World-News

1 in 10 Soldiers Report Mental Health Problems.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/10-soldiers-fought-iraq-mentally-ill/story?id=10850315


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Highest Percentage On Record

By JEANNINE AVERSA

The proportion of people jobless for six months or more has accelerated in the past year and now makes up 46 percent of the unemployed. That's the highest percentage on records dating to 1948. By late summer or early fall, they are expected to make up half of all jobless Americans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25662.htm



US jobless claims in surprise rise

New claims for jobless insurance benefits in the United States rose unexpectedly for the second straight week, the government said Thursday on concerns unemployment may derail the "economic recovery".

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_jobless_claims_in_surprise_rise_06172010.html


From Information Clearing House

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Congress Takes Long Weekend, Lets Jobless Benefits Hang

David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers: "Congress headed home Thursday for a four-day break, after failing again to extend jobless benefits for an estimated 325,000 people, fund summer jobs for at-risk youths or help newly laid-off people pay for health care."

http://www.truth-out.org/congress-takes-long-weekend-lets-jobless-benefits-hang60348



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FreedomWorks
by Matthew Clemente

06/08/10

These ’spend now/pay later’ policies have left America with an estimated $1.5 trillion deficit for 2009. That means that the federal government is spending $12,664 more per American household than it actually has. Deficits normally rise during times of recession but typically they return to their pre-recession range once the economy has recovered. However, instead of dropping back down to the $100 billion to $400 billion range that America saw before the recession, President Obama’s budget shows annual budget deficits averaging close to $1 trillion for the 10 years...

http://tinyurl.com/28hhfqf



The deceptive debt ratio

TCS Daily
by Erik Voorhees

06/08/10

The United States has a growing debt problem. It also has a problem measuring the same. The statistic normally used is the ‘Debt to GDP’ ratio, referring to the amount of debt versus the nation’s sum total of transactions. As of Q1 2010, the US debt to GDP ratio was 87%. However, the Debt to GDP ratio should be ignored, because it is meaningless. It is worse than meaningless, because it disguises the true problem and lulls us into a false sense of solvency...

http://tinyurl.com/2eswlhz



The US is not too big to fail

The New Republic
by William Galston

06/09/10

As several recent surveys make clear, concern about deficits and debt is rising sharply. An NBC/Wall Street Journal survey conducted in early May showed that the share of individuals rating ‘the deficit and government spending’ as the top priority for the federal government to address has jumped since January from 13 to 20 percent — second only to job creation and economic growth. According to Gallup, ‘federal government debt’ now ties with terrorism for the top spot in perceived threats to our future well-being. It is entirely possible that we are reaching an inflection point in public attitudes that will force the political system to change course...

http://www.tnr.com/blog/william-galston/75390/the-us-not-too-big-fail


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Warning From Noam Chomsky on the Threat of Elites

By Fred Branfman

What is it like, I found myself thinking, to know more than any other human being on Earth about the state-sponsored lies to which Americans are so constantly subjected? What is it like to so feel in your bones, hour after hour, day after day, the pain of millions of "unpeople" suffering hunger, poverty and death caused by U.S. elites who today also threaten both their own nation and all humanity?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25663.htm



U.S.'s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP: Chart of Day

"President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation's annual economic output "That will be a big burden on the government and the people."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aa0cI64Gx.4E&pos=15



Senate weakens bid to tax Wall Street like rest of us

Senate Democrats Tuesday weakened efforts to end a controversial Wall Street tax break, watering down a bid to raise taxes on managers of hedge funds, private-equity funds, venture capital firms and other business partnerships.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/08/1670084/senate-weakens-bid-to-tax-wall.html



Banking System Collapse: Wake Up America Your Banks Are Dying

U.S. banks are being shut down by federal regulators at a staggering pace this year, and yet most Americans seem completely oblivious to it.

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/banking-system-collapse-wake-up-america-your-banks-are-dying



The Housing Non-Recovery

Fourteen percent of America's 56 million mortgages are already delinquent or in foreclosure. That means that 7.8 million people right now are not paying their mortgages. 7.8 million homeowners have been delinquent for 30, 60 or 90 days...or are in foreclosure already. 91% of the people who are currently not paying are never going to get back to current, according to recent statistics.

http://dailyreckoning.com/the-housing-non-recovery



Home builders won't lift the economy this time

Fewer homes mean fewer jobs. Construction fuels a broad swath of industries across the economy. Yet double-digit unemployment is among the main reasons people have passed on buying new homes. Even with near-record-low mortgage rates, the industry is struggling.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37725749/ns/business-real_estate/



