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 Newsprint; ‘we’re going well,’ says Murdoch man, Hartigan
quill, Thursday, Jul 2 2009, 1:32am
This past week in Oz could easily be described as surreal. Based on a fraudulent email, the opposition leader, Malcolm Turnbull, launched an exceedingly amateurish, overconfident, FAILED attack on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan -- your longing exceeds your ability, NOVICE! (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Friday, Jul 3 2009, 10:20am
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Madoff, aberration or business as usual?
finn, Tuesday, Jun 30 2009, 11:50am
An absurd sentence of 150 years was handed down yesterday to a man with less than 20 years to live; the sentence was intended to demonstrate how a completely corrupt (Bush/Obama) U.S. legal system pretends to serve the people of the USA.
New York Judge, Denny Chin, ‘spiced’ his sentence delivery with emotive accusations like, "extraordinarily evil" and “staggering human toll!” However, no amount of judicial indignation could compensate for the FAILURE of a DYSFUNCTIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM that allowed a fraud of monumental proportions to occur over a 20 year period! The jailing of one old Jewish fart hardly satisfies victims of a Banking and Financial system designed to enslave the masses and concentrate enormous wealth in the fewest possible hands! (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Jul 1 2009, 12:01am
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just let her rip!
yarra, Sunday, Jun 28 2009, 12:15pm
Certain times there is nothing else to say but ... (story and 1 image)
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White House Is Drafting Executive Order to Allow Indefinite Detention
Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn via gan, Sunday, Jun 28 2009, 5:52am
The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate suspected terrorists indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Sunday, Jun 28 2009, 6:08am
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Cyber warfare: a real world [Iran] demonstration
peptide, Sunday, Jun 28 2009, 4:27am
We announced the death of laissez-faire capitalism when that system ingloriously failed – yes, Virginia, regardless of how they dress up the free market corpse, it’s DEAD! So too we must join the voices heralding the success (and failures) of the first REAL cyber war, the one currently being waged in IRAN -- for the benefit of those that live in wombat burrows! (story and 3 images)
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opinion/analysis
Federal Reserve Inspector General hedges on trillions missing in Congressional hearing
Fred Burks via fleet, Thursday, Jun 25 2009, 10:44pm
The Inspector General of the Federal Reserve in the video below acknowledges that trillions of dollars cannot be accounted for. The astonishing five-minute clip is taken from a Congressional hearing where Federal Reserve Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman is questioned by Congressman Alan Grayson of Florida on May 6th about huge amounts of money for which the Federal Reserve is responsible. (story and 1 image)
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 Gates Creates Cyber-Defense [offence] Command
Ellen Nakashim via Kismo, Wednesday, Jun 24 2009, 9:56am
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issued an order yesterday establishing a command that will defend military networks against computer attacks and develop offensive cyber-weapons, but he also directed that the structure be ready to help safeguard civilian systems.
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 The Obama re-action to Iran unrest
nano, Wednesday, Jun 24 2009, 8:45am
Obama’s previous employer, Henry ‘kiss of death’ Kissinger, recently announced to the media that if the current Iranian protests failed (to install a U.S. friendly government) then the neo-con concept of ‘regime change’ should be pursued by Obama! (see video) (story and 1 comment and 1 attached file)
Last Commented Thursday, Jun 25 2009, 7:53am
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Former Sydney Ferries CEO accused!
staff report via quill, Wednesday, Jun 24 2009, 2:23am
The Independent Commission Against Corruption is investigating allegations that former Sydney Ferries Chief Executive Geoff Smith used corporate credit cards for more than $200,000 worth of personal expenses.
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Home of the Lobbyist, Land of the Corporation
talya, Tuesday, Jun 23 2009, 9:44pm
Large Transnationals and other Corporations have ruled western democracies for decades. Amounts spent Lobbying major political parties by the world's largest Corporations are listed below and what a revealing picture these lists make!
The bottom line; western democracies have been PURCHASED by interests that only have one over-riding, driving principle, PROFIT -- at any cost to YOU or the Environment!
