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Tuesday, June 1 2010 - Other Important News
Nobel-winning Elders deplore Gaza flotilla attack"A time comes when silence is betrayal." ` Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
For coverage of Israel's massacre in international waters of between 10 and 20 civilians who were traveling with a group from 50 countries, which occurred last night as the civilians were sleeping aboard six ships carrying tons of humanitarian relief to Gaza, please see WitnessGaza.com, the Free Gaza Movement and Gaza Freedom March. Video of beginning moments of the attack can be seen at these sites and others. It is important to go beyond corporate news' reporting of this atrocity to understand why nations around the world are taking immediate action and issuing fiery statements of reproach. As of now, the extent of the U.S. response has been: ""deeply regrets the loss of life and injuries sustained and is currently working to understand the circumstances surrounding this tragedy." A list of responses with links is available at Gaza Freedom March's Emergency Response Plan. – Ed.
Johannesburg, May 31, 2010 TheHindu.com
The Elders group of past and present world leaders, including former South African president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on Monday condemned as "completely inexcusable" the deadly Israeli attack on a flotilla carrying aid for Gaza. At least 10 people are reported to have been killed when Israeli commandos raided the boats on Monday in an operation that has drawn international condemnation. "The Elders have condemned the reported killing by Israeli forces of more than a dozen people who were attempting to deliver relief supplies to the Gaza Strip by sea," the 12-member group said in a statement issued in Johannesburg, where it met over the weekend.
Saturday, May 22 2010 - Other Important News
MI5 faces probe over 7/7(AFP) -- May 21, 2010 Googlenews.com LONDON -- Inquests into the deaths of 56 people in London's July 2005 suicide bombings will probe alleged failings by police and MI5 intelligence before the attacks, the coroner conducting the hearings said Friday. Judge Heather Hallett also ruled that inquests into four suicide bombers will be held separately from those of the 52 victims, a relief to families who had protested plans to hold the inquests together. The suicide bombers set off near-simultaneous explosions on three London Underground trains and a double-decker bus on the morning of July 7, 2005, in what has become known as 7/7, nearly four years after the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Hallett, giving details of arrangements for the inquests due to start in October, said they would probe what police and MI5 officers knew ahead of the shock attacks. "The scope of the inquest into the 52 deaths will include the alleged intelligence failings and the immediate aftermath of the bombings," she said.
Thursday, May 20 2010 - Other Important News
Just Like 9/11? Oil Spill Responders Are Getting Sick ... But Are Being Told They Don't Need Any Safety GearGeorge mentions here that McClatchy News is reporting on this. In fact, McClatchy is now reporting fairly extensively on the Gulf oil 'volcano' (though they're still calling it a "spill") and don't seem to be holding back on the underlying fact that in this case, again, corporations are controlling the government ("BP withholds oil spill facts — and government lets it"), to the detriment of everything and everyone in the world. Kudos! (See also, from CBSNews, "Coast Guard Under 'BP's Rules', 5/18. Kelly Cobiella reports that a CBS News team was threatened with arrest by Coast Guard officials in the Gulf of Mexico who said they were acting under the authority of British Petroleum.")
– Ed.
May 19, 2010 Washingtonsblog.com The U.S. government suppressed health information after 9/11. For example, as Newsday noted in 2003:
Because the government lied about the health risks involved, many heroic first responders didn't use any real precautions, and so have gotten sick and died. And see this. The same thing appears to be happening in connection with the Gulf oil spill. Specifically, marine toxicologist Ricki Ott writes:
Monday, April 5 2010 - Other Important News
UK Conservatives may reopen probe into Iraq war whistleblower's deathDaniel Tencer April 5, 2010 RawStory.com The death of a whistle-blower who said the UK government had "sexed up" a dossier on Saddam Hussein's military capabilities in order to sell the Iraq war has been one of the most intriguing and confusing elements of the war's history. Now the UK's Conservative Party is signaling that it plans to reopen the inquiry into the death of Dr. David Kelly if it wins the next election. The move could potentially harm the ruling Labour Party, which championed the Iraq war effort and is now trailing in the polls for this spring's election. On Sunday, Dominic Grieve, the Conservative Party's "shadow" justice minister, said members of the public "have not been reassured" that Kelly's death was a suicide, and if his government wins the election, he would want to reopen the case, reports the UK's Daily Mail. Kelly, a weapons expert with Britain's Ministry of Defence, was found dead in a forest near his home in Oxfordshire in 2003, shortly after he gave an interview to the BBC in which he said that the British government was lying about its claim that Saddam Hussein could launch biological and chemical weapons within 45 minutes of giving the order. Kelly's death sparked suspicions that he may have been killed for undermining the government of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair as the British leader stood with US President George W. Bush in pushing for an invasion of Iraq.
