campaign promises. Brutal imperialism boosted by the pretense of a war on terrorism by the United States continues under his administration. Warrantless surveillance and arrests, indefinite detentions, torture and executions of terrorists, innocent bystanders and United States citizens continues.
Seventy-one percent of citizens who voted for Barak Obama now wish that they had not voted for him.
Republicans and Democrats at high levels serve the same, ultra-wealthy masters:
Those unprincipled, ultra-powerful people and their puppet leaders—not the people who they manipulate into distrust, fear, hate and open conflict—are the real enemies.
Former President Jimmy Carter and other well informed, high-level opinion leaders who have served in our federal government have stated that the United States Of America is no longer a functioning democracy or republic. Recent academic studies have concluded the same.
Your choice is to compliantly go along with the machinations of the ultra-wealthy and their puppets or to diverge from them. You can participate in their “reality” or co-create with your fellow, informed, conscientious felow citizens a just and beneficial “reality.” You can do that vocally or quietly. You can do that dramatically or subtly.
Complete silence and complete inaction in the faces if injustice and oppression are complicity in them.
Much of the source of power by the unprincipled and oppressive ultra-wealthy comes from oppressed un-wealthy people like you. Many of the routine decisions, actions and failures to act of un-wealthy people contribute to the power of those who abuse them. Un-wealthy people should make shrewd and disciplined decisions in their investing, financial, consumer and political choices. Un-wealthy people should avoid patronizing the seemingly pervasive enterprises of the abusive ultra-wealthy. Un-wealthy people should support political leaders who are not part of the powers that be.
Recruit, support and vote for non-dominant-party candidates of integrity who are harmony-loving, principled, informed, articulate and courageous. Cultivate and support candidates for distant future elections now, so they will be formidable contenders in those distant elections.
Support calls for an open, honest and thorough investigation with subpoena power of the events of 9/11. Support indictments and trials of those identified by those investigations as suspects in the planning, execution, allowance or concealment in the events of 9/11. Support lifetime prison sentences in harsh conditions for those who courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction find guilty of acting or failing to act to prevent the events of 9/11 or to conceal truth about them.
Take heart! Be courageous. Do your part.
A safe, civil, rewardingly engaged, harmonious, healthy and attractive country is ours for the making!
Mark Venzke
by Mark Venzke
May 11, 2014
Are you aware that three skyscrapers in the World Trade Center complex fell on 9/11/2001? In addition to the two Twin Towers, a third skyscraper, building seven of the World Trade Center complex, fell hours after the Twin Towers fell on that day, yet only five percent of United States citizens know it. Many videos showing the collapse of that building are available on YouTube.com.
The explanation of the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Seven by government-connected entities is that burning or hot debris ejected from one of the Twin Towers that had fallen penetrated Tower Seven near one end of it and caused fires of office furnishings and partitions. The fires softened and weakened huge structural steel members and connectors, rivets or bolts, among them. The connections among those members failed. The part of the structure above those failed members fell. The horizontal tugging on all of the supporting columns of the building that were connected to one another by horizontal beams caused the all of the columns to buckle simultaneously, and the building collapsed.
Wrong.
As many videos of fires in other steel-framed skyscrapers throughout the world that are available on YouTube.com show, fires of furnishings and partitions in them—even after having raged for hours and for even days—have never damaged any of those skyscrapers sufficiently for them to collapse or to partially collapse. Those fires, though they were much larger, hotter and burned much longer than the fires burned in World Trade Center tower seven never heated the steel structures sufficiently to weaken them to the point that they failed.
On September 11, 2001, after a protracted series of explosions throughout the day in World Trade Center Building Seven—documented by many videos and by many testimonies of witnesses—fell at 5:20 p.m. You can hear those explosions and people's reactions to them and their later, vivid recounting of them on many videos that are available on YouTube.com. Many of those witnesses are loyal, courageous, professional and honest New York City firemen and policemen.
Building seven fell at free fall speed from the beginning of collapse. Had most or much of the structure around any initial point of failure—above and to the sides of it—of the building remained intact, that structure would have slowed the fall of the building—especially during the beginning of the fall, before the weight of the falling mass would have increased and would have increasingly easily overcome the resistance to the fall of the structure. That did not happen.
Had connectors somehow failed and the horizontal beams that they had supported somehow fallen, some floors above and around the fire may have collapsed, but the columns to which those beams had been attached—and all of the rest of the structure of the building away from the initial point of failure—would have remained standing at the very least momentarily—long enough to have delayed their collapse and possibly to have caused an area of the building at and around the failure to collapse or, if structural failure could possibly have extended to the entire building, to have caused the entire building to have fallen in a distorted shape--not as an intact mass.
The horizontally interconnected structural members and connectors of the building would have stopped or at least slowed the propagation of any failure that could have occurred near one end of the building. As stresses (tensions and compressions) among structural members radiate from an initial point of failure and become distributed over an increasingly large area, they decrease in strength and the structure of the building increases in resistance to those them. Even a momentary delay—a split second delay—in the falling of the areas of the building away from the point of initial failure would have caused the top of the building to distort. The top edges of the building would not have remained level. Most of the facades of the building would not have remained intact. The spacings among windows on most of the facades would not have remained unchanged. The windows on most of those facades would not have remained unbroken. The reflective surfaces of the glazings of the windows on most of the facades would have gone opaque as the glazing would have burst.
For almost all of the top part of the building to have fallen intact, the entire supporting structure of the building near the bottom of it—from one end of the building to the other, from the inside of the building to the outside of it—would have had to have failed simultaneously or very, very nearly simultaneously.
Clearly, all of the supporting members of the building—the huge steel columns of it—near the bottom of the building completely failed simultaneously or very, very, very nearly simultaneously.
Only very carefully timed explosive charges of the kinds that building demolishers use could simultaneously destroy every column of an expansive building.
Think about that.
Think about that.
Do not deny to yourself what happened.
Do not deny to yourself what possibilities that raises.
Your government and your corporate media have been lying to you and concealing truths about the events of 9/11.
Surprised? You are probably fully aware that they have lied to you about many less momentous matters. You are probably convinced that your government has been engaged in some very dishonorable engagements throughout the history of it.
George Bush resisted for years creating a panel to investigate the incidents of 9/11. The panel that he eventually created was lead by a confederate who impeded the investigation. The rules that the staff members of the Bush administration imposed on the investigation panel impeded the members of it from getting the information that they wanted. Several members of the panel—including Republicans—quit in disgust calling the investigation a “sham.”
Barak Obama has done nothing to investigate the events of 9/11. He has not fulfilled most of his campaign promises. Brutal imperialism boosted by the pretense of a war on terrorism by the United States continues under his administration. Warrantless surveillance and arrests, indefinite detentions, torture and executions of terrorists, innocent bystanders and United States citizens continues.
Seventy-one percent of citizens who voted for Barak Obama now wish that they had not voted for him.
Republicans and Democrats at high levels serve the same, ultra-wealthy masters:
- those who determine who will run for high political offices
- those who donate huge sums of money to their candidates campaigns
- those who create deceptive and manipulative campaign communications
- those who “create” “reality” in their lying media
- those who manipulate populaces to support their candidates, their policies and their wars
- those who distract populaces with mindless media programming
- those who manipulate populaces with deceptive polito-tainment
- those who hijack religious and distort the teachings of them to stimulate distrust, disrespect and distorted views
- those who intimidate populaces through exhibitions of power and abuses of power
- those who rig elections throughout the world through electronic and human means
- those who define “national interests” so broadly that they include material wants and commercial gains and not legitimate, national-defense needs and that the pursuit of them infringes on the legitimate national interests of other countries
- those whose military “defense” postures are so forward that they are provocative offenses
- those who execute democratically elected leaders throughout the world
- those who instigate tensions among peoples and provoke conflicts among them
- those who finance both sides of armed conflicts
- those who create, train, arm, lead and supply with mercenaries enemies and coordinate insurgencies
- those who have assumed control of almost all nations' central banks and use them to manipulate monetary policies to fraudulently extract real wealth from people
- those who take control of countries and extract the monetary and resource wealth of them through debt
- those who kill leaders who work to establish sound currencies and sound monetary policies and invade their countries under false pretexts
- those who profit from exploitation and destruction of other peoples and their resources
- those who seek to alter the climates of the world to mitigate the damages that their industries have caused
- those who seek to drastically reduce world population through immoral means
- those who seek to control all world governments and their peoples
- those who intrusively surveil the entire population of the developed world
- those who execute any who pose serious threats to their holds on power
Those unprincipled, ultra-powerful people and their puppet leaders—not the people who they manipulate into distrust, fear, hate and open conflict—are the real enemies.
Former President Jimmy Carter and other well informed, high-level opinion leaders who have served in our federal government have stated that the United States Of America is no longer a functioning democracy or republic. Recent academic studies have concluded the same.
Your choice is to compliantly go along with the machinations of the ultra-wealthy and their puppets or to diverge from them. You can participate in their “reality” or co-create with your fellow, informed, conscientious felow citizens a just and beneficial “reality.” You can do that vocally or quietly. You can do that dramatically or subtly.
Complete silence and complete inaction in the faces if injustice and oppression are complicity in them.
Much of the source of power by the unprincipled and oppressive ultra-wealthy comes from oppressed un-wealthy people like you. Many of the routine decisions, actions and failures to act of un-wealthy people contribute to the power of those who abuse them. Un-wealthy people should make shrewd and disciplined decisions in their investing, financial, consumer and political choices. Un-wealthy people should avoid patronizing the seemingly pervasive enterprises of the abusive ultra-wealthy. Un-wealthy people should support political leaders who are not part of the powers that be.
Recruit, support and vote for non-dominant-party candidates of integrity who are harmony-loving, principled, informed, articulate and courageous. Cultivate and support candidates for distant future elections now, so they will be formidable contenders in those distant elections.
Support calls for an open, honest and thorough investigation with subpoena power of the events of 9/11. Support indictments and trials of those identified by those investigations as suspects in the planning, execution, allowance or concealment in the events of 9/11. Support lifetime prison sentences in harsh conditions for those who courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction find guilty of acting or failing to act to prevent the events of 9/11 or to conceal truth about them.
Take heart! Be courageous. Do your part.
A safe, civil, rewardingly engaged, harmonious, healthy and attractive country is ours for the making!
Mark Venzke
Israel will not stop spying on the U. S.
Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757
Jeff Stein
Filed: 5/6/14 at 5:31 AM | Updated: 5/6/14 at 6:22 PM
[...]
"Israel’s espionage activities in America are unrivaled and unseemly, counterspies have told members of the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees, going far beyond activities by other close allies, such as Germany, France, the U.K. and Japan. A congressional staffer familiar with a briefing last January called the testimony 'very sobering…alarming…even terrifying.' Another staffer called it 'damaging.'
"The Jewish state’s primary target: America’s industrial and technical secrets.
"'No other country close to the United States continues to cross the line on espionage like the Israelis do,' said a former congressional staffer who attended another classified briefing in late 2013, one of several in recent months given by officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the State Department, the FBI and the National Counterintelligence Directorate.
[...]
"I.C. Smith, a former top FBI counterintelligence specialist during the Pollard affair, tells Newsweek, “In the early 1980s, dealing with the Israelis was, for those assigned that area, extremely frustrating. The Israelis were supremely confident that they had the clout, especially on the Hill, to basically get [away] with just about anything. This was the time of the Criteria Country List—later changed to the National Security Threat List—and I found it incredible that Taiwan and Vietnam, for instance, were on [it], when neither country had conducted activities that remotely approached the Pollard case, and neither had a history of, or a comparable capability to conduct, such activities.”
[...]
"As Paul Pillar, the CIA’s former national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, told Newsweek, old habits are hard to break: Zionists were dispatching spies to America before there even was an Israel, to gather money and materials for the cause and later the fledgling state. Key components for Israel’s nuclear bombs were clandestinely obtained here. 'They’ve found creative and inventive ways,' Pillar said, to get what they want.
"If we give them free rein to send people over here, how are we going to stop that?” the former congressional aide asked. 'They’re incredibly aggressive. They’re aggressive in all aspects of their relationship with the United States. Why would their intelligence relationship with us be any different?'"
Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757
Jeff Stein
Filed: 5/6/14 at 5:31 AM | Updated: 5/6/14 at 6:22 PM
[...]
"Israel’s espionage activities in America are unrivaled and unseemly, counterspies have told members of the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees, going far beyond activities by other close allies, such as Germany, France, the U.K. and Japan. A congressional staffer familiar with a briefing last January called the testimony 'very sobering…alarming…even terrifying.' Another staffer called it 'damaging.'
"The Jewish state’s primary target: America’s industrial and technical secrets.
