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 Remembering Patrice Lumumba
Danny Schechter via reed, Tuesday, Dec 8 2009, 8:26am
I came to the Congo in search of its future and instead found myself marching down memory lane. On Thursday we went to the Museum of Beaux Arts, really a school for teaching sculpture, a subject close to me because my late dad sculpted in stone and wood as a hobby. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Wednesday, Dec 9 2009, 9:44pm
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 Trickle-up Economics
Paul Craig Roberts via fleet, Saturday, Dec 5 2009, 10:38pm
Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com. The banksters “are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.”
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 The Audacity of Ethnic Cleansing
Mike Whitney via reed, Saturday, Dec 5 2009, 8:46pm
"Today, we Afghans remain trapped between two enemies: the Taliban on one side and US/NATO forces and their warlord hirelings on the other." -- Malalai Joya (story and 2 comments and 1 image and 1 attached file)
Last Commented Tuesday, Dec 8 2009, 7:30am
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 Dream walls, Illusory fears
wisp, Friday, Dec 4 2009, 8:25pm
Paper Tigers and Straw Dragons (story and 2 comments and 1 audio file)
Last Commented Monday, Dec 7 2009, 5:18pm
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Currency Warfare -- Review of Financial Markets
Bob Chapman via stan, Thursday, Dec 3 2009, 8:49am
This past week was one of utmost turmoil in world markets. In the midst of an American holiday, Dubai faced bankruptcy for approx. $100 billion. Another unsuspected untoward event. The exposure of the Dubai event coming as it did could have been discovered at any given time, thus, we question the timing. We can understand why the London market was off some 300 Dow points, but exposure to Dubai was very limited in Europe, the US and in Asia. Could it have been an excuse to take down the US and European markets and gold and silver? We do not know, but we have come to question everything that happens. (story and 1 image)
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ETS PM, Kevin Rudd, exposed as Corporate Lackey and LIAR
AAP wire via fleet, Thursday, Dec 3 2009, 12:34am
It is no secret today that Capitalism’s last, desperate pitch to survive depends on (grossly unfair) Carbon Trading/Emission Schemes. Not surprisingly the Corporate world has dispatched their LACKEY politicians to implement Carbon Trading schemes in the respective nations in which they hold sway. However, schemes that disadvantage the average person with CRUSHING additional TAXES while COMPENSATING Industry/Big Business for polluting, may prove a very hard sell to say the least – one national leader EXPOSED, who’s next? (story and 1 image)
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Washington dictates policy to PISSWEAK Oz PM, ‘Krudd’
snowy, Monday, Nov 30 2009, 6:18pm
The Australian PM’s subservience to Washington is sickening; Oz has had enough of spineless, servile ‘leaders’ kow-towing to Washington’s every whim! Kevin Rudd has not the skill to recover from the deep disaffection almost all Australians feel over ‘his’ latest decision to increase numbers of Aussie personnel – following increased troop numbers -- to Afghanistan. The guts of the nation turned today in total DISGUST and dismay; Australia and the ENTIRE WORLD HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF MASS MURDERING AMERICA and its FLAGRANTLY CRIMINAL WARS! (story and 1 image)
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Dawn
fray, Friday, Nov 27 2009, 6:22pm
Where would a soul seek refuge? (story and 1 audio file)
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‘George W Obama’ ready to Escalate illegal Afghan War
sparrow, Tuesday, Nov 24 2009, 6:40pm
‘Chaw’ on that you gullible, mindless, ‘sepo,’ MORONS! Picture it – Jethro, Earl, Virgil and Joe the plumbing fuckwit, all out on the front porch whittlin’ away, chawin' baccie and getting a good dose of ‘HOPE and CHANGE’ right up the arse – you screaming idiots! (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Tuesday, Nov 24 2009, 8:52pm
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You can’t have your slave and whip him too!
birdie, Monday, Nov 23 2009, 7:01pm
All attempts by puppet governments to implement carbon trading (ETS) are doomed to failure for a very simple reason; their ‘solution' is the problem! Allow me to clarify – every man and his dog is aware that Criminal Corporatists are responsible for the collapse of the global economy and that laissez-faire Capitalism is the ideological cause of all our current woes. YET the imbeciles and CRIMINALS that perpetrated this global economic horror desire to ‘trade’ -- MAKE MONEY -- from pollution via Carbon Trading! The solution is the problem, do you get it now? (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Tuesday, Dec 1 2009, 6:40am
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U.S. stages coup to avoid $12 Trillion national DEBT Obligations!
