Wash. Times joins right-wing freak-out over NASA official's comm. In a July 7 editorial , The Washington Times joined the right-wing media freak-out over NASA administrator Charles Bolden's comments about President Obama's efforts to improve Muslim outreach. From the Times ' editorial: What's unclear is what Mr. Bolden believes the United States has to gain by reaching out to a part of the world that has been technologically stagnant for centuries. The Muslim world has nothing to offer the United States as a space-faring nation. If anything, America should be discouraging Middle East space programs. Islam's meager contribution to human technological advancement is no accident. European Parliament: Phenomenon of boycotts against Israel gaini. Download PDF Version Printable Version Wednesday, June 30, 2010 From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality.
The following article by David Lipkin was originally published in Maarivon 28 June 2010. "European Parliament: Phenomenon of boycotts against Israel gaining momentum" By David LipkinThe leaders of European Friends of Israel (EFI), the European lobby for Israel and its economy, warned yesterday of a deterioration in the political climate in Europe against Israel, and an increase in the phenomenon of boycotts of Israeli products and businesspeople throughout Europe. Ronny Bruckner, leader of the lobby, which includes members of Parliament in the European Union and senior European businesspeople, asked President Shimon Peres yesterday to use his unique international standing and appear before the European Parliament. Click here for more Reports and Commentary. Are we really war criminals? Sometimes it appears that we make so much effort to be normal that we stick our head in the sand and mutter words of comfort to ourselves.
This is at least what we’ve been doing since the end of Operation Cast Lead. We came, we fought, we withdrew, yet despite all the efforts to be more righteous than the Vatican’s army and despite the operation’s success in the view of southern residents, we ended this operation badly in the eyes of the world’s self-righteous observers. These are the facts, as opposed to our responses to the Goldstone Committee and the legal inquiries of the IDF’s judge advocate general, which are the interpretation. Military prosecutors’ need to probe suspicions of grave offences during the operation stems from two reasons: The first and most important one is us – the desire to know that our camp is untainted, much before the Goldstone attack and the complaints of “Human rights” groups.
'Most Palestinians want ceasefire' A poll of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, released Wednesday, showed that most Palestinians do not want a renewal of violence. Arab World for Research and Development, an institute located in Ramallah polled 1,2000 Palestinians - men and women, refugees and non-refugees - in 16 towns at the end of June. Joint poll shows doubts over Palestinian state Barak: There is a good chance for direct talks Two-thirds of those surveyed believe Hamas should renew its ceasefire with Israel after it expires in September, and it should not resume use of missiles against targets in Israel.
However, nearly half oppose direct talks with Israel. Half of those polled would vote for Salam Fayyad as Palestinian prime minister, with only 22 percent favoring Hamas's Ismail Haniyeh. The vast majority of Palestinians think creating jobs and fighting poverty is the most important issue facing Palestinians, with 75% saying the Palestinian economy is deteriorating. Odd alliance between far-right Christians and far-right Jews | C. U.S. soldier linked to Iraq attack video charged - Washington Ti. Editors' Picks: IMF gives U.S. Congress year-end deadline for passing reforms U.S. soldier linked to Iraq attack video charged 1Size: + / -Print Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on google_plusone_shareShare on redditShare on linkedinShare on stumbleuponShare on emailMore Sharing Services By Barbara Surk Associated Press Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Story Topics Follow Us On Facebook Question of the Day Do you think the federal agents seizing and then releasing cattle last week from the Bundy ranch in Nevada will create a political headache for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid?
View results BAGHDAD (AP) — An American soldier suspected of leaking a military video of an attack on unarmed men in Iraq was charged with multiple counts of mishandling and leaking classified data and putting national security at risk, the U.S. Army Spc. The classified video was taken from the cockpit during a 2007 fire fight and posted last April on the website Wikileaks.org. Spc. Spc. Mr. In 2004, Mr. By Taboolaby Taboola. Nazi war crimes suspect Adolf Storms dies before tria. 6 July 2010Last updated at 18:33 Germany annexed Austria in 1938 The former SS soldier and Nazi war crimes suspect Adolf Storms has died before he could be brought to trial. Storms, who was 90 years old, was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi suspects. He was accused of the massacre of at least 57 Jewish forced labourers in Austria at the end of World War II.
