Thursday, January 15, 2009
Israel Bombed the UN Headquarters...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, engulfing the compound and a warehouse in fire and destroying thousands of pounds of food and humanitarian supplies intended for Palestinian refugees.
U.N. workers and Palestinian firefighters, some wearing bulletproof jackets, struggled to douse the flames and pull bags of food aid from the debris after the Israeli attack, which was another blow to efforts to ease the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Dense smoke billowed from the compound.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is in the region to end the devastating offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers, demanded a "full explanation" and said the Israeli defense minister told him there had been a "grave mistake."
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the military fired artillery shells at the U.N. compound after Hamas militants opened fire from the location. Three people were wounded.
"It is absolutely true that we were attacked from that place, but the consequences are very sad and we apologize for it," he said. "I don't think it should have happened and I'm very sorry."
A senior Israeli military officer had also said Israeli troops shelled the compound after coming under fire from Palestinian militants there _ an account dismissed by a U.N. official there at the time as "nonsense."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/15/israel-shells-un-headquar_n_158078.html
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Had to pass this on to the people
Monday, January 12, 2009
Bush in Isreal's pocket until the end...
JERUSALEM (AFP) – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was left shame-faced after President George W. Bush ordered her to abstain in a key UN vote on the Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday.
"She was left shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favour," Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of Ashkelon.
The UN Security Council passed a resolution last Thursday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the three-week-old conflict in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza where hundreds have been killed.
Fourteen of the council's 15 members voted in favour of the resolution, which was later rejected by both Israel and Hamas.
The United States, Israel's main ally, had initially been expected to voted in line with the other 14 but Rice later became the sole abstention.
"In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote in favour," Olmert said
"I said 'get me President Bush on the phone'. They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn't care. 'I need to talk to him now'. He got off the podium and spoke to me.
"I told him the United States could not vote in favour. It cannot vote in favour of such a resolution. He immediately called the secretary of state and told her not to vote in favour."
Bush has consistently placed the blame for the conflict on Hamas, telling reporters on Monday that while he wanted to see a "sustainable ceasefire" in Gaza, it was up to Hamas to choose to end its rocket fire on Israel.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Early 09 Monday!
And a little Neptune advise for the up and coming producers...
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Friday, January 2, 2009
FOX: HAPPY NEW YEARS MAGIC NEGRO....
NOW IF ALL OF THE TEXT MESSAGES WERE SCREENED BEFORE AIRING HOW MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE IS IT THAT THIS ONE GOT PAST....
Viewers were allowed to text in messages that scrolled across the bottom in lieu of the news.
One message read:
HAPPY NEW YEARS!
What's up good folk?! I hope all have had a great and wonderful new years experience, as many of you know that is one of the official Drunkmonkey Holidays to be celebrated!
This year in 2009 I have alot of big plans, and will be doing alot more all around. I've added a drunkmonkey fitness blog located to the right. I'm in talks to redevelop the site to make it a little more category based, gonna see what the templates look like.
Politics, definitely will be on top of events, and important issues as usual!
Hip-Hop - I'll be reinvesting efforts to bring you the Best artists, and those that need to be seen!
MyspaceBeatJacking! this has really begun to take off and we will step up the movement as well!
DrunkmonkeyTV - I will be adding more and more video entries through the www.youtube.com/drunkmonkey1906 and make sure to check out the favorites!
Myspace - I've been really low key with myspace movement, as I have my own personal issues with the site, but by popular demand I will be more Myspace friendly in 2009!
www.myspace.com/drunkmonkey1906
LET'S MAKE 2009 A YEAR TO REMEMBER!