'Government of the Corporations by the Corporations FOR the Corporations' -- that is the hard, cruel REALITY of today, sheeple!
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No more Impositions
reed, Tuesday, Jun 23 2009, 4:42am
A poem for my brothers. (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Wednesday, Jun 24 2009, 12:15am
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BALIBO: the enduring FAILURE of spineless Australia
Sarah Collerton via rialator, Monday, Jun 22 2009, 8:55pm
The Australian journalist who broke the story of the Balibo Five is disappointed his own government has failed to act over the deaths of the journalists.
[Successive governments since Whitlam have failed to pursue this now PROVEN case of murder. FIVE unarmed Australian citizens were slaughtered by Indonesian special forces in East Timor in 1975. To this day that crime remains the clearest indication of Australia's TRUE COWARDLY character. NO VALID reasons, political or otherwise, exist that would prevent bringing the culpable to trial yet our internationally humiliated servile show pony, PM, Kevin 'custard face' Rudd, displays only avoidance, RETICENCE, COWARDICE, TIMIDITY and FEAR! And YES, it is true that national leaders reflect the national character; take a long, hard, look at yourselves Australia. A land of CRINGING, xenophobic, racist, COWARDS! Ed.] (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Tuesday, Jun 23 2009, 12:34am
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Volcano/Earth changes watch
finch, Sunday, Jun 21 2009, 11:01pm
In the current period (2009) we are witnessing an alarming increase of geophysical activity, particularly volcanic eruptions! In these circumstances we should all ask; ‘where have all the volcanologists and geophysicists gone?’ (story and 1 image)
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UN Report: 1 billion HUNGRY
harley, Sunday, Jun 21 2009, 9:59am
The incompetence and myopia of self-serving elites has created ready made armies of angry, discontented people that promise to threaten the stability of nations in the VERY NEAR FUTURE! (story and 1 image)
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If you value your life do not fly Airbus!
William John Cox via quill, Saturday, Jun 20 2009, 10:17am
Since entering service in 1974 with many technological innovations, such as computerized fly-by-wire control systems, user-friendly cockpits, and extended use of composite materials, 5,717 aircraft have been manufactured by Airbus, an European aerospace company. More than 5,100 Airbuses remain in service. (story and 1 image)
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PNAC: a progress report
finn, Saturday, Jun 20 2009, 12:35am
I really can’t say which particular American breach of International Law or violation of human rights did it – there are so many TORTUROUS options to choose from; however, for me it may have been a slow, solid, build-up that culminated in the most profound exposure and subsequent disillusionment with the nation that asserted it would ‘rule the world’ for a century!
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It’s Slogan time!
budgie, Thursday, Jun 18 2009, 11:58pm
The “Where is my Vote” slogan, complete with associated green ‘colour,’ is the clearest indication/evidence yet of (Madison Ave) U.S. meddling in internal Iranian politics. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Jun 25 2009, 9:40am
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Massacre in the Amazon:
Raúl Zibechi via reed, Thursday, Jun 18 2009, 10:59pm
On June 5, World Environment Day, Amazon Indians were massacred by the government of Alan Garcia in the latest chapter of a long war to take over common lands—a war unleashed by the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States.
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Nigerian Rebels Destroy Shell Crude Pipeline
Aaron Sheldrick via reed, Thursday, Jun 18 2009, 12:07am
June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Nigerian rebels said they destroyed a “major” crude oil pipeline in Bayelsa state owned by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s biggest oil company, according to an e-mailed statement. (story and 1 image)
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Incompetent, COWARDLY, RACIST, Oz police LIE to avoid culpability
barra, Wednesday, Jun 17 2009, 11:29pm
It has emerged in the bright light of day that Queensland POLICE LIED to avoid responsibility for the brazen MURDER, with RACIST undertones, of ethnic Australian “Antonio Galeano” who died after receiving twenty eight (28) bursts from a POLICE TASER – a far cry from the three (3) bursts police originally claimed they inflicted! (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Tuesday, Jul 21 2009, 11:22pm
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