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"If money helps man to do good, it is of some value; if not, the sooner it is got rid of, the better" -- Swami Vivekananda
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 Demented America
finn, Friday, Jan 18 2008, 7:06pm
They were never meant to influence the direction of the nation – demented American religionists, rapturists, Southern Baptists, evangelicals and other assorted empty-heads have always been organised by religion to satisfy the needs of the State and serve the interests of an enlightened ruling elite that could care less for the fantasies of religion. (story and 2 images)
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 Future Reference – be ready to ACT!
major mitchell, Friday, Jan 18 2008, 10:36am
Do it NOW! Collect and file the names, addresses, property holdings, and daily habits of all those responsible for the financial crash, failed illegal wars, assaults on international convention and LAW and the subversion of OUR hard won rights and liberties. SEND THE CRIMINALS A CLEAR MESSAGE, the AXE is about to fall!
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Semiotic Morass
finch, Thursday, Jan 17 2008, 10:34pm
There’s a lot of well written stuff out there; no one can claim defeat if the British and Australian governments feel it necessary to filter the free flow of information on the internet. Of course all such idiotic measures are doomed to failure as were measures employed to prevent the spread of books after the printing revolution (hundreds of years ago). Nevertheless, the same ignorant forces exist today as [they once did] in the dim, dark, past.
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What would you do?
silk, Thursday, Jan 17 2008, 5:10pm
Reduced alternatives. (story and 1 image)
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The Outstanding Feature of the U.S. election Campaign
peptide, Thursday, Jan 17 2008, 10:57am
This one is easy, too obvious to warrant an in depth analysis. What is it that all presidential candidates have in common besides lying through their teeth? [Distinctions between major party policies have virtually disappeared in the U.S. today.] What does the general tone, posture, and approach indicate? Why are those responsible for plunging the nation into numerous crises (failed wars, economy, legal rights etc) ignored by the candidates who should be screaming for blood? Outlining remedial policies in STARK CONTRAST to the ‘policies’ of the prevailing Bush regime would seem in order one would think! Remember the axiom, the best defence is attack? Why have the current field of candidates abandoned the most useful weapon of politics -- ATTACK?
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America: a moral swampland
lynx, Sunday, Jan 13 2008, 9:34pm
This short paper is written as a response to RAND Corp, Carnegie-Mellon (Institute) and a host of other American ‘think’ tanks – if the functional qualifier, "think," is at all relevant in America today! We can save you a lot of conjecture and trouble by simply stating it as it is! But then how would you justify your existence?
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Dubya in la la
krill, Sunday, Jan 13 2008, 8:58am
The civilian death toll measures terrorist activity more accurately than other any other measure.
George W Bush, the world’s leading terrorist and leader of the world’s most vile Terrorist State cannot prevent the inevitable retaliatory attack on mainland USA. A small, highly skilled European group of Freedom fighters and others opposed to despots, war criminals and mass murderers have pledged to rid the world of the idiot tyrant and deliver a message that hometown USA will never forget – try denying a silent, blinding flash and vaporisation! The price you pay for supporting Bush and the crimes he perpetrates in YOUR name, THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE (AND DEATH)! (story and 2 images)
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Where has all the money gone, it’s been a short time passing?
peptide, Saturday, Jan 12 2008, 11:18am
Money doesn’t evaporate or disappear – it just changes hands!
The most amusing aspect of the ‘credit crunch,’ ‘sub-prime crisis’ – let’s call a spade a spade, the massive losses incurred as a result of manipulation and appropriation of trillions in funds by very clever, fast-talking financial manipulators/rogues -- are the lame excuses offered by bank execs to a very angry, debt-burdened public.
It’s time to face the music gentlemen and inform the public of the grim, compromising story of a failed economic model and the result of financial deregulation. If you are unable to clearly trace where all the money has gone, then accept responsibility for the losses and your incompetence and beg for mercy – your multi-million-dollar salaries now threaten to destroy you? It’s time to speak up before some bright, angry, family person or shareholders group arranges a SIMULTANEOUS, nation-wide DEFAULT ON ALL LOANS! [In the present climate, not a difficult task!] (story and 1 image)
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Mushroom (cloud) Blues
yarra, Friday, Jan 11 2008, 9:39pm
What possesses a once moral nation to reverse course and embark on a flagrantly illegal path of military invasion, plunder and murder. The REALITY of American intervention in Iraq is countless civilian deaths, the installation of a puppet government and a declaration that America now has interests it must protect after laying waste to a once viable State -- that is REAL American 'liberty and democracy' in action! Do Americans actually imagine they can murder over one million innocent men, women and children and avoid retribution – it seems so? Americans remain in a state of convenient blindness (denial) to the horrors they have caused -- no price is too high for OTHERS TO PAY for the American way of life!
