"Palestine" is no more. Call it a "peace process" or a "road map"; blame it on Barack Obama's weakness, his pathetic, childish admission – like an optimistic doctor returning a sick child to its parents without hope of recovery – that a Middle East peace was "more difficult" to reach than he imagined. But the dream of a "two-state" Israeli-Palestinian solution, a security-drenched but noble settlement to decades of warfare between Israelis and Palestinians is as good as dead. AWIP: Obama Gets Asked an Unapproved Question -Video

It has been speculated upon in open-source intelligence circles for years. So, there is little surprise for the rest of the world when it hears of China’s first major foray in its new role as a Superpower. Although Americans might be surprised. That is, if they even hear about it before the Juarez, Mexico base goes live.

"I looked at his brain on the ground and pushed him back into the car. I told my sister that they had blown his brains out. I started to scream, ‘They killed my son. They killed my son.’" Description of a Blackwater massacre, for which Blackwater is NOT being prosecuted. AWIP: Iraq shocked as judge drops Blackwater charges.

When Tony Blair appeared at the Chilcot inquiry last week, the families of some of the British soldiers killed in Iraq were there to hear him defend his decision to go to war. Here Reg Keys, whose son was one of six military policemen brutally killed in 2003, writes about the mix of fierce anger and deep sadness he felt as he watched the former Prime Minister. PressTV: At Iraq Inquiry, Tony Blair Targets Iran. AWIP/Chris Floyd: Blood is His Argument: Tony Blair's Gentle Cuddling at Iraq "Inquiry". Alan Hart: Blair as monster: He was ahead of Bush in the war on terrorism game because he is a neo-con, the real thing, whereas Bush had to be won over, conned, by America’s mad men. AWIP: To gasps from the gallery, Blair said we should be proud of the war. The Guardian: Blair: truth and lies.

Village Elder: "It Was the Americans, of Course". NATO troops in Afghanistan’s Wardak Province had a brief overnight gunbattle with Afghan Army forces, with both sides apparently assuming the other was Taliban. The troops called in an air strike against a newly established Afghan Army base, killing four soldiers and wounding six others.

Government sources said the extra cash will fund more helicopters and unmanned drone aircraft for UK troops fighting the Taliban in Helmand Province as well as equipment designed to offer better protection from roadside bombs. In a further move to shore up military spending, ministers will shortly announce that the overall annual budget for the Ministry of Defence (MoD), which is £35 billion for the current year (2009-10) will be "ring-fenced" for 2010-11.

TruthIsAll 1) The GOP needed votes in solid Blue states to decrease Democratic margins (see NY and CA) in order to pad the Bush popular recorded vote "mandate". 2) The GOP needed to steal fewer votes in Battleground states where their objective was to win the Electoral vote. 3) The GOP pretty much ignored the Red states; most of them were rural with small populations. But they did not ignore the Red states with large minority (Democratic) voting blocs, such as TX, MS, AL, TN, SC, VA. They could pad the popular vote by not counting minority votes.

Haitian Social Affairs Minister Yves Christallin said the police arrested five men and five women with US passports, and two Haitians, as they tried to cross into the Dominican Republic with the children Friday night. ABC News: Haitian police have arrested 10 United States citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country in a suspected illicit adoption scheme, authorities say.

PT: The Palestine You Don’t Know: Pre-Occupation PIC: Israeli court allows settlers to storm Palestinian home in Jerusalem. IMEMC: Report: “7300 Detainees, Including 33 Women And 300 Children, Still Imprisoned By Israel”.

“They sliced his belly so that the intestines fell out,” said his widow, Jeanne Birengenyi, 34, Chance’s aunt. “Then they cut his heart out and showed it to me.” The soldiers continued to mutilate the body, while others began to rape Jeanne.

Thousands of protesters from across Japan marched Saturday in central Tokyo to protest the U.S. military presence on Okinawa, while a Cabinet minister said she would fight to move a Marine base Washington considers crucial out of the country. Some 47,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan, with more than half on the southern island of Okinawa. Residents have complained for years about noise, pollution and crime around the bases.

The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming. The IPCC's remit is to provide an authoritative assessment of scientific evidence on climate change. WUWT: IPCC now in Bizarroland: Pachauri releases “smutty” romance novel.

Luckily for the youngster, it seems these three male cheetahs simply weren't hungry. That's because unlike other big cats, the cheetah hunts in the daytime, either in the early morning or late afternoon. The bursts of speed needed to catch their prey tire them out - meaning they need to rest after a kill. And that seems to be the secret to the antelope's survival, as it's likely it fell into the cheetahs' clutches when they were already full - and tired out - from an earlier hunt. Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara in October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw. HOWEVER, according to Yann Metrich of Biosphoto, the young antelope eventually was killed & eaten.