Posts Tagged ‘Corruption’
What Happens Next? Dahr Jamail’s Dispatches July 23rd, 2010 Story by Dahr Jamail Photography by Erika Blumenfeld Photo by Erika Blumenfeld © 2010 Recently we met with Captain Louis Skrmetta who runs Ship Island Excursions out of Gulfport, Mississippi. His father Pete came to the US from Croatia in 1904, and began working as an [...]
by Christopher Bollyn Where the election is a fiction, the representation is a fiction also. Like will always produce like. – Thomas Paine to the Citizens of the United States, January 29, 1803 A revolution is brewing in the United States of America. The public discontent surrounding the costly and disastrous wars in Iraq and [...]
Written three years ago in 2007, Rayburn’s opinions were, ironically, a foreshadowing of things to come. WW~ W.P. RAYBURN, JD “Don’t tell me I am wrong, you must first endeavor to prove it! Don’t simply disagree with me, show me why I am wrong, and for God’s sake move it. For if you cannot [...]
Sexual slavery involving boys as young as 10 is being condoned and in many cases protected by authorities in northern Afghanistan.
In a story to be broadcast on Four Corners tonight, the practice of bacha bazi or “boy play”, as well as other allegations of child abuse, are explored.
Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi has [...]
A ring that connects into the ‘heart’ of the Scottish and British governments and the Westminster Parliament and involved Dunblane mass child killer, Thomas Hamilton
Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of exposing these sick and depraved people who get their ‘kicks’ from sexually abusing and raping [...]
By David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru
They despise America’s democracy and its fundamental freedoms more than any terrorist group in the world.
They have destroyed American democracy and its fundamental freedoms more ruthlessly and effectively than any terrorist group in the world.
They have sanctioned the murders [...]
A key question at the heart of the controversial bailout of AIG is just how much money the government lost. The Federal Reserve and Treasury Department have worked to keep that number secret and to conceal who was on the winning end.
An unredacted document obtained by the Huffington Post list the damage in detail. Goldman [...]
The Article no newspaper dares to publish about Crime in South Africa & its racial links – Highest murder rate in the world!
[I received this from a good friend. It came with this title: "Dan Roodt - During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act". This article is said to have [...]
What Whites need to understand.
What the lying scum in DC now have planned.
The FDA, mostly led by corrupt Jews, does not care if the American people are affected by the Guillain-Barre syndrome, caused by the bogus H1N1 flu shot that contain toxic substance attacking the nervous system.
The pharmaceutical drug cartel companies in America are free from any liabilities or legal lawsuits, because the US government receive large sum of money donations from those companies, the US government is not doing their jobs to protect Americans.
Americans should defend their democratic rights and fight back against corruption !
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In international politics, image counts. A country’s reputation, the aura it projects, the esteem in which its leaders are held — these are as important as its armed services in providing protection for its citizens. Most politicians know that soft power, skillfully used, can be at least as effective as blood-drenched hard power.
This is a lesson Israel appears to have forgotten. Its pitiless treatment of the Palestinians, whether under occupation on the West Bank or under siege in Gaza — not to mention its repeated assaults on Lebanon, its 2007 raid on Syria and its relentless sabre-rattling against Iran — have done terrible damage to its image.
The admiration which its early state-building once aroused in many parts of the world has turned into angry impatience, outrage, even contempt.
Few outside Israel itself — and outside the shrinking ranks of its diehard supporters in the United States and Europe — would today be prepared to defend its arrogant militarists, its fanatical land-grabbing settlers, its racist politicians.
Astonishingly, there is no sign that Israel’s political leaders have understood the magnitude of the problem or are doing anything serious to address it. On the contrary, they are busy digging deeper into a hole of their own making.
Turkey’s sudden cancellation this week of a major air force exercise with Israel was a salutary wake-up call. Evidently, Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan found it necessary to cancel the drill because of the widespread hostility to Israel among Turkey’s population. He has had to take Turkish public opinion into account. Foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu spelled out the reasons in diplomatic terms: “We hope that the situation in Gaza will improve…and that will create a new atmosphere in Turkish-Israeli relations…”
To offend the Turks is no small matter. Israel cannot afford to ignore the warning or sweep it under the carpet. Turkey has for many years been Israel’s main regional strategic partner — indeed its only one since the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979. Losing Turkey could turn out to be the worst setback Israel has suffered for a very long time.