"'No other country close to the United States continues to cross the line on espionage like the Israelis do,' said a former congressional staffer who attended another classified briefing in late 2013, one of several in recent months given by officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the State Department, the FBI and the National Counterintelligence Directorate.
[...]
"I.C. Smith, a former top FBI counterintelligence specialist during the Pollard affair, tells Newsweek, “In the early 1980s, dealing with the Israelis was, for those assigned that area, extremely frustrating. The Israelis were supremely confident that they had the clout, especially on the Hill, to basically get [away] with just about anything. This was the time of the Criteria Country List—later changed to the National Security Threat List—and I found it incredible that Taiwan and Vietnam, for instance, were on [it], when neither country had conducted activities that remotely approached the Pollard case, and neither had a history of, or a comparable capability to conduct, such activities.”
[...]
"As Paul Pillar, the CIA’s former national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, told Newsweek, old habits are hard to break: Zionists were dispatching spies to America before there even was an Israel, to gather money and materials for the cause and later the fledgling state. Key components for Israel’s nuclear bombs were clandestinely obtained here. 'They’ve found creative and inventive ways,' Pillar said, to get what they want.
"If we give them free rein to send people over here, how are we going to stop that?” the former congressional aide asked. 'They’re incredibly aggressive. They’re aggressive in all aspects of their relationship with the United States. Why would their intelligence relationship with us be any different?'"
"It is from numberless, diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Robert Kennedy, Senior
from speech to young people in Soweto, South Africa
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood for up for something, sometime in your life."
Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill
Gainesville voters eliminated Mark Venzke as a candidate
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Mark Venzke
citizen journalist
Gainesville, Florida, U. S. A.--Today, Gainesville city election day in which three Gainesville City Commission seats were contested, voters eliminated Mark Venzke and one other candidate, Donald Shepherd in the at large, seat two race.
Because voters gave no candidate a majority of the votes cast, the two candidates in the race with Mark who received the most votes, Annie Orlando and Helen Warren, will face each other in a runoff election on April 8.
"This, again, was a demanding race. At ten group candidate events--six fora, three meet and greets and a debate-- this was the most grueling of my three runs for office. My e-mail accounts and computer appear to have been repeatedly hacked. The only local daily newspaper engaged in some yellow journalism. Through all of it, some politically active and influential citizens remarked throughout the campaign that my performances in candidate fora and in the candidate debate were at times very strong. Their praise and their encouragement to run again in future races was not as emphatic in my past, two runs for seats on the city commission as it was during this run," Mark said.
"That Chris Curry, the local political reporter for the Gainesville Sun newspaper questioned Annie Orlando's and my residency one week before the election--even though I had very rarely and very briefly been outside Gainesville for many years before the election--was questionable. This was not surprising from a reporter and a newspaper that have historically favored the unresponsive Democrat political establishment and failed to either investigate and report most of the very serious and very costly irregularities of the biomass-produced electric contract or to even report the many, many very disturbing facts about it that citizens have presented before the city commission for several years. That same reporter in articles that his newspaper published months after the last two elections in which I ran cited the relatively small number of votes that I got in those elections in articles unrelated to election results--while never citing the number of votes that other candidates had received in articles in which he mentioned them--shows a disturbing pattern of bias against me. Still, that voters cast almost twice as many votes for me in this election as they did in my past two elections is noteworthy," he continued.
"Unlike past campaigns, many opinion leaders waited until the last two weeks of the campaign to make their endorsements. I suspect that was because they were undecided between Annie Orlando and me," he said. "I sensed that late in the campaign many voters decided to vote for one of the two perceived front runners even though many of the voters regarded me as a better choice than either or an equal or nearly equal choice to one of them," Mark said.
Mark concluded: "I am already making plans for my next run for office. As the band, Chicago, sings this is "...Only the beginning / Only just the start..."
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Mark Venzke
citizen journalist
Gainesville, Florida, U. S. A.--Today, Gainesville city election day in which three Gainesville City Commission seats were contested, voters eliminated Mark Venzke and one other candidate, Donald Shepherd in the at large, seat two race.
Because voters gave no candidate a majority of the votes cast, the two candidates in the race with Mark who received the most votes, Annie Orlando and Helen Warren, will face each other in a runoff election on April 8.
"This, again, was a demanding race. At ten group candidate events--six fora, three meet and greets and a debate-- this was the most grueling of my three runs for office. My e-mail accounts and computer appear to have been repeatedly hacked. The only local daily newspaper engaged in some yellow journalism. Through all of it, some politically active and influential citizens remarked throughout the campaign that my performances in candidate fora and in the candidate debate were at times very strong. Their praise and their encouragement to run again in future races was not as emphatic in my past, two runs for seats on the city commission as it was during this run," Mark said.
"That Chris Curry, the local political reporter for the Gainesville Sun newspaper questioned Annie Orlando's and my residency one week before the election--even though I had very rarely and very briefly been outside Gainesville for many years before the election--was questionable. This was not surprising from a reporter and a newspaper that have historically favored the unresponsive Democrat political establishment and failed to either investigate and report most of the very serious and very costly irregularities of the biomass-produced electric contract or to even report the many, many very disturbing facts about it that citizens have presented before the city commission for several years. That same reporter in articles that his newspaper published months after the last two elections in which I ran cited the relatively small number of votes that I got in those elections in articles unrelated to election results--while never citing the number of votes that other candidates had received in articles in which he mentioned them--shows a disturbing pattern of bias against me. Still, that voters cast almost twice as many votes for me in this election as they did in my past two elections is noteworthy," he continued.
"Unlike past campaigns, many opinion leaders waited until the last two weeks of the campaign to make their endorsements. I suspect that was because they were undecided between Annie Orlando and me," he said. "I sensed that late in the campaign many voters decided to vote for one of the two perceived front runners even though many of the voters regarded me as a better choice than either or an equal or nearly equal choice to one of them," Mark said.
Mark concluded: "I am already making plans for my next run for office. As the band, Chicago, sings this is "...Only the beginning / Only just the start..."
Mark Venzke, publisher and editor of A More Perfect Union, is running again for Gainesville city commissioner
Friday, January 24, 2014
Mark Venzke
Publisher & Editor
Gainesville, Florida, U. S. A.--Mark Venzke, long-time political activist and publisher and editor of A More Perfect Union, filed again today to run for Gainesville city commissioner.
Mark ran for city commissioner of Gainesville in the spring of 2012 and for mayor of Gainesville in the spring of 2013, but he won neither race.
For more than three years, Mark has been a regular attender of Gainesville City Commission meetings where he frequently comments before the commission on city business. From that involvement, he is quite familiar with circumstances, opportunities and challenges in the city. Mark intends to continue to work for:
Mark continues to follow and promote the tenets of his trans-partisan political creedo:
The Mark Venzke For Gainesville City Commission Campaign will soon publish an Internet site and Facebook page and will announce the launches of them here, on the home page of the A More Perfect Union Internet site.
Mark welcomes the support of all of all those who want to work for a better Gainesville, and he welcomes the votes of all Gainesville voters. Gainesville and Florida law allow candidates for Gainesville elective offices to accept monetary and in-kind contributions from anyone living anywhere. Mark encourages all of his supporters in Gainesville who are citizens of the U. S. to register to vote by Friday, February 7 and to vote early, vote by absentee ballot or vote on election day in the city election on or before March 11. He also encourages his supporters to display campaign yard signs on their properties, which they will be soon able to obtain from the Campaign.
"Help me to bring creative, practical, responsible and fair governance to Gainesville by supporting my candidacy and by voting for me," Mark said after filing to run.
Ed. Because Mark will be preoccupied with his campaign until mid-March, he will add little content to this site until then.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Mark Venzke
Publisher & Editor
Gainesville, Florida, U. S. A.--Mark Venzke, long-time political activist and publisher and editor of A More Perfect Union, filed again today to run for Gainesville city commissioner.
Mark ran for city commissioner of Gainesville in the spring of 2012 and for mayor of Gainesville in the spring of 2013, but he won neither race.
For more than three years, Mark has been a regular attender of Gainesville City Commission meetings where he frequently comments before the commission on city business. From that involvement, he is quite familiar with circumstances, opportunities and challenges in the city. Mark intends to continue to work for:
- a fully responsible energy policy--one that is economically and environmentally responsible
- full-spectrum human and economic development
- accommodation and empowerment of destitute people
Mark continues to follow and promote the tenets of his trans-partisan political creedo:
- integrity
- clarity
- fiscal responsibility
- accessibility
- innovation
- long-term benefits over short-term benefits
- conservation of cultural and natural resources
- harmony through enlightenment, principle, respect, engagement, courage and justice
The Mark Venzke For Gainesville City Commission Campaign will soon publish an Internet site and Facebook page and will announce the launches of them here, on the home page of the A More Perfect Union Internet site.
Mark welcomes the support of all of all those who want to work for a better Gainesville, and he welcomes the votes of all Gainesville voters. Gainesville and Florida law allow candidates for Gainesville elective offices to accept monetary and in-kind contributions from anyone living anywhere. Mark encourages all of his supporters in Gainesville who are citizens of the U. S. to register to vote by Friday, February 7 and to vote early, vote by absentee ballot or vote on election day in the city election on or before March 11. He also encourages his supporters to display campaign yard signs on their properties, which they will be soon able to obtain from the Campaign.
"Help me to bring creative, practical, responsible and fair governance to Gainesville by supporting my candidacy and by voting for me," Mark said after filing to run.
Ed. Because Mark will be preoccupied with his campaign until mid-March, he will add little content to this site until then.
Mark Venzke, publisher and editor of A More Perfect Union, and his colleague, Nick White, deliver a presentation on emerging energy technologies and their effects on electric utility companies to the Gainesville City Commissioners at their regular meeting on Thursday, March 20, 2014.
Mogens Lykketoft, Speaker of the Danish Parliament, will visit Palestine without visiting Israel
TH, February , 2014, 12:58 (Ma'an)
Bethlehem, Palestine/Israel--The speaker for the Danish parliament Mogens Lykketoft is set to visit the West Bank and Gaza next week, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
Read the entire article at: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=671462
TH, February , 2014, 12:58 (Ma'an)
Bethlehem, Palestine/Israel--The speaker for the Danish parliament Mogens Lykketoft is set to visit the West Bank and Gaza next week, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
Read the entire article at: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=671462
Soda Stream stock value dropped during international boycott of products of the company
MO, February 3, 2014, 03:12
Mark Venzke, publisher and editor
Gainesville, Florida, U. S. A.--This stock chart shows the precipitous and sustained loss in value of a share of Soda Stream stock after the company announced lower-than-forecast earnings and after it hired actress, Scarlett Johannson, as a spokesmodel. That drop in earnings occurred during a steadily growing international boycott of the Israeli soft drink company. Conscientious consumers worldwide are promoting the boycott because it illegally occupies Palestinian land, mistreats non-Jewish workers and supports the economy and government of Israel that has been taking land from Palestinians and oppressing them.
See the following story:
The value of stock of Israeli soft drink company, Soda Stream, an international boycott target, dropped 25% on news of lower-than-expected earnings
MO, 2014.01.13, 15:45 (WSJ)
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/01/13/sodastream-loses-its-fizz-shares-down-25/
ed. Actually, actress and spokesmodel for Soda Stream, Scarlett Johannson, did not announce her resignation as Global Ambassador for Oxfam and affirm her support for Soda Stream until January 30--more than two weeks after the point on the graph labeled, "#ScarJo, LOL."
MO, February 3, 2014, 03:12
Mark Venzke, publisher and editor
Gainesville, Florida, U. S. A.--This stock chart shows the precipitous and sustained loss in value of a share of Soda Stream stock after the company announced lower-than-forecast earnings and after it hired actress, Scarlett Johannson, as a spokesmodel. That drop in earnings occurred during a steadily growing international boycott of the Israeli soft drink company. Conscientious consumers worldwide are promoting the boycott because it illegally occupies Palestinian land, mistreats non-Jewish workers and supports the economy and government of Israel that has been taking land from Palestinians and oppressing them.
See the following story:
The value of stock of Israeli soft drink company, Soda Stream, an international boycott target, dropped 25% on news of lower-than-expected earnings
MO, 2014.01.13, 15:45 (WSJ)
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/01/13/sodastream-loses-its-fizz-shares-down-25/
ed. Actually, actress and spokesmodel for Soda Stream, Scarlett Johannson, did not announce her resignation as Global Ambassador for Oxfam and affirm her support for Soda Stream until January 30--more than two weeks after the point on the graph labeled, "#ScarJo, LOL."
Amid heavy media attention, Scarlett Johannson resigned as global ambassador for Oxfam after she announced her continued support for SodaStream, an Israeli company illegally located in the Palestinian West Bank, for which she remains a spokesmodel
ed. That's "heavy media attention" in major, international media.
