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 Incarceration level: the clearest indicator of a viable society
yarra, Friday, Feb 20 2009, 9:06pm
No prizes for guessing the world’s NUMBER 1 incarcerator is the USA! Yessiree Bob, that utopian/dystopian capitalist wonderland/HELL is fast approaching its FATE – America is about to confront itself! The portrait of Dorian Gray looks like a Cherub in comparison. (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Sunday, Mar 1 2009, 9:16pm
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Possible end to secret Swiss bank accounts
David Voreacos and Carlyn Kolker via gan, Friday, Feb 20 2009, 7:51am
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government sued UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, to try to force disclosure of the identities of as many as 52,000 American customers who allegedly hid their secret Swiss accounts from U.S. tax authorities.
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Lobotomy for all!
Kwang zi, Thursday, Feb 19 2009, 11:02pm
Up to 20,000 jobs will be shed as the Royal Bank of Scotland attempts to recover from the appalling mismanagement of its executive class. [Isn’t it always the way; rank and file workers PAY the PRICE for managerial failures?] Puppet governments bailout banks with taxpayers’ hard-earned money then banks, in ‘appreciation’ of OUR help, sack us in droves without a second thought – now that’s GRATITUDE for YOU! (story and 3 comments)
Last Commented Saturday, Feb 21 2009, 10:31pm
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 Google Earth reveals secret CIA drone base in Pakistan
Jeremy Page via rialator, Thursday, Feb 19 2009, 8:33pm
The US was secretly flying unmanned drones from the Shamsi airbase in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan as early as 2006, according to an image of the base from Google Earth. (story and 1 image)
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IMF chief warns second wave of countries will require bail-out
Edmund Conway via reed, Tuesday, Feb 17 2009, 1:15am
A "second wave" of countries will fall victim to the economic crisis and face being bailed out by the International Monetary Fund, its chief warned at the G7 summit in Rome. [IMF chief] Dominique Strauss-Kahn's warning comes amid growing concern that at some point in the next year a major economy could have to seek support from the Fund. Mr Strauss-Kahn, who was yesterday attending the Group of Seven leading finance ministers' meeting in Rome, said: "I expect a second wave of countries to come knocking." (story and 4 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Feb 18 2009, 10:09pm
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Chavez, El Suprimo!
quin, Sunday, Feb 15 2009, 8:55pm
‘Fair suck of the sav,’ Hugo; unlimited terms in office is NOT democratic, regardless of how the people were swayed to support it. Good leaders step down or defer to those more able to lead when the situation calls for it. Let’s not follow the Mugabe or Singapore dictatorship model in Venezuela, Hugo! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Sunday, Feb 15 2009, 9:13pm
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Nationalise the Banks
Matthew Richardson and Nouriel Roubini via reed, Sunday, Feb 15 2009, 7:32pm
The U.S. banking system is close to being insolvent, and unless we want to become like Japan in the 1990s -- or the United States in the 1930s -- the only way to save it is to nationalize it.
As free-market economists teaching at a business school in the heart of the world's financial capital, we feel downright blasphemous proposing an all-out government takeover of the banking system. But the U.S. financial system has reached such a dangerous tipping point that little choice remains. And while Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's recent plan to save it has many of the right elements, it's basically too late. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Sunday, Feb 15 2009, 7:39pm
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 Astounding!
finn, Saturday, Feb 14 2009, 9:55pm
Who would have thought that invaded peoples in Indo-China, Central Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands and other regions would fight for their traditional lands, homes, families and cultural identities? And who would have thought that people threatened with subservience to foreign cultures and ideologies would emphatically reject wearing baseball cap headdress – absolutely astounding? (story and 1 image and 1 attached file)
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International Criminal Court Faces Big Test With Israel
Amitabh Pal via fleet, Saturday, Feb 14 2009, 12:01am
The International Criminal Court soon faces a big test—a test that could reveal whether it is truly an independent institution.
