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23 July 2009

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Facebook has recently agreed to change their position and take a position on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. They agreed to the request of a group of Israeli right-wingers to be able to select Israel as an option for those who live in the West Bank Jewish Colonies. Haaretz daily newspaper quoted Brandee Barker, Facebook’s director of communications, saying, “Facebook users in the Israeli West Bank settlements of Maale Adumim, Beitar Illit, and Ariel can now choose between Israel and Palestine,” Barker said last week in an email to Reuters. […] “We also offer Hebron in both Israel and Palestine,” Barker said, referring to the major West Bank city which is home to about 150,000 Palestinians and some 400 Israelis.

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http://petition.stopapartheid.org/

Thank you.

Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report, 22 July 2009

Candidate Barack Obama told us to judge his first term by whether he delivers quality affordable health care for all Americans, including nearly fifty million uninsured. So why does his proposal not cover the uninsured till 2013, after the next presidential election when Medicare took only 11 months to cover its first 40 million seniors? Why are corporate media pretending that no opinions exist to Obama’s left? And why has the public option part of the Obama health care plan shrunk from covering 130 million to only 10 million, with 16 million left uninsured altogether?

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United Students Against Sweatshops hung this banner today (20 July) on the building across the street from coup regime lobbyist Lanny Davis’ office in Washington.

Al Giordano: Democra-Phobia: Fear of Citizen Power in Honduras | h/t

Jonathan Cook, The National, 20 July 2009

NAZARETH. ISRAEL // 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 news about Israel.

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Updated @ 1647 on 21 July 2009:
Interrupting reality to link to this announcement from Obama propagandists…

Ashley Aymond, Natural Building Network, 20 July 2009

Upon returning from a recent visit to Louisiana, I experienced a deep sadness as I realized the culture shift needed for my home to be healed. I also sensed a great opportunity and responsibility, both of myself and others in the sustainability movement. What does it mean to be a natural builder? Build houses, build nature, build community? I felt strongly that it was all of these.

It was from this place that I felt an urgency to act, and to inspire others to act. A small box in the corner of my heart was opening once again, the place where I keep my most sacred dreams. Dreams that poke their heads out only when there’s a chance that they might be realized.

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