A brief snapshot of the crooked world we are living in today....
INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
- Vehicle explosion hits central Ankara. Three dead, over a dozen injured. There is someone with the motive, means, and avowed threat to have been behind this trademark Mossad operation. Avigdor Lieberman threatened to help terrorist Kurdish PKK in terror operations against Turkey. The bothersome Israeli gnat Lieberman could use a couple of shots of Turkish bug spray, the kind that is delivered by a red laser dot on the forehead. Isn't that how we handle terrorists? Oh, I see, just the Arab ones, not the Jewish ones. What's that? It's not terrorism when God's "chosen ones" do it. That makes no sense, of course....
- Strauss-Kahn's TV interview conducted by friend of DSK's wife. Interviewer Claire Chazal is a friend of Ann Sinclair. The best media money can buy....
- Italy's turn: Italy's sovereign debt rating cut by Standard & Poor. Rome may burn again, this time without Nero's help....
- Banking shysters order Greece to shrink its government. Sort of like Grover Norquist: shrink the federal government until it can be drowned in a bathtub. Stupid idea here, stupid idea there....
- European leaders Ahtisaari and Solana call for UN recognition of Palestine. They should stand by for what's coming: "They are anti-Semites! Wah! Wah! Boo! Hoo!"
- CARICOM discusses Palestinian statehood. General Secretary of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL) decries lack of Caribbean union support for Palestine. Many Caribbean labor is found in the tourist service sector. Now who, for the most part, owns those hotels, cruise lines, casinos, and shopping centers? And then there is good old Zim Shipping to threaten the dock workers' unions....
- After U.S. uses drug list to punish Latin American supporters of Palestine, Bolivia's Evo Morales calls for Latin American bloc to de-certify United States. Its a good day when the Latin Americans stand up to the insolent gringos....
- In Zambian election: its a World Bank shill versus a working class populist. Michael Sata has claimed he was victim of election fraud in last match-up. Well, if it works in Florida and Ohio, why not Zambia?
NATIONAL NEWS:
- Federal appeals panel clears way for Ecuador to collect $18 billion judgment for environmental damage. Decision shoots down decision byJudge Lewis Kaplan (just another bought-and-paid-for judicial corporate shill)....
- Republicans in House back resolution backing Israel's annexation of the West Bank. House Republicans would back anything that originates from a bunch of crazed and zealous settlers on illegally occupied territory because Congress is illegally occupied Israeli territory....
COUNTRY FOCUS: Canada. Transatlantic Tory love-fest. Tory UK Prime Minister David Cameron to address majority Tory Canadian parliament. The Tories can all sing "God Save the Queen" acapella....
