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Libyan-Jewish leader may run in free elctions August 23, 2011

 


Libyan-Jewish leader may run in free elctions
August 23, 2011

(JTA) -- The leader of the Libyan-Jewish community in Britain said that he has been invited to run for political office in the post- Muammar Gadhafi era. 

Raphael Luzon told the Jerusalem Post Tuesday, a day after the fall of the Libyan capital Tripoli to rebel forces, that opposition leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil has invited him to return to Libya and run in free elections.

Jalil is a former Libyan justice minister and now chairman of the rebel council in Benghazi.

Luzon told the newspaper that he was invited to take part in the elections "because they would like it to be open to all people including women and Jews."

Luzon, whose family fled Libya in 1967, met Gadhafi twice in recent years.

He said he would await further developments in the country before making a decision.

Luzon told the Jerusalem Post that reconstruction of the war-torn country and the restitution of Jewish assets confiscated by the Libyan regime would top his political agenda.

Fighting continued in the Libyan capital on Tuesday, centered on Gadhafi's fortified compound. 
 


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http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/08/23/3089086/iranian-man-pleads-guilty-to-scientists-assassination Iranian man pleads guilty to nuclear scientist’s killing August 23, 2011 JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An Iranian man pleaded guilty to the murder of a nuclear scientist for which Tehran blamed Israel. Majid Jamali-Fashi confessed in court to the murder of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in January 2010. The physicist's death was the first of four murders of nuclear scientists that Iran has blamed on Israeli and U.S. agents, accusing them of trying to prevent the Islamic Republic from going nuclear. Iran's chief prosecutor has said that Jamali-Fashi was trained and paid by Israel. He is charged with "war against God" and with working for Israel, as well as possession of drugs, according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency. Meanwhile, Iran has begun moving its uranium enrichment machines to an underground bunker, the Islamic Republic's nuclear chief announced Monday. The move appears to be an apparent attempt to protect Iran's nuclear program against possible attack.

 


Iranian man pleads guilty to nuclear scientist's killing
August 23, 2011

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An Iranian man pleaded guilty to the murder of a nuclear scientist for which Tehran blamed Israel.

Majid Jamali-Fashi confessed in court to the murder of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in January 2010. The physicist's death was the first of four murders of nuclear scientists that Iran has blamed on Israeli and U.S. agents, accusing them of trying to prevent the Islamic Republic from going nuclear.

Iran's chief prosecutor has said that Jamali-Fashi was trained and paid by Israel. He is charged with "war against God" and with working for Israel, as well as possession of drugs, according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency.

Meanwhile, Iran has begun moving its uranium enrichment machines to an underground bunker, the Islamic Republic's nuclear chief announced Monday. The move appears to be an apparent attempt to protect Iran's nuclear program against possible attack.


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Why Arabs from Egypt Attacked IDF Solders Riding on an Israeli Public Bus Charles E. Carlson Aug 22, 2011

 


Why Arabs from Egypt Attacked IDF Solders Riding on an Israeli Public Bus

Charles E. Carlson Aug 22, 2011




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Before this.....

 




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From: "Franz Seiler" <seiler_er@t-online.de>
Date: August 23, 2011 9:59:27 PM EDT
To: "Michael Santomauro" <ReporterNotebook@Gmail.com>
Subject: Fw: Before this.....

Before this ....
earth-quake in Washington D.C. etc. I  just came across one short note in – I don't remember which! – an article by Noam Chomsky that the "Christian" rightists weren't friendly at all with the Jews...... (This was at most a fortnight ago)
Franz
The Media Just Doesn't Get Today's Religious Right By Frederick Clarkson Information Clearing House 23.08.2011
The Media Just Doesn't Get Today's Religious Right
 
By Frederick Clarkson
 
August 23, 2011 "AlterNet" - - In case we were wondering why the Religious Right often seems to get such uncritical, or at least misguided coverage from so much of the mainstream media -- we need look no further a recent segment from CNN's Situation Room. It is the single most startlingly frank admission of ignorance on the part of major figures in journalism I have ever seen.

You could probably hear my dropping jaw hitting the floor when I heard Jack Cafferty and Wolf Blitzer say they had never heard of dominionism until they read Michelle Goldberg's article onThe Daily Beast. They apparently had never heard of Christian Reconstructionism or the New Apostolic Reformation either. Goldberg's article on Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann's relationship to all of this was certainly well done. But it is amazing that no other journalist of any prominence had looked into it before these Goldberg's revelations. There are many, and ever-more prominent pols with similar ties. And the failure of our national media and political culture to come to grips with this has been astounding. At least to me. As someone who has written about the Religious Right in its various dimensions for about 30 years, I've watched with horror as too many (but not all) mainstream media missed or misreported the stories of one of the most significant political movements of our time.