"US Groups Say ScarJo Resignation as Oxfam Ambassador Will Strengthen Global Movement for Palestinian Rights"
WE, January 30, 2014 (US Campaign To End Occupation)
excerpts:
"After an international campaign urging Oxfam International to end its relationship with Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson for endorsing SodaStream, whose factory is based in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank, groups working for Palestinian rights said that Johansson’s resignation from the role of Global Ambassador for Oxfam will send the message that profiting from occupation is incompatible with human rights work.
"Nancy Kricorian of CODEPINK: Women for Peace said: “We are glad that Oxfam and Scarlett Johansson have parted ways. Oxfam’s clear stance against Israeli settlement trade and Johansson’s association with occupation profiteer SodaStream made their relationship untenable. We look forward to educational leafleting opportunities at Ms. Johansson’s public events.”
"On Tuesday, U.S. human rights groups sent delegations to Oxfam America's offices in Boston and Washington, D.C. urging Oxfam to end its relationship with Johansson. [On that same day, groups...also delivered a petition with more than 10,000 signatures to Johansson's representatives at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles and New York, calling on Johansson to end her support for SodaStream.
"In a statement accepting Johansson’s resignation, Oxfam reiterated its position that “businesses, such as SodaStream, that operate in settlements further the ongoing poverty and denial of rights of the Palestinian communities that we work to support.” Approximately 200 hundred Palestinian families were displaced to create the huge Israeli settlement of Maaleh Adumim where SodaStream's factory is located. The settlement also cuts the West Bank in half, furthering Israel's strategy of creating disconnected, impoverished Palestinian bantustans. [emphasis added]
[...]
"SodaStream announced on January 10 that Johansson had become their first-ever Global Brand Ambassador. Two weeks later, Johansson released a statement standing behind the SodaStream product and praising the company for “building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine.” [emphasis added]
"Patrick Connors from Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel commented: 'Contrary to Scarlett Johansson's claim that SodaStream furthers equal rights and peace, SodaStream's Palestinian laborers live under a brutal Israeli military occupation. Israel's seizure of West Bank land for settlements like the one where SodaStream's factory sits has destroyed the Palestinian economy, creating a captive labor force that companies like SodaStream exploit....Palestinians need freedom and human rights, not sweatshop jobs in an Israeli factory built on stolen Palestinian land.'
[...]
"Rebecca Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace added: 'That Oxfam and Scarlett Johansson have parted ways over her association with SodaStream proves that one can no longer claim to be a humanitarian while being associated in any way with the settlement enterprise. Israeli policies that deny human rights, ignore international law, and help companies profit from the occupation are no longer being tolerated by people around the world that [sic] care about justice. That the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement was able to force this decision in a matter of weeks [20 days] is proof of the growing power of BDS worldwide."
[...]
Read the entire article at: http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=3875
ed. That's "heavy media attention" in major, international media.
"US Groups Say ScarJo Resignation as Oxfam Ambassador Will Strengthen Global Movement for Palestinian Rights"
WE, January 30, 2014 (US Campaign To End Occupation)
excerpts:
"After an international campaign urging Oxfam International to end its relationship with Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson for endorsing SodaStream, whose factory is based in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank, groups working for Palestinian rights said that Johansson’s resignation from the role of Global Ambassador for Oxfam will send the message that profiting from occupation is incompatible with human rights work.
"Nancy Kricorian of CODEPINK: Women for Peace said: “We are glad that Oxfam and Scarlett Johansson have parted ways. Oxfam’s clear stance against Israeli settlement trade and Johansson’s association with occupation profiteer SodaStream made their relationship untenable. We look forward to educational leafleting opportunities at Ms. Johansson’s public events.”
"On Tuesday, U.S. human rights groups sent delegations to Oxfam America's offices in Boston and Washington, D.C. urging Oxfam to end its relationship with Johansson. [On that same day, groups...also delivered a petition with more than 10,000 signatures to Johansson's representatives at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles and New York, calling on Johansson to end her support for SodaStream.
"In a statement accepting Johansson’s resignation, Oxfam reiterated its position that “businesses, such as SodaStream, that operate in settlements further the ongoing poverty and denial of rights of the Palestinian communities that we work to support.” Approximately 200 hundred Palestinian families were displaced to create the huge Israeli settlement of Maaleh Adumim where SodaStream's factory is located. The settlement also cuts the West Bank in half, furthering Israel's strategy of creating disconnected, impoverished Palestinian bantustans. [emphasis added]
[...]
"SodaStream announced on January 10 that Johansson had become their first-ever Global Brand Ambassador. Two weeks later, Johansson released a statement standing behind the SodaStream product and praising the company for “building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine.” [emphasis added]
"Patrick Connors from Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel commented: 'Contrary to Scarlett Johansson's claim that SodaStream furthers equal rights and peace, SodaStream's Palestinian laborers live under a brutal Israeli military occupation. Israel's seizure of West Bank land for settlements like the one where SodaStream's factory sits has destroyed the Palestinian economy, creating a captive labor force that companies like SodaStream exploit....Palestinians need freedom and human rights, not sweatshop jobs in an Israeli factory built on stolen Palestinian land.'
[...]
"Rebecca Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace added: 'That Oxfam and Scarlett Johansson have parted ways over her association with SodaStream proves that one can no longer claim to be a humanitarian while being associated in any way with the settlement enterprise. Israeli policies that deny human rights, ignore international law, and help companies profit from the occupation are no longer being tolerated by people around the world that [sic] care about justice. That the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement was able to force this decision in a matter of weeks [20 days] is proof of the growing power of BDS worldwide."
[...]
Read the entire article at: http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=3875
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Dutch pension fund, PGGM, announced that it will divest tens of *millions of Euros from five Israeli banks for financing illegal Israeli development in Palestinian territories and for maintaining bank branches in them
ed. That's "million" with an "M."
"Statement Regarding Exclusion Of Israeli Banks"
WE, January 8, 2014 (PGGM)
excerpts:
"PGGM recently decided to no longer invest in five Israeli banks, namely Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, First International Bank of Israel, Israel Discount Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank. For several years PGGM has been in dialogue with these banks. The reason for this engagement was their involvement in financing Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. This was a concern, as the settlements in the Palestinian territories are considered illegal under international humanitarian law. [emphasis added] Moreover, international observers have indicated that the settlements constitute an important obstacle to a peaceful (two-state) solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"In 2004 the International Court of Justice concluded in an Advisory Opinion that the settlements in the Palestinian territories are in breach of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Population in Time of War. This article prohibits an occupying power to transfer its own citizens to occupied territory. International bodies, including the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council have adopted various broadly supported resolutions, which state that the settlements are considered illegal....
[...]
"PGGM continues its dialogue with a small number of other companies [involved illegally in Palestinian territories] on the same issue and will report on progress through its regular reporting."
read the entire statement at:
https://www.pggm.nl/english/what-we-do/Documents/Statement%20PGGM%20exclusion%20Israeli%20banks.pdf
Omar Bhargouti, a co-organizer of the international academic and cultural boycott movement against Israel, said that the movement is growing much faster than the BDS movement that successfully forced South Africa to end apartheid
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from the online news site, Electronic Intifada
FR, January 10, 2014, 15:51
by Ali Abunimah
excerpts:
Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement co-founder Omar Barghouti was in Chicago this week to speak on a panel on academic boycotts at the Modern Language Association (MLA) [an academic association] conference.
He also spoke to Jerome McDonnell on WBEZ’s Worldview (use the player above to listen).
Alarm An MLA meeting would not normally make headlines but Barghouti’s appearance has provoked alarmist articles in the Israeli and US media, including in Haaretz and The Wall Street Journal.
Following the American Studies Association’s (ASA) landslide vote to endorse the academic boycott of Israel in December, Israel and its supporters fear that the much larger MLA – with 30,000 members in 100 countries – is heading in the same direction. [emphasis added]
[...]
Barghouti also detailed Israel’s systematic attacks on Palestinian academic freedom and education including the total shut down of all schools and universities during the first intifada in the late 1980s and Israel’s bombing of schools and universities in Gaza five years ago.
"BDS is about opposing a comprehensive Israeli 'system of racial discrimination,' Barghouti explained.
"Barghouti lauded the decision announced this week by PGGM, a $200-billion-dollar Dutch pensions firm, to divest from Israeli banks due to their involvement in Israel’s illegal colony construction in the occupied West Bank.
"He called the PGGM decision 'warm news' in the 'very cold weather of Chicago' and noted that it was 'unprecedented' in its scope since the pensions giant divested from all Israeli banks, not just their operations within the occupied West Bank.
[...]
"'We rely on the fast-growing movement among academics, among students on campus. Israel is very aware and so are we about the growth of BDS on US campuses, so the fact that they gathered eighty presidents of universities to defend Israel and attack the BDS movement is no surprise to us because most of those presidents were against divestment from South Africa. The tide changed.'
"Barghouti said that progress in the BDS movement against Israel was 'much faster' than the progress made by the campaign against apartheid South Africa when he was a student in the United States in the 1980s. [emphasis added]"
Read the entire article at:
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-boycott-growing-much-faster-south-africa-campaign-says-omar-barghouti
Boston-area BDS campaigners denied Israeli conglomerate, Violea, $4.26 billion contract to operate the commuter rail line
from the online news site Mondoweiss
TH, January 9, 2014
by Nancy Murray
ed. That is "billion" with a "B."
excerpts:
"Over the last two and a half years, supporters of Palestinian rights in Boston have mounted a BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions] campaign aimed at denying a new contract to run the Massachusetts commuter rail to Veolia, one of three companies that formed the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad (MBCR). With a 60 percent stake in the MBCR, Veolia has been in charge of operating and maintaining the trains since 2003.
"On January 8, they tasted victory, when a contract that could be worth as much as $4.26 billion* [emphasis added] [That is "billion" with a "B."] was awarded to the MBCR’s sole competitor, Keolis America, by a vote of the joint Board for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).
"During the public comment period before the Board vote, members of the groups that came together in a 'Derail Veolia' coalition urged the Board to be 'on the right side of history,' and deny a new contract to a company that is complicit in human rights violations in the occupied West Bank and that is the target of an increasingly powerful international and national campaign. [emphasis added] They also highlighted Veolia’s attacks on labor and a range of other practices that do not serve the public, including its role as the world’s leading water privatizer.
"They further pointed out evidence of the MBCR’s poor performance over the past decade, including its record of late arrivals, chronic delays, cancellations and dark, cold coaches, a declining ridership, OSHA fines for 'serious health and safety offenses,' cases of double-billing, and tens of millions of dollars of additional costs to the Massachusetts taxpayers that were not in the original contract.
* That is "billion" with a "B," or, $1,000,000,000
Read the entire article at:
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/01/massachusetts-commuter-contract.html
from the online news site Mondoweiss
TH, January 9, 2014
by Nancy Murray
ed. That is "billion" with a "B."
excerpts:
"Over the last two and a half years, supporters of Palestinian rights in Boston have mounted a BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions] campaign aimed at denying a new contract to run the Massachusetts commuter rail to Veolia, one of three companies that formed the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad (MBCR). With a 60 percent stake in the MBCR, Veolia has been in charge of operating and maintaining the trains since 2003.
"On January 8, they tasted victory, when a contract that could be worth as much as $4.26 billion* [emphasis added] [That is "billion" with a "B."] was awarded to the MBCR’s sole competitor, Keolis America, by a vote of the joint Board for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).
"During the public comment period before the Board vote, members of the groups that came together in a 'Derail Veolia' coalition urged the Board to be 'on the right side of history,' and deny a new contract to a company that is complicit in human rights violations in the occupied West Bank and that is the target of an increasingly powerful international and national campaign. [emphasis added] They also highlighted Veolia’s attacks on labor and a range of other practices that do not serve the public, including its role as the world’s leading water privatizer.
"They further pointed out evidence of the MBCR’s poor performance over the past decade, including its record of late arrivals, chronic delays, cancellations and dark, cold coaches, a declining ridership, OSHA fines for 'serious health and safety offenses,' cases of double-billing, and tens of millions of dollars of additional costs to the Massachusetts taxpayers that were not in the original contract.
* That is "billion" with a "B," or, $1,000,000,000
Read the entire article at:
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/01/massachusetts-commuter-contract.html
Netanyahu: “The world won't say a thing. The world will say we're defending.”
Woman: “Aren't you afraid of the world, Bibi?”
Netanyahu: “Especially today, with America--I know what America is—America is something that can easily be moved, moved to the right direction.” [emphasis added]
Woman: “They say they're for us, but it's like--
Netanyahu: “They won't get in our way. They won't get in our way.”
