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 Ahmadinejad Won. Get Over It
Flynt and Hillary Leverett via gan, Tuesday, Jun 16 2009, 9:56pm
Without any evidence, many U.S. politicians and “Iran experts” have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election Friday, with 62.6 percent of the vote, as fraud.
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 De-Dollarisation: By George, I think they've (finally) got it!
Prof. Michael Hudson via nano, Sunday, Jun 14 2009, 2:45am
Challenging America will be the prime focus of extended meetings in Yekaterinburg, Russia (formerly Sverdlovsk) today and tomorrow (June 15-16) for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other top officials of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The alliance is comprised of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrghyzstan and Uzbekistan, with observer status for Iran, India, Pakistan and Mongolia. It will be joined on Tuesday by Brazil for trade discussions among the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China). (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Monday, Jun 15 2009, 11:37pm
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CORRUPTION is complete when crimes are offered as justifications
fish, Sunday, Jun 14 2009, 2:03am
AMERICA, The world’s leading civilian killing nation, recently took the (fateful) plunge into pure sociopathology by attempting to use a crime as an argument to justify the crime itself! In this instance the case relates to TORTURE, which remains one of the most heinous and abhorrent crimes known to civilised society! A watershed moment in the continuing decline and (now certain) future collapse of the USA has occurred!
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commentary
Peru: Blood Flows in the Amazon
Prof James Petras via reed, Friday, Jun 12 2009, 11:00pm
In early June, Peruvian President Alan García, an ally of US President Barack Obama, ordered armored personnel carriers, helicopter gun-ships and hundreds of heavily armed troops to assault and disperse a peaceful, legal protest organized by members of Peru’s Amazonian indigenous communities protesting the entry of foreign multinational mining companies on their traditional homelands. Dozens of Indians were killed or are missing, scores have been injured and arrested and a number of Peruvian police, held hostage by the indigenous protestors were killed in the assault. President García declared martial law in the region in order to enforce his unilateral and unconstitutional fiat granting of mining exploitation rights to foreign companies, which infringed on the integrity of traditional Amazonian indigenous communal lands.
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RFID: Surveillance-Beacon warfare soon to be imposed on YOU!
Tom Burghardt via Kismo, Thursday, Jun 11 2009, 8:38am
What Pentagon theorists describe as a "Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA) leverages information technology to facilitate (so they allege) command decision-making processes and mission effectiveness, i.e. the waging of aggressive wars of conquest. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Jun 11 2009, 9:23am
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U.S. War Privatization Results in Billions Lost in Fraud, Waste and Abuse -- Report
Jeremy Scahill via reed, Wednesday, Jun 10 2009, 5:47pm
Half of the personnel the US has working on its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are private contractors. A new report reveals how much of a rip-off this system has been to US taxpayers.
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Shell Oil pays $19.5m to avoid facing criminal proceedings
Meredith Griffiths via talya, Tuesday, Jun 9 2009, 5:53am
Oil company Shell has agreed to pay $19.5 million to avoid standing trial over accusations that it was complicit in human rights abuses in Nigeria in the 1990s. The families of nine people executed in 1995 accused Shell of collaborating with the country's military regime to silence the activists for protesting against the oil company's environmental practices in the Niger Delta. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, Jun 12 2009, 10:37pm
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Yes, They Would!
quill, Monday, Jun 8 2009, 10:42am
Which begs the obvious question -- images of falling bodies firmly in mind – would ‘they’ kill their own citizens to consolidate their hold on power and wealth? The answer is also obvious, we need only refer to the title, YES, THEY WOULD! (story and 1 image)
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Russia, China should dump dollar - Medvedev
staff report, Sunday, Jun 7 2009, 10:50pm
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and China should consider switching to domestic currencies in bilateral trade without going to the dollar, Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Kommersant daily published on Friday. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Sunday, Jun 7 2009, 11:04pm
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‘Talk is Cheap,’ Obama
peptide, Saturday, Jun 6 2009, 3:57am
One of the world’s most enduring clichés is applied whenever lack of character/substance is detected. Only the most insular hillbillies are unaware that Obama is the leading exponent in the world today of DE-VALUING words! In the past America produced outstanding black leaders of INTEGRITY; it should now be abundantly clear that Obama is not one of them! (story and 4 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Tuesday, Jun 9 2009, 5:46am
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Remember Tiananmen
Kwang zi, Wednesday, Jun 3 2009, 10:40am
The image below captures more than its component parts; its enduring quality is its ability to speak to ALL human beings regardless of race, culture or nation. It is the story of the IRREPRESSIBLE HUMAN SPIRIT refusing oppression, corruption and FEAR to STAND DEFIANTLY against the odds and eventually OVERCOME all obstacles and achieve emancipation/FREEDOM! (story and 1 image)
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U.S. lackey Oz Defence Minister under pressure AGAIN!
