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"The travesty of orthodox religion is that the living defer to the dead" -- Anon
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 ‘Robobugs’ and Psychological Warfare
U-B3, Thursday, Oct 11 2007, 1:32pm
It seems that recent anti-war protests in Washington were also host to some strange little ‘bugs’ seen by protesters and other independent observers to be flying in formation and manoeuvring in unison above the protesters! We can confidently rule out real insect activity as real insects do not fly or manoeuvre in tight formation, if indeed strange flying machines were actually seen! However, for the purposes of this short piece we will take the reports at face value! (story and 1 image)
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 Holocaust denial: Turkey joins U.S. and Iran
rubber band, Wednesday, Oct 10 2007, 12:41pm
Adolf Hitler once stated in reference to his ‘final solution’ for European Jews that the world easily forgets/disregards mass exterminations (genocide). Hitler cited the slaughter of over one million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks as the example. Today Turkey officially joined the State holocaust deniers club by denying the first major holocaust/human mass extermination of the 20th century – the Armenian Genocide.
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Lt. Watada retrial halted!
staff report via rialator, Sunday, Oct 7 2007, 12:19am
By Mike Barber, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. October 5, 2007
A federal judge in Tacoma has delayed the court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a Fort Lewis Army officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq. In a rare intervention of a civilian court in the military justice system, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin H. Settle granted the emergency stay shortly before close of business Friday. Watada's trial, slated to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, is now postponed until at least Oct. 26, the judge ruled. (story and 1 image)
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Climate Change and Entire Landscapes on the Move
Stephen Leahy via reed, Friday, Oct 5 2007, 11:37pm
BROOKLIN, Canada - The hot breath of global warming has now touched some of the coldest northern regions of world, turning the frozen landscape into mush as temperatures soar 15 degrees C. above normal. Entire hillsides, sometimes more than a kilometre long, simply let go and slid like a vast green carpet into valleys and rivers on Melville Island in Canada’s northwest Arctic region of Nunavut this summer, says Scott Lamoureux of Queens University in Canada and leader of one the of International Polar Year projects. (story and 1 image)
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Loaded Language and Loaded Guns
Charles Sullivan via rialator, Wednesday, Oct 3 2007, 10:33pm
One can no longer understand US governmental policy on the basis of conventional language or traditional wisdom. Language itself and its long-established meanings were long ago twisted and distorted in order to deceive the people. Now war is peace and terror and occupation is liberation. In order to make sense of what is happening, it is important to understand everything within the context of a specific economic philosophy, and the distorted capitalist system that spawned it.
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Oz Regulator Targets Google’s Head Office
Kismo, Wednesday, Oct 3 2007, 11:37am
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has dropped its actions against subsidiary arms of Google with the view to target the parent company in the U.S. The change in tack occurred after Google U.S. accepted responsibility for its subsidiary arm in Australia. (story and 1 image)
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The [U.S.] Administration’s plan for Iran
Seymour M. Hersh via reed, Monday, Oct 1 2007, 2:40pm
The New Yorker -- October 8, 2007 -- In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in Iraq, to an increasing degree, as a strategic battle between the United States and Iran. “Shia extremists, backed by Iran, are training Iraqis to carry out attacks on our forces and the Iraqi people,” Bush told the national convention of the American Legion in August. “The attacks on our bases and our troops by Iranian-supplied munitions have increased. . . The Iranian regime must halt these actions. And, until it does, I will take actions necessary to protect our troops.” He then concluded, to applause, “I have authorized our military commanders in Iraq to confront Tehran’s murderous activities.”
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No Glass Darker
teepee, Monday, Oct 1 2007, 11:51am
When the Law and other state institutions fail the people it is always Art that comes to the rescue. The power inherent in Art is beyond estimation. When thousands of words fail to deliver, an image strikes its target with an accuracy that weapons-makers can only envy. The following image of the military crackdown in Burma needs no explanation; it spills over and continues to haunt via its stirring of the collective conscience. All unjust, criminal States are indicted by a few strokes of the brush and scratches of the pen. (story and 3 images)
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The navel-gazing Anglicans of Oz
fish, Thursday, Sep 27 2007, 1:09pm
All the great religious reformers of history are known for taking religion to the streets, as is occurring in Burma today. Taking their cue or lead from their founders some believers display the bravery and fearlessness required to meet life’s challenges today! The Buddha and Christ were men of social REVOLUTION, who, when faced with corruption and injustice, launched peaceful attacks on the ruling elites of their time and effected lasting social change as is evident thousands of years after their initial campaigns. (story and 1 image)
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The Final Challenge – 7th generation warfare
stylus, Wednesday, Sep 26 2007, 11:48pm
Seventh generation warfare is the warrior’s culmination or ruin; it is fought beyond the realm of binary oppositions (good–evil) and faces the most formidable enemy of all, the limitations of self! Know that mastering the 7th is the key to Final Victory. Know ‘that’ which prevents continuity of consciousness and totality of experience. Know the enemy that limits existence to the dictates of men/culture. KNOW and VANQUISH THAT ENEMY! There are no limitations for seventh generation Uber Warriors. KNOW that VICTORY IS YOURS! (story and 2 images)