[emphasis added]
Woman: “Aren't you afraid of the world, Bibi?”
Netanyahu: “Especially today, with America--I know what America is—America is something that can easily be moved, moved to the right direction.” [emphasis added]
Woman: “They say they're for us, but it's like--
Netanyahu: “They won't get in our way. They won't get in our way.”
[emphasis added]
Please help me find the original source for this alleged, shocking quotation of Benjamin Netanyahu.
So far, the earliest citation of that quotation that I have been able to find is from renowned investigative journalist and national columnist, Wayne Madsen, in one of his articles dated September 21, 2005 at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060512234448/http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/092105Madsen/092105madsen.html
So far, the earliest citation of that quotation that I have been able to find is from renowned investigative journalist and national columnist, Wayne Madsen, in one of his articles dated September 21, 2005 at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060512234448/http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/092105Madsen/092105madsen.html
"Tell me, do the evil men of this world have a bad time? They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. They don’t suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven.
"I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear us instead of feeling sorry. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear our madness instead of admiring our nobility. Let them tremble, let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a savage country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go wild, that we might start World War Three just like that, or that we might one day go crazy and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East.
"Personally, I don’t want to be any better than Harry Truman who snuffed out half a million Japanese with two fine bombs."
Ariel Sharon
former prime minister and former ministers of foreign affairs; energy and water resources; housing and construction; industry, trade and labor and defense and former military officer
February 26, 1928--January 11, 2014
"I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear us instead of feeling sorry. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear our madness instead of admiring our nobility. Let them tremble, let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a savage country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go wild, that we might start World War Three just like that, or that we might one day go crazy and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East.
"Personally, I don’t want to be any better than Harry Truman who snuffed out half a million Japanese with two fine bombs."
Ariel Sharon
former prime minister and former ministers of foreign affairs; energy and water resources; housing and construction; industry, trade and labor and defense and former military officer
February 26, 1928--January 11, 2014
"Every time we do something, you tell me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel; we, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
Ariel Sharon
Israeli Prime Minister
October 3, 2001
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Ariel Sharon
Israeli Prime Minister
October 3, 2001
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SU, February 9, 2014 (My Catbird Seat) http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/02/we-must-impose-sanctions-on-israel-says-british-mp/ The Israeli administration is mulling responses to global boycotts, divestments and sanctions
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TH, February , 2014, 12:58 (Ma'an) http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=671462 SodaStream stock dropped another 3.3 percent, and financial industry analysts cited for the first time the ongoing boycotts of the products of the company as a cause for the declining performance of the stock
SU, February 2, 2014 (Mondoweiss) http://mondoweiss.net/2014/02/sodastream-sanctions-settlements.html Hardline, conservative, Israeli Jews held a mass prayer session at the Wailing Wall imploring devine intercession to subvert the Israeli-Iranian peace process
TH, January 30, 2014, 13:24 (Yahoo) http://news.yahoo.com/hardline-israelis-hold-mass-prayer-against-peace-talks-182403896.html Ministers in the Israeli cabinet accused John Kerry of "antisemitic" tactics for warning Israel about growing boycotts
SU, February 2, 2014, 16:38 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10613055/John-Kerry-labelled-anti-Semite-for-warning-of-possible-boycott-of-Israel.html Two Norwegian lawmakers nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize
WE, January 29, 2014, 11:31 (RT) http://rt.com/news/snowden-nobel-peace-prize-norway-353/ Amid heavy media attention, Scarlett Johannson resigned as global ambassador for Oxfam after she announced her continued support for SodaStream, an Israeli company illegally located in the Palestinian West Bank, for which she remains a spokesmodel
Thursday, January, 30, 2013 (Campaign To End Occupation) http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=3875 Boston, Los Angeles and New York Palestinian rights advocates urged Oxfam and the talent agency of SodaStream spokesmodel, Scarlett Johansen, to sever relationships that support Palestinian oppression; Oxfam is scrutinizing the relationship it has with Johansen
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Monday, January 27, 2014, 10:27 (The New American) http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/17491-connecticut-gun-owners-fail-to-register-officials-push-amnesty?tmpl=component&print=1 A large, Russian bank announced that it would not allow depositors to make withdrawals until next week
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January 27, 2014 (Alaska Dispatch) http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140127/air-force-plans-pull-plug-alaskas-controversial-haarp-facility An Israeli court sentenced an ultra-orthodox Israeli Jew who opposes the existence of a physical Jewish state until Messiah returns to 4 1/2 years in prison for spying for Iran
TU, January 28, 2014, 12:00 (Yahoo) http://news.yahoo.com/ultra-orthodox-israeli-jailed-attempted-iran-spying-165843920.html Some U. K. and U. S. banks have been limiting the sizes of depositers' withdrawals
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SA, January 18, 2013 (Nation Of Change) http://www.nationofchange.org/utah-ending-homelessness-giving-people-homes-1390056183 Unwillingness of the Obama administration to acknowledge the design flaws in the Fukushima nuclear power units--identical to 23 units in the U. S.--is preventing the administration from taking critical intervening and emergency response actions
TH, January 16, 2014 (Activist Post) http://www.activistpost.com/2014/01/why-obama-wont-admit-fukushima.html 13 Roman Catholic archbishops who recently completed their annual visit to Gaza pronounced conditions there "a humanitarian disaster" and called on political leaders to end the privation and oppression of residents of the region
FR, January 17, 2014 (Terrasanta) http://www.terrasanta.net/tsx/articolo.jsp?wi_number=5970&wi_codseq=%20%20%20%20%20%20&language=en Ayelet Shaked, chair of the Habayit Hayehudi party in Israel, stated that the cultural and academic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel is the "...greatest threat faced by the country"
MO, January 6, 2014, 19:20 (Electronic Intifada) http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/boycott-greatest-threat-facing-israel-leaders-say Yair Laid, the finance minister of Israel, warned that the growing, international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel will "...hurt every Israeli"
SA, January 11, 2014 (Electronic Intifada) http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/growing-boycott-will-hit-each-us-pocket-warns-israel-finance-minister?utm_content=buffer8f6c4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer The Delegate Assembly of the Modern Languages Association (MLA), a U. S. academic association, approved a resolution to ask the U. S. State Department to challenge the policies of Israel that impede U. S. scholars from working at Palestinian universities--the first of three votes needed to effect the purpose of the resolution
TU, January 14, 2013 (Inside Higher Ed) http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/13/mla-delegate-assembly-narrowly-votes-criticize-israel#ixzz2qQgThF7y Massive Mexican citizen militias are beating Mexican- and U. S.-government backed drug cartels and ousted most of the drug-sale-complicit government officials of a rural city
SU, January 12, 2013, 21:05 (WSJ) http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303819704579317190042933678 U. S. court documents show that U. S. law enforcement agreed to extend legal immunity to Sinoloa drug cartel members and to allow them to sell hard drugs throughout the U. S. in exchange for information on rival drug cartels
MO, January 13, 2014, 12:33 (Business Insider) http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1 Israeli settlers have twice overrun the Muslim Al-aqsa Mosque in al-Quds (Jerusalem)
FR, January 17, 2013, 16:37 (MEM) https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/9292-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-and-climb-dome-of-the-rock Two Israeli Jewish textbook authorities refuted claims of a New York Times article that Palestinian textbooks are inciting children to violence against Israelis and identify the converse in Israeli textbooks and education
SA, January 18, 2014 (Time Warp) http://timeswarp.org/2014/01/18/the-experts-who-know-too-much/ See the full text of the letter in the right column. A scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) launched a crowd sourcing campaign to finance ocean-wide testing of Pacific Ocean water for radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan in the absence of testing by any government
TH, January 16, 2014, 12:16 (Live Science) http://www.livescience.com/42630-fukushima-ocean-radioactivity-to-be-tracked.html?cmpid=514645#sthash.UQ5yQ6rX.dpuf Occupy Wall Street published secret Walmart manuals on suppressing employee grievance raising and union organizing
TH, January 16, 2014 (Making Change At Walmart) http://makingchangeatwalmart.org/2014/01/16/hackers-leak-walmarts-guide-on-how-to-silence-workers/ Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the European Union for the summoning of Israeli ambassadors to the capitals of the countries of four member nations to address continuing construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank
TH, January 16, 2014, 23:49 http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/16/346031/israel-condemns-eu-over-summoning-envoys/ Pope Francis replaced all but one top official in the scandal-plagued Vatica bank known as the Institute For Religious Works
WE, January 15, 2013 (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/pope-francis-shakes-up-vatican-bank-sets-financial-cap-for-sainthood/2014/01/15/2ecf5d20-7e21-11e3-97d3-b9925ce2c57b_story.html Many U. S. intelligence operatives want Edward Snowden dead
TH, January 16, 2014, 23:25 (Buzzfeed) http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/americas-spies-want-edward-snowden-dead Obama announced modest new limits on surveillance by intelligence agencies
FR, 2014.01.17, 12:41 (Yahoo) http://news.yahoo.com/obama-backs-limits-nsa-phone-collections-160647700.html G. Edward Griffin recounts the history of the banking system of the U. S. and the abuses of it and the origins and purposes of the Council On Foreign Relations
2013.12.19 (Corbett Report) http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-794-g-edward-griffin-unmasks-the-creature-from-jekyll-island/ Leaked memos reveal machinations to deregulate banking and securities industries worldwide that lead to 2007-2009 world banking collapse, to massive government bailouts and to economic aftershocks since
2014.08.22 (Vice) http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/larry-summers-and-the-secret-end-game-memo The value of stock of Israeli soft drink company, Soda Stream, an international boycott target, dropped 25% on news of lower-than-expected earnings
MO, 2014.01.13, 15:45 (WSJ) http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/01/13/sodastream-loses-its-fizz-shares-down-25/ Staples Norway will phase out sales of Soda Stream soft drinks that the company produces in illegally occupied Palestinian territory
FR, 2013.12.20 (Norwegian People's Aid) http://www.npaid.org/News/2013/Staples-Norway-to-quit-selling-SodaStream The Green Party of the U. S. endorsed the academic boycott of the American Studies Association against Israel
TU, January 14, 2014 (Green Party) http://www.gp.org/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/details/4/667.html The City Of New York will now pay damages to demonstrators illegally arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention
TH, January 16, 2014 (Daily Intelligencer) http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/01/arrested-rnc-protesters-finally-get-paid.html The head of the National Security Agency (NSA) can not tell U. S. Senator Sanders whether it has been spying on him
WE, January 15, 2014 (Common Dreams) http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/15-9 U. S. citizens have been creating substantial resistance to the pressure of the Israel lobby to impose additional sanctions on Iran
WE, January 15, 2014, (Common Dreams) http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/14-10 U. S. State Department decries Israeli minister of military affairs, Moshe Ya'alon's, demeaning of U. S. secretary of State, John Kerry's, efforts to broker peace
TU, January 14, 2014, 07:09 (Press TV) http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/14/345587/us-attacks-israel-for-offending-kerry/ Vladimir Putin assures neutralization of Caucuses terrorists and Saudi backers of them
MO, January 13, 2014, 05:02 (Press TV) http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/13/345300/will-putin-destroy-saudi-rulers/ Former U. S. secretary of defense, Robert Gates, describes recklessness of current Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu
TU, January 14, 2013, 04:05 (Haaretz) http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.568477?fb_action_ids=384620945007401&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[270593446428855]&action_type_map=[%22og.recommends%22]&action_ref_map=[] British groups filed a criminal complaint in the International Criminal Court (ICC) against political and military leaders in Great Britain for war crimes in Iraq