Prosecutors in Germany were investigating the accusations against him and preparing a trial. The prosecutor in the city of Dortmund, Andreas Brendel, said investigators had recently been checking if Storms was fit for trial. Mr Brendel said he had had strong evidence against Storms. The former SS officer and unidentified accomplices allegedly forced the labourers to hand over their valuables and kneel by a grave before shooting them. Witnesses Storms was also accused of having shot another man on the day after the massacre. He was alleged to have shot the man because he was too weak to take part in a forced march. David Kolb: The Tea Party circus just keeps rolling along | MLiv. Not again. But there it was, another nauseating front page story about the Tea Party, this time on the cover of the July 2 USA Today.
So it continues. The media’s fascination with the phony Tea Party is becoming one for the case books, or more properly, the men wearing the white coats. True, our country has experienced endless encounters with genuine third parties, some that have actually changed history. But these are more or less history themselves. Gone are the Federalists, the party that birthed our first five American presidents, although only one (the senior John Adams, our second chief executive) was its officially designated candidate. Among the dearly departed as well is the old Democratic Republican Party, which numbered among its candidates the great Thomas Jefferson. Alas, those Jeffersonian-era Republicans moved in a different direction and later became the Whigs, the first manifestation we have of Democratic-hating Republicans under an assumed name. How about that? Good grief. Daily Kos :: Diaries. Consortiumnews.com. Brewing Tea in a Kettle of War.
DC Circuit rules detainees denied habeas must be 'p. Daniel Ellsberg fears a US hit on Wikileaks founder Julian Assan. Justice sues to halt Arizona law on illegals. The Obama administration sued Tuesday to stop Arizona’s new immigration law in a move that escalates President Obama’s involvement in the thorny issue and stacks him against a majority of Americans who support the law. The challenge, which had been expected for weeks, drew harsh rebukes from Republicans and even some Democrats who said it is “distracting” from the more serious issues of border security and could upset Mr. Obama’s call for Congress to act on a broad immigration bill that would legalize illegal immigrants and rewrite the rules for legal immigration.
In the challenge, Justice Department attorneys said Arizona’s law violates the Constitution by trying to supersede federal law and by impairing illegal immigrants’ right to travel and conduct interstate commerce. They argued that only the federal government can write immigration rules. Immigrant rights advocates praised the move as the only way to head off civil rights abuses, but opponents said Mr. Mr. Mr. Arizona Gov. Mrs. Special Report selectively highlights civil rights commissioners. Special Report ignored Commission's GOP vice-chair's statement that the case is "small potatoes" Special Report aired a Republican commissioner's remarks encouraging an investigation of DOJ's handling of the case. On the July 6 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier , correspondent Shannon Bream reported on GOP activist J. Christian Adams' accusations about the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division choosing not to pursue additional civil voter intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party during a hearing of the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights. Bream reported that commissioner Ashley Taylor had said that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez had "vowed to investigate claims of selective enforcement if any evidence surfaced. " Special Report ignored Republican Commission vice-chair Abigail Thernstrom's statement: "Forget about the New Black Panther Party case; it is very small potatoes.
" Adams: "I don't know. KELLY: [W]hen you were. O'Reilly Factor ludicrously blames Obama for not pressing crimin. July 07, 2010 12:04 am ET — 32 Comments On The O'Reilly Factor , Bill O'Reilly and Fox News legal analysts Lis Wiehl and Kimberly Guilfoyle criticized President Obama's administration for not pursuing criminal charges against members of the New Black Panther Party.
In fact, it was the Justice Department under President Bush that decided not to pursue criminal charges in the case. Guilfoyle, Wiehl blame Obama admin. for lack of criminal charges in case Wiehl: Obama DOJ "absolutely" should have pursued criminal charges. On the July 6 edition of The O'Reilly Factor , Wiehl said that "there's absolutely no reason" that the Obama DOJ "didn't prosecute" the case. She added that "all the department did was file a civil complaint" against the Panthers, but "they never pursued criminal charges.
