Just days after being declared persona non grata at the Labour Party conference, Tony Blair looks set to receive similar treatment in the Middle East.

The Palestinians have lost trust in the former prime minister as envoy for the Quartet on the Middle East peacemakers, claiming he is biased towards Israel. Palestinian youth wings of the main political parties have informally declared Mr Blair persona non grata in the occupied West Bank and would not meet him there, a Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) official said. If, as expected, the youth wings make a formal declaration about Mr Blair, it is likely to be adopted by senior politicians.

The concerns expressed about Mr Blair follow an Arab newspaper report which said that Palestinian officials are pushing for the removal of Mr Blair as envoy, citing his efforts to stop the Palestinian bid for statehood submitted to the United Nations last week. Citing diplomatic sources, the Al-Quds newspaper reported that the Quartet intended to appoint a new peace envoy to the Middle East following a Palestinian request for his dismissal, according to the political blogger Guido Fawkes, who posted a translated excerpt on his website.

Saif al-Islam threatens to publish details of bank transfers to punish French PM for backing Libyan rebels

Muammar Gaddafi's son has claimed that Libya helped finance Nicolas Sarkozy's successful election campaign in 2007, and demanded that the French president return the money to "the Libyan people".

In an interview with the Euronews TV channel, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said Libya had details of bank transfers and was ready to make them public in a move designed to punish Sarkozy for throwing his weight behind opposition forces.

Last week, the Libyan government threatened to reveal a "grave secret" that would bring down Sarkozy, with Saif al-Islam calling him "a clown".

The regime is furious at Sarkozy's efforts to galvanise international action to impose a "no-fly zone" that would prevent Gaddafi from using air power against rebels based in Benghazi.

The Oakland Tribune is not impressed. From a September, 26 editorial:

Earlier this month, the board of Oakland's Museum of Children's Art, MOCHA, abruptly canceled an exhibit of Palestinian children's art that had been six months in the planning. "A Child's View in Gaza" featured drawings and paintings by Palestinian children who were living in Gaza during Israel's three-week bombing and ground invasion that began Dec. 27, 2008.

Pro-Israel lobbying groups claimed that the Gaza exhibit was anti-Israel and fought to kill it. They asserted that the art could not possibly have been created by children . . .

Prosecutor close to French president in court over allegations of spying on Le Monde journalists investigating Bettencourt scandal

The threat to Nicolas Sarkozy's re-election bid from corruption scandals intensified on Wednesday after a leading state prosecutor close to the president was summoned before judges over an alleged dirty tricks campaign to spy on journalists.

Seven months before the presidential election, Sarkozy, who once promised to be Mr Squeaky Clean of French politics, has seen his close circle come under pressure in a series of corruption investigations whose plots thicken by the day. Investigators are untangling a web of scandals involving alleged illegal party-funding with banknotes variously stuffed into bags, briefcases and brown envelopes, as well as phone interceptions.

As the beleaguered president unveiled his austerity budget on Wednesday, his government was waging a public relations war to try to dampen the talk of sleaze and to stress that Sarkozy himself had not been personally implicated.

France Condemned Wednesday the Israeli authorities' approval of a plan to build 1100 housing units in the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo, saying that this decision could backfire at a time when the international community is increasing its efforts in order to immediately resume negotiations, according to the French Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bernard Valero.

He said that France considers this decision to be provocative, calling on Israel to reconsider it and refrain from any actions that would disrupt the international community's efforts to resume Palestnian-Israeli negotiations.

TV network admits passing off clip from VIDEO GAME as footage of genuine IRA attack documentary linking Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi to the Irish terrorist group.

The corporate media has been caught red-handed once again fabricating propaganda to justify the globalist agenda.

Never mind that our sworn Islamic enemies, non other than Al-Qaeda, have been used as ground troops to take over Libya's oil and now have been recognized as the official government leaders of Libya.

Never mind that the U.S. and European governments have been suppling Gaddafi with weapons and used him to do their dirty deeds for years.

Never mind that Gaddafi has been running secret CIA torture prison for years.

Instead, dear sheeple, watch this documentary showing evidence that Gaddafi is the bad guy.

Protesters have occupied Wall Street for one week and counting:


We Are The 99 Percent. Yet The Media Mocks Us. The Wall Street Bankers Sip Champagne As They Watch Us Protest. The Police Beat Us. You Will Hear Our Message. Expect Us.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has come under criticism for allegedly recruiting a surveillance unit to spy on journalists amid reports of government corruption.

The allegations first surfaced following a report in September by the daily newspaper Le Monde, in which the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (DCRI) -- the French equivalent of the CIA-- was accused of involvement in tracking down an anonymous source in the scandal linked to L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt's illegal donations to Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign, the Globe and Mail reported on Friday.

According to the report, the French president has allegedly set up and supervised a special unit of the secret service to tip off journalists, who launch reports or conduct any investigation into a string of affairs ranging from tax evasion to influence peddling to a conflict of interest involving Betencourt and Labor Minister Eric Woerth.

The most damaging blow to President Nicolas Sarkozy this week might appear to be the loss of his majority in the Senate. On September 25th control of France's upper house swung to the left for the first time in the Fifth Republic. This was not a direct test of popular sentiment: the senatorial electoral college is made up mainly of local and regional councillors, and the Socialists have won many local elections in recent years. But it was a symbolic knock for Mr Sarkozy just seven months before a presidential election, and it has crushed morale in his party.

Yet it is the fall-out from a slow-crawling corruption case that could prove more wounding. Over the past week, a judicial inquiry into what is known as the Karachi affair has closed in on allies of Mr Sarkozy. The investigation is linked to kickbacks on the sale of submarines to Pakistan in 1994, as well as to a 2002 bomb attack in Karachi in which 11 French naval technicians were killed. On September 22nd Nicolas Bazire, a senior executive at LVMH, a luxury-goods group, who was Mr Sarkozy's best man at his wedding in 2008 to Carla Bruni, was charged with "complicity in the misuse of public money". The previous day Thierry Gaubert, another businessman and former colleague of Mr Sarkozy, had been charged in connection with the investigation. Both deny the accusations.

The pair's links to Mr Sarkozy go beyond friendship. Between 1993 and 1995 Mr Bazire was chief of staff to Edouard Balladur, then France's prime minister, and campaign manager during Mr Balladur's (unsuccessful) bid for the presidency in 1995. During that time, Mr Sarkozy served first as Mr Balladur's budget minister and then as his campaign spokesman. Mr Gaubert was Mr Sarkozy's deputy chief of staff for part of the period. Investigating judges suspect that the Pakistani kickbacks helped to finance Mr Balladur's campaign.

NYPD officer Anthony Bologna faces two investigations as video emerges of a second pepper-spray incident

The senior New York police officer at the centre of the Occupy Wall Street pepper spray controversy fired the gas at protesters a second time just moments later.

After new video emerged on Wednesday showing the second incident, New York police commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters that the Civilian Complaint Review Board would investigate the officer, deputy inspector Anthony Bologna.

The New York Police Department's own internal affairs bureau also plans to open an investigation, the New York Times reports.