A helicopter used by the NATO-led coalition forces in Afghanistan has crashed in the southern province Kandahar, killing at least 15 people.
The Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter crashed while taking off in the volatile province, Interfax news agency reported. Two of the 17 people onboard sustained injuries, according to sources.
Last week, a US helicopter was shot down [...]
July 22, 2009
NATO chopper crash kills 15 in Afghanistan…
July 22, 2009
Israel cuts 1948 ‘catastrophe’ from Arabic texts…
JERUSALEM – The Israeli government will remove references to what Palestinians call the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the education minister said Wednesday.
The reference to “al-naqba,” the Arabic word catastrophe, as Palestinians call their defeat and exile in the war over Israel’s 1948 creation, was inserted by a dovish Israeli education [...]
July 22, 2009
US: Bernanke: “I Don’t Know” Which Foreign Banks Were Given Half a Trillion…
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was confronted yesterday by Congressman Alan Grayson about which foreign banks were the recipients of Federal Reserve credit swaps, but he was unable to provide an answer as to where over half a trillion dollars had gone.
Asked which European financial institutions received the money, which was handed out by The [...]
July 22, 2009
Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current Codex Alimentarius Guidelines…
Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the dark about the coming nutricide. Codex Alimentarius is scheduled for full global implementation on December 31, 2009, and not a word has been spoken in main stream media about [...]
July 22, 2009
Who Put Super-Thermite in the Twin Towers?
The discovery of chips of highly-explosive super-thermite in the dust of the World Trade Center is an essential key to unraveling the entire 9-11 hoax. Understanding the lies about 9-11 reveals in turn the mass deception behind the wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq and the utterly fraudulent “War on Terror.” One soon realizes [...]
July 22, 2009
Twitterers paid to spread Israeli propaganda…
Nazareth. The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems.
Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive [...]
July 22, 2009
The Rothschilds: A Continuing Saga…
by Assaf Uni
Source: GlobalResearch
BERLIN – The extensive banking dynasty founded in the late 18th century by Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a coin dealer and later a financial adviser to a German prince, contrasted drastically with the modest house on Frankfurt’s Judengasse (Jews’ Lane), in which he lived until his death. Four of his sons – who [...]
July 22, 2009
Israeli settlers continue attacks on Palestinians…
Israeli settlers are continuing their latest spate of attacks against Palestinians and their properties in the occupied West Bank.
Starting Monday, the settlers have attacked Palestinians’ cars in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Hebron (al-Khalil).
In Hebron, settlers stoned Palestinian cars late on Monday night, and near Nablus they set fire and damaged crops of [...]
July 22, 2009
Poll: Obama’s popularity even lower than George W Bush’s…
A USA Today/Gallup survey suggested that six months into his presidency, his popularity was lower than George W Bush’s at the same stage of his tenure.
Other polls by ABC News and the Washington Post also showed Mr Obama’s job approval falling below 60 per cent for the first time since he was sworn in as [...]
July 22, 2009
Afghanistan: Over 150 British casualties in one week…
Recent fighting in Afghanistan led to a record number of British casualties since the start of the war against the Taliban, with more than 150 badly wounded within a week, defence officials said yesterday.
The figures are in addition to the 17 soldiers killed this month so far. The latest, the victim of a roadside bomb [...]
July 22, 2009
Europe raises pressure on Israel to stop settlements…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Germany, France and EU president Sweden on Tuesday joined Western nations pressing Israel to stop building settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank under a U.S.-led effort to resume stalled peace talks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has resisted international calls to freeze building in occupied territory, seemed to show a [...]
