A social media campaign to stop an execution in Georgia next week is drawing support from hundreds of thousands of people around the world. - The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles was given petitions with more than 663,000 names of people asking that Troy Davis be spared from execution, scheduled Wednesday. Celebrities, Nobel laureates and national leaders have joined the NAACP, Amnesty International and the grassroots group Change.org to urge Georgia authorities to grant clemency to Troy Davis, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday. They are flooding Twitter with several tweets a minute, signing online petitions and, starting today, planning to rally around the country. Davis, 42, was convicted of the 1989 shooting death of Savannah, Ga., police officer Mark MacPhail. His supporters say he is innocent, noting that 10 witnesses in the case have signed affidavits recanting their testimony and indicating that police coerced them into implicating Davis. They also point out that nine people have signed affidavits implicating another man. The case has attracted attention for years. Former president Jimmy Carter, Pope Benedict XVI and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu are among the prominent figures who have urged that Davis' life be spared.

Anthony Lawson/AWIP: They Are Going To Kill Troy Davis - Video

Next week’s appearance by former U.S. president George W. Bush at an event hosted by a local evangelical Christian university has been cancelled. - The decision came Wednesday, the same day three former students launched a petition http://www.tyndale.co/petitionEND urging the university to cancel the speech. On Tuesday, a class valedictorian and professor publicly spoke out against the appearance following the resignation of another staff member. Bush was scheduled to speak Sept. 20 to about 150 people at an invitation-only breakfast hosted by Tyndale University College and Seminary, home to about 1,400 students at two campuses in Toronto’s north end.

Gail Davidson: Canadians Seek to Arrest George W. Bush Oct. 20

WISCONSIN LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS: 19.90 Use of equipment in open session. - Whenever a governmental body holds a meeting in open session, the body shall make a reasonable effort to accommodate any person desiring to record, film or photograph the meeting. This section does not permit recording, filming or photographing such a meeting in a manner that interferes with the conduct of the meeting or the rights of the participants.

Mike Riggs: Why Was Shoshana Hebshi Cuffed and Strip-Searched on 9/11? The FBI Doesn't Know, and the Detroit Airport Won't Say
The Intel Hub: Monthly Terror Drills Now Required By Law For Students Including Kindergarten And 1st Graders

On September 6, Republican Governor Rick Snyder signed into law a new lifetime limit of 48 months for receiving cash welfare benefits in the state of Michigan. - It is estimated that 12,600 families, including 11,188 adults and 29,707 children, will be affected immediately. These families will lose an average of $515 a month beginning October 1.

“Since cash assistance is the source of income for some families and is how they pay for rent, they will have to find a different place to live,” Judy Putnam, communications director for the Michigan League for Human Services, told the media. “We’re very fearful that many families will be left homeless.”

John Thorpe: Why Are Some Americans So Shockingly Cruel? - Every other civilized country in the world provides universal health care for its citizens. This will surely get taken out of context in my future political career, but I will say it now anyway: I am embarrassed, saddened, and yes, disgusted, by the behavior and beliefs of the majority of Americans. A new report came out Tuesday, showing that the poverty rate in America rose to a whopping 15.1% in 2010. That means that nearly one in six Americans gets by on less than $11,139 a year, or $22,314 for a family of four. At the same time, the average CEO rakes in $11.3 million EACH. In other words, you can grab any six people off the street, and the odds are that the average CEO makes 1,000 times as much money as one of them. He only makes 400 or 500 times as much as the other five. That is obscene. And the sick part? The entire Republican Party and portions of the Democratic Party are completely OK with this arrangement. One sixth of our citizens live below poverty and the calls are for more tax cuts for the wealthy, more benefits for the wealthy, and less for the poor. It’s disgusting and people should be ashamed.

Breaking - NATO militias have been forced to retreat to Ajdabiya after more clashes around Sirte. Hundreds of NATO militiamen killed when they tried to storm Sirte, backed by NATO air cover and NATO militias dropped inside Sirte. - NATO propaganda machine and NATO militias have been embarrassed many times for making false claims, and exaggerating events. They claimed that they took over Bani Walid, but the next day they were seen fleeing from front lines, carrying as many dead bodies and injured as they could. Also they claimed that they occupied Sirte previously, but soon after they were seen fleeing with heavy losses of over 300 and unknown number of injured. The resistance against North Atlantic Terror Organization is still strong, and is slowly intensifying and spreading throughout the country. The Libyan Government has its own plot, as described in Qaddafi's speech when he referred to ZERO HOUR.

Ozyism: NATO militias retreat from North of Bani Walid after coming under attack

Popular committee coordinator in Yatta Rateb al-Jabour said the Israeli demolition orders were issued for "security reasons." Suleiman Salem Suleiman Abu Shkhedem, his brother, Ahmad Salameh Salem Abu Shkhedem, Odeh Hasan Salem Abu Shkhedem and Abdullah Suleiman Azazma all received demolition orders for their homes, al-Jabour said. Five families will be displaced when the orders are carried out, al-Jabour said, adding that they have no where else to go.

Israeli authorities have demolished 387 Palestinian-owned structures in the occupied territories in 2011, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says. Over 95 percent of these demolitions have occurred in Area C, which is under full Israeli civil and security control. Palestinian construction is effectively prohibited in most of Area C. Meanwhile there are 135 illegal Israeli settlements and over 300,000 settlers in Area C, with the settler population growing significantly faster than that of Israel proper, OCHA reported. From 2000 to 2007, the Israeli Civil Administration approved 5 percent of the applications for building permits submitted by Palestinians in Area C.

