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Sarkozy's Backers To Use Toulouse Attacks To Steal French Election

Believe it or not, at one point last year with Obama's bombing of Libya, France had more wars going on than the US!

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The Crisis

A little over a week ago, on the 11th March, a French off-duty soldier was shot dead by an unknown gunman wearing a helmet in a suburb of Toulouse. The gunman escaped on a Yamaha T-Max scooter.

Then on the 15th of March, the same gunman shot dead two soldiers and wounded a third outside their barracks in Montauban (30 mins north of Toulouse). Again, he escaped on a scooter.

Then on the 19th March, the same gunman arrived at a Jewish primary and secondary school in Toulouse at 8am and shot dead a Rabbi teacher, his two young sons and a four-year-old girl, the school principal's daughter. All were shot in the head at point blank range. The young girl with a .45 caliber hand gun. He again escaped on a scooter. French security services have definitively linked the shootings and concluded that the same person was responsible for all three.

The killer's choice of targets were intended to maximise outrage. Witnesses of the broad-daylight shooting in Montauban saw him calmly reload his weapon and shoot one of the unarmed soldiers from point blank range as he tried to crawl away. Clearly, the gunman had professional training.

French President Sarkozy's 2012 re-election bid has been faltering almost since he was 'elected' in 2007.

Long viewed by a majority of the French public as a latter-day Napoleon wannabe, some were perplexed as to how he won the 2007 presidential race, given that one year before the election, opinion polls placed him a definite second, and between then and the election he did nothing to justify his alleged increase in popularity, with his 'Bling Bling' approach to electioneering turning the stomachs of many French people.

In addition, within a few months of his 'victory' in May 2007, Sarkozy's popularity had plummeted to around 30% as people reacted to his austere economic reforms, on which he had openly campaigned, mind you. How to explain such a sudden turnaround so soon after his victory?Believe it or not, at one point last year with Obama's bombing of Libya, France... more

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A Youtube Plea For Peace From an Isreali Father

Please share this, it's a video that should go viral. Go to youtube and comment, I did:
"THANK YOU SO MUCH... We need our peaceful voices to be heard. We are not cattle who cannot stop their own slaughter. We are human beings and we all share something in common; love, respect, peace and empathy for one another." thinkingblue

Amid war fever, some Israelis and Iranians talk of peace
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/22/2707569/amid-war-fever-some-israelis-and.html

By SHEERA FRENKEL
McClatchy Newspapers

JERUSALEM -- Hoping to counter the incessant saber rattling from their respective governments, some Israelis and Iranians have started an online campaign to exchange simple messages of friendship and love.

The initiative, which began with Israeli couple Ronny Edry and Michal Tamir, calls for residents of each country to exchange photographs with the words, "We love you."

"I'm not an official representative of my country. I'm a father and a teacher," Edry wrote on his blog, www.IsraelovesIran.com. He included a photograph of him and his son. "I know the streets of my town, I talk with my neighbors, my family, my students, my friends and in the name of all these people ... we love you. We mean you no harm. On the contrary, we want to meet, have some coffee and talk about sports."

Within days, the first responses from Iran began to appear. The images posted by Israelis and Iranians are strikingly similar - they show people in the midst of daily activities, posing with their children, dog or favorite book. Some include messages such as "We don't want war," and "I wish we both get rid of our idiot politicians." Often, it's impossible to tell where the message originated until the telltale tag line, Iran (or Israel) we love you. MORE HERE http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/22/2707569/amid-war-fever-some-israelis-and.html

ISRAEL LOVES IRAN BLOG
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Martial Law by Executive Order

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Chris Christie Insults One Veteran, Insults All Veterans

"I think all of the GOP folks feel the same as Christie, what a Shame!!!" =(

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Why Venus and Zeitgeist Don't Have It Quite Right

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Are Peaceful Societies Normal?

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Russia Sends Troops to Syria

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Noam Chomsky chooses Obama over GOPs as 2012 President

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Israelis, Iranians Agree Via Facebook: 'We Don't Want War'

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The Antiwar Comic: In Response to Kony 2012

Tony D responds to the Kony 2012 video.

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Nine Years Ago Today The Iraq War Began -- Shock & Awe Then, Shock & Awe Now . . . ~ They Will Say ANYTHING!

What a difference nine years makes

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'Israel Loves Iran' initiative takes off on Facebook

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Netanyahu Makes Case for Israel Attacking Iran Alone

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Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony

Thanks to relentless promotion by corporate media, government, celebrities and politicians of both corporate parties, along with right wing church groups and foundations, the Kony 2012 video has “gone viral.” Viewed on YouTube more than a hundred million times by now, it paints a vivid and simple picture, clear enough, its narrator says, for a five year old. But is it real, or is it propaganda, and for what purpose?

Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Reason #10: Invisible Children is funded by a core of notorious right wing donors

Reason #9: Invisible Children and Kony 2012 don't tell us that the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, one of the “good guys” in the Kony 2012 universe, shot his own way to power using an army that included enslaved child soldiers

Reason #8: Invisible Children and the Kony 2012 video also don't tell us that Uganda's Museveni replaced a president and rival general from the Acholi region

Reason #7: Invisible Children and Kony 2012 are lying when they attribute the disappearance of 30,000 missing northern Ugandan children to the LRA

Reason #6: Threats of massive foreign intervention into civil conflicts never bring adversaries to the table

Reason #5: The United States, the other “good guy” in Kony 2012's imaginary world invented the modern African child soldier in the late1970s and early 80s, so their commitment to “ending child soldiers” is a bit suspect

Reason #4: Depending on movie stars and celebrities to move public policy is the precise opposite of building the backbone and habits of a vibrant and self-aware civic movement

Reason #3: When both corporate parties, the entire corporate media universe, a constellation of celebrities and movie stars, all the right wing and much of the establishment liberal church

Reason #2: Kony 2012 and the campaign to keep US boots on the ground in Central Africa are all about the oil

Reason #1: It's all about white people, the white West and their First Black President doing their imperial and colonial thingThanks to relentless promotion by corporate media, government, celebrities and... more