December 2008

My Shared Google Reader Items

• Israel faces new pressure as Lady Ashton visits Gaza
  Palestinian president appeals to EU foreign policy chief to pressure Israel over settlementsIsrael faced new international pressure over the deadlocked Middle East peace process today with a visit by Lady Ashton, the European Union's new foreign policy chief, to the blockaded Gaza Strip controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas.Ashton was touring UN off […]
• George Bush raised Rachel Corrie’s death with Ariel Sharon
  Rabbi Brian Walt has sat next to Cindy and Craig Corrie in a Haifa courtroom during testimony in their civil suit against the Israeli gov’t in the killing of their daughter, Rachel, 7 years ago in Gaza. Part of his report: Elad, currently a student at Bar Ilan University [a pseudonym to protect his identity--one of the three people who conducted the Israeli […]
• 'Day of rage' in East Jerusalem
  Shared by Kate great map on the bottom! Dozens of Palestinian stone-throwers clash with Israeli police in East Jerusalem on a 'day of rage' declared by Hamas Islamists in protest at Israel's consecration of an ancient synagogue in the city […]
• TX Still Plans to Execute a Man, Despite Untested DNA Evidence
  After spending 15 years on death row, Hank Skinner is scheduled to be executed in less than a week, despite the existence of untested DNA evidence that could prove his guilt or innocence. Though Skinner maintains he's not guilty and has sought DNA tests for a full decade, Texas officials continue to refuse him access to justice. Instead, they've ch […]
• Lisa Miller is Not Rosa Parks
  As the days turn to weeks with no sign of Lisa Miller, or seven year old Isabella Miller-Jenkins, more and more people emerge to opine about the fugitive's location. Her attorneys at Liberty Counsel don't know where she is. Her friends at Americans for Truth About Homosexuality don't know where she is. Concerned Women for America, oddly, is ho […]
• Racist Mocking of First Lady Michelle Obama: Ape Imagery Yet Again
  The Nashville Scene has a long account of the racist email sent out by Walt Baker, influential head of the powerful Tennessee Hospitality Association (motels, hotels, etc.). He sent out this email with a photo of the chimp Cheeta (see here too, Cheeta the chimpanzee) next to one of First Lady Michelle Obama: From: Walt Baker Date: March 4, 2010 9:1 […]
• Tensions persist in West Bank
  Palestinians clash with Israeli police who remain heavily deployed despite lifting of closure. […]
• Netanyahu in-law makes Obama slur
  Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu distances himself from his brother-in-law who called Barack Obama anti-Semitic. […]
• Iran tightens petrol rations
  Iran has announced it will cut the volume of its cheap petrol ration by 25% to 60 litres per vehicle per month from 21 March. […]
• Barbies, Models, and the Uncanny Valley
  Sarah Barnes, who blogs at Uplift, expressed surprise at seeing the ad below in Grazia magazine: She found herself surprised, she explains, because it took a minute for it to sink in that the dolls weren’t real people… She explains: In a time when everything is photoshopped to such disastrous levels, there really isn’t that much difference between a Ralph L […]