Dr. Norman Finkelstein: "Every single member of my family on both sides were exterminated...I consider nothing more dispicable then to use their suffering and their martyrdom to try to justify the torture, the brutalization, the demolition of homes that Israel daily commits against the Palestinians". WaPo: Turkey's prime minister: Israel Commits War Crimes. Israel Response: You are anti-Semite.

While the deployment of 10000 US troops in Haiti has been qualified by a number of Latin American political leaders as an invasion and occupation under the guise of a humanitarian relief operation, the arrival of the USS Bataan in Haiti raises even more questions. Over recent years, this amphibious assault ship has been converted into a floating secret prison, forming part of the CIA network of "black sites" used for so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques". The ship’s flat hold bottom, designed to accommodate troops for disembarkment, has been equipped with cages. Prisoners are subjected to the same experiments as in Guantánamo. Having denied it for a long time, the Pentagon eventually acknowledged that the USS Bataan had in fact been used as a prison in December 2001, but that it recovered its normal functions as of January 2002, an allegation which is contested by numerous specialists who claim that it continued to operate as a prison off shore. It appears highly unlikely that the prisoners were taken to another location after the earthquake and that the ship was overhauled to allow for the transportation of troops.

ExxonMobil Iraq Ltd. signed an agreement with the Iraq Quisling Ministry of Oil to redevelop and expand West Qurna 1 field in southern Iraq. The "agreement" was signed in Baghdad in the presence of the Iraq "Oil Minister" Hussain al-Shahristani and Rob Franklin, president of ExxonMobil upstream ventures. The consortium members are ExxonMobil as the lead contractor with 60% interest, Oil Exploration Co. (owned by the Iraq Quisling government) with 25% interest, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC with 15% interest. Franklin said ExxonMobil would continue discussions with the Iraqi "government" on other opportunities to "help develop" [steal] the country’s resources.

Suicide bombers struck in quick succession Monday at three Baghdad hotels favored by Western journalists in well-planned assaults that killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 100. The attacks were another blow to an Iraqi quisling government already struggling to answer for security lapses that have allowed bombers to carry out massive attacks in the heart of the Iraqi capital since August, raising serious questions about the country's stability ahead of the rigged March 7 parliamentary elections. TPMMuckraker: ANOTHER LIAR GETS PROMOTED: When the Pentagon's internal think tank decided in 2004 it needed a better understanding of Al Qaeda, it turned to an unlikely source: the terrorism analyst Laurie Mylroie, who was known as the chief purveyor of the discredited idea that Saddam Hussein was behind Sept. 11 and many other attacks carried out by Al Qaeda. Consortium News: Bush Silences a Dangerous Witness: The hanging of Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali” for his role in using chemical weapons in Iraqi wars of the 1980s and early 1990s, silenced yet one more witness who otherwise could have filled in the blanks of the Reagan-Bush-I roles in secretly assisting Saddam Hussein’s armies, the so-called Iraq-gate scandal.

Mr Blair’s appearance could be the last chance for a major demonstration against the invasion and six-year occupation of Iraq. An anti-war march in February 2003, a month before the invasion, was described by police as the UK’s biggest demonstration with at least 750,000 taking part; organisers put the figure closer to two million.

According to US intelligence officials, Obama has “missed” several opportunities to assassinate US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki because lawyers are still unclear on the "legality" of killing him. At issue is that Awlaki, a New Mexico-born Muslim cleric, is not charged with any crimes under US law and is only speculatively linked by the Obama Administration to terrorism through secret “intelligence reports.” As a native-born citizen of the United States, assassinating him on the basis of secret evidence which is so shaky that officials haven’t felt comfortable issuing charges against him is a legal grey area, to say the least. But despite this legal concern, officials had no problem in backing Yemeni air strikes which attempted to assassinate Awlaki just last month. US officials said Awlaki was ‘probably’ killed in those strikes, though it later turned out he wasn’t even present at the site of the attack. -Along with a fair number of innocent civilians too, as far as we can remember...'Civilians die' in Yemen strike + More than 80 civilians killed in Yemen raid: witnesses. All in a day's work for a Peace Prize winner...

Sen. Joe Lieberman (Israel) is joining Republicans in ripping the FBI for reading Miranda rights to the would-be airline bomber, saying the administration made a mistake and should transfer Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to military custody. "We write to urge the administration to immediately transfer Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, a foreign terrorist, to the Department of Defense to be held as an unprivileged enemy belligerent (UEB) and questioned [tortured] and charged accordingly," said Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, in a letter to President Barack Obama on Monday. Global Research: The Obama Administration's Cover-up of the Flight 253 Affair.

