It’s not a “going out of business” sale, but it’s a start.
As part of the budget deal reached by the governor and legislators earlier this year, Connecticut is planning to privatize $60 million in state assets.
Contrary to the lazy propaganda of government-employee unions, “privatization” is not the contracting out [...]
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:11:23 GMT
The speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Aziz Dweik
The Palestinian Legislative Council speaker says the the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has no constitutional authority to extended the tenure of Mahmoud Abbas as acting chief of the Palestinian Authority.
"The" [...]
The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem [MaanImages]
BETHLEHEM - Hundreds of right-wing Jewish Israelis are expected to descend on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on Thursday, groups told the Jerusalem Post.
A report published on Tuesday in the Israeli daily cited an unnamed group of activists [...]
We must 'oppose U.S. military and economic aid for Israel.'
By Labor for Palestine
(Open Letter from U.S. Trade Unionists to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Boycott Apartheid Israel; December 2009)
"Sanctions alone cannot eradicate apartheid; that task is ultimately left to the people of South" [...]
Complete withdrawal of US from Iraq is prerequisite for a free country. (Zoriah.net)
By Nicola Nasser – West Bank
Nowhere it is more obvious than in Iraq that the existence of an election law, elections themselves and the constitution they are based on are not indicators of democracy [...]
Palestinians inspect the damage done to a mosque that was set on fire in WB. (Via NYT)
By Dallas Darling
When Jewish extremists in Palestinian territory attacked a mosque and set fire to Muslim holy books and prayer carpets, it was reminiscent of the cremation of the Strasbourg [...]
The arrest warrants against Israeli leaders are indeed just a symbolic act.
By Gilad Atzmon - London
Senior officials in Israel confirmed reports on Monday that a British court issued a warrant against opposition leader Mrs. Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating Israel's military offensive against Hamas [...]
em>"I feel honest revulsion at the idea of a case where a judge has granted an arrest warrant and a politician gets on the phone and apologises," said Daniel Machover, a solicitor. "They have got to stay out of individual cases and legal decisions."
• Brown 'totally opposed' to attempted [...]
HARTFORD - On Tuesday, the House and Senate Democrats left no doubt that they are incapable of leading the Legislative branch of government when they decided to take no action on the state’s $625 million budget deficit with six months left in the fiscal year.
After [...]
Please Call your State Representatives and Tell Them: No More Taxes, No More Bonded Debt, Cut Spending!
House Democrats - 800-842-8267
Senate Democrats - 800-842-1420
House Republicans - 800-842-1423
Senate Republicans - 800-842-1421
From the Federation:
This was their time to shine! An opportunity for 14 municipal leaders, at the invitation of Governor Rell, to [...]
Zionist Israeli's illegal Apartheid Wall of Hatred snakes through Palestine and cuts up communities and areas into bantustans. In 2004, the international World Court deemed the wall and all settlements in the West Bank illegal.
BETHLEHEM – Just days before Bethlehem's busiest tourist season [...]
Abbas does not want a second term in office due to frustrations with Israel and the US
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has extended the mandates of both president Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas-dominated parliament until new elections are held.
The decision was made by PLO's' [...]
by Teacher’s Point of View
“What do you think about this Character Counts program? Do you feel it’s helping you meet the State CCT standards any better than you were already doing on your own (prior to three years ago when CC came in)? Are you seeing an appreciable difference in [...]
from JK
When I have a question about what my children are doing in school I contact their teacher(s). I’ve not had to take any steps beyond that so far, as I’ve found that the teachers in Woodstock have responded to the questions I’ve asked. If I were not satisfied, contacting [...]
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Movement of Hamas stated Tuesday that Mahmoud Abbas’s speech before the central council of the Palestine liberation organization (PLO) is an attempt to pave the way for his return to the frivolous negotiations with the Israeli occupation.
In a press statement to the [...]
