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 Medvedev talks tough but US installations in Poland, Czech R. and Kosovo, SPEAK LOUDER
quin, Monday, Sep 1 2008, 11:28pm
Siberian tigers and five point plans are all hot air and theatrics in the face of REAL American installations in Kosovo and future missile offensive systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. Russians are culturally a bit slow and thick, so let’s spell it out once again.
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 From Putin’s Siberian tiger to Sarah Palin’s tits -- semiotic overload
finch, Monday, Sep 1 2008, 5:22am
The symbolism is not lost this week but it’s to be expected! From sabre rattling geopolitical confrontations between superpowers to the selection of presidential running mates prior to the US elections. Propagandists, ad men and marketers across the social, political and cultural divide are tugging at our basic instincts and collective archetypal (un)conscious. (story and 4 comments and 4 images)
Last Commented Thursday, Sep 4 2008, 8:02am
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Russia remains a Black Sea power
M K Bhadrakumar via rialator, Sunday, Aug 31 2008, 9:50am
If the struggle in the Caucasus was ever over oil and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) agenda towards Central Asia, the United States suffered a colossal setback this week. Kazakhstan, the Caspian energy powerhouse and a key Central Asian player, has decided to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Russia over the conflict with Georgia, and Russia's de facto control over two major Black Sea ports has been consolidated. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Sunday, Aug 31 2008, 10:56am
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Politics and the absurd
major mitchell, Saturday, Aug 30 2008, 4:02am
We have entered a new era in politics, an era where criminality is accepted from government but not from the people, an era in which honours are bestowed on war criminals rather than life sentences, an era where the Law has become a Whore! (story and 2 images)
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Joe Biden: "The Real War" -- Russia, China, India!
Umberto Pascali via rialator, Friday, Aug 29 2008, 3:44am
On Aug 27 2008 at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Biden presented the plan for the real war, the war against China, Russia. He repeated the key points pushed by Zbigniew Brzezinski [lunatic hawk] in his obsessive determination to go to the final clash with Russia and Asia. (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Sep 3 2008, 12:53am
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Obama’s ‘rhetorical flourishes’ cannot compensate for his LACK of INTEGRITY
barra, Friday, Aug 29 2008, 12:11am
The sideshow that is the American race for the presidency is characterised by one-liners, slogans and as the BBC so accurately put it -- especially in Obama’s case -- an abundance of meaningless persuasive expressions or “RHETORICAL FLOURISHES!” The description couldn’t be more accurate with Obama in his ‘flight’ for the presidency. However, people around the globe are not as stupid as the American masses. American tactics and strategies are transparent outside the USA! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, Aug 29 2008, 2:44am
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Ask any American to define democracy!
yarrow, Thursday, Aug 28 2008, 4:33am
[The most amenable slave is one who thinks he is free; never before have so many surrendered their rights to so few.]
Propaganda minister Rupert Murdoch has thrown his media empire into overdrive in a vain attempt to alter historical fact. It was Georgian forces that invaded South Ossetia and targeted civilians; Russia responded to the attack and chased the US equipped, Israeli trained Georgian troops back into their holes! However, American media would have you believe that Russia is the aggressor. Perhaps next week they will dust off Bin Laden and utilise him to some advantage – you never know with America in election mode. Osama always managed to make an appearance whenever George W Bush needed a boost – what are friends of the family for? (story and 1 image)
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Russia, Georgia, and the Kosovo Connection
J. Victor Marshall via reed, Thursday, Aug 28 2008, 3:08am
By selectively turning principles into propagandist slogans for scoring points, the United States no longer occupies the political high ground. Washington’s lectures sound like hectoring, not sincere admonitions that could sway international public opinion and restrain Russian actions.
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Transcript of Medvedev's speech on recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia
Oleg Shchedrov via rialator, Tuesday, Aug 26 2008, 9:11am
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday signed decrees recognising the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Following is the Reuters translation of his statement, which was posted on the Kremlin web site: (story and 1 image)
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Laughing all the way to a ‘first NUCLEAR strike!’
gan, Sunday, Aug 24 2008, 3:02am
History records the circumstances and strategies that Franklin D Roosevelt utilised against Imperial Britain during WWII. How he delayed US military involvement in the war until Churchill, in desperation, signed the Atlantic Charter, which effectively ended the British Empire. Such was Churchill's desperation and FDR's determination to subvert Imperial Britain that Roosevelt at one stage seemed as though he would only supply military hardware to a very beleaguered Britain. Section 3 of the Charter reads:
“Third, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them;” [Bye bye British Empire -- nice one, Franklin!] (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Sunday, Aug 24 2008, 10:11am
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Condi Rice: busy war whore
peptide, Friday, Aug 22 2008, 2:49am
Armed with American slogans, metaphors, outright lies and palettes of US ‘toilet paper’ money for ‘aid/loans’ (bribes) US Secretary of State, Condi Rice, has never moved so fast! One minute Georgia, then Warsaw, Prague, Brussels then Baghdad at blistering pace! Rice has demonstrated -- if nothing else -- that she is able to move as fast on her feet as on her knees! (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, Aug 22 2008, 10:57pm
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At what cost the LIES we tolerate?