Despite a massive backlog of media reports and anonymous quotes from officials confirming Blackwater’s presence in Pakistan, the government still felt comfortable openly lying about it. This should perhaps somewhat dampen the shock today when, despite official confirmation from the US government, Pakistan’s government continued to stick to the lie.

As Barack Obama begins his second year in office, the public’s priorities for the president and Congress remain much as they were one year ago. Strengthening the nation’s economy and improving the job situation continue to top the list. And, in the wake of the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, defending the country from future terrorist attacks also remains a top priority.

There'll be a population of demented very old people, like an invasion of terrible immigrants, stinking out the restaurants and cafes and shops. 'I can imagine a sort of civil war between the old and the young in ten or 15 years' time.' -Yeah, and in some cases, dementia sets in early too... ;-)

Gaia Cult Granted Legal Equality with Christianity.

The banks' representatives stress that Davos is a sterling opportunity for their executives to meet with clients, regulators and politicians. About 30 presidents and prime ministers are expected to attend, as well as a slate of central bankers and scores of high-ranking industry executives. For the biggest banks, the list of clients at Davos can run well over a hundred, and no-shows risk seeing rival bankers cozy up to their best contacts.

Gary D. Fielder is a constitutional and criminal lawyer of 20 years. Mr. Fielder has conducted over 350 jury trials, appeared in Federal District Court, and argued before the Colorado Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Mr. Fielder earned his Juris Doctorate at the University of San Diego in 1990. Mr. Fielder grew up in Eagle River, Alaska, and now lives in Denver. Visit Gary's website to sign up on his newsletter and receive details about his national tour called Sovereignty: The people's first right and last stand. Gary was mandated by the court to represent his client in the courthouse but he refused to be scanned by a body scanner under constitutional grounds that since he was not leaving the city and traveling between jurisdictions and since he had not violated any laws he had a right to not be scanned. The court deputies were surprised to see any dissident reaction since most people mindlessly follow orders and assume that is is legal. It isn't. It was not approved by the people and Mr. Fielder demanded that they allow him to enter the courthouse.

Lets not get confused..read more...Understand this is class warfare..The Blue Blood elite will destroy you in due time..With more bailouts IE a transfer of wealth-By inflation-and in given time a full collapse of the dollar to finish off the suckers!

Operation Northwoods, or Northwoods, was a false-flag plan that originated within the United States government in 1962. The plan called for CIA or other operatives to commit genuine acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which had recently become Communist under Fidel Castro. One part of the Operation Northwoods plan was to "develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington."

Electronic voting equipment that cost the State some €50 million but has never been commissioned is now likely to be cast off completely, the Minister for the Environment John Gormley has confirmed.

Chilcot and the courts won't do it, so it is up to us to show that we won't let an illegal act of mass murder go unpunished. The only question that counts is the one that the Chilcot inquiry won't address: was the war with Iraq illegal? If the answer is yes, everything changes. The war is no longer a political matter, but a criminal one, and those who commissioned it should be committed for trial for what the Nuremberg tribunal called "the supreme international crime": the crime of aggression.

Under the United Nations charter, two conditions must be met before a war can legally be waged. The parties to a dispute must first "seek a solution by negotiation" (article 33). They can take up arms without an explicit mandate from the UN security council only "if an armed attack occurs against [them]" (article 51). Neither of these conditions applied.

The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.

Monckton’s Tour of Australia – An Opportunity for Major Political Parties to Learn about Global Warming. It is very timely that Christopher Monckton (Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) is visiting Australia to deliver a series of lectures on the global warming issue starting in Sydney on January 27 and finishing in Perth on February 8. At the time of writing it appears unlikely that either party will make use of the opportunity. Why? The reason is that neither major party wants to be known to meet with an expert who is able to rebut, point by point, the claims that government action is needed and to explain that the correct policy response is to have the courage to do nothing because “global warming” is a non-problem. Investors.com: A U.S. ClimateGate? -Climate researchers and the Weather Channel's founder accuse NASA of the same data manipulation as Britain's Climate Research Unit. Were weather stations cherry-picked to hide the temperature drop? We recently commented on how our space agency for two years refused Freedom of Information requests on why it has had to repeatedly correct its climate figures.