The Coast Guard rescued a paraglider who crashed into the Pacific Ocean Friday off the shoreline of Cape Lookout, Oregon.Coast Guard Rescue
The Coast Guard rescued a paraglider who crashed into the... more
In the aftermath of Fox News anchor Ernie Arnastos' verbal slip up, the Telegraph has compiled a Top 30 list of on air gaffs from live reporters.In the aftermath of Fox News anchor Ernie Arnastos' verbal slip up, the Telegraph has... more
A video I wrote the script for, produced and edited the video and performed the voice over for. This is my contribution to all the brave men and women to serve in the US Armed Forces."American Soldiers... You'll Never Walk Alone"
A video I wrote the script for,... more
The U.S. Coast Guard is taking on a bigger role in creating laws to police actvities on the world's oceans.Oceans Task Force
The U.S. Coast Guard is taking on a bigger role in creating laws... more
Conspiracy theorists say jet fuel fires couldn't have brought down the towers -- but a simulation of the impact proves otherwise. 9/11: Science and Conspiracy : http://channel.nationalgeog...Conspiracy theorists say jet fuel fires couldn't have brought down the towers -- but a... more
Coast Guard rescuers pulled two people from the water off the Oregon coast. It happened Tuesday afternoon near the Charleston Marina after a boat exploded and caught fire.Coast Guard Rescue
Coast Guard rescuers pulled two people from the water off the... more
Sometimes it hurts so bad you just have to laugh. Recon: Comic Relief looks at how military cartoonists draw humor from their own experiences.Recon: Comic Relief
Sometimes it hurts so bad you just have to laugh. Recon: Comic... more
U.S. Coast Guard officials say three boaters who were missing for more than a week are alive and back home.Coast Guard Rescues
U.S. Coast Guard officials say three boaters who were missing... more
Glenn Beck, controversial Fox News personality, is losing advertising dollars for his program airing on the Fox News Channel. Corporate sponsors have been distancing themselves from Beck, fearing backlash for being associated with Beck's crazed and dangerous rantings and ravings. Recently Beck called President Obama a racist, just one of many utterances which has outraged his critics and worried his supporters.Glenn Beck, controversial Fox News personality, is losing advertising dollars for his... more
Not the funniest news background fail of all time but the best so far today. Sorry about the poor quality, I've not got the box hooked up directly to laptop...Not the funniest news background fail of all time but the best so far today. Sorry... more
If there is no crime emergency you can make one. It's very interesting to see the data on real crimes committed in Italy and those on the television coverage that is given to them. The crime rate in Italy over the last twenty years is unchanged. Immigrants were half a million and now are 4 million, yet that hasn't created any actual increase in crime.If there is no crime emergency you can make one. It's very interesting to see the data... more
Robert Fisk's World: The jury is out on the Iranian model of religion and politics
So what of the famous revolution? Was it a return to the basic values of Shia Islam?
Saturday, 27 June 2009
The most nauseous photograph to come out of the Iran tragedy was not the bloodied demonstrators in Tehran, but a Reuters picture of former Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, "fighting back tears" in Washington as he declared that Neda Agha Sultan, the young woman shot dead by Ahmadinejad's thugs a week ago, "was now for ever in my pocket". I bet she is, by God! "I have added her to the list of my daughters," the son of the brutal and merciless late Shah, told the world.Robert Fisk's World: The jury is out on the Iranian model of religion and politics
So... more
Israeli Occupation Forces have kidnapped 21 Human Rights workers aboard the Free Gaza boat, Spirit of Humanity, including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire & former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS; CONFISCATES MEDICINE, TOYS AND OLIVE TREES
“Israel’s deliberate and premeditated attack on our unarmed boat is a clear violation of international law and we demand our immediate and unconditional release.”Israeli Occupation Forces have kidnapped 21 Human Rights workers aboard the Free Gaza... more
$2.775 Billion in US Aid Supports Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program
By Grant F. Smith
President Barak Obama's fiscal year 2010 budget request for $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel is proceeding smoothly through the Congress.