The Palestinian Authority has asked the court’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, to examine if Israel was guilty of war crimes during its recent Gaza operation. Moreno-Ocampo should take a look into the allegations, not the least to refute the assertion that the court is an instrument of the West. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Monday, Feb 16 2009, 8:34am
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Total Economic Collapse May Stir Masses but not in servile America
major mitchell, Friday, Feb 13 2009, 10:25pm
For the past four years contributors to this site have predicted total economic collapse – the death of capitalism in all its forms by 2010 – search the site; no more spoon feeding the useless! (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Saturday, Feb 14 2009, 7:54am
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The New Thought Police
James Bamford via leafers, Friday, Feb 13 2009, 8:41am
The National Security Agency (NSA) is developing a tool that George Orwell's Thought Police might have found useful: an artificial intelligence system designed to gain insight into what people are thinking. (story and 1 image)
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The fix is in: Oz mandatory internet filtering
Kismo, Thursday, Feb 12 2009, 11:30pm
Corporate errand boy and Oz Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has selected a group of minor (compliant) ISPs (see link) to conduct his INFORMATION CENSORSHIP tests. Telstra, iinet and Optus, by far the three largest carriers in the country, have ‘somehow’ been excluded from the tests, which would throw into question any results obtained with non-representative carriers – it’s a MATTER OF SCALE, stupid!
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Feeble response to massive drug production in NATO’s Afghanistan
Kingfisher, Thursday, Feb 12 2009, 10:08am
A ‘gem’ of counter intelligence was recently published in a Canadian Military Magazine. NATO commanders are attempting to justify/expand military activity in occupied Afghanistan by proposing that drug eradication be included in military field operations! An ‘interesting’ proposition in view of the fact that America has entered into deals with regional war lords allowing them to gain revenue from drug production in exchange for their support – it’s a dirty business, war, isn’t it?
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Home of the brave, where?
beak, Tuesday, Feb 10 2009, 7:44pm
All we see in America is a servile, whipped-dog-obedient, cowering, long-suffering, SLAVE population that takes ever more abuse, hardship and maltreatment from its incompetent leaders and corporate ruling elites. (story and 3 comments)
Last Commented Thursday, Feb 12 2009, 11:00am
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Increased social unrest in Europe
Heather Cottin via talya, Tuesday, Feb 10 2009, 7:39am
Thousands of demonstrators in Lithuania, Latvia and Bulgaria have attacked government buildings and called on their governments to resign as unemployment soars in Eastern Europe.
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Obama offers Rudd ‘prayers!’
yarra, Monday, Feb 9 2009, 10:18pm
In another major expression of convoluted and inverted 'neo-liberal-conservative' logic/values, President Baa’raack O’Fraud, contacted Oz’s, Kevin ’07,’ and offered his prayers for the victims of INADEQUATE, INEPT, SUBSTANDARD, CLEARLY INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT, a reality the Victorian bushfires tragically highlighted. (story and 2 images)
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Oz Parliament Suspended
fish, Monday, Feb 9 2009, 8:46am
The Australian Parliament suspended normal business today to acknowledge the bushfire tragedy that continues to impact the State of Victoria. Politicians from both sides of the House expressed their sympathies for the victims. As of 11 Feb., 181 lives have been lost to the fires. Large townships have been severely impacted and some historical hamlets have been wiped out completely. Expressions of grief and sorrow gushed from Parliament House like the water pillaged from our artesian basin by BHP-Billiton! Today is a day of national reflection for more reasons than one. (story and 1 image)
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Central Asia, Nemesis of Empire
Kingfisher, Saturday, Feb 7 2009, 10:13pm
Is it coincidence that organised crime flourishes wherever the US engages in its imperial wars of acquisition and exploitation? Only a fool or the uninformed civilian population would think that explosive increases in heroin production in Indo-China and Afghanistan were unrelated to American militarism. American military intervention in those regions was immediately followed by massive increases in opiate production. The ‘golden triangle’ and the so-called ‘golden crescent’ have become infamous as the largest heroin producing centres on the planet, what do you suppose is the common causative factor in these vastly divergent -- culturally and geographically -- regions? Does organised criminal activity ‘follow’ the USA or is the USA the world’s leading criminal and terrorist organisation? (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Sunday, Feb 8 2009, 8:27am
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Keith Olbermann's scathing attack on war criminal Cheney leads America in WRONG direction!
nose, Friday, Feb 6 2009, 10:58pm
Outside America we are not so easily distracted, duped OR MISLED! It is NOT a matter of "leave the country" (stated with downcast eyes, Mr Keith Olbermann) or finalising your attack on Cheney with "GO!" It is QUITE THE OPPOSITE!!
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‘Yes we can,’ what?
dingo, Thursday, Feb 5 2009, 7:45pm
A previous post put it to the American people clearly and without ambiguity; “well, what the fuck CAN YOU?” During the US election campaign the world watched with great amusement (millions) of mindless American morons chanting “YES WE CAN!” Another typically ambiguous and directionless chant/slogan missing the VITAL QUALIFIER to give it meaning and DIRECTION! (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Friday, Feb 6 2009, 9:38pm
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