Israeli protesters are arrested by police at Tel Aviv's airport after welcoming pro-Palestinian "fly-in activists. Uriel Sinai / Getty Images
ONE IF BY SEA, TWO IF BY AIR
(The National)
Israel continues its repressive practices against would-be pro-Palestinian protesters. Having thwarted a “flotilla” of ships headed for Gaza to support solidarity with the besieged territory by the grace of the Greek government, Israel takes action to “re-patriate” numerous activists in a “flytilla” of activists who arrive at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv.
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A RUPERT MURDOCH MINION AS DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR UK GOVERNMENT? DON’T SAY YOU WEREN’T WARNED, PM DAVID CAMERON.
(UK Independent)
Former Labor leader Lord Ashdown is the third person to come forward claiming the Prime Minister was warned after the election of appointing Andy Coulson to his government. Coulson and Murdoch are at the epicenter of a raging storm of controversy over the hacking of voicemail messages by agents of Murdoch’s world-wide media empire.
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CHEATER-IN-CHIEF IN ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS GETS, BUT MAY LOSE, A CUSHY JOB AS HEAD OF DALLAS AREA SCHOOL.
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Kathy Augustine, under investigation in a scandal involving manipulation of test scores to show school “improvement,” uses her record as a school “reformer” as curriculum director for APS to get a job for $188 per year as superintendent of De Soto, TX schools. Parents and others in that school district become aware of her dubious past and are appearing at school board meetings demanding her appointment be rescinded.
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J.P MORGAN/CHASE: TOO BIG TO GIVE A DAMN ABOUT ITS CUSTOMERS.
(RealEcon TV)
Brasscheck tv highlights case of a black man who got caught up in the nightmare of consequences of a bank error associated with his efforts to cash a check at a Chase bank when that bank itself had issued the check. A weekend in jail, a lost job, his car towed and sold at auction were among these consequences. A lawyer for him depended apologies from the bank for its errors, a demand ignored for a year until it says it is now “considering” the request. (Chase was one of the banks receiving massive government bail-outs as being “too big to fail.”)
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CAPTURING “OLD FLORIDA” ON FILM ONE SOPCHOPPY WORM GRUNT AT A TIME.
(Daytona Beach News-Journal)
DeLand-based photographer has made it his life’s work to use 30-year old photographic equipment to shoot scenes of people and places that are fast disappearing with the continuing development of the state, as many development regulations have now been lifted. An article on this features his work at the Sopchoppy (western Florida) locale of worm grunts, where worms are lured from the ground by “grunting” sounds.
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Quote of the day…
If there was any solidarity among the laboring classes in America these days, the NBA and NFL players would be walking a unified picket line along with the teachers, police officers, factory workers and retail managers who are all suffering as the Great Recession grinds on. They would unify in their demand that the necessary sacrifices be shared equally by labor AND capital.
The fact that such an idea sounds patently absurd when you say it out loud just shows why it will never, ever happen. Instead, the plebes will fight each other to the death over an ever-shrinking number of crumbs while the elites steal away with the cake like a thief in the night.
William Hicks, commenting on similarity of situations of American teachers facing layoffs and NBA and NFL players facing owner lockouts against next season.
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According to the international law, the OCCUPIER is responsible for providing food, health care and other essentials to his victims. As long as Israel stopped to meet its responsibilities as an occupier, here springs the role of the UN and since the UN has been disabled and inactive, the door must remain open for charitable organizations and activists to alleviate the sufferings of the people of Gaza; they are still humans!
When is Israel not “repressive”?
ince 1987, the US congress has annually been approving a foreign aid bill totaling an average of $3 billion to Israel, $1.2 billion in economical aid, and $1.8 billion in military aid.
After the gulf war in 1991, the US has additionally been offering Israel $2 billion annually in federal loan guarantees, which brings the total US foreign aid to Israel to about $5 billion.