SU, January 12, 2013 (Indpendent) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-devastating-dossier-on-abuse-by-uk-forces-in-iraq-goes-to-international-criminal-court-9053735.html Israeli authorities seized tents issued to Palestinians in Jiftlik by the U. N. after Israeli authorities razed their buildings
MO, January 13, 2013, 21:25 (IMEC) http://www.imemc.org/article/66742 The U. N. Human Rights Panel declared Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories illegal and demanded that Israelis leave them
TU, December 31, 2013, 22:17 (NBC) http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/31/16789933-un-panels-report-israel-must-withdraw-all-settlers-from-west-bank Putin announced that Russia is committed to eliminating al-Qaida by effecting expulsion of the House of Saud from Saui Arabian government
TU, January 14, 2014, 04:02 GMT (Press TV) http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/13/345443/russia-committed-to-destroying-alqaeda/ Israel announced that it intends to annex the fertile Golan Heights of Syria
MO, January 13, 2013, 12:35 (Haaretz) http://www.haaretz.com/misc/iphone-article/.premium-1.568172 A record high 62% of U. S. citizens think that the U. S. needs a third political party
FR, October 11, 2013 (Gallup) http://www.gallup.com/poll/165392/perceived-need-third-party-reaches-new-high.aspx Twenty-two U. S. military veterans per day commit suicide
SU, January 12, 2013, (RSN) http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/306-10/21463-report-suicide-rate-among-young-veterans-has-tripled Connecticut became the first state to require that food producers label their products to indicate Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) content
WE, December 11, 2013, 14:30 EST (WFSB) http://www.wfsb.com/story/24195364/connecticut-becomes-first-state-to-require-labeling-of-gmos Aerial Sharon's life brought wanton and recurring death and destruction and subversion of peace processes
SA, January 11, 2014, 15:41 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/01/ariel-sharon-enemy-peace-20141485425583722.html Carmi Gillon, the former head of the Shabak, Israeli internal security agency, fled Denmark hastily after a pro-Palestine organization filed a criminal complaint and demanded his arrest on torture charges
SU, January 12, 2014, 15:17 (Middle East Monitor) https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/europe/9190-ex-security-chief-flees-denmark-over-arrest-fears Bands of cunning, former Israeli military servicemembers have been conducting provocative "price tag attacks" against Palestinians with the support of illegal Israeli settlers and with deficient criminal justice actions
SU, January 12, 2014, 15:14 (Middle East Monitor) http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/9193-official-report-warns-settler-price-tag-attacks-could-inflame-mid-east "price tag policy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_tag_policy Fifteen Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria that has been besieged by Syrian insurgents have died of starvation
TU, December 31, 2013, 14:57 (Middle East Monitor) https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/9001-15-palestinians-killed-by-starvation-in-yarmouk-refugee-camp-in-syria Five numbers that quantify the war crimes of Ariel Sharon
SU, January 12, 2014, 13:09 (Huffington Post) http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/ariel-sharon-war-crimes_b_4584178.html A U. S. Marine who participated in ravaging Falluja in 2004 and who has contacts there reports that native freedom fighters have been battling the repressive, U. S.-backed Iraqi government and that reports of al-Qaida having taken control of the city are completely false
January 11, 2013 (Stop War Coalition) http://www.stopwar.org.uk/news/what-we-are-not-being-told-about-falluja-today-by-the-ex-us-marine-who-helped-destroy-it-in-2004 Respondents to an annual Win-Gallup survey in 65 countries overwhelmingly rated the U. S. as the greatest threat to world peace--three times the percentage points of the runner up
December 31, 2013, 01:03 (CNS News) http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/and-country-posing-greatest-threat-peace-2013-ends The life of Areal Sharon is one of recurring, brutal war crimes
SA, January 11, 2014 (Stop War Coalition) http://www.stopwar.org.uk/news/the-truth-about-israeli-war-criminal-ariel-sharon-that-you-won-t-hear-from-obama-cameron-or-the-bbc?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr Catherine Ashton, the E. U. foreign minister, warned Israel to stop construction of additional, illegal dwellings in Palestinian territories
MO, January 13, 2014, 12:29 (Times Of Israel) http://www.timesofisrael.com/ashton-to-israel-stop-west-bank-construction/ Iran denounced the plan of Israel for 1400 illegal dwelling units in two Israel-occupied Palestinian territories
SU, January 12, 2013, 14:36 GMT (Press TV) http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/12/345194/iran-slams-israel-settlement-expansion/ U. S., E. U., Palestinian governments and Jewish peace organization declare that the plan for 1400 additional illegal dwellings in Palestinian territories by Israel would undermine the peace process
SU, January 1, 2014, 19:01 (Jerusalem Post) http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/US-Palestinians-Tenders-for-1400-over-pre-1967s-lines-harmful-to-peace-337852 Israel announced plans to build 1800 additional dwellings in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories
SA, January 11, 2013, 07:17 (AFP) http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/20690115/israel-unveils-plans-for-1-800-settler-homes-after-kerry-visit/ Aeriel Sharon feared genocide charges against him and other Israeli leaders
SA, February 21, 2014, 16:12 (Haaretz) http://www.haaretz.com/news/israeli-elections-2013/whos-who/ariel-sharon-feared-genocide-charges-over-israel-s-role-in-sabra-and-shatila.premium-1.505001 The Justice and Civil Liberties Committee of the European Union Parliament asked Edward Snowden to testify for an inquiry into National Security Agency (NSA) spying on European leaders
SA, January 11, 2014 (Hack Read) http://hackread.com/european-parliament-invites-snowden-to-testify-against-nsas-surveillance/ Illegal Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley in Palestine are experiencing economic hardship from the international boycott of Israeli businesses in those settlements
FR, January 10, 2014 (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/minister-lack-of-peace-will-hurt-israeli-economy/2014/01/10/9a137b34-7a2a-11e3-a647-a19deaf575b3_story.html The U. K. Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI) accused the Aberdeen, Scotland City Council of attacking Israel for displaying a Palestinian flag
WE, January 8, 2014, 10:01 (Evening Express) http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/local/aberdeen-city-council-accused-of-attack-on-israel-1.173689 Boston-area Palestinian rights campaigners convinced the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad (MBCR) to deny the $4.26 billion operations contract for the line to Vieolia, the Israel-based, Palestine-abusing, multinational conglomerate
TH, January 9, 2014 (Mondoweiss) http://mondoweiss.net/2014/01/massachusetts-commuter-contract.html Pope Francis will favor Palestine over Israel in his Holy Land visit
TH, December 19, 2013, 12:32 (YNet) http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4467385,00.html High U. S. officials have warned for forty years that mass surveillance would bring tyranny
WE, July 3, 2013 (Washington's Blog) http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/top-experts-have-warned-for-50-years-that-mass-surveillance-would-lead-to-tyranny-in-america.html The National Security Agency (NSA) (executive branch) has been spying on--and blackmailing--members of the U. S. Congress (legislative branch), Supreme Court justices (judicial branch), top military leaders, top State Department officials and others
WE, January 8, 2013 (Global Research) http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-spying-on-congress-to-manipulate-intimidate-blackmail-top-government-and-military-officials/5364273 The Church Of Scottland concluded that Israel has no right to Palestinian lands
MO, May 6, 2013 (EU Times) http://www.eutimes.net/2013/05/israel-has-no-right-to-palestinian-lands-scottish-church/ Politically independent voters reached 46% in the fourth quarter of 2013--the highest in the history of Gallup telephone polling
WE, January 8, 2013 (Gallup) http://www.gallup.com/poll/166763/record-high-americans-indentify-independents.aspx The number of Jewish legislators in countries around the world just reached an all-time high
TH, January 9, 2013, 00:00 (Haaretz) http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/number-of-jewish-lawmakers-worldwide-reaches-record-high-1.204752 The terms and hazards of the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty: consolidation of power of the wealthy while eroding democracies and human rights
December 11, 2013, 10:48 (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/11/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-trans-pacific-partnership/ New York City enacted a law that requires that 20% of new parking spaces have electric vehicle (EV) charging stations
FR, January 3, 2014, 10:12 (Ecowatch) http://ecowatch.com/2014/01/03/parking-spaces-new-york-city-ev-compatible/ Israeli-Americans are the only ones who enjoy dual citizenship who can by law participate in both governments--despite conflicts of interest and violations of international law
July-August 1993 (WRMEA) http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/149-washington-report-archives-1988-1993/july-august-1993/7253-why-are-there-israelibut-not-mexicanamerican-dual-nationals.html Recent spying reforms are vindicating Edward Snowden, justifying his actions and indicting blanket surveillance state apparatchiks
SA, January 4, 2014 (NY Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/us/moves-to-curb-spying-help-drive-the-clemency-argument-for-snowden.html?hp&pagewanted=all&utm_content=buffer36dda&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer&_r=0 The NSA has been outsourcing blanket surveillance to troubled Israeli firms and has been giving surveillance data to Israel--including broad data on innocent civilians
TU, April 3, 2012 (Wired) http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/all/ Miko Peled, the son of former Israeli general, offers his frank assessment of former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, as he nears death
SA, January 4, 2014 (Tear Down This Wall) http://mikopeled.com/2014/01/04/final-words-on-sharon-by-miko-peled/ Devout Muslims love and honor Jesus and the commonly recognized ancient prophets of Christianity and Judaism and the heavenly beings
WE, December 25, 2013 (Veterans Today) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/25/muslimxmas/ Reactor 3 of Fukushima nuclear power plant is now emitting a large volume of radioactive steam that will reach the U. S. west coast
SA, December 28, 2013, 22:55 (TRN) http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/146-mjt Secret pre-war communications between Blair and Bush and a report on the involvement of Great Britain in the Iraq war should be published in 2014
MO, December 30, 2013, http://rt.com/news/blair-bush-iraq-communication-release-977/ A poll finds a record level of U. S. opposition to a war: eighty-two percent for the Afghanistan war
MO, December 30, 2013, 17:35 http://rt.com/usa/afghan-war-support-vietnam-985/ Pervasive Israeli influence has been blocking the U. S. from prosecuting Israeli spies--many suspected of involvement in the events of 9/11/2001
SA, December 28, 2013, 05:30 http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/28/342327/us-infiltrated-by-israeli-spies/ Israel's justice minister, Tzipi Livni, stated that boycotts of Israel are harming it and that they will continue increasing in effects
MO, December 30, 2013, 13:38 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4471199,00.html see cxcerpts in the right column U. S. drone controller describes the inaccuracies of perceptions that drone cameras provide and the stresses and undue casualties that targeting uncertainties cause
SU, December 29, 2013, 07:30 (Guardian) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military An Israeli Cabinet panel endorsed the annexation of land in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory
SU, December 29, 2013, (World Bulletin) http://www.worldbulletin.net/?a&ArticleID=125908 The Israeli military is on highest level of alert after exchanges of mortars and shells and after the exchange of killings with neighboring countries
SU, December 29, 2013, 17:48 (World Bulletin) http://www.worldbulletin.net/?a&ArticleID=125892 A special operations unit of the NSA engages in field infiltration and compromising of computer systems and Internet transmission cables
December 29, 2013, 09:18 (Spiegel) http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969.html The Washington Post and a former reporter filed suit against the Department Of Homeland Security for the confiscation of the reporter's files without a search warrant after the reporter wrote on deficiencies in the Department
SA, December 21, 2013 (Washington Post) http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/21/washington-times-sues-homeland-over-seizure-report/#ixzz2oo3UBjBI A description of the expanding military capabilities of Israel and the misuse of them against mostly Gazan noncombatants in 2008-2009 and in 2012
FR, December 27, 2013 (Counterpunch) http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/27/the-killings-fields-of-gaza/#.UsAEbkCH8rx.facebook Chaos Computer Club advises information and communications technologies practitioners to work together to overcome surveillance of citizens by governments
FR, December 27, 2013, 08:51 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/fight-spies-says-chaos-computer-club/ Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden will release many additional NSA documents; privacy advocates and world governments will need to use leverages to restore privacy
FR, December 27, 2013, 17:49 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/greenwald-lot-nsa-documents-come/ U. S. shares citizens' surveillance data with Israel; Israel is the third-most aggressive in spying on the U. S.