Blitzer and Cafferty et al have had plenty of opportunities to learn about dominionism and Christian Reconstructionism. They could have read Michelle Goldberg's New York Times best-selling book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. in 2006. They could have read my 1997 book, Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy, or Sara Diamond's 1989 classic, Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right. -- to name but a few that deal specifically with dominionism and Christian Reconstructionism. We were all widely in the media, including national broadcasts talking about this stuff. They could also read material from such well established and well known organizations that study and counter the American right, as Americans United for Separation of Church & State and People for the American Way, and Political Research Associates. (PRA published my studyof Christian Reconstructionism in 1994.) Religion Dispatches reports on these things all the time as well. They have been discussed in wider context in books by such scholarly best selling authors as Gary Wills, Harvey Cox, Jeff Sharlet and Kevin Phillips, to also name but a few, and in major articles in magazines as diverse as Reason and Mother Jones. (I even discuss Christian Reconstructionism on camera in the 2007 Hollywood film documentary on the politics of abortion, Lake of Fire. Watch it for free, here.)

You really cannot have been awake in American public life for the past few decades and not have encountered dominionism and Christian Reconstructionism. Blizter and Cafferty are far from alone in snoozing comfortably through this part of our national life. They are just more startlingly honest that this is no dream.

At the group blog Talk to Action my journalist, scholarly, and activist colleagues and I have been writing in a sustained and focused manner on these things since 2005. If Blitzer and Cafferty -- or anyone else -- is interested in the New Apostolic Reformation, Bruce Wilson and Rachel Tabachnick have been doing ground-breaking research and analysis for several years.Here is a recent compilation of their reporting so far.

These things said, I am grateful for Blitzer and Cafferty's frankness. I think the acknowledgement of their ignorance draws a bright line in our recent history. I don't know that the bright line will lead us to an era of knowledge and enlightenment, but at least we have a chance of knowing what the darkness of ignorance looks like.
 
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InTheKeyOfE · 4 hours ago
Since there are many who don't believe in God, they tend to disavow those who do. Many look upon all believers as crackpots, and those in the religious right, as zealots (which they are) whose outlandish ideas and beliefs have no basis in reason, and therefore are easily discounted. If one looks deep into Dominionism, as this writer obviously has, one sees a truly scary group of 'believers' who have nothing to do at all with the ideals of Christ, or Christianity, and everything to do with Satan, and Satanism. They are the true wolves in sheep's clothing, and represent the false face of Christianity which was revealed in Revelations. "Know them by their fruits," is an apt concept, and the Dominionists represent death, destruction, egotistical judgment, and offer no inkling of compassion or love. "Reptilian" is a word some have used to describe their bearing, and that is not far off the mark at all.
 
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Jan · 2 hours ago
Your assessment is right on the mark.....but then, any true Christian should know his/her New Testament and realize who the "boss" of the "kingdoms of this world" is, and it sure isn't God or His Son.....case closed......
 
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capt jim · 1 hour ago
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO True!
 
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rosemerry · 2 hours ago
Since all the US Congress suports every move of Zionist Israel, now ruled by far-right fringe religious groups in the Likud-led government, it is not surprising that weird religious movements increase their hold on the US sheeple. 60 million copies of the "Left Behind" seies are still in print in the USA and tell believers of the Rapture and other strange "facts" of christian fervour. There is NO chance of a genuine non-christian getting power in the USA, though their numbers are rising. A genuine real christian (turn the other cheek) would not even be considered by the war lobby.
 
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guest msa · 2 hours ago
Just consider what President Jimmy Carter has done with his life since leaving the presidency....he was exactly what the American needed after NIXON left in disgrace....Carter walked the walk not just the talk...and had we followed the precepts he instituted in the WH we would be much further along the 'Conservation' of energy at this point. As for interest rates that he was blamed for you should look at the Fed and who was running money policy then and there you have the culprit..but Americans did not understand that the President does not control.
 
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Dennis · 2 hours ago
With our ability to communicate easily today, so many remain locked in the dark cave, called "religion".
 
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capt jim · 1 hour ago
False belief is a dark cave but some religions bring much light to the believer!
 
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norman harman · 28 minutes ago
Religion is the straightjacket of the mind.
 