Tuesday, March 23 2010 - Other Important News
Newly Released FBI Documents Support Explosive Claims by Former FBI Translator Sibel EdmondsWednesday, 17. March 2010 BoilingFrogsPost.com (Sibel Edmonds' Blog)
The documents released under FOIA are almost completely redacted, but they do support many of Edmonds’ claims, including:
Monday, March 15 2010 - Other Important News
Did the CIA test LSD in the New York City subway system?By Philip Messing March 14, 2010 New York Post On Nov. 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist, plunged to his death from room 1018A in New York’s Statler Hotel, landing on a Seventh Avenue sidewalk just opposite Penn Station. Olson’s ignominious end was written off as an unremarkable suicide of a depressed government bureaucrat who came to New York City seeking psychiatric treatment, so it attracted scant attention at the time. But 22 years later, the Rockefeller Commission report was released, detailing a litany of domestic abuses committed by the CIA. The ugly truth emerged: Olson’s death was the result of his having been surreptitiously dosed with LSD days earlier by his colleagues. The shocking disclosure led to President Gerald Ford’s apology to Olson’s widow and his three children, who accepted a $750,000 civil payment for his wrongful death.
Friday, March 12 2010 - Other Important News
French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experimentA 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment. Henry Samuel in Paris
In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted. For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War. The mystery of Le Pain Maudit (Cursed Bread) still haunts the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France.
Thursday, March 11 2010 - Other Important News
Update - Rachel Corrie Trial in IsraelUPDATE 3/12/2010 -
"British activist saw Rachel Corrie die under Israeli bulldozer" - Story and video at read more. – Ed.
7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Gov't March 16, 2010: International Day of Conscience and Rachel Corrie Day of Action March 10, 2010 On March 16, 2003, human rights activist Rachel Corrie was killed while trying to protect a home in Gaza from demolition while the family was inside. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier ran over Rachel in a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer. Rachel was 23 years old. Seven years after her killing, Rachel's parents are still seeking truth and accountability. Today is Rachel's day in court and Israel must be held accountable for Rachel's killing - take action now. [continued...] March 10, 2010 Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old student from Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago as she stood before a Palestinian home facing demolition. Today, a trial opens in Israel in a lawsuit brought by Corrie's family against the Israeli government. The eyewitness testimony is expected to challenge Israel's version of events with evidence that she was clearly visible to the soldiers, standing before the bulldozer in her florescent orange jacket. We spend the hour with Rachel Corrie's family: her father Craig, her mother Cindy, and her sister Sarah. [continued...]
Saturday, February 20 2010 - Other Important News
Governments ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag TerrorUpdate February 19, 2010: George has significantly expanded this article, and has republished it at ZeroHedge.com (reposted below, in full). We encourage readers to subscribe to or follow his blog, if you do not already do so, for his frequent, excellent, sourced, well-documented entries.
– Ed.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 GeorgeWashington2.blogspot.com Forget the claims and allegations that false flag terror - governments attacking people and then blaming others in order to create animosity towards those blamed - has been used throughout history. This essay will solely discuss government admissions to the use of false flag terror. For example: * The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950's to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected president * Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind "evidence" implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this) * The well-respected former Indonesian president admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings
Friday, February 19 2010 - Other Important News
Dubai police call on Interpol to help arrest Mossad head- Emirate '99% sure' Israeli spies were behind Mabhouh death - Israeli ambassador told to explain use of fake British passports February 18, 2010 Interpol should help arrest the head of Mossad if Israel's spy agency was responsible for the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai, the emirate's police chief said today. In comments to be aired on Dubai TV, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim called for Interpol to issue "a red notice against the head of Mossad ... as a killer in case Mossad is proved to be behind the crime, which is likely now". International pressure intensified against Israel's spy service as official "wanted" notices were released for the suspected team of Israeli secret agents accused of participating in the assassination. The faces of an 11-strong alleged hit squad appeared on the Interpol website this morning, 48 hours after authorities in the United Arab Emirates issued arrest warrants for the killing last month of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Their offences are listed as "crimes against life and health". The group stands accused of entering the emirate state using forged or stolen European identities, murdering the militant in his hotel and then fleeing the country on 19 January. The red wanted notices are not international arrest warrants, but allow details of fugitives to be released worldwide with the request that the wanted person be arrested and extradited. Tamim said that the Dubai authorities were virtually certain that Mossad was behind the assassination of Mabhouh, as the incident threatened to turn into a diplomatic row between Israel and Britain over the use of false British passport
Saturday, February 13 2010 - Other Important News
'Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us' in March Issue of Hustler (Now on Newsstands) February 6, 2010By Brad Friedman Bradblog.com You're welcome. My 2000+ word article on former FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is now featured in the March 2010 edition of Hustler. Sorry, she's wearing all her clothes. Go buy it anyway. The article brings the story of Edmonds, who was twice-gagged by the Bush Administration's outrageous use/abuse of the "States Secrets Privilege," fully up to date following her naming of names, finally, under oath, in remarkable testimony last summer. (Some of those names: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Lantos, Schakowsky, Wolfowitz, Perle, Grossman, etc.) The Hustler piece, "Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us," also explores reasons for the perhaps-even-more-remarkable complete avoidance of her 4-hour, detailed, video-taped testimony by the corporate media (Pat Buchanan's American Conservative magazine excepted, if you consider them to be "corporate media") concerning allegations of blackmail of sitting U.S. Congressmembers, the theft and sale of nuclear secrets to the foreign blackmarket, and other allegations of treasonous activities by top State and Defense Department officials over the last decade or more, as we have covered in great detail here at The BRAD BLOG over the years, as the story has unfolded.
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