finch, Wednesday, Aug 20 2008, 4:27am
Few societies today believe in their governments, in fact most people view their governments as criminal! Few people trust or believe their political leaders especially in view of the implausible explanations offered for highly questionable events such as 9/11, Iraq WMD and the anthrax letters. We all remember Colin Powell's academy award winning performance at the UN, which resulted in a shift of opinion in favour of pre-emptive war. Today we know EVERYTHING Powell said was a LIE yet we tolerate it! Should we then expect a person like Cheney to desist from his loathsome criminal activities?
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Reality Bites ['merika] Again
J. H. Kunstler via dingo, Tuesday, Aug 19 2008, 8:43am
The feeble American response to Russia's assertion of power in the Caucasus of Central Asia was appropriate, since our claims of influence in that part of the world are laughable. The US had taken advantage of temporary confusion in Russia, during the ten-year-long post-Soviet-collapse interval, and set up a client government in Georgia, complete with military advisors, sales of weapons, and even the promise of club membership in the western alliance known as NATO. These blandishments were all in the service of the Baku-to-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which was designed specifically to drain the oil region around the Caspian Basin with an outlet on the Mediterranean, avoiding unfriendly nations all along the way.
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Government cover-up and the Anthrax attacks
Tom Engelhardt via rialator, Monday, Aug 18 2008, 9:46pm
And yet, by the end of 2001, it had become clear that, despite the accompanying letters, the anthrax in those envelopes was from a domestically produced strain. It was neither from the backlands of Afghanistan nor from Baghdad, but -- almost certainly -- from our own military bio-weapons labs. At that point, the anthrax killings essentially vanished… Poof!... while 9/11 only gained traction as the singular event of our times. (story and 1 image)
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Regress report on Bush-Cheney regime
budgie, Monday, Aug 18 2008, 9:30am
No need to remind the American public the economy is in RECESSION; the Georgian distraction hasn’t succeeded with the savvy US public, has it? The Fed continues to print (unpegged) toilet paper money that you will soon be able to paper your walls with. The Iraq success story needs no embellishment; Bush’s boys couldn’t have done a better service for Iran by gifting it Iraq. Iraqi Shia have steadily removed minority Sunis from positions of power, while consolidating their own power base, effectively annexing Iraq to Iran. Even the puppet PM Maliki, has demanded that occupation forces withdraw from his nation. (story and 2 images)
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Your own private ‘Crawford’ (Texas)
quin, Sunday, Aug 17 2008, 12:10am
G W Bush cut a very lonely/ALIENATED figure at a press conference at his ranch in Crawford, Texas today. Like a demented parrot he continued to repeat “demands” that Russia withdraw from ‘sovereign’ Georgian territory, all the while completely unaware that his ‘demands’ inadvertently attract attention to the hundreds of (UNWANTED) U.S. military bases throughout the world! (story and 1 image)
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Rice demands immediate Russian withdrawal from Georgia
Kingfisher, Saturday, Aug 16 2008, 6:10am
[It hurts doesn’t it?] We are all apt to overlook glaring indicators during frantic media bombardments of mis/disinformation, especially the one currently raging over Georgia’s unprovoked attack on South Ossetia. But note the tone of desperation in the media today! The measured and calculated propaganda campaigns delivered during the illegal Balkan and Iraq interventions are gone; they have been replaced by a truly mindless, disjointed rhetoric punctuated with hysterical simian screeching from Georgia and Texas.
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Serbian FM leaves for New York to present draft resolution on Kosovo
Yan via quin, Thursday, Aug 14 2008, 10:31am
BELGRADE, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic left for New York Thursday to present a draft resolution challenging Kosovo's independence.
Jeremic will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly seeking an opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about the legality of Kosovo's secession from Serbia, said a foreign ministry statement. (story and 1 image)
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Historic Aussie Battle remembered
major mitchell, Thursday, Aug 14 2008, 5:02am
Long Tan is without doubt one of the bravest and most heroic battles in WORLD history. There were 300 Spartans bathed in myth and then there were 160 real Aussie fighting men of extraordinary valour and bravery. A handful of Aussie troops fought approximately 1600 North Vietnamese Regulars and WON the battle.
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Headline: “Rice warns Russia of int'l isolation”
barra, Thursday, Aug 14 2008, 3:36am
Secretary of State and presidential fellatrice, Condoleezza Rice, has excelled in more ways than one this week. First, let’s establish hard reality; the cesspool of American spin, propaganda and flagrant LIES associated with the Georgian fiasco is a clear indication of desperation in the ranks of the Bush administration -- which is unravelling at speed since the GROSS MISCALCULATION of urging Georgian (lunatic) President, Saakashvili, to mount a military strike on civilians in South Ossetia. (story and 1 image)
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