BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

By Larry Johnson Last night’s arrest of a U.S. citizen who thought he was spying for Israel is going to unleash a fascinating dynamic. The Washington Post reported this morning : Stewart D. Nozette, 52, was arrested on a charge of attempted espionage and is being held pending an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, authorities said. Authorities said the charges stemmed an undercover sting operation in which an FBI agent posed as an Israeli spy. Nozette allegedly passed the agent sensitive information through a “dead drop” at a D.C. post office in recent weeks, authorities said. Nozette worked for the Energy Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990 through 1999, prosecutors said. He was credited with helping develop a radar in 1994 that suggested ice on the south pole of the moon. He was president of the Alliance for Competitive Technology, a nonprofit group he founded in 1990. He has held security clearances as high as top secret and...

More from the great Uppity Woman. And more reasons I adore Uppity and Phyllis Chesler. I can't improve on what UW says so I am giving her some bandwith. How long are we going to put up with nonsense like Naomi Wolf's in trying to sanitize these monsters? A WINCINGLY AWFUL ARTICLE For those of you who don’t know of Naomi Wolf, here she is at roughly 2:35. IF YOU ARE ON AN AGGREGATOR - CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ABOVE VIDEO Now that you are refreshed, please read Naomi’s article, ”Behind The Veil Lives A Thriving Muslim Sexuality” . No kidding. That’s the title. Please read the entire piece before you read the rest of my post. Take your time. I want you to get it all. I’ll wait…. Dum De Dum, De Da Da………………… …………..All done reading? How ya doin’? Are your eyes bulging? Is that a head explosion I just saw in the second row? Honestly, at first I thought this article was a satire. To recap, Ms. Wolf wore a head scarf and a ”shalwar kameez“ (a far cry from a burqa) during her visit...

So wrong - so horrible and so profoundly sad. By JENNIFER FERMINO The young Iranian woman whose gruesome killing has become a rallying cry for the nation's opposition movement eerily predicted her violent death by gunfire -- but was determined to protest against "the injustice of it all," a friend said yesterday. As the violence continues to escalate on the streets of the embattled Middle Eastern nation, the beautiful philosophy student, Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, who had been engaged to be married, is being hailed as Iran's Joan of Arc. The government yesterday blocked a wake for her in a central Tehran mosque for fear that the outpouring of grief would lead to more anti-regime protests, her fiancé, Caspian Makan, told the BBC. "The authorities are aware that everybody in Iran and throughout the whole world knows about her story," Makan said. "They were afraid that lots of people could turn up." The 40-second video of Neda's death has not been aire...

Before resting its recent case against Mohammed Momin Khawaja under Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act, the prosecution presented Momin’s former fiancée, Zeba Khan, as the final witness via a video link from Dubai. Ms. Khan reportedly stated in her testimony: “You will not meet a young Muslim man in the world who is not angry about something. Anyone who watches the news, if he wasn’t mad then, a) there’s something wrong with him, or b) he’s ignorant.” Obviously, not all angry young Muslim men are engaging in violence — nor, of course, are all Muslims terrorists. But many terrorists are found to be Muslims. Ms. Khan’s remark purports to explain the linkage. It is perhaps no coincidence that Mr. Khawaja has Pakistani roots. In recent years, Pakistan has become a haven for al-Qaeda terrorists. For longer than that, jihadis have recruited Pakistani boys and men to fight in Kashmir and Afghanistan. These brainwashed men may be volunteers headed out to fight infidel “invaders” and “occupiers” of Mu...

Obama insists Palestinians must have state, rejects Iran deadline Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu emerged from his first meeting with US President Barack Obama Monday confident that Israel has the right to defend itself from the threat of a nuclear Iran. Following four hours of talks with Obama, Netanyahu told Israeli reporters gathered across from the White House that there are no green, red or yellow lights from the US but rather a shared sense that Iran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapons capacity. Speaking side by side at the Oval Office earlier in the day, Obama stressed the importance the US places on Israeli security and its recognition of how the Jewish state perceives the threat from Teheran, even as he defended his policy of engagement. Obama rejected the notion of "artificial timelines" in negotiations with Iran, which he indicated he expected would begin in earnest after the Iranian election on June 12 and could subsequently expand to include direct...

If this isn't PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE BLAME SHIFTING then I don't know what is. I'm no Gingrich fan but in this case he is SPOT ON! Gag me! Thwarting Iran hinges on Israeli-Palestinian talks Thwarting Iran's nuclear program is conditional on progress in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, according to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Israeli TV reports said Monday that Emanuel made the comments in a closed-door meeting the previous day with 300 major AIPAC donors. Last month, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Israel that it risks losing Arab support for combating threats from Iran if it rejects peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Clinton said Arab nations had conditioned helping Israel counter Iran on Jerusalem's commitment to the peace process. Meanwhile, in an interview with the Jerusalem Post Sunday, former US House speaker Newt Gingrich blasted the Obama administration for setting itself on a collision course with Israel a...