Turkey’s army is the largest in the region; so is its industrial base. Its GDP, at over $1,000bn (in 2008) dwarfs that of the oil producers, whether Arab or Iranian, and is four times larger than Israel’s own. In recent years, Turkey has greatly improved its relations with Iran and with neighboring Arab states — Syria in particular — and is emerging as the wise “big brother” of the greater Middle East. It has offered to mediate local conflicts and is attempting to spread stability and security all around it.
From the moment Israel started hammering Gaza last December, it was clear that its insane war was a grotesque mistake, which would end up fuelling nothing but hate, and might even delegitimize Israel in the eyes of much of the world. The Goldstone report has now driven a giant nail into the coffin of Israel’s reputation by finding that, in Gaza, there was evidence that Israel “committed actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity.”
Instead of agreeing to carry out an independent investigation into these charges, as the UN mission demanded — before the matter was referred to the Security Council for prosecution at the International Criminal Court — Israel launched an all-out attack on Goldstone and his report. It used all its diplomatic clout to get the report discredited as biased and its examination deferred.
Not only is Judge Richard Goldstone an eminent international jurist with a towering reputation for integrity and fairness, but he is also a Jew and a self-proclaimed Zionist. He won praise for exposing the crimes of South Africa’s Apartheid regime and for his scrupulous work as chief UN prosecutor in Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
So anxious was he to be even-handed that, before accepting to head the Gaza fact-finding mission, he insisted that the mandate be expanded to include Palestinian rocket attacks against Israeli civilians. Indeed, his report found evidence that Palestinian armed groups also committed war crimes, as well as possible crimes against humanity.
Israel’s propaganda war on the Goldstone report has proved both wrong-headed and self-defeating. Among its victims is the hapless Mahmud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority who, under pressure from both Israel and the United States, agreed not to press for an immediate examination of the report by the Security Council. Recognizing his mistake, he has since tried to backtrack, but his leadership has been severely dented.
The result has been to undermine and weaken Palestinian moderates — such as Abbas — whom Israel, one might have supposed, would want to strengthen, and with whom it would seek to negotiate. But does Israel want peace? Does it want to negotiate? Or does it, on the contrary, seek to radicalize the Palestinians so as to avoid serious negotiations until it has seized more territory?
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s extremist foreign minister, has given the game away by declaring that there can be no peace with the Palestinians for several more years. In refusing to freeze settlements or engage in negotiations, what Lieberman and his boss, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, are doing is to challenge not just peace-loving opinion around the world, but also — first and foremost — U.S. President Barack Obama.
The Israeli right-wing and its neo-conservative supporters in the United States have launched a frontal assault on a central goal of Obama’s foreign policy, namely a two-state solution of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. To undermine Obama, they have not hesitated to mount a vicious campaign of incitement against him. He is depicted as a Nazi, a Muslim and a Jew-hater. His Nobel Peace Prize has been mocked.
Israel is here venturing on very dangerous ground. So far, Obama has sought to persuade rather than to threaten. In his dealings with both Iran and Israel, he has tried to reach agreement by accommodation. With Iran, he has achieved some progress — breaking a 30-year long stalemate — and no doubt more progress will follow. With Israel, he has met a stone wall.
Israel should reflect. Obama’s patience is not endless. Losing Turkey is one thing. To risk losing America is quite another.
Patrick Seale is a leading British writer on the Middle East, and the author of The Struggle for Syria; also, Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East; and Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire.
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The day before yesterday evening, a paraplegic prayed continuously and begged three armed robbers not to abduct his mother and little sister just after they shot his father dead before him.
Mr. Henry Locke (39), an automotive electrician from the Elands game reserve near Cullinan, north-east of Pretoria was shot in the heart and collapsed in his living room where his paralyzed son Dawie (23) lay.
