May 5, 2011

Contaminated fuel halts flights, affects vehicles all over Israel

 


Contaminated fuel halts flights, affects vehicles all over Israel

Fuel contamination halts flights departing Ben-Gurion Airport, standing thousands of passengers; fuel containing symptoms similar to those found at airport reported in vehicles over the past few weeks.

The symptoms of the contaminated jet fuel which halted flights out of Ben-Gurion International Airport on Thursday were seen in recent weeks in buses and trucks across Israel, TheMarker reported. 

The contaminated fuel contains unidentified greasy liquid parts that get stuck in the filter of gas pipelines, damaging the tank of the vehicle. This same type of fuel is what halted flights departing from Ben-Gurion airport, stranding thousands of passengers awaiting information on their flights

The biological Institute in Nes Tziona was summoned a few days ago to take samples at a fuel terminal in Israel's central region.

As of Thursday afternoon, Israel's emergency supply of jet fuel is being considered as a possible way to solve the crisis at Ben-Gurion Airport.

The halting of departures and rerouting of foreign airliners in need of refueling is expected to cause massive flight delays.

According to a report received by Haaretz, foreign airliners in need of refueling have been instructed to land in Cyprus instead.

The Paz Aviation Assets firm that provides the fuel to Ben-Gurion International Airport alerted airport authorities of the contamination, prompting airport manager Shmuel Kandel to order all refueling be stopped.

Airport spokesman Adar Avisar said the contamination had been discovered early enough in the day to ensure that no plane had departed with fuel that might have been contaminated.

"There are no planes in the air that have received an order to land," he said.

The airline Arkia announced that all flights within Israel as well as international ones have been cancelled until further notice from the airport.

Yishai Lisker, whose family of five was supposed to fly out on Thursday for a bar-mitzvah said "at the moment, no one can tell me if the flight is still on or if its cancelled, or whether or not we will get our money back."

Substandard fuel supplies have caused flight delays in Ben-Gurion airport in the past, with one such occurrence arresting refueling operation for a whole day. 

http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2011/05/contaminated-fuel-halts-flights-affects.html 


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Judge Excludes Experts; Jury Convicts Steele

 

Judge Excludes Experts; Jury Convicts Steele

http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2011/05/judge-excludes-experts-jury-convicts-steele/

by Kevin Alfred Strom

IN A TRAGIC MISCARRIAGE of justice, a federal jury -- which was 
denied the right to hear two experts' testimony that the alleged FBI 
recordings of Edgar Steele were faked, with over 300 suspicious 
edits inserted -- has convicted courageous free speech attorney and 
writer Edgar J. Steele on all four counts related to an alleged 
murder-for-hire of his wife, Cyndi Steele, and mother-in-law.

None of the alleged victims believe the FBI allegations, instead 
pointing to the admitted Idaho Pipe Bomber, Larry Fairfax -- and his 
government handlers -- as the real source of the plot. Fairfax, who 
allowed a lethal bomb to remain on Cyndi Steele's car for weeks 
without telling her, was given a sweetheart deal by prosecutors and 
no serious charges were brought against him.

It is hoped that the outrageous behavior of the judge in this case 
-- who refused to allow even a few days' delay to allow an expert 
witness to travel from the South Pacific to testify for the defense, 
and also refused to allow the expert to testify via video 
conference, even though a prosecution witness was freely allowed to 
do so -- will be the basis of a strong appeal.

The judge in question -- Lynn Winmill -- exhibited an almost 
unbelievable coldness toward the lives of the real victims, Edgar 
Steele and his family, when he stated that even a two-day delay to 
allow the audio expert to travel to the United States was 
unacceptable -- saying of the brief delay only that "procrastination 
on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine."

Cyndi Steele -- who was allowed to hear the doctored recordings 
early on in the framing of her husband in hopes that she would be 
deceived by them -- has long stated that the audio quality on the 
recordings changes abruptly and dramatically whenever her husband 
begins to discuss the alleged plot. When she heard the alleged 
recordings played back in court, however, she was in for a further 
shock.

As she puts it: "What is even more outrageous now is that the tapes 
that they played for the jury in the courtroom this week have been 
altered, because they are not the same recordings the FBI played for 
me on June 12, 2010, nor the tapes sent to the attorneys that I 
again listened to on March 7th. It is as if they used the info from 
the reports of our experts to make the changes to cover up the 
falsified tapes our experts analyzed."

May the powers that created the universe -- and our people -- 
quickly bring the perjurers and criminals operating under color of 
law, who have falsely convicted this noble man, to justice; to true 
justice. And may it happen in our lifetimes.

In the words of Edgar J. Steele: "New America. An idea whose time 
has come."

http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2011/05/judge-excludes-experts-jury-convicts-steele/

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The famous 16-page pamphlet that won revisionist Vincent Reynouard 9 months behind bars finally exists in English. We count on our correspondents to report its existence on the Internet, pending its existence someday in hardcopy:

 

The famous 16-page pamphlet that won revisionist Vincent Reynouard 9 months behind bars finally exists in English. We count on our correspondents to report its existence on the Internet, pending its existence someday in hardcopy:




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Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper


...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel.