And they go crying to their enablers - the meaningless, anti-Israel U.N. Projection. Pure & simple. Spare us all!! Iran complains to UN about Israeli 'threats' Iran on Tuesday urged the United Nations to respond firmly to what it described as Israel's "unlawful and insolent threats" to launch an attack on Tehran's nuclear installations. Israeli officials, including President Shimon Peres, recently have suggested that Israel could use military force to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, as the West suspects it is doing. Iran, the world's fourth largest oil producer, insists it is only interested in building reactors that peacefully generate electricity. The Islamic Republic's UN ambassador, in a letter to Mexican UN Ambassador Claude Heller, said Israel was violating the UN charter and urged the international body to respond clearly and resolutely. Mexico holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council. "These out...

Stop it, Barky... JUST STOP!! You see, I have ridden this horse before -- you know the one. The one where pathologicals like you do things like: say 'it never happened' deny it was ever said say you had 'nothing to do with what was said' act stupid revise history STOP!! We all see it Barky. Only you seem to live in the fantasy world inside your narcissistic head. I live in reality. I had a mother, friends and even romantic interests try to play with my head, revise history and outright lie to my face. You know what? We all haven't imbibed in your Kool-Aid, NoBama. GAME OVER! Obama camp denies report Biden said Israel will have to reconcile to nuclear Iran U.S. vice presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden's press secretary vehemently denied on Monday a report that the Democratic candidate had said that Israel would have to reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran. According to an unsourced report by Army Radio, the senator made the remarks to senior Israeli of...

This blog has been my platform for a number of things and one of them is my firm belief that PROSTITUTION IS ABUSE. USING PROSTITUTES IS ABUSIVE AND SEX WITH A PROSTITUTE/ ESCORT/ HOOKER or whatever you want to call them - IS PAID RAPE. Have you ever been treated like a "thing?" Or been in what you thought was a relationship that you later found out, you were a "thing" or an "object"? In a situation where your feelings of being used, hurt or lied to didn't count? Six years ago I was coerced and drawn into such a relationship; though calling it a relationship gives it too much credibility. I learned later that the person, whom I'd known for years who did this to me -- had been running ads on casual sex sites since 1999... and seeing escorts since about 2000. When I came along, I was just one more toy for this person; who'd been conditioned by endless evenings of online porn & lunch hours of hookers to see me as just one of them. He fe...

ISRAEL IS NOT ALONE by Saul Singer Israel is not alone. Not because America's top general came to hold our hands, and not because President George Bush is arriving next month. And not because, as Daniel Pipes intriguingly argues, the US intelligence community's delusional reversal actually makes a US military operation against Iran more likely. Israel is not alone because Israel is the most Iranproof country in the world. Taking the most likely rather than the worst-case scenario, a nuclear Iran will actually have a greater negative impact on the lives of Europeans and Americans than on those of Israelis. In the popular subconscious, the Iranian threat, to the extent that it exists, consists of a nuclear missile strike against Israel to carry out Ahmadinejad's genocidal dream of "wiping Israel off the map." However disconcerting this may be on a moral level, in practice this is seen as "Israel's problem." No country, including the US, will preemptive...

OY! FRIEDMAN'S DONE IT AGAIN We've tried writing Friedman a letter: HERE . Guess we're all peons to even be on his radar. I have openly admitted he's been my least favorite columnist for years. Unfortunately, like a bad accident on the Grand Central Parkway I can't ignore him. He seems to keep coming back like a bad rash. He even kinda, sorta wrote what he hopes passes for an apology. Friedman admitted 9/11 made him... er, "us" stupid. Granted, I don't know if I trust the NIE report fully. Iran is definately to be watched, that's for darn sure. But now Friedman's back again. Every " Friedman Unit " or two, he cycles back around. With more of his "badness." Thomas Friedman's Flawed Analogy on Iran By William Hartung I've had a hard time taking Thomas Friedman seriously ever since his advocacy of the war in Iraq. But I have to acknowledge that there are still occasions when he's right on the money -- as he ...

Two Years after I Called for a Redeployment of U.S. Forces from Iraq, Bush Refuses to Provide the American People with a Responsible Exit Strategy (one comment - when did EXIT STRATEGY = SURRENDER? It doesn't. And no right wing nutjob's semantics is going to make me believe getting our troops out in an orderly and sane manner is the same as surrender. No matter how many times they say it.) "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - Pres. Bush, at the Athena Performing Arts Center at Greece Athena Middle and High School Tuesday, May 24, 2005 in Rochester, NY - SOURCE by Rep. John Murtha [November 17, 2007] marks the two year anniversary of my public call for the redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq. Two years ago, I was convinced that the President's lack of strategy in Iraq was harming our military, our international credibility, and the strength of our...