"Is Israel using illegal weapons in its offensive on Gaza?:
Gazans have noticed that there are bombs that produce mushroom clouds in various shades of red. Here, Garlasco admits, 'I can only speculate. It looks like Israel is maybe using a new weapon that it was not using before: DIME - the dense inert metal explosive, consisting of 25 percent TNT and 75 percent tungsten, a heavy metal. You mix the two, in a fine grain, like pepper, and when the bomb hits the ground it aerosolizes. In less than a second, the mist dissipates and explodes."
He says the advantage of DIME is that 'it strikes a very small area, 10 to 20 meters, and the fire it ignites burns out very quickly; if it hits us now, we will die, but no one around us will be hurt. The problem is that when you are killed - you are ripped to shreds and there is nothing left.' Indeed, the injuries DIME causes are in general more severe than those caused by a 'regular' bomb."
ABCNet: "Desperate patients tried to flee a hospital in Gaza City this morning as it became engulfed in flames after being earlier set on fire by an Israeli tank shell, medics and witnesses said."
Since Nazism this is the atrocity that comes closest to it. It is simply and plainly ethnic cleansing, targeting civilians so they either die right away or get cancer from phosphor bombs or DIME. The Israeli government is paying tribute to the organizers of the holocaust. Shame on them!
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AlterNet: "President Obama, on his first day in office, can make a number of changes that will mark a clean break with the Bush presidency. He can, and should, issue an executive order revoking any prior order that permits detainee mistreatment by any government agency. He should begin the process of closing Guantánamo, and he should submit to Congress a bill to end the use of military commissions, at least as presently constituted. Over the coming months he can pursue other reforms to restore respect for the Constitution, such as revising the Patriot Act, abolishing secret prisons and 'extraordinary rendition', and ending practices, like signing statements, that seek to undo laws."
PrisonPlanet: "A group calling itself Arrest Bush 2009 has announced its intention to hold a 'Yes We Can Arrest Bush' event in front of the FBI Building in Washington, DC during the Inaugural Parade."
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