17 August, 2010 — Youtube
“This poem isn’t actually about religion. It is kind of irrelevant to the piece whether or not you believe in God or a God or anything like that. Thats not the point……”
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.233126
17 August, 2010 — The Real News Network
Journalist Jonathan Cook and Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard on apartheid & Israel
Renowned Nezareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook says not only is Israel’s control of the West Bank based on an apartheid system of segregation but also the system inside Israel proper. One of the top Israeli human rights lawyers, Michael Sfard, disagrees. In a Tel Aviv interview with The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky he talks about his conclusion that Israeli control in the West Bank is now only moving towards an apartheid-like system based on the dual legal systems that Israeli settlers and Palestinians get subjected to. He describes that if an Israeli settler and a Palestinian were to be arrested for the same crime, they would be judged, investigated, and convicted in separate legal systems.
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4246942
IS ISRAEL AN APARTHEID STATE?, posted with vodpod
Bio
Jonathan Cook is a British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. He has written for the Guardian, International Herald Tribune and Le Monde diplomatique among other publications, and is currently a correspondent for the Abu Dhabi-based National newspaper. He is the author of three books on the Israel-Palestine conflict, the latest being Disappearing Palestine.
Michael Sfard is one of the top Israeli human rights lawyers. His Tel Aviv-based practice represents many Israeli human rights groups and high profile rights cases. Most famous is his firm’s challenge of the separation wall annexing land from the West Bank village of Bil’in. A former conscientious objector, Sfard represents reservists and others who refuse to participate in the occupation of the Palestinian Territories.
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17 August, 2010 — PSC
Last night, the BBC broadcast a Panorama programme entitled ‘Death on the Med’.
It claimed to reveal ‘what really happened’ when Israeli commandoes boarded the Mavi Marmara on 31 May 2010.
Watch the programme here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00thr24
The programme was extremely biased, portraying the activists on board as violent terrorists who set out to kill Israeli soldiers.
Please write to the BBC asking the following questions:
You can find more points to make on the PSC website at www.palestinecampaign.org/ and t.co/wxcKyPH
Where to send your complaint:
Online: BBC complaints link: Follow the link and fill out the online form: https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/
Ring: BBC complaint line number: 03700 100 212
Email: mailto:panorama.reply@bbc.co.uk
Write: BBC Panorama, MC4A1, Media Centre, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) aims to raise public awareness about the occupation of Palestine and the struggle of the Palestinian people. PSC seek to bring pressure on both the British and Israeli government to bring their policies in line with international law. PSC is an independent, non-governmental and non-party political organisation with members from communities across the UK. Join PSC today!
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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Tel: 020 7700 6192
Fax: 020 7609 7779
Email: info@palestinecampaign.org
Web:www.palestinecampaign.org
17 August, 2010 — PSC
Last night, the BBC broadcast a Panorama programme entitled ‘Death on the Med’.
It claimed to reveal ‘what really happened’ when Israeli commandoes boarded the Mavi Marmara on 31 May 2010.
Watch the programme here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00thr24
The programme was extremely biased, portraying the activists on board as violent terrorists who set out to kill Israeli soldiers.
Please write to the BBC asking the following questions:
You can find more points to make on the PSC website at www.palestinecampaign.org/ and t.co/wxcKyPH
Where to send your complaint:
Online: BBC complaints link: Follow the link and fill out the online form: https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/
Ring: BBC complaint line number: 03700 100 212
Email: mailto:panorama.reply@bbc.co.uk
Write: BBC Panorama, MC4A1, Media Centre, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) aims to raise public awareness about the occupation of Palestine and the struggle of the Palestinian people. PSC seek to bring pressure on both the British and Israeli government to bring their policies in line with international law. PSC is an independent, non-governmental and non-party political organisation with members from communities across the UK. Join PSC today!
