POWER OF THE SHOE: Israeli woman hurled shoe at Netanyahu’s wife

POWER OF THE SHOE: Israeli woman hurled shoe at Netanyahu’s wife

Whoa! I like to keep this on my blog…

PressTV - Israeli woman hurls shoe at Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife:

A 36-year-old Israeli woman has flung a shoe at Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, cursing her as she was shopping at a mall near Tel Aviv.

The incident took place at a shopping mall in Petah Tikva on Thursday when the woman moved to insult Sara Netanyahu by spitting on her, according to the israelnationalnews.com.

Netanyahu was not physically hurt and her bodyguards seized the attacker and detained her until the police arrived at the scene.

The woman was taken to the Petah Tikva police station for interrogation.

The circumstances behind the incident remain unclear. 

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Article:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/06/02/244218/woman-hurls-shoe-at-netanyahus-wife/

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ASSASSIN OBAMA APROVES KILL LIST…

ASSASSIN OBAMA APROVES KILL LIST…

Why is it wrong for dictators to send government agents to kill opponents operating in other countries, but not for the USA’s robot assassins that inflict damage not only to its perceived enemies but also to every innocent bystander that happens to be nearby? Has Judaism so corrupted America’s blood that they have started to look upon themselves (like Jews) as sinless, exceptionally chosen people? At the same time, everyone else is a gentile that is no better than dogs and filth, whose deaths are nothing more than worthless collateral damage. 

PressTV - Obama OKs kill lists used in drone strikes:

Obama OKs kill lists used in drone strikes

US President Barack Obama personally approves the names put on the "kill lists" used in the targeted killing operations carried out by American assassination drones,The New York Times reports.

According to the report published by the paper on Tuesday, every week or so, more than 100 members of the country’s national security team gather via secure video teleconference run by the Pentagon and go over the biographies of suspects in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, and "nominate" those who should be targeted in the attacks. 

Obama is then provided with the identities of those put on the kill list and signs off on every strike in Yemen and Somalia as well as the risky strikes in Pakistan and decides when to attack a terror suspect. 

A US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaqi was killed in Yemen in an assassination drone attack approved by Obama last year. Critics have said that it set a worrying precedent that the president could single-handedly decide to be "judge, jury, and executioner" over an American. 

In Pakistan, Washington claims that its airstrikes target militants crossing the border with Afghanistan, but local sources say civilians have been the main victims of the attacks. 

The US military has also used the drones in Afghanistan, Libya, and Iraq. 

On Sunday, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta defended the use of the drones as the "most precise weapon we have" in the campaign against al-Qaeda. At least 21 people were killed in US drone attacks across the world in less than 24 hours following his remarks. 

Full article:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/05/30/243738/obama-approves-names-kill-lists/

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GUILTY: judgment made in heaven

I always believe that God has a mysterious way of making truth and justice triumph. That the vote for a guilty verdict was overwhelming surprised everybody, especially the defense, but I will not credit the prosecution for the overwhelming vote. The congressmen went on a fishing expedition from 8 articles of impeachment, narrowing it down to only 3, and from 45 properties to only 5. Santiago barraged the prosecution team, the senator judges, and no less than the presiding judge for incompetence that embarrassed Tupas and the other members of the team close to tears, but then divine providence intervened. The defense team committed the blunder of calling the Ombudsman to the witness stand, leading eventually to the testimony of CJ Corona. It was the senator judges, not the prosecutors, who baited the defense to bring the Chief Justice to prove the Ombudsman wrong. Although he has no 10 million dollars, 2.4 million dollars, and 80 million pesos, they are likewise mind-bogglingly big. The defense, I suspect, didn’t expect their client to have that much money. These are the nails that sealed Corona’s fate; nails that poured out from the accused's mouth, none of which were mentioned in the original complaint. Yeah, it was mentioned during the trial that he has 870,000 dollars in his account. Still, nobody expected it to be 2.4 million dollars (3.9 million dollars at one time according to Lacson), and although he has peso accounts, nobody expected it to be 80 million. Let there be justice…and peace. Let’s move on with our heads up proud in our democracy that we did something extraordinary, and whenever we look back to this date in our history, our lips can break into a smile. I was not there; I was in the mountains of Saudi Arabia, but I watched it live online :-) Halfway around the world. 

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THUMBS UP FOR THE PROSECUTION…no doubt

On a scale of 10, I will give the prosecution closing arguments 9 and the defense 5. The prosecutors delivered their pieces with clarity and directness to the point that the public and senator judges understand kaya nga sumakit ang ulo at umalis c Santiago because she probably foresaw the collapse of the defense that she supports. From the closing clarificatory questions of Enrile to the lead defense, you can already see the direction the senator judges will go: 1) What do you think is the dire consequence if any public official declares their dollar account in the SALN? The foreign account bank secrecy law does not prevent any individual from divulging their money in the bank, and 2) Enrile cited the constitution, where every public official is commanded by law to submit their SALN upon entering public service meaning all an everything without exception (…and I can read Enrile’s mind to include foreign currency deposits). 

