A US Marine Corps veteran and author asserts that Israel masterminded the 9/11 attacks, saying if Americans were informed of this, they would exterminate the Zionist regime.

“I have had long conversations over the past two weeks with contacts at the Army War College, at the Headquarters Marine Corps, and I have made it absolutely clear in both cases that it is 100 percent certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation. Period,” Alan Sabrosky, writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs, said in a clip appearing on the public video-sharing website You Tube. Sabrosky said his colleagues who are still serving in uniform initially react with incredulity to his assertions but upon his explanations regarding the controlled demolition of the buildings their disbelief gives way to rage. “First is disbelief, and what I show them immediately afterwards is an interview with a Danish demolitions expert named Danny Jowenko, and it shows the third building at the World Trade Center going down - WTC7.” “The thing that's necessary is to tell people: three buildings went down; the third was not hit by a plane, it was wired for controlled demolition, therefore, all of them were wired for controlled demolition. And at that point the reaction is rage. First disbelief, and then rage,” he added. Sabrosky said if the Americans were apprised of the truth behind the attacks, they would not hesitate to eliminate Israel without any consideration for the costs involved.

Technology is designed to increase flying time 'from days to months', along with power available for weapons systems. - American scientists have drawn up plans for a new generation of nuclear-powered drones capable of flying over remote regions of the world for months on end without refuelling. The blueprints for the new drones, which have been developed by Sandia National Laboratories – the US government's principal nuclear research and development agency – and defence contractor Northrop Grumman, were designed to increase flying time "from days to months" while making more power available for operating equipment, according to a project summary published by Sandia. "It's pretty terrifying prospect," said Chris Coles of Drone Wars UK, which campaigns against the increasing use of drones for both military and civilian purposes. "Drones are much less safe than other aircraft and tend to crash a lot. There is a major push by this industry to increase the use of drones and both the public and government are struggling to keep up with the implications."

The quickening pace of the Obama administration’s drone war in Yemen is causing U.S. officials to lump together the country’s many factions in a trend that further weakens their legal justification for extra-judicial assassinations. - The drone war has escalated dramatically since the Obama administration helped broker a political transition bringing the former puppet dictator’s deputy, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, to power. Hadi is reportedly more willing to approve U.S. airstrikes than his predecessor and he continues to receive significant aid in return. “As the pace quickens and the targets expand,” the Los Angeles Times reports, “the distinction may be blurring between operations targeting militants who want to attack Americans and those aimed at fighters seeking to overthrow the Yemeni government.”

Russian fire crews have tackled a spectacular fire that engulfed the top of a Moscow skyscraper still under construction. Helicopters helped douse the flames which broke out more than 60 floors up on the Federation Tower complex. The fire - visible across the city - was brought under control after about four hours, Russian media said. The cause is not yet clear. Babita Sharma reports.

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In this clip Gilad Atzmon deconstructs Ali Abunimah's attitude towards history and culture. Atzmon Argues that if Israel defines itself as The Jewish State and its tanks are decorated with Jewish symbols we must ask ourselves who are the Jews? What is Judaism and what is Jewishness? Atzmon attempts to identify the impact of Jewish culture on Israeli and Jewish politics. Atzmon believes that such an attitude is necessary in order to bring peace to the region and beyond.

For Atzmon's speech follow [ http://youtu.be/MlvaN2c-Oto ]. Abunimah doesn't agree at all. Abunimah suggests here that history and politics are totally detached from culture. This is obviously an unusual stand that counters every intellectual and philosophical understanding of humanity, history, politics as well as culture. Abunimah says "Talking about Jewish culture, is wrong because such arguments can be made about anyone. We could blame German culture for the history of Germany..."

Someone should take the time and effort and suggest to Abunimah that this is exactly what intellectuals do. They search for the origin of political thoughts in culture, ideology, religion and heritage. Those who study the Nazi era, for instance, try to comprehend the exact impact of Wagner, the German Symphony, Protestant culture, German philosophy, Martin Luther's The Jews And Their Lies, Hegel and the German Spirit, German Early Romanticism, Lebensphilosophie, Heine, Athens vs. Jerusalem and so on.

Breyer: Decision would legitimize searches conducted to harass or humiliate people for their political views - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that those arrested for even minor violations may be strip-searched before being admitted to jail, saying safety concerns outweigh personal privacy rights. The court's conservatives ruled against a New Jersey man who was strip-searched after being mistakenly arrested on an outstanding warrant. The Supreme Court's 5 to 4 decision continued a trend that began after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks of giving jailers more leeway in searching those picked up even for the most minor offenses, such as expired licenses or noisy mufflers.

Barry Grey: US Supreme Court sanctions strip searches even for minor infractions

UK taxpayers will have to pay billions of dollars to have their web surfing, email exchange, text messaging, and even Skype calls, monitored. In addition to the hefty price-tag, innocent Brits risk being misidentified as terrorists. - The shocking data comes ahead of the plan announcement in the Queen's speech, which is scheduled for May. Meanwhile, the Home Office, Britain’s interior ministry, said ministers were preparing to legislate "as soon as parliamentary time allows". More than $3 billion over the first decade alone is the extraordinary sum the British taxpayer will have to pay to be legally spied upon, reports the Daily Mail. In addition, annual running costs of roughly $320 million – $610 a minute – to store the data gathered from private communication. Moreover, the above figures are based on 2009 estimates, which means the actual price, if it were estimated now, would be higher still.

Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (22 – 28 March 2012):

Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF wounded 3 Palestinian civilians and arrested them during an incursion into Rammoun village, northeast of Ramallah. A child was also wounded by the explosion of a mysterious object near Nablus. ■ During the reporting period, IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to Israeli settlement activities and the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank. As a result, a Palestinian civilian was wounded, and dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation. ■ Additionally, a Palestinian civilian was wounded by Israeli settlers who attacked Palestinian shepherds near Ramallah. Incursions: During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 65 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, during which they arrested 19 Palestinian civilians, including a child, two women and a patient. ■ In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted one limited incursion into the central Gaza Strip. Restrictions on Movement: Israel had continued to impose a tightened siege on the OPT and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem. ■ The illegal Israeli-imposed closure of the Gaza Strip, which has steadily tightened since June 2007, has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip. The illegal closure has caused not only a humanitarian crisis but a crisis of human rights and human dignity for the population of the Gaza Strip. Measures declared recently to ease the blockade are vague, purely cosmetic and fail to deal with the root causes of the crisis, which can only be addressed by an immediate and complete lifting of the closure, including lifting the travel ban into and out of the Gaza Strip and the ban on exports. Palestinians in Gaza may no longer suffer from the same shortage of goods, but they will remain economically dependent and unable to care for themselves, and socially, culturally and academically isolated from the rest of the world. ■ IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians throughout the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem. Thousands of Palestinian civilians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip continue to be denied access to Jerusalem.

PressTV: Israel ruins four Palestinian homes in West Bank
PIC: IOF soldiers raze Palestinian home, power network in Beit Jala

Salim Abu al-Qi’an’s family live in Israel’s Negev desert in the “unrecognized” Bedouin village of Umm al-Hieran, 9km from the nearest source of clean water.

“There is no water in the village. We truck it in. It costs about 50 shekels [US$13.4] per cubic metre of water,” explained the 53-year-old village leader. “There is a pipe that’s about 8km long, but it’s too old, and the planning authorities don’t allow us to put a new one under the ground. We are asking for better access to water, a new pipe that should be close to the village.”

The Israeli authorities forced Umm al-Hieran residents to move to the area where the village now sits in 1956, shortly after the military had evicted them from their original homes in the Wadi Zuballa area of the Negev desert. In 2004, the villagers faced a new threat of expulsion, as the Southern District Planning Committee unveiled a master plan which involves once again displacing Umm al-Hieran, and building the Jewish community of Hiran in its place. According to the Israeli government, the 500 residents of Umm al-Hieran are trespassers who are illegally squatting on state land. Some 80-90,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel live in unrecognized villages in the southern Negev, according to a report by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. As a result of their unrecognized status, nearly every structure in these communities can be demolished at any time, and residents do not receive basic services from the state, including electricity, paved roads, healthcare facilities, schools, and water.

The Israeli policy of administrative detention must end, says a female Palestinian prisoner recently released from an Israeli jail in the occupied West Bank, Press TV reports.

Hana Shalabi told Press TV on Tuesday the policy of administrative detention exercised by the Tel Aviv regime against Palestinian prisoners must end. The released Palestinian prisoner also called on the international community to support inmates who are on hunger strike in Israeli jails.

The Tel Aviv regime released Shalabi on April 1, weeks after she was re-arrested at her West Bank home. The female Palestinian prisoner went on a hunger strike after she was re-arrested without charge on February 16. The freed prisoner is currently under treatment in Gaza City. Shalabi, who is from the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, had been under “administrative detention,” according to her lawyers. She is one of the Palestinian inmates that were freed from Israeli jails in October and December 2011 under a deal mediated by Egypt to free 1,027 Palestinian inmates in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Suspect in custody after shooting at a private Christian university in California with at least seven reported dead. - Seven people have been killed and at least three more injured in a shooting at a private university in Oakland, California. Police said a suspect had been detained after the attack, which happened just after 10.30am local time on Monday at Oikos University. He was named as One Goh, 43, and described as a former student at the college. Local media reports said the incident began when a man opened fire at Oikos, a Korean religious college offering studies in theology, music, nursing, and Asian medicine. Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said a gunman entered the college and fired multiple shots. "I can confirm that we do have one person who has been detained that we believe is possibly responsible for this shooting," Watson said. Emergency crews treated some of the wounded at the scene, while others were taken away by ambulances. Pictures showed at least four of the dead had been covered with tarps on an area of grass near the building.

Russia Today: Oakland shooter was teased, kicked out of college and in debt

kenny's sideshow: Day of Insanity - A sick SOB enters the campus and kills 7. Cops may have caught the shooter but it's after the fact. The victims in the shooting gallery were unarmed and helpless. Meanwhile across town, the feds, also being the sick SOB's that they are, raided Oaksterdam University, California's first cannabis industry training school. The victims in this were also unarmed and helpless. No casualties except for the Constitution and some green plant material.

The problem with the latest government attempts at snooping is that they are not concerned with the content of messages, but their existence. If you have found some suspected criminals or terrorists, then you will want to know who their friends are: the people they email or message most frequently. Each of these people can probably be identified by their internet protocol (IP) address: the number assigned by their ISP (internet service provider). Even an encrypted email will usually include the addresses of the sender and the recipient in its headers.