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While Americans are starving, House panel OKs $1B for Israel's missiles


UPI
Tue, 08 May 2012 18:00 UTC
America poverty

How many Americans can 4 billion dollars feed? We'll never know, since the government is choosing to give the money to a terrorist state run by psychopaths who has no need to defend itself since it's the greatest armed aggressor in the region.
Amid concerns about rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, a U.S. House of Representatives defense subcommittee has approved nearly $1 billion for Israel's anti-missile defense program, the highest single appropriation for the four-system project.

It includes the high-altitude Arrow 3 being developed by Israel Aerospace Industries and the Boeing Co. to destroy Iranian and Syrian ballistic missiles outside Earth's atmosphere.

The move by the Defense Appropriation subcommittee also covers the only missile defense system so far used in combat, Iron Dome, built by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems of Israel to counter rockets with a range of 3-40 miles.

The $680 million slated for that system, designed to intercept short-range missiles and rockets and the lower rung of the planned missile defense shield, got the green light from the subcommittee April 29.

"The total appropriation ... reflects not only U.S. representatives' consistent support for Israel, but also rising concern about the Israel-Iran confrontation, which is liable to expose Israel to missile strikes from Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas," Israel's Globes business daily reported Tuesday.
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Netanyahu reneges on early Israeli elections, strikes surprise coalition deal with Kadima


BBC
Tue, 08 May 2012 17:52 UTC
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Shaul Mofaz was elected leader of the Kadima party in March
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a deal with the opposition Kadima party, avoiding the early elections he had previously sought.

Kadima's recently-elected head, Shaul Mofaz, is to be named a deputy PM in a deal set to be ratified later.

The surprise move was agreed at a secret overnight meeting.

It came as the parliament, or Knesset, debated its dissolution ahead of elections that Mr Netanyahu had planned for September.

A statement issued by Mr Netanyahu's office said: "A broad national unity government is good for security, good for the economy and good for the people of Israel."

President Shimon Peres welcomed the deal as "good for the people of Israel", his office said.
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Interpol issues red notice for Iraqi Vice-President, wanted for terrorism against his own people


The Guardian
Tue, 08 May 2012 17:09 UTC
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© Saad Shalash/Reuters
Iraqi vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, denies all the charges against him, saying that they are politically motivated.
Tareq al-Hashemi, who is thought to be in Istanbul, is subject to red notice issued at request of Iraq over death squad claims

Interpol has called for help in arresting fugitive Iraqi vice-president Tareq al-Hashemi on suspicion of planning and funding attacks in Iraq.

Hashemi, a leading Sunni Muslim politician, fled Baghdad in December when the Shia-led government accused him of running death squads.

The vice-president, who is thought to be in Istanbul, has denied the charges, saying they are politically motivated. He has refused to stand trial in Baghdad.

Interpol, which is based in France, said on Tuesday it had issued the "red notice" arrest alert at the request of Iraqi authorities.

The notice did not amount to an international arrest warrant, it added, but was a call on forces in its 190 member countries to help locate Hashemi and bring him to justice.

Comment: That governments terrorise their own people then accuse 'terrorists out there' of committing the horrific deeds is not so crazy an idea after all, is it?

Burka Bombers: Spontaneously Exploding Iraqi Women

Flaming APCs! Now There's a Heart-Warming Story! Just Don't Mention The False Flag

Tareq Al Hashemi is a CIA asset, put in charge of running Iraq's death squads on behalf of the US government.



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Pedophilia in the Justice System

Keith Harmon Snow
Conscious Being Alliance
Tue, 01 May 2012 07:59 UTC
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© Dick Hart
The cover of the woman-hating "Father's Manifesto" book Screw the Bitch.
U.S. Family Courts Sacrificing Mothers & Children - Family Courts Behind an Epidemic of Pedophilia & Judicial Abuse

( * The article's original title Screw The Bitch - based on a book designed to destroy protective mothers - was unacceptably offensive to the author.)

A five month investigation reveals an epidemic of violence and corruption facilitated by Family Courts in the United States. Children all over the United States are being taken from their protective mothers and delivered to abusers. Behind this epidemic of judicial abuse are organized networks involved in racketeering and corruption, channeling and disappearing billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayers money every year. Insurance companies are being defrauded by medical and mental health professionals rewarded handsomely for producing quack studies that criminalize loving mothers and protect abusive fathers. With clear evidence of racketeering and corruption, high court judges and insider lawyers use and abuse the Family Courts system to destroy protective mothers and deliver life sentences of suffering to innocent children. Rich, poor, middle-class... No child in America is safe.