More Poverty By Any Measure

By Christine Vestal

More than 15 million Americans are unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities, and 38 million people are receiving food stamps, more than at any time in the program's almost 50-year history.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25924.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Growing movement of superrich planning to become new posthuman species
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9731/

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Legendary Secret Societies
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/legendary-secret-societies.html

The US Power Elite, JFK, and the War on Vietnam
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/pfaff1.1.1.html



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Intellectual Conservative
by Ron Lipsman

06/08/10

It is beyond any doubt that our current system would be recognized by our Founding Fathers to be as tyrannical as the one they revolted against...

http://tinyurl.com/2f9ojal


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Christian Science Monitor
by John Hughes

06/08/10

When President Bush clambered up on a pile of rubble after 9/11, seized a bullhorn, put his arm around a firefighter, and rallied the nation, it was a crowning moment of his presidency. When he ill-advisedly flew over the Katrina disaster of 2005 and appeared disconnected with the agony of New Orleans, it was, in the view of many historians, the beginning of his presidency’s decline. President Obama’s handling of the Gulf oil disaster could be a similar turning point. Despite his uneasy press conference and statements proclaiming he is in charge, despite visits to the scene to talk with officials rather than distraught commercial fishermen, his demeanor has come across as clinical rather than inspirational. Even such well-wishers as Louisiana Democratic guru James Carville and former presidential adviser David Gergen have wrung their hands over his seeming disconnectedness...

http://tinyurl.com/28rg9hl



Tapping the well of freedom

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Iain Murray

When the Deepwater Horizon first started gushing oil, many considered the incident an example of private enterprise having no regard for the environment. However, it is becoming clear that government was involved from the start, is in charge now (as President Obama himself tells us), and cannot do much about the problem. So is there any way to address this?

http://cei.org/articles/2010/06/07/tapping-well-freedom



How’s all that progressive regulatory stuff workin’ out
for ya?

Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

06/08/10

Total damages from a spill like Deepwater Horizon, if not enough to liquidate all the assets of a company like BP, would probably eat up enough of their ongoing revenue stream for many years to amount to a corporate death sentence. The resulting market pressures to maintain robust liability insurance would be intense, and the economic incentives for insurers to impose effective safety regimes would be overwhelming. But look at the other side of the scale. How’s the much-vaunted regulatory state actually been performing? BP management deliberately skimped on safety measures, neglected maintenance on multiple levels of failsafe mechanisms because they cut into profits, and slept (and snorted crystal meth) with government inspectors...

http://c4ss.org/content/2826


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Devastation As Toxic Filth Spreads

You Can Smell The Oil From A Helicopter And Birds Are Frying!

By MSNBC

Video Report
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25661.htm



Is Obama BP's Poodle?

By Shamus Cooke

In a sane world, BP's executives would be facing severe criminal charges, and the billions of profits they've earned in the last year would be confiscated to pay for the cleanup.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25668.htm



Has the Oil Spill Created a 'Doomsday Effect' for the Gulf?

By Keith Olbermann

Oil and gas expert Robert Cavnar talks about the possibility of an "underground blowout" occurring beneath the ocean as a result of the oil spill.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25670.htm



Talk of Second Oil Spill in Gulf Grows Louder

Fueled by several reports that the Ocean Saratoga rig, operated by Diamond Offshore, is leaking into the Gulf.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/37575052



Two More Gulf Spills?

Satillite images and photographs from the region indicate that there may be two other offshore drilling units leaking oil into the ocean.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/06/two-more-gulf-spills/57847/



Another Senate Charade

By Matt Taibbi

This is a classic example of how the Senate works. If the public understood better how rigged this game is, and how few issues are actually left to an honest vote in the legislature, I'm pretty sure the pitchfork factor would be twice even what it is now.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25980.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Grotesque errors mar BP's 'spill plan'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9715/

BP & US blocking reporters from covering Gulf Disaster
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9718/

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Live Coverage from BP's Oil Volcano
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/05/27-1

Missing the Real Drama of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/09-6

Hands Across the Sand: Americans to Join Hands in Largest Gathering Against Offshore Oil Drilling in History

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/09-5

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Amendment Would Repeal Big Oil Tax Breaks
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/09-2

Greenpeace Energy Blueprint Shows How Existing Alternatives to Fossil Fuels Will Revolutionize a Broken Energy Economy
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/09-12

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The BP Disaster Marks the End of the Age of Arrogance About the Environment ... Can We Change?

