Kirk To Obama: Withdraw Grants To Libyan Charities Run By Gadhafi Family - cbs2chicago.com »
Posted By gunnyreef 2 months ago in Political News
The Obama Administration plans to give $400,000 in funding to a Libyan charity run by the Gadhafi family, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wants the grant withdrawn.
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fishifanb2 months ago
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Would that also apply to the $2.4 Billion of taxpayer dollars that went to Isreal in 2008?
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http://wrmea.org/component/content/article/245-200...
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blastbard2 months ago
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My first comment ever. Blastbard says: Obama knows its not enough money to do anything big while Rep. officials know it´s a wider gesture they can profit from. IE: "The US doesn´t punish people doing good works just because they know terrorists or happen to be their cousin(s)." What native-born charity workers in the middle East don´t likely fall into that group, You tell me?
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hyperbola2 months ago
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U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) would do better to help these Israelis in their efforts to end the financing of terrorism by foreign agents in the US.
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How US tax breaks fund terrorist Israeli settlers
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/09/17/how-us-t...
Israeli peace activists are planning to ratchet up their campaign against groups in the United States that raise money for settlers by highlighting how tax exemptions are helping to fund the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Gush Shalom, a small peace group that advocates Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied territories, is preparing to send details to the US tax authorities questioning the charitable status of several organisations.
Adam Keller, a spokesman, said these operations’ tax-exempt status meant that “settlement expansion is effectively being subsidised out of the pockets of the US taxpayer and government”.
The campaign is designed to increase pressure on Barack Obama, the US president, to demand action from Israel on his repeated calls -- so far largely ignored -- to end settlement building. Last week, Israel announced plans to build 455 new homes in West Bank settlements and 500 apartments in East Jerusalem....
...In a related move, Gush Shalom is encouraging Palestinians who have suffered from settler violence to file lawsuits in the United States that would redefine the settlers’ fund-raising work as support for “terrorist activity”.
The peace group has accelerated the pace of its campaign, according to a “confidential memo” it issued on July 29 that was leaked to the Israeli media, after the Israeli government heavily criticised human rights groups over the summer for receiving funds from foreign donors, particularly European governments.
In particular, the foreign ministry lambasted Breaking the Silence, a group of army veterans, for publishing testimonials from 26 Israeli combat soldiers suggesting the army committed war crimes during its assault on Gaza last winter.
Mr Keller said: “It’s the height of chutzpah for the foreign ministry to be hounding Breaking the Silence, which is doing something entirely legal and transparent, while keeping quiet about the settler organisations’ dependence on foreign income for their illegal activities.”-
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hyperbola2 months ago
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Or, if U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) really cares about Americans rather than trying to earn brownie points with a foreign propaganda oganization like AIPAC, he could campaign on ending the Israeli financing of propganda organizations in America.
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How Low Will Israel Stoop in Its Propaganda War?
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/09/17/how-low-...
'The Israel Project', a US media advocacy group, has produced a revised training manual to help the worldwide Zionist movement win the propaganda war, keep their ill-gotten territorial gains and persuade international audiences to accept that their crimes are necessary and conform to 'shared values' between Israel and the civilized West.
The manual teaches how to justify the slaughter, the ethnic cleansing, the land-grabbing, the cruelty and the blatant disregard for international law and UN resolutions, and make it all smell sweeter with a liberal squirt of the aerosol of persuasive language. It is designed to hoodwink us ignorant and gullible Americans and Europeans into believing that we actually share values with the racist regime in Israel and that its abominable behaviour is therefore deserving of our support.
And the manual will no doubt serve as a communications primer for the army of cyber-scribblers that Israel’s Ministry of Dirty Tricks is recruiting to spread Zionism’s poison across the internet.
This quote at the beginning sets the tone: "Remember, it’s not what you say that counts. It’s what people hear."
Top Priority: Demonize Hamas.... How daft can you get? Substitute Israel for Hamas.
Words that Work. The manual sets out numerous examples of “words that work” - supposedly...... No mention here of the billions of tax dollars Israel takes from the US and spends on munitions to obliterate and vaporize its neighbors..... Hamas and Hezbollah are only regarded as terrorists by the White House and Tel Aviv and by US-Israeli stooges and flag-wavers at Westminster and elsewhere.
In Executive Order 13224 – Blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit or support terrorism - Bush used this definition: “The term “terrorism” means an activity that — (i) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure; and (ii) appears to be intended — (A) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (B) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (C) to affect the conduct of a government by mass estruction, assassination, kidnapping, or hostage-taking.”
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lloydm652 months ago
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Hyper is so angered by Israel he can't see straight.These two recipients of said four hundred thousand dollars are the son,and daughter of Gaddafi.The son instigated the early release of the bomber who murdered one hundred,eighty nine American citizens,mostly collage students.You can't tell me we can't find a better use of our money.How about hating Egypt for awhile we give them about the same amount.How about Africa.
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hyperbola2 months ago
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You have been imbibing too much in the cradle to grave propaganda bubble to which Americans are subjected.
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Lockerbie: Megrahi Was Framed
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/09/06/lockerbi...
No one in authority has had the guts to state the truth about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 above the Scottish village of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 in which 270 people were killed. The governments in England and Scotland in effect blackmailed Megrahi into dropping his appeal as a condition of his immediate release. Of course there were oil and arms deals under way with Libya; but had Megrahi proceeded with his appeal, some 600 pages of new and deliberately suppressed evidence would have set the seal on his innocence and given us more than a glimpse of how and why he was stitched up for the benefit of "strategic interests."
"The endgame came down to damage limitation," said the former CIA officer Robert Baer, who took part in the original investigation, "because the evidence amassed by [Megrahi's] appeal is explosive and extremely damning to the system of justice." New witnesses would show that it was impossible for Megrahi to have bought clothes that were found in the wreckage of the Pan Am aircraft – he was convicted on the word of a Maltese shopowner who claimed to have sold him the clothes, then gave a false description of him in 19 separate statements and even failed to recognize him in the courtroom.
The new evidence would have shown that a fragment of a circuit board and bomb timer, "discovered" in the Scottish countryside and said to have been in Megrahi’s suitcase, was probably a plant. A forensic scientist found no trace of an explosion on it. The new evidence would demonstrate the impossibility of the bomb beginning its journey in Malta before it was "transferred" through two airports undetected to Flight 103.
A "key secret witness" at the original trial, who claimed to have seen Megrahi and his co-accused al-Alim Khalifa Fahimah (who was acquitted) loading the bomb on to the plane at Frankfurt, was bribed by the US authorities holding him as a "protected witness." The defense exposed him as a CIA informer who stood to collect, on the Libyans’ conviction, up to $4m as a reward.
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