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 America's Next Failure: the Police State posted by Prof John Kozy via stan, 2011-01-07 07:06:16
Every police force in the nation has cold (unsolved) cases. The War on Drugs has been ineffective for more than forty years. No one knows where a vast number of illegal immigrants even are. The CIA has been unable to locate Osama bin Laden after more than ten years of searching. Your local police cannot protect you from burglaries, drive by shootings, rapes, domestic abuse, or murder—even with the help of most ordinary citizens. The situation is so bad that numerous legislatures have legalized the carrying of loaded weapons so that ordinary people can protect themselves which is a complete abdication of the usual view that people should not take the law into their own hands. So what in the world would make anyone believe that policing can protect us from terrorists? (full story)
injustice/law / international
Military Officers for 911 Truth posted by via stan, 2011-01-07 00:26:13
As officers in the U.S. military, we took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Regardless of our current status -- active duty, reserves, retired, or civilian -- that oath remains in force. (full story)
injustice/law / international
  World Bank issues first Yuan bonds posted by staff report via fleet, 2011-01-06 08:14:46
HONG KONG -- The World Bank has issued its first bonds in the yuan as China promotes the international use of its currency, also known as renminbi. (full story and 1 comments)
imperialism / international
 Gay American Novelist Rolls in Pink Grave posted by snowy, 2011-01-05 22:48:46
Mark Twain, famous homosexual social commentator, journalist, raconteur, novelist and adventurer must be having a fit in fag heaven at the moment. An oft quoted Twainian statement, "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is … the difference between the lightening bug and lightning," becomes highly relevant today as the U.S., in true Orwellian mode, and without any intervention from the Capitol, flagrantly attempts to re-write American history. (full story)
social/political / international
U.S. Fears Becoming ‘Paper Tiger’ posted by dasha, 2011-01-04 18:55:42
“Darrell Issa, who will take over as chairman of the House of Representatives oversight committee and is calling for Mr Holder's resignation, said of Mr Assange in an interview on Sunday: ''If the President says, 'I can't deal with this guy as a terrorist,' then he has to be able to deal with him as a criminal. Otherwise the world is laughing at this paper tiger we've become.'' (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
 Al Gore's Role in the Goldman Sachs Carbon Con posted by Richard Pollock via baz, 2011-01-02 19:42:42
Major Corporate Polluters must be penalised in order to stem the flow of poisons into the environment and as we are aware Corporations PATHOLOGICALLY avoid additional costs. WE must therefore exercise constant VIGILANCE in order to prevent polluters avoiding or shifting responsibility to the public.
The Corporate sector makes astronomical PROFITS that are easily able to absorb the additional cost of cleaner energy production. The Corporations have for far too long avoided safety and low pollution protocols, which decease their profits. It is time that their ill gotten gains were utilised for compensation, reparation and clean energy. Whether or not those additional costs result in low profits is not an issue, as it is the planet and life on earth at stake.
The Corporations must not be allowed to AVOID RESPONSIBILITY and SHIFT the BLAME and COSTS of THEIR polluting onto others. Goldman Sachs (and friends) would have the public pay for their mistakes while continuing to extract profits. The following article reveals the sordid machinations behind the plan to create enormous profits from Carbon Trading. (full story and 1 comments)
environment / international
The Bleating Independent Media posted by quill, 2011-01-02 10:30:05
It’s bad enough we are faced with the gross omissions and managed ‘news’ of the Corporate Propaganda Media, but surely, do we really need the misdirected focus of the Independents? The Alternative media prides itself on giving us the news mainstream outlets either ignore, dilute or misrepresent, and in most cases they do an admirable job, however, one HUGE error they share in common is the constant attribution/focus on the so-called, ‘ruling elite,’ as the source of all our social woes. (full story and 1 comments)
mass media / international
America the ‘Free’ posted by stylus, 2011-01-01 21:51:37
While America succumbs to the control of a CRIMINAL global, stateless, borderless, Transnational, Corporate/Banker elite that no longer feels it necessary to function in the shadows, the FREE WORLD takes stock of recent events and begins slowly, deliberately but ever so efficiently, to target those nefarious forces that have PROVEN BEYOND ALL DOUBT that they hold what civilised humanity considers sacred, the natural world, human life, our highest aspirations and noble values, in the utmost contempt -- especially if THEIR existence or monetary PROFITS are threatened. (full story and 3 comments)
social equality/unity / international
[Unprecedented action] Corporatists/Bankers Unite against WikiLeaks posted by Mark LeVine via stan, 2011-01-01 05:42:21
[The author makes an interesting observation, which lends weight to the Corporatist/Banker elite controlled 'World Order' conspiracy theory. Ed]
When your Swiss banker throws you overboard, you know you've made some very powerful enemies. (full story)
imperialism / international
 Climate Chaos posted by quin, 2010-12-31 19:02:19
The most underreported story of the past year – the mass media has chosen to replace Paris Hilton with Julian Assange as the major distraction -- is dramatic global climate change, the factors responsible and the huge negative social consequences that will result from the extreme weather conditions. (full story and 5 comments)
environment / international
 Beware of Gross Simplifications posted by quill, 2010-12-29 19:24:46
It could easily be said that biological simplifications are ultra-conservative world views; we all remember the Nazi 'master race' and the, ‘them or us’ simplification of dubya Bush, “you’re either with us or you're with the terrorists!” Banal and simplistic statements/logic are indeed the hallmark of CONSERVATISM. It would seem that the brain function -- or rather lack thereof -- associated with the fear response relates directly to LOW LEVELS of INTELLIGENCE rather than physiology, and as our readership is well aware, knowledge dramatically reduces FEAR; put simply, we are afraid of what we do not know -- IGNORANCE in other words, as stated many times on this site, is the ‘MOTHER OF FEAR.’ (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / international
 Australian Federal Police supplied ‘hit lists’ to special forces in Afghanistan posted by Stephen C. Webster via gan, 2010-12-28 19:59:39
[A revealing article on the expansion of police powers around the globe, which any healthy society would welcome but for questions of corruption and bias.
The Interpol listed (since the 90's) crime boss, Hashim Thaci, Prime Minister of the illegally excised Serbian province of Kosovo has enjoyed the protection of the USA and its allies since they installed him as puppet PM of the illegally appropriated territory, which also houses the largest US military base in continental Europe. It seems that KNOWN murderers, drug traffickers, arms dealers, white slavers and human organ dealers are only enemies if they do not work for the US/NATO Organised Crime Syndicate -- if the shoe fits, wear it!]
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are banned from contributing to military operations, yet they helped to compile "hit lists" of drug traffickers in the Afghan capital of Kabul, a leaked US diplomatic cable reportedly revealed. (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
Conversations with the Devil posted by cleaves, 2010-12-27 21:54:26
There are no mysteries in this universe; the only thing that veils REALITY is IGNORANCE. (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / international
 IT Publisher WIRED withholds full transcripts of Bradley Manning and Lamo Chat Logs posted by Matthew Fleischer via Kismo, 2010-12-27 18:46:29
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald has a long and fascinating piece attacking Wired’s Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen for withholding lengthy transcripts of a conversation between WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and the man who turned Manning in, Adrian Lamo. (full story and 1 comments)
mass media / international
Saving Private Manning posted by Kellie Tranter and Bruce Haigh via stele, 2010-12-26 20:43:11
Private First Class Bradley Manning, is the person being held in detention at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia, for allegedly releasing 260,000 confidential US government cables to WikiLeaks. (full story and 1 comments)
injustice/law / international
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