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Sunday, August 6, 2006 |
At least 100,000 marched against the US-Israeli aggression.
More here.
BlairWatch: "After the Israeli strike north of Beirut, BBC showed some interviews with Maronite Christians, who were all saying the same thing: 'We must support Hezbollah, they are fighting for Lebanon.'
That is one of the most incredible things I have ever heard. Throughout the civil war, the Christians and Hezbollah were the bitterest of enemies."
3:15:36 PM 
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BBC: "Floyd Landis is set to lose his Tour de France title and faces a two-year ban after returning a positive B sample for excessive levels of testosterone."
When Armstrong won the Tour de France I published a congratulatory post in this blog. I did not do the same for Landis. Why not? Because something did not add up, there was something funny, it was not kosher.
I watched the direct tv transmissions each day. The day right after his big break-down, Landis won a 'heroic' victory in the final mountain stage. In a tour that was already plagued by doping scandals this was highly suspect.
While I watched Landis perform, I thought 'this is a madman, this man wants to win at all costs, even if he drops dead on the finish line'. When he finished that 'heroic' stage, he put up a fist and showed a bitter, thin smile. This was not a 'Hurrah, I won!', but an 'I beat you all, dammit!'.
Later I saw and heard his mum and was horrified at the self-righteousness of that woman. The family had at first rejected their son's cycling aspirations and only after he became successful did they reconcile.
Was it God who wanted Landis to cheat or what?
What I saw was not an honourable victory, but an obsessed man who would go to any length to win. Landis has disgraced himself and ruined the tour.
12:17:09 PM
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An interesting angle on the Lebanon-Israel conflict is this:
Doug's: "The Israeli's plan to push Hezbollah back behind the Litani river (marked in yellow for your convenience on the map) under the pretense of it being for defence. This however is the excuse Israel always uses when it goes for a land grab.
I think in retrospect Israel was just looking for an excuse to invade Lebanon again and once more make a grab for these water resources. It is not the first time!"
"Essentially, control of the Litani has long been a dream of Israel in hopes of establishing a greater Zion from Sinai to ancient Babylon."
Another catastrophe is developing.
Finkelstein: "Along Lebanon's sandy beaches and rocky headlands runs a belt of black sludge, 10,000 to 30,000 tonnes of oil that spilled into the Mediterranean Sea after Israel bombed a power plant."
Guardian: "Israeli aircraft struck deep into Lebanon yesterday, killing at least 33 Syrian Kurdish farm workers and destroying four bridges on a key aid route leading north from Beirut."
A deliberate attempt to provoke Syria?
Finkelstein: "IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) spokespeople are maintaining that Hizbullah had been mounting missile attacks on Israeli territory from Qana in recent days. The IDF has claimed it targeted the three-storey house in Qana at 1.30am local time in the belief it contained a Hizbullah 'asset'.
The type of missiles being fired by Hizbullah at Israeli cities cannot be fired from within houses, mosques, hospitals or even UN facilities as has been suggested by the IDF. Due to the massive 'back-blast' caused by the rocket launchers of these missiles, they can only be fired from open ground. To fire them from within a building would result in the instant death of the missile crew and probable destruction of the missile before launch. Most of the missiles are truck-mounted and are fired - on open ground - from the backs of flat-bedded trucks or larger four-wheel-drive vehicles."
SMH: "I write as a Jew and as a synagogue member. I write as one whose academic work continues to move through questions of Jewish identity and the legacy of the Holocaust. Yet, I write with a growing sense of shame. The source of the feeling is simple: Israel claims that it continues to act in my name.
However what endures for many as an outrage is Israel hijacking the Holocaust for its political ends: the Holocaust is used to sustain a specific geo-political situation."
Fact is that the Israeli government is increasingly becoming guilty of the same crimes the Nazis perpetrated.
Is there an affinity between Zionism and fascism?
11:28:07 AM
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The US Pentagon is using Gestapo methods since 9/11. The Nazis called it Schutzhaft.
Pilot: "A petty officer has been in the Norfolk Naval Station brig for more than four months facing espionage, desertion and other charges, but the Navy has refused to release details of the case.
Weinmann had been serving aboard the submarine Albuquerque until he deserted in July 2005."
10:57:12 AM
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Telegraph: "Tony Blair has fired the opening shots in a new war with Gordon Brown by indicating that he wants to stay in power for 'at least another year', The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
Some Labour MPs believe that he has set his sights on surpassing Margaret Thatcher's 11 1/2-year tenure as prime minister, a record for this or the last century, which he would achieve by staying in office until November 2008."
And, of course, Blair does not trust anyone else in New Labour. He has a right-wing extremist agenda to push. Criminals never give up; truth and justice are only petty obstacles to them. And the people? Screw them! Phony Bliar has several mortgages to pay. First things first.
SW: "Some 100,000 protesters took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand an end to Israel's assault on Lebanon and Gaza - and to express their fury at Tony Blair's refusal to call for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire."
Independent: "The extent of the Labour backbench unrest over Tony Blair's handling of the Middle East crisis is laid bare for the first time today in a petition calling for an immediate ceasefire.
More than 110 Labour MPs, including Paul Clark, the parliamentary private secretary to John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, have signed the petition. That would be enough to wipe out Mr Blair's Commons majority. Mr Blair will not face the immediate threat of a vote because the Commons has risen for the summer recess, but it shows that he has lost the support of almost a third of the Parliamentary Labour Party on the issue."
Après Tony le déluge. Blair is trying to ruin Labour.
10:44:57 AM
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