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 Food Summit Sham
peptide, Wednesday, Jun 4 2008, 7:17am
Always look where they don’t want you to look! Have we all noticed who is grabbing the headlines at the UN food summit? Robert Mugabe may not have supplied ample distraction so invite the Iranian leader, Mahmmoud Ahmadinejad, and guarantee a diversion! Neither leader fails to mouth off given the opportunity. Both men are very high value headline grabbers. Their presence at the food summit, I would suggest, is no accident. (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Jun 5 2008, 12:34am
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‘Kneepads’ Smith, ranting over Mugabe
dingo, Monday, Jun 2 2008, 1:53am
The Australian foreign minister Stephen ‘kneepads’ Smith, is in a ‘tiff’ over Robert Mugabe attending a UN food security summit in Rome to which Smith is also invited -- my God, who will they invite next? Smith, widely perceived as a knee-walking, sycophant and American lackey, may be attempting to assert himself as a man by vocally criticising Mugabe. However, images of Smith cringing to the mocking laughter of Condoleezza Rice at a Washington press conference recently, remain fresh in peoples’ minds; achieving manhood my elude Smith yet again! (story and 1 image)
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 America's massive military budget is irrational, costly and dangerous
Robert Scheer via reed, Sunday, Jun 1 2008, 10:49am
What should be the most important issue in this election is one that is rarely, if ever, addressed: Why is U.S. military spending at the highest point, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than at any time since the end of World War II? Why, without a sophisticated military opponent in sight, is the United States spending trillions of dollars on the development of high-tech weapons systems that lost their purpose with the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago?
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The Corporate State and the Subversion of Democracy
Chris Hedges via rialator, Saturday, May 31 2008, 9:07pm
Chris Hedges gave this keynote address on Wednesday, May 28, in Furman University’s Younts Conference Center.
When it was announced in May that President Bush would deliver the commencement address, 222 students and faculty signed and posted on the school’s Web site a statement titled “We Object.” The statement cites the war in Iraq and the administration’s “obstructing progress on reducing greenhouse gases while favoring billions in tax breaks and subsidies to oil companies that are earning record profits.”
“We are ashamed of the actions of this administration. The war in Iraq has cost the lives of over 4,000 brave and honorable U.S. military personnel,” the statement read. “Because we love this country and the ideals it stands for, we accept our civic responsibility to speak out against these actions that violate American values.”
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American pariah forced to buy 'allies'
Subodh Varma via rialator, Saturday, May 31 2008, 8:28pm
NEW DELHI: The tale of massive fraud and embezzlement of millions of dollars by the US military in its operations in Iraq continues. Testifying before the US Congress Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on 22 May, Mary Ugone, deputy inspector general of accounts in the Pentagon said that an audit of $8.2 billion spending related to the Iraq war showed that $7.8 billion had been improperly spent. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Saturday, May 31 2008, 8:43pm
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The ‘Art’ of Distraction
barra, Friday, May 30 2008, 10:33pm
There is something not quite right about the current hysteria surrounding the work of internationally acclaimed Australian artist, Bill Henson. The speed at which police became involved in Henson’s latest exhibition and the dense, but leading comments made by high ranking politicians regarding some of the works may indicate that ‘things are not what they appear to be!’ (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Saturday, May 31 2008, 9:14pm
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European Union runs into roadblocks in its plans for Kosovo
Economist via reed, Friday, May 30 2008, 9:07am
WHEN the Austro-Hungarian empire declared war on Serbia in July 1914, few could have imagined that the result would be the demise not only of the Habsburg empire, but also of the Russian and Ottoman ones. Nobody believes that Serbia's challenge to the European Union over Kosovo will be anything like as dramatic; most Serbs want to join the EU, not destroy it. Yet 100 days after Kosovo declared independence, Serbia has done a lot better than anybody expected in thwarting the EU's plans for it.
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Spring Offensive
gan, Thursday, May 29 2008, 10:00am
In an unexpected strategic twist – opinion favoured an offensive during an attack on Iran -- local forces and militias throughout the Middle East and Central Asia are mobilising for a simultaneous and concerted offensive against the American invader/occupier! A coordinated, simultaneous offensive of this type would smash the hold America has on a number of nations in the region. America simply does not have the human resources to respond to such a coordinated offensive. Nor would America’s few allies be willing to fight illegal wars of occupation on America’s behalf! (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Friday, May 30 2008, 8:42am
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Bush exposed yet again and again and again …
Kingfisher, Wednesday, May 28 2008, 10:28pm
I have lost count of the (too) numerous times Bush and senior members of his criminal government have been exposed for gross deceptions and criminal pursuits. If a HOLOCAUST in progress and an ECONOMIC MELT-DOWN AT HOME doesn’t rouse the people what would former press secretary, Scott McClellan, hope to achieve with his revelations? Less than a week prior to McClellan’s revelations, news of the loss/misappropriation of $15 BILLION in Iraq roused only a few yawns from the American population -- 'good luck' with book sales, Scott! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, May 29 2008, 9:37pm
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Artist alert in the wake of attacks by conservative despots
quill, Tuesday, May 27 2008, 11:34pm
Conservatives, anal regulators, perverts and politicians fail to realise that Artists are responsible for ALL media output whether it’s fine art, television/film production, journalism, advertising etc etc; an attack on one Australian artist is an attack on ALL Artists! In view of the combined creative power that Artists possess it is a brave or very foolish ‘show pony’ that would offend the Arts and/or Artists.
