Ron Paul to win it.

Update: Ron Paul already winning it.

Update 2: Paul heroically defends reason and justice from the warmongering foolishness of the rest.

Update 3: Dr. Paul speaks wisdom on Iran.

Update 4: Giuliani is a jerk.

Source: Maan (via Press TV)

Israel kills Palestinian civilians on a daily basis

Israeli forces have killed 52 Palestinians in August, including twelve children and fifteen who were assassinated in targeted killing operations.

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) department of national relationships also revealed on a Wednesday report that five Palestinians died at military checkpoints, three due to the delay in arriving at hospitals and two were shot dead at the checkpoints.

102 Palestinians were injured during Israeli incursion into Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps, the report stated. 220 were abducted either from their homes or at checkpoints. Nine Palestinian homes were demolished and nineteen were damaged.

The PLO reported that the Israeli forces deliberately assassinated children, such as ten-year-olds Sara and Yayha Abu Ghazal, and twelve year-old Mahmoud Abu Ghazal. The Israeli forces targeted the children with missiles while they played in fields near Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli forces also killed a mentally disabled man; 24-year-old Muhammad Abu Sha’ar, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

The report related the increasing suffering of Palestinians in the West Bank that are forced to travel through Israeli checkpoints. Young men were ordered to undress in public at ‘Atara checkpoint, north of Ramallah, in the central West Bank.

Israeli settlers continue to vandalize and destroy Palestinian land and property with the protection of the Israeli forces, particularly in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, the report noted.

(in case anyone wonders, this is a PLO report, whose main faction is Fatah - the big (and only) US and Israeli “ally” among the Palestinians - VS)

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from the Guardian

In a move considered to be a blow to the hardline politics of Iran’s ruling party, the former president Hashemi Rafsanjani was today chosen to head the powerful clerical body that has responsibility over the country’s supreme leader.

from FT.com

“Legally speaking, Mr Rafsanjani is now in a higher position than Ayatollah Khamenei [the supreme leader] but it is early to say how he will use this position,” said Ahmad Zeidabadi, a political analyst.

“This promotion certainly strengthens his hand in particular in relation to challenges with the government [of president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad].”