$2.775 Billion in US Aid Supports Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program
By Grant F. Smith
President Barak Obama's fiscal year 2010 budget request for $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel is proceeding smoothly through the Congress.$2.775 Billion in US Aid Supports Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program
By Grant F.... more
"A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he died from asphyxiation after having been hung by his arms, in a hood, and suffering broken ribs," the magazine's Jane Mayer writes in the magazine's June 22nd issue. "Military pathologists classified the case a homicide."CIA Crucified Captive in Abu Ghraib Prison
By Sherwood Ross
"A forensic... more
UN public hearing in Gaza broadcasts accounts of war victims:
"In a single instant we had all of our joys replaced with blood," he said. "There was a severe whistling in my ears and a pillar of smoke and dust and that obliterated what happened. When I looked up I found I had lost both my legs. I was sprawled over the body of my own brother. I looked for my father and others, and I found them motionless. Most of them were dead."UN public hearing in Gaza broadcasts accounts of war victims:
"In a single instant... more
he brutal crackdown on Iran’s streets is succeeding. Lethal shooting, beatings and mass arrests have driven millions off the streets, and a communications blackout is preventing them from communicating with each other and the world.1
Ruling clerics are in crisis talks -- many are criticising the crackdown and calling for reform.2
We urgently need to help Iranians get back on the internet to have their voices heard in Iran and the world. Secure and anonymous "proxy services" are helping people to bypass regime controls and get online -- but they're overloaded and running out of funds.3 A small donation of just $10 can provide bandwidth for hundreds of secure emails - if 10,000 of us donate in the next 72 hours, we can help break the blackout:
BREAKING NEWS
LONDON (Herald de Paris) - Ali Reza Pahlavi, the exiled Crown Prince of Iran, son of the former Shah of Iran, is reported to have sought the assistance of the Israeli government to back the rioting opposition in his homeland, according to Iranian sources. Reza Pahlavi claims that any military attack against Tehran could push the Iranian opposition to be part of the government, therefore resuming the ties between Iran and Israel that had been forged by his father, prior to the 1979 overthrow.
News of the former government of Iran’s involvement further clouds the ever-evolving picture of the Iranian Green-Wave liberation movement. While internal details of the struggles of Iran remain sketchy at times, the reports and pictures of untoward violence towards the opposition, at the hands of government forces and police, remain a most disturbing legacy for an allegedly peace-loving nation.
Meanwhile, the Guardians Council claims to have confirmed Mr Ahmadinejad’s victory and re-election as president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
A Circulating Middle-Eastern Perspective Seldom Reported in the West
The main rival to the re-elected president was Mr. Hossein Mousavi, former Prime Minister of Iran in the 1980s who, before the polling closed declared he haSO IS THIS WHAT IS HAPPENING?
A DISGRACE....SELLING OUT iRAN TO THE zIONISTS.... more
A Palestinian boy plays with a toy at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem on Thursday. Palestinians in the occupied territories are required to go through a web of checkpoints to travel around Israel.
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By Bob Bersson
I NEVER THOUGHT that I would say it. Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is apartheid and it’s apartheid in the full South African sense of the word. The way Israel administers the militarily surrounded Palestinian enclaves or cantons that it has created in the “Occupied Territories” is apartheid, no way around it.
Consider the term itself. Apartheid is rooted in the word, “apart.” Apartness enforced by the absolute power of one people over another. In the South Africa of old, apartheid was rooted in race. In Israel-Palestine, it is based on ethnicity as both peoples claim a Semitic heritage.
The reasons for apartheid in Dutch Afrikaaner South Africa and in the Jewish State of Israel might differ somewhat, but structurally the two systems are alike. In South Africa, a small white minority sequestered the large black majority in racially segregated enclaves or homelands or townships — they did allow them to commute to work in white areas with identity cards and via police checkpoints — while the Afrikaaners themselves had complete freedom of movement around the country. The police and army strictly enforced this legalized separation or ghettoization.
In the predominantly Arab Palestinian West Bank, the structural situation is much the same. Palestinian Arabs, whether Muslim or Christian, cannot live in the new Jewish towns on the West Bank and are kept apart, often by miles, from these settlements. Palestinians cannot move freely but are constantly forced each day to spend substantial amounts of time, sometimes hours, passing through police and military checkpoints. Freedom of movement is tightly controlled and major modern (that is, Israeli) roads are mostly off-limits to them. Just like the huge concrete-and-steel wall, the “separation barrier” to the east of Jerusalem that divides Jews from Arabs — a kind of Berlin Wall of the Middle East — the numerous Jewish settlements that ring Palestinian towns separate and divide the various Palestinian population centers — Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem, Jenin — from each other. And with each new Israeli settlement or outpost comes a web of checkpoints and military-police stations that enforce total constraint on the inhabitants, the Arabs that is, not the Jews; exactly like in the old South Africa.
On an earA Palestinian boy plays with a toy at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank... more