major mitchell, Tuesday, Jun 2 2009, 11:56pm
Not again Fitzy! A little favour here and a few UNDECLARED gifts there, does not a government minister of integrity make! Joel Fitzgibbon may have to call it a day; and you can take Smith, Swan, Rudd, and the entire contingent of SERVILE, Labor no-hopers, with you! (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Jun 3 2009, 2:26am
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The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
Stephen Lendman via reed, Tuesday, Jun 2 2009, 9:57am
For over 14 years, Daniel Estulin has investigated and researched the Bilderberg Group's far-reaching influence on business and finance, global politics, war and peace, and control of the world's resources and its money.
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And you thought playing race card would go unnoticed!
sadh, Sunday, May 31 2009, 9:09pm
Shame, cowardly shame on you Australia; your backward, parochial, xenophobia and racism has AGAIN made International headlines – you can truly be proud of the John Howard, Geoff Cousin’s racist revival NOW! The cost of the Cousin’s/Howard ‘race strategy’ for cheap, SHORT-TERM POLITICAL GAIN has come home to roost – and a very well deserved outcome it is! Will it affect our position in the WORLD and our relations with important regional trading partners and other Asian neighbours – YOU bloody bet it WILL! Two dead Chinese nationals killed in race attacks and bashed Indians in parochial Melbourne dictate that outcome, you mindless morons! (story and 4 images)
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Here's hoping Google gets hammered
James Kirby via sadh, Sunday, May 31 2009, 1:21am
It's a sad day when the battle for digital information is between two of the world's most obscene IT Companies, Microsoft and Google. Neither self-serving company has the interests of the public at heart, especially in China, and in the West if hidden information detailing Google's unsavoury relationship with NSA and other security agencies became known! Microsoft is no better having once supplied a 'backdoor' to its Operating System at the request of the NSA. Nevertheless, the stranglehold Google has on information is far worse than the author intimates -- any real democratic government would have legislated long ago forcing Google to relinquish its hold on information searches. Idiotic governments seem to be unaware of today's digital axioms: 'Whoever controls the flow of information rules the world', including governments! Let's hope the open source community gets a viable product out there soon -- then lobbying can begin in earnest! Ed. (story and 3 images)
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Swine Flu and draconian social bio-management policies
finch, Friday, May 29 2009, 11:29pm
Australia, in its role as a test site for the broader western world, is currently undergoing two major assaults on traditional freedoms – freedom of movement and association [now] threatened by swine flu bio-management policies; and freedom to access all available information via the internet. I need not remind readers whose interests are best served by these new laws/policies – not those of the democratic majority by any stretch of the Orwellian imagination! (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Saturday, May 30 2009, 12:34am
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Obama attempts to fix gate AFTER ‘bull’ has bolted!
Kismo, Friday, May 29 2009, 9:41am
Ya gotta hand it to those yankee doodle dunces; first, their unrestrained GREED outsources almost all banking and financial computer network maintenance and data processing to developing nations; second, local third party companies that employ citizens from marginal nations win contracts to maintain vital computer networks! After gifting the ‘family jewels’ to strangers yankee doodle dumbfucks wonder why security systems are so easily breached and vital networks so easily compromised. Well, doh! (story and 1 image)
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Washington Disinformation continues to emanate from subservient Australia!
quill, Thursday, May 28 2009, 11:59pm
A well constructed report on the LTTE defeat by the Sri Lankan military was aired on Radio Australia today, a 7 out of 10 effort! It is refreshing to see Australia NOT making news for xenophobia, racism and its shameless, servility to the United States – ‘for a change!’ Nevertheless, America is never far removed from its most servile colony.
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Cyber Warfare: Building Attack Tools for Mass Destruction
Tom Burghardt via Kismo, Thursday, May 28 2009, 10:25am
A quintessential hallmark of an authoritarian regime, particularly one that operates within highly-militarized, though nominally democratic states such as ours, is the maintenance of a system of internal control; a seamless panopticon where dissent is equated with criminality and the rule of law derided as a luxury ill-afforded "during a time of war." (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Sunday, May 31 2009, 11:21am
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The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body
Helen Pilcher via michael, Thursday, May 28 2009, 9:18am
"Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see!" -- I was waiting for an opportunity to use that saying, which is an old Irish proverb, I am ‘led to believe!’ Now there’s a loaded expression that may not be as innocuous as you may think? (story and 1 image)
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