Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Not really… It’s just a nice picture ad from a new ad campaign for the strategy board game “Risk” (the game of global domination); by the advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi. More brilliant picture ads here. [Via: Boing Boing]
Posted in Arab, Too Much Free Time, USA | 5 Comments »
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.
The contract calls for assembling a database of selected news stories and assessing their tone as [...]
Posted in Iraq, Media, War | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Jan Egeland said civilians were facing “massive problems” returning home because of as many as 100,000 unexploded cluster bombs, most of which were dropped in the last days of the war. He accused Israel of “shocking” and “completely immoral” behavior for dropping large numbers of cluster bombs on Lebanon when a cease-fire in its war [...]
Posted in Bleeding Edge, Human Rights, Israel, Lebanon, Terrorism, War, War Crimes | 3 Comments »
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
“You see, the probability that an Arab child will grow up and becomes an Albert Einstein, or Sigmund Freud, or even Alan Greenspan, is equal to the twelfth digit after the decimal point, to the probability that a Jewish child will grow up to become a jihad fighter. Of course, not every Jewish child becomes [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Palestine, Politics, Zionism | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
8/29/06-CFL ALERT: 25% of Palestinians Parliamentarians Imprisoned by the Israeli Occupation Government
* In the last two months alone Israel has arrested almost one quarter of the members of the Palestinian parliament as part of its campaign to free an Israeli soldier captured near Gaza in June. Those arrested by the Israelis include 49 senior [...]
Posted in Democracy, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Politics | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Reclaiming The Issues: Islamic Or Republican Fascism?
by Thom Hartmann
In the years since George W. Bush first used 9/11 as his own “Reichstag fire” to gut the Constitution and enhance the power and wealth of his corporate cronies, many across the political spectrum have accused him and his Republican support group of being fascists.
On the right,The [...]
Posted in Bleeding Edge, Failures, Politics, USA | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Watching the Zionist propaganda; I received from them today an alert from the Zionist group (Giyus) to vote “Yes” in a poll by BBC History Magazine that asks “Do you think holocaust denial should be made illegal in Britain?” Of course I voted “NO”. This is why:
Holocaust denial views only have as much substance as [...]
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Opinion, Religion, War, Zionism | 22 Comments »
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem
“Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9)
Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine [...]
Posted in Christianity, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Religion, Zionism | 11 Comments »
Monday, August 28th, 2006
The rules of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS when it comes to the Israeli-Arab conflict:
by: Unknown
Rule # 1: In the Middle East, it is always the Arabs that attack first, and it’s always Israel who defends itself. This is called “Retaliation”.
Rule # 2: The Arabs, whether Palestinians or Lebanese, are not allowed to kill Israelis. This is called [...]
Posted in Israel, News You Can Do Without, Politics | 11 Comments »
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
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Posted in Lebanon, Opinion, Politics, War | 5 Comments »