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Sott.netFri, 03 Nov 2006 12:00 UTC
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| The scene near a mosque in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun after Israeli troops opened fire on a group of Palestinian women, killing one of them (see here) and injuring 10 others. The mosque had been the scene of an Israeli siege after a group of men, presumed to be armed, took refuge there. Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters
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This story should come as no surprise to anyone. Successive Israeli governments have given ample evidence over the past 60 years that, in their opinion, Palestinian life is worth little more than that of the animals that extreme orthodox Jews sacrifice to their destroyer god "Yahweh". Indeed, at least on a symbolic level, the murder of Palestinian men, women and children by Israeli soldiers is seen by Zionists as a similar type of blood offering to the all-too-human "god" that "promised them Palestine" 2,500 years ago.
With such callous disregard for the life of other human beings, what does anyone expect the end result of the manufactured "Middle East crisis" to be, other than the murder of probably millions of innocent people, Arabs and Jews alike, with only the Zionist leaders escaping unscathed, as always.
SOTT Editors
Sott.netSat, 28 Feb 2009 14:30 UTC
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In the context of the global economic crisis, we are witnessing an important shift in the rhetoric of the media and the elite. Their warnings of riots and social upheaval seem to be implying that harder measures of control will be required; this way, the 'War on Terror' has served its purpose as a template for a 'War on People'.
Contrary to the expectations of its population, the new government of the United States is not moving away from the path set by the Bush administration; the changes so far have only been a matter of appearance.
The right-wing climate is also growing even stronger in Israel with Netanyahu's electoral victory. There are signs that Israel's aggressions towards its neighbors in Palestine and/or Iran will continue after the pause required by the formation of the new government.
All the political and economic turmoil takes place on a planet already experiencing bizarre climatic and cosmic phenomena.
The EU and Syria are engaged in a tug-of-war over an intercepted ship suspected of transporting explosives from Iran to Palestinian militants in Gaza, European diplomats say.
Cyprus is caught in the middle, they say, because the vessel docked there after the U.S. military boarded it.
Two diplomats recently told The Associated Press that Syria, described by the U.S. as the port of destination for the vessel, is pressuring Cyprus over what it should do with the ship's cargo.
Jeremiah (10) stares blankly at a window, tears rolling down his burn-scarred cheeks as he recounts how his father doused him with petrol and set him ablaze, accusing him of witchcraft.
He is just one of hundreds of children in southern Nigeria's Niger Delta oil region thrown out of their homes, tortured or killed after they are branded witches by a new crop of self-styled religious leaders.
About a dozen phony pastors have been arrested -- one on murder charges -- after he confessed in a documentary film to having killed 110 child witches. He now says he killed only the witches inside the children, not the children themselves.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog says Iran is continuing to obstruct its investigation into allegations of past work on nuclear weapons, but the country's uranium enrichment program is expanding more slowly than expected.
The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, due to be released today, is likely to sharpen debate within the Obama Administration, which is reviewing its Iran policy.
A Cypriot official says a ship suspected of transporting Iranian arms to Gaza is free to leave the island, as its cargo has been unloaded.
Senior Merchant Shipping Department official Andreas Constantinou said Wednesday it's now up to the owners of the Cyprus-flagged Monchegorsk to decide when and where to go.
Richard Sawyer
Sott.netMon, 16 Feb 2009 07:44 UTC
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'There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment . . . It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time." - George Orwell's 1984
Under the pretense of the 'War on Terror' the creep towards total control of every aspect of the lives of the World's Citizens continues. No change in America under Obama except greater support for private contractors and further use of wiretapping. The House of Lords speak out against the violation of civil liberties but seem powerless given the EU's role in determining UK legislation. You can't even escape Big Brother UK for a holiday with new travel spying laws. Google latitude causes a stir with it's latest product for stalkers. RFID technology looks poised to facilitate the imposition of a carbon footprint tax despite the flawed global warming science it is based on.
Austrian incest jailer Josef Fritzl is putting his life story up for sale to the highest bidder and hawking his property empire at bargain-basement prices in a bid to raise cash for his secret family.
Fritzl, 74, says he wants to provide "a secure future" for the incest tribe he fathered in a secret cellar beneath his home where he raped his daughter Elisabeth over a 24-year period.
Just four weeks before he stands trial for the crimes, Fritzl has been declared bankrupt by authorities winding down his $A6.5 million property rental empire.
Iran had been accused of exporting arms to Gaza and Lebanon before it was revealed that no weapons were onboard the Monchegorsk.
Officials in Cyprus say they have found no weapons onboard an Iranian ship that had been the source of arms export allegations.
"There are no weapons on board, but there is material which could be used for the manufacture of ammunitions," Cypriot Defense Minister Costas Papacostas told reporters on Friday.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hassan Qashqavi, today denied that a ship detained by Cypriot authorities last month was carrying Iranian weapons to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
"The report was baseless and until now, nothing has been communicated to us by our embassy in Nicosia or official sources," Qashqavi told reporters, the conservative Fars news agency reports.
A Cypriot source said Saturday that the ship appeared to be carrying weapon-related material from Iran prohibited by United Nations Security Council sanctions, Reuters reports.
Comment: Too many anonymous sources on this one, but we are getting used to this type of information to be presented as news nowadays. The two states making the most fuss about Monchegorsk's cargo were the US and Israel, so that tells us enough already on the amount of propaganda to expect on "conditions of anonymity". Some more articles on the subject:
Cyprus: Iran ship can leave without suspect cargo
Cyprus finds no arms on Iranian ship
Ship detained in Cyprus is carrying banned weapons, says UN panel
The "Iranian" Weapon Ships And The Israeli Propaganda