Nosca Khalid 5:33am May 28 I am trying to be objective of the CJ’s undeclared wealth but I find it simply unbelievable If he has 100k dollars in multiple dollar accounts; I will give him the benefit of the doubt but 2.4 million (103,200,000 pesos) and how about the more than 3 million dollars he withdrew in 2007 elections that Lacson computed to be more than 147 million pesos. Would you believe that the 90 million pesos in his accounts are co-owned by his family? Remember that none of his multiple peso accounts are joint accounts, meaning he should have maintained a joint account with each member of the family who co-owned some of the money, so he would know how much belongs to whom. It is all in his name, which I found really weird if he doesn’t own them. The dollar accounts will get him convicted, if only to send a message to corrupt officials that dollar accounts will not protect them from prosecution/conviction, the chief justice being a glaring example. If the senator judges don’t convict him, they will likewise set a precedent, sending a wrong signal to the corrupt and corruptors to keep ill-gotten wealth in dollar accounts. We will know how the senator judges think by the end of the day on Monday.

(I wrote the above as a thread to another post last night. If you have watched the closing argument of Farinias; you will see the parallel synchronicity of our arguments.)

…biting the bait of men’s lies, deception and political filth

…biting the bait of men’s lies, deception, and political filth

Corona has scored and scored big, and whether it was his idea or his defense, it matters not. We knew from his look that his poor health was all a ruse. The wheelchair was his biggest gun so far, except of course the genius of Serafin Cuevas. I still believe that Corona had no intention of being subjected to cross-examination last Tuesday, and the only reason he suddenly walked, or instead wheeled, out of the ICU was when he was told, with videotape assurance, that the prosecutors had waived their rights of cross-examination if the defense would likewise waive their right of direct. Whether he was legally correct or not to omit mentioning his 4-dollar accounts in his SALN is for the senator judges to decide individually when they cast their vote to convict or acquit. I am sure they will have different interpretations, and although he was not being prosecuted for ill-gotten wealth, the senators will consider the amount of 2.4 MILLION DOLLARS.Z

THE LIES AND DECEPTION:

It looked like the public, the senator judges, and the prosecutors bought Corona’s explanation that he earned the 2.4 million dollars by wisely keeping his earnings in dollars, whose value ballooned from the 70s to what it is today. If you are an OFW earning in dollars, you know that it is a lie. IT IS THE VALUE OF YOUR DOLLAR IN PESO THAT BALOONS; NOT THE VOLUME OF YOUR DOLLAR. If you have 1,000 dollars in the bank in the 70s, the peso equivalent then is 3,000 pesos. The 1,000 dollars plus a little interest (a dollar account earns very little interest compared to a peso account) will still be 1,000 dollars today plus little interest. Still, the worth in pesos will now be 43,000 + pesos, meaning the 2.4 million is 2.4 million dollars then and now. CORONA IS GAMBLING ON THE FILIPINOS' IGNORANCE…

…but wait; the Ombudsman can dig deeper, and I am almost sure that if Morales pursues an investigation of ill-gotten wealth against Corona…she will find dirt. Those bank records with detailed transactions she got from the Anti-money-laundering Council don’t lie.

It will be wise for Corona to resign if he is acquitted, so Malacanang and the Ombudsman can leave him alone and live happily ever after. If he is found guilty, he can run for the Senate. He will almost certainly get elected and stay in the limelight ever after :-0 

CORONA IS A WINNER: take the money and run...

Corona had no plan to be cross-examined. He used the impeachment court as a platform to voice his side of the conflict, leaving his defense ignorant of his own strategic endgame. He knew that he could no longer stay in the Supreme Court, guilty or not, with so much blood spilled theoretically between him and the president. Since the impeachment is a political exercise, he decided to bring his case to the people. In fact, his 3 hours opening statement was not addressed to the court; it was addressed to the people, and he will not give his detractors the luxury of dismantling his case. Since the impeachment court need not prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to convict him, he likewise created enough doubt as to his guilt or innocence that will forever leave the people divided. In the end, guilty or not, Corona is a winner. TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN :-)

THE DAY OF CATASTROPHE: "Nakba" memories live by the day

Had the Jewish conquest of Palestine taken a peaceful more humane path; it might have been true that the old Palestinians will eventually die and the young will grow to be happy and contented and rightly forget but no; the Zionist’s brutal and continuing oppressive conquest will make every elderly Palestinian that passes away a hero whose name will be engraved in the hearts of the young whose unwavering desire to be free will never wane and the rest of the world will likewise never forget. LONG LIVE PALESTINE!

PressTV - Dire Nakba memories live by the day:

Dire Nakba memories live by the day

Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year. The event marks the expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians, while their villages were destroyed.

The destruction of Palestine in 1947-48 ushered in the birth of Israel. Older generations relay the harsh and oppressive memory of their collective experience to younger Palestinians, many of whom live their own Nakbas today. 

In covering al-Nakba, sympathetic Arab and other media play sad music and show black and white footage of displaced, frightened refugees. They rightly emphasize the concept of Sumud, steadfastness, as they show Palestinian of all ages holding unto the rusty keys of their homes and insisting on their right of return. Other, less sympathetic media discuss al-Nakba, if at all, as a side note - a nuisance in the Israeli narrative of a nation's supposedly miraculous birth and its progression to an idyllic oasis of democracy. What such reductionist representations often fail to show is that while al-Nakba started, it never truly finished. 

Full article:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/05/14/241154/palestinian-nakba-resolve-of-memory/

Every region in Palestine that was meant to be taken was captured, its people were expelled or massacred in their homes and villages. [Israel’s first Prime Minister] Ben Guiron ‘cleansed’ the land, but he failed to cleanse Israel’s past. Memory persists."

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