Arsenal Star Mesut Ozil Donates World Cup Winnings to Gaza

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Arsenal star Mesut Özil has donated his €450,000 World Cup winnings bonus to
Gaza according to Lig Tv.

Özil is set to give the bonuses he received for Germany’s semi-final and final victory to the families of victims in the ongoing conflict.

The 25-year-old is a practicing muslim who recites prayers before games .

The Arsenal playmaker’s family originate from Turkey and Özil maintains strong ties with the country his parents were born in.

Özil speaks fluent Turkish and regularly visits his relatives in Devrek, Zonguldak in North-Western Turkey.

The Islamic holy month of Ramadan is followed by an act of charity called Zakat, where a donation is given to those in need.

Özil told Kicker sports magazine that he was unable to fast during the World Cup for health reason.

“We would risk our health by not drinking or eating. And that would also not be consistent with the Quran,” Özil said.

#‎FIFA‬ ‪#‎Worldcup2014‬ ‪#‎Brazil‬

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‪Claudia Silva Ferreira was shot in the neck and back during a military police operation on the morning of March 16, 2014 in the Morro da Congonha favela, or slum, in the north of Rio de Janeiro. Unconscious, the 38-year-old woman and mother known as Cacau was put in the trunk of a police car to supposedly be taken to the hospital.

Neighbors and friends tried to stop the police from taking her, but the officers fired warning shots in the air to disperse the crowd, and with the trunk open they took her away. Then, on the Intendente Magalhães highway, her apparently lifeless body rolled out of the trunk, and secured by a piece of clothing, was dragged along the asphalt for at least 250 meters without the officers in the car paying attention to the appeals of other drivers and pedestrians.

The shocking scene was filmed by an anonymous driver.
– 5 people die a day at hands of police
– 250,000 people lost their homes
– 10 died building the stadium
– 26 killed in protests
– 15 indigenous deaths on territorial conflicts
– 640 homeless people thrown out of the city
– 60 people (activists and teachers and even lawyers) were “preventively arrested” for 5 days
– Illiteracy in Brazil is 10% on average
– 13 million people are underfed EVERY DAY and many die waiting for medical treatment
– 30 billion dollars spent on the WorldCup – more than the last 3 WorldCups combined (socialized debt for Brazilians & privatized profits of course!
Police Arrest 60 Teachers and Activists in Crackdown on Anti-Cup Protests

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Gaza bleeds,world sleep

#GazaUnderAttack
initial reports said that 160 #Palestinians have been killed, including +25 #children , 20 #women and 89 men. 1089 others have been injured, including 342 children and 171 women. 2161 civilian houses have been bombed, 176 were totally annihilated, 1086 houses were partially damaged. The IOF have launched 2477 airstikes, including 456 seastrikes,1604 airstrikes, 417 groundstrikes since the beginning of #Israeli aggression against the #Palestinian people of the #Gaza Strip.

السيسي وسياسة تحصيل حاصل في فتح المعبر

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اللى حصل النهاردة باختصار ف موضوع المعبر ،من الساعة 8 الصبح بدأت عربيات الاسعاف المصرية توصل تقريباً كانوا 8 عربيات اسعاف وبعدين وصل رئيس هيئة الاسعاف فى شمال سينا الدكتور محمود عامر ومعاه وفد اطباء من القاهرة ودخلوا المعبر ، كانت الساعة حوالى بقت 12 الضهر ، وبعدين خرج رئيس الهيئة وقالوا حصل ضرب من اسرائيل على سيارة اسعاف فلسطينية اثناء توجهها الى المعبر من الجانب الفلسطينى ، وبناء على ذلك سيتم تأجيل فتح المعبر ، ثم بعد فترة تم فتح المعبر بشكل استثنائي والسماح فى البداية ل 3 حالات بالدخول وتم تحويلهم فوراً الى القاهرة وذلك بسبب عدم تجهيز المستشفيات فى العريش ورفح بشكل كامل ، ثم تم السماح ببعض حالات اخرى للدخول ليصبح العدد الكلى للحالات التى عبرت 11 حالة تم توزيعهم بين العريش والقاهرة و تم اغلاق المعبر الساعة السادسة مساءاً. #رفح

ونحب ان نوضح الآتي ،،،أقامت مصر مستشفى عسكريا، وأرسلت أطباء إلى قاعدة باجرام العسكرية في أفغانستان بين عامي 2003 و2005، حيث تلقى أكثر من 100 ألف مصاب الرعاية الصحية.

