"No, really, it looked just like an Egyptian horse ranch to us when we attacked!!!" -- Nodding Yahoo*

*On June 8, 1967, Israel attacked and tried to sink the USS Liberty, an intelligence gathering ship, killing 34 US sailors. While the attack was underway Israel kept telling the US that Egypt had attacked the ship, to trigger a US attack on Cairo. The attack was on the way to Cairo when the crew of the USS Liberty finally got past the Israeli jamming and got a message out identifying their true attackers. The strike against Cairo was recalled and the official story is that Israel mistook the USS Liberty for an Egyptian horse carrier ship, because as we all know, Egyptian horse carrier ships all have huge dish antennas all over them!

Let's review the timetable.

Last month, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed in an IDF-controlled region of the West Bank, not Gaza. ISIS has taken credit and even the Israeli media admits that the two suspects named by the Israeli government are not part of HAMAS, but of a group known for disobeying HAMAS and trying to cause trouble for them.

But Netanyahu declares HAMAS, the legally elected government of Gaza, responsible and launches bombing raids into Gaza using the very latest high-tech weapons provided by the US Government and paid for by the US taxpayers.

To put Israel's actions into perspective, let us recall that over the July 4th weekend, 8 people were killed in Chicago. Using Netanyahu's logic, the Democratic party should be blamed and all of Illinois bombed and invaded!

The Palestinians, who have been attacked without provocation, fight back with their home-made rockets, which so far have mostly knocked a few roof tiles loose.

But to Israel's supporters, we should all forget that Israel attacked Gaza without a valid reason, and view Palestine's attempts to defend themselves as the crime, so that Israel can go on pounding the Palestinians with their superior weapons.

I want to point something out. The Israelis sit in their tanks, or the drone operations centers, or fly high above Gaza in their US-supplied warplanes, dropping the latest in US-supplied high tech lethal munitions, and imagine themselves the heroes they read about in the Torah. The Israelis, clearly unafraid of HAMAS rockets, line the hills overlooking Gaza and cheer the carnage, much as the Romans at the Colosseum cheered as the Christians were thrown to the lions. The Palestinians huddle in their giant open-air prison, without an army, a navy, or an air force, and fight back with home-made rockets made out of plumbing supplies.

Not since Thermopylae has the world seen such courage in the face of overwhelming odds. The Palestinians have balls the US and Israel can only dream of, and the world will remember their courage against the tyrants, and the lies by the corporate media's presstitutes and whorespondents trying to protect Israel's aggression!

The budget crisis is indeed part of the problem, as Americans who do not have enough to eat are opposed to spending any more money making war on Israel's enemies, mostly because Israel is making enemies faster than Americans can kill them off.

But behind that is another reality. Israel has been screaming that Iran was within months of a nuclear weapon since 1985. After a quarter century of crying "wolf", we are getting very tired. And, we remember that Israel was very much a part of the claims that Iraq had nuclear weapons, which we now know was a lie. So even were the US economy functional, few would bother listening to Israel's calls for Americans to make war on Israel's enemies any more.

Israel has been claiming Iran is just weeks away from a nuclear weapon going back to 1985. There is no proof to back up the Israeli assertions. and it should be remembered that Israel was on the forefront of those claiming Iraq had nuclear weapons, which turned out to be a lie. Israel claimed Iraq was building bombs in a clandestine factory underneath the power station at Osirak when they bombed that facility. Post-invasion inspection of the ruins found no evidence of any weapons development. When Israel attacked and tried to sink the USS Liberty, Israel claimed Egypt was behind the attack. During the Lavon Affair, when Israeli agents bombed an American diplomatic facility in Egypt they planted evidence to frame Egyptian Muslims.

So why would anyone with half a brain believe anything Israel has to say about Iran?

Reporters in Kansas city are unable to confirm anyone from that city with that name. Looks like they are all fakes, for some propaganda purpose.

