12 July 2011 — FAIR
Palin Hack Had O’Reilly Calling for Criminal Prosecution
The explosive allegations about widespread illegal voicemail hacking by British tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch are getting very little coverage on Murdoch’s Fox News Channel (TVNewser, 7/12/11). But Fox’s top host took a very different view when a Republican politician’s email account was hacked, calling for the prosecution of the website that published the emails.
12 July 2011 — Global Research
The Global Economic Abyss
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Big Banks Waging Warfare Against the People of the World
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12 July 2011 — williambowles.info
Murdoch agrees to face MPs:
The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at 17:43
Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks have agreed to appear before MPs next week to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal, it was revealed tonigh”
12 July 2011 — MRZine
Rami Zurayk (Land and People, 8 July 2011): "Is there anyone who follows politics and champions the Arab and Palestinian causes who does not know Bernard Henri Levy? . . . He was one of the first to enter the shattered remains of Jenin on board a Zionist tank to express his admiration for the Israeli army’s excellent work in ethnic cleansing and genocide. . . .
12 July 2011 — Middle East Research and Information Project
Pakistan’s generals are besieged on all sides. Like never before, they are at odds with their own rank and file. According to the New York Times, the discontent with the top brass is so great as to evoke concerns of a colonels’ coup. The army also is losing support from its domestic political allies and subject to the increasing hostility of the Pakistani public. The generals are even at risk of being dumped by their oldest and most generous supporter, the United States.
12 July 2011 — Avaaz
Yesterday Murdoch pulled a last minute manoeuvre to exclude his company’s outrageous hacking practices from the BSKyB deal review. Let’s call on the government to immediately rule that the Murdochs aren’t fit and proper to own half our commercial media. Tomorrow this will be debated in Parliament. Let’s beat the Murdoch mafia – sign the urgent petition now
12 July 2011
From the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth imperialism was the dominant national ideology, transcending class and party divisions. Britain was saturated in the ethos and attitudes of empire. They infused plays and books and, later, films. They informed school textbooks. They inspired paintings, prints and engravings. They filled newspapers and magazines. They figured in advertisements and packaging. The impact was arguably greater than that of any previous dominant ideology because its pre-eminence coincided with the rise of the mass market and the mass media. — ‘Imperialism and juvenile literature’ edited By Jeffrey Richards. Manchester University Press, 1989
So what’s changed? Not much really. Today of course, the ideology of imperial expansion now masks itself as ‘humanitarian intervention’ or ‘democracy-building’.
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info
The Conscience & Agency of Bradley Manning
Firedoglake
With previously unreleased instant message chat logs, Steve Fishman for New York Magazine published a feature story July 3, 2011, that further examined the accused whistleblower to WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning. It looked at his family life before going …
http://my.firedoglake.com/kgosztola/2011/07/11/the-conscience-agency-of-bradley-manning/
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in court for extradition hearing Telegraph.co.uk
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived at the High Court today for an appeal against being extradited to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Julian Assange is challenging a ruling by District Judge Howard Riddle at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court in …
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8631859/WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange-in-court-for-extradition-hearing.html
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info
Syria beefs up security at embassies after attacks
The Associated Press
Mobs broke windows at both embassies Monday to protest a visit last week by the American and French ambassadors to the opposition stronghold of Hama in central Syria. The French Foreign Ministry said three embassy workers were injured. …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jpSA8lVe7oTcliv39QB5-Q8eJ7JA?docId=0ec1ba6fa21d476d9a49ecaa4b8e139b
11 July 2011 — The Guardian – Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
American activist’s father says incomplete footage was given to court hearing into his daughter’s death in Gaza
The family of Rachel Corrie, the US activist killed in Gaza while protesting against house demolitions in 2003, on Monday claimed the Israeli military authorities withheld video evidence during the Corries’ civil lawsuit and misled US officials on crucial details.
11 July 2011 — Guardian Comment
While the west averts its eyes, Bahrain’s people are subjected to brutal suppression
Pity the poor people of Bahrain. They have been shot, beaten, tear-gassed – and patronised. On 7 March, at the height of the pro-democracy protests in the tiny Gulf island kingdom, a crowd gathered outside the US embassy in Manama, the capital, carrying signs that read “Stop supporting dictators” and “Give me liberty or give me death”. A US embassy official emerged from the building with a box of doughnuts for the protesters, prompting a cleric in the crowd to remark: “These sweets are a good gesture, but we hope it is translated into practical actions.”
11 July 2011 — Ha’aretz Editorial
Knesset members who vote for the anti-Boycott Law must understand they are supporting the gagging of protest in an effort to liquidate democracy.
