Update Haiti:
The rapid mobilization of U.S troops in Haiti was not primarily done for humanitarian reasons; we're likely to see a neoliberal economic plan imposed, at gunpoint if necessary.
Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. While both the Pentagon and the United Nations claimed more troops were needed to provide "security and stability" to bring in aid, according to nearly all independent observers in the field, violence was never an issue. in
Instead, there appears to be cruder motives for the military response. With Haiti’s government "all but invisible" and its repressive security forces collapsed, popular organizations were starting to fill the void. But the Western powers rushing in envision sweatshops and tourism as the foundation of a rebuilt Haiti. This is opposed by the popular organizations, which draw their strength from Haiti’s overwhelmingly poor majority. Thus, if a neoliberal plan is going to be imposed on a devastated Haiti it will be done at gunpoint.
The rapid mobilization of thousands of U.S troops was not for humanitarian reasons; in fact it crowded out much of the arriving aid into the Port-au-Prince airport, forcing lengthy delays. Doctors Without Borders said five of its cargo flights carrying 85 tons of medical and relief supplies were turned away during the first week while flights from the World Food Program were delayed up to two days. One WFP official said of the 200 flights going in and out of Haiti daily “most … are for the U.S. military.”
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Presentation of the report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict to the Human Rights Council – 29 September 2009
Head of the UN Fact Finding Mission Justice Richard Goldstone presented the report of the Mission to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 29 September 2009, urging the Council and the international community as a whole to put an end to impunity for violations of international law in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict at UN Human Rights Council
And as expected the United States rejects the UN Goldstone Report criticizing Israel for War Crimes. So Obama et al are in the tank for Israel. The United States still supports Israel unconditionally . The US goes further by suggesting the UN council on Human Rights is anti-Israel & therefore pro-Palestinian . So even when presented with factual evidence of Israeli crimes the US has decided that the world of facts and human investigations have no weight when dealing with the United States or Israel- because these two states are under Divine Providence and can only be judged by God and not human institutions. This is odd since the US used what it claimed to be facts and evidence in deciding to invade and destroy Iraq. But Americans being of a higher plane than other nations knows what is real evidence or real facts.
The other less lofty theory about the US and Israel is that if the US accepts these criticisms of Israel then if enough facts and evidence could be amassed the US could also be found guilty of War Crimes and Crimes against humanity. So even president Obama will continue to defend Israel unconditionally and he too appears to believe whatever the US under Bush did in Iraq or Afghanistan etc. is America's business and that the UN has no jurisdiction when it comes to the United States. Of course this just points out that the UN is a powerless Paper Tiger not much better than the former League of Nations if it can not do anything to a nation which commits War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity . So the UN is largely therefore an irrelevant institution since the world's superpower the US has no interest in supporting the UN. For instance in Iraq the US should have after invading Iraq called on the UN to help with the transition from Saddam and the Bathasts to an interim government supported by the UN with UN forces as peacekeepers and not conquerors.
see for instance; US House rejects Goldstone report ,Al Jazeera, Nov. 4, 2009
The US House of Representatives has rejected as "irredeemably biased" the findings of a UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes during its military assault on the Gaza Strip.Israeli War Crimes
The house on Tuesday voted 344 to 36 in favour of a non-binding resolution calling on Barack Obama, the US president, to maintain his opposition to the report, which was written by a panel led by Richard Goldstone, a South African judge.
The report accused Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group, which has de facto control of Gaza, of war crimes during the 22-day conflict in December and January.
But most of its criticism was directed towards Israel's conduct during the offensive, in which human rights organisations say about 1,400 Palestinians - many of them women and children - were killed
Killing for Revenge and not for reasons of Defense
reckless disregard for the lives of civilians -Gaza
refusing to tend to the wounded-Gaza
Ignoring white flags of surrender
Gaza treated as a "Free-Fire Zone" by IDF
( the US as a Rogue Nation treated or treats Iraq and Afghanistan in the same manner claiming it is the US alone which will decide what the Rules of Engagement are for it and Israel while all other nations are held to a higher standard)
using white phosphorus and cluster bombs on densely populated areas
Israel V Gaza -
By the end of the Gaza campaign Israel had destroyed:
6300 homes 2 Israeli homes
280 schools
1500 factories and workshops
1400 dead Palestinians 13 Israelis killed
Goldstone Report concludes that the Israeli army committed War Crimes. Will people be arrested will the government get by with a lame apology and then will the media move on that appears to have already happened.
