Venezuala Expels Israeli Ambassador

Venezuela Expels Israeli Ambassador , Chavez Fiercly Critical Of Gaza Conflict, Israel's "Barbarism" - CBS News
Chavez earlier condemned the Israelis carrying out the military
campaign as "murderers" and urged Jews in Venezuela to take a stand
against the Israeli government.


"Now I hope that the Venezuelan Jewish community speaks out against
this barbarism. Do it. Don't you strongly reject all acts of
persecution?" Chavez said.


"How far will this barbarism go?" he said in an appearance on state
television. "The president of Israel should be taken before an
international court together with the president of the United States,
if the world had any conscience."

The Angry Arab New Service

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

A source on politics, war, The Middle East, Arabic poetry, and art.

B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

B'TSELEM - The Israeli Information
Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories was established in
1989 by a group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists, and
Knesset members. It endeavors to document and educate the Israeli
public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied
Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the
Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel.

Genocide in Gaza

Gaza Siege: News and Analysis: Gaza: Propaganda, Perception, and Reality - William Cook

A different agenda is at work here, an
agenda that seeks the total elimination of the Palestinian people as a
people, subject to the authority and control of the Israeli
government....Let’s hope reality overcomes deception.

Precision bombing of women and children

Precision? "Targeting the Terrorist infrastructure?" | A Creative Revolution <read me

Harper's Failing State

Accidental Deliberations: Harper's Failing State <read me!

...
So to sum up, the Harper Cons have broken their own self-imposed
deadline to do something about fuel efficiency by flat-out forgetting
it existed, and left dozens of Canadians in danger due to their failure
to learn anything from an equally well-publicized mistake two years
ago. Which would seem to confirm that about the only thing Canadians
can count on from Harper is continued incompetence - and offer all the
more reason to hope to see some adults in charge at the earliest
opportunity.

Descent 2 pics

Crawler Glam Shots: Descent 2 Photos Will Make You Scream For More Crawlers < click me for lots of pics

Push - It's Heroes - The Movie!

Push: It's Heroes — The Movie! <watch me!

The trailer for Dakota Fanning's superpowered teen rebel movie Push has finally come out... and the storyline looks a lot like your fave mutant angst show, Heroes.
Except that it looks action-movie awesome, with tons of superpowered
people throwing down and telekinesis-assisted gun battles. And it'll
only last a couple of hours, which will probably limit the amount of
superpowered incest. Details (and spoilers) below.

The Atheist bus campaign

Atheist buses denying God's existence take to streets - Telegraph

Gazaq, Israel and the Blood Pipeline

Montreal Simon: Gaza, Israel, and the Blood Pipeline < read me!

Israel bombs school - kills at least 40

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Scores killed as Gaza school hit

More than 640 people have been killed and 2,800 others wounded in the 11-day operation, most of them civilians.
...

Fares Akram, a Gaza city
resident, told Al Jazeera there was "no safe place in Gaza" as "the
Israeli war planes don't stop dropping bombs and firing missiles into
Gaza".

Akram says his wife, who is nine-months pregnant, is living in fear
of going into labour both because of how dangerous it is to leave their
home and because "she knows hospitals in Gaza are in chaos".

He said that while Gazans appreciated demonstrations staged across
the Arab world in protest at Israel's actions in the Strip, most
believe that while the US backs the Israeli offensive the assault will
continue.

In addition, the humanitarian situation in Gaza – already poor
following the 18-month Israeli blockade of the strip that left the
territory desperately short of fuel, food and medical supplies – is
worsening.

John Ging, the head of Unrwa, said he was "shocked" by "the
brutality of the injuries" he had seen during a visit to the Shifa
hospital in Gaza.

Keith Olbermann on Gaza

LeDaro: Keith Olbermann on Gaza < watch me!

Eyeless in Gaza

Dawg's Blawg: Eyeless in Gaza <read me!

The New York Times' Jerusalem bureau chief isn't impressed:
"Israel has never restricted media access like this before, and it should be ashamed," said Ethan Bronner.... "It's betraying the principles by which it claims to live."

Brian Eno: Stealing Gaza

Canadian Dimension Blog / Musician Brian Eno: Stealing Gaza <read me!

