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Preparing the populace for the possibility of war: Israel to launch largest-ever nationwide war drill


Xinhua
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:35 UTC
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is gearing to hold a nationwide drill, scheduled to take place in two months, in a bid to prepare the populace for the possibility of war.

The exercise, called "Turning Point 5," will begin on June 19 and end four days later.

An IDF spokesman confirmed to Xinhua that preparations for the drill are underway, but would not provide further details.

National daily Yedioth Aharonot, however, claimed Wednesday that the drill will be the largest-ever to be held in Israel, encompassing 70 percent of civilians residing in more than 80 local councils.
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USA

Flashback A Sign of Empire Pathology

Finian Cunningham
Global Research
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:19 UTC
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© thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.com
More US military personnel have taken their OWN lives than have died in action.

Here is a shocking statistic that you won't hear in most western news media: over the past nine years, more US military personnel have taken their own lives than have died in action in either the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. These are official figures from the US Department of Defence, yet somehow they have not been deemed newsworthy to report. Last year alone, more than 330 serving members of the US armed forces committed suicide - more than the 320 killed in Afghanistan and the 150 who fell in Iraq (see wsws.org).

Since 2001, when Washington launched its so-called war on terror, there has been a dramatic year-on-year increase in US military suicides, particularly in the army, which has borne the brunt of fighting abroad. Last year saw the highest total number since such records began in 1980. Prior to 2001, the suicide rate in the US military was lower than that for the general US population; now, it is nearly double the national average.
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Ambulance

Rat causes fatal car crash, Miami rescue says

Brian Hamacher and Brent Solomon
MSNBC
Tue, 03 May 2011 14:00 UTC
rat causes crash
© Uknown
Critter gnaws through power link and causes traffic lights to go out

One person was killed and five others injured after a rat caused a car crash in Miami Sunday night, authorities said.

The bizarre incident happened just after midnight in the area of North Miami Avenue and 29th Street when the rat caused an explosion that knocked out street lights at the intersection.

"Believe it or not, a rat was at the top of one of the light poles...and chewed through one of the fusible links at the top of the pole, this caused the street lights to go out," said Capt. Joseph Zahralban, with the City of Miami Fire Rescue.

Zahralban said a group of people from a nearby bar went to investigate what caused the explosion and were standing on the sidewalk when two cars collided because the lights were out.
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Cow Skull

Bizarre coincidence: Did bin Laden and Hitler die on the same day?


Global TV BC
Mon, 02 May 2011 12:21 UTC
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© PNGOn May 1, 1945, German radio reported Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was dead.
In a truly odd coincidence Osama Bin Laden and Adolph Hitler apparently died on the same day, well, at least the announcements of their deaths occurred on the same day.

Sixty-six years ago it was announced on the evening of May 1, 1945 that Hitler killed himself in his bunker in Berlin.

On Sunday night in the USA it was announced that Osama Bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces.

Keep in mind, the timing of these death announcements are all in Eastern Standard Time.
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Operation Belvis Bash: Corey Feldman's Bin Laden Film's Bizarre Timing


Huffington Post
Mon, 02 May 2011 13:39 UTC
The official story is that the Navy SEALs took out al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin laden in a precise, heroic strike in Pakistan on Sunday. But if you ask 80's teen star Corey Feldman, he just may have had a part in taking down the world's most wanted criminal.

Feldman, the star of such 80's staples as "Stand By Me" and "The Lost Boys," has been touring with his very serious independent film, "Operation Belvis Bash," a war epic in which a number of entertainers, including his "outrageous 'Jewtastic' comedian,' Samuel Stilman, travel to Afghanistan to try to liberate Kabul through the power of mediocre at best rock 'n roll. He had just gotten out of a screening of his film, which is currently on tour in Texas, when he got the news of Bin Laden's death.

"I was in New York on September 11, 2001, with Michael Jackson, and then, nearly ten years later, I walk out of the premiere of my latest film, which I had postponed to be able to attend Corey Haim's 'Decisions' premiere and memorial, to learn that Osama Bin Laden [sic] had been killed by a special operation, just like in the film we'd just screened." Feldman said in a statement (via Movieline). "The timing is simply unbelievable, and whether life imitates art, or art imitates life, now is a time for all Americans to express their gratitude to the brave men and women who serve our country and helped make this happen."
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Black Cat

Female Psychopath? Israeli Border Policewoman as Stone-Cold Killer

Richard Silverstein
A New Worlds in Birth
Tue, 03 May 2011 05:51 UTC
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© UnknownShani Sevilia
A new expose of Israeli police brutality and torture exploded yesterday with reports that a member of a special Border Police unit, Shani Sivilia, had been accused of torturing a Palestinian boy in March 2010, by cocking and pretending to fire her pistol into his head at close range, all in response the 'deadly' act of his possessing three firecrackers. While the charges brought against her were shocking enough, even worse was the discovery by Israeli journalist, Ido Kenan, of her Facebook page, which is replete with the feverish product of what Ido cinematically calls "Dangerous Mind." Kenan has published a version of this in Yediot.