Chip Ward, AlterNet: "We dreamed we were living in a fabulous mansion but are waking up in a greasy gutter. The ecological and economic catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico makes our most infamous oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, look miniscule by comparison. This time we have fouled our nest on an epic scale."

http://www.truthout.org/the-bp-disaster-marks-end-age-arrogance-about-environment-can-we-change60304



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Cato Institute
by Tad DeHaven

06/07/10

In 2000, the federal government spent $1.8 trillion while debt held by the public stood at $3.4 trillion. A mere decade later, the federal government is on pace to spend $3.7 trillion while publicly held debt is approaching $10 trillion [sic]. There’s no blame game left to be played. President George W. Bush left office having presided over one of the largest expansions of federal spending in history. President Barack Obama appears intent on pulling off the amazing feat of making Bush look like a relative tightwad. And Congress has become so addicted to spending that the new Capitol Visitor Center — itself a $600 million fiscal boondoggle — might need to be converted into a giant methadone clinic. So what hope do taxpayers have left?

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11878


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Report

Foreclosed property held by U.S. banks increased 12.5 percent to $41.5 billion during the first quarter of this year, according to a recent analysis by SNL Financial, a financial market research firm out of Charlottesville, Virginia.

http://tinyurl.com/29w4sz7


From Information Clearing House



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Vast underwater concentrations of oil sprawling for miles in the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged, crude-belching BP PLC well are unprecedented in "human history" and threaten to wreak havoc on marine life, a team of scientists said today, a finding confirmed for the first time by federal officials.

http://tinyurl.com/2cslbm4



Subsea oil plumes found 142 miles from rig:

Clouds of oil have been found drifting underwater in the Gulf of Mexico as far as 142 miles from the wrecked Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, government officials said Tuesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37572167/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/



Video: Oil as thick as pancake batter reaches shore

Kerry Sanders reports from the coast of Louisiana, where thick oil is washing up near East Grand Terre Island.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/37572694#37572694



US Adm Thad Allen says oil clean-up 'will take years'

Adm Thad Allen said oil giant BP needed to do better at getting money to people and businesses affected by the spill.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10258612.stm



The oil firms' profits ignore the real costs

The energy industry has long dumped its damage and, like the banks, made scant provision against disaster. Time to pay up.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jun/07/bp-oil-profits-future-disaster



Obama to Reopen Oil Drilling

New Rules on Shallow-Water Exploration Expected as Economic Woes Mount.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703303904575292210472764880.html



BP: 500,000 pounds of emissions released

At BP's Texas City refinery, more than 400 pounds a day of benzene - 40 times the state reportable levels - was released during a 40-day period.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=98cf5a2c858437b5


From Information Clearing House

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Activists Call for 'Public Outcry' over Oil Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/08-4

Years of Internal BP Probes Warned That Neglect Could Lead to Accidents

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/08

Oil Plumes, Gulf's Unseen Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/08-0

Apocalypse in the Gulf Now (Oil) & Next (Nukes)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/08-5

One Hundred Years of Oil
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/08-10

The Price of the Pelican
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/08-0

Center for Biological Diversity: Salazar Declares Shallow Water Drilling “Safe,” Lifts Drilling Injunction, Conceals Shallow Water Oil Spill Currently Fouling Gulf

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/08-13

Food & Water Watch: US Should Follow UK’s Lead to Increase Oversight of Offshore Oil Operations
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/08-8

Earthjustice: Murkowski and Allies Clamor to Protect Big Oil in Face of Gulf Crisis

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/08-6

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Prediction: Spill’s damage could persist for decades

Washington Post

06/08/10

Snorkeling along a coral reef near Veracruz, Mexico, in 2002, Texas biologist Wes Tunnell spotted what looked like a ledge of rock covered in sand, shells, algae, and hermit crabs. He knew, from years of research at the reef, that it probably wasn’t a rock at all. He stabbed it with his diving knife. His blade pulled up gunk. ‘Sure enough, it was tar from the Ixtoc spill,’ Tunnell said. Twenty-three years earlier, in 1979, an oil well named Ixtoc I had a blowout in 150 feet of water in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The Mexican national oil company Pemex tried to kill the well with drilling mud, and then with steel and lead balls dropped into the well bore. It tried to contain the oil with a cap nicknamed the Sombrero. Finally, after 290 days, a relief well plugged the hole with cement and the spill came to an end — but only after polluting the Gulf with 138 million gallons of crude...

http://tinyurl.com/2b3jk49


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Attorney: Deepwater Horizon Managers Knew About Oil Rig Problem Before Explosion

"The rig's on fire! I told you this was gonna happen"