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Guesto · 1 hour ago
Sad that people with that level of highly destructive ignorance are able to gather such a large following.
 
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norman harman · 30 minutes ago
If you live inside a world of mirrors how can you possibly know anything but your own reflection?
 
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Corporatocracy GE & Jobs

 



 

According to Snopes, this is TRUE: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/ge.asp

According to our typical political scene of late, it's another example of either sheer stupidity or outright treason! Which one is it Obama?




 
 
 

> > General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha , Wis. , to Beijing . In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year. but paid no taxes-the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the united States .
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> > So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs. I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs.







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SUBMISSION

 




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From: Debbie Menon <debbiemenon@gmail.com>
Date: August 23, 2011 4:29:40 PM EDT
To: Debbie Menon <debbiemenon@gmail.com>
Subject: SUBMISSION

Dear Editor,

Please disseminate.

Non-violence has never deterred a bully. It can only work against an enemy who has some vestige of conscience or compassion…David is a Jew's greatest hero. He did not practice non-violence against Goliath.

More Power to the Palestinian Resistance.

Free Palestine!


http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/23/israeli-video-games-in-gaza/



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Nick Ashford Dies of Throat Cancer at 70yrs.

 

 
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SOLID AS A ROCK

Nick Ashford, half of the prolific Motown husband and wife duo Ashford and Simpson who composed unforgettable hit classics for such artists as Diana Ross, Chaka Khan and Marvin Gaye, died of throat cancer in New York City. He was 70 years old.

He'd been undergoing treatment for the cancer, his former publicist Liz Rosenberg said. Ashford first met his wife of 38 years, Valerie Simpson, in New York City, where they began their prolific collaboration by writing hits for the legendary record label Motown Records. They were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.

Nick Ashford composed the soundtrack of our lives

By Steve Jones, USA TODAY

Updated 18m ago
Nick Ashford built a soulful musical legacy with wife Valerie Simpson that remains, as the couple's biggest hit says, Solid (As a Rock).
 

From gorgeous ballads for Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell to empowerment anthems for Chaka Khan, the songwriting/producing duo filled the charts with hits from their pre-Motown days in the mid-'60s to well into the '80s. Ashford, 69, died of throat cancer Monday in New York.

Ashford & Simpson — you can't think of one without the other — were also dynamic performers in their own right. The tall, leonine Ashford, whose falsetto at times seemed to soar to the heavens, traded harmonies with the sultry Simpson, whose voice came straight out of church. As songwriters, pianist Simpson created the melodies and Ashford provided the lyrics. They married in 1974 after working together for a decade.

"I am shocked and saddened to hear about the passing of Nickolas Ashford," Motown founder Berry Gordy said in a statement. "(The two) wrote and produced some of the most unique and memorable songs in the Motown catalog for some of Motown's biggest artists. … They were most responsible for the great hits of Diana Ross' solo career, including one of my favorites, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, which became Diana's signature song.

"But more importantly to me, Nick Ashford was an all-around beautiful human being."

Smokey Robinson, who recorded their Who's Gonna Take the Blame, said simply, "The world has lost another great talent and I have lost another great friend."

In addition to their Motown classics, Ashford & Simpson penned and produced hits for Chuck Jackson, The Shirelles, Maxine Brown and the Fifth Dimension. Ray Charles' 1966 No. 1 R&B hit Let's Go Get Stoned was their breakthrough record.

They would later write and produce Ross' Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand) and The Boss, Chaka Khan's I'm Every Woman (later recorded by Whitney Houston), The Landlord for Gladys Knight and Shoe, Shoe Shine for the Dynamics Superiors.

One major hit Ashford had without Simpson was 1968's I'm Gonna Make You Love Me, which paired Diana Ross & The Supremes with The Temptations. Produced with Frank Wilson, the song went to No. 2 on the pop charts.

Though Ashford & Simpson had initially performed together in 1964 as Valerie & Nick, they didn't fully break out as R&B stars until the late '70s and '80s with songs like Don't Cost You Nothing, It Seems to Hang On, Found A Cure, Street Corner and Solid.

Ashford, who was born in Fairfield, S.C., and raised in Willow Run, Mich., originally had aspired to be a dancer. He was homeless in New York when he wandered into Harlem's White Rock Baptist Church, where he had been told he could get something to eat. Simpson was at the piano singing, and a friendship soon developed.

The couple were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. They recorded eight albums for Warner Bros., including four that went gold, five with Capitol and two independently. Their last album, 1996's Been Found, was a collaboration with poet Maya Angelou.