Yesterday, I wrote about the specific charges brought against her by the police special affairs unit. Today, we'll examine the contents of her formerly publicly accessible Facebook page (now private). There are a number of interesting themes running through this material which it's worth paying close attention to. First, Sivilia is a Mizrahit. As such, she clearly feels a profound need to separate herself from the Palestinians who, if she saw her own image in the mirror, she would resemble.

But there is a desperate need among some Israeli Jews of Arab origin to say: "We're not like them. We're better than them." This is phenomenon, of course, not restricted to Israel. This happens in all societies in which there are waves of immigration and the penultimate ethnic newcomer seeks to distinguish itself from the most recent wave, which is at the very bottom of the social status pyramid.
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Radar

Investigators recover second Air France black box


Agence France-Presse
Tue, 03 May 2011 05:39 UTC
Air France
© 7pm TV News NSWInvestigators found the main wreckage in early April
Search teams have retrieved the second black box flight recorder of an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009 en route from Rio to Paris, killing 228 people.

"The investigation team localised and identified the cockpit voice recorder at 21:50 UTC (local time) on Monday 2 May, 2011," France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) said in a statement.

BEA chief Jean-Paul Troadec said the recorder was "in good condition".

"The chassis, the module and even the underwater locator beacon is there," he said.
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Bad Guys

Israeli border policemen charged for assaulting, abusing Palestinian teen

Ofra Edelman
Haaretz
Mon, 02 May 2011 05:42 UTC
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© UnknownShani Sevilia
According to the charges, Ishai Ben-Ozri, 30, a resident of Ariel, and Shani Sevilia, 22, of Jerusalem, assaulted a 17-year-old after he was found to be carrying firecrackers during a routine check at the Rockefeller checkpoint in Jerusalem.

Two members of the Border Police have been indicted at the Jerusalem District Court for allegedly abusing and assaulting a minor. The two are Ishai Ben-Ozri, 30, a resident of Ariel, and Shani Sevilia, 22, of Jerusalem.

According to the charges, they assaulted a 17-year-old after he was found to be carrying firecrackers during a routine check at the Rockefeller checkpoint in Jerusalem.

Ben-Ozri allegedly punched the teenager in the jaw and kicked him in the knee. Sevilia, meanwhile, allegedly beat him and placed her pistol at his head, leading him to believe she was about to kill him. His eyes were covered.
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Evil Rays

Chile finds radioactive traces in Korean cars


Agence France-Presse
Mon, 02 May 2011 21:38 UTC
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© AFPA Japanese Self-Defense Force soldier removes debris and searches for people in Fukushima prefecture

Santiago - Chilean officials found traces of radioactivity in tests on around 20 used cars on a ship from South Korea that had been in the vicinity of Japan's damaged Fukushima atomic plant, a report said Monday.

The report in the daily El Mercurio quoted Iquique customs director Raul Barria as saying the radioactivity did not appear to pose a danger.

He said the vehicles were showing a level of one to five on a radioactive index, below the level of nine needed for an alert.
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Heart - Black

U.S.: Search warrants fill in some details on discovery of caged Gloucester girl


dailypress.com
Mon, 02 May 2011 16:55 UTC
A residential burglary reported on April 17 led investigators to the grim discovery of an emaciated girl who was kept penned for months in a modified cage in a Gloucester single-wide trailer.

A homeowner in the Cappahosic area reported several bars of gold bullion, a vacuum cleaner, flashlights, a passport, $2,000 in cash and other items had been stolen from his home sometime during the previous three weeks, according to documents filed in Gloucester County Circuit Court.

The homeowner told Gloucester Sheriff's deputies he had not been at the home since March 23, according to court documents.

The gold bullion bars were traced to the Harris & Co. Auction House -- located in the former home of Carolina BBQ, where Shannon Gore worked before it closed down -- where the owner said he had purchased two gold bullion bars from Shannon Gore, according to court documents.
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