Little did they know, the worst was yet to come. Sunny Kelley and Lori Handrahan are just two mothers in two states in the country whose cases provide irrefutable evidence of judicial abuse and pedophile trafficking through Family Courts. Their court cases went straight from horrible to hell.

Despite solid documentation of judicial corruption, cronyism, state social service agency abuse, misconduct or dismissal by police, and massive profiteering by officials who are preying on families and children, even the Federal Bureau of Investigation is mute.

Just when Sunny and Lori thought it couldn't get worse, it did.

Comment: For more information on just how deep the rabbit hole goes with regard to pedophilia, see these Sott articles:

International Sex Ring Exposed, Thousands of Children and Infants Raped

Child sex trafficking, 'epidemic' in US

Dutroux Cover-up Protected Pedophile Networks

Beyond the Dutroux Affair: The reality of protected child abuse and snuff networks in a world ruled by psychopaths

The Pedophocracy

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Propaganda

Al-Jazeera English shuts China bureau after reporter expelled

Christopher Bodeen
Lebanon Daily Star
Tue, 08 May 2012 14:21 UTC
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Al-Jazeera said Tuesday it has shut its English-language bureau in China after its correspondent became the first foreign journalist to be expelled from the country since 1998.

Beijing's refusal to renew the visa of US citizen Melissa Chan sparked anger among press groups, which linked the decision to a documentary by the international news channel on forced prison labour in China.

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC) said it was "appalled" and called the move a "grave threat to foreign reporters' ability to work in China".

"This is the most extreme example of a recent pattern of using journalist visas in an attempt to censor and intimidate foreign correspondents in China," said a statement from the FCCC, considered an illegal organisation in China.

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong also condemned Chan's expulsion.

Comment: It's important to keep in mind here that ever since Al Jazeera 'went over to the dark side', its activities have gone beyond 'just reporting the facts' to providing propaganda services to the Powers That Be.

This was Al Jazeera then:

Al Jazeera asks: Are there Israeli links to 9/11?

And this is Al Jazeera now:

Al Jazeera Producer, Managing Director and Beirut Correspondent Quit Channel Citing 'Fake Anti-Syria Coverage'

Al Jazeera Doxed: Leaked emails reveals "Free Syrian Army" as branch of Al-Qaeda

Qatar and Al Jazeera officially supporting Western terrorists in Syria

WikiLeaks: Al Jazeera now controlled by US Government

Hillary Clinton: "Viewership Of Al Jazeera Is Going Up In The United States Because It's Real News"

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Father of Soldier Murdered by Unknown Gunman Files Complaint Against Sarkozy and French Intelligence for Complicity in Toulouse Shootings

Translated by Sott.net
Le Monde
Tue, 08 May 2012 13:13 UTC
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© AFP/Pascal Pavani
A fellow paratrooper holds up a picture of Abel Chennouf, one of three soldiers shot in cold blood by an unknown assassin in Southwestern France in March.
Albert Chennouf, the father of a soldier killed in March by Mohamed Merah, filed a complaint against the incumbent president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and against the head of the intelligence services, accusing them of failing to prevent the death of his son.

Albert Chennouf filed "a statement to the police" for failure to assist a person in danger, officials said to the prosecution of Nîmes, in the South-Eastern France. The file should be forwarded to Paris. "I want to file a complaint against Nicolas Sarkozy and Bernard Squarcini for failure to assist a person in danger. I hold them responsible for the death of my son," said Mr. Chennouf on the website of the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. Bernard Squarcini is responsible for the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI).

"Inevitably, we ask ourselves questions," added Chennouf. "I think that when you go to Pakistan by making a detour to Israel, it can only be with the blessing of the French secret services. The hypothesis that Merah was eliminated so that he wouldn't talk seems more and more plausible to me (...). Politicians wanted him to die."

Counsel for Mr. Chennouf, Gilbert Collard, confirmed that his client had filed a complaint. "He's in great despair, he pays the price for the drama lived," he said.

Corporal Abel Chennouf, 25, was killed the 15th of March in Montauban by Jihadist Mohamed Merah, who, in less than ten days, coldly killed
one man and three Jewish children, and three young soldiers. Mohamed Merah, who claimed to belong to Al-Qaeda, was killed the 22nd of March when police intervened in his apartment in Toulouse after a thirty-two hour siege.