WE, September 11, 2013, 18:33 (Haaretz) http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.546459 How to turn off the tracking feature of your smart phone
December 5, 2013, (GovtSlaves) http://govtslaves.info/phone-tracking-every-move-hidden-map-heres-stop/ Saudia Arabia asserted that it will attack Syria alone after Western powers have adopted negotiations strategies in the region
December 19, 2013, 08:16 (RT) http://rt.com/news/saudi-arabia-syrian-policy-464/ Saudi blogger could face the death penalty for apostacy
TH, December 26, 2013, 12:01 (RT) http://rt.com/news/saudi-blogger-death-penalty-819/ Saudi judge sentenced a man to 300 lashes and six years in prison for criticizing the monarchy and calling for a constitutional monarchy
SU, December 15, 2013, 20:34 (RT) http://rt.com/news/saudi-activist-jailed-lashes-290/ The budget committees of both houses of the U. S. Congress voted to increase military aid to Israel by 9% to $3.384 billion, committed to additional military aid while cutting U. S. food assistance
FR, December 13, 2013 (If Americans Knew) http://ifamericansknew.org/about_us/aid.html#.Ur24opGeL3c.facebook Israel razed houses outbuildings in the West Bank on Christmas Eve
TH, December 25, 2013, (Maan) http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=660111 Despite international warnings, leaks indicate that Israel intends to resume construction of Israeli dwellings in Palestinian territories
TH, December 25, 2013, 18:21 (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/12/25/israel-settlements/4200747/ Israel continues to suppress Arab Christians' observances of Christmas
MO, December 23, 2013 (Mondoweiss) http://mondoweiss.net/2013/12/israels-christmas-rages.html Israeli military and law enforcement arrested 4,000 Palestinians in 2013
MO, December 23, 2013, (MEM) https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/8937-israel-arrested-4000-palestinians-in-2013 A Democrat U. S. representative and a Republican U. S. representative are leading efforts to pressure Obama to declassify twenty-eight pages of the official Congressional report on the investigation of intelligence activities relevant to the events of 9/11 that provide evidence of extensive Saudi involvement
SU, December 15, 2013, 05:13 (NYPost) http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/ The U. S. House and Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2014 that substantially further erodes civil liberties | Florida senator, Nelson, did not vote; Florida senator, Rubio, voted yea
SA, December 21, 2013 (Activist Post) http://www.activistpost.com/2013/12/bigger-badder-ndaa-2014-quietly-passed.html Israeli prime minister, Netanyahu, said that Israel will continue building settlements in Palestinian territories
FR, December 20, 2013 (PNN) http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/politics/6434-netanyahu-says-that-israel-will-continue-to-build-settlements The U. S. called on Israel to withdraw from Jordan Valley settlements as a first step in establishing a sovereign Palestinian state and peace
FR, December 20, 2013, 15:02 (Middle East Monitor) https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/8910-washington-calls-on-israel-to-evacuate-jordan-valley-settlements A report of the official White House panel reviewing NSA practices implies it has been changing financial accounts
FR, December 19, 2013 (Washington's Blog) http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/12/u-s-government-changing-amount-peoples-financial-accounts-manipulating-financial-systems-offensive-cyber-capabilities.html Colorado sheriffs refuse to enforce the new state gun control laws
WE, December 15, 2013 (NYT) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/us/sheriffs-refuse-to-enforce-laws-on-gun-control.html?pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB&_r=1& Former top NSA official, Bill Binney, says that the U. S. is now a police state
WE, December 18, 2013, 00:05 (Zero Hedge) http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-12-18/former-top-nsa-official-%E2%80%9Cwe-are-now-police-state%E2%80%9D The European Union and the U. S. are pressuring Israel and Palestine to consummate lasting peace or face severe sanctions
TU, December 17, 2013, 09:00 (Haaretz) http://www.haaretz.com/misc/iphone-article/.premium-1.563932 Reports ahead of the release of the report of the Obama-appointed Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology on NSA spying practices indicate that it recommends some strong reforms
MO, December 16, 2013 (Politico) http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/nsa-panel-report-snowden-slobberknockered-101208.html British anti-fracking campaigners blocked the entrance to a proposed fracking site with a huge wind turbine blade
MO, December 16, 2013 (Salford Star, citizen journalism magazine) http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=2076 Rothschild banking dynasty, central banks controlled by it and high-level elected officials in the U. S. and the U. K. have been colluding in banking frauds and deliberate thefts of citizens' assets
SU, December 15, 2013, 15:13 (RT) http://rt.com/op-edge/banksers-financial-crimes-prosecute-criminals-209/ U. S. general who opened the Guantanamo Bay detention camp said that to have created and to have operated it has been a mistake and that the U. S. should close it
TH, December 12, 2013, 10:19 (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/12/us-usa-guantanamo-idUSBRE9BB0QM20131212 Fukushima update: As water- and air-borne emissions of deadly and very persistent highly radioactive material increase, Japan outlaws independent investigation and criticism of the situation
WE, December 11, 2013, 07:57 (Eco-Watch) http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/11/japans-new-fukushima-fascism/ Swarthmore Hillel rejects the prohibition of Hillel International of participating in events with those critical of Zionism
WE, December 11, 2013 (Inside Higher Education) http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/12/11/swarthmore-hillel-rejects-ban-anti-israel-speakers 560 renowned writers from around the world signed a petition to all countries and businesses urging them to curtail sweeping surveillance
TU, December 10, 2013, 10:48 (RT) http://rt.com/news/writers-surveillance-petition-appeal-992/ Eight major information and communication technology companies send an appeal to Obama and the Congress to reign in government surveillance
MO, December 9, 2013 (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/major-tech-companies-unite-to-call-for-new-limits-on-surveillance/2013/12/08/530f0fd4-6051-11e3-bf45-61f69f54fc5f_story.html Banking regulators finally approved moderate bank investment reforms of the Volcker Rule
TU, December 10, 2013, 14:35 ET (CNN) http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/10/news/economy/volcker-rule/index.html Italian Jewish actor dissociates himself with the Milan Jewish community for uncritically supporting Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu
TU, December 10, 2013, 7:24 p.m. (Haaretz) http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.557307 South Korea announces air defense zone that overlaps Japan's and China's already-conflicting zones
SU, December 8, 2013 (Zero Hedge) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-08/south-korea-unveils-its-own-air-defense-zone-overlapping-chinas-and-japans Morale of staff of the National Security Agency (NSA) is low from heavy, international criticism, say former staff
SA, December 7, 2013 (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-morale-down-after-edward-snowden-revelations-former-us-officials-say/2013/12/07/24975c14-5c65-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html?tid=hpModule_14fd66a0-9199-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239 Surveillance software--including webcam surveillance software--of FBI infects computers of suspects to mine data
FR, December 6, 2013 (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/fbis-search-for-mo-suspect-in-bomb-threats-highlights-use-of-malware-for-surveillance/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html U. S. corporate news blackout: Iceland citizens continue developing their replacement government after forced resignations of all leaders in the previous government and prosecutions of bankers for fraud in "Pots and Pans Revolution"
TU, December 3, 2013 (Guardian Express) http://guardianlv.com/2013/12/icelanders-overthrow-government-and-rewrite-constitution-after-banking-fraud-no-word-from-us-media/ Italian authorities arrest three Vatican bank employees on massive embezzlement charges
SU, December 8, 2013 (Ben Swann) http://benswann.com/vatican-bank-scandal-jp-morgan-hsbc-cease-doing-business-with-vatican/ The Prime Minister of The Netherlands said that his country is resolute in following boycotts of Israel that the European Union (EU) has prescribed
SA, December 7, 2013, 16:55 (World Bulletin) http://www.worldbulletin.net/?a&ArticleID=124524 Russia is asserting control of resource-rich Arctic region for economic and security interests
TU, December 3, 2013 (Reuters) http://news.yahoo.com/russia-needs-arctic-presence-guard-against-u-threat-180045921.html The Israeli finance minister said that Netanyahu should lighten his criticism of the U. S.
TU, December 3, 2013 (Reuters) http://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-ally-urges-more-cautious-tone-u-131431191.html A tribunal in Malasia convicted an Israeli general and Israel of genocide and other war-related crimes
SU, December 1, 2013 (Global Research) http://www.globalresearch.ca/tribunal-issues-landmark-verdict-against-israel-for-genocide/5359944 Three protesters have died and more than 100 have sustained wounds in anti-government protests and mob actions in Thailand
MO, December 2, 2013 (The Wire) http://www.thewire.com/global/2013/12/bangkok-protests-leave-three-dead-more-hundred-wounded/355630/ Despite many gross failures by the Department Of Justice, statements of fact in J P Morgan settlement reveal pervasive fraud in the mortgage industry
FR, November 29, 2013 (Real News) http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11102 A large group of major U. S. media complains of deficient media access to Obama
MO, November 2, 2013 (Independent Journal) http://www.ijreview.com/2013/11/97987-usa-today-puts-foot-white-house-propaganda-refuses-publish-official-photos-obama/ India opens visa-processing station in Palestine and affirms broad and deep support of the nation
FR, November 29, 2013, 16:09 (Hindustan Times) http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/world/standing-by-palestine-india-opens-visa-service-in-ramallah/article1-1157094.aspx Israel asks Great Britain to control critique of Israel and boycotts, divestments of Israel and sanctions against it on university campuses
FR, November 29, 2013, 14:24 (Middle East Monitor) http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/europe/8576-israel-asks-british-government-to-pressure-universities-to-fight-bds#sthash.T7J03zSK.dpuf Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, refuses to sign the security pact with the U. S. until civilian-killing drone attacks end
TH, November 28, 2013 (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/karzai-says-us-drone-strike-killed-child-refuses-to-sign-security-deal-if-attacks-continue/2013/11/28/0b19b6aa-586a-11e3-ba82-16ed03681809_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost Tensions are reaching military confrontation levels between China and Western-aligned powers--including the U. S.--over China's expanded, eastern security territory
TH, November 28, 2013, 23:01 EST (Zero Hedge) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-28/china-declares-willing-engage-protracted-confrontation-japan-prime-target Digital currencies continue to surge upward in value--Bitcoin increases 10% in twelve hours
TH, November 28, 2013, 09:18 EST (Zero Hedge) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-28/bitcoin-parabola-continues-10-12-hours-hits-1170 The Central Bank Of China announced that it will curtail purchases of U. S. dollars
TH, November 21, 2013, 03:03 (Bloomberg) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-20/pboc-says-no-longer-in-china-s-favor-to-boost-record-reserves.html Polk County law enforcement arrested Hampton, Florida mayor on the charge of possession and sale of oxycodon
TU, November 25, 2013, 19:07 (Florida Times-Union) http://jacksonville.com/breaking-news/2013-11-25/story/isnt-toronto-bradford-sheriff-says-after-hampton-mayors-arrest U. N. declared 2014 to be "The Year Of Solidarity With the Palestinian People"
TU, November 26, 2013, 23:28 (RT) http://rt.com/news/un-palestinians-year-solidarity-349/ The taboo against challenging the policies of Israel is crumbling
TU, November 26, 2013 (Electronic Intifada) http://electronicintifada.net/content/taboo-boycotting-israel-has-been-broken/12949 Time magazine poll: Edward Snowden, 100% -- Barack Obama, 0%
TU, November 26, 2013 (Ben Swan) http://benswann.com/ed-snowden-destroys-president-obama-in-one-surprising-poll/ The pro-Israel tent "doesn't matter if it can't hold disagreement"
TU, November 26, 2013 (Jewish Exponent) http://www.jewishexponent.com/the-pro-israel-tent-doesn-t-matter-if-it-can-t-hold-disagreement The Vatican's journey from anti-communism to anti-capitalism
TU, November 26, 2013, 3:31 p.m. ET (Atlantic) http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/11/the-vaticans-journey-from-anti-communism-to-anti-capitalism/281874/ Solar energy was the only source of new electric generating capacity in the U. S. in October
TU, November 26, 2013, 11:48 a.m. (Atlantic) http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/solar-energy-was-americas-sole-new-power-source-in-october/281867/ Pope Benedict urges humanity to avoid the "tyranny of unfettered capitalism" and the "idolatry of money"
TU, November 26, 2013, 8:38 a.m. (Reuters) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/pope-francis-evangelii-gaudium_n_4342964.html Protesters defied the new protest law of Egypt
TU, November 26, 2013, 4:28 p.m. (World Bulletin) http://www.worldbulletin.net/?a&ArticleID=123739 Thousands of mercenaries have been serving in the Israeli military
TU, November 26, 2013, 5:16 p.m. (World Bulletin) http://www.worldbulletin.net/?a&ArticleID=123746 Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived yesterday in Japan for the second assessment of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power complex
MO, November 25, 2013, 12:04 (World Bulletin) http://www.worldbulletin.net/?a&ArticleID=123644 A Christian militia claimed the authority to assassinate President Obama
SA, November 23, 2013, 3:04 p.m. PST (Daily Kos) http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/23/1257923/-Facebook-Christian-Militia-Group-Makes-Death-Threats-Against-Obama?detail=email# Israel claims to have known secret talks between the U. S. and Iran were occurring, but claims it did not know the substance of them
SU, November 24, 2013 at 2:49pm (BuzzFeed) http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/israeli-officials-knew-white-house-was-holding-secret-talks Blogger for Al-Monitor breaks story: Deputy Secretary Of State lead backchannel talks for Iranian nuclear program breakthrough
SU, 2013.11.24 (Al-Monitor) http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index.php/2013/11/7115/exclusive-burns-led-secret-us-back-channel-to-iran/ The poverty rate and the income disparity in Israel are highest and fifth-highest respectively in the developed world