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The Mother Load: grass roots electioneering
nano, Tuesday, Jan 8 2008, 9:14am
“That damned internet!” We could hear the plutocrats and media moguls from here (Australia). There is no denying that many ruling interests have taken a severe pounding from the ‘new’ grass roots GLOBAL communications medium. Given the means, many small voices on the net have combined to form a tsunami for "CHANGE" – there’s that magic word again!
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Song of the Ascetic
quill, Monday, Jan 7 2008, 12:04pm
Throughout history some texts stand apart from the usual fare - the Avadhuta Gita is one such text -- a favourite among lovers of Truth. (story and 1 image)
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Islamist’s prayers answered by U.S. proposed intervention
barra, Sunday, Jan 6 2008, 9:31am
The North West Frontier of Pakistan’s tribal region is steeped in the history of failed attempts by foreign Imperial forces to subdue the region. From Alexander the Great through Imperial Britain to the Russians -- the ferociously independent tribes of this region have successfully resisted all efforts to subdue them. But the U.S. donkey imagines it can do what other more skilled militaries could not accomplish!
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A bullet for Obama
finch, Saturday, Jan 5 2008, 8:09pm
Who would have thought the dark horse democrat would capture the hearts and minds of so many with his slick speeches and smooth delivery – a good dose of charisma hasn’t gone to waste on him either. However, the plutocrats are murmuring; their anointed has been usurped by the people’s choice – a certain foreboding now hangs over Obama as he continues to gain in the race to the Presidency. Consider what the rabid right once did to a white Catholic democrat President and his brother. Who imagines they have changed after witnessing their handiwork with Bush and the neo-cons? (story and 1 image)
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Domestic collateral damage
nano, Saturday, Jan 5 2008, 8:40am
People are unravelling at an alarming rate today. Millions are succumbing to the pressures of western, affluent society. Something critically important to human well being is definitely missing from the capitalist formula. Almost the entire population is suffering from stress/anxiety related complaints. Did we destroy numerous indigenous cultures for this? Is our ‘advanced/superior’ culture a LIE or rather is it a sociological DISEASE that is killing the planet? It is clear that nintendo and plasma TV do not happiness make! CONSUMERISM BENEFITS ONLY THE FEW IT SEEMS! (story and 2 images)
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Kevin Rudd: they see him here, there, NOWHERE!
major mitchell, Friday, Jan 4 2008, 9:22am
Who is the leader you have when you don’t have a leader, why Kevin Rudd, of course? Remember how that little Queensland bureaucrat ‘caved’ and back-stepped on every tiny issue he imagined would lose him a vote prior to the elections? True to ‘character,’ excuse me, that little shit has NO character! 'True to form’ Rudd has caved on the promise to monitor the Japanese whale slaughter in the Southern Oceans. (story and 2 images)
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China set to displace all nations as sole superpower
Kingfisher, Thursday, Jan 3 2008, 11:47am
The inevitability of China’s rapid ascension to the position of leading superpower is creating dread in traditional western centres of power – but it's the west that has been beaten at its own game. (story and 2 images)
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Rocking Horse Shit
cleaves, Tuesday, Jan 1 2008, 9:44pm
A rare commodity indeed but rarer are those who sing the eternal song, the verses of which are imparted, never learnt! Following is an anecdote that may satisfy the mind and appease the need…
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Saddam defeats Bush from grave
yarra, Tuesday, Jan 1 2008, 8:14am
What to do with a living president defeated by a dead dictator?
I will never forget the rallying call Saddam made prior to his arranged execution; his final command to the nation was to fight a classic guerrilla war of attrition and draw the American elephant into a quagmire where it could EASILY be DEFEATED. He promised victory if the people persevered and he was right. However, Saddam’s ranting was more a manifestation of bravado and personal rage than directives to a people that hated his guts!
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A Quechua Christmas Story
Greg Palast via reed, Monday, Dec 31 2007, 4:12pm
And [Professor] Doctor Correa is one tough character. He told George Bush to take the US military base and stick it where the equatorial sun don’t shine. He told the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which held Ecuador’s finances by the throat, to go to hell. He ripped up the “agreements” which his predecessors had signed at financial gun point. He told the Miami bond vultures that were charging Ecuador usurious interest, to eat their bonds. He said ‘We are not going to pay off this debt with the hunger of our people. ” Food first, interest later. Much later. And he meant it. (story and 1 image)
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Authorities desperate to stigmatise Hicks
nano, Monday, Dec 31 2007, 9:12am
The South Australian Premier, Mike Rann, is best known for his corrupt complicity in allowing BHP Billiton to extract -- FREE OF CHARGE -- millions of litres (per day) of precious drinking water from OUR artesian basin. One can only imagine the amount or ‘incentives’ offered this ‘honourable’ politician for the privilege! A man with no moral fibre is in no position to judge or demand apologies from anyone, especially victims of torture. (story and 1 comment)
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