Comment: Albert Chennouf knows something is wrong with the official story.

As Joe Quinn wrote shortly after the farcical "siege":
Toulouse Attacks: The Official Story of the Death of Mohamed Merah is a Lie

Clearly Merah was never meant to come out of that apartment alive. Why? Because he would have been able to tell the truth - that he did not shoot those three soldiers or the teacher and children at the Jewish school. Alive, he may have told a story of being contacted by French intelligence while he was in jail and offered a 'deal', whereby, as a Muslim, he would go to Afghanistan 'undercover' and report back to French intelligence on the activities of certain groups. This would have been the process of 'sheep dipping' him, creating a history that could later be used against him. He could have told how a trip to Israel was arranged for him and that he made contact with Israeli intelligence.


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Bad Guys

The Crackdown on Occupy: Nasty as They Want to Be

Kevin Carson
Counterpunch
Tue, 08 May 2012 11:26 UTC
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Disturbing news from Occupy circles about NYPD practices these days - I mean, in addition to all those other NYPD practices we were already disturbed about.

David Graeber, a prominent anarchist involved with Occupy since its beginning, recounts seeing a woman friend in New York a few weeks ago, her hand in a cast. A cop had grabbed her breast, she said.

When she raised a fuss and screamed about the groping, the cops dragged her out of sight and started working her over. "Stop resisting!" they continued to shout, as they repeatedly slammed her body into the concrete. At some point she told them she was reaching over to get her glasses, which had come off in the scuffle. In the reptilian police mind, this justified pinning her hands behind her back and bending one wrist until it snapped.

Those familiar with police riots versus anti-globalization demonstrations and the more recent Occupy demonstrations, or who follows Radley Balko and CopBlock, is aware that sexual assault's the only thing unusual about this case. As Graeber says, "arbitrary violence is nothing new. The apparently systematic use of sexual assault against women protestors is new."

Of course sexual assault itself is hardly new as a weapon of social control, in historical terms. It appears in the arsenals of most authoritarian regimes - large-scale, premeditated use of rape for ethnic cleansing by Serbian forces in Bosnia, Egyptian troops using "virginity inspections" to humiliate female demonstrators taken into custody, and so on.
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Blackbox

Ron Paul Could Still Win Enough Delegates To Deny Romney Republican Nomination


End of the American Dream
Sun, 06 May 2012 11:20 UTC
Ron Paul
© Gage Skidmore
Despite what you may have heard from the mainstream media, Mitt Romney does not have the Republican nomination locked up. In fact, he is rapidly losing delegates that almost everyone assumed that he already had in the bag. To understand why this is happening, you have to understand the delegate selection process. Each state has different rules for selecting delegates to the Republican national convention, and in many states the "voting" done by the public does not determine the allocation of delegates to particular candidates at all. And the truth is that delegates are the only thing that really matters in this race. In state after state, the Ron Paul campaign is focusing on the delegate selection process with laser-like precision, and it is paying off big time. At this point, there is still a legitimate chance that Ron Paul will be able to win enough delegates to deny Mitt Romney the nomination on the first ballot at the Republican national convention in Tampa. If Romney does not have the 1,144 delegates that he needs on the first ballot, then it becomes a brokered convention and anything becomes possible at that point.

Sadly, most Americans have no idea how this process really works.
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Bad Guys

Yemen Authorities deny having any information to support US 'underwear bomber' claims


Yemen Post
Mon, 07 May 2012 11:04 UTC
Senior officials in Yemen's Interior Ministry, Defense Ministry, Presidential office, and Prime Ministerial office deny having any information on a suspected underwear suicide bomber that was bound to the United States from Yemen.

The officials did not completely deny the American authorities claims but said that they are not aware on any such information.
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Bad Guys

Presidential Aide: No evidence proving US claims of a Yemeni behind 'underwear bombing' plot


Yemen Post
Mon, 07 May 2012 11:10 UTC
A senior presidential aide told Yemen Post that the United States has yet to handover any evidence proving that a Yemeni national was planned to be involved in the bombing of a US airliner using an underwear bomb.

The official said that the Yemeni government expected AQAP to attempt an attack but on a different scale and with their full knowledge in cooperation with Washington.

The official said that the Yemeni government will ask Washington to handover the evidence to ensure a full investigation take place.

Comment: What are they going to do, hand over the underwear?

No evidence has yet been 'handed over' because there is no evidence to hand over.

The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism

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