The Onion via captain poopet, Sunday, Nov 22 2009, 5:42pm
The world is aware that America has no intention of meeting its $12 trillion debt obligations -- how does it feel China? You had your chance. [Suckers!]
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Second Wave of Financial Tsunami likely to HIT in 2010
Matthias Chang via reed, Sunday, Nov 22 2009, 5:07pm
"The policy-makers of these countries faced with the total collapse of the international financial architecture have concluded that the solution, the only solution is quantitative easing (i.e. massive injection of liquidity) to salvage the “too big to fail” banks and (re)inflate their depressed economies. This is best reflected in Bernanke’s candid remark that, “the US government has a technology, called the printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost”.
This is the crux of the problem!"
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Oz Poetry
lark, Saturday, Nov 21 2009, 7:53pm
From high hidden valleys to windy sandstone plateaus; Oz verse, dreaming, is one with the Land and all its people. (story and 1 audio file)
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WE fight because ....
David DeGraw via quill, Saturday, Nov 21 2009, 4:56pm
If its not time NOW then WE would have lost EVERYTHING to the rogues, murderers and thieves that today control our governments!
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"Global Economic Collapse"
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard via fleet, Thursday, Nov 19 2009, 6:45pm
Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible "global economic collapse" over the next two years, mapping a strategy of defensive investments to avoid wealth destruction. (story and 2 attached files)
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Cleave
cleaves, Wednesday, Nov 18 2009, 6:19pm
Cleave to Love;
it is your power, strength and Being.
cling to it for dear Life, more important than the need to breathe
is Y/OUR
Love. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Thursday, Nov 19 2009, 7:07am
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The [Obvious] New State Solution
Chris Hedges via gan, Tuesday, Nov 17 2009, 6:07pm
The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the result of Israel’s 42-year refusal to implement a two-state solution, leaves the Palestinians no option but to unilaterally declare an independent state. Israel acted unilaterally when it announced independence in 1948. It is the Palestinians’ turn. It worked in Kosovo. It worked in Georgia. And it will work in Palestine. There are 192 member states in the United Nations and as many as 150 would recognize the state of Palestine, creating a diplomatic nightmare for Israel and its lonely ally the United States. Israel will face worldwide censure if it attempts to crush the independent state by force and very likely be subjected to the kind of divestment campaigns and boycotts that brought down the apartheid government of South Africa.
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The Forgotten Bird Of Paradise
John Pilger via stan, Monday, Nov 16 2009, 4:44pm
When General Suharto, the West’s man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered “a gleam of light in Asia”, rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million [mostly ethnic Chinese] 'communists' was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard Nixon called “the richest hoard of natural resources, the greatest prize in South-east Asia”.
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U.S. Justice Dept. Demands Independent News Site's User Information
Declan McCullagh via krill, Monday, Nov 16 2009, 6:13am
It is not widely known that the Cleaves site was developed from the Indymedia (IMC) model. The current CMS software package in use by the Cleaves team is a product of Indymedia Ireland. We acknowledge that our existence (and continuing presence) would not have been possible but for the assistance of the IMC and as a show of solidarity we take this opportunity to throw our support behind our persecuted comrades in the Independent Media. (story and 1 image)
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The Audacity of Failure
Mike Whitney via ryall, Monday, Nov 16 2009, 3:34am
Barack Obama is on his way to becoming a one-term president. According to Politico:
"President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year’s State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 – and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs, according to top aides involved in the planning.
The president’s plan, which the officials said was under discussion before this month’s Democratic election setbacks, represents both a practical and a political calculation by this White House." (www.politico.com) (story and 1 image)
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