{"id":1521,"date":"2006-07-18T17:19:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2006-07-18T17:19:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:19:41","slug":"reports-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"Reports from Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Goodman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/07\/18\/1442253\">reported today<\/a> that 900,000 people may be displaced in Lebanon by day&#8217;s end where the parks already resemble refugee camps.  At air time the number was estimated to be 400,000.  Israel has refused to guarantee the safe passage of relief workers.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning, a listener stranded in Lebanon told Anthony Walters, producer of the Chicago-based radio show, <em>This Is Hell<\/em>,  he&#8217;d &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishell.net\/index_1.html\">heard that<\/a> even IF the u.s. can evacuate us they&#8217;re going to CHARGE us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton, following a fundraising breakfast thrown for her by Rupert Murdoch,  defended Israel&#8217;s war crimes at a rally today.  I haven&#8217;t decided who&#8217;s dumber.  Clinton for believing she&#8217;s being groomed for anything other than the candidate most likely to lose or Bush Junior for believing he&#8217;s a grasp on anything besides the rails of the trough in which he dwells.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Thom Cookes and colleagues are fired upon by the IOF whilst filming an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sbs.com.au\/dateline\/index.php?page=archive&#038;daysum=2006-07-12\">outstanding report on the situation in Gaza<\/a>.  The inimitable George Negus interviews Efram Halevy.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article14040.htm\">Juan Cole explains<\/a> why Murdoch will never produce news so honest and brave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Goodman reported today that 900,000 people may be displaced in Lebanon by day&#8217;s end where the parks already resemble refugee camps. At air time the number was estimated to be 400,000. Israel has refused to guarantee the safe passage &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1521\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-ox","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}