يعني القوات المسلحة عندها القدرة علي اقامة مستشفي للعلاج للحالات الطارئة والمساعدة للحالات الانسانية حتي في أفغانستان
،،، طيب ممكن بقي حد يبلغ السيسي بقدرات القوات المسلحة لإقامة مستشفي طوارئ علي الحدود عند المعبر لإنقاذ ابناء شعب فلسطين طالما السيسي لايعلم قدرات الجيش المصري ولا يستخدمها ،،،،خاصة ان اليوم سوف يكون به حالات كثيرة بسبب الهجوم البري الاسراءيلي بعد ان تم قتل اكثر من ٨٠ فلسطيني في يومين من بينهم اكثر من ٢٠ طفلا وأكثر من ٢٠ سيدة وجرح اكثر من ٥٥٠ فلسطيني ،،، ومفيش حد يقولي السيسي مالوش دعوة لا السيسي مسؤول مسؤولية كاملة ،،،ولو في حد قالي مصر مفيهاش فلوس الامارات أعلنت بالتبرع لفلسطين ب١٠٠ مليون دولار اليوم خد منهم وانت والإمارات حبايب واعمل المستشفي المؤقتة للعلاج السريع وعندك الكفاءات الطبية ،،

اللهم قد بلغت ،، اللهم فاشهد ،،

خالد عبيد
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مأساة الجالية العربية بصفة عامة والجالية المصرية بصفة خاصة في امريكا (٢)

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اكثر من ٩٠ قتيلا واكثر من ٥٥٠ جريح حتي الان في فلسطين دم عربي بسلاح دافع الضرائب الامريكي يصل الي اسراءيل علي هيئة معونة أمريكية سنويةجمعيات وهمية مخترقة أمنية في معظمها عائلية مستفيدة لنفسها فقط في معظمها علي الورق ليس لها نشاط في معظمها والجاليات العربية تتطاحن فيما بينها ولا تتوحد حتي لخدمة أنفسهم في امريكا علي الأقل وتوحدوا لإنقاذ الدم الفلسطيني ،، اعملوا حاجة بدلا من التطاحن ونشر الكراهية بين بعضكم البعض ،،، تعلموا من الجالية اليهودية في امريكا كيف بأموالهم واتحادهم يسيطرون علي صناع القرار في البيت الأبيض والكونجرس افعلوا شيء لإنقاذ الدم العربي اتحدوا السيسي مسؤول لانه لم يفتح المعبر الا بعد مرور اكثر من ٣ ايام لإنقاذ الجرحي وانتم في المهجر كلكم مسؤولون لعدم خدمة قضايا أوطانهم مثلما تفعل الجالية اليهودية اين أنتم من وضع اعلان كامل في الجرائد الامريكية توضحواااا فيه أنكم ضد مايحدث في غزة وتشرحها للمواطن الامريكي الحقيقة بان اسراءيل هي المحتل والمغتصب وهي التي تضرب بحقوق الانسان عرض الحائط ،،، اين أنتم من الظهور الإعلامي وتأجير ساعات ليس للهجوم ولكن للتوعية والإيضاح ،، اين أنتم. من الذهاب الي صناديق الانتخابات وإظهار للحزبين الجمهوري والديمقراطي أنكم تملكون صوت في الانتخاب ذو تأثير ،،، اين أنتم من التبرعات المالية والتطوعية للمرشحين في الكونجرس والرئاسة والشيوخ لكي يكون لكم تأثير وصوت مسموع يأخذ في الاعتبار قبل اتخاذ القرار ،،، اين أنتم من المشاركة والتحضير للمشاركة في الانتخابات الامريكية بصفة مرشح ،،،، ان تخاذلكم أضر بالجيل التاني من المصريين الامريكيين لخوض معترك السياسية الامريكية ،،، لماذا تخاذلكم كلكم مسؤولون بطريقة او اخري في وقف الدم ليس السيسي وحده كلكم سيسي في أحجام متفرقة ،،،،

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#Palestine resists and will be free
#GazaUnderAttack

Israel uses American weapons funded by US taxpayers to ensure that the Palestinians remain silent.

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Israel uses American weapons funded by US taxpayers to ensure that the Palestinians remain silent.

The Israeli lawmaker’s call for the genocide of Palestinians gets thousands of Facebook likes.