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Stephen Lendman: Israeli Home Demolition Terrorism
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Stephen Lendman: Occupied Palestine: Home Demolitions, Dispossessions and Residency Rights Revoked

MEMO: Palestinian Bedouins threatened with ethnic cleansing - The Israeli government [is] determined to destroy the indigenous people of the Negev and turn it into an area for Jews only.

PM tells reporters in Jerusalem that Israel does not receive 'fair hearing' at UN, but he has 'decided to tell the truth.' - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he will address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, September 23, the day on which the Palestinians say they will submit their bid for full UN membership. Netanyahu is due to leave for New York next Wednesday, and will attend the annual General Assembly session. Israel had originally intended to dispatch President Shimon Peres to New York for the General Assembly, but was warned by diplomats that this would only give more weight to the Palestinian move.

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History cannot be changed, but the future can be!

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The Jewish Internet Defence Force does not want you to see the following video. BUT...we do! You must not forget the horrors of Sabra and Shatila. You must not forgive the zionists for what they did there 29 years ago today. You must not allow them to make us forget.

If the West was once associated with Athens, it is clearly fixated by Jerusalem now. This is certainly a tragedy, yet not a Greek one. - Earlier today Britain amended its universal jurisdiction law to the extent that Israeli war criminals can now enter the Kingdom without risk of arrest. British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould shamelessly called Israeli war criminal Tzipi Livni, against whom an arrest warrant was issued in 2009, and told her that the Queen has signed the amendment "to ensure that the UK’s justice system can no longer be abused for political reasons." Ignoramus ambassador Gould should know that putting a war criminal behind bars is not a political matter, but an ethical necessity.

Gawker: Moron Student Who Accused Jewish Prof of Anti-Semitism: I Am The Victim Here - You can't make this stuff up. Note she is being supported by B'nai Brith Canada. This mental illness is official Canadian Jewish policy. The widespread lack of connection to reality - seen in many, including the Concentration Camp Guard - explains a lot. We have to stop catering to the collective delusions of a very small group, especially when it is part of a violent, racist, supremacist scheme of killing people and stealing land.

The leader of Denmark's Social Democrats, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, was poised to become the country's first female prime minister after exit polls on Thursday showed her left-leaning coalition winning an absolute majority in parliament.

Danes on Thursday appeared set to vote the centre-left into power after a decade in opposition, ushering in the country's first woman prime minister, according to two early exit polls published before voting ended.

One exit poll of 5,000 voters, published by public broadcaster TV2 two hours before polls close at 8:00 pm (1800 GMT), showed the left-leaning opposition headed by Helle Thorning-Schmidt, 44, winning an absolute majority with 93 of the 179 seats in parliament. Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen's centre-right government and parliamentary supporters meanwhile garnered 86 seats, according to the poll. Another exit poll by public broadcaster DR gave the opposition 51.2 percent of the vote against 48.8 percent for the ruling centre-right.

Thorning-Schmidt, the daughter-in-law of British Labour politician Neil Kinnock, is thus set to become Denmark's first woman prime minister. During the campaign, she has vowed to shore up Denmark's welfare state and stimulate its slumping economy with spending, in contrast to the austerity measures proposed by Rasmussen, 47. The expected defeat by the coalition government, made up of Rasmussen's Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, will end the powerful influence wielded by its key parliamentary ally, the populist, anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DPP).

Praying in the streets of Paris is against the law starting Friday, after the interior minister warned that police will use force if Muslims, and those of any other faith, disobey the new rule to keep the French capital's public spaces secular. - Claude Guéant said that ban could later be extended to the rest of France, in particular to the Mediterranean cities of Nice and Marseilles, where "the problem persists". He promised the new legislation would be followed to the letter as it "hurts the sensitivities of many of our fellow citizens". "My vigilance will be unflinching for the law to be applied. Praying in the street is not dignified for religious practice and violates "the [so-called] principles of secularism," the minister told Le Figaro newspaper.

ITALIAN newspapers claim Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi referred to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel as an "unfuckable lard-arse" in a telephone conversation with a newspaper editor. - The alleged insult, reported in the Independent, was secretly recorded during an investigation into an alleged blackmail plot against Berlusconi. The editor, Valter Lavitola, is alleged to have been involved in procuring prostitutes for Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties. Previous revelations from the wiretap transcripts have been used to suggest Berlusconi has not been devoting his full attention to sorting out Italy's sovereign debt crisis. But the latest allegation, if true, would mean that Italy's premier has been caught out insulting the leader of the country which ultimately has the power to bail out his government...

[Editor's Comment:] Not true. Debt-laden Germany cannot afford to do so. European economy is Fucked Up Beyond All Repair. Instead, the "lard-arse" will solve the generated crisis by quietly introducing a fascist federal dictatorship in Europe. Berlusconi will be happy with that as long as they'll let him continue holding his 'bunga bunga' parties. As for the rest of us, the future hardly bears thinking about...

The Dutch state is responsible for executions committed by colonial troops at an Indonesian village in 1947 and relatives of victims should be compensated, a Dutch court ruled Wednesday. - "This court finds that the (Dutch) state acted wrongly through these executions and that the state is liable to pay damages in terms of the law," judge Daphne Schreuder said in The Hague. Eight widows and one survivor from the town of Rawagedeh east of Jakarta took the Dutch state to court in 2008 to claim compensation for the execution of men and boys on December 9, 1947 by Dutch colonial troops.