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Are We Done With Air Shows Yet?

Flashback to a year ago when a tragic crash claimed spectators in Reno. Organizer tells NPR new safety implemented will "make the news media happy".

(SALEM, Ore.) - Could the fatal crash of veteran pilot Jimmy Leeward in a fiery Reno, Nevada air show race accident that claimed nine lives and injured 60 be a turning point?

It seems possible that the clock may now be ticking on this often military-oriented rich man's sport; one that combines big crowd thrills with even bigger crowd danger and risk, generally with a military twist.

Serena Williams: A Champion Is Under Fire (So what else is new?)

It is true that Serena Williams lets her anger get the better part of her character and it could not be more a matter of public display, by nature.

(CLEVELAND) - Media sources tend to agree that Serena Williams may be the greatest women's tennis player who ever lived, however her terse words to an official at the U.S. Open, have landed this young superstar in hot water, and the press seems divided over whether she crossed the line into the abyss, or simply let her anger get the better of her.

One simple argument as Luke outlines in this poem, is the fact that we all like the rumble when it comes to sports, and watching sparks fly is just part of the action.

A Review of The Wandering Who

“The Wandering Jew, like Cain, is Everyman. We are what we will to be: Cain or Abel, with a soul or without one, sympathetic to our fellows or indifferent, human or non-human.”
- (William A. Cook, “The Eternal Jew Goes on Forever,” 24/08/09).

(LAVERNE, Calif.) - Gilad Atzmon’s insight into the organism created by the Zionist movement in his book, The Wandering Who, is explosive.

It tears the veil off of Israel’s apparent civility, its apparent friendship with the United States, and its expressed solicitude for western powers—Britain, Canada, Australia, France and Germany—exposing behind the veil, the assassin ready to slay any and all that interfere with its tribally focused ends.

Like and unlike the only `Independent` Journalist in Eritrea

Like and unlike the only "independent”journalist in Eritrea".

(UGANDA ) - Eritrea which is known by all accounts of human rights groups as the top jailer of journalists in addition to a closure of all venues for free expression reportedly hosts, according to www.countercurrents.org,the one and only western “independent” journalist since 2006. He is called Thomas C. Mountain.

Because of the power outage that occurs every other day--sometimes every day-- in Kampala that lasts for over 24 hours, I didn’t have the luxury to find out more about him using search engines such as Google.

Erdogan: `Israel is the West`s Spoiled Child

Members of Obama’s own government have tried to alert the President to the danger of giving in to Israel’s every demand.

(CHICAGO) - On Tuesday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an Arab League meeting in Cairo, Egypt, that a vote to accept a Palestinian state in the United Nations “is not a choice but an obligation.”

Later, on a Cairo television program, Erdogan declared: “Israel is the West’s spoiled child. To this day it has never executed a decision by the international community.”

Israeli War Criminals Are Welcome Here

If the West was once associated with Athens, it is clearly fixated by Jerusalem now. This is certainly a tragedy, yet not a Greek one.

(LONDON) - Earlier today Britain amended its universal jurisdiction law to the extent that Israeli war criminals can now enter the Kingdom without risk of arrest.

British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould shamelessly called Israeli war criminal Tzipi Livni, against whom an arrest warrant was issued in 2009, and told her that the Queen has signed the amendment "to ensure that the UK’s justice system can no longer be abused for political reasons."

London Philharmonic Suspends Musicians for anti-Israel Remarks

“According to The Guardian, musicians sanctioned after they signed a letter condemning the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as an instrument of Israeli propaganda.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt Guardian) - The London Philharmonic Orchestra has suspended four of its musicians for nine months for adopting its name when they called for the cancellation of an Israeli orchestra’s concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

Orchestra suspended cellist Sue Sutherley, as well as violinists Tom Eisner, Nancy Elan and Sarah Streatfeild until June 2012, after they signed a letter as members of the LPO condemning the orchestra as an instrument of Israeli propaganda.

Creating a Racket on the Tennis Court

"They are making sounds like they are lifting 300 pounds…. the ball is not that heavy." - Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova

(LOS ANGELES) - If you watched the US Open tennis over the past couple of weeks, your ears may still be ringing from matches featuring female players who can’t seem to hit a ball without screeching and squawking their way through every ear-shattering point.

Agent Terry`s Family Denied Crime Victim Status In Gun Walker Case

Also: was Fast & Furious a CIA operation?

(WASHINGTON D.C. Human Events) - Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s murder at the hands of Mexican criminals carrying at least one weapon from the ATF’s “Operation Fast and Furious” brought that awful program to a screeching halt. The straw purchaser who secured the weapon carried by Terry’s killers, a 23-year-old Phoenix man named Jamie Avila, is now on trial for gun-trafficking offenses.

Agent Terry’s family asked to be granted status as crime victims, so they could talk with prosecutors and speak at Avila’s sentencing. It’s a routine request… but to the surprise of many observers, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona has denied them.

Some Good News from Palestine

Six good news items and more...

(BETHLEHEM) - I bring you one bad news item, six good news items, and action calls regarding human rights. There are a number of actions being organized around Palestine this weekend.

They include demonstrations and vigils and marches after Friday prayers in places like Al-Walaja, Nebi Saleh, Bilin and on Saturday at noon at Qalandia apartheid wall-gate (organized by the General union of Palestinian Women meet at Qalandia Cooperative society) and at 1 PM Saturday at Beit Ummar among many other places.