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Star of David

Israel supplants U.S. as world's largest Jewish population center, passing symbolic 6 million figure

Palash R. Ghosh
International Business Times
Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:16 UTC
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© ReutersA Druze woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the northern Druze-Arab village of Maghar.
During Passover, the Jewish population of Israel has passed the symbolic 6 million mark - the same number of Jews who were believed to have been killed during the Nazi Holocaust - while the country's total population is now 8 million.

Israel now has the world's largest community of Jews, replacing the U.S. (5.5 million, with 2 million in New York City alone), France (500,000, mostly in Paris) and Canada (380,000, primarily in Toronto).

Britain has 290,000 Jews, most of them concentrated in London.

According to the Interior Ministry, Israel's non-Jewish population comprises about 1.6 million Arabs and 350,000 non-Arab Christians and others (mostly immigrants from the Soviet Union whose religion has not been listed or registered by the ministry).

Another half-million Israeli citizens live abroad, the Ynet newspaper reported.
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Heart - Black

The impacts of depleted uranium, cancer, birth defects and the children of Iraq: How the BBC turns realities upside down

William Bowles
Global Research
Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:06 UTC
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Under the title 'Fallujah's children's 'genetic damage', that old war horse 'literally' of the BBC's foreign propaganda service, John Simpson, manages not to mention the phrase 'depleted uranium' when allegedly reporting on the alarming rise in birth defects that include cancer, leukemia and a horrific rise in child mortality since the US demolished the city of Fallujah in 2004. And it's not until right at the end of the piece that the US attack on Fallujah is even mentioned, let alone depleted uranium!

Simpson says:
"Even if it's possible to produce watertight scientific proof that American weapons were responsible for the genetic damage it will be almost impossible for the people who suffered to get any redress. American legislation makes it extremely difficult to sue the US government over acts of war."
Well that takes care of that little problem then, doesn't it. I trust the US government will reward Simpson for his slavish support of its wars of conquest and destruction.

Indeed, just look at the title of the video, the phrase genetic damage is in single quotes, thus the damage to the children of Fallujah, which is clearly and obviously genetic in origin, is questioned by the BBC's spin meister Simpson. Worse, the video shows doctors comparing the effects of depleted uranium on the children of Fallujah with that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and point out that in fact, they're much worse than the damage inflicted by the Empire's atomic bombs.
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Crusader

9/11: Illegitimacy of U.S. government


PressTV
Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:46 UTC
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New York City asks: What happened to the 1,116 missing 9/11 victims?

More than 11 years after the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center, New York City's government is finally asking: What in the world could have happened to the missing 1,116 victims?

In every building collapse in history, all of the victims' bodies have been recovered more or less intact. That is because falling buildings crush human bodies. They do not shred them into tiny pieces, or cause them to vanish into thin air.

Yet on September 11th, 2001, the most famous "building collapses" in history somehow caused the bodies of more than 1,000 victims to magically disappear. Not even a shred of skin, a fragment of fingernail, or a shard of bone from any of these bodies was ever recovered, despite meticulous "sifting and bucketing" efforts.

But that's not the only mystery. Hardly anything was left of the 1,634 WTC occupants who did not completely vanish. Most of the human remains discovered and DNA-identified were in the form of tiny, shredded pieces, not intact bodies.
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USA

Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret U.S. base in Baghdad

Ian Cobain
Guardian
Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:32 UTC
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© Khalid Mohammed/APDetainees were taken to Camp Nama, a secret US detention centre at Baghdad international airport.
Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses

British soldiers and airmen who helped to operate a secretive US detention facility in Baghdad that was at the centre of some of the most serious human rights abuses to occur in Iraq after the invasion have, for the first time, spoken about abuses they witnessed there.

Personnel from two RAF squadrons and one Army Air Corps squadron were given guard and transport duties at the secret prison, the Guardian has established.

And many of the detainees were brought to the facility by snatch squads formed from Special Air Service and Special Boat Service squadrons.

Codenamed Task Force 121, the joint US-UK special forces unit was at first deployed to detain individuals thought to have information about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Once it was realised that Saddam's regime had long since abandoned its WMD programme, TF 121 was re-tasked with tracking down people who might know where the deposed dictator and his loyalists might be, and then with catching al-Qaida leaders who sprang up in the country after the regime collapsed.

Suspects were brought to the secret prison at Baghdad International airport, known as Camp Nama, for questioning by US military and civilian interrogators. But the methods used were so brutal that they drew condemnation not only from a US human rights body but from a special investigator reporting to the Pentagon.
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Stormtrooper

Croatian weapons found in Syria: Report


PressTV
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:28 UTC
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Croatian weapons have started to emerge in the hands of foreign-sponsored militants fighting against the Syrian government in the country's southwestern Daraa province, a report says.

According to a report published by Syrian newspaper Al Watan on Monday, the Croatian weapons include rocket launchers, surface-to-air missiles in addition to medium, light and sophisticated arms which have recently entered the country through borders with Jordan.

The report further accused the US spying services of providing the militants with information about the movements of the Syrian army.
"The terrorists have started to fan out in a number of small towns in a bid to isolate Daraa from the rest of Syria and to control borders with Jordan," the report said.
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Bad Guys

How the Pentagon corrupted Afghanistan

Dilip Hiro
Salon
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:01 UTC
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© AP/Shamil ZhumatovAn Afghan family walks past a U.S. Army soldier in the town of Senjaray.
If the U.S. finally loses its ally, it can point to the tsunami of cash it's poured into the country since 2005

Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. This has been widely reported. Only one crucial element is missing from this routine censure: a credible explanation of why American nation-building failed there. No wonder. To do so, the U.S. would have to denounce itself.

