Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
True to form, Blair fails to call for a halt to the massacre, as with Lebanon in 2006.
LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – An immediate ceasefire in Gaza is possible if arms supplies through tunnels used by Hamas militants are halted, Middle East envoy Tony Blair said on Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
Career Army Officer Sues Cheney, Rumsfeld for 9/11 complicity for failing to issue a warning that American Airlines Flight 77 was about to hit the building despite receiving knowledge of its approach some 20 minutes in advance. The Lawsuit mentions, inter alia, that on the eve of the attack Defendant Rumsfeld had conducted a press conference at the Pentagon in which he publicly announced that some 2.3 trillion dollars in Defense Department funds could not be accounted for.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
STOP THE WAR ON GAZA
Stop Israel’s crime against humanity
Scotland-wide Demonstration
Please circulate this email as widely as possible
Edinburgh
Saturday 10 January 2009
Assemble 12:30pm East Market Street (behind Edinburgh Waverley Train Station)
March through the city centre and to the US Consulate.
Bring in-date medicine for Gaza, and spare shoes.
Supported by Stop the War Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Pauline McNeil MSP, Sandra White MSP, Muslim Association of Britain, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Glasgow Palestine Human Rights Campaign, Lebanese Community Scotland, Scottish Afghan Society, Scottish Islamic Foundation, Scottish Friends of Palestine, and others to be confirmed.
Stop the Massacre: Israel out of Gaza: End the Blockade: Free Palestine
From Stop the War’s national call for demonstrations:
500 dead. Thousands injured. United States blocks UN call to stop the carnage.
This ground attack is intended to turn Gaza into Israeli killing fields. Within hours of troops entering Gaza, hospitals reported that 23 people had been killed and that twenty of them were civilians.
Demonstrations across the world call for an immediate stop to the carnage. Every country in the world bar one wants the killing and destruction to stop now. But just as it did in the Lebanon War in 2006, The United States has given the green light to Israel to intensify its barbarism.
The US is blocking all UN diplomacy for an immediate ceasefire with the tacit compliance of the British government, which calls for an immediate ceasefire while at the same time endorsing America’s refusal to allow any discussion in the United Nations to achieve this end.
When Israel broke the six month ceasefire on November 4, it was the trigger for this long planned invasion, deliberately timed for the last few weeks of George Bush’s presidency and a few weeks before Israeli elections, in which all the leading politicians are competing as to how many Palestinians they can kill.
We urge all of our supporters to do all keep informed about our activities at the website www.stopwar.org.uk and by subscribing to our regular newsletters. Everyone who is shocked and outraged by Israel’s barbarity, and the prospect of hundreds more Palestinian civilians being killed by the fourth most powerful military in the world, should commit themselves to helping mobilise for the protests in the coming week and for making the national demonstrations on Saturday 10 January in Edinburgh and London the biggest yet seen in this country for the freedom of Palestine.
Send items for the next edition of the newsletter to edinburghstw@tiscali.co.uk
Go to www.stopwar.org.uk for more info on the Stop the War Coalition and its activities
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
5th January. 2009
More than 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested today outside the Israeli Consulate and the Federal Building in San Francisco, venting anger over Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
Telegraph
5th January, 2009
Troops poured into the area as the battle against the Islamic movement intensified with gunbattles at close quarters.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
5th January, 2009
Hamas says it has targeted the Hatzor Air Base, near the Israeli town of Ashdod, as Israel rebuffs calls for cease-fire in Gaza.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
4th January, 2009
What did the great radio inquisitor want me to do? Insist that if the Government keeps borrowing and listeners merrily load-up their credit cards during the post-Christmas sales, then everything will be fine?
Well it won’t be. The UK – like most Western economies – is in a grave situation. Our money markets are frozen, denying vital liquidity to millions of credit-worthy firms. Unless the inter-bank market reboots, then even hastily revised 2009 Western growth forecasts – down from 2-3pc a year ago to a 1-2pc contraction now – could turn out to be too optimistic. We face the very real danger of chronic unemployment across the so-called “advanced economies” and widespread social unrest.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
A setback for Obama’s plans
By Jim Lobe
Asia Times
6th January, 2009
WASHINGTON – Israel’s massive week-long aerial assault on Gaza and subsequent ground invasion are likely to complicate president-elect Barack Obama’s hopes of aggressively pursuing Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, and risk inflicting greater damage to Washington’s standing in the Arab world, according to most analysts in Washington.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
But at a heated public meeting on Friday, it was clear many locals thought that, rather than being the ground-breaking wireless internet service it was supposed to be, it was putting public health in jeopardy.
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Posted by smeddum on January 5, 2009
| Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims Sun, 04 Jan 2009 Press TV |
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Medics tell Press TV they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Gaza residents wounded in Israel’s ground offensive on the strip. Norwegian medics told Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari that some of the victims who have been wounded since Israel began its attacks on the Gaza Strip on December 27 have traces of depleted uranium in their bodies. Read the rest of this entry » |
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In These New Times 