Today, the Knesset was slated to approve the final reading of the Boycott Prohibition Law, which imposes severe punishments on anyone who calls, directly or indirectly, for boycotting Israel. Inter alia, the law says any person or organization that calls for boycotting Israel, including by calling for a boycott of the settlements, would be deemed guilty of a civil offense. Organizations that call for boycotts would not be entitled to receive tax-deductible donations or obtain funding from the state.
11 July 2011 — FAIR Blog
As noted by an account on the TVNewser blog (7/11/11), on ABC’s This Week panel there was some talk of Rupert Murdoch losing his U.S. television licenses over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. There is a ‘character clause’ for broadcast licensees, and the current scandal would go a long way towards demonstrating a certain type of bad behavior. Here’s how panelist Steven Brill put it:
News Corp has a lot of FCC licenses. There’s still a clause in the federal communications law that requires that you have to be of good character to have such a license, and I was reading last night just in the approval that they gave Comcast to take over NBC, there was actually some guy who challenged the character of Comcast because when they installed a cable system somewhere they had hurt his building, and didn’t pay for it. And this became a big legal proceeding, action.
So here I am reasonably certain that someone, maybe someone from the political left or whoever, is going to make a big deal of whether they are fit to have their FCC licenses under the current management.
Once upon a time, Extra! raised this issue with General Electric’s NBC licenses, in ‘Felons on the Air: Does GE’s Ownership of NBC Violate the Law?‘ (11-12/94). GE’s record at the time including defrauding the Pentagon, fraud and money laundering. All that, unfortunately, didn’t disqualify them from getting valuable licenses to control a hefty share of the public airwaves.
11 July 2011 — FAIR Blog
As noted by an account on the TVNewser blog (7/11/11), on ABC’s This Week panel there was some talk of Rupert Murdoch losing his U.S. television licenses over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. There is a ‘character clause’ for broadcast licensees, and the current scandal would go a long way towards demonstrating a certain type of bad behavior. Here’s how panelist Steven Brill put it:
News Corp has a lot of FCC licenses. There’s still a clause in the federal communications law that requires that you have to be of good character to have such a license, and I was reading last night just in the approval that they gave Comcast to take over NBC, there was actually some guy who challenged the character of Comcast because when they installed a cable system somewhere they had hurt his building, and didn’t pay for it. And this became a big legal proceeding, action.
So here I am reasonably certain that someone, maybe someone from the political left or whoever, is going to make a big deal of whether they are fit to have their FCC licenses under the current management.
Once upon a time, Extra! raised this issue with General Electric’s NBC licenses, in ‘Felons on the Air: Does GE’s Ownership of NBC Violate the Law?‘ (11-12/94). GE’s record at the time including defrauding the Pentagon, fraud and money laundering. All that, unfortunately, didn’t disqualify them from getting valuable licenses to control a hefty share of the public airwaves.
11 July 2011
Is NATO’s ‘Unified Protector’ Unraveling?
Tripoli — One of the jokes heard at this week’s massive pro-government Friday post prayer rally at Green Square (in most of the other Arab countries Friday’s are days of rage against the government du jour but in Libya Friday prayers are followed by massive pro-Qadaffi rallies attended two weeks ago by close to 65% of Tripoli’s population) is about how each morning Libya’s leader, following early morning Fajr prayers dons his formal uniform, complete with those huge epaulets, and salutes the small NATO flag he tapes to his bathroom mirror as he moves from place to place dodging NATO drones and assassins.
12 July 2011 — RT
The NATO-led intervention in Libya and the unrest in Syria are both steps in a decades-long plan by the US and its allies to completely reshape the face of Africa, believes independent journalist and peace activist Thierry Maysan.
‘It’s quite obvious that the USA wanted to enter war at the same time with Libya and Syria. That wish was made public by John Bolton in 2002. The plan was passed over to France and Britain, who decided to bring it to life in November last year,’ the author believes.
12 July 2011 — Stop NATO
11 July , 2011 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Last witness testifies in Rachel Corrie case; family says Israel suppressed evidence
IMEMC – Monday July 11, 2011 – 21:07, The last witness testified Sunday in an Israeli court case seeking justice for slain peace activist Rachel Corrie. Col. Pinhas (Pinky) Zuaretz claimed that Rachel’s death was her own fault for “running towards the fire”.
11 July, 2011 — Information Clearing House
Next Up: Pakistan
Ominous signs of a major new war
By Justin Raimondo
While keeping the heat on for a direct attack on Iran, the powerful pro-Israel lobby – the driving force behind the anti-Iran crowd – is biding its time, confident they’ll win in the end. In the meantime, they are carefully building up momentum for the final push toward war, and a key part of that is agitating for a complete break in US-Pakistan relations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28541.htm
The New Dark Age 