The Israelis are a gifted and resourceful people who fully deserve the right to live in peace, but who seem intent on squandering every chance to allow that to happen. It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that this conflict serves the political and economic purposes of Israel so well that they have every interest in maintaining it. While there is fighting they can continue to build illegal settlements. While there is fighting they continue to receive huge quantities of military aid from the United States. And while there is fighting they can avoid looking candidly at themselves and the ruthlessness into which they are descending.

Third-hand smoke a hazard too

A New Cigarette Hazard - ‘Third-Hand Smoke’ - NYTimes.com

Third-hand smoke is what one smells when a smoker gets in an elevator after going outside for a cigarette, he said, or in a hotel room where people were smoking. “Your nose isn’t lying,” he said. “The stuff is so toxic that your brain is telling you: ’Get away.’”

I always knew third-hand smoke was not good for you.

Israel's fait accompli in Gaza

Al Jazeera English - War on Gaza - Israel's fait accompli in Gaza < read me!

Intent to kill civilians

Rolling Back the Tide of Extremism, One Post at a Time: What Kind of Sick Bastard Would Say Something Like That? < read me!

Israel has inflicted a massively disproportional attack on Gaza. Apologists for the Israeli government and military are quick to proclaim that Israel doesn't target innocent Gazans, that it doesn't intentionally kill innocents.

Bullshit. Utterly vile, rotten bullshit.

Stonehenge was a 'giant concert venue'

Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue' - Telegraph

Conservatives not keen on the Listeriosis investigation they promised.

Impolitical: Listeriosis investigation? Not so much

"With listeria, which killed a few-fold more people than Walkerton, we don't have one. It's no exaggeration to say that the Harper government has done less than any government in recent Canadian history to seek to understand what went wrong when Canadian citizens died. And it has sought to do less just because it knows it's culpable.

Death and destruction continues in Gaza - approved by Bush and Harper.

LeDaro: Gaza, Death and Destruction Continues

All the fair-minded people around the world are demonstrating against this uneven and unfair war. Palestinians in Gaza are already living in sub-human conditions and now this severe punishment. This approach of Israel will not bring peace in the region and may bring upheaval around the world. Sensible leaders must speak up. Unfortunately Bush and Harper cannot be considered amongst the sensible ones.

Inorganic phosphates - food additive - tied to lung cancer

Rodent of the week: Food additive tied to lung cancer | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times

Stop the massacre

LeDaro: Gaza situation worsens – It is a tragedy of extraordinary proportion

"Israel is a democratic country that is behaving like a terrorist organization."

Protests denounce Israel

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Worldwide protests denounce Israel

Ralph Bakshi: Tips on surviving in tough times

Fanboy.com » Blog Archive » Ralph Bakshi: Tips on Surviving In Tough Times

"The true story behind this war is not the one Israel is telling"

World Report: Jonathan Hari, "The true story behind this war is not the one Israel is telling," Independent, December 29, 2008,

The world isn't just watching the Israeli government commit a crime in Gaza; we are watching it self-harm. This morning, and tomorrow morning, and every morning until this punishment beating ends, the young people of the Gaza Strip are going to be more filled with hate, and more determined to fight back, with stones or suicide vests or rockets. Israeli leaders have convinced themselves that the harder you beat the Palestinians, the softer they will become. But when this is over, the rage against Israelis will have hardened, and the same old compromises will still be waiting by the roadside of history, untended and unmade.

Was he wearing leather shorts?

Burglar scared off by man dressed as Thor - Crime, UK - The Independent

(thanks Jeff!)

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Elrond
A stern yet benevolent organizer who often knows best, your wits are keenly fixed on aiding efforts you deem worthy.

Now at this last we must take a hard road, a road unforseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril to Mordor.

Elrond is a character in the Middle-Earth universe. TheOneRing.net has a short biography.

Doomsday - a new made-for-TV movie?

Doomsday: Beloved Doomsday Gets Another Chance On TV

Remember the awesome-but-panned Doomsday movie that was a cross between Medieval Times, Mad Max and Resident Evil? Well, they're making lemonade out of tattoo faced cadavers, and trying a Doomsday TV movie, with Trekkies.

Saturn, natural photo

Space Porn: Saturn, Without Airbrushing

New book on why George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes

Why G.W. Bush should be frogmarched before the Hague | Crooks and Liars