A day before Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khudair was kidnapped and burned alive, allegedly by six Israeli Jewish youths, Israeli lawmaker Ayelet Shaked published on Facebook a call for genocide of the Palestinians.

It is a call for genocide because it declares that “the entire Palestinian people are the enemy” and justifies its destruction, “including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.”

Its a call for genocide because it calls for the slaughter of Palestinian mothers who give birth to “little snakes.”

“collective punishment of Palestinian children Israel has arrested since 2010:
3,000
Palestinian children arrested, detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military detention system each year: 500-700
Percentage of these arrested Palestinian children who have been subjected to physical abuse and/or torture: 75%
Percentage of arrested Palestinian children who face Israeli military trials: 25%
Number of Palestinian children killed by Israelis since 2000: 1,500
Number of Israeli children killed by Palestinians since 2000: 132
Number of Palestinian children now in Israeli jails: 200

If the American government took the $15-$20 billion it gives Israel each year and put it into a savings account for the 4.5 million babies born p/yr, every American would receive $8,000-$10,500 upon turning 18 years old. In another option, the US government could give the money away in a lottery and make 15k-20k American millionaires every year. Either of these options would provide an incredible boost to the US economy. But the truth is that $15-$20 billion per year is probably just scratching the surface when we look at the cost of America’s relationship with Israel.

Israeli forces regularly use overwhelming force to suppress any form of protest inside the occupied Palestinian territories, turning nonviolent demonstrations into clashes where “non-lethal weapons” result in mass casualties and even death. Indeed, a recent report by Amnesty International entitled “Trigger-happy: Israel’s use of excessive force in the West Bank” finds that Israeli forces often resort to “unnecessary, arbitrary and abusive” force against nonviolent protesters. Burnat describes how in his village “peaceful demonstrators were killed by weapons made in America.” This is powerfully documented in his brother’s Oscar nominated film Five Broken Cameras.

It is illegal for Palestinians to protest against their occupation, while Israeli settlers are granted extraterritorial rights to openly demonstrate in support of their illegal settler movement.
In addition, Israeli settlers living illegally in the occupied Palestinian territories have carried out countless attacks against Palestinians, for example uprooting olive trees, burning cars and painting racist graffiti on homes, mosques, churches and schools. According to the Associated Press, UN figures published in January show that the annual rate of Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians has almost quadrupled over the last eight years.

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Germany Arrests Double Agent Recruited by US to Spy on Berlin’s NSA Inquiry

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Germany Arrests Double Agent Recruited by US to Spy on Berlin’s NSA Inquiry
German authorities have arrested a man identified by media as a German intelligence officer who allegedly passed secrets to the U.S.

German media warned that if the man is found guilty, it would be “the biggest scandal involving a German—American double agent since the war,” The Daily Telegraph reported.

Federal prosecutors said that a 31-year-old German was arrested on July 2 on suspicion of spying for an unidentified foreign power. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, called the case “a serious matter,” declining to elaborate on the prosecutors’ statement.

“The Chancellor was also informed of this case yesterday,” Eibert told reporters in Berlin.

He declined to comment on reports by Der Spiegel magazine and the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that the man worked for Germany’s foreign intelligence service, known by its German acronym BND. The newspapers, which didn’t identify their sources, said the man was suspected of passing on information about a German parliamentary inquiry into the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies in Germany.

Seibert said the inquiry’s committee members had also been informed of the arrest. “I will have to leave the conclusions to you,” he said.

The man reportedly worked as a support technician for the BND agency. He also may have worked closely with the president of the intelligence service, Gerhard Schindler, Die Welter reported.

The arrested man was allegedly a double agent for the U.S. for two years. He met U.S. agents at least three times in Austria between 2012 and 2014 and gave them hundreds of secret documents for which he was paid €25,000 (US$34,000), the Bild newspaper reported, citing security officials it didn’t identify. The documents were seized on a thumb drive containing 218 stolen files and a laptop at the suspect’s home, Bild said.

The emergence of a double agent on top of two German probes into NSA surveillance and espionage threatens to compound a U.S.-German rift following allegations that the NSA spied on citizens and hacked Merkel’s mobile phone. The allegations have caused friction between Berlin and Washington since they were first published last year, based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Happy 238th Birthday, America

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Happy 238th Birthday, America

In case you missed it: This is what the Fourth of July looks like in New York City.

watching fireworks on the Fourth of July is an annual tradition that never gets old. Towns and cities all over the country are celebrating America’s birthday this week with more than 15,000 fireworks displays.