Why on Earth would Al-Shabaab release the names of the attackers? Did "Al Qaeda" release the names of the 9-11 hijackers? More and more this is feeling like a propaganda "prequel" to a major false-flag attack here in the US, in FEMA Region III, the first of October.

Well, John; if you really feel that strongly about it; here's your rifle, and here's your parachute. We ran out of desert camo but here is a bright day-glo orange jumpsuit left over from Abu Ghraib for you to wear. Watch your head climbing into that transport, and we'll call Assad and tell him you are on your way to kick his butt all by yourself.

But We The People know the claim that Assad gassed women and children right in front of UN chemical weapons inspectors on the very day they arrived was a lie to trick us into war with Syria, just as the claim about having to support Libya's "revolution" were a lie to trick us into war with Libya, just as the claim about Saddam's nukes were a lie to trick us into war with Iraq, just like the claim about torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin were a lie to trick us into war with Vietnam, just like the claim that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was totally unprovoked and a complete surprise was a lie to trick us into WW2, just like the claim that the Lusitania carried no war material was a lie to trick us into WW1, just like the claim that USS Maine was sunk by a mine in Havana harbor was a lie to trick us into war with Spain, etc. etc. etc.

We The People are tired of living under a government of habitual and unrepentant liars. If the FSA are your friends, YOU go and help them. We The People are done with slaughtering innocents around the world, and losing our own children in the process in war after war started with lie after lie.

We are tired of being made fools of in front of the world by the US Government.

I am glad they made the stipulation about private property. My concern about a blanket law "thou shalt not photography X" is that it would be quickly applied to "thou shalt not photography Y", with Y being the police clubbing an Occupy protester on Ala Moana Blvd. But I agree that the First Amendment does NOT grant a right to take pictures and video on private property. Privacy on your own property is protected by the Bill of Rights, not just from the government, but from other citizens as well.

Celebrities have to expect they will be seen and have pictures/videos taken while they are in public. It comes with the job. Some celebs love the attention, others do not, but they all understand that the public that wants to see them in real life is buying the theater tickets, the DVDs, and cable subscriptions, and you alienate them at great risk to your industry "bankability." Some celebs, as their star starts to fade, actively seek out the paparazzi for some attention.

But while we may rightly condemn (and ban) Paparazzi intrusions into the private lives of celebrities, the real problem is with the people buying those tabloids at the supermarket checkout lines, to take a peek into the homes of the stars. I suspect these are people whose own lives are rather empty, and they dream of having been part of Hollywood glamor themselves, and by seeing past the doors and curtains of the celebrities, they feel they are somehow now "insiders", although that is of course, an illusion; one which the publishers of the tabloids profit handsomely from.

If they are wagging the "Anti-Semitism" it means that Israel is getting ready to do something nasty and wants to remind the world to always feel sorry for Israel no mater what they do.

Why would Iran, which wishes to avoid war, do something that would give Israel and the US the excuse to launch the war they have coveted for years.

Netanyahu's United Nations speech, intended to get western nations to throw more of their children into wars on Israel's enemies, has failed. Indeed he has become a laughing stock with his cartoon bomb.

But Netanyahu is not a man who accepts defeat. According to Kaspersky labs, Israel is at least partially responsible for the cyber-weapons STUXNET, DUQU, FLAME and GAUSS, the last one of which specifically targeted banks in Lebanon.

We could easily see a virtual version of a false-flag attack. Such a false-flag cyber attack, blamed on Iran, justifies the war. It also gets Wall Street and Washington DC off of the hook for the inevitable crash from decades of fraud and corruption. Instead of a melt-down caused by gross mismanagement of the economy, the crash is suddenly an act of war by a foreign party. Such a cyber attack would also allow the US Government to take direct control of the internet and silence those who might remind the public about previous whoppers told to start wars, like Saddam's nuclear weapons.

Que Bono? Who benefits?