US President George W Bush’s first Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has endorsed Democratic election candidate Barack Obama for the White House.

He backed his fellow African-American over John McCain, the Republican Party’s choice to succeed Mr Bush in the 4 November election.

He told NBC Mr Obama had the “ability to inspire” and was “inclusive”.

“All Americans… not just African-Americans” would be proud of an Obama win, he argued.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7678788.stm

To the more liberal Americans: Do you really think that Obama is the “anti-war candidate” when he now cravenly says that he is not committed to complete pullout from Iraq on his original timetable and that he will “evaluate the situation at the time.” Obama actually promises to massively increase American troops in the meat-grinder of Afghanistan. Are these the words of an anti-war candidate, or an extreme, pro-war candidate?

Just like John McCain, Obama has prostrated himself at the feet of the Jewish Lobby and the extremists who run Israel. His biggest single source of campaign money comes from the hyper-globalist, Zionist, international banking house of Goldman Sachs, and he dutifully supported the 700 billion theft proposed by them and just like McCain supports Fed Chairman Ben SHALOM Bernanke. Is Obama an agent of change or more of the same in a different, more acceptable, and perhaps more dangerous face? With the hatred of George Bush in America and around the world, and Obama viewed as an agent of change, he is actually in a position to advance the same insane, globalist policies of war and globalism more dangerously than would be a John McCain who is seen accurately as a continuation of the policies of George Bush.

To the more conservative Americans: Do you really think John McCain, Mr. Amnesty, truly supports your true interests? 15 out of the 20 largest sources of McCain’s campaign come from Wall Street, Globalist financial firms, including, as is the case for Obama: firms like Goldman Sachs. He, like Obama, supported the bailout, the biggest theft in American history, and for truly patriotic Americans, remember: he supports Americans spending the blood of our sons and bankrupting this country in endless wars for Israel.

Those of you from the Left or the Right who think you must vote for the “lesser of two evils,” are being manipulated by the media to support the continuation of a rigged system that the American people cannot win. The lesser of two evils is still EVIL!

I urge every American, liberal or conservative, right or left, White or Black, Rich or Poor: Vote with integrity and morality for the Third Party Candidate of your choice who is truly closer to your own principles than these two unprincipled, Wall Street-, and media-created puppets of those who hold the real power in America. When you vote for a lesser of two evils, you compromise your own integrity and lose your ability to criticize politicians who sell out their constituents and their own principles.

All of us should vote for a Third Party candidate and make a strong case that we must have complete reform of the two-party dictatorship leading America to disaster. There are two candidates acceptable to large segments of liberals and conservatives: Ralph Nader on the more liberal side and Chuck Baldwin on the conservative side. Or one can even write in a more outspoken candidate against the existing system like John de Nugent. The point is to not let America’s corrupt elite in finance and media manipulate you into voting against your own conscience!

The Democratic Party can never be reformed until it learns that it cannot ignore the wishes of its rank and file. Democrats who are anti-war and anti-Globalist are blackmailed to support Obama with the specter of a Republican President.

The Republican Party likewise can never be reformed as long as its leadership thinks it can go completely against our interests by blackmailing us with the specter of a Democratic President.

In truth, under both Republicans and Democrats the America we love is going to hell in a hand basket!

We need a clean break. Vote against both McCain and Obama, Vote Third Party! Make a clear statement for the future. Have integrity. Vote your true beliefs, don’t let them blackmail you!

Source

Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider has been killed in a road accident, police reports say.

Haider died near Klagenfurt in Carinthia, his political stronghold.

He was driving alone when his car came off the road and he suffered severe head and chest injuries, police told the Austrian APA news agency.

The 58-year-old was a former leader of the Austrian Freedom Party, and was known for his anti-immigration and anti-EU policies.

Police investigators in Klagenfurt told the BBC that investigations into the crash were under way.

Read More

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

The purpose of documenting this heartsearing reality is to give voice to the hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans who have lost everything. - Eric “Harry” Harrison, farmer and author of Jambanja

“War veterans” storming Eric Harrison’s farm Maioio, in Zimbabwe 2004. Photo: Eric Harrison

Parked in his drive was a small blue utility truck, which had ghosted in unheard, with two armed policemen sitting in the back and four occupants in the front.

Harry could see that the newcomers were not here for a social visit. In the background stood Harry’s old security guard Joseph, dressed in his faded denim overalls and looking very sheepish. Usually, under no circumstances would anyone get through that gate, unless he reported to Harry first but, there wasn’t much the guard could have done when he had an AK rifle held to his head.

The apparent leader of this group was a short, stocky, well-dressed individual wearing a floppy white hat and ambled over to where Harry was standing on the back veranda. Harry felt Joan come to his side, her hand gripping his wrist.

He didn’t say a word as Whitehat stepped forward

“We are the new owners of Maioio Farm,” he said menacingly, as he pointed to the other three.

“You have got 24 hours to get off – now move it!”[…]

[Full story →]

MOSCOW - Russia’s parliament voted unanimously Monday to urge the president to recognize the independence of Georgia’s two breakaway regions, stoking further tensions between Moscow and the small Caucasus nation’s Western allies.

Read More

BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia’s foreign minister said the link is clear — U.S. and Western support for Kosovo’s secession from Serbia has helped fuel tensions in Georgia’s separatist province of South Ossetia.

Minister Vuk Jeremic was quoted by the Vecernje Novosti daily on Thursday as saying the recognition of Kosovo’s independence on Feb. 17 by the United States and its NATO allies has “destabilized” other parts of the world.

“We have pointed out to the international community from the very start that the unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo could present a dangerous precedent,” Vuk Jeremic was quoted as saying. “Unfortunately, this has proven to be true much sooner than anyone expected.” Jeremic was not immediately available for comment, but his spokeswoman confirmed the authenticity of the newspaper interview.

Read More

On Saturday August 23rd four Ossetians permanently residing in Western Europe climbed at the Eiffel tower to throw more than 2.000 flyers written in French and in English.

According to the information provided by the organisation “Stop the genocide” to “Gazeta.ru”, Russian Internet newspaper, the text of the flyers is about the genocide of the Ossetians, the Georgian aggression and the peace mission of the Russian army.

Here’s one of the passages: “During the first 15 hours 2000 women, children and old people were killed by weapons of mass destruction. We asked Russia for help and we have been heard.”