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1.  “Israel’s Troubling Tilt Toward Apartheid

The United Nations General Assembly may well have been wrong in 1975 to equate Zionism with racism, since many early Israelis rejected extremist notions regarding separation of Jews from Arabs. But today a virulent form of Zionism is turning Israel in the direction of an intolerant apartheid state.
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An under-reported element of the flare-up between the Obama administration and Netanyahu’s government is that Israel’s Housing Minister Ariel Atias, who sprang the announcement during Biden’s visit, is a religious fanatic whose ultra-Orthodox Judaism is about as intolerant of others as many extreme forms of Islam are.

Atias, a rising star in the religious Shas Party, has publicly called for imposing legal and physical constraints on the housing choices of Israel’s Arab population. But his demands for segregation do not stop at Arabs. He also targets secular Jews who don’t follow strict religious rules.”
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/031910.html

2.  “
Temple Bomb Suspects: The Feds Put Us Up to It!

They said the informant badgered the defendants until they got involved in the plot.

They said the informant chose the targets, supplied fake bombs for the synagogues and a fake missile to shoot down planes. The motion said he also offered to pay the defendants, who attorneys alleged weren’t inclined toward any crime until the informant began recruiting them.”
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Synagogue-Bomb-Suspects-The-Feds-Put-Us-Up-to-It-88579537.html

3.  “Terrorizing ourselves with overreactions

The main reason, as this book – composed of contributions from a wide array of experts in counterterrorism – argues in great detail, is that government policies have imposed greater costs on our society than the terrorist attacks themselves. “Overreaction does the work of terrorism. Ignorance of this cardinal fact is why U.S. counterterrorism policy is failing.”

The book begins with a couple of chapters on the goals of today’s terrorists and the kinds of people who are drawn into terrorist activities. Terrorism is the tactic of the weak, of those who oppose a given state or culture but know they do not have the power to face it openly on the field of battle or even in a guerrilla insurrection. So they strive to turn the power of the state against itself. There is evidence, for example, that bin Laden thought the 9/11 attacks would cripple the U.S. economy and bring down the government. An argument can be made – is made tentatively in this book – that an inordinate focus on terrorism in the wake of 9/11 contributed to the financial crisis that crippled us beginning in 2008, but so far our economy at least has proven more resilient might have been expected.”

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/terrorism-239020-terrorist-book.html

4.  “Americans too often tend to justify war for its own sake. As citizens we neglect our important role of questioning our government, and that neglect has translated into too many de facto endorsements of the reckless use of our military. It seems we would rather eternally send more soldiers into even more “hurt lockers” than ever confront and deal with gross government incompetence on foreign policy. As with Vietnam, if Iraq wasn’t a mistake, it’s hard to imagine Americans admitting any war was a mistake.

Typically couched in a vague context of yellow ribbons, waving flags and political rhetoric, questions of war become questions of patriotism in the most wrong-headed ways imaginable. If our government pushes for national healthcare or stimulus spending — there is no end to the questioning. But if our government decides to go to war-too many Americans assume that it is their patriotic “duty” to support those wars without question. This is obscene, as the only thing standing between a soldier and a bad government decision is the American public. With the invasion of Iraq, Americans did not “support the troops”-we needlessly abused them. “

http://www.amconmag.com/tactv/2010/03/12/why-the-hurt-locker-hurts/

5.  “Public left Cold by GOP opposition to Health Care Reform

Daily Kos analyzes a Kaiser poll showing that a majority of Americans does not care one way or another that the Republican Party opposes heath care reform. Among those who in the public have feelings on the matter, the opposition drives more to support it than to reject it.

Public support for the bill is also firming up, though it should be remembered that when pollsters explain to respondents what exactly is in the bill, support skyrockets– many of its provisions get around two-thirds support.”

http://www.juancole.com/

6.  “German Central Bank Admits that Credit is Created Out of Thin Air“

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/german-central-bank-admits-that-credit.html

7.  “Afghanistan Enacts Law That Gives War Criminals Blanket Immunity “

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18216

8.  “The Supreme Court’s “Make Believe Law”

“The Law” is Nothing but an Amorphous Body of Assertions

You know that piece of parchment called the Constitution? People are told that it created a government made up of three coequal but separate branches—the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. The legislature writes the laws, the executive enforces them, and the judiciary decides whether the law has been violated. But although true in unessential ways, this description, like a historical novel, is pure fiction.

The legislature (Congress) certainly writes and enacts laws, and sometimes (but not always) the executive enforces them. (The executive branch has unimpeded discretion.) And the judiciary does determine whether the law has been broken. Well, sort of!

Trial courts, the lowest level of the judicial system, do attempt to do that, but cases, when they leave the trial courts, enter a Disneyesque fantasy world where nothing is what it seems to be. It is a world in which the principal characters write their own scripts, and where the simplest English words are made to mean whatever the characters decide they want words to mean, even if the new meanings render the language entirely unintelligible to literate readers. Lewis Carroll, were he alive today, could use the judiciary for inspiration and write Through the Opaque Looking-Glass. Opinions, written by lawyers schooled in abstruse legalese, are nothing less than enigmas. Oh sure, we know what the decision is, but we never know exactly what the grounds for making it are. The grounds are always hidden in a maze of precedents, often derived from cases so dissimilar that no reasonable person would ever have associated them. Alice in Wonderland logic prevails!

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Everything known as case law in America is nothing but the judicial codification of jurists’ personal opinions justified by specious “controlling rules.” It adversely affects the lives of ordinary people far more than all of the enacted federal code. Thanks to the Court, America is a replica of seventeenth century England, where an aristocracy using a predatory economic system prospers while the people languish, where rights guaranteed to the people are transferred to corporations, and elections are bought and sold. The Court has never concerned itself with the establishment of justice, the insurance of domestic tranquility, the promotion of the general welfare, or the insurance of the integrity of the democratic process as the Constitution requires. The people have been betrayed!

Because of the enigmatic nature of the Court’s decisions and the abstruse nature of legalese, what the Court has done has been done virtually in secret. To expect ordinary people, even those well educated, to do the research and analysis necessary to reveal the reality behind the Court’s actions is unrealistic. Yet the people need to know. This usurping cabal needs to be exposed.”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18219

9.  “Mass Unemployment and the Current Economic Crisis Fake Forecasts, Misleading Statistics, Misguided Policies”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18203

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