WE, 2013.05.15, 1:29 p.m. (Huffington Post) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/israel-poverty-rate-highest-in-developed-world-oecd_n_3279666.html#slide=2454134 Docu-drama thriller producer, Oliver Stone, critiques bankers as keynote speaker at lenders' convention
WE, 2013.11.20, 1:02 p.m. (American Banker) http://www.americanbanker.com/people/oliver-stone-bashes-banks-in-speech-to-lenders-1063799-1.html The Twitter chat of Morgan-Chase with the public, the worst public relations disaster of all time, yields stunning, on-point, public questions and comments
FR, 2013.11.15, 1:15 p.m. (Rolling Stone) http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/chases-twitter-gambit-devolves-into-all-time-pr-fiasco-20131115 (Rolling Stone) Vermont independent U. S. Senator, Bernie Sanders, is considering running for president
TU, 2013.11.19, 9:25 a.m. (The Nation) http://www.thenation.com/blog/177247/bernie-sanders-might-just-have-run-president A Russian lawmaker attempts to outlaw the U. S. dollar expecting the collapse of the currency by 2017
WE, 2013.11.13 (Washington Times) http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/13/bill-would-outlaw-us-dollar-russia/ Mass evacuations of Japan and the western United States would be necessary if severe accidents were to occur during decommissioning of the Fukushima complex
FR, 2013.11.15? (ABC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rMIrOAHBU Hazardous decommissioning of the Fukushima complex began yesterday with many very serious challenges and dangers ahead
TU, 2013.11.19 (ABC) http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/uncertainties-abound-fukushima-decommissioning-20932853 [ed - Accounts of some conditions of the nuclear power complex in this report are contradicted by other, credible reports. In fact, media accounts of current and potential future conditions at the plant and thousands of miles from the plant vary widely. For example, several sources claim that hot nuclear fuel has melted through the floors of the concrete containment enclosures of one to three reactors, that the hot fuel has reached ground water and that radioactive steam is issuing from cracks around the reactor buildings. Watch this site for additional coverage.] The NSA can beat almost any kind of encryption
TH, 2013.09.05, 3:39 p.m. (Gizmodo) http://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-can-crack-almost-any-type-of-encryption-1258954266 formerly posted news articles
The Federal Reserve Bank takes aim at Bitcoin
WE, 2013.11.20 (Money News Now) http://www.moneynewsnow.com/2013/11/occupy-bitcoin/ U. S. military could remain in Afghanistan until 2014 according to a tentative pact
TU, 2013.11.19, 5:26 p.m. (RT) http://rt.com/news/usa-afghanistan-karzai-security-977/ The U. S. now spend the vast majority of the money that others are stupid enough to loan to it on interest on debt
MO, 2013.11.18, 5:52 p.m. (CNS) http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/treasury-forced-issue-1t-new-debt-first-6-weeks-fy14 The mish-mash of accounting systems of the Department Of Defense have been resulting in massive fraud and waste
MO, 2013.11.18, 2:55 p.m. (UK-Reuters) http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/11/18/uk-usa-pentagon-waste-specialreport-idUKBRE9AH0LP20131118 Cleveland, Ohio Walmart asks employees to donate food to other employees of the store
MO, 2013.11.18, 11:31 (Business Insider) http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-asks-customers-to-donate-food-2013-11 Vietnamese court sentenced a banker and construction company executive to death in a fraud case
SA, 2013.11.16, 6:43 a.m. (Aljazeera) http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/11/vietnam-banker-sentenced-death-fraud-2013111662741522258.html Judge sentenced Anonymous hacker, Jeremy Hammond, to ten years FR, 2013.11.15 (CNET) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57612597-38/anonymous-hacker-jeremy-hammond-gets-10-years-in-prison/ Federal judge slammed the Department Of Justice for not prosecuting Wall Street executives
TH, 2013.11.14 (Common Dreams) http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/14-4 Opium production in Afghanistan surges 49% since 2012 as NATO forces disengage
WE, 2013.11.13 (NY Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/world/asia/afghan-opium-cultivation-and-production-seen-rising.html?_r=0 Sweden will close six prisons due to continuing decline in prisoners
WE, 2013.11.13 (Guardian) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/sweden-closes-prisons-number-inmates-plummets Israel cancels plan to build 20,000 new dwellings for "settlers" in the Palestinian West Bank
WE, 2013.11.12, 23:03 (Telegraph) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10445550/Israel-cancels-plans-to-build-20000-new-settler-homes.html Former fed official apologizes for his role in QE1
SA, 2013.11.11, 7:00 p.m. (WSJ) http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303763804579183680751473884 Consumer revolving credit, including credit card debt, has drastically dropped
TU, 2013.11.11 (Quartz) http://qz.com/142269/its-the-most-important-change-in-the-us-economy-since-the-great-recession-that-nobody-is-talking-about/ President Carter calls for a moratorium on the death penalty citing inconsistency of imposition
MO, 2013.11.11, 18:34 (UPI) http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/11/11/Jimmy-Carter-cites-inconsistency-in-call-for-death-penalty-moratorium/UPI-46111384212856/ UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees faces a funding crisis MO, 2013.11.11, 16:54 (UPI) http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/11/11/UN-Palestinian-refugee-aid-agency-caught-in-big-cash-shortfall/UPI-67221384206841/ Catholic Church condemns destruction of church property by Israel TU, 2013.11.05, 21:34 (AFP) http://www.france24.com/en/20131105-catholic-church-slams-israel-razing-its-property Representative Sensenbrenner, co-author of the Patriot Act, is pushing a new law to reign in unwarranted government surveillance
2013.10.28 (The State Weekly) http://TheStateWeekly.com/patriot-act-author-introducing-anti-nsa-spying-legislation-tuesday-report/ Determined energy leaders are making impressive strides
TU, December 31, 2013, 03:07 Mark Venzke Publisher and Editor As a responsible, open-minded, flexible, creative, determined and forward-thinking being, consider the examples of other electric utilities, states, islands and nations that have achieved relatively high percentages of renewable energy production. Three oceanic islands have become 100% energy self-sufficient with renewable energy. The islands use an abundant energy source absent in many inland locales: wind energy. They also use solar and hydroelectric. One of the three islands burns straw to partially meet electricity needs. Three Islands lead the way by going 100% renewable http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/06/3-islands-go-100-renewable-energy/ Many utilities, states, islands and nations around the world are far ahead of Florida and Gainesville Regional Utilities in the percentages of renewable energy that they produce, and they are far ahead of Florida and Gainesville Regional Utilities in the goals that that they have set for the percentages of renewable energy that they intend to produce. Denmark is farthest ahead of the rest of the world in wind energy production. How does Denmark solve the problem of lack of renewable energy production capacity at times? It built excess renewable energy generating facilities, sells the excess electricity during high production periods to surrounding utilities with less renewable energy generating capacities and buys electricity from them during low production periods. Admittedly, in doing that, Denmark transferred carbon and nuclear energy production to utilities outside the borders of the nation. Additionally, it has and will continue to invest in smart grids and load management technologies that will contribute to reducing and dealing with both electric production and consumption fluctuations. However, engineers are working on storing energy in the form of electric potential in batteries, water dissociation (splitting water molecules into highly explosive, but clean-reacting hydrogen and oxygen), compressed air, elevated water, heated water, flywheel inertia and plasma (super-heated substances). Energy from each can be converted into electricity during periods of low renewable energy production. Here are excerpts from an article about how Denmark is leading the world in renewable energy production--and solving the challenges--not the insurmountable limitations--of variable renewable energy production: "Studies and real-world experience are underscoring that there are many tactics available to deal with the variability of wind and solar, and that these tactics are largely substitutes for each other. "While energy storage comes to mind first for many people, the truth is that the grid has functioned just fine with very little storage. Power system operators have to deal with variability all the time, with or without renewables. Demand fluctuates with the weather, time of day, social activities, and industrial operations. And supply varies unexpectedly too, such as when a power plant breaks down. The fluctuations of wind and solar, especially at moderate levels, are just one more [manageable] variable—one that may or may not add to overall variability, depending on the system and timing. Power system engineers use a whole suite of tools to match supply and demand, both minute-to-minute and over longer time frames. The most obvious example is a dispatchable power plant, like a gas turbine. But they also benefit from bigger balancing areas (trading power with neighbors), more transmission connections to reduce congestion, faster-acting fossil power plants, direct load control and demand response, targeted energy efficiency, and curtailment of ["over-capacity"] wind and solar plants. Hydro power and even fossil fuels are the traditional forms of energy storage, but many more [energy storage technologies] are emerging, such as using power to heat district heating systems, compressed air, batteries and flywheels, and charging electric cars during the renewable peak. It is increasingly common to treat wind power as a controllable generator, rather than just letting it go full out. System operators in New York, Texas and the Midwest direct wind farm owners to submit five-minute forecasts of output, and ramp up and down if necessary to meet system demands, just like conventional generators. The Midwest ISO enforces this with a “dispatchable intermittent tariff.” [...] "As Germany’s Agora Energiewende has put it in its 12 Insights report, 'Grids are cheaper than storage facilities.' More grid connections allow surplus power to be shipped off rather than curtailed or stored. Larger balancing areas reduce the variability of wind and solar across a wider geographic area. Agora thinks storage will only be necessary when renewables constitute 70 percent of total supply. "As in the U.S., European regulators are grappling with policies to integrate large amounts of renewables. While technical issues remain, they are not really new, only of a larger scale. Most of the integration tools are known; they just need to be bigger and more capable to deal with bigger variations." Notes at the end of the article also provides a link America's Power Plan. That organization helps energy policy makers and policy implementors most fully and most efficiently integrate renewable energy technologies into utilities' energy production mix. The organization helps them overcome perceived and real impediments to renewable energy technologies deployments. Here is a link to the article: How wind met all of Denmark's need for 90 hours http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/13/wind-denmark-electricity-needs/ What are the differences between those places and Gainesville?
Asian-Pacific countries will lead the way in solar energy technology deployments for the foreseeable future. China will lead the way among them. Half of the world's solar demand to come from the Asia-Pacific region in 2014 http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/26/half-worlds-solar-demand-asia-pacific-2014/ Please know that the above, three articles are only a small portion of those about the renewable energy advances and successes of utilities, states, islands and countries that circulate on the Internet regularly. What do those utilities, regions, states, islands and countries think that they know that we do not know? The leaders and the people of those countries are certainly not as smart and powerful as the leaders and people of the United States, right? Afterall, the United States is the best country in the world, right? It is the most powerful, most technologically advanced country in the world, right? Perhaps those utilities, regions, states, islands and countries know that renewable energy will be cheaper in the long run, that their countries will be more economically competitive and that their populations will have higher standards of living with lower prices for products, services and energy and their populations will have better health and better quality of life with less pollution than they would if they would get their energy from carbon and nuclear sources. Then again, perhaps all of that is inaccurate, liberal rubbish. I think that someone needs to go to those utilities, regions, states, islands and countries with inadequate wind, geothermal and hydrologic energy resources to tell the leaders of them that, with renewable energy systems, they will still need base load--non-renewable energy sources for times when renewable sources are unavailable--before they over-invest in renewable energy technologies. Someone needs to tell policy makers, managers and engineers of those entities that the large-scale storage of energy is still technologically unfeasible, so large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies is still unfeasible. Either that or we need to bring to the United States the energy industry managers and engineers from the those utilities, regions, states, islands and countries that have already achieved thirty percent or more renewable energy production in their energy production mixes and replace our managers and engineers with them. “Those who say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those doing it.” Chinese Proverb "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." George Bernard Shaw Take away knowledge, wisdom:
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by unidentified writer MO, December 30, 2013, 13:38 from YNet magazine, online edition excerpts: [...] "She warned that the international financial and economic boycott started with the West Bank, but over time it will flow in to the rest of the country. [...] "'...The boycott is moving and advancing uniformly and exponentially,' Livni said. 'Those who don't want to see it, will end up feeling it.' "The justice minister said the world doesn't understand Israel's policy of seemingly supporting a two-state solution while continuing to build in the West Bank. [...] "'Or we could try ignoring the world, wrap ourselves in the justice of our cause, and support ridiculous and radical laws that damage the peace process and democracy.' "Livni called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policies the "'dark side of democracy.'" http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4471199,00.html "Truth is coming, and it can't be stopped."