" Guilfoyle: "No justification" for AG Holder supposedly not filing criminal charges. O'Reilly: "Nobody differs" on whether Obama DOJ should have brought criminal charges. Media Matters for America. About us Login Get email updates Enter Your Email Address Zip Code Home Research Clips Blog Studios myMediaMatters Search MediaMatters.org Twitter Follow Media Matters on Twitter. Facebook "Like" Media Matters on Facebook.
Google+ Add Media Matters on Google Plus. Rush Limbaugh Is Bad For Business March 14, 2012 9:25 am ET Pat Robertson, Demon Hunter Eleven Things Pat Robertson Thinks Are Related To Demonic Possession, Including Feng Shui, Children Adopted Outside Of The United States, Yoga, And The Novel Twilight. Lieberman: Rules of engagement hurting morale of U.S. troops in. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Sunday said that the U.S. military’s rules of engagement have hurt troop morale in Afghanistan and said that he hoped the new top commander there, Gen. David Petraeus, will clarify them as soon as possible. The previous commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, placed restrictions on U.S. air strikes and artillery in Afghanistan, limiting the circumstances that allow troops under fire to call for fire support. Those rules of engagement have cut down on civilian casualties, but have been strongly criticized by American troops who say those rules have made the fight more dangerous.
“When there are civilian casualties…that hurts the cause, but ultimately we ought to be concerned about the safety of our American troops here,” Lieberman said in a "Fox News Sunday" interview from Afghanistan. The rules of engagement “have hurt morale here,” Lieberman added. Too Much weekly. Taxes, the Rich, and Our Known Universe Pundits and political scientists are always searching for that simple theory that'll explain just what makes our politics tick. Where should they be looking? How about in the eyes of a billionaire at tax time? Physicists the world over have been all abuzz lately. A new research breakthrough has them tantalizingly close to a “grand unified theory” of how absolutely everything in the physical universe actually works, the holy grail of modern physics ever since the days of Albert Einstein. A “grand unified theory of everything,” of course, could also come in handy for our political universe. And what might that grand proposition be?
Can a proposition this simple explain everything? Well, go ahead. Take, for instance, the stunning fall into political irrelevance of David Camp, the long-time conservative Republican congressman from Michigan who chairs the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Camp made no move to hide what he was proposing. Death by Remote: But Is It Legal? NEW YORK, Jul 4, 2010 (IPS) - As the Barack Obama administration continues to roll out justifications for its policy of targeting U.S. citizens and others thought to be attacking U.S. troops, legal and national security experts are pondering a central question: What if there's a mistake and the wrong person gets killed? There are no do-overs. It is a death sentence. That, in fact, has already happened. A Reuters cameraman was killed by a U.S. drone strike when the operator mistook his camera's long-range lens for a rocket-propelled grenade. Nevertheless, a top Obama counterterrorism official is defending the government's right to target U.S. citizens perceived as terror threats for capture or killing, citing the example of the renegade al Qaeda-linked cleric Anwar al- Awlaki.
Al-Awlaki, 39, was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and is an Islamic lecturer who is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He is a spiritual leader and former imam who has purportedly inspired Islamic terrorists. Bill Keller, Right Wing Evangelical, Calls Out Glenn Beck for "P. Sovereign Citizen Movement -- Extremism in America. On May 20, 2010, two West Memphis, Arkansas, police officers were killed and two Crittenden County sheriff’s officers wounded in two linked shootouts involving an anti-government sovereign citizen with ties to Ohio and Florida. The sovereign citizen, Jerry Kane, was a “guru” in the movement who traveled around the country, often with his teenaged son Joseph, holding seminars in which he would teach his anti-government conspiracies and pseudo-legal “solutions.”
Kane specialized in a set of sovereign citizen theories called “Redemption;” he told audiences that his theories could get them out of their mortgages. Kane and his son were apparently returning from a seminar he advertised for mid-May in Las Vegas when their vehicle was pulled over by West Memphis Police Department Sergeant Brandon Paudert and Officer Bill Evans, who were engaged in a drug interdiction exercise along the interstate. An hour and a half later, an extensive manhunt located the vehicle at a Wal-Mart parking lot. 'Sovereign Citizens' Claim Immunity From Ind., Federal Law - Ind. Think Progress » Arkansas cop killers were ‘sovereign citizens,’ Return of the Sovereigns.