RAMALLAH – Official sources in the Fatah movement said they secured a promise from President Mahmud Abbas that he would not "make any surprise decisions" around whether or not to run for reelection in the next Palestinian vote.
The source said Abbas made the [...]
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem
The recent arrest warrant issued in London for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is more than justified.
This woman, along with two other Israeli leaders, Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, stood at the helm of the [...]
Does Obama want to fool anyone?
By Mary Rizzo
Barack Obama is a very handsome man. He has the charisma of a showman. He speaks very well, and what's more, he can even dance. It's not clear whether that is sufficient criteria to make one into [...]
Berlanty is being persecuted by the illegal invader and occupier. (Photo: CNN/file)
By Stuart Littlewood – London
The dragged-out scandal of final-year Bethlehem student Berlanty Azzam's arrest and abduction - handcuffed and blindfolded – and subsequent dumping in Gaza in the middle of the night just weeks before [...]
Lilysussman’s Blog
Posted in Uncategorized by lilysussman on November 30, 2009
I was sitting on the deck overlooking the Red Sea. Israeli security officers (most who looked around 18 years old) had completed around two hours of questioning and searching me. They had pressed every sock and scarf with a security device, [...]
By Bar Ben Ari and Or Hirshauga, TheMarker Correspondents
Israel Border Police officers shot at an American student's laptop as she entered Israel via Taba, Egypt, two weeks ago.
Lily Sussman, 21, wrote on her blog that border police subjected her to two hours of questioning and [...]
On Monday, Israel’s the chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Yona Metzger, visited the West Bank village of Yasuf, where the local mosque was vandalized last week.
By ROBERT MACKEY
On Monday, Israel’s the chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Yona Metzger, visited the West Bank village of Yasuf, where the local mosque was [...]
Tzipi Livni, Angel of Death of Gaza; Irma Grese, right, Angel of Death of Auschwitz
Israel has reacted angrily to an arrest warrant issued, and later withdrawn, by a British court against Tzipi Livni, Israel's former foreign minister, over her role during Israel's war on Gaza.
[...]
Livni served as Israel's foreign minister during the country's war in Gaza earlier this year [REUTERS]
A British court reportedly issued an arrest warrant for Israel's former foreign minister on charges relating to Israel's 22-day war on Gaza, before apparently withdrawing it after it was found she [...]
by teachref09
Teacher has expressed a deep sense of frustration with replies to Taxpayer’s questioning of the value of the Character Counts program. One has only to look across the street from the Woodstock Middle School and see an entire educational facility dedicated to the Character Counts philosophy. Hyde School is [...]
by Con
I don’t know much about this Program and so am giving benefit of the doubt by the ideal suggested by it’s title - and I don’t understand objections to a program like this. What could be more important for young people to learn, develop, acquire, etc., than Character?
Tax says [...]
DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT
The Israeli cabinet has decided to list some Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as "national priority zones".
The decision announced on Sunday entitles the communities built on land taken from Palestinians to millions of dollars of extra state funding.
The cabinet's move comes just weeks after' [...]
Remember September 11 by Carlos Latuff
"It's very good….Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)". – Response of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when asked on September 11, 2001 what the attacks meant for U.S.-Israeli relations.
Game theory war-planners rely on mathematical [...]
By BEN HUBBARD
RAMALLAH, West Bank — A leader of the most persistent Palestinian protest movement against Israel's West Bank separation barrier was asleep in his home when troops broke down his door and arrested him.
Supporters of Abdullah Abu Rahmeh, a 38-year-old teacher, say his pre-dawn arrest on [...]
Hamas: PA forces detain over 250 supporters
As part of the collaboration between the U.S., Israeli, and Abbas's Palestinian Authority, US General Keith Dayton trains PA forces to attack Palestinians who support Hamas.
GAZA – Hamas on Sunday accused the Palestinian Authority of stepping up detentions of [...]
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza, Palestine -- The Movement of Hamas on Sunday called on the Palestinian people in the West Bank to move to defend their mosques against Israeli settlers’ attacks.
