Category Archives: Fail!

Pearl Harbor just a montage, Erdoğan says (4 December 2014) –   BRIGHTENING GLANCE

The United States, Japan and indeed every nation in the world have refused to comment on the Turkish president’s latest statements all stressing that they “do not respond to personal opinions, rantings or ravings,” according to Cihan News Agency. December/04/2014

 

Shown official photographs of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the president said that they were the equivalent of cheap Japanese plastic toys in a bathtub. “You can’t fool us. We saw those Godzilla movies too, you know.”

via Pearl Harbor just a montage, Erdoğan says (4 December 2014) –   BRIGHTENING GLANCE.

CENSORED NEWS: Sen. McCain leads planned theft of Apache lands for copper mining

Congress is poised to give a foreign mining company 2,400 acres of national forest in Arizona that is cherished ancestral homeland to Apache natives. Controversially, the measure is attached to annual legislation that funds the US Defense Department.

This week, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees quietly attached a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would mandate the handover of a large tract of Tonto National Forest to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining company Rio Tinto, which co-owns with Iran a uranium mine in Africa and which is 10-percent-owned by China.

via CENSORED NEWS: Sen. McCain leads planned theft of Apache lands for copper mining.

Free trade with U.S.? Europe balks at chlorine chicken, hormone beef. – The Washington Post

On a velvety green patch of the French countryside, organic farmer Jean Cabaret gave a little shudder. A looming trade deal with the United States, he fears, may make his worst culinary nightmare come true: an invasion of Europe by American “Frankenfoods.”

“Hormone-boosted beef. Chlorine-washed chicken. Genetically altered vegetables. This is what they want for us,” warned Cabaret, standing before his majestic herd of free-range cows. “In France, food is about pleasure, about taste. But in the United States, they put anything in their mouths. No, this must be stopped.”

via Free trade with U.S.? Europe balks at chlorine chicken, hormone beef. – The Washington Post.

New Inquiry Needed on Eric Garner’s Death – NYTimes.com

Staten Island – do you need to know anything more?

 

The Staten Island grand jury must have seen the same video everyone else did: the one showing a group of New York City police officers swarming and killing an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

Yet they have declined to bring charges against the plainclothes officer, Daniel Pantaleo, who is seen on the video girdling Mr. Garner’s neck in a chokehold, which the department bans, throwing him to the ground and pushing his head into the pavement.

via New Inquiry Needed on Eric Garner’s Death – NYTimes.com.

Israeli forces arrest 8-year-old in East Jerusalem | Maan News Agency

 Israeli special forces on Wednesday detained an eight-year-old Palestinian in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, a local information center said.

Majdi Abbasi of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center said in a statement that Obeida Ayesh, eight, was arrested in the Ein al-Lawza area of the neighborhood.

Obeida’s mother was allowed to accompany him, Abbasi said.

There were no clashes going on in the area at the time of the arrest, he added.

According to a 2013 report by the UN children’s fund, Israel is the only country in the world where children were systematically tried in military courts, practicing “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.”

Over the past decade, UNICEF noted that Israel has detained “an average of two children each day.”

via Israeli forces arrest 8-year-old in East Jerusalem | Maan News Agency.

CENSORED NEWS: Paris Auction selling Hopi, Pueblo, Navajo and Plains Sacred Items

The EVE Auction in Paris is selling sacred items of Pueblos, Dine’ and the Plains, continuing an act of cultural genocide for the fifth year. The EVE catalog lists sacred Kachinas and Masks of Hopi, Acoma, Laguna, Zuni, Santo Domingo, Tesuque and other Pueblos. There are also Dine’ (Navajo) Ceremonial Yeibeichei Masks.

There is also a sacred item of the Kiowa listed in the auction, and pouches listed as Cheyenne Arapahoe, Sioux and Plains Indians. There are leggings of the Sioux and Cheyenne, and a rare item belonging to the Hupa in California.

The auction is slated in Paris for Dec. 15, 2014.

via CENSORED NEWS: Paris Auction selling Hopi, Pueblo, Navajo and Plains Sacred Items.

Avian influenza case confirmed in Guangdong, China | Vaccine News Daily

A 31-year-old woman from Dongguan in the Guangdong Province of China was diagnosed with avian influenza A (H7N9), Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health (DH) announced on Friday.

The patient is currently in critical condition at a Guangzhou hospital.

via Avian influenza case confirmed in Guangdong, China | Vaccine News Daily.

800 Israelis Demonstrate Against ‘Jewish State’ Bill In Front of Netaneyahu’s Residence

Hundreds of Israelis gathered on Saturday night in front of Netanyahu’s residence, in protest of the “Jewish State” Bill he proposed last Sunday.

The Crowd consisted of left wing Israelis and members of Peace Now movement. The police reported that the protesters carried signs that condemn Netanyahu’s Bill draft because it serves democracy to Jews only.

via 800 Israelis Demonstrate Against ‘Jewish State’ Bill In Front of Netaneyahu’s Residence.

Binyamin Netanyahu’s nationality bill is at odds with the Hebrew Bible

It’s politics, racism, and xenophobia, not religious belief driving them!

 

Deuteronomy 10:19 goes as follows: “And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.” Its not a one-off passage. Again and again precisely this formula of expression is used to encourage identification with people who find themselves living in someone else’s country and culture. And this sense of solidarity is such that the Bible insists that both Jews and non-Jews are to be subject to the same laws, the latter having the same legal protections as the former. The Book of Numbers has it thus: “The community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the Lord. The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing among you.”

This passage clearly demonstrates that the latest move by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is a direct contradiction of the Hebrew Bible, both in word and in spirit. For the new nationality bill that he and others are currently fighting to get through the Knesset is designed to deny national rights to non-Jewish Israeli citizens. In its supporters’ minds it is supposed to be all about expressing the Jewish nature of Israel, that this is a state whose lifeblood is Judaism. And as its detractors have pointed out, this sets Israel’s Jewish character above its democratic character, defying the founding principles of Israel as expressed in the declaration of independence in 1948. This is bad enough, but what makes the move utterly absurd is that it flies in the face of the very religion that it is designed to protect.

via Binyamin Netanyahu’s nationality bill is at odds with the Hebrew Bible.

Israel FM supports paying Arabs to leave – Middle East – Al Jazeera English

Foot in mouth award is his and so is jerk of the year!

 

Israel’s foreign minister says he supports paying Arab citizens to leave the country.

Israel’s foreign minister says he supports paying Arab citizens to leave the country.

In a manifesto of his right-wing Yisrael Beitenu party, Avigdor Lieberman said he favoured ceding Arab majority areas in northern Israel to a future Palestinian state and providing economic incentives for Arab-Israelis – about 20 percent of Israel’s population – to encourage them to emigrate.

The manifesto, published on Friday, did not set out positions on the most difficult issues in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, including the status of Jerusalem and Israel’s borders.

But it does acknowledge the necessity of territorial compromise in reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians, and also with moderate Arab countries.

Once a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Lieberman is now seen as harbouring prime ministerial ambitions himself.

His offer to pay Israeli Arabs to leave comes as Netanyahu pushes forward with a contentious parliamentary bill to formalise Israel’s status as a Jewish state – a measure that many Arab-Israelis say will institutionalise their status as second class citizens.

The bill, which Netanyahu says is necessary to safeguard Israel’s future, is opposed by a wide range of Israeli political figures, including the largely ceremonial president, but is strongly supported by right wing members of his ruling coalition, including Lieberman.

via Israel FM supports paying Arabs to leave – Middle East – Al Jazeera English.