Edward Snowden Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden will release many additional NSA documents; privacy advocates and world governments will need to use leverages to restore privacy
by John Borland FR, December 27, 2013, 17:49 from Wired magazine, online edition http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/greenwald-lot-nsa-documents-come/ excerpts: "Nearly seven months after journalist and privacy activist Glenn Greenwald publicized Edward Snowden’s first revelations of the vast scope of the NSA’s digital surveillance, his life has changed absolutely. "Living in Brazil, he is advised not to travel. He’s a hero to privacy activists, and demonized by governments and national security agencies. And in a video keynote address to the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Hamburg today, he promised that he and Edward Snowden aren’t anywhere near finished. "'There are a lot more stories to come, a lot more documents that will be covered,' Greenwald said. [emphasis added] [...] "Much of the CCC’s four days of talks and workshops are dedicated to exploring the implications of Snowden and Greenwald’s revelations, from discussions about NSA attacks on the Tor private-communications network to a call by Julian Assange for hackers to fight back against the intelligence agencies. [...] "'One of most significant outcomes of the last few months has been the increased awareness of the importance of encryption and privacy,' he said. 'It’s a remarkable sea change.' But even outrage won’t change policy through traditional democratic processes, he said. The power of the NSA and the security establishment is too strong, and democratic governments are proving unable to resist the seduction of surveillance-derived knowledge. More promising have been signs of allies showing genuine signs of indignation, and indications that important companies are feeling economic effects as a result. Most recently, he said, Boeing lost a $4 billion contract in Brazil in part because of that country’s anger at the extent of U.S spying. "'Power sectors don’t get persuaded by lofty arguments [of the value of privacy]. It’s important to devise ways to raise the costs to the systematic invasion of our privacy,' he said. 'When it’s no longer we in fear of them, but they in fear of us, that’s when these policies will change.' After six months of stories based on Snowden’s revelations, Greenwald said a single theme had overshadowed any of the stories’ individual elements. [emphasis added] "'It is literally true, without hyperbole, that the goal of the NSA and its partners in the English-speaking world is to eliminate privacy globally,' he said. 'They want to make sure there is no communication that evades their net.'" [emphasis added] quotation of the week "The true nature of war must be laid bare, and the glorification must end. The neoconservative belief that war is inherently patriotic, beneficial, manly, and necessary for human progress must be debunked." Letter of two Israeli Jewish school curriculum experts that refute the allegation that Palestinian textbooks incite children to violence that the New York Times refused to print
"Regarding your article about Palestinian ‘inciteful’ textbooks, the books cited are not authorized textbooks, just as the Israeli book, The King’s Torah, written by Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yossef Elitzur, allowing the killing of enemy babies, is not an official textbook, though it was distributed to soldiers during the Gaza raid in 2009. Palestinian textbooks are translated to English on this link [the authors included a link that has since been removed], where you will see that maps do mention Israel. Although colonialist Zionism is considered their enemy, they use no racist discourse towards Jews or Israelis. [emphasis added] "Israeli mainstream textbooks, authorized by the Ministry of Education, use both visual and verbal racist discourse regarding both Palestinian citizens and Palestinian subjects in the occupied territories. Palestinians are depicted only as a demographic problem, developmental problem and security problem, described as primitive and vile, as parasites and as enemies-from-within. [emphsis added] Israeli textbook maps never depict any major Palestinian city or the green line. "Regarding the video clip, we would recommend the much-acclaimed documentary Soldier on the Roof, that shows how Jewish settler children are educated to harass and kill their Palestinian neighbours. "Respectfully, "Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, author of Palestine in Israeli Schoolbooks—Ideology and Propaganda in Education (I.B. Tauris Pub. Palgrave Dist. London and New-York 2012) "Dr. Samira Alayan, author of “History Curricula and Textbooks in Palestine: Between Nation Building and Quality Education” (2000), co-editor of The Politics Of Education Reform In The Middle East: Self and Other in Textbooks and Curricula. Berghahn Books; (June 15, 2012) "School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem" The world community is favoring Israel, not sanctioning it relative to other, oppressor nations
by Larry Derfner FR, December 27, 2013 from 972, a news, information, analysis and opinion Internet site for the Near East http://972mag.com/the-worlds-blatant-double-standard-in-israels-favor/84499/#comment-176534 excerpts: "...while the ASA [American Studies Association] may be starting with Israel, the powers-that-be in the world have gone after any number of human-rights violating countries--yet still haven’t gotten to Israel and its 46-year military dictatorship over the Palestinians. "If you look at the serious, painful punishments the world metes out to oppressor nations, Israel is not being singled out, it’s being let off the hook. [...] "...the movement to boycott next month’s Winter Olympics in Sochi [Russia] is booming. Here’s an irony: Bibi Netanyahu himself just agreed to join other world leaders, starting with Obama, in boycotting the Games. Do Obama, Cameron, Hollande and their colleagues boycott any Israeli showcase event because of the occupation, which is an incomparably worse crime than Russia’s anti-gay laws and harassment? "The Western powers can punish Russia, they can punish China, they can lay in to Iran, Syria, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Sudan and the like--but they won’t touch Israel (the European Union’s wussy “guidelines” notwithstanding). Indeed, the strongest country in the world not only won’t punish Israel for its near half-century of tyranny over the Palestinians, it keeps feeding it arms while shielding it in the UN. [...] "The world doesn’t punish this country unfairly--it doesn’t punish this country at all, while America rewards it lavishly. [...] "If this country [Israel] were treated with a minuscule fraction of the severity the West ordinarily visits on human rights violators, the occupation [of Palestine] would have ended long ago." [emphasis added] Larry Derfner is a columnist for 972. In the past, he was a columnist and feature writer for The Jerusalem Post, as well as the correspondent in Israel for the U.S. News and World Report, for many years. He wrote feature articles for the Sunday Times of London during the second intifada, and has been writing for American Jewish publications since 1990. Pilots for 9/11 Truth released a new video, Skygate 911, that presents new forensic evidence (admissible in court) that flight 77 did not impact the Pentagon
SU, December 29, 2013 Thanks to the ongoing, persistent research and analysis of members of the organization, Pilots For 9/11 Truth, they have continued to uncover new data and continued to draw conclusions from it. This trailer video for the movie, Skygate 911, that they uploaded to YouTube on November 23, 2013 presents their most recent findings--findings that meet the standards of courts for admissibility of evidence. Truth is coming, and it can't be stopped. trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z7A2vQTqjs An overlooked objective for the Occupy Movement: prosecution of members of boards of directors of failed and "bailed" enterprises
by Rodney Johnson TU, December 17, 2013 from "Survive & Prosper," an e-mail dispatch from Dent Research, a financial guidance company http://survive-prosper.com/2013/12/17/what-occupy-wall-street-should-have-said/ excerpts: "[Occupy Movement participants] could have demanded that people in positions of power and responsibility--not middlemen and low-level managers--be held responsible for the debacle of the Great Recession and the general sclerosis of American business that simply feeds itself [on inflated compensation and bailouts] instead of fostering growth. "In short, they could have called for individual responsibility. And there is a really good place to start on this one--corporate boards of directors. "...The owners of companies select people to oversee everything. In public companies CEOs and presidents get a lot of attention, but it’s the boards of directors that hold all the power, even if they don’t exercise it. [...] "Directors are supposed to be the watchdogs, overseeing the CEOs, presidents, and generally the activities of the companies they serve. "If Occupy Wall Street had been laser-like in its focus, it could have taken aim at boards of directors and asked the obvious question: 'If they have all this power, why aren’t they accountable?' [...] "The movement could have specifically called for the indictment of board members who were charged with overseeing the likes of General Electric, General Motors (GM), Citi, AIG, Bank of America, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and a slew of other companies that were so woefully mismanaged that they required billions of dollars in U.S. government bailout money. [Whether the U. S. government should have given money to those companies is a debatable point.] "Clearly the directors of such companies were not doing their jobs,...yet they were paid handsomely. Some of them are still on their respective boards, collecting their fees." U. S. representatives press for de-classification of Saudi-implicating section of official 9/11 inquiry
excerpts from the article, "Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup," in the New York Post by Paul Sperry, Hoover Institution media fellow December 15, 2013 "A pair of lawmakers who recently read the redacted portion say they are “absolutely shocked” at the level of foreign state involvement in the attacks. [emphases added] "Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) can’t reveal the nation identified by it without violating federal law. So they’ve proposed Congress pass a resolution asking President Obama to declassify the entire 2002 report, “Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001.” [emphasis added] Some information already has leaked from the classified section, which is based on both CIA and FBI documents, and it points back to Saudi Arabia, a presumed ally. "The Saudis deny any role in 9/11, but the CIA in one memo reportedly found “incontrovertible evidence” that Saudi government officials—not just wealthy Saudi hardliners, but high-level diplomats and intelligence officers employed by the kingdom--helped the hijackers both financially and logistically. [emphases added] [...] "Democrat Bob Graham, the former Florida senator who chaired the Joint Inquiry, has asked the FBI for the Sarasota case files, but can’t get a single, even heavily redacted, page released. He says it’s a “coverup.” [emphases added] "Is the federal government protecting the Saudis? Case agents tell me they were repeatedly called off pursuing 9/11 leads back to the Saudi Embassy... [...] "...[I]t’s critical [U. S. lawmakers] take the time to read [the newly released-to-Congress section of the report] and pressure the White House to let all Americans read it....The information is still relevant today. Pursuing leads further, getting to the bottom of the foreign support, could help head off another 9/11." Read Paul Sperry's entire article at: http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/ ed. Tell your U. S. Representative and Senators to join the press for de-classification of the twenty-eight pages of the report. Find their Internet site e-mail facilities here: http://www.House.gov http://www.Senate.gov ed. While this article reports on explosive, leaked CIA and FBI investigations identifying Saudi operatives in the events of 9/11, it does not report on other, widely reported evidence of the involvements of other countries in those events. MV ed. Frustrated with his inability to reveal to the world portions of the report that detail U. S. intelligence on the roles of other countries in the events of 9/11, former Senator Bob Graham legally wrote a novel, a fictionalized thriller that describes the roles of other countries in those events, Keys To the Kingdom--that bears a remarkable similarity to many actual events as understood from leaks to date. Vanguard Press published the book on June 7, 2011.
http://www.amazon.com/Keys-Kingdom-Bob-Graham/dp/1593156790 Bibi's boycott: Will 2014 be the year that Israel divorces the world?
excerpt from the blog posting of Israeli journalist, Bradley Burston, from his blog, A Special Place In Hell December 17, 2013 "Maybe 2014 will be the year that Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel makes itself so unlikable, so unsympathetic, so intentionally anti-democratic--champion only of settlers, tycoons, and the Orthodox and Born Again Christian hard right--that boycotts will simply come naturally. "Maybe this will be the year that Israel divorces the world. Divorces even the majority of Jews in it--non-Orthodox, anti-settlement, pro-tolerance and human rights. "If Israel were actively trying to support a worldwide boycott against it, could it possibly do a better job than it's doing right now?" Read Bradley Burston's entire blog entry that Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, published at: http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/.premium-1.564066 Listen to Don Henley's song played by a German guitarist with telling slides.
As illustrated by the slides, this song identifies many of the injustices and atrocities that very powerful and ruthless people have perpetrated on our world in recent years. political humor
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December, 2013 random, concise, current, telling, surprising and often-amusing facts and figures about our country and world from this perennially popular, regular feature of Harpers Magazine recommended blogs
Paul Craig Roberts
Institute For Political Economy http://www.PaulCraigRoberts.org/tag/paul-craig-roberts-blog Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern's blogs, Open Mike, MichaelMoore.com http://www.MichaelMoore.com/blogger/raymcgovern Miko Peled
Tear Down the Wall http://www.MikoPeled.com Richard Silverstein
Tikun Olam http://www.RichardSilverstein.com Richard Silverstein
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald, Comment Is Free, The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/glenn-greenwald-security-liberty Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald, Salon http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald (last entry: 2012.08.15) Glenn Greenwald
Unclaimed Territory http://www.GlennGreenwald.blogspot.com (last entry: 2007.02.12) Paul Eisen
Paul Eisen http://pauleisen.blogspot.co.il/ Bradley Burston
A Special Place In Hell http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell David Swanson
David Swanson's Blog Let's Try Democracy, War Is a Crime http://www.Davidswanson.org/blog/1 David Swanson
Washington's Blog http://www.WashingtonsBlog.com/author/davidswanson David Swanson
Michael Moore http://www.MichaelMoore.com/blogger/david-swanson David Swanson
Progressive Blogs http://www.Progressive-Blogs.com/david-swanson David Swanson
David Swanson's Blog, International Peace & Collaborative Development Network (PCDN) http://www.InternationalPeaceAndConflict.org/profiles/blog/list?user=davidswanson David Swanson
David Swanson's Blog http://www.SmirkingChimp.com/author/david-swanson Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwald http://en.Wordpress.com/tag/robert-greenwald Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwald http://www.DailyKos.com/blog/RobertGreenwald Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal http://www.MaxBlumenthal.com collective members
This Can't Be Happening http://www.ThisCantBeHappening.net recommended analysis Internet sites
Norman G. Finklestein
Official Web Site http://www.NormanFinkelstein.com economic indicies
These graphs show major economic indicies issued by the United States government in red and issued by the independent economic consulting firm, American Business Analytics & Research LLC, in blue, which publishes historical economic data on the Internet site, Shadow Government Statistics at http://www.ShadowStates.com. American Business Analytics & Research endeavors to calculate indicies accurately and consistenly and to thus avoid the data manipulations of the United States government. Computer programmer testified that U. S. elections could be manipulated with the program that he wrote and that national general elections of 2008 and 2012 appear to him to have been manpulated
Ms. Yang: "You don't understand. We need to hide the fraud in the source code...We needed to control the vote in South Florida."
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