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Box BM PSA
London
WC1N 3XX
Tel: 020 7700 6192
Fax: 020 7609 7779
Email: info@palestinecampaign.org
Web:www.palestinecampaign.org
17 August, 2010 — Gilad Atzmon – Writings
Some British Jews are desperate to stop the truth about the Jewish state being spread around. The Jewish Chronicle reported today that Jewish ‘Community leaders are battling to stop an exhibition of paintings by children from Gaza being shown in schools in the North of England.’
Jewish campaigners say they have ‘no objection to the paintings, but have reacted with anger at a series of talks given to accompany them.’
The man behind the exhibition and the talks is Rod Cox, 62, who visited Gaza and the West Bank a few times in recent years. The exhibition, Loss Of Innocence, has been on tour since September, visiting universities, town halls and, most recently, Manchester Cathedral. It was taken to a Quaker venue in Marple, Stockport, on Monday evening and plans are under way to take it to schools in the north west.
To watch Rod Cox and the Exhibition:
Manchester Rep Council President Lucille Cohen said: ‘Rod Cox is disseminating hatred. His talk and text accompanying his exhibition either indirectly implied or overtly conveyed a number of unsubstantiated assumptions about Israel. I am astounded that Christians of good will would seem willing to become a party to this.’
I guess that Lucille Cohen better read the Goldstone report. The list of Israeli war crimes against humanity is totally and overwhelmingly substantiated. As it happens, the Jewish community leaders who rush to assist the Jewish state give a clear message of Jewish collective support of Israel and its crimes. It is also almost amusing to read Zionist Lucille Cohen trying to tell Christians what the meaning of ‘good will’ is all about.
Zionist Federation co-president Joy Wolfe said: ‘If the pictures had been allowed to speak for themselves most people, myself included, would have found little reason to criticise the concept of the exhibition. But they weren’t. They were accompanied by Rod Cox’s captions which demonised Israel and invented some truly remarkable allegations.’
The pictures obviously speak for themselves and as for the Palestinian cause, slowly but surely, it becomes a universal cause. Someone also should remind Zionist Wolfe that the children of Gaza live in a siege, neither they nor their picture can travel around unless Mr Cox kindly delivers. God bless Mr Cox for his activism.
I would suggest that Britain do itself a great favour if it proceeds with the idea of comparative literature and combine the teaching of Anne Frank with the story of Gaza children. At the end of the day, history is meaningful once it is put in perspective.
16 August, 2010 — VTJP
International Middle East Media Center
Harvard University divests from Israel
IMEMC – 16 Aug 2010 – Monday August 16, 2010 – 23:27, In the latest declared victory for the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement worldwide, Harvard University, one of the most prestigious and oldest universities in the United States, has sold off all of its shares in Israeli companies.
Erekat: “Too Early To Set Time For Direct Talks”
IMEMC – 16 Aug 2010 – Monday August 16, 2010 – 19:38, Head of the negotiations department at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) denounced Israel’s stance in rejecting the statement of the Quartet Committee before it is even announced, and stated that it is still too early to talk about direct talks with Israel.
Settlers Uproot 250 Olive Trees Near Nablus
IMEMC – 16 Aug 2010 – Monday August 16, 2010 – 17:18, A number of armed Jewish settlers uprooted on Monday morning more than 200 olive trees near the village of Qasra, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
17 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House
Living with the Taliban on the Afghan Frontline
Video Report and Text
Channel 4 News has obtained rare film of Taliban fighters on the Afghanistan frontline, including footage of their attacks on US forces. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at what the film tells us about the insurgents and their tactics.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26171.htm
Why Petraeus Can’t Make The Sale
By Dan Froomkin
As Gen. David Petraeus kicks off an extended media blitz intended to make Americans feel better about the war in Afghanistan — or at least give him some more time to fight it — he faces a foe more implacable than al Qaeda, or even the Taliban: Reality.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26162.htm
12 August, 2010 — NO2ID
HAS THE COALITION ADOPTED THE DATABASE STATE?