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Australia, for all the wrong reasons
yarra, Tuesday, May 27 2008, 10:38am
Australia is making international headlines for all the wrong reasons again; Aussies seem to have a penchant for eating their boots. Located in the South Pacific under the rest of the world probably accounts for the difficulty Aussies have adjusting to diverse, cosmopolitan populations. (story and 1 image)
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The Unified Majority of Nations
peptide, Monday, May 26 2008, 11:30pm
Russia and China have broadened their existing military alliance to include greater economic cooperation and support. Together with the developing nations of Africa, the Pacific, Latin America and Asia the new ‘Eastern’ alliance will form the most powerful economic bloc the world has ever known – that is progressive thinking and is worth contrasting to the violent contractionist approach of America and its allies.
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Russia: giant of a new economic world order
Heather Connon via rialator, Sunday, May 25 2008, 5:09am
The 'Bric' [Brazil, Russia, India, China] economies have captured the headlines, but India and China have so far won the lion's share. What about the other half of the acronym? Here, Heather Connon witnesses a revolutionary era in Moscow. (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Sunday, May 25 2008, 5:47am
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The simple and obvious solution
nano, Saturday, May 24 2008, 11:09pm
Zoologists marvel over how ‘dumb’ animals display foreknowledge of impending natural disasters; the tsunami in SE Asia and now the China earthquake -- giant pandas were seen ‘parading’ in unison (highly unusual behaviour) hours before the quake struck. Yet humans, who were once also able to detect similar and more information from their immediate physical and psychological environment, today seem unable to detect a solution when it stares them in the face!
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South America creates regional union, parliament, despite divisions
Marco Sibaja via reed, Saturday, May 24 2008, 12:16am
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - A new South American union was born Friday as leaders of the region's 12 nations set out to create a continental parliament. Some see the new organization, Unasur, as a regional version of the European Union. Summit host Brazil wants it to help coordinate defense affairs across South America and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez calls it a counterweight to the United States.
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Clinton reveals sordid but TRUE American Character
peptide, Friday, May 23 2008, 10:01pm
Did we all notice how quick America, France and other western nations were to send naval “assets” to the coast off Burma to ‘assist’ in the humanitarian crisis left in the wake of a horrendously destructive, global warming induced, giant cyclone that devastated the rice bowl of Burma? Is America and other affluent, energy hungry nations rushing to compensate Burma for destabilising the earth’s climate? Not on your life! (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Saturday, May 24 2008, 12:50am
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George W Bush Authorized 9/11 Attacks Says Government Insider
Alex Jones, Friday, May 23 2008, 9:14am
Keep in mind when reading this, that the man being interviewed is no two-bit internet conspiracy buff.
Stanley Hilton was a senior advisor to Sen Bob Dole (R) and has personally known Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for decades. This courageous man has risked his professional reputation, and possibly his life, to get this information out to people.
The following is from his latest visit to Alex Jones' radio show.
Note: All honor to Stanley Hilton for risking his life so that we may know the truth of 9/11.
The Bush Junta Unmasked
"This (9/11) was all planned. This was a government-ordered operation. Bush personally signed the order. He personally authorized the attacks. He is guilty of treason and mass murder." --Stanley Hilton
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For His Treatment of Children in the ‘War on Terror,’ Bush Is a War Criminal
Dave Lindorff via reed, Friday, May 23 2008, 8:36am
Surely nothing that President Bush has done in his two wretched terms of office — not the invasion and destruction of Iraq, not the overturning of the five-centuries-old tradition of habeas corpus, not his authorization and encouragement of torture, not his campaign of domestic spying — nothing, can compare in its ugliness as his approval, as commander in chief, of the imprisoning of over 2500 children.
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Ill-advised Oz PM weighs into Art debate
finch, Thursday, May 22 2008, 10:14pm
The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is a known media prancer/show pony; he rarely (never) makes decisions without considering the level of political gain derived from media exploitation. However, the media is a two-edged sword and Rudd may have just inflicted a deep wound on himself in an attempt to capitalise on a controversial photographic exhibition by world-renowned Australian photographer, Bill Henson. (story and 4 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Sunday, May 25 2008, 11:23am
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The Fat Lady IS singing ..
gan, Thursday, May 22 2008, 1:25am
and as we all know ‘her’ vocalisations indicate that it is all but over! Have you guessed? She is nature herself singing a refrain of devastation and massive planetary upheaval for humankind – THE ENTIRE ECOSPHERE IS OUT OF KILTER; all the ramifications of which are largely unknown BUT what is KNOWN is horrific!
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