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Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
Yahoo: "Rabbi Avraham Levine never imagined that years after immigrating from Russia to Israel he would fall victim to a brutal anti-Semitic attack in the heart of the Jewish state.
But less than three months ago, he was beaten up by teenage skinheads as he walked home in the city of Petah Tikva on Tel Aviv's outskirts.
'They jumped on me, beat me and cursed my mother in Russian, then they returned with sticks and beat me up. My arm was broken but only God saved my life,' said Levine, 38, who arrived in Israel from Russia in 1995.
The number of incidents with a neo-Nazi, fascist or anti-Semitic streak has increased dramatically over the past 15 years in the Jewish state, which prides itself of being a safe haven for Jews from all over the world, according to the Dmir Centre, which monitors and assists victims of such attacks."
10:43:51 AM 
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UN: "Large-scale indiscriminate killings and targeted assassinations continue to impede efforts to bring lasting stability and security to Iraq, according to the latest United Nations human rights report released today on the strife-torn country, where causalities continue to climb despite recent efforts to stem in the bloodshed."
10:39:09 AM
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DeepBladeJournal: "It must be nice for the US Air Force to have for its public relations campaigns a listener-supported national radio outlet and a staff of fawning reporters to do its work. That's the role Mary Louise Kelly of NPR took on Friday for the Air Force as she reported on the latest version of its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a killing machine known as the Reaper.
The old version, called Predator was used to assassinate people who insufferable NPR host Robert Siegel called 'suspected terrorists' in his introduction. The Reaper is a bigger, stronger version Siegel reports with a relatively cheerful inflection, almost a chortle. Hey, wow, 'twice as fast as the Predator, and can carry far more ordnance - 14 Hellfire missiles as opposed to two'.
Shouldn't the tenor of all this talk about sending Reapers to kill while controlled from a lab half a world away at least be grimly appropriate? Not on NPR, where the copy flows like brochures at an armaments industry trade show."
What will the US be remembered as, a century from now? As a killing machine.
10:36:31 AM
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AlterNet: "Karl Rove is under investigation by the executive branch. So, too, is his investigator.
In February, The Washington Post reported Bloch himself was under investigation:
The Office of Personnel Management's inspector general has been investigating allegations by current and former OSC employees that Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch retaliated against underlings who disagreed with his policies - by, among other means, transferring them out of state - and tossed out legitimate whistle-blower cases to reduce the office backlog. Bloch denies the accusations, saying that under his leadership the agency has grown more efficient and receptive to whistle-blowers.
It is a dizzying situation. The investigator investigating officials who oversee the agency that is investigating the investigator."
All criminal administrations try to oust all their opponents and replace them with their yesmen. As they are breaking the law, the only way not to be brought to justice is to replace the judges, lawyers and executives with thugs.
10:29:42 AM
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