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Top Houston attorney Tony Buzbee says he has new evidence which indicates that Deepwater Horizon’s managers knew that the BP oil rig had major problems before its explosion on April 20, citing the eyewitness account of a crew member who rescued burning workers on the rig of a conversation between Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell and someone in Houston. According to the witness, Harrell was screaming, “Are you f... happy? Are you f... happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”

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In a 27-page report, "Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the 'Enhanced' Interrogation Program" (available here), the organization Physicians for Human Rights has brought into sharp focus the role played by US medical personnel in torture and human experimentation.

http://tinyurl.com/359ulez



Shocking New Report: The CIA Performed Human Experiments on Prisoners Under Bush

By Stephen Soldz

Over the last year there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting that, along with the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" torture program, there was a related program experimenting with and researching the application of the torture.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25664.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Global Index Finds World has Become Less Peaceful
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/08-2

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Retired General: "We Have to Accept the Fact That We Did Torture People"

Video

Laura Flanders, GRITtv: "Torture is still happening, says Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez of black sites around the world that the Obama administration has yet to close down. Sanchez was the highest-ranking Latino in the U.S. Army when he retired in 2006, after having been commander of ground forces in Iraq during a critical period of the war - and during the period when abuses at Abu Ghraib occurred. Since his retirement, he has called for a truth commission to investigate torture, and, he says, 'Americans need to face up to' what happened there."

http://www.truthout.org/retired-general-we-have-accept-fact-that-we-did-torture-people-video60283

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Doctors seek probe of alleged torture experiments

MSNBC

Several civil liberties groups are demanding the White House investigate whether doctors conducted medical experiments on terror detainees during harsh interrogations led by the CIA under the Bush administration. Physicians for Human Rights filed a legal complaint Wednesday with the Health and Human Services Department. The group was joined by other non-government organizations, including Amnesty International USA...

http://tinyurl.com/38jse8k



Did Bush and Co. do medical research on detainees?

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

06/21/10

As time goes by, the record of the Bush administration gets worse and worse. It could turn out that the most egregious offense of the Bush-esque Obama administration will be that its Justice Department let Bush-Cheney & Co. off scot-free. It’s not enough that the last gang to occupy the Executive Branch got us into two illegal wars, accumulated autocratic powers, violated our civil liberties, and tortured suspects. Now it appears that it kicked things up a notch...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1006f.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Advance New York Law to Stop Doctors from Participating in
Torture & Body

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/383/t/4084/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1181681

http://whenhealersharm.org/pass-ny-anti-torture-bill/


Informant: Mr. Korea



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Turkey president: Israel will suffer consequences for Gaza flotilla 'mistake'

Abdullah Gul: 21 of 22 nations at regional summit condemn Israel over deaths of Turkish activists aboard Gaza aid ship last week.

http://tinyurl.com/2g6n7sz



Photos show Mavi Marmara passengers protecting, aiding Israeli soldiers

Captured, disarmed hijackers did not face "lynching" as Israel claimed.

http://aliabunimah.posterous.com/blog-post-israel-hasbara-fails-again-pics-sho



Images of Victims after the Israeli Attack on the Turkish Gaza Aid Ship

Published for the First Time
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/video030610.html


We Bought The Bullets

The bullets used to kill 19-year-old Furkan Dogan, a Turkish-American college student born in Troy, New York, were fired by soldiers in a foreign army -- but they were paid for with money extorted from U.S. taxpayers.

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2010/06/we-bought-bullets.html



Buys Congress

Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2010 Congressional Candidates.
http://tinyurl.com/32acnhl



Turkey-US ties face 'breaking point' over vote

The turbulent relationship between the US and Turkey - allies for more than half a century - is about to reach a decisive moment when the United Nations Security Council votes on whether to tighten sanctions on Iran.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b156578e-731d-11df-ae73-00144feabdc0.html



U.S. accused of Iran 'siege'

An Azerbaijan politician claims the United States plans to deploy forces in Armenia near the Iranian border under cover of U.N. peacekeeping force.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/06/07/US-accused-of-Iran-seige/UPI-33931275959010/



Where is the American Freedom Flotilla?

