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  Forbes “Richest:” a tragic listing of perverse values posted by budgie, 2009-03-13 20:11:13
Bill Gates, formerly of Microsoft Corp -- you remember, the producer of the world’s most unstable computer operating system -- has re-floated to the position of world’s ‘richest’ person, but I doubt the man is really ‘rich.’ (full story and 1 comments)
social equality/unity / international
 Revealed: Cheney Assassination Squads posted by Eric Black via rialator, 2009-03-12 06:55:24
At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an “executive assassination ring.” (full story)
injustice/law / international
‘Arse-about’ Australia: inverted priorities and lost values posted by pidge, 2009-03-10 09:47:11
After the infamous, criminal, CONSERVATIVE leadership of John Howard (who was thrown out of Parliament on his racist, lying, servile, incompetent arse by the people) Australia’s tolerance for corruption and criminality in government and elite corporate circles, increased, I am very sorry to report! (full story and 5 comments)
injustice/law / international
Taliban Truce and the Coming Storm in South Asia posted by Tom Burghardt via rialator, 2009-03-08 08:59:56
With growing instability and political turmoil inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, due in no small measure to American efforts on both sides of the "Afpak" divide to "stabilize" the region for multinational energy companies, this spring will see the rise of combat operations inside both countries. (full story)
peace/war / international
 The Vacillating President: 70K troop surge or defeat in Afghanistan? posted by budgie, 2009-03-08 01:14:38
What’s it gonna be Baa’raack, a 70,000 troop surge in Afghanistan or failure? All we heard from the world’s highest profile house slave (you reprehensible, turncoat, fraud) was the constant refrain ‘we must fight the war in Afghanistan;’ the war is in Afghanistan, the war, ya di yar …; you even had servile Kevin ‘custard-face’ Rudd, the Oz PM, repeating the same refrain. Have a heart, Baa’raack, between you and Murdoch the hapless Oz PM doesn’t know which way to turn -- poor pathetic, Kevin, ‘we’ promise to give clear orders next time! (full story)
social/political / international
 Social paralysis persists in demoralised USA posted by Robert Scheer via reed, 2009-03-06 23:12:14
This is crazy! Forget the bleating of Rush Limbaugh; the problem is not with the quite reasonable and, if anything, underfunded stimulus package, which in any case will be debated long and hard in Congress. The problem is with what is not being debated: the far more expensive Wall Street bailout that is being pushed through--as in the case of the latest AIG rescue--in secret, hurried deal-making primarily by the unelected secretary of the treasury and the chairman of the Federal Reserve. (full story)
injustice/law / international
 Top U.N. Official Accuses U.S. of Inhuman 'Atrocities' in Iraq, Afghanistan posted by staff report via reed, 2009-03-06 22:12:58
The Iraq holocaust, as history describes it, has been occurring in full view of both the ICC and the UN for years. Now dated official reports from the Lancet and Johns Hopkins conservatively put the figures of murdered at over half a million! Speaking out now (far too late) after major crimes against humanity have been committed in plain view, one can only but ask, 'is late better than never' when time is measured in (over one million INNOCENT) human lives?
The world's legal and humanitarian institutions have FAILED us all. For shame! You have failed not only the people you are committed to protect but your reason for being. Do you NOW feel that it may be appropriate to hold the culpable to account? The entire world is aware of your miserable failures -- do something right, for Christ's sake! Have the 'direct and indirect perpetrators' of these heinous crimes arrested and put on trial! What hope for you and the world if you do not? (full story)
human rights / international
Lag Alert! posted by staff report via yarra, 2009-03-05 21:59:06
[We trust this matter will be handled with due diligence by our comrades on the inside.] (full story)
personal development / national
CORRUPTION USA: How Wall Street Paid For Its Own Funeral posted by Marina Litvinsky via talya, 2009-03-05 10:38:34
WASHINGTON, Mar 4 (IPS) - A new report says that Wall Street has only itself to blame for the misguided deregulation that led to the current deepening financial crisis. Issued Wednesday by Essential Information and the Consumer Education Foundation, the report documents billions of dollars spent by the financial sector on what would eventually be their own downfall. (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
 It’s no longer about profit: Oz shows the way! posted by barra, 2009-03-05 09:38:10
It seems that traditional Oz values, egalitarianism, mutual support, mateship and national identity are not dead after all; notwithstanding that former PM and war criminal, John ‘rodent’ Howard, did everything in his power to eradicate traditional Oz values and replace them with second-rate (now failed) American values of callous exploitation, dog eat dog competitiveness, and citizen/user pays for everything – including the ineptitudes of corporate executives, bankers and Wall St. elites! (full story and 3 comments)
social equality/unity / national
The FARCE that is the International Criminal Court (ICC) posted by Kingfisher, 2009-03-05 00:40:46
China has questioned the “legitimacy” of the ICC immediately after it issued a warrant for the arrest of the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ‘legitimacy’ of the court is in question due to its flagrant PARTIALITY -- we haven’t heard a peep from the ICC regarding warrants and charges against American or Israeli war criminals to date! And that is not for lack of EVIDENCE, which is freely available in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, notwithstanding the compromising public admissions (relating to torture) made on national television by former VP, Dick Cheney! Is it possible that ICC (and UN) investigators are so blind or incompetent? Highly unlikely! OR IS THE COURT A BRAZENLY BIASED INSTITUTION OF POLITICAL CONVENIENCE AND THEREFORE LEGALLY ILLEGITIMATE in every sense of the word? (full story)
imperialism / international
We won’t pay for your crisis! posted by Eric Walberg via fleet, 2009-03-04 07:05:48
Sarkozy’s ‘incoherence’ is a sign of the euro-impasse.
Riots swept across Eastern Europe this winter. In Latvia 100 were arrested when they attacked the Finance Ministry with cobblestones from the quaintly restored tourist area protesting unemployment, budget and wage cuts. In Lithuania, riot police fired rubber-bullets and tear gas on a trade union march. A demonstration in the Bulgarian capital turned violent leading to the arrest of 150 protesters. These three states are all members of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM2), the euro’s pre-detention cell. They must join. (full story)
social equality/unity / international
 Clean feed filtered out posted by Mitchell Bingemann via liberty, 2009-03-03 07:33:01
Mandatory information censorship is a suicide pill for any Oz government but none swallowed it more effectively than Rudd's Murdoch controlled Lay-bore government of bereft incompetents. And Stephen Conroy takes 'star' billing as incompetent #1. Peter 'backflip' Garrett whose anti-uranium stance had all the integrity of a chameleon in a paint shop, is ecstatic that Conroy has taken the albatross from around his neck. (full story)
mass media / national
Short memories and cowardice among ‘Superpowers’ posted by birdie, 2009-03-03 00:41:09
The avowed enemy of Russia, China and the entire free world, as the crimes of the past decade clearly indicate, is the criminal, terrorist (by any definition) USA! But what is Russia and China actually doing to forever hamstring this evil, mass murdering influence and prevent it wreaking more horror and havoc on the world? (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
CIA Admits Destroying More Interrogation Videos posted by Oliver Burkeman via reed, 2009-03-02 22:07:07
The CIA revealed today that it had destroyed far more videotapes of terror interrogations than it had originally admitted, resuscitating a Bush administration scandal and increasing the pressure on Barack Obama to support a full investigation of the agency's detention practices during his predecessor's time in office. (full story and 1 comments)
injustice/law / international
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