Up to now NO2ID has had reason to be pleased with the new government. It may not have moved as certainly or as far as we would like on mass surveillance projects, but it has shown willing, quickly cutting back the ID scheme and cancelling ContactPoint. But this week’s pre-announcement of the idea of using credit-reference agencies to detect benefit fraud is a sign that the ideas of “Transformational Government” have not vanished from Whitehall alongside the terminology.
No-one wants to promote fraud. But that does not mean anything claimed to be an anti-fraud measure is worth its other consequences. The details of the scheme are very sketchy so far, but NO2ID will be taking a very close interest in the costs to privacy as well as the cost-effectiveness of any mass data-sharing that it involves. Fishing expeditions to turn up suspects are a very different matter from targeted investigations. ‘Computer says no,’ would be a weird way to run a welfare system.
16 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House
What Should A Poor Warmongering Neoconservative Do?
By Juan Cole
This political grouping includes WASPS such as former CIA director James Woolsey and former UN ambassor John Bolton, but at its core is politically active and extremely wealthy Jewish former Democrats who broke with their party in the 1980s to become war hawks in Republican administrations, and most of whom are rooted in Rightwing Zionism as exemplified in the thought of prominent fascist theorist Vladimir Jabotinsky.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26158.htm
US Death Squads Roam The Globe
Secret Assault on “Terrorism” Widens on Two Continents
By SCOTT SHANE, MARK MAZZETTI and ROBERT F. WORTH
As American counterterrorism operations spread beyond war zones into territory hostile to the military, private contractors have taken on a prominent role, raising concerns that the United States has outsourced some of its most important missions to a sometimes unaccountable private army.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26155.htm
13 August, 2010 — www.statewatch.org/
Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/
Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm
1. EU: European Investigation Order (EIO)
2. UK: Torture Guidelines
3. UK: Annual report: Intelligence Services Commissioner, 2009
4. POLAND-GERMANY: Suspected Israeli spy subject to European Arrest Warrant
5. UK: RESPONSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS JUDGMENTS
6. EU: EURODAC: Annual report 2009
7. USA: EPIC: Documents reveal that body scanners routinely store and records images
8. BELGIUM-USA: Viewpoint: Possible Extradition of Nizar Trabelsi
9. EU: European Commission: Report on the placing on the market of replica firearms
10. EU: Council: Data Protection subsumed into Working Party on “Information exchange”
11. EU: Council: “Police Cooperation Working Party” changed its name
12. EU: Council Presidency: Operation Hermes
13. EU: Council of the European Union: “State of play” at the Brussels summer break
14. EU: Council Presidency: Belgian EU Presidency: Immigration and asylum Programme
15. Poland: Fresh evidence regarding CIA rendition flights
16. UK: Terrorism Act: Carlile report for 2009
17. EU: COUNTER-TERRORISM: Communication
11 August, 2010 — HLLN
Recommended HLLN Link: Ezili Dantò on Wakeup Call w/ Esther Armah speaking on Wyclef and Sean Penn August 10, 2010 – bit.ly/cPseIE ( Entire one hour WBAI broadcast, here- bit.ly/cu8xzL)
Sean Penn and Wyclef Jean: Hollywood, Hip Hop and Haiti bit.ly/bhT38H
In 2004 Wyclef voiced support for Haiti rebels as “freedom fighters” including DEA suspected drug dealer, Guy Philippe bit.ly/9ZyocR and convicted death squad leader, Louis Jodel Chamblain bit.ly/aZHYXV
In this post
– Audio Interview Link: Ezili Dantò on Wakeup Call w/ Esther Armah speaking on Wyclef and Sean Penn , August 10, 2010 – bit.ly/cPseIE
– Ezili Dantò: A thorough investigation is necessary: Haiti quake caused by previously unknown fault
– Haiti quake caused by previously unknown fault – bit.ly/9iBaLz
Ezili Dantò interviewed on New York’s Wakeup Call about Wyclef & Sean Penn
Ezili Dantò on Wakeup Call w/ Esther Armah speaking on Wyclef and Sean Penn August 10, 2010 – bit.ly/cPseIE
The New Dark Age 