By Dr. Sama Adnan

Reacting to the complicity of their governments, the European Freedom Flotilla took the initiative to shed light on Israel's policies in the occupied territories. The American peace movement should emulate their success by setting its Freedom Flotilla a-sail.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25665.htm



Video

Israeli soldiers killing Furkan Dogan 19 years.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25672.htm



Uzi Dayan: Israel Must Announce Turkish Warships Casus Beli

By JPost

Israel must send Turkey a clear message that if Turkish warships are sent to accompany the next flotilla trying to break the embargo on Gaza, these will be considered acts of war by Israel , Uzi Dayan, former deputy Chief of General Staff, told Army Radio Monday morning.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25676.htm



Shocking Testimonials from the Mavi Marmara survivors. And one Israeli fembot

by Lauren Booth

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/shocking-testimonials-from-the-mavi-marmara-survivors-and-on.html



'Arrest me, I'm a terrorist'

Responding to US Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) call for the arrest and prosecution of "any US citizens who were aboard or involved with the Freedom Flotilla," several American activists "turned themselves in" Thursday - at Sherman's office.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=291339



Jonathan Turley: Hoax

Video Showing Heavy Weapons Discovered on Mavi Marmara is a Fraud.
http://tinyurl.com/39c5v53



Gaza Blockade Illegal: International Committee of the Red Cross

By Al-Jazeera

In a statement released on Monday, the organisation called the blockade "collective punishment", a crime under international law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25708.htm



Turkey: We'll review Israel ties unless international Gaza flotilla probe held

Abbas echoes Turkey remarks that investigation falls short of UN demands, reiterates call to lift Gaza siege.

http://tinyurl.com/2fhhqad



Bloody Sunday, Bloody Monday

By David Halpin FRCS

Crime requires investigation, indictment and trial. The Turkish government have jurisdiction in this massacre. But Israel demands that the inquiry is kept in its safe hands.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25729.htm



Phantom Iranian Ship sails for Gaza

By Mike Whitney

Why are members of the western media saying that an Iranian ship is on its way to Gaza? Is it just an innocent mistake or is there something more sinister involved?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25728.htm



End the siege of Gaza now, EU says

At a meeting on Monday, the European Union Foreign Affairs Committee issued a statement saying, "The continued policy of closure is unacceptable and politically counterproductive".

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=130456&sectionid=351020202



UN calls for Israel to change policy in Gaza Strip

'The situation in Gaza is unsustainable and the current policy is unacceptable and counter-productive, and requires a different, more positive strategy,' Serry said during a UN Security Council session on the Middle East.

http://tinyurl.com/27lsydc



UN seeks international Gaza flotilla probe, despite internal Israeli (whitewash) inquiry

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is moving forward with plans to form an internationally sanctioned investigative forum to probe the deadly events.

http://tinyurl.com/24yyd6p



Amnesty International Criticizes the Israel Gaza Commission over Transparency and Accountability

"The Commission looks to be neither independent nor sufficiently transparent, the two international observers may be denied access to crucial information, and the Commission's findings may not be used in future prosecutions."

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/israel-gaza-commission-criticized-over-transparency-and-accountability-2010-06-15



Partner in flotilla 'farce'

There hasn't been a murmur of protest from Canada over the Israeli seizure of a Turkish ship in international waters late last month, and the shocking killing of nine peace activists on board.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/823487--mcquaig-partner-in-flotilla-farce



Israel to UN: We reserve the right to stop Lebanon Gaza-bound flotilla

Lebanon aid ship Miriam to set sail to Gaza Sunday; Israel's UN envoy says Israel will use all necessary means to prevent ships from violating the naval blockade on Gaza.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-un-we-reserve-the-right-to-stop-lebanon-gaza-bound-flotilla-1.297012



Israel bars German minister from Gaza

'Sometimes the Israeli government does not make it easy for its friends to explain why it behaves the way it does,' says aid minister Dirk Niebel.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-bars-german-minister-from-gaza-1.297107



Turkey threatens diplomatic break with Israel over raid

Turkey's foreign minister said a break could only be averted if Israel either apologised or accepted the outcome of an international inquiry into the raid. The Israeli government said it had nothing to apologise for.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10505386.stm


From Information Clearing House

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The real threat aboard the Freedom Flotilla

In These Times
by Noam Chomsky

06/08/10

Israel’s violent attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza shocked the world. Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime. But the crime is nothing new. For decades, Israel has been hijacking boats between Cyprus and Lebanon and killing or kidnapping passengers, sometimes holding them hostage in Israeli prisons. Israel assumes that it can commit such crimes with impunity because the United States tolerates them and Europe generally follows the U.S.’s lead...

http://tinyurl.com/2avldxn



The flotilla massacre: Historical perspective, aftermath and implications

Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

06/09/10
http://tinyurl.com/22nnrmy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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USS Liberty survivor on Gaza relief ship
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/859.html

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Israeli Document: Gaza Blockade Isn't About Security
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/10-2

New Video Smuggled Out From Mavi Marmara of Israel’s Deadly Assault on Gaza Aid Flotilla

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/10-1

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Worse Than a Crime – a Mistake
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis191.html

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ISRAEL'S GREATEST LOSS: ITS MORAL IMAGINATION
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9722/



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