13 year old Monique, a grade 7 student at Cullinan school, recalled how she, her brother and their mother Mrs. Amanda Locke (43), sat in the living room until after 11.00pm talking until the dogs started
barking furiously. Her father was asleep.
“My mother initially tried to quiet the dogs through the window. When she couldn’t quiet them down she took a flashlight and went outside.
“Just as my mother went through the door, a man who apparently was hiding behind the wall by the front door, grabbed her,” Monique said.
At that stage she was right behind her mother and saw how the attacker grabbed her mother and noticed two other attackers rushing upon her.
“I ran into the house to go and wake my dad. When my dad came out of the living room door they shot him in the heart.
“He collapsed by the couch. One of the robbers then told my mom that she had to sit down.
“I sat next to my dad and held him tightly,” Monique said.
“My brother asked the robbers not to take us away or to harm us.
“My mom told the robbers that my brother is paralyzed and that they must not hurt him. She told them that they could take everything.
“They took my mother and brother’s cellphones, a laptop and my mother’s wedding rings from her finger.
The attackers then fled.
Farmer killing fields
“Once they were gone, my mother and I tried to carry my father to the car, but he was too heavy.
Mrs. Locke helped her son into the car and together with both children raced to the neighbours.
After the murder the family packed its belongings and moved to Mrs. Locke’s sister Estelle Maritz who lives on a farm in the Honingnestkrans area, north-west of Pretoria.
Maritz said that the robbers cut two fences to gain access to the property. “They destroyed my sister’s and her children’s lives.
“We don’t want to leave the land. This is our property and our family lives here. Our own homes have become prisons.
It is a pity that her brother-in-law, who was always kind to his fellow human beings, should be murdered like that, Maritz said.
Constable Sally Skosana, police spokesperson said that the suspects were still at large.[Well of course they're still at large! The SAPS are inept, corrupt and lazy.]
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Bianca Warburton – Educational Psychology Intern (2009)
Educational Psychology Intern (University of Witwatersrand). Assisstant (sic) in the Ububele Umdlezane Parent Infant Project.
A 24-year-old woman, believed to be an intern social worker, was shot dead in an attempted hijacking in Alexandra on Wednesday, Johannesburg police said.
Blonde-haired Bianca Warburton had stopped her car at a stop street near the Alexandra clinic when two men, one of them armed, confronted her, Inspector Moses Maphakela said.
“They attempted to hijack the vehicle… and then just shot her in the upper body.”
She died on the scene.
“The two ran away without taking anything.”
A case of murder was opened and the matter was handed to the Organised Crime Unit for further investigation. No arrests had been made.
Police said some of Warburton’s relatives, colleagues and friends were at the scene and in shock.
Condolences were being published on Radio 702’s website.
Wits University spokeswoman Sherona Patel said the institution was mourning the loss of one of its master’s students.
“On behalf of Wits University, we would like to extend our deepest sympathies to the friends and family of Miss Warburton.”
Doodler says: I must interject here as this is a subject close to my heart.
My daughter obtained a BA (Hons) in Psychology. It then became apparent that the likelihood of selection for her Masters would be remote, due mainly to limited positions and of course, the inevitable AA policies. We then discovered to our horror that had she been accepted, she would in all likelihood have had to do her internship in some squatter camp. She would have had ZERO choice as to where she would be placed.
One of her male friends ended up in some Godforsaken place somewhere in Natal. Two of her other female friends, also armed with Honours, chose to drop their studies for this reason. ALL those studying in medical directions are obliged to work in State institutions and invariably these are in Black communities, including squatter camps. And unless you know somebody who knows somebody to pull strings you basically go where they tell you to go.
So, to accuse this poor unfortunate girl of being a liberal is so far removed from reality that I am going to remove all posts referring to her as such. She did not deserve to be placed in a dangerous area and she sure as hell did not deserve to die in such a fashion. That could have been my own daughter. I feel like spewing vitriol against those buffoons who must know how reckless and stupid it is to place these girls there, but what would it achieve???
And, just btw; try finding a job with a BA (Hons) Psych, especialy if you have a white skin. Four years of study = worthless.
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