Counter Current News has the article No Outrage For Palestinian Cartoonist Who Was Arrested and Jailed In Israel.

The State alleged that Saba’aneh had contacted a publishing company about publishing his cartoons in a book. That Jordanian publisher also put out a book about Palestinian prisoners. The State of Israel said that this book was a threat to national security. Saba’aneh’s contact with this publisher was thereby used as a pretext to lock up the controversial cartoonist before he could connect with a broader audience via this publishing house.

Saba’aneh was ultimately sentenced to five months in jail after serving out his informal and continuously extended detention. He was also fined 10,000 shekels for his “contact with a hostile organization.”

Well, I mean jailing someone is not like a terrorist attack that killed people.  OK, what about the article These 17 Journalists Were Killed by Israel In Gaza?

It should be emphasized that killing of journalists and media workers is a violation of international law.

Thanks to Tim Wise for posting this on his Facebook page.

January 12, 2015

Just to give myself some cover against people who might think this post is outrageous for whatever reasons, I have this additional information from one of the respondents on Tim Wise’s post.

The comment mentions the article Death threats to Haaretz journalists appear on right-winger’s Facebook page. In commenting on a political cartoon that Haaretz had published, this article said the following:

The cartoon that sparked the death threats (captions in Hebrew read: 10 journalists killed in attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris (top), about 13 journalists killed last summer in attack on Gaza (bottom)

What I take away from this exchange is that if an Israeli newspaper can remark about journalists killed in Gaza, then the topic should not be taboo for me to even mention. This is to say nothing about the reported comments from the right wing in Israel. I’ll let you think about that part of the story on your own.

Alan Grayson has this post on his Facebook page.

Here is the link to congressmanwithguts.com.

Thanks to Elizabeth Ann St John for putting this on her Facebook page.

I am glad that Alan Grayson is getting the recognition he deserves. If Nancy Pelosi hadn’t been afraid of using Grayson as a spokesman for the party, she might still be speaker of the house.

If Elizabeth Warren will not run for President in 2016, we need to remember that there are people like Sanders, Merkley, and Grayson that would make fine candidates. It is getting to the point where Warren has to make it crystal clear. She needs to day not only is she not now running for President, but she will not run in 2016. Then we can get serious about finding another candidate.

Naked Capitalism has the article Wolf Richter: Subprime Spikes Auto Sales, Delinquencies Soar, Industry in Total Denial, Fallout to Hit Main Street.

These aren’t just a few individual cases, but much of the hollowed-out, over-indebted, underpaid middle class, the new American proletariat, the 62% of the population that has no emergency savings to cover a $500 car repair or medical bill. These households face, as the Federal Reserve said last year, “large-scale financial strain.” They’ve been bypassed by the Fed’s “wealth effect.” And with tighter lending standards, many of these folks won’t be able to buy a new car.

If you are one of those people who may now be under water in your car loan, don’t say you haven’t be warned.  Not there there is much you can do about it now.  And not that you will be reading this blog post.  However, the rest of us should take heed.  Even if your finances are in perfectly good shape, you should remember that the collapse of 2009 affected us all.  I wouldn’t be taking any expensive vacations to Florida right now. Oops.