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Bush Makes Mockery of UN Declaration of Human Rights in NY Speech
Matthew Rothschild via rialator, Wednesday, Sep 26 2007, 6:16pm
At his speech to the UN, Bush had the audacity to invoke the Universal Declaration of Human Rights several times, despite the fact that he’s been violating it over and over again. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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Ahmadinejad and Rice contest title for World’s most absurd Liar/Denier
finch, Tuesday, Sep 25 2007, 1:46pm
[Jewish] Holocaust denier, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iraq holocaust denier, Condoleezza Rice, exchanged accusations and claims this week in what appeared to be the world championship of reality denial. The extermination of approximately six million Jews during the Nazi holocaust is based on historical evidence or the record. The record can be tested for inaccuracies but denying the Jewish holocaust labels the denier not only a clown and idiot but divorced from reality. It would be extremely difficult to locate a Statesman or woman more bereft than Ahmadinejad, that is until the U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, opened her championship winning mouth! (story and 2 images)
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A Kalashnikov for Christmas
Captain, Monday, Sep 24 2007, 2:32pm
Today, the USA is without peer as the foremost terrorist organisation in the world. We should have known! Early efforts of two atomic bomb drops on civilian targets in Japan and carpet bombings of two million Indo-Chinese civilians have been challenged with the continuing mayhem and destruction in Iraq, which today ‘boasts’ a holocaust in progress as good as any other in history. Over one million dead civilians, four million displaced persons and a nation in ruin. Donald Rumsfeld was right for once in his demented life when he stated plainly to the world that U.S. invaders (military) were NOT nation builders – hardly surprising!
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Living Heart
cleaves, Sunday, Sep 23 2007, 11:52pm
A mendicant’s first responsibility is to achieve quiescence his second is to alleviate the suffering of his fellow human beings. In every sense a Buddhist engages life and human society. Quiescence delivers Peace and from that great storehouse a mendicant is able to assist humanity – contrast the Buddhist approach with the violent Jews, Christians and Muslims. It is clear the Abrahamic religions have degenerated into murdering political organisations – put simply, Christians, Jews and Muslims have lost their religion. It is hoped the shining example of Peaceful mendicants effecting social change in Burma, serves to inspire those who falsely imagine that supporting violent solutions is somehow religion. (story and 2 images)
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Myanmar: Condoleezza calls ‘kettle’ black
dingo, Sunday, Sep 23 2007, 3:01pm
Give us all a break, Condi! Your ‘righteous’ indignation and feeble political fumbles in relation to Burma are hypocritical and transparent to the extreme. Ms Rice suddenly seems outraged over the treatment of the Burmese people by the military junta. “The Burmese people deserve better ... they deserve a life to be able to live in freedom … the brutality of this regime is well known and so we will be speaking about that, and I think the president will be speaking about it with many of his colleagues,” she said today. China made it clear that America’s record in Iraq -- one million dead civilians and four million displaced persons not mentioning the total ruin of a nation -- constitutes the most heinous crime of the century and leaves America in no position whatsoever to challenge other nations on moral or human rights issues. (story and 1 image)
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Google: a Tzarist model
Kismo, Sunday, Sep 23 2007, 1:03pm
Previous posts (see links) relating to Google sounded a warning which most (including government regulators) chose to ignore but the information juggernaut took note via its own info monitors and pulled all stops in its aims to capture the entire information network! Not content with controlling the lion's share of available info Google now seeks to gain control of information infrastructures by increasing its controlling shares of existing communications companies and NOW by building its own global comms network. The included (below) Australian article reveals Google’s ambitions. However, few have bothered to consider the consequences of Google’s obsessive/manic pursuit of ALL ASPECTS of information control.
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World religious leaders (hypocrites) shamed by Burmese monks
sadh, Friday, Sep 21 2007, 12:08pm
YANGON, Myanmar – The past week has seen defiant Burmese Buddhist monks take to the streets chanting peace and demanding social change in military controlled Myanmar (Burma). It seems the religious ideal is not dead after all. [Shame on Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious leaders who support blood, guts and war -- SHAME ON YOU HYPOCRITES!] (story and 3 images)
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Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard via rialator, Thursday, Sep 20 2007, 1:05pm
Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East.
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Google Wants to Track Your Medical History -- And Your Genome
Jesse Reynolds via reed, Wednesday, Sep 19 2007, 11:51pm
In a recent review of 23 internet companies by a consumer watchdog group, Privacy International, Google was the only one to receive the lowest grade, reserved for those with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy." (story and 1 image)
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Reserve Banks only delay the INEVITABLE
peptide, Tuesday, Sep 18 2007, 12:51pm
The reward for misplaced faith in the faulty model of laissez-faire Capitalism is LOSS – that simple! Loss in the context of unregulated Capitalism includes everything considered of ‘value.’ It is over! The false value system that is destroying life on earth and is about to plunge the entire world into chaos is now beyond any one nation’s control or ‘managerial’ ability. In fact, to refer to today’s economic system as capitalism is erroneous – classic capitalism has d/evolved over the last few decades into ECONOMIC FEUDALISM; the resulting concentration of available wealth in the fewest possible hands is the root cause of system FAILURE! (story and 1 image)
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