Corruption in Afghanistan today is acute and permeates all sectors of society. In recent years, anecdotal evidence on the subject has been superseded by the studies of researchers, surveys by NGOs, and periodic reports by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). There is also the Corruption Perceptions Index of the Berlin-based Transparency International (TI). Last year, it bracketed Afghanistan with two other countries as the most corrupt on Earth.

None of these documents, however, refers to the single most important fact when it comes to corruption: that it's Washington-based. It is, in fact, rooted in the massive build-up of U.S. forces there from 2005 onward, the accompanying expansion of American forward operating bases, camps, and combat outposts from 29 in 2005 to nearly 400 five years later, and above all, the tsunami of cash that went with all of this.
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Alarm Clock

Monsanto Protection Act: A post-mortem for our legal system

Clay Rossi
legalexaminer.com
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:31 UTC
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© occupymonsanto360.org
It's time for a brief post-mortem on the events leading to the passage of the Monsanto Protection Act (MPA). Now that President Obama has signed the legislation which included the MPA into law, there are certain facts that need not be forgotten for the next time (and there will be a next time) big business buys itself judicial immunity from Congress.

As a refresher, the MPA prevents federal courts from interfering with the sale or planting of genetically modified seeds regardless of the evidence presented to the court about the health and safety effects of those seeds.

For starters, remember that Monsanto purchased bi-partisan support for this abomination. It was Missouri Senator Roy Blount, a Republican, who worked with Monsanto on crafting the legislation and Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat, who introduced the provision. Moral of the story is that loyalty to rank-and-file party members or constituents concerns didn't matter is the face of Monsanto dollars. Also the White House failed to stop the measure despite petitions and protests urging President Obama to stand up against the measure. This is a bleak fact.
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Che Guevara

Syria: Democracy vs. foreign invasion. Who is Bashar Al Assad?

Arabi Souri
Global Research
Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:02 UTC
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A Syrian's Perspective: Bashar al-Assad's Democratic Movement

Bashar al-Assad has been systematically demonized by the mainstream and so-called alternative media who claim that he is a brutal dictator.

Actually Bashar is a reformer who has done much to further the causes of democracy and freedom. It is the "opposition" and their foreign supporters which represent the most repressive elements of the former ruling party in Syria.

To fully understand this its is helpful to look at the historical context of the current crisis. The so-called "spontaneous popular uprising" started in Daraa on March 15th, 2011. The court house, police stations, governor's house, and other public buildings were looted and torched by the "peaceful protestors" in the first week of the crisis. The people in Homs then began to protest in solidarity with Daraa, but this was uncharacteristic of peaceful Homs and many Syrians knew that it was a fake revolution.

About 110 unarmed police officers were murdered in Daraa and Homs, sparking anger against the "revolutionaries." There was an incident in the city Baniyas where an Alawite truck driver was attacked by an armed mob, skinned, and paraded through the city. This was strongly resented by almost all Syrians and since then not a single major city actually rebelled against the government.

The foreign backed "revolutionaries" would attack a neighborhood, police station, or army base, from across the borders of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq. Then they would claim that the city was in rebellion.
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Heart - Black

Hunger strike, riots by Palestinian inmates following death at Israeli jail


RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:47 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Mohammed AbedA Palestinian woman holds a picture of Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh, an Israeli-held prisoner who died of cancer while in detention, during a protest against his death in Gaza City on April 2, 2013.
A Palestinian prisoner sentenced to life has died of cancer in Israel, sparking unrest and a three-day hunger strike in several jails. The Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has blamed the death on Israel.

Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh, serving a life sentence since 2002 for attempted murder, membership in Hamas and weapons possession, was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus two months ago.

The Israeli Prison Service turned to the pardons committee to carry out the inmate's release a week ago when his condition worsened drastically, but he died at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba before the procedure was complete.

His death set off a series of riots in the Ketziot, Eshel and Ramon prisons, with inmates banging on cell doors and throwing objects. Police had to be called to calm the unrest, with security stepped up in case of further incidents.

Palestinians also demonstrated over the death in the Hebron area, throwing Molotov cocktails at police. Qadura Fares, head of an advocacy group for Palestinian prisoners, indicated to AFP that Israel is to blame for the prisoner's death because of its "refusal to release him for treatment," despite repeated requests, some of which came from abroad.
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Top Secret

FBI's famous UFO memo fails to resolve 'flying saucer' mystery


RT
Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:38 UTC
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© AFP PhotoА model depicting the 1947 Alien Autopsy in Roswell, New Mexico
Still wondering about the mystery of flying saucers and 3-foot tall aliens dressed in metallic clothing, which the FBI described in a 1950 memo? The agency has released a statement with details about the famous document.

The memo describing the mysterious UFOs was created in 1950, three years after the Roswell incident, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation claims they are not connected. In a blog post published this week, the agency says it never investigated the mysterious sightings - even though it could not explain what Guy Hottel, former head of the FBI's Washington, D.C. field office, described.

"An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico," Hottel wrote in the memo, which was addressed to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. "They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots."

According to the document, three men including a police officer, a highway patrolman and an army guard had all reported seeing a "silver colored object high up approaching the mountains at Sardina Canyon" which then "appeared to explode in a rash of fire". It also explained that several residents had reported witnessing two explosions, followed by a falling object.
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