"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011.


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JTA launches online archive with a quarter-million articles May 4, 2011

 



    JTA launches online archive with a quarter-million articles
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    The JTA Jewish News Archive features articles from the past nine decades.


    NEW YORK (JTA) -- JTA has launched a digital archive containing 250,000 articles dating from 1923.

    The JTA Jewish News Archive, which is searchable and free for the public to use, was launched officially Tuesday evening with a celebration at the Center for Jewish History in New York.

    Highlights of the archive include extensive reporting from Europe in the 1930s and 1940s -- including perhaps the first article on what has become known as the Babi Yar massacre -- JTA's reportage on the founding of the State of Israel, close and sustained coverage of the Soviet Jewry movement, and decades of articles chronicling the changing roles and responsibilities of Jewish women.

    "The JTA Jewish News Archive has the potential to spark an interest in the past that will transform the future," said Jonathan Sarna, the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University.

    Sarna, a member of JTA's board of directors, spearheaded the effort to digitally preserve the news agency's reporting.

    JTA's coverage of the Holocaust may be of particular interest to historians.

    "There was and still is a lot of conventional wisdom that Americans didn't know about the Holocaust while it was happening, and couldn't have known about the Holocaust while it was happening," said Northeastern University journalism professor Laurel Leff. "One of the values of this archive is that people can actually look at the bulletins that JTA sent out during this period and see what information was, in fact, available."

    The archive was created with the help of Digital Divide Data, a nonprofit organization that provides jobs to disadvantaged youth in Southeast Asia. Young Cambodians digitized JTA's files, thereby completing a circle -- a vital journalistic record of the Holocaust is being preserved by the next generation in a country racked by its own genocide.

    Major philanthropic support for the JTA archive was provided by The Gottesman Fund; Righteous Persons Foundation; The Charles H. Revson Foundation; Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner, in honor of Norma Spungen; George S. Blumenthal; and the Grace and Scott Offen Charitable Fund.

    A video about the JTA Jewish News Archive can be found here.


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    Petras: The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack

     

     

     

     

     

     THE ARAB REVOLT

    AND THE IMPERIALIST COUNTERATTACK

     

    James Petras

     

     

     

    On December 8 2010 The Club of Mexican Journalists awarded James
    Petras  its prestigious International Journalism Prize for Investigation and
    Analysis of the News within the global context.

    "Dr. James Petras is one of the greatest personalities of critical intellect of our time. His
    numerous books, which have been translated into many languages, and his opinion articles
    which are invariably defined by their rigor and decisive data, widely documented and
    placed within their social context, have turned this thinker into one of the most lucid and
    coherent minds of recent times. Naturally, this has earned Dr. Petras the resentment of
    those who feel affected by his tireless efforts. Nevertheless, countless readers all over the
    world seek the words of this thinker to defend themselves from propaganda that intends to
    make us sympathize with the single-minded thinking of neoliberalism."

     

    FROM THE PREFACE

     

    The popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have overthrown the public face of
    the imperial-backed dictatorships in the region, and inspired supporters of
    popular democracy worldwide.

    As the Arab revolt spreads from North Africa to the Gulf and deepens its
    demands to include socio-economic as well as political demands, the
    Empire is striking back. The ruling military junta in Egypt has cracked down
    on the prodemocracy movement and looks to its autocratic “partners” in the
    Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula to drown the civil society movements in a
    blood bath.

    While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the region, the
    United States, France and the United Kingdom raced to intervene when it
    seemed the revolt had spread to Libya. NATO was deployed, using the UN’s
    new “responsibility to protect” doctrine authorizing humanitarian intervention.
    Already NATO intervention has exceeded the UN mandate by bombing the
    Libyan capital and inflicting civilian casualties. Meanwhile, western
    governments openly pursue regime change in Libya while seeking to forestall
    it elsewhere.

    These essays chronicle the growing militarization of US policy in North Africa
    and the Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab democratic
    revolution and the imperial backed satraps; between Libyans fighting for their
    independence and the Euro-American naval and air forces ravaging the
    country on behalf of their inept local clients.

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    James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at
    Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 64 books
    published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional
    journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal
    of Sociology, Social Research, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and
    Journal of Peasant Studies.  He has published over 2000 articles in
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    Arabic editions),     Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power,  
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    the Zionist Fifth Column in America    . He has a long history of
    commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian
    Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a
    member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin
    America    . He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, Le
    Jornada, and previously, for the Spanish daily, El Mundo.  He received

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    JIM DEAN: The American Awakening – Can it Happen Here? : Veterans Today

     

    http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/05/the-american-awakening-can-it-happen-here/?preview=true

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    Link: http://www.forward.com/articles/4363/#ixzz1JT3oLPZy

    ...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel.

    Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/03/carter-sued-5-million-attacking-israel-book/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=87b410eb61-2_3_112_3_2011&utm_medium=email

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    Anti-Nazi Coalition: Zionist Jews killing Orthodox Jews

     

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