Goldstone Facts:
The Real Story Behind Israel's Attack On Gaza via Information Clearing House (ICH)
Deliberate Attacks against the Civilian Population
Factual Findings narrated by Ross Vachon
Factual and Legal findings narrated by Noam Chomsky
Live Testimonies relevant to the Goldstone Report's Findings
The video also contains live testimonies of Khalid, Kawthar and Samar Abd Rabbo before the UN Fact Finding Mission headed by Justice Richard Goldstone. For more information on this video, please go to www.goldstonefacts.org
Part 3
We are led to believe that anyone who criticizes any action of the Israeli government is so they claim by definition anti-Semitic and anti-Israel and that such critics want to destroy the Israeli state and to kill all Jewish people everywhere. If I or someone else criticizes policies of the United States or Canada or any NATO country or countries belong to the European Union are these critics to be detained, imprisoned or executed. There are probably a small percentage of people in all these countries who would like to see all dissident voices silenced forever. This is just what those in power did in the former Soviet Union or NAZI Germany or Castro's Cuba or Mao's China have done. US media stars such as Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh., Bill O'Reilly, Hannity, Lou Dobbs believe that those who criticized the former Bush Regime's policies should all have been shut down and rounded up and put in camps next to all of the Muslim Americans whom these conservatives believe are part of a 5th column to destroy America. These Conservatives secular & religious and even those who are in the Congress or the Senate also believed in indefinite detention for those who spoke out against the Bush Regime policies or who have criticized Israel or other American allies because these outspoken citizens are seen as disloyal and to be giving aid and comfort to the so-called enemy and are therefore traitors who deserve not just prison but also torture or using the American euphemism "enhanced Interrogation techniques".
Of course now that the Democrats and President Obama is in power everything has changed . Now these Media conservatives and others believe they have not just the right as citizens to criticize Obama but even to slander him and call him names claiming he is a leftist extremists, that he is UnAmerican and even Anti-American who is out to destroy traditional America through a process of pushing forwar a program for collectivism and the complete redistribution of wealth and the executions of thousands in the future. Believing in this somewhat apocalyptic view it is a future which must be resisted. They therefore argue and are encouraging average American citizens IE"Real Americans" would be justified in taking part in an armed insurrection.
Israelis in Gaza fire on innocent civilians including children , women, the elderly, the infirm . This Americans , Canadians, the British and other nations believe that killing non-combatants, women, children etc. because all Gazans all Palestinians all Muslims are the enemy not just of Israel but to all Western Nations and Western Civilization and are therefore not protected by any international law. None of this should surprise us because the United States especially will defend Israeli inhumane tactics in Gaza because America has also committed the same crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and in many other countries before 9/11. When the US decided to abandon all of International Law regarding conflicts they at that point should have censured by the UN and the International Community if necessary all countries should have by rights kicked America and Israel and any other country which wantonly murders civilians because even the children must die because they after all will grow up to be "terrorists" . They may try to bring about change through peaceful means forming political parties and speaking out against the Americans, the Israelis and those nations which are America's and Israel's enablers. These dissidents are not according to American conservatives to be tolerated since all good citizens in America or Israel are supposed to support their governments and their respective military . So those who object are labeled "dissidents", trouble makers, agitators and so enemies of the state and by definition enemies of NATO & all European Nations. The dissidents may eventually become insurgents if they discover the government has no intentions of seriously discussing these life and death issues. Odd how so many anti-Abortionists or Pro-Life campaigners see no contradiction when their governments military unnecessarily attacks and illegal invades and occupies a few countries.
The Real Story Behind Israel's Attack On Gaza
Deliberate Attacks against the Civilian Population
Factual Findings narrated by Ross Vachon
Factual and Legal findings narrated by Noam Chomsky
Live Testimonies relevant to the Goldstone Report's Findings
The video also contains live testimonies of Khalid, Kawthar and Samar Abd Rabbo before the UN Fact Finding Mission headed by Justice Richard Goldstone. For more information on this video, please go to www.goldstonefacts.org
Israeli soldiers shoot and kill innocent civilians in Gaza. Israeli soldiers refused to give any aid to those they had shot and wouldn't allow the Red Cross or Red Crescent or anyone to bring help to the wounded and the dying.
Part 2
Israel has also violated international Law by using WMDs on civilian populations. There is solid evidence showing that Israel's forces used White Phosphorus and cluster bombs on densely populated areas. The video evidence looks pretty straight forward they show Israelis dropping these weapons directly over the city. Then there are the eyewitness reports by doctors and UN workers -o yeah Israel is paying them off with a bribe for blowing up their facilities.
Evidence of Israel using white phosphorus bombs in Gaza (The Gaurdian)
This video shows that an Egyptian doctor stating what he says is evidence from the patients who have been admitted to Egyptian hospitals says that the burns suffered by patients who have suffered 3rd degree burns.
white phosphorus is not an illegal weapon it as it used in open fields where it acts as a smoke screen for on coming tanks and military artillery. As it explodes a large bang will create many smaller bomb pallets which will explode and cause smoke to be created which in a matter of minutes will spread very quickly.
Human Right watch states that Israel has committed war crimes since using white phosphorus in densely populated area such as the Gaza Strip will spread and as a result civilians men, women and children are the casualties not the fighters themselves.
and so it goes,
GORD.
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