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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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The War on Terror is a Hoax
Paul Craig Roberts via rialator, Wednesday, Feb 4 2009, 8:52pm
"The most obvious indication that there are no terrorist cells is that not a single neocon has been assassinated.
I do not approve of assassinations, and am ashamed of my country’s government for engaging in political assassination. The US and Israel have set a very bad example for al Qaeda to follow."
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The ‘Amero’ -- fact or fiction?
Sonya Rehman via quin, Wednesday, Feb 4 2009, 9:24am
Word has it that the US Dollar is soon to be replaced by the ‘Amero’. Is this just another conspiracy theory kicked up by a bunch of bored conspiracy theorists?
Who knows, but at the rate the US economy finds itself sinking further into a quicksand recession, the introduction of the Amero might just turn out to be a reality. (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Wednesday, Feb 4 2009, 9:51am
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Three high profile fugitives, Bush, Blair and Howard
nano, Tuesday, Feb 3 2009, 8:20pm
As the world takes stock of the military and economic CARNAGE these men are responsible for it becomes ever more URGENT -- imperative in fact -- to place them in the dock of a war crimes tribunal and hold them accountable for their actions. We have no illusions, of course we are aware they are merely pawns but they CONSCIOUSLY engaged in the most heinous crimes committed this century and expedited the now FAILED strategies of various powers and interests – THESE MEN ARE ABLE TO LEAD US TO THE SHADOWY FIGURES that have for years PULLED THE STRINGS BEHIND THE SCENES. [Perhaps we have signed their death warrants!] (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
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The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis Worsens -- Why Aren't We?
Joshua Holland via rialator, Tuesday, Feb 3 2009, 8:16am
Explosive anger is spilling out onto the streets of Europe. The meltdown of the global economy is igniting massive social unrest in a region that has long been a symbol of political stability and social cohesion.
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A world of inverted values and priorities
leafers, Monday, Feb 2 2009, 8:28pm
In a world of inverted logic and values war becomes peace and a holocaust – one million dead civilians in Iraq – becomes liberty and democracy! The perpetrators of these crimes enjoy not only their freedom but receive medals and accolades for their ‘efforts’ – fair fuckin’ go! (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
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