They continued to perform sporadically and frequently hosted events at their restaurant on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Sugar Bar.

Funeral arrangements for Ashford, who is survived by his wife and two daughters, are pending.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/story/2011-08-23/Nick-Ashford-composed-the-soundtrack-of-our-lives/50112852/1

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Rick Perry Too Coked-Up to Perform Sexually!

 

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Rick Perry Too Coked-Up to Perform Sexually!"

By: Admin
When it came time for the stripper to leave, Perry gave her an outrageous amount of money, so large in fact that it probably means that Perry is taking cash bribes or illegal gifts to fund his extracurricular activities. Perry is not a rich man and I doubt he is spending that much of his own money on the women. (Actually sweetheart real estate deals have made the man unusual money.) Another young woman, who has had direct dealings with Perry's enabling entourage, told me that Perry is especially flagrantly adulterous when he goes on the road. She said that Perry has sex with the "young hotties" and that Perry and his entourage are literally having orgies in his hotel room. They are either calling escort services or picking up "young hotties" impressed by an arrogant, entitled governor of Texas.
 

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Domscheit-Berg had destroyed a copy of "the entire US no-fly list

 

The WikiLeaks Twitter feed, which Assange is believed to control personally, also said that Domscheit-Berg had destroyed a copy of "the entire US no-fly list," "US intercept arrangements for over a hundred internet companies," and leaks from inside "around 20 neo-Nazi organizations."

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American government Mafia actively targets the weak: terminal cancer patients, little girls and the homeless

 

American government Mafia actively targets the weak: terminal cancer patients, little girls and the homeless

 
Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Throughout history, the Mafia has run extortion schemes known as "protection rackets." These scams revolve around the Mafia coercing an individual or business to fork over money in exchange for protection services.  When the victim refuses to give funds to the criminals, they crack down to show the individual what will happen if they continue to withhold funds. This traditionally involves property damage or theft carried out by the same racketeers supposedly offering the "protection" to the victim.

The Federal government of the United States of America has now become no better than a group of racketeering Mafiosos, running a protection racket on the American people.  Of course, they hide behind the veil of "permits" and "city ordinances" in order to hustle American citizens into forking over their hard-earned cash in exchange for protection from so-called authorities.

In reality, the rackets run by police and the IRS are no different than the criminal Mafia operations that have plagued many countries for decades on end.

In one of the most disturbing cases of government harassment of the weak and helpless, earlier this week KATU, a local Salem news outlet, reported the story of a terminal cancer patient who was targeted for having a garage sale.
 
 
Jan Cline was an independent businesswoman supporting herself for years before she was diagnosed with a terminal form of bone cancer earlier this year.

Cline describes her ailment as "a bone marrow cancer that eats through the bones and causes holes in the bones" and thus "just by walking I can break a bone."

Clearly Cline's ailment is inhibiting her ability to work, thus making it impossible for her to pay for her costly cancer treatments.

Cline began selling some of her possessions in her backyard on the weekends in an attempt to raise the funds she so desperately needs since the horrific cancer she is afflicted with makes it impossible for her to work in order to pay off her massive medical bills.

She thought she would be fine as she was selling her own goods on her own property out of everyone's way, and as an American she likely thought that she wouldn't be harassed by thugs for attempting to take care of herself the only way possible.

Unfortunately, she was wrong.

Her garage sales were making her several hundred much-needed dollars each weekend, that is until one of her neighbors complained about a terminal cancer patient attempting to support herself.

The city showed up and promptly shut her down. Cline was not aware, but the city of Salem has a law mandating that an individual may only have three yard sales per year.

This kind of ridiculous legislation is, on its face, absurd. At least, it seems that way to me and likely anyone else who thinks that in the United States we are free to do whatever we please on our own property as long as we are not hurting anyone (within reason, of course).

However, the emerging "nanny state" in which everything must be legislated and every minutia of our lives must be approved by a bunch of life-long bureaucrats who wish only to bilk their fellow citizens out of as much money as humanly possible is completely opposed to such a notion of freedom.

In the nanny state you are only allowed to do exactly what the government permits you to, or else you are quickly targeted by the Mafia thugs known as "police" and "Federal authorities".

Cline says that she doesn't want special treatment; all she seeks is understanding and human compassion. In an interview with KATU she begins crying when talking about how she doesn't want to be nickel-and-diming all of her property in order to survive, and hopes no one else would have to do so.
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/08/american-government-mafia-actively.html

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