Hamas spokesman Hammad Al-Ruqub said that Israel’s arson attack on a mosque in [...]
By Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent
Would any of the settlers who opposed the Civil Administration inspectors this week be living in the territories had the governments of Israel not established and encouraged them? Would the Gush Katif evacuees have moved to mobile homes in Ariel in the expectation of [...]
from ’Teacher’s Point of View’
“I’ve heard other parents say that their child has been bullied in one of our schools. One of my children has also been bullied. The handful of students whom I’ve asked about this program report that it’s “so boring” Newcomer said.
If it’s fairly new in our schools [...]
Theater alive and well locally and in Boston
As EU diplomats waste time arguing over words, Israeli occupation forces continue to demolish Palestinian homes. (Meged Gozani/Activestills)
By Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 9 December 2009
Israel started a preemptive campaign against a EU statement on the Middle East session even before it was formally [...]
As EU diplomats waste time arguing over words, Israeli occupation forces continue to demolish Palestinian homes. (Meged Gozani/Activestills)
By Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 9 December 2009
Israel started a preemptive campaign against a EU statement on the Middle East session even before it was formally [...]
Hizballah supporters cheer as Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech in the southern suburbs of Beirut, May 2009. (Matthew Cassel)
By Matthew Cassel, Electronic Initifada
Last week Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech over video link from an unknown location, as he frequently does. The leader of the [...]
Dear neighbor,
Is your refrigerator on the fritz? Does your air conditioner only put out hot air in the summer heat? Well, the state, through a federally funded program, can save you money when you replace your old inefficient appliances.
Connecticut is on track to receive nearly $3.4 million from the federal [...]
In banning minarets, Switzerland has exposed how fake the rights and freedoms of the West really are for minorities, writes Ramzy Baroud*
So this is how democracy works?
In 2004 France banned headscarves and school principals chased after young "defiant" Muslim girls who continued to cover up [...]
Back-dropped by the Dome of the Rock Mosque, Ultra Orthodox Jews walk on a roof in Jerusalem. A row broke out between Israel and the European Union over a draft EU proposal that East Jerusalem should become the capital of a future Palestinian state as part [...]
The EU's policy statement on a future Palestinian state now needs to be acted on, writes Khaled Amayreh from occupied Jerusalem
A watered-down, though still strongly worded policy statement issued by EU foreign ministers this week has drawn ambivalent reactions from both Israel and the Palestinians, with the latter urging the [...]
Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize only days after announcing an increase in troops in the ongoing US-led war in Afghanistan. (Pete Souza/White House Photo)
By Sayed Dhansay, The Electronic Intifada, 11 December 2009
United States President Barack Obama has just accepted the Nobel Peace Prize at [...]
By WILLIAM BLUM
All the crying from the left about how Obama "the peace candidate" has now become "a war president" ... Whatever are they talking about? Here's what I wrote in this report in August 2008, during the election campaign:
We find Obama threatening, several times, to attack [...]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas described the Israeli draft law binding any government to go to referendum before agreeing to withdraw from Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights as a referendum on something that it does not own.
Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said in a press release [...]
Taxpayer, I’m only going to address a couple of your questions and answers here.
“3- What exactly is the weekly curriculum for character counts? Answer:There is none. Its “student directed”…which according to the rhetoric above translates to “greater student input and ownership”. For thinking people, this means, “not much is going [...]
NOTICE
On December 9, 2009, Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless (“Cellco”) filed an Application with the Connecticut Siting Council for the installation of a wireless telecommunications facility in the Town of Woodstock, Connecticut. The installation would consist of a 100’ x 100’ leased area and a 50’ x 75’ fenced compound [...]
Gov. M. Jodi Rell has offered a detailed plan to cut the close to $600 million budget deficit for the current two-year state fiscal plan agreed to in September. Gov. Rell has taken the leadership steps needed to reduce the flow of red ink and to [...]
